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#BreakingNews 7 People Killed as Christians and Muslims Fight over inter-faith Dating - Please Pray
Seven persons were killed, yesterday, while 15 others were injured, as Christian and Muslim youths clashed at Kasuwan Magani, Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The clash was over forcible conversion and dating of girls of opposite faith. Several houses were also set ablaze in the bloody clash.
There were rumors of an attempt to forcibly convert some Christian girls who were allegedly taken to the residence of the local chief. .
A statement by his spokeman, Samuel Aruwan, said while condemning the incidence, Governor El-Rufai expressed his sympathy to those affected by the incidence.
The governor urged all citizens and communities to reject violence and division, and uphold their neighbours in peace and harmony.
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A GALACTIC HOLIDAY: In Snippets
We are thrilled to be here and talk a little about out sci-fi romance holiday anthology, A GALACTIC HOLIDAY. But instead of us doing the talking, we thought we’d let our stories do the talking. Here are a few exclusive sneak peeks into A GALACTIC HOLIDAY!
WINTER FUSION by Anna Hackett
Opening line: “Seduce her.”
Savan smiled. “Best Yule gift I ever received.”
She raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t it the only Yule gift you’ve received?”
He brushed some strands of hair off her cheek, fingering the golden silk between his fingers. “It wouldn’t matter if I’d received hundreds.”
Throat tight, Savan just stared at her, willing her to listen. But he couldn’t find any words, let alone the right words. His tongue felt too big, his lips clumsy.
He, the master negotiator, couldn’t find anything to say.
Ex-space marine Savan Bardan survived the Galactic Wars to become the most ruthless trade negotiator in the galaxy. His planet needs energy to survive, and he’ll do anything to close the deal for the Perman fusion crystals that can provide it—even if it means seducing his beautiful, infuriating opponent, a rival icier than her planet.
Perma’s top negotiator, Brinn Fjord, lost her father when Savan delayed her planet’s Trade Guild membership years ago. She hates the handsome Rendarian and the planet he represents. She’s determined to finish the deal and get rid of him as quickly as possible, so she can celebrate the holidays.
But soon the rival negotiators are in a fight for their lives. Besieged by mysterious accidents and unforgiving weather, Brinn and Savan have no one to depend on but each other. As they put the past aside, they uncover a desire hot enough to melt ice, and Brinn discovers a secret that may keep them apart.
GALILEO’S HOLIDAY by Sasha Summers
Opening line: She hung upside down, her small, gloved hands tightly gripping the heavy pneumatic socket driver to the plate braces.
“Cookies? Pixies? Fairies? Holiday? It’s like you’re speaking a foreign language, Marguerite. I don’t understand any of it.” She moved around Marguerite to the long electrical panel. “But I can fix your heat sensor. That I understand.”
“Leo, you’re wet.” Rex shook his head. “You’re supposed to take off your clothes when you bathe.”
“Leo wasn’t in the bath,” Walt offered.
“But Riley was.” Iggy scratched his head.” So we’re trying to figure out how Leo here ended up dripping wet…”
Ice miner Riley works alone in the depths of space, and that’s the way she likes it. She’s proud of her independence, and when her ship gets destroyed by raiders on the icy surface of Galileo, she’s not sure she wants to rely on rakish trader Leo and the kindness of a band of settlers to survive.
Despite her attempts to keep her distance, it’s not long before Riley warms to the family atmosphere of the settlers’ station. As Galileo’s Holiday approaches and she develops feelings for the handsome, charming Leo, she questions whether she really wants to remain alone.
But Leo is hiding cargo the raiders want, and when they come back for it, everyone on the small station is in danger. Riley will risk anything to protect her new friends—because if the raiders succeed, the choice between Leo and a life alone won’t be Riley’s to make.
HOW THE GLITCH SAVED CHRISTMAS by Stacy Gail
Opening line: “…one-year anniversary of the death of Chicago’s hometown hero, Delbert Vincent Conrad, otherwise known as the father of androids.”
“You’re crossing boundaries. Boundaries that have been there between us for two years.”
“When you put it like that, I can’t believe I’ve wasted that much time. Boundaries were made to be crossed, Reina,” he added when her gaze flew to his in a heated awareness she couldn’t hide. “One by one, I’m crossing them all.”
“I’m just trying to warm you up.”
“Congratulations, you’re doing a bang-up job of it.” His head lowered, and his eyes drifted shut as he brushed his face over her hair. “God, Reina. I didn’t know you smelled like heaven and sin all rolled into one. If I had, I would have done this a lot sooner.”
She pulled in a breath to ask him what he was doing when his mouth slid down her cheek to unerringly capture hers.
Reina Vedette chose principle over position when the Chicago police department ordered her to accept performance-enhancing body modifications or lose her rank. Demoted to a level one detective, Reina’s stuck chasing a bizarre, Grinch-in-reverse break-in case with fiery bod-mod enthusiast and level five top detective Edison Wicke.
Wicke has had his eye on Reina for ages, and as the two of them hunt down the benevolent burglar, they take turns warming each other with body heat in the subzero Chicago winter. Despite professional friction and their opposing views on bod-modding, Reina soon has to admit that she and Wicke are perfect for each other.
But when they track down their philanthropic quarry on Christmas Day, an unexpected glitch in a homemade android brings out Reina’s emotional side, and she and Wicke must decide whether love between a Neo-Luddite and a “walking toaster” is a gift that either of them can give.
So, this year, why not celebrate the holidays sci-fi style with an off-world Yule, a Galilean Holiday and a futuristic Christmas?
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Leather Synthetic Upper Lining. Comfortable sole. Perfect for wedding or formal wear. Also suitable for fancy casual or party wear. Available in Euro Size 14-25. For more sizing information, including European-Australian shoe size conversion, please refer to our size guide.
Boys Formal Leather Shoes 1YR-3YR Black. Genuine leather upper and lining insoles. Soft and flexible leather upper with rubber soles. Light, comfy and breathable on little feet. For help with size please check the size guide.
White formal boys lace-up shoes. Shiny leather simulating appearance. Soft leather lining and rubber soles provide gentle touch to little feet. Round toe with lace up fastening. Perfect for formal occasions, christenings or just dressy casual wear. For help with shoe size please refer to the size guide.
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“All my failures can be traced to my silence” ~ incredible words, soul piercing words from Danielle LaPorte.
Just as sure as your sitting reading this, you have experiences with life. In Danielle’s words……Does someone you love (or you) need a little nudge to speak up?
Craft your story, a story. Even if you decide to not share it publicly, it will be a good experience for you. Storytellers are happier in life and love, their brains are more active and engaged and how about that cleansing feeling when you have something/an experience bottled up inside and you finally let it go!
Speaking about letting it go, after the first evening together I already have my title……….”It’s Just a Freakin Enema”
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Daily Paper 2015 Fall/Winter Collection
Amsterdam based label Daily Paper returns with visuals of its latest men’s offering. The look book portrays the brand’s tradition of presenting elevated menswear staples while adding its own unique aesthetic. For the artworks used on patches and prints Daily Paper looked in to the history of Burkina Faso for inspiration. The Fall/Winter collection maintains the brand’s hallmark patterns and Identity remains an important factor at Daily Paper that always finds a way to incorporate the founder’s Dutch and African heritage in its collections. For the artworks used on patches and prints Daily Paper looked in to the history of Burkina Faso for inspiration. Most of the prints and artworks are inspired from military emblems worn and used in Burkina Faso under the rule of one of Africa’s most revolutionary leaders Thomas Sankara. Thomas Sankara was viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution and is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”. For this collection a variety of different fabrics has been utilized such as lambs wool, woven cotton and nylon to provide a mix of formal and casual looks. Vintage military inspired jackets are matched with piquet polo’s, while a selection of cotton twill bottoms complete the looks of this season. | <urn:uuid:28b50d37-3b59-4692-84f1-7ef32adc18c2> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://blog.wishatl.com/2015/11/06/daily-paper-2015-fallwinter-collection/ | 2019-11-21T15:38:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670921.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121153204-20191121181204-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.932598 | 279 | [
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Jennifer Hulse Russo
Jennifer discovered yoga in college after a rigorous span in competitive athletics. She was immediately drawn to yoga for its ability to heal and transform, and she has continued practicing yoga for over 25 years.
Jennifer is now a “recovering” lawyer since retiring from a busy law career spanning 15 years. In 2015, Jennifer decided to take the next step on her yoga path by completing her 200-hour teacher certification to become a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and she has since completed the first module of her 500-hour teaching certification to expand her teaching expertise. In an unexpected twist of fate, Jennifer is also the owner of The Green Pineapple Wellness Center and Green Pineapple Yoga, another step on her journey of bringing wellness and the yoga lifestyle to all.
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In the last decade, the popularity, availability, and complexity of internet-based learning increased dramatically. The most noteworthy and significant changes are in the educational and technological strategies created by developers working in advanced online education platforms.
While the massage profession may be slow to adopt advanced forms of online learning, the influence of online technology and its capability to improve learning though design is changing the overall educational landscape. We can be sure that this trend will influence massage education significantly in the near future. This powerful trend is inspiring reviews of our current (and often antiquated) theories and best practices in teaching and learning.
Educators might argue that using technology for massage education decreases the quality of learning or suppresses the “art” side of massage (the intuitive). Those that describe themselves as “kinesthetic” learners – and therefore claim that online learning does not work for them – may have yet to be exposed to the designs in online learning that in fact could work quite well for them.
Like any physical skill, the elements of massage – the palpatory and motor skills – that are the tools of the trade are still best learned through hands-on practice. Entry-level massage technique is still most effectively done with a teacher present who can guide the student in specific movement skills.
However, massage is not a sport and is much more than a series of moves. As the profession gains acceptance as a legitimate healthcare profession, there are expectations for practitioners to have solid foundations that inform their treatments. New research in learning shows that the quality of instructional design is far more important than the method of delivery (online vs. classroom) when determining outcomes.1 Consequently, an online course with very high-quality instructional design will produce superior results to a poorly designed classroom course and vice versa.
Quality in courses runs the gamut in all fields of study, regardless of method. To fully appraise how effective online learning might be for an individual or curriculum, it is important to know more about the design: who authored the course content, who designed the course, and what platform and technological design supports the course. Additionally, what educational theories ground the design and how does the course reflect that.
This article highlights key concepts in online learning that could significantly improve the competence and quality of education in the massage profession at the entry level and in continuing education.
What Does Online Learning Look Like?
First, it is very important to distinguish between e-learning and online learning. Knowing the fundamental differences allows students and educators to decipher between what is truly online and what is not. There is inconsistency in terminology but e-learning is a broad category that includes almost any type of technology-based learning and got its start in technology or computer-based training (computer, video, audio, etc). The DVD could be considered, in the most remedial way, e-learning.
However, online learning courses are taught through an internet-based platform (thus the name online). These courses are able to (but don’t always) integrate a wide range of educational and technological design because they use internet platforms that have capabilities not available in static technologies such as a DVD.
The most advanced of these platforms offer the greatest advances in competency-based learning design. This is why the most reputable universities are integrating the medium and have entire departments for online educational design and technology. In contrast, the massage profession has adopted only the most remedial of the online options available.
Currently, few courses in our profession provide a learning experience that employs advanced educational theory and technological design. There is a distinct difference in course quality between those which simply offer a downloadable PDF and an online test, with maybe a webinar or video, and the course that has more highly engaging elements such as branching scenarios, virtual learning elements, and advanced interactivity.
In this article I focus on courses taught through an internet platform and not technology-based courses (i.e. video and book-based distance education courses) because the technologies and designs I discuss are only available through more complex online platforms.
Increasingly, educators of all types are integrating online elements into their curriculum while still conducting part of the learning activities in the classroom – these are called hybrid courses. There is huge potential for this style of learning, in which complex, cognitive instruction is done online and students engage in various activities and practice skills in class.
Online courses are either synchronous or asynchronous, meaning students either take the course at the same time or in a self-paced format on their own times, respectively. Scheduling difficulties are an obstacle to synchronous courses because everyone has to be online at the same time. Asynchronous course activities can be performed any time, to fit the learners’ schedule and pace. Consequently, flexibility is a primary advantage of asynchronous learning.
The vast majority of what are called “online” courses in massage are text and test. In this format, the learner is given written materials (ex: book or PDF) and then required to take an online test. There is no online learning per se. Instructional designers would argue these are not true online courses but distance education courses with an online test. Often erroneously called ‘online learning’, they are so pervasive many think this is all there is to online learning (thus the repeated bad reviews of online learning).
Online courses are prevalent now within the massage profession (mainly in continuing education), but they are usually text and test (see Box), or webinars, video, and other passive learning designs with simple online tests. As in the university setting where undergraduates are sometimes hired to write course content and tests, some courses are not designed by content experts, and more importantly, not designed by someone trained in multimedia learning theory and course design. Thus, the potential for improved learning is lost.
Unfortunately, poorly designed courses create a negative perception about online learning overall. Yet, there are outstanding learning strategies and models in online platforms that can be used in massage education.
A course in which you work directly with an instructor is called a facilitated course. Like a classroom, the instructor is available to interact with students – answering questions, grading or providing feedback on assignments, and providing instruction. As one would assume, online entry-level courses are more effective when an instructor is available. Most facilitated online courses in our field are offered at entry level. It is rare to find facilitated online courses in continuing education.
Simulations, Contextualized Learning, & Formative Feedback
A common pitfall in education is the failure to connect what happens in the classroom with what occurs in real life. For example, students may score high on a kinesiology test, but then not know whether a range-of-motion test involves concentric or eccentric action. Innovatively designed online courses are capable of producing realistic learning scenarios. Technological advances allow for creating fascinating and engaging learning simulations that reflect contexts students are likely to encounter in practice. These learning activities without a doubt are far more interesting than reading content from a textbook.
The more a learning activity is contextualized, the greater the potential for long-term integration of the concepts. Learning and knowledge transfer are far more effective if content is presented in a context similar to how it will eventually be used in practice. Innovative online learning designs can create simulations and scenarios where the learning activity requires the individual to apply specific concepts just the way they would in practice. This is actually quite difficult to do individually in the physical classroom.
Additionally, online technology and programming allow activities to be immediately followed up with formative feedback, which is detailed student feedback intended to modify and expand learners’ understanding. Many times in a learning activity, the student is only told if an answer is correct or incorrect, but never why. Without understanding the rationale behind their responses, they don’t have the opportunity to improve and fully understand the concepts.
Formative feedback is directly connected to the student activity at that moment and thus is highly personalized. In the classroom, individualized, formative feedback is often very difficult to provide to each student. However, instructors using high quality online instructional designs can program this feature into the course.
For several years medical schools have been using a new learning strategy called virtual patients, in which students interact with a simulated patient in an online environment. These are currently expensive and complex to produce but highly effective. I use a modified virtual patient/client format in online courses and find it exceptionally effective for teaching key clinical concepts and developing clinical reasoning skills that were otherwise escaping students in the traditional classroom.
Students report that virtual patient cases are a far more interesting way to learn. Learning to implement the core knowledge needed for advanced practice in context is a key benefit that comes with advanced online design. Students have time to consider various facets and details of a case over a longer period of time than might be possible in the classroom. Time for integration and concept application helps deepen understanding and solidify student knowledge and skills.
Perhaps the most exciting development in the online world is the emergence of adaptive learning strategies. Providing an educational experience that fits everyone has always been a challenge. Yet most classroom learning still revolves around a one-pace-fits-all classroom presentation. In adaptive learning, course content adapts to the learner’s mastery of previous content. An online course can be designed to recognize when a student has mastered initial stages, so highly skilled students can move to more challenging parts of the course more quickly. A student who needs or wants more help with early course concepts can be presented with additional information so they can master understanding before moving ahead.
Adaptive learning strategies dramatically reduce student frustration with standardized courses. Teachers can’t deliver classroom content in a different format for each student in the classroom, but the online course can be programmed with personalized adaptive learning elements, which is an advantage for teacher and student alike.
Incredible potential exists with effective online learning in massage therapy education. However, as with any new innovation, there are challenges. Instructor training is by far the greatest. A common misconception for online course development is that it is relatively easy, with some instructors simply posting their course content to the web and calling it an online course.
However, we know from multimedia learning theory that the instructional design strategies for an effective online course are very different from those of a classroom course. Effective teaching in the classroom doesn’t necessarily transfer to the online environment. Online teaching requires a completely different set of skills, with significant study and diligent practice.
Course development is the next challenge. In many, if not most, physical classrooms one individual is responsible for being the subject matter specialist and constructing educational activities. The successful online course requires a subject matter expert (SME), someone who understands and can produce effective multimedia instructional design (Instructional Designer), and a technology development specialist (Developer) who develops the course in an online platform and ensures it works correctly. It is rare to find these qualities in one individual.
Finally, online courses require complex and advanced software programs and training whose costs may be challenging for schools or educators. Usually a school or educator works with a company who specializes in online course development, rather than trying to produce courses in-house. There are a variety of financial arrangements that can be made with online course development and hosting companies, but it is not always easily affordable. An ideal company would have both an instructional designer and a technology expert, with the school instructor or consultant acting as SME.
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Today I bit the bullet and went to the, ahem, Buffalo Athletic Club after work. I got up onto the elliptical machine. That is the machine I have been using! And who was on the next one but the famous lawyer Leroy Johnson.
Leroy Johnson and I began talking even though I had my Shuffle all loaded up with Leonard Pennario playing the Schumann Fantasy. I have been binging on that recording anyway recently. I should not have been letting myself listen to it again. So I was talking to Leroy and I will tell you this right now, this is the secret to a successful workout. You need to land yourself next to him.
He told me about this unbelievable personal injury case he had just read about. He was looking up some precedent or other and he found this case.
What happened was, some guy was at a graveside funeral service. And he bent over to lay a rose down on the grave.
And he tripped.
And he fell into the grave!
I am telling you the truth. And on the way down, if I am remembering this correctly, his ankle caught on the casket and pulled the casket down with him. And the casket opened in the fall! And the body fell out and fell on top of this guy!
So here he is lying in this grave with this body on top of him and the casket on top of both of them!
I am sorry but I just could not stop laughing. I was laughing so hard that the machine got mad and started flashing "PEDAL FASTER." I could not pedal faster. I could not move!
The story ends happily with the guy being awarded half a million dollars for all his pain and humiliation at future family gatherings. "Because the rest of his life, you know that would be all people would talk about." That is what Leroy told me.
I told him, half a million! Wow!
Push me into a grave, someone!
I get humiliated at family gatherings routinely and no one ever compensates me!
With which, I got pedaling again somehow and Leroy kept on telling me stories. And here I had set the machine on a tough fat-burning course and I was dreading these tough interludes, when the resistance would be really high. And because of Leroy I got through these parts without noticing it. I glanced down at the screen and the tough parts were behind me. I could not get over that.
Leroy was also gabbing about that guy down in Virginia who is being executed tonight.
"Do you think they'll televise it?" he asked. "They've shown him. They've shown the chair. They've shown everything else."
Then the six o'clock TV news came on and showed Brian Davis and Leroy said: "I don't know why he doesn't just resign."
And so the time passed. And passed.
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Among other things I’ve been doing, I have been making some clothing! Several months back I fell in love with the Philip Jacobs (for Westminster Fabrics, he’s part of the KFC: Kaffe Fassett Collective of designers) petunia print in the blues. I was able to order it from Glorious Color (on Blue petunia fabric by Philip Jacobs, for as long as it is in stock!). Philip designs (gloriously) for both Rowan and for his own line, Snow Leopard. See his Westminster fabrics here or visit his Facebook page here. He also has a horse named Neddy who approves his designs (grin!).
I used a pattern I have had in my stash for a while and that is wildly popular: the Schoolhouse Tunic by Sew Liberated. You can find it in many quilt shops including Alewives Fabrics (one of my great local shops). The direct link to the pattern on the Alewives site is Schoolhouse Tunic. An alewife, by the way, is a type of fish. They are common in the area and they spawn by going upstream–just behind the shop. You can always tell when the Alewives are running in spring because every sea bird, gull, cormorant in a many-mile-radius is squawking and flying about!
I have some jersey (t-shirt type) fabric–another splurge purchase at Alewives–that I want to use to make another one. For that one, I will not use such a deep hem. My size, alas, has increased somewhat. I had thought by using the next-to-largest size I would have ample room for a shirt underneath. I have room, just not ample room. So when I make it in the jersey, I don’t think I will do the usual “go down a size to make up for the stretch.” I can easily fine tune the fit by taking deeper seams on the sides if I decide I need to do that.
This top was one of the projects I sewed on Janome’s new Skyline S7 machine, which I will review on Monday, October 26th. I used the blind hem stitch to overcast the edges.
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TEPCO has reported on the frozen wall nine months after Japan’s nuclear regulator expressed skepticism about the wall’s effectiveness. Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority chairman Toyoshi Fuketa suggested last March that the wall was only partially effective. He considered the effort to pump water out of the subdrain system around the reactors to play a considerable role in the reduction of groundwater infiltrating the reactor buildings.
TEPCO estimated back in March that 189 tons of contaminated water per day would be created by groundwater infiltration without the ice wall. TEPCO’s October report documents 97 tons of contaminated water, a combination of groundwater and rainwater infiltration that were pumped out per day.
Precipitation in Fukushima for 2018 to date has been lower than in recent years. The plant site managed to not receive any direct hit by typhoons passing through the region. This may have caused more favorable conditions that did not provide a major challenge to the ice wall and groundwater transfer systems.
The newest graph documenting water transfers of groundwater and rainwater infiltration show that the amount of water in need of removal has stayed down since the frozen wall system was fully implemented. This doesn’t mean that contaminated water is not continuing to leak out of the site or that the frozen wall itself is the sole cause for improvement. As the NRA has highlighted, the combination of actions taken may have created the improved situation. A summer of more severe rainfall and typhoons could still prove a challenge to these systems. TEPCO’s full report in English can be found here.
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To be honest, I was not looking forward to seeing The Post, which is surprising since I am usually anxiously awaiting Steven Spielberg’s films. While I do appreciate the genre, there’s just something about films featuring hardworking, honest journalists fighting against the man that doesn’t excite me. Maybe it was Spielberg’s craftsmanship, or Streep’s intriguing character, or the way the events in the film seem to parallel recent news, but The Post has grown on me in two days in ways that All The President’s Men or Spotlight have not in years.
In the film, The Washington Post is at a crossroads. It is being led by a woman, Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) a first for a major newspaper. And a huge story about how the past few presidents, including current president Nixon have been lying to the public about the war in Vietnam has just fallen on their reporters’ desks. The problem is, The New York Times published about this story earlier, and is now being barred by the president for writing more about it. Should The Post risk backlash and even collusion by running their piece?
The decision on whether to publish or not ultimately comes down to Graham. She realizes all that is at stake, not only the paper’s integrity and jobs, but the how their investors will react and even the possibility of her going to prison. Scenes where Graham laments that she was never really meant to run the paper illuminate the magnitude of this decision even more. The paper was her father’s who passed it down to her husband and after his suicide, Graham had to run it, after years of not being in the workforce.
Streeps performance as Kay Graham humanizes this film as she tries to navigate what is traditionally a man’s role. She feels out of place in her position of power because that’s what she’s been taught to feel. Yet she rises to the occasion well, even if she is secretly second guessing herself at every turn. Streep’s performance is the only other Oscar nomination The Post received besides Best Picture.
One of the most striking scenes is when reporters gather with Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) at his home to start reading The Pentagon Papers. Ben Bagdikian (Bob Odenkirk) brings them in two large cardboard boxes, tied with rope. As the reporters dive in, they realize that none of the over 4000 pages are in any order and all the page numbers have been cut off. They work together for hours, making piles and stacks all around the room and trying to piece these clues together, while Bradlee’s wife brings the reporters sandwiches and his daughter sells them lemonade.
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Look up in the sky this New Year's Eve, and you're likely to see something other than a fireworks show.
If you’re looking for something in the sky on the night of New Year’s Eve that’s a little more grandiose than a fireworks show, how about a visit from a comet? NASA says a comet will be near the moon and visible to those looking west on New Year’s Eve, although you’ll need binoculars to see it.
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, which was named for the astronomers who discovered it all the way back in 1948, completes its orbit every 5.25 years and was first visible on Dec. 15 in the low western horizon. On New Year’s Eve, it will appear near the moon, observable from the Northern Hemisphere.
The comet will reach its maximum brightness when it swings back around the sun in 2017, achieving a magnitude 6, which will make it as bright as a faint star to the naked eye.
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Are the Nets really out of the Carmelo Anthony sweepstakes?
Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Nets, announced at a Wednesday press conference that his team is ending negotiations on a trade to acquire Carmelo Anthony.
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India Adventure – Day 1
I am sitting in O’Hare Airport, terminal 2 waiting to board my first flight to Toronto on Air Canada. I have to say, I love airports. The mix of so many people from so many different places and all with a different story on where they are going and why.
The first leg of my journey was fantastic! Anyone living in Madison, and if you are looking to go to Chicago (Airport or Downtown) I highly recommend the bus. I took an Uber from my house to the bus pick up location (800 University on the UW Campus) and it was only $10. I boarded the bus at 8:30am, and I was dropped off right at my gate by 11:15. Round trip bus ticket is $60.00. You can’t go wrong for that price.
I checked in at my gate flying Air Canada, and I loved how the attendants interchanged english and french. Madame Meyer would be proud that I could understand bits and pieces of what they were saying.
First stop, magazine shop – air travel is the time to allow myself the guilty pleasure of buying trashy gossip magazines, grab a giant bottle of water and find a quite spot to charge up and reflect on the journey I am about to begin.
Am I nervous? Not really, it is more nervous excitement. I think my mother is worrying enough for me, but then again, no matter what age you are, that’s what Moms do.
For those of you who don’t know I am going to India to do volunteer work with the organization Sankalp Volunteer. Five years ago, I did an international service trip to Swaziland with the organization Heart for Africa. It was one of most amazing trips of my life. I have been searching since then to find other organizations with a program similar to Heart for Africa. I love the fact that I can pay a flat fee (some people do fundraise for their trips, but I do enough of that in my day to day world) and everything is taken care of when I get there. Place to stay, meals, travel within the country and I have people that can speak the language and help me navigate this new land. The best part of these types of trips is getting to actually experience real people and day to day life. You are not just hitting the “tourist” parts.
Getting to experience different cultures, meet new people and see new corners of the word is why I continually have a wanderlust for travel. Wisconsin will always be my home, but the world is my playground.
Day 1 – Extended
My first flight out of Chicago to Toronto went well. We had a slight delay in boarding, and in that time while waiting, I struck up a conversation with a cute guy from London, all from saying “Bless You” when he sneezed. I must admit, I think the British accent is one of the sexiest accents out there. I was hoping by fate, we would have been sitting next to each other, but, he was 5 rows up from me. He did look behind at me as he was exiting the plane and gave me a little smile and wink. Swoon!
The Toronto airport has a very weird set up when you get off the plane. You are confined to this long glass corridor, that you keep walking until you are escorted by an airline worker to a customs area and then you are allowed in the main gate area to find your connecting international flight. I had to pee so bad when I got off the plane, and when I asked the lady, who was going to escort me to the next area where the bathroom was, she said not until your gate, half way across the airport. She then said, let me take you to this one downstairs for staff. She was so nice. I don’t think I would have made it across the airport.
I finally got to my gate for my flight to Delhi. We had a 30 minute delay. Instead of 9:20, boarding was at 9:50. As I looked around, there was people from all ethnic backgrounds waiting to board. In this one area we have people that speak many different languages, but the one thing that transcends in any language is a smile. By just smiling at someone – being a flight attendant, fellow passenger, gate attendant, you can see their mood and face change.
We board the plane, and there is some weather in Toronto that delays us on the tarmac. Our plane has to be de-iced. We sat on the tarmac waiting for takeoff for an hour and 20 min. I didn’t really notice the time because thank goodness we have a tv screen in the headrest of the seat in front of us. I was busy watching Bad Moms! Finally in the air – total flight time is 12.5 hours and my eta to Dehli is now 11:00pm.
From Day 1 to Day 3 –
It is now 7:45am on December 23 – I made it to my new home for two weeks in Jaipur. It reminds me of the youth hostels I stayed in when I was in Scotland and did the whole backpacking thing. It was a little bit of an adventure to get here. I got off the plane and got through customs, exchanged some money, got my bag and then walked toward the exit and I was never so happy to see a middle aged Indian gentlemen holding up a piece of paper with my name on it. He was my driver to take me to Jaipur.
It is about 280 Kilometers from Delhi to Jaipur. After 14+ hours of being on a plane, I had another 5+ in a car. We left the airport about midnight. The city was still jammed pack with traffic and as we hit the highway I couldn’t believe how many vehicles where on the road at that time of night. My driver told me his name, but I don’t remember what it is. He barely spoke any english, so it was a quite car ride besides the Indian music playing. I was amazed at all the little open “roadside” shops along the highway. We got about an hour in and my driver stopped to eat, I was not hungry so I stayed in the car while he ate at a roadside stand. I didn’t know if I wanted to be that adventurous only 2 hours being in India. We get back on the road and a little while later stop for gas. Navigating the Indian traffic was insane. There is no way in hell I could EVER drive in this country. No one uses the lanes, people are darting in and out of switching imaginary lanes and I think a few times there was only inches between us and the next vehicle with the tailgating, oh, and lets not forget all the honking.
It is about 3am now, and my driver asks if he can pull over to sleep an hour. I don’t want him falling asleep, so I say ok. He pulls over along the highway, and puts his seat back and is snoring in 2 minutes. By this time, I am exhausted as well, so I do the same. A little cat nap off an Indian highway at 3am with a strange guy that just picked me up….. Brave or stupid… not sure, but all turned out ok. Back on road by 4:30. At about 5:30, my driver says stop for tea? I think he says stop to pee, so I am all for it. Lost in translation there. Either way, we accomplish both. About half hour out of the city, we stop at this open roadside shop/cafe and we order chia tea. It was surreal — here I am in India, at 5:30am drinking tea from a road side stand off the highway taking in all the sites and sounds around me.
I get to the house at about 6am, just as the sun was coming up. I was greeted by Puni, who lives here in the house and is also our cook for our lunch and dinner. She helped me to my room and made me coffee. The house is still asleep so I am taking this time to reflect and document everything while it is fresh in my head…. speaking of that, along the road while driving, I saw people leading camels and as we got into town, sure shit — cows everywhere wandering the streets. Looking forward to what the rest of this day has in store for me.
Day 3 – Continued…. I met the rest of the girls in the hours. Emily, who is one year away from her nursing degree is from Liverpool and also on the two week program like me. The rest of the girls have already been here for awhile and have their work placement. The four of them went off by 9am to the school to teach and work with the street kid program.
I had to keep moving or I would have crashed hard and I didn’t want to sleep my first day away. Finally I got a chance to shower after leaving my house at 8am on Dec 21st! Pure heaven. Emily and I decided to take a tuk tuk into town and find an Indian market. Let’s just say thank goodness I have a chiropractor appointments scheduled first thing when I get home because I will need it!!! It’s crazy – darting in and out of traffic, the honking, speed bumps, rough roads, cows in the middle of the road, people everywhere, camels used for travel….. those are just a few of the sites and sounds from my first tuk tuk ride.
We eventually found a market and went into a few shops. I did end up getting two scarves. One for myself and one for a gift. We came back to the house for 1pm lunch and it was very delicious. After lunch we went up to the roof top to soak up the sun’s rays while we waited until our 3pm orientation with Amita.
She went over how Sankalp started, the history of the organization and the programs that they support. Based on our length of stay, we are going to be teaching street kids in school. Emily and I are going to team teach the kids 4-6 building upon their current knowledge and work with them on colors and words to go with the colors, basic body parts and math. We start that on Monday, Dec 26 for one week.
Sitting during the orientation I was starting to hit the wall. I almost fell asleep during it. After we got done going over our program, house rules and other basic information we should know Emily and I walked to the grocery store so she could get a few items. Got back to the house at 7pm, had dinner, cooked by Puska, and then I was ready for bed. It was 7:30 and I was out cold… and now it is 10:30 and I am wide awake writing this.
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During this season of Lent, I have thought more than once about the spiritual value of struggle. The Church would not have given us an entire season devoted to struggling if it were not appropriate to view struggle in a positive light.
Not everyone agrees that struggle is good. In my Touchstone article The Cross of Least Resistance, I quoted a number of influential evangelical leaders who taught that the presence of struggle in a person’s spiritual life is a sure sign that something is wrong. This present article will not attempt to expose the hermeneutical and exegetical errors in the opinions of these false teachers (for that, see here and here and here). Instead, I want to look at the question of struggle from the perspective of cultural anthropology. But first, why cultural anthropology?
The Case For Cultural Anthropology
In defending the need for historical scholarship, C.S. Lewis compared the historian to a world traveler.
“A man who has lived in many place is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune form the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
Lewis is making a case for the reading of old books, one that he developed further in his essay “On the Reading of Old Books.”
It seems to me that this same argument for reading old books could also apply to the study of anthropology and cultural psychology. Like the traveler who becomes immune to the local errors of his native village, so we can achieve critical distance from our own biases and assumptions by reading about the psychology of people in other cultures. This is one of the reasons I love listening to all the fascinating stories and insights in David Livermore’s course “Customs of the World.” (This is the only Great Course I have listened to more than once, and I do believe I will listen to it a third time. And it’s a bonus that Professor Livermore is a Christian and a fan of N.T. Wright.)
Can the perspective of cultural anthropology shed any light on the question of struggle? Much in every way. Let’s begin by taking a journey to Japan.
Struggling Towards Success in a Japanese Classroom
The Japanese think about learning very differently than Americans, and this is rooted in a different perspective on struggle. Perhaps this is most evident in learning theory.
From the earliest school days of most Americans, we have been conditioned to think that the purpose of learning is not to fail but to easily achieve straight A’s and to be able to get our homework done as quickly as possible. Accordingly, we think that one indicator of whether someone is a smart student is whether he or she can learn concepts and finish homework with a minimum of struggle. We tend to think that poor or merely average students experience struggle, confusion and frustration with school work. Indeed, most of us in the contemporary West have been unconsciously trained to think about learning. The notion that struggle is a sign of low-ability is such a part of the very air we breathe that it is rarely questioned. But this is very different to how the Japanese think.
Jim Stigler, a Professor of Psychology at UCLA, once told about the time he found himself in the back row of a fourth-grade math class in Japan. “The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper,” Stigler explained on a 2012 National Public Radio program. He continued:
“one kid was just totally having trouble with it. His cube looked all cockeyed, so the teacher said to him, ‘Why don’t you go put yours on the board?’ So right there I thought, ‘That’s interesting! He took the one who can’t do it and told him to go and put it on the board.’”
Alix Spiegel, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, picked up the narrative and commented on Stigler’s surprise:
“Stigler knew that in American classrooms, it was usually the best kid in the class who was invited to the board. And so he watched with interest as the Japanese student dutifully came to the board and started drawing, but still couldn’t complete the cube. Every few minutes, the teacher would ask the rest of the class whether the kid had gotten it right, and the class would look up from their work, and shake their heads no. And as the period progressed, Stigler noticed that he — Stigler — was getting more and more anxious.”
“’I realized that I was sitting there starting to perspire,’ he says, ‘because I was really empathizing with this kid. I thought, ‘This kid is going to break into tFears!’
“But the kid didn’t break into tears. Stigler says the child continued to draw his cube with equanimity. ‘And at the end of the class, he did make his cube look right! And the teacher said to the class, ‘How does that look, class?’ And they all looked up and said, ‘He did it!’ And they broke into applause.’ The kid smiled a huge smile and sat down, clearly proud of himself.”
This incident reveals the world of difference in how Asians and Westerns approach the issue of struggle. “In Eastern cultures,” Stigler comments, “it’s just assumed that struggle is a predictable part of the learning process. Everyone is expected to struggle in the process of learning, and so struggling becomes a chance to show that you, the student, have what it takes emotionally to resolve the problem by persisting through that struggle.”
In addressing the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching For the 21st Century, Dr. Stigler made the further observation that Japanese teachers intentionally set children with problems that are too hard for them, and which they know will confuse the students, since educators believe that students grow through struggle. A popular teacher’s manual in Japan says “Students will learn to understand the process more fully, says the manual, if they are allowed to make this mistake and then examine the consequences.”
