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Q: Docker cp containers in a swarm? I'm learning my way around swarm mode at this point, and normally when wanting to copy files to and from a container in non-swarm mode I would just do something like the following, to copy a file to a container named "swag":
docker cp "C:\Sites\somefile.conf" swag:/config/nginx/proxy-confs
But in swarm mode, the container names are appended with .<some long random hash each time one is started>, i.e. stackname_swag.d98s7fds89f98d7sf.
Using "swag" as the container name in that case fails, as does using "stackname_swag". I am assuming that one could copy the entire container name including the hash (haven't tried it), and I know that I can copy the container ID and use that instead of the container name, but it seems like there should be a method where you don't have to do a look-up first to copy an ID or a name + hash, and just use a general "name" of a container/service ...
Is there such a method?

A: I don't believe there is another way to do this in swarm, the process you described would be the way to go.  That being said, by the looks of it you are trying to copy in a config file which if you are doing this just for testing/dev it's fine, but if looking for something that you can use in prod then you should look at other ways to get you config into the container.  Depending on what you need you can either use docker configs, you can create a named volume, you could can use a bind mount, you can even use a custom image that already has your config in it.

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[Upcoming Drama 2019] The Joseon Romantic: Comedy Tale of Nok-Du, 조선로코: 녹두전 - Kim So Hyun & Jang Dong Yoon - Premieres in September 2019
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Momoland Yeon Woo 's pictorial shooting for BNT. She said she plans to appear in Mung Bean.
Heo Yoon is a man of great reading, terrible memorization, martial arts skills, is a friend of Gwang Hae and a character at the center of the play. (Lily_CFC -twitter)
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Actor Kim Min Kyu Announces Name Change + To Star In Upcoming Historical Rom-Com
Kim Min Kyu will be making a fresh new start with a new name!
The actor's name is now officially Go Geon Han, and he will be starring in upcoming KBS drama "Mung Bean Chronicle" (literal title). Based on the popular webtoon of the same name, "Mung Bean Chronicle" is about the romance between Jeon Nok Du (played by Jang Dong Yoon), who disguises himself as a woman to infiltrate a mysteriously all-female community, and Dong Dong Joo (played by Kim So Hyun), who wants to be anything but a gisaeng (female courtesan).
Go Geon Han will play Yeon Geun, a man with a fancy title due to his rich family background, but he is basically jobless. He is sent to a widow's village for his position but cannot enter because he is a man.
This will be his first drama under his new name. He shared, "It is a name that I decided after much consideration with my parents. It means 'do not exceed everything, adjust accordingly, and control yourself to achieve a healthy and strong life.'"
The actor added, "'Mung Bean Chronicle' is my first historical drama. Contrary to [my character] Kim Sun Woo in 'Special Labor Inspector Jo Jang Poong', [this time] I play the role of the son of a rich family. I'll work hard to get favorable reviews with this role as I have done so far. I hope you will cheer me on as I make a new start with a new name."
Go Geon Han has appeared in various dramas including "Special Labor Inspector Jo Jang Poong" His upcoming drama "Mung Bean Chronicle" is slated to premiere in September.
https://www.soompi.com/article/1332605wpp/actor-kim-min-kyu-announces-name-change-to-star-in-upcoming-historical-rom-com
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A cross dressing show.. im here for it.
Kang Tae Oh ig uptade. He is taking horseback riding lesson for the drama.
Han Garim ig uptade.
Kim Tae-woo Joins "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles"
Actor Kim Tae-woo is starring in "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles" according to his agency, J-Wide Company
"Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles", which is based on an original Naver webtoon, is a fun Joseon romantic comedy about Jeon Nok-doo (Jang Dong-yoon), who dresses up as a woman to enter a village of widows, and Dong Dong-joo (Kim So-hyun), a young woman who doesn't want to become a gisaeng.
Kim Tae-woo plays Heo Yoon, the most favorite child of the Royal Family. Heo Yoon is an articulate man of great reading skills, amazing memorization skills, and martial arts skills, and is Gwanghae's (Jung Joon-ho) most beloved friend and subject.
Kim Tae-woo has recently starred in dramas "Romance is a Bonus Book", "The Banker", "Different Dreams", and the upcoming movie "Forbidden Dream".
Meanwhile, "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles" comes out in September.
"Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles" is directed by Kim Dong-hwi, written by Baek So-yeon, Lim Ye-jin, and features Kim So-hyun, Song Geon-hee, Jang Dong-yoon, Jo Soo-hyang, Kang Tae-oh, Han Ga-rim.
Broadcasting information in Korea: 2019/09/23~Upcoming, Mon, Tue 22:00 on KBS.
https://www.hancinema.net/kim-tae-woo-joins-joseon-rom-com-mung-bean-chronicles-130498.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Jung Joon-ho Confirms Role in "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles"
Actor Jung Joon-ho is starring in the new KBS 2TV drama "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles", which is due for broadcast in September this year.
Jung Joon-ho plays king Gwanghae, who has the most power in all of Joseon. Blood is thicker than water, but he plays the role of a king whose compassion and anger toward himself have plunged him into a dark abyss due to his obsession with more precarious power.
Jung Joon-ho recently starred in the jTBC drama "SKY Castle" as a university hospital professor named Kang Joon-sang. Thanks to the detail in his emotional acting, he became a character that was irreplaceable in the drama.
In 2016, the actor managed to pull off a perfect sageuk performance in the 2016 MBC drama "The Flower in Prison" so his performance in "Joseon Rom-Com Mung Bean Chronicles" is highly anticipated.
https://www.hancinema.net/jung-joon-ho-confirms-role-in-joseon-rom-com-mung-bean-chronicles-130417.html
New visual couple is coming....
They started filming. I hope many many photos come out :)))
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Kang Tae Oh wil be the second lead . Sohyun and Taeoh also look so good together
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When a team dominates for as many years as the Red Hawks varsity field hockey team it's easy to take wins for granted.
However the Hawks are looking younger than in other years and in sport there are no guarantees.
A true test to determine if this team will be championship worthy will have to wait after easily beating the visiting St. Peter's Catholic Secondary School Saints 3-0 in their season and home opener this past Friday in Haliburton.
There wasn't much doubt throughout the game who was going to win.
The Hawks pressured, won virtually every loose ball and were awarded a few baker dozens of short-corners for double-digit scoring chances.
Despite the chances, the Red Hawks left all their scoring to the second half when veteran forward Sydney Feir scored the game's first after an initial shot was made by teammate Abby Gordon.
It was all they needed.
Saints' time of ball possession and time in the attacking zone was easily counted on a pair of hands compared to the Hawks' relentless and sustained attack.
As evidence of the team's dominance was how Hawks fourth-year goalie Sydney Cameron didn't face a single shot or even the threat of one in her shutout, as the home side didn't surrender a short-corner all game.
New Hawks coach Jessica Lloyd loved what she saw in her team.
After the lopsided win, Lloyd wants her team to stick to the basics.
Veteran forward Shae MacNaull, who was among several scoring threats for the Hawks, scored the second goal and insurance marker with a howitzer of shot 10 yards out (hitting the ball so hard she spun and fell down) in front of the Saints keeper, who barely flinched, seeing the blur go by her.
First-year forward Mackenzie Henderson scored the third and final goal, her first.
Lloyd liked the way the team is working together, fostering growth among the rookies.


Selling for a total of $4.6 million with 174% sold by value, the rare and prestigious private collection of David Newby's was assembled with great enthusiasm and foresight over more than thirty years and represented defining moments in the achievements of Australia's most influential and revered artists. Reflective of the empathy and love that David Newby, together with his late wife Mary Jan, found in historical, modern and contemporary Australian art, it was a collection that reflected the intelligence and passion of a person with a global perspective who possessed a deep and abiding interest in and empathy for Australia's cultural achievements.
The sale opened at a cracking pace with a new auction record for Elioth Gruner's Fisherman, Coogee Beach 1913 for $164,700 (estimate $60,000-80,000, lot 1). This was quickly followed by an auction record for Ray Crooke's Thursday Island 1958 for $170,800 (estimate $70,000-90,000, lot 4).
Stunning results were achieved at Sotheby's Australia's May sale of The David Newby Collection of Australian Art and Important Australian Art with its highest auction result achieved in ten years. The sale total of $14,258,750 and 149.6% sold by value surpassed the two night sale results of May 2016.
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Disgraced former Paterson, New Jersey, Mayor Joey Torres' application for an early prison release has been rejected, state officials.
The mayor, who was convicted of corruption charges late last year that were sparked by an I-Team investigation in 2016, won't be eligible for parole until early 2019 after his application for release under the state's Intensive Supervision Program was rejected.
A state courts spokesman didn't elaborate on the reason the application -- which could have allowed the former mayor to get out of prison after just six months -- was rejected.
Torres served five terms on Paterson's City Council before he was elected mayor in 2002 over incumbent Martin Barnes. Barnes pleaded guilty and went to prison for charges stemming from a kickback scheme.
Torres was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison with no chance of parole.
