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Marebito (US - DVD R1)
Gabe checks out the latest from the director of all three versions of Ju-On...
Tetsuo: The Iron Man director Shinya Tsukamoto stars as Masuoka, a freelance cameraman with a lustful obsession with fear. He spends his life literally surrounded by cameras, recording his actions and the actions of the world around him. After filming a particularly grisly suicide in the city's subway, and studying it incessantly, he realizes his quest to understand fear can only be quelled by seeing exactly what the suicidal sole saw at the moment of his death.
His search leads him into a chambered underground system of caverns beneath Tokyo's deepest known subterranean tunnels. While scouting these tunnels, camera in hand of course, he finds himself surrounded by what may be ghosts, who warn him of cannibalistic, humanoid, underground dwellers, with an unquenchable thirst for blood. Nonplussed, he continues deeper into the abyss, and finds a malnourished, naked young woman, chained to the walls of the caverns. He decides to take the subterranean beauty back to his apartment, knowing that she well may be the key to his understanding of true fear.
I think it's pretty safe to say that we're all a little tired of the scary ghost-girl, J-horror formula. This is why director Takashi Shimizu, who's own Ju-On (which was remade twice) is a major contribution to the genre, would seem valiant in his attempt at bringing something new to the table. Marebito still utilizes similar atmospheric techniques, but the plot doesn't concern any supernatural, eerily motioned, black-haired ghost girls, and its antagonist is really anything but a hero. Ok, I guess the CHUD girl is kind of supernatural, in that she has really abnormal teeth, and she does move in mysterious ways, but you see my point.
I wasn't too hip on Shimizu's claim to fame, Ju-On (I never saw the remakes or sequel), but did respect its fractured narrative, and its simplicity. Here the director tries a little too hard to apply existential meaning to matters, and this becomes the film's greatest flaw. It comes across as thinking it's wiser than it really is. Ironically, Marebito is very similar to star Tsukamoto's own obsessive compulsive, existential crisis film, Bullet Ballet. Bullet Ballet succeeded mostly in its refusal to spell out anything for its audience. Marebito fails because it does the opposite, deflating the genuinely creepy and mysterious atmosphere with often irksome narration. This narration also gives away the film's final twist before adding another layer to it, ultimately negating the final five minutes.
The storyline is a truly original twist on the standard vampire myth (and, to a lesser extent, a cerebral remake of Little Shop of Horrors), and I admit that I was intrigued by the premise, but unfortunately, the original and insidious elements of the film become muddled and busy. The plot is layered like an onion, but each discarded section of skin is lost in the peeling. When the truth was revealed I couldn't help but feel that the lead up was either far too congested, or missing an entire act. Regardless, it was as if the story was frustratingly out of balance. I understand, and appreciate, narrative nonsense, in horror films especially, but here it seemed as though Shimizu lost himself in frivolous psychobabble.
I didn't enjoy Marebito, but appreciated its craft and aspirations. From a strictly visual standpoint it is a cinema-verite mini-masterpiece, and the camera P.O.V. shots are genuinely chilling, so chilling, that I wish there'd been more of them. I also found Masuoka's vision of the real world fascinating. The all too brief sequence where he takes to the street to find faces digitally obscured through his real eyes, but not through the camera's viewfinder, is the kind of visually arresting scene that makes the rest of the film's inadequacy so frustrating. Tsukamoto as an actor is another major asset, and though this is the kind of role he basically plays in every movie he's ever been involved with, (including his own) he is not any less riveting for it.
I almost have to refuse to critically review the video quality of this, or any release of Marebito, simply due to the film's visual nature. The film is shot all digital, though various cameras of various picture quality, none of which come anywhere close to that of the high end HD cameras used in major productions like Revenge of the Sith. There is edge enhancement and discolouration to all the objective shots, and a pixelated, dark graininess to the objective handheld video shots. Tartan has, for its part, has reproduced the film in as high a calibre as possible. The anamorphic, 1.78:1 widescreen frame is serviceable, but of course, not the finest example of the medium's capabilities.
Marebito is presented in dual tracks, a Dolby Digital 5.1 one, and a slightly more punchy DTS one. Neither track is overtly aggressive, but ambiance is pretty thick and the surround effects work pretty well. For the most part, the film is pretty low-tech on the audio front, which is fair given the film's intimate structure and matching low-tech video. Music cues are sometimes too rich and mechanical, and they can overpower the sort of organic beauty of the rest of the soundtrack. The sounds of the CHUD girl's blood slurping is effectively gross, but usually turns comical pretty quickly, undermining some of the film's impact. Like the video quality, the audio quality is really dictated by the source material, and this DVD cannot be faulted to heavily for mistakes made by the filmmakers themselves.
Tartan gives it another college try, but comes up a little short in the extras department. The greatest DVD extras are the one's a fan will be as happy to revisit as the film. The story behind the film, namely its fast turnaround, is interesting, but there has to be a better way of telling the tale then simply listening to the director's poorly cropped talking head. Shimizu comes across as either bored or incredibly shy, and in any case, doesn't appear to be thrilled at the prospect of being interviewed.
Tsukamoto's interview is slightly better, mostly because it's shorter in length, but also because Tsukamoto happens to be a more charismatic person. Unlike Shimizu, he's happy to talk about the film (and actually appears to be flirting with the interviewer a bit), along with his own work. Another case of a perfectly pleasant man who happens to make perfectly twisted films.
The disc is finished off with some trailers for this and other Tartan Asia Extreme titles.
Marebito is a very respectable attempt at bringing something new to Asian horror. It's only about half successful, due to a muddled plot that is more daft than enigmatic. The scare factor is pretty weak, but the objective video camera shots do have an eerie nature. Those more intrigued by the J-horror 'genre' should give it a look expecting the narrative to shoot itself in the foot a few times.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Why does this remind me of Hellraiser and the chattering teeth....
Man, I could tell you about the week I didn't eat because my low white cell count kept my gum puncturing wisdom teeth from healing, but you probably don't want to hear about that one, it's pretty bloody.
Actually can't feel half of my tongue over six months later cause they damaged a nerve yanking one of the buggers out. I pity those with wisdom tooth issues...
HA HA, I just showed this to one of my co-workers and he asked if Chris was British!
Whew...seriously though, hope your mouth is doing better there Chris.
Whew...seriously though, hope your mouth is doing better there Chris.
Wow, that totally ruined my super morning, lol.
