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Which British accent? There are many, very distinct, British accents.
It's true that Indian accent is the most difficult one in the world to understand.
In my humble opiniom, I finf the indian accent harder to understand than the others, especially when many of them speak fast, but I must be honest that it's very interesting. Of course, India has many dialects, so it's very hard to say that, and I don't like to stereotype anyone or anything.
I'm American, and American English is my native language. I think the Indian English accent is hardest to understand. When talking to people with very thick Indian accents sound, I often have to keep having them repeat what they said, and often I still can't understand what they said.
I think british accent is more difficult to hear. I love the accent though.
I find, the British accent is the most difficult to understand. Mainly those who are from other places in England apart from London, difficult to understand while speaking.
it's true, im an indian and i can't understnd the indians here in the uk, tbh i cant usderstnd anything tht anyone says here anyways lol, but indains seem to put on a fake *oh im british* accent, and its true. :/
Actually,British English has lots of accents,thus to me the most complicated english accent ever is Irish one
I think Indians also have a lot of accents and some are way better than others.
Also, we do not come across many accents that are way more difficult to understand. Effecively, we are comparing only British, American, Canadian and Indian accents here.
I have been throughout the world and African, Middle-Eastt and South East Asian (Korea, Japan, China) accents are the most difficult to understand. Further, Australian and New Zealand accents are difficult as well.
I am a native of India. For me American accent is the most difficult to follow. They speak very fast and words are difficult to pick. Indian accent is very slow,unattractive but easily understandable.
how about Bostonian ?
I think that New Zealand accents are the hardest. But I feel like the most difficult accents are generally due to how much slang is used. Certain parts of the United States would definitely be difficult to some people. But New Zealand accents are very strong.
I am from Nepal. I understand pretty much all accents but find some british people who pronounce less word in some cases. I also find some aussie speaking. Eg "good day mate" is pronounced as " goodai mite". Some might find Indian accent hard to understand because most of they use "nd" at the end of some words say for example "and" is pronounced as "anddu". American they say "blood" as "blad" , "economics " as "econahmics" . Chinese for "think" they say "sink". English is all about stress of sound. Western people say "danyabad" for "dhanyabaadh" because they don't speak from epiglotis very often. By the way the word "dhanyabaadh" is a word from Khas language which is marketed as Nepali which means "thank you"
To be honest its Australian that's hard.The poll is biased
indian is the hardest accent to understand.
english is my second language and i mastered it completely almost forgetting the language i learned when i was a child. i find british english so hard to understand because some words are not announced with all the bells and whistles the words are suppose to have making it very difficult to decipher. i can't believe indian is the highest i i can understand them perfectly. listen to depak chopra his indian first i thought it was a british accent that i understood then i found out he was indian. maybe he is an indian with an understandable english accent from Britain i don't really know but i understand indian accents just fine. i say after british people it might be american accents i live in california and if i go some places in the USA i would have a difficult time understanding most people. thats how the USA i love it.
Hmm, last time I checked the good people of Ireland spoke English, and were probably speaking English before the colonies were established - to be omitted when India is included...that's just insulting (no offence to my Indian friends) Me thinks that someone needy checky geography. Saying the Irish are the same as the British is, well, as insulting to an Irishman and it would be to an Englishman I'd imagine Is the desginer of this poll aware of just how MANY regional dialects exist alone within the U.K alone, nevermind Ireland.
Sorry *typo* above should read "as insulting to a Britishman" Apologies to Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish folk
Indian accent is really really hard for me to follow.
Yes, I am, but the are only so many options available in the software and we cannot add hundreds of choices. No one's saying that Irish English is the same as British English, but we have a limited list. India's a big place with many speakers. You'd probably have a better case arguing against the inclusion of New Zealand, which has a population closer to Ireland's.
I am an Indian, so of course, I don't have difficulty understanding Indian accent. I don't know about other non-native English speakers, but I find all British accents very hard to understand. Also Chinese; I just can't say if they're trying to speak english or chinese.
India is our neighbour so in my feeling i could not find it would be so.
This is my guess.
I m from India, n I spoke in an Indian accent for many years, But Now i m Learning to talk in irish accent.
Doesnt mean that I m 'putting on a fake accent', It just means that Indian accent is the worst of all english!
Interesting Bravo!
Hmmm .. from the choices above I would say Indian english accent or Hindu English is so hard to understand comprehensively in Speech and somewhat the way they compose their correspondence thru email. Say like instead of using engage they alter it with "Intimate". Also, the frequent usage of "the same" and "revert". Indians on this thread will normally answer that they do understand Hindu-English, guys are you with us? Not on the list I would say, Chinese is kinda hard to reciprocate. Anyway that's my two cents. By the way, I'm Filipino .. ;o)
I find AmE accent a little bit to noisy if you believe! Well , it's full of r-r-r-r..! I am myself a Persian , learning BrE for 5 years and I just love the accent and also , I understand it much better.
Love the annoying AmE accent :)
This poll is idiotic, how can you put an Indian person speaking English in the poll. If that's part of the criteria then you have to put in Japanese people speaking English, Italian people speaking English, French, French Canadian. These are eccents fron other countries.
This kind of poll will be very subjective. I am indonesian. we understand better english which is more roundly pronounced. Russian is the easiest to understand to us, beside Indonesian English of course. Russian is very good at saying R sound. they can vibrate their tounge somehow perfectly like we Indonesian do. Oriental English like chinese and korean is the hardest to understand because they use no R. AARRR will be sounded AALLL by korean and chinese..
Good God!
Indian accent? Hard? Really? :/
Indian Accent is very easily understood rather. A very good example is 'Dr. Rajesh Koothrapalli' from the show 'The Big Bang Theory'
It's only his accent which is way too clear and might I say cuter than others'. Almost every Indian has that type of accent and I think it isn't hard to decipher it, not even in the slightest.
On the contrary, British accent is way too fast and unclear, consequently it's hard to pick up the words sometimes. The accent isn't difficult but understanding it, by others, obviously, is difficult. I am quite au fait with American accent now but still facing little difficulties to decipher all the intricacies of it, it's slangs, for instance. But its just because I am not a native American.
You kidding me? India has got a billion indian accent varying from north to south to east.north indian accent is the coolest n easy to understand n South Indian is the worst.i think American is the coolest accent n British n australian is the worst of all.
I guess it is because of their rate of speech and tone.. I am a call center agent and I get a lot of Indian callers.. The challenge for me is when I my caller tends to speak so fast and they're still using their native tone.. If they could just enunciate and speak clearly.. :) And also, i guess the reason why Indian English is difficult to understand is because their secondary language influence is British english which we also know is a bit challenging especially when it comes to their pumping "t" and rolling "r"s.. :)
I am from the Northern most state outside of Alaska. The natives called it "land of sky blue water".
Iowa is the supposed place of a universally understood by any English speaker.I speak a hybrid of Iowa and Minnesota. I have never had difficulty being understood with people with other English accents.
I think highly educated people from cities like Delhi and Mumbai have accent near to standard British accent. For Indians, I think it's hard to understand when a south Indian speaks English.
.... My point of vew....
Hello, my name's Fred form DR Congo.
