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With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.
For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka's fate, and that of his father, will be decided.
Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages.
"Rushdie's 11th novel is a sequel to his charming 1990 fable Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written — as was its predecessor — for one of its author's two sons. Visions of Kipling and J.M. Barrie may swim through readers' heads as we meet 12-year-old Luka Khalifa, the child of his parents' middle age (and younger sibling to the previously eponymous Haroun), and an eager listener to lavish tales of the Magical World dreamed into being by his father Rashid, a celebrated storyteller aka "the Shah of Blah." When Rashid falls into a mysterious prolonged sleep (and hence a silence that raises memories of Rushdie's own "silenced" life as a writer following the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini), everything Luka has ever learned tells him he must brave the dangers of the Magical World, steal the revivifying Fire of Life from the Mountain of Knowledge and restore his beloved dad to consciousness. Guarded by animal companions (Bear the Dog, and Dog the Bear) and bedeviled by a "phantom Rashid" (aka "Nobodaddy"), the young Prometheus undertakes his heroic deed. He wins a riddling contest against the cantankerous Old Man of the River, encounters vicious Border Rats and compassionate Otters and assorted celebrities (including Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee and The Terminator), en route to confronting the petty, egomaniacal gods of antiquity. Adult readers will rightfully delight in Rushdie's brilliant wordplay throughout, but younger ones may yearn for less cleverness and more narrative. Fortunately, the story gathers whiz-bang velocity once Luka has heatedly persuaded the sulky gods and monsters that "it's only through Stories that you can get out into the Real World and have some sort of power again." Everything races briskly toward the satisfactory completion of Luka's quest, and a quite perfect final scene. A celebration of storytelling, a possible prequel to the book Rushdie is said to be writing about his own enforced "slumber," and a colorful, kick-up-your-heels delight." Kirkus Review (Starred Review)
"Luka and the Fire of Life is a beautiful book. Well-written (obviously), imaginative (astonishingly so) and wonderful in the way it builds heartfelt magical fiction for kids who love video games: It's like a bridge, built between generations, fabulous and strange and from the heart." Neil Gaiman
"You've reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It's your turn for an adventure — yes, it's finally here!" So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka. The adventure begins one beautiful starry night in the land of Alifbay, when Luka's father, Rashid, falls suddenly into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one can rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka embarks on a journey through the world of magic with his loyal companions, Bear, the dog, and Dog, the bear. Together they encounter a slew of fantastical creatures, strange allies, and challenging obstacles along the way — all in the hope of stealing the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly treacherous task.
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Salman Rushdie is the author of ten previous novels — Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and, recently, the Booker of all Bookers), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence — and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published three works of nonfiction — The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, and Step Across This Line — and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a former president of American PEN.
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The storm devastated several other parts of the city as well. In Staten Island, pounding waves destroyed hundreds of homes, and one neighborhood in Queens burned to ashes after water sparked an electrical fire. Power outages lasted for more than two weeks in parts of the city. Chastened by the flooding and acutely aware that Hurricane Irene, in 2011, was a near miss, the city is now wondering what comes next.
"Is there a new normal?" asks John Gilbert, chief operating officer of Rudin Management, which manages several office buildings in downtown New York. "And if so, what is it?" Gilbert says that the company is already taking action. At one of its buildings, which took on some 19 million liters of water, the company is moving electrical systems to the second floor. "You have to think that as it has happened, it could happen again," he says. "And it could be worse."
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The 1-in-500 estimate also does not take into account the unusual nature of Sandy. Dubbed a Frankenstorm, Sandy was a marriage of a tropical cyclone and a powerful winter snowstorm, and it veered into the New Jersey coast along with the high tide of a full Moon. "It was a hybrid storm," says Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and one of the study's co-authors. "We need to understand how to assess the risks from hybrid events, and I'm not convinced that we do."
The risks will only increase as the world warms. The New York City Panel on Climate Change's 2010 assessment suggests that local sea level could rise by 0.3–1.4 meters by 2080. Last year, Emanuel and his colleagues found that floods that occur once every 100 years in the current climate could happen every 3–20 years by the end of this century if sea level rises by 1 meter. What is classified as a '500-year' event today could come every 25–240 years (N. Lin et al. Nature Clim. Change 2, 462–467; 2012).
For city planners, the challenge is to rebuild and protect the city in the face of scientific uncertainty. A few scientists have said for more than a decade that the city should armor New York's harbor with a storm-surge barrier similar to the Thames barrier in London. In Sandy's wake, that idea has gained renewed interest, and a New York state panel last month called for a formal assessment of it.
