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Truth vs Illusion
- By Matthew Douglas
- Published 09/25/2014
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In life, there is always this misconception of truth and a refusal to believe that you can see the illusion. That may sound confusing at first, but the truth is, that the truth is harder to find in your life because you must seek it out and the illusion is easier to find. It is the easier road to take because illusion is placed in your life for you. There are many factors that take away the truth in your life and replace it with illusion and the biggest factor in our view is fear.
Forced Connections vs Choice Connections
- By Matthew Douglas
- Published 09/2/2014
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As you have forced connections and choice connections in your life, the purpose of your life is to diminish the forced connections and increase the choice connections. It is meant to free yourself of having to have forced connections, of having to go through situations just to get through. Life will never be simple, but choosing a different perspective to view it in will make it less and less difficult to function. You have the power within to decide what your life will look like, who will be in that life, who you choose to have a relationship or connection with.
Offensive Living Vs. Defensive Living
- By Matthew Douglas
- Published 09/2/2014
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Are you learning out of love or are you reacting to lifes situations out of fear?
Parameters of Possibilities
- By Matthew Douglas
- Published 08/22/2014
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The time upon which you find yourself is a time to erase the parameters of possibilities (societal rules, beliefs, and limitations). These are drawn throughout your life and continue to be reinforced. Who draws them and why? The parameters (lines) are drawn using pencils of possibilities. The pencils can be reporters, politicians, teachers, physicians, parents, or anyone else of authority or influence. A few examples of these parameters of possibilities are that you are not good enough, if you dont go to college you will never amount to anything or just get a job to get by, your dreams can wait.
Wanting Something Different
- By Michelle Miller
- Published 08/20/2014
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As the Buddhist teachings say, "to live you must experience suffering." Throughout life, it's natural to endure sickness, injury, tiredness, and old age. However, when we look at our emotional suffering, such as loneliness, doubt, frustration, fear, embarrassment, anger, jealousy, disappointment, etc., these feelings are more difficult to accept.
Life Transitions
- By Matthew Douglas
- Published 07/30/2014
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Does the unknown scare you enough that you settle with the life you have instead of moving forward onto the life you desire? Transitions in life are those times on your path when decisions bring more decisions, affecting more decisions and so forth. Surrounding these decisions are emotions of uncertainty. Which choice should I make? Which way should I go? Am I doing the right thing?
Do you ever have conversations with yourself?
- By Danny Lehrer
- Published 07/31/2012
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I don't mean like hearing voices but more like thinking about things and questioning yourself? Or going over an important decision that you have to make again and again? This kind of conversation with yourself will not help you to solve your problems or make good decisions and is not productive or helpful.
Regret Brings Pain and Pain Brings Growth
- By chris richardson
- Published 06/12/2012
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Regret is an important aspect of spiritual growth. It forces inward reflection and action.
The strength of weakness
- By chris richardson
- Published 06/9/2012
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There is a misconception that strength is obtained through power. The truth is that strength can only be obtained through weakness. It is our weakness's that forces the examination of ourselves. Reflecting inward to except and face our weakness. Then and only then will our inward strength have an outlet to come outward. To be visable to not only ourselves, but to those around us.
Are You On The Hero's Path?
- By sophie rose
- Published 05/7/2012
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How can children's tales help us on our spiritual journey? Have you noticed that many children's tales end with a victory of the heart? The hero, after following a tortuous path of struggles, dreams and hopes, always manages to fulfill their heart's desire, while sometimes discovering it at the same time.


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Spatial metaphors of the internet: Resources
As someone who does work on online communities and spatial informatics, I'm very much aware of the extent to which we tend to use spatial metaphors to talk about web-based technologies. I asked around the Social Media Collective (including our mighty network of esteemed colleagues) for favorite critiques of the intertwining of space and the internet, and thought I'd share the list of sources here.
Why We Like Pinterest for Fieldwork
(written up with Nikki Usher, GWU)
Anyone tackling fieldwork these days can chose from a wide selection of digital tools to put in their methodological toolkit. Among the best of these tools are platforms that let you archive, analyze, and disseminate at the same time. It used to be that these were fairly distinct stages of research, especially for the most positivist among us. You came up with research questions, chose a field site, entered the field site, left the field site, analyzed your findings, got them published, and shared your research output with friends and colleagues.
But the post-positivist approach that many of us like involves adapting your research questions—reflexively and responsively—while doing fieldwork. Entering and leaving your field site is not a cool, clean and complete process. We analyze findings as we go, and involve our research subjects in the analysis. We publish, but often in journals or books that can't reproduce the myriad digital artifacts that are meaningful in network ethnography. Actor network theory, activity theory, science and technology studies and several other modes of social and humanistic inquiry approach research as something that involves both people and devices. (Yes yes we know but these wikipedia entries aren't bad.) Moreover, the dissemination of work doesn't have to be something that happens after publication or even at the end of a research plan.
Nikki's work involves qualitative ethnographic work at field sites where research can last from five months to a brief week visit to a quick drop in day. She learned the hard way from her research for Making News at The New York Times that failing to find a good way to organize and capture images was a missed opportunity post-data collection. Since then, Nikki's been using Pinterest for fieldwork image gathering quite a bit. Phil's work on The Managed Citizen was set back when he lost two weeks of field notes on the chaotic floor of the Republican National Convention in 2000 (security incinerates all the detritus left by convention goers). He's been digitizing field observations ever since.
Some people put together personal websites about their research journey. Some share over Twitter. And there are plenty of beta tools, open source or otherwise, that people play with. We've both enjoyed using Pinterest for our research projects. Here are some points on how we use it and why we like it.
How To Use It
- When you start, think of this as your research tool and your resource. If you dedicate yourself to this as your primary archiving system for digital artifacts you are more likely to build it up over time. If you think of this as a social media publicity gimmick for your research, you'll eventually lose interest and it is less likely to be useful for anyone else.
- Integrate it with your mobile phone because this amps up your capacity for portable, taggable, image data collection.
- Link the board posts to Twitter or your other social media feeds. Pinterest itself isn't that lively a place for researchers yet. The people who want to visit your Pinterest page are probably actively following your activities on other platforms so be sure to let content flow across platforms.
- Pin lots of things, and lots of different kinds of things. Include decent captions though be aware that if you are feeding Twitter you need to fit character limits.
- Use it to collect images you have found online, images you've taken yourself during your fieldwork, and invite the communities you are working with to contribute.
- Backup and export things once in a while for safe keeping. There is no built-in export function, but there are a wide variety of hacks and workarounds for transporting your archive.
What You Get
- Pinterest makes it easy to track the progress of the image data you gather. You may find yourself taking more photos in the field because they can be easily arranged, saved and categorized.
- Using it regularly adds another level of data as photos and documents captured on phone and then added on Pinterest can be quickly field captioned and then re-catalogued, giving you a chance to review the visual and built environment of your field site and interrogate your observations afresh.
- Visually-enhanced constant comparative methods: post-data collection, you can go beyond notes to images and captions that are easily scanned for patterns and points of divergence. This may be going far beyond what Glaser and Strauss had imagined, of course.
- Perhaps most important, when you forget what something looks like when you're writing up your results, you've got an instant, easily searchable database of images and clues to refresh your memory.
Why We Like It
- It's great for spontaneous presentations. Images are such an important part of presenting any research. Having a quick publically accessible archive of content allows you to speak, on the fly, about what you are up to. You can't give a tour of your Pinterest page for a job talk. But having the resource there means you can call on images quickly during a Q&A period, or quickly load something relevant on a phone or browser during a casual conversation about your work.
- It gives you a way to interact with subjects. Having the Pinterest link allows you to show a potential research subject what you are up to and what you are interested in. During interviews it allows you to engage people on their interpretation of things. Having visual prompts handy can enrich and enliven any focus group or single subject interview. These don't only prompt further conversation, they can prompt subjects to give you even more links, images, videos and other digital artifacts.
- It makes your research interests transparent. Having the images, videos and artifacts for anyone to see is a way for us to show what we are doing. Anyone with interest in the project and the board link is privy to our research goals. Our Pinterest page may be far less complicated than many of our other efforts to explain our work to a general audience.
- You can disseminate as you go. If you get the content flow right, you can tell people about your research as you are doing it. Letting people know about what you are working on is always a good career strategy. Giving people images rather than article abstracts and draft chapters gives them something to visualize and improves the ambient contact with your research community
- It makes digital artifacts more permanent. As long as you keep your Pinterest, what you have gathered can become a stable resource for anyone interested in your subjects. As sites and material artifacts change, what you have gathered offers a permanent and easily accessible snapshot of a particular moment of inquiry for posterity.
Pinterest Wish-list
One of us is a Windows Phone user (yes really) and it would be great if there was a real Pinterest app for the Windows Phone. One touch integration from the iPhone, much like Twitter, Facebook, and Flicker from the camera roll would be great (though there is an easy hack).
We wish it would be easier to have open, collaborative boards. Right now, the only person who can add to a board is you, at least at first. You can invite other people to join a "group board" via email, but Pinterest does not have open boards that allow anyone with a board link to add content.
Here's a look at our Pinboards: Phil Howard's Tech + Politics board, and Nikki Usher's boards on U.S. Newspapers. We welcome your thoughts…and send us images!
