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I say that Euphemia was the noblest and best person in the world of Code geass.
Of course that is not necessarily saying much, since most of the Britannians and Black Knights were contaminated by the evils committed by their sides.
Here is my discussion of how Euphemia alone of important Britannians remained good and innocent. It is spoilered for reasons of brevity:
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09/17/09 infinitycubed.
We are kind of getting off the track with a discussion of whether patriotism is good, as you believe, or evil, as I believe. Because of the great difficulty in persuading people that patriotism is evil, I intend to avoid discussing which side is more good and which side is more evil, and return to pointing out that almost everyone who had any kind of job in the Britannian or Black Knight organizations was too tolerant of the evils committed by the others on his side, even if he did not personally participate in those evils.
The Britannian invasion of Japan certainly seemed to involve a lot of unnecessary death and destruction. The ruined skyscrapers in Tokyo certainly indicate unprofitable levels of destruction, destroying what would otherwise have been ready-made offices and habitations for Britannian colonists. (Lelouch did the same thing by destroying part of the Toyko settlement during the Black Rebellion, instead of finding a way to preserve all of it and not just part of it for the use of the Japanese. Like evil father, like evil son). And apparently many Japanese live in the ruined skyscrapers. If many thousands live in them without adequate sanitation they must be a breeding ground for diseases, decimating the Japanese labor force and threatening to spread to the Britannian settlement. The public health system of Area 11 must have a very big job keeping diseases down to a merely bad level.
And of course the destruction in Tokyo indicates there was probably a lot of unnecessary killing as well, since the workers and apartment dwellers in those high rises might not have evacuated them before they were destroyed. And then there are the flashbacks to the attack on the Kururughi Shrine, with burning buildings and bodies everywhere. If the metropolis saw wanton destruction of valuable skyscrapers with the implied deaths of countless thousands, and the isolated rural Kururughi Shrine was attacked with death and destruction despite two of the Emperor's children living there as hostages, we can only imagine that hundreds of thousands or millions of Japanese were killed in one month of war, and that many times that number would have been killed if Suzaku had not killed his father.
If between 100,000 and 10,000,000 Japanese were killed in the month of the conquest, the rate would be 1,200,000 to 120,000,000 per year. If Japan had a population of about 50,000,000 to 200,000,000, then the Japanese would have been totally exterminated in five months to 166.666 years if the rate of killing in the war continued. In "Attack Cornelia" one of the Brittanians planning the Saitema Ghetto massacre calculated how much it would reduce production (of what? In all of Japan or in a smaller area?).
If you tenitively assume that the Britannians set an upper limit of killing ten percent, or one percent, or 0.1 percent, of the Japanese in any one year to crush rebellion, then the Britannians would kill 5,000,000 to 20,000,000, or 500,000 to 2,000,000, or 50,000 to 200,000 Japanese per year and would have exterminated the Japanese in ten years, or one hundred years, or one thousand years, (not counting the births of new Japanese and assuming that they always killed up to the upper limit.).
Of course the total number of Japanese actually seen being killed by Britannians, or whose dead bodies were actually shown lying on the ground, In the years 2017 and 2018, after the surrender of Japan in 2010, was probably only a few hundred or a few thousand. If we actually saw only 200 to 10,000 Japanese killed during two seasons which might have had a total duration of one month to two years,, the minimum rate of killing would be 100 to 120,000 Japanese per year after the conquest.
Thus we see that the rate at which Japanese were killed during the one month of war could have been only 0.06 as great as the rate they were killed during the peace which followed (which wouldn't make much sense) or as much as 1,200,000 times as great as the rate they were killed after the conquest was over (that doesn't make sense either -- that the Britannians could or would avoid killing more than such a small number of Japanese after the conquest). Not very precise statistics, but probably the most precise that you will find relating to the fictional world of Code Geass.
If you suppose that Britannia has been at war between ten percent and one hundred percent of the time during the ten years or 120 months from 2008 to 2018, and that between 10,000 and 100,000,000 people were killed per month of war, the total number killed in 12 to 120 months of warfare would be somewhere between 120,000 and 12,000,000,000! But if you assume that people were killed at the same rate as in the invasion of Japan, then 1,200,000 to 2,400,000,000 people were killed! I would assume that a reasonable estimate would be between 1,000,000 and 100,000,000, which is not a very precise figure.
There is no evidence that any of the Britannian characters in the story did anything more than not shooting any victims themselves during massacres and other atrocities. There is no evidence that any of the Britannian characters charged others with crimes, or wrote letters to the newspapers, or protested atrocities before they began, or threatened to resign, or did anything else to prevent specific incidents or prevent more atrocities from happening in the future.
It is true that in episode 22 General Darlton asked Euphemia what was going on when the geass command made her order the Fuji Massacre, and she shot and wounded him. But I think that in "Get Cornelia" General Darlton was among the officers planning the Saitema Ghetto Massacre, which indicates that Darlton was not an anti-massacre type of general. Darlton was probably surprised and annoyed that Euphemia had gone against proper procedures by either planning a massacre with Cornelia and/or the Emperor without informing him or deciding on the spur of the moment to order a massacre.
(to be continued)
(continued 09/19/09)
But at the Battle of Narita the Britannians fought in a much more civilized way than the conquest of Japan would indicate. The only place they attacked was the underground mountain base of the Japan liberation Front. And the Britannians evacuated the civilians living in the town of Narita (population over 90,000 in our universe) and the countryside. They might have done this to protect the civilians from getting caught in the crossfire and/or for some military advantage.
If the Britannians wanted to get some military advantage from moving the civilians, they would have probably forced them out of their homes and workplaces at bayonet point. but such a process was not shown in the episode "Gueren Dances". Instead, when the town of Narita was already almost deserted, we saw nightmares rolling down the empty streets broadcasting messages to evacuate the town (which some of the remaining people did not obey). And I do not remember threats of punishment if anyone defied those orders -- someone correct me if I am wrong. In sort, the little that was shown about how the evacuation was carried out did not indicate that it was a much harsher process than that which the Japanese Defense Force carries out in so many Godzilla movies.
So if Britannian army procedures had been reformed to some degree during the last seven years to make them somewhat less brutal, the Britannians might carry out an evacuation merely to protect the lives of the civilians in the area, but they would not be as fanatical and thorough about the evacuation as they would have been if there was some military advantage to be gained from it.
It might seem impossible that some of the civilians did not warn the JLF minutes or hours before the JLf was taken by surprise by the Britannian attack. There should be thousands of people living within a few miles who would notice Britiannian military equipment headed for the hidden but not exactly secret JLF base who might have cell phones and a desire to warn the JLF. We would expect that the JLF would have received hundreds of warning messages whether the Britannians evacuated the civilians or not. So the Britannians probably jammed the phone frequencies in the area or programmed the computers controlling the message routing service in the area to not transmit anything toward the Narita Mountains or blew up the local phone transmission towers..
(to be continued)
(09/24/09) In the 1995 movie Village of the Damned, based on the 1960 movie and the John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos, strange, exotic, alien, children with telepathic powers are born in the village of Midwich, California. They are led by the ruthless Mara Chaffee (Lindsey Haun), daughter of the protagonist Dr. Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve). One of the children, David McGowan (Thomas Dekker) is kind and friendly, because he has Human emotions and in this type of movie Human emotions lead to goodness -- after all, the human race has never produced anyone as evil as Hitler, or Stalin, or Genghis Khan, or Tamerlane, etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, the children and the resentful villagers do not make good neighbors and there is a scene where Mara leads the other children to teach the Humans a few lessons. Poor little David, telephaticaly aware of the slaughter and destruction, cowers and huddles helplessly, unable to stop the violence or even shut it out of his mind.
How did Euphemia react as she grew older and found it harder and harder to ignore the evidence of cruelty and evil in the world, much (though far from all) of it caused by her fellow Britannians and much of it caused by her fellow members of the imperial family, people that she loved? Did she always cower helplessly like David McGowan, trying to shut the horror out of her mind, or did she take actions to reduce the total amount of horror?
