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As noted in Part 1 of this two-part series on strategies for leaner legal departments, when it comes to thriving under limited budgets and high expectations, it's imperative for in-house legal departments to maximize their internal efficiency and resourcefulness. But streamlining inside operations is just one area that law departments must focus on to flourish while doing more with less. In this second part of our series, experts highlight the external aspect of the equation.
On the following pages, consultants and in-house legal leaders discuss how law departments can best manage outside counsel relationships in the wake of the recession, leverage technology and relationships to trim external costs, and work with alternative service providers. Experts also discuss how law firms must adjust their traditional offerings to strengthen and grow their corporate client relationships.
Newfound Power
It's no secret that working with law firms is expensive. According to the Fifth Annual Law Department Operations Survey, which InsideCounsel and Blickstein Group recently published in cooperation with Huron Legal, 70 percent of law department operations managers say their companies spend more than $10 million annually on outside counsel costs in the U.S.
Whereas in the past legal departments may have had the financial means to pay ever-increasing, steep outside counsel bills, albeit begrudgingly, many departments simply can't afford to do so any longer. Luckily, legal technology developers have been launching targeted solutions—including integrated suites of matter management, e-billing, benchmarking and research tools—that empower law departments in new ways.
These tools have a twofold effect. First, they expand in-house departments' knowledge, thereby leveling the playing field with law firms when it comes to legal expertise.
"Law departments are using technology themselves to access knowledge that they once otherwise would've had to pay a lawyer at a law firm to provide to them," says Michael Trotter, a Taylor English partner who has written extensively on inside-outside counsel relationships.
Second, many technology tools allow legal departments to obtain meaningful metrics that they can then leverage to get better prices from their law firms.
"You need your technology to make you more efficient and generate data so you can make better decisions," says Eric Laughlin, general manager of the corporate counsel segment at Thomson Reuters. "It's really hard for a legal department to get to a value discussion with a law firm unless they have really good metrics in front of them."
Kris Satkunas, director of analytic consulting at LexisNexis, says technology tools enable inside counsel to have much more strength in negotiating with their outside counsel. "More and more legal departments are recognizing that they have a wealth of data at their fingertips," she says. "In the past, they might not have had the resources or a great interest in trying to mine that data and make some decisions by using it. Now, we're seeing much more maturity in terms of wanting to use the right information, surfacing it at the right time and making it available to the decision makers within the organization for purposes of pricing decisions, vendor consolidation and the sorts of things that help lead to greater efficiency and managing outside counsel expense."
Legal department leaders at Waste Management Inc. and eBay Inc. say technology tools are making an impact on their outside counsel spend.
Mike Haysley, director of legal operations at Waste Management, says some of the tools his department uses help it more closely examine firm staffing. "We have reports that give information on how many lawyers [a firm] is using and what level of lawyers are working on a matter," ensuring that Waste Management is getting the best bang for its buck, he says. "It lets you see if you're paying to train a first-year associate."
The legal department at eBay has a legal operations manager and an e-billing coordinator who analyze all outside counsel work that goes through the e-billing system. This helps the department identify spending trends and high-cost areas that need to be pared down, says Brian Levey, eBay's deputy general counsel. Levey says eBay also uses its data to formulate annual budgets that it communicates to its law firms early on in the year so there's a clear expectation of rates going forward.
Michael Trotter, a Taylor English partner who has written extensively on inside-outside counsel relationships, says the latest legal technology tools help law departments keep their law firms in check.
Choosing Wisely
Legal departments can leverage technology to holistically re-evaluate their relationships with their outside counsel and make decisions about whether to continue retaining them.
"In-house counsel should be tracking objective and subjective performance metrics for their law firms," says Laughlin. "They should be rating a law firm on how it performs for them and how it performs versus other law firms."
Some important criteria to consider, according to Laughlin, include understanding of client goals, legal expertise, efficiency, responsiveness, predictive accuracy and effectiveness. "We see progressive GCs tracking along those criteria in a systematic way and even sharing their tracking with the law firms that they're working with because they know that it will impact the way the law firms perform," he says.
Kim Townsan, senior manager of legal administration at United Technologies Corp., says that in addition to regularly analyzing law firm performance metrics, her legal department conducts outside counsel reviews every other year. "We send our internal lawyers surveys about the firms we work with the most," she says. "The questions are designed to provide firms with actionable feedback. Each firm receives a PDF of their results. The format provides overall ratings and comments."
Conducting performance reviews and analyzing metrics might lead some legal departments to reconsider the firms with which they work. Some departments are reducing the number of firms in their stables, assembling preferred provider networks and working with smaller firms outside of expensive areas such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to save money. Experts say these actions can lead to more efficient, personalized and cost-effective service.
"If you concentrate all of your work with half a dozen firms instead of 60 firms, then outside counsel are going to know you that much better because they're going to be working with you that much more frequently," says Craig Mills, a shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. Mills frequently writes about the changing relationship between legal departments and law firms. "There's trust. They know your business. There's a deeper commitment. The relationship means more to both sides," he adds.
Such relationships have cost-reducing benefits, too. "The law firms you have deep relationships with will be a lot more willing to suggest some of the more creative risk-sharing arrangements," such as flat fees, Mills says. "Whenever you're able to put more work with a single firm, you're going to leverage the volume for greater discounts."
Chuck Jarrett, Progressive Corp.'s general counsel, says his legal department has saved between 10 percent and 15 percent on outside counsel costs by reducing its stable of firms and working with firms that are part of a network vetted by other in-house counsel. Many of these firms are open to alternative fee arrangements.
"We're trying to build long-term relationships with a much smaller number of key law firms that really look at it as long-term opportunity and are willing to share risk and work as true partners," he says.
Nonetheless, experts say legal departments are still giving their most high-profile, high-risk cases to the most expensive names in Big Law, and that trend likely will continue. "That's partly because of the impression that if they're the most expensive, they must be the most competent, and to some degree, it is a self-preservation step by in-house counsel," Mills says.
Alternative Options
Legal departments can also trim external costs—and possibly get higher-quality results—by shifting certain work from law firms to alternative service providers, such as legal process outsourcers (LPOs). These providers can complete a variety of legal tasks, including document review and contract management.