Must-reads for how to study people's online behavior (and navigate the ethical challenges that entails!)
I realized after posting my thoughts on how to think about social media as a site of human interaction (and all the ethical and methodological implications of doing so) that I forgot to leave links to what are, bar none, the best resources on the planet for policy makers, researchers, and the general public thinking through all this stuff.
Run, don't walk, to download copies of the following must-reads:
Charles Ess and the AOIR Ethics Committee (2002). Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AoIR ethics working committee. Approved by the Association of Internet Researchers, November 27, 2002. Available at: http://aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
Annette Markham and Elizabeth Buchanan (2012). Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AoIR ethics working committee (version 2.0). Approved by the Association of Internet Researchers, December 2012. Available at: http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf
I have the privilege of spending the year as a visiting researcher with the social media researchers at Microsoft Research New England. And for the last two weeks or so, its been a particularly stimulating time to be among them. Spurred by the controversial Facebook emotions study and the vigorous debate surrounding it, there's been a great deal of discussion in the lab and beyond it.
A number of us have also joined the debate publicly, posting here as well as in other places. Rather than re-post each one individually here, I thought I'd collect them into a single post, as they have in many ways emerged from our thinking together.
danah boyd: What does the Facebook experiment teach us?: "What's at stake is the underlying dynamic of how Facebook runs its business, operates its system, and makes decisions that have nothing to do with how its users want Facebook to operate. It's not about research. It's a question of power."
Kate Crawford: The Test We Can—and Should—Run on Facebook (in The Atlantic): "It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science."
Tarleton Gillespie: Facebook's algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are right (on Culture Digitally): "But a key issue, both in the research and in the reaction to it, is about Facebook and how it algorithmically curates our social connections, sometimes in the name of research and innovation, but also in the regular provision of Facebook's service."
Andrés Monroy-Hernández: A system designer's take on the Facebook study – a response to danah boyd's blog post: "…it's important that we do not throw out the baby out with the bath water. I do not want to see the research community completely avoiding experimental research in online systems."
Mary L. Gray: When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What? (on Ethnography Matters): "My brothers and sisters in data science, computational social science, and all of us studying and building the Internet of things inside or outside corporate firewalls, to improve a product, explore a scientific question, or both: we are now, officially, doing human subjects research."
There have also been comments on the issue from other scholars at Microsoft Research, including:
Jaron Lanier, MSR Redmond. Should Facebook Manipulate Users? (The New York Times)
Duncan Watts, MSR New York. Stop complaining about the Facebook study. It's a golden age for research (The Guardian) and Lessons learned from the Facebook study (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
Matt Salganik, MSR New York. After the Facebook emotional contagion experiment: A proposal for a positive path forward (Freedom to Tinker)
Last week I sent an email reply to danah boyd in response to her thoughtful post about the Facebook study. She encouraged me to post it publicly, but I was a bit scared by the viciousness and panic of the reactions. At the same time, I worried that the silence of people who do research in social computing (often relying on designing, building, and releasing systems for people to use) would be counterproductive in the long run.
Along with other colleagues in the social computing community who are writing their own take on this topic [1,2], my hope is that, together, our voices are heard along with the voices of those who have dominated the discussion so far, those whose research is mainly rhetorical.
So here is my (slightly edited) response to danah:
danah, I enjoyed your post. While critical, it didn't have the panic tone that has bothered me so much from other articles. Also, I liked that it looks beyond the Facebook experiment itself.
I liked this part where you talk about beneficence and maleficence in research: Getting children to talk about these awful experiences can be quite psychologically tolling. Yet, better understanding what they experienced has huge benefits for society. So we make our trade-offs and we do research that can have consequences.
I liked it because it's important that we do not throw out the baby out with the bath water. I do not want to see the research community completely avoiding experimental research in online systems. As a designer and someone who has done this type of work, I do want to engage in ethics discussions that go beyond IRBs and liability. I want to engage in discussions with my peers about the experiments I do. I don't want to feel scared of proposing studies, or witch hunted like our colleagues in the Facebook Data Science team. I want to work with colleagues in figuring out if the risks involved in my work are worth the knowledge we could obtain. I also don't want to feel paralyzed and having to completely avoid risky but valuable research. The way the Facebook experiment has been framed, feels almost like we're talking about Milgram or Tuskegee. To be honest, this whole experience made me wonder if I want to publish every finding we have in our work to the academic community, or to keep it internally within product teams.
If anything, studies like this one allow us to learn more about the power and limitations of these platforms. For that, I am grateful to the authors. But I am not going to defend the paper, as I have no idea what went through the researchers head when they were doing it. I do feel that it could be defended, and it's a shame that the main author seems to have been forced to come out and apologize, without engaging in a discussion about the work and the thinking process that it went through.
The other piece of your post that left me thinking is the one about power, which echoes what Zeynep Tufekci had written about too:
This study isn't really what's at stake. What's at stake is the underlying dynamic of how Facebook runs its business, operates its system, and makes decisions that have nothing to do with how its users want Facebook to operate. It's not about research. It's a question of power.
I agree, every social computing system gives power to its designers. This power is also a function of scale and openness. It makes me wonder how one might take these two variables into consideration when assessing research in this space. For example, why did the Wikipedia A/B testing of their fundraising banner did not seem to raise concerns ? Similarly, this experiment on Wikipedia without informed consent did not raise any flags either. Could it be partly because of how open the Wikipedia community is to making decisions about their internal processes? I think the publication of the Facebook emotion study is a step towards this openness, which is why I think the reaction to it is unfortunate.
What does the Facebook experiment teach us?
I'm intrigued by the reaction that has unfolded around the Facebook "emotion contagion" study. (If you aren't familiar with this, read this primer.) As others have pointed out, the practice of A/B testing content is quite common. And Facebook has a long history of experimenting on how it can influence people's attitudes and practices, even in the realm of research. An earlier study showed that Facebook decisions could shape voters' practices. But why is it that *this* study has sparked a firestorm?
In asking people about this, I've been given two dominant reasons:
- People's emotional well-being is sacred.
- Research is different than marketing practices.
I don't find either of these responses satisfying.
The Consequences of Facebook's Experiment
Facebook's research team is not truly independent of product. They have a license to do research and publish it, provided that it contributes to the positive development of the company. If Facebook knew that this research would spark the negative PR backlash, they never would've allowed it to go forward or be published. I can only imagine the ugliness of the fight inside the company now, but I'm confident that PR is demanding silence from researchers.
I do believe that the research was intended to be helpful to Facebook. So what was the intended positive contribution of this study? I get the sense from Adam Kramer's comments that the goal was to determine if content sentiment could affect people's emotional response after being on Facebook. In other words, given that Facebook wants to keep people on Facebook, if people came away from Facebook feeling sadder, presumably they'd not want to come back to Facebook again. Thus, it's in Facebook's better interest to leave people feeling happier. And this study suggests that the sentiment of the content influences this. This suggests that one applied take-away for product is to downplay negative content. Presumably this is better for users and better for Facebook.
We can debate all day long as to whether or not this is what that study actually shows, but let's work with this for a second. Let's say that pre-study Facebook showed 1 negative post for every 3 positive and now, because of this study, Facebook shows 1 negative post for every 10 positive ones. If that's the case, was the one week treatment worth the outcome for longer term content exposure? Who gets to make that decision?
Folks keep talking about all of the potential harm that could've happened by the study – the possibility of suicides, the mental health consequences. But what about the potential harm of negative content on Facebook more generally? Even if we believe that there were subtle negative costs to those who received the treatment, the ongoing costs of negative content on Facebook every week other than that 1 week experiment must be more costly. How then do we account for positive benefits to users if Facebook increased positive treatments en masse as a result of this study? Of course, the problem is that Facebook is a black box. We don't know what they did with this study. The only thing we know is what is published in PNAS and that ain't much.
Of course, if Facebook did make the content that users see more positive, should we simply be happy? What would it mean that you're more likely to see announcements from your friends when they are celebrating a new child or a fun night on the town, but less likely to see their posts when they're offering depressive missives or angsting over a relationship in shambles? If Alice is happier when she is oblivious to Bob's pain because Facebook chooses to keep that from her, are we willing to sacrifice Bob's need for support and validation? This is a hard ethical choice at the crux of any decision of what content to show when you're making choices. And the reality is that Facebook is making these choices every day without oversight, transparency, or informed consent.
Algorithmic Manipulation of Attention and Emotions
Facebook actively alters the content you see. Most people focus on the practice of marketing, but most of what Facebook's algorithms do involve curating content to provide you with what they think you want to see. Facebook algorithmically determines which of your friends' posts you see. They don't do this for marketing reasons. They do this because they want you to want to come back to the site day after day. They want you to be happy. They don't want you to be overwhelmed. Their everyday algorithms are meant to manipulate your emotions. What factors go into this? We don't know.