Sorry for those who voted for Indian English 'cause i got opportunity to work together with'em even if i'm an African but i was able to understand'em clearly. But both British and American it was a liltle bit difficult for me 'cause they are so fast and they always used breack words... that's why it makes their accent difficult to understand.
Actually I voted for British because there wasn't any option for all the British accents... there are a lot of different British accents and I had a hard time understanding a few ! But I find South Indian English accents really difficult... I am an Indian and I speak American accent and so its the easiest for me.
But I must admit that I love to listen to the British accent.. its really sweet.
Ritesh, learn proper English first then comment. You found South Indian English is worst? funny! Australian English is toughest among all. I don't know why Indian English got these many votes! Indian English largely depends on mother tongue of speaker. But most of the educated people speaks neutral English.
You can't talk about a country's accent as accents change a lot within one country. I normally find American accent quite easy to understand until you hear Southern accent or Ebonics. The same thing with British accent, there's a huge difference between RP and Yorkshire or Newcastle accent. In any case, I think Newfoundland accent has got to be the hardest...
indian english very difficult to understand becuse i have learn english then i have learn indian accent english , like what i suvering from my boss
I am an indian however I agree with the poll that indian accent is hardest of all, to me reason is Rate Of Speech. E.g. Rolling "r" is not a big issue as Americans understand are used to it because of there close relations to maxio. I love southern US accent. New Jersey has the best accent and when girls especially blacks get loud who wanna hear them.lol
I am Indian and now go to American Accent training. I find that there are 4 or 5 things that ALL of us consistently do differently than Americans, Sounding the letter R, Intonation, flap "T" to name a few....Phonics is taught differently to my kids in the USA than we learnt growing up ...
The poll is really not correct. Indians finds Accent of English speaking difficult and vice versa. The reason is here in India we have taught that different accent. I personally like American accent because I love Hollywood movies. But watch Hollywood movies with subs. I think herevthey must follow at least UK accent if not American.
I became surprised to see the poll result. Indian English accent is not tough to be. But British accent is really tough to understand. Because I think British peoples don't follow their own rule of pronunciation.
At the same time they don't make their accent easier or standard when they talk to foreigners. They think that, foreigners will understand their accent. !!!!!
why is indian accent competing against native accents?, anyways I can understand many non-native accents but indian accent is just too damn hard
I'm a kiwi and I don't think our accent is hard to understand we have a range of slang words but the accent you really need to understand is the Rural Maori. Like if you watch Jono and Ben on Graham Norton they're not that hard to understand. What I think is difficult is the intimation, WE! And I repeat, WE DO NOT sound like AUSTRALIAN'S, there is a distinct difference where they say Gidday we say Sup.
it's too difficult to understand what an Indian speaks English
Indian accent sounds clear and simple.
Quit hissing Indian accent. Our accent is simple and clear compared to others.The poll is biased .
How's it biased- people can choose any answer.
I get asked to speak in English when I talk to Americans on the phone :| grrrrrrrrrrrr!
I am a Medical Transcriptionist from India and I hear all kinds of English from doctors around the world and of them all I find Chinese English indiscernible, it's difficult to figure if they are speaking Chinese or English, and then South Indian English they pronounce 'M' as 'YAM' that's most annoying and also some doctors annoy us intentionally i think, they would speak in such a way that you would think they are either very drunk or very drowsy or speaking with a mouth full of spit or phlegm or whatever.
I am Polish hence unbiased. Indian English is very easy for me to understand because they pronounce all the sounds clearly. I can't understand villagers and the riff-raff from Ireland and UK, they skip nearly all consonants and only use vowels. Also, they like inventing words or use some slang expressions which cannot be found in even the best dictionaries. Americans are easy to understand except for rednex hillbillies who don't open their mouths when speaking and all sounds go through their noses. This is very irritating and exhausting to listen to them.
i am an Indian, according to me we speak the language of different culture and different places, A single person in india speakmore thanj three language,and we speakenglish in very appropriate manner.
Hey guys. I am half Persian and half American. My mom is from Iran and my dad is from Los angeles. I live in New York city and I have an awesome American accent. Even my mom has an American accent. My dad's mom however is half indian and she has a thick indian accent spoken in Kerala and honestly it is really hard to understand. I mean it is unique but really hard to understand. By the way, my mom named me. That is why I have a Persian name.
I am an Indian I don't know about other accents but I don't have any difficulty in understanding Indian accent. Here we have more than 850 languages spoken and everyone's english is influenced by their native language. So if someone is talking about Indian accent its one out of 850 Indian english accents.
Oh well thanks everybody for given Indian accent the tag of hardest accent to understand however the ground reality is India has largest voice support system of all the major tech & telephone companies across the world. The people with hardest accent are solving the queries of well spoken people over the phone...though...Good luck with your voting..one more thing we Indian have the most neutral accent.
I find this poll absolutely humbug for two following reasons:
1. Most of the countries are those that have English as native language, but since English isn't the native language of India, the idea of including India is starkly absurd. Had this list consisted countries as well where English isn't the native language such as China, Korea, Russia, Brazil anf so forth, this list would then have seemed reasonable.
2. India is a nation where more than 200 languages and dialects are spoken by more than 100 different ethnic group people, so how can there be a single accent? Majority of Indians living in aboard are South Indians whose accent is literally hard to grasp but it doesn't mean all Indians have that accent.
The Sudanese accent is the best and I'm from Western Sudan i like the American accent it's sweet specially the one that black people use it
Hello people! I'm indian, so I obviously don't have any difficulty in understanding the Indian accent. It's the American one that gets me everytime. Please, no offence meant but Americans speak way too fast and merge some of the words like"gonna, wanna"....with their recurring rr, it's very difficult to decipher them.
However, that's just my opinion. I wholly agree that some indian accents are incomprehensible to foreigners. This is a poll that'll have the most subjective answers, so there's no right or wrong. It's just everybody's two cents, including mine (though they seem to be a lot more, given the length of my comment ;-). Thank god for the comment section. See ya!
I see here many people commenting negatively about Indian English. Instead Indians should be admired because even though their mother tongue is completely different, yet they put extreme efforts to learn English for educational purposes and better knowledge.
Hello , I speak three languages and English is one of them . To most of you English is the main language so you don't have to think before speaking while we have to think and translate our words to English before we speak .
So pretty much hard work that we are doing .
For me Australian accent is hard to understand . They don't speak clearly , same with Newzealand guys . Cheers !
Seriously, people from india thinking the voting stats are biased because *they* understand the dialects *they* hear every day, all week long.
That's like a chinese person saying chinese english accent is the easiest, because that's what *they* hear most of all.
I speak 4 languages and English isn't my native one. However I've worked in international institutions my entire career, with people and team members from various countries including India. After 20 years of listening to and discussing with people from India I *still* find it incredibly difficult to understand those English dialects overall.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxvQ
Do you understand what's being said? Do you get a headache after 5 minutes of straining to decipher what's being said? That most people seem to connect with Indian workers over the phone doesn't help either. The dialects are hard as is, and compounding the challenge by sticking cheap *ss phone lines between the callers and the indian call centers doesn't help one iota.