Yep...no breakfast for me.
Gawd, put it away Chris.
Oddly enough I didn't feel too good afterwards. Something about having four of your teeth forcibly yanked out that has that effect
...I'm gonna vomit...
What, this one? Miike's already been on the phone asking if I want to star in his next movie.
Seems you confused the last screen capture with the one Chris posted a few months back Gabe
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Release Date: 14th March 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital and DTS Surround Sound 5.1 Japanese
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Extras: Interview with Director Takashi Shimizu, Actor Shinya and Producer Hiroshi Takahashi; original theatrical trailer and upcoming Tartan AE trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Takeshi Shimizu
Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomu Miyashi
Genre: Drama and Horror
Length: 92 minutes
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Aereo Fallout Begins: Fox Uses Ruling To Attack Dish's Mobile Streaming Service
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Within hours of Wednesday's ruling, Fox had run to the 9th Circuit appeals court with the news. The 9th Circuit had previously rejected Fox's attempt to shut down the Dish technology, but Aereo has renewed its hopes of killing some innovation:
Fox's lawyers believe the Aereo ruling strengthens their case against Dish. In a letter to the court Richard Stone, partner at Jenner & Block, wrote that the supreme court had ruled Aereo's service constitutes an "unauthorized public performance of Fox's copyrighted works."Get ready, because Aereo is going to get cited a lot by the legacy entertainment industry as they quickly seek to destroy innovation.
"Dish, which engages in virtually identical conduct when it streams Fox's programming to Dish subscribers over the internet – albeit also in violation of an express contractual prohibition – has repeatedly raised the same defenses as Aereo which have now been rejected by the supreme court," he wrote.
Stone highlighted that the court had specifically rejected Aereo's assertion that it is "merely and equipment provider" and that Aereo's subscribers were the ones transmitting content.


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When it comes to the basic protections of due process and academic freedom, it often appears that students and professors live in two worlds – one world for those who follow the current academic political orthodoxy and another for those who dissent. Take for example, two untenured professors at major universities, Joseph Massad of Columbia and Thomas Klocek of Depaul.
Many FrontPage readers are undoubtedly familiar with Professor Massad. Extensively discussed in the documentary "Columbia Unbecoming" and in national media reports, Professor Massad has been quoted as comparing Israelis to Nazis and Prime Minister Sharon's cultural views to those of Joseph Goebbels. He has reportedly refused to allow students to dispute his allegations of Israeli atrocities in class. At a lecture at Oxford University, Massad once declared: "The Jews are not a nation. The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have the right to exist." Perhaps the most notorious allegation against Massad involves a claim that (at an off-campus event) he refused to answer a question from an Israeli student unless that student told Massad how many Palestinians he had killed.
Let me introduce you to the second professor in this tale, Thomas Klocek. Professor Klocek's problems began during a recent Student Activities Fair at Depaul. He walked by Students for Justice in Palestine's table and took issue with some of the controversial and provocative statements in their literature. A heated argument ensued, and there is no question that both sides argued aggressively. The SJP students compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Hitler's treatment of Jews, and Professor Klocek, among other things, disputed Palestinian claims to a distinct national identity. He also referred to an article by Abdel Rahman Al-Rashed, the general manager of the Al-Aribiya news channel that began: "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims." The encounter ended when professor Klocek "thumbed his chin" at the students – a gesture that he believes means "I'm outta here," and the students interpreted as being obscene.
If you look closely at the two stories, you will note some substantial differences. One of the professors has been accused of actual unethical conduct in a classroom setting (refusing to permit a student to dissent from his teaching). This professor has also repeated his "offensive" comments in class, in public lectures, and in writing. The other professor has never been accused of classroom misconduct, and his "offensive" comments were made in the context of a one-time encounter in a setting where the students involved were inviting discussion by handing out literature. Yet it is the second professor who has been punished, not the first.
In the immediate aftermath of his encounter with the students, Professor Klocek was publicly accused of racism (by students who claimed they were "hurt" or "crushed" by his comments), ordered not to talk to the DePaul university newspaper (when the accusing students were encouraged to tell their side of the story), and then suspended without a hearing. And what of Professor Massad? He is being investigated, certainly, but by a committee that is stacked with friends and colleagues – in closed meetings with no recording of the proceedings. In other words, not only is Professor Massad receiving due process, his "process" is coming in front of a tribunal that is facially stacked in his favor and insulated from effective public oversight.
It is just this kind of disparate treatment that makes so many people deeply cynical about the culture of modern higher education. This week, 199 Colorado University professors signed a statement protesting any investigation into Ward Churchill's work, including investigations into allegations of academic fraud and resume fraud. Where were those defenders of free speech when the university censored the College Republicans' "affirmative action bake sale" last year? Some of them, no doubt, were eager to see the university take action against so-called "hate speech." When Hamilton College wrapped itself in the cloak of academic freedom after it hired a convicted terrorist and invited Ward Churchill to address its students, did anyone notice that this liberty-loving institution also had a speech code?
It is time to put a stop to the obsession with victimization and offense. Speech codes and ideological uniformity lead inevitably to naked abuses of power and double standards. A campus culture that for twenty-five years (at least) has used its intellectual energy to suppress dissent now finds itself under unprecedented national scrutiny, and the conduct that once spawned chuckles in the faculty lounge now leads to headlines and appearances on Fox News. Simply put, free speech needs room to breathe. So free Thomas Klocek from his suspension, and restrict any "investigation" of Massad to only those allegations involving actual violations of student academic freedom. Let us restore truly free debate to our institutions of higher education – and may the best ideas win.Download file "Academic Freedom For Some"
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Comcast Ramps Up Ad Campaign Claiming To Support Net Neutrality, Even As It Really Supports Killing It
from the truth-in-advertising... dept
Also, as Brian Fung at the Washington Post points out, the merger conditions only last a few more years. And then Comcast is free to do whatever it wants within the "new" rules:
But what Comcast doesn't say is that its commitment to "full" net neutrality expires in 2018. After that, it will no longer be legally bound to follow the 2010 rules, and it'll be free to abandon that commitment literally overnight. Comcast does not note this detail in its ads; nor does it explain how its policies may change in 2018.And, of course, the FCC won't do anything about this, and Comcast can continue to claim it as true, mainly because the FCC is pretending that it's currently proposed rules, under Section 706 are about preserving net neutrality. That's why Comcast is among those whose filings with the FCC were about how great the FCC plan is. Because it allows them (and AT&T) to pretend that they're "supporters" of net neutrality when the truth of the matter is that the plan would fling the doors wide open on the end of a neutral end-to-end internet.
