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Neo Steven Universe
OFFENSE/DEFENSE COUPLES ARE BEST
https://mega.nz/#!AJAx3QyJ!emCfcUZjww5cm48-13pKfE3DBYOTboOMP0jNWVqrNUE
NEED A WEBM OF THE NEW OPENING
IT'S PERFECT
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My favorite.
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Pearl continues to be my gemfu.
AHHHHH IT'S SO PERFECT
I dunno. I used to think her crush (?) on Rose was cute but now I'm starting to see all the people who consider it an unhealthy obsession.
I love the steven/connie connie/pearl duets
And love conie style
I think part of the unhealthiness of her "obsession" stems from her losing Rose. Had Rose never met Greg Universe and eventually given birth to Steven, Pearl maybe would've obsessed over Rose in a comparatively "healthier" way—in other words, that obsession would've likely seemed more like a huge crush than it does now.
Oh, and in case you hadn't heard, the Equestria Daily people put together an EQD-style Steven Universe blog:
http://www.beachcitybugle.com/
<3 that intro
Also, interesting they have the WB Animation logo there.
Not really; it was from the tail end of the Teen Titans Go credits.
Spoiler Alert. I guess.
So, if pearl was not made to fight, what for she made ?
and I think peridot is another manofactured gem not made to fight too.
So observation: we know Connie is learning swordplay. We see her having Rose's Sword in the opening sequence. And we know Rose's sword is too big for Steven to handle on his own. So it seems fairly likely that at some point Steven will give her Rose's Sword. We've also seen Steven getting better and better with the shield.
I think this is setting up for Stevonnie to be a series battle asset.
Why stop at that that when you can also get DOUBLE UNIVERSE?
Oh, that makes sense. I was freaking out over CN Studios losing the gig but I was hoping someone would clarify.
Yeah, its pretty clear at this point Stevonnie is going to be the Big Warrior one, so I'm looking forward to that!
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Data processing or general servanting, I'd guess.
I've long suspected this was the case - it's why she's all about careful practice and technique whereas Amethyst just goes wild with whatever feels natural. She hadto teach herself how to fight from scratch.
>Univercest
Would make the Stevonnie "waaaay underaged kids engaging in a thinly veiled metaphor for fucking" implications a lot less creepy if they were to throw more nonsexualized fusions into the mix.
I'm surprised she'd be able to handle it considering how small, skinny and young she is. And she's just a normal human unlike Pearl and Steven.
Connie's gonna be so important from now on*
*well technically from about midway through season one on.
My guess is that Steven *could* wield Rose's Sword just as well as Connie can (though I wouldn't be surprised if Connie's a bit awkward with it because of its size compared to her--that would justify an even bigger Power Boost when going Stevonnie since she could use Connie's knowledge of swordfighting while wielding it as an einhander then), but Steven just doesn't have the killer instinct to want to put the effort in. That is to say, he's a defender and a healer--a cleric. There's nothing PHYSICALLY stopping him from building up the muscles and skills he would need to wield Rose's Sword, but his personality just isn't the personality of an attacker.
That's assuming the Opening Sequence is really indicative of future developments. Maybe I'm just reading too much into that little detail. But it seems an odd thing to include in the opening sequence if it's not going to be relevant at some point.
>his personality just isn't the personality of an attacker
And I'm so, so, SO freaking happy about that. It's such a refreshing change from the norm.
I really appreciate that the show is so diverse in its portrayal of all kinds of different relationships. Even the most heroic and well-meaning characters aren't immune from forming unhealthy and toxic relationships. They're not always borne out of malice, and anybody can be guilty, whether straight/gay/NB/male/female/black/white/alien/whatever. And it's done in a way that avoids being too preachy.
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>I think this is setting up for Stevonnie to be a series battle asset.
Oh hey, an excuse to repost this thing Katie Mitroff made.
>Even the most heroic and well-meaning characters aren't immune from forming unhealthy and toxic relationships.
Even the other person is actually a decent person themselves who might deserve admiration. Makes me wonder if Rose failed to notice how unhealthy Pearl's mentality was, or just failed to get Pearl to notice it.
>and I think peridot is another manofactured gem not made to fight too.
Well she did have the ship with its pointer finger cannon, plus a small force of robonoids, and the escape pod, though I don't know if she can do anything herself if she isn't caught off guard. I'm thinking she was mostly made to handle equipment, but also act as a low level commanding officer who's meant to invade of a weak planet and manage the first crop of grunts while the base gets established. Jasper just outranked her because she's had time to get promoted, while Peridot might be fresh out of gem college.
Ronaldo's such an adorable piece of shit. I hate his precious stupidity so much.
AMV Hell may be dead, but its legacy lives on.
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>dat Jem reference
Necrophiliac rapewas not something I anticipated.
https://mega.nz/#!NM41iDTI!n0bRSvXiTQgPW7xEtvbRI9R3LrbAtAzLdvWgqnKMKOc
Actually, I think it was only the small ones that were made from shards. The rest (like the one pictured) seem like they were made from still-living Gems.
Which is, of course, even worse.
They said they were all shards of gems killed in the rebellion..
This fucking space nazi dork.
Peridot continues to be the best gem.
Might as well be Dr. Claw or Starscream.
What does that make Jasper?
I know, it's fantastic. I want her to be their Mojo Jojo.
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If so, broken gems seem to have a lot more of that "partial consciousness" Pearl was talking about than I thought. As if Frybo wasn't fucked up enough...
Still Raditz.
Her face was a goldmine of reaction images this episode.
is my impression or they look like pearl from the pilot ?
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Pilot Pearl's hair wasn't that wavy and it seems those silhouette's are hair that's being blown around, not sticking up.
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Stupid Sexy Jasper.
http://frenchfrycoolguy.tumblr.com/post/120918254820/
http://nijuukoo.tumblr.com/post/120876533250/
http://happyds.tumblr.com/post/120320607464/
http://dark-tarou.tumblr.com/post/114331107908/
And dammit there's a pic of Jasper in a white dress shirt, tie, and slacks that's REALLY fucking amazing but I can't find it right now and neither Tumblr nor Google Image Search are helping.
Second one is really Shinkiro-esque.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAH MISREMEMBERED THE SHIRT COLOR BUT I FOUND THE PIC
Noice.
I think I missed it, but was it implied that those gem shards were what remained of the Crystal Gems' comrades who didn't survive? Or were they just a way to recycle corrupted gems when they failed to beat the Crystal Gems?
It's implied to be the crystal gems' comrades that didn't survive mostly.
Dude. Rainbow Quartz.
The prevailing 4chan theory is that Peridot is making her own muscle to fight the gems and fly her into space ala Lapis, "Philosopher Stone."
Apparently there was a leak of "We Need to Talk"
https://kat.cr/steven-universe-s02e12-we-need-to-talk-1080p-web-dl-x264-dingo-t10811502.html
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uf5lo
Oh that Pearl is such good friends with Rose.
Such good friends.
I genuinely teared up at this episode. I don't think we've really digested what this show's doing.
I LIKE ROSE MORE AND MORE WITH EACH PASSING EPISODE SHE GETS FEATURED IN
Not really a leak, iTunes/Amazon/etc. just posted the video early because they skipped "Reformed" for unknown reasons, and people ripped them from there.
>that fucking mic drop
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This show just keeps getting better and better.
I love how Pearl and Rose's individual feelings for Greg are displayed through Rainbow Quartz's two sets of eyes.
Okay. That's it. I gotta say it now.
Garnet is Best Gem.
Indeed, biased Garnet. Cheating knowing the future and all.
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this show gonna kill me
hey, how I do the black targe thing ?
Do you mean spoilers?
It's [ spoiler ] [ / spoiler ] without the spaces.
Don't forget the positioning of the '/' and don't add an extra 's' to the end.
It was nuts hearing Ruby and Sapphire talk to each other. Seeing that kinda vile fusion really rattled them/her.
Guys.
I think I don't like Pearl anymore.
If it's for trying to get between Greg and Rose, that's something she clearly stopped doing years ago. They're actually pretty decent friends now.
I feel sympathy for her, but yeah, she's become a bit more unlikeable thanks to the revelations about her obsession with Rose.
Yeah. She's kind of a possessive asshole and I really hope her feelings were one-sided now. Lately I've completely 180'd on the Rose/Pearl pairing.