Malcolm Bowman, who heads the storm-surge modeling laboratory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has spearheaded the drive for barriers. He imagines a structure roughly 8 kilometers wide and 6 meters high at the entrance to the harbor, and a second barrier where the East River drains into the Long Island Sound. The state panel's cost estimates for such a system range from $7 billion to $29 billion, depending on the design. The harbor barrier could also serve as a bridge for trains and vehicles to the city's airports, suggests Bowman. "My viewpoint is not that we should start pouring concrete next week, but I do think we need to do the studies," he says. But whether Sandy will push the city to build major defenses, Bowman says, "I don't know."
Disasters have spurred costly action in the past. The 1888 blizzard helped to drive New York to put its elevated commuter trains underground. And in 2012, the US Army Corps of Engineers completed a $1.1-billion surge barrier in New Orleans, Louisiana, as part of a $14.6-billion effort to protect the city after it was battered by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. But the New York metropolitan area is bigger and more complex than New Orleans, and protecting it will require a multi-pronged approach. Several hundred thousand city residents live along more than 800 kilometers of coastline, and a barrier would not protect much of coastal Long Island, where Sandy wrought considerable damage. Moreover, the barrier would work only against occasional storm surges. It would not hold back the slowly rising sea or protect against flooding caused by rain.


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When you try to enumerate instances of the Win32_SCSIController class in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the enumeration does not return any data.
This problem may occur after you install the MS04-011: security update for Microsoft Windows.
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(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/835732/ )MS04-011: Security Update for Microsoft Windows
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2.5 Million New British in India Records Released
Findmypast has just published over 2.5 million records detailing the lives of the British in India from 1698 to 1947. The collection, released in partnership with the British Library, offers an unrivalled opportunity to explore family history on the subcontinent.
The newly-released records cast light on the careers and family lives of expats, the significance of the East India Company, the offices of power, infant mortality, Anglo Indian marriages, family relationships, and the lives of women in India. The details of expats' lives and deaths are documented in a variety of records ranging from returns of baptisms, marriages and burials, civil and military pensions and wills.
Just today, findmypast have released a story using records from this collection covered widely by the national press (including The Times, The Daily Mail and The Sun) revealing that David Cameron and Al Murray are in fact 6th cousins, related through the novelist William Thackeray.
The British in India collection includes:
- British India Office birth and baptism records 1698-1947
- British India Office deaths and burials 1749-1947
- Indian Office wills and probate records 1749-1957
- India Office East India Company and Civil Service pensions 1749-1947
- East India Company cadet papers
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Tag: Earth Day
Green Spaces Brighten Up Communities
Do you think green spaces are disappearing in your neighborhood? Within the past couple of weeks, students across the nation discussed the importance of creating and preserving green spaces in our #DoNowGreen post. We asked students, Are there areas in your neighborhood that could or should be transformed into green spaces? Or, are there existing green spaces that should be preserved? Take a picture of one of these spaces or simply take a picture of plant life growing in an unexpected area.
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Where Are All the Green Spaces?
Today is Earth Day and the global theme of this year's activities is "Green Cities". Right now more than half of the world's population lives in cities and by 2050 that number is expected to rise to at least 67%. As more people move into urban areas, buildings, highways and other structures are built to accommodate the growth. Green spaces and other natural environments that once flourished are pushed out to make room for man-made structures. Not only is space for plants and wildlife compromised but often they have to fight to exist at all. Are there areas in your neighborhood that could or should be transformed green spaces?
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Should Hydrogen Fuel Be the Future Energy Source for Transportation?
Since the first Earth Day event in 1970, there's been major progress in environmental stewardship–the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Act, an increased number of recycling programs, and even curbside composting in some places, like San Francisco. Should government funds support the development of hydrogen fuel stations over other green transportation initiatives?
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Do Now #26: Earth Day…Every Day?
To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #KQEDDoNow For more info on how to use Twitter, click here. Do Now Do you make it a regular practice to care for the environment? If so, what do […]


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Helping Children Deal with Tragic Events in the News
Increasingly, parents are faced with the important, but difficult task of explaining acts of violence and war to their children.
To help you with this challenge, we have gathered a few useful links to assist with the conversation.
General Web Sites
- Children and Fear of War and Terrorism from The National Association of School Psychologists
- Helping Children With Scary News from PBS Parents and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
- How to Talk to Your Child About the News from The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media
- Talking to Children About Terrorism and War from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Talking to Kids About Terrorism or Acts of War from the New York University Child Study Center


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Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Grzegorz Wegrzyn is Head of Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk and a Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology at the University of Gdansk.
What prompted you to submit an article?
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- Very rapid process of reviewing and publishing
- Free access to published papers
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- No restrictions on length of articles and number of figures and tables
What was your assessment of the electronic submission and peer review process?
I am very enthusiastic about electronic submission and review process. This is quick, cheap and very effective.
What do you think you gained from publishing in an open access journal?