I think that Euphemia was very timid about confrontations and arguments with the people that she loved. But she certainly reacted instantly to any kind of violence or injustice in her presence. So I think that knowledge that evil, cruelty, oppression, and violence existed anywhere would eventually drive her to take some kind of action no matter how reluctant she was to criticize or antagonize or argue with her family.
I think that the reason why Euphemia was at the Battle of Narita was an effort to see that it was fought in accordance to the laws of war and that there would be no excessive, unnecessary, or gratuitous violence.
So was this Euphie's first attempt to limit the violence of Britannian warfare or had she already saved millions of lives by reducing the death and destruction in previous Britannian wars?
Since Euphemia 1) was the close full sister of Cornelia Li Britannia, a top Britannian commander and supposedly the commanding general of the entire Britannian army and 2) sometimes had sufficient influence over Cornelia to overcome Cornelia's superior authority over her -- Euphemia was at Narita despite Cornelia's superior authority and reluctance to have her there simply because she was "unusually stubborn" -- she could have influenced Cornelia to use her command authority to reduce the amount of death and destruction in previous battles, campaigns, and wars by an unknown amount.
(to be continued)I believe that Euphemia probably got Cornelia to promise to cut down on the killing and destruction in her wars, to find ways to get as much or more victory with less killing. And Euphemia was probably very upset by the Saitema Ghetto Massacre in "Get Cornelia". She probably believed that Cornelia was using the struggle against criminal civilian terrorists hiding in the Saitema Ghetto to get away with excessive slaughter that she had promised to avoid in warfare.
So Euphemia may have made Cornelia promise to follow the rules she had agreed to follow in war even when fighting civilian terrorist criminal groups instead. And then Euphemia may have insisted on going to Narita to observe the fighting, in order to be certain Cornelia did not exterminate the JLF or the civilians in the area.
In "Gueren Dances" Cornelia told her knight Gottried that Euphemia insisted on coming to experience actual combat, and also that Euphemia was being unusually stubborn. Probably Cornelia did not want to admit to her knight that her little sister could sometimes get the better of Cornelia in an argument. And probably Euphemia had explained her reasons to Cornelia as tactfully as she could. But I think her main reason for going to Narita was to observe to make sure Cornelia did not go overboard killing the enemy.
(to be continued)
(09/26/09) Before talking to her knight Cornelia talked to an unnamed officer on the radio telling him that Euphemia would provide logistical support from the G1, and ordered the officer to put Euphemia in command of the medical team. This indicates that Euphemia would supervise from the G1 at least some of the people and machines that were moving objects around the battlefield. Thus Euphemia was helping to provide supplies such as ammunition that the warriors would use to fight -- and fighting would involve killing some people.
Since Euphemia later said that she couldn't kill, she must have believed that she had not killed at the Battle of Narita. Thus she probably believed that directing the flow of business supplies to peoples whose business is killing (as well as wounding, capturing, and chasing away ) other people is not exactly the same thing as killing people. Or Euphemia may have believed that if she was present to make sure that the killing was kept to a minimum she would be saving more lives than she would be killing by delivering ammo to the fighters.
(continued 09/28/09) Then when Lelouch unleashed a landslide which cut off Cornelia from communication with the other Britannians, Euphemia's officers advised moving the G1 forward to assist Cornelia. I suppose that nobody knows enough about the technical specifications of the G1 to discuss the military merits of that suggestion. Euphemia turned it down saying that one of their military hospitals was ahead and the area where they had move all the local civilians to. And then she added something that military men would care about more, saying that Cornelia had ordered her not to move the G1.
Apparently Euphemia feared that if the G1 moved through the area full of civilians the enemy would fire artillery and/or start another avalanche, endangering the civilians.
So Euphemia refused to do what she desperately wanted to do, charge blindly ahead to help her sister Cornelia, because such a move might cause the enemy to respond in a way that might endanger civilian noncombatants.
If every war leader in the world of Code Geass fought with as much care not to harm noncombatants war would not be such a terrible ting in the world of Code Geass and there would be no need to abolish all nations and unite the world to prevent future wars.
In a world which is divided into separate countries and where wars sometimes happen nobody can be a perfect pacifist. At the most they can perfect their personal pacifism and hope to influence others to follower their example, but that means taking no direct
action to prevent other people from doing what they consider evil. Or they can support military efforts by the party which seems most likely to bring about peace and end war, but that involves breaking their rules at least a little bit and possibly a lot if they get carried away.
tt seems to me that in the world of Code Geass, where wars are going to happen with or without Euphemia's permission, and Euphemia has rare opportunities to exercise military command and thus reduce the amount of violence in specific conflicts, she is being as pacifistic as she can be in her situation.
So I think that it is clear that Euphemia was the good person on the Britannian side, that she used her authority and influence to save lives and reduce the level of violence at least once and possibly many other times. Other Britannians may have individually fought as honorably as they could, but I know of no evidence of any Britannians arguing with their superiors against evil orders, or writing angry letters to the newspapers denouncing the crimes of the army and suggesting reforms to prevent future massacres, or threatening to resign, or doing anything else to reduce the probability of future massacres.
And what about the members of the Black Knights organization? Weren't they fighting for the same goal as other organizations which used terorism (Like the Japan LIberation Front in "Black Knight")? I say that even being on the same side as terrorist is evil.
And what about those three words "Geass Directorate Massacre"? Taking part in massacre is definatly something which makes someone evil.
Euphemia compared to other Code geass Characters
Euphemia and Lelouch
Lelouch is an arrogant bastard who thinks that he knows what is best for the world and will kill anyone who gets in his way and ends up slaughtering thousands and millions of innocent people in his quest for vengeance. And in the end the best he can do for the world is the Zero Requiem.
Lelouch is about as controlling as Lenin who forced the other Bolshevicks to start the communist revolution in Russia in late 1917 when all the others were loyal Marxists who believed that they would have to wait for years or decades until Russia was industrialized enough for a communist revolution. Lenin almost single-handedly brought about the October Revolution and founded the Soviet Union. Thus he was responsible for Stalin's rule and the fact that for decades thousands of atomic bombs were aimed at many countries.
Lelouch used a landslide to kill many Britannian soldiers and JLf fighters at the Battle of Narita despite telling his men that they were there to save the JLF from the Britannians. Lelouch's lust to be the undisputed leader of the revolution drove him to kill JLF at Narita and later blow up the ship carrying surviving leaders, despite the fact that Lelouch could have found a way to use his geass on the JLF to make them all obey his orders and add to his fighting power.
Later the Chinese invasion of Japan was the best chance to liberate Japan from the Britannians. True the Chinese might have ruled Japan oppressively after "liberating" it from Britannia, but the Japanese would probably have been a lot better off and freer under Chinese rule. And if that was not good enough for them they could later revolt against Chinese rule with secret help from Britannia and achieve a greater degree of freedom. But Lelouch fought against and helped defeat the Chinese invasion in order to be certain that he would be in total control of the movement to liberate Japan. And we all know how well his Black Rebellion turned out in the end.
And even if the Emperor was not watching everything the revolution still would have failed disastrously. Lelouch gloated to CC, his confident, that once the rebels proclaimed an independent Japan the Emperor would have to come for a meeting with Zero (and you can be sure that Lelouch had a lot planned for that meeting). But in our world King George III didn't visit the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia as soon as he heard of the declaration of independence. Instead he sent his army to fight for years to try to crush the rebels.
So Lelouch naively let his desire that the Emperor would come to meet Zero turn into a false belief that the Emperor actually would come to meet Zero, and had no plans to defend Japan against the repeated Britannian attacks and invasions which would have come instead of the visit by the Emperor. One thing which Lelouch could have done to make the visit by the Emperor more likely to happen was to make sure that Euphemia survived. Anyone who knew Euphie, like her father the Emperor knew her, would know that ordering a massacre was way out of character for her and would suspect the massacre was just a lie backed up by faked videos to justify killing an innocent girl who was really killed merely because she was the daughter of the hated Emperor.