I've always sort of had trepidation about Rose/Pearl, just because Pearl always seemed to have little hints of this unhealthiness to her psyche that makes me feel like her being in a romantic relationship--especially with someone like Rose--would be bad for the person on the other side. I mean I love Pearl, and I'm sure Rose loved her in a non-romantic way as well, but Pearl's got this weird....I know people throw around the "autism/aspergers" moniker a lot with fictional characters, and I don't necessarily mean to say Pearl's autistic, but she's got that sort of energy about her, of someone who doesn't really relate to other people in the way people normally do and that forms unhealthy attachments to the few people she *does* relate to.
I kinda wonder if the SU Crew has plans to further explore that part of her this season. Exploring why Pearl crushed (and still crushes) on Rose so hard could make for some excellent character development.
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Based on how she treated Greg in We Need to Talk? That was over 12 years ago.
According to Sugar Steven knows the least about Pearl of all the gems, so we're gonna get a LOT of explanation on the ins and outs of her story.
We've only seen one other fusion with eyes like that and it's very indicative.
The way she acted with Connie was still pretty fucked up and shows that while she's made some progress she hasn't completely learned her lesson.
Just in case anyone was wondering.
And just cuz it's my favorite.
"Philosopher Majors" made me think it had something to do with prog rock.
Lets not forget the fact she was so delusionally obsessed with the idea of just fucking off into space with Steven she nearly got both of them killed.
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No, yeah that was all prog rock stuff. Greg's clearly into that jazz (-influenced genre.) I'm glad they didn't go with anything obvious like Run, No, Exodus or King Cyan or such.
Hey, Steven Universe staff:
It'sa pronouced-da Chick-O.
It's also pronounced "Per-i-doh."
Both pronunciations have been used commonly in English for quite. It's possibly a loan word from French, but that doesn't mean the French pronunciation is the only one that's right.
And Chico is pronounced "Cheek-o" commonly in English, too. I'm just saying that if you're going to be pedantic about pronunciations, you're going to be here for a while.
I'm surprised by the lack of FFX-2 jokes with Greg's song.
It's about 35 minutes until the next episode. Are you ready for more hiatus?
FEAST OR FAMINE
Well, if you didn't think Lapis was more or less suicidal before...
Pearl is so gay, you guys.
Yeah, pretty unquestionable at this point.
But when you think about it, it would be hard to imagine gems *not* being gay. As a single-gendered species, any romantic relationship they had would be gay. If anything, Rose is the queer one from the gems' point of view.
What are you talking about? Its clear she just ADMIRES and RESPECTS Rose the way a soldier does a general or an apprentice a MENTOR.
My waifu can't be gay!
They're basically like the Asari.
Looks more like obsessed reverence to me.
I don't doubt that gems are naturally attracted to each other. But what Pearl has doesn't strike me as romantic.
She's referred to herself as a knight. She constantly put herself in harms way to seek her favor. She's obsessed with the notion that she was the closest to Rose. It's not the same kind of love Garnet has. It's blind worship. And I think that's something worth exploring.
I like that this show manages "gay people can be pretty shitty in love" pretty well without coming off as a case of Depraved Homosexual.
I wonder how common romantic relationships are among Gems in general. The way Garnet is implies that the homeworld culture is very Brave New Worldy in that people have lots of sex but it usually maxes out at friends with benefits and there's not much in the way of true love.
She's a less evil Harley Quinn.
>She's referred to herself as a knight. She constantly put herself in harms way to seek her favor. She's obsessed with the notion that she was the closest to Rose. It's not the same kind of love Garnet has. It's blind worship. And I think that's something worth exploring.
While all that's true, that's a big part of *why* I see it as romantic interest on her part. Like think of all the nerds you know who have had crushes but are bad at social interaction. Isn't that exactly how they handle it? Put the object of their affection on a pedestal, act as though they are "protecting" them meanwhile obsessing over them and never having the courage to actually say anything? And I'm pretty sure a lot of them would jump at the chance to call themselves the object of their affection's "knight."
It's more that she thinks everything is her fault even when it isn't, taking full responsibility for Jasper even though all she did was show up at Homeworld. Also, that she's protecting Steven by not letting him help even though she can only delay Jasper's attack.
Also, I don't think Peridot actually made those shard fusions. Those cylinders they were in was what she was about to investigate when she was stopped before, and she arrived too recently to have hidden anything "all this time", since there were thousands of years between the battle and her appearance.
They only have sex organs if they specifically make them, so there really isn't a "gay" or "straight" or any classification of sexuality. Functionally it's more like they're all bisexual and just have personal preference of masculine or feminine features (in humans or other gems). For Rose it seems to be either, Garnet it's neither, and for Pearl seems to be feminine.
So yeah, Pearl is gay is anything but a needlessly technical sense.
Kind of, minus the part where interbreeding amongst themselves makes crazy vampires aliens.
I kind of thought the same after "Rose's Scabbard", but the way Pearl got jealous of Greg and her dream makes it pretty obvious that she wants/wanted Rose's physically, not just emotionally. For Christ's sake, Pearl imagines herself clinging to Rose from the back while holding her arms up.
>They only have sex organs if they specifically make them
So... relationships only have basis on sexual relations, then?
I kinda wonder why her dream used pizza the way it did. I think it's related to how Pearl doesn't want to eat, with food in Pearl's mind representing something different from what it is to humans.
More like the other way around, really.
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https://twitter.com/mcburnett/status/612063354757066752
No, gems have shown they can have romantic relationships (both emotionally and physically). But they can't technically have sexual orientations if they don't physically have sexes. The staff have even said gems besides Steven don't even self-identify as having genders.
I'm confused. They why are they 'she's
So much for her getting over Greg getting with Rose. Even if she doesn't outwardly show it she still seems to resent him which is kinda shitty of her when it seems like Rose Quartz didn't even reciprocate her feelings the same way, but it makes for interesting plot potential.
Because they prefer being called "she" over "it" or "they" or "he," presumably.
Do gems look like women, or do women look like gems?
THE HUMAN WORD FOR DOCTOR COMES FROM THE DOCTOR
DOCTOR WHOOOOOO
DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOO
DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOthat show went to shit at that point.
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our perception that Pearl was in gay love with Rose is
unfactual.
Speaking of gem language, I've wondered if they magically pick up every language the way Peridot just showed up speaking in English. Specifically, if they can all understand Onion's language. As an aside, him kicking the microphone was pretty cute, and quite possibly the least unsettling thing he's done so far.
>kicking the microphone
Meant to say "knocking".
I'm hesitant to even call it love.
What about obsession?
Very easily.
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I think that's placing too high a standard on the term. Just because it's unhealthy and obsessive doesn't mean it isn't love.
It's not how I would define it.
Not really. Her feelings are more like a super obsessive infatuation, and that isn't usually considered proper love no matter how intense or long-term it may be.
Pearl is canon Rosesexual. No word on whether Rose reciprocated it though.
In all likelihood they weren't reciprocated, definitely not with the same intensity. Rose loved Pearl the same way she loved everything, and she didn't seem to understand Pearl's intentions any more than she could understand Greg's. She actually seemed like a very distant person before she met him, jolly and full of compassion but not really on the same level as other people.
Yeah, I get the same impression from Rose as well. That or she knew about Pearl's feelings, and let her get as close as she did to humor them but purposely kept some level of distance, probably because she felt it was for her own good.
Well if her death runs that kept getting her squashed were an actual thing, I'd say rose kept her distance.
I have to agree with the people saying Rose and Pearl were never "together" despite Pearl's clear and blatant obsession, Rose valued her deeply and quite likely had her as a confidant (telling her many things she never told others as Pearl claims, though as the episode showed not telling her absolutely everything) but the way Pearl has always been portrayed and personally acts so far really makes it seem like they were never equal partners in that kind of relationship as much as Pearl would have wanted them to be.
There's a big difference between the two gems in a romantic gem-kind relationship shown in the series and Pearl worshiping Rose.
The Rainbow Quartz fusion was pretty cool, I wonder if we'll ever see what the Garnet and Pearl fusion looks like? Since we've already seen what happened when Amethyst & Pearl or Amethyst & Garnet fuse (with the latter even having Pearl and Garnet fusing being referred to).