The most important thing is that my article is freely available for anybody who is interested in it. This is a very important benefit.


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Affirmations help to improve self-worth and self-confidence by replacing negative self-thoughts with positive self-thoughts.
Affirmations are conscious thoughts that you repeat to yourself. Often thinking can feel automatic, and sometimes your thoughts may not be as positive as they could be.
Worry makes you feel stressed and/or bad about yourself. When your thoughts become negative it is hard to feel good about yourself, or others.
It can be very useful to become more conscious of what you are thinking about yourself. By being conscious, and catching the thoughts you have as you think them, you can learn to recognise what is healthy for you and what is not.
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Local Zero - Rich D started buying disco 7s with his pocket money in the late 70s and has been DJing for over 20 years. He's often joined by long term DJ buddy Dave Scholes who was brought up on Rich''s early mix tapes and the work of legends like Sasha, Digweed and Justin Robertson and has been spinning at Clubs and Parties for over 12 years and the occasional visit from his old University DJ partner Leon, now know as InnerWestSoul and lives in sunny Sydney.
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Midrace Fuel
How to Create the Perfect Fueling Plan
Once you know the basic principles of midrun nutrition, experiment to find what works for you.
Aggressive Fueling Plan Means Faster Marathon Times
In study, three gels per hour led to 4.7 percent performance boost.
How to Fuel for Your First Marathon
Making the leap from 13.1 to 26.2 can raise all kinds of new fueling issues. Here's how to space out your carbohydrate needs for a strong race.
What to Pack for Fueling on Race Day
Worried you'll forget something? Here's a fuel packing list to keep you nourished for your big event.
Alternatives to Energy Gels
Need a little variety in your mid-race fuel? Compare and try these energy powerhouses.
How to Fuel for a Long Run With Type 1 Diabetes
Is there a gel that's best for maintaining my blood sugar levels?
Soreness After Long Runs: Is It My Vegetarian Diet?
I'm worried I'm not getting the right nutrition to fuel my training.
Energy Gels 101
Here are your options, with an explanation of how they're different.
How to Eat During Long Runs
If you're new to midrun fueling, try a bunch of brands and types of fuel to find what works for you.
Half Marathon Offers Half-Smoke Sausage At Halfway
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Before we get into the real (and edgier) thing let Hayami gives you something happy to watch: A Candy Bar That Is Able to Stand On Itself!!!!
Sorry for the somewhat late post. Wasn't feeling very too well this week with bouts of diarrhea, coughs, cramps, more than 10 hours of sleep daily and the flu taking my immune system to the test. Okay, getting on with the long review:
Last episode Toshio exposed the truth of Gazuru's true nature as well as telling the villagers that are too dumb to live to fight back of the existence of the Shiki. While Natsuno is nowhere to be seen after his confrontation with Tatsumi. Prepare to light up torches, sharpening your wooden stakes and religious talismans and amulets. Because the humans are about to make their big, BIG move (I'm not exaggerating here) against the undead in this week's episode of Shiki. Yeah, let's get this over with BABY! Kill every Shiki that ever stepped foot in this village!
(Totally failed epically at comedy by the looks of the previous reviews I've written. No wonder no one ever comments and reads my fanfictions. One day I'll think and write of something so stupid and bizarre that even the most brightest of minds have no idea of comprehending it. Probably writing something worse than My Immortal, perhaps.)
Caution: May cause nausea, headaches and paranoia. Avoid children under the age of 14 to watch this episode. Contains lots of blood spillage, the concept of death and unsparkly vampires.)
We are the Women Working for Toshio Shiki-Extermination Squad. Please do not let any Shiki alive after all they have done to our kids, husbands and friends.
The Abridged Version:
Catching up from the losses they faced from their family members and friends, the villagers had gathered to take drastic measures against the Shiki. This leaves the Shiki in a loss where their existence has been exposed and they will be having a lot of difficulty trying to find their upcoming 'meals' easily, no more they are living in the days before Toshio steps into the picture. While they catch up on their losses Megumi takes a lot of levels of badass with only her handy dog and bat by her side as she kills her father and not Megumi with a couple of great toys by her side. Atsushi then kills off Toshio's
smother mother while he envies the Ozaki's heavenly house and items.
Please let it be just a dream…just a dream…
The Long (And more detailed) Version:
Treating Gazuru like a heretic back in the old days, poor woman had stones (and a very big rock) being hit at her as Toshio and the other villagers end her once and for all, not before showing one last flashback to the time where Chizuru's still human and all. Covered with blood all over her face, Toshio still needs to do one last time to make sure she dies for good (or for the worse, depends who you're following for the last 18 episodes. To make it worse it's difficult who to side with now after what happened in episode 18) with the help of Megumi's father: piercing a wooden stake at her heart.
