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A black granite monument inscribed with the names of teachers who lost their lives while working with students is being developed and will be placed on the Emporia State University campus.

Two corporate partners of the National Teachers Hall of Fame have donated $40,000 total to cover the initial funds necessary for the fallen educators project. Pearson Education Foundation is committing $25,000 to the project, while Security Benefit has promised $15,000.

The National Teachers Hall of Fame, located on ESU's campus, is coordinating the effort to raise $200,000 for the 10 foot square monument. Once completed, the memorial will be placed near the one-room schoolhouse located on the north end of ESU’s campus. A walkway, benches, special lighting, and a donor wall are to be part of the display.

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The NTHF Board said Emporia is the ideal location for this memorial to fallen educators.

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The Phone Dragnet Adopted “Selection Term” by 2013

As I laid out last week, I’m not convinced the term “specific selection term” is sufficiently narrowly defined to impose adequate limits to the “reformed” Section 215 (and NSL and PRTT) programs. Here’s how the House defined it:

SPECIFIC SELECTION TERM.—The term ‘specific selection term’ means a term used to uniquely describe a person, entity, or account.

That said, as I also noted, the motion to amend January’s primary order used the term to refer to the query term, which may suggest my concerns are unfounded.

I’ve looked further, and the amendment’s use of the term was not new in the phone dragnet.

In fact, the phrase used to refer to the query subject changed over the course of the dragnet. The first Primary Order authorized the search on “particular known phone numbers.” That usage continued until 2008, when Primary Order BR 08-08 introduced the term “particular known identifier.” A completely redacted footnote seems to have defined the term (and always has). Significantly, that was the first Primary Order after an August 20, 2008 opinion authorized some “specific intelligence method in the conduct of queries (term “searches”) of telephony metadata or call detail records obtained pursuant to the FISC’s orders under the BR FISA program.” I think it highly likely that opinion authorized the use of correlations between different identifiers believed to be associated with the same person.

The September 3, 2009 Primary Order — the first one resuming some normality after the problems identified in 2009 — references a description of identifier in a declaration. And the redaction provides hints that the footnote describing the term lists several things that are included (though the footnote appears to be roughly the same size as others describing identifier).

Identifier Footnote

The Primary Orders revert back to the same footnote in all the orders that have been released (the government is still withholding 3 known Primary Orders from 2009). And that continued until at least June 22, 2011, the last Primary Order covered by the ACLU and EFF FOIAs.

But then in the first Primary Order after the 2011-2012 break (and all Primary Orders since), the language changes to “selection term,” which like its predecessor has a footnote apparently explaining the term — though the footnote is twice as long. Here’s what it looks like in the April 25, 2013 Primary Order:

Selection Term Footnote

The change in language is made not just to the subject of queries. There’s a paragraph in Primary Orders approving the use of individual FISA warrant targets for querying (see this post for an explanation) that reads,

[Identifiers/selection terms] that are currently the subject of electronic surveillance authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) based on the FISC’s finding of probable cause to believe that they are used by agents of [redacted] including those used by U.S. persons, may be deemed approved for querying for the period of FISC-authorized electronic surveillance without review and approval by a designated approving official.

The change appears there too. That’s significant because it suggests a use that would be tied to targets about whom much more would be known, and in usages that would be primarily email addresses or other Internet identifiers, rather than just phone-based ones. I think that reflects a broader notion of correlation (and undermines the claim that a selection term is “unique,” as  it would tie the use of an identity authorized for Internet surveillance to a telephone metadata identifier used to query the dragnet).

Finally, the timing. While the big gap in released Primary Orders prevents us from figuring out when the NSA changed from “identifier” to “selection term,” it happened during the same time period when the automated query process was approved.

This may all seem like a really minor nit to pick.

But even after the language was changed to “selection term” on Primary Orders, top intelligence officials continued to use the term “identifier” to describe the process (see the PCLOB hearing on Section 215, for example). The common usage, it seems, remains “identifier,” though there must be some legal reason the NSA and DOJ use “selection term” with the FISC.

It also means there’s some meaning for selection term the FISA Court has already bought off on. It’s a description that takes 15 lines to explain, one the government maintains is still classified.

And we’re building an entire bill off a vague 17-word definition without first learning what that 15-line description entails.

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bmaz Live by the Beard, die by the Beard
bmaz Things people say when you are circling down the toilet into the Sepptic tank:
bmaz @nbilka @CNN Oh crikey, don't set standards I am on the far side of the sun from.
JimWhiteGNV Still a number of emergency vehicles at site of San Diego Fish Market fire as sun sets. News says everyone is ok.
bmaz @nbilka Brilliant of Ficker to have gone on @CNN to yak about the former client then. [I may need to hari kari now...]
bmaz @nbilka Heh, "vouching for your client". Cause, you know, there are no stop signs that come attendant to that idea.
bmaz @nbilka I mean, if the best you can do is make people ask what form of dope you are, you ought not have gone in front of media #MediaRuleOne
bmaz @nbilka Yes, apparently may have been. Irrespective, that was a clown job making that media appearance. Jeebus.
emptywheel @joshua_eaton They've said they were updating their systems. That's not nec storage, 215 part of whole. @AliWatkins
emptywheel @joshua_eaton Remember, 215 was only ever a fraction of the metadata they get, which is less storage than content bulk. @AliWatkins
emptywheel @joshua_eaton But they can't replace each other (702 was used as one replacement for Internet dragnet tho) @AliWatkins
emptywheel @joshua_eaton They CAN reverse target (they're not supposed to). Doing that requires having the metadata to find what to target @AliWatkins
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Top 10 myths about prehospital 12 lead ECGs

A recent thread at JEMS Connect has reminded me how many myths are circulating about prehospital 12 lead ECGs.

1.) If you're close to the hospital, performing a prehospital 12-lead ECG is a waste of precious time.

The prehospital 12-lead ECG is an important triage tool. The closest hospital is not necessarily the closest appropriate hospital! In addition, just because you're close to a PCI hospital doesn't mean you can't save 15 minutes of ischemic time by giving the hospital early notification that you've identified a STEMI patient.

2.) Prehospital 12-lead ECG monitors are incapable of capturing diagnostic quality 12 leads.

As long as the low frequency (high pass) filter is set to 0.05 Hz (which happens automatically when you capture a prehospital 12-lead ECG) then you will record accurate ST segments. A more important issue is data quality and lead placement, which is a training issue (and a credibility issue).