The embattled politician resigned in September as part of the plea deal and agreed to never again seek public office. He also owes thousands in restitution over the scheme to steal from taxpayers by ordering city workers to do construction on a relative's would-be beer business.
Torres accepted the deal after Paterson Department of Public Works supervisors caught on camera doing work for the now-former mayor's family also accepted plea deals and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
The three DPW workers -- Timothy Hanlon, Joseph Mania and Imad Mowases -- also forfeited their jobs with the city and are permanently barred from public employment. They were each sentenced Tuesday to a three-year term of probation.
Torres initially denied any wrongdoing and vowed to fight the charges. His March arrest came after a series of I-Team stories that appeared to show city employees doing private jobs for him, from washing his scooter and building bookshelves to doing construction at his nephew's would-be beer business.


A national group is ramping up its efforts to get the Trump administration to open up much of the nation's offshore waters to oil drilling - including Florida's.
They include former Republican Party Chairman Jim Nicholson and former Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp. This week, group leaders are pushing their idea to businesses throughout the state.
They call themselves Explore Offshore, a group created by the American Petroleum Institute, the nation's largest trade association for the oil and natural gas industry. They use use terms like "energy independence," "national security" and "providing jobs."
Jim Webb is a former Democratic governor of Virginia and a member of the group's leadership committee. He says the country will not be secure if we're not independent of other countries in our energy supplies.
He also says many safety features have been put in place since the 2010 BP oil spill - and you wouldn't be able to see derricks from any of the state's famed beaches.
"A lot of these wells are 120 miles away from the coastline. What I try to say when I'm in Virginia and the Washington area is it's like standing in Washington D.C. and trying to see Philadelphia," he says.
"My objective down here is to suggest the energy needs of the country - that we are not secure nationally unless we can be independent in our energy needs and the ability to explore offshore at this point - after these areas have been closed off for so long - would be a good move for the country to make," he said after meeting with business leaders in Pensacola.
The group will have to overcome a lot of opposition.
In November, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a Constitutional amendment to ban drilling in state-controlled waters, which range from three nautical miles on the Atlantic and nine nautical miles on the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, a military exclusion zone for airborne training exercises goes 125 miles into the Gulf.
A bipartisan group of Florida representatives is pushing to end offshore oil drilling in Florida for good. New legislation would permanently extend a federal moratorium that is set to expire in 2022.
Anyone interested in moves by the Trump Administration to relax restrictions on offshore drilling can have their voices heard by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
As part of a series of listening sessions across the county, NOAA is coming to USF St. Petersburg at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, to talk about the health and status of our coastal waters.
Members of Florida's congressional delegation from both sides of the political aisle denounced a White House proposal Friday that they say would weaken offshore oil-drilling regulations.


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She Fucked Up review
She Fucked Up; that is what you might say if your ex-girlfriend left her naked pics and videos unprotected on her computer. Lots of guys are sexting those ex-girlfriend pics after the breakup, and this site claims to have scoured the web, looking for the "best of" in this genre. The premise here is really interesting, who doesn't like to combine sex and schadenfreude? Now, as to whether this site actually delivers those goods, that's another thing. It does... kind of.
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She Fucked Up in-depth review
There are lots of vindictive guys in this world; given that, I always wonder why girls let boyfriends take video of them naked. However, they do, and thus is born sexting revenge. This has become somewhat of a phenomenon, actually. There are a number of sites that you can even submit this sort of revenge porn to. SheFuckedUp.com claims to have "hacked all other GF sites to bring you the web's biggest collection of submitted girlfriend pics and videos."
So that's the claim, and the premise... however, I'm not sure how "real" this content is. Some of the girls on here are pure professionals. Some of it may be real, but there is some that is definitely pro. Not saying that's bad but if you're actually looking for reality in this premise, I'm not sure you're going to get what you want.
However, you may like the content anyway. Upon logging in, members are presented with scenes in the form of pic links. Each link has a title, and upon clicking, you're whisked away to that scene's content page. There, you'll find streaming video, downloadable video, and/or picture sets. It's not a bad navigation sytem, but it's limited in its ability to deliver content quickly. There are only limited sort tools, so you have to browse the videos to find something you'll like. It's not horrible, but it's not ideal either.
Technical quality is not bad, but it's not fantastic either. Video resolution is all over the map, but it's never great. Picture quality is similar. Oddly, it's not because this appears to be "true" amateur girlfriend material, I just think it's that the quality happens to be a little on the middling side. Flash streams came down fairly quickly, so that's a plus.
The action is also middling, it's a mix of mostly softcore, with some hardcore thrown in here and there. This is not bad, and occasionally is pretty good, but it takes a while to find some really hot action.
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Strike Ends as Chicago Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement with Coca-Cola Teamster.org ...Teamsters Local 727 ended its unfair labor practice strike against Coca-Cola Refreshments late on Tuesday, Dec. 29, after reaching tentative agreement on a fair three-year contract for 319 production and warehouse workers. Upon ratification, the tentative agreement will transfer Local 727 members into a new health and welfare plan previously available to Coca-Cola management...
Teamsters reach tentative pact with Coca-Cola, end strike Chicago Tribune ...Coca-Cola workers who have been on strike for nearly a month are heading back to work after their union reached a tentative three-year contract with the company. Teamsters Local 727, which says it represents 319 production workers at Coca-Cola plants in Niles and Alsip, announced late Tuesday that the bargaining committee recommended ratification of what it called a "fair" contract offer by Coke...
Teamsters: Port Drivers Win Nearly $7 Million in Wages, End Misclassification Teamster.org ...On Dec. 14, the California Labor Commissioner determined that 38 drivers at leading port trucking company Pacific 9 Transportation, which hauls containers from the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for some of America's premiere brands – including Costco, Goodyear Tires, Ugg Boots, and Microsoft – are in fact employees, not independent contractors, and ordered Pac 9 to pay them nearly $6.9 million in stolen wages...
Port drivers win millions in back pay from trucking firm LA Times ...A port trucking firm in Carson has been ordered to turn over nearly $7 million in back pay to 38 drivers, the latest in a series of recent wins for port drivers and the Teamsters union that has been trying to organize them. The state Labor Commissioner's Office ruled this month that the drivers at Pacific 9 Transportation were improperly treated as independent contractors rather than as employees...
NYC horse carriage industry thanks supporters for help Daily News ...Horse carriages — which for the past two years have operated under a cloud of uncertainty — are starting 2016 on a positive note. The industry, which Mayor de Blasio threatened to ban on his first day in office, bought a full page ad in Friday's Daily News thanking its supporters for helping them stay around for the past two years...
American Red Cross Workers Vote To Join Teamsters In Maine PR Newswire ...Workers at the American Red Cross' Portland donation center have voted to join Teamsters Local 340. The blood donation center's 57 employees will now form a bargaining unit that includes collections technicians, collections specialists and mobile unit assistants of various classifications. These employees are responsible for setting up and administering blood drives across the southern half of the state...
Beer hauler moves to bust Teamsters union NW Labor Press ...Teamsters Local 162 is facing what more and more looks like a union-busting effort by General Distributors Inc. When truck drivers, warehouse workers, and sales employees learned that the profitable company would seek $1.5 million a year in concessions from them in their next union contract, they voted 59 to 5 to strike, and about 80 members of Teamsters Local 162 walked off the job Nov. 17. In response, the company threatened to permanently replace them...
GLOBAL LABOR & TRADE
Zimbabwe: Public workers threaten strike over delayed pay Africa Report ...The year is opening on a tense note for the Zimbabwean government, as tens of thousands of public workers have threatened to go on strike over delayed salaries. Civil servants in the southern African nation are yet to be paid their December salaries, with the government promising to pay them by Tuesday, but this has not been enough to calm the restive workers...
Jerusalem sanitation workers strike after 170 fired Times of Israel ...Jerusalem sanitation workers went on strike Thursday, after the city sent termination letters to 170 employees in the department. The municipality also warned that the move was the first of many necessary cutbacks to come — with up to 2,000 more firings — if the Finance Ministry does not transfer to the city the funds needed to keep a balanced budget in 2016...
U.S. Election Debate Complicates Passage of Pacific Trade Pact Wall Street Journal ...An international trade agreement embraced by President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled Congress is drawing fire from many presidential candidates, illustrating the populist shift of both parties in the age of Donald Trump. Contenders ranging from Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have spoken out against the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership...
TPP nations arranging to sign free-trade deal in early February Japan Times ...Japan, the United States and 10 other nations that reached a broad agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact in October are arranging to sign the deal in early February, an official from one of the nations has said. Following the broad agreement after more than five years of negotiations, the 12 nations released the text of the landmark trade deal in November...
TPP trade deal pits Pittsburgh against Philadelphia Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...Pittsburgh manufactures the products. Philadelphia ships them around the world. One city stands to gain from expanding trade into the Pacific Rim while the other has much to lose, their mayors say. That's why Philadelphia's outgoing mayor, Michael Nutter, has been helping the White House stump for the Trans-Pacific Partnership while Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto stands opposed...
The Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals Threatening Ordinary People in 2016 Common Dreams ...Corporate media failed to cover the dangers of business-friendly trade deals in 2015, despite growing grassroots opposition to such pacts—and increasing public awareness about their contents. Will 2016 be the year looming toxic trade policies catapult into the mainstream? Sierra Club trade representative Ilana Solomon hopes so...
Greece Not to Agree to Creditors Unreasonable Austerity Demands - Tsipras Sputnik News ...Athens will follow the memorandum signed with its international creditors, but will not agree to unreasonable austerity demands, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said, as quoted by the local media on Sunday. According to Tsipras, 2016 will be a pivotal year, after several years of crisis for the country. The Greek economy has been severely strained because of the country's multibillion debt accumulated after the 2008 world economic crisis...
STATE & LIVING WAGE BATTLES
Minimum wage rises in 14 states and several cities Al Jazeera ...As the United States marks more than six years without an increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, 14 states and several cities are moving forward with their own increases, with most having taken effect Jan. 1. California and Massachusetts are highest among the states, both increasing from $9 to $10 an hour, according to an analysis by the National Conference of State Legislatures...
American workers see progress on paid sick leave, no thanks to Congress Daily Kos ...Paid sick days have gained a lot of ground in the last few years, and continued to do so in 2015. Oregon became the fourth state to require paid sick leave for most workers, following Connecticut, California, and Massachusetts. The cities of Tacoma, Washington, and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also passed paid sick leave laws...
Missouri speaker sounds doubtful over 'right to work' STL Today ...When it comes to a GOP-led charge to make Missouri a "right to work" state, a top Republican is throwing cold water on one of the hot-button issues of the last legislative session. In an interview with the Post-Dispatch, House Speaker Todd Richardson sounded doubtful that right to work would be a top goal for Republicans when the House and Senate return Wednesday...
Wages in NH expected to increase in 2016 Union Leader ...Wal-Mart, the state's largest retail employer, plans to raise wages for its 7,785 New Hampshire employees in 2016, in one of several signs that the year ahead could finally see meaningful improvement in earnings for hourly workers after years of wage stagnation...
Chris Christie Refuses To Help Unemployed New Jersey Residents Hold Onto Food Stamps Think Progress ...About 11,000 New Jersey residents are set to lose their food stamps after Gov. Chris Christie (R)'s administration said it won't seek any waivers from the program's work requirements. Since 2009, state governors have been encouraged to get waivers from the federal government for the requirement that able-bodied, childless adults work at least 20 hours a week to enroll in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...
Judge's ruling a mixed bag for those challenging voter ID law Journal Sentinel ...A federal judge has thrown out portions of a challenge to Wisconsin's voting laws but is allowing a key part of the lawsuit to proceed that could allow more types of identification to be used under the voter ID law. In his ruling last month, U.S. District Judge James Peterson in Madison also found the liberal One Wisconsin Institute could pursue its argument that recent restrictions on early voting violate the U.S. Constitution...
U.S. LABOR
Tentative agreement prevents custodial workers strike Bristol Press ...Just one day before a strike could have begun, a bargaining committee representing more than 2,100 janitors in Hartford, New Haven and other Connecticut cities and towns reached a tentative agreement with the Hartford County Cleaning Contractors Association. The four-year contract agreed to Wednesday — subject to ratification — includes incremental wage increases...
Labor board hands Whole Foods workers a victory CBS ...Whole Foods Market (WFM) can no longer forbid its employees from taking photographs or recording conversations at work, according to a recent federal ruling. "Smartphone pics and videos in this day and age are particularly 'essential' to proving an employee's rights have been violated," said the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision issued late last week...
150 Muslims Fired For Protesting Their Workplace's Prayer Policies Think Progress ...About 150 Muslim workers at a meat processing plant have been fired for refusing to show up for work during an ongoing dispute over prayer accommodations. The controversy began on December 18, when 11 Somali Muslim workers at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado requested to visit the building's prayer room at the same time...
Ten of the Best Things That Happened to American Workers in 2015 Huffington Post ...Historians may remember 2015 as the year of the minimum wage -- and for good reason. Twenty-one states and multiple cities raised the minimum wage in the past 12 months, scarcely two years after the "Fight for $15" was dismissed as a pipe dream by some observers. The past year also saw other major advances for working Americans...
The End Of Unions? Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Power To Collect Fees IBTimes ...A Supreme Court case beginning Jan. 11 has union members wondering if a ruling could sound a death knell on labor organizations that have grown accustomed to heightened limitations and declining memberships in recent years. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association will determine whether mandatory union dues violate workers' freedom of speech, and experts say a ruling could dictate the future of unions' ability to collect fees...
Workers' Comp Industrial Complex: The Middlemen Silencing Injured Workers Truthout ...Workers' comp is supposed to be simple. If you're injured on the job, your employer pays your medical bills and part of your wages while you recover. But over the past two decades, a cottage industry of middlemen has emerged, which some have dubbed the "workers' comp industrial complex." Even private equity firms have bought in, seeing profit opportunities in employers' and insurers' quest to contain spending...
Adjuncts at Loyola University Chicago Want a Union. Will the Jesuit University Respect Their Demands? The Nation ...Loyola University Chicago now faces the challenge of putting its Jesuit principles into practice as frustrated professors push for a union.  The administration argues a union would interfere with the university's "mission." But according to Loyola's struggling non-tenured faculty members, their poverty wages and exhausting working conditions prove that it is the administration's corporate greed that is flouting the Jesuit tradition of social justice...
SOCIAL JUSTICE & OTHER NEWS
Happy New Year. You're Deported. The Nation ...This is how the Department of Homeland Security says happy holidays: The federal government will reportedly begin raids to deport families who've arrived in the country in the last two years, according to The Washington Post. The enforcement operation could begin in a matter of weeks, and was first reported on Christmas Eve. The raids would target hundreds of adults and children who have a standing order of deportation against them...
Hundreds Demand Prosecutor In Tamir Rice Case Resign Think Progress ...Protests continued on Friday following a grand jury's recent decision not to indict the two white police officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice. More than 100 activists marched to the home of the prosecutor who handled Rice's case, Timothy McGinty, on New Year's Day and demanded his resignation. Chanting "New year, no more!"...
Media Coverage of Oregon Militia Standoff Raises Eyebrows — and Ire Common Dreams ...After members of a rightwing militia seized the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday afternoon, observers questioned the corporate media's treatment of the event, pointing to a double standard in coverage compared to other recent protests. Watchdog site Media Matters pointed out that while Fox's coverage of campus protests against racial discrimination was dismissive, its reporting "looked drastically different when those protesting have aligned with the network's conservative agenda"...
They'd be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff Salon ...At least 150 armed white men have seized control of a federal building outside of Burns, Oregon. The actions taken by Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, and their supporters in Oregon are the very definition of terrorism and armed insurrection. If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called "terrorists"...
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Unterseeboot 95 foi um submarino alemão do Tipo VIIC, pertencente a Kriegsmarine que atuou durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Comandantes

Subordinação
Durante o seu tempo de serviço, esteve subordinado às seguintes flotilhas:

Operações conjuntas de ataque
O U-95 participou das seguinte operações de ataque combinado durante a sua carreira:

 Rudeltaktik Bosemüller (28 de agosto de 1941 - 2 de setembro de 1941)
 Rudeltaktik Seewolf (2 de setembro de 1941 - 14 de setembro de 1941)

Ver também
 U-boot
 Submarinos da Marinha da Alemanha.
 Submarinos de maior sucesso da Kriegsmarine na Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Bibliografia

Ligações externas

Submarinos alemães Tipo VIIC
U-Boots comissionados em 1940
U-Boots afundados em 1941
U-Boots afundados por submarinos dos Países Baixos
Submarinos da Alemanha na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Naufrágios no Mediterrâneo na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Navios de 1940
Navios construídos em Kiel

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The Queensland Government's plan to dump poor old Lady Cilento from the hospital that bears her name is a folly, and you shouldn't fall for it.
It's bad politics, flies in the face of a national policy rethink to acknowledge the contribution of women, and even smells a bit like sour grapes.
Labor didn't get the Terry Mackenroth stand up at Suncorp Stadium (which it should have), so why should the LNP get to keep their Lady Cilento sign towering over the state's public children's hospital?
Because two wrongs don't make a right.
Because taxpayers don't deserve to cop a massive bill for an unnecessary and rash rethink that can be addressed in myriad other ways.
Because so, so many Queenslanders — through giving birth, nursing sick children, working, donating and volunteering — now have a real and genuine association with, and affection for, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital.
Because it's a fitting recognition for Brisbane medical practitioner and journalist Lady Phyllis Cilento.
I could go on — but if Health Minister Steve Miles is suffering limelight deprivation disorder to the point where he wants to start changing names, perhaps he could go bellydancing instead this weekend.
That would certainly draw a crowd — as well as much of the same feedback he's getting over the decision to dump the name of our public children's hospital.
Steve Miles gives the rationale that staff want it and that he has been lobbied for the change; that the name is tricky for some people, who believe it is a private hospital.
I was one of them a few years ago, and then I learnt it was a public hospital, not a private hospital — and I haven't been confused since.