Lelouch should have expected that if Euphemia was killed the Emperor would think: "Thank God those Japanese couldn't hold in their hate but jumped the gun and killed Euphemia merely because she is my daughter. Now that they have accidentally warned me I'll never go to Japan and certain doom!"
So Lelouch desperately needed to keep Euphemia alive to keep from scaring the Emperor away from visiting Japan. And Lelouch clearly had good chances to capture Euphemia alive just as fast, as easy, and as safely as he killed her. But he inexplicably killed her anyway and doomed his rebellion and his plans to failure.
Euphemia and Suzaku
Suzaku is an arrogant bastard who thinks that he knows what is best for the world (despite being less intelligent than Lelouch who is not intelligent enough to know what is best for the world) and in the first season fights without killing anyone out of his sense of personal honor. Then he meets Euphemia, the best boss a teenage boy could ever imagine, and she becomes his hope of making things better for the Japanese now instead of after thirty or forty years of service to Britannia, and he falls in love with her. Then he sees Euphemia murdered and VV tells him lies to make what is actually one of the worst murders ever shown on television seem even worse to Suzaku, and Suzaku turns into a vengeance-crazed monster, a cheap imitation of Lelouch's and Kallen's vengeance-crazed monsters.
In the first season Suzaku is a great warrior and nightmare pilot but shows no sign of being a great leader. Even peace loving Euphemia is a better general in the first season than Suzaku is shown to be.
Perhaps there is an intentional contrast between Lelouch, the strategic mastermind and poor warrior, and Suzaku the great warrior with little hint of being a strategic mastermind.
But Suzaku is just not up to being an equal foe of Lelouch. He has too much tactics and not enough strategy. It would have been better planning to make Euphemia the political leader of the opponents of Lelouch and her knight Suazaku the leading warrior on Euphemia's side and the opponent in battle of Lelouch's best warrior – Kallen, perhaps. Lelouch and Suzaku could still have been the two main characters even if Suzaku was a follower of Euphemia like Kallen was a follower of Lelouch.
Euphemia & CC
C2 knew that Euphemia was innocent of the Fuji massacre but helped Lelouch blame her for it and then murder her. She took part in the geass directorate massacre.
CC helps Lelouch murder Euphemia when he has wonderful chances to capture her alive with no danger to himself. She knows that Euphemia is innocent and less than a thirtieth as old as CC. That is like you helping to murder a baby. Then she helps Lelouch in the Geass Directorate Massacre. I think that CC has lived a few hundred years too many.
Euphemia and "Killer" Kallen Kouzuki aka Kallen "Mad Dog" Stradtfeld.
Kallen was a vicious killer who fired a machine gun toward Suzaku and Euphemia in "Island of the gods" and (deceived by Lelouch's lies I admit) tired to roast Euphemia to death in episode 23, and took part in the geass directorate massacre.
Kallen is sort of a serial avenger, which is only a little better than a serial killer. In the first season she pretends to be an innocent schoolgirl and sneaks out at night to hep her comrades fight and kill Britannians. Like Lenin she sought to get vengeance for the death of her brother, who was killed because he was the leader of a resistance group which Lelouch described as "terrorists" in the first episode. Like killing a terrorist leader is an evil deed or something he might not have expected and accepted when he became a terrorist leader.
Unlike Lenin, Kallen is not a great leader. Lelouch is the Lenin-like thinker and planner. Kallen is a great nightmare pilot like Cornelia, but not a great general like Cornelia in the first season. Even peace-loving Euphemia is a better general at the Battle of Narita than Kallen was anytime in the first season.
Euphemia and Rollo
Rollo was an imperial assassin by the age of fifteen. At the age of sixteen he switched sides. But did he repent of his former evil? Not if he helped at the Geass Directorate Massacre.
Some people say that Rollo died bravely trying to save the life of Lelouch, his fake brother who he came to love like a real brother. But if that was after the geass directorate Rollo should have dies trying to kill Lelouch.
I say that he bodyguards and family members of Harry S Truman should have killed him the instantl that they learned about the atomic Bbombing of Hiroshima. I say that when a leader does something evil his bodyguards should iinstantly kill him despite their job being protecting him and his family members shuld instantly kill him despite loving him. Thre is no good in protecting someone who has done a terrible evil deed who it is your duty to kill.
Euphemia and Cornelia
Cornelia is a great general and civil administrator. But left to her self she resorts to excessive violence too often, as in the Saitema Ghetto Massacre in "Get Cornelia". Without Euphemia to influence her in the direction of gentleness and mercy (and Cornelia needs a lot of influencing in that direction) Cornelia may be able to do many important things but cannot be a force for good. Cornelia may have killed thousands more people than were necessary in the year between the first and second seasons, perhaps a million, due to Euphemia's murder.
Euphemia and Schneitzel
Prince Schneitzel is kind to his subordinates and followers. But he slaughters millions of people in his quest for power. Thus he seems to have both the virtues and the evil qualities of "Earth's Supreme Horror", Genghis Khan.
Euphemia is kind to her subordinates and followers. Thus, like Schneitzel, she has the virtues of Genghis khan. But Euphemia is also kind and good to everyone else, strangers, foreigners, and even her enemies. Unlike Scheneitzel, she is completely free of the evil qualities of Genghis Khan.
Prince Schneitzel lacks Lelouch's drive for revenge, but makes up for that with an even greater lust for power, and so is about equally evil. He is almost as smart as Lelouch, but after being geassed to obey Zero's orders he can only support Zero's polices. New Zero policies can only be as smart and good as Suzaku, following Lelouch's example, can make them, which is not very smart (Suzaku's fault) or good (Lelouch's and Suzaku's fault). Schneitzel can not be a major force for good.
By backing the F.R.E.I.J.A. project Schenitzel is one hundred percent guilty of all the millions of deaths resulting from the use of F.R.E.I.J.A.. Just as Lloyd the director of the project is one hundred percent guilty of all those deaths. Just as Ninia who provided the necessary genius is one hundred percent guilty of all those deaths. And Lelouch whose murder of Euphemia caused Nina to enter the project is also one hundred percent guilty of all those deaths. And that adds up to 400 percent, but I I am not dividing up the guilt among those people but pointing out that each of them did something which was absolutely necessary for all those millions of deaths to happen.
Euphemia and Tianzi
Euphemia is nice and good. Tianzi is nice and evil.
Tianzi could have united two thirds of the world by the marriage with Prince Oddysses but cared more about her personal happiness than ending wars forever and maybe saving thousands or millions of lives per year for thousands or millions of years if the marriage resulted in the total and permanent union of the whole world. Then she played a leading role in the UFN invasion of Japan which resulted in millions of deaths when F.R.E.I.J.A. was used. I wonder how the Chinese people are going to survive another fifty or sixty or seventy years of her reign.
Euphemia and Nina.
Some people say that Euphemia and Nina were both helpless girls. But Euphemia rushed into danger several times to save people she knew or even strangers.
Nina, also is not just a helpless girl – unfortunately. As a scientist she helped develop F.R.E.I.J.A.. in time to kill tens of millions during the wars of the second season. Since Nina did so as a result of Lelouch murdering Euphemia they are both responsible for the same tens of millions of deaths, although Lelouch has killed hundreds and thousands of people without using F.R.E.I.J.A. and so has a slightly higher evil score.
Euphemia did not totally disapprove of getting revenege – she did apologize to Clovis's picture for being unable to revenge him. But if Euphemia ever did try to get revenge she would have tried her best to only kill or harm the person she targeted, not kill millions of relatively innocent bystanders without killing the one she was after.
And so on. All the major and secondary characters except For Euphemia are too evil to seek to do good very often and thus are much less likely than Euphie to make the world a better place.
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Uhmm. So many words...
Friendship is all about betraying and being betrayed. -Inoo Kei, 13 years old.
So much truth, so few words to cram it in.