In a statement to the Post, Comcast said the expiration of its net neutrality commitment was a "red herring" because it didn't have a problem with the 2010 rules and continues to "have no issue, long term, with them."
That's not the same as laying out what'll happen in 2018, however...
The problem, in part, is that there's been so much "noise" about what is and what is not net neutrality, that Comcast has embraced this incredibly cynical (and really misleading) plan to claim to be for full net neutrality -- even extending net neutrality -- when the reality is that it's actually supporting the FCC's current plans under Section 706, which have a loophole you can drive a cable truck through to end net neutrality, with the term "commercially reasonable." And, of course, since your everyday person-on-the-street doesn't know the details and the differences between Title II and Section 706, they might actually believe that Comcast has their back -- when it's really stabbing them in the back.


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Hey everyone.......i was getting to think about all of the people boba fett has met and all........i was wondering about the emperor.......did he ever say a big hi to old palpy or no.......they are never seen together....so i wasn't sure if they ever met. Maybe boba was considered unworthy to see ol' palpy and so he only got orders from Darth.....what do you guys think?????
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Souvenir Ceilings: Slightly Less Conventional Tourist Photos
When I traveled to Tuscany a few months ago, I found myself in a curious situation: every single thing I saw was photo-worthy...so I stopped taking photos! Everywhere you look is so beautiful, so Tuscan, I'm convinced you could shoot with your eyes closed and come home with a calendar's worth of stunning images. So besides images of my friends, what photos would I want to print and frame? How about 400+-year-old trompe l'oeil ceilings?
I was in Italy to attend (and make the cake for) the wedding of my dear friends Tom and Jen of TomEatsJenCooks. All the details of their amazing wedding are here, including the reception dinner at Villa Passerini, where these photos were taken.
Every surface of this astounding villa was covered in murals which I was told were at least 300 years old, but A History of Painting In Italy: Umbria, Florence and Siena: From the Second to the Sixteenth Century says they predate 1529, which would make them nearly 500 years old. My favorites were the dreamy ceilings, which seemed to be the sort of luxurious yet homespun ceilings that a fairy tale heroine would gaze up at. The nice boy I was sitting next to at dinner took a photo of them, too, saying, "I feel like I shouldn't like them...but I do."
Other than a jar of perfect plum jam, the only souvenir I bought myself was to have these photos printed. I had them done at PhotoworkSF as always, and bought the frames at Community Thrift. They are indeed chipped, but I scored 6 frames and a pair of hiking sandals for a total of $23, which happened to be exactly my frames & sandals budget. Sadly, the frames are a teeny bit crooked, as I had to wrap the hanging wires around huge hanging nails to make them earthquake safe. If I can't have those actual ceilings above my bed, I definitely want the photos to hang above me.
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White Draws Audience into Inaugural Speechby John McGaughey '11 • September 25, 2008 Share:
The first installation of Wabash's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a speech given by Professor Ronald C. White on Lincoln's second inaugural address, was hosted in the Lovell Lecture Room Wednesday night. The event, sponsored by the Brigance Forum, Hadley, and Rogge funds, was the first of many that will be held on campus throughout the 2008-2009 school year.
Professor White, a Fellow of Huntington Library in California, Visiting Professor of History at the University of California-Los Angeles, and Professor Emeritus of American Religious History at San Francisco Theological Seminary, is the author of two books on Lincoln. The first, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, is a Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle best seller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was the basis for his forum Wednesday evening. The other book, Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, is a Los Angeles Times best seller and Book of the Month Club and History Book Club selection. White also plans to release a biography of Lincoln in 2009, coinciding with the bicentennial of his birth, February 12.
White spent time in Wabash classrooms before his evening talk.
After being introduced by religion major Robert Bloss '09, White began his speech by painting a vivid image of the Lincoln Memorial in his listeners' minds. Throughout the course of the evening he repeatedly asked the audience for their input, and began by asking audience members who had seen the memorial to describe the feeling. Most described a sense of awe, especially one who claimed to see the memorial on April 4, 1968, the night when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
"The typical response is awe," White said. "But awe is not the same thing as understanding."
White illustrated his point by depicting his undergraduate experience in an a capella choir. "The music was beautiful, and it left in me a sense of awe," White explained. "But I didn't understand the music, so I took two music appreciation courses the next year, one in Bach and one in Beethoven. That is what I hope I can do with this forum tonight, is help people understand."
White said Lincoln claimed the second inaugural as his greatest speech throughout his presidency, even though it was not "immediately popular." White then proceeded to his forum to help the audience determine exactly why Lincoln's greatest speech was not immediately popular.
"If you pay attention to political rhetoric today, there is plenty of hyperbole. Lincoln chose to do the exact opposite in the second inaugural. He diminishes expectations."
Lincoln did it through several literary devices, including beginning his address with very generic statements, such as "… little that is new could be presented." White focused his forum on such literary tools.
Lincoln used inclusive language. Instead of demonizing the opponent, as modern politicians would do, Lincoln frequently used the word "all" to refer to the Union and the Confederacy as a unit. "All dreaded it [war]," Lincoln said in the second paragraph, "all sought to avert it." According to White, Lincoln could very easily have echoed the sentiments of his generals, and would have rallied the men and women present, who had all lost a son, husband, or brother to the South. But Lincoln did not do this.
"Instead, he chose not to illicit the emotion of the crowd," White said. Lincoln constantly employed alliteration, one of his favorite devices. In the second paragraph, he did it by repeating the initial letter d eight times. This gave the speech rhythm, or as White aptly described it, "invisible symmetry."
Lincoln used repetition throughout his rhetoric. Within the same paragraph brimming with alliteration, Lincoln repeats the word war to exemplify his understanding of the nature of the war; that is to say, despite the claims of Union generals that the North was in control of the war, they were in fact not in control. The war controlled them.
White continued by arguing Lincoln was not racist due to his extensive discussion of race in the second inaugural, which implies that Lincoln deeply hated slavery. He also claimed Lincoln was more religious than past presidents, who merely mentioned God in their concluding paragraphs. By stark contrast, Lincoln mentioned God 14 times, Scripture four times, and invoked prayer three times in his smallest speech, which contained only 701 words.
