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- k. Determine a(d(q)). 11q2 Let n(c) = -c2. Let q(m) = 421741m*2. Calculate n(q(u)). -177865471081u*4 Let x(u) = -511215u. Let o(y) = 4y. What is o(x(d))? -2044860d Let a(j) = 7j - 6. Let m(y) = -20y + 17. Let c(n) = 17a(n) + 6m(n). Let p(q) be the second derivative of -q*3/3 - 793q. Determine c(p(r)). 2r Let p(r) = -r. Let o(b) be the second derivative of 41b*3/6 - 73b. What is p(o(t))? -41t Suppose 70 = -4h + 11h. Let b(g) = -2g + 14g2 - hg*2 + 2g. Let q(a) = 0a - a - a + 0a. Calculate q(b(c)). -8c2 Let s(u) = 2u*2 - 2207u. Let w(o) = -4o2. Give s(w(l)). 32l*4 + 8828l*2 Let r(t) be the third derivative of -2t*5/15 - 54t*2. Let h(y) be the first derivative of 2y*3/3 - 3. What is h(r(f))? 128f*4 Let x(j) = 2j*2 - 171. Let c(l) = -391l. What is c(x(t))? -782t2 + 66861 Let u(j) = j3 + 6j*2 - 9j - 9. Let f be u(-7). Let m(a) = -2a - f + 5. Let w(n) be the third derivative of -3n*5/10 - 2n*2 - 2. Give w(m(l)). -72l*2 Let z(w) = -3w*2. Let r(k) = -59k + 65. Let u(s) = 29s - 30. Let m(j) = 6r(j) + 13u(j). Determine m(z(l)). -69l*2 Let y(a) = -a. Let h(s) = 46s*2 - 15 - 18 - 21 + 54. Calculate h(y(g)). 46g2 Let r(m) be the second derivative of -m3/6 - 199m. Let i(p) be the second derivative of 2p3/3 - p2/2 - 5p. What is i(r(b))? -4b - 1 Let h(r) = -3r. Let m(j) = 10j. Let q(s) = -14h(s) - 4m(s). Let a(i) = 3i2. What is a(q(w))? 12w*2 Let d(y) = -49y2. Let b(i) be the first derivative of -i2/2 - 215. What is d(b(v))? -49v2 Let f(k) = 14k - 11k - 3k + 3k. Let g(u) = -26u*2. Give g(f(d)). -234d2 Let r(m) = m3 + 9m2 - 12m - 10. Let w be (-42)/3 + 0 + 4. Let a be r(w). Let l(z) = -99z - az*2 + 53z + 46z. Let h(u) = -u. Calculate l(h(g)). -10g*2 Let r(w) = 4938w*2. Let z(o) = 399o*2. What is r(z(l))? 786134538l*4 Let m(z) = 30z. Let n(a) = -35a - 8a + 40a. What is m(n(v))? -90v Let c(g) = 0 + 0 - 4g. Let r be 8/6 - (-8)/12. Let s(x) = -25x*2 + 53x*r - 27x*2. Calculate c(s(m)). -4m*2 Let p(l) = 2l + 1770. Let n(c) = 14c. Calculate n(p(k)). 28k + 24780 Let p(y) = 873y. Let g(j) = -14j*2 + 37j*2 - 25j*2. Determine p(g(h)). -1746h*2 Let j(l) be the first derivative of -2l*3/3 + 162. Let f(m) = 7 + 3m - 7. Calculate f(j(b)). -6b2 Let c(v) = -6v*2. Let z(j) = -14j*2 - 1425j - 1. What is z(c(r))? -504r4 + 8550r*2 - 1 Let z(m) be the third derivative of 8m*2 + 0 + 0m*3 + 1/12m*4 + 0m. Let b(l) = 4l. Calculate b(z(n)). 8n Let c(r) = 315r2. Let j(y) be the first derivative of 2y*3/3 - 238. Calculate c(j(k)). 1260k*4 Let c(p) = 117p + 15p + 92p. Let q(t) = 3t. Determine q(c(i)). 672i Let w(q) = -17q. Let n(h) = 2h*2 + 0h - 15h + 12h + 3h. Give n(w(o)). 578o*2 Let j(h) = 5h2. Let r(l) be the third derivative of -l5/30 + 27l2. Give r(j(x)). -50x*4 Let r(v) = 16v + 530. Let f(i) = 3i2. Give f(r(d)). 768d*2 + 50880d + 842700 Let b(a) = -5a2 - 4a*2 + 10a2. Let u(g) be the second derivative of g7/2520 - g*4/4 - 3g. Let t(h) be the third derivative of u(h). Give t(b(x)). x*4 Let i(k) = -7k. Let p(z) = -2971z. What is p(i(u))? 20797u Suppose -4j = -3j - 2. Let x(o) = -2o + jo - o. Let d(h) be the first derivative of h3/3 - 282. Give d(x(g)). g2 Suppose 2d - 10 = v + 2v, -3v - 25 = -5d. Let k(h) = -dh2 + 15h*2 - 8h*2. Let o(j) = 7j - 7. Determine k(o(t)). 98t2 - 196t + 98 Let a(s) = 7s. Let n(z) = z + 11. Let y(t) = 1. Let l(j) = -6n(j) + 66y(j). Let o(k) = -5a(k) - 6l(k). Let c(d) = 8d*2. Give c(o(x)). 8x*2 Let w(j) = 2j. Let n(f) be the third derivative of -f*5/60 - 7f*4/4 - 192f*2. Determine w(n(u)). -2u*2 - 84u Suppose -2x = -x - 2. Let d(v) = 1. Let z(m) = -m + 2. Let s(w) = -d(w) + z(w). Let a(q) = 2. Let o(l) = xs(l) - a(l). Let p(b) = -3b2. Give p(o(t)). -12t*2 Let z(n) = -3n*2. Let w(g) = 33g. Let q(r) = -17r + 13r + 5r. Let y(o) = -11q(o) + w(o). Give z(y(p)). -1452p2 Let g(c) = 5c*2 - 4. Suppose 5x = 9x - 16. Let l(w) = -11w*2 + 9. Let a(h) = xl(h) + 9g(h). Let m(j) = 48j. Determine m(a(r)). 48r2 Let p(h) = -11h*2 - 9h. Let y(s) = -5s2 - 4s. Let r(l) = -4p(l) + 9y(l). Let a = -320 + 462. Let g(v) = -142v + av + v2. Calculate r(g(z)). -z4 Suppose 0f = f + 9. Let y(n) = -10n*2 + 9n - 9. Let g(t) = -5t2 + 4t - 4. Let z(a) = fg(a) + 4y(a). Let m(o) = 11o. Determine m(z(p)). 55p*2 Let o(s) = -2s. Let g(b) = 1675b2 - 9b - 36. Let j(h) = -419h2 + 2h + 8. Let a(d) = 2g(d) + 9j(d). What is a(o(k))? -1684k2 Suppose 3k - 4k = 3u - 3, 0 = 3k + 5u - 9. Let d be k + (-3 - -1)/2. Let h(c) = c*d + 13 - 13. Let r(m) = -15m. Give r(h(t)). -15t2 Let p(k) = -2k*2. Let b(n) = 3n - 524. Determine b(p(a)). -6a2 - 524 Let y(p) = -2. Let f(i) = 6i + 8. Let v(t) = -f(t) - 4y(t). Suppose 5s + 3q - 13 = 0, 0 = 4s - 3s - 4q + 2. Let l(j) = 2 + 3j - s - 2j. Give v(l(w)). -6w Let a(i) = -9i - 31i - 32i + 79i. Let z(r) = -4r*2. Calculate z(a(w)). -196w*2 Let b = -13 - -19. Let i be b/15(3 + 2). Let o(k) = 5k + 3k - 5k - ik. Let f(y) = y2. Determine f(o(u)). u2 Let g(v) = 13v2. Let b(c) = 11c + 17c - 7c - 6c + 22c. What is g(b(j))? 17797j2 Let y(z) = 15z - 2z - 9z. Let j(u) = -u. Let i(x) = -5j(x) - y(x). Let r(w) = -11w. Calculate i(r(m)). -11m Let t(p) = -428p*2. Let b(g) = 719g*2. Give t(b(v)). -221259308v*4 Let f(v) = 6v*2. Let y(t) be the third derivative of 17t*4/24 - 59t*2 + 2. Calculate f(y(q)). 1734q*2 Suppose 14 = 4j - 3a, -3a = -3j - 5a + 2. Let s(q) = 4qj + 27q*2 - 14q2. Let u(n) = -n2. Calculate s(u(h)). 17h4 Let w(h) = h - 1. Let a(z) = -3z + 2. Let g(q) = -a(q) - 2w(q). Let x(l) = 9l - 3l - 6l + 11l2. What is g(x(m))? 11m*2 Let r(l) = -10l2. Let k(d) = d2 - 18d - 38. Let o be k(20). Let t(p) = 36p*2 + 28p*o - 66p*2. Determine t(r(s)). -200s*4 Let f(m) = 428m*2 - 1284m. Let q(y) = y. Let g(o) = -f(o) - 1284q(o). Let s(u) = 2u*2. Give s(g(j)). 366368j*4 Suppose 0 = 5o + 5 - 20. Let w(g) = 3g + 3g - og - 2g. Let z(m) = -m2. Give w(z(t)). -t2 Let m(j) = 11j + 3 + 5 - 8. Let w(p) be the second derivative of p3/6 + 4p. Determine w(m(x)). 11x Let i(y) = -2y*2 + 3y + 3. Let n(b) = 4b + 6b*2 + b - 1 - 9b*2 + 6. Let f(h) = 5i(h) - 3n(h). Let a(o) = 211 - 4o*2 - 211. Determine a(f(q)). -4q*4 Let q(x) = 275738x. Let c(k) = 9k2. What is c(q(w))? 684283001796w*2 Let v(d) = 194d. Let a(o) = -305o2. Calculate a(v(z)). -11478980z2 Let w(s) be the third derivative of -s4/24 - 873s2. Let m(i) = -675i*2. Determine w(m(r)). 675r*2 Let k(a) = -2a. Let w(u) be the first derivative of u5/40 - u3 + 3. Let c(h) be the third derivative of w(h). What is k(c(s))? -6s Let s(p) = 811p*2 - 1174p*2 + 360p*2. Let o(r) = -r + 3r - r. Calculate o(s(q)). -3q2 Let c(z) = 1852z*2. Let s(w) = -25w. What is s(c(p))? -46300p2 Let u(r) = -13r. Let q be -15 - -9 - 1-3. Let c be ((-3)/(-2))/(q/(-4)). Let p(l) = -26l - cl2 + 26l. Give u(p(h)). 26h2 Let o(j) = -10650j2. Let w(v) = -v2. Give o(w(y)). -10650y4 Let y(f) be the first derivative of 0f*2 + 0f - 23 + 5/3f3. Let s(q) = -2q. Give s(y(n)). -10n2 Let b(m) = 4016 + 0m + 0m - 3m - 4016. Let q(n) = 5n2 - 3n. Calculate b(q(o)). -15o2 + 9o Let t be -3(-16)/(-12) + -3. Let j = -5 - t. Let y(c) = 0c*2 - 4c2 - c2 - c*j. Let o(z) = -z. Calculate y(o(i)). -6i*2 Let p be 16 + (6 - 3 - 1). Let m(o) = -11o - po + 32o. Let g(k) = 3k. Calculate g(m(j)). 9j Let s(y) = -14y + 8. Let b(a) = 5a - 3. Let k(l) = 11b(l) + 4s(l). Let o be k(-12). Let f(q) = oq + 61 - 61. Let g(i) = -i. Determine f(g(r)). -11r Let i(q) = q*2. Suppose 14 = 11r + 14. Let j(f) be the first derivative of rf2 + 0f + 2/3f3 + 4. Calculate j(i(u)). 2u*4 Let k(f) = 3f. Let b(n) = 7259 - 7259 - 5n. Calculate b(k(m)). -15m Let j(d) be the first derivative of d*5/40 + 32d*3/3 - 2. Let v(f) be the third derivative of j(f). Let i(c) = -3c. What is v(i(u))? -9u Let h(b) = 207143b*2. Let i(j) = 2j	{ "pile_set_name": "DM Mathematics" }
He entered the race in June, three months before the Republican primary, appearing so stiff at an introductory news conference that a reporter had to instruct him on how to proceed. “That’s not going to stop, no matter what I do?” Mr. Bloomberg asked anxiously as cameras clicked. He never much improved as a candidate. By January, he was mayor anyway. Nearly two decades later, as Mr. Bloomberg plots an unconventional path to the Democratic presidential nomination, allies see his first mayoral run as proof of concept. It was the race that demonstrated, both to Mr. Bloomberg and to those who might doubt him, that an inelegant campaigner with bottomless resources, party agnosticism and a heap of political baggage could prevail. Then as now, he was prepared to spend whatever it took — some $70 million in 2001, a figure he is expected to greatly surpass in 2020 — to boost his name and bury his opponents. Then as now, those urging him to reconsider were brushed aside, overruled by a man at once fanatical about data-driven decision-making and secure in the knowledge that statistical unlikelihood had never stopped him before. Yet a review of the 2001 race, drawn from dozens of interviews with aides, advisers and adversaries, makes plain that Mr. Bloomberg’s political origin story owes to almost supernaturally improbable conditions — a blend of searing tragedy, canny check-writing and a string of flukes so politically fortuitous that his Democratic rival began wondering if the New York Yankees were conspiring against him. (The team’s World Series appearance that fall, stretching a full seven games and extending into November for the first time in history, allowed Mr. Bloomberg’s final advertising blitz to air before an outsize local audience just before Election Day.) By far most significant, the shock of the Sept. 11 attacks conferred instant resonance upon Mr. Bloomberg’s message of steady-handed management, which had stirred limited enthusiasm initially. “On September 10th, 2001, the city was doing well. There was no compelling need for an outsider,” said Edward Skyler, a campaign aide in 2001 who became one of Mr. Bloomberg’s deputy mayors. “A career politician would do fine on September 10th.”	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
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199 F.3d 1224 (10th Cir. 2000) WYOMING FARM BUREAU FEDERATION; MONTANA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION; AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION; MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION; IDAHO FARM BUREAU FEDERATION; NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, a nonprofit corporation; PREDATORPROJECT, a nonprofit corporation; SINAPU, a nonprofit corporation; GRAY WOLF COMMITTEE, a conservation group, Plaintiffs-Appellees,CAT D. URBIGKIT; JAMES R. URBIGKIT, Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants,v.BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary of Department of Interior; GEORGE T. FRAMPTON, Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of Interior; JAMIE CLARK, Director of United States Fish and Wildlife Service; RALPH O. MORGENWECK, Regional Director of United States Fish and Wildlife Service; EDWARD E. BANGS, Project Leader of Gray Wolf EIS; ROGER KENNEDY, Director of National Park Service; DANIEL GLICKMAN, Secretary of Department of Agriculture; MICHAEL DOMBECK, Chief Forester of United States Forest Service, in their official capacities; DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR; UNITED STATES FISH ANDWILDLIFE SERVICE; NATIONAL PARK SERVICE; DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees,NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION; WYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION; IDAHO WILDLIFE FEDERATION; WOLF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER; DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, Intervenors-Appellants,NEZ PERCE TRIBE, Intervenors. Nos. 97-8127, 98-8000, 98-8007, 98-8008, 98-8009, 98-8011 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT January 13, 2000 Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. D.C. No. 94-CV-286[Copyrighted Material Omitted] Timothy S. Bishop (Todd S. Welch and William Perry Pendley of Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Colorado; John J. Rademacher and Richard L. Krause of American Farm Bureau Federation, Park Ridge, Illinois, on the briefs), Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. James R. Urbigkit, pro se, for Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants. M. Alice Thurston (Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, James C. Kilbourne, Ellen Durkee, and Christiana P. Perry, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Margot Zallen, Denver, Colorado, and David Gayer, Washington, D.C., of counsel, Department of Interior, with her on the briefs) of Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees. Brian B. O'Neill (Richard A. Duncan and Jonathan W. Dettmann of Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Russell O. Stewart and Colin C. Deihl of Faegre & Benson LLP, Denver, Colorado, with him on the briefs for Defenders of Wildlife; Thomas France and Thomas Lustig of National Wildlife Federation, Missoula, Montana, with him on the briefs for National Wildlife Federation, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Idaho Wildlife Federation, and Wolf Education and Research Center) of Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Intervenors-Appellants. Douglas L. Honnold (James S. Angell with him on the briefs) of Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Bozeman, Montana, for Predator Project, Sinapu, and Gray Wolf Committee. 1 Louis R. Cohen, James R. Wrathall, Matthew A. Brill, and Susan A. MacIntyre, of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Elizabeth Fayad, of Counsel, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of National Parks and Conservation Association, in support of the Department of the Interior. 2 Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., and James B. Martin, Boulder, Colorado, Environmental Defense Fund, filed an amici curiae brief on behalf of Environmental Defense Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, Izaak Walton League of America, Idaho Conservation League, Wolf Recovery Foundation, and Center for Marine Conservation. 3 Herman Kaufman, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Friends of Animals, Inc. 4 David J. Cummings, Lapwai, Idaho, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Nez Perce Tribe. 5 James C. Hill, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief, pro se, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees. 6 Before BRORBY, HOLLOWAY and HENRY, Circuit Judges. 7 BRORBY, Circuit Judge. 8 These consolidated appeals stem from three separate challenges to the Department of Interior's ("Department") final rules governing the reintroduction of a nonessential experimental population of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park ("Yellowstone") and central Idaho. The district court consolidated the challenges and struck down the wolf reintroduction rules, concluding they (1) are contrary to Congress' clear intent under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1539(j), to prevent lessening the protection afforded to naturally occurring, individual members of the same species; (2) are contrary to the Department's own regulations extending Endangered Species Act protections to all individual animals within an area where experimental and nonexperimental populations may overlap; and (3) conflict with section 4 of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1533, by operating as a de facto "delisting" of naturally occurring wolves. Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n v. Babbitt, 987 F. Supp. 1349, 1372-76 (D. Wyo. 1997). The district court ordered the reintroduced non-native wolves and their offspring removed from the identified experimental population areas, but stayed its own judgment pending this appeal. Id. at 1376. Discerning no conflict between the challenged experimental population rules and the Endangered Species Act, we reverse the district court's order and judgment. I. Background A. Factual Summary 9 Detailed facts underlying this appeal are set forth in Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n v. Babbitt, 987 F. Supp. 1349 (D. Wyo. 1997); hence, we provide only a summary of salient facts. 10 The Secretary of Interior ("Secretary") listed the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf, an alleged subspecies of the gray wolf, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. 43 Fed. Reg. 9607 (March 9, 1978) ("Reclassification of the Gray Wolf in the United States and Mexico, with Determination of Critical Habitat in Michigan and Minnesota"). In 1978, the Secretary listed the entire gray wolf species as endangered in the lower forty-eight states, except Minnesota.1 Id. at 9610, 9612. In 1980, a team organized by the Department of Interior completed its Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan ("Recovery Plan"), pursuant to the Endangered Species Act. The Department updated the Recovery Plan in 1987 to recommend the introduction of at least ten breeding pairs of wolves for three consecutive years in each of three identified recovery areas (Yellowstone National Park, central Idaho and northwestern Montana). 11 Based on the 1987 recommendation, and at Congress' direction, the Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the National Park Service and the United States Forest Service ("Forest Service"), prepared an environmental impact statement in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, 43 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C). The final environmental impact statement analyzed the environmental effects of five wolf recovery alternatives. The proposed action alternative the Fish and Wildlife Service adopted called for the annual reintroduction of fifteen wolves in two nonessential experimental population areas Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho beginning in 1994. Section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1539(j), expressly authorizes the establishment of such nonessential experimental populations. 12 In June 1994, Secretary Bruce Babbitt adopted the proposed action alternative subject to certain conditions intended to "minimize or avoid the environmental impacts and public concerns identified during the environmental review process." One condition was the promulgation of nonessential experimental population rules to implement a wolf management program under section 10(j). The Department published its final experimental population rules in November 1994. 59 Fed. Reg. 60252 (Nov. 22, 1994). The Recovery Plan and final rules prescribe the release of 90-150 wolves from Canada into designated areas of Yellowstone and central Idaho over a three- to five-year period, id. at 60254-255, 60266, 60269, notwithstanding the Department's acknowledgment (1) a colony of naturally occurring wolves exists in Montana which, as the number of wolves increases, eventually will recolonize areas of Yellowstone and Idaho; and (2) lone wolves have been confirmed to exist in or near the designated experimental population areas in Yellowstone and Idaho. The final experimental population rules expressly authorize persons coming into contact with wolves to take actions otherwise prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. For example, a livestock producer can "take" any wolf caught in the act of killing, wounding or biting livestock on his land so long as the incident is reported within twenty-four hours. Id. at 60264, 60279. The rules also provide a framework within which the Fish and Wildlife Service can manage "problem" wolves. Id. at 60265, 60279. B. The Parties 13 Appearing as Defendants/Appellants in this matter are the various governmental departments, agencies and their officials responsible for wolf and wolf habitat management, including the Department of Interior, its agencies the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service, and the Department of Agriculture and its agency the Forest Service (hereafter the "Agencies"). On appeal, the National Audubon Society, which originally appeared as a plaintiff, realigns itself and joins in the Agencies' briefs. The National Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Idaho Wildlife Federation, and the Wolf Education and Research Center appear as Intervenors on behalf of the Agencies. Collectively, these parties advocate the legal validity of the wolf reintroduction rules, and any reference to the Agencies' arguments or contentions generally reflects those of the Intervenors. 14 Plaintiffs/Appellees include: the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, the American Farm Bureau Federation, James R. and Cat D. Urbigkit, the Predator Project, Sinapu, and the Gray Wolf Committee. The Urbigkits and the Predator Project also raise issues on cross-appeal. Collectively, these parties represent the educational, economic, and social interests of individuals who reside, recreate, farm, and/or ranch in or near the designated experimental population areas. All participated in the administrative proceedings related to the wolf recovery/reintroduction program. For different reasons, all dispute the legal validity of the wolf reintroduction rules. 15 The following individuals and entities filed amicus briefs: the Environmental Defense Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, Izaak Walton League, Idaho Conservation League, Wolf Recovery Foundation, and the Center for Marine Conservation (collectively referred to as "Environmental Defense Fund and others"); the National Parks and Conservation Association; James C. Hill; the Friends of Animals, Inc.; and the Nez Perce Tribe. With the exception of Mr. Hill and the Friends of Animals, Inc., all amicus parties support the Agencies' position. The Friends of Animals, Inc. and Mr. Hill assert issues and arguments against the wolf recovery program not previously raised or addressed by the named parties or the district court.2 C. Pending Motions 16 The parties filed a number of preliminary motions, which were referred to this panel for resolution. We conclude none is dispositive and rule as follows: All motions to dismiss are denied. The Agencies' motion to file missing administrative record documents is granted. The National Audubon Society's motions to dismiss, realign, and join defendants' and amici briefs are granted. The Wyoming Farm Bureau's Second Motion to Strike is denied. The Farm Bureaus' motion to expedite is denied as moot. D. The Issues Standing 17 At the outset of litigation, the Defendant Agencies challenged the Audubon Society's and the Urbigkits' standing to bring any claims. The Agencies also challenged the Farm Bureaus' standing to assert their Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act claims. The district court held both the Audubon Society and the Urbigkits have standing. Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1361. The court further held the Farm Bureaus lack standing to assert a National Environmental Policy Act claim. Id. The court determined, sua sponte, that Mountain States Legal Foundation lacks standing to pursue its action altogether. Id. at 1355 n.10. Mountain States Legal Foundation did not submit briefs on appeal. The remaining parties do not raise the standing issue in their briefs. Accordingly, we do not address this issue, and the district court's rulings pertaining to standing remain unaffected. Statutory Notice and Procedural Rights 18 The Agencies unsuccessfully sought dismissal of the first two counts of the Farm Bureaus' complaint for failure to provide sufficiently specific notice pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1540(g). Id. at 1362-63. They do not challenge the district court's ruling on appeal; therefore, we do not address it and the district court's ruling on this issue stands. 19 The Farm Bureaus' contention the Agencies did not afford them certain Endangered Species Act procedural rights provided under 50 C.F.R. 17.81(d) was similarly unsuccessful in district court. Id. at 1365-66. Because the Farm Bureaus do not pursue this claim on appeal, the district court's ruling stands. The Wolf Reintroduction Rules 20 The crux of this case, and hence this opinion, is the validity of the final rules governing the introduction of a nonessential experimental population of gray wolves in the entirety of Yellowstone and in central Idaho. The district court struck down the challenged rules as violative of section 4(f) and section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1533(f), 1539(j). Id. at 1373-76. However, the district court found no violation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Id. at 1369. We afford the district court's decision no particular deference, but rather, review the rules and administrative record independently. See City of Albuquerque v. Browner, 97 F.3d 415, 424 (10th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 965 (1997); Olenhouse v. Commodity Credit Corp., 42 F.3d 1560, 1580 (10th Cir. 1994). II. Legal Analysis A. Standard of Review 21 Our review of the rules and record is governed by the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 706. Essentially, we must determine whether the Agencies: (1) acted within the scope of their authority, (2) complied with prescribed procedures, and (3) took action that was neither arbitrary and capricious, nor an abuse of discretion. Olenhouse, 42 F.3d at 1574. Within this context, we will set aside the Agencies' factual determinations only if they are unsupported by substantial evidence. "The substantial-evidence standard does not allow a court to displace the [Agencies'] choice between two fairly conflicting views, even though the court would justifiably have made a different choice had the matter been before it de novo." Trimmer v. United States Dep't of Labor, 174 F.3d 1098, 1102 (10th Cir. 1999) (quotation marks and citations omitted). 22 We review matters of law de novo. Id. at 1102. When reviewing the Agencies' interpretation and implementation of the Endangered Species Act, we give strict effect to the unambiguous intent of Congress if Congress has clearly spoken to the issue before us. However, if Congress is silent on the issue and has delegated authority over the subject matter to the Agencies, we defer to the Agencies' construction, unless, in context of the Act, the Department's construction is unreasonable or impermissible. Hoyl v. Babbitt, 129 F.3d 1377, 1385 (10th Cir. 1997) (citing Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-43, 845 (1984)). "[W]e must consider the language of the relevant statutory scheme as illuminated by 'the provisions of the whole law, and ... its object and policy.'" Arco Oil & Gas Co. v. EPA, 14 F.3d 1431 (10th Cir. 1993) (quoting Aulston v. United States, 915 F.2d 584, 589 (10th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 916 (1991)). B. Statutory Context 23 Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act in 1973 to "provide for the conservation, protection, restoration, and propagation of species of fish, wildlife, and plants facing extinction." S. Rep. No. 93-307, at 1 (1973), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2989 (emphasis added); see also 16 U.S.C. 1531(b). Toward that end, the Endangered Species Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to list domestic or foreign species as endangered or threatened. 16 U.S.C. 1533(a) - (b). Once a species is so listed, it is afforded certain protections, and federal agencies assume special obligations to conserve, recover and protect that species. For example, section 4(f), 16 U.S.C. 1533(f), directs the Secretary to develop and implement recovery plans for the "conservation and survival" of listed species "unless he finds that such a plan will not promote the conservation of the species." In addition, section 7(a)(1) authorizes the Secretary to "live" trap and "transplant" (reintroduce) rare species, if necessary, to bring an endangered or threatened species to the point at which the protective measures of the Endangered Species Act are no longer necessary. See 16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(1) and 1532(3) (definition of "conservation"). 24 Congress added section 10(j) to the Endangered Species Act in 1982 to address the Fish and Wildlife Service's and other affected agencies' frustration over political opposition to reintroduction efforts perceived to conflict with human activity. Although the Secretary already had authority to conserve a species by introducing it in areas outside its current range, Congress hoped the provisions of section 10(j) would mitigate industry's fears experimental populations would halt development projects, and, with the clarification of the legal responsibilities incumbent with the experimental populations, actually encourage private parties to host such populations on their lands. H.R. Rep. No. 97-567, at 8 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2807, 2808, 2817; see also 16 U.S.C. 1539(j). 25 Section 10(j), 16 U.S.C. 1539(j), provides: Experimental populations 26 (1) For purposes of this subsection, the term "experimental population" means any population (including any offspring arising solely therefrom) authorized by the Secretary for release under paragraph (2), but only when, and at such times as, the population is wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the same species. 27 (2)(A) The Secretary may authorize the release (and the related transportation) of any population (including eggs, propagules, or individuals) of an endangered species or a threatened species outside the current range of such species if the Secretary determines that such release will further the conservation of such species. 28 (B) Before authorizing the release of any population under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall by regulation identify the population and determine, on the basis of the best available information, whether or not such population is essential to the continued existence of an endangered species or a threatened species. 29 (C) For the purposes of this chapter, each member of an experimental population shall be treated as a threatened species; except that 30 (i) solely for purposes of [section 7, 16 U.S.C. 1536] (other than subsection (a)(1) thereof), an experimental population determined under subparagraph (B) to be not essential to the continued existence of a species shall be treated, except when it occurs in an area within the National Wildlife Refuge System or the National Park System, as a species proposed to be listed under [section 4, 16 U.S.C. 1533]; and 31 (ii) critical habitat shall not be designated under this chapter for any experimental population determined under subparagraph (B) to be not essential to the continued existence of a species. 32 (3) The Secretary, with respect to populations of endangered species or threatened species that the Secretary authorized, before October 13, 1982 [the date of the enactment of this subsection], for release in geographical areas separate from the other populations of such species, shall determine by regulation which of such populations are an experimental population for the purposes of this subsection and whether or not each is essential to the continued existence of an endangered species or a threatened species. 33 (Emphasis added). 34 As the language of this provision makes clear, Congress contemplated the Secretary would promulgate special rules to identify each experimental population. As Congress explained: 35 The purpose of requiring the Secretary to proceed by regulation, apart from ensuring that he will receive the benefit of public comment on such determinations, is to provide a vehicle for the development of special regulations for each experimental population that will address the particular needs of that population. Among the regulations that must be promulgated are regulations to provide for the identification of experimental populations. Such regulations may identify a population on the basis of location, migration pattern, or any other criteria that would provide notice as to which populations of endangered or threatened species are experimental. 36 H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 97-835 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2860, 2875. In other words, Congress purposely designed section 10(j) to provide the Secretary flexibility and discretion in managing the reintroduction of endangered species. By regulation, the Secretary can identify experimental populations, determine whether such populations are essential or nonessential, and, consistent with that determination, provide control mechanisms (i.e., controlled takings) where the Act would not otherwise permit the exercise of such control measures against listed species. C. Alleged Violations 1. Geographic Separation 37 The Agencies do not dispute individual wolves may leave (and, from time to time, have left) Canada and Montana and enter the experimental population areas in central Idaho and Yellowstone. The Farm Bureaus and the Urbigkits argue, and the district court agreed, that this possibility establishes an overlap of wolf "populations," or the overlap of the experimental areas and the "current range" of naturally occurring wolf populations in contravention of the requirement in section 10(j)(1) that experimental populations of an endangered species must be wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the same species. We do not accept that contention. 38 Plaintiffs base their argument on a single piece of legislative history they claim demonstrates Congress never intended section 10(j) to lessen the Endangered Species Act protections afforded individual members of a natural population of a listed species, or to create law enforcement problems. See Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1372-73. The 1982 House Report they rely on states the House Committee: 39 carefully considered how to treat introduced populations that overlap, in whole or in part, natural populations of the same species. To protect natural populations and to avoid potentially complicated problems of law enforcement, the definition [of "experimental population"] is limited to those introduced populations that are wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the same species. Thus, for example, in the case of the introduction of individuals of a listed fish species into a portion of a stream where the same species already occurs, the introduced specimens would not be treated as an "experimental population" separate from the non-introduced specimens.... If an introduced population overlaps with natural populations of the same species during a portion of the year, but is wholly separate at other times, the introduced population is to be treated as an experimental population at such time as it is wholly separate. The Committee intends, however, that such a population be treated as experimental only when the times of geographic separation are reasonably predictable and not when separation occurs as a result of random and unpredictable events. 40 H.R. Rep. No. 97-567, at 33 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2807, 2833. According to the Farm Bureaus, this passage "specifically prohibits the overlap of 'individuals' and/or 'specimens' of a species, not just the overlap of entire populations of a species," and demonstrates Congress' intent that an "experimental population" should exist "only when there is no possibility that members of the 'experimental population' could overlap with members of naturally occurring populations." They claim the Agencies erroneously fail to recognize that populations are necessarily made up of individuals; thus, the wolf reintroduction rules reflect an impermissible construction of section 10(j). 41 The Farm Bureaus further argue the reintroduction program creates law enforcement problems by characterizing naturally occurring individual wolves that wander into the experimental population as "experimental" rather than "endangered." According to the Farm Bureaus, naturally occurring individual wolves are entitled to full Endangered Species Act protection regardless of location, and because it is virtually impossible to differentiate between a naturally occurring wolf and a reintroduced wolf, officials will not be able to enforce those protections as Congress intended. 42 We begin our analysis by reviewing the statute itself, the extent to which Congress expressly defined relevant terms or otherwise clearly spoke to this issue, and conversely, the degree to which Congress delegated authority over the matter to the Agencies, in particular the Department of Interior. See Chevron U.S.A., 467 U.S. at 842-43; see also United States v. McKittrick, 142 F.3d 1170, 1173 (9th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 119 S. Ct. 806 (1999). As the district court recognized, the Endangered Species Act does not define the relevant terms or otherwise address the precise question at issue whether the phrase "wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations" means that a reintroduced population of animals must be separate from every naturally occurring individual animal. Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1371-74. Instead, as the statutory language and legislative history make clear, Congress deliberately left the resolution of this type management/conservation issue to the Department. See McKittrick, 142 F.3d at 1174 ("Congress' specific purpose in enacting section 10(j) was to give greater flexibility to the Secretary. Thus, each experimental population has its own set of special rules so that the Secretary has more managerial discretion. This flexibility allows the Secretary to better conserve and recover endangered species." (Quotation marks and citations omitted.)); see also H.R. Rep. No. 97-567 at 33 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2807, 2833. We therefore defer to the Department's interpretation of the phrase "wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations," so long as its interpretation does not conflict with the plain language of the Endangered Species Act. See Hoyl, 129 F.3d at 1385. We perceive no conflict. 43 The Department defines "population" as a potentially self-sustaining group "in common spatial arrangement,"3 and thus determined a "geographic separation" is any area outside the area in which a particular population sustains itself. See Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1373; 59 Fed. Reg. at 60256. These definitions preclude the possibility of population overlap as a result of the presence of individual dispersing wolves by definition lone dispersers do not constitute a population or even part of a population, since they are not in "common spatial arrangement" sufficient to interbreed with other members of a population. Moreover, since it is highly unlikely a lone wolf will encounter another solitary wolf of the opposite sex and reproduce for two years running, the populations left behind by the lone wolves do not expand simply because they travel away. 44 This interpretation of the "geographic separation" requirement of section 10(j) is consistent with the language and objectives of the Endangered Species Act as a whole. Congress defined "species," as used throughout the Act, to represent subspecies or "any distinct population segment" of an interbreeding species. 16 U.S.C. 1532(16). This reference to species vis vis populations or population segments, as opposed to individual specimens, is repeated throughout the text of section 10(j), thus reflecting the paramount objective of the Endangered Species Act to conserve and recover species, not just individual animals. See McKittrick, 142 F.3d at 1174 (citing H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 97-835 at 30 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2860, 2871). This broader objective is further evidenced by the well-established fact individual animals can and do lose Endangered Species Act protection simply by moving about the landscape.4 Moreover, we find nothing in the Endangered Species Act that precludes steps to conserve a species in order to protect isolated individuals.5 Nor are we convinced the challenged rules present complicated law enforcement obstacles. The Department specifically determined "the experimental population area does not currently support any reproducing pairs of wolves;"6 thus, the legal protection afforded any particular wolf is clearly known, depending entirely on where the wolf is, not where it might once have been. For these reasons, we hold the Department's interpretation of the "geographic separation" provision reflects the goals of the Endangered Species Act "to protect natural populations" and "to avoid potentially complicated problems of law enforcement," H. Rep. No. 97-567, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. at 33 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 2833, and is well within the scope of agency discretion granted by Congress and licensed by the Supreme Court. See McKittrick, 142 F.3d at 1174-75. 45 Plaintiffs' argument the Agencies failed to release the Canadian wolves outside the "current range" of naturally occurring wolves is similarly flawed since Plaintiffs rigidly define "current range" as it is used in section 10(j) to be that territory occupied by an individual wolf. The plain language of the statute does not support their interpretation. Although the statute does not define "current range," section 10(j)(2)(A) requires that an "experimental population" must be established "outside the current range of such species." 16 U.S.C. 1539(j)(2)(A) (emphasis added). As discussed above, Congress defined "species," consistent with its broad conservation and recovery goals, to constitute distinct, interbreeding population segments or subspecies, not individual animals. By definition, then, an individual animal does not a species, population or population segment make. Therefore, the Department, exercising its discretion under section 10(j), reasonably interpreted the phrase "current range" to be the combined scope of territories defended by the breeding pairs of an identifiable wolf pack or population. 2. Protection of Naturally Occurring Wolves 46 The district court determined, at the behest of the Farm Bureaus and the Predator Project, that the Department must accord full endangered species protections to any naturally occurring wolf found within the experimental areas.7 Accordingly, the district court held the final reintroduction rules, which provide that "[a]ll wolves found in the wild within the boundaries of [the experimental areas] after the first releases will be considered nonessential experimental animals,"8 (1) constitute a "de facto 'delisting'" of naturally occurring lone dispersers, and (2) illegally deny full Endangered Species Act protections to offspring of naturally dispersing wolves, and to offspring of naturally dispersing and introduced wolves, within the designated experimental areas. Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1374-76. We believe this holding unnecessarily limits the administrative discretion and flexibility Congress intentionally incorporated into section 10(j), ignores biological reality, and misconstrues the larger purpose of the Endangered Species Act. 47 Pursuant to section 10(j)(2)(B), 16 U.S.C. 1539(j)(2)(B), the Secretary must, prior to authorizing a release, identify by regulation the population to be deemed experimental. As discussed above, this statutory requirement confers broad discretion to the Secretary to manage populations to better conserve and recover endangered species. Based on the facts (1) there were no reproducing wolf pairs and no pack activity within the designated experimental areas, (2) wolves can and do roam for hundreds of miles, and (3) it would be virtually impossible to preclude naturally occurring individual gray wolves from intermingling with the experimental population, 59 Fed. Reg. at 60256, 60261, the Secretary intentionally identified the experimental population as all wolves found within the experimental areas, including imported wolves and any lone dispersers and their offspring. The Department determined it could best manage the wolf reintroduction program to achieve species recovery in this manner. Id. at 60261. We find nothing in the Act that invalidates this approach by requiring the protection of individuals to the exclusion or detriment of overall species recovery, or otherwise limiting the Department's flexibility and discretion to define and manage an experimental population pursuant to section 10(j). 48 In particular, we do not read section 10(j)(1) to restrict the Secretary's authority to identify an experimental population solely on the basis of animal origin as opposed to geographic location. While the language of section 10(j)(1), read in isolation, might suggest an experimental population can only be comprised of those particular animals physically relocated (and any offspring arising solely therefrom), such a narrow interpretation is not supported by the provision, or the Endangered Species Act, read as a whole. Indeed, section 10(j)(1) expressly references the Secretary's broad discretion to identify and authorize the release of an experimental population under section 10(j)(2). Moreover, as illustrated above, when drafting section 10(j) Congress deliberately provided the Secretary with the flexibility to address the specific circumstances of any given endangered population, including the authority to identify an experimental population "on the basis of location, migration pattern, or any other criteria that would provide notice as to which populations of endangered or threatened species are experimental." H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 97-835, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. at 34 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 2875 (emphasis added). For these reasons, we interpret the plain language of section 10(j)(1) as an expression of Congress' intent to protect the Secretary's authority to designate when and where an experimental population may be established, not as a limitation on the Secretary's flexibility. 49 The restrictive interpretation the Predator Project and Farm Bureaus advocate could actually undermine the Department's ability to address biological reality (i.e., wolves can and do roam for hundreds of miles and cannot be precluded from intermingling with the released experimental population), and thus handicap its ability to effectuate species recovery. The Endangered Species Act simply does not countenance that result. To the contrary, Congress' overriding goal in enacting the Endangered Species Act is to promote the protection and, ultimately, the recovery of endangered and threatened species.9 While the protection of individual animals is one obvious means of achieving that goal, it is not the only means. It is not difficult to imagine that sound population management practices tailored to the biological circumstances of a particular species could facilitate a more effective and efficient species-wide recovery, even if the process renders some individual animals more vulnerable. However, neither Congress nor this court are equipped to make that type of species management decision. Recognizing that fact, Congress left such decisions to the Department. We conclude the Department reasonably exercised its management authority under section 10(j) in defining the experimental wolf population by location.10 3. Protection of Distinct Subspecies 50 The Urbigkits claim on cross-appeal there exists a genetically distinct subspecies of wolf in Yellowstone and Wyoming, Canis lupus irremotus. They further claim the Agencies failed to adequately consider the impacts of the reintroduced "Canadian" wolves on that naturally occurring subspecies, in violation of section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1536. According to the Urbigkits, the Agencies ignored their own expert, Dr. Ron Nowak, a Fish and Wildlife Service taxonomist, who commented that "[a] big part of the conservation of a full species is to insure that its component subspecies and populations remain intact and in place," that there is a "subspecific distinction" between the original Yellowstone wolf and the reintroduced wolves, and that "[i]f there were actually a surviving population of the original Yellowstone wolf, every effort should be made to maintain its purity and to avoid bringing in other wolves." The Urbigkits contend that because the subspecies irremotus was originally listed in 1973 and not specifically delisted or declared extinct in 1978 when Endangered Species Act protection was extended to all wolf subspecies, irremotus is still a legally listed endangered species entitled to full protection under the Act, like Canis lupus baileyi, the Mexican wolf subspecies.11 After careful analysis, we conclude these claims lack both factual and legal support. 51 The Agencies decided to reintroduce gray wolves from Canada without reference to subspecific differences. They based this decision on (1) the lack of evidence any wolf population existed in the reintroduction areas at the time of reintroduction; (2) scientific evidence that most of the historically recognized subspecies of Canis lupus (including irremotus) do not warrant recognition under modern taxonomic classification methods; and (3) the likelihood that even if there had been a distinct subspecies found in the middle to northern United States, as wolves are known to disperse and interbreed over hundreds of miles, its range would have overlapped with a more northern subspecies in southwestern Canada and the border states. Accordingly, the Agencies concluded: 52 The original genetic stock cannot be restored to the area, as it no longer exists. However, if taken from southwestern Canada, reintroduced wolves will be of the same genetic stock from which natural dispersers no doubt immigrated into the original Yellowstone population, the same stock as those currently recolonizing Montana and Idaho, and the same stock that likely will get to Yellowstone through natural dispersal .... In other words, since we can not bring back the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf, regardless of whether it deserved to be a separate subspecies, we can do the next best thing and assist nature in restoring the wolf to the northern Rockies. 53 The factual, scientific determination that the subspecies irremotus no longer exists is supported by evidence in the record comparing older taxonomic studies to more recent and sophisticated studies. The more recent studies conclude there is very little differentiation between the many subspecies of gray wolf previously recognized. This determination is further supported by a lack of physical evidence demonstrating the presence of any wolf population, let alone a genetically distinct wolf population, in either the Yellowstone or central Idaho reintroduction areas. In rebuttal, the Urbigkits proffer the statements of Dr. Nowak, who opined there is "a subspecific distinction" between the original Yellowstone wolf and the reintroduced wolves that would be worthy of protection "[i]f there were actually a surviving population of the original Yellowstone wolf." While we appreciate the relevance of Dr. Nowak's opinion on the issue of genetic variation and the importance of subspecies conservation where an identifiable subspecies exists, we fail to see how it refutes the Agencies' conclusion the subspecies irremotus does not exist. Applying the arbitrary and capricious standard of review, we cannot displace the Defendants' choice between two fairly conflicting views, and must defer to the agencies' view on scientific matters within their realm of expertise. Trimmer, 174 F.3d at 1102; National Cattlemen's Ass'n v. EPA, 773 F.2d 268, 271 (10th Cir. 1985). Because this is a scientific matter within the Agencies' expertise, and because there is ample evidence in the administrative record to support the Defendants' position, we uphold their subspecies conclusions.12 4. National Environmental Policy Act 54 The Urbigkits further argue on cross-appeal the district court erred in rejecting their claim the Defendants violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to adequately analyze the impacts of wolf reintroduction on naturally occurring wolf populations, including distinct subspecies, or to investigate the need for additional research. Having studied the arguments and administrative record, we agree with the district court the Urbigkits' National Environmental Quality Act claims boil down to a disagreement over scientific opinions and conclusions. The fact the Urbigkits disagree with the Defendants concerning the existence of a distinct subspecies of wolf in Yellowstone National Park and the impacts of the reintroduction program on that subspecies and other naturally occurring wolves, and cite evidence in the record they believe supports their position, simply does not constitute a National Environmental Policy Act violation. 