Frustration and High-Achievers
Years after Stigler’s experience in the Japanese classroom, he had the opportunity to direct the 1995 TIMSS video study to document and analyze the different teaching methods between Japan, the United States and Germany. After analyzing hundreds of hours of footage of various eighth-grade classrooms, Stigler found that in general American teachers routinely try to minimize frustration and confusion, while Japanese teachers approached frustration and confusion as positive learning opportunities. In 1999, Stigler teamed up with James Hiebert from the University of Delaware to report on these findings in their book The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. In their book, Stigler and Hiebert reported that the video footage from U.S. classrooms pointed to a clear and distinct pattern of teachers working hard to minimize struggle, confusion and frustration:
“Confusion and frustration, in this traditional American view, should be minimized… Teachers act as if confusion and frustration are signs that they have not done their job. When they notice confusion, they quickly assist students by providing whatever information it takes to get the students back on track. Teachers in the United States try hard to reduce confusion by presenting full information about how to solve problems.”
In contrast to this American approach, Japanese teachers believe that the best students are not those who can get their work done without any struggle, but those who can get their work done through struggle. The video footage of eighth grade classrooms in Japan underscores this point. Here’s what Stigler and Hiebert wrote in The Teaching Gapabout their findings:
“…Japanese teachers believe students learn best by first struggling to solve mathematics problems, then participating in discussions about how to solve them, and then hearing about the pros and cons of different methods and the relationships between them. Frustration and confusion are taken to be a natural part of the process, because each person must struggle with a situation or problem first in order to make sense of the information he or she hears later. Constructing connections between methods and problems is thought to require time to explore and invent, to make mistakes, to reflect, and to receive the needed information at an appropriate time. …They also encourage students to keep struggling in the face of difficulty.”
The 1995 TIMSS video looked only at the United States, Germany and Japan. A further video study in 1999 expanded the analysis to a number of additional countries to see if common features emerged between those nations where students were high-achievers in math and science vs. those countries like the United States where students lagged behind. In an afterword to a later edition of The Teaching Gap, Stigler and Hiebert explained that there was a great deal of variation in the teaching styles of the high-achieving nations. However, one common denominator among the high-achieving countries was a positive orientation towards struggle: “their varied approaches all accomplished the engagement of students in active struggle with core mathematics concepts and procedures. It was this feature of teaching that we found common to the high achievers and missing in the United States.”
The Virtue of Struggle
When I came across the above information, I wanted to know if what was true for eighth-grade classrooms was also true for other areas of American and Asian culture respectively. For years I’ve been fascinated by the large variation in how people from different cultures view the world and themselves (for example, see my 2015 post ‘Neuroplasticity and East-West Brain Differences.’) Recently I’ve begun reading some of the research on cross-cultural psychology in various academic journals, with the aim of exploring how the concept of struggle is approached in different societies. In the process of reviewing these studies I learned something very interesting: what people in one culture think of as failing, people in other cultures think of as learning.
Let me ask you a question. Is a good student one who struggles at school or one who doesn’t? Previously, I might have been tempted to answer that smart students are the ones who can get their work done quickly and easily with a minimum of struggle. Like many of us, I’ve tended to default to the typical American view of learning. In our quick-fix, fast-food culture, it’s easy to just assume that the best students are those who can get their work done without any frustration and struggle. But I’ve had my thinking challenged by looking at learning in Asian cultures, where the sign of a good student is one who can struggle for a long time with the same problem, task or difficulty.
These different orientations towards struggle make a huge difference in the culture of the classroom. In 1991, Robert D. Hess from Stanford teamed up with Hiroshi Azuma from Shirayuri College Japan to publish their research on the different learning environments between Japan and the United States. Their article. ‘Cultural Support for Schooling: Contrasts Between Japan and the United States,’ showed that American classrooms were tending to change the content in order to make its presentation more interesting to the students, while in Japan the focus was on changing the students to make them more attentive and focused. “Japanese tend to stress developing adaptive dispositions; Americans try to make the learning context more attractive.”
One of the purposes of Americans trying to make the learning context more attractive is to minimize the difficulty and struggle facing students. Summarizing one prevalent view in America on how education should work, Hess and Azuma explained how “Children are enticed into working by presenting tasks in easy steps, by assuring prompt success, and by moving briskly from a completed problem to a new one. The teacher does not count on internalized diligence; the stimulus environment is designed to induce interest and create a motivation to work on the task.”
By contrast, the Japanese model of developing adaptive dispositions nurtures students into seeing that a subject—mathematics for example—is inherently interesting for its own sake. To quote again from The Teaching Gap, “Japanese teachers also act as if mathematics is inherently interesting and students will be interested in exploring it by developing new methods for solving problems. They seem less concerned about motivating the topics in nonmathematical ways.”
The emphasis on developing internal rather than external sources of motivation fits within the Japanese framework of a good student being one that can develop internal virtues through struggle and self-discipline.
Since the sign of a successful student in America is someone who can get his or her work done with a minimum of struggle, classrooms are tailored to make learning as fun as possible. But in Asia the sign of a good student is precisely the opposite: it is the students who show they can persevere through struggle that are believed to be destined for great things later in life.
Confucianism and the Malleability of the Brain
Discoveries in the last 30 years about neuroplasticity have been heralded as a huge breakthrough in neuroscience. However, cultures steeped in Confucianism have always understood about the malleability of the human brain. With their belief in the adaptability of the brain has come a heightened emphasis on the role struggle plays in the development of character and in the learning process. Given their beliefs in human adaptability, cultures influenced by Confucianism have historically tended to put more emphasis on changing oneself through struggle, including working through frustration, confusion and failure.
In Contexts of Achievement: A Study of American, Chinese, and Japanese Children, a team of researchers compared American students to Chinese and Japanese children. They found that the greater the emphasis a culture places on innate ability as the primary cause of success (what the authors call the “nativistic view”), the less motivated parents are to make strong efforts at assisting their children. On the other hand, in cultures emphasizing hard work and effort as the primary cause for success, parents have huge incentive to offer assistance. They go on to explain that in the Confucian understanding, the path to achievement lies not in innate ability but in never giving up:
“One of the most pervasive beliefs in Asian cultures is that effort is the major avenue for improvement and accomplishment. The malleability of human behavior has long been emphasized in Chinese writings and is one of the fundamental precepts of Confucianism (Munro, 1977). A typical example of this view is found in the writings of the Chinese philosopher Hsun Tzu, who wrote, ‘Achievement consists of never giving up. … If there is no dark and dogged will, there will be no shining accomplishment; if there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement’ (Watson, 1967, p. 18). According to this view, differences among individuals are believed to be primarily a result of life experiences rather than of innate differences. A similar theme is found in Japanese philosophy, where individual differences in potential are deemphasized and great importance is placed on the role of effort in modifying the course of human development. Japanese values are summarized in the phrase, Yareba dekiru (If you try hard, you can do it). Effort and self-discipline are considered to be essential for accomplishment. Lack of achievement is attributed to the failure to work with utmost self-exertion rather than to a lack of ability or to personal or environmental obstacles. In many classrooms in Japan, one finds four written precepts that describe the ideal student; the first is gambaru kodomo—a child who strives his or her hardest.”
The different orientation towards struggle informs how Japanese and American mothers talk to their children about their school work, the former placing more emphasis on effort and the later on innate ability:
“Tokyo mothers of preschool children placed greater emphasis on the value of effort than did their California counterparts and that their American mothers placed greater emphasis on ability than their Japanese mothers.
“…the emphasis given to effort relative to ability is much higher among Japanese and Chinese mothers than among American mothers. American mothers gave only a slightly greater emphasis to effort than to ability….
“the Japanese mothers were most likely to agree that children tend to have the same amount of ability in reading and mathematics but that the American mothers were most likely to agree that children were born with these abilities. Conversely, Japanese mothers were more likely to believe that any child could be good at reading or mathematics if he or she worked hard enough…”
“Relative to the Chinese and Japanese mothers, the American mothers placed greater emphasis on ability; Chinese and Japanese mothers placed greater emphasis on effort as an explanation for achievement.
The study went on to show that these differing ideas had practical ramifications in how mothers interacted with their children and how much assistance they were willing to provide for their children’s education:
“When parents believe that success in school depends on ability in contrast to effort, they are less likely to foster participation in activities related to academic achievement that would elicit strong effort toward learning on the part of their children, such as doing homework, attending after-school classes, and receiving tutoring. American parents, in fact, did not use these activities with great frequency as means for improving their children’s scholastic performance, even though they were willing to provide such supplemental activities for their children in sports, music, and art. Mothers who emphasize the importance of ability may ask if such activities are useful for children of low ability and may accept the poor performance of their children.
“If the child has high ability, the mother may question whether such activities are needed. A greater emphasis on ability appears to be related, therefore, to American children’s lower accomplishments in elementary school.
Struggle and the Growth Mindset
There has been a lot of fascinating research recently on the importance that our mindset makes in our career choices and success. Those who believe that their basic qualities are things they can cultivate through struggle (the “growth mindset”) are more likely to succeed in life than those who believe they are stuck with the cards they’ve been dealt (the “fixed mindset”). TSM has dealt with this distinction in more detail in our post ‘The Myth of the Good Memory: how memory is a skill not a gift (Study Myths Part 2).’
In her book Mindset, psychologist Carol Dweck explained that the difference between these two approaches can be seen in how people respond to failure and struggle. As a young researcher Dweck had the opportunity to observe children working on puzzles that were beyond their ability. She was surprised to find some children responding positively to their failure since they saw them as invitations to stretch their intelligence further. “They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort. And that’s what they were going—getting smarter. Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.”
What is true of individual persons (i.e. what one individual thinks of as failure another person thinks of as learning) is also true of cultures as a whole. What one culture labels as a symptom of something being wrong (i.e., having to struggle through confusion and frustration), another culture sees as a symptom that something is right.
Not surprisingly, cultures emphasizing the virtues of struggle tend to embody the growth mindset. This emerged in fascinating research published by Jin Li, professor of education and human development at Brown University. Dr. Li’s research, which appeared in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, contrasted Western and Chinese beliefs about learning. In an attempt to uncover beliefs about learning, Chinese and European American children were asked to comment on the purposes of going to school. European American children as young as 4 mentioned “smartness” as one of the purposes of going to school, while Chinese children mentioned about growth and the need to self-improve morally. “In their construals of the learning process, EA children referred more to ability and related mental processes, to learning as a task to be tackled, and to creative strategies. Chinese children mentioned more the virtues of diligence, persistence, and concentration.”
Dr. Li explained how Chinese parents tend to encourage their children towards continual self-improvement regardless of their current level of achievement. This is very different to the mentality of many European American parents who believe that smart children don’t need to work as hard, and that a characteristic of intelligent people is that understanding comes to them in a process of sudden insight. For European Americans, enduring hardship with perseverance, diligence and resolve is at most a necessary evil, whereas in China this is central to the development of virtue. Accordingly, Chinese parents adopt a completely different orientation towards struggle:
“Chinese value efforts to achieve understand of the world, but mentally oriented understanding (understanding achieved by articulation, analysis, and reasoning rather than by experience, practice, or meditation) alone is not central to their learning beliefs…. For Chinese students, the purposes of learning are mainly to perfect themselves morally and socially, to achieve mastery of the material, and to contribute to society. To accomplish these aims, the learner needs to develop the virtues of resolve, diligence, endurance of hardship, perseverance, and concentration. These virtues are not task-specific but are viewed as enduring personal dispositions that are more essential than actual learning activities (e.g., reading) and they are believed applicable to all learning activities and processes….”
“British students viewed understanding as a process of sudden insight (i.e., mind orientation), and they used repetition to check their memory. In contrast, Chinese students believed understanding to be a long process that requires extensive personal effort, and memorization (aiming at deeper understanding through persistence) and repetition are two such concrete ways of showing effort. …Chinese students believed that learning is a gradual process that requires tremendous dedication and methodical steps.”
Innate Ability vs. Persistent Effort
Further research by Dr. Jin Li expanded our understanding of these important cultural differences. Last year Dr. Li teamed up with four other academics to publish research on the differences between how American mothers and Taiwanese mothers talked to their children about learning. Their findings, which were published in the journal Child Development, documented various recorded conversations between 116 Taiwanese mothers and their elementary school children and 102 European American mothers and their elementary school children. The recordings showed that both Taiwanese and European American parents stress the value of educational excellence. However, the Taiwanese mothers emphasized effort (including self-exertion, endurance of hardship, perseverance) whereas the European American mothers emphasized ability.
Or again, in an article for Vol. 93, No. 1 of the education magazine, The Phi Delta Kappan, authors Mei-Hue Wei and Corinne Eisenhart explored why Taiwanese children excel at math. They also found that the difference was at least partially attributable to a difference between the growth mindset and the fixed mindset, and the role that struggle plays in the former. Wei and Eisenhart discovered “a cultural difference in how Taiwanese mothers and American mothers view the connection between effort, it aintelligence, and learning. Research suggests that most American mothers believe a child’s mathematical performance primarily depends on intelligence and innate math ability; Asian mothers believe effort is more important for academic success. … This difference in maternal perception may affect the learning experiences mothers provide for their young children.”
This was also something that emerged out of Hess and Azuma’s research. They reported how, when confronted with a child’s poor achievement, Japanese mothers were more likely to put it down to “lack of effort” whereas American mothers were more likely to put it down to “lack of ability.” American mothers were also more likely to blame conditions outside the students’ control such as the school environment and other external factors.
Similarly, in chapter 9 of the Handbook of Race and Development in Mental Health, authors Lisa L. Liu, Shu-wen Wang, Joey Fung, Omar G. Gudiño, Annie Tao and Anna S. Lau shared research on the psychology of Asian American children. Their work showed some of the practical ramifications of the American belief in native ability vs. the Asian belief that one’s abilities are the result of hard work and struggle. One of the many ramifications is that Asian American parents were more likely to structure their children’s free time in include extra homework and tutoring.
Rejecting the “Struggle Is Bad” Myth
In Alix Spiegel’s article ‘Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning’, she summarized the cash-value implicit in these two different mentalities:
“Obviously if struggle indicates weakness — a lack of intelligence — it makes you feel bad, and so you’re less likely to put up with it. But if struggle indicates strength — an ability to face down the challenges that inevitably occur when you are trying to learn something — you’re more willing to accept it.
How a person thinks about struggle has implications whether you are learning a musical instrument, a foreign language, a new skill, or studying to pass an exam. If we think that struggle indicates weakness and low-ability, we will be less inclined to do what it takes to master material and to persevere through difficulty to reach our goals. We may even give up prematurely, concluding we just don’t have what it takes to succeed.
Rejecting the “struggle is bad” myth can also be empowering for those with psychological and emotional problems who are trying to retrain their brains to habituate new behaviors or mentalities. It all comes down to whether we believe struggle to be a sign of weakness or a strength.
Struggle in the Spiritual Life
What is true of struggle in the context of learning is also true of struggle in the context of the spiritual life. And that brings us full circle to where I began this article. Those expressions of Christianity which teach that struggle is a red flag (see some of the teachers I go after in my Touchstone article and in my Colson Center article on willpower) are simply colluding with the worldly wisdom of Anglo-American culture.
When struggle is perceived to be a bad thing (as it is in so much Anglo-American evangelicalism), we will naturally gravitate towards those expressions of the faith that require minimal effort, if not extreme movements like the “health and wealth gospel.”
On the other hand, if we realign our thinking with Scripture, then we can recognize that struggle is an integral part of the sanctified life. We are then liberated to grow in, and work through, struggle, frustration, confusion, pain, and even failure, rather than trying to find shortcuts to sanctification that eliminate struggle from the spiritual experience.
Of course, struggle isn’t the most important part of the Christian life, and just because something is hard, that doesn’t make it right. After all, one can struggle toward hell just as one can struggle toward heaven (in fact, it is sometimes more of a struggle to follow the devil than to follow Christ, as I have suggested here). However, within the context of a Spirit-filled life, struggle can play a positive role, as we literally exercise ourselves toward godliness (1 Timothy 4:7) and follow Christ’s example of running the race with endurance:
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1-2).
“Looking unto Jesus” is key here. It is the difference between the type of struggle that leads to discouragement, defeat, despair, and depression, and the type of struggle that leads to joy and sanctification, joy, and theosis (becoming united with God). An analogy should make my meaning clear.
Imagine a girl named Calista who dwells in the Greek lowlands and works as a milkmaid during the day. Calista loves a shepherd boy named Damarion, who lives in the highlands. Every day after she has finished milking the last cow, Calista makes the journey up to where Damarion is guarding his sheep, waiting patiently for her to come. Calista’s joy is to spend the evening with Damarion, where they kiss and talk fondly of the time when they will be free to marry. When first light appears, Calista makes the journey down the mountain, where she catches a little sleep before its time to begin work again.
Now Calista’s journey up the mountain is not easy. She has to navigate challenging terrain, climb difficult rocks, and sometimes even fight off dangerous beasts. Sometimes she feels that she will never make it to the top, or that if she does, her lover won’t be there. Often she arrives at her lover’s side exhausted, scratched, and sometimes even bleeding from all the thorns she had to pass through. Sometimes her clothes are even torn. On top of this, Calista also struggles with the typical symptoms of sleep deprivation. However, Calista doesn’t even think of these hardships as a struggle; it is her joy to endure these things in order to spend time with her lover.
Calista often fails. On numerous occasions she slips and falls, yet instead of feeling defeated and discouraged, she gets right back up and presses on towards her goal.
Eager to lighten her load, Damarion gradually teaches Calista skills to ease the burden of her nocturnal traveling. He shows her activities she can do during the day to strengthen her climbing muscles, and exercises she can practice to increase her aptitude at scaring off wild beasts. He also gives her mental techniques she can apply when her tired mind begins playing tricks on her and she is worried that she will never make it to the top.
The practicing, the exercise, the development of skill, the constant struggle—all these things remain a joy to Calista, not because these things are good in themselves, but because of her goal.
We are in much the same position with the spiritual life. When the struggle toward holiness becomes too much for us and we fail, we may be tempted to give into a sense of discouragement and defeat. We may be tempted to ruminate on how bad we are, or to compare ourselves to others who are more advanced. We may be tempted to stay down and not get back up. However, by keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus our goal, and the joy that is set before us at the end of the race when we are fully united with Him, we can find the energy we need to get right back up and keep struggling. Before our spiritual muscles are fully developed (and even afterwards), we may stumble and fall more times than we can count, but what do we do? We get up and keep struggling, fixing our gaze on Christ.
Sadly, many Christians throughout the centuries have approached struggle as if it were an end in itself, rather than a means towards greater intimacy with Christ. This is the error of legalism, and it has given credence to those who have followed Nietzsche in seeing Christianity as stifling joy and introducing a life-killing nausea. But the reality is that our struggles have no intrinsic value for their own sake, just as Calista’s struggles had no value apart from her ultimate goal of reaching Damarion.
One of Saint Paul’s critiques of the Judaizers was that the burdens they were placing on Christians to keep the law of Moses were completely useless, since they were not directed towards Christ who is the telos of the law (Romans 10:4). It is only Christ and our hope of future union with Him (initially when we die, but ultimately in resurrection) that our spiritual struggles in the present have any value at all. That is why Saint Paul could tell the Christians in Corinth that their struggles were meaningless outside the context of the life to come:
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. . . . If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!’” (1 Cor. 15:19; 32)”
During these final weeks of Lent, we will likely become very aware that the spiritual life is a struggle. Many are struggling to fast from certain foods, and some are also struggling to spend less time following the things of this world like news, sports and their Facebook feed. We are also struggling to pray more frequently in anticipation for the coming of Christ’s resurrection. If we go through the motions of this struggle without love, forgiveness and gentleness towards those around us, then these struggles are simply a waste of time. But if we orient ourselves towards Christ in these struggles, then our labor will not be in vain. We will be exercising spiritual muscles that can take us into a deeper relationship with Jesus.
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HookedUp Launches STRETCH Collection
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Instagram is one of the best and most effective platforms for marketing products and promoting businesses. The power of Instagram is incredibly increasing each and every day. There are many Instagram software versions out there for marketers and business owners to get the best results from their Instagram account. There are about 500 million active members in Instagram and thus no platforms can get better than this to showcase your products and services of your business. It is an exciting media platform which helps to attract many users.
But to manage the Instagram account you need some great Instagram marketing software to keep a track of all the interactions, make posts automatically or scheduled, launch CPC campaigns, and much more. We had our Instagram ninja’s look far and wide and the Instagram software mentioned below are our top picks. Here is the list of the top Instagram marketing software that can be used. ** Updated for 2019**
You can download it as a web based application or even an app from the iOS or Android. It helps you to grow and clean up your Instagram account. You may have noticed that the number of followers often reduced. With the help of this application you can see list of the users who have unfollowed you.
For this you have to link your account with Crowdfire. It will also help you to unfollow the users who are not following you back. You can also check the fans of your Instagram account i.e. the users who follow you but you don’t follow them.
Hashtag is an important part of Instagram. Are you wondering how to make your images more visible to people? Then the answer is using the right hashtags will help you in this case.
Piqora is a tool that provides you details about a particular hashtag such as how many comments and likes it gets.It also provides an important insight along with a detailed analytics. So, this tool will help you to improve on your content strategies in Instagram and will help you to find much more useful hashtags for your photos. This will make your photos visible to a large number of users.
#3: Social Insight
It is one of the best tools for deep Instagram analytics for monitoring the growth of your account. The best thing about this web based application is that it can be linked and used for multiple accounts. You can easily monitor the growth of the followers, monitor engagement of the followers, interaction and also many more other things.
Besides these, it also helps you to know the best time post to get the best engagement from active users. This tool also rolls out some useful and great features for the application each month to help the marketers.
This is another useful tool for the marketers. With the help of this Latergram you can schedule all your posts for Instagram. This can be done from any device. On the scheduled time it will send you a notification asking whether you want to post or not. If you approve the post the photo will be posted on your Instagram account. It is very simple yet very useful.
On a busy day many people forget to upload the photos on time but with the help of this tool you can schedule it and post whenever you want to post. The best thing about this tool is that you can add the whole marketing team here to manage and schedule the posts.
This is a very useful Instagram software which helps you to repost the photos and videos on Instagram. If any user has uploaded a photo related to the product of your business then you can quickly repost the same in your Instagram account with just one tap. The best thing about this app is that it automatically gives credit to the actual user who has posted this photo.
You can also use the Bookmark feature to save videos and photos automatically and repost them later on. You can also use the Search option to find some amazing videos as well as photos by the hashtags and users. Thus, this app is the best one to share contents generated by users for your business.
#6: Social Rank
This is another application or Instagram software for managing the Instagram account. It helps to identify, manage as well as organize all your Instagram followers. You can thoroughly check the demographics of all the followers. From there you can find out the followers who are most valuable, influencing and brand advocators. They mean a lot for your Instagram account and thus you should know about them.
Once you link your account with the Social Rank, all the profiles of your followers will be listed there. Now you can organize all the followers by filtering them or sorting them according to your own preferences. You can also manage these followers by creating custom lists and save them on Social Rank. This will help you a lot to know your followers properly.
With the latest update of Instagram it has release a platform for ads or the Sponsored posts. In very short time it has become one of the most influential and powerful platform for advertising. Instagram is currently owned by the Facebook and thus the tool named Facebook Power Editor will help you to self serve all the ads. The features of this tool are highly powerful.
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Conclusion on the Instagram software choices:
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A handful of UE men's basketball players have returned from injuries and surgeries this summer. Duane 'Boo' Gibson, Dru Smith, Blake Simmons, Solomon Hainna and Dalen Traore all missed time or were hampered by knee injuries last season. Wochit
EVANSVILLE — Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball play will begin a little earlier this season.
The University of Evansville program released its full schedule Tuesday and will open the conference slate at home on Dec. 23 against Illinois State. It will be the earliest the Aces will have played an MVC game since hosting the Redbirds on Dec. 9, 2006.
"It's just the way the year fell and some teams had to play a little earlier than others," said UE head coach Marty Simmons. "It's part of it. I don't think it's advantageous or disadvantageous in any way."
It does, however, mean the Aces will play Illinois State and Duke in a four-day span right before Christmas.
The game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Dec. 20 was previously known as were contests against Fresno State and either George Mason or Louisiana Tech in the Cancun Challenge and New Mexico in the Mountain West/Missouri Valley Challenge.
Simmons hoped to schedule a tougher nonconference slate as the postseason selection committees heavily weigh Rating Percentage Index. At least based on last year's RPI numbers, the Aces have some challenging games leading into MVC play.
"I just think it's got good balance," Simmons said. "When you're putting together a nonconference schedule, obviously the No. 1 goal is to use it as a way to prepare your team for conference play. I think we've done that."
UE, which finished last season 16-17 overall and 6-12 in the MVC, has return games lined up Dec. 5 at Bowling Green and at home against Austin Peay on Dec. 16. Beginning this year, the Aces will play a home-and-home with Arkansas State — a 20-game winner last winter — with the first game being the season-opener Friday, Nov. 10 at the Ford Center.
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Also on the docket are six nonconference opponents that finished with a better RPI than UE did last year. The Aces were 192nd and will play Duke (14), Fresno (77), New Mexico (87), Arkansas State (113), Louisiana Tech (116) or George Mason (123) and Canisius (168).
"I feel like if we do our job and are able to have some success with that nonconference schedule and do some things during league play it'll put us in a position maybe to get looked at in postseason," Simmons said.
The Aces begin the season with four straight home games, including a matchup with the defending Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champions and NCAA Tournament No. 16 seed in North Carolina Central on Nov. 13. Following contests against Southeast Missouri (Nov. 16) and Binghamton (Nov. 18), UE will be on the road for two weeks until returning home against Division II Oakland City.
UE's games against OCU and NAIA Midway University (Ky.) are not exhibitions. As for now, there will not be an exhibition open to the public.
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Nov. 10 Arkansas State 7 p.m.
Nov. 13 North Carolina Central 11 a.m.
Nov. 16 Southeast Missouri 7 p.m.
Nov. 18 Binghamton 3 p.m.
Nov. 21 vs. Fresno State* 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 22 vs. George Mason/Louisiana Tech* 5/7:30 p.m.
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Dec. 5 at Bowling Green 6 p.m.
Dec. 9 Canisius 1 p.m.
Dec. 16 Austin Peay 3 p.m.
Dec. 17 Midway 3 p.m.
Dec. 20 at Duke 6 p.m.
Dec. 23 Illinois State 1 p.m.
Dec. 30 at Loyola TBD
Jan. 3 at Southern Illinois 7 p.m.
Jan. 6 Bradley 3 p.m.
Jan. 10 Missouri State 7 p.m.
Jan. 13 at Drake TBD
Jan. 17 Indiana State 7 p.m.
Jan. 20 at Bradley TBD
Jan. 24 at Valparaiso 7 p.m.
Jan. 27 Drake 1 p.m.
Jan. 31 Northern Iowa 7 p.m.
Feb. 3 at Illinois State TBD
Feb. 7 Valparaiso 7 p.m.
Feb. 10 at Missouri State TBD
Feb. 13 at Northern Iowa 7 p.m.
Feb. 18 Loyola 3 p.m.
Feb. 21 at Indiana State 6 p.m.
Feb. 24 Southern Illinois 1 p.m.
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THE READING ROOM: Janiva Magness Charts Growth through Rocky Times in ‘Weeds Like Us’
Janiva Magness portrait by Paul Moore
Blues and soul singer Janiva Magness has won many awards for music and her songwriting. She’s been named B.B. King Entertainer of the Year — the only woman besides Koko Taylor to win the award — and every year, Magness receives nominations for annual blues music awards.
Life wasn’t always so rosy, though. Both of her parents committed suicide. She ran away from home after her mother’s suicide and called her father from Berkeley to say she was making her own life. She’s lived in foster homes in several states, endured domestic violence, assuaged her wounds with alcohol and drugs, and started her own record label when she wanted more freedom. Like Richard Fariña, Magness has “been down so long it looks like up” to her.
With the same energy and depth she brings to her songs, Magness tells the stories of her life in her deeply moving new memoir, Weeds Like Us. She plumbs her own emotional depths, carrying us with her through her own hells and back to the other side. Ultimately, Magness’ memoir is a story of hope and the refusal to let the worst experiences of life kill you. She takes the title of the book from her 2010 song “Weeds Like Us.” A few lines in that song affirm her purpose: “I’m thinking still / About that hole you just can’t fill / Every day is an act of will / Weeds like us are hard to kill.”
Though music pulls her through, she confirms toward the end of the book that her purpose is even larger than music: “Being able to sing for a living is a huge gift, but I have come to understand that it’s not the real job. My real job is to reach out and connect with people, to share some of what I have been through in my life and have the kind of heart-to-heart connection with another person that lifts up both of us. Music is simply the vehicle that allows me to do that.”
I chatted recently with Magness about her book, her inspiration for it, and her music.
Why this book now? Why did you decide to write it?
What’s accurate to say is that I was never going to write a book because I was never going to tell these stories to anyone. I’d fought the notion of writing a book until about 10 years ago, when I realized I should write a book because I recognized that my experience might help someone else. I knew I wasn’t going to get away with not telling my story. If you were a person who believed in callings, you’d call this a calling. It’s my life story. It’s my experience of my life, the highlights of my life in many ways.
Can you talk a little about the process of writing the book?
I was doing a show at the Palms Playhouse in Winters, California. I blurted out almost matter-of-factly that I was going to write a book. After the show a guy comes up to me and hands me his card. “I also happen to be a writer,” he said. “If you decide to write a book, call me.” I forgot about the conversation, but a few days later I was in Seattle going through my stuff and found his card. I looked him up and discovered he was an honest-to-God writer named Gary Delsohn. I got in touch with him, and he helped me write the book.
I can remember some things in great detail: I can tell you the colors of the socks I was wearing yesterday or describe the sun coming through the windows, but I can’t deal with the meaning of time. My memory is a jumble, and sometimes it makes you feel nuts. So, for the book I was working with Gary, piecing things back together. I could recall details but not necessarily the timeline. Gary kept saying to me, “We need to get it linear,” and I’m grateful to him for doing that. A lifetime of no, but once the universe speaks, you say yes.
What are some of your father’s most memorable traits?
My father was the musician. Dad had a beautiful singing voice and played harmonica well. He was incredibly funny; he was the guy who was proud and self-effacing. I got my love of music and sense of humor from him, and I also got my business acumen from him. He gave me the sense that “you can always do better.” I got my work ethic from my dad. I also get my nerve from my dad; I’ve been accused of being bold. (Laughs.)
My mom was extremely funny, too. She was a really good cook. I love to bake, and I feel close to her whenever I bake. I’m really good at domestic stuff, when I have time. I can sew really well, and I love to garden. My love of art and my love of critters comes from my mom. I love to strip and restore furniture; my mom did that. Doing that brings me a great deal of peace.
How did music change your life?
Music speaks to me and always has. It speaks to me when there are no words. Music is a collective experience. A song is a collection. When it’s done properly it creates this force, an energy that speaks to a place where I have no words. I would chase a song by any means necessary. It’s a balm; it makes me feel like I’m not alone. The community of musicians is where I belong. My dad had all the music: Bull Moose Jackson’s “Big Ten Inch Record,” Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, early Nat King Cole. Seeing Otis Rush and B.B. King in the same year was like having lightning strike twice. When I saw Otis Rush, I wanted to feel that again, and I wanted to do that again.
Did you read other memoirs as models?
My Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. It’s really well written. It’s a beautiful, but hard, story about a woman and depression. I loved the way she told the truth and that her chapters were short. I wanted my chapters to be short, too, since people can follow short chapters better. Simple Dreams, by Linda Ronstadt; I couldn’t put it down.
What do you want readers to take from your book?
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The world is stuffed with really cool, well written posts. When you find one that catches your eye, you have to post it, well i do! so with authorization of the original author i have re-posted this so that you can get pleasure from
OverviewVoice recognition is the process of using technology to convert your spoken words into text. This process has been adopted by many specialist disciplines – lawyers, doctors, pathologists, etc. In fact, voice recognition can provide huge productivity gains to anyone who needs to dictate reports whilst using their hands for purposes other than typing.
Over the past few years voice recognition converts have been seeking a wireless headset that provides excellent voice quality input to recognition software. During this period my company, AAAHeadsets, have been actively involved in helping customers achieve this outcome.
The ProblemIn 1998 one customer undertook an extensive assessment of a range of headsets (both corded and wireless) over an eight week period. He determined that the Plantronics CS60-USB gave the best results. However, while acceptable, the results were not optimal. Staff still had to find and correct a number of misinterpretations made by their software package.
Any user of Dragon Dictate or similar voice recognition product knows that every % improvement in speech recognition means more productivity. The difference between a 96% recognition rate and a 99% recognition rate is finding and correcting 15 words instead of 5 in a 500 word document. Error correction kills productivity, so every error eliminated is valuable time saved.
See all 2 photos Plantronic CS60-USB Wireless HeadsetSource: AAAHeadsets The SolutionThe Plantronics CS60-USB wireless headset was the best available solution for some time. Then Sennheiser released their DW Office headset. This headset provided a leap in voice recognition results. For a number of years Sennheiser had been recognised as having the best noise cancelling headset microphones. Now they also had the best interface to voice recognition software. But there were still recognition errors.
Sennheiser have recently launched their DW Pro 1 (single ear) and DW Pro 2 (two ear) wireless headsets and these have created a new standard in speech recognition. Previous users of the DW Office have reported reductions in recognition errors of about 15%.
The DW Pro1 and DW Pro2 enable you to improve your speech recognition rate while enjoying the freedom to move around without being tethered to your computer. This freedom supports creative thought and writing which is important when trying to convert complex thoughts to meaningful words.
See all 2 photos Sennheiser DW Pro1 Wireless HeadsetSource: AAAHeadsets The Impact of NoiseBackground noise is also an important environmental factor when using a speech recognition package. Your headset microphone will pick up any environmental noise (machinery, other voices, computers, etc) and add it to your voice before presenting it to your voice recognition software. This makes it very hard for the package to interpret your words correctly.
The Sennheiser DW Pro1 & 2 have ultra noise-cancelling microphones which successfully filter out unwanted background noise. In fact, in my opinion, Sennheiser has the most effective noise cancelling microphones on the market. That is why noisy schools and doctors waiting rooms choose Sennheiser DW headsets.
Sennheiser DW Pro1 Headset Lifestyle Source: Sennheiser Communications ConclusionVoice recognition software packages perform two primary functions:
converting your voice into text for report production, and
controlling your computing environment (i.e. computer and software functionality).
Correcting words in reports is time consuming. However, losing control of your computer programs through poor recognition is scary. Put a value on your time and invest in a Sennheiser Pro headset to optimize your speech recognition system.
Experienced voice recognition users, with a Sennheiser Pro headset, estimate that their keyboard usage has been reduced by around 95%. Would you be happy with 95% less keyboard usage ?
Experienced voice recognition users, dictating complex reports using a Sennheiser Pro headset, are achieving such a high level of recognition that they find it difficult without their headset.
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Pre-season continues for the Royals this weekend, this time against familiar opposition...
Fulham vs Reading
Saturday 14th July, 1.30pm
Electrical Services Stadium, Aldershot
It's probably fair to say that Reading and Fulham have shared some tight encounters in recent seasons, but the Whites earned promotion to the Premier League via the Play-Offs two months ago.
This will be the Royals' first chance to test themselves against top tier opposition in pre-season, with the Whites strengthening their squad to compete in the Premier League next season.
The recent arrival of Nice pair Jean Michaël Seri and Maxime Le Marchand is a statement of intent from Slaviša Jokanović, having reportedly beaten Chelsea and Arsenal for Seri's signature.
Reading manager Paul Clement said that his squad will start to increase the number of minutes they play as preparation for 2018-19 continues, this time at Aldershot Town's Electrical Services Stadium in another lunchtime kick-off.
It could be the first chance for Reading fans to see new striker, Marc McNulty in action after his arrival from Coventry City last week.
Following Saturday's match, the first team squad will then be heading out to Austria for the club's pre-season tour, with two friendlies and plenty of tough training sessions awaiting them on their week-long trip.
Remaining tickets are expected to be available on the day at the Electrical Service Stadium. A limited allocation of seats were made available earlier in the week, but standing tickets are also on sale.
Aldershot have confirmed that Reading supporters will be admitted to the stadium via Redan Hill (turnstiles 11 and 12) and there will be tickets available to purchase there also.
For all ticketing enquiries, follow the link to our Ticket Office page or contact the Ticket Office by phone on 0118 968 1313.
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- Keep up with minute-by-minute action through our live Match Centre, available on the club website prior to kick-off.