I feel Rainbow Quartz having four eyes shows that the fusion wasn't as complete as some of the other forms. Especially since they clearly had different emotions when looking at Greg.
I think Pearl needs some talk time with a nice human woman. In part because I doubt any other gem would help her behavior about Rose.
I feel like Sugilite embody Garnet strong wish to stay toghether and Amethyst fear of being rejected and wish to be accepted as a equal.
I'm afraid of what may come from Garnet strong love and Pearl obsession with rose, It may not be safe for Steven
Yeah, it's kinda telling to me that the one other fusion that has this future is Malachite. Also perhaps Alexandrite, but since she was really unstable the point still stands.
You guys ever wonder how the series finale is gonna be like?
Quadruple fusion between Steven and the three Crystal Gems?
So, the goddess statue?
Don't get me wrong, I want the show to have a proper finalé and all, but I'd rather wait to see how it ends than speculate wildly about what we might get and have my hopes/expectations dashed.
Stephen Universe is new meme.
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Jeez didn't remember this at all.
MESIAS
I don't get it, what's with all this Shia LaBeouf thing?
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Possible identities I can think of so far: Garnet/Pearl fusion, Garnet/Rose Quartz fusion, Jasper/Peridot fusion, or original character.
//youtube.com/watch?v=_1SM7LLhF94
Doug and Rob Walker have started their episode-by-episode vlogs for Steven Universe.
A bit of a rocky start since they were going by the numbering on the DVD, which is missing a lot of episodes and has the rest in a weird semi-random order. They've since learned of the mistake and will use the correct episode order for their future viewings.
Guys, I just had the best idea for an album cover.
steven/lapis fusion
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Watched all of season 1 on youtube.
Great show, love it.
And up to date.
Still awesome.
//youtube.com/watch?v=cdT9bdNkzlY
http://aracema.tumblr.com/post/123409517587/dino-ride
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Hope they make more of these.
I forget, did they ever explain how gems can get corrupted, or if there's a way to restore them like when Amethyst's gem was cracked.
Rose Quartz / Steven's healing powers seem to cure corruption. As did that healing spring (which may have been made of Rose's tears anyway).
Season three, ho!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/adventure-time-regular-show-3-807037
Did you mean "seem to cure cracks"? Rose specifically couldn't cure gem corruption, even though she tried. And yes, the spring was full of Rose's stockpiled tears.
It's CHAAAPs that cure corruption.
guys, I looking for the song stronger than you in other languages, I already have foud it in spanish and brazilian portuguese on youtubbe, so, if someone have in another language please share with me.
http://www.beachcitybugle.com/2015/07/sardonyx-image-released-at-sdcc.html
http://www.beachcitybugle.com/2015/07/sardonyx-fusion-sdcc-video.html
SPOILERS FOR STEVENBOMB 3. LOOK AT YOUR OWN PERIL, YOU CLODS.
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CUUUUUUUUUTE
You may have heard that, last year, Sugar sang part of a longer version of the theme song, but left out some of the lyrics.
Well they've also shown a clip, apparently from one of next week's episodes, of a full version that transfers into the second opening. None of the lyrics are spoilers now (the were a year ago), but the content of the video one might consider a minor spoiler.
//youtube.com/watch?v=VE2HY0OxJQk
>that dance
Lewwwwwd. Also is it just me or does that sound like Janelle Monae?
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Given her design I'd say it's a safe bet it's Janelle Monae.
Christ, that's beautiful. ❤
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Thanks for the heads up to prepare our hearts, CN.
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If this leak is true, then Pearl has some serious issues
We already knew that.
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I think this was the first episode I watched in english ever...
First "real" time was on swedish CN at my parents house.
How old is this compared to the vids above?
https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/620279585515573249
Huh, so she's also English. Fitting.
Mostly the same clip from tomorrow's episode, just not a camrip with a roaring crowd drowning out most of the audio.
//youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ8eGA9oG8
Well this was completely entertaining. I'm pretty sure that cactus was actually Peridot in a makeshift disguise, but Steven and Amethyst both failed to consider how unlikely is is for one to grow like that. Lion snapping at the sparkles was a nice touch.
>I'm pretty sure that cactus was actually Peridot in a makeshift disguise
Oh wow.
Fuck you Pearl
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Oh, Pearl.
If only you weren't so white and skinny.
Then maybe the writers wouldn't pick on you so much.
Holy shit, Pearl needs therapy.
And a woman. Though a gem would likely be better. Don't know how she'd deal with a human partner dying. Likely bad.
Episode where?
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And this old fan comic sure was on the money.
I don't think she needs either, I think what she needs to realize is that you don't need a romantic partner at all to feel validated.
>people are playing the "if you have any dislike for Pearl you're ABLEIST!!!1!" card on Tumblr right now
Can we PLEASE not do this? People can have intermediate opinions you know. You can dislike a character's actions while still finding them sympathetic at the same time and the same goes in the opposite direction. FFS I have Aspergers and I think Chris-Chan is a complete chode even if it's true he's playing some of it up. Pearl lied to Garnet and it's not unforgivable (so the rabid Pearlhaters can also fuck off) but she still did wrong, and Garnet (and the audience) have every right to be mad at her for it.
Tumble really likes projecting onto Pearl and they can't handle criticism of her at all without feeling personally attacked. It happens with a lot of communities.
I'm really proud of the show for not shying away from character flaws, they are clearly doing a thing but it's still cool.
So much Jasper art.
Yeah. I don't really get the extreme hate or defense either way. Pearl's been shown to be a good person and she's made a stupid and a bit twisted mistake. That neither makes her a saint or a devil.
Makes her a person, which is a good thing when writing stories. Wanting characters to be 100% flawless and have no negative character traits is something best left to bad fanfiction.
I'm kind of getting bored with all these episodes about Pearl and her issues. Sworn to the Sword was all about Pearl's issues, We Need to Talk prominently featured Pearl's issues, Chille Tid turned Pearl's issues into a gag, and now we have yet another episode where Pearl's issues cause problems for somebody else. At least this time Amethyst's reaction implied that this is more of a Crystal Gem issue than a uniquely Pearl issue.
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My love~
As mentioned earlier in the thread, Steven knows less about Pearl than either Garnet or Amethyst, so it makes at least some sense to focus on her. For now, that focus helps flesh out her character and gives us some insight into why she acts how she does, both around the other Gems and around Steven. And as you mentioned, the fusion thing might become more of a broader issue with the Gems than simply Garnet getting mad at Pearl. (If it makes you feel better, today's episode supposedly focuses on Garnet/Ruby and Sapphire in the aftermath of yesterday's episode.)
Yeah, I'm glad they've been shifting into Garnet more too but Amethyst is feeling especially neglected in terms of screentime and development lately. The "Pearl does stupid shit" plotline could be spaced out a little better.
Funny you should mention that.
http://www.beachcitybugle.com/2015/07/new-episode-title-and-synposis-appears.html
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This show certainly went a long way towards helping me acknowledge my bisexuality, even if it's not necessarily in the way the creators may have intended.
And Pearl is super flawed. Kinda why I just want them to get her someone to cuddle. Also Amy's face when she got what Pearl was doing and for what. I feel she's done stuff like this before. A few times.
Everyone is gay for Big Buff Cheetoh Puff.
I have no qualms with turning this thread into a Jasper cheescake dump.
I'm not sure Pearl's done this stuff before. Amethyst was able to recognize what Pearl was doing because she could empathize with wanting to fuse with Garnet. She was able to understand Pearl's motives because she has a lot of the same problems, just shifted towards being a monster instead of being 'defective.'
Jesus, this episode. ALL THE FEELS. ;A;
Pfft, not even that, Pearl and Garnet muscle art also got me into /pco/ for the first time.
We've got previews for the next three episodes, from the show's on-demand :
Onion Friend: http://t.kazy.in/post/124104918855/steven-universe-old-friends-preview
Historical Friction: http://t.kazy.in/post/124104726563/historical-friction-preview
Friend Ship: http://t.kazy.in/post/124104810812/steven-universe-friend-ship-preview
So who wants to take bets on which members of the Fish & Chips family made all those paintings of Amethyst?
Am I the only one who likes the Season 1 version of the intro better? It was a lot more melodious sounding without the extra percussion.