3.) It's important for the ED staff to perform another 12 lead ECG to confirm that it's really a STEMI.

I don't care if the ED staff performs another 12 lead ECG as long as the cath lab has already been activated based on the prehospital 12-lead ECG and they are already taking advantage of parallel processing (for those patients who show obvious STEMI in the field). However, there's nothing "magic" or "special" about the ED's 12 lead ECG. Serial ECGs can be extremely important, but mostly for suspected ACS patients with nondiagnostic (or borderline) ECGs on initial presentation. If they're waiting for their own 12 lead ECG before activating the cath lab, then they're wasting valuable time.

4.) If ST segment elevation resolves by the patient's arrival at the hospital, then it's not a STEMI, and the patient doesn't need an emergent cath.

Should you wait for the cardiac biomarkers to come back positive before sending the patient to the cath lab? I'm not sure that's a good idea. The case I posted last month shows that even when ST segment elevation resolves by arrival at the hospital, the patient can still have an occlusive thrombus in an epicardial coronary artery.

5.) Nitroglycerin is contraindicated for patients with suspected right ventricular infarction.

Not all patients with inferior STEMI have RV involvement, and not all patients with RV involvement develop the hypotensive syndrome. Consider the vital signs, the heart rhythm, and the physical exam, and treat accordingly. Sometimes the patient just needs a preemptive fluid bolus.

Update: The new 2010 AHA ECC Guidelines say to use NTG "with extreme caution, if at all" in the setting of suspected right ventricular infarction. It's not quite "contraindicated" but that's a strong statement! What do I say? "Use your brain!"  There's no substitute for sound clinical judgment!

6.) Prehospital 12-lead ECGs are important tools to help distinguish between VT and SVT with aberrancy.*

If you're using QRS morphology to "rule in" VT, then be my guest! If you're using it to justify giving a CCB to a patient with a wide complex tachycardia, then I think you're crazy. That's not to say that I don't capture 12 lead ECGs for all patients who present with cardiac arrhythmias, because I do. Documenting the arrhythmia is very important. Sometimes it even helps with the diagnosis. But I do not base my treatment decisions on QRS morphology and neither should you.

7.) If the hospital ignores the prehospital 12-lead ECG then there's no point in performing one.

I'm sympathetic to this view, but it's a defeatist attitude. You should capture a prehospital 12-lead ECG with the first set of vital signs, prior to oxygen and nitroglycerin. That way, when you "clean up" the 12 lead ECG prior to arrival, you can hand them a picture of what the patient looked like prior to your intervention. It's hard to imagine that a board certified EM physician would ignore that. In any case, the ECG should be made a part of the patient's record, because the cardiologist may care.

8.) It's easy to identify STEMI on the prehospital 12-lead ECG.*

Technically this isn't a myth. It is easy to identify a home run STEMI on the prehospital 12-lead ECG. However, that should not be interpreted to mean that reading a 12 lead ECG is easy, or that just because you've been taught to identify an obvious STEMI with reciprocal changes that you can read an ECG as good as a physician. You might be able to, but you probably can't. Identifying ST segment elevation on the 12 lead ECG is easy! Differentiating between true STEMI and the STE-mimics can be difficult. Sometimes very difficult.

9.) It's impossible to identify STEMI in the presence of LBBB.

Sure you can. You can use a modified form of Sgarbossa's criteria and you can perform serial ECGs. A moving ST segment suggests dynamic supply vs. demand characteristics consistent with ACS. Is it difficult? It's more difficult. Impossible? Hardly.

10.) Axis determination is "nice to know" information but you don't really "need to know" it.

That's like saying "paramedics don't really need to know how to read a 12 lead ECG." That's fine, if that's really your opinion. Just don't complain when you're asked to transmit the ECG for physician interpetation.

* Technically not a myth but requires qualification.

  • Mark says:

    Quick question about #7…sort of. Some medics say do the 12-lead before any interventions. Others say do the interventions while you are getting a 12-lead when you have chest pain. (O2, ASA, NTG) Is there any published evidence that O2 and NTG can cause signs of a STEMI on a 12-lead to disappear? If it’s really a STEMI with full, transmural involvement, I can’t imagine that a nasal cannula and a shot of NTG is going to change the 12-lead significantly. (Or am I totally wrong here?)

  • Tom B says:

    Mark -I’ve seen this happen on several occasions. See the case study from March that shows regression of ST segment elevation (link in #4).As for published evidence, I’m not sure whether or not there’s anything in the peer reviewed literature. If not, there may be something on the way from Hennepin County EMS.I’ll look into this and let you know what I find out. Thanks for the comment!Tom

  • lisa plebani says:

    A few things….yes the closest hospital may not always b the best, u r correct, (ie..Aria Bucks doesn’t do caths in house they get shipped to Torresdale) but if ur going to bypass the closest facility with an unstable pt because u feel a different hospital would b in their best interest, u must contact medical command to do so, that’s not a decision we can make, u must have medical command authorization to do so. Also, unfortunately (at least for the hospitals in Bucks County), when the als providers do call a stemi, the cath lab is not activated until that is verified by the ed physician, maybe this will chAnge in the future, or when ekg’s r transmitted, but as of right now, I agree that time can get wasted due to waiting to activatE the cath lab, however in their defense there has been numerous times when stemis r called by providers, when indeed there is no stmi at all, which is maybe why the hospitals do this. Just because the monitor says there’s a stemi, it doesn’t necessarily mean there is, which is why providers need to b competent in reading 12 leads. And to answer someone else’s question, yes, every intervention we do can absolutely have an impact on the 12 lead, which is why a 12 lead should b performed with the initial vital signs, besides a pt should remain still while a 12 lead is performed, kinda hard for them to remain still sometimes while doing an Iv, or while the truck is in motion, which will also cause artifact. U can Always repeat a 12 lead, but an initial one should b performed with the initial vital signs.