We wish to politely remind supporters that the football club is responsible for their conduct at all matches (home or away) and any person committing a football-related offence or involved in serious misconduct at any match will result in a club ban. Examples of serious misconduct include discriminatory, offensive or abusive chanting, entering the pitch, persistent standing and throwing a missile. Supporters witnessing any incidents of serious misconduct are encouraged to report this to the football club by texting 80800, beginning your message with the word SAFE. | <urn:uuid:04c21e26-00a4-486b-b2a7-3cd3a48ce98e> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2018/july/ahead-of-the-game--royals-meet-fulham-in-aldershot/ | 2019-11-20T16:03:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670559.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120134617-20191120162617-00120.warc.gz | en | 0.93629 | 565 | [
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School of Democracy: 20 to 22 March, 2019
Over the last four years, hundreds of young people from across Europe and beyond have taken part in the S&D Group’s School of Democracy. The idea was to bring together politicians, academics, civil society, to debate with the next generation of progressive leaders and develop new ideas for the future of Europe and the world.
This year we are bringing together graduates from the previous four editions of the School of Democracy to meet and debate in Brussels from 20 to 22 March 2019. The conference is part of a larger European week for democracy, with events and debates taking place across Brussels and beyond. It is time for people who believe in European to stand up and push back against the nationalists and populists that have dominated the debate in recent years.
You will have the chance to meet and discuss with political and intellectual leaders such as Frans Timmermans, the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller, French politician Pascal Lamy, Jan Zielonka from Oxford University, Former Danish PM Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Paul Magnette and many others. As with previous editions the focus is on interactive workshops designed to bring forward new approaches to the problems Europe faces.
The event comes at a vital time for Europe, two months ahead of crucial European elections and ahead of a member state leaving for the first time (probably). For too long the narrative has been dominated by those who want to destroy Europe. The EU is certainly not perfect but it remains the best way we have found to work collectively as 28 different countries. We now need to come forward with the ideas and vision to improve Europe and make sure it is working for all its citizens.
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In my search terms (search engine queries that landed on this site) the other day, I saw “how to start a gun collection.” My flippant first response was “buy a gun,” but this is a serious question. Since I get at least a dozen hits a day on my post “The must have gun list,” a lot of people are looking for advice on this topic.
If you are a first time gun buyer, the first thing I would advise you to do is sit down, and figure out why exactly you want to buy a gun or guns. Many people want to buy a gun for personal or family protection, some collect them for history, or because they were in books or movies (a PPK is on my short list, and yes, it is purely because of James Bond,) people want to hunt, or just feel like it is something they would like to understand more. I am not saying you need to determine this because there is a “wrong” reason (other than crime,) but because your reasons make a big difference in what you would buy.
Guns for Protection:
Before I get into details, there is something that should be addressed. If you are going to own a gun for protection, whether that is a primary or secondary reason, you may have to make the decision to seriously injure or kill someone that is threatening you someday. The heat of that situation is not the time for a moral dilemma. You need to be certain before you have the gun that you will be willing to shoot, or you may end up having the gun taken from you, and maybe used on you. I am NOT saying you have to like the idea, I certainly don’t, but you need to be at peace with it. I have guns for protection because I want to get home to my wife, and if someone takes their life in their own hands by attacking my, being there for my family is going to win.
The other factor is training. This can be formalized, or in the form of your own study and practice. Make sure you are comfortable with your weapon before you need it.
Guns for protection fall into two categories, guns for carry (Open or concealed) and guns for home protection.
Carry guns will be a handgun, and should be something that you are comfortable with, and can comfortably conceal on your body.
Semi-auto vs. revolver: both have benefits and drawbacks. Semi-autos (normally) have more rounds available, and are easier to reload. The downside is that it is easier to have one jam, and you should make sure you do drills clearing jams. Revolvers normally carry fewer rounds, and can be more difficult to reload quickly. However, if a round misfires, pull the trigger again, a new round is cycled into firing position, and is fired.
Caliber: The bottom line, as Caleb says, any gun you are carrying is more useful than one in your safe. That said, the generally accepted minimum as .380 in semi-auto, and .38 special in revolvers. Once you get past those, the terminal performance is going to be acceptable from any common caliber in the situations you are likely to run into.
Bottom line: you are going to need to go into a gun shop, and look at a number of guns. If possible, rent some and test them. You also need to look at holsters, to make sure that you can get one for your preferred carry style for that gun.
Home Protection: There are several options here. The same guns you carry for protection will work for inside the home protection as well, but without the need to be able to carry the weapon, more options are open to you.
Handguns: Look at some larger frame options, which are easier to control, and can accept a larger magazine. Also consider night sights, like tritium, which glow in the dark and make aiming easier.
Shotguns: Despite what Joe Biden said, a double barreled shotgun is probably not your best option, and certainly don’t just fire randomly like he suggested. My recommendation would be a pump or semi-auto in 12 gauge, or 20 gauge for slightly less recoil. Semi-autos dissipate some recoil cycling the action, so they can have less recoil than a pump. A pump is usually cheaper, and I like the fact that you can muscle through most problems you might have, like a shell that doesn’t want to eject.
Buckshot is the best home defense ammo, with terminal performance, and less over-penetration than slugs.
Rifles: In most cases, a rifle wouldn’t be my first choice for most home defense situations, because of over-penetration (bullets passing through the target or walls, potentially hitting something behind it.) The two major exceptions would be serious civil unrest (think the Rodney King riots) or another situation were you might have to engage multiple armed threats. In one case, I had armed robbers who crashed not too far from my house. They had been apprehended by the time I got home, but if they hadn’t been, the AR-15 would have been out.
If you are going to use a rifle, an AR-15 or AK-47 style gun is going to be the most effective.
This is a little harder to make specific recommendations on, since it is going to be up to you what you want to collect. My recommendation here is to do your research, and even if you are not planning to shoot the guns, learn how to use them.
Also, be realistic about guns from movies and books. These mediums are not renowned for their accuracy. In other words, make sure that if you are using the gun for more than collecting, it is actually suitable for what you want.
These are normally going to fall into two categories, rifles and shotguns. What you choose will be based on what you plan to hunt.
Birds are hunted with shotguns, small game like rabbits and squirrels can be hunted with either shotgun or small bore rifle, like a .22 long rifle or .17 hmr.
Deer and larger game can be hunted with a rifle or shotgun using slugs. Some areas only permit shotgun, with it’s shorter range.
If you are starting to hunt, you are probably going to be with a friend or group. Talk to them, and find out what they are using.
For sheer versatility, my recommendation is to start with a 12 gauge pump shotgun like a Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 (my preference is the Remington,) and then look at others from there. I have a vintage Ithaca 37 which I love, and the new ones look very nice, but on the pricy side for a starter gun. Both those and the Browning BPS are bottom ejection, which makes shooting left handed easier, although if you are buying a shotgun as a lefty, you might want to look for one designed as a left-handed gun.
If you are starting with a medium to large bore rifle, bolt action is usually the best place to start. The Remington 700 and Winchester Model 70 are two classic guns (Although the Model 70 has been reworked recently,) Savage and CZ are also good brands to look at.
For most hunting in North America, 30-06 or .308 are probably the most common calibers, and can be used on anything in the country, although I might want a little more punch for Alaskan brown bears. Start with one of those, unless you know you need something bigger.
For shotgun sports (Trap, skeet, sporting clays, 5-stand,) the Remington 870 is used by a lot of beginning shooters. I would start there, then research the higher end options. One problem with starting on a really high end gun is that they are often tuned to a specific sport, and may not cross over well. A single barreled trap gun is going to be useless for disciplines where you need more than one shot.
Rifle shooting: start with something like a Ruger 10/22 in .22 long rifle, unless you have your sights on a specific competition. Even then, if you don’t have experience shooting rifles, start with the .22. Many of the skills you learn will carry over to the bigger guns, and you will pay for the gun in ammo savings.
I hope this has given you some insight, but your best option is to talk to someone you trust. Most gun owners are more than happy to help someone new get started. Just remember, though, that everyone has their prejudices (including me) and a hunter may not see the point in shooting clays, and a clay shooter might not have any use for killing animals. If you run into this, thank the person, and find someone that can help you.
When you go to a gun shop, try to find a time when they are a little slower. They should be able to provide you the help you need at any time, but you will have the best luck when there isn’t a line out the door.
The most versatile option to start with is a 12 gauge pump shotgun. Everyone should have one. However, it may not be ideal, or even usable for your specific requirements.
Once you decide on that first gun, take a look at my post “The must have gun list.” That should help you cover all the basics, and by the time you are done with that, you will have a good idea where to go next.
I hope this helps you get started, I am sure you will enjoy it.
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Peter Jackson turned down Aquaman twice
Aquaman 2 is currently scheduled for a December 2022 release
Filmmaker Peter Jackson has revealed in a recent interview that he was approached twice to direct DC's Aquaman, and he turned it down both times.
The Lord of the Rings director said he was asked by Warner Bros if he was a fan of Aquaman and he had indicated that he was not. Six months later, he was approached again, this time by Kevin Tsujihara, former CEO of Warner Bros, and he replied saying, "No, Kevin. I already told you this. I’m not a superhero guy. I read Tintin. Look, films are hard. I only want to make something that I have a deep passion for."
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Ilgauskas Day-To-Day With Sprained Knee Dec 12 7 PM Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas has a sprained right knee but is expected to play Tuesday night against Atlanta.The Jazz allow 96 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 1st in the league.He has collected 123 hits in 393 at bats while driving in 66 runs.Flacco threw it up; I came down with it.
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Teams are hitting .226 against the Twins bullpen.Read more about NBA Playoff Scenarios.Their average scoring margin is 20 and their shooting percentage is 48% as a team which has them ranked 40th.In its simplest form, bettors typically choose to wager on the over under for the entire game.Their defense allows a 45% shooting percentage and a 36% average from 3-point range, ranking them 11th and 20th in those defensive statistics.
McIlroy can’t be feeling good about his game with the Masters less than one week away.Since then, though, he has stayed in the U.S., and will be much more comfortable this time around.They are 7th in the league in team earned run average at 3.Injuries have been an issue, with six starters placed on injured reserve, including Pro Bowlers Devonta Freeman, Keanu Neal and Deion Jones.
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MONTPELIER, VERMONT: “My observation is that among students of writing, the inclusion of details is very out of fashion,” said novelist, memoirist and biographer Larry Sutin at a lecture here at my MFA residency with the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He finds this most upsetting, and I did as well, once he said during Q&A that the trend most certainly is not reflected in what is being published.
We think of prose as more sparse now. We think of our 21st Century readers as embodying impatience, capable as they are at any moment of whipping out a smartphone and pulling up a video of a cat simultaneously burping and farting. We can’t load them down with physical details of people and places, or emotional details of pain or joy.
Having listened to Larry’s masterful lecture–among great lecturers here at VCFA, he is one of the best, the overpacked room (don’t tell the local fire marshal) a testament to that fact–what he believes is that modern readers resist writers who include detail and emotion poorly. They have not a fear of detail or emotion but a fear of tedium.
“Any writing done badly will be bad writing,” he said. I think that’s the quote, anyway, I was laughing too hard to write it down.
I’m getting a bit punchy here at the end of the residency, so let me simplify things for myself by providing a list of more nuggets from Larry’s lecture:
- Choose your details wisely. Those objects you highlight, facial features you note, emotional moments you elaborate should tell a larger story. Leave out the rest.
- Be unorthodox in your choices. Larry frequently cited letters Chekhov wrote to aspiring writers; according to Larry, Chekhov was a “one-man 19th Century MFA.” In one letter, he advises describing a moonlit night not by noting details of the moon, but instead the glint of light off of a building’s glass. We tune out the familiar but seize on the unusual but accessible.
- Animate the inanimate: Again from Chekhov, when you apply action verbs to objects they become more interesting to readers.
- The distinction between “interior” and “exterior” isn’t real. Everything the author includes in a book drives the narrative. Don’t be afraid to have your character reflect and react internally; they complement external cues.
- Understand the role of understatement. Larry acknowledged much of modern fiction has moments of understatement, but he said careful examination of such prose will reveal that the reader has been queued previously. “Understatement works when we have other details” beforehand, he said.
Here at residency everyone carries a 13-page schedule printed on garish pink paper. It is our crutch. None of us know what day it is, either day of the week or day of the residency. We just look at what’s next and go to it. Thirteen pages sounds like a lot, but in fact it is a model of brevity when you consider how many activities are occurring here. So it’s not surprising they limit the length of the lecture titles in the schedule.
Larry’s lecture was listed on the schedule as “In Defense of Excessive Detail.” This apparently caused Larry some offense. He said the entire lecture title was “In Defense of Excessive Detail and Sentimental Disclosures,” and in fact that was the title in the materials sent to us prior to residency. Larry’s sense of humor can be subtle, so he may have been having fun with the notion that even his own college is cutting details he’s choosing to include in his writing. But the full title is a better descriptor of the lecture.
Perhaps I’m trying to make sure I take the lesson of including excessive detail to heart. Or perhaps I’m feeling sentimental here at the end of the residency. But I’ve decided to break my own internal rule on blog-title length and let Larry’s full title shine above.
What is your take on the use of details and emotional disclosure in writing today? How do you approach details in your own writing?
ABOUT THIS SERIES: As promised, I am posting occasional “nuggets” of wisdom I am acquiring here at my second residency in the MFA for Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Previous posts include “Illuminating Your Story,” “A Window on Your Narrator,” “Creativity and Wasting Time,” “New Year’s Tradition,” “Storytelling vs. Fragmentation,” “Reading Your Work Aloud,” “Revision vs. Re-Vision,” “Dialogue as Action,” and “Pacing Yourself.” | <urn:uuid:f1e46e9b-5ef1-43c5-9a72-d3985936bc49> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://artistsroad.blog/2012/01/07/mfa-nugget-in-defense-of-excessive-detail-and-sentimental-disclosures/ | 2019-11-19T06:20:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670006.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119042928-20191119070928-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.961604 | 1,049 | [
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Department of Transportation and Communication Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya announced that his department and the Department of Public Works and Highways are working with Japan International Cooperative Agency about a study to build a subway system in Metro Manila.
During the Philippine Economic Briefing on Tuesday, Abaya said that according to the population, size and demand for Metro Manila, a subway system is viable as an alternative to road and rail transportation. The government is formally studying this possibility as a quicker solution to Metro Manila’s public transportation problems.
DOTC Secretary Abaya also added that the concept for the subway system will be completed on January 2014, during that time they will start working on the foundation underground and hope that the next administration will take on the project.
They are also considering the possibility of implementing a rapid bus transport system, but the special lanes for buses maybe needed beforehand.
The 23-kilometer EDSA is Metro Manila’s busiest thoroughfare and becomes congested during rush hours and heavy rains. Around 350,000 vehicles pass through EDSA every day. Average speed is a measly 15 kilometers per hour.
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I happened to see this video last Monday before class. I’m a sucker for anything involving South Park (or just Trey Parker and Matt Stone) so of course I watched it. It just so happens that it went unbelievable well with some of the discussion from today and the video about motivation. I think that this carrot and stick approach is pervasive through society because it assumes that people are unmotivated and will be lazy when left to their own devices. To get them to perform as desired, they are incentivized. Rather than looking towards each milestone, each carrot you get, it is more meaningful to see the progression of your work as long term process that doesn’t end similar to the musical progression described in the video. That sounds easy I guess when you like your job and feel rewarded in your work. Perhaps people would find more rewarding positions and jobs perhaps if they were not forced into some sort of mold, but rather allowed to follow what they believed to be interesting – to dance and sing their own song. After all, in my opinion at least, all we have is this time that we are here, may as well enjoy the journey.
I’ll note now, that I have done this sort of half blog this during the semester. I’ll find something interesting, save it, write a few lines about it, but not wrap it up into a full post. So, I’m about to post a bunch of blogs, but I swear, I didn’t just find all of them in the last 24 hours. | <urn:uuid:fb904f9d-92ec-4f30-bda5-8e9850fa6da7> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/soitgoes/2012/12/10/ | 2019-11-19T04:55:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670006.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119042928-20191119070928-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.981652 | 317 | [
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Boise Kimber: Anti-Harp campaign has no bounds
While we in the black and brown communities sleep, the takeover of our public institutions has begun. The appropriation of public institutions isn’t just about taking the reins of power, it is also designed to destroy the previous leaders of those organizations so that they can no longer compete.
I’ll say it, and will not apologize, their tactics mirror those of the privileged President Donald Trump. They have used Trump-like tactics to demonize her, and in extension the black community.
It wasn’t enough to beat our first African-American woman mayor Toni Harp, they had to destroy her character and public image so that she, and anyone associated with her, were nonentities. They called her corrupt when one of her low-level staffers was caught illegally using a credit card. Suggested that a mysterious FBI investigation was directed at her. Accused her of deliberately ignoring the plight of children being poisoned by lead paint (in homes owned by white men, by the way). It also would lead to a widespread morass in our communities. The question everyone is asking each other, how do we recover?
How did we get here? While we slept, someone was able to convince the FBI to raid City Hall and cast a shadow over Harp. Who has connections to the FBI, and who did this most benefit? Coincidence that this happened during an election year? Who tries to get public entities to investigate their political opponents?
While we slept someone was able to convince us that Harp was beholden and influenced by big money interests, yet consistently outraised Harp, fueled by Yale affiliates and out-of-town donations. They promised to keep big money out of politics yet headlined a $1,000-per-person event shortly after winning the primary.
They ran as an independent several years ago, filed as an independent for this election, yet again has questioned Harp’s character, as well as her supporters, for doing the same. Is loyalty to party greater than loyalty to relationships and good work? Who does this sound like?
Their privilege has no bounds.
While they have almost completed their takeover of City Hall, they are simultaneously looking to control the local Democratic Party. Justin Elicker headlines a fundraiser for the party, to raise funds to support candidates. Former local and state party chair Nick Balletto begins to show up at local events. Money raised by Elicker, Vincent Mauro and Balletto is going to support what candidates? What is worse, they believe that we are so dumb that we will believe that this money will not benefit Elicker’s campaign in November. Unfortunately, some of us will continue to believe the Elicker hype, just like Trump supporters. Who will control the party, the people making $1000 donations or those making the $10 contributions?
While we slept, they planned. And now the takeover is almost complete. Just waiting for the “Make New Haven Great Again” hats and memorabilia.
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Serum lactate poorly predicts central venous oxygen saturation in critically ill patients: a retrospective cohort study
Journal of Intensive Care volume 7, Article number: 47 (2019)
Serum lactate and central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) are commonly used and commonly recommended as markers of tissue oxygenation in shock states. Medical literature has both explicitly stated and implied that the two biomarkers are interchangeable in the management of patients with shock. However, there have been relatively few direct comparisons of these tests in clinical circumstances, and the relationship between them is uncertain. The objective of our study was to evaluate whether simultaneous or near-simultaneous measurements of lactate and ScvO2 reveal a consistent relationship between these two biomarkers.
A retrospective cohort study was conducted in an urban, academic US hospital. All adults in ICUs between March 2007 and March 2017 who had a lactate measurement and ScvO2 or mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) measurement made +/− 1 h from the lactate were included. Linear and non-linear correlations of ScvO2 and lactate were assessed in a variety of shock states.
Two thousand sixty-two patients were included. Lactate and ScvO2 correlated poorly (r2 = 0.0041, p = 0.0019). This was true for patients with ScvO2 ≤ 65% (r2 = 0.0431, p < 0.001), patients with normal kidney and liver function (r2 = 0.0517, p < 0.001), and septic shock patients (r2 = 0.0037, p = 0.17). For patients with an O2 extraction ratio ≥ 50%, lactate and ScvO2 were strongly correlated (r2 = 0.93, p = 0.0019), but these patients represented only 2.8% of patients in whom the ratio could be calculated.
Lactate can predict ScvO2 when patients are at or below the critical oxygen delivery threshold, but relatively few shock patients meet this criterion. In the overall population of critically ill patients, serum lactate predicts ScvO2 poorly, even after controlling for factors that may affect lactate production. Lactate and ScvO2 should not be assumed to be interchangeable markers of tissue oxygenation/perfusion.
The critical care literature has considered central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2), mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2), and serum lactate to be measures of tissue oxygenation in shock [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Following the Rivers trial of early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) for sepsis, ScvO2 became popular as a substitute for SvO2 in a variety of shock states , and the two measures have been demonstrated to be strongly correlated [6, 8, 11, 12]. A trio of controlled trials subsequently demonstrated that EGDT does not provide a survival advantage in all patients with septic shock, but the studies did not address the utility of ScvO2 as a target for resuscitation of septic shock, because half of the patients in these trials had normal ScvO2 at the time of randomization . Some authors advocate that ScvO2 remains a vital component of sepsis treatment that should not be left out . Serum lactate has also been used as a marker for tissue oxygenation [1,2,3, 5, 9, 15, 16]; in fact, both ScvO2 and lactate are independent predictors of mortality in sepsis, and normalization of either or both biomarkers is associated with improved outcomes in sepsis and septic shock [17,18,19,20,21,22,23]. Additionally, both lactate and ScvO2 have been used as markers of tissue oxygenation in cardiogenic and hemorrhagic shocks [24,25,26,27,28].
Given their use as markers of tissue oxygenation, it has been posited that levels of serum lactate and ScvO2 may be inversely correlated in at least some forms of shock, as ScvO2 should be decreased in patients with inadequate tissue perfusion, and inadequate tissue perfusion should result in increased lactate production . It is likely that such an inverse relationship exists below the critical oxygen delivery point in any given patient, but the relationship could be more complex at other levels of oxygen delivery and uptake. In fact, Astiz et al. were unable to determine a level of oxygen delivery or of SvO2 that is predictably associated with lactic acidosis in patients with sepsis or acute myocardial infarction . Furthermore, lactate production can be stimulated by alternate mechanisms, and serum lactate can be increased in the absence of tissue hypoxia. We evaluated a large number of patients with shock of various etiologies to examine the relationship between serum lactate and ScvO2 and to determine whether a correlation does exist between levels of these two markers in any shock subset.
This was a retrospective cohort study performed at The University of Kansas Hospital (TUKH) in Kansas City, Kansas, in accordance with STROBE guidelines for observational studies. The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board, with approval number 00001581. All data were obtained from the electronic medical record (Epic, Verona, WI, USA) and collected in Crystal Reports (SAP Software Solutions). All adults (≥ 18 years) in ICUs between March 2007 and March 2017 who had a lactate measurement and measurement of central venous or mixed venous blood gases made ± 1 h from the lactate were included in the study. Previous to August 2014, there was no specific laboratory category in the electronic medical record (EMR) for ScvO2, and these measurements were reported by the laboratory as SvO2. After August 2014, 15.4% of venous gases were SvO2 measures. We assumed similar proportions for gases measured before the ScvO2 category became available for reporting, and we combined ScvO2 and SvO2 measures for analyses but refer to the values as ScvO2. For both time periods, we excluded any blood gases characterized only as “venous.”
We recorded age, sex, hospital mortality, length of hospital stay (LOS), length of ICU stay (ICU-LOS), need for dialysis, and need for mechanical ventilation. Discharge diagnoses regarding the type of shock state were recorded based on the International Classification of Diseases ICD-9 or ICD-10 codes and included septic, cardiogenic, traumatic, and shock not otherwise specified (NOS).
The following data were collected within ± 1 day of the patient selection data: creatinine, total bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin, hemoglobin, and thiamine. We recorded the following medication use in ICU: metformin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, and linezolid, which we refer to collectively as lactic acidosis-associated medications. Additionally, using ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes, we determined if the patients had the following pre-existing conditions: chronic kidney disease (CKD), chronic respiratory failure (CRF), chronic liver disease (CLD), chronic hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.
Statistical analysis was performed using Stata version 15.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA). Simple least squares linear regressions were performed, comparing serum lactate concentration with ScvO2 for all eligible patients. We performed secondary regression analyses of lactate and ScvO2 for patients meeting the following specific constraints: normal hepatic and renal function (AST ≤ 40 U/L or ALT ≤ 50 U/L and creatinine ≤ 1.2 mg/dL), septic shock, low ScvO2 (≤ 65%), increased lactate (> 2 mmol/L), anemia (hemoglobin ≤ 7.0 g/dL), state of lower adrenal activation (cortisol ≤ 25 μg/dL), cardiogenic shock, absent history of CKD or CLD, in-hospital mortality, and simultaneous measurements of ScvO2 and lactate. We completed regression analyses of lactate and ScvO2 for patients who were and who were not receiving the lactic acidosis-associated medications. In patients with an SaO2 measurement, we also completed a regression analysis of lactate and ScvO2 for those who had passed the critical oxygen delivery threshold (oxygen extraction ratio ≥ 50%). We performed additional regression analyses for lactate with factors that could affect lactate levels: cortisol, AST, ALT, total bilirubin, and creatinine. To observe intra-patient correlations between lactate and ScvO2, we used a simple linear regression of change in lactate with change in ScvO2 for patients with multiple measurements over the course of a single ICU stay. Additionally, we plotted lactate levels vs sextiles of ScvO2 and completed a restricted cubic spline analysis of lactate and ScvO2 to further describe their relationship. We also performed independent samples t tests examining mean lactate levels in patients with CKD and CLD. We also performed multiple linear regression modeling with lactate as the outcome variable and AST, creatinine, ScvO2, cortisol, total bilirubin, and the medications of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and linezolid as predictor variables. To determine the contribution to the model of each variable, we calculated the change in r2 when individual variables were added.
During the period of study, a total of 255,311 patients were admitted to the hospital, of which 53,745 patients were admitted to ICUs and 2062 patients were eligible for study, totaling 2348 paired lactate and ScvO2 measures (Fig. 1). Demographics and clinical features of the included patients are shown in Table 1. Five hundred seventy-one patients were given an ICD-9 or ICD-10 shock diagnosis, most of them having septic shock (73%). The median serum lactate for the entire cohort was 1.9 mmol/L (IQR 1.3–3.3), and the median ScvO2 was 73.5% (IQR 64.5–81.8). There were 1103 increased lactates (> 2 mmol/L), and 607 decreased ScvO2 measures (< 65%). The likelihood of ScvO2 < 65% was increased in patients with serum lactate > 2 mmol/L (OR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.40–2.05, p = 0.0000) (Additional file 1).
The simple linear regression data are shown in Additional file 2. We also performed log transformations and exponential analyses, where appropriate, to determine goodness of fit of those models; outcomes displayed similarly weak correlations. Linear regression of lactate and ScvO2 showed a weak negative correlation between the two (n = 2348, r2 = 0.0041, p = 0.0019) (Fig. 2). We also evaluated lactate and ScvO2 simple linear regressions under different conditions. Lactate and ScvO2 were not correlated or weakly correlated in patients with presumed tissue hypoxia, as evidenced by lactate > 2 mmol/L (r2 = 0.0003, p = 0.59), high oxygen extraction, indicated by ScvO2 ≤ 65% (r2 = 0.0431, p < 0.001), and patients with anemia, indicated by hemoglobin ≤ 7.0 g/dL (r2 = 0.0062, p = 0.41). To mitigate the effect of endogenous epinephrine as a stimulus for lactate production, we evaluated patients with cortisol ≤ 25 μg/dL, as a marker of low adrenal activation, but lactate and ScvO2 remained poorly correlated (r2 = 0.0140, p = 0.053). There was no correlation in patients who were not receiving the lactic acidosis-associated medications (r2 = 0.0317, p = 0.25). However, lactate very strongly predicted ScvO2 in patients with an oxygen extraction ratio greater than 50% (Additional file 3, r2 = 0.93, p = 0.0019), although only six patients of the 211 with both SaO2 and ScvO2 measurements had an oxygen extraction ratio of that magnitude. No type of shock predominated in these patients, and liver and kidney functions were intact in all of them. In the restricted cubic spline analysis of lactate and ScvO2 (Additional file 4), as well as the lactate vs ScvO2 sextile plot (Additional file 5), lactate showed a U-shaped relationship with ScvO2, with the highest lactate levels at the lowest and highest percentage values of ScvO2.
Because increased lactate is a significant feature of shock, we assessed lactate and ScvO2 regressions in patients with various types of shock. No correlation was found in patients with cardiogenic shock (r2 = 0.0064, p = 0.49) or septic shock (r2 = 0.0037, p = 0.17) (Fig. 3). To examine whether the lack of correlation represented population variability in the relationship of lactate and ScvO2, we evaluated intra-patient changes in the two variables among 286 patients who had multiple measurements over the course of an ICU stay; again, the relationship was weak (r2 = 0.0302, p < 0.001), even when we only included patients with some degree of lactate clearance (Additional file 6, r2 = 0.0137, p = 0.19). As described in Additional file 2, lactate and ScvO2 displayed weak correlations under conditions of no liver or kidney dysfunction, simultaneous measurement, and only ScvO2 values after March 2014. In our analyses with other factors that could affect lactate, it was poorly correlated with cortisol (Additional file 7), AST, ALT (Additional file 8), total bilirubin, creatinine, and the lactic acidosis-associated medications. Patients with CLD had a significantly higher mean lactate than patients without CLD, and there remained only very weak correlation of lactate and ScvO2; there was no significant difference in mean lactate when we compared patients with and without CKD (Additional file 9).
Because lactate was a poor predictor of ScvO2 in the majority of analyses, we used multiple linear regression modeling to evaluate parameters that may have affected serum lactate levels (Table 2). We evaluated combinations of predictor variables that were statistically correlated with lactate levels in univariate regressions: ScvO2, cortisol, creatinine, AST, ALT, total bilirubin, and the medications of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and linezolid. Table 2 shows the effect of any one of these variables in the model by showing the effect on r2 of removing the indicated variable from the model. The most significant model had a coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.3667 (p < 0.001) and included all predictor variables. ScvO2, on average, added only 0.001 to the r2 of any multiple linear regression model.
Reductions in ScvO2 occur when oxygen delivery to tissues is reduced and oxygen extraction is increased . Lactate, the product of anaerobic metabolism, is considered the biomarker of choice for determining the presence of tissue hypoxia [1,2,3, 5, 9]. Recent critical care literature, including clinical practice guidelines, intertwines these two biomarkers as indicative of “tissue hypoperfusion,” an entity which is not clearly defined, but which represents some combination of reduced tissue oxygen delivery and tissue hypoxia [30, 31]. Since lactate and ScvO2 are both well-studied independent predictors of mortality in sepsis [17,18,19,20,21,22,23], their relationship should be clarified, because of their frequent use as interchangeable markers of improving tissue oxygenation [30, 31]. Furthermore, both lactate and ScvO2 are used as resuscitation markers in cardiogenic and hemorrhagic shock [24,25,26,27,28]. However, ScvO2 can be either increased or decreased in sepsis, while lactate has been considered an indicator of tissue oxygenation, due to its association with total oxygen debt [15, 16, 22].
To our knowledge, this is the first direct analysis of the relationship between serum lactate levels and central venous oxygen saturation in critically ill patients, and the most comprehensive, although Weil evaluated the relationship of mixed venous oxygen saturation, oxygen delivery, and lactic acidosis . Our data both complement and confirm those of Gattinoni et al., which demonstrate a complex relationship between lactate and ScvO2 . In our single-center, retrospective, cohort study, lactate strongly predicted ScvO2 when patients were at or below the critical oxygen delivery threshold, but only 3% of shock patients met this criterion. In the overall population of critically ill patients, serum lactate predicted ScvO2 poorly, even after controlling for patients with high adrenal activation, normoxia, or kidney and liver dysfunction, all of which could modulate lactate levels via alternative mechanisms. Furthermore, when the analysis was limited to patients with increased lactate, or to patients with low ScvO2, there was no meaningful relationship between the two variables.
To evaluate the relationship of lactate and ScvO2 under conditions of potentially reduced oxygen delivery, we performed simple linear regression correlations of lactate and ScvO2 under conditions of presumed tissue hypoxia (lactate > 2 mmol/L), high oxygen extraction (ScvO2 ≤ 65%), anemia (hemoglobin < 7.0 g/dL), septic shock, and cardiogenic shock. Weak correlations between the two variables were observed with all of these conditions, suggesting the presence of other factors or combinations of factors that contributed to increased lactate. While the odds of having a decreased ScvO2 (< 65%) were 1.69 times greater if lactate was increased (> 2 mmol/L), only 31.1% of patients with an increased lactate had a decreased ScvO2. These numbers offer little support for using lactate and ScvO2 as interchangeable markers of “tissue perfusion.” Recognizing that lactate and ScvO2 values can change rapidly, we evaluated simultaneous lactate and ScvO2 measurements, but the correlation remained weak. A previous study indirectly observed similar relationships, as 79% of septic patients without lactate clearance had simultaneous ScvO2 > 70% . Furthermore, low ScvO2 values can be observed in the presence of either high or low lactate levels . Our serial measurements of simultaneous lactate and ScvO2 also support that the relationship of lactate and ScvO2 is inconsistent even within individual patients, further implicating the influence of factors other than tissue hypoxia on lactate levels.
One factor that may have led to the weak correlation between lactate and ScvO2 is the release of endogenous epinephrine during stress, leading to lactate production through beta-adrenergic receptor stimulation [33, 34]. We used serum cortisol as a surrogate marker for epinephrine, since epinephrine levels are not routinely measured in critically ill patients. Stress responses during critical illness stimulate the adrenal cortex to release cortisol and catecholamines, which correlate with the degree of stress experienced . Although cortisol did not correlate strongly with serum lactate levels, it was a more consistent predictor of lactate than were tissue oxygenation markers.
Hepatic and renal dysfunction, common complications of shock and sepsis, can also reduce lactate elimination, potentially further contributing to the lack of correlation between lactate and the assessed markers. Lactate is metabolized by the liver and excreted by the kidney, so dysfunction of either organ could reduce lactate elimination [36, 37]. Our study showed that patients with liver dysfunction, but not kidney dysfunction, have significantly increased lactate levels. However, in the linear regressions, we observed only weak correlations between lactate and markers of hepatic or renal dysfunction. Our findings corroborate a previous study correlating lactate clearance with total bilirubin or renal creatinine clearance, which also did not demonstrate a significant relationship .
To mitigate the effect of alternate sources of lactate in critical illness on the relationship between lactate and ScvO2, we performed regressions under multiple constraints. However, lactate and ScvO2 were weakly correlated under conditions of low adrenal activation, absence of acute or chronic hepatic and renal dysfunction, or absence of lactic acidosis-associated medications. Additionally, the multiple linear regression model does not fully explain the association of these variables, evidenced by low r2 values, suggesting that additional factors outside the scope of our investigations affected serum lactate levels. AST contributed the largest increase to the r2, suggesting that acute liver injury was the factor with the greatest predictive value for serum lactate.
It has been proposed that the inverse relationship of lactate and ScvO2 exists only below the critical oxygen delivery threshold (oxygen extraction ratio ≥ 50%) [8, 39]. However, only six of a possible 211 patients in our study exhibited an O2 extraction ratio of this magnitude. While a simple linear regression of lactate and ScvO2 in those patients displayed a strong correlation, it seems clear that relatively few shock patients may actually be at or below the critical threshold, suggesting that in the vast majority of patients, lactate and ScvO2 will neither accurately reflect one another, nor will lactate adequately reflect tissue hypoxia. Lactate and ScvO2 may be inversely correlated under certain conditions, but these conditions are unlikely to be present in most shock patients.
The predominantly weak correlation between lactate and ScvO2 demonstrates the complexity of lactate as a biomarker above the critical oxygen delivery threshold. Lactate consumption by the brain and heart is increased during stress, and lactate is released by the lungs during sepsis, which support that oxygen delivery is not the only factor, and perhaps not the major one, influencing serum lactate levels . Increased lactate in critical illness is likely to be caused by a combination of factors, and the extent and timing of them may vary significantly from patient to patient. Additionally, even though lactate tends to increase at advanced stages of illness, ScvO2 can either increase or decrease, further complicating the relationship of lactate and markers of tissue hypoxia . These factors most likely contributed to the weak correlations between lactate and the variables included in this study. However, our study does support that lactate and ScvO2 are correlated in the small subset of patients who have passed the critical oxygen delivery threshold. Therefore, in the vast majority of critically ill patients, lactate is primarily affected by factors other than tissue hypoxia and should not be used as a predictor of ScvO2 or tissue oxygenation.
Our study has some weaknesses, including that the findings are limited to a single center, the analysis is retrospective, and some aspects of the data are confirmatory of previous observations. Reduced thiamine levels can also be associated with increased lactate, but we were unable to account for thiamine levels, as these are rarely measured in our ICUs. While only 30% of the patient population had a shock diagnosis based on the ICD codes, this is likely due to well-reported discrepancies between administrative data and correct diagnoses . In our institution, combined lactate and ScvO2 measurements are made only in patients with shock. We also combined ScvO2 and SvO2 measurements in the regressions, which could have altered the distribution of values. However, SvO2 should be strongly correlated with ScvO2, even if not equal to it, and lactate was also shown to have little correlation with the known ScvO2 and SvO2 values after March 2014. Lastly, we were not able to correlate lactate levels with endogenous epinephrine levels since epinephrine is not routinely measured. We used cortisol as a surrogate for epinephrine, but the relationship between cortisol and epinephrine levels is not fully understood and may not be consistent.