55 We have long acknowledged the National Environmental Policy Act "'prescribes the necessary process,'" but "'does not mandate particular results.'" Holy Cross Wilderness Fund v. Madigan, 960 F.2d 1515, 1522 (10th Cir. 1992) (quoting Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council, 490 U.S. 332, 350 (1989)). In other words, the Act "prohibits uninformed rather than unwise agency action." Robertson, 490 U.S. at 351. Accordingly, so long as the record demonstrates the Agencies took a "hard look" at the environmental consequences of the wolf reintroduction program, we will not second-guess the wisdom of their ultimate decision or conclusions concerning the need for additional research or the impacts of wolf reintroduction on naturally occurring populations or subspecies. See Colorado Envtl. Coalition v. Dombeck, 185 F.3d 1162, 1171-72 (10th Cir. 1999).13 56 The administrative record establishes that the Agencies analyzed the alleged existence of naturally occurring wolves in the experimental population areas, studied the arguments pertaining to subspecies identification and recognition, and catalogued the research studies and scientific sources on which they relied. Because of the lack of evidence of wolf populations (pack activity) in Yellowstone or central Idaho, and the scientific evidence supporting a reduction in the number of recognized subspecies, the Agencies determined to forego additional analysis of these specific issues in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement or Final Environmental Impact Statement. The Agencies further concluded that these issues, which were identified during the public scoping process, would not be impacted significantly by any of the wolf reintroduction alternatives being considered since none of the reintroduction alternatives would hinder ongoing efforts to monitor wolf activity, preclude further study of the number and distribution of wolf subspecies in North America, or otherwise negatively impact wolf research. It is apparent the Agencies based these conclusions on the reasoned opinions of and data gathered by Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service experts. "[A]gencies are entitled to rely on their own experts so long as their decisions are not arbitrary and capricious." Colorado Envtl. Coalition, 185 F.3d at 1173 n.12 (citing Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council, 490 U.S. 360, 378 (1989)). 57 We appreciate that the Urbigkits patently disagree with the Agencies' conclusions concerning (1) the existence of naturally occurring wolf populations, (2) the existence of an alleged subspecies of wolf unique to Yellowstone National Park, and (3) the significance of any impact the wolf reintroduction program would have on naturally occurring wolves. We also recognize the Urbigkits cite evidence in the administrative record they believe supports their position. However, the mere presence of contradictory evidence does not invalidate the Agencies' actions or decisions. See Trimmer, 174 F.3d at 1102. The Urbigkits fail to show a lack of substantial evidence in the administrative record to support the Agencies' conclusions, or that the Final Environmental Impact Statement was otherwise inadequate to foster informed public participation or informed decision-making. Consequently, we hold the Agencies did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act. III. Conclusion 58 After setting aside the final wolf reintroduction rules as unlawful, the district court ordered Agencies to remove all Canadian wolves and their progeny from both experimental population areas. The Predator Project, Sinapu and the Gray Wolf Committee argue on appeal this remedy is inappropriate and represents an abuse of the district court's discretion. Because we uphold the challenged wolf reintroduction rules as lawful under the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, we need not address the propriety of the district court's remedy. We REVERSE the order and judgment of the district court, VACATE the district court's stay order, and REMAND with instructions to the district court to enter an order upholding the challenged wolf reintroduction rules. Notes: 1 During this time the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ("Fish and Wildlife Service") considered the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf a distinct subspecies of the gray wolf. As more fully discussed infra, taxonomists have since tended to recognize fewer subspecies of wolves. 2 We note the Friends of Animals, Inc. and Mr. Hill present issues and arguments in their amici briefs. We will not consider those arguments or resolve those issues here, as the parties did not adopt them by reference, they do not involve jurisdictional questions or touch on issues of federalism or comity we might consider sua sponte, and we perceive no other exceptional circumstance to justify our consideration of issues raised solely by amicus. See Tyler v. City of Manhattan, 118 F.3d 1400, 1403-04 (10th Cir. 1997) (court of appeals should exercise discretion to consider new issues and arguments advanced by amicus only in exceptional circumstances). 3 The Department generally defines "population" as "a group of fish or wildlife ... in common spatial arrangement that interbreed when mature." 50 C.F.R. 17.3. It refined that definition in the context of the wolf reintroduction regulations to mean "at least two breeding pairs of gray wolves that each successfully raise at least two young" yearly for two consecutive years. 59 Fed. Reg. at 60256. 4 As amici, Environmental Defense Fund and others aptly summarize: The line dividing protected and unprotected (or differently protected) populations is sometimes an international boundary (e.g., grizzly bears, which south of the US-Canada border are threatened, but north of the border are unlisted [40 Fed. Reg. 31376 (July 28, 1975), codified at 50 C.F.R. 17.11(h) (1977)]), a state boundary (e.g., brown pelicans, which west of the Mississippi-Alabama state line are listed as endangered, while east of that line are unlisted [50 Fed. Reg. 4938 (Feb. 4, 1985), codified at 50 C.F.R. 17.11(h) (1997)]), a county boundary (e.g., American alligators which were once listed as endangered everywhere other than in three Louisiana parishes [40 Fed. Reg. 44412 (Sept. 26, 1975)]), a measure of latitude (e.g., bald eagles, which until 1978 were listed as endangered south of 40 degrees north latitude, while those to the north were unlisted [50 C.F.R. 17.11(i)(1977), revised at 43 Fed. Reg. 6233 (Feb. 14, 1978)]), a point on the coast (e.g., coho salmon, which, if they spawn south of Cape Henry Blanco in Oregon are threatened, but which, if they spawn north of the cape are unlisted [62 Fed. Reg. 24588 (May 6, 1997)]), a distance from the coastline (e.g., western snowy plovers, which are threatened within 50 miles of the Pacific coast, but unlisted beyond that distance [58 Fed. Reg. 12864 (March 5, 1993)]), or even a point on a river (e.g., least terns, which are endangered along the Mississippi River and its tributaries north of Baton Rouge, but south of Baton Rouge lack any ... protection [50 Fed. Reg. 21784, 21789 (May 28, 1995)]). Indeed, the protection afforded the gray wolf itself depends on the geographic location (if an "endangered" wolf in Wisconsin crosses the border into Minnesota it becomes "threatened," and therefore has fewer Endangered Species Act protections, 43 Fed. Reg. at 9611-12, codified at 50 C.F.R. 17.11(h)(1997)). 5 This conclusion represents our major departure from the district court's reasoning, and eliminates the premise on which the district court held the Department had violated its own regulations. Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n, 987 F. Supp. at 1373-74. As explained more fully in section II.C.2 of this opinion, we hold the Department may, consistent with the plain language of section 10(j) and the context of the Endangered Species Act as a whole, treat all wolves found within the boundaries of the designated experimental population areas, including any lone dispersing wolves that may enter those areas, as nonessential experimental animals. Moreover, we hold the district court erred to the extent it suggested there is a temporal constraint on when and how long the Department may maintain an experimental population. While the regulations require an analysis of the degree to which experimental and natural populations might overlap at predictable periodic times in order to determine when an introduced population is experimental, they do not require experimental and natural populations be forever kept distinct. To hold otherwise would be to undermine the recovery objective of section 10(j) altogether. See 59 Fed. Reg. at 60261, 60276 (the Department designed the reintroduction program in part to expedite gray wolf recovery by encouraging interbreeding between experimental and native populations). 6 59 Fed. Reg. at 60256. We discuss and uphold this factual determination in section II.C.4. 7 We note the Predator Project largely supports the government's interpretation and implementation of the Endangered Species Act through the wolf reintroduction program. Its point of contention on appeal concerns "the management of Idaho's naturally occurring wolves, and ... not ... the status of the released wolves in Idaho, and still less the treatment of released wolves in Yellowstone." 8 59 Fed. Reg. at 60266 (50 C.F.R. 17.84(i)(7)(iii)); see also id. at 60261 (response to Comment 16). 9 See H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 97-835, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. at 30 (1982), reprinted in 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2860, 2871 ("In enacting the Endangered Species Act, Congress recognized that individual species should not be viewed in isolation, but must be viewed in terms of their relationship to the ecosystem of which they form a constituent element. Although the regulatory mechanisms of the Act focus on species that are formally listed as endangered or threatened, the purposes and policies of the Act are far broader than simply providing for the conservation of individual species or individual members of listed species." (Emphasis added.)). 10 As amici Environmental Defense Fund and others aptly point out: The wolf reintroduction is unusual only in that the source animals came from Canada, where the wolf is unprotected by the [Endangered Species Act]. In every other instance in which experimental populations have been established pursuant to section 10(j), the source animals were [Endangered Species Act]-protected individuals taken either directly from the wild or from captivity. [Delmarva fox squirrel, southern sea otter, yellowfin madtom, Colorado squawfish and woundfin, red wolf, whooping crane.] Moreover, in at least three instances, every last individual of an endangered species has been captured and placed in a captive breeding program, and some of them or their endangered progeny were later reintroduced into the wild as part of a "threatened" experimental population. [Guam rail, black-footed ferret, California condor.] Thus, in each case, the protection afforded some "endangered" individuals has been diminished. The absence of any non-endangered individuals of these (and most other) endangered species makes that a practical necessity, and one that Congress clearly understood. Moreover, that Congress intended that some individual animals could lose their former "endangered" status as a result of action taken under section 10(j) is also apparent from section 10(j)(3), 16 U.S.C. 1539(j)(3), which authorizes the Secretary retroactively to designate previously introduced populations as "experimental" and thus to change their status and the concomitant protection from "endangered" to "threatened." 11 The Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf, Canis lupus irremotus, was listed as an endangered subspecies of gray wolf, together with three other gray wolf subspecies, in June 1973. 43 Fed. Reg. at 9607. In 1977, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to combine those subspecies, and instead list the entire species, Canis lupus, as endangered in the lower forty-eight states, except Minnesota. The proposed reclassification became final in 1978. Id. at 9607-08, 9610-12. The Urbigkits reason that because the Canis lupus irremotus subspecies was originally listed and never formally delisted, it is entitled to full Endangered Species Act protection separate and apart from the broader gray wolf recovery program. Given that premise, they further reason the reintroduction of gray wolves from Canada amounts to a de facto delisting of the irremotus subspecies. The Mexican gray wolf was listed as an endangered subspecies in April 1976. (63 Fed. Reg. 1752 (January 12, 1998)). Like the irremotus listing, this listing was superceded by the 1978 reclassification designating the entire species of gray wolf as endangered. However, unlike irremotus, identifiable, captive populations of the Mexican gray wolf exist and are the subject of an independent reintroduction program in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico. See 63 Fed. Reg. 1752, 1753 (January 12, 1998); 50 C.F.R. 17.84(k). 12 In any event, we do not believe the Endangered Species Act mandates the protection of the irremotus subspecies to the exclusion of reintroducing the gray wolf species into Yellowstone and central Idaho. While the Urbigkits correctly point out the Act permits subspecific protection vis vis defining "species" broadly to include subspecies, see 16 U.S.C. 1532(16), they erroneously assert it mandates such protection. Nowhere does the Endangered Species Act require the Secretary to designate experimental populations at the subspecies level. To the contrary, section 10(j) expressly authorizes the Secretary to make experimental population determinations at the species level: (B) Before authorizing the release of any population under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall by regulation identify the population and determine, on the basis of the best available information, whether or not such population is essential to the continued existence of an endangered species or a threatened species. 16 U.S.C. 1539(j)(2)(B). The only legal impediment this provision creates to the reintroduction of a listed species (or subspecies) is if there is an existing subspecies population within the experimental area. As discussed above, the Agencies reasonably determined there was no such existing population. For these same reasons, we do not believe the Agencies' actions operate as a de facto delisting of the subspecies irremotus. As discussed above, the 1978 ruling extending Endangered Species Act protections to all gray wolves does not diminish the protection afforded a subspecies, generally, or under a section 10(j) reintroduction program, if a subspecies population is present within the proposed reintroduction area. Indeed, the Fish and Wildlife Service expressly noted in the 1978 ruling it would continue to recognize "valid biological subspecies" for purposes of research and conservation. 43 Fed. Reg. at 9610. The fact remains, however, the Agencies reasonably determined there is no irremotus population within the designated reintroduction area. 13 The Urbigkits attempt to recharacterize their claim challenging the adequacy of the Final Environmental Impact Statement into one of statutory construction deserving of de novo, non-deferential review. To the extent they assert statutory construction arguments, we fully considered and addressed those arguments in the context of our discussion of the merits of their Endangered Species Act claims. As noted above, the standards under which we review National Environmental Policy Act issues are well established and embody deference to the administrative agency. Specifically, [i]n reviewing the adequacy of a final environmental impact statement we merely examine whether there is a reasonable, good faith, objective presentation of the topics the National Environmental Policy Act requires an environmental impact statement to cover. Our objective is not to "fly speck" the environmental impact statement, but rather, to make a pragmatic judgment whether the environmental impact statement's form, content and preparation foster both informed decision-making and informed public participation. Colorado Envtl. Coalition, 185 F.3d at 1172 (alterations, quotation marks and citations omitted).	{ "pile_set_name": "FreeLaw" }
Shipgyer Shipgyer is a village in Chungthang subdivision, North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India. The Ministry of Home Affairs has given it a geographical code of 260862. References Category:Cities and towns in North Sikkim district	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Q: Facebook: How to get fanpage by domain search? I would love to get the Facebook fanpage for a domain with the Facebook Graph search. I tried the following, but only got a random id but not the pages id? https://graph.facebook.com/?domain=stackoverflow.com Question: How to get the Facebook Pages Name or ID when i only have the url to query for? Does the id from the above graph search help? A: You can do it with this the Graph API search: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=page&q=stackoverflow.com	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Magnetic resonance imaging techniques for monitoring changes in tumor oxygenation and blood flow. The application of functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques to the measurement of oxygenation and blood flow in tumors is described. Gradient recalled echo MR imaging (GRE-MRI) offers a real-time noninvasive method for monitoring tumor response to vasomodulators such as carbogen (95% O2/5% CO2) breathing in attempts to overcome tumor hypoxia and improve treatment efficacy. Although the response is tumor-type dependent, increases in signal intensity of up to 100% have been observed in several animal tumor types. Responses are also seen in human tumors. The observed increases in GRE-MRI signal intensity are due to a combination of a reduction of deoxyhemoglobin in the blood causing changes in the MR imaging relaxation time T2* and changes in blood flow and may also reflect the capillary density. Thus, the magnitude of the GRE image intensity change gives an indication of the potential response of an individual tumor to treatments that aim to improve tissue oxygenation and therefore how the tumor may respond to therapy. In addition, carbogen breathing by the host has been shown to increase the uptake and efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents in animal tumors.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta () is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese in northern Chile's Antofagasta Province. Special churches Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the city of Antofagasta. It also has a Minor Basilica : Basílica del Corazón de María History 1881: Established as Mission “sui iuris” of Antofagasta, on territory split off from the Diocese of La Serena (now Metropolitan) 1887: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Antofagasta 3 February 1928: Promoted as Diocese of Antofagasta 1965.07.21: Lost territory to establish Territorial Prelature of Calama (now suffragan Diocese of San Juan de Calama) 28 June 1967: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antofagasta/ Antofagasten(sis) (Latin adjective) Enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in April 1987. Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 386,017 Catholics (70.2% of 550,256 total) on 84,504 km² in 20 parishes and 67 missions with 37 priests (18 diocesan, 19 religious), 28 deacons, 108 lay religious (24 brothers, 84 sisters) and 2 seminarians. Ecclesiastical province The Metropolitan's Suffragan sees are : Roman Catholic Diocese of Iquique Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama, its daughter see Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos de Arica Bishops (all Roman rite Chileans) Ordinaries Ecclesiastical Superior of Antofagasta Father Florencio Eduardo Fontecilla Sánchez (1883 – 1886.12.23), next Bishop of mother see La Serena (Chile) (1890.06.26 – death 1909.03.03)Apostolic Vicars of Antofagasta Bishop-elect Luís Silva Lezaeta first term (1887.05.15 – 1896) Fr. Felipe Salas Errázuriz (1896.03.04 – 1905) Luís Silva Lezaeta again (1904.11.04 – 1928.02.03 see below), Titular Bishop of Olena (1912.01.05 – 1928.02.03) Suffragan Bishops of Antofagasta Luís Silva Lezaeta (see above 1928.02.03 – death 1929.05.21) Alfredo Cifuentes Gómez (1933.12.23 – 1943.06.05), next Metropolitan Archbishop of La Serena (Chile) (1943.06.05 – 1967.03.10), Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Apostolic Administration of Copiapó (Chile) (1947.03.19 – 1948.06.17), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Thapsus (1967.03.10 – retired 1970.12.02), died 1989 BIOs TO ELABORATE Hernán Frías Hurtado (1945.01.13 – 1957.05.24) Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1957.08.20 – 1967.06.28 see below)Metropolitan Archbishops of Antofagasta Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (see above 1967.06.28 – 1974.03.25), next Archbishop (personal title) of San Felipe (1974.03.25 - 1993.04.16) Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (1974.03.25 – 1990.03.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1990.03.30 - 1998.02.16), elevated to Cardinal in 1994; died 7 December 1998 Patricio Infante Alfonso (1990.12.12 – 2004.11.26) Pablo Lizama Riquelme (2004.11.26 – 8 June 2017) Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina (8 June 2017 – ...) Coadjutor bishop Pablo Lizama Riquelme (2004) Auxiliary bishops Arturo Mery Beckdorf (1941-1944, Apostolic Administrator 1943-1944), appointed Bishop of Valdivia Juan Luis Ysern de Arce (1972-1974), appointed Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, O. de M. (1991-1997) See also List of Catholic dioceses in Chile Sources and external links GCatholic.org Diocese website Catholic Hierarchy * Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Chile Religious organizations established in 1881 Antofagasta Category:Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century Category:Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Chile 1881 establishments in Chile	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Q: Disable super + s in ubuntu 13.04 I tried this thread but it didn't work. How can I disable super + s which previews workspaces A: You can use CompizConfig to do this. (sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager in a terminal to install if it isn't on your computer already) To open, type "CompizConfig" into your Dash, or ccsm in the terminal. Once it's open, scroll to the "Expo" option, which can be found in the Desktop section (I assume this is in the default plugins but cannot remember for certain) Click on Expo, and then on the Bindings tab, look at the top option (Expo key). Click on the right, where it says "<Super>s". Then either uncheck the "Enabled" box to disable it entirely, or click "Grab key combination" and enter a different combo to change it to something else. Click OK to accept your settings and you should be good to go. Hope this helps!	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
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Pages Saturday, June 16, 2012 Please bare with me as I add more bloggers back to the group. So far I am half way down my list of applications and will also begin to add new bloggers to the group as well. Thank you for your patience and Welcome All New and Returning Bloggers! Please check group notices often and keep in mind there is a long list of bloggers who wish to be in this group and follow the rules! Please do what you can to keep yourself current in this group. Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Please leave your link to your blog in the comments of this message so that we can see your work! Also please remember you must send an IM to each designer linking them to your blog when you use one of there items from this group!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Main navigation 2016 season preview: Sydney Despite finishing in the top four, it was a season to forget for the Swans. Sydney was bounced out of the finals in straight sets, lost stars Lance Franklin and Luke Parker to mental health issues and a broken ankle on the eve of finals, and the club had to manage the racial booing controversy surrounding Adam Goodes. It was a strange year for Sydney. They won 16 games and seemingly had all the tools to mount a premiership tilt, but apart from a six-game winning streak before the bye (including victory over Hawthorn at the MCG), there was an aura of inevitability about how their campaign would finish up. Teams traveling to Sydney no longer felt like it was Mission Impossible; the Swans dropped four home games, including the semi final against the Kangaroos that ended their season. Midfielders Dan Hannebery and Josh Kennedy has excellent seasons, the former winning All-Australian honours, while the development of Isaac Heeney, Harry Cunningham and Jake Lloyd into regular senior players holds the club in good stead for the future. No blockbuster signings this season – the big names were on the way out rather than in. The Swans saw three premiership players in Adam Goodes, Rhyce Shaw and Mike Pyke retire, while Lewis Jetta and Craig Bird were traded to West Coast and Essendon respectively. Those trades helped Sydney earn enough points to convert four later picks into the number three pick required to secure local academy product Callum Mills, who looks like an exciting midfield prospect, but could learn the ropes in defence during his debut season. Former Bulldog defender Michael Talia joined Sydney fresh from an information leaking claim investigation instigated by his old club, while Callum Sinclair arrived from West Coast and will be relied upon to lead the lean ruck division – an opportunity he never had at the Eagles. Both the Paul Roos and John Longmire premiership editions of the Swans were built on the foundation of a strong, disciplined midfield. While changes are afoot in Sydney, the core midfield group remains one of the most hardened and effective in the league. Dan Hannebery is one of the competition’s best on-ballers. He is supported by Josh Kennedy, Kieren Jack, Tom Mitchell and Luke Parker – all able to win their own ball or apply immense defensive pressure at a contest. With the likes of Isaac Heeney, Harry Cunningham, Daniel Robinson and Callum Mills all coming through, there is no danger of that midfield group getting stale. While the Swans are in a bit of a transitional stage (by their standards, at least), there is still a lot of experience at the club – much of it premiership experience. As more kids will likely get an opportunity in 2016, it’s an ideal situation that they’re being blooded while bona fide senior players are still around, and still good enough to keep Sydney a finals threat. While rebounding from the backline is not a worry, the actual defending part of Sydney’s defence is. Ted Richards and Heath Grundy both showed signs they are past their best last season, which is why Michael Talia was brought to the club. But he couldn’t break into the Bulldogs’ best team at the end of last season, so they’ll be relying on his development – particularly if injury hits. The Swans rely on speed of movement, a lot of handballs and a relatively open forward line to hit up one of Lance Franklin or Kurt Tippett. But if you can slow them down, their ball use can be rather sloppy. While Sydney doesn’t lack ball winners, they do want for reliable kickers under pressure. This hurt them in September last year, and is not something easily or quickly rectified. What to expect in 2016 There will be new names, but expect the same Sydney style of play. Even if – at least on paper – the Swans appear weaker than last season, the elite midfield and potent forward options will mean more wins than losses. Even with the arrival of Callum Sinclair, Kurt Tippett is likely to see more action in the ruck, leaving Lance Franklin to roam up forward. Don’t believe the hype about Buddy becoming a midfielder; he’s too valuable for the Swans in the front half. This team doesn’t do bottoming out, and they certainly won’t this season. But the there is a new wave of talent in red and white, which means 2016 might be a struggle by Sydney standards. Already the Swans are dealing with a swathe of senior players either not fit for round one or coming out of an interrupted pre-season. There might be some talented youngsters in the squad, but there is a particularly soft underbelly to Sydney once more than a couple of injuries take hold. A team relying on a great midfield and Lance Franklin inside forward 50 can only get so far, though that could be as far as a sneaky top four finish. More than likely, however, it will be a position in the bottom reaches of the eight.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
In the video currently featured on Walmart.com[2], Lieberman shows viewers how to turn a $3 bag of Great Value Frozen Berry Medley into compote used in recipes for a Fruit & Yogurt Parfait and Dave’s Berry Compote and Angel Food Cake. Roasted Rosemary Chicken with Berry Balsamic Sauce is also demonstrated by the budget-friendly chef and cookbook author. “Everyone love berries,” says Lieberman. “That’s why I always keep a bag of Great Value frozen berries on hand. I can use them in all kinds of meals throughout the day.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Management of tumor adherent to the vertebral column. Twelve patients with non-small cell lung cancer had tumors that were adherent to the vertebral column and clinically suspected of invading the bone. All were free of mediastinal node involvement as assessed by pretreatment mediastinoscopy. All received 3000 rads of preoperative radiation followed by en bloc resection of the lung and a tangential portion of the involved vertebral bodies. A complete mediastinal lymphadenectomy was also performed. Three patients had true Pancoast's syndrome and in the remaining nine the tumor was located above T6 with the majority in the apex of the chest. Resectability was based on the absence of tumor extension into the costotransverse foramen and the extent of vertebral body involvement. Detailed studies of the decalcified surgical specimen show that the tumor extended into the cortex in two patients, periosteum in six, parietal in three, and up to the visceral pleura in one. Six patients are alive after 1 to 11 years (four beyond 5 years) without evidence of recurrent tumor and arthritic pain. The overall 5- and 10-year survival rate (Kaplan-Meier method) was 42%. In patients with tumors adherent to the vertebral body and no evidence of roentgenographic erosion, the en bloc removal of the lung and the involved portion of the vertebral body is required for complete excision and is associated with long-term survival without sequelae.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
GABRR1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit rho-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRR1 gene. GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain where it acts at GABA receptors, which are ligand-gated chloride channels. GABRR1 is a member of the rho subunit family. See also GABAA-ρ receptor References Further reading External links Category:Ion channels	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
As Edina’s Tyler Nanne was scoring twice in the Class 2A hockey state quarterfinals Thursday night without ever actually shooting at the goal, Hermantown coach Bruce Plante was having a conversation with the hockey gods. “That’s what we need, one of these games,” Plante said about Nanne’s stunning puck luck and, not coincidentally, Edina’s runaway 6-1 victory over Stillwater. Hermantown on Friday beat New Prague 4-2 to become just the third program to advance to a fifth consecutive title game. The Hawks have lost in the past four Class 1A championship games in excruciating fashion. In 2010 against Breck, the winning goal deflected off a Hawks’ players shin pad and into the goal. In 2011 in the first of three consecutive title-game losses to St. Thomas Academy, the Cadets’ won in overtime on a point shot that, amazingly, sailed through a traffic jam of players in front. There was also the 5-1 blowout loss in 2012. Last year the Hawks blew a 4-2 third-period lead, had a penalty called on them in the final 67 seconds and a controversial no-call in favor the Cadets’ a few seconds later, just before Tommy Novak scored to nearly send Plante through the roof. He did go on the ice to berate the officials. “My AD actually came up to me and said, before I went in there, ‘Now watch yourself, all the big hitters are in there,’ ” the candid Plante said about a postgame conference room overflowing with media members and high school league officials. “I tried to tone it down.” That loss still stings for Plante, as do the four consecutive title-game defeats going into Saturday’s championship game with top-seeded and No. 1-ranked East Grand Forks. “But it is such a compliment to our team and our program and our kids to be second place, too,” he said. With St. Thomas Academy having opted up to Class 2A, Hermantown — title game warts and all — is the new Class 1A standard bearer. “That’s exactly the bar,” New Prague coach Chris Lonke said. “That’s why we ask them to be on our schedule.” Chris Colabello hit a two-run home run, R.A. Dickey threw seven shutout innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 in testy matchup Sunday, taking three of four from the AL's top team. Charlie Morton pitched five-hit ball for seven innings, Neil Walker hit a review-aided home run and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 Sunday in a testy game in which benches cleared after stars Andrew Mcutchen and Brandon Phillips were hit by pitches.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
A Trip Down the South Fork of the Flathead Wayne and Gary's Mostly Excellent Adventure July, 2015 Click on any image for a larger view; Contact garya at this domain if you would like the high quality image for printing Over the past 25 years or so I've spent a fair amount of time poking about in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area , partly because it's my backyard, and partly because it's a large place with no roads and motorized gizmos tearing up the landscape, the soundscape, and the nosescape. Most of that exploration has been on foot and horseback, but as a long-time kayaker and sailor I've always wanted to float the South Fork of the Flathead River which runs north through the Bob. I should have done it long ago but somehow the stars didn't line up right. In late May I got an email from my crazy fishing trip buddy, Wayne, with the subject line "Need Adventure". We sifted through various ideas and the South Fork came out at the bottom. The South Fork originates in the southern part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area and flows north for some 60 miles. There it enters Hungry Horse Reservoir, a 34 mile long empoundment behind Hungry Horse Dam. Below the dam it runs for five miles before joining the Middle Fork of the Flathead to form the main Flathead River. Our goal was to float down Young's Creek to its confluence with Danaher Creek, where the South Fork proper begins. I'd wanted to do that ever since the first time I saw Young's Creek back in 2006. That was in August, and back then Young's looked a bit scratchy but still floatable. I knew there would be some issues with logjams and portages, and I'd heard something about some rapids, but I knew it had been floated before and any bad spots were portageable. If you looked at the historical hydrograph, you'd be unwise to plan a trip down the South Fork for the end of June and early July; it's still normally running around five thousand cfs after peaking a few weeks earlier. But this was a particularly dry year and all the rivers around here were peaking early. The North Fork of the Blackfoot was a month ahead of schedule, and judging by the real-time hydrograph the South Fork of the Flathead looked to be doing the same. By my guestimation we should hit Young's Creek and the South Fork just about right. My original plan was for me to pack in our gear while Wayne hiked in. I'd spend the night and then bring the horses out the next day, take them home and turn them loose, then hike back in. Wayne could be exploring around and fishing while all that was going on. Then I got a better idea; I'd hike in with Wayne and lead the two pack horses, and a friend could ride in and lead them back out. That didn't pan out due to schedule conflicts. Then the Forest Service closed our intended access up Lodgepole Creek and down Jenny Creek for trail repairs, which meant we would have to go in over Pyramid Pass, a slightly longer route. My two Belgian-Arab crosses died some years back, and we now have only three horses -- two saddle horses and one Halflinger (Scheba) who's our pack horse. I figured I could also pack Dona's saddle horse (Sky), but I'd never done that before and wasn't sure how much she could carry; she's a small horse. So I was a little apprehensive of my plan without having any experience to go by. I wasn't worried so much by the weight of our gear, but I was worried about fitting it all on those two horses. Sky can't carry nearly the load that Scheba can. After hashing options over with Wayne, we decided to have Jack Rich at Rich Ranch pack in our gear. It would save the hassle of me going in and out and back in, give us extra time on the trip itself, and avoid potential screwups in my estimating and horse-wrangling operation. We would hike in the same day Jack packed in our gear. We were limited to 175 pounds each, the amount one of Jack's mules could carry; we figured that shouldn't be a problem.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
DALI EPICON 2 pictures 7 Pictures - DALI EPICON 2 jorjitop December 7, 2012, 4:52 am At this level of price and performance, your comments are pretty useless without describing what equipment you were using to drive the speakers and what music you were listening to. Tarkan Çeviker June 13, 2015, 10:25 am I don't like to criticise or 'troll', but you've described these speakers as having the hybrid tweeter module, which they clearly do not. It makes a person wonder whether or not you have actually seen, let alone heard these speakers. Free Newsletter Get TrustedReviews' award-winning reviews, opinions and advice delivered to your inbox for free! By submitting your details, you'll also receive emails from Time Inc. UK, publisher of Trusted Reviews and other iconic brands about its goods and services, and those of its carefully selected third parties. Please tick here if you'd prefer not to hear about: Time Inc.'s goods & services, including all the latest news, great deals and offers Free Newsletter Get TrustedReviews' award-winning reviews and advice delivered to your inbox for free! By submitting your details, you'll also receive emails from Time Inc. UK, publisher of Trusted Reviews and other iconic brands about its goods and services, and those of its carefully selected third parties. Please tick here if you'd prefer not to hear about: Time Inc.'s goods & services, including all the latest news, great deals and offers	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
The personal blog of a recently married, 30 something, life long geek. RPGaDay 2015 – Day 24: Favourite House Rule Short Answer: Letting the GM do the math.Long Answer: This is kinda a cop-out answer. I honestly don’t recall any games where we used house rules. It’s possible we played a few games in ways which differed slightly from the rules proscribed in their respective books, but that’s probably a common occurrence. The closest I’ve come to a house rule is letting the GM handle the more complex mathematics required for some rolls. This most often happened during the Champions: New Millennium campaign. The rolls required for combat were a little on the complex side, requiring you to count the results of a dice roll two different ways. After a few attempts, we ended up just giving our GM the numbers and letting him work out the results. Was this fair on the GM? Probably not, but it did allow him to subtly tweak results to better suit the ongoing narrative. Sure, there were times where we either overwhelmingly succeeded or dismally failed, but many of our rolls were marginal enough to allow for leeway. It’s not easy to apply this house rule to all games. It would be almost impossible with any game that has simple pass/fail rolls, but anything a GM can use to fudge a number to make things subtly harder, or easier, for the players is a good starting point. Nudging a difficulty number or enemy’s armour class by a point or two is sometimes all you need to take a routine fight and make it exciting.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Campden Tunnel Gravel Pit Campden Tunnel Gravel Pit () is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1988. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line). Geology The site exposes a mixture of gravels, sands and silts which make up the Campden Tunnel Drift (Pleistocene period). These are glacial sediments which fill a deep channel. The melt water is considered to have run from the ice-filled valley of the River Avon (north) to the drainage system of the River Evenlode (south east). This links with the sequence of glacial deposits in the Midlands and the Upper Thames terraces (Evenlode Valley). The site also links with others in the Moreton-in-Marsh area, for example Stretton-on-Fosse. Conservation The site is considered precious so it must only be used for research purposes. References SSSI Source Natural England SSSI information on the citation Natural England SSSI information on the Campden Tunnel Gravel Pit unit External links Natural England (SSSI information) Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1988	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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Gabriel Copola Tischtennis " It's a sport where there are no physical limitations. We can all play table tennis." Born on the 20th January 1984, Gabriel Copola's passion with sport started at an early age when he first started to play soccer. Unfortunately, a bicycle accident at the age of 11 resulted in Gabriel suffering a spinal cord injury - "That's the reason I now use a wheelchair. It was a significant change in my life, but my passion for sport remained just as strong". It was whilst attending high school with his friends where Gabriel first encountered his true passion - table tennis. "I started practicing table tennis after participating in a sports day for young people with disabilities. From that moment I never stopped practicing. It's a very popular sport around the world. It's fun and requires a lot of speed and intelligence. It's a sport where there are no physical limitations. We can all play table tennis". With time, his desire to play table tennis increased, so Gabriel started to divide his time between training for Table Tennis and his studying for a degree in Physical Education. "From that moment onwards, I never stopped practicing. On a television show, I met a Table Tennis athlete who won a Paralympic medal and I thought 'I could do that too'". Now 32 years old, Gabriel is ranked Number 6 in the world for Table Tennis and his passion for the sport is as strong as ever. "What I love most is the training and getting to play against the best competitors in the world. My biggest challenge is to be the best that I can be". Gabriel has also since received his bachelor's degree in Physical Education. Currently working at two universities teaching and also working in the area of Sports in the National Prison of Argentina, Gabriel is eager to pass his passion on to a new generation of potential athletes. "When playing table tennis, I feel so alive, it gives me an avenue to be competitive. It's the perfect blend of energy, passion and love. It requires quick thinking, fast responses and accuracy. It improves your physical capacity and connects us to many other people, even against athletes without disabilities. I can't imagine life without it. I'm eager to share with wheelchair users my experience - to help and inspire".	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Q: Audio file does not persist in Cordova with LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT I have been trying to store Audio file in persistent storage for two days without success. So far I am able to create an audio file which records audio from Microphone (The app has the permission) using the code attached below. The audio file is getting generated & stored successfully, I can play it. But the real problem is when I close the app and come back and try to play the file it shows error. "{"message": "Cannot use audio file from resource '/myrecording.wav'", "code":1}" The file is not persistent across app sessions even though I used LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT. I am not sure whether the problem is with my Media/Audio code or File storage code. Please find the code attached below: Below function records the audio from the microphone. function _recordAudio() { var deferred = $q.defer(); var src = "myrecording.wav"; alert("SRC:" + src); window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, function (fileSystem) { fileSystem.root.getFile(src, { create: true, exclusive: false }, function (fileEntry) { alert("File " + src + " created at " + fileEntry.fullPath); var mediaRec = new Media(fileEntry.fullPath, function () { alert("Success"); }, function (error) { alert("error:" + JSON.stringify(error)); }); // Record audio mediaRec.startRecord(); // Stop recording after 10 sec var recTime = 0; var recInterval = setInterval(function () { recTime = recTime + 1; if (recTime >= 5) { clearInterval(recInterval); mediaRec.stopRecord(); deferred.resolve(fileEntry.fullPath); } }, 1000); }, function (error) { alert("getFile error:" + JSON.stringify(error)); deferred.reject(); }); //of getFile }, function (error) { alert("requestFileSystem error:" + JSON.stringify(error)); deferred.reject(); }); //of requestFileSystem return deferred.promise; } Below function plays the audio. function _play2() { var src = "myrecording.wav"; window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, function (fileSystem) { fileSystem.root.getFile(src, null, function (fileEntry) { alert("File " + src + " created at " + fileEntry.fullPath); var mediaRec = new Media(fileEntry.fullPath, function () { alert("Success play2"); }, function (error) { //Getting error after closing and opening the app //Error message = {"message": "Cannot use audio file from resource '/myrecording.wav'","code":1} alert("error play2:" + JSON.stringify(error)); }); mediaRec.play(); }); }); } A: I solved this problem by passing cdvfile: path to the Media plugin in PlayAudio function code and copying the file from Temp storage to persistent storage. I had to use localURL of the file. This part solved my problem: fileEntry.file(function (file) { _playNow(file.localURL); } For full functions refer code snippets below: recordAudio: function (projectNo, ItemNo) { try { var deferred = $q.defer(); var recordingTime = 0; _audioLoader = $("#audioLoader"); _audioLoader.show(); UtilityService.showPopup('audio'); _isRecording = true; _recordFileName = "Audio_" + projectNo + "_" + ItemNo + ".wav"; _mediaRecord = new Media(_recordFileName); //Record audio _mediaRecord.startRecord(); var recordingInterval = setInterval(function () { recordingTime = recordingTime + 1; $('#audioPosition').text(_secondsToHms(recordingTime)); if (!_isRecording) { clearInterval(recordingInterval); _mediaRecord.stopRecord(); _mediaRecord.release(); deferred.resolve(); } }, 1000); //document.getElementById('audioPosition').innerHTML = '0 sec'; $('#audioPosition').text('0 sec'); return deferred.promise; } catch (ex) { alert('WMMCPA\|recordAudio:- ' + ex.message); } }, Get file path from the persistent storage and send it to the play method. //To play recorded audio for specific project item playAudio: function (projectNo, ItemNo) { try { _recordFileName = "Audio_" + projectNo + "_" + ItemNo + ".wav"; var newFileUri = cordova.file.dataDirectory + _recordFileName; window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(newFileUri, function (fileEntry) { fileEntry.file(function (file) { _playNow(file.localURL); }, function (error) { alert("WMMCPA\|playAudio.file:-" + JSON.stringify(error)); }); }, function (error) { alert("WMMCPA\|playAudio.resolveLocalFileSystemURL:-" + JSON.stringify(error)); }); } catch (ex) { alert("WMMCPA\|playAudio:-" + ex.message); } } function _playNow(src) { try { var mediaTimer = null; _audioLoader = $("#audioLoader"); _audioLoader.show(); UtilityService.showPopup('audio'); //Create Media object from src _mediaRecord = new Media(src); //Play audio _mediaRecord.play(); } catch (ex) { alert('WMMCPA\|_playNow.mediaTimer:- ' + ex.message); } }, 1000); } catch (ex) { alert('WMMCPA\|_playNow:- ' + ex.message);	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 "Five singers, one drummer. No guitars, no bass, no keyboards but nevertheless an unbelievable melodic metal experience."That's how the official website of van Canto describes the band. Hailing from Germany, van Canto are what is called an a capellametal band, the pioneers of this new genre.The band released their debut, A Storm to Come, in December 2006. Exactly a year later, van Canto anounced a global signing to Gun Records/Sony BMG, and their debut was released worldwide on December 14.Van Canto are now experiencing considerable success. They recently provided support for Finnishsymphonic power metal band Nightwish, as well as receiving a slot at the internationally famous Wacken Open Air festival in Germany. The prestigious event sees them sharing the bill with acts such as Hatebreed, Sonata Arctica, As I Lay Dying, Soilwork, Children of Bodom, Nightwish, Lordi and headline act Iron Maiden.Van Canto's second album will be recorded accross this month and next, with famed producer Charlie Bauerfeind, although no release date has yet been confirmed.In light of recent events, van Canto member and founder Stefan Schmidt has given the band's first interview in English, all previous interviews being in German or Italian. Sunday, February 24, 2008 In the year 2000, Dries Buytaert created Drupal, a freely licensed and open sourcetool to manage websites, as a bulletin board for his college dorm. Since Dries released the software and a community of thousands of volunteer developers have added and improved modules, Drupal has grown immensely popular. Drupal won the overall Open CMS Award in 2007, and some speakers in Drupal's spacious developer's room at FOSDEM 2008 were dreaming aloud of its world domination. Buytaert (now 29) just finished his doctoral thesis and has founded the start-up Acquia. The new company wants to become Drupal's best friend, with the help of an all-star team and US$7 million collected from venture capitalists. Wikinews reporter Michaël Laurent sat down with Dries in Brussels to discuss these recent exciting developments. LisaMcPherson.org is a memorial site created in 1997 containing information on her death and the resulting legal case against the Church of Scientology. Lisa McPherson died in 1995 while in the care of the Church of Scientology. After a car accident, she became mentally unstable. Scientologists removed her from the hospital and placed her in the Introspection Rundown, she died 17 days later while still in care of the Church. She was used as an icon during Project Chanology, the protest of the Church of Scientology by Anonymous. Protesters were pictured with signs that said "Remember Lisa McPherson" and "Ask Scientology Why Lisa McPherson Died", other protesters had posters with her picture on it.