It was a bit the same with Steve Irwin Way. I had to use Google Maps to find it in the first instance, but now I know exactly where it is, and how to get there. Darren Lockyer Way is another example; it used to be novel, now it's just a trip along the Warrego Highway.
So instead of calling for public feedback, running surveys of parents and spending taxpayers' money investigating ways to rename the hospital (and trashing Lady Cilento's contribution along the way), perhaps the government could redirect its efforts.
Why not spend the same effort, energy and public money to promote the hospital as a public institution, and its staff as the wonderful caregivers they are.
Perhaps a TV ad, starring our surgeons, could mend it in minutes.
A social media campaign, centred around our nurses, wouldn't cost a cent.
All of us who have spent nights there cuddling sick children, or those staff who turn up with smiles even when they are having bad days, are sure to join in.
If that doesn't work — and it will — perhaps we could just add the word 'public' to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital — and save a whole lot of time and money.
It sounds simple, but sometimes that's the answer amid all the skullduggery of politics.
This public 'feedback' looks a a bit dodgy because the Minister has already suggested he's been won over by calls for a change.
That means this 'feedback' is code for making us feel more consulted than anyone was when Tim Carmody was made a magistrate.
No government wants to make that mistake again. But, as voters, we could use the offer of feedback to turn this around and give the Government the answer it doesn't expect.
Tell Steve Miles and his publicly funded market researchers that Lady Cilento, and her contribution to women and children and their health, is here to stay.


Peter Copping has had six months to osmose the Oscar de la Renta aesthetic. In conversation a week before this morning's mini show, he said he's done that mostly by talking to De la Renta's close associates and, to a somewhat lesser degree, by studying old dresses. Either way, it's working. The Resort collection he presented today, his third if you count a bridal line shown in April, felt very much on message for the house. In a gesture that De la Renta—who liked a good chat at his Resort and Pre-Fall presentations—would have approved of, Copping introduced the collection: "I wanted to embrace color, pattern, and the house's general joie de vivre." And as promised, the clothes were bright, generous with embroideries, and blooming with flowers and ruffles.
He started with the signature De la Renta blouse-and-skirt sets and coatdresses, cinching nearly all of them with a tidy leather belt. His skirtsuits were ladylike, not businesslike, with flounced lapels and hems. Copping loved a little knit during his Nina Ricci days and he showed one or two of them here with neat and trim pencil skirts. Freshest of all for day were a coat and a knee-length skirt pieced together from narrow bands of suede and leather. Their strong, graphic appeal felt new for both De la Renta and Copping. But as was often the case with De la Renta's shows, the collection really came alive when Copping turned to evening. A fuchsia off-the-shoulder top separated by a red belt from a long, white skirt embroidered with golden yellow sequins exemplified his exuberant use of color, while a cocktail number with a sequin-strewn bodice above a brushstroke floral print struck a real chord of whimsy. A pair of strapless taffeta gowns, short in front and trailing ruffles in the back, captured De la Renta's flair for drama but retained a youthful, playful spirit. They'll be popular on the party scene this winter.
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Is Happiness Subjective or Objective?
When the word "Happiness" crosses your mind, what is the first thing that you think of? Is it about your high-income? Or is it about the satisfactory feeling of doing your passionate job every day? Happiness can have different meanings to each and every individual. Some may find happiness knowing that they have luxury cars and a big house, while others may find happiness just by living a mediocre life but content and happy with the lifestyle.
However, there is a drastic change in the perception of "happiness" in today's world. People seem to value happiness in life more than monetary gains or achievements. Does that mean happiness has become more of a subjective perception rather than objective reality? Then what about the times when people find happiness after they have achieved something great in life or have won a million-dollar lottery? That would indicate the inclination of happiness towards objectivity rather than subjectivity.
Scholars and philosophers have debated for years over the nature of happiness as being objective or subjective, but there has been no conclusive or concrete answer to that. There has been much speculation over what defines the term happiness even. The term points towards our deepest values, ultimate purpose, or fulfillment along with the vaguest of our desires. To define such a term would restrict the broad understanding of the term among different individuals, that it is best kept vague and open to interpretations.
All that being said, let us look deeper into what subjective and objective happiness could mean and which one of the two befits the term more.
Is it subjective?
Subjective happiness is when a person feels happy from the inside, regardless of the outside circumstances. It is as simple as feeling happy after helping someone else, without any selfish motive. Most people claim to have their personal "happy place." When it comes to subjective happiness, that place may remind the person of a happy memory, or maybe the beauty of the place lightens his/her heart.
On a scientific level, subjective happiness can be measured and assessed, but one cannot fully rely on the universality of such assessments. People from different societies or cultures may have different levels or indicators of subjective happiness and a single set of indicators cannot be used for all.
The World Happiness Report published by the United Nationals Sustainable Development Solutions Network every year uses a set of the often subjective matter of human happiness to assess the level of happiness among people in the world. Though surveys like this help in gaining a broader understanding of the state of happiness among people, they are also not the best answer to how a specific individual is feeling on the inside or if she/he is really happy.
Research data from the first half of the 20th century indicated that the level of happiness among the masses increased as household incomes rose. This made the researchers believe that there is a correlation between happiness and wealth.
But, this was during the time of wars and depressions. Recent studies have shown that after a certain point, no amount of money can bring more happiness to a person's life.
One of the best examples of people who seem to be advocates of subjective happiness is the monks in Tibetan monasteries. They give a good example of being joyful and complacent in life without any external luxuries.
Is it objective?
One cannot simply rule out the fact that the happiness of a person does not depend on things or objects. While a certain object can wear down a person's happiness over it in the long run, one cannot overlook the feeling of happiness the person felt when she/he first received the object.
Using the same example as above, the "happy place" for a person, maybe a place where she/he can experience all the luxuries there is to life. It may mean a place that makes the person happy because it has big beds, TV, Jacuzzi, or other such things. But, the bigger question here is, how long is this place going to keep the person happy?.
Objective happiness can be measured just like subjective happiness. One of the indicators used as a measurement of happiness in the "Happy Planet Index" is life expectancy, which is an objective measurement. Though this indicator cannot be solely relied upon to assess one's happiness, it can be used as a supportive measurement to analyze the overall state of happiness.
An example where happiness becomes objective is when you show certain pictures to an individual. A tragic picture can bring sadness, while joyful pictures can trigger the parts of the brain that bring happiness. This shows that the brain can react objectively to a particular stimulus, which can either activate happiness or any other motions in the brain.
The subject of happiness being objective or subjective, is an ongoing debate. Propounders of subjective happiness argue that happiness cannot be objective because there is no link between even the obvious indicators of objective happiness with that of everyone. Even an unhappy person can put on the mask of a friendly appearance seen commonly in a perfectly happy person.
While others like Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman propound objective happiness, believing that objective happiness can be assessed by averaging out the multiple assessments of people's moods over a given period of time.
Doing that will negate the idea of happiness being linked to a distant memory or retrospective events.
However, needless to say, objective happiness and subjective happiness are interlinked with one another. A certain achievement in an individual's life can bring objective happiness at that moment, but that achievement can even be cherished by the person forever, which then becomes subjective happiness.
Human beings are complex in nature, and defining happiness as completely subjective or objective can depend upon the individual's discretion. While happiness may come from recognition by others, personal recognition and inner fulfillment are equally important. There seems to be a link between subjective and objective happiness. This is so because some situations tend towards one kind, with an inclination towards another.
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City of Kings Sneaks in for a Photo Finish!
Wooot!!
I am very pleased to announce that The City of Kings, one of the fantasy collaborative board games that I have been working with, has become one of 2018's Most Anticipated Games over at Boardgame Geek.
Super pleased about this. Frank and the team have worked their butts off over the last few years, so it's great to see their hard work paying off. They were nominated in 8 categories, and ended up polling in 6! That's not a bad result in anybody's dicebag, huh?
A selection of encounter cards from The City of Kings
In other news, the team are now meeple-deep in The City of Games 3-day convention down in Bristol. More dice than you can shake a stick at.
And as well as all of that; Frank has let the cat out of the bag on one of the follow-up games that I gratefully have a small part in tinkering with; The Vadoran Gardens! A fun, tile-placement board game for ages 8+.
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A Small Update: Congratulations CITY OF GAMES & FINAL FRONTIER GAMES!
As you may have guessed – New Year's are always gravitationally slow for me. Call it the lack of sunlight, or not getting out into the garden so much due to the cold, or a host of other things. But, nonetheless I am kicking those jams and sharing some MORE good news with you, erstwhile reader.
Two of the indy games that I have been working with have been nominated for the much-coveted Most Anticipated Games of 2018!
*happy dance* 🙂
The City of Kings by Frank West, City of Games Publishing
Rise to Nobility by Final Frontier Games
Boardgame Geek, as I am sure you know, are the go-to site for indy games, covering every style of boardgame from kids, to fantasy-rpg, strategy, historical, war, dungeon-crawl, science… You name it, if you're looking for a fun and innovative game designed and produced by other enthusiasts – this is the place to pick something up. They've been running the Most Anticipated Game awards for the past 9yrs [9!!] with some truly amazing games winning over the years.