I agree however that Chinese English is harder, but china wasn't up on the board, so of the languages listed, I had to cast my vote on Indian English, which for me is without doubt more trying than any of the other candidates.
What makes indian english hard for me is that proper enunciation isn't used. It sounds very much like flat "bola bola bola bola" which makes parsing of phrases, sentances, meaning and information conveyed very trying.
Prefer to communicate with Indians via text, since well educated people from India tend to have magnitudes better grasp of the written form, reducing the risk of misunderstanding and eliminating the "parsing" burden from communication.
#im American and I find indian english simplest of all...All word clear ....but newzealand and aussie english kinda hard....
Indian are absolutely good at that....
I learned English as a second language for a long time, and i lived in NZ AUS and Uk for ard 1 year each. Seriously if ur honest to yourself UK must be the most difficult because they are so diverse and original in their own ways. Its not only about the sound. Whoever says Indian is more difficult is either from UK or just plain hypocritical. Impossible.


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Marvin Dumandan will try to fend off a formidable field starting Wednesday next week when he guns for a repeat victory in the ICTSI-Camp John Hay Championship in Baguio.
The tournament, which has been extended to 72 holes from 54, dangles a winner's purse of P450,000 from the total pot of P2.5 million. Six other legs in this season's ICTSI circuit will be played for four rounds.
Elmer Salvador, fifth in the recent Asian Tour Solaire Open at Wack Wack East, and the veteran Mars Pucay and Jay Bayron are the other big guns who have confirmed participation.
Salvador was in the hunt all week long only to lose steam in the final round with a two-over-par 74, giving him a level 288 over the heavily wooded Mandaluyong layout.
Pucay finished a rung lower than Salvador despite opening with a 69, while Bayron, the reigning Asean Development Tour Order of Merit champion, finished inside the Top 20 despite never cracking par in all four days.
The circuit, organized by Pilipinas Golf Tournaments Inc. and sponsored by International Container Terminal Services Inc., will head to Batangas for the Calatagan Challenge on May 8 to 10, with Orchard hosting the next leg, another P2.5-million event, on May 22 to 25.
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Policy manager Slow in Java console
I have upgraded netbackup master from 6.5.5 to 188.8.131.52, my issue is when I click policy manger it took more than 15minutes to dsaply all policies? Any one faces this issue?
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Other people have experienced this issue and as far as i can tell it was resolved in two ways:
1. Ensure DNS is good - 7.5 does a lot more reverse lookups
2. Delete any non existant (decomissioned) servers from the polcies and server lists - so when you look at the Master Servers Host Properties - Servers section ensure that there are no servers / media servers in the list that do not exist and also check your policies for any servers that no longer exist.
Once these are cleared out it will stop trying to locate servers that no longer exist
See if this helps
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My guess would be DNS issues. Ensure names of Netbackup servers and clients are working correctly.
In this scenario it could be the primary DNS server not responding or responding very slow.
You may disable reverse name lookup by placing REVERSE_NAME_LOOKUP = PROHIBITED in bp.conf
Assumption is the mother of all mess ups.
If this post answered your'e qustion - Please mark as a soloution.
also follow the steps of image meta data process when upgrading
I'm going on a tangent rant here. Why does Symantec feel like they have to do these things? First it was trying to cache a connection to all the hosts when opening the GUI, then it is trying to play DNS server by caching the connection info, trying to determine which network is right for me to use (i.e. PREFERRED_NETWORK), and now this with the policies. When will you guys stop doing this?
/rant off
Make sure your java GUI is patched to the latest version, 22.214.171.124.
You can also try this technote:
It involves a new or replacement file on your Master and the locations you are running the Java Admin GUI from. However, I think this has more to do with the specific fix mentioned in the article, but we placed this file and it improved time to open the policies screen...however it is still slower than before the upgrade.
Suggest a little debugging to try and isolate - theres several consoles I can have
windows client -> remote (ux) master via windows java gui
windows client -> remote master via xdisplay java gui ie jnbSA on server with xdisplay to windows client
windows client -> remote master via NBAC non-java
other options are available...
So pick which others you could use and see if they are better or worse: might rule Java out completely...might not....worth a go IMO.


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It doesn't even show up in the device manager!
Have you tried right-clicking the device and uninstalling it? Once uninstalled Windows 8 should install a generic driver upon reboot.
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If the device is listed in device manager and no driver is installed, at least we could do the driver update via Windows Update *same as of Windows 7*
at the risk of asking a really stupid question....
does win 8 give compatbility install options? (in the hope that at the very least, it might 'find' the cam then do the suto search in windows update for one)
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Dear, that was the driver for USB 3, which I already sorted out by installing a driver for another Asus Version. All the USB's including USB 3 works perfectly.
Have you tried removing the device listed with the yellow icon beside it, looks like its a question mark?
Not sure what that means, must be a Win 8 thing, on Win 7 I've only seen exclamation marks.
And do other USB devices work? I'm assuming it's a laptop but that is still USB for webcam, my built in one still shows as a USB device.
I would assume both the devices showing there with the question marks have some sort of problems.
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|Toko Fukawa
|Ultimate Writing Prodigy
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Toko Fukawa (腐川 冬子 Fukawa Tōko) is one of the characters featured in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
She has the title of Ultimate Writing Prodigy (超高校級の「文学少女」chō kōkō kyū no "bungaku shōjo") and suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Toko switches personalities upon seeing blood, which causes her to faint, or through sneezing.
Her other personality is known as Genocide Jill (Genocider Syo [ジェノサイダー翔 Jenosaidā Shō] in Japanese), who has the title of Ultimate Murderous Fiend (超高校級の「殺人鬼」chō kōkō kyū no "satsujinki").
Toko survived the final trial and escaped with the other survivors at the end of the game.
She also appears as a second playable character and deuteragonist in Ultra Despair Girls - Danganronpa Another Episode along with her other personality, Genocide Jill.
Toko is always seen in an outfit that consists of a dark female sailor Japanese school uniform, worn with a noticeably lengthy skirt compared to those worn by other girls (and Chihiro Fujisaki). She wears round eyeglasses and her dark purple hair is tied in two long braids. The left side of her chin is marked by a small mole.
However, in Ultra Despair Girls, she lets her hair flow freely instead of being kept in braids and wears six hairclips and also possesses an ahoge. Toko's dress is noticeably more tattered than it was in the first game, having been ripped in several places and revealing the victim's name list that Genocide Jill wrote onto Toko.
Due to her severe persecution complex that originated from the bullying that she had to live through early in life, Toko is highly suspicious of other people, frequently accusing them of thinking bad things about her. Her unusually quick tendencies to self-victimize quickly characterized her interactions with most of Class 78.
Because of that, Toko was more anti-social and would rather be a blind follower of the group, even if the populist ideas clearly did not fit the situations. For instance, during the First Trial, Toko quickly judged Makoto as a killer just because Sayaka was in "his" bathroom, before he explained that Sayaka had switched rooms with him.
Being a fangirl to her self-professed White Knight, Byakuya Togami, Toko could often be seen stalking him, seeing him as the "ideal boyfriend". After the revelation of her alternate personality, Genocide Jill, Toko's crush on Byakuya took on a more distinctively sexual undertone, and she was depicted as being capable of neither proper judgment, nor control over her perverse fantasies.