Lincoln also made a bold move in his third paragraph, by referring to slavery as "American Slavery," thus placing the blame for the enslavement of Africans on the shoulders of not only Southerners but also the Northerners. He ends the speech with a call for forgiveness of the Confederacy.
White, who read the diaries of people present at the address, explained the speech caused much anger in the crowd, who were deeply grieved by the wrongs suffered at the hands of the South. That was part of his effort to reinforce the thesis that Lincoln was right when he claimed his speech was not immediately popular. White then ended his speech by having the audience read aloud the final paragraph of Lincoln's speech, which called for a "lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
Curiously enough, White was not a student of Lincoln, but decided to "jump into it" after offering an undergraduate seminar on Lincoln at UCLA.
"I was turned on to his words, which I had never noticed before," White said, "and I was struck by how interested the students were."
The effect of the seminar is evident; White speaks about Lincoln with undisguised passion. Describing Lincoln as a tall, gawky man that had a high voice and dressed in a homely fashion, White nevertheless concedes that Lincoln was a powerful speaker that captivated his audience, despite his lack of a formal education and his father's discouragement of reading books.
The event, open to the public, was well received by both the Wabash and Crawfordsville communities.
Jacob Moore '11, a political science major, said, "I was legitimately impressed."
Another political science major, Jacob Surface '11, wished that the forum contained more subjective analysis of Lincoln, such as excerpts from his diary.
"In any case, I still applaud the research done," he said.
Robert Bloss reminded the attendees that the next event in the Lincoln bicentennial series would be a talk given by Anderson University Professor of History Brian Dirck. The talk, entitled "Abraham Lincoln: The Lawyer in the White House", will be hosted Wednesday, November 12.


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Keeping the Poor Poor
Against Anti-Growth Environmentalism
It has become fashionable in some circles to come out against economic growth. Bill McKibben, the author and climate change activist, asserts that "growth may be the one big habit we finally must break." He adds that this is "a dark thing to say, and un-American." Such calls for an end to growth are typically advanced in environmental debates and those about economic globalization. But what does it actually mean to be against economic growth? I argue that to be anti-growth actually implies keeping poor people poor.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. -- Jackie Perez had to undergo a transformation. It's what the Buccaneers needed.
Perez, Barry University women's basketball team's sophomore guard, had grown used to her customary spot on the wing, waiting for someone else to get the ball to her so she could knock down a three. But midway through the season, the Buccaneers coaching staff moved Perez to point guard.
It was an adjustment for the streaky shooting Perez.
"My focus had to switch. I look at it as helping the team whichever way I can, being a versatile player," said Perez, who leads the team with 37 three-pointers. "Even it's an assist, I feel like I'm contributing."
Perez's transformation has been a process. It's an adjustment she and the Bucs have to work through. In the same way, the Bucs have had to change on the fly as well, adjusting as they prepare for a better postseason seed. Barry's win over Florida Southern bumped the Buccaneers out of the basement in the Sunshine State Conference.
Now they hope to string another win together at Saint Leo, where Barry (11-8, 3-7 SSC) meets the Lions (10-10, 5-5) at 2 p.m. Saturday. Saint Leo will be playing its annual Pink Out game to support breast cancer awareness.
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Barry beat Saint Leo last month in Miami Shores, 81-68, for the Bucs' first conference win. Teresa Manigrasso had 15 points, Keishara Green and Chelsea Connelly each had 11 as five Lions scored in double figures in that game. The Lions went on to win three of their next four before dropping its past two since that game in Miami Shores.
"We can't take 'em lightly," Perez said of the Lions. "Just because we beat them the first time doesn't mean we're going to beat them again."
Dominique Dixon scored 20 for the Bucs in the first game against the Lions. Colette Eule and Perez each had 16 points. The three of them combined to dish out 14 assists. Now the distributing role is another Perez has embraced. And she's added some defense to her game as well.
Perez finished with a career-high six steals, matched her career-high with six assists and had 10 points without hitting a three in Wednesday's win. Her game is evolving into more of a complete player.
"I feel like (teams) are expecting the threes," Perez said. "I want to be a player that can provide in whichever way."
More than anything, she and her Bucs teammates want to keep winning. If the season ended today, Barry would be playing in the SSC Tournament play-in game in Kissimmee, Fla., on March 6. The eighth and ninth seeds meet each other in the play-in game. Separated by a half-game from Tampa for the seventh spot, Barry will need wins to avoid the play-in game and keep climbing in the league standings.
"It's hard to play when you're losing," Perez said. "I think (Wednesday's win) switched for most of us that we have to play with heart. I think we realized we could beat any team in this conference. We've been close in every game, but we're finally learning how to put teams away. The coaches do a great job of letting us know our mistakes and our weaknesses. I think we're prepared mentally, more than anything."


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Perennial (annual), generally twining or trailing
Leaves alternate
Inflorescence: cyme or flowers solitary in axils; pedicels often with 2 bracts
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals 5, ± free, overlapping, persistent, often unequal; corolla generally showy, generally bell-shaped, ± shallowly 5-lobed, generally pleated and twisted in bud; stamens 5, epipetalous; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, ovules generally 2 per chamber, styles 12
Fruit: generally capsule
Seeds 14(6)
Genera in family: 50 genera, 1,000 species: warm temp to tropical; some cultivated as ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Cuscutaceae [Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553].
(Family description, key to genera by L.T. Dempster)
Perennial, subshrub from caudex or rhizome, glabrous to tomentose
Stem very short to high-climbing, generally twisting and twining
Leaf generally > 1 cm, linear to reniform, often sagittate to hastate, rarely deeply divided
Inflorescence: peduncle generally 1-flowered; bractlets small and remote from calyx to large and concealing calyx, sometimes lobed
Flower generally showy; corolla glabrous, white or yellow to pink or purple; ovary chamber 1 (septa generally incomplete), stigma lobes 2, generally swollen, cylindric or oblong, ± flattened
Fruit ± spheric, ± inflated
Seeds generally ± 4
Species in genus: ± 25 species: temp, worldwide
Etymology: (Greek: concealing calyx, from bractlets of some)
Reference: [Brummitt 1980 Kew Bull 35(2):327328]
Intergradation common; intermediate forms often difficult to identify. Appears similar to Convolvulus , but anatomy suggests that the 2 genera are not very closely related.