There are 20 final winners in the various categories (eg. fantasy, war, children's, etc), and luckily you can vote multiple times – you just 'like' the game nominated, and the winners are those with the most 'likes'.
City of Kings by Frank West (City of Games Publishing); a cooperative adventure game, set in a unique fantasy world during a time of war. Nominated in 8 categories.
Rise to Nobility by Final Frontier Games; a strategy worker-placement game set in a developing fantasy city. Nominated in 7 categories.
These are two great companies to work with, each with amazing attitude and approach to their work (and each has some stand-out art, too). I would love to claim a little of the shared glamour of their nominations – but really, all respect has to go to their fantastically dedicated creators and designers.
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Attack on Titan – 52 – Hoover Hardens his Heart
On the eve of the present battle, Bertholdt and Reiner recall the Battle of Trost when Marco Bott overheard them talking about Titans and their mission, simply by chance. They tell him they were just joking, but know Marco is sharper than that.
Annie soon joins them as they restrain him, and Reiner decides to remove his ODM gear. Shortly afterward he's found and eaten by a Titan as the three watch in horror and remorse. Their secret was safe for a little longer, in exchange for their friend and comrade dying horribly.
Back in the present, while having coffee with War Chief Zeke (the Beast Titan) and discussing Annie's capture, Zeke questions their commitment, but they resolve to end this with him tomorrow. At dawn, Bert and Reiner go to their separate positions, with the latter chiding the former for being so timid when he's perhaps the most powerful Titan of them all.
Reiner encourages Bert to think for himself and not just wait for others to give him a signal to act. That's all well and good if you're the Armored Titan, but it's a little different when your Titan is so big his transformation is basically a nuclear bomb.
Back to the latest point of the battle up to now, with half of Reiner's head blown off, his Titan still manages to call out, which is the signal Bertholdt, hiding in a barrel, was waiting for. The Beast Titan tosses the barrel into the town. Irwin, Hange, Levi, Armin, and everyone else watch as it sails over them, and Armin realizes it's Bertholdt is in there and they've got to get away.
But just when he seems ready to transform, which would be game over for everyone in the town, Bert spots the KO'd Reiner and hesitates. He fires up his ODM instead and rushes to Reiner's side, where he learns Reiner transferred his consciousness to his nervous system as a last resort. Bert asks Reiner to flip himself over to protect his exposed nape when Bert transforms.
While Armin wasn't able to negotiate with Reiner, he wants to at least try with Bertholdt, probably assuming the more timid of the two will be more willing to listen. But while Eren's been mastering physical Titan hardening, Bert has been busy becoming mentally tougher, and meeting with Armin is the last bit of proof he needs to confirm that he's finally ready to take the next step.
Bertholdt has no ill will towards Armin or his other former comrades; indeed, he regards them as "precious". But they also have to die, because that's what needs to happen. That's the plan of all Titans, and those they serve. That it's unfortunate doesn't change the fact it's inevitable truth that not even Bertholdt can avoid any longer.
Mikasa tries to take him out of the equation all together with a sneak attack, while Armin mentions Annie to try to throw him off emotionally, but Bertholdt shows he can and will deal with all psychological comers, and that he can live with whatever the result of this battle.
With that, Bert transforms, unleashing the nuclear-esque explosion virtually right on top of Hange Squad, while Levi and Armin's squads just barely get to a safe distance. But no distance is safe once the transformed Colossal Titan starts scooping up flaming bits of town and launching them into the air, creating a kind of meteor shower for all surviving scouts to contend with.
Armin freezes up a bit, as the original plan to retreat back to Irwin and fight the Colossal in a battle of attrition will no longer work; not when Bert can put a wall of flame between Irwin's forces and the Beast Titan. Armin's only choice is to fight and defeat the Colossal Titan there and then, with only the forces he has. Needless to say, it will be a colossal undertaking, and they're colossal underdogs.
Author braveradePosted on Sun, 12 May 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2, Spring 2019Tags armin arlert, armored titan, Attack on Titan, battle, beast titan, bertholdt hoover, eren yeager, erwin smith, explosion, 進撃の巨人, hange zoe, hardening, jean kirstein, marco bott, mikasa ackerman, nervous system, nuclear bomb, regenerating, reiner braun, sasha blouse, shiganshina, shingeki no kyojin, transformation
Attack on Titan – 51 – Homefield Advantage
With Shiganshina's outer gate sealed, his troops atop Wall Maria, the Armored Titan on one side and the Beast Titan and his forces on the other, Irwin determines that the enemy is willing to wait out his forces in a siege. They'll kill all the horses and starve the humans until even Eren can no longer resist capture, and it will be over. The two objectives this week are: keep Eren from getting captured, and prevent the horses, and any chance at resupply, from being killed.
Unfortunately, and paradoxically, the person you'd want kept away from the fighting, Eren himself, is their trump card against Braun, so he must serve as bait to get Braun to change his prime objective from the horses to Eren. Irwin doesn't give him time to mull over the decision, so he descends the wall he just climbed and goes after Eren, who packs a much more devastating (and armor-shattering) punch now that he's focusing all of his hardening power on his fist.
Meanwhile, the newbies are having a hard time even with the small-fry Titans. Irwin observes that the Scout Regiment is far weaker than it once was, but the thousands of sacrifices of the men and women under his command were what made this final stand possible. He visualizes himself standing atop a pile of scout corpses, but if he can get to Grisha's Basement before he dies, it may all be worth it.
As Eren grapples with Braun, the more experienced Levi and Hange squads advance, with Hange and Mikasa scoring direct hits on both the Armored Titan's eyes with Lightning Spears, a weapon Braun didn't know about until it was used on him.
The Scouts keep up the fight, even as they think they've "got him", launching a dozen or more Lightning Spears into his nape, blowing it open so another volley can take out the vulnerable Braun within. The likes of Sasha and Connie momentarily hesitate at the prospect of killing their former friend and comrade, but Jean snaps them out of it, and the…apparently? fatal blows to Braun are delivered.
Mind you, I'm pretty damn skeptical Braun is 100% dead yet…more likely he's just hurt and has another ace or two of his sleeve. And the absence of Bertholdt is very suspicious. Irwin and the Scouts can't afford to revel in small victories. This battle's for all the marbles.
Author braveradePosted on Sun, 5 May 2019 Sun, 5 May 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2, Spring 2019Tags armin arlert, armored titan, attack, Attack on Titan, bait, basement, battle, bertholdt hoover, eren yeager, erwin smith, 進撃の巨人, jean kirstein, lightning spear, mikasa ackerman, powers, reiner braun, sacrifice, sasha blouse, scout regiment, shiganshina, shingeki no kyojin, teamwork, wall maria, wrestling
Attack on Titan – 50 – Keep Hope Alive
Part Two of Titan's third season picks up where Part One left off: Eren, Mikasa, Armin are part of a force of 100 scouts led by Erwin, Hange, and Levi, tasked with nothing less than retaking Wall Maria, starting with Shiganshina.
On the way they encounter a motionless Titan that is apparently asleep, but they have no way of knowing for sure, do they? It's only the latest instance of them having to do the best they can with the information they have…which still isn't much, and may never be anywhere near as much as they know about humans.
Eren, Mikasa and Armin note the reutrn to their hometown for the first time since they were forced to flee and eventually joined the Scout Regiment that brought them back. But there's no time for reminiscing (or checking out basements yet); they now stand in enemy territory, and the mission takes precedence. Besides, they're responsible for preserving humanity's hope it can survive and be free.
It's a simple matter of plugging both the inner and outer gates of Shiganshina, then mopping up the Titans within. Throughout the trip there Eren remained dubious of his abilities and usefulness, but his two best mates help get him through that apprehension, and he successfully seals the outer gate with his Titan hardening ability.
Mikasa has steady praise for Eren as they move on to the next gate, but something isn't right; Armin found signs that people were camping, but they had more than enough time to prepare for an attack…so where are they?
To answer that question, Erwin puts Armin in charge of a whole squad of scouts, confident that Armin has proven himself capable of leading men and women in the field. While initially nervous and hesitant (and far too polite to subbordinates), Armin grows more and more confident in himself as he runs through all the possible ways the Titans could be messing with them this time.
Remembering the Titan-in-the-wall, Armin orders everyone to inspect the wall for hollows. Once scout strikes paydirt, only to be killed by Reiner emerging with sword drawn. Levi in turn swoops down and delivers what would have been a couple of fatal blows to anyone but Reiner, who transforms into the Armored Titan upon hitting the ground.
Thanks to Armin, the enemy has revealed itself sooner than it had planned, but that's not exactly a good thing for the scouts, as Reiner's reveal spurs the teleportation of the Beast Titan and a host of other Titans who had been hiding nearby.
With that, the battle for Wall Maria—and indeed for the survival of humanity itself—begins in earnest. With just Eren the only one on the good guys' side able to transform, and the need to plug that second gate, this is not going to be an easy fight. And there are sure to be more curveballs in store for the scouts courtesy of the kooky Titans.