Facebook is not alone in algorithmically predicting what content you wish to see. Any recommendation system or curatorial system is prioritizing some content over others. But let's compare what we glean from this study with standard practice. Most sites, from major news media to social media, have some algorithm that shows you the content that people click on the most. This is what drives media entities to produce listicals, flashy headlines, and car crash news stories. What do you think garners more traffic – a detailed analysis of what's happening in Syria or 29 pictures of the cutest members of the animal kingdom? Part of what media learned long ago is that fear and salacious gossip sell papers. 4chan taught us that grotesque imagery and cute kittens work too. What this means online is that stories about child abductions, dangerous islands filled with snakes, and celebrity sex tape scandals are often the most clicked on, retweeted, favorited, etc. So an entire industry has emerged to produce crappy click bait content under the banner of "news."
Guess what? When people are surrounded by fear-mongering news media, they get anxious. They fear the wrong things. Moral panics emerge. And yet, we as a society believe that it's totally acceptable for news media – and its click bait brethren – to manipulate people's emotions through the headlines they produce and the content they cover. And we generally accept that algorithmic curators are perfectly well within their right to prioritize that heavily clicked content over others, regardless of the psychological toll on individuals or the society. What makes their practice different? (Other than the fact that the media wouldn't hold itself accountable for its own manipulative practices…)
Somehow, shrugging our shoulders and saying that we promoted content because it was popular is acceptable because those actors don't voice that their intention is to manipulate your emotions so that you keep viewing their reporting and advertisements. And it's also acceptable to manipulate people for advertising because that's just business. But when researchers admit that they're trying to learn if they can manipulate people's emotions, they're shunned. What this suggests is that the practice is acceptable, but admitting the intention and being transparent about the process is not.
But Research is Different!!
As this debate has unfolded, whenever people point out that these business practices are commonplace, folks respond by highlighting that research or science is different. What unfolds is a high-browed notion about the purity of research and its exclusive claims on ethical standards.
Do I think that we need to have a serious conversation about informed consent? Absolutely. Do I think that we need to have a serious conversation about the ethical decisions companies make with user data? Absolutely. But I do not believe that this conversation should ever apply just to that which is categorized under "research." Nor do I believe that academe is necessarily providing a golden standard.
Academe has many problems that need to be accounted for. Researchers are incentivized to figure out how to get through IRBs rather than to think critically and collectively about the ethics of their research protocols. IRBs are incentivized to protect the university rather than truly work out an ethical framework for these issues. Journals relish corporate datasets even when replicability is impossible. And for that matter, even in a post-paper era, journals have ridiculous word count limits that demotivate researchers from spelling out all of the gory details of their methods. But there are also broader structural issues. Academe is so stupidly competitive and peer review is so much of a game that researchers have little incentive to share their studies-in-progress with their peers for true feedback and critique. And the status games of academe reward those who get access to private coffers of data while prompting those who don't to chastise those who do. And there's generally no incentive for corporates to play nice with researchers unless it helps their prestige, hiring opportunities, or product.
IRBs are an abysmal mechanism for actually accounting for ethics in research. By and large, they're structured to make certain that the university will not be liable. Ethics aren't a checklist. Nor are they a universal. Navigating ethics involves a process of working through the benefits and costs of a research act and making a conscientious decision about how to move forward. Reasonable people differ on what they think is ethical. And disciplines have different standards for how to navigate ethics. But we've trained an entire generation of scholars that ethics equals "that which gets past the IRB" which is a travesty. We need researchers to systematically think about how their practices alter the world in ways that benefit and harm people. We need ethics to not just be tacked on, but to be an integral part of how *everyone* thinks about what they study, build, and do.
There's a lot of research that has serious consequences on the people who are part of the study. I think about the work that some of my colleagues do with child victims of sexual abuse. Getting children to talk about these awful experiences can be quite psychologically tolling. Yet, better understanding what they experienced has huge benefits for society. So we make our trade-offs and we do research that can have consequences. But what warms my heart is how my colleagues work hard to help those children by providing counseling immediately following the interview (and, in some cases, follow-up counseling). They think long and hard about each question they ask, and how they go about asking it. And yet most IRBs wouldn't let them do this work because no university wants to touch anything that involves kids and sexual abuse. Doing research involves trade-offs and finding an ethical path forward requires effort and risk.
It's far too easy to say "informed consent" and then not take responsibility for the costs of the research process, just as it's far too easy to point to an IRB as proof of ethical thought. For any study that involves manipulation – common in economics, psychology, and other social science disciplines – people are only so informed about what they're getting themselves into. You may think that you know what you're consenting to, but do you? And then there are studies like discrimination audit studies in which we purposefully don't inform people that they're part of a study. So what are the right trade-offs? When is it OK to eschew consent altogether? What does it mean to truly be informed? When it being informed not enough? These aren't easy questions and there aren't easy answers.
I'm not necessarily saying that Facebook made the right trade-offs with this study, but I think that the scholarly reaction of research is only acceptable with IRB plus informed consent is disingenuous. Of course, a huge part of what's at stake has to do with the fact that what counts as a contract legally is not the same as consent. Most people haven't consented to all of Facebook's terms of service. They've agreed to a contract because they feel as though they have no other choice. And this really upsets people.
A Different Theory
The more I read people's reactions to this study, the more that I've started to think that the outrage has nothing to do with the study at all. There is a growing amount of negative sentiment towards Facebook and other companies that collect and use data about people. In short, there's anger at the practice of big data. This paper provided ammunition for people's anger because it's so hard to talk about harm in the abstract.
For better or worse, people imagine that Facebook is offered by a benevolent dictator, that the site is there to enable people to better connect with others. In some senses, this is true. But Facebook is also a company. And a public company for that matter. It has to find ways to become more profitable with each passing quarter. This means that it designs its algorithms not just to market to you directly but to convince you to keep coming back over and over again. People have an abstract notion of how that operates, but they don't really know, or even want to know. They just want the hot dog to taste good. Whether it's couched as research or operations, people don't want to think that they're being manipulated. So when they find out what soylent green is made of, they're outraged. This study isn't really what's at stake. What's at stake is the underlying dynamic of how Facebook runs its business, operates its system, and makes decisions that have nothing to do with how its users want Facebook to operate. It's not about research. It's a question of power.
I get the anger. I personally loathe Facebook and I have for a long time, even as I appreciate and study its importance in people's lives. But on a personal level, I hate the fact that Facebook thinks it's better than me at deciding which of my friends' posts I should see. I hate that I have no meaningful mechanism of control on the site. And I am painfully aware of how my sporadic use of the site has confused their algorithms so much that what I see in my newsfeed is complete garbage. And I resent the fact that because I barely use the site, the only way that I could actually get a message out to friends is to pay to have it posted. My minimal use has made me an algorithmic pariah and if I weren't technologically savvy enough to know better, I would feel as though I've been shunned by my friends rather than simply deemed unworthy by an algorithm. I also refuse to play the game to make myself look good before the altar of the algorithm. And every time I'm forced to deal with Facebook, I can't help but resent its manipulations.
There's also a lot that I dislike about the company and its practices. At the same time, I'm glad that they've started working with researchers and started publishing their findings. I think that we need more transparency in the algorithmic work done by these kinds of systems and their willingness to publish has been one of the few ways that we've gleaned insight into what's going on. Of course, I also suspect that the angry reaction from this study will prompt them to clamp down on allowing researchers to be remotely public. My gut says that they will naively respond to this situation as though the practice of research is what makes them vulnerable rather than their practices as a company as a whole. Beyond what this means for researchers, I'm concerned about what increased silence will mean for a public who has no clue of what's being done with their data, who will think that no new report of terrible misdeeds means that Facebook has stopped manipulating data.
Information companies aren't the same as pharmaceuticals. They don't need to do clinical trials before they put a product on the market. They can psychologically manipulate their users all they want without being remotely public about exactly what they're doing. And as the public, we can only guess what the black box is doing.
There's a lot that needs reformed here. We need to figure out how to have a meaningful conversation about corporate ethics, regardless of whether it's couched as research or not. But it's not so simple as saying that a lack of a corporate IRB or a lack of a golden standard "informed consent" means that a practice is unethical. Almost all manipulations that take place by these companies occur without either one of these. And they go unchecked because they aren't published or public.
Ethical oversight isn't easy and I don't have a quick and dirty solution to how it should be implemented. But I do have a few ideas. For starters, I'd like to see any company that manipulates user data create an ethics board. Not an IRB that approves research studies, but an ethics board that has visibility into all proprietary algorithms that could affect users. For public companies, this could be done through the ethics committee of the Board of Directors. But rather than simply consisting of board members, I think that it should consist of scholars and users. I also think that there needs to be a mechanism for whistleblowing regarding ethics from within companies because I've found that many employees of companies like Facebook are quite concerned by certain algorithmic decisions, but feel as though there's no path to responsibly report concerns without going fully public. This wouldn't solve all of the problems, nor am I convinced that most companies would do so voluntarily, but it is certainly something to consider. More than anything, I want to see users have the ability to meaningfully influence what's being done with their data and I'd love to see a way for their voices to be represented in these processes.
I'm glad that this study has prompted an intense debate among scholars and the public, but I fear that it's turned into a simplistic attack on Facebook over this particular study rather than a nuanced debate over how we create meaningful ethical oversight in research and practice. The lines between research and practice are always blurred and information companies like Facebook make this increasingly salient. No one benefits by drawing lines in the sand. We need to address the problem more holistically. And, in the meantime, we need to hold companies accountable for how they manipulate people across the board, regardless of whether or not it's couched as research. If we focus too much on this study, we'll lose track of the broader issues at stake.