Perennial from rhizome, glabrous to hairy
Stem climbing, < 4 m
Leaf: blade generally 48 cm at midrib, lobed
Inflorescence: peduncle < subtending leaf; bractlets attached just below calyx and ± concealing it, entire, flat or keeled
Flower: sepals generally 1018 mm; corolla 3070 mm, white or pink
Chromosomes: 2n=20,22,24
Ecology: Salt and freshwater marshes
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Deltaic Great Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Transverse Ranges, eastern Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: temperate regions worldwide
Highly variable, many geographic subspp.


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It is with a heavy heart that after almost 30 years, we have made the difficult decision to cease trading under the Subbuteo Natural History Books brand.
The book market has changed significantly during this time. RRPs are no longer protected within the UK, e-books have become more popular at the expense of print and there is heavy competition from global companies whose name and general trading volumes mean they can demand far higher margins than we can. All of these factors combine to make trading in books extremely difficult.
On the reverse side, our core business, CJ WildBird Foods Ltd (of which, Subbuteo Natural History Books is a trading division), is doing exceptionally well. Our bird foods and wildlife care products are available throughout Europe under the CJ Wildlife and Vivara brands and we also source, manufacture and distribute on behalf of a number of third party wildlife organisations. The success and growth of this side of the business has bought about many new and exciting opportunities and continues to grow and develop.
Both of these factors together have led us to the difficult but necessary choice to focus on the wildlife aspect of the business and reduce our focus on the specialist natural history book titles. The Subbuteo webshop therefore ceases to trade from this point onwards.
If you have a book on order please do not worry we will honour this and you can continue to call and email the service team for support.
We are definitely not ceasing to offer books altogether either, just offering them in a different way and ultimately in a more targeted subject area. The options are as follows:
We will continue to stock a wide range of European wildlife books on our CJ and Vivara webshops.
We will also continue to offer a range of books on the specialist shops that we manage:
We will also offer a range of specialist titles, while stocks last, on our Ebay store.
In addition to this if you cannot see what you need we will always try to help - whether that be by offering it as an item for sale or simply using our network/archives to advise you where it can be sourced from.
We hope that in these ways we can still continue to serve you. We also want to thank you very much for your custom and support over the years.
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Virologic and Immunologic Activity of Continued Lamivudine (3TC) vs Delavirdine (DLV) in Combination With Indinavir (IDV) and Zidovudine (ZDV) or Stavudine (d4T) in 3TC-Experienced Subjects
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000882
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : July 29, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Indinavir sulfate Drug: Delavirdine mesylate Drug: Lamivudine Drug: Stavudine Drug: Zidovudine
|Phase 2
Although a change in reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors is recommended when adding or changing protease inhibitors in a treatment regimen, the choice of available RT inhibitors is often limited by prior exposure, toxicity, or pharmacologic interaction with the protease inhibitors. This study addresses the question of whether to continue 3TC or substitute the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) DLV when adding IDV to therapy for patients previously treated with ddI or d4T plus 3TC who have greater than 500 copies/ml of plasma HIV-1 RNA. Although the activity of DLV as monotherapy or in combination with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors is of limited duration due to rapid emergence of resistance, it is possible that DLV will contribute significantly to the activity of 3-drug regimens that include a new RT inhibitor plus a protease inhibitor.
Patients with greater than 500 HIV-1 RNA copies/ml are randomized to 3 treatment arms as follows:
Arm I: d4T + ZDV placebo + DLV + IDV Arm II: ZDV + d4T placebo + 3TC + IDV Arm III: ZDV + d4T placebo + DLV + IDV Treatment on all arms is given for 24 weeks. [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/19/97: The study is no longer partially blinded, and placebo agents are no longer given; treatment duration is now 48 weeks.] [AS PER AMENDMENT 8/24/98: study duration is now 96 weeks.] Rollover patients from ACTG 306 with greater than 500 HIV-1 RNA copies/ml previously assigned to ZDV/3TC are nonrandomly assigned to Arm I; those previously assigned to ddI/3TC or d4T/3TC are randomized to Arm II or III. Non-rollover patients are randomized to Arm II or III. Rollover patients from ACTG 306 with 500 HIV-1copies/ml or less continue on their previously assigned regimen [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/19/98: current regimen must be ZDV/3TC, ddI/3TC, or d4T/3TC.] for the study duration or until an increase occurs. If this increase occurs, patients previously assigned to ZDV/3TC are nonrandomly assigned to Arm I for the remaining study weeks, while those previously assigned to either ddI/3TC or d4T/3TC are randomized to Arm II or III for the remaining study weeks. Patients who received ddI/d4T or ddI/3TC in ACTG 306 are stratified by whether patients received monotherapy or combination therapy during the first 24 weeks [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/19/97: 48 weeks]; [ AS PER AMENDMENT 8/24/98: 96 weeks.] of ACTG 306.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|300 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Virologic and Immunologic Activity of Continued Lamivudine (3TC) vs Delavirdine (DLV) in Combination With Indinavir (IDV) and Zidovudine (ZDV) or Stavudine (d4T) in 3TC-Experienced Subjects
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 1999
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- Patients completing ACTG 306 who remain on blinded therapy through the extension period or
- Patients on stable (6 months or greater) ddI/3TC or d4T/3TC combination therapy who have plasma HIV-1 levels higher than 500 copies/ml by the Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Assay.
Allowed following contact with Protocol Pharmacologist:
- Diltiazem, nifedipine, phenytoin, and warfarin.
Patients must have:
- Absolute CD4 count of 200 cells/mm3 or greater.
- HIV-1 RNA levels greater than 500 copies/ml by the Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor assay. NOTE:
- This is a requirement for those receiving study medication. [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/19/97:
- HIV-1 infection must be documented by any licensed ELISA test kit and confirmed by either Western blot, HIV culture, HIV antigen, plasma HIV RNA, or a second antibody test by a method other than ELISA at any time prior to entry.]
- Signed, informed consent from a parent or legal guardian for patients under 18 years of age.
- Life expectancy of at least 24 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- Unexplained temperature of 38.5 C or higher for 7 consecutive days, or chronic diarrhea defined as more than 3 liquid stools per day persisting for 15 days, within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Proven or suspected acute hepatitis within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Malignancy that requires systemic chemotherapy. NOTE:Patients with minimal Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) fewer than 5 cutaneous lesions and no visceral disease or tumor-associated edema) are allowed to enroll provided that they do not require systemic therapy.
Concurrent Medication:
- Concurrent ZDV (for patients other than those rolling over from ACTG 306).