She was the only character good enough to be liked. And she was not only good enough to be liked, but superhumanly good.
Even after the the geass command added a new goal, thousands of times more evil than her previous goals were, Euphemie's overall goals were still far better, more good and less evil, than those of any other character. It would have been far better for the world of Code Geass if Euphemia won and achieved all her goals, even if that meant completing the geass command first, than if any of the other characters had achieved their goals. To say nothing of being far better than the mess the other characters made fighting against their opponents.
see above posts for some of the other flaws of the other main characters.
Copy_Ninja11 told me before I went to CR about your posts IC. wat's going on? wats ur purpose?
I used to be more active, until I took a missile to the face.
infinitycubed wrote:
WrepardME wrote:
Copy_Ninja11 told me before I went to CR about your posts IC. wat's going on? wats ur purpose?
My purpose is to free you from your liking for Lelouch and for Code Geass. I want to create a world in which nobody likes Lelouch or Code Geass.
My godd@mn opinion is my own godd@mn opinions, everyone has opinions, don't try to change them, you will make things worse.
I used to be more active, until I took a missile to the face.
Well there's definitely something about Euphemia, I mean people who love do really adore her to the extreme and would do anything for her. Suzaku, Cornelia, Nina, infinitycubed... But I do agree her death could have been avoided and I really did hate Lelouch not only for murdering her even though he could have solve the problem some other way, but for badmouthing her and put all the blame on her (while it was all his fault, accidental Geass order or not) which was much worse. And as much as I love her I was also quite disappointed with CC for letting him do that.
But I still love Code Geass and although Lelouch is not my favoutite character I dig him.
infinitycubed wrote:
My purpose is to free you from your liking for Lelouch and for Code Geass. I want to create a world in which nobody likes Lelouch or Code Geass.
What a waste of such good analytical skill.
I don't think anyone denies Lelouch being evil. I disagree with him being COMPLETELY evil. His inner conflict of his goodwill versus his want for vengeance is what makes the story so interesting.
Anyways, you talk as if liking Lelouch or Code Geass is some sort of horrible disease. You're preposterous.
Also, I've read nearly all of your threads. You seem to stress the fact (other than Lelouch being an evil bastard) that if Euphie were to not die, everything would've worked out happily in the end. However, I don't think a happy end is what Code Geass was meant to depict. Heck, I know for sure, the moment Euphie was killed, the show was going to end up extremely tragic.
I simply view Euphie's death as a tragic accident and a mistake on Lelouch's part and another one of his sacrifices he had to make.
Trying desperately to get 500 CR points so I can post stupid topics, too.
Roflicious wrote:
infinitycubed wrote:
My purpose is to free you from your liking for Lelouch and for Code Geass. I want to create a world in which nobody likes Lelouch or Code Geass.
What a waste of such good analytical skill.
I don't think anyone denies Lelouch being evil. I disagree with him being COMPLETELY evil. His inner conflict of his goodwill versus his want for vengeance is what makes the story so interesting.
Anyways, you talk as if liking Lelouch or Code Geass is some sort of horrible disease. You're preposterous.
Also, I've read nearly all of your threads. You seem to stress the fact (other than Lelouch being an evil bastard) that if Euphie were to not die, everything would've worked out happily in the end. However, I don't think a happy end is what Code Geass was meant to depict. Heck, I know for sure, the moment Euphie was killed, the show was going to end up extremely tragic.
I simply view Euphie's death as a tragic accident and a mistake on Lelouch's part and another one of his sacrifices he had to make.
Lelouch doesn't have to be COMPLETELY evil to be hated and loathed and despised as an evil villain. Or at the least to be despised and pitied as a character who has lost all his rationality due to his vengeance lust, who only thinks that he his making rational choices.
Lelouch is evil enough to be a villain disguised as a hero.
In real life, defense lawyers often claim their clients have spent most of their lives doing ethically neutral or even good deeds. They claim that the alleged crimes of their clients took up only a small proportion of the lives of the clients up to the time of the trial. And they are correct.
Even the most evil men in all of history spent most of their waking hours doing things which were ethically neutral or even good. So naturally any evil fictional villain who is not supposed to be far worse than them, who is supposed to be reasonably realistic, would spend most of his time doing ethically neutral or even good deeds.
In Oliver Twist Bill Sykes is supposed to be between thirty and forty, I guess. Since there are 24 hours in a day and 365.25 days in a year according to the Julian Calendar, which I will use to keep things simpler, there are 8766 hours in a year and Bill Sykes was about 262,980 to 305,640 hours old in the novel. If he took an hour or two to murder Nancy he spent only 0.0000032 to 0.0000076 of his life committing that terrible, horrible, disgusting murder. But countless millions of readers, who previously thought that he was a bad man but not much worse than many other poor men who turn to a life of crime, hated and despised him as an evil, cruel, heartless murderer after reading the murder scene, and hated him for a deed he spent less than a hundred thousandth of his life committing.
And many real life relatives of murder victims have considered the killers to be evil murderers despite the killers spending less than a hundred thousandth of their lives so far committing the murders in question.
There are 60 minutes in an hour, 1440 minutes in a day, and 525,960 minutes in a year. So someone would be a million minutes old when 1.9012852 years old. Suppose that when one of the alien children in The Village of the Damned (1960) was 1.9012852 years old he took a minute to make one of the human children hurt himself or even kill himself. The relatives of the victim would would consider the alien child evil, even if he was not known to have done anything else evil in the other 999,9999 minutes of his life.
And someone would be 10,000,000 minutes old at the age of 19.012852 years. Suppose that he took a minute to knock down a woman and run away with her purse. . If he had no prior criminal record, his defense could argue that he had been neutral or good for most of his life so far. And he would have been neutral or good for ten million times as long as he had been a criminal -- or 9,999,9999 times as long, to be precise. But that would not make him innocent. And if he used that minute to impulsively murder someone, he would be an evil murderer despite spending only 0.0000001 of his life so far committing murders.
There are 60 seconds in a minute, 3,600 seconds in a hour, 86,400 seconds in a day, and 31,557,600 seconds in a year. So someone would be a billion seconds old when he was 31.688087 years old. Suppose that he is walking along and someone greets him, and for some trivial reason, such as the ugliness of the person, he whips out his ray gun and vaporizes him in a single second. Even if he never did anything else evil in the billion other seconds of his life, he would be considered an evil murderer by the relatives of the victim and by most neutral observers.
As a real life example, John M Chivington, 1831-1894, almost never did anything evil, but his most evil deed, the Sand Creek Massacre, is enough to make him an evil mass murderer. He might have done neutral or good deeds for thousands or millions of times as long as he spent murdering, but his murders are enough to make everyone despise him as an evil murderer. He was once introduced to a half-Cheyenne Denver socialite by some ignorant or malicious person, who asked her if she knew Colonel Chivington. And she replied that he murdered her grandmother. And any person who watched any neutral or balanced show about the Sand Creek Massacre would have to agree that Chivington murdered at least a hundred persons.
I say that Lelouch's inner conflict between good and evil could make the story interesting if his evil actions were limited to, at the worst, ethically ambiguous killings, not anything so obviously and clearly evil and unnecessary as killing Euphemia.
And I do think that if Euphemia survived, everything would work out happy enough at the end as far as the named characters seen in the story were concerned. The one good and decent character who deserved to live would survive, some of the evil characters would die the deaths they so richly deserved, and some of the other evil characters would unjustly survive. And although I didn't want any evil characters to survive, the higher the fatality rate the more unlikely it would be that Euphemia would survive, so I could put up with the majority of the characters surviving if Euphemia did. If the writers wanted to, they could kill off more of the other teenage characters, especially if they killed the characters before they did anything evil, so the audience would not know they would eventually turn evil and would mourn them as innocents.
And you were wrong abut the show ending up extremely tragic. Such a terrible crime as the murder of a character as good as Euphemia could only fit in a good tragedy if it was the obvious direct cause of the final cataclysm which immediately followed. Instead the story was dragged out for over twelve more hours and a year of fictional time and involved so many plot elements that the cause of the final event was decidedly unclear.