"These service providers are building a place for themselves in the industry by reducing costs and applying technology in ways that many law firms have not done," Trotter says. He adds that the key to taking advantage of these providers is to disaggregate or unbundle legal services. "In general terms, it means taking a particular project, breaking it into parts and determining where each part can most cost-effectively be handled."
Townsan says document review is a great starting point for legal departments that want to begin unbundling their legal services. "I really believe document review has, for years, been used as a training ground for young law firm lawyers," she says. "It was OK for them to cut their teeth on that when entry-level salaries and hourly rates were lower. But now, it's incredibly expensive to have firms conduct document reviews, given the volumes of data. So corporate clients have an opportunity to unbundle in that area and enter into arrangements directly with service providers to leverage volumes to obtain better pricing."
Other alternative service providers that some legal departments are using include new-model law firms and legal staffing companies.
Gregory Richter, global practice leader at the legal staffing company Inside Edge Legal, a Major, Lindsey & Africa affiliate, says such providers aim to "help law departments understand how they can insource certain work and not necessarily supplant the use of their outside counsel, but rather build a bridge to work with outside counsel to create efficiencies that will ultimately lower costs and still maintain a high level of quality control."
Mark Harris, the founder of the new-model law firm Axiom, says such alternative service providers have an added benefit of "freeing up members of the in-house team to focus on more strategic and higher-value matters."


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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, which is available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/xxiii-4.cfm
This quarterly publication, prepared by the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations (OFO), features recent Commission decisions and federal court cases of interest.
"The Digest of EEO Law contains a wealth of comprehensive information on key topics affecting federal employees and stakeholders alike," said OFO Director Carlton M. Hadden. "This should be required reading for everyone in the federal EEO community -- including counselors, investigators, attorneys, professional staff and practitioners."
The Fall 2012 edition of the Digest contains a sampling of summaries of noteworthy decisions selected by OFO from among the volume of decisions issued by EEOC each fiscal year. The latest edition features case summaries covering issues such as Agency Processing, Class Complaints, Compensatory Damages, Findings on the Merits, Retaliation, Mixed Motive, Remedies, Sanctions, Settlement Agreements and Timeliness among others.
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The first day of the conference offered attendees a slew of healthy ideas and a taste of Charleston.
Dudash recommended such sodium-lacking flavor boosters as herbs and spices, seasonal ingredients, raisin-juice concentrate, alternative preparation techniques, dried fruits and "pops" of ingredients like sriracha, capers and olives.
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We got Barney nuetered on Tuesday.He virtually ran into the vets. When we went to pick him up and the nurse handed him over he gave me one of his big cavie hugs bless him, the smothering type. Apparently the nurses got the same treatment he is such a love. He slept well but next day we had to get him a cone because he wouldn't leave the stitches alone and he has got used to that. He has had a check up and they were very pleased with him. He will get his stitches out a week tomorrow (Sunday) Although his pinky has been out a few times he has only tried humping once, so hopefully that's calmed down.
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European shares rebounded from seven-month lows on Tuesday as supportive comments from central banks eased concerns over a tightening of global monetary conditions and stress in the debt market.
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The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 1.3 percent to 1,128.80 points by 1020 GMT, having shed 5.5 percent in the previous three sessions on an expected curbing of U.S. monetary stimulus and a spike in Chinese interbank rates.
China's central bank said on Tuesday that it would guide rates to reasonable levels and two U.S. Federal Reserve officials downplayed the notion of an imminent end to monetary stimulus.
Adding to the reassuring comments, a European Central Bank executive board member said Frankfurt needs to ensure euro zone bond yields are not adversely affected by the Federal Reserve's plan to dial back its stimulus programme.
"They're trying to calm things down without being too influential with the direction," Wouter Sturkenboom, investment strategist at Russel Investments, said.
"Central banks knew what they did and I don't think they're overly concerned with the market movement, but they don't want it to spin out of control either."
Russel Investments, which manages $180 billion, upgraded European shares to "neutral" from "underweight" this week, judging a 12 percent correction in the Euro STOXX 50 index since late May had left the index trading at attractive valuation multiples.
The Euro STOXX 50 trades at 11 times expected earnings for the next twelve months, a level not seen since before the rally peaked in May and off highs of nearly 12 seen in 2009, Thomson Reuters Datastream showed.
The index was up 1.3 percent at 2,544.78 points.
Among battered euro zone blue chips rebounding on Tuesday, traders highlighted German auto makers Daimler and Volkswagen <VOWG_ p.DE>, which shed around 15 percent since May, and French builder Vinci, initiated with a "buy" recommendation by Berenberg.
In the broader FTSEurofirst 300 index, chip maker Arm Holdings rose 3.1 percent as a 30 percent fall in the past month triggered an upgrade to "buy" from "hold" at Investec.
It topped Britain FTSE 100 index, which was up 1 percent at 6,086.53 points.
Rob Colville, head of technical trading firm The Lazy Trader, advised his clients to take profit on their short positions on the UK index after it hit a target at 6,100, a top tested in 2011 which was now serving as support.
"If you wanted a higher-probability, lower-reward profit outcome then it makes sense to cash out now as we have hit the first profit target," Colville said.
"If you accept a lower probability for a higher reward then wait for price action to reach (previous lows at roughly 5,900 and 5,500)."
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After a 12-show residency there last year, Mötley Crüe announced Tuesday that it would return to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for another dozen concerts this fall.
Call it the same ol' situation, as one of the band's big hits goes.
The long-running L.A.-based hair-metal group is promising "an all-new production," according to a statement, with "plenty of surprise elements for fans and a set list full of hits."
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The residency is set to begin Sept. 18 at the Hard Rock's 4,000-capacity Joint and wrap Oct. 6. Tickets go on sale Friday.
"We are proud to have pioneered the Las Vegas rock residency last year and can't wait to come back this year to take it over the top with a brand new show that will be unlike anything you've ever seen Mötley Crüe do before," bassist Nikki Sixx said in the release.
Prior to the band's 2012 engagement, guitarist Mick Mars told The Times that setting up shop in Las Vegas -- a city, he said, once associated with "Barry Manilow and Tom Jones and guys trying to come back out" -- "could go either way."
But, he added, "I don't think it's gonna be a career killer for us."
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On Tuesday 18th of February, the Duchess of Cornwall will pay a visit to The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham, Wiltshire.