- Any experimental antiretroviral agents or other experimental therapies.
- Acute therapy for an infection or other medical illnesses within 14 days prior to study entry.
- Recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO), G-CSF, or GM-CSF within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Interferons, interleukins, or HIV vaccines within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Rifampin, rifabutin, cisapride, triazolam, midazolam, terfenadine, astemizole, or loratadine, within 14 days prior to study entry.
Patients with the following prior conditions are excluded:
- History of acute or chronic pancreatitis.
- History of Grade 2 or higher bilateral peripheral neuropathy. [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/19/97: Patients with Grade 2 or 3 peripheral neuropathy due to current use of ddI/3TC or d4T/3TC and who have a screening viral load above 500 copies/ml are eligible as they will be randomized to a regimen that does not contain an agent associated with peripheral neuropathy toxicity.]
Prior Medication:
- Prior NNRTI or protease inhibitor therapy.
- Prior ZDV (for patients other than those rolling over from ACTG 306).
- Previous induction or maintenance therapy with foscarnet.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00000882
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|Study Chair:
|Kuritzkes D
|Study Chair:
|Johnson V
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00000882 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
11332 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS-ES )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 29, 2013
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
RNA, Viral
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Viral Load
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
HIV Protease Inhibitors
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Toni Wild is 50 years old, but she never lies about her age. After surviving breast cancer twice, losing her husband in a freak car accident, and going into heart failure because of the chemotherapy, she considers surviving 50 years one of her greatest achievements.
Now, she's telling her story of survival.
"There were so many twists and turns that could have ended my life, and ended it quite early on," she told ABCNews.com. "I wanted other women and other individuals to hear my story and to see that regardless of what obstacles you may cross in your life, you can overcome those."
Wild's journey began in 1992, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29. She underwent chemotherapy and radiation and was cancer-free for five years. While on a trip with her husband a week after doctors gave her a clean bill of health, they got a flat tire, and he was struck and killed by an oncoming car as he was changing it.
Doctors declared him brain dead, and asked whether Wild wanted to donate his organs, something they'd never talked about before.
"I made that decision," she told the American Heart Association as part of its Go Red for Women campaign. "I was actually able to provide three families with a second chance at life: One with a heart, and two with kidneys, and then several other families with tissue, bone and corneas."
As Wild approached the one-year anniversary of her husband's death, she found another lump in her breast and knew it was cancer. She would have to undergo more chemotherapy and radiation, but again, she became cancer-free in 1998.
But she wasn't healthy. She'd been coughing, but she ignored it, figuring it was just a change-of-season cold. But soon the cough turned into shortness of breath and fatigue, and she had trouble walking around the house.
"I realized something wasn't right," she told ABCNews.com. "I did seek medical attention, and at that time, I was told I had walking pneumonia."
It didn't sit right, so she asked if it could be because of her heart. Wild remembered learning that her chemotherapy was "cardiotoxic," since she'd undergone chemotherapy twice, and she wondered whether a heart problem was causing her symptoms.
"He basically discounted my claim," she told ABCNews.com. "He sent me home with antibiotics and told me I should feel better in 24 to 48 hours."
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But by that time the next day, she was worse.
"I had to choose whether I wanted to eat, breathe or talk because I could not do any of those things at the same time," she said.
An X-ray in the emergency room revealed that Wild's heart was three times the normal size. Two days later, and just three months after her last round of chemotherapy, she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Her heart wasn't able to pump enough blood to the rest of her body.
About 5.7 million people in the U.S. have heart failure, causing 55,000 deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For the next 11 years, Wild lived with varying signs and symptoms of heart failure, but medications and regular rest allowed her to live normally. She remarried in 2000.
But the extreme fatigue and shortness of breath returned when she was 46.
"All my original symptoms sort of came back to haunt me," she said. "It was determined at that point that my heart function had decreased to about 10 percent capacity."
Wild's heart was worn out, and if she didn't get a heart transplant, she would die.
"I just kind of assumed I would sort of be that quintessential little old lady walking around with her little oxygen tank," she said. "I never thought of myself as having to be a transplant recipient."
But a week after doctors put her on the transplant list, the phone rang. She had a heart.
The surgery lasted five and a half hours, but she woke up and felt "like a new person." It was the first time in two months she was able to breathe normally.
"It makes me realize there's so much truth in the statement of 'paying it forward,'" she said. "In 1997, when I decided to donate my husband's organs, I had absolutely no idea, would not even fathom the thought that, years down the road, I would find myself in that exact situation of needing a heart."
Now, she runs simply because she can. She says her donor allowed her to do something she never thought possible, so she doesn't say, "I ran seven half marathons," she says, "We ran seven half marathons."
Four months after her transplant, Wild ran her first 5K. And on Sunday, four years after the transplant, she ran her first full marathon, called Rock 'n' Roll New Orleans.
"I can't explain it. I felt like I was being carried," she said. "Words cannot describe the feeling of accomplishment I have after finishing this marathon, especially because there were some people that doubted the fact that I could do this -- including myself at times in the past."
It took her six hours and 36 minutes because a virus kept her from training for 23 days before the race, but she finished.
"It was absolutely the most incredible day of my life," she said.


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Susannah Harper is my great,great grandmother and I am trying to get a birthdate for her to put on a marker in the small private cemetery in Wilcox County, GA where she is buried. I understand her parents were John Harper, III and his wife Anna living near Bentonville. Susannah married James Brown in 1813 and in 1815 moved to what is now Wilcox County, GA. Based on the Wilcox Co 1860 census she was 73 years old at that time, so that would make her birth year about 1787. If there are any old records or Harper family genealogies available that would indicate her birthdate, I would be most grateful and would, of course, pay any expenses in connection with locating the information.
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The Lady Bisons defeated the Dolphins of Jacksonville 3-2, 5-3 on Sunday afternoon at Crockett Park. Jennifer Cannon went a combined 2-for-6 and was the game one hero as she drove in all three runs.
In game one Jacksonville struck early and scored two runs in the first inning. The Lady Bisons responded with three runs in the bottom of the first inning and would hold onto the lead.
Leigh Little hit a lead off single to right field. Julia Davidson then hit a sac-bunt to move Little to second base. Jessica Wilson walked. Little advanced to third on a wild pitch. Heather Collins popped up to the third baseman. Jennifer Cannon then cleared the bases with a three-run homer to seal the game.