There's simply no way the police outside Sotoba will believe us. I believe that you won't be joining us in my great quest of Shiki extermination.
Gazuru pulls off her last trick before being pinned down by Ookawa and let's say the rest of it is history. After killing her Toshio explains further in more detail about the Shiki, persuading people not to let any Shiki go and join him in the conquest of Shiki extermination. Despite some people's decision not to lay a finger at the Shiki Toshio gives them a final message: Kill, Or Be Killed. Toshio isn't fond of a villager's idea in calling the police and let them handle everything, but with probably most (if not, all) of the police situated in the village dead (or turned into a Shiki) and how it will sound ridiculous telling the police from other places about blood-sucking monsters who are responsible in the deaths of their loved ones.
No point fighting back, Toshio Ozaki. We'll soon win your losing battle while you guys rot to the ground and die.
Meanwhile in the mansion and Seishin is kept prisoner willingly Tatsumi told Sunako about Chizuru's death (Maybe she could still be another Lady Gaga-wannabe after this series ends) and she's not particularly happy about it, not before ordering Tatsumi to send her army of the undead to battle against the human rebellion after all the trouble she had done to gather people to join her. Listening to Sunako's orders Tatsumi blocks all ways for the villagers to call forth the people outside Sotoba, leaving Toshio and his newfound allies to force themselves all the more to fight back and get their village back. Seishin tries to convince Sunako to leave the village, but she persist in fighting in their newly formed war, after all the efforts she has put in to get her and her comrades to live in a paradise where they no longer have to hide and be secretive no more from humans (But with no humans, how are they going to find more humans to supply them with blood? Surely they can't just go kidnapping people from the city to solve the problem. I'll leave you guys to think about it.)
Erm…no thanks, Dr. Ozaki. I feel like hurling right now, and do you have a paper bag to spare? I think I'm gonna vomit my dinner that I ate very heavily a moment ago.
Explaining the more medical (and to some of the villagers: grosser) stuff about the Shiki's body and blood, you might have to agree that (probably you, if you're against Toshio) the villagers have to be really shocked when they found out that Toshio used his wife Kyouko as a lab rat to discover extensively of the weaknesses of the Shiki. And yes, it's best not to show that disgusting video of yours and your wife's to the villagers. I'm afraid that they'll side against you than do more good to yourself if you want the village to be saved, Toshio. With some humans like Tooru's father who is against violence to the Shiki, Megumi's father told him and the rest of the villagers too that the Shiki are no longer humans (but with all the human side shown from Ritsuko and Kaori's father…my head hurts…). Furthermore, he can't bear to kill his undead son with a wooden stake.
Got pwned…AGAIN. Well, it was better than almost getting hit by a jeep.
While some villagers are too scared and are unable to register the bleak truth that is happening to them, the village and their loved ones who have turned into a Shiki, Toshio, along with his comrades to exterminate all Shiki (but please don't hurt innocent Ritsuko-san, and you'll know the reason in perhaps in a few weeks' time or not depending on how the story will end in this series. For the ones who are still brave enough to go on, like I always say read the manga.). Making their plans to search around the entire village in groups and blocking all roads available for the Shiki to move around to prevent any further deaths, not before having to experience a power outrage. War has already begun.
Tatsumi: It's payback time after what you did with Ga… I mean Chizuru…YOU HUMANS HAVE NOWHERE TO RUN AND HIDE!
Acting as the commander of the Shiki army, Yoshie has similar plans from Toshio in going in groups to fight their enemies. Tae's daughter, who has been keeping her undead mother in her house all this time promises her that she will take blood from no one but hers. (Oh finally, some good daughter-mother relationship after all the death and jazz.) And you know that blue-haired lady I place a picture in episode 13? Well she's back, but less mentally stabled than before after seeing her much loathed mother-in-law, father-in-law, husband and her beloved daughter all dead (while hugging her son rotting like rotten burgers in the bathroom, such bad luck for Motoko.)
Get out of my sight, you piece of shit. I hope that you die soon, since you're such a good-for-nothing lazy bump who do not dare to kill a human with your own hands, unlike my one true love, beautiful and clever Yuuki-chan. After all, you're ugly and you're stupid.
And yeah, like what's happening in the picture above Megumi is pissed with Masao's cowardice ideas in escaping the village, calling him a sissy and wimp in whatever he says. (at least he's not as dehumanizing as you Megumi.) Having no idea once they are out of the village, Megumi berates Masao further…and kicks him in the face. (Megumi: Because it's the survival of the fittest. I can just leave you here and rot while I go find my knight in shining armor to get me out of this stinkin' village and leave my nosy parents behind.)