Her obsession towards Byakuya was her major motivator to action, to the point of inflicting hurt on others, as Jill notably did to Aoi Asahina, cutting Hina on her arm in revenge for Hina slapping Byakuya when he relentlessly antagonized Sakura Ogami for being Monokuma's mole.
Toko is known to be extremely hemophobic. Any sight of blood would make her faint; Genocide Jill will awaken shortly after. This, aside from sneezing, are a few ways that Toko can switch to and from Jill. However, by the time she arrives in Towa City, she soon begins to get over the fear, and does not turn into Jill upon seeing blood.
Toko is deathly afraid of the dark. She also gains a fear of ghosts due to Komaru Naegi's ability to see them and be possessed by them, even though she denied their existence previously.
In Ultra Despair Girls, Toko reveals a kinder and more caring side of herself as she travels with Komaru. Though at first still abrasive, vitriolic, and difficult to approach, her experience at Hope's Peak Academy has compelled her and caused her to become a stronger person. Whenever Komaru is at the point of giving in to despair, Toko encourages her to stand up and face her fears.
Toko also takes a stand in challenging her own fears; she no longer faints at the sight of blood, having taken Byakuya's advice about growing up. After saving Byakuya, Toko decides to remain behind in Towa City with Komaru instead of going back to the Future Foundation, on the pretext that she and Byakuya's feelings will never change, no matter the distance.
Prior to the TragedyEdit
She is a gloomy novelist with a persecution complex. One of her romance novels, 'So Lingers the Ocean', was a huge hit that managed to make fishermen become popular with teenage girls for a few months. Despite her young age, she has already won several awards and is constantly on the top-selling list.
It revealed in her Free-Time events that she has had previous romantic experiences, although they did not end well for her.
Her first love was a boy she had been friends with in elementary school. When she found out he was moving away to Shikoku, she realized that she was indeed in love with him. Being too shy to tell him in person, she instead wrote him a letter.
The next day, she found said letter mounted on the bulletin board, believing it was the boy's way of making a mockery of her. This was confirmed to her when she talked to him again and he said he hated talking to her and was always made fun of because of it.
When her teacher saw the letter, she said that she had a way with words, which started Toko's career as a writer. Genocide Jill's Free-Time events reveal that at some point in time she murdered the boy as Jill states she chased her first love all the way to Shikoku and killed him.
Another Free-Time event revealed that in her eighth grade year, a boy from the neighboring class asked her out on a date completely out of the blue. Toko then spent three days and three nights planning the date, deciding what movie to watch.
She eventually decided to go with an action movie, but halfway through it, her date mysteriously disappeared. She later discovered that the reason the boy asked her out was to fulfill a forfeit for losing a bet with his friends, causing her great emotional trauma.
Toko also only writes romance novels based on her own delusions, not based on her real life experiences. Her masterpiece, "So Lingers the Ocean," was a hit that shot fisherman to the top of all the "Hottest Men" polls.
In Ultra Despair Girls, Toko is shown to have a pathological fear of the dark. Toko reveals to Komaru that the reason behind this phobia is because sometime in the past, she was locked into a closet and forced to stay there for three days without food.
High School Life of Mutual KillingEdit
Prologue - Welcome to DespairEdit
At the start of the Mutual Killing incident of Class 78, she was extremely nervous about surviving, and as such, loudly accused everyone of persecuting her even though no one had, and then quickly became cooped-up and withdrawn.
Chapter 1 - To SurviveEdit
Toko was being cooped-up and withdrawn until the first trial that more of her personality was laid out in the open, including her perpetual obsession over ham.
Chapter 2 - Boy's Life of DespairEdit
In Chapter 2, she starts to fall in love with Byakuya, even requesting Makoto to walk her to Byakuya once. However, the attraction is apparently far from mutual, as Byakuya not only seems utterly indifferent to her, but also has no qualms with framing Genocide Jill, Toko's other personality, for the murder of Chihiro. However, Toko seems blissfully unaware of this fact, and, after the second trial, she always accompanied Byakuya wherever and whenever.
Chapter 4 - All•Star•ApologiesEdit
In Chapter 4, Sakura sends her a message to meet with her at the rec room. Being afraid of Sakura, she actually comes earlier than the meeting time and decides to hide inside a locker. She witnesses Sakura come inside the rec room, followed by Yasuhiro Hagakure soon after.
She is shocked after Hiro suddenly attacks Sakura with a Monokuma Bottle, causing Sakura to faint. Hiro then creates a fake dying message on a magazine, writing Toko's name with Sakura's blood on it, and left it opened on the table. After Hiro escapes from the rec room, Toko nervously comes out from her hiding place to hide the magazine; however, she accidentally places it upside down due to her panic.
Throughout the trial she tells the other students everything she saw during her hiding (after being forced by Byakuya to talk). She was found innocent at the trial climax when the group found out Sakura had actually committed suicide in order to cease the dispute between the other students.
It's revealed during her free time events that after Makoto suggested to her to write a novel "from her heart", she immediately finished it as an I-Novel. According to Makoto, Toko's I-Novel is the best writing he has ever read, and it will be a shocking masterpiece because of its super dark story that will change the face of I-Novel.
Ultra Despair GirlsEdit
Toko appears as the deuteragonist of Ultra Despair Girls, aiding Komaru in her journey to rescue Byakuya. Unlike the other survivors of the High School Life of Mutual Killing, Toko has not been accepted as a full member of the Future Foundation (she currently is a research assistant) as a result of Genocide Jill being considered a threat. Toko, annoyed that Hina and Hiro became members first, strives to control Genocide Jill and become a full member.
Chapter 1 - A Demon Calling Out For Love at the Bottom of HellEdit
She first appeared in Chapter 1, after Genocide Jill brought Komaru to a safe point and switch back into Toko. She explained to Komaru that she was an ally. She also reveals to Komaru that she can now control Genocide Jill. By using a stun gun, Toko could change into Genocide Jill for as long as the electrical charge lasts.
After they succeed in getting rid of the Monokuma Units on the rooftop, Toko introduces herself to Komaru, and explains to her that she has two personalities. She explains that Genocide Jill has been completely tamed by using her stun-gun and would not be committing murder ever again like in the past, but she would only use the stun-gun where the circumstances was right, because if she used it to many times, it would fry her brain.
Later, she got mad when she heard that Komaru was saved by Byakuya, saying she won't let anyone get in her way of love. Toko decides to remain in Towa City to save Byakuya who got caught by the Warriors of Hope, a group of kids who murder adults in the name of Monokuma.
After having some sort of conversation, the duo decided to leave the building soon by climbing down the floors. However, they found the exit to go down the floors was blocked, at first she was confused as to why she could go to the rooftop easily, but later she said that they found the generator to open up the shelter.
First, they found two dead bodies near the shelter, and finally they arrive at the supply room where the generator was. When they succeed in opening the shelter, Komaru asked Toko to bring her the Megaphone Hacking Gun, but she refused because she said she had an allergy to machines. They encountered more Monokuma Units until in the next floor down inside a room they find a Monokuma Kid standing next to a gift box.