And a tragic hero has to have some reason to commit even his most evil acts. Even his worst crimes need to have some degree of ethical justification or at least psychological explanation. His fatal flaw has to be at least partially a good and admirable trait. But how could any psychological trait that was even partially good or admirable cause someone to kill someone who was never hinted to have wronged him, and who was obviously unnecessary to kill to achieve any good or humane goal? How can it be even partially noble or admirable to kill someone when it is so utterly unnecessary and even counterproductive to your cause to kill them? How can the psychological explanation for such an obviously unnecessary murder translate into anything except that the killer was too evil to be liked?
I have a theory that the creators of Code Geass originally planned it as a one season tragedy in which Lelouch and Suzaku refused to work together to help the Japanese, and Lelouch got more and more evil, killing people with less and less reason, until at last he killed Euphemia, and in the final confrontation everyone was killed. Probably someone would activate a F.R.E.I.J.A. prototype which would destroy the Tokyo area, or all of Japan, or the whole world.
And when it was decided to make it a two season series episode there was no money in the budget to pay for rewriting most of the first season episodes to make Lelouch more decent and not swiftly descend into an irrational murderer.
And disgustingly, most of the audience continued to care about Lelouch and root for him despite his descent into insane evil during the first season being kept in the show.
How can it be a tragic accident or mistake to kill someone who is so obviously safe and easy and quick to capture alive as Euphemia would have been? Nobody who cared about doing good and avoiding evil would ever have passed up such a wonderful chance to do good and avoid doing evil has Lelouch passed up when he killed Euphemia instead of capturing her alive. Killing Euphemia was a sacrifice Lelouch had to avoid for the series to make any sense ethically.
And as for Lelouch-loving being a terrible disease, how can I trust that any viewer of Code Geass will ever spare anyone's life under any circumstances if they refuse to condemn Lelouch's murder of Euphemia, if it does not disgust, horrify, and revolt them, if it doesn't make them Lelouch-loathers? If the fictional murder of Euphemia is not evil enough to make them hate Lelouch, would they ever decide not to kill any person in real life, under any circumstances?
Firstly, I was appalled when I read your original post. You, in summation, called single secondary character, besides Euphy, evil. Even the 10-something year old Tianzi. I just cannot comprehend this. Because Tianzi did not happen to understand the consequences of her actions, she is now evil? She chose her course of action because she did not completely realize the benefits of the other alternative. She's a child. Nina? I thought it was clear, from early on in the series, that Nina is not mentally or emotionally stable. That is why it is understandable when she acts in the far extreme. Why do you expect every character to perfectly follow ethical behavior? Is it impossible to accept that perhaps some people do not always behave ethically, but they are not evil, also? Why must every character be compared to a flawless character such as Euphie, and then be called evil because they do not match up to her flawlessness? What would YOU have done if you were in each of those characters' shoes? In their predicaments? In their dire situations? Would Code Geass have been as entertaining as it was, if YOU were in Lelouch's place?
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Lelouch doesn't have to be COMPLETELY evil to be hated and loathed and despised as an evil villain. Or at the least to be despised and pitied as a character who has lost all his rationality due to his vengeance lust, who only thinks that he his making rational choices.
Lelouch is evil enough to be a villain disguised as a hero.
In real life, defense lawyers often claim their clients have spent most of their lives doing ethically neutral or even good deeds. They claim that the alleged crimes of their clients took up only a small proportion of the lives of the clients up to the time of the trial. And they are correct.
Even the most evil men in all of history spent most of their waking hours doing things which were ethically neutral or even good. So naturally any evil fictional villain who is not supposed to be far worse than them, who is supposed to be reasonably realistic, would spend most of his time doing ethically neutral or even good deeds.
You're certainly right. However, regarding the examples you gave, the reason society would come to loathe the person
rather than the actual deed itself is due to the masses not knowing much about the person except the deed and the incidents that happened around the deed. The viewers are not strangers to Lelouch. We have seen, from episode one, both his admirable as well as evil traits. The show revolves around him. We know all there is to know about Lelouch. His past, his present, his future. Everything. We don't have omnipotent powers to track the thoughts and lives of every criminal accused of crimes. If we did, though, I'm sure many of these criminals would be less loathed. I see this to be human nature. When we become attached to individuals, we have a natural tendency to close our eyes to some things.
If I heard in the news about a stranger committing a horrible murder, I would immediately and naturally be, even though I shouldn't, revolted. Now, if that stranger was a very dear friend of mine instead, rather than loathing my friend, I would loathe the fact that he did such a thing. Next, I would, in my confusion, try to reason out why he would do such a deed, for surely, there must have been a reason that stimulated him to do such a thing, which brings me to my next point.
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And a tragic hero has to have some reason to commit even his most evil acts. Even his worst crimes need to have some degree of ethical justification or at least psychological explanation. His fatal flaw has to be at least partially a good and admirable trait. But how could any psychological trait that was even partially good or admirable cause someone to kill someone who was never hinted to have wronged him, and who was obviously unnecessary to kill to achieve any good or humane goal? How can it be even partially noble or admirable to kill someone when it is so utterly unnecessary and even counterproductive to your cause to kill them? How can the psychological explanation for such an obviously unnecessary murder translate into anything except that the killer was too evil to be liked?
I know you've done extensive analysis on this, but, I do believe Lelouch had a reason to kill Euphie. Perhaps more reasons not to kill her than to kill her, but, like I said, that is where Lelouch's poor judgment at that time came in. I say, his fatal flaw was his absolute fixation on achieving his goals that would ultimately lead the world to a better place. Working for the better welfare of the world is a good and admirable trait. What makes Lelouch so ironic is that the means in which he does it are very evil.
I do not believe we should put normal human standards on Lelouch, who, at that time, was the leader of a large organization, targeted by many, and possesses an other-worldly power of Geass. From Lelouch's standpoint, Euphie did "wrong" him. He did call her the worst enemy he has ever had. By formulating a plan that totally usurped all he has done until now, we could infer that Lelouch was already a bit upset at Euphie. Lelouch was one who decided to sacrifice all for the future. Euphie's plan probably made Lelouch feel that all of his previous sacrifices were totally unnecessary. Lelouch was not nearly upset enough to kill her, of course. But, there are several other factors we must look at.
Euphie, in a sense, "wronged" many Japanese. Even though it was not Euphie's will, not even Lelouch's will, Euphie ended up massacring the Japanese. There, we had an example of how the masses tend to jump on the person first, rather then rationalizing the reasons for the deed itself. Perhaps, the Black Knights truly thought it was a trap and no more reasoning was even necessary. Anyways, Lelouch was already receiving a great deal of stress. Not only does he feel partly responsible for this tragedy, all the chaos that would brew up after this incident, Lelouch would have to deal with. It's possible he was thinking of all of these things simultaneously when he encountered Euphemia.
Just exactly what Lelouch was thinking of when he decided to murder Euphemia, we can't tell. Perhaps, he thought that harboring Euphemia as a hostage would cause a direct confrontation with the Royal Family of Britannia, especially Cornelia and Suzaku. Perhaps Lelouch thought that Euphemia would be rather useless as a bargaining tool by then, for not even Brittania would want to claim her back after what she allegedly has done. Perhaps, Lelouch was thinking, that he is justice, and bringing death upon Euphemia for her "crime" would be the justice millions would have wanted to be enacted upon her. Perhaps, Lelouch did not want to deal with more people having a direct look at Euphemia's crazed state, for fear of having them discovering Geass. Perhaps, Lelouch thought, that even if Euphemia was taken hostage, some radical in the Black Knights could possibly murder Euphemia, anyway. Perhaps, Lelouch, knowing that Geass is an evil power, could not bear having to see Euphemia in such a state or even live any longer. It would indeed put him past his place as a human in this world, but, I do not find it realistic for Lelouch to be arguing ethics within himself in such a situation.