>>Read the interview here At approximately 11:20 p.m. (eastern time) on Sunday night February 17, a call was placed into 911 stating that bricks from a wall, a nearly 40 foot section of the upper facade, were laying in the middle of Elmwood after falling off the building. The fire department had to shut down Elmwood from North Street to Allen at 11:30 p.m. until further notice due to the debris and risk to public safety. No one was injured in the incident, but at least one parked car was damaged by falling bricks. According to police, this is not the first time bricks have fallen off the building. Several people over the past year were reported to have been nearly hit by single bricks that have fallen off the building. No one has yet been injured. Though no weather warnings have been issued for the City, winds with gusts up to 50 miles per hour have been reported through the night. It is not known if the wind played a factor in the damage to the building. City engineers were on scene discussing how to handle the situation and clean up what has already fallen. The museum is the world's largest collection of documents which are owned privately. The Buffalo building was original a Church of Christ built in 1911. Sunday, February 17, 2008 Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website XenuTV.com, Mark Bunker chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview is our most attended IRC interview to date. Thursday, February 14, 2008 In her inaugural interview, Wikinews' Sandra Ordonez talks with America's Next Top Model's first Puerto Rican winner, Jaslene Gonzalez, about her childhood, what makes her a strong individual, and what television show her abuela would want her to go on. This is also the first time one of our interviews can also be read in Spanish at Wikinoticias.» Full story What is the fulcrum in Mr. West's life that led him to realize a talent to shape personalities with his voice, and how did the discovery of that gift shape him? David Shankbone found that like many great comedians, West faced more sour early in life than he did sweet. The sour came from a physically and emotionally abusive alcoholic father ("I could tell you the kind of night I was going to have from the sound of the key in the door or the way the car pulled up."), to his own problems with drug and alcohol use ("There is a point that you can reach in your life where you don’t want to live, but you haven’t made the decision to die."). ... I’m telling you stuff that I never said to anybody... ... If sin, suffering and redemption feel like the stages of an endless cycle of American existence, West's own redemption from his brutalized childhood is what helped shape his gift. He performed little bits to cheer up his cowed mother, ravaged by the fact she could not stop her husband's abuse of young West. "I was the whipping boy and she would just be reduced to tears a lot of times, and I would come in and say stuff, and I would put out little bits just to pull her out of it." The deadline to ask questions is Friday February 15, 2008. The plan will be to conduct the interview on IRC in the channel #wikinews-interviews, on the freenode network (irc.freenode.net) with prepared questions. If there are not a lot of questions prepared, then the floor will be open to questioning by anyone attending the interview. Please read the questions to make sure you don't ask the same one as someone else. The date of the interview is scheduled to take place on Saturday February 16, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. (eastern time) or 1:00 p.m. (pacific time), or 21:00 UTC on the irc.freenode.net server in the channel #wikinews-interviews. Directions on how to enter IRC channel:Click here. Type in your desired user-name. Select General Wikinews Discussion. Once in the channel, type: /j #wikinews-interviews (or /join #wikinews-interviews). Or you can download your own IRC client such as mIRC or ICEchat. If you have FireFox, then Chatzilla is easy. Join #wikinews for assistance on connecting by clicking on the above link selecting General Wikinews Discussion. Monday, February 11, 2008 Here is what is most likely to be the most extensive international report on the 2008 Anonymous protests against Scientology. Wikinews was in nearly 15 different countries and over 50 cities throughout the globe to bring you the most extensive, in-depth and opinion free reporting anywhere on the net. We hope you enjoy this article, the reports, video and photos, as much as we enjoyed bringing them to you. Thanks everyone for your hard work and contributions. They are greatly appreciated. The Internet group Anonymous today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The protests marked what would have been the 49th birthday of Lisa McPherson, who is claimed to be a victim of the Church of Scientology's practices. Lisa died in 1995 during a running of what Scientologists refer to as an Introspection Rundown, a procedure intended to help Church members deal with a psychotic or deeply traumatic event. Protests were planned throughout the day in 14 countries and over 50 different cities. The estimation of total protesters world wide for Feb. 10, 2008 is 9,250 people. Wikinews had correspondents at a number of protest locations to report on the events. This article was updated throughout the day with reports from around the globe. The deadline to ask questions is Friday February 15, 2008. The plan will be to conduct the interview on IRC in the channel #wikinews-interviews, on the freenode network (irc.freenode.net) with prepared questions. If there are not a lot of questions prepared, then the floor will be open to questioning by anyone attending the interview. The date of the interview is scheduled to take place on Saturday February 16, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. (eastern time) or 1:00 p.m. (pacific time), or 21:00 UTC on the irc.freenode.net server in the channel #wikinews-interviews. Directions on how to enter IRC channel:Click here. Type in your desired user-name. Type in the channel name: #wikinews-interviews. Or you can download your own IRC client such as mIRC or ICEchat. If you have FireFox, then Chatzilla is easy. Join #wikinews for assistance on connecting by clicking on the above link, typing in the channel #wikinews However, she feels her greatest accomplishment is being the spokeswoman for the National Psoriasis Foundation, in which she is a motivational speaker and gives encouragement to psoriasis sufferers. CariDee has even lobbied in Congress for the passage of a bill which would ask the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Medicine to increase spending on finding a cure for psoriasis. You can read more about her role with the National Psoriasis Foundation here. Wikinews reporter Mike Halterman sat down and talked with CariDee earlier in the week to discuss her own issues with psoriasis, how she has helped other sufferers in her role as spokeswoman for the Foundation, as well as what it's like to be a new model in New York City and her thoughts on how the fashion industry runs today. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 In an interview with Wikinews reporter Nicholas Turnbull, prominent free speech activist and critic of Scientology David S. Touretzky gave his opinion on the recent backlash against the Church of Scientology that has erupted on the Internet, recently spurred on in declarations by a nebulous Internet entity using the name Anonymous that the organization will be destroyed. Anonymous has directed recent protests at Scientology centres across the world, which have attracted significant numbers of individuals supporting the cause. Touretzky, a research professor in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been a prominent critic of the Church of Scientology since mid-1995, and has been protesting against Scientology vociferously since then; he has also run websites that publish material that Scientology wishes to keep suppressed from the public eye, such as extracts from Scientology's formerly-confidential Operating Thetan (OT) materials. Touretzky views the actions of the Church of Scientology as being "a threat to free speech", and has endured harassment by the Church of Scientology for his activities. At the moment there is no deadline to ask questions. The hopeful plan is to conduct the interview on IRC. Hopefully this can be Wikinews' first Interview Of The Month, in well a very long time. More details on how and when the interview will take place will be released as details are known. Sunday, February 3, 2008 Claiming that "actions are being taken", a Church of Scientology representative has responded exclusively to Wikinews regarding the recent attacks on their web sites from the nebulous "Anonymous" group. In an effort to get the Church's side of the story, Wikinews freelance journalist Brian McNeil located a contact address, knowledge@lrh.org. A "Laetitia" responded, ignoring a detailed list of questions that would have given information on the damage inflicted on the Church and action taken. Instead non-specific comments about how the Church is handling the issue were given. She first started by asking if Wikinews was "part of Anonymous or are you pro-Scientology?" "Activities of Anonymous have been reported to the Authorities and actions are being taken. Their activities are illegal and we do not approve of them. At the same time, our main work is to improve the environment, make people more able and spiritually aware. ... yes, we are taking action," said Laetitia. Wikinews sent the e-mails from the Church to several experts on Scientology for an expert opinion on what they might have been trying to say. Although there was minimal response, Wikinews heard from the creator of Operation Clambake, which is a project formed in 1996 as a direct result of seeing the Church succeeding in removing criticism from the Internet. Wikinews also heard from another expert on Scientology and former Church member, who wishes to remain anonymous.>>Click here for the full EXCLUSIVE story. 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Q: Need a bootable OS X installer iso I removed the OS X partition off my HDD and installed Ubuntu. Now I want OS X back but I can't install it considering I have no access to Mac OS X. I need either an OS X Snow Leopard or OS X Lion .iso so I can put it on an installer USB. A: Since OS X Lion was around $30 USD on release you definitely, definitely wouldn't want to torrent the .iso. I would image you could find the torrent fairly easily if you were to look. But you wouldn't do that, would you, because that would be immoral and possibly illegal in your area.	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import os import sys import requests import argparse from os import path from datetime import datetime, timedelta from subprocess import check_call time_str = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' short_time_str = '%Y-%m-%d' args = None def report_ssim_rebuffer(curr_ts, days): start_ts = curr_ts - timedelta(days=days) curr_dir = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__)) plot_src = path.join(curr_dir, 'plot_ssim_rebuffer.py') time_range = '{}_{}'.format(start_ts.strftime(short_time_str), curr_ts.strftime(short_time_str)) output_fig_name = time_range + '.png' output_fig = path.join(curr_dir, output_fig_name) # run plot_ssim_rebuffer.py cmd = [plot_src, args.yaml_settings, '-o', output_fig, '--from', start_ts.strftime(time_str), '--to', curr_ts.strftime(time_str)] sys.stderr.write(' '.join(cmd) + '\n') check_call(cmd) # upload output_fig to Google cloud storage bucket_folder = 'puffer-stanford-public/ssim-rebuffer-figs' cmd = 'gsutil cp {} gs://{}'.format(output_fig, bucket_folder) sys.stderr.write(cmd + '\n') check_call(cmd, shell=True) gs_url = ('https://storage.googleapis.com/{}/{}' .format(bucket_folder, output_fig_name)) # remove local output_fig os.remove(output_fig) # post output_fig to Zulip template = 'Performance of ongoing experiments over the past {}:\n' + gs_url if days == 1: content = template.format('day') elif days == 7: content = template.format('week') elif days == 14: content = template.format('two weeks') else: content = template.format('{} days'.format(days)) payload = [ ('type', 'stream'), ('to', 'puffer-notification'), ('subject', 'Daily Report'), ('content', content), ] response = requests.post( os.environ['ZULIP_URL'], data=payload, auth=(os.environ['ZULIP_BOT_EMAIL'], os.environ['ZULIP_BOT_TOKEN'])) if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok: print('Posted to Zulip successfully') else: print('Failed to post to Zulip') def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('yaml_settings') global args args = parser.parse_args() td = datetime.utcnow() curr_ts = datetime(td.year, td.month, td.day, td.hour, 0) # report the performance over the past day report_ssim_rebuffer(curr_ts, 1) # report the performance over the past week report_ssim_rebuffer(curr_ts, 7) # report the performance over the past two weeks report_ssim_rebuffer(curr_ts, 14) if __name__ == '__main__': main()	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
package com.glumes.openglbasicshape.draw.texture import android.content.Context import android.opengl.GLES20 import android.opengl.GLES30 import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.R import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.base.LogUtil import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.draw.BaseShape import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.utils.MatrixStateOnly import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.utils.ShaderHelper import com.glumes.openglbasicshape.utils.TextureHelper import io.reactivex.Observable import java.nio.ByteBuffer import java.nio.ByteOrder import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit import javax.microedition.khronos.egl.EGLConfig import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL10 /** * Created by glumes on 09/05/2018 / class CubeTexture(context: Context) : BaseShape(context) { private val U_VIEW_MATRIX = "u_ViewMatrix" private val U_MODEL_MATRIX = "u_ModelMatrix" private val U_PROJECTION_MATRIX = "u_ProjectionMatrix" private val A_POSITION = "a_Position" private val A_TEXTURE_COORDINATE = "a_TextureCoordinates" private val U_TEXTURE_UNIT = "u_TextureUnit" private var uModelMatrixAttr: Int = 0 private var uViewMatrixAttr: Int = 0 private var uProjectionMatrixAttr: Int = 0 private var aPositionAttr: Int = 0 private var aTextureCoordinateAttr: Int = 0 private var uTextureUnitAttr: Int = 0 private var mTextureId: IntArray? = null var vertexFloatBuffer = ByteBuffer .allocateDirect(8 4) .order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()) .asFloatBuffer() var textureFloagBuffer = ByteBuffer .allocateDirect(8 * 4) .order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()) .asFloatBuffer() val CubeSize = 1.0f val HalfCubeSize = CubeSize / 2 var eyeX = 0.0f val eyeY = 0.0f var eyeZ = 2.0f val eyeDistance = 3.0f val lookX = 0.0f val lookY = 0.0f val lookZ = 0.0f val upX = 0.0f val upY = 1.0f val upZ = 0.0f private val mMatrixStateOnly: MatrixStateOnly init { LogUtil.d("cube texture") mProgram = ShaderHelper.buildProgram(mContext, R.raw.texture_vertex_shader, R.raw.texture_fragment_shader) GLES20.glUseProgram(mProgram) initVertexData() initTextureData() POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT = 2 mMatrixStateOnly = MatrixStateOnly() } // 六个面的顶点，都是一样的坐标，通过变换矩阵来转换位置进行绘制。 private fun initVertexData() { val faceLeft = -CubeSize / 2 val faceRight = -faceLeft val faceTop = CubeSize / 2 val faceBottom = -faceTop val vertices = floatArrayOf( faceLeft, faceBottom, faceRight, faceBottom, faceLeft, faceTop, faceRight, faceTop ) vertexFloatBuffer.put(vertices) vertexFloatBuffer.position(0) } // 六个面的纹理坐标，都是一样的坐标，通过变换矩阵来转换位置进行绘制。 private fun initTextureData() { val texCoords = floatArrayOf( 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f ) textureFloagBuffer.put(texCoords) textureFloagBuffer.position(0) } override fun onSurfaceCreated(gl: GL10?, config: EGLConfig?) { super.onSurfaceCreated(gl, config) GLES20.glClearColor(0f, 0f, 0f, 1.0f) //打开深度检测 GLES30.glEnable(GLES30.GL_DEPTH_TEST) //打开背面剪裁，面剔除，优化显示速度 GLES30.glEnable(GLES30.GL_CULL_FACE) aPositionAttr = GLES20.glGetAttribLocation(mProgram, A_POSITION) uModelMatrixAttr = GLES20.glGetUniformLocation(mProgram, U_MODEL_MATRIX) uViewMatrixAttr = GLES20.glGetUniformLocation(mProgram, U_VIEW_MATRIX) uProjectionMatrixAttr = GLES20.glGetUniformLocation(mProgram, U_PROJECTION_MATRIX) aTextureCoordinateAttr = GLES20.glGetAttribLocation(mProgram, A_TEXTURE_COORDINATE) uTextureUnitAttr = GLES20.glGetUniformLocation(mProgram, U_TEXTURE_UNIT) mTextureId = TextureHelper.loadCubeTexture(mContext, TextureHelper.CUBE) GLES20.glUniform1i(uTextureUnitAttr, 0) } override fun onSurfaceChanged(gl: GL10?, width: Int, height: Int) { super.onSurfaceChanged(gl, width, height) GLES20.glViewport(0, 0, width, height) val ratio = width.toFloat() / height val left = -ratio val bottom = -1.0f val top = 1.0f val near = 1.0f val far = 12.0f Observable.interval(30, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) .subscribe { eyeX = eyeDistance * Math.sin((radian * num).toDouble()).toFloat() eyeZ = eyeDistance * Math.cos((radian * num).toDouble()).toFloat() num++ if (num > 360) { num = 0 } } mMatrixStateOnly.setCamera(eyeX, eyeY, eyeZ, lookX, lookY, lookZ, upX, upY, upZ) mMatrixStateOnly.setProjectFrustum(left, ratio, bottom, top, near, far) mMatrixStateOnly.setInitStack() mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(-30f, 0f, 0f, 1f) mMatrixStateOnly.scale(0.398f, 0.555f, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.translate(0.5f, 0.8f, 0f) } var num = 0 var RotateNum = 360 val radian = (2 * Math.PI / RotateNum).toFloat() override fun onDrawFrame(gl: GL10?) { super.onDrawFrame(gl) GLES20.glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f) GLES20.glClear(GLES20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT or GLES20.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT) // GLES20.glClear(GLES20.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT) vertexFloatBuffer.position(0) GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(aPositionAttr, POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, 0, vertexFloatBuffer) GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(aPositionAttr) textureFloagBuffer.position(0) GLES20.glVertexAttribPointer(aTextureCoordinateAttr, POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, GLES20.GL_FLOAT, false, 0, textureFloagBuffer) GLES20.glEnableVertexAttribArray(aTextureCoordinateAttr) GLES20.glActiveTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE0) // 控制调整相机来观察不同的面 mMatrixStateOnly.setCamera(eyeX, eyeY, eyeZ, lookX, lookY, lookZ, upX, upY, upZ) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uProjectionMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getProMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uViewMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getVMatrix(), 0) mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() // val time = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() % 10000L // val angleInDegrees = 360.0f / 10000.0f * time.toInt() // 通过改变旋转矩阵来观察不同的面 // MatrixState.rotate(angleInDegrees, 0f, 1.0f, 0f) // 开始绘制立方体的每个面 // 前面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(0f, 0f, HalfCubeSize) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![0]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() // 后面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(0f, 0f, -HalfCubeSize) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(180f, 0f, 1f, 0f) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![1]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() // 上面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(0f, HalfCubeSize, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(-90f, 1f, 0f, 0f) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![2]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() //下面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(0f, -HalfCubeSize, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(90f, 1f, 0f, 0f) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![3]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() // 左面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(HalfCubeSize, 0f, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(-90f, 1f, 0f, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(90f, 0f, 1f, 0f) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![4]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() // 右面 mMatrixStateOnly.pushMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.translate(-HalfCubeSize, 0f, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(90f, 1f, 0f, 0f) mMatrixStateOnly.rotate(-90f, 0f, 1f, 0f) GLES20.glUniformMatrix4fv(uModelMatrixAttr, 1, false, mMatrixStateOnly.getMMatrix(), 0) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextureId!![5]) GLES20.glDrawArrays(GLES20.GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4) mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() mMatrixStateOnly.popMatrix() GLES20.glDisableVertexAttribArray(aPositionAttr) GLES20.glDisableVertexAttribArray(aTextureCoordinateAttr) GLES20.glBindTexture(GLES20.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0) } override fun onSurfaceDestroyed() { super.onSurfaceDestroyed() GLES20.glDeleteProgram(mProgram) } fun getMatrixStateOnly(): MatrixStateOnly { return mMatrixStateOnly } }	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
Milestones or furlongstones? A study was carried out over five years of 15000 children aged between one day and three months. It was observed that many infants passed their important 'milestones' much earlier than is suggested in present textbooks. A plea is made for discarding the traditional ages for the various landmarks in the development of a child. The changes of mental development are very important in the first three months and during the three to six months period the baby seems to be merely consolidating more methodically what he was doing less conveniently during the first three months.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
French students are calling on their country's education minister to cancel a tricky question in their final year English exam. The question that appears to have stumped students used a passage from novelist Ian McEwan's book 'Atonement'. It asked students to list three of the central character's concerns and asked how he was "coping with the situation". The word "coping" appears to have been the crux of the problem. Following the exam students took to Twitter to voice their frustration using the hashtag #BacAnglais. Twitter user @Zahnerosky wrote (in French) that "today I passed my test of written English incomprehension", while @Tota_lement was even more emphatic, tweeting: "WHAT WAS THIS QUESTION M IN THE BAC D’ANGLAIS SERIOUSLY" By Monday an online petition calling on Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the education minister, to 'Cancel Question M', started by one baffled baccalaureate student, had gathered more than 10,000 signatures. But not everyone has been as sympathetic to the students' difficulties.	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
/* Copyright The Kubernetes Authors. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. / // Code generated by client-gen. DO NOT EDIT. package internalversion import ( rest "k8s.io/client-go/rest" "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/clientset_generated/internalclientset/scheme" ) type AppsInterface interface { RESTClient() rest.Interface ControllerRevisionsGetter StatefulSetsGetter } // AppsClient is used to interact with features provided by the apps group. type AppsClient struct { restClient rest.Interface } func (c AppsClient) ControllerRevisions(namespace string) ControllerRevisionInterface { return newControllerRevisions(c, namespace) } func (c AppsClient) StatefulSets(namespace string) StatefulSetInterface { return newStatefulSets(c, namespace) } // NewForConfig creates a new AppsClient for the given config. func NewForConfig(c rest.Config) (AppsClient, error) { config := c if err := setConfigDefaults(&config); err != nil { return nil, err } client, err := rest.RESTClientFor(&config) if err != nil { return nil, err } return &AppsClient{client}, nil } // NewForConfigOrDie creates a new AppsClient for the given config and // panics if there is an error in the config. func NewForConfigOrDie(c rest.Config) AppsClient { client, err := NewForConfig(c) if err != nil { panic(err) } return client } // New creates a new AppsClient for the given RESTClient. func New(c rest.Interface) AppsClient { return &AppsClient{c} } func setConfigDefaults(config rest.Config) error { config.APIPath = "/apis" if config.UserAgent == "" { config.UserAgent = rest.DefaultKubernetesUserAgent() } if config.GroupVersion == nil \|\| config.GroupVersion.Group != scheme.Scheme.PrioritizedVersionsForGroup("apps")[0].Group { gv := scheme.Scheme.PrioritizedVersionsForGroup("apps")[0] config.GroupVersion = &gv } config.NegotiatedSerializer = scheme.Codecs if config.QPS == 0 { config.QPS = 5 } if config.Burst == 0 { config.Burst = 10 } return nil } // RESTClient returns a RESTClient that is used to communicate // with API server by this client implementation. func (c *AppsClient) RESTClient() rest.Interface { if c == nil { return nil } return c.restClient }	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
"Walter, what are you doing?" "I'm dosing a caterpillar." "Dosing, as in lsd?" "Well, it's a special blend." "I see." "Hey, guess what just happened." "Finding out that my father's giving drugs to bugs" "Somehow just became a typical moment in my life." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "Hey, have you heard from olivia this morning?" "No, why?" "What's up?" "She's missing." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "This won't take long." "I'm sure you say that to all the girls." "Turn her over." "Listen up." "One of our own has been abducted." "The vehicle of agent olivia dunham" "Was found abandoned on graniteville road in westford" "Three miles northeast of little hill." "I want everyone doing everything," "Surveillance cameras checked," "Local officers and agents questioned," "Anyone who might have seen anything." "P.D., d.W.P., a.A.A." "I don't care what acronym it is," "You get 'em, you talk to 'em, and you find dunham." "For those of you new to this office," "This is agent charlie francis." "He's my second in command." "You got anything, you come to me or him." "Try not to move." "Sir, did it work?" "I hope so." "Get my car ready." "I'm going back to the office." "Yes, sir." "Can i please have some water?" "If you're going to kill me," "Then can i please have some water?" "Please." "I need to" " I need to sit up." "Please." "Oh, thank you, thank you." "Thank you." "And pull agents from albany, mr." "Clark," "And get them to boston, or do i need to remind you" "How i started this conversation?" "I have a sanford harris, line six." "Just get it done." "Sanford." "Listen, we, uh" "We're having something of a crisis here." "Yeah, well, your crisis is why i'm calling." "Look, phillip, we go back too far." "I say something diplomatic, you'll see through it" "Before the end of my sentence." "You're calling about olivia dunham?" "I'm calling about fringe division." "Internal affairs is sending me in" "To do a full review of your office," "Make sure things are running as they should." "I just wanted you to hear it from me." "This is agent dunham." "I need to speak to broyles." "What the hell happened to you?" "I'm in watertown." "There was a building that we need to raid." "I need agents, maybe 20." "Have them meet me in 30 minutes" "At the end of talcott street." "Are you okay?" "Not yet, i'm not." "The building i was being held at is two miles" "Hands behind your head and drop to the floor." "Where's broyles?" "Do it!" "What's going on here?" "Freeze right there!" "Quite a day, agent dunham." "You're in boston hospital." "You probably didn't think you'd see me again so soon." "Don't take this the wrong way, mr." "Harris," "But, uh, i don't think about you all too often." "Really?" "Well, you must get some satisfaction" "From what you did to me." "My conviction wasn't a point of pride for you?" "Why am i cuffed to the bed?" "Because this is the kind of authority that I have here." "You see," "My conviction on sexual assault that you so ably prosecuted was overturned." "And homeland security, for whom I consult," "Has assigned me to review fringe division." "Just like that?" "Which gives me the prerogative to question your sanity, your loyalty," "Your worthiness to serve." "And it seems to me the people you surround" "Yourself with have failed those tests at every turn." "Beginning with your former partner..." "And lover, john scott." "John!" "An agent who betrayed you and who turned out to be a traitor against this country," "A traitor whose life you went to considerable lengths to save." "If you're suggesting that I know anything about-- you went" "To iraq to recruit a man to help you save agent scott's life." "Peter bishop, arrested seven times." "I needed peter." "To assist you in freeing his father from a mental institution." "Walter bishop, who was sent to st." "Claire's because he was deemed unfit to stand trial for manslaughter," "A man who spent most of his adult years running" "Questionable scientific experiments on human subjects." "He's out of his mind, miss dunham." "These are the people you surround yourself with." "A traitor, a criminal, and a lunatic." "What does that say about you?" "Am I under arrest?" "It goes without saying that you are not to investigate your own abduction." "Understood?" "Liv." "Are you okay?" "Yep." "Hey, liv, you know I had nothing to do with the way you were taken in," "Right?" "Yeah, I know that." "That son of a bitch harris, he molested three women." "I put him away, and that's what this is about." "I am not gonna ask him for a thing." "I'm gonna go to that building myself." "We sent a team to the address, to the building where you were being held." "It was empty." "There was nothing there." "What about the phone I got?" "The car I took?" "Did you trace..." "They're clean." "The only prints were you." "Oh, there's something else." "There's a woman here to see you--rachel." "She says that you're expecting her." "Who is she?" "She's my sister." "How are you?" "Oh, oh, you look great." " I don't really." " Come on, you do." "I don't. you're always so hard on yourself." "I know, whatever. thank you." "You are just a giant person." "Hey, aunt olivia. hello." "When did you get so big?" "What happened to your face?" "Oh, it's, um, a scratch." "I brought this for you." "She wanted to bring you something from her room." "I have really, really needed one of these." "Thank you so much." "Are you sure you're okay?" "It's a long story." "I, uh" " I'm working on a case." "Go, go, we're good." "Is it okay if we still stay with you tonight?" "'cause if it's not okay-- yeah, yeah." "No, of course." "I'll meet you back here at 5:00." "Perfect. go, save the world." "All right." "I love you." " I'll see you at 5:00." " Thank you so much." "Mwah. bye." "Peter, it's me." "Olivia, thank god." "Are you okay?" "how are you?" " Where are you?" " I'm on my way to you." "So can you meet me outside in ten minutes?" "And bring your father." "I think we'll need him." "Do I have to?" "They--they gave me a spinal tap." "They put electrodes or sensors on my head." "Why would they do that?" "I mean, what would they want with me?" "What were they doing?" "who could they be?" "You're like the question machine." "And there was nothing there when they checked the building?" "No." "They'd cleared the building." "But I took something before I left, something from one of their labs," "And I hid it to keep it safe." "What was it?" "Walter, can you identify what it is?" "Yes." "I'm afraid I can." "Which means if your high school bio teacher told you that" "Humans sit at the top of the food chain, he or she was dead wrong." "Literally millions and millions of organisms feed on us," "Reproduce within us." "Viruses, bacteria, protozoa," "And fungi-- the four musketeers of the pathogenic world." "Dr. kinberg?" "Dr. kinberg?" "Somebody call an ambulance." "Someone help him." "Somebody help him." "Agent dunham, I know you've already had quite a day." "But there is an event that requires our attention" "Okay, where" "Internal hemorrhaging." "Rapid cell deterioration." "It appears that he suffocated from within." "Well, maybe that's 'cause a giant, slimy," "Spiky slug came out of his mouth." "Yes." "And I have a theory as to what it might have been." "I'm sure you do. care you share?" "Eventually." "Peter, anything?" "No, it always takes a second for the thermal cameras to calibrate." "What do we know about our guy?" "Only what I was told outside." "His name's miles kinberg, immunologist, cutting edge work," "An expert in his field." "That's all I know." "Whatever it was, it ripped through his esophagus on the way out." "At least he died teaching, a righteous profession." "Hold on a sec." "I got it." "Stay there." "Right there." "Right there, right there." "Look." "Simian hemorrhagic fever." "The infected cells have a definitive spiderweb look." "Makes hiv look like a common cold by comparison." "Walter." "Ebola." "First the headaches then the skin turns to rice pudding." "Walter, please." "No time for the immune response." "I lost it." "What do you mean you lost it?" "Either it can vanish or it's fast." "It's really fast." "There." "Cover the doors!" "It's going down." "There!" "Get it!" "There!" "there!" "Get it, get it. get it." "Things like this used to happen in the lab all the time." "Makes me nostalgic." "Spirited, isn't it?" "Well, have you considered, I don't know, killing it?" "We can always kill it, son." "We can't always bring it back." "You probably could." "That is true." "Do you know what I could go for?" "Don't say food." "Cheese steak." "How can he even think about eating?" "I know. it's disgusting, right?" "And yet..." "Ha, you want one too?" "Extra provolone, please." "Like father like son." "Oh, come on, don't say that." "My theory is correct." "I knew it." "This organism was developed from the same" "Material that olivia stole from her captors." "We must let her know." "You sure?" "My boy," "I'm not even sure that we all exist on the same plane of consciousness." "But yes, I believe so." "I've been briefed on how you brought in olivia dunham." "Oh, I had reason to suspect she might be dangerous." "I agreed to let you question her, not tranq her like a rabid dog." "What you did was unacceptable." "Dunham's been nothing but an exemplary agent, and this is my office." "Well, then you need to be corrected on two counts." "The jury's out on dunham." "I'm not convinced she's the superstar you claim she is." "How could you be?" "You're on a vendetta against her." "Secondly, while I'm here on active investigation," "This division is under my purview." "Active investigation?" "This morning it was a review." "Well, the pentagon is concerned, phillip." "Well, think of how this office was thrown together." "Flight 627 lands, and suddenly you're in charge of two dozen agents?" "Somehow I think none of that's the reason you're here." "This isn't a witch hunt." "I'm not here to punish some j.v." "Agent who tried to ruin my life for chasing a little tail." "I'm here to do my job." "Why don't you do the same?" "Did you see anyone unusual?" "Anyone in your class?" "No." "And did he mention anything to you?" "Anything in private?" "Why would he?" "'cause you were his teacher's assistant. oh." "I thought that he might have mentioned if something unusual had happened." "No, he didn't. nothing." "We've been trying to track kinberg's whereabouts over the past week." "We spoke to his wife, and she said that he had arrived home the last two nights." "But according to his schedule, his last class started at 6:00." "He's had extended office hours this week." "Well, could I get a list of the students he talked to?" "It was drop-in." "I'm not really sure." "I'm sorry." "After what happened today, I feel like nothing's real." "That was crazy. it was-- how long were you seeing him?" "Professor kinberg." "Three months." "I knew he was gonna take the job." "He hadn't even told his wife about it yet." "What job was that?" "I shouldn't." "He wasn't supposed to tell me." "It's okay." "The c.d.c." "Centers for disease control." "They offered him this big job, which meant moving to atlanta." "So I figured that was gonna be it for us." "And what exactly was the job?" "Task for to oversee the country's preparedness to fight off an epidemic." "It sounded like a big deal." "Can I come in?" "I hate that-- knocking and asking while you're coming in." "Dr.Kinberg" "The professor who died at boston college," "Was offered a job at the c.d.c." "To co-chair a classified task force whose" "Sole responsibility was to respond to epidemics." "And?" "He wasn't the only scientist asked." "There was another one-- dr. russell simon from cambridge." "I'm trying to locate him now." "What, you think he's a target too?" "I do." "And I also think that the people who" "Killed kinberg are the same people who took me." "And how'd you make that leap?" "Walter, he thinks the thing that killed dr." "Kinberg is genetically similar to some" "Evidence that I grabbed from the people who abducted me." "But why abduct you?" "what's the link?" "And why kill kinberg like that?" "I don't know yet." "But so far I figured why kill an" "Epidemiologist unless you're looking to start an epidemic?" "Get rid of the firefighter before you start a fire." "And why am I just now hearing of this?" "Because your friend Sanford Harris" "Forbade me from investigating my own abduction." "Harris." "He's put everything on hold." "Has requested that I run all operations past him before we move." "Is that even possible?" "Apparently." "Sir, I'm asking you to save a man's life." "Are you telling me that you don't have the authority to let me do my job?" "Find Simon." "Get him in protective custody now." "Thank you." "I'll handle Harris." "I know you will." "Hey, rach, it's me." "Can we just meet at the apartment?" "Is that okay?" "yeah, sure." "I have the key. is everything okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "I won't be too late." "And if you get hungry, there's food in the fridge," "Or there are some menus by the phone" "In the kitchen if you want to order in." "Don't worry about us at all." "Ella's having a blast." "Okay, I'll see you tonight." "I love you." "You too." "I'm going to cambridge to pick up Russell Simon." "Who's that?" "A man we're taking into protective custody." "I'll give you the details on the way." "Oh, I'm going with you?" "Ye -meet you downstairs." "Hey, mitch." "Listen, olivia, your abduction." "I'm gonna coordinate the investigation." "I assume everything you remember is already in your debrief." "Yeah." "If I find anything, I'll let you know." "We'll find 'em." "That's great, mitch. thank you." "Thank you so much, dr. simon, for cooperating." "I suppose I should be thanking you." "Fbi tells you they're here to save your life, you listen." "Well, I know it must be confusing." "Well, it's certainly shocking." "Miles was a dear friend." "I am sorry." "Know that we're doing everything we" "Can to bring those responsible to justice." "The c.d.c. wasn't expecting me for three months." "Who else kneyou were planning on taking this job?" "Well, no one. just my wife." "I was instructed not to tell anyone." "And is there anyone you can think of who might be targeting you?" "Maybe students whose grades they might have felt were undeserved." "Will you excuse us for a moment?" "I need to talk to my agents." "Sure." "Can you give us a minute?" "So I understand that you have requested placing dr." "Simon in protective custody." "I believe that his life may be in danger." "Yeah, well, that's taxpayer dollars, miss dunham," "And I haven't approved that." "Let me ask you a question." "Not that I don't enjoy having you here," "But how long are you planning on sticking around?" "Until I have made a full assessment" "Of how this office conducts its business." "Did Broyles approve your request?" "No, he did not." "Harris, you don't like me, you don't respect me," "And you think I'm bad at my job." "But please, don't let that get in the way of doing the right thing." "That man in there may likely die if we don't keep him safe." "I'm not asking you to like me." "I'm asking you to do the right thing." "Yeah, we'll keep him safe." "Thank you." "This is dunham." "Walter's still trying to determine" "What that thing is that came out of kinberg." "But I think we made a breakthrough." "Okay, so what is it?" "It seems to be activated by a liquid." "What does?" "the parasite?" "The yellow powdery stuff in the vials that you stole, they're like eggs," "But the catalyst is stomach acid." "So the victim just needs to ingest it?" "Exactly right, and then it grows--fast." "Thank you." "No problem." "And is there any way to trace it, where it came from?" "Walter doesn't seem to think so, no." "Dr. simon, with your permission, I'd like to take you to our field office." "We'll debrief you, go over your options." "Then we'll move you to a safe house." "You okay?" "Yeah." "There'll be agents there on call 24 hours a day." "Breathe." "This is agent francis." "I need medical attention in room six." "I called medical assistance." "Oh, my god." "It's viral." "Nasopharyngitis, albeit a gargantuan specimen." "What--what does that mean?" "This organism is a single specimen of a virus for the common cold." "So you're saying that this is one single cell?" "It's not unprecedented." "The ostrich egg is a single cell, and it can grow up to five pounds." "They supersized the common cold, which, as it turns out, is disgusting." "Obviously somebody's playing with us." "Yeah, they're showing off." "Killing epidemiologist with the common cold." "It is impressive." "What I want to know is what they wanted from you." "Oh, who cares about me?" "I want to know who's next." "I care about you." "If we can figure out why they needed you," "Then maybe we can figure out who's next." "I'm gonna keep looking for someone who's connected to kinberg and simon." "She is beautiful, isn't she?" "Who?" "The slug." "You know, I could have cooked for you." "Uh, no, thanks." "I've tasted your cooking." "Hey, I've gotten really good, you know." "Oh, yeah?" "Yeah." "No, I haven't." "I didn't think so." "Hard day?" "Uh, I honestly wouldn't know what to tell you." "And if I did, it would be a felony." "You have a crazy job." "Yeah, I have a crazy job." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Have you heard from Greg?" "I don't know how to do this alone." "Ella is beautiful, and smart, and strong, and she gets that from you." "Me?" "no." "You've always been the strong one, you have." "Rach." "I've only done one thing right in my life." "Then you need to be strong for her." "Whatever you need, I'm here." "And you guys can stay here as long as you want." "Thank you." "Is there something else?" "Something you're not telling me?" "No." "No, there's nothing else." "How goes it?" "Horrible." "We'll find 'em, whoever's responsible for what happened." "Maybe this'll help." "I need to talk to you." "Charlie, I think I know who killed Simon." "And I think it's the same person who abducted me." "Who?" "Mitchell Loeb." "Don't ask me how I know." "I'll tell you later." "Livvy, that can't be right." "It is." "And I can prove it." "But I've got Harris watching me like a prison guard." "I can't do this myself." "What do you need?" "Walter, is that lsd?" "Lsd, why would i-- it's a decongestant." "She is a giant cold virus after all." "Right." "Peter." "You got a moment?" "What's up?" "Olivia may have a lead on who abducted her." "Only she can't pursue it without some help." "I can't help her." "Why not?" "Suffice it to say that sometimes a problem with being" "In law enforcement is that you gotta obey the law yourself." "And you think I'm the guy to break the law for you?" "I'm sorry, I didn't-- no, look, you're right." "I am the guy to break the law for you." "What do we need?" "I need a wiretap." "On who?" "Mitchell Loeb." "FBI." "Hello?" "Samantha." "Olivia, hi." "I was just in marlborough." "I thought I'd drop by and check to see if you're okay." "I don't understand." "I don't know." "I guess I hadn't talked to you since Mitchell's surgery." "Well, how sweet of you." "Would you like to come inside?" "Have a cup of tea?" "Yeah, thank you." "I've been thinking a lot about you and" "Everything that you and Mitchell went through." "It's really lovely having him back at the office." "Oh, yes, he's really glad to be back." "His recovery seemed to go smoothly." "What were you doing in Marlborough?" "I'm working on a case." "Well, what's the case?" "Suspicion of a double agent." "Excuse me." "I'll get the tea." "Mind if I use your bathroom?" "It's down the hall." "Thank you." "Kyle." "Hey, man. can you grab me that phone?" "All right, go ahead." "Okay, so I enter the phone number and then just punch in that code?" "Kyle, you are the greatest, man." "Have I told you that lately?" "Yeah, thanks. you too." "He used to work at the phone company, but I never really understood why." "The guy's a genius." "Yeah, right." "Wouldn't want to waste any of that potential." "He tapped into the Loebs' home phone number." "We should be able to pick up any outgoing calls that make from their house." "This is Mitchell." "Olivia Dunham is in our house." "Why?" "She claims she was here to check on you." "Is it working?" "No." "Hey, Kyle, it's not working." "All I'm getting is buzz." "I don't hear anything." "I think she knows." "I don't know how she could." "I don't know what to do." "Well, I do." "And you have to move fast." "What?" "You need to kill her." "Right now." "Her office might know that she's here." "How can I just" " Dunham's already under suspicion for being unstable." "They think she's dangerous." "All right, I'll try it again." "We can say she came after you, that it was self-defense." "There has to be another way to do this." "There isn't, honey. there's one way." "You cannot let Dunham leave there alive." "In the entry closet, top shelf, in the back, there's a gun." "Contact me when it's done." "What is it?" "Olivia's in trouble." "What happened?" "hold on a second." "Come on, pick up, pick up." "It's me." "Get out of the house. she's gonna kill you." "What?" "Samantha Loeb is going to kill you." "Get out of the house right now." "Olivia." "Tea's ready." "Olivia?" "Samantha." "Turn around and put the gun on the ground." "Put the gun down." "Now get down on the ground." "Samantha." "Please, don't hurt me." "Get on the ground, samantha." "I was just doing-- samantha, get down on the ground now." "I don't want to shoot you, but I will." "What are you gonna do to me?" "are you gonna hurt me?" "Damn it, samantha, shut the hell up and get down on the ground." "Don't do it. please get down!" "There's nothing here." "Loeb knew he was gonna cut and run." "Based on what you've found, you have nothing to trace." "No, nothing yet." "I'll need more time to trace the origin of the virus," "But even then it will be impossible to know the exact origin." "Liv, I hate to even ask you this." "Anything you remember from when they had you?" "No, there's nothing that I heard, nothing that I remember." "There's no other way to track loeb's cell phone?" "Tech services tried everything." "Wait a minute, not everything." "The agents at loeb's house," "They're surveilling the area, right?" "No sign of loeb?" "not yet." "So he doesn't know about his wife." "No, he doesn't." "Meaning that she could still contact him." "I'm ahead of you." "I'll get a team." "What happened?" "I missed it." "Okay, we need samantha loeb's cell phone." "I think inventory has it." "I'm on it." "Nice work. thanks." "It's all rather tense, isn't it?" "He's gonna come." "Assuming, of course, they text each other." "Do you see him yet?" "No, not yet." "Peter was really worried about you when you were gone." "Walter. you were." "Well, of course I was worried." "He was really worried." "We got him." "Okay, you stay here." "Mitchell, put it down!" "put it down!" "Freeze!" "Drop it." "Drop your weapon." "You're under arrest." "Nice work." "Thank you." "Who are you working for?" "Don't be an idiot, loeb." "This is your one chance to cooperate." "I'd say to you that you have no idea how" "Hard we're gonna come down on you," "Except you do." "I want to see my wife." "You're not getting a thing until you talk." "Then you're outta luck." "Why'd you kill them, kinberg and simon?" "Any why like that?" "I mean, there are easier ways to take somebody out." "You're getting nothing." "She can't do it." "She won't get a confession." "I'd say the evidence in his house is plenty." "Well, I'd say evidence is no confession." "Ask as many questions as you want." "Why take me?" "And that spinal tap, what did you want?" "Loeb, this is your last chance to cooperate." "Or what, you'll torture me?" "Can you leave me alone with him?" "What's she doing?" "You want your wife, mitch?" "Yeah, olivia, I do." "Okay." "Okay." "And do you want to know who pulled the trigger?" "Mitch." "You're looking at her." "Did you kill them?" "Did you?" "yes!" "Do you not understand the rules?" "What we're up against?" "Who the two sides are?" "Tell me at least you know that. who's we?" "We had a plan here, lady." "We had a shot." "And you just blew it." "Why did you kidnap me?" "Kidnap you?" "Idiot." "We saved you." "Saved me from what?" "We were going to let you go." "We saved you." "You-- you have no idea what you've done." "Not a clue." "There's your confession." "You need to get some rest." "I think you've earned it." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Thank you." "Thank you." "He's right." "You should get home." "What did he mean he saved me?" "what the hell was that?" "He was messing with you." "Well, I don't know." "I mean, did you see him?" "There was something about the way he said that." "The man's insane, olivia." "I concur, and in the category of takes one to know one..." "That man did seem disturbed." "But then why take me?" "Because they wanted to hurt you." "They knew that you were investigating them." "They wanted to take you out." "Then why not just kill me?" "You're talking about a man" "Who infects people with giant viruses." "If you hadn't escaped, Who knows what they would have done to you." "Listen to me, you'd just told him that you killed his wife." "He said that to you to try and get a reaction out of you, to get to you." "Let it go." "You got his confession." "Go home." "I was worried, too, when you were taken." "Thank you, walter." "Not as much as him, of course." 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Stephen Marchant Stephen Marchant, AM (1912 – August 2003) was born in Shropshire, studied geology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and worked in the oil exploration business in many countries, using the opportunities arising from his postings to study birdlife around the world. He wrote classic papers on the birds of the Red Sea, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, Indonesia, Borneo, Ecuador and Iraq. In 1963 he migrated to Australia where he joined the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra. Biography Marchant was born in Weston-under-Lizard, a village in the English county of Shropshire. In Australia, Marchant was immediately involved in organised ornithology through the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) where he was a strong force for what he perceived to be necessary reform. Here he was instrumental in founding the ACT Group of the RAOU, which later became the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG). He also initiated the RAOU Nest Record Scheme and was a founding member of the RAOU Field Investigations Committee. As part of a reformist makeover of the RAOU, in order to strengthen its scientific rigor and ornithological credibility, in 1968 he became Editor of the RAOU's journal the Emu, which he transformed into an internationally respected scientific journal. Following a 12-year stint as Emu Editor, he turned his attention to a new project, a comprehensive handbook of Australian birds, an endeavour which expanded in scope to become the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) of which he was the editor-in-chief of the first two volumes. For most of his later years from 1975, he lived at Moruya in the Eurobodalla Shire of the NSW South Coast. Here, he continued to be active in natural history, helping found the Eurobodalla Natural History Society in 1986, serving as its President as well as editor of its journal Nature in Eurobodalla. Stephen Marchant's earlier ornithological work resulted in the award of the British Ornithologists' Union Medal in 1971 and, later, his election as a Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union. Appreciation for his service to the RAOU led to him being elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1975. His contribution to Australian ornithology was recognised by his being made an Honorary Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1994, and by being awarded the RAOU's John Hobbs Medal in 1997. Marchant died in August 2003, at a nursing home between the New South Wales towns of Moruya and Narooma. See also List of ornithologists References Anon. (1975). RAOU Fellow: Citation. Stephen Marchant. Emu 75: 244. Davies, Stephen. (2004). Obituary. Stephen Marchant, 1912–2003. Emu 104: 89–90. Higgins, Peter. (1994). RAOU People. Stephen Marchant. Wingspan 16: 6–7. Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. Category:1912 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Australian ornithologists Category:Honorary Members of the Order of Australia	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