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An expectant mother asks if there's a Jewish view on how to raise a kind, caring child, and if so, where to start?
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COLLEGE PLACE - Revolutionizing Christianity through the power of self-sacrificial love was the message that best-selling author, international speaker, university professor and ordained pastor Tony Campolo had for a capacity congregation on Friday night, during a vespers service held at the Walla Walla University church in College Place.
The sermon was part of a two-day series of social and religious programming at WWU called "The Weekend."
Campolo, who headlined the event and spoke several times Friday and Saturday, has rocked the evangelical community upon occasion during the last few years with the release of books like the recent best seller "Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics."
The Pennsylvania sociologist has authored 38 books and has made several appearances on television shows in recent years including "Nightline," "CNN Headline News," and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," when the prominent Christian activist went head-to-head with the satirical faux-conservative in 2008 during a discussion over what it means to follow Christ's message in today's society.
The two grappled over how Christians should treat the poor and how they should behave toward homosexuals, a topic that Campolo addressed in his talk Friday night. He specifically refuted the idea, widely held in evangelical communities, that successful campaigns, funded by Christian groups, to ban gay marriage in states like California are a victory for the church and for God.
"After that, tens of thousands of gays and lesbians marched in San Francisco and New York and Chicago, screaming their hatred of the church and saw Jesus Christ as their enemy," Campolo said, "If you think that's a victory, you and I are on opposite teams."
Campolo also addressed the importance of reaching out to help those in need, especially children suffering from diseases like HIV/AIDS and the emotional neglect that often accompanies it.
REACH Ministries, of which Campolo is the honorary chair, was one of the sponsors for the event and gave students a chance to sign up for a volunteer opportunity to work with children with HIV/AIDS at a specialty summer camp. Campolo explained that sacrificing one's time, energy and finances to spend time with kids like these is exactly what living a life of Christ-like love is all about.
"It's one of the few opportunities where kids with HIV/AIDS can play with other kids without them shying away," he explained, "This is a very special opportunity to express the love of Jesus."
The message delivered by Campolo, who spoke for Saturday services at the WWU church at 9:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m., was well-received by students in attendance. Some students claimed they were close to tears. Drew Ray, a senior business major, said on Friday that Campolo's sermons might make him temporarily change his sleeping habits for the weekend.
"I might even get up for the 9:30," Ray said, "That's how good this guy is."
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Top Labor, Business Leaders Endorse Gateway Pacific Terminal Business Wire SEATTLE -- December 14, 2012 Speaking to a crowd of supporters at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle today, prominent leaders of King County and state labor groups and the Association of Washington Business added their voices in support of the proposed $665 million bulk commodity export terminal proposed for the Cherry Point industrial area in Whatcom County. Calling for a balanced and prompt environmental review, all four of the speakers said that the project should be held to Washington State's high environmental standards but emphasized that the state as a whole needs to cooperate in the interest of more jobs and increased trade. David Freiboth, Executive Secretary, M.L. King County Labor Council and a Vice President of the Washington State Labor Council, noted that the state labor council has strongly backed the Gateway project. "The state labor council has for two consecutive years strongly endorsed the Gateway project. We call on our public officials to keep the scope of review focused on site-specific issues and to support the creation of these thousands of family-wage jobs." Brandon Housekeeper of the Association of Washington Business called on the permitting agencies to avoid giving in to delay tactics in the review process. "We can have good jobs and environmental safeguards. What we cannot do is allow opponents of this project to change the rules and create a precedent that could cripple our state's economy," he said. Larry Brown, Aerospace Machinists, IAM Local 751, legislative director, said, "Washington is a trade state and whenever the state expands trade across the Pacific – especially export trade – it benefits all Washingtonians – including Boeing workers." Lee Newgent, Seattle Building & Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary, said, "The construction industry around our state, with few exceptions, is still on its knees. A major project like the Gateway terminal takes up a lot of slack and helps union workers all over the region. We know these projects can be done right and we call on the agencies to get on with the review." The Gateway Pacific Terminal will be a new, highly efficient shipping terminal to expand America's exports of dry bulk commodities. Proposed by Seattle-based SSA Marine, the terminal will meet our state's stringent environmental standards while providing a major boost to the region's economy, creating at full capacity 4,400 jobs during the construction phase, and 1,250 permanent jobs and $140 million a year in economic benefits from operations. More information at www.gatewaypacificterminal.com. Contact information for Gateway supporter media event The following people made statements to the media at the Convention Center on 13 December 2012 in support of the Gateway Pacific Terminal. They are available for follow-up comments at: David Freiboth Executive Secretary, M.L. (206) King County Labor Council 818-5222 Brandon Housekeeper Association of Washington (360) Business 870-2918 Larry Brown Aerospace Machinists, IAM (206) Local 751 713-2437 Lee Newgent Seattle Building & (206) Construction Trades Council 441-0550 Gary Jensen Mayor, City of Ferndale (360) 685-2350 Scott Korthuis Mayor, City of Lynden (360) 354-1170 Blaine City Council Member Ken Oplinger and Pres./CEO of the (360) Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber 734-1330 of Commerce International Longshore and (360) Leroy Rohde Warehousemen's Union, Local 739-9706 7 Hugh Foulke Ferndale School Board Member (360) 312-0248 Contact: SSA Marine Bob Watters, 206-604-6288 Senior Vice President or Smith & Stark Gary Smith, 206-972-8846
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Your letters: March 18, 2008
Gradual shift
Re: Rory Cox and Robert Freehling's March 11 guest commentary, "Instead of fossil fuels, invest dollars in clean-energy supplies":
In your recent coverage of a report entitled, "Collision Course: How Imported Liquefied Natural Gas will Undermine Clean Energy in California," it is clear that the report's authors will go to any lengths to promote their reckless and irresponsible agenda — even if it means sacrificing California's energy security.
The journey toward becoming a strictly renewable-based energy society may be achievable, but California's policies must recognize that it cannot happen overnight. In the meantime, as renewable-fuel technologies are further developed, the shift to renewable energy must be a gradual one. As it stands, dependence on renewable energy alone cannot guarantee reliability. Forcing a fast transition to renewables will directly impact consumers with energy shortages and price spikes. The poor and elderly will be hit the hardest.
By suggesting that California must make a choice between natural gas and renewable fuels, proponents of the Collision Course report ignore all credible projections showing that fossil fuels will play a major role in fulfilling our nation's future energy needs and maintaining our economic livelihood. The facts are clear. Natural gas is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel and LNG is natural gas.
— Bill Cooper, Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, Washington, D.C.
Innovation welcome
Re: your March 14 article, "Group plans sober stations":
I thank Dan Frederickson for having the vision to propose an innovative way to address homelessness and addiction in Ventura County. For too long we have tried the same remedies of incarceration, but this just leads to a cycle of recidivism.
Thinking outside the box and proposing a continuum of services that could include housing is very courageous. I encourage the county supervisors to give Frederickson's ideas a chance. As the Seattle study shows, this long-range strategy will save us money and help people lead more productive lives.
— Nina Bhavnani, Newbury Park
Broader option for schools
Concise brevity is a beautiful thing. As a longtime resident of our Conejo, education budget cuts are a terrific case study project for management students at local universities. May I suggest we consider multiple options? Leave emotions at the door and reconsider polar thinking — win/lose, all/nothing, good/bad. Perhaps our students can enjoy the benefits and continue to true education.
Please consider:
— Closing two to five schools.
— Closing no schools and having all take a 2 to 3 percent budget cut.
— Increasing a citywide education tax or a tax decrease for those who are home-schooled.
— Having parents pay for additional school activities.
— Having more home schooling or less home schooling.
— Increasing or decreasing enrollment in private schools.
— Paying for performance within desired "standards."
What do our neighbors think? Emotional bickering appears to be fruitless. The perceived "problem" has been identified, so how will we resolve it?
— Richard Riggs, Newbury Park
The only explanation
Intelligent design versus neo-Darwinism's evolution is a very active topic within the Christian and atheistic/agnostic world. Intelligent design is a serious threat to atheistic/agnostic philosophies and, therefore, is receiving much critical analysis. The core question is, "Can blind chance explain the origin and evolution of species of animals, humans and in fact all living things on our planet?"
A direct answer can be obtained by applying mathematical probability to the question. Probability (P) = 1/Possibilites, where the number obtained is 0 to 1 and 0 equals impossible and 1 equals certainty.
For example, the mathematical probability of flipping a two-sided coin and getting heads is P 1/2 = 0.5 = 50 percent.
Applying this to evolution, take an example of a hypothetical evolution of a human hand that is at the stage of being just a stub palm with no fingers. According to blind chance, a protrusion could occur at the left front side of the stub palm. To simplify this example, the next step for it is to be pointed in a straight line forward. If we assume one plane, it would have to come out straight ahead from a possibility of, say, 180 degrees. (Actually it would be more like the degrees contained in a hollow half sphere, a very much larger number.)
The probability for this to occur would be P = 1/180 = .005 = 0.5 percent. Repeat this for the other two joints and three more fingers and the probability approaches zero.