This study does have multiple strengths, including its large number of paired measurements and its evaluation of the intra-patient lactate/ScvO2 relationships. We also evaluated multiple shock states, organ dysfunctions, and pre-existing conditions, as well as conditions of presumed tissue hypoxia, low oxygen delivery, and increased oxygen extraction. Previous studies examining oxygen delivery have either assumed that increased lactate is equivalent to passing the critical O2 delivery point or have been achieved in patients being terminally removed from life support; neither of these circumstances is of clinical utility [8, 42]. Our data suggest that very few shock patients (approximately 3%) have reached critical levels of O2 delivery. Finally, we were able to test the within-patient direction and magnitude of change of lactate and ScvO2 values.
Based on the results of this single-center retrospective cohort study, lactate has very little predictive ability for ScvO2 in the vast majority of critically ill patients, even after accounting for factors that could interfere with such a relationship. In the clinical setting, lactate should not be used interchangeably with ScvO2 as a marker of tissue hypoxia.
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Roshan Bisarya was supported by a Parker B. Francis Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
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Cross-tabulation table of lactate > 2 mmol/L and ScvO2 < 65%. Table displaying numbers of patients with increased or decreased lactate and concurrent increased or decreased ScvO2. (DOCX 12 kb)
Selected Simple Linear Regression Data. Simple Linear Regressions involving serum lactate. (DOCX 14 kb)
Lactate and ScvO2 Simple Linear Regression in patients with Oxygen Extraction Ratio ≥ 50%. There were six patients who had both SaO2 and ScvO2 to allow the calculation of the Oxygen Extraction Ratio ((SaO2 – ScvO2)/SaO2). A lactate and ScvO2 simple linear regression in these patients produced an r2 of 0.9303, p = 0.0019. The equation for the line of best fit was ScvO2 = -6.23(lactate) +59.2. (TIF 347 kb)
Restricted Cubic Spline Analysis of lactate and ScvO2. Three knots are inserted to describe the relationship of lactate and ScvO2. Only lactate levels < 10 mmol/L were used in this analysis. (TIF 1065 kb)
Lactate vs ScvO2 sextiles. Lactate plotted vs ScvO2 sextiles. Data are presented as mean ± standard error. (TIF 287 kb)
Change in lactate vs Change in ScvO2 or SvO2 in patients with lactate clearance. Of the patients with multiple measurements of lactate and ScvO2 or SvO2 over the course of an ICU stay, there were 130 patients who had some level of lactate clearance (lactate difference > 0 mmol/L). The r2 for the change in lactate vs change in ScvO2 or SvO2 regression for this population was 0.0137, p = 0.19. The equation for the line of best fit was ScvO2 or SvO2 difference = -0.82(lactate difference) – 0.66. (TIF 415 kb)
Lactate and Cortisol Simple Linear Regression. There were 603 measurements of lactate and cortisol in the appropriate time frame. r2 = 0.0627 and the p < 0.001. The equation for the line of best fit is Cortisol = 28.83 + 2.39(lactate). (TIF 504 kb)
Lactate and ALT Simple Linear Regression. Only ALT values less than 100 U/L were included in the graph. There were 935 measurements of lactate and ALT (<100 U/L) in the appropriate time frame. r2 = 0.011 and the p = 0.0013. The equation for the line of best fit is ALT = 0.93(lactate) + 27.0. (TIF 1716 kb)
Independent Samples T Tests for lactate in patients with CKD or CLD. Tables displaying independent samples t test summaries for lactate levels in patients with CKD or CLD. (DOCX 12 kb)
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Bisarya, R., Shaath, D., Pirzad, A. et al. Serum lactate poorly predicts central venous oxygen saturation in critically ill patients: a retrospective cohort study. j intensive care 7, 47 (2019) doi:10.1186/s40560-019-0401-5
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Imagine living in a small town, where nothing ever changes and outsiders are judged (wow, sounds like my hometown). Now imagine someone new moves to town, and that person changes your entire life. This ain’t your everyday paranormal romance, kids. This is Gatlin County, South Carolina. This is Beautiful Creatures.
So the film is based on a book series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. And when I say book series, I mean Harry Potter sized tomes. It’s pretty legit. Anyway, like I said earlier, the story takes place in Gatlin County, South Carolina. Where the DAR run everything and the Civil War reenactments are the highlight of the year. Seriously. But Ethan Wate, the main character of both the books and the film, wants so much more. See, he lucked up and had a mother who instilled in him the desire to get out and live a real life. Pity she died before the events in the story take place.
Enter Lena Duchannes, a mysterious new girl in town. Normally, in the real world, the new kid would be sort of admired by everyone else. Not in Gatlin. There’s no such thing as a “new kid”. It also doesn’t help that Lena is the niece of town shut-in Macon Ravenwood. So she already has two strikes against her. Strike three? She’s a Caster.
So why is her being a Caster a big deal? Well…Caster’s are kinda like witches. Okay, they’re witches. But they hate that term. And men and women can be Casters. I’m pretty sure Macon’s dog, Boo Radley, is a Caster too. And Lena’s sixteenth birthday is fast approaching. Again, why the big deal? The Ravenwood line is cursed to be claimed for the Light or the Dark on their sixteenth birthday. And they have no say in it whatsoever. This is proven when Lena’s cousin, Ridley, is Claimed (it’s shown through a flashback). Anyway, with Lena’s birthday coming up, she doesn’t have full control of her powers. Causing her to accidentally do things, like completely destroy the windows in her English class.
Okay, so what’s the big connection between these two kids? THERE’S A HUGE FLIPPIN’ CONNECTION. Only it isn’t as expressly stated in the film. In the film, it’s just Ethan’s great-great-great-great uncle was in love with Lena’s great-great-great-great grandmother and he was shot by Union soldiers right as he was trying to save Genevieve, Lena’s ancestor. Genevieve, wracked with guilt and despair, tries to bring him back to life. In the film, he does come back to life, but Genevieve goes Dark after bringing him back and stabs him, killing him again. In the book, it’s a whole lot more complicated and tragic.
So there’s that huge connection. Ethan and Lena fall in love, as what typically happens in young adult paranormal stories. He tries to help her figure out how to break the curse that Genevieve placed on her line. But as time passes, Lena begins to lose hope. She erases Ethan’s memories of her so that, if she were to go Dark, she wouldn’t risk hurting him. *SPOILER ALERT* That doesn’t happen in the book.
Oh!! I forgot. Ethan’s best friend in the whole world, Link, is kind of a dumbass. Like, fall in love with Ridley the Dark Siren kind of dumbass. But he has the best lines in the whole damn movie. His mother, Mrs. Lincoln (it’s the South, we have very normal names down here), is a serious bitch. But she becomes even bitchier. Because really, Mrs. Lincoln is possessed by Serafine, Lena’s mother who Lena thought was dead her entire life. This is like, the biggest plot twist in the book. It’s revealed in the first forty-five minutes of the movie. But Serafine’s whole mission is to get Lena to go Dark because Lena represents a massive change in the Caster world. Pretty much the fate of the world rests on Lena’s shoulders. Most sixteen year olds only freak out about getting their license. Just dwell on that for a minute.
Okay, so it’s Lena’s birthday. She’s at a massive ball for her Claiming. Ethan and Link are taking part in the Battle for Honey Hill reenactment for history class. Link has replaced the fake bullets in his gun with a real one Ridley taught him how to make (he’s dumb and under a Siren’s spell, give the kid a break, he’s not a bad guy). The boys go to the burned down property where Genevieve lost her shit and decide to shoot each other, get the battle part over with and go get burgers or something. But since Link has a real bullet…I’ll let you do the math.
Anyway, this leads to a massive battle between Lena and Serafine. Lena essentially skips being Claimed. She’s half Light and half Dark. So…normal. Basically. But she hasn’t replaced Ethan’s memories of her. Leading to one of the saddest scenes in the whole film. Seriously, I wanted to cry with Lena. But there’s a sort of ish happy ending?
As a movie, it was pretty great. Perfect casting, too. I mean come on, who doesn’t want to hear Scar with a Southern drawl? Jeremy Irons was pretty much perf as Macon. In the trailers, I didn’t like Lena (Alice Englert) that much. But oh man, was she actually really great. And Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) was also perfect. Especially after I read the book. Like, he’s my new favorite young actor (can I really call him “young” if he’s two years older than me?).
So I like it as a film. As an adaptation…ehhhh. I mean, it was good, it got the main story right. But holy shit, they tried to cram the major elements from all four books into one film. And I guess I can sort of understand it? But not really. They left out a lot of details and characters, but I think that was due to not wanting to make a Lord of the Rings length film. THEY DIDN’T LEAVE BOO IN, OKAY?! THAT MADE ME REALLY SAD. But honestly, the dialogue was some of the best I’ve heard in a while. Even though they left out Kelting (read the book, y’all).
Beautifully shot and wonderfully written, Beautiful Creatures might not be Oscar worthy, but it’s certainly a breath of fresh air in the vampire-heavy paranormal romance world. Loved it as a film, hated it as an adaptation. I give it eight out of ten moons. | <urn:uuid:189914b7-69ec-4e9b-a60f-b81353dc293c> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://thenerdicon.com/2013/03/13/claim-yourself-a-beautiful-creatures-review/ | 2019-11-20T19:06:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670601.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120185646-20191120213646-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.959762 | 1,550 | [
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This afternoon, the Senate took two votes in different attempts to bring the government shutdown to a close. The first vote was on a package put together by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide the funding requested by President Trump for the southern border wall, and the second was a Continuing Resolution (CR) offered by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Both votes failed, the first 47-50 votes, and the second 52-44 votes, leaving Congress and the administration no closer to resolving the partial federal government shutdown, now in its 34th day.
NWA has meanwhile learned that some WIC participants have begun discussing alternatives to infant formula in the event of a prolonged government shutdown leading to WIC closing its doors. We hope you will join us in getting the word out that infant formula substitutes like cow’s milk, over-diluted formula, or homemade formula mixtures put babies at great risk. These practices can lead to undernourished, anemic babies, and can even result in death. Please remind families that WIC remains open through February, and after that point will make all efforts to continue to serve the most vulnerable populations, including infants. We have shared this message on our Facebook and Twitter and encourage you to share our post with your networks as well.
The National WIC Association is reassured to hear from our WIC state agency members that the FNS reallocation process is going smoothly, leaving us more confident that FNS will meet its commitment to keep WIC clinics funded and open through the month of February. If you have any concerns about the ability of your program to remain open and fully operational, please reach out to Brian Dittmeier at [email protected].
NWA continues to call on Congress and the President to take urgent action to end the government shutdown for the sake of America’s families. You can join us by reaching out to your member of Congress with our action alert here, and via Twitter on February 1, 1-2pm ET as we participate in a Tweetchat about the shutdown and WIC. | <urn:uuid:45284f1e-87e1-4991-bf9c-63551b1f12af> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.nwica.org/blog/-washington-update-senate-efforts-to-end-shutdown-fail-wic-continues-to-be-open-through-february | 2019-11-22T07:03:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496671245.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20191122065327-20191122093327-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.962268 | 429 | [
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So I’m preaching this weekend. I think it’s going to be on faith in the midst of routine.
Funny, because my life is not that routine right now. Living 35 minutes away from work in borrowed space is sorta non-routine. And then you add a new baby to the mix. And things get even less than routine.
The Wife is a lady who likes routine. Who likes consistency. Who likes a schedule and plan. And our current life doesn’t really have a ton of that.
But I’m learning that God is bigger than any routine we are in. And that’s probably a good thing. I want to rely on Him instead of a routine.
Now I’m going to go pray and write some words down on some paper. Finish my brainstorming. Then start typing.
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I get it and I've been there myself. You have a lot of reading material to cover so you think Round Robin Reading (or Popcorn Reading) will do the trick. You want to make sure everyone reads it and stays on track. It seems really logical.
Round Robin Reading (RRR), for those that may need a definition, is when students read orally one at a time from the same text. Some say that this is the best way to get students to really despise reading. A variation of RRR is Popcorn Reading. It sounds like more fun--but don't be fooled. It's not. It's the same type of reading activity with the same negatives and benefits. In Popcorn Reading, the only difference is that students randomly and spontaneously call out a new student's name to be the next reader.
Why you should DUMP Round Robin Reading...
The longer I have been in education, the stronger I believe in small group instruction. It truly is the heart of instruction. In a small group, the ratio between student and teacher is drastically reduced allowing the teacher to identify individual student needs and easily differentiate instruction.
No matter the content area in elementary school, small group instruction has a greater effect on student learning than whole group.
Some may say that it's too difficult to pull small groups so they continue to instruct in a whole class setting. I agree that in the beginning it may be difficult to get the structure and routine down for both the teacher and the students; however, once good classroom management is put into place and the routines are set, the ball will get rolling and small group becomes the best way to teach.
After all, as educators I think there aren't many who don't agree that we want to do what is best for students. While whole group instruction may be easiest for teachers to plan and implement, it can't be best for students who are diverse and unique--all at various levels with different background knowledge.
Overall, most teachers are pretty good at pulling small groups for reading instruction in the primary grades. But even that seems to taper off around third grade. What we know is that when we gather a small group of roughly 4-6 students and give them what they specifically need at the moment greater progress occurs in language and in content knowledge. So why don't we continue to pull small groups as kids get older? And how about pulling them in other content areas such as math, science, and social studies?
Some may wonder...What are the other kids doing while I pull a group? Won't they get off task? Well, that's up to you as the teacher.
The Benefits of Small Groups:
For ELLs one of the other benefits of small group instruction is that it lowers the affective filter. You know that feeling of fear or anxiety when you are in a situation that is high stress? Well, English Language Learners can feel that anxiety in a whole group setting more than in a smaller setting. When everyone is waiting and all eyes are on you anticipating your response it can be intimidating. This feeling is amplified when you are new to the country, have an accent or need a great deal of support.
When teachers meet with students in small groups, they are more apt to individualizing instruction and truly meeting students where they are. In a smaller setting, teachers are able to ask more questions to individual students which allows the students to interact more with the teacher. This also has an added benefit which is building the student teacher relationship.
Another benefit of small groups is that students are given more opportunities to talk. When students are in a smaller setting, they feel freer to talk, ask questions and grapple with ideas. This allows them to think critically and negotiate for meaning while having academic discussions more openly. On the other hand, in a whole group setting, the teacher asks a question and one student responds while everyone else zones out.
CREATE A WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL CULTURES
Creating a welcoming environment for families is step one. When parents feel welcome to come to school, they can then support their child’s education at home too. The bridge between school and home is stronger. Research behind parental involvement in education shows that when parents volunteer and are part of the school community, their children have a higher success rate, make better grades, have a higher attendance rate and are happier in school overall. But in order for parents to be involved, it’s our job as leaders to WELCOME them. This means we have to form connections and invite them in to our campuses. Our doors need to be open. When we walk into a school, we are usually greeted first by the office staff. These critical members of the campus need to know that their presence, their body language, and their customer service is key to how parents perceive the school. They either say, “Come on in. You are welcome here.” Or they say, “Uh, excuse me. What do you think you are doing here?” For our ELL families and immigrant families, we have to keep in mind that they may be coming from a county that has different customs and traditions where school is concerned. In their home country, school may not be a place where parents are welcomed and wanted. So they may not know that we want them to come and be a part of their child’s education. It’s our job to show them that they are wanted and welcome in our building.
I must confess. I'm not a math specialist. In fact, as a classroom teacher, I've never taught math myself. I have supported math as an ESL Specialist in a co-teach position but never taught my own math class. However, what I can offer are linguistic supports for teaching in a math setting.
The misconception out there is that math is a universal language. This is far from true. Math is supported by language and if students are learning English, then learning math in their target language can be a struggle.
If you take anything away from this document, I hope it's that your ELLs NEED to talk about math using key vocabulary and may need sentence stems as scaffolds for conversation. Talk, or academic conversation, helps students develop language while internalizing learning, negotiating for meaning and cementing learning.
Please feel free to share this document with others as I hope it benefits language learners. If you have other suggestions or comments regarding math and ELLs, they are welcome here.
Resources I leaned upon:
Bresser, R., Melanese, K., & Sphar, C. (2009). Supporting English language learners in math class: grades 3-5. Sausalito, CA: Math Solutions Publications.
Bresser, R., Sphar, C., & Melanese, K. (n.d.). Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, Grades K-2.
Driscoll, M., Nikula, J., & DePiper, J. N. (2016). Mathematical thinking and communication: access for English learners. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
So you either came across this article because some gave it to you, you found it on line or you found it through Twitter! Let's talk about the power of Twitter and what it can do for you professionally. If you are already using Twitter, great! You may read this and think, "Awesome, I'm doing all of this." Or you may have some ideas that I didn't write about, so please share those with us in the comments below. Mostly, I wrote this for teachers and other educators who either aren't using Twitter at all yet or are using it a little but haven't realized the potential.
Twitter, what have you done for me lately?
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- From the epic movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
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European government bonds fell as minutes of the Federal Reserve’s October policy meeting showed the central bank may taper its $85bn in monthly asset purchases “in coming months” if the US economy improves. Bloomberg News reported that benchmark German bond yields climbed to the highest level in more than a week as a report showed...
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I read this for the Classic Children’s Story prompt. I had never read the whole story before, but I had read an extract with my class for a comprehension lesson and it intrigued me, so I decided to read it for this prompt.
Seven year-old Toseland is going to live with his maternal Great Grandmother Oldknow who lives in a castle in Green Noah, formerly known as Green Knowe. His mother has died and his father and stepmother are in Burma, leaving him rather unhappily in a boarding school until he is taken in by Mrs Oldknow.
I love the fact that Toseland immediately feels comfortable with his Great Grandmother and at home in Green Noah from the start, even though he has never met her before. It is not long before he begins to hear whispering and laughter, yet he can see no-one. Then, items start to move of their own accord. This does not frighten him in the least, perhaps because he has had a rather lonely existence in his boarding school, and is desperate to have friends, even if they are not living! It also helps that his Great Grandmother is aware of the existence of the castle’s ghostly family members, and tells him wonderful stories of these children who had occupied the castle over 300 years previously: Toby, Alexander and Linnet.
At first the children tease Toseland (Tolly), and keep themselves hidden but eventually he is able to see them and communicate with them. I adored that Tolly is able to develop friendships with his long deceased relatives without any of the fear and apprehension often associated with ghost stories. They give him the companionship he so desperately craves as there is a real sense that Tolly was a rather sad, lonely boy before coming to Green Noah.
The natural world plays such an important role in the story. The depiction of both the flooded and snowbound landscapes is beautifully evocative. Woodland birds and animals play a pivotal role in the story as they link Tolly and his Great Grandmother with the castle’s past inhabitants. The children and Mrs Oldknow are clearly animal lovers, and many real and ghostly creatures are welcome in Tolly’s room.
As Christmas arrives, the sense of family and celebration deepens as it is clear that Tolly and his Great Grandmother delight in each other’s company, giving them both a real sense of contentment as they work together to find the perfect present for their relatives who, although no longer living, are not ready to pass from Green Knowe.
The story of how Green Noah got its name through a curse is beautifully woven into the story and gives a sense of danger as Tolly finds himself caught up in this curse, a curse that is waiting to be broken …
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Yesterday I got back from 4 days at the ocean…. by myself. John looked after Helena and Isaac, and I immersed myself in a video project that I’ve been wanting to bring to life for months. The environment was just the magic and solitude I needed to bring a vision into form. In a few weeks I’ll be able to share what I was up to!
This week Dr. Wendy gives an amazing story of aroma, how deeply it impacts our impressions and memory, and how you can create your own essential oil based blends.
In Health, and wishing you Joy, Becky
Dr. Wendy Maddocks-Jennings (RN, DHlthSc)
Are you one of those people who opens the lid of everything to have a sniff before you buy it? Are you drawn into a shop or to a person because of the way they smell? Likewise aroma can also be a distinct turn off- too much perfume on the wrong person at the wrong moment can leave an aromatic scar for ever! Aroma preference is a very personal thing and involves many complicated chemical process in the brain, along with a highly emotive input.
There are also cultural and religious and societal aspects which enter into the mix. In the fifteen years I taught aromatherapy, and there was always some sort of emotive reaction at some time when aromas were first encountered in the class room. Some were quite extreme- nausea and cramps when geranium was smelled as the person had been beaten as a child and can remember the smell of geraniums coming through the window. Others were less dramatic and usually involved fond memories of a dear person who has passed away.
This article is more about the sense pleasure side of aromatics. As a creator of natural skin care products which are exported to several different export markets, the use of aromas in the products is a carefully thought out process. Firstly the product needs to have a particular effect (e.g soothing, anti bacterial, anti inflammatory). However the oils which give it this effect may not have the aesthetics necessary- a classic example is Teatree- melaleuca alternifolia. This oil can at best be described as medicinal. It takes another strong aroma to mask it- however the side effect of this is that the masking aroma may have to be used in high concentrations which can irritate the skin. There is no way teatree is blended for pleasure! There are also regulations around the percentage of certain aromatics or constituents in skin care.
Using essential oils in perfumery and aesthetics gives a wonderful dimension to your own creations. You may wish to try and create some of the well known perfumes or to develop something of your own. However, you must keep in mind that most, if not all of modern perfumery relies totally on the use of predictable and reliable synthetic chemicals to recreate the aromas of nature. For example there isn’t an essential oil equivalent of sea breeze or forest air; however some aspects of these can be created.
What provides the base for the essential oils blends?
True perfumes are alcohol based as essential oils and synthetic chemicals are all soluble in alcohol. Perfumers alcohol is completely aroma free and is 100% proof. It is not possible to buy this in New Zealand without a special license as it is both highly flammable and also lethal if ingested or used indiscriminately. Isopropyl alcohol is sometimes substituted, and sometimes this is available from chemists and solvent suppliers. However, due to the high use of isopropyl alcohol in certain drug manufacturing practices, it also may be hard to come across. The other thing against isopropyl alcohol is that it does have a slight aroma. For domestic purposes the easiest alcohol to get is vodka at 40 proof. The cheapest grade which is unflavoured is fine. If you do not wish to use alcohol you can also use floral waters with an essential oil solubiliser. The other option is to make solid perfumes with a plant wax and apply to a pulse point.
Essential Oil Aroma Notes
Essential oils are classified according to their note in perfumery, which relates to the rate or speed of evaporation of the essential oil. This method of classifying oils this way has been around since the 19th century. The aim of creating a synergistic and aesthetically pleasing blend is to include oils from all of the notes in perfect harmony.
The notes are described as follows:
a. Top notes (15-20% of blend)
First impression, light
Leads you into the blend
b. Middle notes (20-30% of blend)
Give roundness, complexity and fullness
Considered the heart of the fragrance and gives body to the blend
c. Base notes (50-55% of blend)
Act as fixative
Rich and heavy which emerges slowly and lasts the longest
Common oils and their aroma groups.
Neroli, rose, jasmine, ylang ylang, palmarosa, lavender
Peppermint, spearmint, geranium
Gingergrass, ginger, cardamom
Sandalwood, cedarwood, pine
Eucalyptus globulus, spike lavender
Clary sage, thyme, marjoram, rosemary
Ginger, cardamom, allspice, cumin
Lemon, lime, mandarin, bergamot, grapefruit
Blending table guidelines
This table is a very brief guide as to what blends with what. However there are no absolute rules- if you like it then go for it!
Floral + Spicy, citrus, woody, oriental, earthy
Woody + Blends with anything
Spicy + Floral, citrus, resins, oriental, earthy
Minty + Citrus, woody, herby, resins, medicinal, camphor
Finally just a couple of safety pointers- pure essential oils, absolutes and aromatic extracts are highly concentrated substances and generally always diluted on the skin. For products being applied to the face 1% is a typical dilution (total of all essential oils). For body applications 5% is the usual. However if you are blending for perfumery, where a small amount only is applied the concentrations can be as high as 20% but you would need to check for skin sensitivities.
Dr. Wendy Maddocks-Jennings (RN, DHlthSc)
Dr. Wendy Maddocks-Jennings (RN, DHlthSc) is a registered nurse and aromatherapist who has been involved in many aspects of aromatherapy and health care since 1983. Her clinical nursing experiences spanned critical care and emergency nursing as well as acute pain management. Wendy studied Aromatherapy and massage in the UK initially. From there she studied further including with Dr. Peneol in France on an aromatic retreat with Aroma tours, and completed NZs first doctoral degree investigating the use of aromatherapy within a clinical setting in New Zealand. Wendy taught aromatherapy and clinical nursing for 15 years and now runs a natural skincare and aromatic consultancy/education company, MJ Health Ltd. She edits Sharing Aromatherapy, the NZ register of Holistic Aromatherapists Journal.
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In Africa, the country maintained its 9th rank right before Cape Verde. Below is the list of the FIFA top ten African teams:
3. Côte d’Ivoire
10. Cape Verde
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LA VIENNE QUALITY LABEL
Because the quality of your stay is our daily concern, the 'Conseil Departemental' of La Vienne established the Vienne Quality Label.
With this label, we guarantee the quality of services offered by various providers in the tourism department. The award of the label is from a charter defining a certain number of criteria.
The establishments awarded the Label must meet strict standards and quality objectives in areas such as the surroundings, facilities and services available to customers.
Providers themselves wanted to be involved in this quality process as they respect the values which are those of the region such as a natural and preserved peace but also the quality of life. They guarantee you a warm welcome and smile.
Finally, they pledge to help you discover the region: in fact, each one will offer new destinations through rich and varied documentation you find there.
NATIONAL LABEL TOURISM & DISABILITY
The National Label aims to provide reliable information, descriptive and objectively, about the accessibility of sites and tourist facilities, taking into account all types of disabilities. It allows us to develop an adapted tourist package, integrated with the general offer.
This label is a guarantee of quality of the service. It is a social and economical issue. It is also voluntary and free.
The tourism professional, after a preliminary diagnosis, then begins a process of adapting their facilities with the support of departmental and specialized associations.
Each one’s approach may enable them to qualify as "Tourism & Disability" for one or more types of disability.
List of sealed sites in La Vienne
LABEL "GITES DE FRANCE"
The Gîtes de France label has grown and developed over the years and is now the largest guest-house network in Europe. In 2005, Gîtes de France celebrated its 50th birthday.
• promote comfortable, friendly holiday stays,
• meet the special needs of holidaymakers seeking authentic, convivial holidays in natural settings, peace and quiet, novelty and wide open spaces,
• help to preserve and promote the French countryside and its special cultural heritage,
• participate in local development and bring stability to the rural population by providing additional resources through tourism.
A Gîtes de France holiday is both enriching and relaxing, thanks to the 43,000 men and women who welcome you into their homes, each one different and unique.
These values have made Gîtes de France a leading force in sustainable development for rural tourism.
NATIONAL LABEL "CLEVACANCES"
Clévacances rentals and bed & breakfasts are classified according to three essential criteria:
- Environmental: attractive appearance (building itself, surroundings, location, etc.) and total absence of inconveniences (noise, smell, rights of way...)
- Internal: space, furniture, decoration, household equipment and sanitary facilities, rooms compared with sleeping capacity,
- Human: service and assistance from the landlord or landlord’s representative.
A well-received guest will enhance your reputation and the image of Clévacances France.
Over 60 years we have built a reputation for the warmth of the welcome which extend to our guests. Our concept: providing high quality service, authenticity and the discovery of local specialities.
The Logis Quality Label provides a constant challenge ; a way of ensuring that we continuously strive to earn our position as the n°1 independent hotel network in Europe. | <urn:uuid:62a1228f-3ea3-417d-9dd3-408c16b63cf7> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.tourisme-vienne.com/en/labels | 2019-11-17T23:33:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669352.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117215823-20191118003823-00120.warc.gz | en | 0.926158 | 715 | [
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Don Bosco Oratory Festival, three evenings in which dialectal comedies, music and dances will alternate. During the event there will be a food stand.
In addition, a night soccer tournament will be organized. The proceeds will be donated to the Don Bosco Oratory in Siviano.
Soon the detailed program of the event.
Orari dell'evento: 21.00 - 23.59
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Jewellery is gaining immense recognition nowadays, and due to the growing appetite you’ll be surprised to determine an enormous assortment of precious jewellery with beautiful designs, that are around online. Online retailers of jewellery, includes semi-stone rings, bracelets in gold wire, semi precious rings, earrings, semi-precious gemstones, costume jewellery gold, gold jewellery, costume jewellery semi-precious gemstones, semi precious necklaces and pendants etc. Online stores offer over a large number of types of jewellery to find the most engaging one. You’ve got to be careful in selecting a web-based store to purchase your jewellery since there are many online retailers that provide gold jewellery at affordable prices which aren’t authentic, including various types of bracelets, necklaces, rings, earrings and lots of products.
Using the growing trend of purchasing costume and fashion jewellery all over the world, which based on the information mill not too costly when compared with jewellery previously. When we concentrate on big jewellery firms, many of them like internet business. And therefore the ladies too have recognized the very fact of internet jewellery purchase which is extremely reasonable for every type of customer.
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3. Personalization Features – Some stores offer this selection of personalization exclusive for jewellery. Which means that you can’t only choose the plethora of available products, but additionally commence for jewellery based on the selection of metal, design, and gems.
4. Security measures – Purchasing jewellery is definitely an costly business. People want the safety of transaction documents for example charge cards and banking account info. To satisfy this need for customers, online retailers offer high-level file encryption and security.
5. Features EMI – When the jewellery item is much more than your financial allowance, don’t be concerned. Some popular jewellery offers the payment service through the EMI option.
Aside from these functions, online retailers offer money-back or return of products generally. You may also enjoy free cleaning and polishing facilities for the jewellery. Buying jewellery on the internet is a less expensive option, because the costs are less expensive than visiting the jewellery stores by hand. Most jewellery manufacturers their very own stores representing themselves on the web. There’s no 3rd party interference, therefore the cost doesn’t rise between your manufacturer and also the customer.
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Get free legal advice from the Best lawyers in Chandil. Hire the Best Law Firms for your Legal issues. Lawyers in Chandil are listed here,to provide fast,cost effective legal services in Chandil. Here you will get Best Advocates in Chandil for your legal issues. immigration lawyers, litigation attorneys, injury lawyers, employment lawyers, family law Advocates, Top Lawyers In Chandil are available here. | <urn:uuid:3e0e2b17-f87c-4ae9-8a47-9d84482ef9ee> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.vkeel.com/advocates/all-lawyers-chandil | 2019-11-20T21:37:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670635.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20191120213017-20191121001017-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.960114 | 92 | [
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Since saving the Great American Middle Class from itself, the economists, Wall Street, and the one percent has become the cause de jure for politicians and pundits these days. I will offer a few prescriptions of my own.
Instead of playing the fruitless game of trying to define “middle class,” I shall propose a few policies that could help average Americans obtain the status of middle class or maintain it. None of these policies is perfect; instead, they are merely suggestions based upon my experience and knowledge.
Some policies that could help rebuild the middle class include:
- Medicare for All (Single-Payer Healthcare). Expand our existing single-payer health care system to cover all Americans. This could eliminate the biggest cause of bankruptcies – medical bills. Nerd Wallet found that 1.7 American households declared bankruptcy because of medical bills in 2014. The website also discovered that 10 million Americans with health insurance were unable to pay for basic necessities, such as food, rent, and heat, due to medical bills. Another 11 million took on credit card debt to pay off medical bills. Since around one in three Americans already receives single payer health insurance in the form of Medicare or Medicaid, it would not be as big of an effort to offer it to all as we think.
- Such an expansion would create jobs because employers would no longer be required to offer health insurance to workers. It would also free many Americans to quit jobs they have taken simply for health insurance. Many people cannot take advantage of higher paying opportunities, go back to school, or start a business because they need the health insurance from the job they hate. Businesses would benefit too because they could reinvest the money they are spending on health insurance in expansion, which could create more jobs. One major benefit is that some companies could abolish “human resources” and spend the money they are wasting on that bureaucracy on their real business.
- Tuition free college. Use tax money to subsidize tuition for all Americans at public universities and community colleges. Since our tax money is already paying for these institutions, making them available to everybody is not a stretch. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has an excellent plan to do this by using a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions to finance this. I would extend Sanders plan by having it pay for all medical and nursing school tuition for U.S. citizens to address the shortages of doctors and nurses the country is facing according to The Washington Post.
Such a plan would stimulate the economy in three important ways:
- It would eliminate student loan debt, which would give college graduates far more spending power. Instead of paying debt, the graduates would spend their money on things like cars and TV sets or buy houses, increasing consumer spending, which is the engine that drives our economy.
- Effectively increase the income of many middle class families because they would no longer have to save for children’s college tuition. If a family is currently saving $1,000 a month for college, its income would increase by $1,000 a month. This would create more spending and stimulate the economy. Many families would enjoy a better lifestyle and parents would be able to save more for retirement.
- Inject more money into the economy by increasing the earning power of citizens. A study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that the average person with a bachelor’s degree will earn $1.2 million more than the average individual with just a high school diploma over the course of a lifetime.
- Income Security or National Disability Insurance. Currently, three in 10 Americans have no savings and 55% of Americans do not have enough money saved to cover more than three months of expenses, Bankrate.com reported. To make matters worse, more than half of Americans have no short-term disability coverage, according to Insurance Journal. This means that those people are at risk for falling into poverty if they become temporarily disabled by illness or an accident. It’s a bad situation because Social Security Disability is set up to cover long-term disability. Some sort of national short-term disability insurance that everybody can take advantage of is needed, especially the self-employed and all those in the fast-growing gig economy. Many of those people are only one or two paychecks away from the food bank.
- Tax-Deferred Savings. Make the first $250,000 that each individual keeps in FDIC insured savings instruments tax-deferred. Couples could keep up to $500,000. This would encourage savings and allow people to have cash they can tap for emergencies. Under the current system, people are forced to turn to investment vehicles, such as IRAs and 401Ks, for retirement savings. That’s a good deal for the investment industry, but a lousy deal for the middle class. Many families have to take a huge tax hit if they need to tap their savings for an emergency. Such a move would encourage savings, help Americans become self-sufficient, and cut many Americans tax bills. It would also mean that a lot of “investment advisors” would have to go back to selling used cars or aluminum siding for a living, but would that be so bad?
These proposals would not solve every problem facing the middle class, but they could improve its situations. More importantly, they could reduce income inequality and prevent the social and political upheaval it can create.
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The ailing Magpies head for Arsenal tonight bidding to avoid a sixth straight defeat - an alarming slump which probably won't threaten their hopes of a top half finish but have turned thousands of fans against the manager.
Pardew, who returns to the dug-out for the first time since his headbutting shame at Hull on March 1, insists the recent run paints a false picture of the Toon's state of health.
"From where I sit as Newcastle manager, looking at the club, I think it's in a strong position," he said.
"These short-term results over the last five games have really put a bit of a stain on it.
"We need to remove that stain by getting a result and then we can look forward to a good summer."
Pardew pinpoints the sale of Yohan Cabaye as the catalyst for decline but still defends the club for failing to replace him in January.
And he is adamant Newcastle will be prominent spenders in the next transfer window.
"We came close but not close enough for our fans," he added,
"They wanted someone over the line as a replacement for Cabaye but we just couldn't manage to do it. We ran out of time but it wasn't for the want of trying."
Such is the scepticism of the Toon Army about Pardew and Mike Ashley's regime, some believe the manager's tendency of talking up the club's youth team suggests Newcastle will be promoting from within rather than splashing the cash.
Pardew, however, firmly rejects that notion.
"When you start talking about what's underneath, there's an assumption that we're not going to sign players but that's definitely not the case," he said.
"And I want to make that point strongly. We have investment in the summer that we can make and we're going to make it.
"But the truth of it is that in two or three years' time, we've got six or seven kids here who are going to make an impact."
Newcastle picked up just one win and scored just two goals while Pardew was either banished from the stadium or the technical area.
He had briefly pondered the idea of a self-imposed touchline ban but now claims the players will be better off with him being a visible presence again.
He added: "It's been tough being away from my team.
"It was a real punishment. I'm not saying I agree with all the punishment but I accepted it.
"I had said I would look at whether I'm best watching from the stand but I'll go back to the dug-out.
"And I'll be better on the sidelines than I have been."