London, Feb 15 : Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created a new way of using the genetic code, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. According to Jason Chin and his colleagues from the university, the breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or ''improved'' life forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue. In all existing life forms, the four ''letters'' of the genetic code, called nucleotides, are read in triplets, so that every three nucleotides encode a single amino acid. Chin and colleagues have now redesigned the cell''s machinery so that it reads the genetic code in quadruplets. In the genetic code that life has used up to now, there are 64 possible triplet combinations of the four-nucleotide letters; these genetic "words" are called codons. Each codon either codes for an amino acid or tells the cell to stop making a protein chain. Now Chin''s team has created 256 blank four-letter codons that can be assigned to amino acids that don''t even exist yet. To achieve this, the team had to redesign three pieces of the cellular machinery that make proteins. The researchers went on to prove their new genetic code works by assigning two "unnatural" amino acids to their quadruplet codons, and incorporated them into a protein chain. "It''s the beginning of a parallel genetic code," New Scientist quoted Chin as saying. They''ve also shown that these amino acids can react with each other to form a different kind of chemical bond to those, which usually hold proteins together in their three-dimensional shape. The normal kind of bonds - disulphide bonds - can be broken by changes in heat and acidity, causing proteins to lose their 3D structure. However, the bonds created between Chin''s new amino acids are stronger - and so could allow proteins to work in a much wider range of environments. For instance, this could help make drugs that can be taken orally without being destroyed by the acids in the digestive tract. The study appears in the Journal Nature. (ANI)	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for rehearing under Rule 22 as well as formal revision before publication in the New Hampshire Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter, Supreme Court of New Hampshire, One Charles Doe Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03301, of any editorial errors in order that corrections may be made before the opinion goes to press. Errors may be reported by E-mail at the following address: reporter@courts.state.nh.us. Opinions are available on the Internet by 9:00 a.m. on the morning of their release. The direct address of the court's home page is: http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme. THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ___________________________ Rockingham No. 2014-024 GEORGE MAROUN, SR. & a. v. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY Argued: September 18, 2014 Opinion Issued: December 30, 2014 Paul A. Petrillo, of Salem, by brief and orally, for the plaintiffs. Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts (Marissa I. Delinks and Justin M. Fabella on the brief, and Ms. Delinks orally), for the defendant. CONBOY, J. The plaintiffs, George Maroun, Sr. (husband) and Edith Maroun (wife), filed a petition seeking to enjoin the defendant, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (bank), from foreclosing on property owned by the wife. The Superior Court (McHugh, J.) denied the plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion and granted the bank’s cross-motion for summary judgment. The plaintiffs appeal, and we affirm. I. Background The following facts are drawn from the trial court’s order or are otherwise undisputed on the record before us. Prior to 1991, the plaintiffs owned property in Salem (the property) together. In 1991, the husband executed a deed (1991 deed) that conveyed his interest in the property to the wife. Ten years later, in 2001, the husband executed a notarized affidavit (2001 affidavit), which stated that at the time he executed the 1991 deed he was married to the wife and that, “through accident, inadvertence or mistake, the deed did not state that [he] released [his] homestead rights.” The husband purportedly made the 2001 affidavit “to correct said omission.” The affidavit referenced only the 1991 deed, and the correction did not purport to relate to any specific mortgage on the property. The affidavit was filed with the Rockingham County Registry of Deeds. Also in 2001, the husband and wife executed a mortgage on the property (2001 mortgage), which stated: “I, George C. Maroun, husband of mortgagor, hereby waive all rights of homestead and other interests herein.” In 2002, the husband and wife executed another mortgage on the property (2002 mortgage) that included the same language waiving the husband’s homestead right and other interests in the property. In 2006, the wife, alone, executed both a promissory note and a mortgage on the property (2006 mortgage), which are the subject of this litigation. The mortgage document erroneously states that the wife is a single woman. Although the mortgage document also states, “Borrower [wife], and Borrower’s spouse, if any, release all rights of homestead . . . and . . . other interests in the Property,” the husband did not sign the note or the mortgage document. In 2009, the mortgage was assigned to the bank. The bank took no action to address the status of the husband’s homestead right. In 2008, the wife filed an individual Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition that listed the property as an asset on the required schedule of real property. In 2010, the wife filed amended schedules of assets with the bankruptcy court in her bankruptcy case that asserted that the husband possessed a homestead right in the property and that the husband’s claim had a higher priority than the 2006 mortgage. When the wife ultimately emerged from bankruptcy protection, she was required to pay some prepetition arrearage amounts secured by the 2006 mortgage and to make certain ongoing payments on the debt. Following her discharge, the wife did not cure her arrears, and the bank sought to foreclose upon the property. The plaintiffs filed a petition for injunctive relief in the superior court, arguing that the husband’s homestead right has priority over the 2006 mortgage debt, and requesting a permanent injunction against the bank’s foreclosure sale of the property. The parties agreed that there were no disputed issues of material fact, and each moved for summary judgment. The trial court granted the bank’s motion for summary judgment and denied the plaintiffs’ motion. On appeal, the plaintiffs argue that the trial court erroneously concluded that the husband waived or released his homestead rights with respect to the 2 2006 mortgage. The plaintiffs also contend that the trial court erred by not finding that, pursuant to the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel, the bank is estopped from foreclosing on the husband’s homestead rights based upon rulings in the wife’s bankruptcy case. Finally, despite the trial court’s finding that an erroneous reference to the wife’s status as a single woman in the 2006 mortgage document was probably a scrivener’s error, the plaintiffs assert that the erroneous reference “is not without relevance.” We address each argument in turn. II. Standard of Review In reviewing the trial court’s rulings on cross-motions for summary judgment, “we consider the evidence in the light most favorable to each party in its capacity as the nonmoving party and, if no genuine issue of material fact exists, we determine whether the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Granite State Mgmt. & Res. v. City of Concord, 165 N.H. 277, 282 (2013) (quotation omitted). “If our review of that evidence discloses no genuine issue of material fact and if the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law, then we will affirm the grant of summary judgment.” Id. (quotation omitted). III. Waiver of Homestead Right The trial court concluded that the husband’s notarized 2001 “affidavit explaining that his intent in giving the deed was to release his homestead rights” was “sufficient to validly waive his homestead rights” as to the 2006 mortgage. On appeal, the plaintiffs argue that the trial court erroneously “imputed” the husband’s prior waivers of his homestead right, including the waiver in the 2001 affidavit, to the 2006 mortgage because the homestead statute “does not contain conditional words or phrases regarding when or how frequently a written waiver or encumbrance of [the] homestead must occur to be valid.” Resolving this issue requires us to interpret and apply the statutory homestead exemption. See RSA 480:1, :3-a, :5-a (2013), :4 (Supp. 2014). The interpretation and application of statutes present questions of law, which we review de novo. Deyeso v. Cavadi, 165 N.H. 76, 79 (2013). In matters of statutory interpretation, we are the final arbiters of the legislature’s intent as expressed in the words of the statute considered as a whole. Chase v. Ameriquest Mortgage Co., 155 N.H. 19, 22 (2007). When examining the language of a statute, we ascribe the plain and ordinary meaning to the words used. Id. We do not construe statutes in isolation; instead, we attempt to do so in harmony with the overall statutory scheme. Id. When interpreting two or more statutes that deal with a similar subject matter, we construe them so that they do not contradict each other, and so that they will lead to reasonable results and effectuate the legislative purpose of the statutes. Id. Statutory 3 homestead protections are universally held to be liberally construed to achieve their public policy objective. See Deyeso, 165 N.H. at 80. In New Hampshire, “[e]very person is entitled to $100,000 worth of his or her homestead, or of his or her interest therein, as a homestead.” RSA 480:1. “The homestead right is generally exempt from attachment or encumbrance.” Stewart v. Bader, 154 N.H. 75, 88 (2006). “The purpose of the homestead exemption is to secure to debtors and their families the shelter of the homestead roof.” Deyeso, 165 N.H. at 79; see also Gunnison v. Twitchel, 38 N.H. 62, 69 (1859) (“[T]he great and paramount object of the homestead act [is] . . . to protect and preserve inviolate . . . a family home . . . .”). “The exemption protects the family from destitution, and protects society from the danger of its citizens becoming paupers.” Deyeso, 165 N.H. at 79-80 (quotation, brackets, and ellipsis omitted). “It also promotes the stability and welfare of the state by encouraging property ownership and independence on the part of the citizen.” Id. at 80 (quotation and brackets omitted). The statutory protection of the homestead right also extends to spouses who occupy the homestead but are not title owners of the property: “The owner and the husband or wife of the owner are entitled to occupy the homestead right during the owner’s lifetime,” and, after the owner’s death, the surviving spouse is entitled to the homestead right during his or her lifetime. RSA 480:3-a; see Bothell v. Sweet, 6 A. 646, 648 (N.H. 1886) (concluding that plaintiff’s homestead right was not affected by three mortgages in which she did not join because she “preserved her homestead right by occupation”). The statute, therefore, contemplates a homestead right in both spouses, even when only one spouse legally owns the homestead. See RSA 480:3-a. In accord with the statute’s purpose, RSA 480:4 states that “[t]he homestead right is exempt from attachment during its continuance from levy or sale on execution, and from liability to be encumbered or taken for the payment of debts.” The statute provides only four exceptions to the homestead right exemption: (1) “the collection of taxes”; (2) “the enforcement of liens of mechanics and others for debts created in the construction, repair or improvement of the homestead”; (3) “the enforcement of mortgages which are made a charge thereon according to law”; and (4) “the levy of executions as provided in this chapter.” RSA 480:4; see Deyeso, 165 N.H. at 79. Additionally, “[n]o deed shall convey or encumber the homestead right, except a mortgage made at the time of purchase to secure payment of the purchase money, unless it is executed by the owner and wife or husband, if any, with the formalities required for the conveyance of land.” RSA 480:5-a. Moreover, if a deed is signed by both spouses with the requisite formalities, there is no requirement that the text of the deed contain an express waiver of the homestead right. See Verdolino v. Anderson, 12 F. Supp. 2d 205, 206 (D.N.H. 1998) (rejecting argument that a mortgage document must contain an explicit waiver of the homestead exemption); Perley v. Woodbury, 76 N.H. 23, 25-26 4 (1911) (recognizing that if the statutory requirements are satisfied, an express waiver is unnecessary to encumber or convey the homestead right). Here, there is no dispute that the husband did not sign the 2006 mortgage. Therefore, the 2006 mortgage did not comply with RSA 480:5-a and did not convey or encumber any homestead right that the husband had in the property. See RSA 480:5-a. The bank does not challenge this proposition but argues, instead, that the husband did not have a homestead right to assert in 2006 because he had waived all his interest in the property, including his homestead right, by virtue of the waiver contained in his 2001 affidavit. We agree. The 2001 affidavit waiver is distinguishable from the 2001 and 2002 mortgage waivers executed in compliance with RSA 480:5-a. The two mortgage waivers cannot be interpreted to act upon any other conveyance or encumbrance. Cf. Chase, 155 N.H. at 22-23 (concluding mortgage could not constitute a charge on homestead according to law because it did not satisfy statutory requirements of RSA 477:3 and RSA 480:5-a). In contrast, by executing the 2001 affidavit, the husband purported to relinquish his homestead right, not with respect to a specific encumbrance, but with respect to the conveyance of his entire interest in the property to his wife. Thus, the issue before us is whether that waiver was effective as to the 2006 mortgage, notwithstanding the fact that the husband did not sign the mortgage document and continued to reside in the property with his wife. See RSA 480:3-a, :4. Waiver is the voluntary or intentional abandonment or relinquishment of a known right. See Debonis v. Warden, N.H. State Prison, 153 N.H. 603, 605 (2006). “[T]he general principle, recognized by repeated decisions and by common sense, is, that a provision, made by law for the benefit of particular individuals, may be waived by them.” Fletcher v. Neally, 20 N.H. 464, 466 (1846); see, e.g., Debonis, 153 N.H. at 605 (noting that petitioner waived his statutory right to a revocation hearing); Duke/Fluor Daniel v. Hawkeye Funding, 150 N.H. 581, 584 (2004) (recognizing that statutory mechanic’s lien can be waived by contract). Statutory exemptions, such as the homestead right, are generally considered personal privileges of the debtor. See Pappas v. Capps, 263 P. 411, 411 (Colo. 1928) (considering automobile exemption); Wyman v. Gay, 37 A. 325, 326 (Me. 1897) (addressing exemption of certain chattels); Currier v. Sutherland, 54 N.H. 475, 486 (1874) (recognizing that “[t]he exemption of a homestead from attachment or levy is a personal privilege which the law gives to the owner”). Other jurisdictions have concluded that “[o]ne has a right to waive an exemption in his own favor unless he also holds it for the benefit of others or unless such waiver is against public policy or some constitutional or statutory restriction.” In re Kline’s Estate, 24 N.W.2d 481, 483 (Iowa 1946) (concluding widow waived deceased husband’s exemption for automobile by selling vehicle and converting asset into nonexempt property); see also 31 Am. Jur. 2d Exemptions § 277 (2012) (noting that, “apart from an 5 attempt to do so by executory agreement,” a debtor “has the option to claim or waive or may be estopped to assert” an exemption unless “it would be contrary to public policy”). Although, generally, statutory rights may be waived, the legislature has the power to limit, or even prohibit such waivers. See, e.g., RSA 275:50 (2010) (prohibiting waiver of statutory right to payment of wages, except as provided elsewhere in the statute); RSA 540:28 (2007) (declaring any waiver by tenant of rights under RSA chapter 540 to “be null and void”). Nothing in RSA chapter 480, however, expressly prohibits a waiver of the homestead right. Further, limited waivers of the homestead right are specifically provided for under other statutory provisions. See RSA 477:44, IV (2013) (contemplating waiver of homestead right with respect to a security interest in manufactured housing); RSA 480:5-a (providing approach for conveying or encumbering the homestead right); RSA 560:14 (2007) (allowing waiver of homestead right after the right vests in surviving spouse upon the owner-spouse’s death); RSA 560:15, :16 (2007) (allowing waiver of homestead right before marriage). The language of the homestead right statute is also instructive. It provides that “[e]very person is entitled to $100,000 worth of his or her homestead, or of his or her interest therein, as a homestead.” RSA 480:1 (emphasis added). Thus, the statute casts the homestead right as a personal privilege, which the homeowner and spouse are entitled to exercise. See Reed v. Union Bank of Winchester, 70 Va. (29 Gratt.) 719, 724-27 (1878) (concluding that waiver of exemption was permitted under Virginia constitution). Therefore, we hold that homestead rights, like other statutory rights, may be waived by the holder of the right, unless such a waiver would be against public policy or some constitutional or statutory restriction. See Marine Credit Union v. Detlefson-Delano, 830 N.W.2d 859, 865 (Minn. 2013) (recognizing that the Minnesota Supreme Court has “said that homestead rights may be waived”). However, given the protective purpose of the homestead right, we further hold that there is a presumption against such a waiver, and a party may waive the homestead right broadly, as was the case here, “only by an act which evidences an unequivocal intention to do so.” Id. (quotation omitted). Of course, compliance with RSA 480:5-a, which allows for conveyance or encumbrance of the homestead right by deed, obviates the need for proof of such an unequivocal intention. See Verdolino, 12 F. Supp. 2d at 206; Perley, 76 N.H. at 25-26. Thus, if a mortgage document is signed by both spouses, “with the formalities required for the conveyance of land,” no further evidence of waiver is required. RSA 480:5-a. Whether the husband waived his homestead right here turns on the language of the 2001 affidavit and the circumstances surrounding its filing. In the 2001 affidavit, the husband states: “[T]hrough accident, inadvertence or mistake, the [1991] deed did not state that I released my homestead rights. This affidavit is given to correct said omission.” Thus, the document expressly 6 conveys the husband’s unequivocal intention to waive his homestead right with respect to the 1991 conveyance to his wife. Because we have concluded that a waiver is permissible under the homestead right statute, and the plaintiffs have not argued that this waiver violated any other statutory or constitutional provision, we next consider whether this waiver violates public policy. Historically, we have been protective of the homestead right when an owner-spouse has attempted to relinquish the right without the consent of the non-owner spouse. See, e.g., Atkinson v. Atkinson, 37 N.H. 434, 436 (1859) (recognizing wife’s homestead right over petitionee’s claim of ownership through deed executed only by the husband, notwithstanding wife’s absence from the homestead, because “she was compelled by ill treatment to abandon her husband”). Our solicitude reflects the fact that the homestead laws were primarily enacted for the protection of the non-owner spouse and dependent children. See Meyer Bros. Drug Co. v. Bybee, 78 S.W. 579, 584 (Mo. 1904). Here, the non-owner spouse expressly relinquished the statutory protections under circumstances that bear no indicia of coercion, fraud, economic abuse, or other misconduct by the wife. Thus, we do not conclude that the waiver, in and of itself, violates the policy underlying the homestead right. Further, although the trial court found that the 2001 affidavit was executed at the request of the mortgagee, the record is unclear as to which mortgagee requested the affidavit. Moreover, the plaintiffs do not allege that the 2001 affidavit was coerced or that the 2001 mortgage was conditioned upon the husband relinquishing all future claims to a homestead exemption. We, consequently, conclude that the affidavit waiver in this case did not violate the policy underlying the homestead right. Accordingly, we conclude that the husband effectively waived his homestead right by executing the 2001 affidavit, and that he no longer had a right that he could assert against future creditors. Because the husband did not have a homestead right in the property when the wife executed the 2006 mortgage, the mortgage deed was not required to be signed by the husband in order to comply with RSA 480:5-a and to be a “charge thereon according to law.” RSA 480:4; see Walbridge v. Estate of Beaudoin, 163 N.H. 804, 806 (2012). We, therefore, hold that the husband’s waiver of his homestead right was effective as to the 2006 mortgage, and that the trial court did not err by concluding “that any homestead rights possessed by [the husband are] subordinate to the mortgage held by [the bank].” IV. Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel The plaintiffs next argue that res judicata and collateral estoppel prevent the bank from foreclosing on the property due to what they assert is the preclusive effect of the bankruptcy court’s order confirming the wife’s Chapter 7 13 plan. However, in their motion for summary judgment, the plaintiffs argued to the trial court that the bank should be “judicially estopped from asserting an alternate position from that taken by the [wife] in her earlier bankruptcy case.” (Emphasis added.) But see In re Zachary G., 159 N.H. 146, 152 (2009) (recognizing that judicial estoppel “protects judicial integrity by preventing a party from prevailing in one phase of a case using one argument and then relying upon a contradictory argument to prevail in another phase” (quotation and brackets omitted)). The plaintiffs made no argument based upon res judicata or collateral estoppel. Although the trial court observed that the bankruptcy court’s decision on the bank’s motion for relief from stay could have no preclusive effect, it rejected the plaintiffs’ judicial estoppel argument – the only argument asserted by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs do not appeal the trial court’s ruling on their judicial estoppel argument. Because the plaintiffs did not argue res judicata or collateral estoppel before the trial court, and never filed a motion for reconsideration addressing the trial court’s observation regarding the lack of preclusive effect of the bankruptcy court’s decision, we conclude that this issue was not properly preserved for appeal. See Singer Asset Finance Co. v. Wyner, 156 N.H. 468, 472 (2007) (“It is a long-standing rule that parties may not have judicial review of matters not raised in the forum of trial.” (quotation omitted)); see also Gray v. Kelly, 161 N.H. 160, 164 (2010) (stating that both res judicata and collateral estoppel are affirmative defenses); Super. Ct. Civ. R. 9(d) (recognizing that failure to plead affirmative defenses constitutes waiver). Moreover, even assuming that the plaintiffs preserved this argument for appeal, they have not persuaded us that res judicata or collateral estoppel bars the bank’s challenge to the husband’s claimed homestead right. Both res judicata and collateral estoppel rest upon the principle that, in order for a prior decision to be given preclusive effect against a party as to a particular claim, that party must first have had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the claim. See Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp., 456 U.S. 461, 480-81 & n.22 (1982); Gonzalez v. Banco Cent. Corp., 27 F.3d 751, 758 (1st Cir. 1994). When determining whether a party had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the claim in the first proceeding, courts consider the party’s incentive to litigate. See Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore, 439 U.S. 322, 331-32 (1979) (noting, among other factors, that “petitioners had every incentive to litigate the SEC lawsuit fully and vigorously” and concluding that they “received a ‘full and fair’ opportunity to litigate their claims”); S.E.C. v. Monarch Funding Corp., 192 F.3d 295, 305 (2d Cir. 1999) (considering incentive to litigate with respect to collateral estoppel in sentencing hearings); Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 28 (1982) (recognizing that inadequate “opportunity or incentive to obtain a full and fair adjudication in the initial action” is an exception to issue preclusion). Here, the wife’s amended bankruptcy schedules listed as a “claim” the husband’s homestead right. This right, however, was based only upon an 8 “inchoate and imperfect right” in the property. Cross v. Weare, 62 N.H. 125, 126 (1882) (quotation omitted). Although the wife’s amended Chapter 13 plan included a plan to cure her home mortgage arrearage and stated that “[a]ll secured creditors shall retain the liens securing their claims unless otherwise stated,” the plan made no mention of the husband’s homestead right. Therefore, the husband’s homestead right would only emerge as an issue for the bank if the wife defaulted on the terms of her Chapter 13 plan and if the husband still resided with his wife in the property at the time of default. Under the circumstances, we cannot conclude that the mere possibility of a post- confirmation default provided the bank sufficient incentive to litigate the husband’s homestead claim in the wife’s bankruptcy proceeding. See In re Carvalho, 335 F.3d 45, 50 (1st Cir. 2003) (“A debtor’s post-confirmation default, like many other post-confirmation events, does not come within the preclusive reach of a confirmed plan.”); cf. Costanzo v. Harris, 427 P.2d 963, 967 (Wash. 1967) (declining to require judgment creditor to challenge validity of homestead claim before the end of the redemption period because the creditor “has no way to anticipate whether the judgment debtor will choose to redeem”). We, therefore, decline to apply res judicata or collateral estoppel to bar the bank’s challenge to the husband’s homestead right. V. Misstatement in 2006 Mortgage Document The plaintiffs also argue that the trial court erred by concluding that the misstatement in the 2006 mortgage, which referenced the wife as a single woman, was without independent legal significance. The trial court found that the reference to the wife as a single woman was an “erroneous representation” and concluded that “the probability is that there was a scrivener’s error with respect to her marital status,” which neither she nor the bank identified. The plaintiffs do not dispute these findings; rather, they argue that enforcing the 2006 mortgage with the error is inconsistent “with the statutory scheme requiring the mortgagor and his/her spouse, in order to properly encumber the homestead right, to execute the [encumbrance] of a homestead with the formalities of a land conveyance.” See RSA 480:5-a. They further assert that the description of the wife’s marital status in the 2006 mortgage document “is not without relevance” because “[r]eferencing the [wife] simply as ‘a single woman’ presumes that a bona fide purchaser or future mortgagees need look no further, perhaps to their peril.” We are not persuaded. RSA 480:5-a requires that, to convey or encumber the homestead right, a deed must be executed “with the formalities required for the conveyance of land.” The statutory formalities required for the conveyance of land include execution, acknowledgement, and recording, see RSA 477:1, :3, :3-a (2013), as well as compliance with various notification and disclosure requirements, see RSA 477:4-a to :4-h (2013). RSA chapter 477, which sets forth the requirements for conveyances of real estate, does not contain a provision invalidating deeds or mortgages that contain clerical errors, and we will not 9 read such a requirement into the statute. See Landry v. Landry, 154 N.H. 785, 788 (2007). Accordingly, we find no reason to conclude that the erroneous reference to the wife’s marital status has any legal significance with respect to whether the 2006 mortgage complied with RSA 480:5-a or to the bank’s ability to foreclose on the property. Affirmed. DALIANIS, C.J., and HICKS, LYNN, and BASSETT, JJ., concurred. 10	{ "pile_set_name": "FreeLaw" }
So, you're Mr Badass Bass in the lake on #25, up to 6 lbs this year.....big fish in a small pond.....if you will. For weeks, you've been working all the angles to hook up with a pretty little female bass you met in the cove beyond the basket, and finally the two of you have a bed full of badass baby bass eggs just off the point......right where 90% of the Disc Golfers weak armed throws wind up. The last thing you want is some giant steel claw device plowing right through the nursery wiping out all your hard won efforts in one fell swoop. Get the picture? PLEASE...NO DISC GRABBERS ALLOWED IN THE LAKES UNTIL THE BABY BASS HATCH OUT SOMETIME EARLY AUGUST. wouldn't it make sense to move the basket for the time being so that the disc that come up short don't disrupt the beds either? I am sure it's a fun hole but I doubt the bass like plastic being dropped in on top of them.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
title: TCC-Transaction 源码分析 —— 调试环境搭建 date: 2018-02-01 tags: categories: TCC-Transaction permalink: TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment --- 摘要: 原创出处 http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/ 「芋道源码」欢迎转载，保留摘要，谢谢！本文主要基于 TCC-Transaction 1.2.3.3 正式版 - [1. 依赖工具](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [2. 源码拉取](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [3. 初始化数据库](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [4. 启动 capital 项目](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [5. 启动 redpacket 项目](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [6. 启动 order 项目](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) - [666. 彩蛋](http://www.iocoder.cn/TCC-Transaction/build-debugging-environment/) ------- ![](http://www.iocoder.cn/images/common/wechat_mp_2018_05_18.jpg) > 🙂🙂🙂关注微信公众号：【芋道源码】有福利： > 1. RocketMQ / MyCAT / Sharding-JDBC 所有源码分析文章列表 > 2. RocketMQ / MyCAT / Sharding-JDBC 中文注释源码 GitHub 地址 > 3. 您对于源码的疑问每条留言都将得到认真回复。甚至不知道如何读源码也可以请教噢。 > 4. 新的源码解析文章实时收到通知。每周更新一篇左右。 > 5. 认真的源码交流微信群。 ------- # 1. 依赖工具 * Maven * Git * JDK * MySQL * IntelliJ IDEA # 2. 源码拉取从官方仓库 [https://github.com/changmingxie/tcc-transaction.git](https://github.com/changmingxie/tcc-transaction.git) `Fork` 出属于自己的仓库。为什么要 `Fork` ？既然开始阅读、调试源码，我们可能会写一些注释，有了自己的仓库，可以进行自由的提交。😈 使用 `IntelliJ IDEA` 从 `Fork` 出来的仓库拉取代码。拉取完成后，`Maven` 会下载依赖包，可能会花费一些时间，耐心等待下。本文基于 `master-1.2.x` 分支。 # 3. 初始化数据库官方提供了两个 Demo 项目例子： * tcc-transaction-dubbo-sample * tcc-transaction-http-sample 考虑到不是所有所有同学都使用过 Dubbo 服务化框架，我们以 tcc-transaction-http-sample 项目为例子。 > 旁白君，一定注意，是 tcc-transaction-http-sample 项目，千万千万千万不要用错了！！！打开 tcc-transaction-http-sample/src/main/dbscripts 目录，有四个 SQL 脚本文件： * `create_db_cap.sql` ：tcc-transaction-http-capital 项目数据库初始化脚本。 * `create_db_ord.sql` ：tcc-transaction-http-order 项目数据库初始化脚本。 * `create_db_red.sql` ：tcc-transaction-http-redpacket 项目数据库初始化脚本。 * `create_db_tcc.sql` ：tcc-transaction 底层数据库初始化脚本。笔者使用 Navicat 进行数据库脚本执行。使用方式为：Navicat 菜单 Connection -> Execute SQL File，选择脚本文件，逐个执行。目前数据库脚本未使用 `USE` 语句选择对应数据库，每个脚本都需要进行添加。以 `create_db_cap.sql` 举例子： ```SQL CREATE DATABASE `tcc_cap` /!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 /; -- 新增 USE USE `tcc_cap`; ``` # 4. 启动 capital 项目 1. 修改项目下 `jdbc.properties` 文件，填写成你的数据库地址。 2. 使用 IDEA 配置 Tomcat 进行启动。这里要注意下： ```XML // appcontext-service-provider.xml <bean id="httpServer" class="org.springframework.remoting.support.SimpleHttpServerFactoryBean"> <property name="contexts"> <util:map> <entry key="/remoting/CapitalTradeOrderService" value-ref="capitalTradeOrderServiceExporter"/> <entry key="/remoting/CapitalAccountService" value-ref="capitalAccountServiceExporter"/> </util:map> </property> <property name="port" value="8081"/> </bean> ``` * 默认开启 8081 端口提供接口服务。所以配置 Tomcat 的端口不能再使用 8081，避免冲突。例如，笔者使用 18081。 3. 访问 `http://127.0.0.1:18081/`，看到 "hello tcc transacton http sample capital"，代表项目启动完成。`18081` 为你填写的 Tomcat 端口。 # 5. 启动 redpacket 项目同 tcc-transaction-http-capital 项目。 # 6. 启动 order 项目 1. 修改项目下 `jdbc.properties` 文件，填写成你的数据库地址。 2. 使用 IDEA 配置 Tomcat 进行启动。 3. 访问 `http://127.0.0.1:8080/`，看到 "sample 说明..."，代表项目启动完成。`8080` 为你填写的 Tomcat 端口。 4. 点击 [商品列表链接] -> [购买] -> [支付]，如果看到 "支付成功" 或者 "支付失败"，恭喜你🎉，你已经成功搭建完你的调试环境。愉快的开始玩耍把。 # 666. 彩蛋 ![知识星球](http://www.iocoder.cn/images/Architecture/2017_12_29/01.png) 调试环境搭建是阅读源码的第一步，如果你碰到无法搭建成功的情况，请给笔者公众号( 芋道源码 )留言。笔者会给你 1:1 的高级( 搞基 )支持。另外这是一个系列文，本系列更新 TCC-Transaction ，下一个系列更新 ByteTCC 。嗨皮不？！道友，赶紧上车，分享一波朋友圈！	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
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In May, the Evergreen Cooperatives , a network of worker-owned businesses in Cleveland, took over operations of a laundry facility owned by the Cleveland Clinic. On the surface, it was a straightforward business transaction. The Evergreen Cooperatives launched in 2009 with Evergreen Cooperative Laundry , a small business owned and operated by just a handful of workers. Today, the whole network comprises the laundry, as well as a cooperative green energy business and an urban farm, and employs more than 220 people. After nearly a decade of steady growth, the Evergreen Cooperatives wanted to expand, and taking over operations of the Cleveland Clinic laundry facility was an opportunity to do so. That was where business-as-usual ended. Generally, when management of a workplace changes, employees continue to do what they did before, just under new leadership. But when Evergreen Cooperative Laundry took over the contract at the Cleveland Clinic laundry facility, its 100 employees got a new title: worker-owners. To make the transition successful, the Evergreen Cooperatives network held training and informational sessions with the new members, educating them on profit sharing and collective governance. A worker cooperative is a business model designed to prioritize the people that keep the business running: the employees themselves. You might visualize a traditional business as a triangle, with the owner and CEO at the top, senior management beneath them, and the bulk of workers clustered in the broad portion at the bottom. Money flows from top to bottom, and by the time it gets to the workers, it can be stretched fairly thin. Worker cooperatives flatten this structure. Each employee of a worker co-op is also a partial owner. Member-owners collectively vote on decisions like salaries, schedules, and profit sharing. Because the employees are the ones making decisions that affect their own lives and well-being, they’re also more likely to stay at the business. In economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, like where the Evergreen Cooperatives operate, they help keep wealth in communities, rather than flowing outward to wealthy owners and managers who don’t live where the business is located. After monitoring the success of the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland’s poorer communities, the network now wants more businesses to get on board with it. The takeover of the Cleveland Clinic laundry facility was a pilot for a larger program, the Fund for Employee Ownership, that the Evergreen Cooperatives and the Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit focused on building community wealth, just launched to expand opportunities for co-op conversions. Initial funding of $5 million from a foundation (which is remaining anonymous) will allow the partners to replicate the model they tested with the Cleveland Clinic laundry facility: acquiring small local businesses looking for new ownership, then, once that transaction is completed, working with the employees to transition the business to a worker-owned cooperative. Over the next several years, they hope to use the initial funding to convert around seven businesses, and aim to eventually reach $30 million in funding. Jessica Rose, Democracy Collaborative’s director of employee ownership programs, says that the Fund for Employee Ownership is intended to help the worker cooperative model compete with more common forms of business transition–like damaging buyouts by private equity firms, which tend to result in job losses and little economic gains for employees. Rose and Brett Jones, executive vice president of the Evergeen Cooperatives, have long been of the opinion that “what we need to do is leverage mission-driven capital that can offer business owners an experience that’s as frictionless as any other exit option they have available to them,” Rose says. “We can say to them: We can come in and acquire your company, and we can make an offer at fair-market value. The difference is that after, we manage and support the transition to a worker-owned cooperative with our own resources.” Evergeen and Democracy Collaborative are calling this the acquire-convert-support strategy. With the launch of the Fund for Employee Ownership, they’ll start identifying small businesses looking to sell, which they can acquire and bring under the growing Evergreen Cooperative umbrella. “They’ll benefit from our existing network, strong professional management, and shared back-office resources like HR and accounting,” Rose says. For the time being, the partnership will remain focused on expanding worker-owned cooperatives in Cleveland and northeast Ohio. The Evergreen Cooperatives already have a track record of success in the city. Founded in 2009 with capital from major local institutions like the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Foundation, Evergreen has been able provide livable wage jobs (around $11 per hour, increasing over time) to over 200 people from neighborhoods where unemployment rates hover around 25%, and median annual income is $18,500. Worker-owned cooperatives are an effective method of stabilizing local economies, and expanding their presence in Cleveland through this fund, Jones says, will raise awareness of their success. “Starting local will make sure that we can really feel out the mechanics of our fund, and see its impact, before stretching too far,” Jones adds.	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
Siege of Chester The Siege of Chester was a siege of the First English Civil War, between February 1645 and January 1646, with an intermission during the summer of 1645. From the beginning of the war, the city of Chester was held by forces loyal to Charles I of England. It was first besieged in late 1644, but was relieved in March 1645 by Prince Maurice. With fighting continuing around Cheshire, the siege was not pursued again in earnest until September 1645, continuing ferociously until the following January. At the Battle of Rowton Heath in September, Charles himself failed to lift the siege, suffering a disastrous defeat. Throughout the siege, which varied considerably in intensity, the garrison was commanded by Lord Byron, who in the final months strongly defended the city against great odds. In January 1646 (1645, old style), faced with the starvation of the inhabitants, Byron was persuaded to surrender, and the city was occupied by forces of the New Model Army under Sir William Brereton. Background The city of Chester, in Cheshire, was an important stronghold in the English border country, commanding an important crossing of the River Dee and thus the approach to North Wales. With strong city walls, dating originally from Roman times, Chester was a Royalist stronghold from the beginning of the civil war. Early in the war, between 1642 and 1643, its walls were strengthened and a new ring of earthwork defences was added outside them. After Lord Byron was defeated at the Battle of Nantwich in January 1644, he marched his remaining forces to Chester, making it his base for resistance to the Parliamentarian forces in Cheshire under Sir William Brereton. During the first half of 1645, Brereton was able to gain control of most of Cheshire, but the King's men in Chester commanded the river crossing into North Wales, still held by the King, protecting it from a Parliamentary invasion. February to March 1645 In February 1645 (1644, old style) Brereton mounted a determined assault on Chester, in the course of which a force of his men tried unsuccessfully to scale the walls near the Northgate. Defeated, he began to besiege the city. In March, Prince Maurice of the Palatinate arrived to relieve the city. However, having done so, when he moved on in April he took with him a large part of the garrison, including some 1,200 hardened Irish fighting men. Chester was left with only some six hundred regular soldiers, together with its own civilians who were able to bear arms. Summer of 1645 On 14 June 1645, Charles's main army was decisively beaten at the Battle of Naseby by the New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax. The King then withdrew to Hereford, hoping for more reinforcements from Wales and Ireland. Early in July 1645, he lodged at Raglan Castle in Wales. On 10 July his army in the west of England under Lord Goring was heavily defeated at the Battle of Langport, and news also reached Charles that an army of Covenanters was marching south. At the beginning of August 1645, Charles left Raglan with some 2,500 men, marching northwards along the Welsh border in the hope of rallying more Royalists to his cause in the north of England. He reached Doncaster on 18 August, where he had news that both the Parliamentary Northern Association army and a force of Covenanter cavalry were moving towards him. He quickly withdrew to Newark and then to Oxford, by way of a punitive attack on Huntingdon, Oliver Cromwell's home town and Parliamentary base. On 30 August the King marched to the assistance of his forces at Hereford, by now under siege by Lord Leven's Covenanters, but as the royal army approached news reached Leven of Montrose's victory on 15 August at the Battle of Kilsyth. He abandoned the siege of Hereford, marching north, so that Charles was able to occupy the town on 4 September. The King returned to Raglan, where some two weeks later he received news that Prince Rupert had surrendered Bristol. After Lord Digby persuaded Charles that Rupert had surrendered prematurely, the King dismissed Rupert and the two were estranged. September 1645 to January 1646 With his remaining forces, Charles marched north from Raglan, hoping to join Montrose, not knowing that on 13 September Montrose had suffered a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Philiphaugh. The Committee of Both Kingdoms instructed Sydnam Poyntz to pursue and contain the King, and Poyntz advanced for that purpose with a mounted force of some three thousand cavalry and dragoons. The King moved northwards, without meeting Poyntz, and on 22 September he reached Chirk Castle where he received news of a new attack on Chester. With the surrender of Bristol, Chester had become the only seaport in England under Charles's control where it would be possible to land the reinforcements he was awaiting from Ireland, which he hoped could save him from ultimate defeat. Early on 20 September 1645, just before daylight, a New Model Army force of more than seven hundred infantry and an equal number of cavalry, led by Colonel Michael Jones, began a fresh assault on Chester. The attack broke through the outer Royalist earthworks around the eastern suburbs. After Jones had ordered the burning down of the urban areas in front of the east gate, he moved artillery up to St John the Baptist's Church to bombard the city wall. By 22 September, the King arrived at Chirk, but Jones's guns had already created a breach in the walls. The King made for Chester with all possible speed. Word that he was coming was passed on to the garrison commander, Lord Byron. The King reached Chester on 23 September with an advance party consisting of his lifeguards, Gerard's brigade of some six hundred horse, and a small number of foot soldiers. This force was able to enter the city from the western bank of the River Dee because it was still under Royalist control. Meanwhile, in the hope of trapping the besieging forces between the king's main army and an enlarged garrison within the city, Sir Marmaduke Langdale took more than three thousand of the King's cavalry northwards towards Chester, crossing the Dee over Farndon Bridge, Holt, at dawn on 24 September. Moving north-east, Langdale received reports near the village of Rowton that Poyntz's Roundhead cavalry was approaching Chester from Whitchurch, Shropshire. Poyntz, who had ridden through the night to meet the royal army, met Langdale at Rowton Moor. All morning, both forces held their ground, but at about 2:00 pm, Jones sent part of his siege forces to join those of Poyntz. Charles is said to have watched the ensuing defeat of his forces at the Battle of Rowton Heath from the Phoenix Tower on Chester's city walls, when Parliamentary forces routed the remaining Royalist cavalry. The dead included the King's cousin Lord Bernard Stewart. On 25 September, leaving Byron in charge of the garrison, the King retreated from Chester to Denbigh in North Wales with only five hundred mounted men. As Byron refused to surrender, the Roundheads extended their siege works around the city and continued their bombardment. For more than four months, the Royalist garrison resisted all Parliamentarian attempts to enter the city and even mounted counter-attacks. But as autumn became winter, many inhabitants died of starvation. In January 1646 (1645, old style), William Ince, as Mayor of Chester, persuaded Byron to surrender the city. On 3 February, the forces of Brereton occupied Chester. Gallery See also Siege of Oxford Siege of Taunton Siege of Bristol Siege of Carlisle (1645) Siege of Colchester Siege of Pembroke Siege of Worcester References Further reading John Broster, History of the siege of Chester, during the civil wars in the time of King Charles I (Chester, Broster & Son, 1800) Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton, Sieges of the Great Civil War (London, Bell & Hyman, 1978) A. H. Burne & Peter Young, The Great Civil War, a military history (London, 1958) S. R. Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War (Vol. 2: London, 1889) Stuart Reid, All the King's Armies: a military history of the English Civil War (1998) T. F. Henderson, 'David Leslie, first Lord Newark', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) JB, ed., 'John Byron's account of the siege of Chester 1645-1646' in The Cheshire Sheaf, 4th series, 6 (1971), from Rawlinson MS B210 in the Bodleian Library External links Chester: The Civil War and Interregnum, 1642-60 Category:1645 in England Category:Conflicts in 1645 Chester Category:Military history of Cheshire Category:History of Chester Category:17th century in Cheshire	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Simonini Mini 3 The Simonini Mini 3 is an Italian aircraft engine, designed and produced by Simonini Racing of San Dalmazio di Serramazzoni for use in ultralight aircraft. Design and development The Mini 3 is a single cylinder twin cylinder two-stroke, air liquid-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a poly V belt reduction drive with reduction ratios of 2.49:1, 2.57:1 and 2.76:1. It employs electronic ignition and produces at 7000 rpm. Applications AEF Monotrace Sperwill 3+ Specifications (Mini 3) See also References External links Category:Air-cooled aircraft piston engines Category:Simonini aircraft engines Category:Two-stroke aircraft piston engines	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Just wanted to say thanks for this thread, it gave me the idea that I could ride my KLX250 2000+ miles, all for a long weekend of post winter warm weather in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Was going to take the car and haul the bike, dog, surfboard, and bicycle...but the car broke down. Faced with a repair bill that would negate my ability to go south, I found a dog sitter, put some Shinko 705's on the bike, changed the oil, loaded up, and went! Two and half days down, four days there, and 2 1/2 days back...totally worth the sore butt. The trip down was very windy, I got blown around a lot. It only bothered me on some of the taller bridges, but did add to my fatigue. The 1/2 days were the first and last days. I started in the White Mtns of NH and rode to a friends in Boston as a shakedown. I ended up dropping some gear there, a good choice as my cockpit was a bit cramped. From Boston, I rode to the state line of N. Carolina(a very long ride 7am to 1 am), where I slept on a covered picnic table for 6hrs. Up at 7am thanks to a rest area worker, I was off in 10 minutes. Only to realize I desperately needed coffee. Luckily I needed gas because my tanks is only 2 gallons. With coffee in me and gas in the bike I was back on the road and able to make dinner in Charleston SC, despite riding in rain for the last three hours and getting totally soaked. My stay included lots of family time, finding a new girlfriend, and lots of this... If you can't go surfing, then go watch them surf. The ride back was pretty uneventful, the weather was much more calm. From S. Carolina I managed to make it back to my father's house in Delaware(9am-10:30pm, a long day but not too long). After some hot stew and a beer, I fell into a bed. Another early start and I made Boston by 6pm, just in time for dinner, a shower, and to go out and see my host play in his Bob Marley tribute band, Duppy Conquerors(they are awesome btw, Sally O'Briens every Monday night, it's free!). Up before the rock star, as usual, I was off towards home to collect my dog and find some pain killers and ice packs for my shoulder. Only things I'd do different is add a throttle lock of some kind, get a better seat, and a much bigger gas tank. But the throttle lock was really all I needed, my right shoulder was very sore after the trip. Pic of the bike loaded up. And the final trip mileage at the last fill-up 10 miles from home. Bike is a 2012 KLX250S with 16000 miles on it. I ride it everyday, all year(unless there is more than 4" of snow on the road, then the cage). Mostly ride to and from work (50 mile round trip), but I've also ridden it to the top of a few mountains on goat trails, it's a very competent off-roader. Great bike! Next up is Chicago! Got to go see the girl! Just the motivation I need to try for the Iron Butt Saddlesore. I know the bike can do it, but not sure I can. Came very close on this trip, 900 miles in 24 hrs, but I slept and I didn't have a try for an IB planned. We'll see.... Thanks for the great report lobolator!! Now think of how boring your report would have been if you had taken the car!! On a bike it's always an adventure. Good job Lobolator,I always laugh when people say you gotta have a big bike,it ain't true,heck people even think my KLR650 is to small,then I ask um"so where do you go on that big bike of yours?and why does it have a battery tender attached to it?"just my observations,to many miles on a Ninja250 I guess. __________________ What would you do if you weren't afraid? Perimeters suck! I used to do drugs,I still do drugs,but I used to too!Mitch Hedburg Just wanted to say thanks for this thread, it gave me the idea that I could ride my KLX250 2000+ miles, all for a long weekend of post winter warm weather in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Was going to take the car and haul the bike, dog, surfboard, and bicycle...but the car broke down. Faced with a repair bill that would negate my ability to go south, I found a dog sitter, put some Shinko 705's on the bike, changed the oil, loaded up, and went! Two and half days down, four days there, and 2 1/2 days back...totally worth the sore butt. The trip down was very windy, I got blown around a lot. It only bothered me on some of the taller bridges, but did add to my fatigue. The 1/2 days were the first and last days. I started in the White Mtns of NH and rode to a friends in Boston as a shakedown. I ended up dropping some gear there, a good choice as my cockpit was a bit cramped. From Boston, I rode to the state line of N. Carolina(a very long ride 7am to 1 am), where I slept on a covered picnic table for 6hrs. Up at 7am thanks to a rest area worker, I was off in 10 minutes. Only to realize I desperately needed coffee. Luckily I needed gas because my tanks is only 2 gallons. With coffee in me and gas in the bike I was back on the road and able to make dinner in Charleston SC, despite riding in rain for the last three hours and getting totally soaked. My stay included lots of family time, finding a new girlfriend, and lots of this... If you can't go surfing, then go watch them surf. The ride back was pretty uneventful, the weather was much more calm. From S. Carolina I managed to make it back to my father's house in Delaware(9am-10:30pm, a long day but not too long). After some hot stew and a beer, I fell into a bed. Another early start and I made Boston by 6pm, just in time for dinner, a shower, and to go out and see my host play in his Bob Marley tribute band, Duppy Conquerors(they are awesome btw, Sally O'Briens every Monday night, it's free!). Up before the rock star, as usual, I was off towards home to collect my dog and find some pain killers and ice packs for my shoulder. Only things I'd do different is add a throttle lock of some kind, get a better seat, and a much bigger gas tank. But the throttle lock was really all I needed, my right shoulder was very sore after the trip. And the final trip mileage at the last fill-up 10 miles from home. Bike is a 2012 KLX250S with 16000 miles on it. I ride it everyday, all year(unless there is more than 4" of snow on the road, then the cage). Mostly ride to and from work (50 mile round trip), but I've also ridden it to the top of a few mountains on goat trails, it's a very competent off-roader. Great bike! Next up is Chicago! Got to go see the girl! Just the motivation I need to try for the Iron Butt Saddlesore. I know the bike can do it, but not sure I can. Came very close on this trip, 900 miles in 24 hrs, but I slept and I didn't have a try for an IB planned. We'll see.... Yeah, I got a lot of bug eyed looks when they realized where I was from and what I was on. Even had a HD rider crap his pants, once he realized what I was doing. The only advantage to a bigger bike would have been a little more grunt at 70mph and more weight against the wind. My ass would still be sore, same with the shoulder. Lots of good gas station conversations were had 1) because of the little bike, 2) because it had a NH plate way down south, and 3) because it was a motorcycle out and about in April, like a crazy person. I didn't tell them I had just ridden all winter on studded tires in the Arctic like NH. As on my other various long distance motorcycle trips, people just gravitate towards a bike. Maybe it's because they realize you are alone or they just want a conversation, I don't know, but I've met some great people and had some crazy conversations. That never really happened as much doing the same in a cage. Yeah, I got a lot of bug eyed looks when they realized where I was from and what I was on. Even had a HD rider crap his pants, once he realized what I was doing. The only advantage to a bigger bike would have been a little more grunt at 70mph and more weight against the wind. My ass would still be sore, same with the shoulder. Lots of good gas station conversations were had 1) because of the little bike, 2) because it had a NH plate way down south, and 3) because it was a motorcycle out and about in April, like a crazy person. I didn't tell them I had just ridden all winter on studded tires in the Arctic like NH. As on my other various long distance motorcycle trips, people just gravitate towards a bike. Maybe it's because they realize you are alone or they just want a conversation, I don't know, but I've met some great people and had some crazy conversations. That never really happened as much doing the same in a cage. Sounds like a great trip! I high sided a CL450 just off the Kanc, on that left just opposite the old ski jump place. Went in too fast, just before the covered bridge (Dougway?). Last thing I saw were sparks coming off the left foot peg, which forced the rear tire off the ground. Then, when the tire made contact again, it was like a sling shot. Live and learn, I've slowed down a lot now. We all get strange looks from folks when riding a 250, had a kid in the passenger's seat in a cage look at me on mine, on the interstate, his eyes were like saucers. As on my other various long distance motorcycle trips, people just gravitate towards a bike. Maybe it's because they realize you are alone or they just want a conversation, I don't know, but I've met some great people and had some crazy conversations. That never really happened as much doing the same in a cage. So true. So true. And many of the people who want to talk either own a bike or used to own one. They get it. Some of them want to be doing what you're doing right then at that very moment! What I find funny too is that you can be parked in a field of cars. If one other motorcyclist joins the group - you are suddenly his best friend. They will walk up to you and chat with you first. There is an instant connection there simply because you are riding a bike also. That is awsome. I am fairly new to the motorcycle world. About a year and a half and half of that time was on a 150cc scooter so I couldn't leave town. Partly cus it wouldn't go past 55 and partly cus I didn't trust it. But since I got my tu250 in sep I put 8000 miles on it mostly to work. Living in az I can ride all winter long with no problem. I make 200 mile trips through the mountains once in a while but have never left the state. Everyone keeps telling me I need a bigger bike which I know is not true. This is very inspiring to see some one make a trip like that on a 250. I guess the only thing I really need is storage compartments on the bike so I can make it happen. I have always liked those klxs but was under the impression they didn't do well on the street. what mpg did you get with wind and high speeds? Only things I'd do different is add a throttle lock of some kind, .... Simple, but effective throttle lock is a 175 cable tie (zip tie) placed around the grip, snugged up and shortened so it rests against the brake lever. Rotate it forward against the brake at your desired speed; snug it up if it doesnt hold; use a small pointed knife to release the catch if you get too tight or want to remove it for off road. Rotating the throttle off releases it. Simple, but effective throttle lock is a 175 cable tie (zip tie) placed around the grip, snugged up and shortened so it rests against the brake lever. Rotate it forward against the brake at your desired speed; snug it up if it doesnt hold; use a small pointed knife to release the catch if you get too tight or want to remove it for off road. Rotating the throttle off releases it. I'm gonna try that,great idea __________________ What would you do if you weren't afraid? Perimeters suck! I used to do drugs,I still do drugs,but I used to too!Mitch Hedburg Worst mileage due to WOT into the wind was about 55mpg. Average was about 62mpg on the highway. At home around town I get 65-70mpg. The KLX on the highway is definitely stretching it's legs all the way. But it will do an actual 80mph(the speedo said 94 once , but it lies) if you get a good draft to help it get up there, not that I recommend drafting. If you want to pass, better plan way ahead. Love the KLX, 16000 miles in 13 months. No problems except bad gas clogging my jets. On road or off it just keeps on going, a couple of times without me. The picnic table did have a roof, which at the time seemed good enough, and it was free. I was so close to falling asleep on the bike it didn't matter and I had earplugs, but do tell. I will be doing a repeat in September. Worst mileage due to WOT into the wind was about 55mpg. Average was about 62mpg on the highway. At home around town I get 65-70mpg. The KLX on the highway is definitely stretching it's legs all the way. But it will do an actual 80mph(the speedo said 94 once , but it lies) if you get a good draft to help it get up there, not that I recommend drafting. If you want to pass, better plan way ahead. Love the KLX, 16000 miles in 13 months. No problems except bad gas clogging my jets. On road or off it just keeps on going, a couple of times without me. Your report is quite inspirational! I also have a '12 and I want to travel a bit on it, but haven't yet. I did pick up an IMS 3 gal tank last week(not installed yet). I have had a windscreen on it since day one, I'm older now and can't stand the direct blast anymore. I would like to pick up some side bags, yours look like a good fit. Do you have some kind of bag support under those? or are they just resting on your plastics? Have you done any sprocket changes? And lastly, did you have any oil usage on the trip? Alot of thumpers at those kinds of speed MAY use a little oil(Yep, I'm an ex-KLR owner). I too had a windscreen but much smaller, I stole the one off my old EX-500, literally tied it on as a test, it worked so I just left it. It was just enough to get the blast off the chest and over the shoulders. I didn't have anything under the bags and melted the right side a bit because of it, despite loading that side much lighter. PM Racks has a real nice side rack that will fix that problem, can't wait to get one. I ran stock gearing for the trip. I have gone to lower gearing for off-road but higher wouldn't work IMO because a good head wind can force a downshift on stock gearing, higher would be even worse. Maybe it'd work if you get a 351 kit, IDK. And yes there is a teaspoon of oil in my catch bottle, must have vaporized some at high rpm, gone up the crankcase breather tube into the air box, but otherwise no detectable usage. Ok that's comparable mpg to my tu250 I ride 50 miles round trip a day for work mostly highway indicated 75 not sure how much gauge is off my guess is prob close to 10%. I get around 63 mpg worst was 56 best 70 I'm sure it would get better around town but I have never ridden a full tank not going on highway. And unfortunately there's not really roads here that are less than 65 mph. I'm just trying to get an idea how it compares to other 250s. Lots of mountains here if I go out side of the valley but I does good on them I go up one that's about 1400 ft difference in about 10 miles it holds 4th gear at indicated 70 mph just fine. But I have still always loved the enduro look. I just don't know if I would ever take it off road.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multidirectional switch which outputs a switching signal in accordance with the tilting direction of a stem, and, more particularly, to a multidirectional switch which outputs a switching signal even when a stem is pushed. 2. Description of the Related Art A description of a conventional multidirectional switch will be given with reference to the relevant drawings. FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a conventional multidirectional switch. FIG. 9 is a plan view of a housing of the conventional multidirectional switch. FIG. 10 is an exploded perspective view of movable contact springs and the housing of the conventional multidirectional switch. FIG. 11 illustrates the operation of the conventional multidirectional switch. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, a housing 20 is molded out of a synthetic resin material, and comprises side walls 20a that surrounds four sides, an inside bottom portion 20b surrounded by the side walls 20a, four bosses 20c provided in a standing manner so as to extend outward from the four corners of the open end of the side walls 20a, four positioning portions 20d provided near the bosses 20c, and four inner protrusions 20e protruding from the inside bottom portion 20b. At the inside bottom portion 20b of the housing 20 are exposed a circular central fixed contact 2, a common contact 3 which surrounds the periphery of the central fixed contact 2, and peripheral fixed contacts 4 disposed at four locations, at the front, back, left and right sides along the periphery of the common contact 3. The central fixed contact 2, the common contact 3, and the peripheral fixed contacts 4 protrude outwardly as terminals 5 from opposing side walls 20a of the housing 20. Here, the four protrusions 20e at the inside bottom portion 20b are provided in a standing manner so as to surround the circular central fixed contact 2. A central tactile spring 60 serving as a central movable contact spring is formed by using a highly resilient base material, such as phosphor bronze or SUS, and subjecting the base material to surface treatment using silver (Ag). The central tactile spring 60 is dome shaped and is placed on the common contact 3 such that it is surrounded by the protrusions 20e. Peripheral tactile springs 70 serving as peripheral movable contact springs are formed by using highly resilient base materials, such as phosphor bronze or SUS, and subjecting the base materials to surface treatment using silver (Ag). The peripheral tactile springs 70 are formed into rectangular shapes. A bulging portion 70a which is fixed on both sides is integrally formed at the center of its corresponding peripheral tactile spring 70. The peripheral tactile springs 70 are placed on the common contact 3, inwardly of each of the peripheral fixed contacts 4, and are positioned by the corresponding protrusions 20e and the inside walls of the housing 20. In other words, the central tactile Spring 60, serving as a central movable contact spring, and each of the peripheral tactile springs 70, serving as a peripheral movable contact spring, are formed with different shapes, and are separately disposed inside the housing 20. A first stem 8 is molded out of a synthetic resin material, and comprises a cylindrical portion 8a, a skirt 8b, and four semicircular protrusions 8c, which are integrally formed. The skirt 8b spreads obliquely downward from one end portion of the cylindrical portion 8a. Each semicircular protrusion 8c is formed at the bottom surface of the skirt 8b so as to be maintained at equal angular distances of approximately 90 degrees from each other. The protrusions 8c oppose the bulging portions 70a of their corresponding peripheral tactile springs 70. A guide hole 9 is formed in the center portion of the cylindrical portion 8a so as to pass vertically therethrough. Four protrusions 8d are integrally formed at the peripheral edge of the lower portion of the skirt 8b. These protrusions 8d extend outwardly from portions midway between corresponding two adjacent protrusions 20e, and engage the corresponding positioning portions 20d of the housing 20. The first stem 8 is rockably supported with respect to the housing 20 by the peripheral tactile springs 70, which are placed on the inside bottom portion 20b of housing 20. The housing protrusions 20e have slots in a lower portion thereof (as best seen in FIG. 9) which hold the peripheral tactile springs 70 in place. A second stem 10 is molded out of a synthetic resin material. A flange 10a is integrally formed at the bottom end of the second stem 10. The bottom surface of the flange 10a opposes the top surface of each of the protrusions 20e of the housing 20 so as to be maintained at a predetermined distance therefrom. The second stem 10 protrudes upward from the first stem 8 as a result of being inserted into the guide hole 9 from therebelow, and is stopped by the flange 10a so as not be dislodged from the first stem 8. A presser protrusion 10b is integrally formed at the center of the lower surface of the second stem 10. The bottom end of the presser protrusion 10b is in contact with the central tactile spring 60. A cover 11 is formed of a metal plate by a pressing operation. A circular central hole 11a is formed in the center of the cover member 11, and mounting holes (not shown) are formed in the four corners thereof. A portion which widens in the downward direction is formed at the peripheral edge of the central hole 11a. With the skirt 8b of the first stem 8 being passed through the center hole 11a, the cover member 11 covers the open end of the top portion of the housing 20 by caulking the bosses 20c passed through their corresponding mounting holes (not shown). In the multidirectional switch having the abovedescribed structure, the central tactile spring 60 and each of the peripheral tactile springs 70 are separately disposed inside the housing 20. The peripheral tactile springs 70 and the corresponding protrusions 8c are made to oppose each other with predetermined separations therebetween in order to provide a play therebetween. Therefore, in certain states of use of the switch, when, as shown in FIG. 11, the second stem 10 and the first stem 8 are rocked with respect to the housing 20 so that the entire multidirectional switch is tilted while in a switched state. In this configuration, one of the peripheral tactile springs 70b is compressed, while, the distance between the peripheral tactile spring 70c disposed opposite to the direction of operation of the first stem 8 and the corresponding protrusion 8c increases. Therefore, the peripheral tactile spring 70 may lift from the inside bottom portion 20b of the housing 20, causing the outside end of the peripheral tactile spring 70 to move upward along the corresponding side wall 20a of the housing 20. If the peripheral tactile spring 70 stays on the side wall 20a when the multidirectional switch is tilted back to its original position (as will sometimes occur), the switching of the peripheral tactile spring 70 may be hindered. In the above-described multidirectional switch, in order to always cause each of the peripheral tactile springs and the central tactile spring to be in electrical conduction with the common contact, it is necessary to wire the common contact so as to surround the central tactile spring. This has prevented size reduction of the multidirectional switch in the widthwise direction. In addition, a large number of tactile springs are used, and the assembly operations are troublesome to carry out, so that the multidirectional switches cannot be provided at low costs. To achieve the foregoing and other objects of the invention a multidirectional switch is provided that includes a housing having disposed at an inside bottom portion thereof a central fixed contact, a common contact, and a plurality of peripheral fixed contacts. A plurality of metallic movable contact springs are positioned to oppose the central fixed contact and the peripheral fixed contacts, respectively. The movable contact springs are connected together and are also in electrical communication with the common contact. An actuator assembly (e.g., an operating rod) is arranged permit any selected one of the movable contact springs to be brought into electrical communication with its opposing fixed contact. In one form of the present invention, the movable contact springs are integrally formed from a metallic material. In some implementations they are dome-shaped. In another form of the present invention, the housing is substantially rectangular in shape and the plurality of peripheral fixed contacts are disposed at the four corners of the housing in still another form of the present invention, the movable contact springs comprise a central movable contact spring disposed so as to oppose the central fixed contact, and peripheral movable contact springs disposed so as to oppose the corresponding peripheral fixed contacts. In this form of the multidirectional switch, a pair of the connecting portions that oppose each other extend from an outer peripheral edge of the central movable contact spring. In addition, connecting portions are provided, one branching and extending from each connecting portion, with the peripheral movable contact springs being connected at ends of the branched connecting portions. In still another form of the present invention, the operating rod comprises a first stem which has a guide hole formed in the center thereof and which is rockably supported with respect to the housing, and a second stem which is slidably fitted to the guide hole and which protrudes from the first stem. In this form of the multidirectional switch, by tilting the first stem in a predetermined direction through the second stem, a desired one of the peripheral fixed contacts is brought into electrical conduction with the common contact through the corresponding movable contact spring and the connecting portion. In addition, by pushing the second stem, the central fixed contact is brought into electrical conduction with the common contact through the corresponding movable contact spring.	{ "pile_set_name": "USPTO Backgrounds" }
require 'rack' require 'uri' class Refraction class Request < Rack::Request attr_reader :action, :status, :message def method; request_method; end def query; query_string; end ### actions def set(options) if options.is_a?(String) @re_location = options else @re_scheme = options[:protocol] if options[:protocol] # :protocol is alias for :scheme @re_scheme = options[:scheme] if options[:scheme] @re_host = options[:host] if options[:host] @re_port = options[:port] if options[:port] @re_path = options[:path] if options[:path] @re_query = options[:query] if options[:query] end end def rewrite!(options) @action = :rewrite set(options) end def permanent!(options) @action = :permanent @status = 301 set(options) @message = "moved to #{@uri}" end def found!(options) @action = :found @status = 302 set(options) @message = "moved to #{@uri}" end def respond!(status, headers, content) @action = :respond @status = status @headers = headers @message = content end ### response def response headers = @headers \|\| { 'Location' => location, 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' } headers['Content-Length'] = message.length.to_s [status, headers, [message]] end def location @re_location \|\| url end def scheme; @re_scheme \|\| super; end def host; @re_host \|\| super; end def path; @re_path \|\| super; end def query_string; @re_query \|\| super; end def port @re_port \|\| ((@re_scheme \|\| @re_host) && default_port) \|\| super end def default_port case scheme when "http" ; 80 when "https" ; 443 end end def http_host self.port ? "#{self.host}:#{self.port}" : self.host end end ### class Request def self.configure(&block) @rules = block end def self.rules @rules end def initialize(app) @app = app end def rules self.class.rules end def call(env) if self.rules request = Request.new(env) self.rules.call(request) case request.action when :permanent, :found, :respond request.response when :rewrite env["rack.url_scheme"] = request.scheme env["HTTP_HOST"] = request.http_host env["SERVER_NAME"] = request.host env["HTTP_PORT"] = request.port if request.port env["PATH_INFO"] = request.path env["QUERY_STRING"] = request.query env["REQUEST_URI"] = request.fullpath @app.call(env) else @app.call(env) end else @app.call(env) end end end # Rack version compatibility shim if Rack.release == "1.0" class Rack::Request def path script_name + path_info end end end	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
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Show HN - SuggestMeLearn, My first web application - hhimanshu - After starting and quitting so many times, I finally decided to start small project and created SuggetMeLearn - This is my first ever attempt to a complete web application - The idea is to - let people suggest the way they learnt a particular language or technology - let people seeking to learn decide based on the suggestion to pick resources and start learning rather than browsing through infinite search results. - people can vote if they think they also believe that a particular suggestion is a great resource(and suggestions are sorted by votes) - All suggestions are welcome. - URL : http://suggestmelearn.appspot.com/ ====== tstegart Clickable link: <http://suggestmelearn.appspot.com/> Good luck! ------ nurik I love it! We are doing a similar thing here in Germany. Would you be interested in working together on the project? ~~~ hhimanshu Hi Nurik! Sure, let me know how can I help! ------ Kevindish Super cool, but miss a lot of data, maybe you should start by filling something out yourself.. :) ~~~ hhimanshu I will definitely add some more content. thank you ------ rcavezza Hey - one small bug I found, when I suggest a resource, i can upvote my own suggestion. You do allow only one upvote, though. Seems like the error is that the initial suggestion doesn't count as an upvote. This is a nice start. Are you testing any assumptions with this first version? Also, may also want to add something that auto finds urls and auto changes them to links. ~~~ hhimanshu Hey rcavezza, I fixed the bug that you found, now you can no longer upvote your own suggestion. Thank you for pointing that out I will look for auto url finder thing now Thanks again!	{ "pile_set_name": "HackerNews" }
Atlur Atlur is a village in Kadapa district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Atlur mandal of Rajampeta revenue division. References Category:Villages in Kadapa district	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
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As music journalists, curators, bloggers, whatever you want to call us, a lot of our time is taken up by emails and press releases and New Music Friday. Years ago, it used to be that bloggers were gatekeepers and curators of good music, and a lot of that has been lost these days. But sometimes, you need to follow your instincts and go down a rabbit hole and discover something new. Credit to Marcus from EDM Sauce for following his, because it led him to this incredible cover of “Wake Me Up” by Avicii that will have you in your feels this Friday. “The other night I was hanging on the couch with “America’s Got Talent” on. A guy came on stage named Chris Kläfford. […] I got online and started doing some research about this guy and he actually won a season of Sweden’s version of American Idol. Went down a bit of a worm hold (sic) and came across one of the most amazing acoustic covers of ‘Wake Me Up’ by Avicii that I have ever heard. He sang it on a Swedish news network the day after Avicii’s passing.” Kläfford’s voice is powerful and wrought with emotion, especially considering the context of his performance. If you’re not crying after this, I don’t know what to tell you. Watch below. via EDM Sauce \| Photo via Sean Eriksson	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
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In the coming days, millions of Floridians will return home to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Also now tasked with rebuilding are Florida’s major utilities — companies like NextEra Energy, Inc., Duke Energy and Emera Inc. These companies face a choice: To double down on a utility model that’s vulnerable to storms and fueling more brutal ones, or start transitioning to a grid better equipped to handle hurricanes — and help keep them from getting worse. The question is whether they can be trusted to choose well. As of Friday, roughly 3.8 million Florida residents were without power. The state’s utilities will have to restore electricity to their customers while reconstructing vast swaths of the state’s transmission lines and generating capacity. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) — a NextEra subsidiary and the nation’s third-largest power provider—warns that it could take weeks before all of its customers are able to turn their lights back on. FPL president and CEO Eric Silagy called the scale of the outages “unprecedented,” and one communications representative from the same utility said that what lies ahead “is going to be a very, very lengthy restoration, arguable the longest and most complex in U.S. history.” There’s an opportunity post-Irma to revolutionize Florida’s power supply, but not one that companies like FPL are likely to take advantage of. As a recent report from InsideClimate News found, FPL started sponsoring research into climate change in the early 1970s before eventually getting involved in efforts to suppress evidence of rising temperatures. The Southern Company, which owns Panhandle electricity provider Gulf Power, for decades contributed to public relations campaigns casting doubt on the existence of climate change, and funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into bogus climate skeptic research. Like their counterparts in other states, Florida utilities have gone to war with clean energy, too. Last year, they poured a collective $21 million ($8 million from FPL alone) into an unsuccessful ballot measure aimed at stunting various kinds of third-party financing for solar power. Beyond that effort, investor-owned utilities are a force to reckon with in Florida politics; the sector employs one lobbyist for every two state legislators — the most of any industry. This spring, FPL was found to have written whole sections of anti-solar legislation sponsored by state representative Ray Rodriguez, who had previously accepted $15,000 from the utility. With major utilities aligned in opposition, the road to renewables’ proliferation in Florida may not be an easy one. John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, says that policies to transition Florida’s electricity over to renewables could go a long way toward being able to get lights back on more quickly after major storms. In an ideal rebuilding process, Farrell told In These Times, “What we would see is, from a policy standpoint, that [utilities] would be more supportive of ways customers could build their own power generation. In a system like we have today, if one power line is knocked out, it can affect tens of thousands of people … If we have lots of different pockets of generation, we can figure out ways to fill in the gaps.” The system Farrell describe is what’s known as a microgrid. The basic idea behind a microgrid is to have a bounded geographic area reliant on the same set of power sources that can be operated independently of a larger electric grid, or “islanded,” in energy-wonk parlance. This allows homes and businesses to share power, meaning if power gets shut off during a storm, entities that get their power from the microgrid can keep their lights on. Under Florida law and that of several other states, such a practice is illegal, as it would mean undercutting utilities’ legally protected monopoly. The vast majority of solar arrays are currently tied to the electric grid by law, meaning they shut down when the power goes off. Unsurprisingly, FPL lobbyists have fought to keep this statute on the books. If utilities allowed microgrids — whether servicing large institutions or small commercial and residential areas — they could help maintain power in a deluge. Instead, according to FPL policy, even ratepayers with solar panels, who could feasibly keep their lights on during an outage, are forbidden from doing so. “Renewable generator systems connected to the grid without batteries are not a standby power source during an FPL outage,” the utility’s handbook states. The problem, Farrell notes, is rooted in FPL and other private electricity providers’ business model. “This is true of investor-owned utilities in all states like Florida, where there are monopolies: Their money for the shareholders comes from getting a rate of return from capital they spend, and building something like a power plant,” he told me. “The utility can build a microgrid and make money from it, but that would mean doing something different.” Being able to keep power on in the way that microgrids allow for could prove especially useful for places like hospitals and other institutions that provide essential and energy-dependent services. It may have even saved lives this past week. Thirty-six hospitals in Florida closed as a result of Irma, and eight people were found dead in a sweltering Hollywood, Fl. nursing home where a power outage left more than 100 residents without air conditioning. (Exact causes of death are still being investigated.) It’s not as if there aren’t examples of what a more innovative recovery could look like. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, storm-impacted states extended financing to towns that wanted to develop microgrids. As a result, Connecticut became the first state to roll out a statewide microgrid program for businesses and public services to maintain power during outages, and cities such as Hoboken, N.J. and Fairfield, Conn. each accepted their states’ offers. New York launched a $40 million competition called New York Prize, aimed at making power systems more resilient, with a focus on microgrid technology. Sandy was a launch pad for New York’s “Reforming the Energy Vision,” a 2013 plan to drastically alter the state’s energy regulation landscape. Even New York City’s biggest and hardly progressive utility providers — PSEG and ConEd — launched new grid management programs in the months after the storm. Like PSEG and ConEd in New York, there are plenty of players jumping on the microgrid bandwagon for purely pragmatic reasons. Former FERC chair John Wellinghoff sung their praises, citing the threats to cybersecurity posed by a highly centralized grid. The Department of Defense recognizes microgrids as a key way to protect electricity against terrorism and cyberattacks. Following a directive in 2011’s National Defense Authorization Act, the military is currently deploying them in its operations around the world. Rick Perry’s Department of Energy recently announced that it would devote $50 million to research into microgrids. Microgrids are even making some headway in Florida. Duke Energy — another major electricity provider there — had shown interest in microgrids even before Irma. The utility is part of a $32 million push from the Department of Energy into Resilient Distribution Systems. The initiative is one part of a $50 million funding round that includes $20 million for a series of cybersecurity projects. Distributed energy is also trendy in Silicon Valley, as well as often-overlapping green tech circles. In the Bay Area, Tesla and the city of San Francisco are each working to get microgrids online in the event of a major earthquake. One green tech summit in Oakland last year, VERGE16, powered itself entirely off of a microgrid. The tech sector’s excitement makes sense. To major — and especially monopoly — utilities, microgrids are an inherently disruptive technology, and replicate some of the libertarian-tinged sharing economy ethos that animates everything from Uber to Airbnb. Also like those services, what’s being traded isn’t the goodwill of strangers, but real money. In that context, the scalar concerns that come with microgrids’ promise seem almost self-evident: If utilities allow them and there’s a local appetite for it, communities that can afford to create a microgrid will. For others, the financial barriers to such a drastic transition may well prove too high, especially in more rural areas with already aged infrastructure. That’s where utilities can come in. “Maybe they use their staff to help construct the project…maybe they help finance the system, or build the circuitry,” Farrell says. “There are a lot of ways that utilities could provide their expertise that are different rom simply being the sole provider of electricity.” Critically, big utilities could help level the playing field to help more communities access clean, reliable and storm-resilient power. When it comes to investor-owned utilities, the issue isn’t whether the technology for such transformations is available, but whether there are profits to be made. For poor neighborhoods, that may not always be the case. This means that even an earnest embrace of renewables and more distributed forms of energy generation could splinter unevenly — leaving more well-off ratepayers with state-of-the-art, clean-running power that can operate during a storm — and everyone else reliant on outmoded fuel and infrastructure. The dilemmas facing microgrids are those facing renewables more generally. While the recent growth of microgrids has been exciting, a massive investment in both research and development — and actual construction — is needed to bring such systems to scale. There’s also no federal plan for what the transition away from fossil fuels could look like. The federal government and several state governments — Florida’s included — seem committed to making sure that transition never happens. And even if there is political will to get off of fossil fuels, how that transition is carried out could make the difference between a climate-changed future — rife with inequalities — and one that preserves every other form of inequality that’s baked into our current economy, only with more solar panels and wind turbines. Whether companies are interested in developing microgrids is a different question from whether they’ll help ensure everyone can access them. As Hurricane Katrina showed, corporations and corporate-friendly governments are more than willing to swoop in after a major disaster to pull public goods into the private sector. In Texas, Houston has already appointed a former Shell CEO to head its post-Harvey recovery operation. The question Irma poses is whether the opposite can happen. If utilities like FPL aren’t willing to make the kinds of investments needed to save lives when the worst happens, what alternatives can take their place? And what does the fight look like to beat them politically? As the climate crisis accelerates, Americans will face a fight over their power in more ways than one — especially just after a disaster strikes.	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
Q: Code is HttpClient or servlet API to parse Cookie header Is there any existing code in Apache HttpClient or in the servlet API to parse Cookie header and obtain from a string that contains "name1=value1; name2=value2; ..." a list of Cookie? Writing code to parse this doesn't seem too hard, but if there is already some existing code, I'd like to use it. A: If you call getCookies() on the HttpServletRequest object, it will return an array of Cookie objects. If you need to frequently look up cookies by name, then it may be easier to put them in to a Map so it's easy to look them up (rather than iterate over the Array each time). Something like this: public static Map<String,Cookie> getCookieMap(HttpServletRequest request) { Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies(); HashMap<String,Cookie> cookieMap = new HashMap<String,Cookie>(); if (cookies != null) { for (Cookie cookie : cookies) { cookieMap.put(cookie.getName(), cookie); } } return cookieMap; } If you're using HttpClient and not servlets, you can get the Cookie array using: client.getState().getCookies() where client is your HttpClient object.	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Introduction ============ The efficacy with which epithelial cells absorb, filter, and secrete metabolites is predicated upon a polarized cell architecture and vectorial molecular trafficking ([Yeaman et al. 1999](#Yeamanetal1999){ref-type="bib"}). Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common inherited disease characterized by numerous morphological and functional alterations, many of which may be explained by deficits in the cyst epithelial cell differentiation program. The aberrant expression of select basolateral proteins on the apical ADPKD cell surface ([Wilson 1997](#Wilson1997){ref-type="bib"}) is associated with the progressive accumulation and enlargement of fluid-filled cysts, which ultimately abrogates renal function ([Carone et al. 1994](#Caroneetal1994){ref-type="bib"}). Although it has long been supposed that modulations in cytoarchitecture and the fidelity of molecular targeting are central to ADPKD pathology (for review see [Wilson 1997](#Wilson1997){ref-type="bib"}), a mechanistic link between the occurrence of causal mutations and dysmorphogenesis has yet to be discovered. Recent progress concerning the genes responsible for ADPKD has been instrumental in identifying the molecular genetic basis of this disorder. Genetic lesions associated with \>85% of ADPKD cases have been mapped to the polycystic kidney disease (pkd) 1 gene ([Reeders et al. 1985](#Reedersetal1985){ref-type="bib"}), whereas the remaining cases are due to mutations in pkd2 ([Mochizuki et al. 1996](#Mochizukietal1996){ref-type="bib"}), and in rare instances a third undescribed locus ([Daoust et al. 1995](#Daoustetal1995){ref-type="bib"}). The PKD1 and PKD2 genes encode polycystin-1 and polycystin-2, respectively ([Hughes et al. 1995](#Hughesetal1995){ref-type="bib"}; [International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium 1995](#InternationalPolycysticKidneyDiseaseConsortium1995){ref-type="bib"}; [Mochizuki et al. 1996](#Mochizukietal1996){ref-type="bib"}). The clinically salient onset of ADPKD during mid-life is attributable to the acquisition of a second (somatic) mutation at the PKD1 or PKD2 loci ([Qian et al. 1996](#Qianetal1996){ref-type="bib"}; [Koptides et al. 1999](#Koptidesetal1999){ref-type="bib"}), which serves as the primary pathogenic stimulus that precipitates deterioration of previously normal epithelial tissue. Singular homozygous mutant cells are thought to undergo partial dedifferentiation and proliferation, leading to repopulation of the tubule wall and development of a clonal cyst ([Carone et al. 1994](#Caroneetal1994){ref-type="bib"}; [Qian et al. 1996](#Qianetal1996){ref-type="bib"}). Analyses describing protein topology and intermolecular interactions have yielded important information regarding the localization and potential roles of the polycystins. Polycystin-1 is a 480,000--mol wt putative transmembrane protein ([Hughes et al. 1995](#Hughesetal1995){ref-type="bib"}; [International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium 1995](#InternationalPolycysticKidneyDiseaseConsortium1995){ref-type="bib"}) localized solely along lateral contacting membranes of cultured cells ([Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya et al. 1997](#Ibraghimov-Beskrovnayaetal1997){ref-type="bib"}). A predicted 2,500--amino acid extracellular domain is comprised of diverse motifs with putative functions in cell--cell and cell--extracellular matrix interactions ([Hughes et al. 1995](#Hughesetal1995){ref-type="bib"}; [International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium 1995](#InternationalPolycysticKidneyDiseaseConsortium1995){ref-type="bib"}; [Moy et al. 1996](#Moyetal1996){ref-type="bib"}), suggesting that polycystin-1 plays a role in adhesion ([Hughes et al. 1995](#Hughesetal1995){ref-type="bib"}). Polycystin-2 is an integral membrane protein consisting of domains with significant homology to polycystin-1 as well as to a family of voltage-gated ion channels ([Mochizuki et al. 1996](#Mochizukietal1996){ref-type="bib"}). Polycystin-1 and polycystin-2 interact physically via their COOH termini ([Qian et al. 1997](#Qianetal1997){ref-type="bib"}; [Tsiokas et al. 1997](#Tsiokasetal1997){ref-type="bib"}), offering an explanation for the observation that mutations in either gene results in an identical phenotype ([Tsiokas et al. 1997](#Tsiokasetal1997){ref-type="bib"}). Despite this progress, uncertainties regarding the molecular mechanism whereby alterations in the polycystins influence the phenotype of ADPKD cells have persisted. An exciting insight was provided by the recent description of intermolecular interactions between endogenous cellular polycystin-1 and E-cadherin, the integral membrane component of epithelial adherens junctions ([Huan and van Adelsberg 1999](#HuanandvanAdelsberg1999){ref-type="bib"}). E-cadherin is critical for the institution and perpetuation of epithelial cell polarity on account of its well-established role in the stabilization and elaboration of cytoskeletal--junctional complexes, and its more recently defined function in basolateral targeting patch recruitment ([Yeaman et al. 1999](#Yeamanetal1999){ref-type="bib"}). Initial E-cadherin--mediated epithelial cell adhesion is instrumental in reorganizing the cytoskeleton and exocytic transport machinery, and in establishing an apico-basolateral pole. The formation of tight junctions and the polarized delivery of vesicles and their cargo to newly defined apical and basolateral surfaces result in the genesis of two biochemically unique membrane domains. Because distinct vesicles carrying segregated apical and basolateral cargo are generated in fibroblasts as well as epithelial cells ([Yoshimori et al. 1996](#Yoshimorietal1996){ref-type="bib"}), minimal maturation of the Golgi apparatus may be required during epithelial differentiation, and the differentiating cell is likely competent to engage in vectorial trafficking as soon as vesicle targeting sites at the plasma membrane are delineated. Specification of these targeting sites occurs in response to E-cadherin--mediated adhesion. As intercellular E-cadherin interactions stabilize cytoskeletally tethered membrane proteins, a subset of cytosolic proteins are recruited to the contacting membranes. The sec proteins comprising the multimeric exocyst ([TerBush et al. 1996](#TerBushetal1996){ref-type="bib"}) are among those cytosolic proteins recruited to the basolateral membrane in response to E-cadherin ligation ([Grindstaff et al. 1998](#Grindstaffetal1998){ref-type="bib"}). These proteins demarcate a basolateral targeting patch that cooperates with the soluble N-ethylmaleimide--sensitive attachment protein receptor (SNARE) family of vesicular and target membrane receptors to ensure the proficiency of basolateral trafficking ([Grindstaff et al. 1998](#Grindstaffetal1998){ref-type="bib"}). The maintenance of this highly defined cellular organization is crucial in the continued performance of epithelial tissues. Because E-cadherin is critical for epithelial cell organization, it is interesting to consider the possibility that mutations in PKD1 or PKD2 disrupt normal E-cadherin--polycystin assemblies, and consequently impact ADPKD cell morphology and performance. Therefore, an assessment of ADPKD cell architecture and molecular trafficking was undertaken in order to identify specific derangements that lead to the compromised phenotypic state typical of these cells. Materials and Methods ===================== Chemical Reagents and Antibodies -------------------------------- Super Signal chemiluminescent substrate was supplied by Pierce. 