The Pound Arts Centre is a community hub for music, dance and theatre, and offers a year round programme of performances, workshops and youth exhibitions. It was officially opened by the Duchess in 2007, following an extensive refurbishment that cost around £1.2 million. The Arts Centre boasts a 100-seat auditorium, a gallery space, a café bar, and three studio spaces. It promotes three seasons of performances, films and participatory art events, as well as housing a number of resident emerging artists and community groups.
During her visit, Her Royal Highness will view the newly completed acoustic and artists' studios, where she will meet some of the current piano students involved in practice sessions there. She will also go on a tour of the facility to view an exhibition on Wiltshire Landscapes by Bath Textile Artists.
The Duchess will then visit the rehearsal room to watch the Pound's youth theatre, ActNow, reciting extracts from some of Shakespeare's plays. Alongside this, Camilla will also be able to see some young children participating in 'Adventures Under the Sea', which is a storytelling workshop organised by the Pound.
Afterwards, the Duchess will observe an art class taking place in the Art Wet Room, and meet photographers, illustrators and ceramic artists from the local area who are active members of the Arts Centre.
The Duchess of Cornwall will conclude the tour by joining a reception with supporters, volunteers, trustees and friends of the Arts Centre. Before leaving, she will unveil a commemorative plaque to mark her visit.
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Earth : North America : Mexico : Baja California : Baja California (state) : Tijuana
Tijuana is a city in Baja California Norte, Mexico. It is located right across the border from San Diego, California, USA. Visitors can expect an ideal climate for most of the year, with average temperatures during the daytime ranging from 68ºF (20°C) in January, to 86°F (30°C) in August. The rainy season is short (and tame, with yearly averages close to only 10 inches/ 254 millimeters of rainfall), and encompasses late winter to early spring. Tijuana has a population of around 1.2 million people according to the last census, although it is believed that the number is now closer to three million. The city has grown from a small border town with a salacious reputation during the Prohibition Era in the United States into a large, modern city with a sizable middle class. Its proximity to the United States has made it a very popular tourist destination, especially for day-trippers from San Diego.
Tijuana along with its U.S. neighbor San Diego form the largest metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexican Border with a population of 4.5 million.
Economically, a growing middle class disposable income has fueled Tijuana's transformation into a modern city with a vibrant culture, a characteristic that has attracted many national and international businesses which had largely shunned the city before. Aside from the middle class, in Tijuana you can reasonably expect to find areas filled with wealthier people. Tijuana is a transit point for undocumented immigration into the United States, as well as a common destination for any illegal Mexican immigrants deported from the West Coast of the United States. As such, some areas are swollen with poor people with no roots in the city, who inhabit shantytowns. Apart from these poor migrants, Tijuana is one of the wealthiest cities in Mexico. Some (mainly residential) areas of the city reflect the significant number of wealthy people who inhabit the city.
Tijuana's growing reputation as a cosmopolitan city is justified. Not only is the city home to many people who have migrated from within the same country, as well as some native Mexican Indians, but it boasts an important amount of Asian residents, as well as Americans (mostly from neighboring San Diego who have been drawn to Tijuana by cheaper housing), and South Americans from Argentina and Uruguay, among others.
Frequent English-speaking visitors to Tijuana use the term "gringo-friendly" for a shop, bar, or restaurant in which a non-Spanish speaking customer will be at ease. A place is gringo-friendly if the staff here is accustomed to dealing with American tourists, if they speak English and have English-language menus. Places that are not gringo-friendly may require use of Spanish, and patience. Just because a place is not gringo-friendly does not imply that the people there will not be friendly or that tourists will not be welcome.
While the Mexican peso is the legal currency, US dollars are widely accepted. Tijuana observes daylight savings time (DST) the same way as the USA does.
Spanish is the dominant language in Tijuana, as it is in much of Mexico. However, English is spoken by almost everybody in the city's tourist hot spots (such as Avenida Revolución), as well as by taxi drivers and the Americans who live in the city. Having someone with you who can speak Spanish will be helpful when going away from Avenida Revolución.
Get in
Most tourists enter Tijuana through the border crossing at San Ysidro, which is reportedly the busiest border crossing in the world. The crossing can be made by car, bus, bicycle, or on foot.
By plane
From the Tijuana International Airport
Tijuana-General Abelardo L. Rodtríguez International Airport (IATA: TIJ, ICAO: MMTJ) is served by the two Mexican legacy carriers, Aeroméxico and Mexicana, and also serves as a hub for the growing low-cost airline market in Mexico. Carriers such as Volaris and Interjet offer low-cost products similar to U.S.-style low cost carriers. Previously international services were very limited until 2007, when Aeroméxico begin services to East Asia adding Tijuana as a stop on its Mexico City-Tijuana-Tokyo (Narita) flagship route. In 2008, this route was augmented by a Mexico City–Tijuana–Shanghai (Pudong) flight. The flights serve as routes not only as flights between four of the world's most populous cities, but also as the link for the significant East Asian-Mexican community in the northwestern areas of Mexico.
The airport is located parallel to the USA-Mexico border line, only a few miles east of downtown Tijuana and the San Ysidro International Border Crossing, and one mile west of Otay International Border Crossing. The airport is used as a transit point for travelers wishing to visit San Diego and L.A. as well.
You can take an authorized taxi cab, sedan or van, at the Airport. Buy a ticket in one of the booths at the exit of the airport. They have fixed and official rates; It will cost you about $200 Pesos to Zona Rio (15 min ride), or $250 Pesos to Zona Centro (25 min ride), or $300 pesos to the Grand Hotel (30 min ride). US Dollars will be accepted.
You can take also public transportation from the Tijuana airport all the way to city downtown and it will cost you $ 8.5 Pesos, less than 1 US Dollar. Go outside the airport and take the blue and white bus, heading west. It has the legend: "Centro" or "Plaza Rio". US Dollars will be accepted.
The airport has international coach transportation to San Diego or the major destinations in south California and transfer to the Greyhound, Some airlines provide their own coaches to/from major San Diego destinations, including Lindbergh San Diego Airport.
-- Please note that even though the Mexican Peso is the official currency in Mexico, US Dollar will be accepted every where in Tijuana and the whole Baja California State, despite the fact MXP/USD interchange rate changes daily.