  • Medic2011 says:

    Okay, I'm new to this level of treatment, but I'm observant of what takes place in the hospital as I have been performing 12 leads as a part of my hospital clinical rotations.  I was fortunate enough to have a remarkable cardiology instructor.  The most important thing I've noticed is that a high majority of techs and nurses that perform 12 leads in the hospital have no idea how important lead placement is and why they are placed where they are.
    I recently went to perform a second 12 lead at the request of the ER doctor.  The ECG had just been done by an RN.  I explained to the pt. that I needed to do another ECG, so when she exposed her chest to allow me to hook up the leads, it became very apparent why I was doing this a second time.  Leads V3-V6 were lined up neatly across the anterior chest wall and literally resting against each other.  Lead V2 was placed smack dab on top of the sternum and V1 was actually close enough that I didn't have to move it.
    Another time, I walked into a treatment room where an RN was hooking up a pt. to the 12 lead.  I could see immediately that she didn't know what she was doing as she had the leg leads on the forearms!  I told her I would be happy to finish it while she did something more important.  I proceeded to move the legs leads to the proper locations and she made the statement "oh yeah, I forgot they don't want us to put them there anymore!"
    My point is that a prehospital 12 lead may be the best 12  lead a doctor sees on this pt.  If a paramedic can do one without sacrificing treatment time, I'm all for it.

  • Nathan Stanaway says:

    Two things,  Medic 2011 I think you should have corrected and educated the nurse or tech who made the errors with lead placement.  Its important.  These are people's lives we're dealing with and  pride be damned.
    Lisa going to the closest APPROPRIATE hospital is of utmost importance and is sometimes the only difference between being transported by ambulance and choosing where to go from the yellowpages.   You absolutly should go where the problem can be fixed, if you dont, whats the point?  To compare this to something I think is well accepted; You wouldnt take a major trauma to a band aid station when the trauma center is 15min further.   Would you?
    Tom great post Im forwarding this one to more than the normal folks I spam!

  • William Dillon says:

    Great post.  Prehospital ECGs are critical to improving outcomes in STEMI pts.

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Giles Martin, who served as music director to Cirque du Soleil's Beatles Love alongside father and Beatles producer George Martin, will oversee the game's music. Still no word on whether the original recordings will be remastered or not. Additionally, Sony/ATV Music Publishing CEO Martin Brandier told Variety that the deal was -- shocker -- unprecedentedly expensive. "We signed a deal that would be considered very rich by the videogame company but fair for the artists," he said. "It will have online implications that will be enormous."

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Bargain hunters make Vizio LCDs most popular in US -- for now
In these difficult times people are looking to buy what's cheap, a state of mind that Vizio's iSuppli's latest press release isn't ashamed to apply, lauding the company's status as the current most popular brand of LCD television in these United States. It owned a 21.6 percent chunk of the US LCD TV market in the first quarter, up from 13.8 in the quarter before and beat out Samsung to be king of the liquid crystal hill -- largely thanks to prices that were, on average, between $150 and $400 lower than the competition. Kudos to the brand and we hope that it enjoys this moment, because with imports of new sets banned out on bond it must be tough paying an extra $2.50 on each one coming through Customs. Full press release after the break.

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El Segundo, Calif., May. 7, 2009-U.S. television maker Vizio Inc. surged into the leading position in the North American LCD-TV market in the first quarter, as dwindling disposable incomes sent consumers flocking to buy the company's low-cost sets.

Vizio's share of North American LCD-TV unit shipments rose to 21.6 percent in the first quarter, up 7.8 percentage points from 13.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to iSuppli Corp. The company surpassed Samsung to take the No-1 position in the North American region.

"Due to its aggressive pricing, Vizio for some time has maintained its position as North America's top-selling LCD-TV value brand," said Riddhi Patel, principal analyst, television systems, for iSuppli. "However, since the onset of the economic downturn, Vizio's share has risen dramatically. With budgets becoming increasingly tight, consumers are finding the company's inexpensive sets more alluring."

In the first quarter, Vizio's lowest Average Selling Price (ASP) for a 42-inch Cold-Cathode Fluorescent (CCFL) backlit, 60Hz refresh rate, full High-Definition (HD) LCD-TV was $850. In comparison, Samsung and Sony 40-inch LCD-TVs with the same configurations carried ASPs of $1,000 and $1,090 respectively.

When comparing 120Hz models at the 40/42-inch size, the price differential between Vizio and Samsung and Sony was $400, with the Vizio set priced at about $1,000.

After first taking the lead in the North American market in the second quarter of 2007, Vizio's share of LCD-TV shipments dwindled to 8.7 percent in the second quarter of 2008. However, by the first quarter of 2009, the company's market share had risen by two and half times the level of the low in the second quarter of 2008.

While Vizio has maintained its low pricing, it has managed to add newer features to its LCD-TVs, such as 120Hz, making them more competitive with those from premium brands like Samsung and Sony.

Another factor contributing to Vizio's success is the company's use of high-powered retail channels to sell its sets, most notably Wal-Mart.

The attached table presents iSuppli's ranking of LCD-TV brands by unit shipments in the first quarter.

Are LCD-TVs must-have items?

North American LCD-TV shipments in the first quarter amounted 6.3 million units. While this was down 23.2 percent from 8.1 million units in the fourth quarter, the decline follows the normal seasonal pattern of shipments peaking in the fourth-quarter holiday season and falling to the low point of the year in the first quarter. Compared to a year earlier, in the first quarter of 2008, regional shipments in the first quarter of 2009 were up by 10.5 percent, indicating the LCD-TV market remains strong despite the economic downturn that has caused sales of most other consumer-electronics products to decline.

Rather than stopping their purchases of LCD-TVs, consumers are focusing on lower-priced sets.

"With LCD-TV sellers in the first quarter maintaining their promotions from the holiday season, and with prices declining, television sales managed to grow compared to the same period a year earlier," Patel said.

Insignificant others

Vizio posted the largest increase in market share and shipments among the Top-5 North American LCD-TV brands.

The combined market share of the smaller players, accounted in the "others" category in the attached market-share table, saw their portion of shipments plunge to 21.9 percent in the first quarter, a significant drop from 29.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008.

"Smaller brands saw their share of shipments decline so rapidly because of increased competition from the premium brands in terms of pricing and availability of 32-inch and smaller sizes," Patel said. "Premium brands priced some of their product lines very competitively with their value alternatives, compelling consumers to go for names that they recognize."


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In January, I called on Apple to allow iOS users to customize the notification sounds on their devices beyond the nearly two dozen built-in sounds offered on the iPhone 4 and iPad. Back then I said, "The iPhone has been on the market for going on four years now, and yet we still haven't been blessed with the ability to use our own sounds for these alert tones. My only question: why the hell not?"