Komaru thought the Monokuma Kid was the one that she met in the park, but Toko refuted and explained it maybe someone else because all of the kids wear the Monokuma masks. The Monokuma Kids, described by Toko, were all cooperating with Monokuma to kill all adults. Komaru then took the gift box, and suddenly the Monokuma Kid ran away from them. The two also found many books during their escape. Finally, they arrived at the Monitoring Room and discovered a game machine (Monoc-Man) which Toko's said was being played by the Monokuma Kids.
It actually showed the map of the hospital lobby. Toko suggested that Komaru should try not to get discovered by the Monokuma Units and finally they succeed in escaping from the hospital.
After they succeed in getting out of the hospital, Komaru asked Toko how she recognized her. Toko, who was surprised, then answered her reluctantly that she was overheard Byakuya mentioning Komaru's name in the Future Foundation's helicopter. She explained that she was not a formal member because of Jill's existence still considered as a threat, but a research assistant, so she wasn't wearing the Future Foundation's suit. It is also revealed that she didn't have any other clothes except her dark purple sailor uniform. She only could became a formal member until she could controlled Genocide Jill to not kill people again. Komaru explained to Toko that her only plan is to escaped from the city because if she stayed, she would only be attacked by more Monokuma Units. However, she changed her plan to stick together with Toko to help search and help Byakuya. Komaru, who was very thankful that Toko let her stick with her, hugged her, making Toko surprised. Komaru noticed that there was a bridge to escape from the city, so the duo headed for Towa Bridge.
In the way to the Towa Bridge, Toko told Komaru to tested her Hacking Gun to move an elite Towa electric car and met with many Monokuma Units and Monokuma Kids who were killing adults. After they work together to climbed a big container, suddenly they were being attacked by two Bomber Monokuma, but Komaru could defeated them and arrived at a ruined hotel.
In the second floor of the hotel, they find two phones which made Komaru to believed that they could contact the polices to saved them. But Toko resist and said that the internet and cell phones were disconnected. In the second floor, they discovered so many books in the hotel rooms, and they would discussed about it.
After that, they arrived infront of the lifts, and found a Kill List card. Komaru learned from Toko that she was not only one who being targeted by the Warriors of Hope. They also the one who created that cards to hunt their targets efficiently. Toko and Komaru, using the lifts go downstair and used another game machine as a map. Toko suggested Komaru to destroyed the Monokuma unit with one blew. Komaru then shot the bomb packs of a Bomber Monokuma, and it exploded all of the Monokuma Unit.
Succeeding in defeated the Monokuma Units, they met with a Monokuma Kid who gave Komaru a letter which revealed as a challenge from the Monokuma Kid. They wanted Toko and Komaru to answered their riddles and could deduced the secret password. It's revealed that the secret password written as "hell" based on the sofa's arrangement. After they managed to defeated the Monokuma Kid by cracked the secret password, they finally get out from the hotel and could saw the bridge near that area.
Upon arrived on the side of the bridge, Toko felt something not right why they so easily without harmed could arrived at the bridge. Toko felt that something dangerous might came from the bridge. When Toko and Komaru had a dilemma, suddenly, a boy named Yuta Asahina approached them. He then introduced himself, which made Toko's shocked upon hearing his last name.
Later, they hoped to cross the bridge in order to escape, but soon found that half of the bridge had been destroyed. When Yuta went breakdown, Toko told him to kept moved if they wanted to survived, which made Yuta motivated to returned to the city before the bridge completely colapsed.
While the bridge was successfully blown apart, the three escaped to safety. Not dismayed by the fallen bridge, Yuta decided that he would swim out of Towa City. Komaru asked him if it was really far to the other shore, added by Toko that maybe some strange creatures living in the sea because of the pollution, but Yuta answered with his self-confident that the only thing that he needed was only to be careful even thought it would be so troublesome.
Toko was tried to stop him, but Yuta was already set up his mind. While swimming, his bracelet was activated (as a result of being too far from Towa City) and exploded, killing Yuta instantly. Komaru was devastated by what happened to Yuta and burst into tears, saying it's impossible to escape. But Toko encouraged her to at least die trying to find a way out instead of waiting to die (she added quietly that they were words from Makoto). While encouraging Komaru, she stated that she couldn't hide Yuta's death to Hina, his big sister. The two then tried to use the underground subway station to escape, by returned to the place where they left the hotel first.
On the way, they met with a Monokuma Unit lead by a Siren Monokuma, but they could easily get rid of them. Inside a building, called as "Koban", they met with a Monokuma Kid give Komaru a new Kotodama called as "Dance" mode, they also found another game machine as a map to escaped from the building.
After Toko and Komaru succeed to defeated the Monokuma Unit using Komaru's new kotodama bullet, they met with an alive adult who survived the Monokuma Kids attack alone after his parents and son killed by Monokuma Units. When Komaru invited him to went along, he rejected because his right leg was injured heavily by the Monokuma Unit. Toko said it was fine to left him alone because it would be troublesome to carried on. Toko suggested that hiding is the best way of that man to survive the riots.
Upon arrived at the underground subway station, the gate was shuttered. Komaru started to get panicked, but Toko calmed her down by told her that the shutter was locked by someone and there must be a clue left somewhere. When they searched, they found a key from a corpse of a station worker that was killed by the Monokuma Kids.
When Komaru took the key, suddenly, a Monokuma Kid hit her and stole the key. Toko and Komaru then chased the Monokuma Kid until they arrived at the construction site. Inside it, the Monokuma Kid climbed the building because he knew that Toko and Komaru wouldn't climbed too. Komaru suggested them to went around the building entrances and trapped the Monokuma Kid in a dead end. Arrived at the dead end, they found a challenge letter from the Monokuma Kid to came to the hospital, the place where Toko and Komaru's journey began.
Arrived at the hospital, they were trapped by the Monokuma Kid inside the operation room where they encountered with a Junk Monokuma. Komaru tried to escaped, but the door was locked until they defeated the Junk Monokuma. They followed the Monokuma Kid until they finally arrived in the Director Room, where they got another challenge from the Monokuma Kid.
Komaru earned new Kotodama Bullet called as "View" bullet. Her task was to uncover the secret of the four public figures photo sequence and must enter the secret password to get the key of the subway station. After they managed to defeated the Monokuma Kid, which later seen crying and running away, they took the key from the safes and returned to the underground subway station.
In front of the subway station, they confronted with a female adult who panicked and couldn't said things clearly and kept apologise to Komaru and Toko. After talk with the adult, finally they could opened the shutter and went downstair. However, the only things that they could saw it was only dark, until suddenly someone turn on stage lights and highlight them.
Finally, they realized that they was being trapped in the center of an arena full of Monokuma Kids who watched happily by the leader of the Warriors of Hope, the person who charge-in the Hero Class, Masaru Daimon. He explained that he will banished all of the "demons" from Towa City to make Children only paradise.
After that, he opened the door below him and many corpses of adults came out. Masaru stated that their all were the adults that he was killed. As the Monokuma Kids continue to cheer from around the arena, Masaru begins to feel fear; something which he apparently never felt in any of his his previous "demon slaying sessions".