As Megumi thinks of her prince Natsuno, Ritsuko, still stuck in her cage is struggling to keep herself from drinking Yasuyo's (the other nurse who dresses sexily at night) blood under the care of Tooru and to preserve her humanity. While Tatsumi convince Senshirou to take revenge on Toshio, a scared and skinny Kaori, who only has Love (the dog who is unable to save Kaori's mother), a wooden stake, a torchlight and a sturdy bat by her side is ready to bash some Shiki ass while chanting about Megumi's going to kill her this instant. Well, Megumi, I'm no longer afraid of you, Shiki and death. I'm fearless and I'm ready to prove the world that I'm like what I just said.
Bring. It. On. Megumi, I'm gonna kill you tonight and I'm going to make sure you beg down on my knees the next time I see you.
As she pretends to be Solid Snake for a few seconds (more apparently in the manga where she runs funnily to her target), seeing her undead father is really the last thing poor Kaori would want to see. And Atsushi kills Toshio's mother. How clever. As Tatsumi does nothing to stop Atsushi to commit an atrocity, he asks Seishin a favor help protect Sunako in her sleep at all costs with the sun about to rise. Seishin only gives Tatsumi that he'll do all her can with his frail body could only take his limits to the test, allowing Tatsumi to take his blood and setting up an IV right after that to sustain him further.
Seishin: So, am I the one you're going to kill next?
Bringing back the plot of the novel 'Shiki' Seishin has yet to complete, Sunako asks him the reason he tried to kill himself back when Seishin was a university student. Instead of answering the question Seishin would have the answers, Sunako answers the question regarding the characters in Seishin's novel and that somehow, the plot of the novel has got something to do at the time Seishin tried killing himself. As Toshio's troops bashed into the Ebuchi Clinic and discover corpses lying around, Sunako and Seishin discusses about the book, with Sunako hopes to see Seishin finish it one day.
Moving in a slightly different direction from the manga the people working under Toshio bashed into every hideout the Shiki are hiding, including the Kanemasa mansion where they found no one but Toshio, finding some food in the room Seishin was kept captive in before the shift knew that he's somewhere in the mansion. As Ookawa and the others smash every window they find, Seishin wonders if someone has the idea of ending his life, once and for all.
Commander Alice orders you to eliminate the humans that go against our wills! Go forth…and spread the hate and death of us of the Shiki race.
So, there's no appearance of Natsuno in this week's episode.
But is it just me or Sunako sounds really high-pitched than before in the first half? And from the second half of this week's episode the humans roaming around to warn the other villagers about the Shiki look…sinister
like a coyote than what they appeared to be.
I went to visit the forums sometimes with people talking about this series. The author behind this series, Fuyumi Ono wrote this to explore the human nature about killing and stuff. She did intentionally asks the manga-ka in charge to make the story in the manga different than what was written originally in the novels. (Telling the people who are unhappy with the changes made in the manga since you guys can't go and find out what really happened and if the original author doesn't care about it or not.)
In any case, I wouldn't be too surprised if any group decides to do an abridged version of it anytime soon. Where all the characters flanderizing at their personalities they are known of by non-followers, cutting up the unnecessary villagers introduced in the series and say some epic and memetic badass stuff along the way (as well as breaking the fourth wall often to comment on the villagers' unsuspecting behavior with the Shiki.
Let me give you a simple equation to understand what the hell I'm talking about:
Shiki + Black Comedy = Instant Epic Win.
Don't give up…Ritsu-chan.


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New remix album from Danish noise rock band Salli Lunn
A Frame of Reference is the latest release from the Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn. The album comprises remixes of songs from their awesome debut album, Heresy and Rite, plus all-new songs.
Remix artists include Scott Solter, Markus Mehr, TV-Baby, Manual and City of Satellites. Check out one of the album cuts below: the Manual (Jonas Munk) remix of the track The Invention of Steel.


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The script is painfully familiar: a vain and increasingly isolated leader, an ineffectual and autocratic regime, a people plagued by poverty and deprived of democracy, a Communist movement mounting a potent political and military challenge. This time the scene is the Philippines. where the ghosts of Chiang Kai-shek, Fulgencio Batista, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Anastasio Somoza haunt the Malacanang Palace of Ferdinand Marcos.
The 10,000 to 20,000 peasant guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army are not yet in a position to take over Manila. But the guerrillas do not lack for recruits, and their leaders have skillfully shaped a strategy of rural revolution and urban encirclement. If current political and economic trends continue, by the end of the decade these Filipino Maoists are likely to pose a serious and perhaps irresistible challenge to the government of the Philippines.