From the above, it should be obvious that the formation of a hand has to be directed and cannot possibly occur via blind chance which is the neo-Darwinism's answer for the development of organisms even if a time span of millions of years is allowed. Apply this probability method to the DNA double helix molecule and it is even more close to infinitely impossible.
From the above, intelligent design seems to be the only explanation for evolution.
— Warren Faue, Ventura
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yeah, soul silver
yeah, soul silver
Alright. Took me a moment to remember prism scale is only in Gen V games
damn. lol looks like a lot of haircuts for feebas
Ok. Now, I just need to know how to do this. I've never used the Pal Pad before.
Up stairs, first Lady?
nvm. downstairs
Alright. I'm ready.
ok im in
I got Disco'd
yeah same. cancel that voice chat request btw lol. nintendo wifi being stupid
hmm..... Just says standing by
dang. Disco'd again
This thing doesn't like me.
Alright. success!
Also gave you a couple Berries to help with your Feebas.
i'll work on getting you that paras
If you could get me Electabuzz or Magmar (or either of their baby forms) or a baby of your starter, that'd be great too.
Unless you don't yet have access to the breeder yet (never played soulsilver so I don't know.)
im pretty close to the start of silver, so i wont be able to get magmar or electabuzz for awhile
alright, i have totodile and paras ready to trade. :)
if possible, rypherior and -edit- castform
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Coverage and insight from College Station.
Yearly Archive for 2011
Bryan, Consol, Dime Box, North Zulch … Aggies just need a win
QB Ryan Tannehill and DE Tony Jerod-Eddie meet the media this week leading up to the Arkansas game in the above video — Brent Zwerneman COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman occasionally will invoke the name of a high school in Texas or his old recruiting grounds of Louisiana, a gentle reminder that […] [Read More]
Byrne: Aggies need 'Metroplex presence' vs. Arkansas
COLLEGE STATION – When Texas A&M in late 2007 agreed to play Arkansas in a 10-year series in Cowboys Stadium, the two sides had no idea they'd wind up conference rivals. Or maybe they did, who knows. In any case, with the third installment of the Southwest Classic at hand starting 11 a.m. Saturday in […] [Read More]
Aggies officially SEC's 13th member
UPDATED 5 p.m.: A&M will hold an SEC celebration/press conference at 6 p.m. Monday at the Zone Club of Kyle Field. SEC commissioner Mike Slive and SEC presidents and chancellors chair Bernie Machen will attend. The public is invited. COLLEGE STATION – It's (finally) official: Texas A&M is the next member of the Southeastern Conference. […] [Read More]
Sharp: 'Shortly' on SEC announcement; Yell Practice video
COLLEGE STATION – I attended Midnight Yell Practice and caught up with new chancellor John Sharp on the track – or what used to be the track – afterward. Sharp told me to expect an announcement that A&M will officially enter the Southeastern Conference "shortly." He didn't elaborate. I'd suspect that means some time early […] [Read More]
Next week ideal for SEC announcement; Cyrus Gray video
Running back Cyrus Gray meets the media this week leading up to the OSU game in the above video — Brent Zwerneman COLLEGE STATION – Ideally, Texas A&M and the Southeastern Conference would've announced the Aggies' inclusion into the nation's best football league during A&M's bye week two weeks ago. As we've all seen since […] [Read More]
Cisneros blames Longhorn Network for A&M's Big 12 departure
Former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros is a traditionalist — at least when it comes to the Texas A&M Aggies. So it's not surprising that Cisneros is disappointed to see his former school fleeing the Big 12 for a potential spot in the Southeastern Conference. "It's a sad break from tradition," said Cisneros, who graduated […] [Read More]
'Running it up' no longer option between Aggies, OSU; Tannehill video
Ryan Tannehill meets the media this week leading up to the OSU game in the above video — Brent Zwerneman COLLEGE STATION – The Texas A&M-Oklahoma State series has a recent history of blowouts for first-year coaches. Back in 2003, Dennis Franchione lost by four touchdowns (38-10 at Kyle Field) in his first game against […] [Read More]
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma State – Saturday game chat
Texas A&M plays Oklahoma State on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Join Brent Zwerneman for a live chat beginning at 2 p.m. [Read More]
Chancellor Sharp: 'Big boys' wait in SEC; DeRuyter video
(The above video is defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter from this week's press conference leading up to the No. 8 Aggies' showdown with No. 7 Oklahoma State at Kyle Field) New Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp left no doubt of the Aggies' intentions following a tour of the Texas A&M-San Antonio campus on Tuesday. "There is […] [Read More]
Formal SEC announcement is only matter of time. Meanwhile …
COLLEGE STATION – While the rest of the nation has finally caught conference alignment fever, Texas A&M is mostly over it. It's only a matter of time that a formal announcement will be made that the Aggies will be joining the Southeastern Conference, and meanwhile the A&M coaches and players vow that's the last thing […] [Read More]
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TIPTON COUNTY, TN (localmemphis.com) - The Tipton County Sheriff's Office has confirmed the deputies involved in the Officer Involved Shooting on Saturday, 26 October 2013 as Deputy Sheriff Jason Allen, Deputy Sheriff Demario Avery, and Investigator Brandon Williams.
Deputy Sheriff Jason Allen has been employed at the Tipton County Sheriff's Office since 24 May 2013. He is assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division.
Deputy Sheriff Demario Avery has been employed at the Tipton County Sheriff's Office since 16 December 2005. He is assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division and a member of the SWAT Team.
Investigator Brandon Williams has been employed at the Tipton County Sheriff's Office since 03 December 2001. He is assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division as a Narcotics investigator.
"I have placed Deputy Allen, Deputy Avery and Inv Williams on Administrative Leave which is protocol to assure they are provided any resources or support after being involved in a critical incident and to be available for agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as they conduct their investigation," Sheriff J.T. 'Pancho' Chumley said.
At approximately 5:00 pm on 26 October 2013 Tipton County Sheriff's Office deputies had checked out at 245 Watkins Road in Drummonds regarding a probation compliance investigation concerning Gerald Day Murphy, 60 who resides at the Drummonds home. Deputies made contact with Gerald Murphy near a shed beside the home and as they were entering the home, Jake Ramsey Maese-Murphy, 26 came from the back of the residence.
Jake was armed with a knife and confronted deputies. Deputies tasered Jake who then pulled the probes out and fled to the rear of the residence. Jake returned to the front of the house screaming he had a gun. When confronted again by Jake, deputies fatally shot him.
The Criminal Investigation Division responded to the scene for processing. As protocol, the Sheriff's Office notified the District Attorney's Office and requested the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to investigate the shooting. Agents and Investigators responded to the scene.
During the incident the four deputies and two witnesses were not injuried. Deputies had recovered a large quantity of marijuana in a vehicle at the residence and several marijuana plants that were growing near the shed beside the residence. Gerald Murphy was taken into custody at the scene for Manufacturing of Marijuana.
"This is an example of the dangers our deputies face on a daily basis. Thankfully our deputies and the other civilians at the scene were not injuried in this unfortunate incident. The deputies will be placed on Administrative Leave as protocol when involved in a deadly force investigation," Chumley said.
If anyone has information in this case, please call the Criminal Investigations Division at 901-475-3300, Central Dispatch after hours at 901-475-4300, phone in tips at 901-475-3307, email tips to email@example.com or Facebook Sheriff J.T. Pancho Chumley.


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The Crabtree
"The Crabtree, with its spectacular position downstream from The River Cafe, has a huge sprawling garden, a glazed colonnade and frontage on to the Thames shaded by a weeping willow. The prawns in chilli hot oil and the toast spread with tomatoes and onions were good, so much so we ordered them again when we returned for Sunday lunch. Sunday roasts with 'all the trimming's' - we tried beef and pork - had everything a Sunday roast should have. Somewhere rather spiffing to go' (Fay Machsler, Evening Standard)
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I've been to Crabtree a few times now and while I would recommend it for the atmosphere and venue, particular in the summer, I'd not recommended it for the food. The first time I went, thr summer BBQ was in full swing and smelled delicious.
Unfortunately being gluten intolerant I couldn't eat any of the BBQ items and had to order of the menu inside which was just as much of a challenge. The...more
The wait staff is terrible unless you are in the bar. We went back to (I guess) the restaurant part of the Crabtree and waited. We were hungry and tired of traveling and just wanted to eat. Three other couple got up and left the wait was so long. The wait staff was focused on the bar crowd and their orders. The food was fair. The atmosphere loud. Would not recommend.more
Very nostalgic about the C-Tree. Lived in H & F area for nigh on ten years back in the day, so returning on business was a blast from the past. Crabtree has a fantastic location along the Thames, in fact one of my favourite pub crawls starts here and ends near the black lion - quite a session.
Great selection of beers and ales, sweet beer garden and a dining room which was introduced since my...more
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The Crabtree is a wonderful pub in the riverside with amazing views from their nice terrace.
This place tastes to Bloody Mary, sounds to relaxing chat with friends and...look at how beautiful is my dog.
The food very nice, we can say is a kind of sophisticated bqq.