4-(2-aminoethyl) benzenesulfonylfluoride, HCl (AEBSF) and Mowiol 4-88 were obtained from Calbiochem. Unless otherwise stated, all other chemical reagents were obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. Mouse mAbs against E-cadherin and rSec8 were purchased from Transduction Laboratories. A rabbit polyclonal antibody (pAb) against the COOH terminus of PR8 hemagglutinin (HA) has been described previously ([Wandinger-Ness et al. 1990](#Wandinger-Nessetal1990){ref-type="bib"}). A mouse mAb against sec6 was purchased from Stressgen Biotechnologies Corp. A rabbit pAb against occludin was supplied by Zymed Immunochemicals. Mouse mAbs against human low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDL-R) ([Van Driel et al. 1989](#VanDrieletal1989){ref-type="bib"}) and p75^NTR^ (US Patents 4,786,593 and 4,855,241) were amplified as ascites ([Harlow and Lane 1988](#HarlowandLane1988){ref-type="bib"}) using CRL-1898 and HB-8737 hybridoma cells (American Type Culture Collection), respectively. Fluorophore-conjugated secondary antibodies were purchased from Vector Laboratories, a rabbit pAb directed against mouse IgG used as a linker antibody was obtained from Jackson ImmunoResearch, and HRP-conjugated antibodies were bought from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Cell Culture ------------ Normal kidneys were obtained from previously healthy individuals whose acute injuries precluded organ transplantation. ADPKD kidneys were obtained after their surgical removal in preparation for transplant when patients were diagnosed with end-stage renal failure as a result of advanced ADPKD. Individual proximal tubule--derived cysts from ADPKD kidneys or proximal tubules from normal kidneys were isolated and dissected. The epithelial layer was separated from the underlying connective tissue layer and the epithelial cells isolated as described ([Carone et al. 1989](#Caroneetal1989){ref-type="bib"}). Cultures were maintained in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO~2~ at 37°C. Cells for experiments were plated at a density of 300,000 cells per 24 mm^2^ cell culture filter insert (0.4-μm pore size) (Falcon; Becton Dickinson). Falcon tissue culture inserts were chosen based on the physical integrity of the inserts, vigorous cell growth, and morphological similarity between the two cell types. Cells were fed every other day with fresh medium until they were used for experiments on the fifth day after plating. After 5 d in culture, the integrity of all cell monolayers was assayed by light microscopy and the transepithelial resistance of select filters was measured. Once confluence was reached at culture day 3, the cells maintained a transepithelial resistance of ∼250 ohms/cm^2^, measured using a chopstick ohmmeter (World Precision Instruments). When used for immunofluorescence experiments, cells were also costained for the tight junction marker occludin to visually demonstrate cell confluence. Every experiment described in this study was performed in triplicate, using primary cells derived from normal or polycystic kidneys, in each case from three unrelated patients. The same patient samples (expanded no further than passage 4) were used throughout the study to minimize any effects of phenotypic variation. Fluorescent Lipid Transport Assay --------------------------------- 250 nmol C~6~-NBD-ceramide (Molecular Probes) in chloroform and methanol was dried to a powder under dry nitrogen and prepared as a BSA complex as described ([Pagano 1989](#Pagano1989){ref-type="bib"}). The methods used to label live cells with C~6~-NBD-ceramide and monitor lipid transport were based on published procedures ([Lipsky and Pagano 1985](#LipskyandPagano1985){ref-type="bib"}; [van Meer et al. 1987](#vanMeeretal1987){ref-type="bib"}). Immediately before the experiment, an aliquot of prepared C~6~-NBD-ceramide was thawed and diluted 1:3 in phenol red--free Hepes-buffered MEM (HMEM) containing 0.35 g/liter NaHCO~3~ and 60 mg/liter KH~2~PO~4~ (HMEM~bath~). Filter-grown cells were rinsed twice with PBS^+^ and 300 μl of the diluted fluorescent lipid was applied to the apical surface, whereas 2 ml of HMEM~bath~ equilibrated to 20°C was applied to the basolateral surface. Cells were incubated in a 20°C darkened water bath for 90 min to allow lipid accumulation in the Golgi apparatus. The cells were then rinsed twice in ice-cold PBS^+^ and cell surface lipids were removed by two incubations for 15 min each in a 10°C water bath with HMEM~bath~ containing 5 mg/ml delipidated BSA. Cell surface transport of Golgi-accumulated lipids was initiated by adding prewarmed (37°C) phenol red--free HMEM containing 3.7 g/l NaHCO~3~ and 60 mg/l KH~2~PO~4~ (1 ml apical, 2 ml basolateral). Subsequently, cells were incubated from 0--90 min at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO~2~ incubator. At the appropriate time, filter inserts were excised from the plastic holder with a scalpel. The filter was mounted cell side up on an ice-cold microscope slide with PBS^+^ and a coverslip, and confocal images were collected immediately. Immunofluorescence Microscopy ----------------------------- Filter inserts were rinsed in PBS, then fixed for 20 min at room temperature with 3% (wt/vol) paraformaldehyde, 0.1% (vol/vol) Triton X (TX)-100 (Fluka) prepared in PBS containing 1 mM CaCl~2~ and 1 mM MgCl~2~ (PBS^+^). Reactive aldehyde sites were quenched by incubation in 50 mM NH~4~Cl prepared in PBS^+^ for 20 min at room temperature. Nonspecific binding sites were blocked by incubation in PBS containing 0.2% (vol/vol) fish skin gelatin (Sigma Chemical Co.) for 30 min at room temperature. Insert supports were excised and cut into conveniently sized pieces. These pieces were incubated in primary antibody diluted in PBS containing 0.2% (vol/vol) fish skin gelatin for 1 h at 37°C in a humidified chamber. Samples were rinsed with three changes of PBS and incubated with the appropriate fluorophore-conjugated secondary antibody for 30 min at 37°C. Insert sections were washed twice for 15 min each with PBS and mounted between nail polish support posts in Mowiol 4-88. Cells were either viewed on a Zeiss Universal epifluorescence microscope or imaged using a Zeiss LSM 510 inverted laser scanning microscope equipped with He-Ne and Kr-Ar lasers. For the sec6/8 localization, several 0.4-μm-thick images taken from the cell apex to the basal substrate were assembled as an extended-focus image. For the localization of E-cadherin, epifluorescence profiles as well as images from one basolateral focal plane are shown. Cells examined during the fluorescent lipid transport assay were imaged at a single focal plane along the basolateral cell surface. Electron Microscopy ------------------- Cells grown on filters were washed in PBS and then fixed in 2.5% (wt/vol) glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7.4, for 1 h. After three rinses in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer, the cells were postfixed in 1% (wt/vol) aqueous OsO~4~ for 1 h at room temperature. The cells were rinsed in distilled water and stained with 1% (wt/vol) aqueous uranyl acetate in the dark for 1.5 h. The cells were dehydrated in a graded ethanol series, infiltrated, and embedded in Spurr\'s resin. Ultrathin sections were cut to 80 nm on a MT 6000-XL ultramicrotome (Ventana RMC), collected on 300 mesh nickel grids, stained with 2% (wt/vol) aqueous uranyl acetate for 4 min followed by 0.4% (wt/vol) lead citrate for 4 min. The sections were viewed on a Philips CM 120 electron microscope. Influenza Infection ------------------- Wild-type influenza (A/PR/8/34) virus stocks were grown in embryonated chicken eggs as described ([Kuchler 1977](#Kuchler1977){ref-type="bib"}). Filter-grown cells were rinsed with PBS and infected with influenza virus at 10 pfu/cell for 1 h at 37°C. The virus was diluted in DME with 0.2% BSA (DME/BSA) and 300 μl was added to the apical surface, whereas 3 ml of the same medium without virus was added basolaterally. After the 1-h virus adsorption phase, cells were washed and incubated for 4 h at 37°C in DME/BSA before either metabolic labeling or steady-state biotinylation assays. Recombinant Adenovirus Infection -------------------------------- Recombinant adenoviruses encoding either LDL-R or p75^NTR^ were kindly provided by Drs. Joachim Herz (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX) ([Herz and Gerard 1993](#HerzandGerard1993){ref-type="bib"}) and Moses Chao (Cornell University Medical College, New York) ([Yoon et al. 1996](#Yoonetal1996){ref-type="bib"}), respectively. Large-scale virus stocks were prepared as described previously ([Spector et al. 1998](#Spectoretal1998){ref-type="bib"}). Stock virus preparations had titers of ∼10^8^ pfu/ml and infected the cells with 90% efficiency at a dilution of 1:10. Confluent filter-grown cells (72 h after initial seeding) were infected with adenoviruses (∼2 pfu/cell) for 1 h at 37°C. Viruses were diluted in serum-free DME and 300 μl was added to the apical surface, whereas 3 ml of the same medium without virus was added basolaterally. After the virus adsorption phase, media were replaced with serum-containing culture media and the cells were returned to a humidified 5% CO~2~ incubator for 36 h before metabolic labeling. Metabolic Labeling ------------------ Filter-grown cells were starved for 30 min at 37°C in DME lacking cysteine and methionine and then radiolabeled for 30 min at 37°C with 0.2 mCi/ml of ^35^S-Trans label (ICN) diluted in the same medium and added to the basolateral surface (300 μl total volume on a piece of parafilm placed in a tissue culture dish). Medium without radiolabel (1 ml) was added to the apical surface. After this radiolabeling period, cells were washed and incubated at 37°C in DME supplemented with 2 mM cysteine and methionine from 0--150 min. The chase media was collected separately from the apical and basolateral sides at each timepoint to evaluate the secreted protein profiles. Cell Surface Biotinylation -------------------------- Confluent filter-grown cells (in some cases metabolically labeled) were washed with ice-cold PBS^+^ and incubated with ice-cold E-Z Link Sulfo-NHS-LC-biotin or E-Z Link Sulfo-NHS-SS-biotin (Pierce) at 0.6 mg/ml prepared in PBS^+^, pH 8.0. Either the apical (1 ml volume) or basolateral (1.5 ml volume) surface was biotinylated twice for 15 min each. The biotinylation reaction was terminated by replacing the second biotin solution with the same volume of ice-cold 50 mM NH~4~Cl in PBS for 30 min on ice. Immunoprecipitations -------------------- ### E-Cadherin. Cells were scraped from the insert in 100 μl of 1% (vol/vol) TX-100, 0.5% (vol/vol) NP-40, 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris-Cl, pH 7.4, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM EGTA, 0.2 mM sodium vanadate, CLAP (1 μM each of chymostatin, leupeptin, antipain, and pepstatin A), and 1 μM AEBSF. Detergent extracts were incubated with agitation for 1 h at 4°C, after which time insoluble material was removed by centrifugation at 15,000 g for 5 min at room temperature. ### LDL-R and p75NTR. Cells were scraped from the insert in 100 μl of 1% (vol/vol) TX-100, 150 mM NaCl, 15 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0, 4 mM EDTA, 1 μM CLAP, and 1 μM AEBSF. Detergent extracts were incubated with agitation for 1 h at 4°C, after which time insoluble material was removed by centrifugation at 15,000 g for 5 min at room temperature. ### Hemagglutinin. Cells were lysed by addition of 100 μl of SDS lysis buffer (1% \[wt/vol\] SDS, 15 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0, 4 mM EDTA, 1 μM CLAP, and 1 μM AEBSF). The extracts were boiled for 5 min to decrease viscosity of the solution. All detergent cell extracts were diluted with 900 μl of incubation buffer (0.5% \[vol/vol\] TX-100, 15 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0, 150 mM NaCl, 4 mM EDTA, 1 μM CLAP, 1 μM AEBSF) containing the appropriate dilution of primary antibody. Samples were incubated for 1 h at 4°C with agitation and for an additional 30 min with a rabbit pAb against mouse IgG as a linker antibody when monoclonal primary antibodies were used for immunoprecipitation. Immune complexes were recovered by incubation with 30 μl of protein A--Sepharose (100 μg total IgG binding capacity) (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) for 1 h at 4°C with agitation. Protein A--Sepharose-bound antibody complexes were recovered after the incubation by centrifugation at 15,000 g for 5 min at room temperature. Immunoprecipitates were washed sequentially three times each with 1% (vol/vol) NP-40, 0.1% (wt/vol) SDS, 15 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0, 150 mM NaCl, 4 mM EDTA, 1 μM CLAP, 1 μM AEBSF), with the same buffer except containing 500 mM NaCl, and finally with 50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0. Protein A--Sepharose beads were recovered after each wash by centrifugation at 15,000 g for 1 min at room temperature. The beads were resuspended in 50 μl of 10% (wt/vol) SDS and boiled for 5 min to release the antibody complexes. The supernatant fraction was collected with a narrow-bore pipette tip and 5 μl was reserved as a measure of the total immunoprecipitated protein, whereas the remainder was diluted in 900 μl of incubation buffer and reprecipitated with streptavidin-agarose to recover biotinylated proteins as described below. Streptavidin Affinity Precipitation ----------------------------------- Biotinylated samples used to analyze the steady-state distribution of cell surface proteins were solubilized in 100 μl of SDS lysis buffer. Detergent extracts were boiled for 5 min to denature nucleic acids. The lysate was subsequently diluted in 900 μl of incubation buffer containing 40 μl of streptavidin-agarose (sufficient to bind 120 μg of biotinylated protein) (Pierce), and rocked at 4°C for 1 h. Streptavidin-agarose beads were washed and recovered as described above, and boiled for 5 min in 40 μl of 2× sample buffer (100 mM Tris-Cl, pH 6.8, 4% \[wt/vol\] SDS, 0.2% \[wt/vol\] bromophenol blue, 20% \[vol/vol\] glycerol) containing 50 mM dithiothreitol. Diluted immunoprecipitates from metabolically labeled samples were incubated with 40 μl of streptavidin-agarose while rocking at 4°C for 1 h. Streptavidin-agarose beads were washed and recovered as described above, and boiled for 5 min in 40 μl of 2× sample buffer containing 50 mM dithiothreitol. SDS-PAGE and Immunoblot Analysis -------------------------------- Proteins were separated on 7 or 10% SDS polyacrylamide gels. After electrophoresis, metabolically labeled proteins were detected by drying the gels and subjecting them to phosphorimage analysis with a Fuji PhosphorImager equipped with MacBas software, or a Molecular Dynamics STORM 860 PhosphorImager equipped with ImageQuant software. For immunoblot analyses, proteins resolved by SDS-PAGE were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech). Nonspecific binding sites were blocked by a 1-h incubation at room temperature with 0.5% (wt/vol) nonfat dried milk dissolved in PBS containing 0.1% (vol/vol) Tween-20 (PBS-T). Blots were washed twice for 15 min in PBS-T and incubated with the appropriate dilution of rabbit anti-HA pAb or mouse anti--E-cadherin, anti-rsec6, or anti-rsec8 mAbs for 1 h at room temperature. After two more 15-min washes, blots were probed with the manufacturer\'s recommended dilution of HRP-conjugated secondary antibody for 30 min at room temperature, washed twice for 5 min with PBS-T, and bound antibodies were detected using chemiluminescent reagents. Results ======= ADPKD Cells Form Morphologically Typical and Functionally Intact Tight Junctions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Polarized epithelial cells restrict the paracellular flow of solutes (gate function) and the intermixing of apical and basolateral membrane molecules (fence function) by virtue of their apico-lateral tight junctions (for review see [Diamond 1977](#Diamond1977){ref-type="bib"}). Tight junction integrity was assayed as one measure of the ability of ADPKD cells to establish a polarized cell architecture. Immunofluorescence microscopy of the tight junction protein occludin ([Furuse et al. 1993](#Furuseetal1993){ref-type="bib"}) was used to examine tight junction morphology. The tight junctions delimited by occludin appeared identical in all patient samples ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} A, upper panels). Tight junctions evident by EM consisted of closely apposed membrane contacts, which were morphologically similar in normal kidney and ADPKD cells ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} A, lower panels). Although fluid accumulation within the developing cyst lumen would not be possible without an intact tight junction, paracellular gate function in explanted ADPKD cells has not been examined previously. ADPKD cells cultured on tissue culture inserts grew in tightly packed monolayers that reached a transepithelial resistance comparable to that of explanted normal kidney epithelial cells (∼250 ohms/cm^2^). This measurement confirmed that the tight junction gate in ADPKD cells was intact. The integrity of tight junction fence function was ascertained by monitoring the domain-specific localization of the apical membrane protein influenza HA ([Matlin et al. 1983](#Matlinetal1983){ref-type="bib"}). Cell surface HA was detected by membrane domain--specific biotinylation and subsequent immunoblot analysis of streptavidin-precipitated proteins. At steady state, influenza HA was correctly localized on the apical cell membrane of ADPKD cells ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} B), indicating that just as in normal kidney cells, diffusion of proteins between membrane domains was prevented. This finding is in agreement with the observation that only select proteins exhibit altered membrane polarity in ADPKD cells in situ ([Wilson 1997](#Wilson1997){ref-type="bib"}). Thus, using these morphological, electrical, and biochemical criteria, ADPKD cells in culture were judged to possess tight junctions indistinguishable from those of their normal kidney counterparts. ADPKD Cell E-Cadherin Is Not Expressed at the Cell Surface and Is Sequestered in an Intracellular Compartment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The adherens junctions are disposed along the lateral contacting membranes subjacent to the tight junctions, where they play a crucial role in maintaining a polarized epithelium ([Drubin and Nelson 1996](#DrubinandNelson1996){ref-type="bib"}). The immunolocalization of the integral membrane protein E-cadherin was examined to assess adherens junction architecture. Polarized monolayers were costained with antibodies against occludin and E-cadherin and imaged by epifluorescence microscopy. The contacting membranes of adjacent normal kidney and ADPKD cells were comparably demarcated by occludin ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, upper panels). Normal kidney cell E-cadherin staining ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, upper N panel, inset) coincided with that of occludin ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, upper N panel) along the lateral cell membranes. Surprisingly, the lateral membranes of ADPKD cells, defined by the disposition of occludin ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, upper P panels), were strikingly devoid of E-cadherin ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, upper P panels, insets). Because the compartment with which E-cadherin was associated in ADPKD cells was ill-defined by epifluorescence microscopy, the same samples were examined by confocal microscopy to eliminate out-of-focus information ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, lower panels). This investigation revealed that whereas E-cadherin was localized solely at the lateral membranes of normal kidney cells ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, lower N panel), E-cadherin in ADPKD cells was exclusively sequestered in perinuclear vesicular structures, completely absent from the lateral membranes ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}, lower P panels). Thus, E-cadherin localization was markedly abnormal in ADPKD cells. Immunoblot analysis of biotinylated cell surface proteins corroborated the depletion of E-cadherin from the ADPKD cell membrane. E-cadherin was abundant and properly polarized at the basolateral membrane of normal kidney cells ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} A, N samples). This contrasted sharply with the absence of any detectable E-cadherin on either the apical or basolateral membrane domains of ADPKD cells ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} A, P samples). Since ADPKD cells appeared to contain significant amounts of E-cadherin in an intracellular E-cadherin store as judged by confocal analysis (see [Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}), the E-cadherin content of cellular extracts was further examined by immunoblot analysis. Three different normal kidney samples expressed similar E-cadherin levels ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} B, N samples). In contrast, ADPKD cell patient samples contained lower, variable levels of E-cadherin, although none of the three samples examined lacked the protein entirely ([Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} B, P samples). These results demonstrated that ADPKD cells have reduced levels of E-cadherin, which is improperly sequestered in an intracellular pool. This could be attributed to either decreased synthesis or defective post-Golgi handling, prompting a more detailed analysis of E-cadherin biosynthesis, trafficking, and stability. Cell Surface Delivery of E-cadherin Is Impaired, while Maturation and Sorting Proceed Efficiently in ADPKD Cells ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The absence of E-cadherin at the ADPKD cell membrane raised the possibility that the protein was prevented from effectively traversing the exocytic pathway. E-cadherin is initially synthesized in association with the ER as a high molecular weight precursor ([Peyrieras et al. 1983](#Peyrierasetal1983){ref-type="bib"}; [Vestweber and Kemler 1984](#VestweberandKemler1984){ref-type="bib"}). Assembly with β-catenin enables transit of E-cadherin to the Golgi apparatus ([Chen et al. 1999a](#Chenetal1999a){ref-type="bib"}), where it is subsequently processed to its mature form ([Shore and Nelson 1991](#ShoreandNelson1991){ref-type="bib"}). Information about the molecular maturation, polarized sorting, and cell surface delivery was obtained from metabolic labeling and domain-selective biotinylation experiments. The precursor form of ADPKD cell E-cadherin was synthesized in near-normal amounts and efficiently proteolytically cleaved, demonstrating that ER and Golgi apparatus functions were not generally disrupted in these cells ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} A, Total N and P samples). Association of newly synthesized E-cadherin with the catenins was detected by coimmunoprecipitation under the nondenaturing conditions. Multimeric cadherin--catenin complex assembly appeared equally efficient in normal and ADPKD cells ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} A, Total basolateral N and P samples). Diminished plasma membrane association of E-cadherin was therefore not due to defective catenin affiliation. However, it was noted that there was a significant decrease in E-cadherin delivery to the basolateral surface of ADPKD cells despite near-normal synthesis levels ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} A, compare N and P samples in basolateral Cell Surface panel). Importantly, no missorting to the apical membrane was evident at any timepoint ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} A, apical Cell Surface panel). Quantification of basolateral delivery showed that at the latest timepoint, only 20% of the protein had arrived at the ADPKD cell surface, compared with 60% in normal kidney cells ([Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"} B). Thus, inefficient transport of E-cadherin from the late Golgi cisternae to the plasma membrane is partially responsible for the diminished cell surface--associated E-cadherin observed in ADPKD cells. Cell Surface Transport of Basolateral Cargo Is Impaired in ADPKD Cells ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The polarized sorting and transport of well-characterized apical and basolateral membrane proteins was analyzed to distinguish whether decreased basolateral delivery was unique to E-cadherin or whether a more general defect in vectorial transport existed in ADPKD cells. The cell surface arrival of newly synthesized molecules was scored by metabolic labeling and cell surface biotinylation as described above. Influenza HA was used as an apical marker that is sorted in association with glycosphingolipid rafts ([Scheiffele et al. 1997](#Scheiffeleetal1997){ref-type="bib"}). Within 30 min after pulse labeling, the mature form of influenza HA appeared at the apical cell surface, where it reached maximal levels by 120 min ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"} A, upper panel). Both the kinetics and amounts of HA delivered to the apical membrane as a percentage of total newly synthesized HA were similar in normal kidney and ADPKD cells ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"} B). Delivery of HA to the basolateral membrane was undetectable in both normal and ADPKD cells ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"} A, lower panel). Neurotrophin receptor (p75^NTR^) served as a second apical marker that is sorted by virtue of its lumenal O-linked glycosylation ([Yeaman et al. 1997](#Yeamanetal1997){ref-type="bib"}). As was observed for influenza HA, p75^NTR^ delivery to the apical membrane of ADPKD cells was identical to that documented in normal kidney cells ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"} C). Approximately 30% of the total ^35^S-labeled p75^NTR^ was scored as having reached the cell surface during the chase period by biotinylation. Similar amounts of p75^NTR^ were seen delivered to the surface of MDCK cells in an analogous experiment, where it was determined that this was an under-representation of cell surface delivery most likely due to inefficient biotinylation and/or streptavidin recovery ([Grindstaff et al. 1998](#Grindstaffetal1998){ref-type="bib"}). Complementary experiments were conducted to examine the cell surface delivery of the basolaterally targeted LDL-R, the sorting signal for which resides in the cytoplasmic domain ([Matter et al. 1992](#Matteretal1992){ref-type="bib"}). In normal kidney cells, LDL-R was first detected at the cell surface within 30 min after pulse labeling and increased steadily over the course of the 120-min chase period ([Fig. 6](#F6){ref-type="fig"} A, Cell Surface samples, N lanes). The synthesis of LDL-R and processing of the precursor to the mature form proceeded with comparable kinetics in ADPKD cells and normal kidney cells ([Fig. 6](#F6){ref-type="fig"} A, Total samples, compare N and P lanes). However, the rate of LDL-R cell surface delivery was diminished twofold in ADPKD as compared with normal kidney cells ([Fig. 6](#F6){ref-type="fig"} B). Missorting of LDL-R to the apical membrane domain was not evident ([Fig. 6](#F6){ref-type="fig"} C). In two of the three ADPKD patient samples analyzed, the mobility of the mature form of LDL-R during SDS-PAGE was slightly faster than LDL-R from normal kidney cell samples ([Fig. 6](#F6){ref-type="fig"} A and data not shown), likely indicative of minor differences in posttranslational processing. Since basolateral transport efficiency was similarly diminished in all three samples and in no case was there any impact on polarized LDL-R sorting, it is felt that processing differences are inconsequential with respect to the trafficking deficit. Instead, the reduced efficiency of basolateral LDL-R delivery was reminiscent of the impaired transport of normally assembled and processed E-cadherin to the ADPKD basolateral surface. Polarized secretion of newly synthesized proteins was examined as a further measure of overall protein trafficking to the apical and basolateral plasma membrane domains. This was accomplished by collecting the media separately from the apical and basolateral chambers of metabolically labeled, filter-grown cells. Comparisons of the secreted protein profiles after SDS-PAGE and autoradiography demonstrated that most apical proteins were secreted with identical kinetics in comparable amounts in both cell types up to the 60 min timepoint ([Fig. 7](#F7){ref-type="fig"} A). It was noted that apical proteins secreted by ADPKD cells failed to increase in amounts beyond those present at the 60 min timepoint, which may represent either enhanced protein degradation on account of enhanced internalization or elevated protease activity by polycystic kidney disease cells ([Rankin et al. 1996](#Rankinetal1996){ref-type="bib"}). In marked contrast to apical protein secretion, comparisons of basolateral protein secretion revealed a disparity in the efficiency of basolateral exocytosis at all timepoints ([Fig. 7](#F7){ref-type="fig"} B). Normal kidney cells steadily secreted increasing amounts of several proteins into the basolateral medium ([Fig. 7](#F7){ref-type="fig"} B, arrowheads). Basolateral secretion from ADPKD cells was significantly reduced, with very little secreted protein detectable even at the latest timepoint ([Fig. 7](#F7){ref-type="fig"} B, P lanes), in keeping with the observations made in the analyses of individual basolateral membrane proteins. Based on this series of experiments, it was apparent that protein transport to the basolateral cell surface was impaired, whereas apical delivery proceeded relatively unimpeded. Exocytic Cargo Is Retained in the ADPKD Cell Golgi Apparatus ------------------------------------------------------------ Diminished cell surface delivery of newly synthesized basolateral cargo in the absence of any posttranslational processing deficits or apical mistargeting prompted an investigation of whether molecules might be accumulating in the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus. To explore this possibility, the fluorescent lipid analogue C~6~-NBD-ceramide was used to assay Golgi-to-plasma membrane transport both morphologically and biochemically as described ([Lipsky and Pagano 1985](#LipskyandPagano1985){ref-type="bib"}; [van Meer et al. 1987](#vanMeeretal1987){ref-type="bib"}). Cellular membranes were labeled with C~6~-NBD-ceramide at reduced temperature (20°C) for 90 min, after which time cell surface C~6~-NBD-ceramide was removed by back-exchange at low temperature. Under these conditions, C~6~-NBD-ceramide was delivered to the Golgi apparatus, where it was similarly metabolized to C~6~-NBD-glucosylceramide and C~6~-NBD-sphingomyelin in both normal kidney and ADPKD cells (data not shown). The inhibition of vesicular transport to the cell surface caused by the 20°C incubation resulted in the accumulation of these fluorescent lipid metabolites in the TGN of both normal and ADPKD cells ([Fig. 8](#F8){ref-type="fig"}, [Fig. 010](#F10){ref-type="fig"} min). Golgi-to-cell surface transport of the C~6~-NBD-lipids was initiated by transferring the cells to 37°C and cell surface delivery was monitored by confocal microscopy ([Fig. 8](#F8){ref-type="fig"}, 30 min). These experiments revealed a dramatic defect in the ability of ADPKD cells to transport the C~6~-NBD-lipids to the cell surface ([Fig. 8](#F8){ref-type="fig"}, compare P samples with N samples). In normal kidney cells, the C~6~-NBD-lipids were first evident at the basolateral plasma membrane within 30 min after warming to 37°C, and cell surface delivery was complete by 90 min, with none remaining Golgi-associated at the latter timepoint. In contrast, basolateral delivery in ADPKD cells was not detectable after 90 min, and the C~6~-NBD-lipids remained associated with the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus for as long as 150 min ([Fig. 8P](#F8){ref-type="fig"} 90 min sample; data not shown). Quantitative analyses of cell surface fluorescent lipids extracted from the apical or basolateral membrane domains indicated that lipid transport to the ADPKD cell basolateral membrane was reduced by 2.5--3-fold, whereas apical delivery was unimpeded (data not shown). Components of the Basolateral Targeting Patch Are Depleted from the ADPKD Cell Membrane --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The demonstration that C~6~-NBD-lipids failed to exit the Golgi apparatus, coupled with the observed basolateral trafficking defect, were indicative of defective vectorial trafficking from the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus to the basolateral plasma membrane. Ineffective delivery of exocytic cargo to the ADPKD cell basolateral membrane raised the possibility that constituents of the basolateral targeting patch were improperly expressed or localized. The localization of sec6 and sec8 was therefore examined by confocal microscopy. Cells were stained to visualize sec6 or sec8 (red channel) in parallel with the tight junction protein occludin (green channel). In normal kidney cells, both sec6 and sec8 were localized in close apposition to the tight junction protein occludin ([Fig. 9](#F9){ref-type="fig"} A, left panels). In contrast, both proteins were depleted from the ADPKD cell lateral membranes and appeared diffusely dispersed throughout the cytoplasm ([Fig. 9](#F9){ref-type="fig"} A, right panels). Immunoblot analyses revealed that sec6 and sec8 protein levels were similar in all normal kidney and ADPKD samples analyzed ([Fig. 9](#F9){ref-type="fig"} B, compare N and P samples). Therefore, sec protein redistribution was not accompanied by a decline in sec protein expression, as was observed for E-cadherin. These results substantiate a marked disruption in the integrity of the basolateral cargo delivery site in ADPKD cells, likely brought about by altered E-cadherin--based adherens junction assembly. Discussion ========== This study identified the loss of cell surface E-cadherin and the exocyst components sec6 and sec8 as critical molecular deficits affecting ADPKD epithelial cells. Although ADPKD cells possessed characteristics of polarized cells, the disease cells suffered from a lack of detectable cell surface E-cadherin. Total cellular E-cadherin levels were lower than those in normal kidney cells, and existing E-cadherin was sequestered in an intracellular pool. The cell surface depletion of sec6 and sec8 in ADPKD cells devoid of plasma membrane--associated E-cadherin was correlated with significantly impaired delivery of proteins and lipids to the basolateral cell surface. Vectorial transport to the apical ADPKD cell surface, on the other hand, was functionally intact. Together, the investigations presented here serve to clarify the molecular mechanisms whereby mutations in PKD1 or PKD2 may lead to downstream alterations in cytoarchitecture and molecular trafficking in ADPKD cells. E-cadherin, the catenins, and the polycystins are all disposed within the basolateral membrane beneath the apico-lateral tight junction, where recent data suggest they are engaged in a large multimeric complex that may coordinately regulate cellular organization ([Fig. 10](#F10){ref-type="fig"}) ([Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya et al. 1997](#Ibraghimov-Beskrovnayaetal1997){ref-type="bib"}; [Obermüller et al. 1999](#N0x274e200N0x30fa260){ref-type="bib"}; [Wu et al. 1998](#Wuetal1998){ref-type="bib"}; [Yeaman et al. 1999](#Yeamanetal1999){ref-type="bib"}). E-cadherin, as the transmembrane component of adherens junctions, constitutes the calcium-dependent molecular link between adjacent cell membranes that implements cytoskeletal organization via cytosolic catenins ([Drubin and Nelson 1996](#DrubinandNelson1996){ref-type="bib"}). Association of polycystin-1 with the E-cadherin--catenin assembly ([Huan and van Adelsberg 1999](#HuanandvanAdelsberg1999){ref-type="bib"}) is expected to tether a subset of polycystin-1 molecules in close proximity to adherens junctions. Polycystin-1, with its numerous cell--cell and cell--extracellular matrix adhesion domains, is thus poised to facilitate interactions with neighboring cells or the matrix. Demonstrated interactions between polycystin-2 and polycystin-1 ([Tsiokas et al. 1997](#Tsiokasetal1997){ref-type="bib"}) merit the inclusion of polycystin-2 within this complex. Given the likelihood of an ordered assembly between adherens junction components and the polycystins, it is interesting to consider why E-cadherin and sec6/8 might be depleted from the cell surface of ADPKD cells, and what ramifications this may have on cellular organization. Mechanisms Underlying Loss of Cell Surface E-Cadherin ----------------------------------------------------- It is plausible that the physical association of E-cadherin with mutant polycystin-1 might lead to the disruption of epithelial cell organization, particularly given the demonstrated interaction between polycystin-1 and E-cadherin ([Huan and van Adelsberg 1999](#HuanandvanAdelsberg1999){ref-type="bib"}). The developmental downregulation of polycystin-1 expression is altered in ADPKD so that mutant PKD1 products are often overexpressed ([Geng et al. 1996](#Gengetal1996){ref-type="bib"}, [Geng et al. 1997](#Gengetal1997){ref-type="bib"}). Conceivably, overexpressed mutant polycystin-1 may adversely impact E-cadherin stability. Indeed, the patient-to-patient variability in E-cadherin expression levels in ADPKD cells demonstrated here indicates that individual polycystin mutations differentially influence E-cadherin stability. Disturbances in either the stoichiometry of normal E-cadherin--polycystin-1 interactions or the structural characteristics of such complexes could account for the compromised efficiency with which E-cadherin is transported through the late exocytic pathway and stably retained at the plasma membrane in multiple ways. This report demonstrated that de novo membrane insertion, plasma membrane stabilization, and recycling or degradation of E-cadherin are all affected in ADPKD cells. Diminished E-cadherin cell surface delivery undoubtedly contributes to the reduced cell surface expression, although given the threefold decrease in delivery, this deficit cannot entirely account for the lack of ADPKD cell surface E-cadherin observed at steady state. E-cadherin was recently demonstrated to undergo dynamic recycling between the cell surface and early endosomes, traversing a circuit through which the plasma membrane disposition of E-cadherin may be regulated ([Le et al. 1999](#Leetal1999){ref-type="bib"}). In light of this finding, it is interesting to consider that modulation of a regulatory circuit may contribute to reduced cell surface expression of E-cadherin in ADPKD cells. Aberrant assembly of multimeric E-cadherin--containing complexes may cause the newly synthesized E-cadherin arriving at the basolateral cell surface to be increasingly internalized and decreasingly recycled to the plasma membrane, resulting in the observed intracellular accumulation. The existence of a pathogenic variation in this circuit is further suggested by the diminished levels of E-cadherin in ADPKD cells: once internalized, unrecycled abnormal E-cadherin complexes may be transported to late endocytic organelles and degraded. Depletion of the exocyst complex from the basolateral membrane upon the acquisition of a second, somatic genetic lesion is likely a downstream event that follows a reduction in cell surface E-cadherin. Dissociation of the basolateral cargo targeting patch from the apico-lateral apex may exacerbate the defect by precluding further delivery of newly synthesized E-cadherin, and by impacting recycling of E-cadherin to the basolateral membrane. Although future studies are needed to clarify the precise mechanisms by which mutations in PKD1 or PKD2 affect E-cadherin trafficking and stability, it is probable that deranged intermolecular interactions involving E-cadherin constitute potent stimuli culminating in cellular dysmorphogenesis in ADPKD. Cell--Cell Adhesion in the Absence of Cell Surface E-Cadherin ------------------------------------------------------------- E-cadherin has been suggested to occupy a central role in the nucleation and maintenance of epithelial cell polarity ([Drubin and Nelson 1996](#DrubinandNelson1996){ref-type="bib"}). When E-cadherin ligation was prevented, both adherens junction as well as tight junction and desmosomal junction assembly were inhibited ([Gumbiner et al. 1988](#Gumbineretal1988){ref-type="bib"}). Nevertheless, in the absence of detectable cell surface E-cadherin, explanted ADPKD cells are somehow capable of maintaining partially polarized, physically intact monolayers. The possibility that alternate cadherins are present on the ADPKD cell surface, sufficing to generate a partially polarized phenotype, was explored by immunochemical analyses of K-cadherin and the cadherins in general. K-cadherin/cadherin-6 is a cadherin family member expressed during renal development as well as in mature proximal tubule cells ([Xiang et al. 1994](#Xiangetal1994){ref-type="bib"}; [Shimoyama et al. 1995](#Shimoyamaetal1995){ref-type="bib"}; [Paul et al. 1997](#Pauletal1997){ref-type="bib"}). K-cadherin protein levels in both normal and ADPKD cells were low, and no compensatory changes were evident (data not shown). However, immunostaining using a pan-cadherin antibody directed against a highly conserved region shared by cadherin proteins demonstrated that the lateral membranes of ADPKD cells contained an alternate cadherin (data not shown). Thus, adhesion through an alternate cadherin family member, in concert with integrin- and desmosome-mediated adhesion, may compensate for the loss of cell surface E-cadherin and serve to support ADPKD cell architecture. Mechanisms Underlying Altered ADPKD Cell Polarity ------------------------------------------------- The nonpolarized distribution of certain basolateral membrane proteins in ADPKD cyst-lining cells led to the tenable hypothesis that polarized trafficking is defective ([Wilson 1997](#Wilson1997){ref-type="bib"}), which has until now remained untested. Quite unexpectedly, even in the absence of efficient basolateral delivery, E-cadherin and LDL-R were not mistargeted to the apical ADPKD cell membrane. These findings exclude promiscuous packaging of exocytic cargo within the TGN and aberrant targeting of basolateral vesicles as contributing factors in abnormal ADPKD cell polarity. Therefore, it is necessary to consider alternative explanations for immunohistochemical ([Wilson 1997](#Wilson1997){ref-type="bib"}) and pharmacological ([Du and Wilson 1995](#DuandWilson1995){ref-type="bib"}; [Wilson et al. 1991](#Wilsonetal1991){ref-type="bib"}) evidence that ADPKD cells are not fully polarized. Typically, a minor fraction of newly synthesized plasma membrane proteins escape sorting within the TGN of normal kidney epithelial cells, and as a result, are delivered to the incorrect membrane ([Simons and Fuller 1985](#SimonsandFuller1985){ref-type="bib"}). These molecules are subsequently internalized and redirected along the endocytic/transcytotic pathway to the correct plasma membrane domain. Upon arrival at the basolateral plasma membrane, proteins such as the Na^+^, K^+^ adenosine triphosphatase (Na^+^, K^+^-ATPase) become stably linked to microfilament assemblies, the organization of which depends on proper E-cadherin ligation ([Yeaman et al. 1999](#Yeamanetal1999){ref-type="bib"}). The loss of cell surface E-cadherin expression observed here is thus most likely the key to understanding deficits in ADPKD cell polarity. Given the disturbances in ADPKD cell architecture observed in situ ([Wilson et al. 1986](#Wilsonetal1986){ref-type="bib"}) coupled with the alterations in E-cadherin localization demonstrated in cultured ADPKD cells, it seems plausible that the small fraction of basolateral molecules initially mistargeted to the apical membrane (below detection levels in the cell surface delivery experiments) become stabilized within the incorrect membrane. Inappropriate apical membrane localization might occur through aberrant cytoskeletal interactions, or alternatively because endocytosis/transcytosis processes critical for retrieving mistargeted molecules to the correct membrane domain are dysfunctional. It is also possible that missorting in ADPKD is confined to select membrane proteins due to specialized, as-yet undefined transport requirements. Any of these possible mechanisms would facilitate the accumulation of basolateral cargo at the incorrect membrane domain and may account for the stable, functionally active Na^+^, K^+^-ATPase and EGF receptor at the incorrect (lumenal/apical) surface in ADPKD cysts ([Wilson et al. 1991](#Wilsonetal1991){ref-type="bib"}; [Du and Wilson 1995](#DuandWilson1995){ref-type="bib"}). Given the dramatic reorganization of ADPKD epithelial cells described in this study, it will now be of great interest to determine how the modulations in E-cadherin and sec6/8 localization contribute to the defects in ADPKD cell membrane polarity. Inefficient ADPKD Cell Trafficking: Stalling of TGN-to-Basolateral Membrane Transport ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once the TGN processes of sorting and vesicle formation are complete, basolateral cargo is generally transported directly to the cell surface of kidney epithelial cells, although a subset may pass through endosomes ([Lisanti et al. 1989](#Lisantietal1989){ref-type="bib"}; [Le Bivic et al. 1990](#LeBivicetal1990){ref-type="bib"}; [Futter et al. 1995](#Futteretal1995){ref-type="bib"}; [Leitinger et al. 1995](#Leitingeretal1995){ref-type="bib"}). The experiments described in this study have spatially placed the basolateral trafficking deficit in ADPKD cells between vesicle formation at the TGN and fusion with the plasma membrane. Generalized alterations in ER-to-Golgi transport were excluded as a cause for the basolateral membrane trafficking defect in ADPKD cells by monitoring the processing of several exocytic transport markers. Posttranslational modification of apical (influenza HA) as well as basolateral (LDL-R and E-cadherin) cargo proceeded at the same rate in ADPKD and normal kidney cells. Delays in multimeric assembly of E-cadherin--catenin complexes were also not observed. Furthermore, lipid metabolism, measured as the conversion of C~6~-NBD-ceramide into C~6~-NBD-glucosylceramide and C~6~-NBD-sphingomyelin within the Golgi apparatus, occurred with similar kinetics in ADPKD and normal kidney cells (data not shown). The finding that these processes were largely unaffected pinpointed the exocytic defect to a late basolateral trafficking event. After polarized molecular sorting in the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus, basolateral trafficking is arrested, with basolateral cargo failing to exit this organelle. Morphological evidence that export of molecules from the APDKD cell Golgi apparatus was impeded was furnished by experiments tracing the transport of fluorescent lipids. Ineffective transport was evident by the retention of C~6~-NBD lipids within the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus long after those in normal kidney cells had traversed the Golgi apparatus and been efficiently delivered to the basolateral membrane. Impaired export from the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus was also apparent from the delayed protein transport to the basolateral cell surface. Since ER-to-Golgi transport was unimpaired and there was no evidence of apical mistargeting, this implied that analogous to the lipid markers, basolateral proteins were detained within the Golgi apparatus. Evaluations of ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus morphology documented conspicuously dilated cisternae (Charron, A.J., R.L. Bacallao, and A. Wandinger-Ness, manuscript in preparation), which may be readily explained by the aberrant retention of basolaterally destined molecules within the Golgi apparatus. Impediment of cargo export from the Golgi apparatus may be indicative of regulatory mechanisms coordinating vesicle budding and vesicular fusion with the target (basolateral) ADPKD cell membrane. Docking and fusion of vesicles with the plasma membrane embodies the ultimate step in basolateral trafficking. This step is mediated by the concerted actions of the SNARE proteins and exocyst components ([Chen et al. 1999b](#Chenetal1999b){ref-type="bib"}; [Grindstaff et al. 1998](#Grindstaffetal1998){ref-type="bib"}). Examination of SNARE protein distribution using antiserum against the basolateral SNARE protein syntaxin 4 did not reveal noticeable differences in its distribution between the two cell types (Charron, A.J., R.L. Bacallao, and A. Wandinger-Ness, manuscript in preparation). This component of the basal docking and fusion machinery is therefore likely intact, and may partially compensate for the depletion of the basolateral targeting patch from the ADPKD cell membrane, mediating residual basolateral transport. However, the loss of sec6 and sec8 from the ADPKD cell membrane presumably impacts not only the final event in basolateral exocytosis, but also cellular organization per se. Given the central role of E-cadherin in maintaining epithelial cell organization, impaired docking and fusion of plasma membrane-bound E-cadherin-containing vesicles due to dissociation of sec6/8 from the basolateral targeting patch likely directly impacts cytoarchitecture, as discussed above. In addition, it is also conceivable that the dispersal of exocyst components affects the exocytic organelles. Basolateral cargo-bearing vesicles that leave the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus and are transported to the membrane region normally associated with the exocyst complex may become stalled, as efficient docking and fusion is prevented. By engaging basolateral trafficking effectors in futile post-Golgi transport, this effect is expected to eventually lead to diminished basolateral vesicle budding from the ADPKD cell Golgi apparatus. If such a retrograde pathogenic mechanism issuing from the cell surface back to the Golgi exists, it is reasonable to postulate that the acquisition of mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 loci would set into motion a cascade of events, commencing with the destabilization of cell surface E-cadherin and ultimately culminating in the ADPKD epithelial cell phenotype. We pay special tribute to the memory of Dr. Frank Carone, a friend and collaborator whose unflagging determination and pioneering spirit remain as a constant source of inspiration to all of us. We gratefully acknowledge Ms. Janice Pennington for electron microscopic imaging. Ms. Mary Slater and Ms. Elsa Romero provided valuable assistance with general laboratory management. This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to A. Wandinger-Ness (R01 DK 50141) and R. Baccalao (R29 DK 46883). R. Baccalao is also a recipient of a Clinician Scientist Award from the National Kidney Foundation. A.J. Charron was partially supported by a National Institute of General Medical Sciences predoctoral training grant (T32 GM 08061). This study is the result of collaborative efforts between two laboratories. R. Bacallao and A. Wandinger-Ness contributed equally to the supervision of the experiments herein. Abbreviations used in this paper: ADPKD, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease; AEBSF, 4-(2-aminoethyl) benzenesulfonylfluoride, HCl; HA, hemagglutinin; HMEM, Hepes-buffered MEM; LDL-R, low density lipoprotein receptor; pAb, polyclonal antibody; PKD, polycystic kidney disease; SNARE, soluble N-ethylmaleimide--sensitive attachment protein receptor; TX, Triton X. ![Morphological and functional similarity between normal kidney cell and ADPKD cell tight junctions. (A) Confluent monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and ADPKD cells (P) on filter inserts were processed for either light or EM. Tight junctions were visualized at the light level by immunostaining with an antibody against occludin followed by an FITC-conjugated secondary antibody. A confocal section collected at the apico-lateral apex is shown (upper panels). The morphology of the tight junction was further examined by electron microscopic analysis of stained and contrasted ultrathin sections (lower panels). Brackets denote tight junctions. Bars: 10 μm (light micrographs); 0.2 μm (electron micrographs); and 0.1 μm (inset). (B) The cell surface polarity of influenza HA in virally infected confluent monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and ADPKD cells (P) was examined by immunoblot analysis. Filter-grown monolayers were biotinylated at either the apical (ap) or basolateral (bl) surface, cell surface proteins were affinity precipitated with streptavidin-agarose, and the recovered proteins were resolved by SDS-PAGE. Gels were blotted onto nitrocellulose and blots were probed with a rabbit pAb against HA, followed by an HRP-conjugated secondary antibody. HA was detected by the addition of enhanced chemiluminescence substrate and exposure of the blot to X-ray film. The relative migrations of molecular weight standards are as indicated.](JCB9909128.f1){#F1} ![Inefficient basolateral delivery of ADPKD cell E-cadherin. Filter-grown monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and ADPKD cells (P) were metabolically labeled with ^35^S-Trans label and incubated for the indicated chase periods to allow newly synthesized proteins to reach the cell surface. At each timepoint, proteins on either the apical or basolateral membrane were biotinylated, nondenaturing cellular extracts were prepared, and E-cadherin immunoprecipitated with a mouse mAb against E-cadherin. 