First Jamie, then Dewey, and I'm guessing now Sour Cream are waifufags.
I think Onion actually is the one who made those, but he's obsessed with her because her magic alien language powers (which I presume she has since Peridot knows English) made her the only person outside his family who could understand his speech. And based on that, I'll further guess that her influence is why he's such a scoundrel.
Can't unsee Sapphire as a Minion.
I know they're actually just small for their species and really thousands of years old, but goddamn it still gives me a little bit of the heebie-jeebies seeing them get intimate like that.
God I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks that.
//youtube.com/watch?v=qcE_ioRou6k
Oh Greg.
Eh, I dont see anything thing wrong with "litte people" being in love.
But I still going to make pair of gay dwarfs in a trenchcoat jokes.
Better relationship then most adults in "adult" shows by far. Lotta feels in this thing.
Found this:
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Neat.
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Steven Universe: imparting life lessons for both kids and adults.
The in love part isn't what's iffy, it's the fact that they're pushing towards second base and on when they look like children that's a little squicky. Stevonnie doesn't get as explicit but it's just as creepy since the characters involved really are children having implied sex and they don't have the excuse of being ancient space rocks.
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>Better relationship then most adults in "adult" shows by far. Lotta feels in this thing.
>Ruby burns with generic rage
>Saphire is completely detached from the present
>oh but we made Steven feel bad! Guess whatever we were arguing about doesn't matter lol let's neck in front of him!
I'm not entirely sure I get the appeal of these characters. There's no "feels" here, they have barely enough to them to be called character archetypes, let alone characters. They aren't fleshed out at all beyond their relationship with each other, and they certainly haven't done anything individually to warrant any kind of emotional investment. Maybe if we saw how these gems interacted with people other than just themselves they'd feel more legitimate, but right now I can't help but roll my eyes.
And you couldn't have tried to make a point without greentext hyperbole and random reaction faces?
Guess I don't see it, neither their mannerisms or design make me think "children". Just short people.
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Fusion isn't sex. It can serve as a metaphor for sex because there's a degree of intimacy involved and requires trust in one's partner, but it isn't sex or sex hidden from the network's prying eyes under a different name. I mean, unless you'd think a father's reaction to having his twelve-year-old son pork his twelve-year-old best friend right in front of him would be excitement instead of horror.
Well... He is an ex-rock star...
>dancing at arm's length with your clothes on
>whoops, laughing put you in synch to well and now you're magically having sex out of nowhere
At this point it pretty much is a metaphor for sex or at least the kind of intimate romance that usually includes sex, compared to early Season One when it was a little more ambiguous. I'm of two minds about that because on the one hand the show doesn't have to beat around the bush to make a message about those kinds of relationships for all the sexually active people watching the show, because goddamn there are a lot of them. On the other hand it risks turning the show into a big K-drama when there's plenty of other completely nonromantic and nonsexual close relationships like siblinghood and platonic friendship that fusion can be used to explore too, rather than just CS Lewis's Eros.
Just like Ride to Hell 1%.
Anyway, that dialog doh.
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Yea...
Atlest they hade a good time.
Wait, I was thinking off a diffrent part.
Ah fuck it.
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>mom who hides in the garage corner for people to come in
>noodles and butter for dinner
>Dad home so infrequently there's a "Dad's home" calendar on the wall
>power flickering thanks to 2huge sound system
>that birthday video
>all on top of seemingly no one really spending time with him
Wow, Onion sure had a stable upbringing.
I cant be the only one who think that tape was a porn at the beginning
I'm sure you're not, but the first thing audible was Steven saying it was in a hospital.
SEXY NURSES FOR EVERYBODY!
Also, wild guess: Onion actually stalks Pearl, and wants to take on her aversion to eating.
Onion's mouse stunt at the end serves the double purpose of being both incredibly creepy and an act of kindness towards Steven. He saw how troubled Steven was by the mouse being fed to the snake, so he set it free instead.
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Or the mouse was another pet, and Onion was messing with Steven from the beginning.
that was clearly coded to be considered porn. The overall message was it was a risque thing either way but the audience was def supposed to think that.
You might be making assumptions based on your own perspective. Because "birth video" was definitely my first thought, rather than porn. Possibly just because I know they wouldn't play even audio clips from a porn video on a cartoon network show aimed at children during the day, but either way.
did you actually see the episode you fucking cocksucking cunt?
Yeah, I did. And my first thought was "Oh man, is this going to be a video of his birth?" Clue one: it's a children's show on cartoon network. Clue two: most people don't make homemade porn in hospitals, and literally the first thing they said in it was that it was taking place in a hospital, and Vidalia was the "star."
i will literally shit down your throat you aspie retard
CALM DOWN DUDE
Well, I mean, he's a fisherman. That's just how things roll with fishermen.
I don't think it's a problem he sticks to his job, but I am glad Steven's spending time with Onion now because no one else is. I don't know if he's even seen a video game being used as something other than a synth, and visiting the temple will probably lead to another Rose's Room episode and generally a lot of new stuff for him. Speaking of which, it's funny that his first appearance was in Connie's introduction episode, and they haven't shown up together since or directly interacted ever.
You need to calm down, son. That sort of abrasive shitposting doesn't fly around here.
I still don't like that kid.
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I wonder why Pearl doesn't make clones of herself for actual combat situations. Are they that bad at enemy/ally distinction? I wonder if she could make hard light mech suits for humans.
Maybe be its the DBZ thing of the clones half there power.
Also poly cool kids is a new fav ship.
So all those variants and gals ones that Yellowtail brought back from fishing trips?
Also Valida is encouraged to do a gallery show episode when?
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Sweet! That's my favorite episode so far.
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If the glove fits.
I think the moral is that all problems requiring fusion should be resolved with Alexandrite, so no one feels left out.
Just like how every love triangle can be solved with a threesome?
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I think it's all four of the Crystal Gems. It looks a lot like the temple, which several people have theorized to be the Alexandrite + Rose fusion.
but she only have 4 arms, the temple statue have at least 8
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I thought that too, but the temple has six arms, not four.
Since Amethyst didn't join until after the war was over, wouldn't that statue be Garnet+Pearl+Rose without her?
maybe its a fallen gem who was there before amethyst, a clouse friend that rose couldnt save.
we know rose quartz had an army.
Bismuth?
Amethyst's gem is in the star, so they probably built the temple after she joined.
Still looks like 8 arms to me.
Could be Garnet + Pearl + Rose trio since Garnet and Rainbow Quartz have 2 pairs between themselves.
Don't you mean all five?
Fusions work pretty weird, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the larger ones somehow had less parts instead of more, with Rose reigning in the arm count. Speaking of fusions, I think the general consensus of /co/ had a pretty good idea what Sadonyx would look be like.
Also, come on Steven, you couldn't help Jamie recruit actors? Connie would probably be up for it, and Ronaldo jumps at the chance to put on a show for people.
So you don't think Rainbow Quartz combines the spear and shield into a pizza cutter then
No weapon was mentioned in the play, either for budget reasons or the giant just using her fists at the time. Either way it doesn't show her *not* being able to make a giant pizza cutter. Dunno if Amethyst was involved or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if all the others were as>237230 says.,
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Oh this does not bode well.
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Peridot has become the quintessential cartoon "I'll get you next time, Gadget!" villain. I'm okay with this.
As am I.
All in all, I liked Stevenbomb 3.0 - it was neat to see an arc like that play out over a full week of new episodes.
They really embraced the "let's show five new episodes in a row" and took full advantage of it.
>"Looks like Peridot is blasting off agaaaaaaaain!"
The Pearl's being a mass produced slave sub-race theory just got a lot more credence.
Yeah, funny how one word all but confirmed it.
Peridot's Future:
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guys, I think I lost something.
The gems dont send the shooting star to destroy the galaxy warp ?
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I think they did. It was a pretty big pile of rubble that Peridot pushed together. Everything could've been in pieces and Peridot roughly put stuff together like the communication tower. Or we never actually saw the Gems succeed in doing so. It might've exploded mid-warp like Pearl feared.
I don't think so. Pearl said that, if it exploded mid-warp, it would keep exploding in warp space forever. Seems like they'd notice a huge explosion right in the warp stream.
when peridot say this planet have expiration date, Im not sure if shes talking about the sun exploding, pollution or stuff like that.