Don t forget wear your favourite sunglasses and take time enough to enjoy this oasis in the middle of Fulham.more
This place was a good, low-key spot for end-of-the-week pints on a Friday night. Classic pub style with a slightly classier uptick. Expansive outdoor seating with heat lamps for a few tables.
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Regarder le soleil se coucher sur l'eau de votre chambre rend chaque saison spectaculaire à ce entièrement restauré 1890 la Nouvelle-Angleterre auberge. Situé à Hull MA, B & B By The Sea est à quelques minutes de Boston et secondes de la plage. Vous pouvez profiter de notre proximité de Boston (une promenade en bateau de 20 minutes) tout en échappant à l'agitation de la ville - pour ne pas mentionner ces extravagantes ville prix de l'hôtel. Séjourner à B & B By The Sea permettra de rajeunir votre esprit sans vider votre portefeuille. Chaque chambre dispose d'une salle de bain privée et d'une kitchenette avec une cafetière Keurig, micro-ondes, réfrigérateur, et un évier. Installez-vous confortablement avec une tasse fumante de café, de cacao ou de cidre chaud et profiter des magnifiques couchers de soleil sur le clapotis des vagues. Tous vos efforts de la journée sera fondre comme vous aimez regarder vos émissions préférées sur un téléviseur à écran plasma de votre lit king-size Posturepedic. B & B By The Sea est situé dans un quartier calme minutes du quartier résidentiel loin de plusieurs restaurants qui donnent le tarif de Boston une course pour son argent. Que vous optiez pour dîner à l'extérieur ou commander, vous pouvez déguster une cuisine raffinée à partir d'une variété de restaurants et de cafés. Nous sommes juste ce qu'il faut un voyageur d'affaires. Nous coûté une fraction de ce que facturent les hôtels de Boston. Si vous voyagez à la ville sur les jours de la semaine, aimer faire la navette par bateau. Le travail Ferry Boston est à 5 minutes de notre emplacement et vous amène sur un beau trajet à Boston en seulement vingt minutes. En outre, avec notre centre d'affaires mis à jour, les voyageurs d'affaires peuvent imprimer, copier et numériser en toute simplicité. Vous pouvez même organiser une petite réunion d'affaires dans nos vastes espaces communs. Que vous soyez en vacances famille en visite à proximit
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5 sur septembre 19, 2014
I recently spent two weeks at this exceptional bed and breakfast and I could not be more impressed. The building is an impeccably restored and decorated Victorian mansion, with 19th century stained glass, wonderful architectural wood everywhere, and all the modern amenities a professional might need or desire. The owners are incredibly affable, gentle and polite people, with flawless, sober taste and exceptional culinary skills. This is not your average bed and breakfast; you will not be missing your privacy. The house is very large and surrounded by a gorgeous manicured garden; the front porch offers a stunning view of the harbor, with sailboats and the constantly changing weather providing hours of entertainment and peace. This was my favorite spot and where I ate breakfast every morning. One can never get tired of observing the clouds and the mist lifting and gliding over the harbor. This is truly a spectacular location unlike any other in the Boston area (I've lived here for most of my life and know it very well). The room I stayed in is called "the Sailboat" room, and it's decorated accordingly. It is quiet, has a wonderful, spacious bathroom, a sizable refrigerator, microwave and essentials needed for eating in. The king-size bed is extremely comfortable. There is plenty of light, air conditioning and heating. The B&B is located quite close to the MBTA ferry which will take you to Boston in 20 mins flat and in style, quite an improvement over other options in the Boston suburbs, where transportation to the city can be much more difficult to negotiate. Jodi and Jeff will provide you with bikes and all the local information you need, including restaurant menus, local services and contacts. Indeed, the owners are the gem that complete the jewel this B&B is. Words can't convey appropriately how wonderful Jodi and Jeff are. There is only one way to find out: you gotta stay at their B&B by the Sea, in Hull!
5 sur août 27, 2014
Couldn't ask for more from a B & B. First thing I noticed was the cleanliness of the home--without a chemical smell. Truly, the best B & B I've found.
5 sur juillet 06, 2014
Every aspect of this Inn was outstanding. The property was a perfect location to the beach and bay. My family was able to surf, paddle board, and kayak. Thank you Jeff, Jodi and J.J. We will be back!
4,6 sur mai 27, 2014
We are so happy we found the B and B by the Sea in Hull, MA. The pristine room and private bath, the sea views from every porch and window, the comfortable king sized bed, the quiet neighborhood, the free wi-fi, and the friendly service all combined to make our 5 night stay a wonderful experience. We will definitely book this place next time we are in the area and will recommend it to our friends and family.
5 sur septembre 08, 2013
Jodi and Jeff could not have been more welcoming. My cousin stayed here and my son and I visited. You would have thought we were paying guests. The house is beautiful, and I personally would like to move in on a permanent basis if Jodi would let me. This is what a terrific B & B is supposed to be. Can't wait for my next visit, I am SOOO there. Thanks, Jodi and Jeff.
5 sur août 26, 2013
We spent a week at the B&B By the Sea, combining a family vacation with our son participating in a college seminar in Boston. He son was able to easily commute via the ferry each morning, and we were able to relax by the water, watching the sailboats bob from either our private deck, the Inn's private beach, or the fire pit. Jodi's attention to detail cannot be overstated -- the Inn is spotless and homey, she anticipated our every need and was wonderful at introducing fellow guests, as well as making sure we had as much privacy as we wished. We were able to get lobster straight from the morning's catch, fresh muffins scented the halls each morning, and artfully displayed fruits and treats were scattered throughout the Inn -- really, it's amazing I was able to drag my family away -- we were well and truly spoiled, and have already made plans for the holidays (Fall and Winter in New England, snug in a wonderful Inn - who could want for more??). Oh, and anyone who may be looking for a picturesque spot for a wedding should look no further -- I wish we had known about B&B By the Sea when we married, and am seriously considering a vow renewal in the very near future. In fact, two couples booked their future weddings in the week we were there -- book early -- it's a gem!
5 sur août 25, 2013
Special place and special people. Bonfire right on the water, beautiful sunsets .... my evening scotch never tasted so good! Everything perfect, rooms and the whole home comfy and well appointed . . Jodi, Jeff and JJ were perfect hosts! When visiting family in Weymouth I'll be staying in Hull going forward at the B&B by the Sea!
5 sur août 16, 2013
Jodi & JJ (the tiny dog) could not do enough to accommodate my stay. #! Cleanliness; is always high on my list A+. Congenialiaty: Anything Jodi can do 4 u including pickup from the Bos/Hull Ferry. I was visiting family but already looking for next opportunity to go to B&B By the Sea. BTW did I mention the wonderful beach: sandy, clean, gentle waves coming in with the tide. Convenient transportation from Hingham/Hull was a plus as well.
5 sur août 07, 2013
perfect, perfect, perfect.....what a wonderful experience. My stay was so enjoyable. The room was comfortable and impeccably clean. Jodi, the owner, was receptive to my every need....I will highly recommend this establishment and will look forward to staying at B&B By the Sea again
5 sur juillet 31, 2013
Go to sleep with the stars, wake up with the sun on the ocean, in a large bed with comfy covers, pristine seaside colors. Breakfast on freshly baked quiche muffins, banana bread, bagels etc. on the covered enclosed porch fronting the ocean bay, walk the beach, go swimming, read and sunbathe on your own private porch, refresh yourself from your own little kitchenette with fridge, coffeemaker, and microwave, take a steam in your bathroom - what else could you want from a seaside vacation? Great in all weathers... Summer, Fall, and even Winter! Loved it
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Boston, MA (BOS-Logan Intl.) 30 miles
Antiquaires , Galeries d'art, Plage, Lieu de concert, Dîner gastronomique, Sites historiques, Concerts, Cinéma , Musée, Parcs nationaux/régionaux, Zone naturelle, Océan, Charte de pêche Allerton bateaux, croisières, Théâtre, Zone de pic-nic, Services religieux
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Ventilateurs de plafond, Ordinateur, Salles de conférence, Copieur, Fax, Cheminée, Jeux vidéo, Téléphone, Films, Machine à laver/sèche-linge, Equipé pour les mariages , Amarrage sans frais
Climatisation, Réveil, Panier d'agréments, Peignoirs, Jeux de société, Lecteur CD, Cafetière/Bouilloire, Lecteur DVD, Réfrigérateur , Sèche-cheveux, Internet, Planche à repasser, Micro-ondes, Entrée indépendante, Radio, Réception chaînes satellite, TV, Wi-Fi, Internet par câble
Location de vélos, Pistes cyclables, Vélos, Observation d'oiseau, Base nautique, Pêche, Golf, Sentiers de randonnée , Canoë-Kayak, Pistes de VTT , Surf, Voile, Shopping, Excursion, Natation, Terrain de tennis, Location de raquettes tennis, Jeux d'arcade, Sports d'eau
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Longues promenades sur la plage avec mon chien, J.J. Yoga, méditation, le jardinage, la peinture, la lecture et la cuisine sont toutes mes passions dans la vie.