Seeing his left hand trembling, Masaru enters a state of panic, mixed with the resurfacing of his abusive past. He frantically chants to himself over and over how "heroes aren't afraid of anything", then proceeds to beat his own left arm for trembling in fear. Komaru tries to calm him down, but after he is finished panicking, his arm completely blue with bruises, he only seems more determined to defeat the girls.
However, They succeed in defeating him, which resulted to having the Monokuma Kids executing him. Komaru was shocked what they did to him, but Toko said it was too simple (since she was already experienced in witnessing horrific executions back at her school). The two left, only to see another subway station was opened. The two then decided to enter and hope to find an exit from this town. Without their knowing, someone was spied their movement.
Chapter 2 - Fairytale of the Revolutionary School DistrictEdit
Chapter 3 - There's an Anomaly in the Girls' WarfrontEdit
Chapter 4Edit
Chapter 5Edit
First Kiss Prank: Toko is thrown into complete darkness. In the distance, Byakuya can be seen, so she begins to run towards him. Suddenly, a huge roller appears between the two of them. Though Toko tries desperately to escape, the roller catches up with her and presses her paper-thin, killing her. This execution is only described in the official fanbook.
Byakuya TogamiEdit
Toko has a one way obsession with Byukuya. Byakuya did not reciprocate her feelings, though he often commands Toko to do a variety of tasks, all of which she blindly carried out. She even entrusted her secret of Genocide Jill with Byakuya, who then revealed her secret to the rest of the students during the school trial for Chihiro's murder. Despite this, she remained madly in love with him. Her delusions make her extremely attached to Byukuya. She always obey Byakuya's order even she dislikes it. She will defend him if anyone says anything about him.
Genocide JillEdit
She generally disliked Jill because they share the same body; she could be accused for Jill's murderous actions, and she cannot get close to people because Jill may randomly show up (as it had on numerous occasions throughout the story). She will do anything to keep Jill concealed as to not allow her to get out and continue killing people, accounting for her reclusive personality.
Aoi AsahinaEdit
Toko would usually direct cruel remarks toward Hina, calling her a "stupid swimmer" and "brainless mermaid" in the first trial. She also made many sexual and degrading jabs about her appearance. Toko is also jealous that Hina and Hiro became full members of the Future Foundation while she did not. She even dubbed Hina as a "Swimming Idiot". In spite of this, when her younger brother Yuta dies from his bracelet exploding, Toko is unhappy with the prospect of having to tell Hina, possibly knowing that she would be pained to hear of her brother's passing.
Yasuhiro HagakureEdit
Toko would consider him a believer of the occult because he believes in ghosts, he believes in aliens, and he's a fortune teller (despite Hiro's claim that fortunetelling isn't related to the occult). She would usually call him cruel nicknames like "shitty occult fortunetelling bastard" and "occult idiot". Toko is also jealous that Hiro and Hina became full members of the Future Foundation while she did not.
During the events of Ultra Despair Girls, she commented on how similar Hiro's mother was with him once in a while during her conversation with her and Komaru. During Chapter 2, she also asked Komaru if she wanted to met Hiro, whom she described as a bigger idiot than Komaru and called him the "Worst, Most-Despair Inducing Idiot", to her when Komaru told Toko about her ability to sense ghost.
Komaru NaegiEdit
Toko helps aid Komaru through The Tragedy. At first, Toko only helped Komaru due to being blackmailed by Nagito Komaeda for Byakuya's life, and was repeatedly annoyed by what she viewed as cowardly or stupid behavior on Komaru's part. However, their friendship grew to the point of sharing beds together and helping each other climb up taller items. Toko constantly encourages Komaru multiple times throughout the game whenever the latter is at the point of giving up.
During an interview with the crew behind Another Episode, Kodaka states that the game is about "the deepening friendship between Komaru and Toko."
Hiroko HagakureEdit
Hiroko and Toko appear to be friends to some extent, Hiroko calling Toko "Fukawachi". Unlike with Komaru, Hiroko uses her last name; when Toko asks for an explanation, Hiroko brushes it off by saying that either name works.
Kotoko UtsugiEdit
Originally enemies, Genocide Jill saves Kotoko from the hands of the Monokuma kids. Komaru and Toko then travel around with Kotoko as their slave. Toko apparently likes her a little bit. During their confrontation with Monaca Towa, Kotoko defends Toko from Haiji, who was attacking her.
Yuta AsahinaEdit
Toko travels with Yuta for a short time. She identifies him quickly as Hina's younger brother and makes jabs at him every once in a while while. However, Toko appears worried about Yuta while he is swimming past the limits, watching him fearfully.
Kameko is Toko's pet stinkbug. Toko loves Kameko dearly, evidenced by her relief at the discovery that Kameko is still alive in Ultra Despair Girls. Kameko is Toko's dearest companion, being brought to Towa City and forced to participate in the Demons Hunting game for this reason. Kameko is on the Kill Target List as she is one of Toko's most loved ones.
Free TimeEdit
Obtained from the MonoMono Machine.
- Eternal Friendship Bracelet
- Forehead Glasses
- Rose In Vitro
- Cherry Blossom Bouquet
- Antique Doll
- Maidenly Carry-On Bag
- Genius Author Fountain Pen
During free time conversations, the player will occasionally be given a choice on how to respond to something that is said. These are the 'right' choices.
- Romance
- A Movie
- I-Novel
These will aid you, usually during Class Trials.
- Vocabulary - Increases bullet capacity. Effective during the Bullet Time Battle. Costs 4 SP.
- "N-not that you'll remember my n-name anyway, but... I'm T-Toko... Toko Fukawa."
- "You'd like me to s-stop, wouldn't you? Your sweaty h-hands gripping the big, fat chalk t-tight..."
- "If you're okay with th-that, I don't mind if you... think about m-me"
- "Ah! It's a-amazing! Indecent ideas are c-coming to me one after another!"
- "You don't have to play hard to get, Master! You can just play hard!"
- "Did you come h-here to yell at me? My whole life is one u-unpleasant experience after another...!"
- "I was p-perfectly happy spending time by m-myself... But I guess if you're so d-desperate for attention, I can h-hang out for a little bit..."
- "I've already been h-hurt once before... I'm not gonna l-let it happen again...!"
- "I just w-write. I'm serialized, so I'm a-always really busy...! And when I'm not writing, I'm s-studying. I'm not an idiot l-like you...!"
- "Agh, d-dammit...! I had to go and open my b-big mouth again... You must hate me for s-sure now right?"
- "Are you stupid? I t-told you, didn't I? I write romance novels...! How could I use m-my real-life experiences for that...!? It's all from my i-imagination! It's just delusions! Delusions let you fall in l-love as much as you want, even if you n-never do in real life! Or are you s-saying you can't write romance unless you already have lots of experience i-in love...?"
- "It's okay. I'm used to p-people making fun of me... B-but... Someday, I'll show them! I'll get pretty s-someday and show them all...!"
- "You're saying I sh-should take these feelings of anger and e-emptiness... and turn them into a novel?"
- "If you lay a hand on me, I'll b-bite my own tongue off and choke o-on the blood! Till I'm d-dead!)