And now the gems have a spaceship to go to the homeworld, I really want to see how the gems live, you know, besides fighting wars and invading planets.
You're referring to the "a" in her sentence?
yeap, is a old theory that is almost confirmed know.
There other one who says that pearl is a perdot prototype
I wonder how much of Peridot's body is cybernetic and how much of it is just how she chooses to manifest her projected form.
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I was hoping we can go from bombs back to weekly episodes soon (it's been great, but mentally exhausting), but it seems a hiatus separate even from that is inevitable.
Makes her relationship with Rose Quartz make a lot more sense in context now. Even if Rose didn't necessarily /love/ her (which I don't think she did) she was the first person to treat Pearl like a person rather than a tool and that's what made Pearl develop her obsession for her.
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It seems any gem under 6000 years can be counted on to act like an eleven-year-old at least some of the time.
Plus how can you not take after someone who asks you to have a nice day even after you've tried to kill them?
Can we just give Steven some shine on this episode? Like he was THE BEST.
I love how he doesn't have any animosity at all to Peridot.
To be fair, it is literally impossible to hate the best gem, Peridot
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I don't think I could ever hate someone who makes a face this stupid.
Yeah, let's be real here for a moment: Peridot has managed to eclipse all the other gems. Including Garnet and Amethyst, the previous holders of "best gem" title.
I hope she never leaves Earth. I hope she is around forever. She is the best character in the show.
>(which I don't think she did)
Whether or not Rose loved her romantically, I think saying there was anyone Rose didn't love in one sense or another is describing a Rose we have yet to see in this series.
This episode confirmed Peridot for MEGA MAN AS FUCK.
Yeah, gotta agree, Peridot is now Best Gem. Sorry, Garnet.
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Getting a bit of a Dr. Crygor vibe here.
Also, having guns for fingers plus the lost foot strongly suggests they're her summonable weapon. If she used one hand as a gun while flying with the other it could be pretty OP. I'm curious to see if that foot is something she can easily replace, or if it's actually equipment she'd need to find a substitute for.
Something interesting to me here is that painting. At first the wall painting seemed to be just there an an arbitrary environment texture. Then I realized Rose is the only gem we know who would make a painting like that.
>If she used one hand as a gun while flying with the other it could be pretty OP.
Her left hand had that gravity gun and could electricity things. She didn't use them against Steven, but I think that was just because she's not used to using them and forgot.
I don't think she's got actual arms or legs.
You know what I really like though? Peridot is discovering she's actually very competent at combat, this was the first time she tried directly fighting them and was even shocked at her cannon's own power.
A gem's whole body is synthetic, so what's the difference between actual arms and legs and fake ones?
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sardonyx is really this big ?
"Actual" arms and legs would be projections of her gem, which would disappear when discarded and she'd be able to regenerate. Lacking those ability is probably more than made up for by the other advantages--she literally brought a laser gun to a sword fight.
It's also possible that they are projections, but they work and look different because of her gemstone itself being augmented.
Isn't Opal a lot bigger than that?
Gems are the same sizes as Evangelions. Which is to say: however they need to be in that particular shot. Their relative sizes compared to one another seem to be pretty steady. Opal is bigger than Steven and Pearl and Amethyst, and probably Garnet, but we don't know how big she is compared to Rainbow Quartz. I would probably guess she's bigger than Rainbow Quartz and smaller than Malachite, but it's hard to be precise on these things.
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Her head is about the same size as Steven's body, but the staff have admitted to not using a fixed scale beyond a "height order". You can expect any of them to vary by like a factor of one-and-a-half.
>Gems are the same sizes as Evangelions. Which is to say: however they need to be in that particular shot.
AKA the Gamagoori Principle.
I'm pretty sure we'll eventually see Peridot fuse with Amethyst, just because the sheer level of resulting immaturity sounds like it'd be too ridiculous to pass up.
this raises a question, what happens when two gems that has their gems in the same place fuse?
Funny thing: peridot doesn't stay stable when it comes into contact with Earth's atmosphere.
Notice how Peridot is acting a little differently since she came to Earth?
A giant octarine gem probably.
Amethyst has been a lot more mature lately. But it's true that fusing with someone immature would probably cancel out her own personal growth.
Wish she'd get more solo eps. Lately the series has been Garnet + Pearl's issues.The Onion one was the most focus she's got in a while but it's still more about Onion and Steven than her.
well dude, was the week of sardonyx. But there's a lot we dont know about the gems. I am very interested in the animal behavior that amethyst has, which is much more evident in the Greg stories.
I think that can be attributed to her constant frustration with her attempts to get off failing and her annoyance at the Gems for constantly attacking her and wrecking her plans. She is not having a good time.
One of my favorite descriptions for Gamagori came from the Kill la Kill TV Tropes page which stated that his only consistent size was "bigger than you."
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Having freshly re watched the entire series? Nope.
I loved the bit in "Historical Friction" where she called to Steven during the play. I like Pearl a lot more when she plays the part of Steven's doting, worrisome pseudo-mom.
I think the trick she pulled at the start of the week was the only really awful thing she did. Rest of the time she was either hanging out with Amethyst, being completely absent, rewriting a play or being confused and desperate because Garnet accidentally put too much emphasis on their time being wasted when that wasn't what really bothered her.
The bomb overall had a neat structure to it: All of them were in the two episodes on each end, and the three in the middle each gave a different Non-Steven crystal gem focus.
Was very sad at the end of the all to see some of the spirit of Sardonyx had been muted.
One of the things I really like about this show is every now and then they produce a contextualizing episode. At first I wasn't overly fond of Historical Friction, but then I realized it was meant more to shine a light on Pearl than stand on its own.
They're basically directly addressing the issues fans had been complaining about with this sort of demonstration that Pearl had flaws and it was starting to bother them. Which, honestly, is fairly clever story telling in its own right, but still, it made me develop a further appreciation for what they're doing.
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These are way cute.
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Lately I'm all about the basics. I love building a closet of staple items that can pair together to make a classic look at anytime. It makes it easy when your feeling indecisive about what to wear, pretty much me all the time!
I think investing in basics in a great idea, because ideally they should be with you a long time. For me this is the time to spend a little more then I would on trendy pieces that I may just want to give a try, but am not sure I am going to love.
You can never beat an investment in a good handbag. I love my Kate Spade, but we all know I'm a major bargain hunter. My tick is timing. I always pick up my large Kate Spade bags, which I love to use for work, when I can get them for around $100, which I consider a steal since usually they go for $300 - $400. I wait until it's some sort of holiday weekend, or special promotion, and then the outlet store almost always has 50% off, plus an extra 20% off on handbags.
Below is a few great options for adding Chambray to your wardrobe, I'm loving the ones from Loft. Good thing I have a gift card left over from Christmas!
Do you tend to stick to the basics, or do you gravitate more towards the trends?
I love this whole look! I've been on the hunt for a Chambray shirt, so thanks for the recommendations! Great job with the styling!
I love a good chambray shirt. I pair mine with everything you can think of!! The outfit you shared is fantastic!
That bag and those boots are so pretty! And they literally match everything!!
I LOVE this outfit - right up my alley. And, that bag! Swoon.
That stinks, I always hold out because I know eventually I can score one for cheap!
Thanks so much! Hope you find one that you like!
Can't go wrong with the classic basics!
It's so versatile, that is the best part. Glad you enjoyed!
Cute, I might have to try that!
I'm all about the versatile pieces that go with everything, makes life easier!
love your handbag! I can't believe you can get a bag like that for $100...my Kate Spade outlet doesnt' have bags like that at that price. Maybe a crossbody but that's it.


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The Korean alphabet (Hangul) is - so far - my favourite writing system. It is logical and efficient. It pleases my sense of style. Since starting this post over a month ago I took up learning Mandarin so my feelings towards Hanzi are liable to threaten Hangul's dominance in the future, but for now I side with space-robot alphabet. Because that's what Hangul is.
At first glance one may assume that Hangul consists of logograms - characters representing words rather than phonemes, but this is not the case. The alphabet is very much phonetic. Each "block" is a single syllable, so for example Hangul(한글) is Han(한)+gul(글).