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FAQ/Move List by Beno Jange
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______ _ _ (_____ \| | | | _____) ) |_____ _____ __| |_ _ | ___ (| | _ \ _ |/ _ ( \ / ) | |___) ) | (_) | (_) ( ( | |\ \/ / |______/|_|\____|\____|\_||_| \ / ______ /¯¯¯¯¯\ (_____ \ (_/¯/) ) _____) )_____ ____ ____ ( / / / | ___ ( _ \/ _ |/ ___) ¯/ / | | | | (_) ( ( | | | / /___ |_| |_|\____|\_||_|_| (_______| ______________________ Bringer of the New Age ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ _______________________________________________________________________ Unofficial Bloody Roar 2 FAQ For Sony PlayStation Only Version 1.2 By Beno Jange Email: firstname.lastname@example.com ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ _______________________________________________________________________ I. DISCLAIMER ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ This FAQ is intended for personal use only. This FAQ can't be used for any profitable purpose nor it can be published in any forms. No one are allowed to reedit this FAQ without the author' permission. If you like to add this FAQ on your site, you're free to do it as long as the FAQ appears in full and have no modification and you have to promise that you will keep this FAQ up to date by checking the newest revision of this FAQ on GameFAQs once a month. If you want to take some parts of this FAQ, give me a credit. Any offenders will severely dealt with. If you feel that, reading the FAQ like this is a bit tedious, especially when you have to look at the computer and play your game, you are allowed to print the part or whole of this document out, but the printed copies can only be for personal use. Bloody Roar 2 logo, characters (C) 1999 HudsonSoft. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Unofficial Bloody Roar 2 FAQ, logo (C) 2000 Beno Jange. All copyrights and trademarks (if any) are acknowledged. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ II. TABLE OF CONTENTS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ I. DISCLAIMER II. TABLE OF CONTENTS III. REVISION HISTORY IV. AUTHOR'S NOTE V. INTRODUCTION VI. KEYPAD / BUTTON ABBREVIATIONS VII. CHARACTERS & THEIR MOVE LISTS VIII. CHEATS & TRICKS IX. GAMESHARK X. CREDITS _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ III. REVISION HISTORY ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ v1.0 - 07/31/2000 - First Release. V1.1 - 09/30/2000 - Added GameShark section. - Reformated Author's Note section. - Updated Credits section. v1.2 - 12/15/2000 - Removed plan for future update. - Removed Email Policy section. - Updated Author's Note section. - Corrected some grammar errors. - The FAQ is officially finished now. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ IV. AUTHOR'S NOTE ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Well, I played Bloody Roar 2 quite along ago (in October 1999). At that time I didn't find any FAQ for it especially the FAQ that contain move list. Until this FAQ released I still didn't find the FAQ for it. Thx to GOD I can get all of the move lists on the Official Bloody Roar 2 Site. So I wrote this FAQ just to help you learn all of the move list. Beside that you can print it because it's a text version not HTML version like the one you find on Official Bloody Roar 2 Site. This FAQ is best viewed on 800x600 resolution with WordPad and "Wrap to Window" option. This FAQ based on the US version of Bloody Roar 2 since I don't have the Japanese version. This FAQ is written as short as I can just to keep the FAQ in small size. The newest revision of this FAQ can always be found at: - GameFAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com - Video Game Strategies http://vgstrategies.about.com - Games Domain http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk - Fresh Baked Games http://www.fbgames.com * Currently I post this FAQ on GameFAQs Now, this FAQ is officially finished now. I'm not going to update this FAQ anymore unless there is such a keen need for me to do so (which probably won't happen). Questions, critizims, contributions, anything are welcome as long as you state "BR2" or "Bloody Roar 2" as a subject of your letter. But pls write it politely. Note: I am not hiding secrets or any other information, i.e. everything I know about Bloody Roar 2 is in this guide. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ V. INTRODUCTION ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ After the success of Bloody Roar, HudsonSoft now continue the sequel. The games obviously resembles Tekken series. But one that make this game is a little different i.e. the character can turn into the "beast". The other is Story Mode in which Tekken series didn't have it. Well, here's my rating for this game: - Graphic : 8.0/10 - The graphic of this game is managed well like Tekken series. - Music : 8.0/10 - The music is also enjoyable to listen. - Sound : 8.0/10 - The sound effect is done greatly. - Game Play : 8.0/10 - Well, of course playing this game is very fun. - Innovation : 8.0/10 - Well, innovation in this game is great since it has many options, pictures, etc - Overall : 8.0/10 - It really deserved it. - Difficulty : Medium - Well, all you have to do is read this faq and learn the move list. Once you've learned it, you'll become an expert player. - Buy/Rent : Buy - If you've more money, you should buy this game. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VII. KEYPAD / BUTTON ABBREVIATIONS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ d = down [] = square u = up X = cross l = left /\ = triangle r = right O = circle dl = down + left dr = down + right ul = up + left ur = up + right , = denotes an individual press + = designates these must be pressed simultaneously <> = designates the key must be hold Example: Hunting Dive Elbow <r> + [], <r> + [], <r> + [] Means that we should hold right and press Square simultaneously then hold right and press Square then hold right and press Square simultaneously. Guard Attack = d dl l + [] or X Rage Move is a one-hit ultimate destructive attack performed during Beast mode. It is the clinching killer attack and it uses up all your Beast power. Since that leaves you extremely vulnerable, be careful when you use it, and be ready for the consequences if you fail. NB: The author assume that your fighter is on the left side. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VII. CHARACTERS & THEIR MOVE LISTS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Name: ALICE TSUKAGAMI Beast Form: RABBIT Fighting Style: JUMPING ------------- Special Moves ------------- Blitz River Throw [] X [], d + X Arc Drop Combination Rush r + X, d + X, d + [] Sway Kick Combination l + [], X Through Punch Upper r + [], r + [] Leg Beat Combination dr + X, X X Rabbit Step dr + [], [] [], d + X Upper Rabbit Rush High [] [] [] r + [] O O O r + O Long Rabbit Ground Rush dl + O, O O, d + O Low Rabbit Knee Rush d + O, d + O, O O O Low Rabbit Slider Rush d + O, d + O, d + X, d + [] Spinning Hopper d dl l + [] (Guard attack: press R1 = cancel midway) Rabbit Spiral d dr r + [] Triple Sommersault d dl l + X, <l> + X, <l> + X Rabbit Flip d dr r + O (floating move) Switch Moonsault d dl l + O (moving attack) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Lifting Star Line d dr r, d dr r + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: BAKURYU Beast Form: MOLE Fighting Style: NINJA ------------- Special Moves ------------- Spiral Shadow Blade [] [] [] [] r + [] Sword Drop Blade Kick [] [] X X Fang Drop Hammer Moon Shadow [] X X, r + X, l + X, u + [] Flowing Shadow Circular Kick dr + [], X Bursting Avalanche Kick dr + X, X X Gale Crescent Moon Drop r, r + X, X X Sword Round Moon Kick [] [], l + X Lightning d, <d> + X, X Poisonous Claw Slash O O O Poisonous Claw Machine Gun r + O, O O O O Snow Light Line Drop d dr r + [] (midair hitting throw) Smoke Bomb d dr r + X (comes up facing the opponent's back; press R1 to cancel) Smoke Spiral Kick d dl l + X (comes up in midair) Hard Air Stream d dl l + [] (Guard Attack; press R1= cancel midway) Rising Scrape Up d dl l + O (floating move) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Double Inferno l r l dl d dr r + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: BUSUZIMA Beast Form: CHAMELEON Fighting Style: DECEPTION ------------- Special Moves ------------- Chopping X, d + X, [] [] All Open Transparent Kick [] [] [] X, d + X Back Attack dr + [], dr + [], l + [] Negligent Bad Kick r + [], X Gangster Kick Trick Series r + X, r + X, r + [] All Open Upper Punch [] [] [] O Sommersault Facial Slider u + O, dl + O, d + O Slide Climbing Upper Punch r + O, r + O Dokujima (Poison Island) Serious d dr r + X (special posture) Serious Punch d dr r + X, [] [] [] Serious Kick d dr r + X, X X Dokujima Exercise d dl l + X, X X X X X X X Running Chop d dr r + [] (special damage move) Invisible Attack d dr r + O (disappear after attack) Disappear d dl l + O (disappear) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Ultimate Die Through d dr r, d dr r + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: JENNY BURTORY Beast Form: BAT Fighting Style: LOWER BODY ------------- Special Moves ------------- Step Slap [] [] Passionate Heal Rush r + X, X X X X Passion Heal Goodbye r + X, X X, l + X Sly Kick d + X, X Enamel Blade dr + X, X X X Gross Edge d, <d> + X, X Complete Disorder O O O O O Wind Slider O O O, d + O Nightmare Walking r + O, O O Twist d dr r + [] (special posture) Twisted Explosion d dr r + [], X