Arsenal target Loic Remy and Mathieu Debuchy who came on as subs against Swansea last week will start along with fellow French international Moussa Sissoko, who has recovered from injury quicker than expected.
Pardew believes their returns quashes theories that all three had effectively given up on their club season and protecting themselves for the World Cup.
"They are all very much aware they have to finish the season strongly not just for their individual ambitions but for Newcastle.
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thanks, i haven't played with it much.BRiT said:No need to regedit out the tray icon. There's a setting on the update tool as to how it warns you and displays to the user. Just unselect show in system tray.[/url].
hasn't caused a problem with me yet, but i don't use kazaa and such. it doesn't seem effect torrents or ircBRiT said:
I would advise anyone to always wait at lease 2-3 weeks before installing any major update or service pack. Got to some of the Technology sites and see what the Buzz is first.burn1nh311 said:I just want to see everyone's opinion on SP2 before I decide to download it or not. So rip it apart or praise it as god.
I agree but atleast you know they aren't being bias in the other direction and keeping quiet about bugs.junglizm said:
why the fuck are you still using IE anyway??? IE has started to be a target of script kiddies and they can get usernames and pws for supposedly secure sites, if you want a better browser go with mozilla firefox...down load it</rant> said:Put it on my box the other day, all I noticed was it changed my wifi icon, put a load more default links in my toolbar, and IE is still slow and shit.
Thank fuck all I use it for is games.
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***UPDATE JULY 2018 – The Terrace Hotel is no longer open for business***
The Terrace Hotel opened for business in the Perth CBD last year, a boutique hotel established in the heritage-listed St George House building on the corner of St George’s Terrace and Mount Street (opposite the Woodside building).
I was recently offered the opportunity by lastminute.com.au to stay and dine at The Terrace Hotel and blog about the experience. May is Jac’s and my anniversary month; we’ve been together for 16 years, and I thought a night in the hotel would be a great way to celebrate. And of course, I was keen to check out the restaurant.
But poor Jac’s been battling the lurgy that’s doing the rounds. That Saturday, she felt so sick she cancelled her appointment with her hairdresser and didn’t go to hockey. She spent most of the day in bed. We were determined to go ahead with our plan – Jac would rest as much as she could that day, then join me in the evening for dinner and to spend the night at the hotel. While Jac slept at home, my Terrace Hotel experience would begin with my sister Juji joining me for afternoon tea.
The formal dining room at The Terrace exudes elegance, with brown leather Chesterfield seats, tables laid with china cups and saucers with folded linen napkins, and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. It feels special even before the teapots and three-tiered dishes arrive.
There are two package for afternoon tea at The Terrace Hotel – the Temperance package (AU$42) and the Daisy package (AU$58, with a glass of NV Veuve Clicquot). We chose Temperance and each picked a tea from the selection of Harney & Sons loose leaf teas on the menu. Juji chose Supreme Breakfast, and I chose White Vanilla Grapefruit. I was pleased with my tea choice – it was citrusy, with the subtle fragrance of vanilla. Juji enjoyed hers with a touch of milk. The teapots are enormous and quite heavy to lift and pour when full. They’re good value for tea lovers, capable of drinking cup after cup.
Tea poured and sipped, it was time for indulgence. On the top tier were scones with a jar of strawberry jam and the single item that most thrilled us: a lusciously rounded scoop of clotted cream. Also on the top tier totally upstaged by the clotted cream, were slices of rhubarb strudel – sugar-dusted layers of flaky crisp pastry wrapped around a sweet stewed rhubarb filling. When the scones were all gone, we ate the clotted cream with the strudel (yes, in that order).
On the second tier, little cakes. I’m used to sticky date cakes being dense and heavy, but this mini loaf-shaped beauty was surprisingly light and moist, topped with fluffy chocolate cream. The passionfruit tart consisted of a custard-filled square of shortcrust pastry topped with a shiny passionfruit glaze. Last, the Paris Brest, a choux pastry ring filled with sweetened whipped cream.
The Paris Brest was created in 1891 in honour of a bicycle race from Paris to Brest and back to Paris, known as the PBP. The choux pastry is circular, to represent a bicycle wheel.
I was most excited about the savoury tier of finger sandwiches, made with soft, fresh white bread, crusts off (could’ve been more neatly done, but that’s an observation rather than a complaint) – avocado with chicken, smoked salmon with cream cheese, cucumber, and our favourite, curried egg.
As far as afternoon teas go, this one was very good. We’d both skipped lunch and each struggled to finish the last items. Everything tasted freshly made, not a stale scone or fridge-cold sandwich to be found. While we poured tea and munched away delicately, we enjoyed the jazzy tunes from a singer performing on the verandah.
I’m yet to find my perfect afternoon tea – I’d prefer more savoury items than sweet. I’ve often thought it would be fabulous to have a design-your-own afternoon tea. It would work like this:
- Diners have three tiers for items. Maximum number of items on a tier is determined by the restaurant, so no one goes overboard (the other way is to charge per item, rather than per person).
- Diners choose from a selection of sweet and savoury items. Ideally there would other savoury morsels, not just finger sandwiches – mini quiches or tarts, for example. Mini sausage rolls would be amazing. Ideally, the menu would change regularly, so you’d have reason to come back.
What do you think of that idea?
After demolishing our afternoon tea (in the most charmingly civilised manner, of course), it was time for me to check in at the hotel. Reception is accessible from the restaurant, but if you’re entering from the street, there’s a single white door to the right of the main entrance.
My room was Terrace Suite No.5, on the first floor. There are 15 rooms all together at The Terrace Hotel, out of which only two are Terrace Suites that face onto St George’s Terrace, each approximately 48m2. The Terrace Suite is certainly the grandest hotel room I’ve stayed in in Perth. You walk into a sumptuously appointed lounge with armchair and sofa, writing desk, flat screen TV, fireplace and a Japanese-style wardrobe in which the mini bar and snacks are kept, along with a selection of teas, a Nespresso machine and Nespresso capsules. There are no UHT milk portions in the fridge – a staff member brought me a jug of fresh milk for tea/coffee.
The mini bar prices are typical for top shelf and premium quality beverages. I brought the mini spirit bottles out from the wardrobe to show you (picture below). Prices for the mini spirit bottles range from AU$11 for Hendricks gin to AU$26 for Patron Silver tequila. In the fridge there are beers, Little Creatures Pipsqueak cider, Henschke white wine, water and soft drinks. For the Coke fiends, it’s AU$6 for a bottle of Coke or Coke Zero. For those really special occasions, there’s a bottle of French champagne chilling – Ruinart Blanc de Blanc from Reims, France (AU$128). There are gourmet snacks available, also stored in the wardrobe, and a box of Nakamura handmade chocolates (AU$20).
The bedroom is even more spacious than the lounge, with a king-sized poster bed with goose down and feather pillows and Egyptian cotton sheets.
In the bedroom is another writing desk and Bang and Olufsen HD digital TV and surround sound system with remote control. There’s Foxtel IQ and Apple TV and a connectivity panel so you can plug in your own devices: AV red/white/yellow inputs, VGA, HDMI and USB ports. There’s an iPad which you can use for internet browsing or one-touch icon access to the hotel’s restaurant and room service menus. You can access free wireless internet in the room and throughout other areas of the hotel – the wifi password is provided at check-in. In the second, larger Japanese wardrobe are a personal safe, bathrobes, slippers, iron and ironing board, umbrella and a yoga mat. All of these features, including the technology, are available in all rooms at the hotel.
The bathroom is large with black marble walls, an open shower area (no shower screen) and separate bath. Although the suite has retained much of the building’s original character, the plumbing is definitely not ‘heritage’ – the drainage from the shower worked well, the shower water pressure was decent (love the large shower head – not quite a rain shower head, but bigger than average) and it was easy to get the water to my desired temperature. I’ve had a few memorable-for-the-wrong-reasons hotel stays involving temperamental showers that were either freezing cold or blazing hot, and toilets with sluggish cisterns. There were no such issues here. The only thing missing was a full-length mirror.
I spent a couple of hours relaxing on the very comfy bed, watching cooking shows on the Food Network. Jac arrived early evening and we went to the bar for pre-dinner drinks. Although she still had a cough and blocked nose, Jac was feeling better from having rested most of the day, and she perked up visibly as she browsed the bar’s impressive beer and wine list, presented in a leather-bound binder.
She tried two international wheat beers – Blanche de Namur by Brasserie du Bocq from Belgium and Kellerweis Hefeweizen by Sierra Nevada from California, USA. She still stopped to blow her nose from time to time, but she was definitely smiling a lot more!
We returned to our room to freshen up before dinner. The Terrace Hotel provides daily housekeeping including an evening turn down service, and Housekeeping had left a card with the next day’s weather forecast, with a chocolate (filled with praline and wafer, I discovered later) on each bedside table. It’s little touches like this that make a hotel stay memorable.
The restaurant was starting to get busy as we took our seats at 7pm, but evidently timing was on our side as our starters arrived very quickly.
Jac ordered the wagyu carpaccio with smoked potato mousse, fresh wasabi, watercress (AU$19). The tiny measures of fresh wasabi went brilliantly with the thinly sliced raw beef. Jac declared it a dish she’d happily order again.
If there’s a scallop dish on the menu, you can bet I’ll order it. Three seared scallops with char siu duck, chilli, soy & peanut dressing and celeriac (AU$22) – I wiped the plate clean and fantasised for the rest of the meal about a main-sized portion. The scallops were arranged on top of soft, sweet duck patties and creamy celeriac puree. I like my scallops more caramelised, but these were cooked beautifully and superbly tender. I didn’t need my knife at all.
Jac’s main course was a little less successful. She chose the Cone Bay barramundi with creamed curried mussels, baby leeks and salsify chips (AU$44). The baby leeks had imparted their flavour but were quite fibrous. It was a beautiful piece of fish but Jac found the sauce very salty.
Anyone who knows me well would’ve easily picked my main course: slow cooked crispy Linley Valley pork belly, served with potato and seeded mustard puree, roasted winter vegetables, braised fennel and cider jus (AU$36). The pork was absolutely phwoarsome. It was such pleasure to eat the crunchy crackling and the juicy layers of flesh and soft, melting fat with the dark, salty edges along the underside.
TFP Terms explained
Phwoarsome – food so desirable and delicious you can’t help but say “PHWOAR!” when seeing and/or eating it. Rarely used to describe cereal or vegetables.
We shared a side dish of cabbage and bacon (AU$9). The cabbage was cooked well, retaining its crunch, studded with chunks of bacon. Jac found this dish also on the verge of being too salty, but I couldn’t stop eating it. We’ve clearly got different thresholds for salt; I was raised on a diet high in soy sauce.
For dessert, I ordered the coconut crème caramel and passionfruit sorbet served with mango and chilli salsa and coconut tuille (AU$16). The crème caramel was exquisitely wobbly and silky smooth, every dig with my spoon supremely satisfying. The passionfruit sorbet was pucker face tart. I wasn’t so fond of the mango and chilli salsa – although I like sweet-salty combinations, the chilli flavour just didn’t do it for me for dessert. The tuille stuck to my teeth on my first bite and I left the rest alone. The crème caramel was stole the show.
Jac chose the selection of cheeses (3 cheeses, AU$22) served with apple and pear chutney, water crackers and rye bread. I didn’t write down the names of the individual cheeses but they included a sharp, crumby cheddar, a creamy blue, and a pungent washed rind cheese that I could only describe (while pulling a face – my stinky cheese face, not my sour sorbet face) as horsey. It’s a lot of cheese for one person – I’d recommend sharing if you can, to do it justice. I wonder if they’d let guests take the wooden board up to their room to work on the cheese at their leisure (no, we didn’t ask!)?
Have you had crazy cheese-powered dreams after eating too much cheese too close to bedtime? Jac seems immune to those. It probably helped that the bed was extremely comfortable, one of the best hotel beds we’ve slept on, I daresay better than our bed at home. They’ve done an outstanding job with the room’s sound-proofing. I was surprised at how quiet it was, especially as the Terrace Suite faces St George’s Terrace. When you step outside the room, you immediately hear the noise floating up from the restaurant and bar; but when you’re in the suite with the door closed, you barely hear a sound from outside.
It was tempting to stay in bed on Sunday until check-out time, but I wanted breakfast. And coffee!
Jac ordered the baked chorizo, cannellini beans, baba ganoush with a free range egg (AU$16). The egg was unevenly cooked; overdone on top but soft underneath. The bread was barely toasted and would’ve been better not toasted at all. We’ve had a far better version of baked chorizo, beans and soft egg at Harvest Espresso in Victoria Park (sadly, not available on their current menu).
Pancakes, banana, maple syrup (AU$13) are one of my favourite breakfast combos. Three fluffy pancakes were served in a stack dripping with maple syrup, sitting in a glistening pool of more syrup. I’d have preferred more banana and no strawberries, but the pancakes and syrup were excellent.
I was pleased with the amount of bacon we received in our side order (AU$5). And it was good streaky bacon too, which I rolled in my magical pool of syrup.
Service was friendly during all the meals (and throughout our stay), but at breakfast, the busiest of the three, beyond the initial order and delivery of our food and drinks, no one made further eye contact or returned to check on us or clear away my empty juice glass and coffee cup. It was a shame; we’d have probably ordered a second round of coffee if offered.
We were a little sad to check out after breakfast. It would’ve been wonderful to just laze around all day, maybe order a little room service (available 24 hours) and enjoy the opulence for just a little longer. But at home, several loads of laundry, a dishwasher in need of emptying and the next week’s blog posts were waiting. Happy anniversary, but back to reality! Still, I was stoked that Jac was able to enjoy the evening and breakfast with me.
In creating the character and splendour of the new hotel in this restored heritage building, a balance between antique charm and modern convenience has been thoughtfully and tastefully executed. The accommodation is top-notch; we were very impressed with the quality and attention to detail in the room fittings and amenities. Afternoon tea was delightful and the scallop dish is a cracker – don’t miss it while it’s on the winter menu. While Jac found dinner a touch too salty (Miss Soy Sauce 1975 had no such issues), the extensive beer and wine list will definitely lure her back. The budget-conscious traveller will keep walking, but if you’re looking for luxury in splendid surroundings in the Perth CBD, you’ve arrived at the right place.
Thanks to lastminute.com.au for arranging this experience at The Terrace Hotel. Our accommodation and meals were compliments of The Terrace Hotel, though prices have been included for the readers’ information. We paid for our bar drinks ourselves.
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With the tournament now reduced to four competitors, the Wimbledon women’s singles event appears to be Serena Williams’ to lose.
The American, with 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name, is joined in the semifinals by three players with a collective major tally of one.
The other major winner is Simona Halep, who will clash with Elina Svitolina in a battle between players who have never before appeared in a Wimbledon final.
Williams takes on Czech veteran Barbora Strycova for a place in her 11th.
Thursday’s Semifinal Schedule:
Centre Court: 1pm
Simona Halep vs. Elina Svitolina
Serena Williams vs. Barbora Strycova#Wimbledon
— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) July 10, 2019
Serena has improved with every match, and coach Patrick Mouratoglou believes her come-from-behind victory over Kaja Juvan in the second round was the moment she truly sunk her teeth into the tournament.
“She started really slow in terms of level of play; she was looking for her tennis. And I think that second-round match was a key moment,” he told reporters at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
“She dug deep (after losing the first set) and the next two sets were so much better. I felt she found her game there and then I was happy with the matches after this one.
“In the last match you could see she’s been able to raise her level when it was necessary, which is one of her trademarks, and this is back. So everything’s positive.”
Indeed, Williams was stretched to the limit by a grass-court giant killer Alison Riske, a Centre Court barnstormer that has so far been the match of the women’s tournament.
But she wrested control of the third set, slamming an ace at 195km/h down the T on match point to prevail.
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 9, 2019
One would imagine Serena will have too many weapons on Thursday for the diminutive Strycova, the 33-year-old who is appearing in her first ever major semifinal.
Yet the canny Czech has demonstrated her grass-court smarts in successive comeback victories; first from 6-4 5-2 down against Elise Mertens in the last 16, and from 4-1 in the first set of her quarterfinal against Johanna Konta.
“It’s the tournament where everything clicked together. She’s calmer than ever and playing better than ever,” said Lukas Dlouhy, who shares Strycova coaching duties with fellow Czech David Kotyza.
Strycova faces a Herculean assignment in taking on Williams, a player who she is yet to beat in three previous meetings.
Yet Dlouhy, who says he “never saw a player so talented like Barbora”, believes his crafty charge can hopefully find some holes in Williams’ rock-solid game.
“It’s different (now than in those previous matches) because she was younger, it was different type of game. And now she’s at the top of her game,” Dlouhy said.
“Serena has won everything, but she has the days where you can beat her. You cannot say (she has) weaknesses in her game because she’s the greatest player, but we try to find some spots what we can do, and with David and the whole team, we can hopefully find some.”
Mouratoglou, somewhat ominously, says Williams is for the first time in months pain free, and also in a good place mentally.
— Tennismash (@tennismash) July 10, 2019
“She needed time in competition, and with both singles and mixed doubles, she’s been able to spend quite a lot of hours on the tennis court playing matches and that’s what she needed,” he said.
“Serve and return are two of her bigger assets, and on grass, when you’re very good on those two things, you have a big advantage.”
On paper at least, the semifinal between Halep and Svitolina is the more closely matched.
Both have dropped just one set this tournament, although Svitolina appeared destined for the exit in the second round when she trailed Margarita Gasparyan by a set and 3-1 – only for the Russian to retire later in the second set with phyiscal problems.
Seventh seed Halep is a French Open champion and has been to the semifinals of Wimbledon before, while eighth seed Svitolina is a major semifinal debutant.
— Elina Svitolina (@ElinaSvitolina) July 9, 2019
However, it’s Svitolina who leads the head-to-head series 4-3.
The Ukrainian’s coach, Andrew Bettles, expressed similar sentiments to Mouratoglou about how his player was positioned entering Thursday’s semifinals.
Svitolina, like Williams, has only recently shaken the lingering effects of a knee injury.
“The week before, or a few days before Wimbledon, she kind of found her level again, and we kind of noticed that and all the way through she’s been battling hard and been mentally really strong,” he said.
“It’s always been a good match-up (against Halep). I think the key is to just be aggressive, try and take control of the baseline, come to the net, see if she can dictate the points.
“You don’t need to change that much (on grass). I think there’s a few adjustments that you need to do. The grass is playing pretty slow and it’s just about being maybe slightly more aggressive.”
Bettles believes the experience of scraping through in the second round against Gasparyan had perhaps freed Svitolina up as she progressed through the draw.
“She didn’t save a match point but if someone does, you have that feeling that they’re playing with kind of house money,” he said.
“Maybe she’s had that feeling. In big moments she hasn’t felt pressure so much.”
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My Day - Countdown Calendar
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My Day - Countdown Calendar is the ultimate free countdown timer app that keeps track of your holidays, celebrations, special events, and other memorable moments!
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a guide to things you can find and do at home to stimulate a child with autism
Music therapy is not just for autism. It is an age-old method that reaches back to ancient times. This old fashioned technique for calming the nerves has survived the test of time for a reason. While we all have our own taste for tunes, you will want to go for the soft sounds for the person with autism. This can be something that you and your child enjoy together. Instrumental music, like classical, is a great way to meet audio sensory input without over-stimulating your child. This is a great way to wake up your child and even better when putting your child to bed. Avoid heavy percussion music and music with lyrics.
Good old fashioned games of discovery are good for any child. One inexpensive way to engage your child’s sensory skills is to take a standard cardboard box and cut a hole big enough for a hand, in one of the ends. Place several small objects in the box and secure the box shut as tight as you can. Now invite your child to reach into the hole and feel around for all the hidden objects inside. Encourage him or her to pull out the object and look at it, touch it, observe it, and then place it back inside the box through the hole.
A classic and a favorite. The child with autism will love how putty is soft, deep and conforming to the touch. Silly Putty is known for its affordability. But why not take it a step further and make your own? It is an excellent opportunity to involve your child in the cooking process, and in the end they have an ideal sensory toy that they can play with. Just buy some food coloring and you have added another sensory element to your homemade putty. You can also add the following objects to the silly putty to increase your child’s sensory experience: pennies, beads, pegs and marbles.
You have seen these before. At least once a year; they pop-up when our calendars advance to the next year. For us, these party blowers are good for more than just parties. For someone with autism, it is a good exercise in breathing. Breathing is a naturally rhythmic function and can also be very calming and organizing to the body. With the party blower, the child will have the added bonus of repetitive action and reaction with every inhalation and exhalation.
What’s in the box? How about beans, rice, sand, or even popcorn kernels. Just take a box, any old box, and fill it up with any of these items and you have created a fun box for your child. They will indulge in the loose graininess as their hands dig deep and explore.
Speaking of water…
Getting a pet fish for your child is a terrific way to keep him or her engaged. Watching fish swim can be stimulating visually. It also gives your child the responsibility of having to work with water while taking care of the fish. A word of caution: be sure the fish are in a secure casing and that your child is restricted from removing the fish from the water. Work with your child in watering and feeding the fish.
Parents are always looking for activities that they can do with their child. Planting a garden is what we call a two-for-one. Not only do you get quality time, but your child gets sensory input from the deep pressures and textures of the dirt, especially if you allow your child to use his or her hands to dig in the dirt. Also, periodically watering the garden gives them another chance to be around water, as well as having a schedule that meets their need for order.
Tangle Toys are addictive, even if you do not have autism. The physics behind the toy has made it popular in traditional school settings. The toy itself is made up of a series of 90-degree curves that are pivotal at each connecting joint. So the Tangle is able to tangle itself up in any which way. Besides it’s curious handling, the near infinite range of motion makes the Tangle an excellent exercise for the sensory mind. The Tangle can also be used as a “Hand Fidget,” which helps develop hand strength.
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It all started years ago with BCBG Max Azria.
On Sunday in SoBe, the “younger, flirtier, more fashion forward” BCBGeneration division of the California-based apparel firm made a splash with a new collection of swimwear.
Here’s one of the looks from the line:
The target audience for the BCBGeneration line is teens to 20-somethings.
Just to keep it all in the family, the collection is designed by Joyce Azria, daughter of BCBG founder Max Azria.
BCBGeneration has 18 freestanding boutiques in the U.S., and is carried at several retailers across the county.
The cute suits I saw at the preview, in a suite at Miami Beach’s SLS Hotel Sunday afternoon, are all under $100.
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The consultation period on Wilsthorpe’s proposed academisation with the Two Counties Trust closed on Friday July 13th.
The governors met to consider the feedback on July Thursday July 19th. At that meeting, the governors voted to academise and to sign the Funding Agreement.
I want you all to be aware that this was not a decision taken lightly, firstly to academise, and secondly to make the choice of the Two Counties Trust. It was acknowledged at the meeting, however, that the ethos of Two Counties is in harmony with our own and we have every confidence and trust that we are doing the best to secure a successful future for our school community.
During the course of the consultation, we have held a parental consultation evening with both the NAS/UWT representative and the CEO of the Two Counties Trust. We have involved the staff throughout the consultation process, and taken their views into account.
I would like to thank all of those parents and staff who responded to the consultation; all of the comments and emails received were shared with the Governing Body as part of the consultation process. Discussion at the Parents’ consultation was lively and vigorous. We are confident that the process has been robust.
We have considered all feedback and we made the strategic decision which we believe to be best for the future of Wilsthorpe School. You have our assurance as a Governing Body that we do believe our future is best secured as part of the Two Counties Trust.
You can also be assured that we will continue to maintain detailed communications with you all as we move forward to the next stage and further developments. We are currently conducting a TUPE process, with a target date for conversion being November 1st 2018.
I am confident we can now move forward as a whole community into the next stage of our continuing achievement as a highly successful school, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your ongoing support.
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Thousands of backpackers flock to Malaysia each year to experience the vibrant mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian influences which swirl throughout the country's cities and towns. This route takes you through the peninsular half of Malaysia, from Singapore in the south to the fringes of Thailand in the north.
Begin your journey in Singapore, an island citystate surrounded by the balmy waters of the South China Sea.
Just across the Johor Strait is Johor Bahru. This southern city is the gateway to Malaysia. Although many travellers here are just passing through, the street bazaars in Larkin are definitely worth a look.
The historic port city of Melaka has been infused over the centuries with a strong Chinese trading influence.
Malaysia’s capital is a vibrant and exciting city, where the cutting edge bristles against ancient Malay tradition. A popular favourite amongst backpackers.
The rolling hills and plantations of the Cameron Highlands is a great place to grab a cup of freshly-grown tea.
This small, jungle swept island is well-worth the short ferry-ride through the Strait of Malacca.
Nicknamed the ‘Pearl of the Orient’, Penang is famous for its soft sandy beaches and is fondly regarded as the food capital of Malaysia.
The Perhentian Islands, floating in the waters off the East Coast, are perfect beach spots.
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How would you like to own your own part of history?
Originally owned by an Inspector in the South Australian Police Force in 1866, it was used as his family residence for a majority of his police career. And now it is time for you to make it your residence.
From the moment of entry you feel the grandeur of the era of this home with the wide hallway and gorgeous high ceilings. Bedroom one is absolutely massive and has stunning pressed tin on the ceiling and an open fireplace. The lounge room is also spacious and has reverse cycle air conditioning and slow combustion heating to keep you comfortable in all seasons. A formal dining room has an open fireplace with a lovely slate mantle and a decorative ceiling rose. There are bedrooms everywhere and you will only be restricted by your imagination on how you use them! Some could be changed into en suites and walk in robes etc. This property would make the perfect Air BnB.
Set on two titles giving you a massive 2,247m2 right in the heart of Penola, on the doorstep of the town’s heated pool and Main Street, you really couldn’t get a better location if you tried!! You need to come and inspect this unique property.
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Earlier, gold industry sources told Reuters that the Chinese government had taken steps to drastically reduce the import of gold in recent months in an effort to slow capital outflows and strengthen the country’s currency.
China’s Central Bank has ‘partially lifted’ restrictions on gold imports for commercial banks, Reuters has reported, citing three industry sources said to have direct knowledge of the matter.
“Some [quotas] have been given,” one of the sources said, adding that they were lower than usual. It’s a “partial lift” of restrictions, a second source said.
The easing of import quotas to commercial banks follows reports last week that the Chinese government had severely restricted the entry of gold into the country since May, with upwards of 300-500 tonnes of the precious metal worth between $15 billion and $25 billion said to have been blocked from entering since the spring as a result of the quotas, which reportedly brought imports down to “next to nothing.”
The price of gold is an accurate indicator about the state of the global economy.
Chinese customs data later confirmed a shortfall of some 228 tonnes of gold between May and June of 2019 compared to the same period last year. Total imports in the first half of 2019 stood at 575 tonnes, down from 883 tonnes for the same period in 2018.
The Central Bank’s controls may have been an attempt to reduce capital outflow, according to the sources, with similar restrictions against gold temporarily put in place in 2016. According to Reuters, as much as $88 billion in capital may have left China in the first quarter of 2019 amid the escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing. Efforts to shore up the yuan, which has declined to lows not seen in over a decade, may also have contributed to the calculations, the sources said.
China imported nearly 1,500 tonnes of gold worth about $60 billion in 2018, with these imports amounting to well over a third of the estimated 2,500-3,000 tonnes in gold said to be mined each year around the world. Some of this gold has gone to stocking up the Chinese state’s reserves, while much of the rest has gone into private hands in the form of coins, ingots and jewellery.
China’s Central Bank, meanwhile, has been on an eight-month-long gold buying spree in recent months amid the escalating trade war with the US, with overall state holdings topping 1,945 tonnes in July.
Gold prices worldwide continued their upward climb in recent weeks amid concerns over a recession in the US, and fears of the impact of the multi-trillion-dollar trade spat between the economic superpowers. Prices hit new highs for the fourth straight day in a row on Friday, with December futures reaching $1,532 in late-morning trading.
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China and Russia have led the pack of developing countries buying up gold in a bid to diversify their reserves away from the US dollar, with the world’s central banks buying some 374 tons of the precious metal in the first half of the year, the largest-ever acquisition of gold by public institutions on record, according to the World Gold Council. Russian purchases accounted for 96.4 tons of that.
Russian and Chinese gold reserves are now the fifth and sixth largest in the world, with over 2,208 and 1,945 tonnes each, respectively, and inching closer to third and fourth place holders Italy and France, who have an estimated 2,451 and 2,435 tonnes, respectively. The US and Germany are said to have the largest reserves of gold in the world, owning 8,133 tonnes and 3,381 tonnes, respectively.
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Watching puppies grow and develop is a fun and rewarding experience. The little puppies that only slept a nursed are now beginning to be aware of their surroundings in the 2 to 3 week stage. Their eyes are open and learning to focus and track movement. Mamas are still constantly cleaning and licking their pups.
cooper and sam have 5 puppies a video of the birth of our 5 puppies as it happened this is the first time we have done it this is the full length birth the last dog number 5 is the best video
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Avid PUBG player Alex Lovell says his devotion to videogames and martial arts movies, coupled with extensive wing chun training, enabled him to fend off a near-fatal attack by his girlfriend of two years, Emily Javier, who assaulted him with a samurai sword while he was asleep.
Javier apparently believed that Lovell was cheating on her, but he told Buzzfeed that all that gaming had simply destroyed his libido.
"It killed my sex drive. I was training too hard, it exhausted me," Lovell said. "I felt bad because she needed the affection. I just couldn't keep up."
It wasn't just Lovell's inability to perform that stirred Javier's wrath, however. She found red hair in his shower drain—her hair is dyed green—and discovered that he had Tinder installed on his phone. She also apparently found scratches on his back.
Instead of simply leaving him, however, she opted to purchase a samurai sword, which she taped to her side of the bed, along with two knives. On the night of March 2, after Lovell went to sleep, she hid his phone so he couldn't call for help and then launched her assault.
But as Lovell explained to OregonLive, he "wasn't a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete"—as such, his training regimen included exercises for his hands, wrists, and shoulders, practicing special moves and techniques with his mouse, and playing PUBG for 12-13 hours per day, all of which left him ready to handle the onslaught.
"I've been preparing my whole life for something like this," he said.
After being awoken by the attack, Lovell said he was "able to wing chun [his] way to survival," and was eventually able to get his (presumably at that point ex-) girlfriend into a bearhug. She got hold of the family jewels and "tried to rip them off," but even then Lovell was able to keep his cool.
"I saw the look in her eyes, and it scared the living poop out of me," he said. "I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die."
And in fact she did relent and call 911, which probably saved Lovell's life: Three of his fingers were nearly severed at the base, he had deep lacerations on his feet and legs, and various other wounds to his torso, neck, and head. The OregonLive report says it could be six months before he's able to walk again, and he'll require extensive therapy to regain the full use of his hands.
In spite of the trauma, Lovell seems jubilant. "The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling," he said. "I've played all the sports, won big games, landed some decent tricks on my snowboard. This was better."
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A studio Sirotov Architects worked on registration of interior of apartment in Kyiv. The suites of rooms by an area 76 square meters belong to the young man and executed in modern style. A dark colour gamut prevails in an interior, finishing is executed from natural materials, and a decor is deprived unnecessary details. A quiet, restrained atmosphere is created in an apartment. Thus she is perfectly tuned under the desire of owner to do some work in silense, conduct a romantic evening or give party in a merry company
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Ever since the advent of video games, there have been debates on the pros and cons of gaming. While there is no denying that gaming sharpens a number of skills of the child, it also stands for a fact that the addiction of gaming can have dire health consequences. Apart from health risks, an addiction to gaming also brings along a non-social temperament that leads to stalled emotional growth.
Here are some of the most common dangers and effects of game addiction:
An obvious fallout of game addiction is stress. Stress develops when the person gets so involved in the game that there is an inbuilt pressure on him or her to achieve goals and cross stages and levels of the game. It slowly converts the game from a source of entertainment and fun to a catalyst of stress buildup. Also, when a person realizes that his life is in a pitiable state because of excessive gaming, he or she develops more stress out of the fear of not being able to get back to normal.
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2. Lack Of Sleep
A major portion of a person’s time is taken up by work and it has been found that many people sacrifice their precious time to play an extra game or two instead of sleeping to rest the body. Long term game addiction leads to a sleeping disorder called Insomnia that takes a huge toll on a person’s health.
3. Disregard For Personal Hygiene
Excess gaming leads to seclusion of the gamer from the outside world which eventually leads to little or no interaction with people. When the person realizes that there is nobody who may notice his lack of grooming, he feels less compelled to take care of his personal hygiene.
4. Seclusion And Isolation
Gaming addiction can lead to people developing a tendency of seclusion and isolation. They start isolating themselves from family and friends. The fact that they start ignoring their personal hygiene is just the beginning of his or her displacement from the social scene. Gaming starts taking precedence over other important chores such as interaction with friends and as this addiction intensifies, the subject may start becoming more and more stubborn and rude. All that a gaming addict wants to spend time on is games.
5. Carpel Tunnel Syndrome And Arthritis
Excess gaming can lead to these two physical disorders. Studies have revealed that years of excessive gaming can lead to serious issues with the person’s thumb as this area is most exercised in gaming and is prone to osteoarthritis too. Carpel Tunnel Syndrome is a condition in which there exists an excessive pressure on a nerve in the wrist which is responsible for allowing certain hand movements. This syndrome is likely to surface in game addicts since they make a lot of repetitive hand and wrist movements while playing games.
6. Unhealthy Eating Habits
With excess gaming, one becomes oblivious to dietary routine because he or she is too busy thinking about what is next in the game for them. Most game addicts choose fast food and sugary sodas to accompany their gaming sessions which further leads to deterioration of health. They also prefer frozen food that does not take much time to cook and thus does not hinder their gaming spree. Such eating habits are a major cause of diabetes and obesity in adults.
It might be rare to know a gaming addict who realizes that he is slowly slipping into depression. Depression slowly makes its way to the addict’s brain as he or she gets more and more addicted to the game. The only time they realize that they are in a state of depression is when they pause for a moment to realize that they have made a mess of their lives by excess gaming and neglecting other necessities of life. What makes the matters worse is that the only recourse they find to get out of this depression is more gaming and this drags them deeper into the trouble creating a vicious cycle that declines to break until the person resolves to take back the control of his or her life.
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Iconic Helter Skelter returns to pier after winter break
PUBLISHED: 10:15 05 March 2019 | UPDATED: 10:15 05 March 2019
Clacton Pier's most iconic ride is set to return this weekend after a winter break in Scotland.
The Helter Skelter, bought by Billy and Elliot Ball soon after the brothers took over the attraction in 2009, had famously been used in a Marks and Spencer television advert prior to its arrival in Essex.
Yet in recent years it has wintered away to protect it from damage from strong winds and salt water, which the brothers fear would adversely affect the paintwork.
The ride first went to Cardiff – and played its part in the seasonal celebrations in Edinburgh.
It was due back in Clacton today, ready for the weekend.
“We have been asked if it has been sold on by some, while others have asked if and when it is coming back to Clacton,” said communications manager for the pier, Nigel Brown.
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If you buy one dance album next month then make sure you hold fire until the 19th and get this one. Not only is it an outstanding achievement to still be going for 20 years but to keep churning out high grade dance tunes across genres should be shouted from the rooftops. Soma are quite rightly doing so with this ambitious double decade celebration spanning 3 discs.
Disc one is an 11 track selection of some of their finest anthemic classic moments including the masterpiece from the late 90's Scott Grooves (feat Parliament / Funkadelic) 'Mothership Reconnection' (Daft Punk Remix). This was part of the soundtrack of my life in clubs, cafes, cars and on compilations released at the time. I even had a copy on vinyl - remember that?
Discs 2 and 3 are DJ mixes from Slam and Silicone Soul. Enough said, end of review really. But, in case you are new to all this and haven't the foggiest who they or Soma are, look them up on discogs. Both mixes are epic, spanning 36 tracks between them going through all the classics and more with some nice new remixes and reworks thrown in to boot. But you can't beat the classics can you? Rejuvination's 'Requiem' make a piano-tastic appearance on Silicone Souls mix who then seamlessly drops Slam 'Positive Education' right after. Enough to whet the appetite? No, well right after that drops 'This World' (Wignomy Bros. & Robag Wruhme dub) / vocal [Silicone Soul - The Snake Charmer Edit] - a massive hands in the air moment - the pigeons on my balcony are wondering what the fuck I'm doing right now and my cats have slinked of to hide under the bed in embarrassment.
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When Patches, a now nine-year-old female dachsund, first showed signs of something wrong with her head it didn’t seem particularly serious to her owner Danielle Dymeck. It started as a tiny bump, but Dymeck new something was seriously wrong when it rapidly grew to the size of an orange.