From the San Diego Airport
San Diego International Airport (IATA: SAN) [3] is only a few miles north of the international border and can be used as a transit point for travelers wishing to visit Tijuana. You can take public transportation from the San Diego airport all the way to downtown Tijuana and it will only cost you $10. Go outside the airport and take the airport express bus, which is route 992. Buy a $5 day pass from the bus driver, which will also cover the trolley. Take this bus to the first stop on Broadway. From here, you should see the American Plaza Trolley station. Walk over to the west side, and you will catch the Blue Line to San Ysidro. The day pass you bought from the bus driver will work on the train, which could help you to catch a train that's just arriving at the American Plaza Trolley station. The San Ysidro exit is the last stop on the Blue Line. Everyone will get off the train. Follow everyone across the bridge to the right of the trains. You cross the freeway on the pedestrian bridge by going up, across and back down. Go through a one-way gate, and if it's your first time, go straight, and cross through another one-way gate. This will take you to the more expensive yellow taxis driven by taxi drivers in yellow shirts. The fare for these taxis is $5 USD to revolution avenue. Sometimes a taxi driver will ask you to pay $6, but you can always get these taxis for $5.
If you've been to Tijuana a few times before, then go to the right after the first one-way gate. This will take you to a small market and here you can catch the lower-priced taxis which are usually green and white and called either "Taxi Libre" or "Taxi Economico." These cost $3 USD to get downtown and the prices are all listed on various boards.
If it's during the day then you could walk to downtown. Follow the signs that say to Centro. You'll walk across a long bridge, and generally head toward the Revolution Arch.
By car
Take I-5 or I-805 to south. Either park at the border and continue on foot or drive into Mexico. Driving from the US to Mexico often requires no stopping, but inspections driving south have become more frequent as authorities attempt to stop firearms trafficking into Mexico, resulting in long wait times during periods of heavy traffic. Driving across the border from Mexico to the US may involve a long wait, especially during evening rush hour or on holiday weekends.
Mexican insurance is highly recommended, and can be bought immediately before crossing the border, or even online before your trip. Many times, the Otay Mesa and Tecate border crossings, also nearby, are much less congested getting back into the US. To get to the Otay crossing can be a little scary (not good for Gringos at night) and the border agents don't seem as pleasant as at the San Ysidro crossing.
If the pedestrian line returning to the US is long, as it often is after the September 11 attacks, it may be faster to take advantage of the numerous van and bus lines that cross the border. You will undoubtedly encounter agents for these services when approaching the pedestrian line back to the U.S., who will ask for $5 to $10 per person to let you board the vehicles which are already in line. Generally, the closer the vehicle is to the front of the line, the more they will charge.
Border Wait Times
Driving or walking, 1/2 - 2 hours If you are driving and stay at a fancy hotel or eat at a fancy restaurant, ask them for a "Fast Pass". If you find the fast pass lane you will save a lot of time (driving) [4].
By foot
Many people drive to the border, park on the US side, and walk across. There are many lots available for this, which charge $4-$9 a day. While there are many taxis waiting to take you to Avenida Revolucion, it's only about a fifteen minute walk; follow the other tourists.
By bus
Mexicoach buses leave from the parking lots on the US side, cross into Mexico, and drop you off at the bus station on Revolucion Avenue in the middle of the downtown tourist district. These buses run during the day, every day, and costs $5 one way or $8 roundtrip. The parking lot at Mexicoach is about $7/day. The central de camiones for destinations in Mexico is reached by bus from Calle 3 or by taxi from the city centre and has direct coaches to most major cities in Mexico.
Get around
Cabs are abundant throughout the city. If you are walking into Tijuana via the San Ysidro border crossing, you will be immediately confronted with a massive array of yellow cabs waiting to take you into downtown. This group of cab drivers are conveniently located, but be sure to negotiate a price before jumping into a cab. You should pay no more than $5 in normal traffic to get from the border to the downtown area.
If you exit the border area by taking a right instead of going straight ahead to the taxi stand, then walk toward town after crossing the street, you will encounter the Taxi Libre taxi stand, which will generally cost half as much as a yellow cab would charge.
Throughout the city, cab drivers stand on the sidewalks and solicit customers. It is almost impossible to avoid them, so finding a cab should never be a problem. Yellow cabs do not have meters, so agree with your driver in advance what the cost will be. Taxi Libre, white with red stripe, cabs have meters and are cheaper than yellow cabs, though you might have to remind the driver to use the meter.
Be aware that when taking a Yellow Cab to a specific location, the drivers may tell you that the restaurant or bar you asked for is closed, and conveniently offer an alternative. This is almost always untrue, and the taxi driver is attempting to divert you to a business where he will receive a commission for delivering passengers. The driver may alternately tell you that "company rules" say that all rides to a given area can only take passengers to certain businesses, to achieve the same result. Taxi Libre drivers do not engage in this practice, as they are independent contractors, and do not have the commission structure that Yellow Cabs do.
Tijuana is on the ocean, but is not known for its beaches, for boating, or as a seaside resort. However, it is in cabbing distance of Rosarito - the trip will cost $20, while Mexicoach will bus you there for around $10. Ensenada is further down the coast but easily accessible by car or bus.
There are disappointingly few bargains to be had in Tijuana. Silver and leather products are allegedly cheaper than in the US. Souvenir shops abound. Many of the items sold in the souvenir shops are actually purchased in the San Diegan swap meets and brought into Mexico and resold to tourists.
Apart from the abundant, over-priced tourist traps, local cuisine ranges from world-class restaurants to locals-only eateries and street vendors selling tacos. Travellers' diarrhea is more of a risk at the cheaper establishments, but will probably not be a concern. In many sit down restaurants, musicians will wander in and play for tip. A good price for a song is $1 USD per musician per song, but most musicians will try to charge $2 USD per musician per song. For example, if there are five musicians in a band then a good price is $5 USD. Many non-mariachi musicians are untalented and some work with pickpockets, so keep an eye out.
If cuisine is an important factor in your visit to Mexico, be sure to check out the more locals filled taco shops, where you will be able to enjoy the best carne asada tacos in the world and for better price. Also delicious are Churros made by street vendors, and the "hot dog" imitations sold as well. Be sure to avoid vendors that are not being patronized by locals.
However, American establishments such as McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, and Carl's Jr. (As Carl's Jr., not Hardee's) are in many parts of the city. However there are some local chains, such as Cafe Sanborns, that prove to be more popular and interesting than the American ones.