Since syllables are made of phonemes, it is not surprising that the blocks consist of sub-components representing these phonemes. (It was surprising the first time I learned of this, because such an elegant solution to written language had not occurred to me - though upon further reflection, the trick is just "writing words more compactly" so it's not as novel as it is aesthetically pleasing.) Some insane person wrote a Wikipedia page documenting every possible syllabic block in Korean, so all you need to do is memorise all ten thousand of these (give or take a few thousand) and reading Korean will become trivial. End of post. If this idea is appealing to you, I might suggest going to Cambridge to do Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.
The more elegant solution is to learn the alphabet. Each letter is called a "jamo", but they only occur inside blocks, sort of like quarks. Unlike quarks, we can still look at them individually. I'll include the IPA in , and a 'translation' of IPA into my accent (mileage may vary). For pronunciation purposes, text is no replacement for audio, so I would suggest finding some videos, like this one, for example.
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Combinations of simple vowels (including diphthongs). I'm not going to include all combinations because many of them are self-evident given the simple vowels.
Generally, ㅗ or ㅜ combined with another vowel gives a "w-" sound, so for example ㅘ is "wah", ㅙ is "weh", and ㅟ is "wee".
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There are a ton of reasons you should be drinking green tea. Alzheimer's prevention has now been added to that long list of benefits.
Green tea, specifically EGCG, is constantly being researched for its benefits in helping with terrible diseases like obesity, blood pressure, insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Parkinson's disease to name a few.
Now, the latest studies in health science have revealed that green tea may be a safeguard against Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. It's all about EGCG, an extract of green tea that holds a magical wand that could possibly prevent this devastating disease.
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia. It develops when there are a number of damaged brain cells and a build up of toxic protein fragments called amyloid beta in the brain.
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The Alzheimer's Association of the USA estimated that in 2015, 5.3 million Americans of all ages suffered from Alzheimer's. Although the majority were people aged 65 and older, around 200,000 individuals were under the age of 65.
In 2014, a study at the University of Basel in Switzerland found that green tea plays an active role in improving brain function and can be successfully used to treat Alzheimer's and dementia patients.
In this study, half of the participants received a drink with green tea extract and the rest were given the same drink without the extract. The researchers noticed that the people who were given the extract had increased brain activity in the areas responsible for memory.
There are also studies form both Japan and China that show that the green tea compound, EGCG, attacks the root cause and provides protection against Alzheimer's. These studies found that EGCG has a protective effect on the brain and could lead to improvements on the harm caused by psychological stress.
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The startup said that it is adding three accomplished personalities from politics and the private sector to its board of directors.
Fiala is a Member of the Swiss Parliament who also acts as the Chairwoman of the Swiss Control/Parliamentary Oversight Committee and the President of Swiss FDP Liberals Women. She is also a Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Fiala has been actively engaged in positioning Zurich and Switzerland as an international blockchain location. In her role as a Member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and delegate of PACE, she is confronted with the emerging relevance of electronic identities on a regular basis.
Founded in 2016, Procivis is a provider of government-trusted digital ID solutions. In May 2017, it released the beta version of its integrated electronic identity and services platform, eID+. Earlier this year, the company collaborated with the Rohingya Project NGO in order to provide digital IDs to Rohingya people, the world's biggest stateless minority.
In addition to Fiala, strategy expert Huw Evans and cybersecurity specialist Roger Wirth have also joined the board, which is presided over by Procivis founder Daniel Gasteiger.
Furthermore, Achille Deodato has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Deodato joins the company from the Swiss private banking part of large international conglomerate Hinduja Group, where he last held the position of Chief Commercial Officer and Secretary General.
In his new role, Deodato will help drive further development of Procivis' eID+ platform. His immediate focus will be on the implementation of eID+ as part of different projects in Switzerland and abroad, such as the eID+ solution for the Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen, and the development of a market-ready e-voting solution based on blockchain technology.
"The extension of our Board of Directors and the appointment of our COO mark the beginning of a new phase in the development of our business. We're very pleased to have won a highly experienced leader for Procivis with Achille Deodato. I'm looking forward to realising our ideas for trusted e-government and democratic processes in the age of digitisation together with our new colleagues," Gasteiger said.
Procivis said that has secured interim financing this June to support its business development efforts and is preparing a capital increase for the second half of 2018.


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The Life of our Mobile Phones
May 17, 2013 by ctvr00
25 April 2013: As part of the lecture series 'Trinity and its Neighbours', Centre Director Linda Doyle spoke about The Invisible Landscape of the City – the secret life of our mobile phones. The lecture, arranged by Trinity College and St Andrew's Resource Centre (both in Dublin), was an opportunity for Linda to present CTVR's work and new developments in the use of radio waves in a unique setting – St Andrew's Parish Church – to an audience of non-engineers but expert mobile phone users.
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Collaboration with artist Louise Ward
2 MAy 2013: During Louise Ward's 7-day residency "Insert Emoticon" at Market Studios in Dublin she created random interactions with the audience and performed actions integrating sculptural objects & sound with invited guests and the public. CTVR Director Linda Doyle, Senior Researcher Tim Forde and PhD student and artist Jessica Foley were invited in to a conversational wide-ranging discussion about cognitive radio. The discussion was broadcast live on radio al cabira (www.radioalcabira.com) and can be downloaded from here (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/32253903).
The discussion was used as the basis for CTVR's weekly writing workshop 'Engineering Fictions' hosted by Jessica as part of her research and artistic practice.
A bit about Louise:
As an artist, Louise's sensibility is anchored in shifting perspectives of human behaviour, in the politics of the everyday and in hybrid spaces between internalized worlds of pleasure and externalised habits imposed by society. Her art work tips her/our daily struggles into absurdity, where certain socially conditioned behaviours are reflected upon in a series of repetitive performances.
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DISCUS workshop live stream available on Thursday May 9th
May 7, 2013 by ctvr00
The DISCUS workshop on "Ownership, usage and regulation in next
generation fibre access network: can we move away from competition at
the physical layer?" will be streamed live on Thursday May 9th, 1.30
p.m. at the following link:
http://connectpro10311755.adobeconnect.com/marco/
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RTE Collaboration for Science Season: Drama on One
April 10, 2013 by ctvr00
Prof. Linda Doyle and Dr Tim Forde collaborated with RTE to produce a companion piece to the radio drama "What Next for Hedy Lamarr" by Joe O'Byrne.
Hedy Lamarr, known primarily as a 1930's screen idol, also filed US Patent 2292387 on frequency hopping – a technology designed for radio-guidance of munitions that is now widely deployed in wireless communications.
As part of RTE drama's Science Season entitled What is Life, Joe O'Byrne has written and directed a play on the life of Hedy Lamarr. It is accompanied by a companion piece exploring in greater depth the scientific aspects of Hedy Lamarr's contribution to contemporary communications.
Download the companion piece here:
Download the full play here:
For more information on RTE's Science Season see Drama on One
COST Action Management Committee Meeting 11-12 March 2013
March 11, 2013 by ctvr00
Location: CTVR Trinity College Dubln, Dunlop Oriel House, Fenian Street, Dublin
Time: 8.30am
The 8th COST Action IC0902 management committee meeting will be held in the vibrant city of Dublin, Ireland, on 11-12 March 2013. The main objective of COST Action IC0902 is to integrate the cognitive concept across all layers of communication systems, resulting in the definition of a European platform for cognitive radio and networks.
In conjunction with the meeting, we will host a mini workshop on Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Radio and Networking, which are the topics of interest of the COST Action IC0902 Special Interest Group 2. Contributions presenting early results and work-in-progress on all topics relevant to the IC0902 SIG 2 are welcome and submissions by young researchers are strongly encouraged.
Workshop program:
Program at a glance:
Time Table 11 March 12 March
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00-10:45 MC meeting MC meeting
10:45-11:00 Tea break Tea break
11:00-12:45 MC meeting Technical Session 3
12:45-14:00 Lunch break Lunch
14:00-15:45 Technical Session 1
15:45-16:00 Tea break
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DISCUS Launch
January 15, 2013 by ctvr00
Head of CTVR, Professor Linda Doyle; TCD Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast; Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte; CTVR lead academic of the project, Dr Marco Ruffini.
Minister Rabbitte Announces €8.1 Million EU Funding For Telecommunications Project That Will Revolutionise Broadband Provision In Ireland And Europe.