10% of the recovered protein was reserved as a measure of total newly synthesized cellular E-cadherin (Total), whereas the biotinylated proteins in the remaining immunoprecipitate were affinity-precipitated with streptavidin-agarose (Cell Surface). (A) Proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, and dried gels subjected to phosphorimage analysis. α, β, and γ denote the catenins coimmunoprecipitated with E-cadherin. M, mature form of E-cadherin; Pr, E-cadherin precursor. The relative migration of molecular weight standards are as indicated. (B) The amount of radioactive E-cadherin delivered to the basolateral membrane as a percent of total newly synthesized E-cadherin (shown in A, lower Cell Surface panel) was quantified by phosphorimage analysis. Data from a representative experiment are shown.](JCB9909128.f4){#F4} ![Localization of ADPKD cell E-cadherin to an intracellular compartment. Confluent monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and ADPKD cells (P) on filter inserts were processed for epifluorescence and confocal microscopy. Junctional complexes were visualized by coimmunostaining the cells with antibodies directed against occludin (rabbit pAb) and E-cadherin (mouse mAb) followed by rhodamine-conjugated anti--rabbit and FITC-conjugated anti--mouse secondary antibodies. The upper panels demonstrate staining of occludin, and the insets in the upper panels depict staining of E-cadherin in the same cells, as viewed by epifluorescence microscopy. The lower panels portray confocal images of E-cadherin distribution acquired at a single 0.4-μm-thick focal plane along the basolateral membrane. Bars, 10 μm.](JCB9909128.f2){#F2} ![Absence of ADPKD cell E-cadherin at the cell surface and diminished E-cadherin expression. (A) The cell surface polarity of E-cadherin in confluent monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and APDKD cells (P) was examined by immunoblot analysis. Filter-grown monolayers were biotinylated at either the apical (ap) or basolateral (bl) surface, cell surface proteins affinity precipitated with streptavidin-agarose, and recovered proteins resolved by SDS-PAGE. Gels were blotted onto nitrocellulose and the blots were probed with a mouse mAb against E-cadherin followed by an HRP-conjugated secondary antibody. E-cadherin was detected by the addition of enhanced chemiluminescence substrate and exposure of the blot to X-ray film. (B) Expression levels of total cellular E-cadherin were examined by immunoblot analysis of extracts from three patient samples of normal kidney cells (N, lanes 1, 2, and 3) and ADPKD cells (P, lanes 1, 2, and 3). Proteins in the detergent extracts (10 μg/lane) were resolved by SDS-PAGE. E-cadherin was detected by immunoblot analysis as described in A. The relative migration of molecular weight standards are as indicated.](JCB9909128.f3){#F3} ![Polarized delivery of two apical membrane proteins to the surface of ADPKD cells proceeds normally. (A) Filter-grown cells were infected with influenza virus and metabolically labeled as detailed in Materials and Methods. Cell surface delivery of influenza HA was scored by domain-selective biotinylation after the indicated chase periods. The biotinylated HA was recovered by sequential immunoprecipitation and streptavidin precipitation, resolved by SDS-PAGE, and visualized by phosphorimage analysis. The upper panel depicts influenza HA recovered from cells biotinylated on the apical cell surface. The lower panel shows the extent of biotinylated influenza HA recovered when cells were biotinylated at the basolateral surface. (B) The amount of radioactive HA delivered to the apical membrane as a percent of total newly synthesized HA was quantified by phosphorimage analysis. Averaged values from two such experiments are shown. (C) Filter-grown cells were infected with recombinant adenovirus expressing p75^NTR^, metabolically labeled, and apical cell surface delivery of p75^NTR^ was scored as described in A. The results of all three experimental trials were quantified. The mean values ± SD are plotted. M, mature influenza HA; N, normal kidney cells; and P, ADPKD cells.](JCB9909128.f5){#F5} ![Basolateral membrane protein transport to the cell surface is impaired in ADPKD cells. Filter-grown cells were infected with recombinant adenovirus expressing LDL-R and metabolically labeled as detailed in Materials and Methods. Cell surface delivery of LDL-R was scored by domain-selective biotinylation after the indicated chase periods. Radiolabeled LDL-R was recovered by immunoprecipitation (Total samples) and the biotinylated fraction was subsequently recovered by streptavidin precipitation (Cell Surface samples). All samples were resolved by SDS-PAGE and visualized by phosphorimage analysis. (A) Total samples represent one-tenth of the total immunoprecipitated LDL-R, whereas Cell Surface samples represent the basolaterally biotinylated LDL-R recovered from the remainder of the immunoprecipitates. A typical result from three separate trials, each performed with one of three different normal and one of three different ADPKD cell samples, is shown. M, mature form of LDL-R; Pr, ER precursor form of LDL-R; N, normal kidney cells; and P, ADPKD cells. (B and C) The results of all three trials were quantified. The mean values ± SD are plotted. (B) Quantification of basolateral cell surface appearance of LDL-R. (C) Quantification of apical cell surface appearance of LDL-R.](JCB9909128.f6){#F6} ![ADPKD cells exhibit defective basolateral secretion. Filter-grown cells were metabolically labeled for 30 min and culture media were collected from the apical or basolateral filter chamber after various periods of chase (0--150 min). Metabolically labeled proteins secreted into the (A) apical or (B) basolateral medium were resolved by SDS-PAGE and detected by autoradiography. N, normal kidney cells; and P, ADPKD cells. Arrowheads denote basolateral secreted proteins.](JCB9909128.f7){#F7} ![Depletion of sec8 and sec6 from the ADPKD cell membrane without loss of expression[.]{.smallcaps} (A) Confluent monolayers of normal kidney cells (N) and ADPKD cells (P) on filter inserts were processed for confocal microscopy. The association of sec8 and sec6 with the apico-lateral membrane region was assessed by coimmunostaining the cells with a rabbit pAb against occludin and mouse mAbs against either sec8 or sec6, followed by FITC-conjugated anti--rabbit and rhodamine-conjugated anti--mouse secondary antibodies. Confocal images (0.4-μm-thick focal sections) were collected along the entire height of the cells and assembled as an extended focus image of 50 such focal sections. Occludin staining appears green, whereas sec8 or sec6 staining appears red. Colocalization of occludin with either sec8 or sec6 is evident by a yellow overlap pattern. Bar, 10 μm. (B) Expression levels of sec8 and sec6 were examined by immunoblot analysis of total cellular proteins from filter-grown monolayers of two patient samples of normal kidney cells (N) and three patient samples of ADPKD cells (P). Proteins in detergent extracts (10 μg/lane) were resolved by SDS-PAGE. Gels were blotted onto nitrocellulose and blots were probed with mouse mAbs against sec8 or sec6, followed by an HRP-conjugated secondary antibody. sec8 and sec6 were detected by the addition of enhanced chemiluminescence substrate and exposure of the blot to X-ray film.](JCB9909128.f9){#F9} ![Fluorescent lipids fail to reach the ADPKD cell surface. Filter-grown cells were labeled with C~6~-NBD-ceramide at 20°C and its C~6~-NBD lipid metabolites were allowed to accumulate in the TGN (time 0 samples). Subsequently, the cells were warmed to 37°C for the indicated times (30--90 min) to allow the synchronous transport of C~6~-NBD lipids from the Golgi to the plasma membrane. Each image depicts a single 0.4-μm confocal section acquired at the basolateral cell surface. N, normal kidney cells; and P, ADPKD cells. Bar, 10 μm.](JCB9909128.f8){#F8} ![A multimeric complex involved in epithelial cell organization. The diagram depicts current knowledge regarding the localizations of the polycystins, adherens junction proteins, and exocyst components. A legend identifies each component and detailed functional descriptions are given in the text. Polycystin-1 is depicted in contact with E-cadherin and catenins, though it is not known whether the association is direct or involves intermediary proteins.](JCB9909128.f10){#F10}	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Central" }
Search 1,000 of PHOTOSSienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is a British/American actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in Layer Cake, Alfie, Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2007, the London Film Critics named her British Actress of the Year for Interview. In 2006, she designed a fashion capsule for Pepe Jeans.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
You’re coughing, you’re congested, and your head hurts. You’re achy and feverish, and your throat is killing you. A quick Google search reveals that you probably have the flu. What’s your next move? You could call in sick and quarantine yourself at home while you nurse your symptoms with cough drops, an over-the-counter remedy, chicken soup and a Netflix binge. Or you could go to your doctor and get a prescription for an antiviral influenza drug, something like Tamiflu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the latter approach. The CDC released figures Thursday showing that this season’s influenza vaccine is only about 23 percent effective, and the federal agency recently sent a letter to doctors, urging them to write more prescriptions for influenza drugs. “Antiviral flu medicines are underutilized. If you get them early, they could keep you out of the hospital and might even save your life,” CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters Jan. 9. Flu season lasts, on average, about 13 weeks. We’re about midway through a particularly bad one. According to Frieden, three flu medications (Tamiflu, Relenza and Rapivab) can prevent “serious complications” and help people avoid hospitalization. But the Food and Drug Administration explicitly prohibits drug companies from making the claims that he and the CDC are making. Two different agencies, two different recommendations. https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150129-jody-christie-flu-interview.mp3 FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao told FiveThirtyEight in a statement: “Please note that neither product” — Rapivab nor Tamiflu — “is allowed to claim that they reduce complications or mortality due to flu. The data we’ve reviewed do not support this claim.” What the drugs have demonstrated, she said, is, “an ability to reduce the severity or duration of flu symptoms.” The discrepancy between the CDC’s assertion that the flu drugs can prevent complications, hospitalizations and perhaps deaths, and the FDA’s insistence that the drugs have only been shown to cut the amount of time that symptoms persist comes down to how they weigh the evidence. The FDA requires randomized clinical trials, the gold standard of evidence in medicine, while the CDC also relies on non-randomized reports. “Observational studies from many countries have consistently found that early oseltamivir [Tamiflu] treatment of influenza patients reduces the duration of hospitalization and risk of severe outcomes such as intensive care unit admission or death,” CDC spokeswoman H. Amy Rowland told FiveThirtyEight in a statement. But physician Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that assesses medical evidence, calls the studies that the CDC is using to tout the drugs poorly designed and unreliable, pointing out that they’re funded by the drugs’ maker and led by researchers tied to the manufacturers. More rigorously designed trials do not back them up. For example, a study published last month that randomly assigned 400 hospitalized patients to receive either the newly approved peramivir (Rapivab) or a placebo was halted early for “futility” when it became clear that patients receiving the drug weren’t benefitting. All three antiviral medications are designed to inhibit neuraminidase, an enzyme that influenza viruses need to release viral particles from infected cells. If the drugs can prevent the replication of these viruses, that’s a big deal, because they could stem the spread of the flu, making them vital tools for controlling epidemics. (This is why the U.S. has reportedly spent about $1.5 billion stockpiling Tamiflu.) But Jefferson said clinical trials hint that the drugs may not work as advertised. In studies where people with influenza-like illnesses were assigned to either a neuraminidase inhibitor or a placebo, the drugs worked for people with influenza and for those who tested negative for the flu. (Because it takes a few days for test results and the drugs work best when given soon, patients were started on the drugs before the results were in.) Although other viruses can cause flulike symptoms, neurominadase isn’t found in other respiratory viruses, Jefferson said. So, he said, if the drug works for both groups of patients, it must be acting via a different mechanism. And if the drugs are simply reducing fevers and making people feel better via some other mechanism, then it’s possible they’re nothing more than expensive alternatives to acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which alleviate aches and reduce fevers. (Tamiflu retails for about $130, Relenza goes for about $67, and Rapivab costs about $1,000.) Right now, there’s not enough evidence to draw firm conclusions on the drug’s actual mechanism of action, and Jefferson, his colleagues at Cochrane and editors at the British medical journal BMJ are embroiled in a years-long effort to obtain complete clinical trials data from the maker of Tamiflu. Last April, Jefferson’s group published its latest meta-analysis of all the evidence it could get on Tamiflu, including thousands of pages of regulatory documents describing the various clinical trials. The researchers concluded that the drug can reduce the duration of flu symptoms by a little less than a day in adults. (The results are similar for the other antiviral drugs.) A typical case of influenza lasts about one to two weeks, and when you’re in the throes of it, something that can make your misery vanish a day sooner might seem very appealing. Here’s the rub: For the drugs to work, you need to take them in the first 48 hours from the onset of symptoms. Think back to the last time you were sick — how long did you feel cruddy before you sought a doctor’s help? It’s this lag between the first sniffle and the pursuit of medicine that the CDC hopes to bridge with its public messaging push so that more people get to the doctor in time for the medications to help. But whether they’re worth the hassle for otherwise healthy people remains a personal choice, said Brian Alper, a physician and founder of DynaMed, a company that monitors and assesses the latest medical evidence to inform doctors. The organization has analyzed the evidence on these drugs, reaching conclusions similar to the Cochrane review. To decide whether the drugs are right for you means taking into account the hassle of landing an appointment, going to the pharmacy, potential side effects (such as vomiting, dizziness and delirium), and, of course, paying for these things. If your doctor’s office has no wait, and you’re insured with a plan that covers most of the cost, seeking the drugs might be an easy choice, Alper said. But if you can’t get seen right away, the doctor’s office is far, or you’re likely to be stuck with some of the bill, you may end up spending a day of hassle and expense (while you’re feeling lousy) to save yourself a day of symptoms. Of course, much of the concern over influenza isn’t centered on otherwise healthy individuals, but on people with underlying health problems. And the CDC contends that the flu drugs do more than just reduce the duration of symptoms — they could mean the difference between life and death. Whether that’s true matters, because sending sick, contagious people out to the doctor and pharmacy could further spread an influenza outbreak. People with underlying health problems, such as severe asthma or immune deficiencies, should certainly seek a medical care at the first sign of flu symptoms. But if you’re generally healthy, it may be that the best thing you can do for yourself, and your community, is stay home and practice some self-care.	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
Evaluation of the cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and mucus permeation capacity of several surface modified poly(anhydride) nanoparticles designed for oral drug delivery. The main concerns with drugs designed for oral administration are their inactivation or degradation in the harsh conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, their poor solubility through the gastrointestinal mucus gel layer, the poor intestinal epithelium permeability that limits their absorption, and their toxicity. In this context, poly(anhydride) nanoparticles are capable of protecting the drug from the harsh environment, reduce the drug's toxicity and, by virtue of surface modification, to enhance or reduce their mucus permeability and the bioadhesion to specific target cells. The copolymer between methyl vinyl ether and maleic anhydride (commercialized as Gantrez® AN 119) are part of the poly(anhydride) nanoparticles. These biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles (NPs) can be modified by using different ligands. Their usefulness as drug carriers and their bioadhesion with components of the intestinal mucosa have been described. However, their toxicity, genotoxicity and mucus permeation capacity has not been thoroughly studied. The aim of this work was to evaluate and compare the in vitro toxicity, cell viability and in vitro genotoxicity of the bioadhesive empty Gantrez® AN 119 NPs modified with dextran, aminodextran, 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin, mannosamine and poly-ethylene glycol of different molecular weights. Results showed that, in general, coated NPs exhibit better mucus permeability than the bare ones, those coated with mannosamine being the most permeable ones. The NPs studied did not affect cell metabolism, membrane integrity or viability of Caco-2 cells at the different conditions tested. Moreover, they did not induce a relevant level of DNA strand breaks and FPG-sensitive sites (as detected with the comet assay).	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
To access this content, please visit Oxford Constitutions of the World at oxcon.ouplaw.com. Treaties and International Agreements Online (TIAO) As of April 1, 2014, TIAO is no longer available as an online service. Whilst TIAO served a clear market need for online treaty resources when it first launched the usefulness of the service had run its course. However, we will continue to publish in print our Consolidated Treaties and International Agreements (CTIA) series. As we develop our international law online offerings we will look to add treaty law resources focusing on rare and hard to find materials, such as the forthcoming digitization of Parry’s Consolidated Treaty Series, and value added commentary on treaty law.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
This application for a KO1 Career Development Award seeks five years of support for education and research activities that will prepare Dr. Justeen Hyde to examine the consequences of child abuse and neglect among adolescents in the foster care system in Los Angeles. Previous research has identified children in foster care with histories of abuse and neglect as a population at high risk for a number of developmental and behavioral problems. Researchers, child welfare advocates and journalists have demonstrated that child welfare programs often fail to address the complex needs of maltreated youth. Given the scarcity of published data on adolescents in foster care, the proposed research and education activities are designed to build a foundation of knowledge about the experience of foster care from multiple perspectives. Education and training activities include: coursework in child/adolescent development, public policy making, and quantitative research methods; participation in formal trainings offered to social workers and foster parents/guardians; and one-on-one mentorship provided by an interdiscplinary group of advisors at the University of Southern California, among others. These activities will prepare her to conduct an ethnographic study of young adolescents, ages 12 to 15, entering foster care for the first time. The specific aims of the proposed research are to: 1) document the histories of maltreatment among adolescents entering foster care for the first time, particularly the age at which maltreatment was first experienced and the types and frequency of abuse; 2) characterize maltreated adolescents' experiences entering and adapting to foster care; 3) identify mediating factors among maltreated adolescents that influence variations in behavioral, emotional and psychological adaptations to foster care placements over time; 4) explore, from multiple perspectives, the most pressing needs of adolescents entering foster care for the first time and appropriate strategies for addressing these needs. A total of 30 adolescents will be recruited from two types of placements and interviewed at three points in time over a 6-month period. A subsample will be recruited for in-depth case studies, which include interviews with case managers and guardians. This project will provide depth to current understandings of the consequences of abuse and neglect on adolescents in foster care. Study findings will be widely disseminated to a range of key stakeholders.	{ "pile_set_name": "NIH ExPorter" }
community After successfully completing the Geographic Bee written exam at the school level, two students from West Fargo won the right to participate in the State Geographic Bee. South Elementary's Arjun Srivatsa and Eastwood Elementary's Brady Boll both received first-place honors. These two students, along... Fargo, 58102 Fargo North Dakota 101 5th Street North 58102 2013-01-28 13:15:14 After successfully completing the Geographic Bee written exam at the school level, two students from West Fargo won the right to participate in the State Geographic Bee. Advertisement South Elementary's Arjun Srivatsa and Eastwood Elementary's Brady Boll both received first-place honors.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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1987 BYU Cougars football team The 1987 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by 16th-year head coach LaVell Edwards and played their home games at Cougar Stadium in Provo, Utah. The team competed as members of the Western Athletic Conference, finishing in second with a record of 9–4 (7–1 WAC). BYU was invited to the All-American Bowl, where they were defeated by Virginia. The Cougars also participated in a rare college football game played outside the United States, in a regular season finale against Colorado State played in Melbourne, Australia. The game was promoted as the "Melbourne Bowl" but was met with weak enthusiasm in Australia. Schedule Roster FB Fred Whittingham Season summary Air Force References Category:BYU Cougars football seasons BYU Cougars f BYU	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Q: Problem with vertical alignment in tabular environment I'm having a few issues with vertically aligning table elements. There seems to be too much space either above or below the text or image. Is this to do with the fbox environment? I want both the image and text to be centered vertically in each table cell. \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{array} \newcommand{\mybox}[1]{ \begin{center} \fbox{ \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{ \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ c m{4.5in} } \includegraphics[height=0.3in]{./myfig} & {#1} \end{tabular} \end{center} } } \end{center} } \begin{document} \mybox{hello} \mybox{hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello} \end{document} Edit: Following Gonzalo Medina's suggestion, I get: and there is no difference between center and centering. A: You can use a m{length} column type for the first column: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{array} \newcommand{\mybox}[1]{ \begin{center} \fbox{% \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{% \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{m{0.3in}m{4.5in} } \includegraphics[height=0.3in]{example-image-a} & #1 \end{tabular} \end{center} } } \end{center}% } \begin{document} \mybox{hello} \mybox{hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello} \end{document} I wasn't sure if some of the blank spaces at end of lines were intentional or not; I commented them out. Also take into account that center adds some vertical spacing so perhaps you could consider using \centering instead. As an alternative, I'd like to propose the tcolorbox package to easily produce your box; you can even customize it even further: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry} \usepackage[many]{tcolorbox} \newcommand\mybox[1]{% \begin{tcolorbox}[ sidebyside, lefthand width=.3in, colback=white, outer arc=0pt, arc=0pt. colframe=black, boxrule=0.4pt, segmentation engine=empty ] \includegraphics[width=.3in]{example-image-a} \tcblower #1 \end{tcolorbox}% } \begin{document} \mybox{hello} \mybox{hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello} \end{document} A: You can use valign macro from the adjustbox package in \includegraphics[valign=c,height=0.3in]{example-image-a} Code: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[export]{adjustbox} %% export is needed \usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{array} \newcommand{\mybox}[1]{% \begin{center} \fbox{% \parbox{0.8\linewidth}{% \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ c m{0.75\linewidth} } \includegraphics[valign=c,height=0.3in]{example-image-a} & #1 \end{tabular} \end{center} }% }% \end{center} } \begin{document} \mybox{hello} \mybox{hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello} \end{document}	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Children of Refugees Receive More Food Stamps, Cash Assistance Than Native-Born Children Refugee children fare better than other immigrant children on many indicators Children born to refugees receive more government benefits like food stamps, cash assistance, and Supplemental Security Income than native-born children, according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute. "Young children of refugees are defined as those ages 10 and younger residing with at least one refugee parent," the report stated. "The total includes first-generation (foreign-born) children who are refugees themselves, and second-generation (U.S.-born) children with at least one refugee parent." The report found that from 2009 to 2013, the latest five-year period for which data was available, 30 percent of children born to refugees received food stamps, compared to 27 percent of native-born children. Eight percent of children born to refugees received cash assistance, compared to six percent of native-born children. Five percent of children born to refugees lived in households receiving Supplemental Security Income, while 4 percent of native-born children received the same. "Children of refugees generally have better access to health coverage and public benefits than children of other immigrants," the report stated. "Refugees qualify for cash welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid or other public health insurance immediately upon arrival, and are often linked to these benefits by resettlement agencies." A higher percentage of children born to refugees—93 percent—were covered for health insurance than the 90 percent of other immigrant children who were covered. Native-born children had the highest rate of coverage, with 95 percent having health insurance. "Because of favorable eligibility rules, children of refugees participate in public benefit programs at higher rates than do other children of immigrants, even though children of refugees have a lower poverty rate," the report stated. "Children of refugees fare better than children of other immigrants on almost all indicators—perhaps because refugee parents benefit from U.S.-government resettlement services while nonrefugee parents include unauthorized immigrants who face multiple barriers to socioeconomic integration and receipt of public benefits and services," the report stated. "Refugees’ children also fare as well or almost as well as children with U.S.- born parents on several indicators." From 2009 to 2013, there were 941,000 children of refugee parents living in the United States who were 10 years or younger. These children comprised 9 percent of all young children of immigrants and 2 percent of all young children in the United States. "Most young children of refugees (89 percent) are U.S. born," the report stated. "The largest groups of children have parents from Vietnam (22 percent), Cuba (12 percent), Laos (6 percent), and Ukraine, Somalia, Haiti, and Russia (5 percent each)." The State Department, which oversees refugee resettlement policy, did not respond to a request for comment. Ali MeyerEmail Ali \| Full Bio \| RSSAli Meyer is a staff writer with the Washington Free Beacon covering economic issues that expose government waste, fraud, and abuse. Prior to the Free Beacon, she was a multimedia reporter with CNSNews.com where her work appeared on outlets such as Drudge Report and Fox News. She also interned with the Heritage Foundation and Pacific Research Institute. Her Twitter handle is @DJAliMeyer, and her email address is meyer@freebeacon.com.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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50s + 8 + 10 - 11 + 7. -50s - 39 Collect the terms in 0n + 5n - 199 - 5n + 114 - 5n + 108. -5n + 23 Collect the terms in 151 - 478 - 9m + 228. -9m - 99 Collect the terms in -77 + 171218n2 + 77 - 172681n*2. -1463n*2 Collect the terms in 234v*3 + 159433280 - 159433280. 234v*3 Collect the terms in 18375m + 18370m - 2m*3 - 36745m + 12 + 13 - 25. -2m3 Collect the terms in -109 + 138o*2 - 102 - 239 + 450. 138o*2 Collect the terms in 8 - 12 - 10m*2 + 1156m + 14m2 + 5. 4m*2 + 1156m + 1 Collect the terms in 88927 - 88927 - 192806l. -192806l Collect the terms in -122813o2 + 129 - 260 + 131. -122813o*2 Collect the terms in 1930173a + 1929919a - 3860096a. -4a Collect the terms in -5291 + 2d + 15892 - 2d3 - 5300 - 62d - 5301. -2d3 - 60d Collect the terms in 427n3 + 538n*3 + 423n*3 - 1804n*3 + 429n*3. 13n*3 Collect the terms in 55h*3 - 6h*3 - 1967 - 2740 + 4707. 49h*3 Collect the terms in 10r - 80063599778397 + 80063599778397. 10r Collect the terms in 344 - 23r - 108 + 7r - 102 - 11r - 134. -27r Collect the terms in 24 + 82 + 45j + 64 - 68. 45j + 102 Collect the terms in 57321n + 96910n - 154232n. -n Collect the terms in -3y - 5y*2 + 5y	{ "pile_set_name": "DM Mathematics" }
--- title: UnionCaseInfo.GetFields Method (F#) description: UnionCaseInfo.GetFields Method (F#) keywords: visual f#, f#, functional programming author: dend manager: danielfe ms.date: 05/16/2016 ms.topic: language-reference ms.prod: visual-studio-dev14 ms.technology: devlang-fsharp ms.assetid: 1d3acc9a-0087-43ef-b07e-32da355b67bd --- # UnionCaseInfo.GetFields Method (F#) The fields associated with the case, represented by a `System.Reflection.PropertyInfo`. Namespace/Module Path: Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection Assembly: FSharp.Core (in FSharp.Core.dll) ## Syntax ```fsharp // Signature: member this.GetFields : unit -> PropertyInfo [] // Usage: unionCaseInfo.GetFields () ``` ## Return Value The fields associated with the case as an array of `System.Reflection.PropertyInfo`. ## Platforms Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 ## Version Information F# Core Library Versions Supported in: 2.0, 4.0, Portable ## See Also [Reflection.UnionCaseInfo Class (F#)](Reflection.UnionCaseInfo-Class-%5BFSharp%5D.md) [Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection Namespace (F#)](Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection-Namespace-%5BFSharp%5D.md)	{ "pile_set_name": "Github" }
Q: Android get all assets folder images How to retrive all images from folder named 'imagesf' in assets folder and using it as int[] instead of int[] mImages = new int[]{ R.drawable.pic1 ,R.drawable.pic2 ,R.drawable.pic3 ,R.drawable.pic4 }; To use it in a viewpager A: Use below code to get all image name from 'imagesf' in assets folder private List<String> getImage(Context context) throws IOException { AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets(); String[] files = assetManager.list("imagesf"); List<String> it = Arrays.asList(files); return it; } and get one by one image as Bitmap by using below code iterating in loop: private Bitmap getBitmapFromAsset(String strName) { AssetManager assetManager = getAssets(); InputStream istr = null; try { istr = assetManager.open(strName); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(istr); return bitmap; }	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Saint Paul (disambiguation) Saint Paul and Apostle Paul usually refers to Paul the Apostle, the Christian religious leader. People Apostles Apostle Paul (1st century) Paul of Narbonne (3rd century) Martyrs Paul (d. ca. 362), Roman martyr, see John and Paul Paul (3rd century), one of a group of four martyrs, see Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise Paul, of Helladius, Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides, a group of four martyrs killed in 326 Paul and Ninety Companions (died 1240), Dominican martyrs Paul Chong Hasang of the Korean Martyrs (19th century) Paul Hanh, Paul Khoan Khan Pham, Paul Loc Van Le, Paul Tinh Boa Le, Paul Tong Buong, and Paul Duong of the Vietnamese Martyrs (18th and 19th centuries) Saints Paul the Simple (d. ca. 339), Egyptian saint Paul of Tammah (died 415), Egyptian saint Paul of Thebes (c. 220–341), Egyptian saint, regarded as the first Christian hermit Paul Aurelian (6th century), one of the seven founder saints of Brittany Pope Paul I (c. 700-767), a pope of the Catholic Church who promoted the Church's independence from the Byzantine Empire Saint Paul of Xeropotamou (9th century), founder of Agiou Pavlou monastery on Mount Athos in Greece Jean Baptiste Lolo (1798–?), often referred to as "St. Paul" or "Chief St. Paul", a fur trader, interpreter and First Nations chief in early British Columbia, Canada Pope Paul VI (1897–1978), pope responsible for the closing of the Second Vatican Council People nicknamed Saint Paul Paul Peterson (born 1964), sometimes known as "St. Paul", musician Places Antigua and Barbuda Saint Paul Parish, Antigua and Barbuda Australia The Spot, New South Wales, a locality within the Sydney suburb of Randwick also known as St Pauls Brazil São Paulo, the capital of São Paulo state, and the country's largest city São Paulo State Canada St. Paul, Alberta St. Paul (provincial electoral district), a former riding in Alberta Lac La Biche-St. Paul, the former riding which replaced it in 1993 Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, the current riding, which replaced it in 2012 St. Paul (Manitoba electoral district), a riding in Manitoba St. Pauls, Newfoundland and Labrador St. Pauls, Nova Scotia St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) St. Paul's (electoral district), a riding in Toronto, Ontario St. Pauls Station, Ontario, a community in Perth South, Ontario Ville-Saint-Paul, part of a district in the borough Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal Saint Paul de Kent, New Brunswick Rue Saint-Paul (Montreal) in Old Montreal Niagara Regional Road 81, known as Saint Paul Street in Saint Catharines, Ontario Saint-Paul, Quebec Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford, Quebec Saint-Paul-de-Montminy, Quebec Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Quebec Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec Saint-Paulin, Quebec Nuns' Island, originally Île Saint-Paul, part of Montreal city, Canada Dominica Saint Paul Parish, Dominica France Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes Saint-Paul, Corrèze Saint-Paul, Gironde Saint-Paul, Hautes-Pyrénées Saint-Paul, Haute-Vienne Saint-Paul, Oise Saint-Paul, Orne Saint-Paul, Savoie Saint-Paul, Vosges Saint-Paul, Réunion Saint-Paul-aux-Bois, in the Aisne département Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, in the Tarn département Saint-Paul-de-Baïse, in the Gers département Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département Saint-Paul-de-Fourques, in the Eure département Saint-Paul-de-Jarrat, in the Ariège département Saint-Paul-de-Loubressac, in the Lot département Saint-Paul-de-Salers, in the Cantal département Saint-Paul-de-Serre, in the Dordogne département Saint-Paul-des-Landes, in the Cantal département Saint-Paul-d'Espis, in the Tarn-et-Garonne département Saint-Paul-de-Tartas, in the Haute-Loire département Saint-Paul-de-Varax, in the Ain département Saint-Paul-de-Varces, in the Isère département Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in the Alpes-Maritimes départment Saint-Paul-de-Vern, in the Lot département Saint-Paul-de-Vézelin, in the Loire département Saint-Paul-d'Izeaux, in the Isère département Saint-Paul-d'Oueil, in the Haute-Garonne département Saint-Paul-du-Bois, in the Maine-et-Loire département Saint-Paul-du-Vernay, in the Calvados département Saint-Paul-d'Uzore, in the Loire département Saint-Paul-en-Born, in the Landes département Saint-Paul-en-Chablais, in the Haute-Savoie département Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon, in the Loire département Saint-Paul-en-Forêt, in the Var département Saint-Paul-en-Gâtine, in the Deux-Sèvres département Saint-Paul-en-Jarez, in the Loire département Saint-Paul-en-Pareds, in the Vendée département Saint-Paul-et-Valmalle, in the Hérault département Saint-Paul-la-Coste, in the Gard département Saint-Paul-la-Roche, in the Dordogne département Saint-Paul-le-Froid, in the Lozère département Saint-Paul-le-Gaultier, in the Sarthe département Saint-Paul-le-Jeune, in the Ardèche département Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, in the Landes département Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département Saint-Paul-les-Fonts, in the Gard département Saint-Paul-lès-Monestier, in the Isère département Saint-Paul-lès-Romans, in the Drôme département Saint-Paul-Lizonne, in the Dordogne département Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit, in the Vendée département Saint-Paul-sur-Isère, in the Savoie département Saint-Paul-sur-Save, in the Haute-Garonne département Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, in the Drôme département Île Saint-Paul, an island in the French Southern Territories Germany St. Pauli, a quarter of Hamburg, Germany Liberia Saint Paul River Malta St. Paul's Bay St. Paul's Hill San Pawl Milqi St Paul's Island Saint Helena Saint Paul's, Saint Helena, a district Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Paul Capisterre, Saint Kitts Saint Paul Charlestown, Nevis Saint Paul Capesterre Village, Saint Kitts Turkey Saint Paul Trail, a long-distance footpath in Turkey United Kingdom St Paul Malmesbury Without, a parish in Wiltshire St Pauls, Bristol, a district St. Pauls, Cheltenham St Paul's Cathedral, London United States St. Paul, Alaska (a city on Saint Paul Island, Alaska) St. Paul, Arkansas San Pablo, California Saint Paul, Illinois St. Paul, Iowa St. Paul, Indiana St. Paul, Kansas Saint Paul, Minnesota, the capital of the state of Minnesota St. Paul, Missouri St. Paul, Nebraska St. Pauls, North Carolina Saint Paul, Ohio St. Paul, Oregon St. Paul, Collin County, Texas St. Paul, San Patricio County, Texas St. Paul, Virginia Brands and enterprises St. Paul Travelers, the product of a merger between the spun off subsidiary of Citigroup and St. Paul Saint-Paul Luxembourg, a media conglomerate in Luxembourg St Pauls, a British publishing company owned by the Society of Saint Paul Buildings and institutions Churches Australia St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne St Paul's Church, Manuka Canada St. Paul The Apostle Maltese Church in Toronto St. Paul's, Bloor Street St. Paul's Basilica (Toronto) Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, Toronto St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Germany Paulskirche, Frankfurt, a former church, now a hall in Frankfurt am Main Greece Agiou Pavlou monastery, named after St. Paul, on Mount Athos Hong Kong St. Paul's Church (Glenealy), at St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, Glenealy, Victoria City St. Paul's Mass Centre, a Catholic church in Hong Kong Italy Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, traditional burial place of Paul the Apostle Saint Paul, Brugherio Lebanon The Armenian Apostolic Saint Paul Church, Anjar, Lebanon Convent of Saint Paul, Ehden Greek Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in, Harissa, Lebanon Saint Peter & Saint Paul Church, Qornet Shehwan Macau Cathedral of Saint Paul in Macau Malaysia St. Paul's Church, Malacca Malta St Paul's Cathedral, Mdina Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck New Zealand Old Saint Paul's, Wellington, a former church Philippines Saints Peter and Paul Church, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines Portugal Saint Paul Church in Braga United Kingdom St Paul's Cathedral in London, England, designed by Christopher Wren St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, in Wilton Place St Paul's, Covent Garden in London, designed by Inigo Jones and also known as the Actors' Church Old St Paul's Cathedral, a cathedral in the City of London, destroyed in 1666 in a fire and replaced by Wren's cathedral Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh, of the Scottish Episcopal Church St Paul's Tower, a residential tower in Sheffield St Paul's Church, Wordsworth Avenue in Sheffield St Paul's, Harringay, London United States of America Cathedral of Saint Paul, National Shrine of the Apostle Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota Cathedral of Saint Paul in Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama Cathedral of Saint Paul in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Cathedral of Saint Paul in Worcester in Worcester, Massachusetts Saint Paul Catholic Church (Ellicott City, Maryland) Saint Paul's Episcopal Church (Morganton, North Carolina) St. Paul Cathedral (Yakima, Washington) St. Paul Church (Over the Rhine) in Cincinnati, Ohio St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Delaware) St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Virginia) St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin St. Paul's United Church of Christ of Laramie in Wyoming St. Paul's Episcopal Church, South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay, Ohio Colleges, schools and universities Australia St Paul's Anglican Grammar School in Warragul, Victoria St Paul's College, Adelaide St. Paul's College, Melbourne St Paul's College, University of Sydney St Paul's School, Bald Hills in Brisbane St Paul's High School, Booragul in Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) Canada St. Paul's College (Manitoba), Winnipeg St. Paul's University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario St. Paul Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario St. Paul Catholic High School (Niagara Falls, Ontario), a high school in Ontario Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario St. Paul's High School (Winnipeg),Winnipeg, Manitoba St. Paul High School (Ottawa), Ontario Hong Kong St. Paul's Convent School St. Paul's Co-educational College St. Paul's College, Hong Kong St. Paul's Secondary School St. Paul's School (Lam Tin) India St Paul's High School, Hyderabad St. Paul's School, Belgaum in Camp St. Paul's College, Lucknow St. Paul's School, Darjeeling St. Paul Higher Secondary School, Indore St. Paul's College, Ranchi St. Paul's College, Agra Ireland St Paul's College, Raheny Japan St. Paul's University, an alternate name for Rikkyo University Malaysia St. Paul's Institution, Seremban, in Malaysia New Zealand St Paul's College, Auckland St Paul's Collegiate School, Hamilton Philippines St. Paul University System (7 campuses) United Kingdom St Paul's Catholic Comprehensive School and Performing Arts College, Leicester St Paul's Catholic School, Milton Keynes St. Paul's College, Sunbury-on-Thames St Paul's Girls' School, London St Paul's School, London United States of America St. Paul High School (Santa Fe Springs, California) St. Paul's School (Covington, Louisiana) St. Paul's School (Brooklandville, Maryland), near Baltimore St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, Maryland Saint Paul College, Saint Paul, Minnesota St. Paul Academy and Summit School, Saint Paul, Minnesota St. Paul's College in St. Paul Park, Minnesota St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire) St. Paul's School (Garden City, New York) Saint Paul's College, Virginia St. Paul's College, Washington, D.C. Other countries St. Paul's College, Namibia St Paul's School, Brazil Hospitals Stadiums Stadio San Paolo, football stadium in Naples, Italy Sports St Paul's Camogie Club, a former women's sport club in Kilkenny City, Ireland FC St. Pauli, a German sports club Transportation Saint Pauli, a New Zealand Company chartered sailing ship that bought German settlers to Nelson St. Paul's tube station, a station on the Central Line of the London Underground Saint-Paul (Paris Métro), a station on the Paris Métro Line 1 Other uses St. Paul (oratorio), an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn St. Paul sandwich, a Chinese-American sandwich from St. Louis, Missouri USS Saint Paul, any of four United States Navy vessels Saint Paul (Masaccio), a painting by Masaccio Saint Paul (Velázquez), a painting by Diego Velázquez See also Paul (disambiguation) St Paul Island (disambiguation) St. Pauli Girl, a German beer Sant Pau (disambiguation) Vincent de Paul (saint)	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
In existing picture search techniques, users typically input a search word in the search box and submit it to the search engine of a website. The search engine then searches among a large number of pictures obtained by a web crawler, for the searched keywords in the text associated with the pictures, such as the word in the filename or the subordinate field of the pictures. Further, the server returns to the users the pictures for which the filename or the subordinate field of the file attributes matches the keywords. This type of picture search is essentially a text-content-based search. Pictures searched in this way are often not those really desired by the users. For example, among the picture search results that correspond to the searched keyword, users tend to desire pictures of a certain shape, for which the prior art picture search technologies do not account. Therefore, a picture search that takes the shape of the desired pictures into account may be advantageous.	{ "pile_set_name": "USPTO Backgrounds" }
Kazakhstan mulls halving crude export duty In the wake of dropping oil prices, the crude export duty rate in Kazakhstan, according to Halyk Finance analytics, could be reduced by half, Tengrinews reports. Earlier, the Minister of National Economy Yerbolat Dossayev mentioned plans to lower the crude export duty rate from $80 per ton. The export duty rate was set to $80 based on much higher oil price and is not longer relevant. The export duty applies to all oil companies except the companies operating under Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) with flat taxation. According to Maryam Zhumadil of Halyk Finance company, the current export duty was set when oil was sold for $105-110 p/b. “We believe that abolishment of the export duty, like it happened in 2009 when the oil price was $57 p/b, is highly unlikely. We expect the export duty to be reduced to $40 per ton. This would correspond with the drop in the price for oil from mid 2014,” Zhumadil said. The halving of the export duty should positively affect public oil companies working in Kazakhstan. “Among companies we work with, KazMunaiGas (Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company) would benefit the most from the decrease in the export duty. According to our estimates, the company is expected to export 60% of oil it produces in 2015,” Zhumadil said. KASE-listed Nostrum Oil&ampGas will also benefit from the reduction of the export duty. According to the analytics, the company had been paying export duties since 2013 despite working under a PSA. Smaller exploration companies would not be seriously affected by the decrease of the crude export duty rate, as they mostly sell oil inside Kazakhstan.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Diabetes does not influence oral oncogenesis through fibroblast growth factor receptors. Increased expression of fibroblast growth factors and their receptors (FGFRs) has recently been described in oral squamous cell carcinoma. In addition, we have previously described a molecular basis for an association between oral cancer and diabetes. The expression of FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 investigated in an experimental model of chemically induced carcinogenesis in normal and diabetic (type I) rats. Tissue sections ranging from normal mucosa to moderately-differentiated oral squamous cell carcinoma were studied using monoclonal antibodies against FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 proteins. A similar pattern of elevated FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 expression was observed in the initial stages of oncogenesis for both diabetic and non-diabetic animals. In the last stages of oral oncogenesis, the expression of both proteins remained relatively stable. It seems that diabetes does not affect the FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 pattern of expression throughout the various stages of oral oncogenesis.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