There are many other great restaurants in the city, ranging from mexican to asian food. The city is also full of sushi bars, something that has caught on in recent years. Another favorite is chinese food, and thanks to a large chinese population in Baja, the locals tend to say that it's the best chinese food in México or the region.
Beer drinkers are well-advised to visit the "Cerveceria Tijuana," the Tijuana Brewery, and its brewpub. It is on Blvd. Fundadores, a few minutes by taxi south of the Ave. Revolucion shopping district. Not only do they brew and serve six different Eastern European-style lager beers, but they also have a reasonably-priced food menu. The brewpub is especially impressive because it is designed to look just like a European pub, with dark wood paneling, stained glass, and hardwood floors. One area even has a large window looking into the brewery floor, where you can see the workers busy at their brewing. Be aware that flagging down a taxi in this area is often difficult, especially at night, so for your return trip consider arranging transportation ahead of time or having the phone numbers of taxi services available to call when you finish your meal.
Of course, beers, margaritas and tequila are also available at numerous establishments.
Migrant Houses
Migrant houses offer free or very cheap accommodation for anyone regarded as a migrant. Some are said to also accept backpackers.
Although travel guides and taxi drivers insist that there is no cheap accommodation to be had in Tijuana, there is if you know where to look. Most of Tijuanas budget haunts are located in 2nd and 3rd Street, while the more outlying ones are probably less safe and certainly more difficult to reach.
At the north end of Zona Centro, directly adjacent to the large arch spanning Ave. Revolucion, is the Hotel Nelson. It is reasonably-priced and clean, and has a bar as well as a restaurant downstairs. The major drawback would be traffic noise from the myriad bars and clubs along this tourist-oriented street.
Hotel Ticuan, 8th St at Revolucion, [1]. A newer hotel at the upper end of mid-range pricing, located on 8th Street just west of Ave. Revolucion. It has a very good restaurant and bar, comfortable rooms with plasma TVs and free WiFi, and free admission to the dance club "Las Pulgas" which is right around the corner. The staff is very polite and helpful, and most speak decent English. You can get a discount of 100 to 150 pesos per night on your room by booking online.
A more luxury hotel is the Grand Hotel Tijuana. The Grand Hotel Tijuana is one of the most prominent feature in Tijuana's skyline, having 2 33 story twin towers. It features several bars and restaurants, and an in house shopping mall. Adjacent to the hotel is the Club Campestre de Tijuana, Tijuana's oldest and most prestigious country club, which features an 18 hole golf course in very good shape designed by Allister McKenzie, who also designed Augusta National Golf Club(site of the masters professional championship).
Marriott Hotel Just recently opened, the Marriott took over the Hotel Emporio
Hotel Lucerna Tijuana is another very safe and clean hotel in the Zona Rio with a great pool, and service. It also has a very upscale bar, restaurant, and loung area. Guards 24/7 and valet parking.
Camino Real Tijuana
Stay safe
Tijuana has a reputation for crime. In recent years, drug violence has erupted in Tijuana due to intense crackdown by the Mexican government and Mexican drug cartels turning on each other. However, joint action between the government and The Police deleted the Cartel and their leader, and now all that's left is the remnants of an uncontrolled group of renegades. The east side of Tijuana is particularly dangerous and prone to drug violence. Zona Norte can also be very dangerous if you are walking alone. Much of Tijuana's drug violence happens in these two parts of the city (due to their proximity to the U.S. Border). None of the drug violence is not targeted at tourists, but rather at competing drug cartels as well as Mexican police. However, it is best to stay alert. Most tourist parts of the city are generally safe, such as Avenida Revolucion, Playas de Tijuana, Zona Rio, and Tijuana's red light district in Zona Norte. As with any large city with a bustling downtown, use common-sense and street smarts when walking the street; especially in the red light district of the "Zona Norte" (North Zone). The biggest problem you will probably experience is trouble-making American men who stumble out of bars and brothels.
It is advisable to be very careful of buying anything that would alert suspicion from Mexican police, this would include any type of prescription medicine (with potential for abuse, or perhaps low overdose/extreme side effects), pornography and weapons. The police will use anything against you if they do stop you, so the less they have to go on the better. Laws differ from those in the USA.
Park in well marked parking lots with security guards. Police enforce the laws on foreigners who commit crimes such as pedophilia or buying illegal drugs. Corruption still exists among the Tijuana Police Department (the Mexican Federal Police on the other hand is trustworthy), so beware. But this is usually done when you are alone after a night on the town, are slightly intoxicated, and your actions make you a potential victim. When speaking to an officer, stay calm and respectful. Never offend or belittle the officer or the country of Mexico. Typically, if you have done nothing wrong, stand your ground and they will eventually let you go. You can insist on seeing a judge, and explain what happened. If you do this, most likely the officer will just give a warning and send on your way.
For traffic infractions, you are entitled to a written ticket, and you can pay the fine by mail. In any case, these made-up charges are usually only a small fine, most likely less than the bribe you would offer; you do not go to jail. Remember that you are not immune from Mexican laws, if an officer pulls you over for speeding because you were speeding, it's not corruption. Illegal drugs and drunk driving are taken seriously in Mexico, as they are elsewhere.
Get out
Tijuana offers several Bus routes into Mexico. Updated Tijuana Bus routes are available online at[9]. From Tijuana you can easily go to Ensenada, or further south to Guerrero Negro, which is a very popular destination for whale watching. It is a 9 hour bus ride to Guerrero Negro but well worth it. Other bus routes locations include La Paz, San Juan del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja.


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Title text: We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look fake.
This comic pokes fun at the differing standard between image quality for television sets and electronic devices, even though both are based on essentially the same standards. When rating television sets, a 1080p screen, that is, a screen 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels tall with progressive scan, is considered impressive. In contrast, the same resolution with a computer device is considered standard fare, given that on a 4:3 ratio computer screen 1,024 pixels wide is expected. Widescreen monitors have already surpassed 1,920 pixels wide, and double widescreen monitors have become more common.