If I sounded a bit cantankerous, it's only because the most advanced smartphone on the planet lacked a simple feature that other phones have had since before the iPhone even came to market. The good news is this feature gap has been addressed: as of iOS 5, Apple has at last made it so users can assign almost any sound they want to iOS notification alerts.

As before, in the Settings app under "Sounds" you have the ability to alter the notification sounds for Ringtone and Text Tone. New to iOS 5 are tone settings for New Voicemail, New Mail, Sent Mail, Calendar Alerts, a sound for Tweets via iOS 5's built-in Twitter integration, and a setting for alerts sent via the new built-in Reminders app.

Drilling down into the next menu allows you to change the tone, but it's here that the similarities end with iOS 4 end. I'll use Text Tones as an example. In iOS 4.3 and earlier, the only tones you could use on an iPhone 4 were the built-in sounds -- 23 in total. Owners of older iPhones had a still more limited selection, with only the original six sounds available. That's changed in iOS 5. The old, built-in Alert Tones are still available, with "Tweet" and "Swoosh" (the default "Sent Mail" sound) thrown into the mix. Scroll past those sounds and you'll see a new category right below those sounds: Ringtones.

The Ringtones list is split in two between ringtones of your own that you've loaded on the device and the 25 sounds included with iOS. These can be tones you've purchased from iTunes or tones that you've created yourself through one means or another (GarageBand is my weapon of choice). One restriction that Apple hasn't gone out of its way to advertise, however, is that alert tones have to be less than fifteen seconds or so in order to show up in the list of available sounds. If you have ringtones longer than that, they'll still show up in the list of available sounds for when your phone rings, but you won't be able to use that 30-second clip of "Poker Face" for your SMS notification sound. I'd call that a blessing.

The upshot of all this is that instead of being limited to the sounds Apple's chosen to include with the device, you can now assign virtually any sound you want to your alert tones for Messages, Mail, Calendar Alerts, and so forth. After all these years, at last my iPhone can make the "Get new item" sound from the Legend of Zelda series when I get new email, which unlike the "Ding" default makes the New Mail sound something that's actually audible from more than three meters away.

Daring Fireball's John Gruber likes to throw tomatoes at bloggers for using the word "finally" when it comes to Apple introducing features or updates, but I don't feel bad at all using it here. Four years was a long time to wait for something as basic as the ability to use our own sounds for notifications, but at least the wait is finally over.

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While scouring Samsung's booth at CES's Digital Experience for that glorious 55-inch OLED set this evening, we came across a table full of new WiFi-enabled cameras and a camcorder. The logic behind the WiFi feature is that it enables direct access to Microsoft's Sky Drive, E-Mail, PC Auto Backup, remote viewfinding and of course Facebook, Youtube, and Picasa right from your phone. The top of the line $379 WB850F -- the F designation indicates it has WiFi -- has a 16 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, 21x optical zoom, 3-inch AMOLED display, shoots 1080p HD, and even has GPS with POI. The 16 megapixel $199 DV300F was also on hand with a 5x optical zoom, a 3-inch display and shoots 720p video. Samsung's 14 megapixel $229 WB15F also sports a 3-inch AMOLED screen, and shoots in full HD with up to 18x optical zoom. The tied-for-least-expensive $199 ST200F still puts in a showing with a 16 megapixel shooter, 10x optical zoom while still capturing HD video at 720p. Samsung launched one HD camcorder, the $299 Q20 which packs 20x optical zoom, time lapse, and HD recording at 1080i @ 60fps. All of the cameras have a similar heft and are built with similar materials which should help narrow people's purchase decisions to looking at what features they want and what's affordable. On to the gallery!
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Potentially inhabitable superEarth discovered in 6 planet solar system

When we do eventually reduce the Earth to an uninhabitable wasteland through our careless consumption of natural resources and inevitable nuclear wars, we'll need someplace else to go. We haven't picked a successor yet, but a new candidate has been identified a mere 44 light years away, orbiting dwarf star HD 40307. The super-Earth orbits its host star right at the edge of the so-called habitable zone, where a stable atmosphere and liquid water are possible. We don't know for sure the planet is, in fact, capable of supporting life, but there's at least a chance. And given that it's roughly seven-times the mass of Earth, it shouldn't have much trouble playing host to our exploding population.


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Luke, a true gentleman should always be aware that Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies releases in Japan on February 28. The 3DS game is the final entry in the Layton prequel trilogy, and the last to star the hatted pointer as a protagonist.

Release dates for other regions aren't yet known, but given the last entry also came to Japan during February, there's a good chance Azran Legacies arrives in North America and Europe around October time. As for whether or not Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney is making its way to Western shores, that remains an unsolved mystery.

On the sweeter side of things, Layton fans in Japan can look forward to a new range of chocolate with the prof's face plastered across it. As Siliconera reports, the chocolatiers behind Pocky are releasing two flavors of 'Professor Layton's Puzzle Solution Break Chocolate,' namely chocolate gateau and the wonderful-sounding oolong tea chiffon cake.

We'd be (pleasantly) surprised if the chocolate finds its way over here.

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how are youuu? 16 Today I'm really happy, we are now 8000 cuties on the Kawaiiland facebook page, I'm very happy for this goal and you've no idea how much your support is important to me 7
Thank you very much and yoroshiku neee 9

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Hello Yesterday I made these paper bags to wrap my jewelry and I wanted to show them to you

They remember to me the candies bag

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A lot of new items will wait you today on kawaiiland.net from 9pm (+1 gtm) 7 Don't miss them 19

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Welcome back to kawaiiland.net :34:
Here we are with the new update 14 we've to bring a lot of pastel color in this first days of fall! :26:

How you can see the shop style is changed 3 the previews have a new pratical desing 6
Even the picture are changed! What do you think about them? :31:
I think it is more suitable and in line with the name of my brand, in fact, by these new photos is as if I brought you in my room, showing, in addition to jewelry, the big amount of cute stuff, wallets, handbags (etcetc) I collect! :35: 13

From today until 13 of september I'll accept commissions for decoden cover, then I'll stop myself doing until november because I'll work for the autumnal comic convention (Romics and Lucca Comics) :32:

The shop will remain open, and if I can, I will try to put something new in the time that I have between the conventions 2 follow me on facebook to stay up with my activity, since I write there at least once a day :24:

The latest news is the Japanese version of the site! 2 japan.kawaiiland.net 2
I worked sooo lazy in the last months with the support of my friend Marie and finally here it is now :31: I am very happy and I hope it will be a great help to realize my dream about Japan 7

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I am here today to inaugurate the 1 commissions page 1 and the better way to inaugurate it is showing my new creative passion: decoden 7

I started to do them a month ago after receiving the first request from my friend Twina and I had so much fun doing it, so I was happy when I received other requests and when I made some of them as gift for my friends 15

So, as I said, from today you can order them directly from the website and you can ask any type of decoration on the condition that it is in line with my style! 14

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It's not a really news because it's about star comet necklace7 I putted on sale in the last update, but today I'm here to show you a new set 15
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I noticed that some girls had problems using the online shop, sadly the script is not well done 17 and I'm working to fix it5 but in the meantime I give you some tips to use it without any problem 8

Here are the most frequent problems and their solutions! 9 13

3 You have to click several time to add item in the cart
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SOLUTION : this is a common problem especially if you visited the shop in the past, but sometimes it happens at the first visit!
In this case the solution is very easy, you must delete the cookies from your browser!
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You will find a lot of necklace with cupcake, gelato and star comet, but you'll find rings and bracelets and finally the hair goods! Take a look in every section 6
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ps: if the cart doesn't work fine, please take a look on this page to fix it, probably you've to cancel the cookies!

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Thank you very much for your support in the past days, you are all so cute 3

Today I'm here to talk about the new update! It will be on monday June 04 at 9.30 pm (+1 gtm!) 15

There will be a lot of new perfect for your summer outfit, and this cute&silly gelato too!! 15
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Hello girls 2 Finally I can say "Welcome on my new website" :20:
From today you can do your cute shopping in comfort on Kawaiiland using the new online shop7

But there is another surprise that I will share with you today6
Since May 21 will be my birthday and for me it'll be a very special day and since I also want to thank you for the support you have given me in these months, after the decision to leave the Cute Can Kill project, I decided to organize a big bargain! 3

As you can see from the banner on the top 15 the discount will be 30% off each jewel and you will find discounted prices only from now, May 18, untill May 22! 9
I hope that this initiative will please you as much as it amused me making it 2

Thank you and see you soon! 13
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Midland Community Rallies to Support the Vision of the EERC

Midland, Texas, started out as the historic “midway” stop between El Paso and Fort Worth on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Today it is the center of 25 percent of the nation’s oil reserves found in the Permian Basin. Surrounding Midland are millions of acres of university land serviced for generations by the hard working people of West Texas. The oil and gas produced from these lands has helped build The University of Texas at Austin into the great institution that it is. But the people of Midland realize there is more support needed.

Not only are Midlanders funding UT Austin through their hard work and innovation in the oil fields, but they are also making personal gifts to help develop a new engineering facility, which will mirror their dedication to technology innovation.

Midland is known for its philanthropy. And it is now home to the largest number of donors for the Cockrell School’s Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), a planned 430,000-square-foot facility to provide urgently needed space for interdisciplinary teaching, research and hands-on student projects. Considering that there are 27 cities* in Texas with greater populations than Midland, their generosity is an impressive show of support.

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The largest gift for the EERC has been donated by the Anwar family. Left to right: Javaid Anwar, with daughter Leslie, BBA ’12, son Ryan, BSPE ’12, and wife Vicky.

“The U.S. has been the world’s leading economic power because of our strengths in engineering, science, and math,” says S. Javaid Anwar, founder and CEO of Midland Energy and Petroplex Energy. “But we are falling behind. That is why I chose to invest $4 million in the EERC. Singapore, about the size of New York City, has pledged $35 billion to their university research and science alone. If a country of that size can do that, surely we can do more in Texas.”

The promise of a university education is what brought Anwar to the U.S. from Pakistan right after high school and led to his American dream coming true. He and his wife, Vicky, are the parents of twins Ryan Anwar, BSPE ’12, and Leslie Anwar, BBA ’12, who graduated from the Cockrell School and McCombs School of Business, respectively. Their children’s UT experience inspired their gift, along with the EERC’s benefits to our state and country.

“In the cycle of education, workforce development, technology creation and energy production, none of these elements can exist without the other, and none is possible without the higher education offered at great universities like UT Austin,” Anwar said.

For another Midland family, an EERC gift has ties to three generations of Longhorn engineers. Jeff Sparks, BSPE ’83, COO at Discovery Operating, a family-owned oil and gas business founded by his father Don Sparks, BSPE ’62, said the “biggest part of what I was taught at UT was how to learn, and that made all the difference in my life.”

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The Sparks family includes three generations of UT engineering alumni. Left to right: Don Sparks, BSPE ’62; PGE professor Ben Caudle who taught all three generations; Jeff Sparks, BSPE ’83, and Jarrod Sparks, BSPE ’11.

Two of Jeff’s sons are graduates from the Cockrell School – Jarrod in 2008 from petroleum engineering and Josh in 2011 from chemical engineering. In addition to the EERC pledge by Jeff Sparks and his wife Val, the family also supported the renovation and naming of the Ben H. Caudle Student Learning Excellence Center in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. Professor Caudle taught all three generations of the Sparks family.

Once called wildcatters, the entrepreneurs, engineers and business leaders of Midland are using science and technology to drive the current energy revolution. Many of our alumni wear all three hats.

Tom McKnight, BSAsE ’70, is a fighter-pilot-turned-successful-Midland-oilman. After flying F-106s in the Air Force, he worked for Schlumberger before venturing out on his own and founding Eagle Rock Drilling. He and his wife Mimi made a gift to the EERC and have also donated 25 percent of the patent royalties from their Aggressor drilling rig technology that was sold to Cameron.

“The success that I have enjoyed can be traced directly back to the engineering education I received at UT Austin,” said McKnight, who worked his way through school teaching flying lessons.

Today, he is flying gliders and competed in the 2013 FAI World Gliding Championship in Argentina. Through their generosity, the McKnights want to ensure the next generation has the same opportunities to pursue their professional and personal passions.

Steve Pruett, BSPE ’84, is president and CEO of Elevation Resources LLC. While launching this new company, he made an EERC gift in honor of where he got his start and set the trajectory for his career in the oil and gas business.