- "Nng... I'm blind! Your s-straightforward nature blinded me!" (to Makoto Naegi)
- "Mine's still a w-work in progress, though. But as soon a-as it's finished... It's going to b-become a shocking masterpiece that'll change the face of the I-Novel f-forever! And it's all th-thanks to you, Makoto." (to Makoto Naegi)
- "On a locked and rusted door / I dug my nails and dragged them down / Warm blood mixed with old rust / Flowing down my wrist / Coils like a snake / Embracing my body / You watch me / A smile in your eyes / You watch / Time runs away / And you with it / You leave me drowning in a red sea." (Toko's poem to Makoto Naegi)
- "You've helped me find m-my motivation. Now I have to do my b-best to bring the story to an end. And when there's someone there t-to support me for that... that's what you c-call a friend... right?" (to Makoto Naegi)
- "Now I can manage her. I'm... I'm totally different from how I used to be!" (talking about Genocide Jill)
- "At any rate, you'll forget my name soon enough, but... I'm Toko... Fukawa."
- "What I mean is... I have two personalities! The violent one is "Genocide Jill"."
- "Well, at least an idiot like you is easy to understand." (to Komaru Naegi)
- "I-I shouldn't have to saying this, but... I won't let anyone get in the way of Byakuya's and my love!"
- "Wh-what's up with this girl? This overly friendly girl... Why do I...?" (thinking about Komaru Naegi)
- "I have to conquer my fear. Humans are beings that need to grow in order to have a reason for living."
- "Writing jokingly without thinking about the real person's feelings... It's too lacking awareness!"
- "Uuughh...Not only am i just a research assistant... but now I'm stuck with this idiot brat who smells like piss...! This is a disaster. Even thought that shitty occult fortunetelling bastard and that swimming idiot became formal members..."
- "Hmph, friends don't matter at all that much to me. All I need is... Byakuya. Yes, as long as I have Byakuya... I don't need anything else in the world!"
- "Thank me a little less excitedly...!" (to Komaru Naegi)
- "W-working out together? With you...? I guess it can't be helped...are your hands washed?" (to Komaru Naegi)
- "You're more useless than a newborn salmon." (to Komaru Naegi)
- "I deal in the humanities. I don't have an atom of physical strength."
- "This kind... The type of person who can touch the opposite sex like it's nothing are the kind I take most issue with..." (talking about Yuta Asahina)
- "If you have the energy to shout so much, why not use it to move your body?"
- "If we want to survive, you can't be picking the easy way out, you have no but to choose the painful paths... you have to suffer and writhe through... before you can finally survive..." (to Yuta Asahina)
- "How many horrible...for how many despair-inducing things can you just avert your eyes from reality?" (to Komaru Naegi)
- "Crying isn't going to do anything..."
- "I-in this incomprehensible place...to die without being able to see your family or anyone important to you... Are you really okay with that?" (to Komaru Naegi)
- "Aaaah, I'm getting irrirated. I'm getting so irrirated my eyesight might come back...!"
- "Stop believing everything you hear and just go!" (to Komaru Naegi)
- "If a book contains firearms ad drugs and high school girls, then 80% of the time it's obviously created by an otaku. The kind who always spill curry udon right on a white shirt." (talking about The Right to Not Kill)
- "To me, any novel that isn't pure literature is a shit book, so I don't concern myself with it."
- "He's completely enamoured with power... A brat who can't see his surroundings like that is...a nuisance." (talking about Masaru Daimon)
- "The ancient Romans called their circular arenas "colosseums". People died in them, but the name doesn't have to do with killing..."
- "Kamekoo! So you were safe!!" (In response to Hiroko Hagakure talking about Kameko)
- "Right... we're in this together. When you can't hold out on your own, I'll help you and when I can't make it myself, you'll help me... persevering as a pair like that... is what makes being together so great, right?" (to Komaru Naegi)
Machine Talk Battle/Bullet Talk Battle StatementsEdit
- "It's a l-lie!"
- "I admit n-nothing!"
- "I h-hate you!"
- "I curse you!"
- "Shut up...!"
- "N-No no no!"
- "I d-don't know anything!"
- "That's en-nough!"
- "A-are you trying to blame me?!"
- "I'm r-right about this!"
- "Hold on...!"
- "Hiding i-in the rec room? Don't be r-r-ridiculous!" (Final Argument, Fourth trial)
- "H-how can you say it wasn't the s-sprinkler?!" (Final Argument, Fifth trial)
- Toko's last name (腐川 Fukawa) consists of the characters for "rotten" and "river". 腐 fu is also the first character in the word Fujoshi (腐女子; a girl who enjoys reading manga featuring male homoerotic relationships), a term Genocide Jill used to describe herself.
- "Toko" (冬子) consists of 冬 - "winter" and 子 - "child".
- Toko had one father and two mothers that she lived with before the events of the first game.
- It can be assumed about Toko's two mothers that one is Japanese while the other might be from a western country. Evidence of that can be found during School Mode: when asking Toko about which breakfast she prefers, "Japanese or western", she'll mention one of her mothers liked Japanese while the other liked Western.
- Her Blood type is O.
- The most widely disputed causes for Dissociative identity disorder (abbreviated 'DID') are severe psychological trauma or stress experienced during early childhood. Considering Toko's extreme manifestation of DID, it could be assumed she had experienced such psychological harm earlier in her life.
- The reason for her fear of the dark, which she reveals to Komaru in the Another Episode, strongly insinuates she truly was maltreated as a child.
- In one of her free time events, she made a reference to a famous Japanese filmmaker, Seijun Suzuki and his three masterpieces: Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy and Branded to Kill.
- It is implied that Toko does not take showers often. However, in Ultra Despair Girls, the fact she smells bad is revealed to be her pet bug's fault.
- Toko's Japanese voice actress, Miyuki Sawashiro, also voices Genocide Jill, while her English voice actress, Amanda C. Miller, also voices some of Junko Enoshima's "personalities" as well as her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba.
- It's mentioned in Ultra Despair Girls that Toko used to give love advice on forums.
- In Ultra Despair Girls, Toko's "terrified" sprite is surprisingly similar to that of Kazuichi Soda from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
- In Ultra Despair Girls, Toko's profile states that she likes Byakuya Togami and Belles-lettres Novels and dislikes light novels and manga.
- Toko is the only character so far to be a major character in two games.
- It is also revealed she was switched at birth and blames her parents as well as her bizarre origin for Genocide Jill's creation.


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Oklahoma football: Trevor Knight's family gets the news they'd been waiting for
Thompson suffered a foot injury on the first day of the Sooners' preseason fall camp this month.
Bell has long been considered the prohibitive favorite to replace Jones. Stoops announced last August that Bell would be the Sooners' second-team quarterback, seemingly christening him as Jones' heir apparent.
Bell rushed for 24 touchdowns over the past two seasons out of the short-yardage "Belldozer" package, when he would replace Jones in games, take a shotgun snap and plow forward for first downs and touchdowns.
Knight, though, made a name for himself last season while redshirting, when he acted as the Sooners' opposing quarterback each week on the scout team and gave the first-team defense fits.