When asked by Kallen, "Do we take her hostage?" The reply was, "No need."
When asked by Euphemia, "Will you run the specially administered zone of Nippon with me?" The reply was, "No. I really wanted to, if I could."
So, Lelouch, clearly not in his best condition, saw it was unnecessary to have Euphemia captive, for whatever reason. It is clear in his head, he had a reason. We don't know for sure what that reason is. We don't know for sure if that reason is adequate. Lelouch decided that the administered zone of Nippon was no longer attainable. We don't know for sure what the reason is. And, once again, we don't know for sure if that reason is adequate. If the reason was indeed inadequate, Lelouch is certainly evil. Well, that's clearly established by both of us by now. However, when Lelouch shoots Euphie, it is clear he harbors no hatred. No malicious feelings, whatsoever. He clearly does not take any bit of joy in doing such a thing. Without a doubt, Lelouch knows he will be hated by many for his actions.
Thus, I cannot help but sympathize. Do I condone of his action? No. Was there a better course of action for Lelouch? Possibly, I don't know. Should Lelouch be hated? Yes, and he gets plenty of it. But, most importantly, do I and most of viewers hate him, too?
Truth to be told, I cannot describe what feeling I have for Lelouch. I cannot fathom such a being existing in reality, and there probably is. Although I sympathize with his suffering, I do not like Lelouch, either. Even if I tell myself, "He is not worthy of sympathy," I still sympathize, anyway.
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And disgustingly, most of the audience continued to care about Lelouch and root for him despite his descent into insane evil during the first season being kept in the show.
And as for Lelouch-loving being a terrible disease, how can I trust that any viewer of Code Geass will ever spare anyone's life under any circumstances if they refuse to condemn Lelouch's murder of Euphemia, if it does not disgust, horrify, and revolt them, if it doesn't make them Lelouch-loathers? If the fictional murder of Euphemia is not evil enough to make them hate Lelouch, would they ever decide not to kill any person in real life, under any circumstances?
The audience cares for Lelouch, not only because he's the main hero, but because they enjoy his cunning, his genius, his intellect, and even his suffering. I'm sure no viewer would not admit to Lelouch being evil, even if they like him. I'm sure no viewer enjoyed the death of Euphie. From most user comments generating around that episode, nearly every viewer finds Euphie's death tragic. Not many of them blame Lelouch as harshly as you, though.
The audience does not think this deeply through, like you do. The majority of the fanbase are teenagers. Teenagers have some degree of knowledge regarding ethics. But, do they even bother to think about it while watching anime? Most teenagers watch anime for entertainment. They seek entertainment. The giant ethical fallacy that occurred during Euphie's murder probably passed straight over their heads, like it did to me. Perhaps, that's why you're on this crusade to make everybody hate Lelouch and Code Geass. But, I must say, I cannot agree with what you're doing here. Ethics are a good thing. Your intentions are good. Preaching it, however, can be rather insulting. Just as how preaching religiously offends some, preaching ethically might have the same effect.
You claimed that if the fictional murder of Euphemia is not evil enough to make them hate Lelouch, it is questionable if they will ever decide not to kill any person in real life. If you rephrased that question, "Is killing a good, innocent person through a video game evil?" You will get varying answers. If you then ask, "Is killing a good, innocent person in real life evil?" You will definitely, definitely get a "yes" from all people, even teenagers who viewed and enjoyed Code Geass.
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CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq , July 13, 2010 Hundreds of soldiers will leave their units in Iraq and return home early over the next two months to help meet the president's mandated troop strength of 50,000 in the country by Sept. 1.
"Many of these soldiers are part of Stop Loss," said Army Col. Charles E.A. Sexton, commander of the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. He is keeping a promise to soldiers in his unit who involuntarily had their service extended in order to deploy.
"These soldiers have served honorably, while having their service obligation extended beyond their original separation date in order to meet the operational needs of the deployment," Sexton said.
"This early redeployment is an opportunity to allow these soldiers to separate from the service at a time closer to their original separation date," he explained.
Not all of the soldiers returning home early were affected by Stop Loss, however. The force cap also allows commanders the opportunity to redeploy soldiers who will attend professional development schools, assist in the unit's reintegration, or who have family emergencies, medical issues or complex family needs.
"The decision to send a soldier back early is one the command takes very seriously," Sexton said. He added that the operational impact of sending a soldier home early must be carefully considered so that the mission can continue.
Army Sgt. Drake Harris, Forward Support Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, was to separate Sept. 26, 2009. The Prescribed Load Listing, Maintenance Control noncommissioned officer in charge planned to start school at the University of St. Louis in September. But he said he has no regrets about the Stop Loss extension.
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First used in the 1990-91 Gulf War, authority for Stop Loss has existed since 1984 (Section 12305, Title 10, U.S. Code). It enables the president of the United States to involuntarily extend or retain servicemembers beyond their established separation date if they are deemed to be essential to the national security of the United States.
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Updated at: 02/28/2013 6:36 PM
By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4
New Mexico Democratic party activists may have a little egg on their face after ripping into Republican Gov. Susana Martinez for a high-priced kitchen renovation at the Governor's Mansion. Turns out Democratic lawmakers want to do some expensive redecoration of their own.
It was a $100,000-plus remodelling job for the kitchen and a laundry room and a wet bar. Floor, commercial ranges, refrigerators, cabinets, granite counter tops, the works. But this is the public part of the building where nonprofit community groups hold banquets and receptions.
The Governor has her own much smaller kitchen in the residential part of the building.
We asked New Mexico taxpayers what they thought about it.
"It's being used for nonpprofits and if it's going to be used for the community I'm all for it, no problem," said Joe Hempfling outside the Capitol building. " The Governor deserves a good cup of coffee as well."
But how about new chairs for the members of the House of Representatives at $2,500 each?
There is legislation in the House this session to spend up to $200,000 on 70 new chairs for the members, and that legislation is a Democrat bill, sponsored by Rep. Patricia Lundstrom of Gallup.
"Well, that's too much to pay for a chair," said taxpayer Darryl Wellington. "That's kind of silly. I'll sell you a chair for a lot less than that."
We asked Wellington if it might be a waste of taxpayer money, and he laughed out loud.
"I would say that," Wellington said. "Not a might be - it definitely is - yeah!"
The chairs would be pretty swanky, each one with a silk-screened official seal of the state of New Mexico - so the lawmakers don't forget where they come from - maybe.


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FRIDAY, Aug. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Each year, about one in six Americans suffers from foodborne illness, resulting in about 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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My name is David Alenskis. I am a minister of the Gospel and missionary with SAMS-USA.
In May 2012 I headed to Belize where I serve as one of the pastors in two of Christ's churches and the three schools associated with them. This has been an incredible blessing and challenge to which God has called me!
So feel free to browse around a bit. Here on the website you may find some bits that are useful, maybe interesting, maybe eyebrow-bending. And definitely let me know exactly what your reaction is so: I'd love to be in touch.
Come on down the rabbit hole: you could enjoy it!


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Best Frontier Neighborhood St. Louis 2001 - North Broadway area
Now that the developers are nudging the frontier spirits out of downtown -- you've served your purpose; now move on so we can jack up the rent! -- where are they to go? Zipping north on Broadway downtown, just keep going. If you're from the South Side or West County, the imaginary Great Wall just north of the Dome at America's Center is, believe it or not, penetrable; Broadway does in fact continue on. Pass the big green Vess bottle, cross Interstate 70 and, like magic, you've breached the wall with nary a scratch, and what's on the other side is wonderfully untapped -- and five minutes from downtown. Gorgeous turn-of-the-century warehouses stand a stone's throw from both the Mississippi and the Arch. And, it seems, no one but the blue-collars who work in the warehouses know of their existence. A few art types have been sniffing around over there, and others are discreetly poking at some of the greatness to be found. But by and large the district, which has no fancy name yet, is a diamond in the proverbial rough.