The title texts explains another disagreement involving images and popular opinion. The feeling that a viewer gets from watching a film in a theatre is different from the feeling from a home film, or again, between a serialized programme from an international television channel and a locally-broadcast programme. The disparity is that the small-time productions actually implement better-quality equipment than the big-time productions, in terms of higher frame rate (although not in image fidelity or other respects). However the small productions really are cheaper in other respects, and this feeling is transferred to the look of high frame rates, thanks to videotapes often being used instead of film stock. Low frame rates on more big budget films (and all old, nostalgic productions before high frame rates were commercially possible) mean low frame rates are associated with quality, despite not being as able to capture as much motion as better-quality high frame rates. Blur, judder, and slow pans are mostly absent in high-frame rate productions. This is changing, however, since the major films The Hobbit and Avatar 2 are/will be shot with better framerates.
- [Cueball is pointing to a huge flatscreen HDTV on the wall. His friend is holding a cell phone.]
- Cueball (HDTV Owner): Check out my new HDTV-a beautiful, high-def 1080p.
- Friend: Wow, that's over TWICE the horizontal resolution of my cell phone.
- Friend: In fact, it almost beats the LCD monitor I got in 2004.
- It baffles me that people find HDTV impressive.
But it's on a bigger screen. Jokes aside, I believe TVs are more impressive because the refresh rate is higher and the TV needs more circuitry on the back-end to handle the physically larger screen and the multiple possible inputs. I may be wrong. Davidy22[talk] 13:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
The commentary about computer screen sizes needs to be dated and/or updated, as it's clearly outdated. 188.8.131.52 17:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)


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Order executed for this week's position:
SOLD SPX September 30 2200 Call, 1.25 credit.
BOUGHT SPX September 30 2210 Call, .45 debit.
SOLD SPX September 30 2120 Put, 2.20 credit.
BOUGHT SPX September 30 2110 Put, 1.65 debit.
Order was filled as an "Iron Condor" for $1.35 net credit (all four legs).
Margin/Risk is calculated by the width of the wings ($1,000), less credit received.
Margin/Risk for this week's trade: $865.
Target Gain: 7% of margin/risk or $60.
Max loss: 10% of margin/risk or $85.
Below is the risk graph of this week's position as shown on my broker's platform:
SPX September 30 Weekly Iron Condor:
Below is the SPX chart showing the short strikes:
SPX 6 month chart
Trade Management:
The guidelines call for the position to remain open until target gain is reached, as long as SPX stays between the short strikes. They also call for exiting at the pre-set max loss, or if SPX reaches either short strike. It is recommended to have "good to cancel" order in for both target gain and max loss. The setup of conditional orders can vary by broker, so please check with your broker if you are unfamiliar with conditional orders on your trading platform.
Having said that, it is an individual's own decision whether to wait for target gain, or max loss, on any position. Trading is a blend of individual style, risk tolerance, and intuition. This combination can help reach your annual trade plan results. I recommend following your own trade style; there is nothing wrong with exiting a position early. Remember with weekly trades, there are 52 opportunities in a year to trade so it is important to be comfortable with your trade size and position. Remember, trading is an art, not a science.
For those unfamiliar with the strategy, the trade management guidelines for all the Couch Potato Trader strategies were updated on August 20, 2015, and can be found here:
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Trade updates will be posted as appropriate.
As always, stay keen on your risk management and trade carefully,
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A Visual Guide to Soft, Firm, and Stiff Peaks in Egg Whites
Baking is one place where you don't have a lot of wiggle room. Read a recipe wrong or try an ingredient substitution, and the results can become very unpredictable. So when a recipe says to "whip to firm peaks," you know we want to get it right! Here's a visual guide to help us out.
The stages of "peaks" is the same for beating egg whites or making whipped cream. In this guide, we're using egg whites with a little sugar to show each stage (except for the last picture, which shows over-whipped cream). We're using a standing mixer on the second to highest setting, but you can also use a hand mixer. If you need a work-out, you can also try whipping by hand!
1. No Peaks - After a few minutes of whipping, the egg whites are getting foamy and opaque, but they're still so liquidy that they won't hold a shape at all.
2. Soft Peak - When you turn your whisk upside down, the peaks are just starting to hold. They're soft and melt back into themselves after a second.
3. Firm Peak - Now when you turn your whisk upside down, the peaks will hold and the ridges are more distinct, but the tips fold back on themselves.
4. Stiff Peak - Turn the whisk upside down, and those peaks hold proudly! They should point straight up without collapsing at all (or maybe a little bit just at the very tips). The mixture is thick and heavy.
5. Over-beating - It's possible to take it too far. After the stiff peak stage, egg whites will start to look grainy and dull. They will eventually collapse back on themselves. Whipped cream will also get grainy and will start to separate into fat and liquid.
There's not much to do about over-whipped cream other than keep whipping until it becomes butter! If you catch egg whites just as they are starting to turn grainy, you can try adding another egg white into the bowl to bring it back. Also, sugar stabilizes egg whites. If you're making meringue or anything where sugar has been added during whipping, you don't have to worry about over-beating them as much.
Related: Food Science: The Best Eggs for Meringue and Why
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As a gamer that loves fighting games I cannot wait to see what the next gen consoles have to offer. Will we see new versions of popular titles like Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, and Tekken? That would be lovely but, what I really want to see is a fresh fighting game, something new instead of recycled. Persona 4 Arena did that for me this Gen. It took a very good RPG and made it a fighter and a good one at that. The graphics where nice, the game mechanics were somewhat recycled from Guilty Gear and Blaze Blue series but were solid.This type of fresh outlook is what next gen consoles really need.
Microsoft have been busy with the Killer Instinct brand, so most likely we'll see KI3 on the X720.
Just hope it's not some Kinect2 fascade, it's a game that I'd buy a Xbox720 for.
I hope it makes its way to ps4. I prefer the controller for fighters. I'm going off of the 720 leaks that tell us the controller is pretty much the same. So ds4 would feel better for ki3 or any other fighter. And for the record I wouldn't buy an arcade stick to play a fighter.
I used to love my fighting games but this gen I just switched off from it all, def needs new fighting franchises. Stop with the street fighters and tekkens.
The Kinect sucks I hope they do away with that peroid. Shortstory should a bought a wii. I was a big fan of this series back when I was a kid. Its been been dead and buried for a long time so they should just leave it that way. They have also been talking about making KI3 for the last ten years. It could happen but I doubt it.


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The Culver community gathered Thursday night at a standing-room-only Wesley United Methodist Church on School Street, where an ecumenical, community-wide prayer vigil was held to help students and parents work through their grief.