Thankfully for Dymeck and Patches, researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College had some very fancy tools at their disposal and were able to not only remove the large growth but also rebuild the pup’s skull in an incredible procedure.
The tumor that was giving Patches trouble first had to be removed, as it was physically pushing towards her brain as well as her left eye. The doctors enlisted the help of 3D modeling specialists and used a scan of the dog’s head to plan out how the procedure would be conducted.
By doing so, the team knew how much of Patches’ skull would need to be removed during the surgery. With that information, 3D printing technology was used to rapidly prototype a sort of skull cap that would provide structural support for the dog’s head after the tumor removal was complete. In most cases, mesh is used to fill in these gaps, but a custom-fit replacement is not only more convenient for the doctors but also shortens the time of the procedure, which benefits the animal.
“The technology has grown so quickly, and to be able to offer this incredible, customized, state-of-the-art plate in one of our canine patients was really amazing,” Dr. Michelle Oblak, veterinary surgical oncologist with the University of Guelph and Ontario Veterinary College, said.
The operation removed approximately 70 percent of the top of Patches’ skull, according to the doctors. It was a very serious operation, but Patches bounced back remarkably well following the removal of the growth.
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A lot of characters' Active Voice lines when finding treasure chests are worded... kind of badly ("What an amazing chest!" and so on). Except for Crow's, which given his character is probably intentional. And then there's Angie's in Cold Steel II: "Always happy to lay my hands on another chest." Given Angelica's usual behavior, this is also probably intentional. Oh, and in the original Cold Steel, the Trophy/achievement for opening all chests in single playthrough is "Chest Grabber."
If Fie is chosen as Rean's Love Interest, she gets one when Rean asks her if she was going to water the flowers and she responds that he "needs more watering now."
Osborne: Is he a Benevolent Boss who ultimately has to make the most difficult decisions or an uncaring bastard who will use his subordinates to further his goals? The fact that in the first two games he helps Erebonia with most of its problems but gives people from other countries and cities hell doesn't help. Cold Steel IV answers that question with him really being Good All Along and that he legitimately wanted to get rid of the curse for good.
Osborne in Cold Steel I and II era: when he says "Well done Armbrust," is he congratulating Crow for assassinating him and actually besting him or is it congratulating Crow for being a part of his plans to start off the Civil War and Crow was just his Unwitting Pawn?
Rean's relationship with Elise: Does he really not see that Elise has a massive crush on him or is he just being selectively oblivious about it and knows that his sister would be better off marrying a noble who would take care of her? He even shows some approval points for Patrick in Cold Steel III and even lets him have a dance with her. Cold Steel IV reveals that he's just that dense to Elise's feelings towards him as he only saw her as a little sister until she started confessing her feelings towards him.
The ARCUS units and their effects on Rean and the relationships between him and even his classmates: Do they actually allow two people to work together or do they manipulate two users who do not get along to forcibly work together even if the two of them would like to not cooperate at all or kill one another? Class VII seems to have genuine bonds, but what does that mean for other characters? Even though it is shown in the first game that links cannot be fully achieved and will always break intermittently between two incompatible users which suggests the former, many still debate this topic occasionally.
Alisa's family. Her mother already knew that Alisa's father, Alberich, was still alive. Was she aware of his true intentions or was she fooled by him like everyone else? Some fans suspects both - she really thought he was dead until the truth somehow reached her. And the discovery of his tricks was what lead Chairman Irina to the personality change from a caring mom to a cold, calculating, and manipulative big cheese.
Valimar's memories. Did Valimar really forget a lot of things while he was sleeping after Dreichels used him for a long time or did George tamper with its memories when the latter hooked Valimar up to his computer? And if so, what's the reason for it?
Angst? What Angst?: Despite being in a uniquely difficult position, especially after the (supposed) death of Osborne, whom she affectionately called "Gramps", Millium never shows any emotion other than upbeat enthusiasm. At least, until Class VII breaks up at the end of Cold Steel II, at which point she breaks down bawling.
For a boss that's described as terrorising Heimdallr during the Dark Ages and is considered important enough to appear in the opening movie, Zoro Agruga is a bit on the easy side. It's a single target and never summons flunkies (unlike the previous chapter's boss), it's large size makes it easy to hit from nearly anywhere, it's very susceptible to Delay, has few attacks, and its Arts are very easy to cancel. In fact, it's entirely possible to prevent it from even attacking, by inflicting Seal and then cancelling its Art every time it attempts it.
This discrepancy makes more sense when reading the Black Records in Cold Steel 2. You're fighting what's LEFT of Zoro. When you consider that the boss is been around for over a millennia it's in good shape for it's age. And when you fight the properly revived creature in Cold Steel 3, it puts up far more of a fight.
While treated as one in-universe, Loa Luciferia could also be one for a Final Boss even if it does have a HP to 1 attack especially with all of the game breaking strategies players can employ.
In the third game, the fight against Arianhrod and Demon McBurnshould be one of the toughest Boss Fights in the whole saga. It...doesn't quite live up to the hype, thanks to all the game-breaking strategies you'll likely have access to at this point. Not to mention, they're only the first fight of the final dungeon's Boss Rush.
The earlier fights against Arianhrod and the Eisenritter is just as disappointing, being really easy to win without taking a single point of damage, only in part thanks to Aurelia.
In Cold Steel IV, it is possible for players to make Osborne piloting Ishmelga to be thisif they get lucky and the status debuff "Seal"note Prevents all physical attacks for one turn for bosses. sticks.
For those who thought that Olivert's screen time for both games was too minimal, Cold Steel III has him revealed far earlier than the other characters of Class VII and will also be wearing his "Olivier Lenheim" clothes.
Localization-wise, NISA apparently learned from their Ys VIII's localization disaster and are trying to avert another disaster. First, they didn't announce PC version right away possibly to reduce workload considering the massive amount of work that needs to be done. Second, they managed to involve three people who worked on Cold Steel I and II in this localization; Brittany Avery, (former localization producer of XSEED and known Trails Fangirl), Kris Knigge (freelance localization editor) and Ryan Thomson (translator) to make sure the lore is still consistent and the end product to have similar, if not the same feeling as the previous two games, something that worries the fanbase the most. Lastly, they released a teaser trailer for III with Sean Chiplock reprising the role of Rean, assuring fans of the VAs that they are interested in keeping the current cast- note made possible thanks to the happy coincidence that both NIS America and X Seed shared Bang Zoom! Entertainment as their de facto talent agency and recording studio In the end, the only VA they couldnt get to return was Ashly Burch, and only because there was a scheduling conflict. Theyve even decided to delay Cold Steel III for a month when it became apparent that there are previously undiscovered bugs that happened due to the audio length not matching up with the animation script and causing the game to skip scenes rather than Christmas-rushing the game.
Machias can be considered this. Some love his tsundere-like antics and his banter with Jusis while some others hate him for the exact same reason, calling him massive whiner. Do note that his whole feud with Jusis started because of his rather out-of-nowhere rambling on how he hated nobles and Jusis playing typical noble role aggressively which aggravated Machias on several occasions. However, his start of meltdown in chapter 2, his reason for hating nobles (which is reasonable) and his usefulness combat-wise (if played right) change some hater's heart and become one of strong points among his fans. Haters still exist though.
Some people love Jusis' cool and detached attitude and his massive Character Development throughout the series. Others dislike him for being haughty, arrogant, and his amounts of angst throughout the second game.
Possibly the most polarizing character among Class VII is Alisa. Her detractors point to her as an overly-cliched anime girl whose Tsundere tendencies and Pervert Revenge Mode reaction to Rean's clearly accidental Funbag Airbag moment at the start of the first game make her wholly unlikable (the fact that Rean/Alisa tends to be pushed as the closest thing to an Official Couple the game has doesn't help). Her defenders will typically point out that her Tsundere actions get toned way down after the first chapter of the first game and that she does admit to an overreaction and apologizes for her Armor-Piercing Slap. However, despite all this, Alisa herself actually does well in popularity polls and is especially popular in Japan as seen with the Cold Steel III popularity poll where she came in at 3rd place right behind Rean and Altina respectively.
As for protagonists, Rean is a general base breaker for the Kiseki fans among the Western fanbase. Either his entire character arc is interesting, complex, and his angst are thoroughly justified, or he's a whiny, Wangst driven teenager whose past compared to the other characters in the Kiseki franchise comes off as dull and uninspired. Then there's his insistence in wanting Crow back to the academy, never mind the latter assassinating the highest official of the empire. Is it thoroughly justified for Rean to wanting to bring him back to atone for the crimes that he's committed just like the other protagonists before himnote Estelle adopting Joshua and Renne as siblings, never mind both being former Ouroboros members, Kevin abandoning Ries in her time of need after he accidentally kills her older sister, or Lloyd forgiving Ian for shooting his brother. or are his reasons to bringing Crow back to the academy very flimsy and can come off as forceful, never mind the other guy being very insistent that he's doing all this on his own accord. The fact that he's the protagonist for a total of four games compared to his predecessors doesn't help his case. Though many fans now do think that Rean's angst are justifiable at the end of Cold Steel II and especiallyCold Steel III. Although, keep in mind this is mostly for the Western fanbase. Rean is very popular on Japan, ranking third place in a post Cold Steel II poll with the characters of the entire franchise, only being beaten by Olivier and Estelle. He is also comes in at first place in the Cold Steel III and Cold Steel IV popularity poll.
Emma is another polarizing character in the series mainly thanks to the fact that many players consider Celine to be Rean's partner-in-crime when it comes to the witch side of the story and Emma feels like a redundant character. Plus many players have always liked the relationship with Rean and Celine and their interactions felt more natural. Many players wished that they would have been merged as a single character rather than having two characters with the familiar overshadowing her master.
Crow is also very polarizing due to how Easily Forgiven he was by Rean and the others for his actions as leader of the Imperial Liberation Front. Those who hate him think the story tries to downplay his crimes which among other things, started the civil war that makes up the bulk of the second game. On the other hand, those who like him think the game makes it clear Crow is a villain, as he still helps Duke Cayenne and the Noble Alliance during the civil war after Osborne's presumed death, and instead take issue with Rean and the rest of Class VII for being so lenient with Crow. These fans think Class VII has incredibly Skewed Priorities, which Crow calls them out on when they try to bring him back. His situation has also been compared to other characters in the Kiseki Series such as Renne and Joshua, with people pointing out how forgiveness has always been a theme in the franchise given that Estelle forgave those two for their actions as Enforcers of Ouroboros. However, there are also fans who see the comparison of Crow's situation to those two as a false equivalence due to the differences in their situations, such as how Renne and Joshua were much younger than Crow when they joined Ouroboros, and how Joshua was brainwashed by Weissman, whereas Crow's actions as C were of his own free will. Take note that this mainly applies to the Western fanbase just like Rean because as of Cold Steel IV, he's the second most popular character of the series, right behind Rean according to the popularity polls◊. In fact, he has two times the number of votes compared to the character in third place (Altina) in the Cold Steel IV popularity poll.
Crow + Ordine in Cold Steel I absolutely qualifies. It's unexpected, tense, exciting, and the music is absolutely phenomenal. It also completely relies on your skill and ability to adapt, making it impossible to cheese it.
The duel between Rean and Crow in Cold Steel II. Because this is the first time players get unlimited access to Rean's Super Mode and Crow will still make you work for your victory.
Vermillion Apocalypse in Cold Steel II because it allows you to use all of Class VII. And yes, that includes Crow in Ordine, giving players an exclusive Combination Attack for the final part of the battle.
Loa Luciferia, also in Cold Steel II. As the true final boss of the game, it has oodles of HP, some extremely powerful attacks, and basically allows (and, to a degree, forces) the players to go all out against it. It manages to hit that nice sweet spot of being a tough challenge without ever feeling unfair or cheap. Not to mention, as the pre-battle dialogue highlights, this is the last hurrah for Class VII, One Last Field Trip before they go their separate ways and one last chance for them - and for the player - to relive their glory moments and say their goodbyes. The fact that the boss has an absolutely amazing BGM playing when you face it just adds to how incredible the whole experience is.
Cold Steel III finally gives us the long-waited battle between Class VII and Arianhrod. Except you're not just fighting the Steel Maiden herself, you're fighting her along with all three Stahlritter at the same time! But to even the odds, you've got Aurelia in the party, who more than lives up to two games worth of being hyped up to be one of the series' strongest characters. The fact that Unfathomed Force returns from when you fought her back in Ao just makes the experience even more epic. Oh, and you can finally see Grand Cross in glorious 3D.
The second-to-last boss of Cold Steel III is one of the most emotionally-charged fights in the series, as you take on the Ironbloods - Claire, Lechter, Millium and Rufus. The first three are former party members who you've likely gotten attached to, and they're clearly conflicted over having to fight Class VII. Meanwhile, Rufus is someone players will likely have been wanting to beat down ever since he completely trouncedClass VII's ass back in the second game. Aside from being a legitimate challenge, it manages to be both incredibly cathartic and utterly gut-wrenching at the same time.
Rean himself as a boss fight in Cold Steel IV ends up being one of the best fights in the game as he is in full Spirit Unification mode against his students with him no longer holding back anything when he was a boss fight 3 games ago.
The True Final Boss of Cold Steel IV, Ishmelga Loge allows players to use all of the playable characters of Cold Steel IV and is split into three teams.
Back in Japan, they consider the final duel between Rean and Crow in Cold Steel IV in their Divine Knights to be the best boss fight ever. Mainly because Rean has access to every single subcontractor in the game while having to fight against Crow. And that does include both old and new Class VII.
The Intermission stage, Pantagruel, is also another fan favorite stage despite it being mostly a cutscene based stage. Mainly thanks to seeing all the villains that you've fought for a game and a quarter talking with Rean nonchalantly, breaking out Alfin and getting to use her powerful Arts, and Rean's best moments in the game, capping it off with a Duel Boss with Crow that you can actually win for a change.
In Cold Steel IV, the Black Workshop ends up being one of the best levels in the game due to the sheer number of boss fights players get to deal with, Rean actually breaking out of his chains and is permanently buffed throughout the entire level and is joined with Celine, Crow, and Duvalie, and some of the best boss fights in the game, capping off with New Class 7 joining with Rean against Osborne and Arianrhod.
In Japan, the ending to Cold Steel breaks the base some, just because it's soWhammy that a lot of people feel like it's more of a non-ending and too cruel a cliffhanger after that long a game - even Sky FC at least ends with some kind of player accomplishment, while Cold Steelends with the entire team violently broken up, the Noble Faction on the verge of total victory, Heimdallr in ruins, robots everywhere, and a badly-injured Rean being carted away.
The numerous amounts of Big Damn Heroes moments in Cold Steel 2. Is it justifiable that the villains Class VII face are way out of their league and thus needs saving, or is it just a terrible narrative making Class VII look really weak due to constantly being Overshadowed by Awesome in the end? This is fairy egregious due to how the Sky party was at least able to force the bosses to retreat, though it can be argued that Class VII is facing worse odds due to fighting Dual Bosses rather than simple Flunky Bosses.
The bonding system can be this for the fans. Was it an interesting mechanic to find out more about the lives of the other Class VII members (and some other playable characters) and finally date them, or did it hurt their Character Development and series continuity in a game that's big on them? This got worse in the second game where detractors claim that aside from Rean, Fie, Jusis, and Emma, everyone else felt Demoted to Extra.
Building off of bonding system's example: Cold Steel IV officially added Juna, Altina, and Musse to Rean's harem. On the one hand, some who liked the new girls and their relationship dynamics with Rean were happy with the development. Others, however, were less than pleased, as not only did this up the count of Rean's possibly suitors (already a touchy subject from the first 2 games) from 8 to 11, but it can involve Rean possibly making the unethical decision to consider a future relationship with one of his students, which the detractors claim is very uncharacteristic of him (even if the age gap is fairly small). The base is especially broken for Juna (due to her being part of a Fan-Preferred Couple with Kurt) and Altina (due to most people considering her to be too young for Rean, as well as preferring a more familial relationship between the two). It wouldn't have been as bad...had it not been for the game's decision to make the Class VII girls' bonding events all unambiguously romantic.
Cold Steel III's ending broke the fanbase even further as it ends with Osborne getting what he wants easily, Rean is fully broken, Angelica presumed dead- shot by George no less, Millium dies, the Courageous blows up with Toval, Victor, and Olivert inside it, and then the final text says that it is to be continued in Cold Steel: The Last Saga. Fans went livid because the Calvard arc is getting shoved again for a confirmed fourth game setting in Erebonia yet again.
The song in 2nd PV of Cold Steel III was thought to be the opening song of the game as the norm for the previous games but when the game came out, the opening is completely different. This made quite an argument among the fans wondering which song fits the game more and is the better of the two. Not to mention it made the fans wonder if the song in the 2nd PV isn't the opening theme, then what was the actual role of this particular music track? Although it turns out that it was the ending theme of the game which definitely fits as everything really went south very quickly.
The introduction of the Divine Knight battles from the end of Cold Steel onwards. A long-awaited way of allowing the protagonists to even the odds against enemy Humongous Mecha or a poorly timed case which resulted in Medium Blending between Fantasy and Science Fiction?
Some fans disagree with how Class VII is stated to be "neutral" in the civil war, since their skirmishes with the Noble Alliance break neutrality. They argue that "independent" would be a more appropriate term because the class doesn't follow the chain-of-command from either faction. On the other side of the argument, some fans argue that Class VII is aiming to be neutral in a similar way to the Bracers by focusing on helping civilians and students rather than directly aiming to win the war for the Imperial Army.
Finally in Cold Steel IV, it's revealed that the whole Curse of Erebonia is Ishmelga and is the Bigger Bad of the Erebonia Arc. Did it invoke Rousseau Was Right properly? Considering the fact that one of the running themes of the series is how there's no such thing as a "single source of all evil" and the choice of being evil is derived from one's own choices rather than outside forces, this did not sit well with some fans as now pretty much every villain established at the end of Cold Steel III spontaneously has this convenient scapegoat to pin all their evil actions they caused throughout the series on it, making it look like a cheap cop-out for the characters who would have been villains without Ishmelga's influence given their personal motivations anyway. On the other hand, this also explains how some characters spontaneously underwent Took a Level in Jerkass and/or FaceHeel Turn for seemingly no reason.
Cold Steel IV as a whole ends up becoming this even in its own arc. Was it an exciting and epic conclusion for all three arcs and a fitting Grand Finale while starting a new arc or was it a mess of a game with lots of Padding issues, the character bloating which meant that some are gonna be Demoted to Extra, wasted plot ideas, and a nonsensical Giant Space Flea from Nowhere of a Bigger Bad whose motivations are never explored and felt like it was suddenly shoehorned into the series in the last moment?
The fact that Cold Steel III and IV as well as the Crossbell arc would be localized by NIS America instead of XSEED has created a fractured base. There are fans who are unhappy with NIS taking over for several reasons, some justified (mostly their tendency to churn out translation train wrecks and porting disasters, although voice talent changes and even censorship has been cited) and want XSEED to be involved instead. Another group instead are just happy that it's at least getting a localization at all.note The latter group also noted that both XSEED and NIS share the same voice talent agency, and that NIS has took aboard several ex-XSEED staff who worked on Falcom localizations in the past, and rationalized accordingly.
The bonus characters only available in the sequel's final dungeon. They're all extremely broken, and there's just something about playing as Vita and Crow, with all their overpowered boss abilities that's SO satisfying.
To the fans who were getting tired of Class VII jobbing and having a poor performance in Cold Steel II, Cold Steel III pretty much makes all of them take levels in badassery, and do much better.
For those who were sick and tired of Ouroboros coming out on top every time, having Osbourne actually make them lose for once as of the climax of II is refreshing for once.
Complacent Gaming Syndrome: As soon as players have access to a level 5 Moebius and Chrono Burst, battles end up becoming "group up characters, have one character spam Chrono Burst and have said character use items to buff up the team and feed them CP and spam using S-Crafts like no tomorrow."
As for characters, expect players to never take Rean out of the front lines in all four games unless the plot says so. It's because of how versatile he is with his restricted slots (two Time slots and one Fire slot which translates to more speed and attack power), his skills that are just too powerful, and his levels are tied to the Divine Knight fights.
Contested Sequel: While Cold Steel games are not really a sequel story-wise since events run in the same timeline with Crossbell duology, fans still debate which is better between the two of them. The catch is, not everyone has access to Zero and Aos story and gameplaynote The only way to learn the story is by extensive knowledge of Japanese (PSP and Vita version) or Chinese (PC version) since localization is pretty much near-impossible by current condition. There's a fan translation in progress but it will take quite some time to finish. so people who can objectively compare between the two games are few. Tension between the two groups stems from Crossbell supporters who insist about Zero and Ao's superiority and Cold Steel supporters who are annoyed since they feel said games are too overhyped. The comparison extends to character power tier since two characters from Crossbell fought Cold Steel's main character and one more character who made a debut in the second game. There's also another comparison with Sky trilogy and it's more intense...
While the basic plot of the Divertissement is perfectly understandable without knowledge of Zero no Kiseki, the characters occasionally go on long-winded speeches name-dropping tons of characters from that game, which will leave people who haven't played it (which is a lot) very confused. The localizers' notes Lampshade this.
Translator's Note: god here comes this part where we're name-dropping like 45 characters from the previous games why does this exist
While the first two games can be played without knowledge of previous games, Cold Steel III and IV are much more heavily tied to the Sky trilogy and Zero/Ao duology as they feature characters, settings, and important plot points that have appeared in both those series. IV in particular is especially guilty given how three of the four main protagonists in the entire franchise◊ are all in it.
Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: The third game's ending can certainly feel like this. By the end, Millium is Killed Off for Real, Angelica, Olivert, Victor and Toval are all presumed dead, Rean has become fully broken and lost control of his Superpowered Evil Side, and unintentionally plunges the entire empire of Erebonia into darkness, and the game ultimately concludes with yet another decisive victory for Osborne. It's particularly bad for the fans who expected Cold Steel III to finally bring the Erebonia arc to a proper conclusion, and some are just mad that we've gotten three cliffhanger endings in a row. Thankfully, it all paid off wonderfully in the final game.
Die for Our Ship: Given that there are a lot of people that can be shipped with Rean, this trope tends to crop up though Alisa usually gets the worst because of what she does during the beginning of the first game where she overreacted to the situation and not accepting Rean's immediate apology right away considering they've already done their Meet Cute moment during the beginning portions of the game. Being pushed by Falcom as the main love interest and being the only female character to kiss Rean on the lips in her bonding event for 75% of the saga didn't help.
The Epilogue's final dungeon in the second game is generally seen as a let-down. For one thing, It's 17 floors (albeit not particularly lengthy ones) and there's five boss fights packed in there, and it's all procedurally generated, meaning it comes across as fairly flat and lifeless, particularly compared to, say, the Realm of the Great Shadow or the Infernal Castle. Basically, think of the place as a mandatory Bonus Dungeon. The fact that even the game itself points out the whole mission is pointless anyway can also ruin any dramatic tension or investment.
On the other hand, some love it for giving you access to every game breaking character in the game. In addition, each randomized floor is guaranteed to have a chest of each rarity, thus allowing for grinding of super rare quartz and powerful accessories. Add in the phantasmal mirrors and you have nearly infinite strategies and party combinations to tackle the dungeon.
The third game's final dungeon also fits. It's not bad but it's easy to see why it's considered underwhelming compared to the previous chapter's dungeon. Despite a cool aesthetic and exciting soundtrack, it's little more than just several straight hallways of enemies, with boss battles in-between floors. The Final Boss is also seen by many as vastly inferior to the fight with the fully-revived Zoro Agruga in the previous chapter. Doesn't help that for all of the boss fights, the chosen characters have permanent 75% buffs throughout the fight.
Crow for quite a bit of fans who were really enamored with him. Taken Up to Elevenin his Azure Siegfried persona, even making it 4th for the popularity poll for Cold Steel III despite not even a playable character.
There's also the treatment for Osborne to be this, mostly thanks to outwitting Ouroboros. Mainly in the west at least.
Ending Fatigue: Cold Steel II has two entire dungeons left after the "Epilogue," as well as a whole Free Day of quests left. You still have about 4-5 hours left after beating the Infernal Castle.
Epileptic Trees: Both endings of Cold Steel IV have become a massive speculation ground as to why players are first railroaded towards The Hero Dies ending before reloading a save file, do a sidequest that's framed as flashback sequence, and suddenly the ending changes to the Golden Ending. Not to mention the Grandmaster claiming that the Phantasmal Blaze Plan is complete and authorizes the start of the Eternal Regression Plan. Despite the fact that Ouroboros never manages to obtain the Earth, Fire, and, Mirage Sept-Terrion and even confirmed that it can no longer be used ever again.
Towa Herschel, the Student Council President of Thors Military Academy, won players over with her cute design, hardworking personality, and being one of the few students outside of Class VII to actively help them, to the point of being Promoted to Playable in the sequel. Undoubtedly, her popularity is the reason why she gets an alternate universe counterpart in Tokyo Xanadu.
Mint, one of Elliot's friends from Music Club, proved surprisingly popular with the fans for her quirky personality and funny interactions with her uncle Instructor Makarov. Each game since the first has since given her more screentime and chances to show off her stuff, from working on the bridge of the Courageous in Cold Steel II to working as a mechanic at the Thors Second Branch School in Cold Steel III.
Altina already had her fair share of fans for her role in Cold Steel II, but her appearance Cold Steel III as a playable main character made her popularity skyrocket for showcasing her development as an individual and a heartwarming relationship with Rean that's comparable to a father-daughter relationship. All of this, combined with her more reasonable-looking outfit instead of her clothes in Cold Steel II, made her loved enough to land 2nd just behind Rean in the Cold Steel III poll.
Out of the students of Thors II, Jessica is the most well remembered of the bunch for being playable for one fight against Rean.
Escapist Character: Rean can be seen as a massiveDeconstruction of this trope where at first glance, players find him to be a Chick Magnet, a guy who has a Dark and Troubled Past that has super powers, uses a famous sword style, has a robot that only he can pilot, is a Nice Guy to his friends, and looks perfect in almost every way. Then the game decides to screw him in the worst ways possible, his solutions for his friends being in trouble is to sacrifice himself in near suicidal ways, he's always dragged in the worst situations possible, he's the Unwitting Pawn of almost everyone around him and his friends, and if his situation is getting better, life always finds a way to bring it down to where he comes out worse than before. Even deconstructed characters of this trope still manage to find a happy ending or two in their games. Rean on the other hand has yet to get one happy ending as he's always failed his primary objectives in three games.
Of all of the potential Love Interests for Rean that can be picked in the second game, the most popular ones by far seem to be Laura, Sara and Fie, largely due to how nicely their final bonding events are written. Claire also used to be this in Cold Steel II after the scene where they both awkwardly apologize to each other for Rean snapping at her for not telling him about Osborne being his father, but then see Ship Sinking below. It helps that all of the above characters are also quite popular in their own right, even if it's just for being VERY potent in-game.
Aside from the aforementioned Cargo Shipping, prior to Cold Steel III's release, people loved shipping Juna with Kurt thanks to their circumstances being foils to one another and the entire Pink Girl, Blue Boy vibe they have. The shipping only increased after seeing their interactions in-game. Naturally, a lot of these shippers weren't happy when Cold Steel IV went and officially made Juna another one of Rean's many potential love interests.
After Cold Steel III came out, fans started treating Rean as Altina's dad or older brother figure. They would later rank 5th in the poll for "Top 20 Favorite Relationships◊ as of Cold Steel IV", right above Estelle and Joshua. That being said, whether or not any of these fans approved of Altina being made a potential suitor for Rean is up for debate.
From the Ho Yay side, while Rean/Crow is popular, there's a surprising amount of Rean/Jusis fanart at Pixiv. Funnily enough, the artist for the official manga adaptation likes to draw both pairs on their twitter.
After Cold Steel IV came out, a number of fans wished that Lianne became Rean's mom as many would have wanted a story line where Rean was the foster younger brother of the Stahlritter and interacted with some of the members of Ouroboros. Note that while Teo and Lucia aren't hated by fans, they're unfortunately associated with the more hated Elise, who contributes nothing to the story.
From a character other than Rean, the Jusis/Millium ship is one of the more popular ones due to their chemistry together. When Millium died in III, it's Jusis that went Say My Name. While players were sad that Millium died in Cold Steel III, many ended up rejoicing in Cold Steel IV'sGolden Ending where they got lots of moments and even more after Rean gives Jusis Millium's sword form, making it seem like Rean is a Shipper on Deck for the two of them. Jusis giving Millium a hug in the ending cemented it for everyone and set the ship sailing towards the horizon. Then the ship proceeds to go light speed as it is shown that Millium was the one who caught the bouquetnote It's considered to be a sign that lucky person in question will be the next person among the guests to get married in the future In-Universe and in some real life weddings. during Olivert and Schera's wedding in the credits...while messing with Jusis.
Crow/Towa is also surprisingly quite popular among fans due to their adorable interactions, having strong chemistry together and care for each other despite having contrasting personalities even after Crow's betrayal at the end of the first game, and their height differences making them look cute together.
Other than Machias/Jusis being very popular in the fandom, Machias/Emma and Machias/Fie also get quite a lot of love from fans. The former for being fellow Badass Bookworm, their friendly rivalry in academics, and their respective positions as the old Class VII's president and vice president, while the latter for their comedic interactions (mostly Fie trolling Machias a lot of times), strong Strong Girl, Smart Guy vibes, and the fact that they're always placed in the same group during field trips and looking out for each other after escaping together with Elliot from Trista when the civil war breaks out.
Downplayed with both Rean and Crow. They act more Ho Yay than Foe Yay but the reason this trope exists is because they're on opposing sides and Rean wants Crow back to his side. Crow's only response is that Rean better bring it.
Then there's Elie and Mariabell continuing from their relationship from Ao, mostly from Elie getting trolled by whatever Mariabell is doing at her.
One of the first events at Barehard is when Rufus shows Class VII around the place and makes some small conversations, including Rufus knowing Rean's father, Teo Schwarzer and that both were acquainted with one another, even teaching him a few things a decade before the story begins. Upon The Reveal in the second game, it turns out that yes, Rufus knows Rean's father; his real father that is.
In the second opening, there's a shot of Rean raising his fist up in the air to motivate all of the students of Thors with the shot zooming out and the rest of the students also raising their fists to get pumped up to rescue the royal family. Awesome and all, but then the trailer for the third game comes up and when Osborne declares war on Calvard, the same shot used in the opening of the second game is repeated, only in 3D with the crowd raising their fists in approval.
Some fans who didn't like Rean and his "angst" about his powers argued that his powers pre-Cold Steel III has been nothing but beneficial to him and that he didn't really need to angst that much about it. Then Cold Steel III comes out and at the climax of the event, he shows off what happens when he loses control over it at the Final Boss of the game and it is flat out terrifying to say the least. And after the Final Boss is finished off in-game, he still keeps hacking at the beast after it's all over. And Elise might have even seen that part when they were still kids before Rean snaps out of it. It's a wonder Elise isn't afraid of her brother at this point.
During chapter 5 of Cold Steel I, Sara assigns Rean with Millium and Crow for a team battle against the rest of Class VII for their test. These three people die for good at the end of the normal ending of Cold Steel IV.
Your horse can randomly despawn in the Nord Highlands in II, this is acknowledged as a bug by the developers and localizers. Granted, the developers were apparently really perplexed by the bug and why it's happening since their workaround was to implement a button to respawn your horse by bringing up the hint screen and then pushing 'A', meaning they couldn't figure out why the horse was despawning and how to prevent it from doing so. Additional reports also mentions that this even happened to some players with the original Playstation 3 and Vita versions of the game. While a workaround has already been implemented, it still confused players who were uninformed of the glitch and the fix beforehand, and a number of players of the PC port still brought it up in the Steam bug report forums when encountering it in-game for the first time.
In Cold Steel III, there's a bug in the game where if an enemy attack finishes with them moving from one spot of the map to another with a Dash Attack, there's a chance that the enemy will go "out of bounds" of the battle map. What that means is that the enemy can no longer move but will be constantly skipping their turns while the playable characters can wail on the enemy easily.
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Somewhat. You spend the first three games trying to balance it out between the Nobles, Reformists and Ouroboros, with the villains flip-flopping between Duke Cayenne and Chancellor Osborne, with only rumors of a curse. Then IV comes along and everything was still fine for the most part- then you suddenly learn that the events to date is caused by a being called Ishmelga, which is essentially the rogue A.I of a secret 7th Divine Knight. Despite the Divine Knights receiving considerable foreshadowing in the prior games, Ishmelga has zero mentions in the first three games (up until the ending), despite being primarily or partially responsible for the major events present in the previous games. In the end, defeating it is key to breaking the curse and bringing things back to normal.
Immortal King Nosferatu isn't particularly hard if you're prepared, but his Your Soul Is Mine attack is extremely annoying. It takes a random character out of the fight until you damage the boss enough to free them, draining their health all the while. This normally isn't too bad, but if he takes out the wrong person at the wrong time (read: your main AOE user right as his flunkies are about to unleash a barrage of Arts), things can go south very quickly.
Campanella in Cold Steel III, as you'd expect from someone like him. He doesn't hit particularly hard, but his evasion is above average for a boss and his Exchange ability forces the next attack on him to hit an ally (while he swaps places with them).
Good Bad Bugs: In Cold Steel II, the Water Shrine has a switch that Sara can barely hit on the field that lowers the water level, allowing players to pass through. Except visually, said water is still there, making it look like that the player on the field is traversing underwater. Speedrunners exploit this as it's a massive time save for an otherwise glitchless game.
Anything relating to Crow and his interactions with Class VII (and everyone else in the story for that matter) are this considering he turns on them in the end, though the bonding events during the festival hurt the most especially on the player's second playthrough. The dance event? Crow quips that if Rean continues to be the Clueless Chick Magnet that he is, he'll "break even more hearts than I will." By the end of the game, Crow probably broke the hearts of almost everyone in Thors Military Academy by helping the Noble Alliance take it over. Draw a luck fortune at Class IV's teahouse? Crow's fortune will read "Great luck. You make your own luck behind the scenes and you make it well. Thorough preparations will net you excellent results." While this applies to Crow's role in Class VII's concert, it can also hint at his role as C, working behind the backs of everyone to kill the Chancellor, a deed he succeeds in through thorough preparations. Play Mishy Panic with Crow? Rean will give a line that's incredibly harsh knowing that after the truth about him comes up, Rean's probably not going to admire anything Crow does anytime soon.
Rean: Someday, I'm going to admire something you did and you won't be able to ruin it by opening your mouth.
There's a Running Gag involving a local Prince of Pranksters kid in Celdic, and the other kids he drives crazy. The whole thing becomes so much harsher in the second game when he ends up in a coma saving her when Celdic is razed. Re-playing the games with knowledge of this makes all their earlier dialogue hard to sit through.
As of the third game, any scene involving George. Seeing as he possibly killed Angelica and planted the bombs on The Courageous, which was eventually used to kill Toval, Victor and Olivert, it's a bit hard to watch him interact with her or anyone in his circle of friends, just like with Crow.
Throughout the Cold Steel series, one of Gaius' main motivations in joining Class VII was to protect the peace of the Nord Highlands. In Cold Steel IV, "Operation Jormungand" has the Nord Highlands be one of it's main battlefronts.
All the way back in the first game of the Sky trilogy, Colonel Richard's motivation for the coup while seeking the Aureole is because Liberl is at risk of being invaded again with Cassius retiring to the Bracer Guild. After saving him from the Ring Guardian, Cassius proceeds to give him a haymaker for thinking that one man alone can deter a nation whose military might is many times the size of their own from invading and putting him on an unrealistic pedestal. Sure enough in Cold Steel IV, "Operation Jormungand" would show that even with Cassius back in command, it's not enough to deter an invasion from Erebonia, having to abandon Bose, Rolent and even the capital of Grancel for a pincer attack in Zeiss to prevent Erebonia from invading Calvard through Liberl.
In Cold Steel II, during Millium's bonding event at Roer, Rean tells Millium that everyone in Class VII would be very upset enough to cry for her if anything happens to her. At the climax of Cold Steel III and the prologue of Cold Steel IV, everyone in Class VII ends up reeling at Millium's death with Rean actually losing his sense of self and gives in to his Superpowered Evil Side to destroy Millium's killer over and over again.
Heartwarming in Hindsight: It took Millium three games for Jusis to hug her first (because he found it annoying and that she's a lot younger than he is) but he finally did it at the end of the Golden Ending of Cold Steel IV.