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Great rides and routes at National Trust places
The great thing about cycling is the amazing places it can take you to. This year we're delighted to be running Sky Ride Local guided rides from a host of stunning National Trust properties, offering cyclists a combination of lovely routes, great facilities, and friendly support from British Cycling trained Ride Leaders.
This year we've scheduled over sixty free bike rides at properties from Northumberland to Devon.
All the National Trust properties we're working with will be offering a real cycle-friendly welcome, with secure storage facilities and sometimes even free coffee for cyclists!
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New Course: A study of economic behavior under conditions of
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New roles, new music
CORPUS CHRISTI - Chrissie Hynde's new group, JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys, is a departure from her usual role fronting her longtime band, the Pretenders, in several ways.
For one thing, where Hynde has written the lion's share of Pretenders songs herself, the new group's debut CD, "Fidelity" was a full-on songwriting collaboration between Hynde and British singer/songwriter JP Jones.
Then there's the simple fact that JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys finds Hynde in the unusual role of sharing the singing and front person role on stage. Hynde discussed her transition into her onstage role alongside Jones in a recent telephone interview.
"I'm used to working in a band, and I always feel that as a singer in a rock band, my position is there to set up the guitar player," Hynde said. "It's all about the guitars. So in that respect it's the same. And I've always been in situations in former Pretenders lineups where there are a lot of background singers and I like to encourage the guys to sing. But this is completely different actually sharing the lead vocal with someone, and it's been a revelation. I love it."
- For his new CD, "Le Noise," Neil Young collaborated with acclaimed producer Daniel Lanois. The CD features eight songs with Young on acoustic and electric guitars, and Lanois adding his signature array of sonic textures. In a statement, Lanois said "It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock and roll, but I think we did, it," he said. "Le Noise" will be released Sept. 28.
- The Dirty Projectors is releasing a deluxe version of its acclaimed 2009 CD, "Bitter Orca." Due out Sept. 28, it features an 11-song bonus disc of live material and b-sides.
- Los Lonely Boys will release a concert CD culled from its recent "Acoustic Brotherhood" tour. The 13-song set, "Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live!" includes two songs performed with tourmates Alejandro Escovedo and Carrie Rodriguez a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Beast Of Burden" (a tune Escovedo often has performed in his shows) and a version of the Los Lonely Boys hit "Heaven." The CD will be released Sept. 28.
- The Boxer Rebellion has finished its third CD (due out in early 2011). The group also appears as itself in the new Drew Barrymore/Justin Long movie, "Going The Distance" and has three songs on the film's soundtrack. With those projects complete, the band is doing a tour from Sept. 21 through Oct. 14.
- Sacramento experimentalists Tera Melos return with its new CD, "Patagonian Rats," on Tuesday. The CD arrives five days after the group begins a monthlong North American tour that runs through Oct. 7.
- "Sleep Forever," the second album from the duo Crocodiles, will be in stores Tuesday.
- Richard and Linda Thompson's classic and emotionally charged final album together, "Shoot Out The Lights," is being rereleased Oct. 12 by Rhino Records. The new edition includes a bonus disc with live versions of 11 songs from the soon-to-be-divorced husband and wife's 1982 tour in support of the album.
- "Darth Vader meets B.B. King." That's how Devon Allman (son of Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band) describes the new CD with his band, Honeytribe. It's called "Space Age Blues," and will be released Oct. 12.
- Underoath has wrapped up work on its fifth CD, "Disambiguation." A Nov. 9 release is planned.
- Flyleaf and Story Of The Year began a fall tour Thursday that will have the bands on the road through Oct. 24 including a stop in Corpus Christi's Concrete Street Amphitheater on Sept. 24. As part of the tour, Flyleaf is encouraging fans to donate to World Vision's fight against human trafficking of children. Fans can donate $10 by texting UNITE to 20222.
- 36 Crazyfists is geared up for its first tour as a headliner. The tour launches Thursday and runs through Oct. 23.
- Hard touring band Umphrey's McGee has a fall tour set from Sept. 23 through Oct. 31.
- Tony Joe White will tour from Sept. 24 through Oct. 27 in support of his new CD, "This Shine" (in stores Sept. 28).
- Punk band Peelander-Z starts a U.S. tour Sept. 28 that continues through Nov. 20.
- The band Fun heads out on a headlining tour Sept. 29. Dates continue through Nov. 5. Steel Train also will be on the bill.
- Jarrod Gorbel (the main man in The Honorary Title) will be doing the opening act gig through much of the fall. He starts out opening for Fun from Sept. 29 through Oct. 30 and then hops onto Hanson's November dates, opening that tour from Nov. 1 through Nov. 23.
- Switchfoot has lined up another month of shows. The band will be on the road from Oct 1 though Oct. 29, with the Almost as its opening act.
- Fans that missed the Scorpions on this past summer's American leg of its farewell tour, will get another shot next summer when the band returns to the states for another set of dates on its final tour.
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Sports Thoughts
One of the writers for the Austin American wanted to know what was next for the Longhorn basketball team after this season's collapse. Could it be fundamentals that all those high school stars haven't needed to use against lower level opposition? Number one would be blocking out on defense. The basketball analyst said on national TV that Wake Forest's best play was a missed shot because they got to dunk the putback. The same thing happened against A&M, Baylor, Kansas State, and Iowa State.
Baylor, Kansas State, and A&M made the Big XII look good in March Madness. Baylor possibly could have made it to the final four if they had blocked out on a free throw miss with the score tied. Remember the old coach's saying, "Fundamentals begins with FUN".
The Major League baseball season begins Sunday. The Astros and Rangers seem to be going in different directions. With Nolan Ryan as president, the Rangers are putting more emphasis on pitching. The Astros have gone for hitting and lost focus on top pitching, an idea that failed the Rangers for years.
The Lady Eagles are in a fight for a play off spot in a highly competitive district race behind Rogers. The Lady Eagles are getting quite a following for their games.
The Eagles' backs are to the wall. They have to catch fire if they are to play after the last district game.


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Maputo — The preliminary investigation into the Mozambican plane crash on Nov. 29 indicates that the disaster was caused by the pilot deliberately, the country's civil aviation authority said Saturday.
"The investigation commission concluded that all it observed in the records shows that the descent was all with automatic pilot activating. This is an indicator of clear intention," Joao Abreu, chairperson of the Institute of Civil Aviation of Mozambique said at press conference in Maputo .
According to the report, investigations into the plane's black box at the National Transport Safety Board in the United States found that the plane operated normally with no mechanical malfunctions at 38,000 feet and had good communication with the Gabarone control center in Botswana, but suddenly it started to descend, then vanished from radar screen and lost all communication with the control center just before it crashed.
Abreu said the copilot went to the bathroom a few minutes before the crash, leaving the pilot, Herminio dos Santos Fernandes, alone in the cockpit.
It was then the altitude selector was manually altered three times, bringing the plane's altitude down from 38,000 feet to 592 feet.
The throttle control was set to idling, but the velocity selector was operated manually several times, bringing the speed up to the plane's VMO (Maximum Operating Velocity).
"These actions set off low and high intensity alarm signals, and there were repeatedly hits on the cockpit door, which can be heard on the recording, presumably indicating the copilot was trying to enter the cockpit but found the door locked against him, " said Abreu.
Abreu said all these operations required detailed knowledge of the plane's controls, and showed a clear intention to crash the aircraft.
The reason for the pilot's action is yet unknown and the investigation is kept proceeding, added Abreu.
The Mozambique Airlines' flight TM470 was scheduled from Maputo to Luanda, the Angola capital, and crashed during flight in northern Namibia, killing all 33 passengers including one Chinese on board.