On Wednesday, 9th January, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, launched 'DISCUS', the pan-European research project coordinated by CTVR. The project was awarded funding under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.
Announcing the EU funding award, Minister Rabbitte said: "Strengthening Europe's digital economy by advancing areas such as a high speed broadband rollout is a priority for the Irish Presidency of the EU. This pan European telecommunications project led by our own researchers here at CTVR at Trinity will provide concrete results for the benefit of both Ireland and Europe and demonstrates the critical links between research and enterprise that lead ultimately to jobs creation."
Welcoming this announcement, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Patrick Prendergast said: "Leading such a top-tier international consortium is an endorsement of the strong international academic reputation that CTVR has earned and raises the profiles of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin as leaders in research and development of future broadband infrastructure. It is also a demonstration of the value to Ireland of continued investment in high quality research."
'DISCUS' coordinators, Dr Marco Ruffini of Computer Science and Professor David Payne of Electronic Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, said: "the project brings together a pan European team of world class expertise to achieve what will be a revolutionary change to the way future networks are built and operated, to deliver unprecedented service capability and customer experience."
The 'DISCUS' consortium partners are Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Alcatel Lucent (Germany), Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany), Telefonica Investigacion Y Desarrollo (Spain), Telecom Italia (Italy), Aston University (UK), Interuniversitair micro-electronica centrum (Belgium), III-V lab (France), Tyndall & University College Cork (Ireland), Polatis (UK), Atesio (Germany) and Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan (Sweden).
Total investment in this project is €11.7M, of which €8.1 million has been contributed by the EU and the remainder is provided by the partners involved.
Please inspect DISCUS website here http://www.discus-fp7.eu/
Best Student Award – IST Portugal
November 16, 2012 by ctvr00
Pedro Alvarez joined the team of CTVR PhD students at TCD from the MEEC course at Instituto Superior Technico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in March 2012. In September he was awarded the Best Student in his class.
IST is an internationally recognised college for the study of engineering, architecture, science and technology. It offers a broad range of research opportunities to students so we are delighted that Pedro has chosen to come to Ireland and CTVR in particular.
Congratulations to Pedro
That's Gas! – Zoo Digital Balloon Project Update!
The Talk to EU Zoo Digital balloon launch took place last Friday, 9th November. The launch was a great success. Our colleague, Dr. Keith Nolan and team launched the balloon from Met Eireann's Valentia observatory just after 11am on Friday. The payload comprised a GPS tracker, a HD video camera, a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone, a radiosonde (measures wind speed, humidity, temperature, altitude), and an ordinary party balloon with an image of Robert Boyle drawn on it.
The balloon travelled for about 2 hours over a point to point distance of 160km and reached a maximum altitude of just over 27km where the temperature was -63 deg C. It burst over Kanturk and descended by parachute to land in a farmer's field just outside Tipperary town. The farmer rang the number on the payload. The intact payload and video were recovered by the team. The video shows tweets scrolling across the phone screen, the 'Boyle balloon' bursting, as well as the scenery.
To view the full launch, please view here https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1v5kvz7e0739f5/tweetsinspace-smaller.wmv
Further information is available to view at http://www.talktoeu.ie/
Thank you to photographer Alan Landers for documenting the launch.
Seminar presented by Professor Allen MacKenzie, E.T.S. Walton Visiting Professor
October 26, 2012 by ctvr00
Location: CTVR Seminar Room
The history of wireless communications can be told through the history of resource management. In this talk, Professor MacKenzie will describe the ongoing evolution from static to dynamic resource management and the concurrent evolution from homogeneous to heterogeneous networks. From this description, Professor MacKenzie will draw two themes for the future: (1) a need for a pragmatic, bootstrapped approach to dynamic resource assignment, and (2) a demand for robust approaches to automated negotiation between radio agents.
Along the first theme, Professor MacKenzie will show how unbounded dynamicism leads to failure; instead, we need pragmatically engineered systems that can bootstrap wireless communications from simple beginnings to complex sharing schemes. In particular, he will describe a proposed channel assignment scheme for cognitive radio networks that balances the need for topology adaptation to maximize flow rate and the need for a stable baseline topology to support network connectivity. Professor MacKenzie will focus on networks in which nodes are equipped with multiple radios or transceivers, each of which can be assigned to a channel. First, we assign channels independently of traffic, to achieve basic network connectivity and support light loads such as control traffic, and, second, we dynamically assign channels to the remaining transceivers in response to traffic demand. We formulate the problem as a two-stage mixed integer linear program (MILP) and show that with this two-stage approach we can achieve performance comparable to a fully dynamic channel assignment scheme while preserving a static, connected topology.
In the second theme, Professor MacKenzie will then describe the necessity of automated negotiation in future systems, including the relationship between these negotiated dynamics and the bootstrapped approach discussed in the first theme. In particular, he will explain some of the tentative steps that we have taken in this direction, including applications of auction theory and coalition game theory. Finally, he will introduce some potential tools and approaches for future research (and promote some future tutorial presentations on these topics).
Allen B. MacKenzie received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 1999. In 2003 he earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University and joined the faculty of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he is now an associate professor. During the 2012-2013 academic year, he is an E.T.S. Walton Visiting Professor at CTVR: The Telecommunications Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin.
Prof. MacKenzie's research focuses on wireless communications systems and networks. His research interests include cognitive radio and cognitive network algorithms, architectures, and protocols and the analysis of such systems and networks using game theory. His past and current research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, the US Army, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Institute of Justice.
Prof. MacKenzie is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also serves on the technical program committee of several international conferences in the areas of communications and networking, and is a regular reviewer for journals in these areas.Prof. MacKenzie is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ASEE and the ACM. He is the author of more than 50 refereed conference and journal papers and the co-author of the book Game Theory for Wireless Engineers.
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CSET Thesis in 3
Location: Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 8
The third CSET Thesis in 3 took place on 25th October in the Smock Alley Theatre. The event showcased the research of 18 students from 9 SFI funded CSETS (CLARITY, SBI, CNGL, CRANN, Lero, BDI, CTVR, APC and DERI). Both Séamus Hickey (UL) and Emanuele Di Pascale (TCD) represented CTVR at the event. Emanuele was awarded the audience prize for his presentation entitled "Buy Local" Paradigm for Next Generation Networks", which outlines how Fiber-to-the-Home will bring high speed connections to our neighbourhoods, but it will also reduce the capacity gap between these residential access segments and the main information highways in the center of the network; which can lead to congestion. Emanuele proposes the application of the "buy local" paradigm to future networks, redistributing content in your local community through peer-to-peer, one can avoid costly data transfers through the center of the Internet. His research shows that this approach can improve user experience by speeding up communications, while at the same time reducing power consumption and operational costs for network operators.
We wish to congratulate both Séamus and Emanuele for their hard work and presentations.
The event was co-ordinated by Aoibheann Bird from CLARITY, Cara Greene from CNGL and Philip Smyth from Systems Biology Ireland.
You may view the event here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CR2FdaMpcI

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Aluminum is on the rise in the auto industry. Mercedes produced the first aluminum frame and body in 2009 with the release of its SLS AMG and it seems the rest of the auto industry is following suit. Its an excellent alternative to using steel as it is lighter but still provides strength and durability.
Mainstream auto manufactures have used aluminum in the construction of vehicles for a number of years. However, many of the panels on cars and trucks are made from steel. The new Ford F-150 will be made of nearly 95% aluminum and more car manufacturers are beginning to invest in aluminum auto body.
Many auto body shops are not prepared for aluminum body vehicles. According to Dan Risley, president of the Automotive Service Association "not every shop in America will be equipped to repair the new F-150".
Less that 20 percent of body shops will be equipped to fix aluminum body structures. Certified shops that fix high-end European brands like Porsche, Jaguar, and Audi will be the most likely body shops to repair newer vehicles made up of aluminum.
The practices and tools required for aluminum repair are similar to those techniques developed for the repair of more traditional metals (automotive steel). However, as the auto industry continues to incorporate more and more aluminum into vehicles, the need for qualified, capable auto mechanics who can handle aluminum repairs of all sorts continues to rise.
Pro Collision Center has been working with aluminum for years. Our certified technicians are prepared to handle any aluminum auto body repair you may need. Before you waste time and money searching for a body shop, contact Pro Collision Center to get a quote.


Cute little intro with two different "fake texturemappers"..
Not necessarily worthy of the 3rd prize, but still kinda neat..
So do I. Nice stuff for 1992.
Bendy, twisty, bouncy cube thing was quality.
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Looked nice on the bigscreen!
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Ron and Cathy page have been amongst the most assiduous researchers of our local history for many years.
They have published important papers about their investigation of the ancient bridge, about roads and about the former Blackfriars' site, off Station Road, which they excavated in 1994, their archaeological work backed up by extensive and dilligent work in the archives.
We already mention their work on the Stirling's History/ burial grounds/ Blackfriars' page of this site.
Ron now sends a link to his Flickr pages of photos of the excavations, drawings, background information and references.
In the next few days I will be posting similar material about the ancient bridge.


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Institute for Solidarity Economics becomes the Solidarity Economy Association!
Published by soleco on July 18, 2017 July 18, 2017
We're excited to announce that we are officially relaunching ourselves today as the Solidarity Economy Association.
The Solidarity Economy Association (SEA) is a not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative working to support the Solidarity Economy movement in the UK – a grassroots movement that is building a fair and ecological alternative to Capitalism – one that puts the real needs of people and the planet above profit.
Our vision remains the same – to support economic alternatives that embody the values of economic and social justice, diversity and pluralism, co-operation, self-management and ecological sustainability. We'll be continuing to work on research, education projects and other activity that directly supports the growth of the movement.
So, why the change?
We were extremely fortunate to receive a one-off endowment from an individual donor to get the idea for the Institute for Solidarity Economics off the ground. This endowment allowed us to spend time speaking with and listening to the wider Solidarity Economy community about their needs, and to explore the best ways to support the movement.
During this time we were operating informally as a co-operative, and reflecting the values of the Solidarity Economy in all of our endeavours, so we decided that, in addition to our formal incorporation as a co-operative, we should also change our name to better reflect our membership-based structure.
We have two membership types – supporter members and worker members – and we're governed by a board of directors consisting of representatives from both of these member categories. We'll be sharing more information about how to become a supporter member for those who are interested, or how to support our work in other ways, soon.
We operate in a non-hierarchical way, meaning that all worker members share responsibility and have an equal say in decisions. We chose this model and way of working because we wanted to reflect our commitment to the values of the Solidarity Economy in our daily working lives.
We've got a brand new website – www.solidarityeconomy.coop – which we'll be continuing to work on and update, and you'll also notice that we've got new email addresses. Some of you may have seen our new hummingbird logo, which we also started using recently. We're still based in Oxford, and we're largely the same team – although, sadly, we've said goodbye to our colleague Dan Whiteley, who has decided to go back to university. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Dan for being such a great member of the team, and for all of his work over the past two years.
In parallel to getting the Solidarity Economy Association formally established, we've been working on updating our strategy, and we'll be sharing that soon – watch this space!
Since our inception we've been incredibly fortunate to work with a fantastic range of partners, meet some incredible individuals and support some really transformative projects, and we look forward to continuing to do that into the future.
Colm, Clara, Kat, and Matt
The SEA Team


WARNER! NH: July 24 - My Phone is Smarter Than Me!
July 24 - My Phone is Smarter Than Me!
Now that you've got that smart phone, ever wonder what it can do besides call people?
Would you like to learn how to get the best value from that hefty phone bill or make the most of all the cutting-edge technology?
Want to know how to save on battery life or which apps can make your life simpler?
Bring your mobile phone with you and join us for this interactive workshop which will help you appreciate your smartphone as a tool not just an expensive gadget.
Held in partnership with Gabrielle Shuler, Telecommunications Specialist and Sales Manager for New England Wireless/US Cellular.


Letters are the only way of communication in the earlier times. Now there are a number of means of communications developed like email, chat, social networking and mobiles. Let's discuss about the P.O box (postal box) in Dubai. P.O boxes are mostly seen in the post office itself or near to the post office. It is also known as a mailbox.
Every location has a post office for the people belonging to that location. It is a traditional way of service, but even today people are using it. Emirates consist of 106 post offices. In the Emirates, mail is not delivered to our personal address. It will delivered by post office to the P.O Box. Employees will give their company P.O Box number for the personal mail. Emirates post has the facility of home delivery of mails. But there is a charge for the home delivery. In some places in Dubai there is an option to fix a post box outside of your home.
The payments of P.O box for individuals and companies are different, now we will take a look on that. For individuals, the annual rent is 250 AED per year. For companies annual rent is 550 AED per year.
The documents and the required fees should be submitted to the post office near to you and you will get the keys for the box. New applications will be accepted at anytime but renewal is done only in January.
Emirates post offers the service of picking up the mail from your box and delivering mails to you, without any extra payments. Each P.O Box has some efficient services like free domestic courier coupons, mail bags etc. They will make sure that they provide good services to you according to the value of money that you have given.
The post offices are closed on Fridays and most of the public holidays. Larger branches open from 9am to 1pm, and post offices in Dubai shopping centres' are open from 5pm to 9pm.
Dubai International Airport post office is open 24 hours a day. News papers carry all the news about post office daily. The mails will be collected from the p.o boxes 24/7, but collection of parcels or some other packets depends upon the post office timings.
Normal working hours are from Saturday to Thursday.
The post offices in the Departure terminal in the Dubai international airport and the Emarat petrol station on Al Wasl Rd in Dubai (near the jumeriah post office) is open 24 hours and has some postal service.


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Вашингтон Тауншип () — селище () в США, в окрузі Армстронг штату Пенсільванія. Населення — 923 особи (2010).

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкали 923 особи в 359 домогосподарствах у складі 266 родин. Було 542 помешкання

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,9 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 0,1 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 21,6 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,2 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 18,2 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 44,4 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 98,9 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 93,1 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долари для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 8,3 % осіб, у тому числі 1,9 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,7 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 351 особа. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 26,5 %, виробництво — 12,8 %, роздрібна торгівля — 10,3 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 9,7 %.

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Селища Пенсільванії
Населені пункти округу Армстронг (Пенсільванія)

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The Moroccan health system is managing a substantial amount of change: a countrywide demographic and epidemiological transition, as well as institutional change around the government's implementation of "advanced regionalization". A White Paper recommends that efforts to modernize health systems governance take this regionalization agenda into account and prepare stakeholders to work towards this new objective. Indeed, this is an opportunity for creativity, flexibility and decision-making at the local scale. Moreover, the 2012-2016 health sector strategy is coming to an end, and a new strategic plan was prepared in 2017 – an opportunity to strengthen the reform agenda. These reforms will be deployed in part at the regional level, ensuring convergence between the implementation of the strategic plan and the regionalization agenda.
The UHC Partnership roadmap for Morocco recommended a series of policy dialogues for 2017, to encourage this convergence and to ensure coherence in public policies. These were launched with a first Training and Consultation Workshop on the Policy Dialogue for Advanced Regionalization in the Health Sector, held in Rabat on July 6th and 7th, 2017.
The objectives of the workshop were to present the WHO framework for policy dialogue in the health sector, and to illustrate the different stages of a policy dialogue using practical examples from the region and abroad. The workshop was an opportunity for collaborative reflection with the Regional Directors on the need and the importance of policy dialogue for a regional implementation of the strategic plan, and on prerequisites for the dialogue's success.
After reviewing the principal axes of the health sector strategy, as well as regulatory and operational frameworks for advanced regionalization, the Regional Directors were able to consider the challenges within the country's health system that require regional policy dialogue. These centered on human resources, particularly the shortage of multi-skilled nurses, the organization of healthcare availability especially for maternal health, the care of people with special needs, and more generally the implementation of multi-region development plans, for instance in the country's southern region. After selecting priority issues, the Directors reviewed each step of the regional implementation process for organizing and conducting a policy dialogue on the chosen issue area.
This exercise will serve as a starting point for the organization and roll-out of a formalized policy dialogue project in each region. The Ministry of Health and the EU-Luxembourg-WHO Universal Health Coverage Partnership will handhold regions that require additional support in this process.


The Let It Be Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that provides support to Southern California communities. The focus is providing individualized aide to meet the needs of the family (medical accessories, sibling care, household maintenance, meals, etc). With sponsorship and private donations, relief can be provided to overwhelmed and financially-strained families.