One of the final quests of Cold Steel II is named "My Jormungand Want None◊", something translated by XSEED. While the description is funny by itself, it's even more hilarious when in Cold Steel IV, the operation name for the empire to wage the world war is called "Operation Jormungand".
Gaius's associatation with the wind becomes quite hilarious when you realize his English voice actor, Kaiji Tang voiced Wingul in Talesof Xillia, whose primary element is also wind, and serves a man who is coincidently named Gaius.
To say the fanbase went nuts for one of the reveals of Cold Steel IV where Cassius is using the sword instead of his staff would be an understatement.
The amount of party members get by the time Cold Steel IV happens is insane to say the least, ending with 39 playable characters that players can take to the final boss.
"Operation Jormungand", the simultaneous invasion of the entirety of Zemuria.
Erebonia would invade Calvard from 3 fronts (Crossbell, Nord Highlands, Legram) while marching through Liberl and the Principality of Remiferia to reach Calvard before topping it off with a naval invasion from the south, effectively making 6 simultaneous battlefronts. Each front has both sides involve up to at least 100,000 troops on average with the biggest one being the Crossbell front: 350,000 Erebonians against Calvard's 280,000. On top of that, both sides' respective reserves exceed 100,000.
As for the Bracer Guild and the Septium Church? They pretty much declared it an international crisis and deployed every bracer and Gralsritter member available, which pretty much includes all the other non-playable characters from the previous games. It's got so bad that even First Dominion Ein and Holy Beast Zeit had to get involved. On the other hand, this also meant that Ouroboros and the Red Constellation couldn't resist doing the same thing as well with their jeagers and Enforcers, pretty much turning all of Erebonia into a warzone. With all the pieces in place, cue Big Badass Battle Sequence.
It's Easy, So It Sucks!: General consensus among fans is that the Cold Steel series has been one of the easiest games in the saga thanks to the numerous amounts of game breaking strategies that fans can employ, sometimes with enemies not even having any single turn whatsoever even on Nightmare difficulty. Cold Steel III takes this up a notch with the introduction of the Break System where after inflicting a ton of damage on the Break Meter, bosses will be vulnerable and have to waste a turn to recover (and thanks to certain orders, they may not even get one). Even bosses who have to use their S-Craft have to wait a turn by filling up their entire CP and ramping up their their defenses can easily be broken just by using certain orders.
It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: One of the biggest criticisms of the games is that it has opened the doors to a newer generation, making the people who stuck around from the Sky games annoyed that they have to explain to the newbies to play Sky first.
Now that Cold Steel is out while the second of the trilogy has been in market for 2-3 years, it's kind of expected to see people spoiled by Crow and Misty/Vita's revelation being villains and worse, Crow's fate at the end of Cold Steel II from simple search engine browsing.
Rean's father being Osborne is such a huge revelation that fans forget that The Reveal only happens at the climax of Cold Steel II. And yet it's discussed by fans as though it's common knowledge.
Due to how infamous the event is in Cold Steel III, many remember Rean slaughtering the Nameless One in rage and hacking at its dead corpse.
Quite a few fans are skeptical that Olivert truly died aboard the Courageous. While the situation does look quite dire, Never Found the Body not only applies, but Olivert is one of the most important (and popular) characters in the whole series, with his character arc being developed since the Sky trilogy. The same also applies to Victor and Toval, with fans doubting that Falcom would really kill three major characters at once, and in such an anticlimactic way. Players were indeed proven right when all of them survived though it turns out that George did have a hand in their survival.
Ditto for Angelica. Though she's presumed dead after being shot by George, the scene cuts to black without actually showing her getting shot, and later George noticeably hesitates when Towa asks if he really killed her. Again, Never Found the Body is in full effect here. According to Word of God however, this one depends on Georg. As predicted, Angelica did survive but ends up becoming Brainwashed and Crazy, taking on her new identity as Rossweiss.
In Cold Steel IV, this is subverted with Rean, Crow, and Millium as they did get Killed Off for Real in the default ending of the game and players without a cleared save are railroaded to that ending. The trope only gets played straight thanks to Deus ex Machina with Rean being reminded by Franz that he had a gift from Algres' spirit to eject Ishmelga from him. Meanwhile in Crow and Millium's case, the six Divine Knights give them life again with the powers of the two Sept-Terrion alongside Franz and Roselia booting up the Sacrament Protocol before all of the Divine Knights disappear along with Franz.
Getting the bonus 3APs during the fight against Rufus in Cold Steel II. Good luck, if the Random Number God is feeling particularly nasty towards you, it'd let Rufus unleash Clamioh Solarion against you in his first turn by granting him zero arts, leading the battle to be over before it even starts. And oh, the game would potentially also just fail every single unbalance crafts you have. This in turn, means that if you previously failed your battle against Xeno and Leo, battle against Altina and Bleublanc (easy on it's own, but Altina's That One Attack makes completing this battle, which requires you to down both Bleublanc and Altina within 40 moves if you want that bonus AP, really challenging), and your battle against Duvalie and McBurn (another tough one since McBurn can potentially unleash a powerful arts attack on his first move, again ending the battle before it begins, or even continuously delay your party and hack away without giving you somuch of a turn- and you need to burn Duvalie down to size in this battle before McBurn can burn you), even if you got everything right, this is the end of your chance to unlock That One Achievement for this playthrough.
In Cold Steel IV getting the max 10AP requirement for reducing Osborne and Arianrhod's HP to a certain threshold at the same time at the end of the Black Workshop can be frustrating at times, especially if the player has no idea that's even possible. Especially since Arianrhod's HP is 1.5x less than Osborne's HP especially this early in the game and players might accidentally damage her before letting Osborne reach the HP threshold since the fight ends after either of their HP crosses the line. While thankfully they're not programmed to use their S-Craft this early in the game, they still have damaging attacks and they're ARCUS linked together, so they can deal even more damage if they manage a link attack (even more if they do a Rush attack). Both also have moves that can debuff your party (though Rean is immune to strength, defense, and speed debuffs for this fight as he has a permanent status buff for this fight only, although he's not in Spirit Unification), and both deal a lot of damage. Not only do you have to deal with Arianrhod's attacks while whittling down Osborne, but you also have to pray to Random Number God that Arianrhod doesn't miss her attack on someone who can counter her at a range where her HP crosses the line till you're ready to unleash a S-Craft to hopefully let both of their HP cross the line.
Memetic Badass: According to the official Japanese polls◊, Aurelia is considered to be the most powerful character of the series, above even McBurn. Considering the woman took on a Divine Knight and a Hector at the same time with nothing but her Ace Custom and is actually a legitimately hard boss fight that players have a permanent status buff on the two and can potentially still lose the fight, that really says something about her.
Considering it's been three games and he still hasn't won a victory at the end of his games, Rean ends up being this in the eyes of fandom. Strangely enough, this ends up giving fans a lot of sympathy for him.
Vita is another one for the fans at the end of Cold Steel II where the fans claim that she's Wrong Genre Savvy about Cayenne, Osborne hijacking the plan, and Ouroboros gets Out-Gambitted instead of managing to obtain whatever they want. Fans did not let her live that one down and many players have declared her to be the dumbest Anguis of Ouroboros.
By Cold Steel IV, Arianrhod ends up becoming this to fans not because she's not powerful, but rather because she doesn't even end up with any of the men that she wanted to be with for a long, long timenote Dreichels moved on and married someone before Lianne came back to life, Osborne ended up marrying Kasia and Rean was born, Osborne chose to become Ishmelga's Awakener while Lianne wasn't around watching, and before she could agree to go alongside Rean in life, she gets back stabbed., ultimately dying dishonorably due to Rufus stabbing her in the back and taking Algreion's Divine Core for himself.
Ouroboros in general became this trope in IV for a lot of fans mainly due to being Overshadowed by Awesome when pitted against Osborne. Even when the Grandmaster claims that things are still All According to Plan, many felt that it was a botched attempt at saving face than proving how cunning and powerful they are. On the other hand, this can be considered Catharsis Factor as until the climax of II, Ouroboros was this Invincible Villain for 5 games in a row, with them having the most to gain by the end of each plot. Being outwitted for the remainder of the Erebonia arc shows that for all their power, it's possible to beat them and prevents them from looking like Boring Invincible Villains. Now with Osborne dead, it's safe to say that they might be getting back their competence in future instalments.
Laura became this in Cold Steel IV thanks to her first bonding event with Rean lifting him up and kissing him in a cave.
When Cold Steel IV came out, Ishmelga became this in the eyes of the fandom as fans depict him being very obsessed with Dreichels and his Reincarnation Osborne. It's not too far off canon but fans take it Up to Eleven where Ishmelga's depicted as a Stalker with a Crush.
Head patting can make people fall in love with somebody.note While Rean does pat a lot of heads towards the girls, he also gets head patted by Crow which many fans explain why he's obsessed with him.
Somebody stop this serial head-patter! note Rean, especially in the second game, pats the heads of almost every female character in either optional or mandatory events, and almost every girl he pats the head of is noted to or seems to have feelings for him, leading many to jokingly accuse him of the above as if he was taking their virginity.
Semi-confirmed in Cold Steel III. After all, why else would this happen?
Market Manager Ottonote A very minor NPC in the game who appears in the first chapter of Cold Steel I and II who ends up dying during the Civil War in Cold Steel II, and yet all the major characters that the players care about claim that he's one of the most important people in the series. While many players are shocked at what happened to Celdic, they do also mock at how the game plays Otto as this really big character when he's just a minor forgettable NPC that the characters do talk to.
A pre-release screenshot from Cold Steel III showing Tio making the "ok" hand symbol with a hilariously deadpan expression on her face has already become the source of many memes.
Cold Steel III only had a 15 second advertisement, yet the fans first impression of Juna is that she wants her Crossbell back.
Ever since Mint was shown to be maintaining Valimar, fans made jokes that Valimar will be destroyed thanks to Mint's clumsiness.
The narm-tasticEngrish in the third game's Stinger ("Watch the Damn Fairy Tale until it has finished") became a meme almost immediately, often used in reference to the insane Cliffhanger ending.
Machias and Elliot are the Gunlord and Crimson Virtuoso Enforcers of Ouroboros while Karl Regnitz is the most powerful Anguis.note The meme comes from the pre-release months of Cold Steel IV by Machias and Elliot fans who felt sorry that their characters and arcs are Demoted to Extra and felt they should have been elevated a bit more. Needless to say, the meme did die when Cold Steel IV came out but some fans do look back on it fondly.
Musse wants you to join her and her Weissland Army!note During the pre-release of Cold Steel IV, /fg/ users have posted that they wanted to join the Weissland Army after pre-release screenshots depict Musse as Osborne's equal in politics with Osborne declaring that Musse's a more Worthy Opponent than Olivert was. Needless to say, this meme did die in Cold Steel IV when Juna says one friendship speech about Musse needing to help them find their instructor Rean and Musse immediately joins them.
Whenever Rean uses his final S-Craft in Cold Steel IV, players have a habit of playing the counting game, to sync with Rean showing off all the eight forms of the Eight Leaves One Blade style.
Lianne's a cuck.note In Cold Steel IV, Lianne loved Dreichels but couldn't be with him. She then saw his Reincarnation in Osborne except he also married Kasia and had a son with Rean. Then Osborne's life went downhill and made a Deal with the Devil with Ishmelga while Lianne wasn't looking. Finally, Rean gives her a chance to come with them to life except Rufus back stabs her at the worst moment.
Ayy Lmaosnote In Cold Steel IV, it's revealed that McBurn and Ishmelga are not from Zemuria but from a different world. The alien jokes wrote itself.
Laura will make you get in the cave. note Laura's first bonding event in Cold Steel IV has her lifting Rean up with one hand, pinning him against the wall, and kissing him passionately. This one stuck out with fans as the rest of the girls bonding events are tame by comparison (barring Musse's 2nd event but it didn't stick out as much, mainly for the Squick factor of Musse kissing her teacher while he was off-guard).
Flirting with Altina! note An excerpt from an edgy snuff fic. It was spammed at such a high frequency that it quickly turned into a meme. Variations are now common (ie: Flirting with Shirley!, Studying with Rean!, etc) though they're far less squicky and generally more humorous than the original.
Estelle unintentionally dabbing◊ has become one during the release of the game.note It comes from when the group is putting a show in order to distract security while Rean and his group sneak in to Orchis Tower and disable the beam surrounding the barrier.
Memetic Troll: Professor Schmidt is starting to gain this reputation, due to him casually stopping Rean summoning Valimar mid-invocation at the end of the new Class VII's first test.
Mondegreen: Numerous fans have heard Rean's comeback when countering in the first game as "Cheese off!", with many assuming Cheese being a G-Rated substitute for the F-word. The line was re-recorded for Cold Steel II, when Rean now clearly says "Too slow!".
Duke Albarea crosses it when he orders the soldiers and the Northern Jaegers to burn down Celdic. It was such an atrocious event that Rufus had declared to tell Class VII to apprehend him because Rufus can't thanks to his position in the Noble Alliance, Never mind his real reason- which is to destroy the nobility system. Scarlet declares that you have to be one mad person to even support the guy and only fights the heroes because she's Driven to Suicide, and Duvalie declares that the only reason why she's at Aurochs Fort was that she can witness its fall. She'd even gut Duke Albarea right there and then if it wasn't for the orders of her leader.
So many people cross this in Cold Steel III that even Shirley and Campanella think things are going too far. To wit:
George shoots Angelica when she starts to know things too much (whether she's dead or not is a different story as the game fades to black and a gunshot is heard, and the game is usually not shy in showing off people getting shot as Ash does shoot the emperor thanks to his curse on-screen). If he didn't cross the line then, he certainly does when he rigs the Courageous with explosives and tries to kill Towa.
Alberich detonates said Courageous with Olivert, Toval, and Victor still in the sky, and gloats about how his marriage into the Reinford family was just another part of his plan.
Cedric nearly chokes Altina to death, and gives Alberich the OK to blow up the Courageous - effectively making him to one to (possibly) bring about his own brother's death.
And to top it all off, Osborne delivers a Neck Lift to Rean, his own son, and tells him that it's time for things to begin and engulf the world in despair.
In Cold Steel IV, Rufus finally crosses it when he back stabs Arianrhod as she was dying in her duel against Rean and Crow in their Divine Knights, who then absorbs her and Algreion's divine cores to add to his Divine Knight.
Most Wonderful Sound: Anytime Rean calls out Valimar and Valimar's sequence going towards Rean will be bound to be this.
Chapter 4 when you finally witness epic duel of Laura and Fie, two of the best fighters among first-years of Thors... basically throwing their crafts at each other. You'll laugh at it after seeing how Joshua vs Loewe in SC fought during cutscene.
The concert scene, where everyone moves like a Chuck E. Cheese's animatronic band, and a low-key song with only a single singer has not only the rest of Class VII, but the entire audience acting as backup singers, despite their being only one voice in the song.
Some people thought the ending of the original game with Rean screaming "No, they need me! Let me staaaaay!" was rather cheesy. Not helped by the last thing we see being Valimar flying away to who-knows-where before a jarring Smash Cut to the ending credits with a fast-paced song playing over images of the cast.
While it fits his character, Bleublanc's extremely campy voice in the sequel makes it hard to take any scene with him in it seriously.
Speaking of voice acting in the sequel, those playing the Steam version of the game will know of the provincial army officer who gained a Scottish-accented voice with heavily-rolled Rs in the first game. The voice-acting is back in the sequel and while it's obvious the voice-actor is having the time of his life, it makes the serious situation that's happening, namely him holding Elliot's sister Fiona hostage at sword-point, very difficult to take seriously.
For some people in Cold Steel III, the Engrish at The Stinger can be this, especially with the line: "Watch the Damn Fairy Tale until it has Finished."
Machias' newest S-Craft in Cold Steel III, "Justice Bullet", ends up being badly animated compared to the rest especially at the Gun Kata part compared to the BFG.
The entire Say My Name moment in Cold Steel IV where Rean dreams of his friends and students calling out his name over and over again with Ash being the odd one out, calling him on a Last-Name Basis. Many fans felt that the say my name got a bit too out of hand.
Rean's final duel with Crow in the sequel is full of extremely cheesy dialogue, to the point where the other party members lampshade how cheesy it is. That doesn't make it any less awesome.
The "Bank of Rean" line Rean makes at the Final Boss of Cold Steel I sounds corny. In context, he's making Crow pay for even trying to betray them to the Noble Alliance and he wants Crow to pay every last mira.
Never Live It Down: The "boob accident" in CS 1 prologue kinda gives a bad start for players to like Alisa because of the reaction she gave that time, thus cemented her position as cliché tsundere girl who can't get past that incident. She really is a tsundere, but she tried to apologize for three weeks albeit didn't manage to because of the awkwardness. Her issue with Rean gradually dies down and she shows her kinder side as time goes.
Nightmare Fuel: Rean losing his control over his Superpowered Evil Side in Cold Steel III is scary to look at. What makes it worse is that after the final boss fight, he still keeps on hacking the boss for a good amount of time!
One-Scene Wonder: The final batch of animation stills at the end of Cold Steel IV, where almost every major character from the previous games who didn't make the playable cut in this game shows up for Olivert and Schera's wedding, including Zin, Kevin, Ries, Noel, Lazy, Rixia, and Ein.
In the final chapter of Cold Steel III, no less than four playable characters pull Face-Heel Turns - Sharon, due to her returning to her position as an Enforcer, and Claire, Lechter and Millium, due to their loyalty to Osborne. Considering you've likely gotten attached to at least some of them, their betrayals can hit particularly hard even if you were expecting it.
Then of course, the death tolls. In a series (Mostly in regard to Cold Steel) that has been criticized for lacking important character deaths (aside from Crow in II), Cold Steel III includes at least 5, 3 of them being Ensemble Darkhorses (Olivert, Toval and Victor), one being someone whom you've come to accept as a trustworthy ally(Angelica) and the other one of your party member since Cold Steel I (Millium). Alleviated as all of them turned up alive in Last Saga, and the golden ending allows Crow to be stabilized and Millium to be revived. And to top it all off, the former three going out in an exploding Courageous no less is akin to receiving a powerful kick in the groin.
And then of course the revelation that George was Evil All Along. While IV eventually revealed him to be a Reverse Mole, general consensus is that players seeing the scene for the first time tends to develop a deep hate on George, and Cedric's FaceHeel Turn. Especially the latter, which made some fans wish Rean had just slain him along with Duke Cayenne in Cold Steel II.
Polished Port: The PC version of Cold Steel I is much nicer to look at compared to the PS3 version, with a recompiled light engine, unlimited shadows and the option to increase field-of-view, decompressed textures and unmodified HD character art, it adds the turbo mode that significantly makes the game run much faster making Nord Highlands a lot more bearable to travel, and all in crisp 1080p 60fps with unlimited draw distance and ultra wide screen support to fit any monitor known to man. Included is the obligatory 4K option, on top of adding 5000 new lines of dialogue, several of which was done for Rean so he's no longer jarringly silent in several conversation scenes as well as the English cast being brought back to rerecord parts of the script. This gives the modern English version twice the amount of spoken dialogue compared to its Japanese counterpart on all other systems. Cold Steel II when ported to PC includes all of these features as well.
Rean's relationship with Crow is supposed to be one filled with rivalry, especially after the final battle of Cold Steel I where they clearly have opposing beliefs. Circa Cold Steel II and beyond however, and the entire thing could be seen as a Ho Yay couple who had a bad break-up and both are trying to mend their relationship rather than two people who have differing opinions. It doesn't help that both Rean and Crow have similar primary elemental orbments (time) yet polar opposing secondary elemental orbments (fire and water respectively). It also doesn't help that unlike the bonding events in the games being optional and thus can be skipped, any scene between Rean and Crow from Cold Steel II and beyond are all mandatory to the plot. Finally, the promotional artwork in Cold Steel II, and the first image tease of Cold Steel III have the two of them paired up together (as rivals at least). Rean's declaration of bringing Crow back to the academy repeatedly isn't helping things nor does it help that the only real Combination Attack in the entire Erebonia saga belong to them. Were the rumor about Proto!Alisa being the protagonist in Rean's place and Proto!Rean having Crow's backstory true, the whole Ship Tease would suddenly make sense. And just to drive it home, one of the promotional images of Cold Steel IV has all of the protagonists of the Trails franchise paired up with their main love interest. Guess who is paired up with Rean.◊ It went up to eleven in the fourth game's bad end, when Rean was about to sacrifice himself to defeat Ishmelga. In the bad ending, instead of dying in peace, Crow choose to follow Rean and die along with him and Millium. And according to the official poll for pairings, Rean X Crow◊ is the most popular ship of the Erebonian arc, eclipsing the rest of the pairings.
Another case of the writers fumbling with the relationship would be Juna and Kurt. Throughout Cold Steel III, the two of them had interacted quite a bit with each other, and even their first meeting was very similar toRean and Alisa's accidental moment, only it didn't take Juna quite as long to apologize to Kurt. When the players first obtained the horse and bike, it was always Kurt and Juna who were together, with Rean taking Altina. There's also the time when Kurt had his hand on Juna's shoulder and tried to raise her spirits up while she was undergoing a Heroic BSoD in Crossbell. Finally, there's the evening dance at the Esmelas Garden, where Kurt and Juna danced together for a lot longer than all the other pairings. For bonus points, Juna's relationship with Rean wasn't really portrayed as all that romantic in Cold Steel III; it was mostly just Juna wanting, and failing, to thank the hero that rescued her and her family. Even when the final dance shown was Rean and Juna, it looked more like a simple, teacher-student scene used to more or less cap off her character arc. Taking all that into account, many were confused when Cold Steel IV had Juna's bonding events focus on her feelings for Rean becoming unambiguously romantic, while her relationship with Kurt, despite all their interactions in III and all the promo images with the two together, is pretty much never brought up. Made worse by how unethical it would be for Rean to even consider a relationship with one of his students, even if he says he'd only do so if she's still interested in him when they're no longer teacher and student. Admittedly, as bonding events are optional, players could skip them if desired, but the idea that Juna could suddenly go from wanting to thank the hero that saved her life to falling in love with him in only a month's time in-game still came off as weird, and it doesn't change how Juna and Kurt stopped having any meaningful interactions with each other.
Knight combat in the sequel is much improved from the first game, adding direct ways to counter enemy Crafts (Morning Moon is now a guaranteed dodge-and-counter, you have access to Impede Crafts), more options for healing and CP charging, allowing other party members to assist with their own unique support moves, and giving you an actualDefend Command. All of this makes Knight battles far less of a Luck-Based Mission and more of the Tactical RockPaperScissors they're meant to be.
Rean's detractors were won over when he became a teacher, which made his trademark speeches less annoying because it's now his job to guide students, meaning his Team Dad tendencies ended up being very entertaining despite only a few years older than his students. Also, his angst is more thoroughly justified compared to the first two games.
Cold Steel IV has this in spades, not least revealing that the villains was behaving the way they did because of Ishmelga, but the most notable one was that George and Black Alberich was revealed to be actuallyGood All Along (opposing what you saw in III), with the former revealed to have installed a failsafe in The Courageous along with those bombs to allow Toval, Olivert and Victor to survive and actually didn't kill Angelica, and the latter not only helped the Divine Knights, Vita and Rose stabilize Crow, but also prepared a way to revive Millium by means of preparing a clone of her body.
McBurn in Cold Steel IV got rescued thanks to lots of things revealed about him. While he wasn't exactly hated, prior to Cold Steel IV, he was mocked by the fanbase for being a bit too much of a try hard, edgy guy whose fashion sense tries to invoke Evil Is Cool a bit too much even though he's a pretty chill guy for one. Then Cold Steel IV came out and it's revealed that he's been Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life since it turns out that he's had amnesia for over 50 years after roaming around Zemuria, he treats life or death battles as a shock therapy, and when he finally goes all out with no regrets and someone actually manages to harm him, he finally remembers who he is, what he is, and what he now needs to do. He then apologizes to Class VII for the troubles he caused, he refers to Rean not as "Ashen kid" but as Schwarzer, showing that he respects the kid, gives him an item to help him out against the battle against Osborne, and then teleports away from the place, needing to take care of business that he needs to deal with. Even most of his vitriolic haters ended up liking the conclusion to his character arc and the start of a new one as it opens up brand new avenues to the Kiseki lore.
Rummage Sale Reject: When Cold Steel III first revealed Fie's outfit, many players were weirded out mostly by how loose her clothes are compared to everyone else, even more than her Cold Steel II costume.
Elise is widely disliked in the West due to her Clingy Jealous Girl and Big Brother Attraction tendencies towards Rean. That and she is generally regarded as the worst of the playable characters in Cold Steel II. It got worse as the series went on as many players believe that she could be removed entirely from the story and nothing would have changed, making her presence so insignificant that anyone else could have been at her place, the most common character to replace her would been Alfin.
As of Cold Steel III, Prince Cedric became widely hated in the fanbase due to him taking a massive level in jerkass, doing such things as almost strangling Altina, and giving the OK for Alberich to blow up the Courageous (knowing his own brother was on-board, no less). The hatred's so intense that some fans wish Class VII hadn't saved his life back in the second game.
Scrappy Level: While the level is very nice looking, the fact that players can't fast travel at Nord Highlands makes the entire chapter a chore to get through in the first game. Thankfully in Cold Steel II, the developers have added the option to fast travel there.
The Dark Dragon's Nest in Cold Steel III. You have to split your team in three on the spot and usually only realize afterwards that you've forgotten something important (like placing an arts user in every team because the place has enemies that reflect all physical damage), the enemies are some of the most annoying in the entire series like two types of mirrors that reflect physical and magical attacks respectively and that love to show up together or Necromancers who will spam high-level healing magic and attacks with Deathblow chances and you have to constantly switch back and forth between teams because each side has levers that allow the others to continue. The one saving grace is that it's chock-full of treasure chests with nice loot.
Due to the story being very cutscene heavy (which isn't a bad thing by itself), you get the option to save before proceeding or choose not to save at all. The problem is that these options come after a massive cutscene and/or a long boss fight, meaning that players cannot just save and leave.
The final bonding events in each game. To unlock them, you have to get your chosen partner's link levels to the highest possible in-game while spending bonding points with them in the penultimate bonding event. While not too bad at first, the problem comes is that the crossroads where you have to choose which partner you are going with is immediately proceeded by or even sandwiched between at least ten to fifteen minutes worth of cutscenes before you can reload the save file to choose another partner instead of simply offering to save and load immediately before the moment of choice and after the event respectively. The PC version mitigate this by employing a fast forward option however, it's considered a pain for players trying to get 100% Completion by having to sit through the same set of cutscenes around a dozen times after witnessing the final bonding events.
In the Final Boss is the first enemy in the entire game who can Unbalance you. Unfortunately, when it does so is entirely random. On higher difficulties, you can lose the battle unavoidably if the boss gets too many Link Attacks off, regardless of how well you were doing, especially since once he Turns Red, he'll always follow up an Unbalance with his super move, which can take out around 50% of Rean's HP. Normally this wouldn't be so bad, but... the Final Boss is a Duel Boss using completely different game mechanics than you're used to, and you only get two heals for the entire fight, making it very unforgiving.
In the second game, any boss battle where new party members join causes the party's formation to be arranged differently from what the player had before. Not only does this mess up whatever strategy the player is used to, the new party members also aren't equipped with optimal gear and quartz. This means the player will have to waste several turns trying to get their old party formation set up again. This is especially bad for the Act 1 Part 3 Dual Boss, which is timed to forty turns like the previous ones.
Millium's field attack will summon Lammy, but she can't walk through the doll, meaning she has a harder time running from the enemy after a failed field attack.
Any kind of shipping between Rean and Claire was gone the moment she decided to side with her boss. Then after the boss fight against the Ironbloods, Rean and the new Class VII run past them with Claire, in slow motion, reaching her hands out to Rean and Rean not even looking back.
As for Cold Steel IV, any ship with Olivert or Schera that are not with each other are sunk, because they married each other. Unless a third option is chosen, of course. Also, the game deeply implied that Jusis and Millium are an item, so this can be applied to them.
And, in a weird way, Crow with Vita. While Crow did say they had "something" in the past, their relationship was not like this (romantic) when asked. He also said he regretted starting something with her so this ship was sunk as well.
Ship-to-Ship Combat: Thanks to Rean's status as a Launcher of a Thousand Ships and the ambiguity of who is exactly canon by Cold Steel IV, practically any shipping wars ends up resulting in this. The most vocal ones usually are the "Rean-Alisa" pairing versus the "Rean-Laura" pairing, with "Rean-Fie", "Rean-Sara", and "Rean-Claire" shippers chiming in, that's not even starting on the "Rean-Crow" shipping. What's worse, many players that preferred shipping Juna with Kurt in Cold Steel III got angry with the decision to add her (and Altina and Musse) to Rean's harem in IV, as he already had so many girls vying for his attention in the first 2 games alone, and although Rean categorically rejects getting into a romance with Juna, Musse and Altina due to being their teacher (and in Altina's case, he explicitly mentions their age gap) there is still legitimate complaint with this development as it's not properly built up and still ethically dubious).
Signature Scene: Ask any fan about Cold Steel III and the first thing that comes to mind is Millium's death, Rean losing it, and Rean brutally killing the Nameless One long after it dies.
Stop Having Fun, Guys: Because of the infamous game breaking combination of both "Chrono Burst" and level 5 Moebius, there are fans who will mock players for even using this strategy to win against boss fights instead of other, somewhat longer methods.
Strawman Has a Point: At the beginning of the climax of Cold Steel II, Rean is complaining that Elise is aboard the Courageous because she's being supportive of her big brother. The rest of the party, even Valimar, is against him in that Elise should stay just so Rean will actually come back safe, even claiming that Rean is just being overprotective. The problem however, is that Rean's actually in the right because Elise isn't even a part of the military, never mind not being a military student. And it isn't like she's safe in the Courageous either since the Pantagruel is still there and there's a battle going on at Heimdallr. It's not like they can just take a civilian with them on the most cutting edge ship of the empire.
Superlative Dubbing: One thing fans can agree on is that Sean Chiplock's delivery of Rean is the best thing that happened in this game. Helps that the guy is One of Us and has played the game and the other is that he voiced Rean already having some knowledge of the game.
In both games, the trophy for opening every chest in the game. Miss a single chest in a One-Time Dungeon (of which there are many, the entire first game is practically one)? Have fun doing another playthrough to get the trophy! The second game isn't quite as bad because you get an airship that allows you to revisit most locations, but there are still a few that can be gotchas.
A number of achievements in both games are this. Often you'll find yourself replaying the game several times if just to get every single Master Quartz in the game (which is not possible with just one playthrough), cook every single recipe in the game, complete every single quest in the game (Aidios help you if you miss a hidden quest or couldn't complete the optional ones due to poor planning/bad foresight), or even scan every single monster in the game thoroughly (forgot to stock up on battle scopes? Time to reload the last save from when you're still at the last town).
II has this one achievement, Honor Roll, that requires you to achieve A0 rank. Achieving that rank means missing out no more than 10APs in a playthrough. It's particularly tough since some of the APs are achieved through extra requirements that must be met during boss battles, some which are downright devilish (e.g. vs Altina and Bleublanc, where you need to fall both within 40 turns — not tough on its own if it wasn't for Altina's That One Attack) while others are complete luck-based missions (the battle against Rufus and Duvalie/McBurn - since for the latter you need to half his HP before he kills you — and he can kill you before the battle even starts if the Random Number God is feeling particularly malicious, e.g. granting first strike and a zero arts, and he uses it, while the former can completely delay you indefinitely or even one-shot you without giving you so much of a turn at start of the battle, and the RNG has been known to abuse this, turning the entire battle into a hapless cinematic).
That One Attack: Pretty much any enemy's S-Craft qualifies, but a few really stand out.
As mentioned below, Rean's Flame Slash in Laura and Fie's sparring match against him in the first game. He can use it with no warning and it's almost always a One-Hit Kill at this point in the game, and the arena is small, making it hard to avoid.
If you thought the first game's Flame Slash hurts, prepare to be frustrated when you're fighting him as Lloyd and Rixia and he hits you with Termination Slash - Dawn.
C's Deadly Cross. Nearly always a One-Hit Kill, hits a very wide area, and can be used with no warning. The best you can do it keep using Adamantine Shield and hope you get lucky and he uses it while it's up.
In the second game, Xeno and Leonidas' S-Crafts. Not individually, but more for the fact that the duo likes to use both of theirs at the same time. One S-Craft is survivable, but two in a row is certain doom without Artemis' Tears. Particularly bad in their final encounter, where they can use this double S-Craft trick at anytime from the start of the fight to the end, with, again, no warning. You can be doing well in the fight and then suddenly double S-Craft, Total Party Kill.
A non-S Craft example, Stratos Diver's Hyperactive Discharge in Cold Steel III. It hits the entire battlefield, does over half your HP in damage at that point, and the boss will spam it repeatedly if you're unlucky.
In the first game, the final battles of Chapter 6 stand out as it's a Marathon Boss against two tough opponents who each have an S-Craft that can one-shot your party and have huge areas of effect. Both also have backup and an array of wide-area attacks that make it very difficult to keep Adamant Shield active.
The boss of Chapter 2, the two Kazakh Dovens, can be this due to their hard-hitting physical attacks and ability to buff themselves, as well as a Combination Attack that's nearly guaranteed to one-shot anyone in your party (and if someone somehow manages to survive, it inflicts Faint). Making things worse is that everyone in the Chapter 2 team is a Glass Cannon apart from Machias, and you don't have Elliot's extremely useful Resounding Beat Craft (raises defence and gives gradual HP regeneration) to fall back on.
Unsurtr, the boss of the 5th floor of the Old Schoolhouse. A large dragon-like boss just like the end boss of Chapter 4, which was surprisingly easy, so this should be the same, right? Hardly. Unsurtr not only has massive Strength and Defence, it's also really fast, has AOE on nearly all its attacks, and everything it does can Freeze. It's also heavily resistant or outright immune to every status except Blind and Nightmare, and this includes Delay and Stat Down, so many of the Game-Breaker tactics mentioned above won't work. Blinding it is the only saving grace you get, and even that's unreliable. Due to its speed, it's extremely difficult to come back if it KOs any of your party members, as it'll eat through your remaining members faster than you can revive them.
Gordi Schnarr G in the sequel, which is only a normal sidequest target, manages to be this due to its Chest Beating. This move buffs the boss' Strength, Defence, Speed and heals it, turning it into a Lightning Bruiser and a Stone Wall. But it's made even worse by what the boss does when the buff almost wears off. It first uses a massive damage area attack, then it re-applies Chest Beating, causing all these buffs to stack up to 50% boosts. With +50% speed, the boss can use its area attack repeatedly without giving you a chance to cancel it, leading to a Total Party Kill very quickly. You know it's bad when most walkthroughs recommend Nightmare Mode-level strategies for this fight and tell you to simply spam S Crafts on it once its HP falls below half.
The Order of the Lion can be this in the second game. They're as close as you can get to a Mirror Match in this game, meaning they can use many of the same Game-Breaker strategies you can, like Delaying/Cancelling, buff stacking and powerful arts. And if you're going for the 100% battle book Trophy, you need to scan all of them, giving them several turns to buff. Edel in particular is one of the most brutal, as she can cast very powerful Arts like Adamantine Shield, Crescent Mirror and Seraphic Ring (a full heal and revive on the whole party). Let her get a few of those off, and it can be very hard to recover. The characters even remark on how scary she is in-universe.
But by far the biggest and most infamous one in the sequel is McBurn, who's essentially Cold Steel 2's equivalent of the Chapter 6 fight with C in the first game. He has nearly twice as much HP as the previous bosses, takes half damage from all Arts (except Fire, which he's naturally immune to), is immune to all status except Stat Down and Delay... which has only has 10% vulnerability to, so he's a complete Stone Wall. Offensively? Flames of Judgement is powerful and also has a Status-Buff Dispel effect (one of the very few examples of that in the entire game, and buffs are necessary to beat him) and Hellhounds can inflict instant death. And those are just his basic attacks. His Purgatorial Flame Art can potentially deal double your maximum HP in damage, his S-Craft has a wide area and is pretty much a Total Party Kill, and as if that wasn't enough, he can use a Lost Art, Sol Eruption, which might as well be named "cancel this or it's an instant Game Over". And often, he doesn't give you the chance to. Overall, this is the kind of fight where you have to go all-out with every single Game-Breaker available to you to even stand the slightest chance of winning. And to add insult to injury, McBurn isn't even using 10% of his full power.