The vigil was in response to the shooting death on Madison Street of two Culver residents, 44 year-old Michael Price and 16 year-old Stephen Suthard, Wednesday night in an incident still under police investigation.
During the service, many of Culver's clergy led prayers, hymns, and shared encouraging words aimed particularly at Suthard's young Culver Community High School classmates. Candles were lit in remembrance of Suthard, with students -- many of whom wept and embraced one another -- given an opportunity to light their own candles. A nearly wall-size paper was mounted on one wall where friends could leave messages in Suthard's honor, to be given to his parents, much like one made available to students at the high school through the day Thursday.
A similar poster is available for anyone to sign on an ongoing basis in the Culver Public Library's youth area, a favorite after-school hangout of Suthard's.
Throughout the day Thursday, grief counselors and Culver area clergy were on hand for students at the Culver Community High School, some of whom chose to leave the school with their parents, once the news of their sophomore schoolmate's passing was announced during a convocation by principal Albert Hanselman, who also phoned parents with a prerecorded message explaining the situation.
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Chesterfield magistrates' court originally heard on Monday, August 12, how Brian Worthy, 65, of Brentwood Road, Bamford, Hope Valley, admitted committing the offences.
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District Judge Andrew Davison had told Worthy during the magistrates' hearing: "The facts are shocking and distressing. It's disturbing. There were a number of incidents in a short period of time."
Worthy, who used to work in the pub trade, pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity between June 1 and 5, and guilty to the same offence with another girl on July 17.
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Shorter timeframes discovered for submarine ocean ridge volcanismUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU —The time it takes for rock to form in volcanic mid-ocean ridges is a lot shorter than previously thought. A study in this week's Nature reports that it could take just a few decades, making the chemical and biological conditions surrounding these underwater volcanoes extremely variable. The team, led by Ken Rubin from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii, used natural radioactive isotopes in very young sea-floor lava flows to model how long it takes for rock to melt and rise from beneath the Earth's crust to where it solidifies and accumulates at the deep-sea ridge.
"Most volcanism on Earth occurs unseen, at submarine mid-ocean ridges. Yet such volcanoes are difficult to observe in real time and there are essentially no examples where we have the sorts of information about magma migration, accumulation, storage and eruption rates that we have on land" says Rubin. "We've determined such parameters for a handful of sites using a novel geochemical approach, and it turns out that the rates are quite similar to those at highly volcanically active Kilauea volcano."
There are few previous estimates of the rates of these processes, but work by Rubin and others in the late 1980s and early 1990s suggested that they were something less than a few thousand years. Even these rates were considered uncomfortably fast compared to the slow movement of the underlying volcanic source rock at a few centimeters per year. In a related commentary (also in this week's Nature), Dr. Tim Elliott of Bristol University states, "the latest results suggest such velocities were serious underestimates. Rubin et al. provide a dramatic illustration that magma rises to the surface with unexpected haste, in stark contrast to the stately movements of the solid from which it is derived."
The team (which also included past and present UH researchers Dr. Iris van der Zander, Dr. Matt Smith and Eric Bergmanis) applied isotopes with short half-lives to determine the timescale more accurately, shaving it down to a maximum of approximately 100 years. Ocean ridge volcanoes harbor some of the Earth's most unusual biological communities. The shorter timescale for crust formation implies that eruptions may be more frequent than we previously imagined, and that geological, biological and chemical conditions may fluctuate rapidly.
Rubin adds, "The ocean ridge system supports some of the most unique and perhaps most ancient habitats on earth, where highly localized communities thrive on chemical energy from volcanically-driven hydrothermal circulation, rather than converting light energy from the sun (as occurs in the surface oceans and on land). Our new constraints on magmatic rates suggest the conditions that allow such communities to colonize and then utilize this energy source can fluctuate much more rapidly than previously thought."
This study would not have been possible without the collection of very young samples using manned- and unmanned-submersibles operating in well-mapped terrains. Three of the paper's four authors participated in such expeditions, which were planned and led by a large number of researchers around the country, including University of Hawaii's John Sinton and Rodey Batiza (now at the National Science Foundation), plus researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, NOAA, University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and University of Florida. This study is funded by the U. S. National Science Foundation.
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Minimum speed limit for ocean ridge magmatism from 210Pb−226Ra−230Th disequilibriaK. H. Rubin, I. van der Zander, M. C. Smith and E. C. BergmanisNature 437, 534-538 (22 September 2005)doi: 10.1038/nature03993
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start thinkin bout clones
i assume since they both unlocked at the same time, since kakashi passed out right after, he suppressed the memory, like how sasuke unlocked his sharigan the night his brother massacred the clan but he passed out and didnt unlock it again till he was older.
least that would make sense to me, im sure others are....nope PLOT HOLE!....but having rin be a double agent is pretty cool. gives the reason why kakashi killed her justified instead of silly....oops the mist was blinding.
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Whatever the case, this flashback has gone on too long. (I find it quite funny how the chapters featuring the "why" of Tobi have significantly less responses than the chapters featuring the "Who"; just goes to show, once we knew who Tobi was, he almost instantly became uninteresting (and he's only gotten worse.))
...I am tired...good morning.
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Rin is not a double agent, she was under Madara's genjutsu.
Obito knows he was chosen for his abilites (hence not finding Madara's randomly), knows the Mist did something to Rin's body (and he should know she has no special abilities) and we know he later figured out the relationship between Yagura's master and Kisame (and Yagura was already controlled when Zazbuza was a child, hence before what's happening now)
Well, the timeline is now fixed. (as long as Rin is being brainwashed by the same guy than Yagura) But now, all that Mist's plotline with Kisame and Yagura's manipulation was just for the sake of brainwashing Obito, who is not thrash anymore, but the most talented Uchiha of his generation (since specifically handpicken by Madara) who is also able to harness Shodai Hokage's power intuitively. That's just errr ... boring ? wasting a perfectly valid plotline for nothing ?
As for Kakashi and his MS, it's the degree zero of storytelling. (lol he had it from the beginning)
At least, we know Obito's motivations now. He knows something was up, but he refuses to acknowledge them, so he 'll willingly collaborate with the one who set them in motion rather than the ones who were screwed by them. Because it's easier than facing the facts.