He passed for 2,092 yards with 27 touchdowns and only three interceptions — and recorded 943 yards and 15 scores on the ground — during his senior season at San Antonio's Ronald Reagan High School.
"Both Trevor and Blake have competed hard and both will be ready to play against Louisiana-Monroe," Stoops said in a news release Thursday evening. "Like every other position on our team, I expect them both to continue competing for the starting job."
George Knight sat in his office Thursday evening with OU's official Twitter feed opened on his Web browser when Stoops' announcement was posted.
He pulled out his cellphone and called Tricia, who was hosting a meet and greet at Stone Oak Elementary School with her new first-grade students.
With around 25 youngsters and their parents in the classroom, she became agitated as her cellphone kept buzzing on her desk.
"Finally I went over and saw it was my husband," she said. "I said, 'Hey, you can't be calling me right now.'
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Monkeys Understand Basic Counting Skills
A team of researchers studying Old World monkeys have found that the primates have better numerical skills than previously believed, BBC News reports.
They found, using a basic numeracy test, that long-tail macaques were able to determine which of two plates had more raisins. However, in strange fashion, the macaques only excelled in the basic test if they were not allowed to eat the raisins used in the experiment.
The results of the experiments show that the animals have the ability to understand the concept of relative quantities.
The researchers, from the German Primate Center in Goettingen, Germany, first tested the macaques by showing them two different amounts of raisins. The primates were then fed the raisins that they pointed to. But the researchers noted that in this test, the monkeys usually got it wrong — choosing the smaller pile of raisins.
Vanessa Schmidt, lead researcher on the study, said that instead of thinking about the quantities, the monkeys were thinking more about how much they wanted to eat the raisins.
"This impulsiveness impaired their judgment," Schmidt told BBC News. "But when we repeated the test, this time showing them two plates of inedible objects – pebbles – they did much better."
To find out if the monkeys could actually distinguish quantities, the team decided to try another experiment.
"We wanted to know if they could simultaneously maintain two mental representations of the food items, first as choice, and second as food reward," said Schmidt.
In the new experiment, which was a little more complex than the original, the macaques were shown plates of raisins, but the reward for pointing to the correct plate was to be fed raisins that were actually hidden underneath.
"They perform as well in this task as they do when choosing the pebbles," said Schmidt. "This seems to show that they see the raisins as signifiers – representations of the food rewards they're going to receive."
Professor Julia Fischer, the study's co-researcher, said that young children displayed the same difficulty in suppressing their impulses. "There's a well-known experiment called the reverse reward paradigm," she said.
"You have two heaps of candies – one big, and one small. The child obviously points at the big heap – which is then given to another child, while the [first] child itself gets the small heap," Fischer explained.
"Young children have trouble comprehending that they should point at the small heap to get the big one, but if you replace the candies with numerals or other symbols, they can do it," she added.
Other studies of primates in the past, that have used food to test numeracy skills, may have had inconclusive results because of this effect, and therefore didn't really understand the real abilities of these types of animals.
The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Letter: Why do we have to apologize to extremists?
Why do we here in the United States have to apologize to the world when we make a mistake, like burning a Quran?
We never hear an outcry from any of our "friends" in other parts of the world when people behead us, kill innocent people or burn our Bibles.
I, myself, am getting tired of our government bowing to these extremists. We should start showing some backbone!
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Yankees Make Most Of Wait, Draft Lefty Strikeout Machine Lindgren
Yankees director of amateur scouting Damon Oppenheimer said they picked a kid who has "exceptional strikeout numbers." Exceptional indeed.
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The Mets have made a habit in recent years of taking high schoolers with their top pick in the MLB draft. They bucked that trend on Thursday night.
Yankees Reach Agreement With 1st-Round Pick Ian Clarkin
Clarkin, one of the team's three draft picks in the opening round, has agreed to a slot-money deal worth $1,650,100, WFAN and CBSSports.com insider Jon Heyman reported.
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Brett Gardner has been very hot, but has anybody noticed Jayson Nix?
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On a conference call Friday, Clarkin said he was sorry. He said the remarks were taken out of context and meant to tease his mother, a Yankees fan.
Mets Draft Pick LJ Mazzilli Following In His Father's Footsteps
Forty years after taking local boy Lee Mazzilli in the first round of the 1973 amateur draft, the Mets selected his son, University of Connecticut second baseman LJ Mazzilli.
Yankees Draft 3B Jagielo, OF Judge, P Clarkin In 1st-Round Haul
Aaron Judge toured Yankee Stadium with eight other prospects Thursday and daydreamed about roaming the outfield there someday. After being drafted in the first round by the Yankees, that could become a reality in a few years.
Mets Go Back To Cali, Draft Sweet-Swinging Dominic Smith In 1st Round
While Darryl Strawberry was an outfielder and Smith is primarily a first baseman, they already have something in common: a sweet-looking swing from the left side of the plate.
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A few things to know about this year's Major League Baseball first-year player draft.
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|Let G be a locally compact abelian group whose dual group Γ contains a Haar measurable order P. Using the order P we define the conjugate function operator on Lp(G), 1 ≤ p < ∞, as was done by Helson. We will show how to use Hahn's Embedding Theorem for orders and the ergodic Hilbert transform to study the conjugate function. Our approach enables us to define a filtration of the Borel σ-algebra on G, which in turn will allow us to introduce tools from martingale theory into the analysis on groups with ordered duals. We illustrate our methods by describing a concrete way to construct the conjugate function in Lp(G). This construction is in terms of an unconditionally convergent conjugate series whose individual terms are constructed from specific ergodic Hilbert transforms. We also present a study of the square function associated with the conjugate series.
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AMD is expected to because the 2nd half of 2012 short selllers pounded AMD down about 70%. AMD has rallied over 40% in the past few weeks as 150 million short shares cover. 24% of the shares wre short.
Last time AMD was pound down to 42 was in January 2009 and by the end of 2009 AMD rallied over $9.
If MSFT rises 50 cents, you gain just 2%.
If AMD rises 50 cents, you gain 25%.
The only way Microsoft can double is with a reverse split.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Another up day.
All stocks, any growth stocks for sure will fall. Commonsense says they will given the world economy, and all the socialist governance in the USA and in Europe. That kills demand.


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Originally written on Fox Sports Arizona | Last updated 11/17/14
The frequently co-opted philosophies of basketball sage John Wooden include his recommendation to avoid confusing activity for achievement. That drags us directly over to the Phoenix Suns, whose big thinkers were extremely active last summer. But staying busy truly made sense for a franchise that had missed the playoffs in two consecutive seasons despite having a veteran roster. With a sample size of 14 games (they are 6-8, putting them one game ahead of last seasons pace), lets perform an early examination of how those moves have fared. By far the biggest get was point guard Goran Dragic. In his return to Phoenix, The Dragon isnt exactly making the locals forget about the guy Kobe Bryant now refers to as Gatsby, but he appears to be worth every penny the Suns lobbed his way. For unbiased context, lets check in with an advance scout employed by another NBA team. He (Dragic) got a pretty nice contract for, what, about 20 or 25 games as a starter in Houston last year? The scout s...
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