A victory by the Communist guerillas would eliminate whatever hope there is in the Philippines for the restoration of democracy. In power the Communist forces would surely carry out a far more systematic campaign of repression than the episodic variety practiced by Ferdinand Marcos. For the United States, a guerrilla triumph would destroy a historically close relationship with the Philippines, and would close off access to Clark Field and Subic Bay,.These two facilities form the key element of our forward defense strategy in the Pacific, They play an essential role in our ability to preserve the peace and maintain a balance of power in Asia The loss of Clark and Subic would generate—in Washingtom, Moscow, and all Asian capitals—a rapid rethinking of the Pacific security equation, with results potentially far more serious than those following the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Because of the unique and long-standing ties between our two peoples, the United States is inextricably involved and inevitably influential in the Philippines. The Filipino people will determine their own future, but the United States, no matter what it does, will exert a strong influence. The Reagan administration now seems to have awakened to the seriousness of the crisis in the Philippines, but it will probably be up to Congress to shape an American policy that can avoid disaster.
President Marcos's power base has now shrunk to the point where his support is largely restricted to his own family, a handful of close associates, and a few favored military and political appointees. The virtually complete collapse of confidence in his regime can be traced to several factors. A principal cause has been the system of "crony capitalism" he has established to enrich his political allies. Perfecting the art of politically connected plunder to a degree undreamed of by President Mobutu of Zaire and other expert practitioners of the trade, Ferdinand Marcos and his associates have diverted millions of dollars from critical development needs for their private purposes. (See "The Marcos Mafia" by Robert A. Manning, June 25, 1984.) Over half the Filipinos live in poverty, but intimates of the first family have been able to live in imperial splendor.
Kaime Cardinal Sin, the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippnes, summed up the sentiments of many Filipinos when he recalled the statement of Manuel Quezon, the Philippines' first president, who once said, "I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a govemment run like heaven by Amencans," The cardinal then added. 'Today it would seem his wish has been fulfilled " Responding to this and other frequent criticisms by the cardinal. Marcos publicly complained that the cardinal was beginning to sound like the Ayatollah Khomeini. To which Cardinal Sin retorted, "If I am the ayatollah, then Marcos must be the shah."
Economic policy-making in the House of Marcos resembles the mercantilist dynasties of late medieval Europe. Individuals who demonstrate their fealty to the first family are granted resources or foreign-loan guarantees for investment projects they propose with little regard to the feasibility of the ventures or the managerial ability of their sponsors. When projects run into financial trouble, the government usually makes new loans or buys out the enterprises outright, saddling itself with bad debts or unprofitable companies.
The most egregious manifestation of crony capitalism is found in the economic monopolies. By presidential decree Marcos imposed a 75-percent tariff on imported cigarette filters, benefiting a palace intimate who owned most of the local cigarette manufacturing factories. For coconuts and sugar, presidential favorites enjoy the sole right of distribution, and are free to determine the spread between the price at which crops are purchased from growers and the rate at which they are sold on the market. The livelihood of 15 million to 20 million people—one-third of the populace—depends on coconut production. Enormous sums of money that otherwise would have been available to coconut farmers have instead been siphoned off by associates of the president.
The rise of crony capitalism has been one of the fundamental factors in the decline of the Philippines' economy. In the last year its free-market neighbors have enjoyed a dynamic economic growth; the Philippines have experienced a decline of five-and-a-half percent in GNP. At the same time, income inequality has become even more pronounced. Nevertheless, President Marcos has continued to spend huge sums to replicate the external trappings of far more developed countries: lavish government offices, large cultural showplaces, and highly specialized medical centers.
History demonstrates, however, that the poor do not rebel solely because of economic misery and willful mismanagement. Political repression is usually required for spontaneous social combustion. Here, too, the Marcos regime has created the conditions for its own demise.
Until the late 1960s the Philippines had a working democratic system, although one plagued by corruption and violence. Then in the early 1970s instability spread as radical university students demonstrated for a variety of causes, and separatist Moslems on the southern island of Mindanao fought for an independent state. Many Filipinos came to believe that the existing system was too corrupt and ineffective to handle the mounting problems. In September 1972, seven years after Marcos assumed the presidency, he declared martial law.
Had Marcos been content to purge the system of its anarchic tendencies and restore democracy, he would be regarded today as a national hero. He did take positive steps such as the confiscation of privately owned arms and the dissolution of local politicians' private militias. But he and his retainers chose also to use their extraordinary powers to perpetuate the rule of the Marcos dynasty. Thousands of government critics—including the charismatic Benigno Aquino—were arrested. Civilian courts were supplanted by military tribunals oblivious of due process of law. Freedom of assembly, speech, and the press ceased to exist.
Since 1972 political repression has spread through the countryside. To cope with the Moslem separatists and the nascent Communist New People's Army, the armed forces of the Philippines increased from 50,000 to 150,000 between 1972 and 1977. Quality declined as quantity grew. The professionalism of the Philippine officer corps gave way to factionalism and corruption. Within the ranks, training, discipline, and morale have suffered. Standards have also sunk in the constabulary, the government's first line of defense in rural areas.