Generally, Cold Steel III is one of the easiest games of the series, but this doesn't stop this trope popping up from time to time. Take Aurelia in her Ace Custom for example in chapter 3. The first fight against her with Class VII isn't that bad since players do have some supports from Altina and a second character and that the requirement to get the extra AP is to reduce her HP to 50%. It's when she challenges both Rean and Randy inside Valimar and a Hector respectively is when things get hairy as they can only rely with one another with no supports from other characters (which means no refilling HP-CP and EP from any support except by themselves which will guarantee them wasting turns). While both Rean and Randy have a permanent 75% buff to their stats, it might as well have almost been non-existent as Aurelia deals a lot of damage against them, especially when she manages to get an additional link attack. Enough unlucky rolls and Aurelia might pull off a Total Party Kill with her 5 BP move.
Cold Steel IV has a few that could be considered as one of these if the players aren't careful/it's a Sequential Boss fight that the player isn't totally prepared for. Take for example the boss fight against Rutger, Xeno, and Leo. By itself, it isn't that bad except this is similar to the turn limit boss fight with Xeno and Leo back in Cold Steel II, they're all ARCUS linked so they will get extra attacks in and if they gain enough Brave Points, they will use Rush attacks. Rutger is also built like a tank this early in the game and players are required to reduce their HP to a certain point in less than 40 turns. It doesn't help that the players had to deal with Gilbert and his jaegers in the previous boss fight which, while not hard since it's Gilbert, could leave players unprepared for the next boss fight.
That One Disadvantage: Any equipment with a penalty to speed. Doesn't matter how good it is, if it takes away from speed, it probably isn't worth it.
That One Level: The Divertissement puts the player in control of a party of two with a suboptimal Orbment setup, locked Master Quartz, no initial Sepith, no initial healing items, and no shops. The only saving grace is that there are several Orbment Charging Stations that allow Quartz synthesis. The game flat-out admits this by making the Divertissement chapter skipable in NG+.
To some fans, Randy not being a playable character outside of one Divine Knight/Panzer Soldat Battle was a sore spot, as the fans really wanted to play as him again instead of just having Tio for the Zero characters while the Sky characters had Agate, Tita, and Olivert in his Olivier Lenheim costume. This was averted in Cold Steel IV.
In a more minor case, when the characters from the previous instalments came in and became playable in Cold Steel IV, most of them ended up with their lower-tier S-Crafts instead of their most powerful ones. Examples include Lloyd's Meteor Breaker, Elle's Divine Crusade, Tio's Orbal Gear and Zero Field and finally Estelle's Phoenix Wave. This seems weird because Randy was happily using his Berserga and Joshua has Phantom Raid with no issues.
From a storyline perspective, many fans felt that Lloyd and Elie were highly underused despite being the protagonist and the Implied Love Interest of the Crossbell arc. Elie's subplot with her best friend turned enemy Mariabell also didn't have much of a conclusion as most of the subplot with Bell went with Juna who barely has any connection with her other than being the SSS' junior. Especially since the game was supposed to resolve how Crossbell was going to be liberated but it ended up being an off-screen resolution. Contrast to Estelle and Joshua's roles in the game which are also reduced but still end up contributing something to the plot.
A lot of players felt that Gaius was highly underutilized in the entire saga despite becoming a Dominion as his role in Cold Steel IV ended up being the captain of the Merkabah till the Courageous 2 shows up and to have the obligatory Dominion party member. Machias and Elliot also were underutilized by fans who thought they could've been implemented by the plot better than what they got. Having to share spotlights with so many characters didn't help their cases.
Lechter is also a prime example. The guy has been built up since The 3rd as a major Wild Card who, while publicly a follower of Osborne, is hinted at having his own agendas - to the point of outright telling his boss that his loyalty may not last forever. The fact that he kept showing up over and over before the Erebonia saga even started just added more fuel to the speculation. And by the end of it all... he really is loyal to Osborne, all of his suspicious actions were just Red Herrings, and he doesn't even do much in the main plot outside of fighting the party several times, and having a somewhat interesting backstory. After all the intrigue and hype, he turned out to be nothing more than a coward who simply talked big.
Thomas not being a playable character in Cold Steel IV. A lot of players wished he was playable especially since he was the more interesting Dominion in the cast compared to Gaius.
Considering the role that he plays in Cold Steel IV, many were surprised that Bleublanc is not playable in the game, not even joining either Duvalie's team or Aurelia's team.
Schera in Cold Steel IV. Despite the fact that she's one of the first characters revealed in the game, she doesn't really do much throughout the game as most of her adventures are off-screen and when she's finally on-screen, all she does is being one of the lead dancers for the Arc En Ciel concert, being Olivert's Number Two in the Courageous II, getting a confession and marriage from Olivert, and a supporting role with her Brave Order. Many players wanted her to be a playable character and see her in action as an A-Ranked bracer but were disappointed when she's just a support character.
If there's one character who got hit really hard by this trope, it's Mueller. His overall screen time throughout all four games amounts to maybe two to three hours at most for all four games. And he doesn't even get to do anything important throughout the Erebonia arc.
Wanna know how Crossbell is liberated in Cold Steel IV? It's all told in a short narration using Ao's art style at the end of the game without players experiencing any of it.
Osborne and Cassius pitting their intellect against each other would have been one of the best moments of the series. Alas, it was never meant to be. In a similar vein, remember when Ein was mentioned as being one of the only people who could match Arianhrod in a fight back in Ao? Well, barring another Phantasma-esque situation, that's never going to happen, as Arianhrod bites the dust while Ein never even shows up in the arc outside of a cameo showing that she was among the forces deployed in "Operation Jormungand" and the Golden Ending credits.
Many players were also miffed that there's no section in the game where players could have the three protagonists team up for at least one or two dungeons other than the True Final Boss fight.
Tier-Induced Scrappy: For the higher end of the scale, Chrono Burst ends up becoming the most useful arte of the game as it allows players to have infinite amounts of turns as long as players have enough items to accommodate for the upkeep of the characters' EP.
Osborne ends up being one of the most powerful, most charismatic, and most intelligent beings ever to walk on Zemuria and he's only fought at the final game of the Cold Steel saga. The fact that he's been trying to lose on purpose in Cold Steel IV makes it even more impressive. So it ends up being natural that he had to go out in style at the end of the game.
Arianhrod/Lianne Sandlot as well. She's one of the strongest characters in the series and a legendary nigh-immortal warrior who has lived for over 250 years, and every time she is fought she will either utterly curb-stomp the party, turn out to be holding back, or even both. And then, after her final defeat, it seems like she's actually going to pull a HeelFace Turn...? Sadly but not surprisingly, it really is too good to be true, as she's promptly killed by Rufus.
In the context of the first Trails of Cold Steel, there's the high-stakes turn bonuses, which first appear roughly halfway through the game for a very short dungeon, and very rarely afterward. Then there's Divine Knight combat, which is basically an Unexpected Gameplay Change dropped on the player for the last two fights in the entire game.
The stance system in Cold Steel III ends up being this as only Juna has this in the entire roster, being able to switch between striker and gunner. And players just end up using gunner mode because it hits multiple enemies and she doesn't need to be next to enemies despite being the weaker of the two. Worse, it's not even improved at all in Cold Steel IV as Juna and Crow are the only characters in the entire playable roster who are able to change stances at will.
People expected Aurelia to be a boss fight at some point in Cold Steel III with Rean fighting her Soldat in the screenshots. What they didn't expect, however, was that she would also be Promoted to Playable, fighting alongside the other characters against Arianrhod and the Stahlritter.
On a similar note, few people expected that Lechter would be Promoted to Playable for a brief section of Cold Steel III, especially since there was nothing in the promotional material that indicated he would be a party member.
With Agate and Tita making their long-awaited return to the series, many fans were hoping for another Liberl character to show up in Cold Steel III. Sure enough, they got their wish. Could it be Estelle? Renne? Maybe even Kevin? Nope. It's...Josette. Though to be fair to Falcom, this was softened by one of her staff showing up in one of the screenshots before the game came out so people did somewhat expect her to show up.
Speaking of characters from Liberl, people were surprised to see Renne come back for Cold Steel IV, especially considering that she was among the first few characters confirmed for the game. That surprise would only multiply when it was revealed many months later that not only would the rest of the Bright family be joining her, longtime allies Scherazard and Kloe would also be making their return.
There's also the inversion of unexpected characters who don't show up in the game, namely Rixia, Lazy, and Noel, all of whom don't show up outside of a cameo in the true ending. What makes this especially notable is that Rixia's seiyuu is already in the game voicing Elliot's older sister Fiona and both Lazy and Noel had their names dropped in Cold Steel III. The fact that Rixia made a full appearance and was even briefly playable in the second game, only to not show up again for the entire arc also disappointed many fans.
Some fans felt that Claire, Lechter and Millium crossed the Moral Event Horizon when they sided with Chancellor Osborne in the final chapter of Cold Steel III, and that the game's attempts to play up their Conflicting Loyalty and reluctance to fight Class VII did little to excuse their betrayals (not to mention willingly participating in a plan that would result in death of Altina, someone they were shown to care greatly about in earlier scenes).
It's at least implied that Millium was planning to take Altina's place since the beginning, and Lechter did show conflict for many scenes in the game before that. But Claire is still in denial over the morals of her "father" and Rufus is 100% unapologetic, making those two last examples hard to feel sympathy.
Crow Armbrust gets this due to his desire for revenge against Chancellor Osborne, and the fact that he's the leader of a terrorist group called the Imperial Liberation Front. Crow's backstory is sufficiently sympathetic, as he's upfront to Rean about his motivations being entirely self-serving. However Crow's "revenge" against Osborne is extremely disproportionate. For instance, the False Flag Operation the group tries in Chapter 3 of the first game almost started a war between Erebonia and Calvard, the two biggest nations on the continent. They also planned to launch a Weapon of Mass Destruction at the city of Crossbell (which has a population of at least 500,000 people who have nothing to do with his or the rest of the ILF's grudge, and is in fact on the verge of sharing the same fate as another victim of Osborne's policies), just because Osborne was attending a trade conference in the city at the time. There was also the fact that the group was responsible for starting the Civil War that makes up the focus of the second game when Crow sniped Chancellor Osborne in broad daylight. Yet despite these actions, Rean and the rest of Class VII don't care and just want him to come back to Thors and live out the rest of his school life before graduating. Made even worse that the closest thing to karma he receives for his actions, his death at the end of the second game, is undone as he's resurrected in Cold Steel III, and fully resurrected for real by the end of C Old Steel IV, though Crow is aware that his crimes can't be forgiven and strives towards atonement.
Rean and the rest of Class VII get this from the fanbase due to their desire to bring Crow back to Class VII, while barely bringing up the fact that, as mentioned above, he's the leader of the terrorist group that started a civil war. Some fans think the group is selfish and has Skewed Priorities for caring more about the well-being of one person than the damage said person caused and see the whole scenario as Protagonist-Centered Morality. Bonus points for one of its members actually kidnapping Rean's sister yet Rean barely bats an eye to it despite being depicted as an overprotective big brother.
Some fans criticize Lianne's Honor Before Reason moment for not telling her best friend Roselia that Dreichels was being stalked by an curse entity or that one of Erebonia's biggest issues is that there's a literal curse breeding in Erebonia. Lianne's reasoning is that she's honoring Dreichels' last wishes that the curse is a human's problem and not something that she need not concerned with. But not only did this leave Roselia clueless, it made the situation in the empire worse, culminating in a lot of events that happen throughout the series. Which retroactively makes it worse that Arianrhod never told Loewe that the reason Hamel was burned to the ground is because of the curse of Erebonia when she was training him. While fans figured Roselia doesn't have enough power to fix it, fans figured that this was something she should have been informed with, rather than finding out about Dreichels and Lianne's dark secret two centuries later and nearly dooming the world in the process.
No one was surprised that Azure Siegfried is Crow Back from the Dead as even the characters comment on it. The game however plays with this in that Azure Siegfried has no idea that he's Crow as his memories are sealed and that he's in a different body. He only manages to start getting his memories back during the climax of the game after seeing Valimar fight off the beast and reminding him of teaming up with Rean to take on Vermillion Apocalypse.
Played straight with Arianhrod turning out to be Lianne Sandlot. This was something that many fans had been taking as a fact since the character's first appearance, so the actual reveal ended up being little more than a formality. In a similar vein, Laura's middle initial "S" standing for Sandlot was also something that had been predicted for a long time.
Same with Gaius and his new position as the new Dominion. Many people made theories way before the third game was out, because of his own connection with Barkhorn, his ability to sense where the higher elements are active and weapons from the church. When his new position was revealed in the last chapter of the third game, many fans already saw it coming and rejoiced for it finally becoming something official. The only twist was that Gaius inherited Barkhorn's stigma rather than manifesting his own with an artifact, something players didn't see coming.
Longtime Kiseki fans also thought that Lughman, the professor you meet thorought the whole game in Cold Steel III was suspicious, given such characters as Professor Alba and Joachim Gunther. And they were right to suspect so: but him being a villain is hardly the biggest twist regarding his character.
Values Dissonance: Rufus' angst of being an adopted son and feeling like he'll never be loved by his "so-called dads" sting more from a Japanese perspective than someone from the West. Curiously enough, the game doesn't make him anymore sympathetic for this mainly thanks to both Rean and Jusis' circumstances of being in the same boat as he is with their Bastard Angst issues.
Wangst: One of the biggest things detractors accuse Rean of when it comes to his powers, is that it makes him feel more like he's a pariah when no one else in the game thinks about it. Sure it's scary, but they don't resent or fear Rean for it and even some of them encourage Rean to try and master it instead. Then there's his entire relationship with Crow and how he feels about the guy, who he wants to bring back to the academy yet the other guy seems to be content with staying at the other side. Some fans seem to think that Rean is being too pushy about the subject, never mind the other guy putting him in a coma and separating him and his classmates for an entire month when the Civil War is happening. This notion does disappear by the end of the main story line for Cold Steel II and throughout Cold Steel III where players do see Rean's angst being very justified.
The Woobie: By the end of the game, players will probably feel sorry for Rean and his entire life going the opposite direction from the other Trails protagonists.
Iron Woobie: Toval offered him to go and become a bracer but Rean is insistent in going with his decision to work for Erebonia despite the things not working out well for his well-being.
In the original Japanese version, Sara's Red Baron title is Eclair. In the English release however, it's changed into "Purple Lightning" instead. While it was taken from the French word for lightning, the change was made possibly to avoid pastry joke fans might create. Consequently, her S-Craft was changed from "Omega Éclair" into "Plasma Storm".
In another sense, trophy for getting your teammates' (and Towa's) bond was changed from original script; While original Japanese version has normal name of achievent like "Alisa's Bond" or "Fie's Bond", here it was localized into "R is for Romance (Alisa)", "More Than a Fie-ling(Fie)" and so on. This trend is continued into Cold Steel II with different title.
The intro of the sequel was just a montage of every character from the previous game saying Rean's name in the Japanese version. The English version changed it to each character giving a line from the previous game significant to their development.
Millium originally didn't give Valimar any nickname in Japanese version, yet the localization gave one, "Valley". Reason? The Localization producer admitted it felt natural for her.
The first Final Boss of Cold Steel II was changed from the extremely Engrish-y "End of Vermilion" to "Vermilion Apocalypse".
Just like what XSeed did to treasure chests in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, they changed empty chest messages into pun. However, this is limited to Cold Steel 2 only, and not all of them are changed; only trial chests.
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While researching an article I accidentally came across what we think has most certainly got to be the world’s most expensive travel water bottle. And I was floored. Mouth fully agape. Then a little mad. Who the <insert curse word> has the money to throw at something like this….seriously. WTF.
So we had to write about it (briefly).
Note: the links below are affiliate links which means if you happen to purchase the worlds most expensive water bottle (and we don’t recommend it) or anything else…I get a small commission (or giant one if you are dumb enough to spend this kind of money. Just getting that out of the way
Hey, I get it. Some people have a crap ton of money and they need to spend it. There are entire brands built around this. I have no problem with that. But sometimes you run into something that goes a bit too far.
Sometimes it’s just stupid. Or maybe just a mistake. Maybe special pricing just for earth day and all…
But, whatever it is…you’ve got to see it for yourself.
However, per the terms of my affiliate agreement with Amazon I can’t actually show you the price here…you have to go see it for yourself which feels a little click-baity to me…sorry about that.
And on the off chance it’s a pricing mistake…I took a picture of it…you know, for the record and all.
To give you some sense of scale here, though, a typical water bottle should cost around $10-$30 or so. Give or take.
A nice plane ticket to Europe, on the other hand, my cost you $1200 or so.
The price of the world most expensive travel water bottle is closer to the price of airfare…yeah, you read that right.
Most Expensive Water Bottle in the World (scratch that, the Universe)
I’ve kept you waiting long enough….so here it is. The world’s most expensive travel water bottle and the one you will most certainly NOT be adding to your collection.
Yep, the Sanberd Sports Water Bottle With Leak Proof Flip Top Lid checks in as the most expensive travel water bottle we’ve ever seen.
It’s eco friendly…so maybe that’s where the extra cost comes into play…
PS…I am hoping this is simply a pricing mistake on Amazon’s website. Some sort of algorithmic goof up….
PSS…if you are looking for more travel accessories and travel gear, check out these articles:
- Best Travel Drone – compare & contrast top drones for travel
- Top 10 Travel Accessories on Amazon.com
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Our physical environment is transforming, faster than at any time in human history. Environmental change is affecting where and how we live: our cities are growing and the way we travel and produce energy is being revolutionised through major infrastructure projects. We need our economy to grow, and we also face pressure for space, global competition, technological, cultural and social change.
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Archaeological evidence is uniquely able to illuminate the impact of human interaction with our environment through time. This ‘historic’ environment is made up of buildings, monuments, settlements, buried sites or landscapes. They can be on land or underwater, and can range from the extraordinary to the everyday. Archaeologists have a clear identity among the many other disciplines that work in the historic environment in that it is their job to unravel this evidence: to characterise it, to explore its meaning, and to assess its value for society.
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For probably one of the best campsites in Dorset, Golden Cap on the Jurassic Coast is the perfect choice! Located in the valley of the River Winniford, the camping pitches at Golden Cap Holiday Park are just a few hundred metres from Seatown Beach and the South West Coast Path.
All of the grass pitches are spacious (7.5 metres or 24.6 feet) and include electric hook up. There is an additional camping field called Big Berries, with non-electric pitches, that are available for 6 weeks in the summer. Many of the camping pitches enjoy views of the surrounding hillsides and countryside and are just a short walk from the coast. The camping pitches are located within the Red Hill View touring & camping field, along with the touring & motorhome pitches and our glamping accommodation.
The camping pitches all have use of the toilet and shower block, with clean and well maintained facilities including a laundry room (charges apply), washing up sinks, a freezer for ice blocks, free hairdryers and more. Dogs are welcome with all camping bookings (max of 2) and prices vary per night depending upon the time of year. There is a small enclosed dog exercising meadow on the park for exercising dogs off the lead. For families, there is a picnic area with sea views at the front of the park, a children’s playground and a fishing lake (permit required).
The sloping field enjoys great views over the Dog House hills to the clifftop peak of Thorncombe Beacon, as well as Golden Cap, the highest cliff on the south coast of England. Red Hill View is just a 200 metre walk from the front of the park. At the Park Reception and Park Shop there is a pizza takeaway, hot and cold drinks, ice creams and much more. The South West Coast Path passes the park entrance and a further 100 metres south you will reach Seatown Beach and the award-winning Anchor Inn pub.
You can walk along the bridleway and footpaths to the village of Chideock with its 2 pubs, bus stops to catch the Jurassic Coast bus and convenience store. The park is just a few miles west from the market town of Bridport and fishing village of West Bay, where there is a choice of supermarkets, places to eat and things to do. Venture west and you will reach the coastal village of Charmouth with its heritage coast centre and guided fossil walks, as well as Lyme Regis, a charming town with sandy beach, cobb harbour and independant shops. Golden Cap Holiday Park is in a fantastic location for viewing the night sky – find out more about stargazing.
We also have a spacious summer camping field with 150+ non-electric pitches and beautiful views over the valley and coastline. Called Big Berries, this 16 acre field is available for 6 weeks in the summer. It’s perfect for groups and families and is suitable for tents and VWs. The field has fantastic facilities just a few minutes walk away with a laundry room (charges apply), ironing facilities, hairdryers, toilets, showers and a freezer for ice blocks.
Check in is from 2pm and check out by 11am. Bookings are for a minimum of 2 nights in low and mid season and 3 nights in high season and bank holidays (shorter stays may be available close to the arrival date – call 01308 426947 to enquire). Prices are based upon 2 persons, 1 car and 1 unit / tent – extra adults, children and cars are chargeable. Arrivals can be on any day of the week. A deposit of £40 per booking per week is required at the time of booking. The remaining balance is due 28 days before the arrival date. If it is less than 28 days until arrival, or the value of the booking is less than £100, the full amount is required upfront at the time of booking. Please note that bonfires and fire pits are not permitted anywhere on the park and BBQs must be raised off the grass using bricks provided.
Please note we do not allocate pitches – pitches are chosen upon arrival
WINTER LOYALTY OFFER – We have a range of special offers available across our Parks. Take any full-price holiday of 7 nights or longer between 1st January 2020 and 24th September 2020 at any WDLH Park and get a HALF PRICE self-catering holiday between 25th September 2020 and 28th February 2021. Take a full-price short break of 3 or more nights between 1st January 2020 and 24th September 2020 at any WDLH Park and get 25% OFF a holiday between 25th September 2020 and 28th February 2021. Date exclusions and other Terms & Conditions apply.
BOOK BEFORE YOU LEAVE – Book at the Park Reception for the following year while you are on holiday with us and claim a FREE GIFT (while stocks last) and pay HALF THE USUAL DEPOSIT, with the remainder added to the balance due. Terms & Conditions apply.
TOURING 10% SAVER – Book a stay of 3 nights or longer on a grass, gravel or hard-base pitch and receive 10% OFF the pitch price during 2020. This is available in low and mid season and must be booked at least 30 days in advance. Terms & Conditions apply.
WINTER DOG OFFERS – On grass, gravel and hard-base pitch bookings at Highlands End and Golden Cap Holiday Parks, dogs are just £1 EACH PER NIGHT in low season. Terms & Conditions apply.
Visit the special offers page to see full terms and conditions.Visit the Special Offers Page
Guests at all West Dorset Leisure Holiday’s parks are welcome to use the facilities at nearby Highlands End Holiday Park (3.6 mile drive), which includes Highlands End Leisure Club with swimming pool, sauna and steam room, pitch ‘n’ putt course, children’s soft play, nature trail and the dog friendly Martin’s Bar & Restaurant with sunday carvery, live sport, events, Costa Coffee and more. Please note charges apply for many of these facilities.
There is a fantastic range of attractions, beaches, places to visit and places to eat in Dorset. Visit our Holiday Planner to see over 150 different things you can see and do during your holiday in Dorset. Save your favourites to your itinerary to come back to and make sure you don’t miss any of the best things to do while you are here!Visit the Holiday Planner
Download our 2020 Price List and Brochure to find out everything you need to know about holidays in Dorset, our accommodation, facilities and prices.
Our parks have been recognised as some of the best in Dorset. We're extremely proud of the awards and it's easy to see why our guests return year on year. You can be safe in the knowledge that you're staying at one of the best parks in the county! Please note awards vary by Park.
The wildlife is stunning, we were visited by the ducks on a regular basis which was lovely. Our visit was very enjoyable and we will definitely be back in the future!
Sarah W - Pitch Up
This is simply our favorite touring park along the south coast. The location couldn't be better with views to die for and an abundance of fresh sea air. The park is spic and span and extremely well kept with very friendly staff.
Big Caravan Adventures - Tripadvisor
This is by far the best Holiday Park I have been to. The views are breath taking with easy access to the beach and nice coastal walks to West Bay. If you're looking for a relaxing holiday in a stunning location, then this is the place to come.
Alison D - TripAdvisor
We have been coming here now every year for about 10 years. Its our favourite place and the Park has everything we need.
Andy M - TripAdvisor
Golden Cap is a little bit of heaven. The views are awesome, right next to the sea. It's all relaxed and low key just how we like it.
Esther Woodhouse - Facebook
Quiet site in a beautiful setting with exceptionally clean toilets and showers
Anthony M - Pitch Up
Close to beach, a nice local pub, dog friendly and a very relaxed atmosphere.
Dan M - Pitch Up
An excellent Park as a base to visit the Dorset coast, Jurassic Coast, Chesil Beach, Lyme Regis, Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, to name a few.
Arthur D - Tripadvisor
10 out of 10 is not enough for this Holiday Park. We have been here 3 times and we love it more and more every time. The park has all you need, with some pitches overlooking the sea and a great restaurant.
Shirley Thompson - Tripadvisor
The location is amazing, right on the beach and all the facilities are good. It's a hidden gem this one, one of the best parks in the country
Mark Tee - Tripadvisor
The location was great as we could easily walk to the village or local beaches through the beautiful countryside. I would recommend this campsite to families for a peaceful and safe stay.
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Starting a business is supposed to be an exciting experience; you are chasing your dreams and working your way up from the bottom to reach the ultimate status of success. But starting a business is also an extremely challenging experience.
Business Organizations Archives
If you've researched setting up a business in Utah, then you've likely read about compliance. This concept refers to the regulations, laws and rules that your business is required to abide by. Some examples of these may include having to pay taxes, taking out a business license and adhering to certain procedures when hiring and firing staff members. These are in place to protect everyone's welfare, safety and health.
A report published by the personal finance website WalletHub on April 22 gave St. George another title to boast about. The southern Utah city has been designated as the second-best small city to set up a new business. Cedar City ranks 19th. Five other cities in the state made an appearance among the top 30 locales listed.
There are many reasons for choosing to go into business with family members. After all, many of us believe that blood is thicker than water. Many people tend to feel as if they can trust those that they're related to more than others with whom they share no blood ties. By setting up a business with your loved ones, you can create a legacy that can be carried on by future generations. Working with family requires some pre-planning, though.
A researcher with the University of Utah's Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy noticed a gender gap when she looked at how many women business owners there are compared with male ones in the state. She set out learn why that's the case by conducting a detailed study on the topic.
If you've taken out student loans before, then you've likely heard the terminology "promissory note" thrown around. You may not have heard of it used in the context of business operations though, but it operates much the same as it does in any other situation. Put quite simply, a promissory note is simply an "IOU" or a signed promise to pay someone that lended you money back.
Many companies in the state of Utah decide to keep their shares private between owners, and there are many potential benefits to this. These companies are often referred to as closely held companies.
Any time anyone enters into a business relationship with someone else, it can always be helpful for the two parties to draft a contract. It should define their relationship with one another, what services will be provided and for what amount of pay, as well as liabilities, that one or both may assume. Drafting such a contract can be beneficial for both parties involved.
If you've ever seen one of the many different business investment shows on television, you've likely heard the terminology "core competency" used. It has to do with a company defining what they do well so that they can use it to their competitive advantage.
A study published on June 11 by Crunchbase News shows Utah is fast stepping away from being known only as a hot spot for tourists hitting the slopes and would-be attendees of the Sundance Film festival. It's instead starting to be though of by business investors as the next hub for tech companies and other innovative companies. | <urn:uuid:7d5db2f3-49a9-45be-bf42-ffeee7e7b041> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.snowjensen.com/blog/business-organizations/ | 2019-11-18T06:02:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669454.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20191118053441-20191118081441-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.978688 | 661 | [
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Medical malpractice is one of the most unfortunate things you can experience in your life. You put your health or even your life in the hands of professionals who are supposed to know what they are doing. Medical malpractice claims in the US have been on the rise, with payments for claims rising to around 42 million dollars between 2011 and 2015.
What Qualifies as Medical Malpractice by a Physical Therapist?
Medical malpractice happens when the physical therapists on duty fail to provide the appropriate standard of care due to negligence and carelessness. The damages caused by these malpractice incidents are divided into three types:
- Economic Damages: This refers to quantifiable costs such as medical bills and lost income due to the inability to go to work.
- Non-economic Damages: This refers to the non-quantifiable damages such as pain, suffering, inconvenience, disfigurement, physical impairment, and trauma.
- Punitive Damages: This can be awarded to patients who can prove either malice or fraud by the medical professional.
Some therapists try to book as many appointments as possible and rush through all the sessions, resulting in their patients not receiving the best possible care and attention. Another instance of medical malpractice in physical therapy would be when a patient is doing an exercise in an improper fashion or form without being corrected by the therapist. Failure to inform, listen or supervise patients are some of the most common reasons for pain after physical therapy.
There are worse cases wherein a therapist’s actions directly cause the injury. Examples of these scenarios include dropping patients during specific exercises, over-extension of limbs, failure to modify the physical therapy plan for weaker patients, or exploiting their patients.
It is highly recommended that you check records to see if your physical therapist has a history of malpractice or show signs of a bad physical therapist. You can do this by checking out your county’s court cases, referrals from doctors and previous patients, and reviews on various trusted physical therapy websites.
What Injuries Can One Sustain Due to Negligent Physical Therapists?
Patients can suffer from severe pain after physical therapy and add to the ones they already have. Listed below are some of the types of personal injury an individual can experience due to a negligent physical therapist:
- Broken bones
- Strains, sprains, and muscle soreness
- Additional revision surgeries
- Puncture wounds or open bleeding
- Anxiety or depression
- Lower back injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Strokes and heart attacks
The negligence of a physical therapist can result in additional medical expenses, or, during worst-case scenarios, result in the wrongful death of a patient. Under these circumstances can a physical therapist be held liable for damages.
How Do You Prove Negligence Against a Physical Therapist?
Filing malpractice cases against physical therapists are more difficult than typical injury claims. Specific state laws require certain prerequisites, from filing an affidavit from a medical expert to declaring caps on the amount of damages available to the plaintiff. When you do get these, there are still a number of things you have to prove before having a strong case.
You will first have to prove that your physical therapist was unable to provide the amount of care necessary that another physical therapist with the same level of experience could have provided in similar circumstances. To do this, you will have to find a practicing physical therapist or any other experts in that field to testify for what the standards of practice are and whether your physical therapist was able to provide them adequately. You will then have to prove that your injury was explicitly caused by your physical therapy sessions with the professional in question. The last thing you have to determine would be the degree to which you were injured due to the negligence of the therapist.
There are some incidents when physical therapists are merely following assessments determined by a treating physician. Even if they are licensed health care professionals and should be capable of identifying the proper procedures for your injury, they have to go by what your physician recommends. If this is the case, the physician should also be sued in the same lawsuit.
Seek Medical Malpractice Lawyers
Physical therapists are expected to maintain a level of professionalism at all times. Patients pay a lot of good money to get proper treatment to recover as quickly as possible. To commit any degree of medical malpractice is unacceptable. After all, these acts of carelessness and negligence can result in additional injury to a patient already seeking aid.
Never pursue your claims and reach for a settlement on your own when dealing with medical malpractice cases. If you are a victim of substandard medical practices and require legal assistance, contact the skilled and experienced medical malpractice attorneys of Mesriani Law Group. As one of the most prolific law firms in Los Angeles, our services offer a free consultation and follow a No Win No Fee guarantee to all our clients because we are confident that our experience and dedication will bring you towards the justice you deserve. | <urn:uuid:5f4cea96-d9ae-471e-8fae-24e30b93201e> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.mesrianilaw.com/blog/examples-of-medical-malpractice-in-physical-therapy.html | 2019-11-19T20:05:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670255.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119195450-20191119223450-00040.warc.gz | en | 0.946506 | 1,010 | [
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<<On the occasion of the "Night of the Museums" event on Saturday, May 20th, the M.Marini Museum presented its new garment at the birthplace of the artist: Pistoia. It is here that in its refurbished spaces to welcome sections and works never seen, which started the DESIGN-CULTURA traveling design exhibition bedding-atelier. A collection of objects designed, made and dedicated to Pistoia Capital that pay homage to a hidden protagonist synonymous of culture, the book. Marino adheres at twin wires to the contemporary design culture, pampering with a good reading in an art and author's armchair!>>
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The LADYPIT armchair and the contemporary REDGB armchair, together with the RILS coffee table will again be present at the M.Marini Museum at the exhibition "Colors of the Mediterranean" scheduled in September 2017.
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WASHINGTON – Almost a decade has passed since a senior National Park Service ranger blew the whistle on what he says was an illegal deal between top NPS officials and Dan Snyder, secretly allowing the billionaire owner of the Redskins permission to clear-cut more than an acre of federally protected forest in exchange for an unencumbered view of the Potomac from his Maryland mansion.
Robert M. Danno says he has endured years of severe retaliation from the federal agency. The “employed but ignored” ranger and former chief ranger is telling all through a new book detailing what he says is harassment from NPS, and the career he lost through demotions, menial tasks below his rank and criminal charges for theft in 2009 he had to defend in U.S. Court.
Danno tells WTOP he hopes the book, “Worth Fighting For (A Park Ranger’s Unexpected Battle Against Federal Bureaucrats and Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder),” will counter the “waste, fraud and abuse” he has witnessed at the agency, and that NPS will “do some serious introspection and reevaluate its course.”
“I do fear continued reprisal,” says Danno, 53, who describes himself as a former “cheerleader” for the park service and had dreamed of becoming a ranger since childhood. “Actions will be taken against me by the park service based on a pattern.”
The 30-year park service veteran was charged with theft in 2007 after a search warrant for his home yielded a drill he was accused of stealing, as well as a collection of park service badges valued at more than $2,000 and other NPS items, according to a Martinsville, W.V. Journal report.
He was cleared following a three-day trial in U.S. Circuit Court in January 2009 after the jury deliberated briefly.
Danno was later stripped of his chief ranger rank in retaliation, he says, and for the next two years, he commuted every day from his home in West Virginia to Mt. Vernon to issue picnic permits.
“The system is broken,” he says, adding his book and participation in news reports like this one will probably get him fired.
“What I hope is that my story helps the NPS reevaluate and get back on track with its management practices and leadership style.”
The National Park Service cannot comment on any pending issues, says spokesman Bill Line. Doing so risks invading Danno’s privacy, he says.
Danno says he first called a tip line for the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of the Interior — NPS’ parent federal agency — alleging Kevin Brandt, superintendent of the park service’s Ohio Canal National Historic Park, improperly allowed Snyder to cut down the acreage affronting his property in 2004.
This prompted an IG investigation. It concluded in January 2006 the park service had failed to follow its own guidelines.
In the summer of 2004, a memo from an NPS team assigned to review Snyder’s request to remove invasive, non-native species stated “the best approach to restore the site…would be to allow natural succession to occur by permitting all native vegetation to grow to it’s full potential and to remove exotic species as they compete with native plants.”
“Snyder, in addition to cutting all exotic species within the 200-foot easement, cut all of the native species, whether healthy, diseased, injured or considered hazardous,” according to a note in the report from an IG agent.
The rules governing the removal of trees on property like Snyder’s had never been modified before 2004, the report states.
The Redskins owner had originally offered former NPS Superintendent Doug Faris $25,000 as “mitigation” in exchange for allowing him to clear the trees, the report states. After Faris retired, his replacement, Kevin Brandt, “suddenly agreed to allow Snyder to cut all the vegetation.”
The whistleblower, unnamed in the report, also said Snyder had contacted the secretary of the interior offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for permission to remove the trees.
The report states P. Daniel Smith, a former special assistant to the NPS director, had used his position to “circumvent NPS procedures, on Snyder’s behalf.”
Park Service spokesman Line told The Washington Post shortly after Snyder’s logging that NPS had granted Snyder permission to remove the trees solely for the purpose of removing invasive, non-native plants. Line had initially told the Post the trees were cut “by mistake” and that Snyder had failed to notify the parks service.
Officials at the C&O Canal NHP told the Post they had approved the logging plans after months of negotiating with Snyder’s attorneys.
Snyder was eventually cited by Montgomery County in December 2004 for violating the county forest code. He was fined $1,000, and ordered to ensure the reforestation of the 1.3 acres he had cleared.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute any of the park service officials.
Danno says he has tried to contain the firestorm from his accusations to just the individuals involved and not “indict the agency.”
When asked why he chose to come forward with this information now, he replied: “I tried to resolve the issue over the years in a multiple of ways and unsuccessful to get the Park Service to embrace what they did.”
“It left me with no other position than to bring the story forward,” he says.
Editor’s Note: This story stated incorrectly that Snyder had joined the Montgomery County Forest Conservation Advisory Committee. A Dan Snyder had joined that committee in June 2010, but it was not the Redskins owner.
Check out this map of Snyder’s residence and the cleared-away area here:
View Dan Snyder property in a larger map
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