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David Reinhardt New USATF Niagara President
New USATF Niagara Association Board of Directors (9/08/2013 to 9/2015)
President David Reinhardt
1st Vice-President Chad Byler
2nd Vice-President Bill Quinlisk
Secretary Rob Liebers
Treasurer Missy Senall
Sports Committee Chairpersons
Race Walking Erin Talcott
Cross Country Mike Reif
Track & Field Perry Jenkins
Youth Athletics Demetrius Bennett
Masters LDR Bill Quinlisk
Masters Track & Field Lawrence Guilford
Men's LDR Eric Boyce
Women's LDR Trisha Byler
M.U.T. (Acting) Jessica Snyder
Officials Kathy McLymond
The Niagara Track & Field Hall of Fame of Fame presented its inaugural set of new annual awards at their annual awards banquet held in Rochester, NY on Saturday, 07 September 2013. These awards recognize performances and accomplishments from the 2012-2013 school year. In attendance for the occasion were US Olympian Don Paige, USATF President Bill Quinlisk and renown Jim Ulrich, Bob Bradley and Jack Daniels who all presented awards.
The 2013 Niagara Track & Field Hall of Fame of Fame Annual Awards were presented in conjunction with the induction into the Niagara Track & Field Hall of Fame of our Class of 2013 (Ivan C. Dresser, Cornell '19; Thomas F. Keane, coach at Syracuse University from 1906 to 1945; Shannon L Smith, Fairport HS 1996, Boston College 2000; and Leander J. "Lee" Talbott, Jr., Cornell and Penn State University).
The Niagara Track & Field Hall of Fame is a separate New York State Not-For-Profit corporation. The USATF Niagara Association will be working cooperatively to ensure the success of the Hall of Fame and to coordinate activities in order to avoid conflicts between the programs of each organization. The Niagara Track & Field Hall of Fame, its program and Corporation have the full support of the Niagara Association of USA Track & Field.The complete list of award winners is available at: Niagara Hall of Fame Award Winners


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Latest on Mars Express
European Space Agency
October 15, 2003
The Mars Express spacecraft is in good health and is operating normally.
Some payload activities were executed on 30 September 2003, involving the SPICAM and OMEGA spectrometers. SPICAM and OMEGA were turned on in order to check the mechanisms of these instruments. The PFS and HRSC Interplanetary Cruise checkouts were conducted successfully on 6 October 2003. The remaining orbiter instruments checkouts to be done during the Interplanetary Cruise phase will be completed by the end of October.
The first Interplanetary Cruise checkout of the Beagle-2 lander was conducted on 7 October 2003. The second and final Beagle-2 checkout for this phase is scheduled for the 3rd of November.
On the spacecraft side, preparations and simulations for Beagle-2 ejection and Mars Orbit Insertion are proceeding well.
The ESA Mars Express spacecraft will perform the Beagle-2 lander separation on 19 December 2003 and will go into Mars orbit insertion on 25 December 2003. The Beagle-2 lander will descend through the martian atmosphere and land on the planet on 25 December 2003.
Orbital/Trajectory Information
Today, Mars Express is 71 days from Mars Orbit Insertion. Information on the spacecraft's position and remaining distance to Mars can be accessed under "Orbit View" on the sidebar navigation.
Scientific Payload Status
Instrument Activities since last report Status
ASPERA None Nominal
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Today I met with Salim Mohammed, Ken Juma and Shahrzad Nouraini of Carolina For Kibera (CFK). CFK is considering the use of Ushahidi to map and highlight their activities in the Kibera community.
Amongst other laudable activities, CFK in conjunction with Jamii Ya Kibera, organizes community forums "Barazas" that encourage dialogue and understanding in various parts of Kibera. Kibera is composed of twelve villages, which are currently not mapped on google maps, but will be working with Ushahidi to add these villages into their instance of Ushahidi. One of the features that they would like added to Ushahidi is the ability to define the order in which the categories appear on the site, and inclusion of sub categories. For example, they have forums for parents (to encourage them not to perpetuate tribalism to their children), Touts in the transportation industry and youth.
The other feature that CFK would like is the ability to print incident reports by category, date or location. This could be used in their campaigns.
The CFK team is considering Frontline SMS for use during their community events in the near future. The mobile sync is important to CFK, because their outreach includes mobile phone messages to the community leaders they have trained, and they would also engage the public via SMS messages.
It will be interesting to see how CFK uses the Ushahidi platform in their work, as it would shed light into the issues and events happening in Kibera, Kenya. We look forward to learning from CFK as they test the Ushahidi Engine at http://cfk.ushahidi.com/. Bookmark it and check back soon!


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Clinic gives free tattoo removal to juvenile offenders
Teens put visible symbols of past behind them
SAN ANTONIO - They have committed felonies including everything from burglary to armed robbery to manslaughter.
Now some teens are changing their faces and their future thanks to a program by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
The department has gotten a local laser clinic to remove the tattoos of participants in the program for free.
Jacqueline Burner had the word "Love" and a drawing of a heart tattooed on her neck. "It was just a bad mistake," Burner said. "I was young."
Jesse Diaz was proud of his West Side roots and put that message on his knuckles.
"I wanted to be cool," Diaz said. "I wanted to fit in so I got it."
Now both are getting their tattoos removed one painful treatment at a time. They are participants in the state's re-entry program for young criminal offenders.
Jim Hurley, of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, said the teens in the program have made the decision to put the visible symbols of their past behind them.
"They truly got it," Hurley said. "They understand the need for change and they're taking action on that."
And the MEDermis Laser Clinic is removing the tattoos for free.
"We've heard some just fantastic stories coming back, some very positive feedback," said Mike Livermore, founder and CEO of MEDermis.
The teens say they took advantage of the program to get better jobs.
Burner wants to be a cosmetologist. "I have a lot of people that turn me down that said we would hire you," Burner said. "You have your full certifications. It's just your tattoo."
The "West Side" tattoo has not helped Diaz get a job either and he thinks its removal will.
"It'll help me in the future to get a better job because right now I apply for jobs and they're like no dice," Diaz said.
The state even presented a plaque to the clinic for its volunteer work.
Tattoo removal can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the size of the tattoo and what colors it has.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Samuel Parris Kelly, a Georgetown native and senior music and worship major at Charleston Southern University, will present a recital of vocal music this Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, Georgetown. The community is invited to attend this free concert, which will feature works by Handel, Verdi, and Schubert as well as a few contemporary pieces. A love offering will be received to help support Sam for a choir trip to Spain this summer. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall.
As a member of CSUs Concert Singers, Sam has traveled worldwide. Some of the highlights of his collegiate vocal career include performing as the choir-in-residence at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England; singing in St. Patricks Cathedral in New York City, NY; and being featured in the biennial Bach Festival of Charleston, conducted by Stephen Stubbs, nationally renowned Baroque expert. Sam has also played guitar for the Youth Worship Team and the Praise team at First Baptist for many years as well as several special presentations, including the churchs annual Singing Christmas Tree. Upon graduation from CSU in May, Sam plans to attend the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to pursue a Master of Arts in ministry leadership.
Sam comes from a very musical family. He is the younger son of Geanenne Kelly, who sings in the Worship Choir at First Baptist and has performed numerous solos, and the late Terry Kelly, former organist at First Baptist who was also a gifted soloist. Sams brother, Morgan, is an extremely talented musician in his own right and a part-time staff member at First Baptist. Sam is the grandson of Gene and Peggie Morgan (who sang in the Worship Choir of First Baptist for decades and still sings with the churchs Joy Singers) and Lucille and the late Samuel Kelly, all of Georgetown.
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This is really for anyone not on the Olszewski Studios mailing list, so I apologize for any repeating.
Big news up front: another opportunity to order the Main Street Platform will be available in May with delivery in September. Stay tuned for the announcement of when the order window opens.
For anyone attending the 20K signing event on May 5th at Disneyland, the Fantasyland Platform will be on display with an updated version of King Arthur. King Arthur is not scheduled for release until next year, but as the centerpiece for Fantasyland, seeing the progress is something to look forward to.
I mentioned an update on the Fantasyland platform in the relevant thread, so I will simply refer you to that for that information.
That's about it. No word on any other previews at the signing event, but Bob and his team love to surprise us, so if you can, I recommend attendance.
Thanks all!