“The EERC has been designed to facilitate collaboration between different disciplines (sciences, business, law, etc.) and across all engineering departments, and it gives the students the opportunity to work in team settings like we do in the business world and in advanced research and development,” Pruett said. “It is an honor and privilege to be associated with this well-designed project that is a credit to Dean Greg Fenves’ vision and leadership.”

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EERC donor Arlen Edgar, BSPE ’57 (right) joins Cockrell School Dean Greg Fenves and UT Austin and Cockrell School supporter Richard Folger, BBA ’81 and PLM ’84, at the 2013 Dinner of Champions in Midland that honored Folger.

Alumnus and Midland icon Arlen Edgar, BSPE ’57, had this to say about his EERC gift: “It is my turn to show gratitude and repay what was given to me as a student. People worked hard to provide me an opportunity to have a great education, and now I want to give back for those who come after me.”

These are just a few of the stories of many Midland alumni and friends from multiple generations who have joined forces to help make the Engineering and Education Research Center a reality. Learn more about how you can be a part of this transformative facility.

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How can we realate A Streetcar Named Desire to modern society?

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How can we realate A Streetcar Named Desire to modern society?

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I think that Williams' drama has much in it that relates to the modern setting.  In many of the topics raised in the drama, Williams was ahead of his time for they are issues that we see in society today and still struggle to understand.  In some cases, progress has been made.  Yet, in others, we find ourselves similar to the characters in the poker game, staring in horror at what we see and lacking the collective will to do anything about it.

The issue of mental health is something with which the context of the drama struggles and something with which we struggle today.  Blanche is in need of severe mental care.  She has endured so much and it has had such a profound and destabilizing effect on her.  She exhibits so much of what we would now easily call as "mental health issues."  Yet, she is misunderstood in the drama.  She does not receive much in way of social compassion and understanding.  When she says that she "has always depended on the kindness of strangers," the audience realizes how long the road of suffering and hopeful recovery will be for her.  No one does anything and she is left to fend for herself.  Blanche internalizes this and simply "goes away."  In the modern setting, we still struggle to fully comprehend the issue of mental health.  In the last year, mental health has become a significant concern.  The shootings in Colorado, Newtown, and most recently in Santa Monica as well as other situations have the thread of mental health concerns running through them.  As a society, we have not fully begun to understand how mental health concerns should be handled.  Blanche peacefully and quietly exits, stage right.  Yet, the modern understanding of neglecting mental health concerns has take a decidedly violent turn, causing reflection and understanding that Williams was ahead of his time in suggesting that mental health concerns need to be addressed.

Spousal violence is another element of the drama that has resonance to the modern setting.  Stanley is a brute.  He beats his wife and rapes his sister in law.  In the play's context, this is a "private" issue.  When Stella talks about taking that ride on the "streetcar named desire," it is almost a code for women accepting the abuse that their men place upon them.  The modern setting has seen this change a bit.  In many parts of the world, violence against spouses and women, in general, are not seen as "boys being boys" or "private."  Rather, they are prosecuted under the law.  However, there are still an alarming number of places in which such violence is socially accepted and sanctioned.  There are places in the world, communities around the globe, and homes in modern society where men beat women, and are encouraged to do so.  This is something that Williams brings attention to and seeks to present a vision of what is in the hopes of what can be.

Finally, the issue of the fallen teacher is something that Williams illuminates and was ahead of his time in doing so.  Blanche conducts herself inappropriately with a student.  The issue is hushed in the social context of the drama, but it adds to her own self- destructive narrative.  In the modern setting, the fallen teacher has become something of a cliché and Williams illuminates something kept in dark corners to front and center.  Once again, in doing so, public light is brought to an issue previously kept in the shadows.

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There are two possible outcomes with respect to Friar Laurence's plan to fake Juliet's death detailed in Act 4, Scene 1. The first possible outcome is expressed in Juliet's speech just before she drinks the vial. Just like she, the reader/viewer can predict that the vial may not fake her death so much as cause her actual death. A second possible outcome the reader can predict is that Romeo may think her death is actually a real death, which could lead to other travesties. All in all, the reader/viewer sees that things can possibly go wrong with this plan, and it creates a great deal of suspense.

While Juliet, in her speech before drinking the vial, never worries that Romeo may think she is really dead, she does express the fear that the vial might really kill her. We see her worrying the vial actually contains a poison meant to kill her so that Friar Laurence will not have to be guilty of marrying her to two men, as we see in her lines:

What if it be a poison which the friar
Subtly hath ministr'd to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd
Because he married me before to Romeo? (IV.iii.25-28)

While Juliet does not herself consider the possibility that Romeo may not learn the truth in time, she does picture in horror what could happen if she had to wait for Romeo in the tomb. She pictures herself suffocating in the vault before he comes or being driven mad by her surroundings to the point that she kills herself. Regardless, all in all, the reader/viewer knows that many consequences can result from Friar Laurence's plan, two of which are that she could actually die, or Romeo could think she is really dead. In addition, the possibility that anything can go wrong with the plan helps create suspense.

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The feeling of suspense is created both by what Juliet will experience by taking the friar's potion and what could go wrong. First of all, the best case scenario is that she will awake in her family's tomb, sharing the space with her ancestor's rotting bodies. (She speaks of playing with their bones.) That's spooky enough, but think of all the ways (and Juliet does) that the plan could go wrong. She could take a wrong dose of the potion -- she considers that the friar might actually be trying to kill her because of his guilt in secretly marrying them-- and actually die. Or somehow, the message to Romeo is lost and she would be buried alive in the tomb. Either way, her prospects look pretty grim.

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Customers need a reason to return to your Web site. Are you giving them one?
This story first appeared in the August 2001 issue of Entrepreneur. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.

It's a scary reality: e-commerce sites turn over as much as 60 percent of their customers every six weeks. Given such a discouraging statistic, how is your site supposed to grow when finding new customers may consume all your time because first-timers rarely make return trips?

The answer is, it can't. You'll have to find a way to get customers to come back for more. The secret, say experts, lies in building loyalty. Achieve that, and you most likely have a customer for life.

Online incentive marketing (setting up loyalty programs on your site, for example) works wonders when it comes to building relationships with customers. In a recent study from market research firm NFO Interactive, about 53 percent of online consumers surveyed said they'd go back to shop at a specific Web site if it offered incentives.

"Customer retention is [incredibly] important; one way to make someone a lifetime customer is through incentive programs," confirms Leland Harden, co-author of NetResults.2: Best Practices for Web Marketing (New Riders Publishing). "Incentive programs allow merchants to show customers that they appreciate them."

There are numerous such programs out there. You could do something as simple as offering customers the ability to earn gifts-like T-shirts emblazoned with your logo. Or you could go with the most popular option, known as a frequent-buyer or points program. This choice gives customers the opportunity to receive frequent-flier miles, discounts or points toward the purchase of merchandise by buying products on your site. The more your customers spend, the bigger the discounts or the more points they receive.

One company reaping the benefits of the strategy is, an Arlington Heights, Illinois-based community and portal Web site for collectors. The site rewards customers by giving them the opportunity to amass loyalty points they can trade for savings on future purchases.

It works like this: When customers sign up for's program, they receive five points. They also get points every time they purchase products, visit the site, get a friend to register, or participate in a poll or survey. When customers hit 500 points, they receive $10 off their purchase at checkout.

"We set up the program to show our customers that we really appreciate their business," says CEO Shonnie Bilin. "And the program has been a great success because it helped us develop customer loyalty. We reward customers for coming back to the site. Then they reward us by [returning] and purchasing more products."

Although Bilin, 47, set up her program in-house, you can also outsource your program to an incentive company such as Inc., Netcentives and WebMiles Corp.. When your company joins the company's merchant or partner network, members who purchase products from your site receive points that can be redeemed for merchandise or airline miles.

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Keep in mind that incentive programs aren't for everyone. If you sell niche or expensive products, for example, shoppers may buy something once but then have no reason to visit your site again. So, before you spend time and money launching an incentive program, consider whether your effort will be worthwhile.

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This is by far the most powerful traffic building technique I have ever used.

It’s not easy to do, but it’s worth the effort. Read on for more…

The process of releasing Blog Mastermind, a membership based mentoring program for bloggers, provided me with my favorite type of learning experience – a real world market test. In this newsletter I’d like to share with you one of the lessons I learned and the technique I implemented that resulted in the most traffic.

Although I was specifically marketing Blog Mastermind, the spin off effect was a large boost to my blog traffic too, since is the showcase blog that I drew upon to produce most of the materials I used to market the mentoring program.

Obviously since my blog taught me nearly everything I know about blogging, I refer to it over and over again when preparing materials to teach others with, this in turn drives traffic to my blog.

During the launch process I implemented many different marketing techniques to build buzz and traffic to my site, but there was one technique that outshone everything else I did – I released a comprehensive free report called The Blog Profits Blueprint.

If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, please do so, it’s a great book and I have received more than 200 glaringly positive feedback testimonials from people who read it and it’s been downloaded more than 10,000 times.

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The book was the primary resource I released to teach people about blogging and as an introduction to what they could learn through joining the Blog Mastermind program.

Inside the Blueprint are many links to articles in my blog and also links to videos featuring my blog, so the Blueprint acted as a great introduction to my blog and me as well as a marketing tool for my mentoring program.

I promoted the Blueprint everywhere I could, including my own communication channels (for example if you were on this blog traffic tips newsletter when the Blueprint was released you would have received an email about the release) but I also leveraged my relationship with many high profile affiliates and partners to spread the word about the Blueprint.

Affiliates, partners and friends are key for building traffic to your blog when using a free report or book. If you just release your free report to your current readership you are preaching to the converted. There is nothing wrong with that, and hopefully many of your current readers will share your report through word of mouth, but the real traffic growth comes when you can use your report as a doorway into traffic sources not already familiar with your blog.

Strategic relationships are very important and if you decide to write a free report style document or any similar “hook” style resource (see newsletter #31), make sure you consider how you will use the resource outside of your current exposure points. If you really want significant blog traffic growth, you have to tap into “other people’s traffic” and the only way to do that is via money or relationships.

Releasing a comprehensive report on how to do something is one of THE best ways to get the attention of other people. Best of all, you can give your report to other bloggers, ask them to read it and if they like it, do whatever they want with it.

Chances are they will read it, enjoy it and then share it with their readers. There’s no guarantee of course, but a soft approach like this works best since you are not pushing hard to get people to promote your work – they only do so if they genuinely want to.

The hardest part of this technique is actually producing the report. I wrote The Blog Profits Blueprint in about 3 weeks of highly concentrated effort, but you don’t have to be as focused as I was.

A 30-50 page report is not that much work, it’s about 8-15 pillar articles strung together and I bet you could write it in about 2-4 weeks if you put your mind to it.

I guarantee, once you put together your report you will be very glad you did so. It’s so nice to have something solid to give to people as a great introduction to your work. Go on, start writing your report today.

Here’s to your blogging success.

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OMI Industries

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OMI Industries (OMI) specializes in controlling malodors and emissions with our patented Ecosorb(R) technology. OMI has extensive experience engineering solutions to solve a variety of odor-related problems from industries that experience year-round odor problems due to their production process, to seasonal odor problems due to temperature, to occasional odor problems ...

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Interactive Oceanographics

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Interactive Oceanographics provides solutions and services for the marine and freshwater environmental monitoring communities and developed Streamline environmental monitoring software. We work closely with our clients to better understand their unique requirements in order to provide practical yet focused solutions. We provide technical sales for leading manufacturer`s ...

AML Oceanographic Ltd

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Ocean Instruments, designs and manufactures marine biological and geological sampling equipment for hundreds of oceanographic applications between the surface and the seabed. For more than 50 years, our products have been used throughout the world by oceanographic research centers, major universities, industry and government water pollution control agencies. As one of the ...

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HOCER Instrumentation engaged itself in developing and producing water analysis systems for protection of all drinking water resources. HOCER Instrumentation manufactures a wide range of analyzers for professionals working in the fields of water pollution detection and water quality analysis. Our products are built to increase the productivity of professionals in fields, ...

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Aanderaa Data Instruments develops, manufactures and markets oceanographic and meteorological instruments and special systems for collecting environmental data. Data can be stored internally in a highly protected memory or transferred in real-time via cable, VHF/UHF radio, satellite, modem or GSM. vast area of applications including ocean research and coastal research, ...

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Valeport designs and manufactures instrumentation for the oceanographic, hydrographic and hydrometric communities, with a worldwide customer base that includes: environmental, defence, oil and gas, renewable energy, construction, dredging and, civil engineering sectors. Products include Current Flow Meters, Tide Gauges, CTD`s, SVP`s, Sound Velocity Sensors, Altimeters, ...

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Class Instrumentation Ltd, a proudly British company specialising in UT ultrasonic water integrity testers, liquid level indicators and non-destructive test equipment. Our instruments are being used to revolutionise the shipping, fire safety and manufacturing sectors - allowing accurate risk assessment and maintenance of equipment at low cost. Our products are built to ...

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BD|SENSORS develops state-of-the-art pressure and level transmitters for industrial and municipal water management. `Successful medium-size companies are not successful because they are active in many areas, but rather because they concentrate on one area and do it better than anyone else.”

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RST Instruments Ltd.

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Established in 1986, Studio 4°C - the temperature at which water is at its densest - was set up by Koji Morimoto (director of segments in Robot Carnival (1987), Memories (1996) and The Animatrix (2003) as well as animator on Golgo 13 (1983), Akira (1988) and Majo no takkyûbin/Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)), Eiko Tanaka (production manager on Majo no takkyûbin) and Yoshiharu Sato (key animator on several Studio Ghibli tites). Their aim was to make anime with a more offbeat feel and to that end have employed the peculiarly Japanese style of "superflat", a postmodern approach (you can find out more about it here) which results in some of the most unusual animes. Several of the team's short films have been gathered together in various collections and it's one of those, the bizarrely titled Sweat Punch, that we're looking at here. Sweat Punch comprises four shorts, Higan, Professor Dan Petori's Blues, End of the World and Comedy.

The 8.5 minute Higan has only the slightest of storylines and relies heavily on that great staple of anime, giant fighting robots knocking the crap out of each other. There's absolutely nothing new in terms of story or themes here (you wouldn't really expect much in such a limited timespan) but the visuals are stunning. Most of the story takes place in a pitch black nocturnal forest, the action picked out in the muzzle flash of the fine collection of heavy artillery on show and the sort of room shaking explosions that you only ever see in anime. There's a genuine feeling of suspense as the two hapless robot pilots pick their way through the trees trying of find and destroy the tanks that are attacking them and there's a realism and fluidity of movement rare in all but the very best anime. However, it is just a vignette, looking for all the world like an eight minute slice taken from a much longer film and it probably isn't the best place to start exploring the work of Studio 4°C - unless of course you're an unrepentant fan of hardcore mecha action, in which case, this one should be right up your street.

One of the first things you notice when you dive into the world of Studio 4°C is that there's no house style as such - each film looks very different to the next and the styles can range from the realistic to the stylised to the completely bizarre. End of the World looks so dissimilar to Higan that you'd never know that it was the work of the same production house. At a rock concert, Yuko meets the strange Kazumi who claims to live in space. She offers to let her stay at her place for the night and that's when things become completely mad - Kazumi transforms Yuko's television set into a lo-tech fighting machine, disappears into a space/time portal and ends up in another dimension fighting jelly-like creatures and eventually bringing about the destruction of an entire existence...

Repeated viewing do little to help explain the extraordinary plot. The ending is particularly strange, a metaphysical finale that suggests that it all may have been a dream, but then again.... well, who knows? What makes End of the World such an enjoyable experience however is, once again, the visual style. The alternate dimension is presented through a fine gauze of television static while the "real" world is all sharp 2D animation and CGI sets. It's a strange mix, but an effective one. The closest you may have come to the strangeness of End of the World is probably the Aeon Flux animations, with its similar mix of inexplicable events, strange creatures and youthful female assassins. But even that doesn't come close to the oddness that oozes from every pixel of End of the World. Not well liked by all anime fans, End of the World is still worth 11 minutes of your time, if only for the surreal landscapes of the alternate dimension (where enemies of the female creator of that world are crucified beneath giant flying crosses and the landscape seems to consist of one continuous, post-apocalyptic desert.

Now as for Professor Dan Petory's Blues... This has got to be the oddest animes ever created. You can be certain that whatever your preconceptions of Japanese animation might be, this will challenge any and all of them - it begins with a mostly out of shot couple arguing about whether or not they should get married (animated in a beautiful and decidedly non-anime style) before we get to meet the eponymous Professor Dan Petory - a CGI animated hand puppet who delivers a series of mind-rottingly bonkers lectures on why UFOs fly in zig-zags and why the Earth looks blue, all interspersed with singing routines from The Soybean Sisters, a boxing bout and an astronaut drifting around in orbit... Then we get a TV interview with UFO witnesses (conducted by a man in a pink bunny suit), a man discussing why live gigs are better than listening to recorded music then back to the professor for some nonsense about horoscopes. At the end, everyone exclaims "I understand!" but you almost certainly won't. Completely and utterly mad whichever way you look at it, Professor Dan Petory's Blues is certainly unique.

It's also an astonishing compendium of just about every animation style you can imagine - there's pixillation, traditional 2D animation and CGI, all blended together (sometimes in the same shot) to bewildering effect. Forget trying to work out what it's all about (it probably isn't actually about anything) and just lap up the unremitting surrealism of it all.

Finally, we've got the strangely titled Comedy. Despite the title, a barrel of laughs this most certainly isn't. Instead it's one of the most beautiful and haunting animes you'll ever see. Set in the Black Forest, it follows a young girl and her attempts to find a mysterious swordsman who only accepts certain types of books for his services and who she hopes will help save her village from the advancing English army. The dialogue suggests that the story is set during the war between the Irish and the English, but the invading English troops look like futuristic cyborgs, giving the film a pleasing sense of dislocation.

Of the four films that make up the Sweat Punch package, Comedy is undoubtedly the best looking. Filmed with a muted colour palette that's almost monochrome in places, making marvellous use of depth of field effects and steeping the whole thing in a soft-focus, ghostly atmosphere, it really is a marvel to behold. Characters are more angular and sparsely defined than most anime figures, the music is genuinely haunting and the storyline, though slim and perhaps too odd for many, is perfectly serviceable, if rather subservient to the images.

If this is a representative sample of what it is that Studio 4°C are up to, then I for one will be on the lookout for more of their work. Though at times they trade in anime clichés, they tend to give old ideas a neat new spin, possess a strange but likeable sense of humour and at least guarantee that you'll never be able to guess what's coming next from them.

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