Author braveradePosted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2, Spring 2019Tags armin arlert, attack, Attack on Titan, battle, bertholdt hoover, eren yeager, erwin smith, 進撃の巨人, faces, friendship, gates, jean kirstein, mikasa ackerman, powers, reiner braun, sasha blouse, scout regiment, secrets, shiganshina, shingeki no kyojin, wall maria
Attack on Titan – 49 (S3 Fin) – To The Basement
The bigwigs decide that the serum Kenny gave Levi should stay with Levi, to use if, when, and where he deems necessary. Where Levi bumps up against the brass is when Erwin insists on leading the battle to retake Wall Maria.
Even when Levi threatens to break his legs, Erwin is adamant about being present when they learn the truth, and if they retake the wall and gain access to the basement of Eren's house. If he dies before that, so be it; Hange will take command in his place, and someone else if she dies.
The night before the battle (which is kept secret from the public) is to commence, the Scouts are treated to a morale-boosting feast that includes meat, something that's been in short supply since Maria fell.
The mere sight of the meat on the table sends Sasha into an uncontrollable berserk mode, and she has to be tied up. Meanwhile, Eren and Jean start heartily going at it, at first with words, then with their fists…but no one stops them, at least until Levi kicks their asses and orders them to bed.
Mikasa and Armin decided not to interfere in Eren's fight with Jean, both due to his quick healing, and the fact that it's just nice to see Eren being "spunky" again, rather than moping or skulking or wallowing in despair. No doubt his experiences with Historia have changed his perspective and narrowed what he deems his responsibility.
He's no longer trying to do everything on his own, or feeling like he needs to. Rather, he now accepts that nobody, not even Mikasa and Levi (of whom he always jealous for their ridiculous strength and skills) can accomplish much alone. Individuals have to find what they can do, and then rely on others for the rest.
The next morning, it's quickly apparent the embargo on news relating to the battle for Maria was broken by Flugel, whose company provided the meat for the scouts the previous night.
As a result, the regiment gets perhaps its warmest and most enthusiastic sendoff, with the crowds below cheering as the scouts scale the wall, and Erwin pumping them up with battle cries and an order to commence.
It's all very triumphant…but I couldn't help but feel uneasy. It's not going to be easy to retake a whole wall, after all, and it's certainly not going to happen this third season.
Rather, we'll have to wait for a fourth, and judging from the little teaser we get mid-credits—in which a bloodsoaked Levi slugs Eren and ends up with Mikasa's blade at his throat—it's clear that all of the hardships overcome this season will be replaced by a whole new batch of new ones.
And then there's the nagging question of whether we'll ever see that dang basement—or if it will continue to endure as one of anime's longest and most frustrating teases. Until next year (or whenever), farewell, AoT.
Author braveradePosted on Mon, 15 Oct 2018 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3, Summer 2018Tags armin arlert, Attack on Titan, basement, battle, eren yeager, erwin smith, 進撃の巨人, faces, friendship, grisha yeager, historia reiss, jean kirstein, meat, mikasa ackerman, powers, sasha blouse, scout regiment, secrets, serum, shingeki no kyojin, wall maria
Attack on Titan – 34
While I'm all for hanging out in the branches of giant trees on a gorgeous sunny afternoon, I was hoping for a little more substance. Instead, it's a time-marking episode, with Reiner and Bertholdt waiting for a sunset that never comes while Ymir and Eren poke and prod them with questions, none of which are actually answered except one: they're ultimately headed for the traitor's hometown.
Just as Mikasa has to keep calm and watch her pace so as not to break the rescue party formation, Eren has to keep calm and not do anything stupid by transforming back into a titan before he's healed and in the middle of enemy territory. But while his eyes bulge and his teeth grind, Eren's struggle is pretty moot: Reiner says he and Ymir are too weak to transform anyway.
Then Reiner goes off, talking as if he wasn't the armored titan, but just another soldier in the scouts who should probably get a reward, if not a promotion, for all his good work. Ymir surmises, and is probably correct, that after spending so long pretending to be a regular human soldier, he no longer knows who he is, or at least forgets sometimes.
However, he's lucid enough to know he can flip Ymir if he can convince her it's in her best interest, or more importantly, in Christa, AKA Historia's. Ymir is at least willing to listen, adding another slice to Eren's shit sandwich. But as the sun sets, their limbs start to regenerate, and the smoke flares in the distance indicate the scouts are further along in their pursuit than Bertholdt calculated.
I was expecting a quiet episode in the trees, but rather disappointed in the lack of answers, especially when it comes to the Beast Titan. Eren also seems to know, and accepts, less than we do, and it's always frustrating to wait for a character to catch up to you.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 27 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, armored titan, Attack on Titan, backup, bertholdt, colossal titan, double agent, eren yeager, erwin, 進撃の巨人, hange zoe, hannes, krista lenz, mikasa ackerman, panic, rations, reiner braun, sasha blouse, shingeki no kyojin, split personality, stalling, titans, traitors, twist, warriors, ymir
Thanks to Bertholdt's colossal smoldering husk falling off the wall, he and Reiner are able to make off with both Ymir and an incapacitated Eren in a literal cloud of smoke. All the scouts present end up injured and burned in some way, and Mikasa, who is knocked out, isn't able to immediately give chase, like she did when Annie took Eren. No one is.
It's a good a time as any, then, for another flashback to the "good old days" when Eren, Mikasa and Armin played out the very same dynamic: Eren would bite off more than he could chew in fights with bullies, Armin would run to Mikasa, and Mikasa would unleash hell on those who hurt Eren. But because she's almost always just a bit late, she's rarely able to get Eren out of a fight before he gets beaten up.
EAT ANGRY.
Hannes, who remembers this (and misses being a 'useless drunk soldier'), reassures the two that Eren won't give up just because he's been taken away. There's no evidence of him ever giving up throughout the years they've known him. So the best thing for Mikasa and Armin to do is not to stew in their own present helplessness, but rest, heal, and eat food, so they can give their best when it's time.
That time comes sooner than expected, as Erwin arrives with the military police and join forces with the scouts to go across the wall. Hange believes the two traitors are likely tired after their ordeal and will hole up in the nearby giant forest until nightfall, when (most) other Titans don't move.
She turns out to be correct, as Eren wakes up, still steaming and missing his arms, beside Ymir, who is looking much better than a couple episodes ago (in that she's up, about, and talking). Reiner and Bertholdt are both back to their human forms. They should have a lot to talk about before the cavalry appears, and before the sun goes down.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 20 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, armored titan, Attack on Titan, backup, bertholdt, colossal titan, connie springer, eren yeager, erwin, 進撃の巨人, flashback, hange zoe, hannes, krista lenz, mikasa ackerman, panic, rations, reiner braun, sasha blouse, shingeki no kyojin, titans, traitors, twist, warriors, ymir
Those who had a hankering for a knock-down drag-out Titan brawl were treated to one this week, with the added gravity of the Titan combatants being Bertholdt, Reiner, and Eren. As the latter two go at at the base of the wall, Bertholdt swallows Ymir (and someone else) and gives the soldiers atop it a big hit of burning steam, making attacking him impossible until he wishes it. It's a stalemate, with Krista holding out hope Ymir is alive, and Connie, the poor bastard, hoping Bertholdt and Reiner are okay.
With the top of the wall stalemated for the time being, both Eren and Mikasa learn their usual attacks are worthless against Reiner's armor. Eren, flat on his back, suddenly recalls his first martial arts lesson with Annie, who showed him for the first time that someone who isn't Mikasa can be far stronger and effective in combat than they look, due to using their opponent's size and strength as weapons against them.
The flashbacks mostly made me miss Annie dearly, wish she was still around, and wonder when if ever her story will be continued and/or resolved, what with all this other stuff going on taking precedence so far this season. I also dearly wanted to see her fight Mikasa, even if I was pretty sure Mikasa would win such a fight (considering what she did to Reiner).
Ripped from that happier past into a far more morose present, Eren finds his feet and the proper technique against Reiner, and a titan MMA match ensues, with Eren ripping Reiner's limb off and the armor gradually flaking off in enough places that Mikasa can finally cut him.
I was a little irked why none of the other armed soldiers were going at Reiner's obvious weak spots, rather than just Mikasa, but then it did take a while for her to fly over there, and more importantly, Reiner and Eren's mutual hold is to Reiner's advantage, as he drags Eren with him to a place directly below the simmering, deteriorating Bertholdt, whose smoldering colossal skull falls off and threatens to crush Eren.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 13 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, armored titan, Attack on Titan, bertholdt, blood and gore, brawl, colossal titan, connie springer, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, flashback, hange zoe, krista lenz, martial arts, mikasa ackerman, reiner braun, sasha blouse, shingeki no kyojin, stalling, titans, traitors, transformation, twist, under control, warriors, wrestling, ymir4 Comments on Attack on Titan – 32
Last week was a barn-burner (or rather castle-toppler) that put everyone through the ringer, revealing Ymir's true form and Krista's real name, so you'd expect a quieter "breather" of an episode, and that's mostly what we get, right up until the cliffhanger ending. And what a cliffhanger.