Catalano threw a complete game as she scattered four hits and gave up no earned runs while fanning eight batters in game one. Catalano is now 8-8 and lowered her earned run average to 2.13. Catalano has pitched 12 complete games.
The Dolphins scored two runs off of four hits and committed zero errors. The Lady Bisons scored three runs off of two hits and committed two errors.
In game two starting right-handed pitcher Sara Meek threw 6 solid innings as she scattered seven hits and gave up three earned runs and struck out three. Meek earned the win and is now 7-4 with an earned run average of 3.21.
Allison Tyree relieved Meek in the seventh inning and closed the door on the Dolphins. Tyree gave up zero hits and zero runs while striking out two of the four batters she faced. Tyree also earned her first save of the season. Tyree now has an earned run average of 3.85.
The Lady Bisons improved their record to 20-18 overall and are 10-7 in the A-Sun. The Dolphins fell to 27-26, and 6-7 in the A-Sun.
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Low valuations, market reforms and the prospect of monetary easing were all supposed to bring about a long-awaited turnaround for China's languishing stock market this year, but halfway into 2011 and Chinese stocks have failed to live up to their promise.
Instead, the Shanghai Composite Index is on track to post a disappointing performance for the third year running, when compared to Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index or the S&P 500 .
So far this year, the Shanghai Composite is up 1.5 percent compared to a gain of 4 percent for the Hang Seng Index and a 5 percent gain for the S&P 500 Index.
Stocks in Shanghai have been mired in a slump after declining 22 percent in 2011, when it was one of the worst performing markets in Asia, as a series of credit-tightening measures by the Chinese government hurt investor sentiment.
But analysts who've been predicting a major breakout for the market are still sticking to their views, pinning their hopes on a reversal of monetary tightening as well as financial-sector reforms to stimulate the economy.
Chris Tang of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management told CNBC her firm was sticking to its guns and forecasting a huge rally in the coming years.
"We will see a bull run over the next 24 months," Tang said. "This year there will be a rerating story…We will see the new government pump up the economy very fast, and what's very encouraging is that capital account opening and financial reforms have been much faster than we expected."
Marco Polo expects China's A shares to gain between 200 and 500 percent over the next few years, to hit between 7,500 and 12,500, a forecast the firm made in August last year. The firm's views are at the most bullish end of the spectrum.
What's going to turn things around, analysts believe, will be the China Securities Regulatory Commission's decision in May to allow domestic brokerages, which now get most of their money from trading stocks and underwriting new securities, to expand into futures and derivatives, asset management, private banking and private equity.
China is also making plans to let Chinese insurers manage offshore yuan funds, a business now limited to fund houses and brokerages, giving a potential boost to the financial sector.
Like Tong, Cedric Ma, Convoy Asset Management's Senior Investment Strategist in Hong Kong, is also betting on these reforms to boost Chinese equities in the second half of the year.
"I remain positive about Chinese stock as I think the latest interest rate cut decision, falling inflation, and talk from government officials on, e.g. refocusing on infrastructure projects have indicated the monetary policy is no longer restrictive," he told CNBC.
Ma said even though second-quarter economic data, such as gross domestic product (GDP) will continue to get weaker and there will be no large economic stimulus, the Chinese economy should begin rebounding in the third quarter.
According to him, the Shanghai Composite could hit 2,373 this year, representing an upside of about 7 percent from current levels, bringing the year's gains to about 10 percent.
On the other hand, Goldman Sachs, which forecast that Shanghai stocks would increase 30 percent this year, has adjusted its expectations for the market.
Helen Zhu, Chief China Strategist at the investment bank, said in a report this month that investors had already priced in the government's expansionary measures and Shanghai stocks no longer looked that attractive when compared to stocks in Hong Kong.
"Consensus now expects more China loosening than before, post the recent rate cut and higher than expected (bank) lending in May," she wrote.
Instead, from here on, the main driver of Chinese stocks will be external factors, she said.
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Can anyone help.When my win 2000 system boot's i get the cmd.exe window with a small box in front of it,saying error 53.This happens everytime i boot my system.
Are you on a SMS managed business network? I have seen SMS cause DOS windows to pop up during bootup. I don't know why, but I am wanting to say error 53 is a DNS error or a netbios service not running error (this one is more likely) (one of your services might not be running either because of being disabled or corrupted or your security settings might be getting in the way of mapping the drive). If I had to guess, SMS is trying to mount a network share and you aren't running the necessary services.
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This is only a two system network.PTP.The other system is running win98.The small box that come's up has sex at the top of it.I have run every antivirus program on the system,and it is ok.The win 98 system is ok.
Is your PC set up to map to another server/pc wich is no longer there,,,
I used to get similiar errors..IF so delete yout map and see what happens..
Does it just say error 53 or is it followed by something else...like "file not found" maybe
do a "find files or folders" for *sex*. also do a reg search for sex.
when you find a file with this word, open the directory is in and see what else is there alse look in its sub directories.
a list of the services running on your computer...and a netstat might show something. as nebulus200 pointed out this has to do with dns. if "net use" can not find its target you'll get an error 53. not that this is the case but there's a few worms that use net use in batch files to spread
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Every error 53 that I have seen on NT/W2K have been related to drive mappings that are no longer available or are incorrectly mapped. All you need to do is check around for places where mapping are setup and correct them or remove them. Go into Windows explorer and select Tools > then Map a drive and uncheck "reconnect at startup" on each drive until the error goes away. Trust me, this is your issue.
Other places that mappings are done is in bat files but these can be anywhere. I'd start with windows explorer and then report back to us.
Hope this helps.
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|2012-07-15, 23:56
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Don't worry, you've made yourself clear. I don't expect to see any significant changes to AS' Spoiler policies, or how it handles episode threads, anytime soon.