Attempting to end the rural insurgency, the armed forces and the constabulary have usually shot first and asked questions later. Suspected Communists are given no mercy, and the word "salvaging" (a Filipino phrase meaning summary execution) has become part of the village vocabulary. The government borrowed the idea of strategic hamlets (employed unsuccessfully by the United States in Vietnam) in order to cut off the guerrillas from the civilian populace. The effect has been to disrupt village life and impose harsh restrictions on farm families already suffering from misguided economic policies. The guerrillas could not have asked for a better stimulus to recruitment than the pervasive pattern of human rights abuses by government forces.
The Communist Party of the Philippines was founded in December 1968, a Maoist splinter of the long-established Moscow-oriented party. Adopting Mao's strategy of a rural-based people's war, the Communist Party created the New People's Army a few months later. Over the last decade, the Communists have transformed their movement from a tiny insurgency, with a force of a few hundred troops limited to the island of Luxon, into a nation-wide insurrection.
Today the Communist Party has a membership of 30,000 and the guerrilla army has from 10,000 to 15,000 men under arms. The guerrillas are active in over two-thirds of the country's provinces, and have established a presence in one-third of the barangays, the lowest administrative unit in the Philippines. In the last year alone the number of military incidents initiated by the guerrilla army almost doubled. In the cities, the Communist Party's National Democratic Front can mobilize non-Communist student, human rights, and church-related organizations—and up to a million people—for demonstrations and other antigovernment activities.
This degree of Communist success is remarkable tor two reasons. First, it goes against the democratic grain of Filipino culture and political history. Second, there is no evidence of financial or weapons support from foreign governments, although the Soviet Union and China would undoubtedly compete to establish control over the party if it seemed on the verge of victory.
The guerrilla army's appeal in rural areas is not based on ideology, but on the sense of grievance that the government's brutality, corruption, and inefficiency have created. In addition, the guerrillas often provide the basic services to the poor that Manila seems incapable of delivering. Like the security forces, the guerrilla army engages in violence. But unlike the Philippine military, which is random in its brutality, it directs its violence against officials and soldiers known to be corrupt and ordinary citizens who actively oppose its aims and activities. Guerrilla units recently have targeted the properties of Marcos's cronies for destruction, with telling political effect.
In the Philippines, as in medieval monarchies, the health of the ruler becomes the engine of change. It was Marcos's deteriorating medical condition that both moved Aquino to return to his homeland and presumably provoked elements of the Philippine government to engineer his assassination on the tarmac of the Manila airport. That event galvanized the democratic opposition, energized the previously apathetic masses, and thrust the government into a political and economic crisis from which it has yet to emerge. Marcos came under intense pressure to allow an open and objective investigation of the murder, to ensure that the May 1984 elections to the National Assembly would be free and fair, to institute the austerity measures necessary to get an agreement from the International Monetary Fund as well as new external loans, to make clearer arrangements for presidential succession should he die, and even to resign from office.
The concessions were made grudgingly and constituted the minimum necessary to satisfy the demands made. Nevertheless, the measures adopted were not trivial. The constitution was amended to clarify succession procedures. An investigating board charged Fabian Ver, a Marcos loyalist and armed forces chief of staff, with complicity in the assassination and subsequent cover-up. And the Philippines reached an agreement with the IMF and commercial banks that should stop the downward economic spiral.
Perhaps most important, elections conducted last May were reasonably fair in two-thirds to three-quarters of the election districts, primarily because 150,000 citizens volunteered to prevent government abuse. Yet irregularities in the remaining districts had a profound effect on the results. Candidates of the democratic opposition captured one-third of the assembly seats; a citizen poll-watchers group concluded that had the tally been totally honest, they would have won a majority. The May 1984 elections demonstrated that the Filipino people want democracy, not that democracy has been restored.
For the democratic opposition, the Aquino assassination meant the loss of a leader and the creation of an imperishable political symbol. Roughly four million Filipinos participated in some way in Aquino's funeral, and the democratic opposition has worked to channel that profound emotional outpouring into effective political action. In this effort, Marcos's democratic opponents have taken advantage of a significant relaxation of the restrictions on expression and assembly.
For the United States the assassination provoked a reassessment of policy. Before the tragedy the Reagan administration believed that "constructive engagement," Philippine-style, was ensuring cordial relations and the speedy conclusion of a new base-and-aid agreement. In 1981 Vice President Bush went so far as to toast Marcos with the ludicrous avowal, "We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes." Roused from its complacency by Aquino's murder and the unmistakable evidence that the House of Marcos was beginning to crumble, the administration had a change of heart. It feared that a continued embrace of the Marcos government would be more likely to jeopardize than guarantee our long-term access to the facilities at Clark and Subic.