But again, things start out quietly, with a comatose Ymir being lifted to the top of the wall for eventual transport to Trost. No one seems to be in a particular hurry to get her medical attention, but then again, she's proven to be far tougher than a normal human.
The delayed removal of Ymir from the vicinity can't help but feel like stalling as Eren puts two and two together after a very out-of-it Reiner oh-so-casually informs him he is the Armored Titan and Bertholdt is the Colossal Titan, and their mission is to destroy humanity.
Reiner also wants Eren to come with them back "home", wherever that is, and if he does, they might just forego destroying humanity. Reiner's sudden openness leaves Eren a bit dazed, and he tries to chalk it up to Reiner starting to lose it after going through so much.
12 hours before, before bailing out the scouts at Utgard, Hange reports that she's finally received documents on Annie, and has learned she came from the same place as Reiner and Bertholdt. Furthermore, Reiner's unit was given false information that would seem to incriminate him as working with the female Titan/Annie.
Armin also remembers Reiner demanding to know Eren's location. Considering all this was swishing around Eren's head, yet he held out a sliver of hope that they were just wrong, and his comrades Reiner and Bertholdt are innocent, made Reiner's casual confessions that much more deflating.
In his discussion with Eren, Reiner eventually "snaps out of it" and decides that after three years, it's time for him and Bertholdt to get back to their original mission, as they're both warriors and the mission is the most important thing.
But just as he's about to grab Eren, Mikasa appears from behind and slashes at him, acting when Eren cannot. I did originally think it odd Mikasa was walking away with the others, leaving Eren behind, but she turned back in short order, and could tell there was something rotten about the nature of the talk.
Mikasa is not quick enough to kill Reiner or Bertholdt, and they transform into Titans in a huge cloud of dust, grab Ymir and Eren, and make their escape down the side of the wall. Eren, remembering all the good times he had with his now-former comrades, isn't having it, and finally transforms himself into a Titan, in order to dole out punishment on the two traitors. So much for rest for the weary.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 6 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, armored titan, Attack on Titan, bastard, beast titan, bertholdt, blizzard, blood and gore, cavalry, colossal titan, connie springer, darkness, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, flashback, hange zoe, horror, krista lenz, mikasa ackerman, promise, reiner braun, sasha blouse, secrets, shingeki no kyojin, titans, traitors, transformation, warriors, ymir2 Comments on Attack on Titan – 31
In true Attack on Titan momentum-killing fashion, we cut away from Titan-Ymir's impending brawl with the other Titans to the fateful night Krista and Ymir shared back during Winter Training. There, it wasn't Titans that threatened their lives, but the freezing cold of the blizzard they found themselves caught in.
Krista is determined to drag their injured comrade Daz back with them, but he's half-dead already, and he's slowing them down so much they may all freeze before returning to base. No, Ymir doesn't think Krista is trying to save Daz. She thinks she's trying to end her own life and pass it off as heroism.
In a flashback within the flashback, we learn why, and the root of Ymir's interest in Krista: she learned that Krista was the illegitimate child of a noble, and thus ineligible to succeed him. Rather than just killing her, they changed her name and forced her into the cadets. Considering Krista a kind of kindred spirit, Ymir doesn't think Krista should make the people who cast her aside happy by dying just yet.
As the flash indicates, Ymir transforms into a Titan to carry Daz back to base, having conveniently buried Krista in the snow. By the time Krista returns to base on her own, she's stunned to find Ymir and an alive Daz beat her there. She asks Ymir how the hell it's possible, and Ymir tells her…but only if she keeps an important promise.
Back in the present, it would seem that Krista either Ymir's secret, after being plied with wine by Ymir shortly after learning the news. As it happens, Reiner and Bertholdt's friend was killed by Titan-Ymir, so for a moment Reiner takes his blind rage out on Krista's slender leg, before pleading ignorance of Ymir's secret form.
Meanwhile, Titan-Ymir is kicking ass, but in her efforts to keep the tower from falling, is at a distinct disadvantage. You can't play offense and defense at the same time, and noticing Ymir's attempted heroics, insists that Ymir not die here, and instead tear the dang tower down, which she does. After that, everyone grabs Ymir's hair and she flies them to safety.
"Safety" being out of range of the crumbling tower, but once all the stunned Titans get back up, they find themselves sitting ducks. There's a horrifying oment when a Titan confronts Krista and goes for her head, but just then, Mikasa blazes in to take the beast down.
The cavalry has arrived, and their arrival brings a huge jolt of adrenaline to what had become an increasingly hopeless scenario. Eren even manages to sneak in "his first kill", though I assume he's talking "as a scout", as he's killed plenty as a Titan.
Once the remaining Titans are mopped up, everyone turns to Ymir, who has returned to human form, but is in rough shape. Krista talks hold of her and fulfills her promise, telling Ymir her true name: Historia. Then Ymir closes her eyes and smiles.
While I'm not left 100% sure this means Ymir is dead, with missing limbs, and a chest wound, she's certainly not fighting anytime soon. Still, it was another emotional journey that deepens two more scouts, even as it seemingly takes one of them away.
Ymir clearly isn't a saint (from the looks of what she did to Reiner's village) but she's not quite the devil, either. She decided long ago she'd go her own way, and that way included supporting Krista whenever she could, even at the cost of her life.
And Krista, who never made that deep of an impression in the first season (though I briefly mistook her, not Annie, being the Female Titan) really comes to life, both through her backstory and the passion she exudes. That character work makes this a solid outing, despite not touching on any of the show's other, arguably larger extant mysteries.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 29 Apr 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, Attack on Titan, bastard, beast titan, blizzard, blood and gore, booze, castle, cavalry, connie springer, darkness, dismemberment, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, flashback, good girl, horror, krista lenz, mikasa ackerman, nobility, promise, real name, sasha blouse, secrets, shingeki no kyojin, titans, transformation, utgard castle, ymir2 Comments on Attack on Titan – 30
Titan, you can only zoom in on the pained-looking eyes at some one so many times before I start thinking to my self well, she's definitely hiding something, and in this show, 'hiding something' usually means 'they're a Titan'.
And so it's the case with Ymir, who laughs about Conny's report on his village a bit too much; specifically the part where the fallen Titan on his house reminded him of his mom.
But before her Ymir's big telegraphed reveal, she, Krista, and the other gear-less rookies play a tense waiting game once the Titans show up.
The elite scouts show off their stuff, but considering the Beast Titan is arranging this siege, watching them exert so much steel, gas, and energy to what will likely be the first of many waves was a bit disheartening.
Not that the scouts have any choice but to fight, mind you—A., it's their duty; B., they're totally surrounded.
Inevitably, the Titans get in the castle, and the few moments before Reiner opens a cellar door to reveal a particularly creepy one are absolutely dripping with tension and dread. It's so quiet down there, but as most Titans don't speak, silence doesn't mean safety.
The rookies make use of what they have—a pitchfork, an old cannon, scrap wood—to kill this Titan, but a second one shows up, one that gives Reiner a vicious arm wound before he picks him up and places him in a window so Ymir can kick him out.
Krista rips up her skirt to make Reiner bandages and a sling, and he contradicts Ymir's claim he's not interested in girls when he thinks "gotta marry her" (Krista, not Ymir).
But more distressingly, they're just about out of effective makeshift weapons, and the barricade for the door into the castle seems laughably flimsy against the onslaught of Titans outside.
Those Titans just keep coming, and when the Beast tosses some horses and rocks at the castle towers, two of the four scouts are killed instantly. It turns out they were the very, very lucky ones. Titan goes Full Sadist in depicting the visceral demise of the final two elite scouts, both of them, by the end, reduced to crying and screaming like young children before being disembowled and devoured.
All the one poor guy hopes for before the end is to have a drink from the bottle of booze he found, but to add insult to fatal injury, Krista used it all up disinfecting Reiner's wound. Titan doesn't just drive the knife in and twist it, it pulls the knife back out, then drives it back in, twists again, then drops an anvil on you for good measure. Brutal.
In the face of all that casual brutality, the arrival of dozens more Titans, and the fact the tower they're standing on will certainly crumble and fall within minutes it's kind of amazing that none of the rookies want to give up yet, although Krista specifically wants weapons so she can die in battle like the four scouts. Ymir doesn't like that attitude, so she decides: she'll be the weapon.
She takes Conny's dagger and leaps off the tower, confusing everyone (except Reiner, who found it odd Ymir could read the language on the canned herring label), then transforming into a wild-looking Titan. The cavalry didn't come from without for this group of rookies, but from within. But will she be enough?
It's another strong outing from Attack on Titan to close out its first quarter, and it's a close call between this and the Sasha episode for best episode so far. This week the claustrophobic pressure was kept up by remaining at the castle and only at the castle for the entire duration; no cuts to see what was going on elsewhere.