So I intend to leave this thread until/unless I can come up with a different idea of my own. Thanks for continuing to leave this thread open, as I think it's lead to some helpful discussion.
|2012-07-16, 06:38
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|2012-07-16, 09:02
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I'm frankly more concerned about the problem of spoilage for series without sub-forums. For those, you have options like the ones you've discussed here. The vast bulk of shows don't get a sub-forum, so there are no easy ways to avoid spoilers.
|2012-07-16, 18:11
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I'd just like to forward something a friend of mine said to me last night. This problem isn't confined to AS. It has become global across anime communities/dens, it seems.
|2012-07-16, 19:50
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Ultimately, we need to get to the point where people realize that just having knowledge of the source material is one thing -- being able to recite a list of changes and get mad about it is fine, I guess -- but the real value is being able to perform smart and intelligent analysis and provide useful and relevant insight that adds value even to other novel readers watching the anime. Right now, we're just overwhelmed with simple comparisons because being able to do that is so new. I really question how much value it adds, if any -- it sure isn't very interesting for me to read, anyway.
|2012-07-17, 16:28
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I can understand the principles behind the spoiler policy, but the application is not very helpful to foreign fans. We must always keep in mind that anime are produced with the domestic fans in mind who are familiar with information deleted en mass as spoilers here. Some anime even make almost no sense without spoilers moved to obscure threads (muv-luv/horizon/campione). And some information is deleted, because someone got paranoid and reported it, with a mod not noticing that something has at least been mentioned in the show (Jinrui/Joshiraku/Ebiten).
I am not saying not to delete, warn, or whatever you guys are doing here when someone posts the resolution of an arc or show, but background information that are readily available to the domestic audience and irrelevant to the plot is not a spoiler.
|2012-07-17, 17:08
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I agree with AmeNoJaku that "background information" is not the same thing as a "spoiler".
The problem with anime adaptions is that they have time constraints that prevents them from giving full and complete explanations about the setting which frequently causes the audience to not understand or even completely misunderstand the situation.
Spoiler in my book is when you tell something that has yet to happened or that has yet to be revealed, not something that was supposed to be told already in the original story but which was lost in adaption.
If this forum's policy forbids any kind of information that isn't esplicitly mentioned in the adaption, I suggest to specify that, rather than simply forbid "spoilers" as this can cause confusion.
|2012-07-17, 17:25
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|2012-07-17, 17:35
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how often does that happen in chronologically ordered anime
My point is that in spoilers here are included a lot of facts well known to domestic fans that the anime producers assume also as known when they make the shows we watch. By deleting them makes conversation between native english fans and the rest of the world including the domestic fans the least harder.
|2012-07-17, 17:37
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|2012-07-17, 17:49
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in muv-luv secondary background information are moved to threads filled with actual spoilers. These info are necessary to give the setting some believability, and the production staff assumes that are know... but even if they weren't they present no plot point, like the example you mentioned.
in jinrui, some claim that episode titled are spoilers, others that the corresponding volume numbers are, and then a mod jumped in to delete them because he didn't understand that events are taking place out of order
again no information about the content and/or future/past events were revealed, just a fact implied within the show, and generally well known to the domestic audience, that for some incomprehensible reason is very bad to know
|2012-07-17, 17:54
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Anyway if I understand correctly the case you mentioned is related to events that are plot related and not "common lore" about the setting which doesn't make much difference whether you learn it sooner or later.
I can mention on this regard the fact that often the anime adaption sites themselves often offer that kind of information for those people who wants to know more about the setting about things that couldn't be explained in depth in the anime itself.
|2012-07-17, 18:08
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|2012-07-17, 19:28
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While it was helpful to create setting and military/geopolitical threads to clear things up, those threads are pretty much glorified Q&A threads that give a LOT of details on the franchise. I don't really mind myself, as the more info for me to digest the better, but for someone who might want to jump into the world of Alternative or Ultimate, well...
We're put in a position where the setting doesn't make sense, people who know of the setting can't explain because it might be considered a spoiler even if it's not even about the events of the show, and to have things make sense the curious person is to be directed to the game threads... which are more or less 100% spoilers for the main series instead.
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|2012-07-17, 19:51
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You're right. The current situation makes it harder for people to pick and choose what they'll spoil themselves on. It's a bit more all-or-nothing.
|2012-07-17, 19:51
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reading #hikaributts
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This is probably similar to Muv-Luv that has already established quite some backstory because of it's previous games. The difference is that the Western people know less about Muv-Luv than Fate stay night.
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|2012-07-17, 20:31
|Link #77
The intensified spoilers policy has a big effect to the threads. It seems either members are afraid to post ( might accidentally type a spoiler) or use the spoiler tags (if their post would be appropriate). Kinda scary, but a policy is a policy.
|2012-07-17, 22:02
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Let me be really blunt here: if people want to watch the anime without the "benefit" of the source material, even if "makes no sense", even if you think you're "expected" to know certain things, even if you think "all the fans in Japan know this" (hint: they don't; there are anime-only viewers there too), you have to give them that right. It's not up to source material readers to decide what anime-only viewers should and shouldn't know. You can present comparisons to what was currently aired behind properly-labelled spoiler tags. And, in cases where it's really, really required, we can create a separate thread for "background information that you may want to know", as I did with Muv-Luv (after discussing with some familiar with the source). But we on the staff will not allow source material readers to be the judge of what anime-only viewers "need to know". We have rules to determine where conversation has to reside. There is an acceptable place for almost every kind of post, even if it isn't where you think it's supposed to be. If people want to spoil themselves on information that may help them make sense of things that confuse them, they are free to make that choice and to partake. But in the meantime, if you try to make an executive decision on their behalf, you may be banned for it. Be prepared.
Will it be explained/covered later? NOT OK.
Is it just a supplement to what was already shown? SPOILER TAG IT.
If you have nothing to say about the anime except to talk about the source, then just go to the source thread or spoilers & speculation for shows with sub-forums.
The bottom line is: respect the right of anime-only viewers to experience the show and the related discussion without any outside information. If people can do that, the rules are just clarifying what should come naturally. It's not like we made the rules because we needed rules; it's just a formalization of what for some of us was already common practice.
(And by the way, the policy hasn't actually changed. We just re-worded it and made the penalties a bit clearer because some people didn't seem to be getting it despite attempts to try to point it out in the threads.)
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|2012-07-17, 22:20
|Link #79
Just to be sure. Its ok to use a spoiler tag if I'm about to post a reaction for the "latest episode" of an anime in the Current Series Thread? If there is no Per Episode Impression thread for that anime that is.
By the way, I'm an anime viewer only anime fan without access to LNs or manga.
|2012-07-17, 22:26
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All that to say, if you watched it subbed and have no comparisons, you don't need a tag.
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When we set up the new forums, there was a bit of discussion about having a freebies forum/threads, basically a place where we can list freebies from around the web. I've been thinking about it and would like to get your input on it.
1. Does this sound like a useful idea? What would make it useful?
2. How should it be organized? Who should be able to post?
3. Do you want to moderate it?