X X X X X X X Twist Heal Charge d dr r + [], X X, d + X (can move backm front and back) Eccentric Kick d dr r + X (move in midair) Drill Talon d dl l + O, O Bat Wing Blade d dr r + O (floating move) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Sky High Tempest r l dl d dr r + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: LONG SHIN Beast Form: TIGER Fighting Style: COMBINATION ATTACKS ------------- Special Moves ------------- Consecutive Strike [] [] [] Rotation Back Gate Elbow [] X, d + X, r r + [] Hawk Shoulder Plant dr + [], [] Cross Attack O O O Snowy Mountain By Heaven dl + O, O ------------- Rage Move ------------- Ferocious Tiger Laceration d dr r, r dr d dl l + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: JANE GADO / SHINA Beast Form: LEOPARD Fighting Style: SINGLE & CONTINUOUS ATTACK ------------- Special Moves ------------- M-VI Stinger [] [] [] X M-VI Nupperm [] [], d + X Hunting Dive Elbow <r> + [], <r> + [], <r> + [] Hunting Arrow <r> + [], X Amazon Scratch dr + [], d + X G-III Combination X X X Assault Kick Mine r + X, X X, d + X Assault Kick Bomb r + X, r + X, X Faint Kick Bomb r + X, r + X, [] Lightning Scratch dr + [], r + O, O Triple Low Scratch O O, d + O Angry Slash O, d + O Trident Shoot d dl l + X (Guard Attack: press R1 = cancel midway) Scramble Snatch d dr r + X (midair hitting throw) Rising Laser d dl l + X (floating move) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Cross Blade Zapper d dl l, d dl l + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: STEVEN GOLDBERG / STUN Beast Form: INSECT Fighting Style: GRAPPLER/WRESTLER ------------- Special Moves ------------- Shell Face Slash [] [] [] [] Shell Rush Guillotine [] [] [] X Shell Slasher [] X [] [] Bio Shock dl + [] (lower attack move) Thrust Blow l + X, X, l + [] Combination Antler Bomb r + X, d + X, d dl l + [] Hand Knife Combination d + [], X Chaos Beetle Rush O O, d + O, d + O Violence Beetle Rush O O, d + O, dr + O, u + O Grasshopper Leg d dl l + X Spider Drop d dr r + [] (upper hitting throw) Antler Bomb d dl l + X (lower hitting throw) Hornet Grab d dr r + X (middle hitting throw) Stun Crash d dr r + /\, d dl l /\ (2nd part) Bio Reject d dl l + O (upper and middle body move) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Boosting Burst r dr d dl l r dr d dl l + O (close to opponent) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: URIKO HANAMURA Beast Form: HALF-BEAST Fighting Style: KENPO ------------- Special Moves ------------- Thunder Dance [] [] [] [] All Around 1-2-3 [] X X, u + X Supreme Penetrating Bow Thigh r, r + [] X Thunderclap Peace d dr r + O, O (can additionally enter O only when hitting) Wings of the Phoenix d dl l (<l> O) 6x (go to the ending moves for six level combo rings) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Surprise Cat Pounce d dl l, l dl d dr r + O ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: YUGO OGAMI Beast Form: WOLF Fighting Style: BOXING ------------- Special Moves ------------- Standing Lock [] [] [] [] Knuckle Twin Kick [] X X Dragon Finish Blow Combination l + [], [] [], d + [] Sway Hook Combination dl + [], l + [] (3x) Final Machine Gun Upper dr + [], dr + [], dr + [], dr + [] Panther Two r + [], [] [] Low & Step In d + X, dr + [] Heel Tusk d, <d> + X, X Side Twin Kick dr + X, dr + X Claw Twin Knuckle Slash O [] [] O Triple Slash O O O Blind Blow dr + O, dr + [] One Two Body Upper d dr r + [], <l> + [], <l> + [] Silver Wolf Knuckle d dl l + O, O or X or [] (near and with back wall) ------------- Rage Move ------------- Spiral Fang d dl l dl d dr r + O _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ VIII. CHEATS & TRICKS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Any Cancel Point option: Defeat fifteen or more characters in survival mode. Custom option: Complete arcade mode to access the custom option, with big head mode, recovery speed and other selections. Expert mode: While selecting any option on the title screen, hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2. Extra costume: Complete the game with all characters under arcade mode. Then, press Start at the character selection screen to choose a fourth costume. Fight against Shen Long: To fight against Shen Long, beat Arcade Mode without continuing. Get movies and pictures: To get all the pictures and movies just beat the Story Mode with every character at difficulty level 4 or higher. Model Type option: Successfully complete the game with any character while under story mode. Play as Gado: To play as Gado in Bloody Roar 2, all you have to do is beat the game in Arcade mode once, with any character on any difficulty. Play as Shen Long: Defeat Shen Long in the special stage. This also unlocks "Ending 1" on the "Movies and Pictures" menu. Recovery Speed option: Successfully complete the game with any character under story mode without using any continues. Remove the Menu options on the pause screen: Simply hold the R2 button while the game is paused to remove the Menu Options. You can bring them back by releasing the R2 button. Special pictures: Beat the Arcade and Story Mode with all the characters. Each time you beat the game, you will gain a new picture. You can also get the special "losing picture" of each character by beating the game after you have died ones. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ IX. GAMESHARK ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ All of these codes come from the Game Shark Code Creator's Club: http://www.cmgsccc.com/ These codes was made and tested on GameShark v3.2. 01 Infinite Health P1 ONLY 80178A5C 0100 80178A5E 3221 80178A64 000D 80178A66 1020 02 Infinite Health P2 ONLY 80178A5C 0100 80178A5E 3221 80178A64 000D 80178A66 1420 03 Infinite Health P1 & P2 80178A9A 2400 04 Infinite Time To Chose Character 801FFE1C 1760 05 Have All Characters 801C0FF4 FFFF 06 Have All Movies 801C0FD0 FFFF 07 Get All Pictures 801C0FFC FFFF 801C0FFE FFFF 801C1000 FFFF 801C1002 FFFF 801C1004 FFFF 08 Have All Custom 801C0FEC FFFF 801C0FEE FFFF 09 Infinite Time 80151356 2400 10 Start With Full Beast Meters P1 & P2 8017570C 3A00 11 Hit Anywhere (Both Players) [Note 1] 80145BCE 1000 12 Infinite Beast Meter (When Blocking) P1 ONLY 80144B44 0100 80144B46 3221 80144B7C 0007 80144B7E 1020 13 Infinite Beast Meter (When Blocking) P2 ONLY 80144B44 0100 80144B46 3221 80144B7C 0007 80144B7E 1420 14 Infinite Beast Meter (When Blocking) P1 & P2 80144B9A 2400 15 Infinite Beast Meter (When Not Blocking) P1 ONLY 80144814 0100 80144816 3221 80144868 0007 8014486A 1020 16 Infinite Beast Meter (When Not Blocking) P2 ONLY 80144814 0100 80144816 3221 80144868 0007 8014486A 1420 17 Infinite Beast Meter (When Not Blocking) P1 & P2 80144882 2400 18 Only 1 Fight to Beat Game 801529EC 0007 801529EE 2402 19 All Attacks Hurt P1 (When Not Blocking) 80178A84 1D80 80178A86 0C00 80178A8A 2400 80178A9C 1D85 80178A9E 0C00 80178AA2 2400 80007600 1880 80007602 0003 80007604 0018 80007606 0064 80007608 0000 8000760A 3621 8000760C 0008 8000760E 03E0 80007610 00E8 80007612 36D1 80007614 00AE 80007616 9622 80007618 4010 8000761A 0000 8000761C 0008 8000761E 03E0 80007620 0000 80007622 3431 Note 1: With this code, it allows both players to hit, make contact, with each other no matter where they are on the screen. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ X. CREDITS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Appears in alphabetical order: Agus Ngadiman, Benny, Benson, Handhy Perayoga, Henry Julianto - Thx for being a good friend of mine. - Thx for nice days which we spend together. Brett "Nemesis" Franklin <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Well, you see that my ASCII art logo used his Brave Fencer Musashi ASCII art logo. - Be sure to check his page at: http://faqdomain.cjb.net Dan Simpson <email@example.com> - Thx for some parts of the email policy. Dingo Jellybean <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Thx for some parts of the author's note. HudsonSoft - For making this incredible game. Jeff "CJayC" Veasey - The webmaster of www.gamefaqs.com. - For his dedication and hard work to www.gamefaqs.com. - Thanks for hosting all of my FAQs. - Thanks for making me a contributor page. Larry H., Lionheart, Louis Saucedo, Sk8er P311, Xx Gengar xX - Thx for contributing secrets and tips about Bloody Roar 2 on PSX.IGN.com. - Sorry for grouping all of your name but that just to decrease my FAQ length. Loki <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Well, I used some of his TEKKEN keypad abbreviation. My Brother, my father and my mother - Thx for all of your supports. Official Bloody Roar 2 web site - Very very big thx for providing me the move lists. - Be sure to check their page at: http://www.playstation.com/games/categories/fighting/bloody2 PSX.IGN.com - For providing me some secrets and tips about Bloody Roar 2. - Be sure to check their page at: http://psx.ign.com Scott Ong <email@example.com> - Thx for some parts of the disclaimer. - Thx for some parts of the email policy. - Be sure to check his page at: http://members.xoom.com/scottong Whoever on creating WordPad. Whoever on ISTP, you know me right? Whoever on reading this FAQ. Whoever on translating it into English. Yee Seng Fu <email@example.com> - Thx for inspiring me on making this FAQ. - Thx for some parts of the disclaimer. - Be sure to check his page at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ --==END OF DOCUMENT==-- ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯


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