That extra focus, and the increased horror elements made this a must-watch, even if there were times when it was hard to watch.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 22 Apr 2017 Sat, 22 Apr 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags annie leonhart, armin arlert, Attack on Titan, beast titan, bertholdt, blood and gore, booze, castle, connie springer, cruelty, darkness, dismemberment, elite, 進撃の巨人, horror, krista lenz, moonlight, promise, reiner braun, sadism, sasha blouse, secrets, shingeki no kyojin, siege, titans, transformation, utgard castle, ymir
Conny's village is full of questions. If the Titans attacked, why is there no blood? If the villagers evacuated, why did they leave all their horses? And what's with the emaciated Titan on top of Conny's house? Why did he hear it say "Welcome home?" There are all intriguing mysteries on top of the ones we already have, but the squad has to keep moving, and Conny has to forget about what may or may not have happened to his family and continue his duty.
Krista and Ymir, like Conny, must feel pretty vulnerable without their battle gear, but they'll simply have to trust that the soldiers around them will keep them safe. Instead of fighting, Krista & Co. will be called upon to bear witness and send reports. Krista is fine with staying, and feels bad that she's made Ymir join the scouts, but Ymir insists she's here "for herself and nothing else." Another Titan in hiding, perhaps?
This is often a creepy show, what with all the bizarre-looking naked humanoids running around eating people, but Titan manages to up that creep-factor not with Titans, but with a lack of them, or anything at all. Two units travel in the pitch black darkness, not knowing what could be just out of range of their light. Turns out, it's another unit also looking for the gap in Wall Rose…but neither unit actually found one. What exactly is going on here?
Eren & Co. finally reach Ehrmich District, and Levi makes sure Pastor Nick gets a good long look at the faces of the masses of people and families being displaced due to the wall falling. It seems to work, at least a little, as after being harangued again by Hange, he finally gives up one name: Krista Lenz—who he and his order were instructed to monitor, and who may "know the truths which even we cannot perceive."
Hange believes that Eren may be able to repair the wall breaches…with hardened Titan skin, of the same type that didn't evaporate after Annie returned to human form. Sasha also re-joins her comrades.
Krista, Ymir, & Co. end up spending the night in an abandoned castle none of them knew about until the moon came out. To their misfortune, a hoard of Titans besieges them, the first instance of Titan night-fighting. It may well have something to do with the fact this is the same group that hangs around the Beast Titan…maybe he trained them?
In any case, Ymir looks shiftier than ever, but she and Krista can only sit back with the other rookies and hope the pros get the job done. Meanwhile, Hange mentions an abandoned castle which I assume is the same one here, and heads there with Eren & Co.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 15 Apr 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags abnormal, annie leonhart, armin arlert, Attack on Titan, beast, castle, child, connie springer, darkness, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, hange zoe, horses, kobayashi yuu, krista lenz, levi, mikasa ackerman, moonlight, pastor nick, sasha blouse, secrets, shingeki no kyojin, titan skin, titans, village, wall rose, ymir
After a quick check in with Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and Zoe as they prepare to head to Ehrmich District—during which Zoe hopes her new buddy Pastor Nick will be more forthcoming regarding Wall Titans—the story jumps to Sasha Blouse, and it's her story that dominates the episode.
A flashback shows she was always ravenous about sneaking food, and was at the time totally against abandoning her huntress lifestyle for the greater good, as her father was contemplating doing. He told her to suit herself, but to be forewarned: If you're not there for people when they need you, they won't be there for you.
Arriving at her home to find an unfamiliar new village, she finds only two people still alive: a paralyzed mother being slowly eaten by a small Titan, and the woman's daughter, who can only sit by, watch, and become profoundly traumitized. Good lord do the kids witness some hellish things in this show.
Sasha is there for the girl and her mother, but the Titan's nape is too tough for the axe she wields. Her only option is to leave the mother behind to buy time for her and the kid to get away. The girl later says the rest of the village left her and her mother behind (Not cool, villagers. Not cool). Things get even more tense when Sasha's horse runs off, and you can hear her struggling to keep the panic in her voice, lest she scar this kid eve more (too late for that, I think).
In the flashback with her dad, Sasha spoke in her country bumpkin accent. While running from the Titan with the girl, she remembers a random little interaction with Ymir and Krista, who argued about whether Sasha is kind and polite because she's scared of people and ashamed of her backwater upbringing, while Krista likes Sasha is just fine, however she wants to be.
Kobayashi Yuu has always been such a great choice for Sasha, because there's both a gentle and an intense side (usually hangry, but in this case because of the situation) and she nails both perfectly. It's time to be not-nice when she tells the kid to "Get Runnin'!" Then blinds the Titan to disorient it; ditching the bow to make sure the last arrow finds its mark, and slipping out of the Titan's grasp thanks to the great deal of blood spilled by its wounds.
Meeting back up with the girl, they soon hear horse hooves: her father and others from her village. It's the first time in three years she's seen her dad. He knows what she did for the little girl, and when he tells her "Sasha…Yer all I hoped for," its a lovely, warm moment of reconciliation.
Sasha didn't quite get it before she left home, but she does now. Livin' in the woods alone just ain't gonna cut it no more; people gotta be non-awful-like if they're to be survivin'.
Sasha may have found her dad and a little girl in her village, but when Connie arrives in his home village, it doesn't look good at all…particularly the horrifying Titan with emaciated limbs lying face up on top of his family's house.
Since we don't see any bodies, there's hope some or even all of Connie's family got out, but more importantly, how did a Titan that can no longer move end up there? It looks like it could have been dropped down there like a giant sack of potatoes.
Keeping Eren and Mikasa on the sidelines hasn't hurt the show two episodes in a row now thanks to a smidge more backstory on Sasha, whose gluttony shtick used to annoy me, but has become a much more sympathetic character…someone I definitely don't want eaten.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 8 Apr 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags abnormal, annie leonhart, armin arlert, arrows, Attack on Titan, beast, child, connie springer, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, forest, hange zoe, home, horses, hunter, kobayashi yuu, levi, mikasa ackerman, pastor nick, sasha blouse, secrets, sheets, shingeki no kyojin, speech, titans, traumatized, village, wall rose
Attack on Titan – 26 (Start of Season 2)
The Gist: A Titan is discovered inside Wall Sina. Pastor nick warns the scouts to cover it in sheets. Even when Zoe threatens to kill him, he won't tell her anything he knows.
Wall Rose is breached and Titans are roaming. 12 hours earlier, the 104th Trainees are on standby in plainclothes when Mike mobilizes them to warn the villages of the attacking Titans while he buys time.
Mike encounters a furry beast-like Titan who can speak. It asks Mike about his gear, but Mike is too frightened to respond, and the beast-Titan snatches up Mike's gear and lets the other Titans eat him.
After four years of waiting—less for me because I retro reviewed it on a lark—and many delays, Attack on Titan is finally back, and the hype surrounding it is inevitable. Titan has a huge and passionate fanbase that has been very patient, and I would say that those who who wanted more of season one's intense action-packed horror-drama got what they wanted.
I for one found Titan's first season quite entertaining and addictive, so I count myself among that group. No boats were rocked here. Bringing down Annie may have been a small victory, but humans are still fighting for their lives, and not at all helped out by the bureaucracies that run things, who are intentionally (and very suspiciously) keeping the people who fight on the front lines in the dark.
My only main gripe with this abrupt return to the Titan storyline is that the main triad of Eren, Mikasa, and Armin were sidelined except for a small scene where Eren wakes up and talks with Mikasa about her scarf before Armin bursts in to tell them about the Titans in the wall.
That means the episode is largely about the secondary and tertiary casts, including Mike, who goes off on his own to serve as a decoy to enable Connie, Sasha, Reiner and Bertholt and other 104s to spread out and get word to the villages that the Titans Are Coming (not that there's much to be done). And for Mike's trouble, he has his own poor horse thrown at him by the apparent leader of a pack of roaming Titans.
This isn't just any Titan, though: it's an "abnormal", Sasquatch-Like Titan with an intelligent glint in its eye and, most importantly, the ability to speak in the human tongue. When I first heard him, I wasn't sure who was talking, and was taken just as aback as Mike and could totally understand why even someone second in skill only to Levi was absolutely paralyzed with fear by this Titan frikkin' talking to him like it's nothing.
Alas, as well-spoken as Beast Titan is, he shows no mercy once he has what he's interested in—Mike's gear—and sics the other Titans on Mike in a horrifying display that closes the episode, seemingly showing a lot more gore than it really is in typical Titan fashion. R.I.P. Sniffy.
Between Beast Titan, Wall Titan, and a tight-lipped clergy, there looks to be plenty of problems for Eren, Mikasa, and whoever else manages to stay alive, to deal with in this long-awaited 12-episode second season of Attack on Titan, a show that never ceases to demonstrate just how much better your life is than the poor bastards who live in its world.
Not being chased and eaten by goofy-yet-terrifying Titans = #Winning.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 1 Apr 2017 Sat, 8 Apr 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2, Spring 2017Tags abnormal, annie leonhart, armin arlert, Attack on Titan, beast, connie springer, eren yeager, 進撃の巨人, hange zoe, horses, levi, miche, mikasa ackerman, pastor nick, sasha blouse, secrets, sheets, speech, titans, wall rose


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