Good news is that it's almost over. Kakashi will say his sharingan saw the genjutsu. Madara will lol, Obito will attack him and he'll die, the story will move on, and Rin won't get a single line. There is only two chapters left to complete the volume and this sub arc.
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|2012-10-10, 01:33
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I also figured that Rin's a spy from the looks of things, it's the most common reason for an enemy to want to retrieve her body.
Anyway, now we know how they both got MS...but damn, that was so little information in a whole chapter =/ Good morning btw
|2012-10-10, 01:36
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What is this Shit? Is this even Naruto anymore?
Back in old country, we had manga that had plot line, and stayed consistent to it.
This shit, it's not even amusing.
I mean, it closes a door, but opens a couple other cans of worms.
What is this Shit?
|2012-10-10, 02:20
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It never ceases to amaze me how fast the people on this forum make simplified conclusions, as if they figured it all out. And then another 10 chapters go by and they were 100% wrong, just like they were 100% wrong about Obito not being Tobi, and when they are 100% wrong, they act like it's because Kishimoto isn't as good as they are at figuring out a plot.
You guys are probably 100% off again.
I'm going to guess:
Obito blames Kakashi because, despite the Blood Mist being the ones that used Rin, Kakashi allowed those events to take place. Hence, "You let Rin die" is not a false statement.
I doubt Rin would betray the Hidden Leaf. Chances are there was foul play involved.
Kakashi was surrounded by quite a few Blood Mist shinobi. Chances are, being outnumbered and Rin being the target and her capture most likely leading to some tragedy for the Hidden Leaf, Kakashi had no choice but to kill her himself.
She might have even asked him to do it.
It's not necessarily a plot hole that Kakashi remembers none of this. Anyone that thinks it's easy to retain a good memory of you killing one of your best friends needs serious therapy or a wake up call. He passed out and likely had no idea what was going on.
Why Kakashi's explanation means nothing to Obito:
This isn't a plot hole. It simply doesn't matter because Rin is dead. Regardless of the circumstance, you let Rin fall into a trap which led to her death by your hands.
If you're my best friend, and my girlfriend gets bit by a vampire and you murder her with a wooden stake to save the world, I'm still going to be pissed at you for letting her get bit by a vampire.
Obito collaborating with Madara has nothing to do with him 'not facing the facts'. The facts are, the world is cruel and that cruel world led to Rin's death. Madara told Obito he dreams of a world without pain or suffering. This has more to do with Obito realizing there isn't 'blame' to be made for one person or one group of people but for the world of shinobi at all. If you think about it, it makes sense. What led to the Sand Village having a peaceful treaty with Leaf Village? The battle between Sand Village and Leaf Village which resulted in 3rd Hokage's death. What led to the Shinobi Alliance with even the Samurai coming out of neutrality to join the Shinobi Villages? Sasuke and Tobi's attack on the Kage Summit which ultimately resorted to Danzo's death. Obito is probably tired of a world where small victories are obtained at the loss of life.
I think a few things are starting to make sense:
Because Kakashi only has 'one' Sharingan and isn't an Uchiha, the vision in his right eye doesn't deteriorate and acts as a supplement to the loss of vision in his left eye. The reason for Kakashi having a 'different' Kamui is that left and right eyes have different MS effects, a'la Tsukuyomi vs. Amaterasu. Left eye = aimed, more needle pin type of Kamui. Right eye = self Kamui, larger radius.
But I have something mind-blowing for you guys:
Obito knows he would be infinitely more powerful if he took Kakashi's eye and discovered his dual-MS ability. He also knows he's been more powerful than Kakashi and had the capability to dispatch Kakashi since he left Madara's lair.
Why didn't he take the eye? Why is he so timid about the real Madara making an appearance on the battlefield?
I'm going to bet Obito isn't 100% on Madara's side.
But Sasuke will be.
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|2012-10-10, 02:28
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assuming that your theory is possible, then what could have "unlocked" kakashi's MS sharingan? being placed under itachi's tsukuyomi? i still think it's a little farfetched though. once you get MS you have it. you either learn how to use it or you don't. and if that's the case, then it took a pretty long time for kakashi to learn it, which is a little out of character considering he learned how to use sharingan, even though he doesn't have a drop of uchiha blood in him, in just a matter of seconds.
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|2012-10-10, 02:37
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Agreed. It's gone on too long.. that's for sure.
|2012-10-10, 02:57
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Yeah, let's drop the Bloody Mist plotline ( Bloody Mist is named in this chapter. hence Yagura was already manipulated and Obito is not the long haired masked man unless Kishi completely lost it) and say this plotline has nothing to do with manipulation (although we now know for sure Obito was handpicked by Madara) and just give Rin magical power that the Mist wanted. And Kakashi killed her willingly just to not lose that bloodline. It's just a coincidence those ninjas were ordered by the long haired masked man. Maybe not directly like Yagura or Kisame, but at least indirectly.
What about ... no ?
|2012-10-10, 03:42
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About Rin's role in all of this: she still has no last name, which is actually important; she could be, like Kushina, a foreigner admitted to Konoha for special reasons. If Kakashi was somehow tricked into killing Rin, the enemy ninja wouldn't need to retrieve her body.
Finally there's the matter of Kakashi and Rin being a 2-man team, while all core teams have at least 3 members. What happened to Obito's replacement?
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I'd still like to go back and see when kakashi learned he had MS and how to use it for the first time during the timeskip. and we definitely need to see how rin became a spy. or at least forced into being one. that was a surprise to me, I was sure it was a clone
so we learned that madara DID choose obito then? obito didnt even seem to register that notion when spiral zetsu said it.
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She probably had something with or in her that made her valuable, but at the same time threatening to Konoha. Being surrounded by that many ninjas, Kakashi didn't have a choice but to kill Rin, who probably asked him to do so, but at the same time, just as said above, Rin could have been a spy and she betrayed Konoha which gave Kakashi no other choice but to kill her.
For Obito's replacement:
If Rin was a spy, she could have tried to escape, but Kakashi followed her leaving them alone, which lead to the events right now. So there was probably a replacement but he/she was unimportant so Kishi left him/her out.
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|2012-10-10, 07:30
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thats why I was maybe thats what happened with kakashi, the strain on him from unlocking it pretty much made him pass out instantly so maybe because he passed out he never knew he could do MS. Just like sasuke never turned on his sharigan, even though he unlocked it many years before.
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