There are many countries where our strategic interests clash with our human rights concerns, and where overriding national security objectives make it difficult to effectively promote our democratic beliefs. In the Philippines, however, the best and perhaps the only means of protecting our strategic interests is by advancing the process of democratization.
The United States must first recognize what it ought not to do Recalling the lessons of Iran, Nicaragua, and other American foreign policy debacles, the U.S. should repudiate any notion of propping up Ferdinand Marcos. Not only would such a policy be doomed to failure, but it would also alienate the Filipino people, thereby undermining our ability to continue operations at Clark and Subic. (The current base agreement between the United States and the Philippines expires in 1991.) Our capacity to remain at those facilities rests ultimately upon the willingness of the Filipino people to have us there.
At the other extreme, the United States should reject any notion of removing President Marcos from power, either by organizing a coup against him or by eliminating the aid program. U.S. participation in the coup against President Diem in Vietnam hardly constitutes a promising precedent on which to act in the Philippines. Overthrowing a government we do not like is no more justified in Manila than in Managua. The withholding of funds is unlikely to bring down the Marcos regime, given that the total American military and economic assistance program accounts for only three percent of the Philippines' budget. Cutting off American aid would also harm millions of desperately poor Filipinos who benefit from our assistance. In addition, terminating our assistance could potentially jeopardize our access to the bases, inasmuch as President Marcos might be tempted to take a nationalist tack and close them down, on the grounds that we had violated the base agreement.
Nor would it be useful to legislatively condition our aid on the achievement of essential reforms. Based on our experience with conditionality in El Salvador, the Reagan administration would undoubtedly certify that the prescribed conditions had been met, no matter how little actual progress had occurred. President Marcos could then claim the official American seal of approval, while the democratic opposition would find new evidence for its suspicion that the United States cares more for Marcos than for its country.
In the second presidential debate last October with Walter Mondale, President Reagan claimed that Communism was the only alternative to Ferdinand Marcos. The president's simplistic statement ignores the fact that the real alternative to Communism is not a continuation of the present regime, but a restoration of democracy. Indeed, posing the choice as the president did can only increase the prospects for an eventual Communist victory.
The United States can improve the prospects for democracy by strongly encouraging fundamental economic, political, and military reforms. This will help to destroy the roots of the guerrilla army's appeal and demonstrate to the Filipino people that U.S. policy is designed to help them rather than to embrace their embattled government. We should press for the dismantling of the monopolies that lie at the heart of crony capitalism. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are already insisting upon structural economic reform as a condition for new assistance, and the United States should continue to vigorously support that approach.
Specific political reforms should include the repeal of President Marcos's decree-making powers; the reconstitution of an independent elections commission and the resumption of free and fair elections; the revival of a genuinely free press, in which the opposition is assured access to the electronic media; guarantees of free expression and free association, and the restoration of an independent judiciary.
Finally, the United States should seek an end to military abuses that have driven thousands of Filipinos into the arms of the guerrillas. The Philippine government must be pressured to rigorously improve training and instill discipline and decency in its armed forces. Corrupt officers must be dismissed and a special inspectorate should be created to investigate military corruption and human rights abuses.
To date, the Marcos regime has been unwilling to make politically painful reforms. In the twilight of his career, Marcos seems to be unaware of his country s desperate straits. For one thing, he has said that he will reinstate Chief of Staff Fabian Ver if he is acquitted in the Aquino assassination trial. Such an action would be a signal that President Marcos intends to conduct business as usual, and would probably rule out the chances of any genuine military reform.
The most effective way to persuade President Marcos to initiate reforms and convince the Filipino people that the United States is committed to their economic well-being and political freedom is through the restructuring of the American aid program. Last year Congress, convinced that the problems of the Philippines are primarily social and economic, transferred S43 million of the administration's aid request from military to economic assistance. The shift sent a signal to Marcos that significant reforms would be necessary before additional military assistance would be extended Although Marcos has not yet heeded the message, most Filipinos seemed to regard it as a salutary effort to bring pressure on the Manila government.
President Reagan appears intent on sending a very different signal. One year later, despite the lack of significant reforms, the administration is proposing an extraordinary 150 percent increase in military assistance. Congress should sharply cut this request and sharply increase economic assistance. What's more, military aid should be limited to nonlethal purposes, and economic aid should be largely directed through the Catholic church and private voluntary organizations rather than through the Marcos regime.
There is no guarantee that an American policy structured in this fashion will succeed. But it represents perhaps the only way of influencing events in the Philippines in a manner compatible with both our interests and our ideals.
Stephen J. Solarz was a United States Congressman, representing New York's 13th District from 1975-1993. He was also a visiting professor of international relations at George Washington University and the co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus.