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The magazine was founded in Canada in 2010; it expanded to the U.S. later that same year. Holmes published 10 issues/year.
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Претходник ФК Гронинген био је Унитас. Када се Унитас придружио Другој лиги Холандије Север, њихово име је промењено у ГВАВ, што је била скраћеница за Фудбалску и Атлетску федерацију града Гронингена. Друга лига Холандије, група Север, састојала се поред ГВАВ-а и од клубова из провинција Гронинген, Фриесланд и Дренте. Победник лиге би наставио да се бори за шампионску титулу, тј. првака земље. ГВАВ је пре педесетих година прошлог века стално био у сенци фудбалских клубова Би Квик 1887 и Велоситас, два друга клуба из Гронингена. 1954. национална фудбалска федерација у Холандији дозволила је да 4 клуба из Другле лиге Холандије, група Север, постану професионални, међу којима је био и ГВАВ. После 1964, ГВАВ остаје једини професионални клуб у Гронингену, након што је Би Квик поново постао аматерски клуб. 1971, клуб мења име у данашње, Гронинген.
Први пут су се квалификовали за неко европско такмичење у сезони 1982/83., док им је највећи успех тај што су у сезони 1990/91. завршили као трећи.
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У сезони 2006/07., завршили су као 8. у лиги, међутим, били су победници плеј-офа за европска такмичења, након што су победили Фајенорд и Утрехт. Зауставили су се већ на првом кораку у Европи, јер их је у првом колу квалификација за УЕФА Куп елиминисала Фиорентина након пенала, пошто су оба сусрета завршена нерешеним резултатом 1-1.
Први део сезоне 2011/12. био је најбољи у клупској историји Гронингена, јер су завршили као трећи са 39 поена, када се отишло на зимску паузу. У другом делу сезоне остварили су и највећу победу у клупској историји, пошто су победили ФК Виљем Други са импресивних 7-1. Ипак, Европа им је измакла, јер су у финалу плеј-офа изгубили од АДО Ден Хага.
Сезона 2011/12. је била заиста разочаравајућа за Гронинген, пошто је завршио као 14. у лиги.

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 Освајач (1) :  2014/15.
 Финалиста (1) : 1988/89.
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 Финалиста (1) : 2015.

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Wizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 18,348
Nightbringe1 said:
svann said:
Sometimes when a game runs poorly its not because its designed for too good of a machine, its just because it was designed poorly and no matter how good a machine you get its going to run poorly.
As an example, you try running through Warsliks Woods in EQ1. Even 17 years later its a lag fest.
I run though Warsliks Woods with a toaster. Giant Fort is still one of my favorite low-level camps.
Did you manage to find a place to plug it in? The toaster i mean and what are you toasting....umm Don Rickles...pop tarts?
This is what i expect Pantheon to be...6/10 possibly a 7/10
By mmorpg scoring standards that is a 9.9/10 or better,by Gamespace standards that is a 11/10.
Graphics should be the least of anyone's worries,you should expect pretty much Vanguard type graphics,it is the game play and possibly some unique ideas we hope to see as being good enough to keep us interested long term.
I would also say that since we saw the exact same results with every rendition of EQ>VG that we should also expect to see some lag.
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Griffbane Member CommonPosts: 5
LOL the lag in Warsilk woods was so bad, the train you pulled wouldn't catch up to you until the next time you zoned in!
Darksworm Member RarePosts: 1,037
Wizardry said:
Currently, there is virtually nothing unique about this game. It's a legit EQ clone. This is a problem.
I know they say they're fine with being a niche, but this formula is old - and getting older - and most players are simply not attracted to this style of game.
The Players most attracted to it are getting older and many of them simply do not have the kind of time to dedicate to a game that something like Vanilla EQ required... I think people "excited" about this are forgetting that EQ actually got kind of "easy" a long time ago (around PoP timeframe) - if we're talking about "grind" and time investment to feel like you're making progress in the game.
Even many EQ players are likely to balk at this game, for that reason.
Yes, it's going to be like Early EQ... But EQ hasn't been like Early EQ for about a dozen years...
Many of the people who wanted that, quit when that game changed and likely aren't looking to go back to that - at this point in time.
Dullahan Member EpicPosts: 4,534
If no other games are being made like an old game, by definition it's unique.
That people won't play it is just your unsubstantiated opinion. Based on what we've seen, people are not likely to keep buying into and remaining faithful to the current type of mmo, while EQ was very popular, especially for it's time, and had a rabidly faithful fanbase that still keeps it afloat to this day.
Rhoklaw Member LegendaryPosts: 7,425
Darksworm said:
You yourself just said EQ hasn't been EQ for 12 years. Doesn't kind of make sense that Brad would like to bring back the old school EQ format to the genre? This genre has been slowly dying ever since WoW became the standard. Than it took an even deeper decent into oblivion with all the P2W Asian grinders.
delete5230 Member EpicPosts: 6,573
Were in the Castle with a group of six. Were doing ok and were at the entrance way door of the last boss. Only two players tackled this dungeon before, we're relying on their knowledge to lead us. Me being the healer Jack tells me to hang a left and stand behind the table when we open the door. Jack being the tank opens the door and goes right for the boss and we all follow into the room. I see the table on the left and go for it, but the table is obscure and twice the size it should be...... somehow I get stuck, I hit the A on my keyboard to spin around, now I'm getting a vision of the adjacent room to the left and can't move....... While this is going on Jack dies and Joe our caster is pined against the back wall running in place, and next to die....
But hay, the graphics are nice !!!
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Nightbringe1 Member UncommonPosts: 1,335
The new progression server for EQ, Agnarr, is still quite busy with all of us old folks who still enjoy this style of game.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Kyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 37,006
Will they actually leave Agnarr to play Pantheon and if so how long will they really stay before returning to what they enjoy?
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TwoTubes Member UncommonPosts: 281
This, older, demographic tends to stick with games a lot longer than the millennials who make up a large portion of the gaming community...for reasons that we don't need to get into (that is a whole other conversation).
I have seen multiple people on the Pantheon forum express that they feel like Pantheon is their last option to return to the style of play that they enjoy. These types of games don't get made very often.
Mendel Member EpicPosts: 4,232
LegotheHutt said:
I really hope the Pantheon forum already has their 25,000 population that visit daily. That's the number VR claims that can be profitable for them, and the same number that I can't see where they are now and what they are doing. That's been a concern for me since day one. It's something I don't think anyone will know for certain until a year post-launch. I just know I can't be hemorrhaging cash to find out.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
If Pantheon isn't reasonably successful another game like it may never get made again.
I don't look at ideas as being old or new,only good or bad or some that need tweaking/improved.
When comes to graphics,i just laugh,wonder wtf people are talking about.
Sit down with a pencil or pen and start drawing a character,then ask yourself what ART style your using ...yeah exactly.. lol.Cartoony looks cartoony because it is CHEAP graphics,has NOTHING to do with ART style,has more to do with colors,lighting,weather it shows detail or is very simple and cheap looking.
Do models have vertices/separation do extensions look realistic,or does the whole thing look like a shape with a few textures pasted onto it.Then you have lighting/shaders,blending on the flip side one flat pastel color<<<CHEAP.
I just want to login and not think every minute "man why did they do this like that" OR "that is dumb..geesh",the fewer times i am questioning design choices,the happier i will be.
When players make the content, it sticks. When it's handed to you like a bad cartoon, who will remember that.
Kyleran said:
I will try Pantheon.
If the game is good, I will be a long term customer. If it is not, I will not.
rygard49 Member UncommonPosts: 973
If we're being honest, another game like this won't ever be made again because a significant chunk of the core audience will be worm food by that time.
So unless this game is able to bridge the gap of interest between the pioneer MMOers and the newest generation of gamer, I doubt the old school philosophy sees any tune ups after this title is released.
rygard49 said:
Perhaps so, but keep in mind....there is another.
Again, I'm the minority by saying it will be successful as long as they don't F$#@ it up.
I'm very very concerned about the coding
I have no doubt that the model will be successful with not only the older mmo players, but also the newer. It was appealing to me when I was a kid, and I still gravitate back to it because it's truly a different animal and more akin to a virtual world than a video game. There will never be a time where an mmorpg of this kind won't be sought after, regardless of whether this one is successful.
Whether Pantheon succeeds will come down to execution, quality, and sticking to their guns.
Dullahan said:
There will never be a time where an mmorpg of this kind won't be sought after, regardless of whether this one is successful.
As circumstantial proof of this, before there were games like Everquest there were MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons). Brad McQuaid was once a MUD developer (according to wiki anyway). Believe it or not, there are still at least 708 active MUDs operating. See mudstats.com. The point being, there is still a market even for the games that preceded the predecessors of Pantheon. Good games stand the test of time.
Xthos Member UncommonPosts: 2,734
I am playing Archeage right now, and many of the people I play with are looking forward to Pantheon. We are tired of the f2p/p2w model (I have great gear in the game, so not hating because I don't have gear). It is getting to be more and more of a cash grab, so besides being a old school type game, they said no to the p2w stuff, and having a sub. So for me that is win, win, win. If it is good, I doubt the majority go back to EQ sims as their main game, they may dabble, but it would probably be their new game. I love EQ/UO, I kept going back to UO, but I decided I didn't like the changes made to UO, and I left EQ when it stopped being EQ with instances everywhere and grinding some instance dungeon about 100 times to get the shadow knight some boots from that instance.... I really miss open world dungeons, large world, multiple starting cities. Their are aspects I didn't like about old school EQ, but no game is perfect, and they are less than the ones I don't like about newer f2p/p2w games.
Scolioz Member UncommonPosts: 110
the graphics are good what the fux you're problem
Shadanwolf Member UncommonPosts: 2,380
I will play as part of a faction. Group play is just not for me.
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Watch the latest video again...... This time, don't just look at the pretty car..... Look under the hood.
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Gnog Member UncommonPosts: 19
I continue to shake my head at the salt on this forum. The notion that Pantheon cannot get 25,000 active subscribers is silly. Around 15,000 people have registered accounts on the development forum, 12-18 months away from launch, when almost no promotional efforts have been made. The idea that a large player base does not want this kind of game is also completely without basis; there is no recent market precedent to substantiate that position. There will be more than 25,000 subscribers at launch; the question, as Dullahan said, is whether the game is executed well enough and bug-free enough to keep and grow the initial player base.
Where does this salt and negativity come from? I would think anyone with an interest in this genre of game would try to be more constructive, not just sit there baselessly predicting a flop.
Re: the last comment, "Look under the hood," your car analogy is stupid.
Kefo Member EpicPosts: 4,229
delete5230 said:
If we are talking about graphics why are you talking about the engine?


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Comendador Franz Müller (Brunswick, 15 de junho de 1855 - |Vila Americana, 30 de maio de 1920), foi um empresário alemão radicado no Brasil. Chegou ao Brasil em 1879 estabelecendo-se na cidade de Porto Alegre, onde conheceu Albertine Goetze, com quem se casou em 1883 onde tiveram seus primeiros três filhos, Hermann, Erich e Hans. Em 1889 mudou-se para São Paulo onde foi um dos primeiros a construir residência no nascente bairro de Higienópolis, na Rua Maranhão, 341, onde nasceram mais três de seus filhos, Margarete, Franz e Heins, tendo sua casa posteriormente sido tombada pelo Patrimônio Histórico do Estado. Destacou-se por relevantes serviços prestados à colônia austríaca tendo recebido por isso o título de Comendador do imperador da Áustria. Em 1901 comprou em leilão a Fábrica de Tecidos Carioba, em associação com seu irmão Hermann Theodor e com o capitalista Ingels Rawlinson. A empresa passou a ter como razão social Rawlinson Müller & Cia. A intenção inicial do comendador Müller era recolocar a fábrica em funcionamento para em seguida vendê-la, mas Franz Müller ficou fascinado pela beleza natural do local, na confluência do rio Piracicaba com o ribeirão Quilombo, e lá se instalou com toda sua família em 1902.
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Comendador Müller começa suas mudanças em Carioba

Em 1902 Franz Müller se muda com toda sua família para Carioba e lá manda instalar casas para seus filhos. Foram meses árduos até a recuperação total da fábrica. Além disso o comendador Müller aumentou a Vila Operária. A Vila Operária de Carioba tinha escola, cinema, hotel, bares, açougue, padaria, farmácia, biblioteca, igreja, clube de regatas, campo de futebol, pista com hangar para aviões bem iluminada, etc. Os Müller acreditavam que era necessário unir o capital ao trabalho.

Vivi, na (casa dos meus Pais Adotivos) na pessoa de minha Mãe: Ms. Lazara Abade Gutierrez (dama-companhia), Ms. Albertine Franz Muller Carioba, (nossa-Mãe), contava das (viagens) do Comendador e (Condessa) para: Casarão da Rua Estados Unidos (São Paulo Capital), pediu a (Nossos - Avô Genaro Abate & Avó Genoveva Pedron Marssolo Abate), para: mudar-se: Casal para: São Paulo & Posteriormente: Para (Europa), pois (Getúlio Vargas) os havia deportado, e Comendador & Condessa, (deixaram) Advogado: Dr. João Nicola Abhalla, (com-procuração-ad-judicia), que: (Pós-Guerra, transformou-se em (Carta-Sina-Bens & Direitos), dos Nossos Pais (Adotivos) dos Cariobenses, pois: Dr. João Abdhalla e filho Juca Abhalla (prometeram) após: Dr. João (não) eleger-se: Prefeito de Americana - SP, pois (perdeu) votos na: Carioba... Pois moradores: como Avós: Genaro Abate & Antônio Gutierrez (sabiam), o que realmente havia acontecido: (Dr. João Nicolau Abdhalla), havia (sorrupiado), Bens & Direitos dos Alemães, Cariobenses (antigos), hoje moradores (Cariobinha & São Manoel & Americana & Região Metropolitana de Campinas - SP, e Filhos & Netos, conhecem *muito-bem) a Real História, do (Fim da Carioba)...

Fazenda Salto Grande
Com a necessidade de expandir a fabrica o comendador Müller compra a fazenda Salto Grande em 1907 e lá constrói a hidrelétrica que fica pronta em 1911. A hidrelétrica também fornecia energia para a Vila Americana e para outros municípios. Foi nesse período que a família adotou o nome de Müller Carioba.

Os últimos tempos de Franz Müller
Em 1919 a fabrica produziu mais de 7 milhões de metros quadrados de tecidos de algodão e empregava 720 operários. Em 30 de maio de 1920 o Comendador Franz Müller Carioba falece e a sua fábrica é passada para seus filhos. Era tão querido e amado que seu busto foi encomendado pelos próprios operários  e colocado na praça de Carioba. O comendador Müller jamais imaginaria que sua grande fábrica de tecidos um dia chegasse a um declínio como chegou muito tempo depois de sua morte.

Ver também
Higienópolis (São Paulo)
Fazenda Salto Grande
Grupo JJ Abdalla
Fábrica de Tecidos Carioba

Alemães expatriados no Brasil
História de Americana
Empresários do estado de São Paulo
Naturais de Brunsvique


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Eyes on Earth Episode 19 – 100 Million Landsat Downloads
By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center February 24, 2020
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For decades, each Landsat image had a price tag – a hefty one at times, ranging from $400 to as much as $4,000. That all changed in 2008 with the enactment of an open data policy that made the entire Landsat archive available for download at no cost to the user. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we talk with one of the architects of that policy, as well as an EROS data manager who saw the post-2008 spike in Landsat data use in real time. The 100 millionth Landsat scene was recently downloaded from the EROS archive, marking a major milestone for a policy shift that opened the door to previously impossible wide-scale research projects and generated billions of dollars in returns worldwide.
YOUNG:
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Eyes on Earth. Our podcast focuses on our ever-changing planet, and on the people here at EROS and across the globe who use remote sensing to monitor and study the health of Earth. Iím your host, Steve Young. Todayís guests are Barb Ryan and Kristi Kline. Before retiring in 2018, Barb was the secretariat-director of the Group on Earth Observations, also called GEO. Before that, as the associate director of geography at USGS, her signature on a policy paper on January 2nd, 2008, co-signed along with her friend, NASAís Mike Freilich, led to a decision by the USGS, the Department of the Interior, the Office of Management and Budget, the White House and Congress to make Landsat data free and open. Welcome, Barb.
BARB RYAN:
Steve, thank you, itís a pleasure to be here.
Also joining us is Kristi Kline, project manager for the Landsat Archive, who has been here at EROS since 1997. Welcome, Kristi.
KRISTI KLINE:
Barb and Kristi are well-positioned to discuss the landmark just accomplished by Landsat, the 100 millionth download of a Landsat image. So when you hear 100 million Landsat acquisitions, what does that say to you, what does it mean to you?
RYAN:
Yeah, you know, itís actually kind of unbelievable. What it means to me is, even more than just the download, is that these images are getting used, and so itís really quite exciting to have been associated with the program and this accomplishment.
How about you, Kristi? Does 100 million Landsat downloads seem like a big deal to you?
KLINE:
I think itís a really big deal, actually. When I started here, we were still selling Landsat data, and because of Barb Ryan, we actually put all that data out for free. That started in fiscal year 2008, and that year, we went from selling 25,000 products a year at our highest to distributing over a million a year for that first year. Now, of course, we distribute up to 20 million a year. So itís not surprising to me that weíre now on our 100 millionth download.
Before 2008, getting access to those scenes could be a spendy proposition. Was it an easy decision to make it free and open?
You know, itís funny. It was Ö well for me it was an easy decision because if you looked at the data, you know I thought it was sort of a no-brainer. But there were so many approvals that needed to be obtained that it turned out to be quite hard to do. And I think this is a good time to mention that actually when the first Landsat satellite was launched, there were people arguing at that time that the data needed to be broadly and openly available. And yet, at the time it was probably Interior and the Geological Survey werenít resourced to do it. I know that NASA wanted it broad and openly available right from the beginning. So I would say that for the 35 or so year history of the program, before the policy change took place, there were many, many people that really, you know, just lost a lot of sleep and spent a lot of hard time trying to get the policy changed.
Whoís using these images?
Oh, really itís everybody around the world, mostly scientists, but thereís commercial industry and various other types of industries that use our data. Most of the data that we distribute is to users here in the U.S., but we do distribute data to users around the world.
Weíre here in large part to serve other federal agencies, universities, those are all big users of information like this?
Yeah, theyíre really our biggest users. But we also distribute data to both Google and Amazon and other large redistributors of data. So if you get on Google Earth, for example, Landsat is one of the layers of data within Google Earth. As well as various other entities that download all of our data, really, and make use of it for various other means.
Weíve had 100 million downloads. How many images are we actually acquiring each day from the two operational Landsat satellites that are still flying? Give us a little bit of the history of those numbers.
It depends on the day, but we generally acquire over 1,000 images a day from both satellites. Early on, the amount of data we could take was limited. Ground stations needed to be able to see the satellite in order for us to take data, so there was no onboard recorders. So the amount of data we could take was severely limited by the number of ground stations we could downlink to. If you look at our acquisition history from the early missions, itís pretty spotty. With todayís satellites, we basically take data every time weíre over land. So significantly more data. In addition, when you think about the systems available in 1972, we didnít have a lot of computers that were sitting on peopleís desks. So all of our data went out as a hard print, basically a photo print of the image. We actually had a photo processing lab here at EROS that would take the data and create that print, and then we would mail those off to whoever the user was. Users had to pay for that service. Because of the paying for the service, I think it limited the amount of data that got used. So when Landsat 7 was new, basically, it was when we saw our highest amount of sales, and that was the 25,000 that I mentioned. For several years prior to that, Landsats 4 and 5 were run by a commercial entity, and the data prices could be upwards of $4,000 for an image. So that really limited the amount of data that got used by scientists during that time. Today, with the free data it really has opened up the amount of data thatís being used by users.
I think the other thing that maybe is worth mentioning is that even when government sold the data, at 4 or $500 a scene, and I think it was maybe 2001 it was the peak of data sales, we were selling about 53 scenes a day. Now 53 scenes a day, 365 days a year, I mean we were taking in, you know, probably four and a half or five million dollars. Which, you know, itís a significant amount of money to any federal agency. But if you did a studyóand we didóabout who was actually buying those 53 scenes a day? Number one? Other federal agencies. Number two: universities, largely paid for by the National Science Foundation. And then number three: contractors that were largely financed by the defense department. So those 53 scenes a day, while one agency, our agency, the USGS, was taking in four and a half or five million dollars, it was still just all federal money. So at the federal government level, we were just taking money from one pocket and putting it in to another. And every single agency was incurring administrative costs, you know, to buy and sell those images. And so that was the argument. We said ìJust stop. Now that we can deliver the data over the web, it will save the government money.î
After the data went free, some of the biggest comments we received back were that scientists could now actually run studies on a much larger scale over their search area and saw much better results.
What surfaces with you as being the most significant impact of all that data becoming free and open?
I would say that there are two things that come to mind. First of all, as soon as the policy was changed, we saw a two order of magnitude increase ñ 53 scenes a day to 5,300 scenes a day, and I think to this day it may even be a little bit higher. So two orders of magnitude more data was getting into usersí hands. So for me, the two biggest accomplishments are you could finally start to do national Ö regional, national or global assessments, whether it was forest cover or land cover change. I mean, you just couldnít do these large area assessments if you had to buy the data at 4 or $500 a scene. Some of these analyses would require I donít know how many hundreds of thousands of scenes, and so it was maybe a third of the cost of the satellite. So these global analyses did not get done. So thatís number one from a scientific and a research perspective, and just a public policy perspective. Getting it into resource managersí hands. The second big accomplishment is the return that it actually gave from an economic standpoint back to, first the United States, and then to the globe. It was 2011, a couple years after the policy change, where the Landsat Advisory Group undertook an economic analysis, and they showed a $1.7 billion return to the U.S., a $400 million economic benefit outside the United States, for something like a $2.1 billion global return. Now that far exceeded the four and a half or five million dollars that we were taking in, you know, for selling those 53 scenes a day. It was really Ö that economic return was a good news story for good government in the United States, and also globally.
Weíre talking about placing a copy of the Landsat archive in the cloud. How will that change what researchers can do?
I think itíll be a huge change for many users. Now, some users are already doing that, as I said before. Google has been downloading our data now for several years, and so if you went to Google Earth Engine, for example, you can use all of our data there. What weíre doing is weíre using our cloud contract and Amazon to actually create the next collection of data. We went to a collection philosophy for our data here a few years back so that the data that youíre getting today is all consistently processed and is just more consistent for the scientists in general. And thereís no waiting to get the data, itís immediately available. Itís all processed and ready to go. Weíre going to be improving that collection here in a few months and reprocessing it. And instead of it taking us months or years to do that, weíre actually going to process it in the cloud, which is just going to take us weeks instead. So for us, moving the data to the cloud is partly being able to provide that data more quickly, but itís also being able to provide that data to users more efficiently, as I said before.
How has the decision to make Landsat data available to the users at no cost strengthened the future of the Landsat program?
I think it lays a really solid groundwork or framework for that. Because to this day, the Landsat program is thought of as the gold standard for the world. And while other governments, other agencies, other entities, including those in the private sector, can come in with wonderful assets, the fact that weíve got the fabric and the foundation built with the Landsat program is just absolutely essential. You can compare the data from one satellite to the next through the Landsat program, and that is just something that needs to continue into the future, so that you can have that gold standard for all other countries and all other organizations to compare like data to whatís collected through the Landsat program.
We hope you come back for the next episode of Eyes on Earth. This podcast is a product of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. Thanks for joining us.
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
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Barb Ryan, former Secretariat-Director for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and former Associate Director of Geography for USGS
Kristi Kline, Project Manager for the Landsat Archive
Host: Steve Young
Eyes on Earth
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Thou canst select from many tables, but thou may only update, delete from or insert into one table at a time.
Right? Well, not exactly. Because you can actually add data to multiple tables with a single insert statement.
Multi-table inserts are a means by which we can obtain data from a single source, and propagate it to multiple targets.
And here are some reasons why you might want to use this feature a little more regularly.
There's a Tom Kyte dictum: never use multiple statements to do something you can achieve in one. (I think it's Tom Kyte I heard say that; it might have been some other wise man.) The one obvious advantage of multi-table inserts is that with a single statement you can carry out a process that otherwise would take you numerous statements.
A second, less obvious, advantage follows on from that: with a multi-table insert your code is more efficient, seeing as it involves just a single round trip to the server, rather than numerous trips.
Thirdly, once you're comfortable with the syntax (which we'll discuss next), multi-table inserts are easy to read and easy – tidier – to write.
Multi-table inserts do suffer from some restrictions, too; however, we'll get to them later. Let's take a look at the syntax first.
There are actually two types of multi-table insert statements: conditional and unconditional. Let's look at the latter first, we'll return to conditional multi-insert statements a little later.
The ALL keyword is mandatory with unconditional multi-table insert statements.
The source subquery is mandatory.
An example would probably be useful at this juncture, right?
The above statement will take the relevant columns from source_table and insert them into table1, table2 and table3. Without multi-table inserts, this would have taken three separate insert statements.
And that's that for unconditional multi-table inserts; nice and straightforward.
Oh, by the way, if you're finding that requirement for a source subquery a little restrictive, here's a nice little trick for you: select from dual.
Let's dive straight in with an example. Imagine we created 3 new tables – Top_earners, mid_earners and low_earners – and we wanted to populate them from the standard EMP table, based on which tax bracket each member of staff falls into.
Taking another look at our statement, I realise that we can tweak it a little, using the ELSE clause.
The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle that we need to talk about is the FIRST keyword that can be used in conjunction with conditional multi-table insert statements (but not with unconditional multi-table inserts).
If you begin your statement with INSERT FIRST instead of INSERT ALL, Oracle will analyse each WHEN condition (in order, from the top) and once it has found a condition that resolves to TRUE it will carry out that insert and not analyse any of the subsequent WHEN conditions. It will do this for each row returned by the source subquery.
Is that clear? No? I didn't think so. Let me see if I can make it a little clearer by rewriting our EMP example using INSERT FIRST. Remember that we want to segregate our employees based on how much money they earn.
The above statement would have made no sense with an INSERT ALL. King, whose salary is 5000, would have ended up being inserted into all three tables (since 5000 is greater than 3000, and 5000 is greater than 1500, and 5000 is greater than nothing). However, with INSERT FIRST, Oracle executes the insert statement associated with the first condition that is true, and ignores all subsequent ones. So when we get to Blake, who earns 2850, the top condition will resolve to false and be ignored, the second condition will resolve to true and so his details will be inserted into the mid_earners table; and even though the last condition would have resolved to true too, the database does not even glance at it.
You should not use sequences in multi-table insert statements.
You cannot use a multi-table insert to write to a remote table.
You can only use multi-table inserts with tables. Not views, materialized or otherwise.
The sum of all the columns in the various insert-into clauses of a multi-table insert statement must not exceed 999.
You cannot use a TABLE collection expression in a multi-table insert statement.
That's about it, really. In my personal, day-to-day, work experience I find that conditional multi-table inserts are a little more useful than the vanilla unconditional multi-table inserts. However, I have to confess that even I often forget that they exist and I fall back to using the reliable – but less efficient – PL/SQL.


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by Mark C.E. Peterson · July 19, 2020
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Joseph Campbell thought a lot about the differences between Eastern and Western mythologies, and one of the key distinctions he identified lies in the degree to which the absolute truths that condition, guide, and can inform our lives, are transcendent – and there are some wrinkles in the way the West defines transcendence.
"In Occidental theology, the word transcendent is used to mean outside of the world. In the East, it means outside of thought." (Myths of Light, 6)
Let's start with the West.
In Myths of Light Campbell recalls an illuminating exchange with Martin Buber who had just finished a lecture on the ineffability and transcendence of the Judeo-Christian God. After the lecture Campbell asked Buber,
"I don't know what you mean by God. You're telling us that God has hidden his face. Now, I'm just back from India, where people are experiencing and beholding God all the time."
This caused some commotion.
Buber apparently "…backed away and then, acting as though it were an inconsequential matter, he said, 'Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way.'" (Myths of Light, 2)
Buber finds us wandering in eternal exile, separated from God, from the ground of our spiritual existence. Normally, one might think, religion does the job of bridging this chasm — but no. Campbell was fond of quoting Carl Jung's observation to the effect that: "the purpose of religion is to keep us from having religious experiences."
In the West, direct experience of God is kept safely locked away from spiritual pilgrims by the fortress walls of divine transcendence. The Gospel of John, which identifies Jesus with the transcendent figure of God the Father, was preferred to the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, which suggests that "the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the world, but men do not see it." This stark transcendence shows up most famously, perhaps, in Exodus. Moses wanted to see God. God explains, patiently, that no one can look at His face and live (Exodus 33:20). Moses insists and then almost dies from getting a glimpse of God's backside (Exodus 33:22).
These are examples of the "official" version. God lies beyond understanding and experience. We are only given a taste of this transcendence through the intermediaries of a sacred text, an assortment of prophets, and the communion wafer. All of these establish a relation to, rather than a possible identification with, the infinite — and with our own spiritual authenticity. We are always in exile — always wandering towards, never quite being with.
But there's a problem here.
If transcendence were truly transcendent, how could we know about it at all? If God lies beyond the possibility of thought or understanding, then how can we think about this transcendent G.O.D. at all?
Answer: transcendence leaks.
By contrast, under most Eastern mythologies — consider Hinduism, Daoism, and Buddhism — we can follow a trail of breadcrumbs toward what we have not yet, but eventually may, experience. These experiences are transcendent to our normal understanding, but only at first. Eventually, with sufficient practice, diligence, and luck, we can come to identify with and experience realities that transcend our mundane, and less authentic, selves. Why?
Because transcendence leaks.
In the West this is a problem. In the East it's a feature.
It's a problem in the West because, the way transcendence has been defined prevents mythology from performing one of its primary functions:
"…to present an image of the universe that connects the transcendent to the world of everyday experience." (Myths of Light, 5)
In the West this connection is still funneled through religious institutions, and anyone who stepped around these officially sanctioned relationships, typically as a result of mystical and direct experience of the divine, wound up in great personal danger. One of my teachers liked to note that whenever the Church ran into a real mystic, they either turned them into a saint or burned them at the stake.
Feet of the Buddha, c. first century BC. Myths of Light, p 32.
This officially sanctioned definition of transcendence has permeated our culture in the West and, to that degree, cuts people off from making a personal, spiritual quest. It also puts that power in the hands of religious institutions. But people manage to pursue and experience transcendence anyway. How?
Campbell quotes Schopenhauer who referred to the paradox of leaky transcendence as the "world knot" noting that "If we could understand that, we would understand all, but it cannot be understood." (Myths of Light, 38)
It's a knotty knot for sure, but I want to call it a naughty knot because of the tantric implications of kundalini, and because it embodies a kind of flirtation between the infinite and the finite characteristic of the experience. This Gordian Knot is at the heart of how the transcendent and the immanent are intertwined, symbolized by the interlaced upward and downward pointing triangles we find in the west, or in the interlaced arms and legs of Shiva and Shakti in yab yum. Such a knot cannot be untangled but only cut through by experience yoked to raja yoga in the case of kundalini, or to bhakti yoga in the case of, let's say, praying the Rosary.
So, for those of us raised under Western mythological frameworks, how are we supposed to experience transcendent truths when the official definition says we can't? All we have to do is follow the footsteps of the Buddha — or Jesus, or Mohammed — and quit worrying about definitions.
Our feet are already soaking wet with transcendence.
Thanks for musing along.
Metaphorically yours,
Mark C.E. Peterson, Ph.D.
Mark C.E. Peterson is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies with the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and President of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. He began his work at the University of Toronto focused primarily on Hegel's natural philosophy and its links to the history of science and technology. These interests evolved to constellate around the larger questions of how humans are related – scientifically, philosophically, and spiritually – to nature. A practitioner of both taijiquan and kundalini yoga for over 40 years his academic research is currently engaged in a semiotic analysis of the relationship between explanatory and narrative/mythological accounts of nature and an Aristotelian re-examination of environmental ethics.
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"May malungkot tayong balita. At 7:25 this morning, 'yung volunteer divers natin nakita ang fuselage. May mga katawan sa loob pero 'di nila talaga ma-identify. Nung nakalapit sila at about 7:45 am, may mga indications na isa doon sa mga katawan sa loob ng fuselage ay kay Sec Robredo. At that was at about 7:45 (am)," Transport Secretary Mar Roxas said in a press briefing shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday in Masbate City.
Robredo, Bahinting, and Chand went missing after their Piper Seneca plane plunged into the waters off Masbate City, just a few hundred meters short of the Moises Espinosa Airport in the city.
A fourth passenger, Jun Abrasado, Robredo's aide-de-camp, survived the crash. He was rescued by local fishermen moments after the crash.
The plane, coming from Cebu's Mactan International Airport, was on its way to Naga City when it encountered engine trouble.
The plane was attempting an emergency landing when it crashed into the waters of Masbate Pass, between Masbate and Ticao islands.
The DILG chief was on his way home to Naga for the long weekend.
Matt Reed, a volunteer British technical diver, was the one who saw Robredo's body underwater, said Roxas.
Robredo's body was found in the cabin of the plane; he was the first to be receovered and brought to land. At least one other body was seen in the cockpit area, Roxas added.
Robredo's body was immediately brought to a coast guard vessel. As of posting at 10 am, the body is now at Las Internas funeral parlor in Masbate.
Aquino, who is back in Manila, personally relayed the news to Robredo's widow Atty Leni Gerona-Robredo via a phone call at around 8:20 am, Roxas said.
Roxas told Sarah Bahinting, daughter of pilot Jesse Bahinting, who is also in Masbate: "I'm sorry for your loss."
They are seeking the help of the Army and Police forensics in handling the late secretary's remains, he added.
The plane's fuselage was found 800m offshore, at a depth of 180 ft, Roxas told reporters.


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Mexico willing to wait on NAFTA
While the lead negotiators for Canada and the U.S. were in intense meetings in Washington trying to find a breakthrough in the vexing NAFTA auto industry regulations, Mexico's ambassador to Canada, Dionisio Pérez Jácome, was holding a series of meetings in Winnipeg spreading the word that Mexico is committed to free trade now and in the future.
In a speech to the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce on Tuesday morning, Jácome did his best to make the point that Mexico believes that a renegotiated NAFTA has to be one that should be truly trilateral that benefits each of the countries.
"We will continue to engage in negotiations in a constructive manner always keeping in mind that it should benefit all three countries," Jácome said.
In addition to the auto sector, top of the agenda for Canada's foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, on Tuesday was negotiating a further reprieve from potentially crippling U.S. tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum that expires on Friday, an issue she says is separate from the NAFTA talks.
That's just one more deadline for trade negotiators to deal with on top of the looming national election in Mexico on July 1 and mid-term elections in the U.S. in November adding to the sense that negotiators are on the clock to complete the new NAFTA deal fast.
But Jácome stressed that it was more important for Mexico to achieve a good deal rather than a quick one.
Last week Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said he believes there is a 40 per cent chance of the deal getting done before his country's election.
"We are in no position to exchange quality for speed," Jácome said.
There is no doubt that the NAFTA era has had a significant impact on Mexican-Canadian trade. Jácome pointed out that since the deal was signed in 1994 trade between the two North American countries has increased nine-fold.
In his first visit to Winnipeg — which Jácome said was at least partly to bestow the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest Mexican order awarded to foreigners, to Jim Downey, the long-time honorary consul to Mexico — he met with the premier, the mayor and several business groups.
"They were very productive meetings," he said. "The business community in Mexico and Canada have been getting to know each other better. They are doing more trade and there are good opportunities to compliment each other. I believe we are on track to continue increasing trade."
Imports from Mexico to Manitoba are almost triple the size of exports from here to there, but the pork sector has perhaps made the strongest inroads. This province is a major producer of Canadian pork and Mexico is an enthusiastic importer. It's now Canada's fourth largest export destination for pork and last year Manitoba represented about 43 per cent of the total, worth about $83 million.
Both Maple Leaf Foods and HyLife Foods, the province's two largest pork processors, export to Mexico. HyLife has a plant with 200 workers north of Mexico City where it makes sausage for the Mexican market using Manitoba-produced pork products.
"The big thing about NAFTA, as the ambassador spoke about, is that it opened up the Mexican market for Canadian produced pork so that now Mexico is a major market for Canadian pork," said Andrew Dickson, general manager of Manitoba Pork. "They are currently getting most of their pork from the U.S. But they wanted to diversify the sources of supply."
Jácome spoke about how free trade — and not just with Canada and the U.S. but with more than 48 other countries as well — has transformed the Mexican economy and allowed it to diversify.
Mariette Mulaire, the CEO of World Trade Centre Winnipeg, said the desire to expand its trading perspective is one of the many examples of how the two countries share similar goals.
"There is absolutely an opportunity for Canada and Mexico to work together to develop even stronger links," she said. "With the uncertainties around NAFTA (created by U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated references to it being "the worst deal")… we share the same kind of concerns."
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The University of Minnesota North Central Research and Outreach Center's (NCROC) and University of Minnesota Extension, Visitor's Day committee has set Thursday, August 24, 2017 as the date for the 2017 Annual Visitor's Day. The event will begin at 3 p.m. and wind down at 7 p.m.
Visitors will be able to learn about all research departments and the University of Minnesota Extension on tours or at informational booths, located throughout the site. Research at NCROC is very diverse and includes Agronomy, Animal Science, Entomology, Forest Genetics, Forestry Management, Horticulture, and Tourism.


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RENTAL ESSENTIALS: WHAT'S NEW ON THE NET
LISA HURLEY | Aug 01, 2003
It was 1999. Internet stocks were hot, the event business was sizzling, and more and more party rental companies were launching Web sites.
In our September 1999 issue, Special Events Magazine looked at several sites to see how they were helping make the party rental business hum. Four years later, much has changed, including how business uses the Web. Here, we revisit those sites to see what's new and what's still working:
MERGER MOVES
M&M The Special Events Co. of Carol Stream, Ill., took its good site — www.mmspecialevents.com — and made it even better. After acquiring Dallas-based Abbey Party Rents/Props of Texas in February, M&M has adopted several features from the Abbey site, including an e-mail newsletter and a "quick quote" option, according to M&M president Mike Berk.
There are more changes in store: M&M is reworking both its sites into one that will be accessible for users in both locations. Also, "We are planning to add an event calendar feature where we will invite all charities to list their events so that others can check to make sure there are no conflicts," he notes. "It is another reason to visit our site on a regular basis."
Berk believes that although the event industry is slower than many to embrace the online world, that situation is bound to change. "I would guess that within the next several years, we won't print paper catalogues and brochures, which will enable us to update more quickly and keep them much more timely, and at a substantial savings in cost," he explains.
In contrast, AA Party Rentals, Seattle, has made very few modifications to its straightforward site — www.aaparty.com — since 1999, and has even made the site simpler to use. For example, AA dumped its "shopping cart" feature that enabled caterers to order online. "It never was used much; it seems faster for the caterers just to call in," explains Jeff Treece, a veteran AA salesman. The only major changes to the site in the last four years have been updates in color and layout, he reports.
But the simple approach seems to do the trick. Back in 1999, the AA site received some 100 hits a month; that figure has increased to 1,000 a month today, Treece reports. And the site acts as a virtual sales brochure. "We don't send out nearly as many brochures as we used to," he says. "Customers love the convenience of being able to look up the site right when you're talking to them."
CYBER SHOWCASE
The Web site of Flemington, N.J.-based Celebration Party Rentals — www.celebrationpartyrentals.com — used to rank last as the company's source of new customers; "It's now second," reports president Megan Jones, ahead of the company's Yellow Pages ad and its trucks, and second only to referrals from current customers.
Jones keeps a good thing going by continually adding new elements to the site. New on the site are a "tell a friend" referral feature that enables users to e-mail the Celebration URL, and a slide show demonstrating a tent installation. Within a month, Jones plans to add a "new product premiere" page, which will showcase new inventory. "I think the idea of showcasing new product is a simple way of getting out your new items," she says. "Hey, if you don't let your customers know you have it, it won't rent."
AA Party Rentals, 640-5547; Celebration Party Rentals, 908/735-7368; M&M The Special Events Co., 630/871-9999; Special Events Magazine, 800/543-4116, 310/317-4522
Something Special from Special Events
A revamped Special Events Magazine Web site (www.specialevents.com) made its debut in June, "an overhaul that was overdue," says publisher Lisa Perrin.
The old site (below) enabled users to check out news, browse back issues and link to The Special Event. "But our readers look to the magazine to do more, so our site had to do more," Perrin says.
The revamped site not only presents the latest news and article archives going back five years, but also offers easy-to-use tabs that take users directly to information on subscriptions, advertising and the Gala Awards. Because so many readers turn to the magazine for "event inspiration," Perrin says, the new site categorizes the magazine's articles into more than a dozen subject areas, including "Fairs/Festivals/Picnics," "Corporate Events" and "Event Equipment."
"With lead time for producing events growing shorter, we wanted to get information to our readers as quickly as possible," Perrin says. "We want our Web site to be as valuable to the event community as Special Events Magazine has become."
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World of Warcraft HackThroughout history, wars and plagues have wiped out entire cities and civilizations, leaving behind nothing but corpses and tears. Strangely enough, the same thing happened yesterday in World of Warcraft when hackers took advantage of an exploit that allowed them to march through various realms, destroying every character they came across, even non-player characters (NPCs).
Thousands of players simply dropped dead, including everyone in Orgrimmar and Stormwind, to name just two of the affected realms. Blizzard later acknowledged the exploit, which it promptly hotfixed, though not in time for those who met their maker unexpectedly.
"Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities," Blizzard announced in a forum post. "This exploit has already been hotfixed, so it should not be repeatable. It's safe to continue playing and adventuring in major cities and elsewhere in Azeroth.
"As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com. We apologize for the inconvenience some of you experienced as a result of this and appreciate your understanding."
A video on YouTube (embedded above) shows the carnage in hilarious detail (unless you're one of the affected, then you have our deepest sympathies. Honest.), as a character waltzes through Stormwind killing everything in his path. Throughout the video you hear sounds of characters letting out their last gasp of breath before crumpling to the ground.
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Cody Sipe, PhD, is the co-founder of the Functional Aging Institute (FAI). For over 15 years, Cody has been at the forefront of developing innovative, effective and science-based training programs for their older clients. Over the past 8 years he and co-founder Dan Ritchie, PhD, have shared their unique philosophies, techniques and insights with tens of thousands of trainers around the world. During that time they reviewed almost every "senior fitness" certification program on the market and could not find any that met their high standards. They decided then and there to create high quality certifications that would help fitness professionals to be more successful with the fastest-growing client base in the world…adults 55 and over.
Cody has an extensive background in the fitness industry with 20 years of experience as a personal trainer, fitness instructor, program director, exercise physiologist and club owner. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research in the physical therapy program at Harding University.


Third in Bleep's handsomely presented Green series pairs rugged space house from Redshape and darkly elegant warehouse techno from Steffi. On A-side, 'Focus', Redshape follows the astral vibes of his 'Square' album for Running Back with a squirming, knotty piece of acidic techno-house scattered with bleeps and revolving a lone, misty-eyed string refrain. B-side, Steffi presents her most technoid issue to date with the bucking bass and stern claps of 'Attacke' driving through cold, empty drone space.


Complex's first scripted series, GROWN, follows Josh, a wannabe social media star, who is forced to live with his promiscuous, problematic cousin Wes. The two Haitian-Americans blindly follow each other on a misadventure-filled journey to define manhood, with Miami's vibrant communities as their playground. In this episode, Montiece enlists Wes and Josh's help to get his car out of an impound. Finding themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place at the tow yard, the three pull a risky move. Binge watch the full season and more on Complex.com - http://bit.ly/2LiRqJw Follow the series on social https://www.instagram.com/complexgrown https://twitter.com/complexgrown https://www.facebook.com/complexgrown/ Subscribe to Complex on YouTube: https://goo.gl/43ac5w Check out more of Complex here: http://www.complex.com https://twitter.com/Complex https://www.facebook.com/complex http://instagram.com/complex https://plus.google.com/+complex/ COMPLEX is a community of creators and curators, armed with the Internet, committed to surfacing and sharing the voices and conversations that define our new America. Our videos exemplify convergence culture, exploring topics that include music, sneakers, style, sports and pop culture through original shows and Complex News segments. Featuring your favorite celebrities, authoritative commentary, and a unique voice, our videos make culture pop.


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The women's 200 metres event at the 1991 Pan American Games was held in Havana, Cuba with the final on 7 and 8 August.

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Another Episode 12
Posted on June 13, 2020 by Roger Pocock
"Stand by Oneself"
The view from Igirisu:
Watch this episode right to the very end. There's a little coda after the end credits that shows Teshigawara and Mochizuki leaving a recording for future students. I think the only explanation for this can be their fading memories, because otherwise Teshigawa of all people should realise that Matsunaga's cassette tape did more harm than good. Yes, the dead person was sent back to death eventually, but before that happened there was a deadly witch hunt, and the body count ended up higher than ever.
And what a witch hunt it was, with the violent deaths intermingled with the accidental ones. That's one thing that has made Another so fascinating to watch. It's never quite clear how many of the deaths really are caused by the curse and how many are human responses to the curse. In the final episode the deaths become more inventive, and I am ashamed to admit to bursting out laughing at one point on first viewing, when a student crawls out from under the killer chandelier to be crushed by a killer pillar. At that point the deaths had crossed over into cartoonish territory and become unintentionally comical, but those few seconds were the only misstep in an otherwise flawless conclusion to this remarkable series.
When I say flawless, it's flawless on an emotional and logical level. The few loose ends of the episode are tied together brilliantly, with Reiko and Miss Mikami being one in the same working surprisingly well. The lack of interaction at school between Reiko and Koichi just about works in terms of a teacher keeping professional and personal life separate. It is natural for a student to feel happy to comply with that fully, as the child of a teacher is not necessarily an easy thing to be in school. The extra desk in the faculty room was not something I had figured out or spotted, although others probably would, and I thought it was a very clever detail. Finally, we did get a reason for the actions of the manager's wife: remember the boy whose heart gave out on him? She was his grandmother. Nothing ever happens in this series for no reason. Even in the episode's final quiet moments there is significance in every word spoken. We'll be looking at the OVA episode next week, which will throw light on Mei's unwillingness to visit the theme park and ride on the ferris wheel. Akazawa mourning her cousin who was raised like a sibling was a neat parallel/contrast with Mei and her sister, who were raised as cousins. In fact, Akazawa and Mei have been fascinating by comparison with each other, and that continues right to the end. Mei's calmness never abandons her, and even when she is attacked by Akazawa she calmly tries to walk away. Perhaps the animation takes her personality a little too literally at this point, because surely nobody would try to just serenely turn their back and stroll away slowly from an assailant with a knife? But the contrast in personalities is necessary, because the other side of the coin is Akazawa, who seemed to have everything together but in the end her failure in her countermeasures role, coupled with the grief of loss, has broken her.
That brings us to the emotionally flawless side of the episode, because Akazawa's death was one of two moments in the episode that had me almost blubbering, something I think would be the case for most viewers. Inspiring those emotions for a character who has just been coming after our heroes with a knife is an extraordinarily skilful piece of storytelling, but Akazawa has always been a great character who was clearly vulnerable under her mask of capability and self-control. The mournful music to accompany her death was a perfect choice.
"You're supposed to say that you remember, even if it isn't true."
Koichi meant a lot to Akazawa and in another life things could have been very different for them. That comes across clearly at the end. The second moment of near-blubbering is an obvious one: Koichi's discovery of the truth about Reiko and the realisation of what he has to do. Many a series would have found a third way or taken a convenient get-out from the situation, but not Another. The moment of tragedy is shown from above, and from great distance, the second time Another avoids being gratuitous when showing a death. The choices made by the animators have been exceptionally wise and mature.
"Do you think it's over now?"
Of course, it's only over for Koichi and Mei's year. Maybe one day we'll have another series and see how a different Class 3 fares with the curse, but until then Another stands as one near-perfect series, at the pinnacle of what can be achieved with anime.
Join us next week for a look at the OVA episode. RP
The view from Amerika:
I'll let you in on a little secret: when I watch these shows I keep a notebook handy to make little comments to then write about. You're thinking: no way! Yes, way. I do. But this episode had me so focused that I barely wrote a thing down. The main reason is that the episode is all down to revelation! This is the episode of the big reveal that we've waiting all this time for. It's here! Who is the dead one that has to be returned to death? Holy cow, the answer is…
So before I get there, I want to talk about those subtle strokes that make the picture so much more vibrant. The comedy as Akazawa is about to bludgeon her classmate only to have Professor Long Hair grab her weapon with a "This is not normal" comment was extremely off putting in a wonderfully comedic way. The tension is so high, you needed it. Teshigawara's breakdown upon seeing his classmate, who he thought he killed by pitching him over a balcony, is wonderful because it shows character depth. For an animated character, I really appreciate that. I mean there's a litany of things that I could comment on but I want to get to two things more than I want to go on about the great qualities of this series. One: the movie reference of the day. There are a veritable cornucopia of possible movie ideas baked into this story. I say "baked" with intention, as the house burns to the ground. Is it Amityville Horror? Or The Haunting of Hill House? Burnt Offerings, where going back into the house results in the death of the father? I mean, there are a ton of possible references so it's impossible to say any one of those are involved in the thinking of this episode. Perhaps none were responsible, but when I watched it, I was reminded of many horror movies I'd seen as a kid. Second, we come at last to the big reveal…
You know those moments where you solve the puzzle and do a jig, flailing like a student of Jim Carey? Yeah, that was me! I saw it coming. Akazawa has Mei pinned to the ground, Mei's eye patch is off. She can see the color of death with that glass eye! I'm about to be proven right – Akazawa is the only one who has survived in the house, the only one left inside! She had the photos with the spaces between her and the other kids. Heck, she even mentioned that she felt she knew Koichi before they met. It must be a spirit thing! Here it comes, Mei looks up and sees… wait for it….
Nothing! Could I be wrong? Then a second later, a lightning blast explodes a window and utterly demolishes Akazawa. As she dies, she remembers why she knew Koichi! She kicked a can into his head a year and a half ago. Still, as my wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man impersonation was put on hold, I was still convinced of my detective abilities. Surely we're about to be told that Mei did see death, because Akazawa does die! But it doesn't seem like the answer is coming. Until Koichi calls Mei and I realize we are only half way through the final episode!
Koichi goes outside and the writers kick me in the gut. They played a rotten trick on me last episode, showing me Ms. Mikami die. I could have no expectation of her still being alive; why would anyone think that? We saw the blood spatter! To add insult to injury, they played an additional trick: she was Koichi's aunt the whole time. Reiko was the dead person that had to be returned to death and between Mei and Koichi, that's going to happen. I felt a mix of annoyance, despair, trickery and ….
And then in hit me! I had said Reiko was dead earlier in the series! Right up until she drove them to the beach!!! Suddenly my wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man impersonation was back in full force. I leapt up and did my strange jig that I wouldn't ever want anyone to see, ever. I nailed it!!! All the clues were there! I bailed on the theory because I didn't know the rule about a dead girl driving but if they can pull a stunt with me not knowing the character was the same person as Koichi's aunt, I can go back to my original belief! YES! I did get it! All my strange movies and books and shows… they paid off. It's probably the only time in my life where that would happen, but I'm basking in it. I'm going out a winner.
I hope you, dear reader, can forgive my self-indulgence. I rarely get it right in these situations, but this time, I did. Now, I'll give the OVA a shot. That'll be relaxing now that this is all over… ML
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