news, latest-news It's after 1pm when I pull up outside the house on Chinchilla Wondai Road in Kingaroy, inland from Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The lantana is in bloom, its purple flowers a welcome luxuriance after the blanched paddocks and dusty roads along the four-hour drive inland from Brisbane. The house is a restored Queens-lander and, even from beneath its stilts, I hear the clamour of excited voices and shuffling footsteps. I feel anxious, though. I had intended to be here earlier and, despite my profuse apologies, I get the sense that my tardiness isn't appreciated. Kingaroy is home to former computer systems engineer and property developer Alan John "A. J." Miller and a group of about 100 people, including my hosts today, who believe him to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Miller and his partner, Mary Luck - a former humanitarian aid worker whom he claims is his lover across time and space, Mary Magdalene - are the leaders of a New Age sect called God's Way of Love. They believe, among other things, that the planet will soon undergo a series of cataclysmic events, called Earth Changes, in which billions of people will die. The events, as Miller has described them, would not be unlike those depicted in the apocalyptic Hollywood thriller 2012, starring John Cusack. In fact, Miller has used it as a prop in his online seminars about "the end times". In order to gain access, I've had to agree to being filmed at all times by two of his followers, a husband-and-wife duo from Ukraine and Russia - footage that Miller said would serve as an unedited and unbiased account of our encounters. When I asked him to reconsider the terms, his emailed reply ran to more than a thousand words: "We have a responsibility to act in a manner that is loving and truthful at all times, and to encourage the same behaviour in others. This is the reason we created the requirements in the Participant Release Form," he wrote. "I am sorry if I somehow indicated that our requirements were negotiable in any way, since they are not." And so, upon introducing myself to the group of men and women congregating around the front door of the house today - all followers of Miller's - I have not one, but two video cameras thrust in my face. "I'm Joy," says a friendly-looking older woman as she holds the door open. "Come inside. We've been waiting for you." Joy Harris, a 68-year-old grandmother from the Gold Coast, moved here to be close to Miller, a decision that caused some consternation among her adult children. "The first year was, like, 'Shock, horror, Mum has joined a cult,' " she tells me, an anecdote the group has clearly heard before and finds amusing. Harris seems to have a thing for charismatic leaders. She spent 18 years following American self-help guru Tony Robbins and about $100,000 on his programs, a decision she regrets. Doesn't her past experience at least raise the possibility in her mind that A. J. is not Jesus, I ask. Her answer is as cryptic as it is brief. "It's possible," she says with a beaming smile, "but it's not likely." Louise "Luli" Faber, a 39-year-old former neuroscientist from the UK, is the owner of this house. She first heard about Miller in 2010, when she was working at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland. Leading me into the kitchen, she invites me to help myself from the dishes of vegetarian food the group has prepared for my visit. Miller is a vegetarian and, as a result, his followers are now, too. The house, which is well lit and airy, has a welcoming air. The living room's centrepiece is a massive flat-screen TV which appears to be flanked by more copies of Battlestar Galactica than the educational DVDs Miller distributes free of charge (there are, allegedly, 100,000 copies in circulation). Several people have told me they first came to Miller's teachings through the DVDs. Miller's philosophy is not unlike a fractal: the more closely one inspects it, the more complex and esoteric it becomes. He believes that by examining trauma, both in this life and in lives that have been lived previously, one can move up a spiritual ladder, each rung taking you closer to a perfect relationship with God. All of the things that could impede a follower progressing up the ladder - addiction, failed relationships, even cancer and childhood illness, Miller tells me - are brought about by malign spirits who cause us to act in "unloving" ways, ways that displease God and distance us from His love. Miller claims that he has returned to shepherd his flock along a path that will lead them back to God through the performing of good deeds and spiritual exercises. Miller also teaches that each of us comprises one half of a whole spirit, and that only by finding our other half, which he calls a soul mate, can we ever truly feel whole. The promise of a personal relationship with God; the possibility that our misfortunes are not of our own making and can be corrected with support from Jesus Himself; the potential to find a real and true soul mate together with a strong group code based around proto-Christian ideas of kindness and charity ... put them all together and it becomes possible to see how Miller is capable of attracting a significant following. We assemble in the living room, nine of Miller's followers sitting on a pair of sofas opposite each other and me on a bar stool at the edge of the room. Cutlery scrapes on plates in the uncomfortable quiet before anyone speaks. Slowly, a conversation starts up about how each of them has arrived here, what they've left behind and their reasons for believing Miller is the Messiah. Faber tells me she was in her 20s when she first started to feel disillusioned with the course of her research and changed her focus to studying the workings of religiosity on the brain, a decision her colleagues mocked. "I guess I was in my mid-20s when I started seeing the shortfalls of medicine and science when it came to explaining things," she says. "I just needed more answers." She first came across Miller's teachings in 2010 when a friend gave her one of his free DVDs to watch. She says it opened up a new world to her. How do her parents feel about her decision to abandon a promising career in academia to follow Miller? "They respect the decision I've made," she replies. "They don't necessarily agree with it or believe that A. J. is Jesus, but they respect that this is what I want to do with my life." Does she believe A. J. is Jesus, I ask? "That varies," she answers, laughing. "At the moment, probably not. Not in my heart. Intellectually, it seems like a very likely thing, but I don't know it." The others nod in agreement and laugh nervously. Later, as I leave for my hotel, the camera-woman, Lena Shakhanov, asks me whether I'm excited to be meeting Jesus in the morning. "It's going to be amazing, you'll see," she says with a broad smile. Miller is doing the ironing when I arrive at his house early the next morning. He and Mary Luck occupy a small ranch-style home off a dirt road on a property that sprawls out into the bush. They sleep, however, in a raised tent - complete with large bed, swish bathroom and a claw-foot porcelain bathtub - set up in the bush about 100 metres or so from the home, supposedly because this is more in keeping with a philosophy of simplicity and favouring spiritual over material wealth. His landholding is surrounded by dozens of properties purchased by his followers, although towering gum trees and scrub screen it from full view. There are about 100 followers living on the properties around Miller, who also claims to have several thousand followers around the world, mainly in the US and UK. Miller, who's nearing 50, has shoulder-length hair and a muscular build. Today, he's wearing a wrinkled Billabong jumper and appears not to have shaved in several days. He flashes a megawatt smile, though and, for a moment, it's possible to see why followers such as Shakhanov describe him and his influence in such breathless terms. Luck, who is 10 years his junior and a striking beauty despite the dark circles under her eyes, is wearing a cardigan and tugs gently at the ends of its sleeves as Miller talks. Conversation turns immediately to the question in which I'm most interested: whether or not Miller can understand why people may not believe that he is Jesus. He understands perfectly, he says, again flashing that high-beam smile. "When I claim I'm Jesus, most people automatically assume that means I'm claiming a lot of things," he says. "They assume it means I'm claiming I'm God, and I'm not. They assume it means that I'm claiming that everyone should listen to me, and I'm not. In fact, I tell people they need to always analyse things through their own experience." Luck has said in recordings of their seminars that when Miller revealed to her that she was Mary Magdalene reincarnated, it was one of the worst experiences of her life. She felt angry and confused by the disclosure. But something has clearly changed over time and now Luck sits at Miller's side, staring at him with a disconcerting degree of intensity. The way the Bible is recorded is flawed, continues Miller, and thus the way in which modern Christians practise their religion is also flawed. God's Way of Love offers an alternative model. God, he says reasonably, wants people to be happy. "This concept that God is vengeful, a God who punishes the wicked, that's not my experience of Him and it wasn't my experience of Him in the 1st century," says Miller. Of course. We must remember that Miller believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He claims he has been born twice - most recently on March 10, 1963, in Loxton, South Australia, amid a close-knit farming community on the banks of the Murray River some 246 kilometres east of Adelaide - and previously, more than 2000 years ago, in a manger in Bethlehem, 10 kilometres south of Jerusalem. His parents in this life are Maxine and Alan Miller, both members of the Jehovah's Witnesses church. And in the 1st century his parents were the peasant, Mary of Nazareth, and Yahweh, the God of the Jews. In the 1970s, Miller's family moved from Loxton to the Adelaide Hills. Alan was a shy, deeply spiritual teenager who came out of his shell only when discussing Jehovah's Witness theology, according to a former close friend who speaks to me on condition of anonymity. Miller followed the Jehovah's Witness tradition of spending his holidays preaching door-to-door with his sister, Jenni, rather than pursuing the activities that many other handsome young men his age were exploring. He was considered to be one of the best-looking boys in town, the former friend adds. Miller left high school in 1979, at the age of 16, to complete a course in computers at Adelaide's Regency Park Community College, eventually opening what he describes as a successful business called Expert Computer Solutions offering IT advice to mid-tier companies and government departments. He married his first wife, 19-year-old Sheree Newman, whom he'd met as a teenager through the church, before his 21st birthday. Miller was an exemplary member of the close-knit Jehovah's Witness church and rose through its ranks to become first a "pioneer" (the term for a full-time proselytiser) and then a church elder in Port Lincoln, a sleepy coastal town with a population of fewer than 15,000 people. By this time he was in his early 30s, with two young sons and a beautiful wife, and Miller should have felt on top of the world; instead, he was struggling. He says that, for as long as he can remember, he has lived with harrowing memories of his life as the historical Jesus and its culmination in the crucifixion. These memories - of the nails tearing through the flesh of his hands and feet as he was nailed to the cross, the lancing of his side - he found so distressing that he never spoke of them to anyone. Yet they wouldn't be suppressed. He suffered from panic and anxiety attacks. "I felt I was going crazy," he says. "I felt it couldn't be possible. I sought professional help, but didn't find it very effective." And then, at 40, he had what he calls an epiphany. Truths, he says, were revealed to him by God, and as he began the process of writing them down and formulating them, he sold his businesses and some properties he owned and began a process of spiritual examination. He told his mother and his sons for the first time that he believed he was Jesus. They understood, he says, and graciously accepted his "coming out". He began to devote himself to a way of life that would become known as God's Way of Love. His marriage to Sheree did not survive this epiphany, however. She now lives in Adelaide where she has remarried and works as a housekeeper. She has declined requests for comment, telling me she doesn't want to jeopardise her relationship with the two grown sons she shares with Miller. Dean Alan Sims is a round-faced Texan who met Miller during a visit to Dallas in 2008 and was immediately taken with the charismatic Australian who claimed to be Jesus. Sims was, and still is, a devotee of a body of esoteric writings known as the Padgett Messages. James Padgett was a 62-year-old American lawyer who, in 1914, claimed to be receiving messages from his recently deceased wife, which he was able to record using a technique called automatic writing. He would enter a trance and simply write down the messages that were being communicated to him without conscious awareness. The Padgett Messages, which are enjoying something of an internet-fuelled renaissance, are significant for having introduced several spiritual ideologies that outlived Padgett - namely, a belief in the existence of soul mates, in the possibility of life after death and the hope of achieving immortality, and in the idea of Divine Love. Miller has co-opted, almost verbatim, nearly all of these ideas into God's Way of Love. It was into a New Age community in Dallas that Miller and Natalie Lewis - a British woman serving as his helper in the crucial years following his coming out as Jesus - arrived in 2008. (Lewis, who now advertises her services as a psychic and clairvoyant on Psychicstuff.co.uk, also declines to comment, fearing Miller might retaliate "on the astral plane" if she angers him.) "Early on, he seemed very kosher," Sims tells me from his home in Texas. "I was willing to suspend any disbelief and try it." Over time, their relationship became close. Miller wanted to spread his message but, to do so, he needed recording equipment to make videos of his sermons, and recording equipment costs money. Sims, who says that Miller's spiritual presence held an almost magnetic grip on him, was only too happy to help. "You don't have to give him money but if you want access, the quickest way to get his attention is to give him a donation," says Sims. "I used to send him money monthly. I bought the recording equipment he uses." Sims estimates that he gave Miller just under $4000 during that first year. Several of Miller's followers in Kingaroy tell me they frequently make small donations, either in person or through his website. The donations seem to explain a great deal about how Miller and Luck are able to maintain a comfortable lifestyle despite not working. It also goes a long way to explaining how they afford the plane fares and hotels on their frequent proselytising trips overseas, most often to the US, the UK and the Caribbean. Over time, as more and more followers flocked to Miller and as his tone grew ever more imperious, Sims says he began to have doubts. He had particular difficulty accepting a practice that Miller continues to this day - informing some couples, even married couples, that they are not yoked to their soul mates and they'll never achieve happiness while they remain in their current relationship. (Former followers tell me Miller uses this technique to control the group, splitting up those who fall out of favour and shunning the offending partner, who then either distances himself or herself from whatever behaviour has offended Miller or leaves the group.) Reluctantly, Sims decided to cut off contact with Miller in 2009. "I wish I was wrong and A. J. was right," he says. "I'd much rather have that be the case." It's impossible to know just how much money Miller has accepted from his followers because the organisation doesn't release financial reports. Miller claims he doesn't demand that his followers give him money, but some of them, like Sims, maintain that making a contribution is the most effective way to gain access to him. Strangely, given that he maintains a website and conducts seminars on God's Way of Love around the world, Miller insists that, to him, it is immaterial whether or not anyone follows his philosophy. He also professes not to care what happens to the hundred or so people now living around him. "The only person I'm responsible for is myself and whether people make the choice to listen to what I say and attempt to practise it ... I don't feel that I have any responsibility unless I've said something inaccurate or incorrect," he says. Miller has already incorrectly predicted the date of what he calls "Earth Changes" - a series of global cataclysms - at least three times. On each occasion he pushes the date back further and on each occasion his followers accept that communicating with spirits is not an exact science. In May 2011, for example, he claimed on Twitter that "a big awakening" was coming in 2012, while in September 2011 he warned of "100-foot tidal waves" turning Kingaroy into beachfront property. He then claimed last September that the "Earth Changes" would be coming in early 2013. Nowhere is this blind faith more obvious than on a 242-hectare property on the other side of Chinchilla Wondai Road. Angela Griffiths and her partner Robert, both acolytes of Miller, look after the property - bought by a group of Miller's followers, allegedly on his orders - and are building a learning centre for God's Way of Love that at present is little more than foundations and a wooden skeleton. They live in a tin shed on the property with their three children, who are aged 16, 14 and 11. Miller and Luck directed them to "restore Eden", Angela tells me with a faraway look in her eyes as we walk through a field of tall grass. "When we're in a more loving condition and don't need laws or rules, there could be a hundred families living here," she says in a monotone. Although Miller insists he has no direct involvement with the property, Sims says he remembers things more like Angela. "I was still on the reservation when the property purchase was initiated," he tells me, meaning that he was still a believer. "He wanted them to purchase that. There was another, more desirable, property, but it wasn't right next to where he lives." In the end, I'm not able to ask Miller about Sims's concerns, or why people seem afraid to talk to me about him. When I leave Kingaroy, it is all smiles and handshakes. Seven hours later, though, as I land in Sydney and turn on my mobile, I find a 1554-word email from him telling me I've caused deep offence to the group and I'm to have no further contact with him or his followers until I've learnt some respect. Over the next few weeks, I receive almost 20,000 words in hostile emails from more than half a dozen of Miller's followers. Perhaps Miller didn't like being challenged. Perhaps it had to do with my scepticism regarding his Earth Changes. Ultimately, the experience has left me with a sense of foreboding. I feel concerned for Miller's followers. "When you keep making these predictions about Earth Changes and nothing happens, you're painting yourself into a corner," Sims tells me. "And, frankly, that scares me." This article originally appeared in Good Weekend. 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I don't hear too many positive reviews about Mexican beers, but I like them. I can't imagine eating a nice Mexican dinner with a Heineken. Dos Equis is the perfect brew for that occasion. It's light and has just the right amount of that South O' the border maltiness. A twist of lime and you are set. Enjoy. Dos Equis Special Lager is a mild pilsner with a mild flavor and a slight hop bitterness. Don't look for robust flavor. What you find is a crisp refreshing light ale that is great for the hot but breezy sun of Cancun. Light on the palate and very drinkable. Dos Equis Special Lager is a beer that is best drank within it's environment just like Balashi from Aruba is. Reminds me of a less skunky Heineken. The pickin' is slim in Cancun so this is my top beer choice, even over Corona. A thin yellow beer with crazy soda carbonation, not much smell, and a very thin grain taste with bitter bite and prominant booziness. Mothfeel is prettymuch like watery soda. Definately at the bottom of my list for Mexican lager. Move along folks, nothing to see here. As far as Mexican brews go, this is one that is on the edge of being something really good. It porued a medium golden color with minimal head that subsided quickly. The smell was grainy but with a bit of hops in there. The taste was almost pure euro-lager skunk but it was saved by a nice dry aftertaste the caught me by suprise. This is much better than Corona and Pacifico, but there must be better mexican brews out there. I guess this is the type of beer to drink with some flame-throwing Mexican dish, because there isn't much taste. It's a yellow beer with a small white head. It had a mildly floral aroma, and that is about all you'll get from it. I couldn't taste much of anything, very insipid. Drink it if you must with some spicy dish, otherwise leave it alone. Appearance: A very pale yellow, bright beer with large carbonation bubbles and lots of activity. Heads pours a thin white bubbly lace, not at all impressive. Smell: Spicy hop aroma with that cooked adjunct smell (corn), and a bit of European lager "skunk." Taste: Crisp and refreshing up-front. Body is light. Malt sweetness is dextriny, with lots of sweet corn flavour. Hop bitterness is semi-spicy and herbal with a quick tangy snap that fades into a sweet tea-like flavour. More cooked corn/veggie flavours follow (aka DMS / dimethyl sulfide) and meld with a slightly dry grain flavour. Finish is clean with some light residual dextrins on the palate. Notes: European/German brewing influences are apparent with this brew. It's not your typical Mexican lager/pils. And, even though it's essentially a mediocre beer, it's not an entirely bad beer. Pairs nicely with Mexican food or a nice alternative to American Lagers as it has a bit more body and flavour. The Dos Equis poured a very light, clear yellow with a fizzy head that was very quickly completely gone. It has a skunky, yet slightly floral nose. It's very thin and watery. There is very little flavor, just a sweetish starch and some slight skunkiness. Overall, it's a little better than some macros, but not by much.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
NO. 07-04-0534-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL D JUNE 20, 2005 ______________________________ ADVANCED INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellant v. CACTUS OPERATING LTD. d/b/a CACTUS FEEDERS, and AMISTAD AVIATION, INC., Appellees _________________________________ FROM THE 69th DISTRICT COURT OF MOORE COUNTY; NO. 04-14; HON. RON ENNS, PRESIDING _______________________________ ON MOTION TO DISMISS _______________________________ Before QUINN, C.J., and REAVIS and CAMPBELL, JJ. Advanced Industries, Inc., appellant, and Cactus Operating Ltd. d/b/a Cactus Feeders, and Amistad Aviation, Inc., appellees, by and through their attorneys, have filed a motion to dismiss this appeal with prejudice because the parties have fully compromised and settled all issues in dispute and neither desire to pursue the appeal. Without passing on the merits of the case, we grant the motion to dismiss pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.1(a)(2) and dismiss the appeal. Having dismissed the appeal at the parties’ request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained, and our mandate will issue forthwith. Brian Quinn Chief Justice 2	{ "pile_set_name": "FreeLaw" }
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Photo by Philipp Kammere I still remember my first solo travel like it was yesterday. I was so scared, nervous and thinking that I am completely insane and I am going to die! I had this idea to travel alone for a longtime before actually doing it. I was waiting for the right moment, maybe because of the reasons I just told you – I thought it was crazy, it was dangerous and my parents would lose theirs minds and not be able to sleep until I come back. Well, it was almost like that (it was not so dangerous as I thought it was going to be)... and it was the best experience ever. I will never forget it and most of all, I will never forget how I felt during my trip and how I felt when I came back. Before starting with the things that I learned from solo traveling, I would like to share a few words about the story behind this first solo trip. As I told you, I was thinking of doing it for a longtime but I didn't really have the guts to do it. I was too scared and insecure. Plus, my geographical orientation was very bad (I was always capable to lose my way and to go in a completely wrong direction). So for a longtime I thought that it was not for me. I had traveled only with other people until that moment and I was always relying on them to find the right way, to catch the right train or bus, to not get lost in the metro. Well, as I love challenges, I decided to do everything that I couldn't do or I was bad at. This decision was actually an emergency decision. When I say “an emergency decision”, I mean that I was in a very bad place in my life at that moment – I was living in a new town where I couldn't find new friends, I was having very frequent arguments with my co-workers, I was not feeling happy about my job... I was really not feeling good about my life in general. Actually, I was very depressed. Pretty sad! At the final stage of this horrible depression which lasted for a couple of months, I said to myself that I really have to do something which will make me feel alive again. Something new, something that I wanted to do by myself, so I could feel again my own inner strength. During this moment of sadness and depression, I had also traveled with friends of mine, which was really fun, but it was not enough. I was still feeling blue and wanted to do something empowering, to go out of my comfort zone and see a new side of myself that I still didn't know. Solo travel was the best choice! I had been thinking about it for a longtime, always finding excuses for not doing it. Also, I was having this dream of traveling the world and again, always finding excuses for not doing it ( like a lack of money ( see my blog post ), of time or of people to join me). Well, as I was depressed, I decided that I didn't have anything to lose and that “Screw it! I am gonna be a bad-ass!”. I am pretty sure that I am not going to surprise you by telling you that this is an adventure that completely changed my life, my perception of traveling, my visions about the world and made me learn how a solo trip could be the ultimate path to self-discovery. It is a life-changing experience! Here I come with 10 reasons why everybody should try solo traveling at least once in their life and what I personally learned from this experience. I am pretty sure that I could find even more reasons to do it, but let's start with these ones. 1. Do not wait for other people to do what you want to do. Just do it! As I already said, I was delaying my solo travel for a longtime, maybe at least 2 years. I was always finding some new excuses. The real reason for not doing it early in my life, was that I was super scared to go somewhere new all by myself, knowing that I would not have anyone to rely on and that I would have to deal alone with my own shit. That was freaking me out! Literally! So, before my solo trip, I was still trying to avoid the unavoidable and decided to ask some of my closest friends if they wanted to do it with me (which would have not been a solo travel anymore!). They all were either busy or had already planned theirs holidays. So that was it! This was the moment! I couldn't run away from it anymore! I had to do it! I had told everybody I knew that I was going on a solo travel, so I really really had to do it! And I did it! I packed my backpack, opened the front door, closed it and came back two weeks later feeling like a new born. So, if you really want to do something, anything, in your life, do not wait for other people to do it with you. Just do it. Many of my friends and family didn't believe me that I was going to go on this trip alone, but I did and I was proud of myself. I didn't want to waste my time anymore and not travel, even though it was one of my dreams, only because no one was available. Do your stuff and if someone wants to join you – fine, if not – still do it, it is going to be even better. (I am not going to talk about this right now, but there are many very selfish reasons why solo traveling is better than traveling with other people). Life is short, so do not be scared to do the things you really want to do! Go for it! It is going to change your life! 2. You will learn how to take care of yourself. Yes. Do not forget that you are going to be all by yourself, so you will have to think a little bit more than you maybe think when you are with other folks. Try to not get drunk and put yourself in dangerous situations like interacting with “suspicious” people or going to the house of someone you just met at a bar. Know, that you are alone. If you don't take care of yourself, nobody will. Your friends and family are far away from you. They could not help you. Maybe you are in a country you don't speak the language. Do not be naïve and think twice before making a decision. It is way better that some people think that you are boring or weird instead of getting completely wasted and not knowing what you do, where you go and with whom. I don't say that you don't have to trust people, but listen to your gut and pay attention to the small details (how people talk to you, if they look at you in the eyes, if they try to touch in an inappropriate way...). One of my rules when I travel alone, is to always stay sober (I can have a drink or two, but not more). I want to know that I am completely present in every moment and I know what is happening. This is how I make sure to not put myself in bad situations it could be difficult to go out of. 3. You are going to meet new people and even make friends. While I suggest that you really try to be careful about the people you meet during your solo trip, you are definitely going to meet many and with some of them you will feel a real connection and many good souvenirs will last. When I first solo traveled, I was so surprised by the number of people I met during my trip. I was meeting new people all the time, every day. Most of them trough Couchsurfing (my hosts, theirs flatmates, theirs friends or people on CS who just wanted to hang out with foreigners), some were friends of friends and others, people that I just met at a bar or at a coffee shop and felt comfortable to continue the conversation. If you stay at a hostel, you are definitely going to meet many travelers there as well. They are always up to hang out and explore the city you are visiting. I am still in touch with many of the people I met through my travels. Some of them I already met again after my trips, and others I am going to meet in the future. You can make real friends on the road. Isn't it amazing? For me, the beauty of it is that it is very natural and spontaneous – real people looking for a real connection . Maybe you are going to spend only 2 hours together, but you will remember it for a long time. Other great thing is that a big part of the people who travel the world are very open minded and always willing to learn new things about your culture and are curious about life . 4. If you are an introvert, you are going to open up to other people. If you are a shy person and don't feel comfortable talking to strangers or making friends in a foreign country, I still think that at some moment of your trip, you are going to be pushed out of your comfort zone and you will have to talk to someone you don't know. And this could be a great exercise to open up a little bit and to make starting conversations and having small talks with strangers easier for you. You are in a new country or town where you don't know anyone, what a better opportunity to learn how to become more extrovert and overcome your shyness? It is certain that you will need to ask someone for the right direction or to translate something for you, if you don't speak the language... you can not hide from it! But it is for your good and you know it, even if it could be scary. Me personality, I hate asking people on the street for anything, but I had to do it many times and in general, people are always kind and willing to help. So don't be scared and don't forget to smile! 5. You will have time for yourself. On my first solo travel I really wanted to do it because I needed to stay alone. I wanted to be away from everything that could make me sad (people, my job, the new town I was living in... everything). It is true that I met many people during my travel, but I also had the time to stay alone and be by myself. And this time was really healing for me. I was feeling so calm and happy. I was reading my book at parks, on benches by a river not thinking about anything. Just being alone with myself. Even if you are in a very good place in your life, in our society nowadays, we have a very busy lifestyle and taking a time-out could be an amazing idea. If you need time for yourself, solo travel is a great choice. You do what you want to do and you don't have to think about anyone else. You wake up when you want, you visit the sights you want to see, you spend the amount of money you want to spend on activities, food, museums etc. You are completely free to do what you want or don't want to do and nobody can stop you. It is completely up to you. Enjoy it! 6. Feeling lonely is fine. Yes, you will have a lot of freedom and yes, you are also going to meet new people and yes, you will have time for yourself. And yes, you are maybe going to feel lonely at some point of your journey. And it is totally fine! In fact, you are actually going to learn how to deal with loneliness and maybe even to start appreciating more every person you have in your life. In moments of loneliness, we start thinking of the people who are in our life and they are not with us right now. We think of all the stupid arguments, all the calls that we didn't make, all the “thank you” and “sorry” that we didn't say and we should have. It is a time of resolutions. You start understanding what is really important in your life and what is not. Who are the people you want to be by your side and who are those you don't want to keep close to you? Who are those who have good impact on you life and who are those who have bad influence on you? Are you happy in your life, with your job? What could you do to start talking again with your best friend / partner / parents? Where is your fault? Where is their fault? You will have the time to find answers to all these existential for you questions. You are going to realize that in some of the cases, it is you who screwed up and in others, you screwed up a little less. ;) Feeling lonely can be a very powerful time, it could be very enlightening for you. If you feel lonely, do not get depressed! This is the worst mistake one could do on a solo travel. Use this alone time and turn it into a big powerful light showing you the right way, the answers you were looking for but you were too scared to find. After this moment of loneliness and enlightenment, you will feel better than ever. Stronger and light, in peace with yourself. 7. You are going to come back feeling stronger and very proud of yourself. I remember when I came back from my first solo trip (and I was still alive!), I was feeling so empowered, so strong in my core, so proud of myself because I did it. Leaving my home, I was freaking out thinking that I am going to die in a foreign country alone, but obviously, I did not. I was so happy! I can not even explain it. I was happy and proud because I did something I wanted to do for such a longtime. I did it alone which was super scary. I pushed myself to go out of my own limits and it was freaking awesome! I was feeling like Super Woman and Wonder Woman at the same time. I was feeling like I could conquer the world, like I could do anything. Remember that anything is possible. We just have to make the move and grab what we want from this life. My depression was gone. I was in peace with myself, ready to go back to the normal life with new energy and motivation. The problems were still there, they were not gone, but my perception of them was different. I was feeling strong enough to face them and to figure out a way to overcome the obstacles. If you want to feel this inner power that everybody has but sometimes we forget about it, traveling alone is one of the actions you can take for that. 8. Everything is going to be fine. As I already said many times, when I was leaving for my travel, I was very scared. I had all these horrible scenarios in my head – I was dieing, I was being raped, I was completely lost in a country where I don't speak the language and I can't find my way to the hostel, I was getting robbed and finding myself alone without any money or a passport and couldn't come back home... If though all of these scenarios are possible to happen (I won't say that it is crazy to think that a young girl can get raped in a foreign country because it is not), don't forget that they could happen in your country and in your town as well. Unfortunately, many people die every day because of such horrible things. It is not because you are in a country you don't know and you are alone, that it is definitely going to happen. It can happen everywhere! My advice is open your eyes, be careful, don't get wasted with people that you just met, ask for help if needed, have always your passport and your wallet with you, stay away from people who make you feel uncomfortable. This is also advice that I would give you for your every-day-life. So relax, try to enjoy your trip and your time for yourself and everything is going to be fine. This is going to be an empowering experience. 9. People come and go, but you stay. During my trips I met many people. With some of them, I am still in touch – we text, we even see each other when we can, and with others, we don't and this is normal. You don't have to feel the pressure of staying in touch with every single person you meet during your travel. With some people it happens that you feel this special connection and with others you feel it less, or not at all. But one thing that I learned from these travels, is that people in your life will come and go. With some people you will have a great relationship, they could become your friends or even partners, with other people you are only going to spend 10 incredible minutes, 1 day, a couple of days, months or years. But all these people will go at some point from your life. The only person who is going to stay with you until the end is YOU. The only person that you have in your life forever is yourself. The only person you can always rely on, is yourself. The only person you have to trust a 100% is yourself. The only person you have to fully love, respect and take care of is yourself. If you don't, nobody will. This is why I love solo travels so much. Because they make you realize that you really have to love yourself more and think about your physical and mental health. It is your responsibility. It is your responsibility to take care of yourself and to get your shit together. You are a grown-up, learn how to be independent! Learn to make conscious choices and decisions and do not blame the others for your mistakes. Your happiness is your responsibility. Learn how to love yourself because you are stuck with this person for the rest of your life! 10. Solo travel = self discovery.	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
CASTing About For a Solution: Using CAST and Table Functions in PL/SQL May 20, 2004 Synopsis. Oracle 8i offered the CAST function, which allows a PL/SQL collection to be processed as if it was a normal table. When CAST is paired with table functions, it becomes even more powerful as a data manipulation toolset. This article provides a brief technical explanation of CAST and table functions as well as some practical, real-world examples of their use in concert. I was assisting one of my developers with a problem with a rather complex stored procedure that is used extensively by our flagship data entry application to determine all eligible cost centers to which an employee can potentially charge his or her expenditures. Here is a brief summary of the business rules involved: An employee is part of a department, which in turn is part of a division. Each employee is assigned between one and five cost centers to which he can charge expenditures. Each department has up to five default cost centers to which expenditures may be charged. Each division has up to five default cost centers to which expenditures may be charged. Once the list of potential eligible employee, department default, and division default cost centers has been determined, only those cost centers that any employee can use are allowed to be retained in the list. Duplicate cost centers must be removed from the final list. To make matters more interesting, the stored procedure that implements these business rules must return the answer set in the form of a reference cursor (REF CURSOR) because the application requires it. Unfortunately, the application cannot accept one of those neat Oracle collection types as an input parameter without significant alteration to an aging Powerbuilder code base. When I opened up the stored procedure, I noticed that it dated back prior to the conversion of the company's original Sybase database to our current Oracle database. Sybase has some interesting features for storage of temporary data - essentially, a huge TEMP space that's readily available for use by any stored procedure - and whoever had converted the procedure to Oracle had decided to mimic that technique by using a GLOBAL TEMPORARY table (acronyzed to GTT) to retain the data. GTTs certainly have their place in an Oracle database, but they do have some drawbacks. First, a GTT is still a table, and I have noticed that developers often forget to COMMIT changes written to a GTT. In addition, the overhead of creating and maintaining the schema of a GTT is often overkill in situations like this one - after all, the most records I'd ever return in this answer set is 15. I have also run into issues when attempting to open a hot standby database in READ ONLY mode and then tried to run stored procedures that need to utilize GTTs. Because GTTs are owned by the SYSTEM tablespace, and since that tablespace is in read-only mode when the standby is opened in this fashion for reporting, the stored procedures used to create reports simply stop working. There are workarounds to this, but they are not very elegant. Fortunately, Oracle has implemented some neat features that let me overcome the reliance on GTTs: the CAST function and the ability to write stored functions that return PL/SQL collection types, also known as table functions. When used in conjunction, these features form a powerful toolset that conquers GTTs that have been used in this manner. (Moreover, they work just fine even if you do not have any GTTs to conquer, by the way!) The CAST Function CAST is often termed a pseudo-tablefunction because it lets me cast a variable - specifically, a PL/SQL collection - into another datatype: a table construct. The table construct can then be queried with standard SQL just like any other Oracle table with SQL. Listing 1.1 shows an example of how the CAST function can be used inside an anonymous PL/SQL block to read from a PL/SQL collection defined by a declared TYPE. CAST is used here to sort the resulting rows in reverse alphabetical order. I could have created the TYPE as a true object, and built a sort function for the object - but CAST lets me use good old SQL to handle the sorting. Listing 1.2 shows another example of CAST. This time, I am populating a PL/SQL collection with a set of random numbers. I then use CAST to gather the data from the collection and apply various group functions like SUM(), MIN(), and MAX() on the result set. Again, I could have declared an object type and written some special grouping functions for it - but again, I utilized CAST to do the work with normal SQL grouping functions. Table Functions A table function is a stored function that returns a PL/SQL collection as the result set, and this result set can then be read and manipulated with the CAST function. The example table function I have created, sf_gather_cost_centers,in Listing 1.3 uses a PL/SQL collection to store the gathered cost center values for the specified employee and return a list of all cost centers that the employee is eligible to use depending on that employee's relationship to her department and division. Listing 1.4 shows three examples that gather the results of the table function that I have just created via the CAST table pseudo-function for later manipulation. The result set from these SQL statements could then be returned in a reference cursor generated from within the existing stored procedure with a few modifications as mandated by my original requirements. PIPELINED Table Functions Table functions were available as of in Oracle 8i, but they were enhanced in Oracle 9i so that result sets can be pipelined. Briefly, a pipelined table function does not require the CAST pseudo-table function to return a result set. Listing 1.5 shows a modified version of the same function I created in Listing 1.3, and Listing 1.6 shows the same examples as in Listing 1.4, but with the CAST pseudo-function now removed. Conclusion CAST and table functions are going to become a powerful set of tools on my PL/SQL development "tool belt," and hopefully I have whetted your appetite to experiment with these features as well. Should you wish to experiment with these examples, I have also provided the necessary DDL and DML statements to modify the standard HR demo schema appropriately (see Listing 2). References and Additional Reading While there is no substitute for direct experience, reading the manual is not a bad idea, either. I have drawn upon the following Oracle 9i Release 2 documentation for the deeper technical details of this article:	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Hi everyone,It's been a long time since I've posted on these boards. I don't even know if anyone still remembers me. Well anyway, after a long time away, with a lot of healing, and soul searching DH and I have decided it is time to start our FET. I just got home from my new RE (DH and I moved from NH to NY in September!) and after a hysteroscopy showed that my uterus is as the nurses called it "perfect". The nurse then asked me if I ever had a hysterosalpingogram (HSG) test done. I told her that I had when I had my lap done when I was diagnosed with stage 4 endo, and they told me that my right tube was completely closed, and that my left one was 90% closed. She then told me that on the ultrasound it looked like my left tube was a little inflamed and she wanted me to have a HSG done while I was there. She said that if it was bad that I would need to have my tubes removed before I could start my FET. So there I sat...waiting...thinking why did I get myself into this mess again...There is noway I could have surgery....I can't take that much time off of work...blah blah blah...so the RE came in and did the HSG and he told me that everything looked just fine. I said what?? He showed me on the screen how the dye went into both tubes perfectly, and that both of them were wide open with no problems!!! I was in SHOCK!! He told me there was no need for surgery, and that I have the go ahead to start my FET with next months cycle day 1!!! I am so excited, but also a little confused because I never had an FET before. I would love to have advice and support from you amazing wonderful woman. Please join me, and we can get through this together!! Here we go again!!! Much love always,Franny Last edited by turtle0619 on Wed May 02, 2012 1:26 pm, edited 1 time in total. Franny -- Remember you? Are you kidding... I think of you all the time! I'm so happy you got such good news and are moving on to this FET. I think you've got fantastic odds with that perfect uterus of yours. I am excited for you and look forward to stalking the heck out of you! Much love to you my friend. P.S. Remember Katie99? She's also doing a donor embie cycle as we speak! You should PM her. Hi Franny!!! I'm with Lou - do we remember you?? Well thats a silly question girl, I've wondered what you were up to for awhile now! I'm thrilled to hear that have a great new RE and open tubes but mostly that you're feeling up to taking on another cycle, ahem, a successful cycle! Lou is right I'm waiting for AF as we speak ( well type, lol) I have to say that you've been missed greatly and I'm pushing for this to be it for you honey! Much love Franny & Lou - xoxo AHHH Franny!! How I have missed you!! I stalk these boards frequently as to catch up on some old names/friends and I was so delighted to see you start a new thread!!! First I am SOOO happy to hear that you feel emotionally/mentally/and physically ready to start up again and I know that you and your DH are in such a great place!!! Great mental attitude all the way!!! So-regarding FET's....I LOVED doing it so much better than a fresh cycle because it is less morning monitoring, NO bloating from the stims, and less stress on the body. They can also manipulate the first part of your cycle to get your lining thick enough and estrogen high enough before starting the PIO shots. I know I never responded to your last FB email but I wanted to let you know that I got pregnant naturally on our Aruba vacation after my chemical pregnancy. It almost doesn't sound real when I say it out loud but we saw the hb on Saturday and go back Wednesday to hopefully hear the hb!! I'm in shock since we were literally getting the paperwork together to start our FET in January and we were blessed with this miracle! I can't wait to be your BIGGEST cheerleader and your old fans are going to come out of the woodworks for you hun! Franny - welcome back! Come join us on the main thread -- lots of new people (thank goodness, most of the 'regular's are moved forward...) but I'm still here as well as some other "oldies but goodies" and the new people are nice too. Franny - Welcome back!!! I'm so excited to see your screen name pop up on a thread!! I always think of you when I go to visit my family in upstate NY since we talked about how much we loved Saratoga before (and you actually knew what the Teepee was near my parents' town and NO ONE ever knows that LOL.) Anyways, I'm wishing you and DH lots of good luck on this FET cycle and I'll be cheering you on! Franny - Welcome back!!! I'm so excited to see your screen name pop up on a thread!! I always think of you when I go to visit my family in upstate NY since we talked about how much we loved Saratoga before (and you actually knew what the Teepee was near my parents' town and NO ONE ever knows that LOL.) Anyways, I'm wishing you and DH lots of good luck on this FET cycle and I'll be cheering you on! Ok i'm seriously already in tears! Happy tears. I'm so sorry I've been away from here for so long. I hope you all understand. It was just so hard to be left behind. I needed space, and I needed to get a clear head and put IVF on hold for a little bit. I am so sorry for not being as supportive as I should have been for all of my dear friends who's dreams have come true! lou Oh I missed you too!! I think about you all the time too. I'm so happy for you. It must be unreal to have your lil girl in your arms. How is mommyhood? Are you back to work? Thank you for always being here for me. I'm sorry I went MIA. xoxo katie I didn't know you were doing another FET!!!! OMG sweetie I am sending you sooooo much good sticky vibes! Are they from the same batch at the last 2 cycles?? did you poas? When is your beta? how many did you transfer?? Give me the details girl!! Oh I drove by your exit on the thruway when I went down to NYC for NYE and I almost called you, but it was pretty late. I would love to meet Ryan some day. Now that we live in the same state we need to plan a much needed visit. claud OMG OMG!!! I totally can't believe it!! wow!! I am thrilled for you. That is amazing. you know I adore you, and you don't know how much it has meant to me that you have always checked up on my on fb. It really does mean a lot to me. You are an amazing woman, and I am so lucky to have you as a friend. Looks like your going to have to go another summer with no shows!! If I go to any down in NJ we need to meet up for lunch though!! leoria Oh hun I am heart broken that you are still stuck in level one of this horrible game with me. You have always given me so much strength to continue on in this journey. This has got to happen for us!! It has too. I don't know if i'm ready to join in on such a large cycle group, but I'll poke in and always cheer you on!! Amanda we were posting at the same time!! Your daughter is beautiful! I'm so happy for you. Barry and I moved back to new york in September. There were just way too many sad memories in NH, and we both were offered really good jobs here that we just took it as a sign and moved. We went to Howe caverns in the fall, and then took a drive down to cobleskill and oneonta, and I know it's not exactly by your home town I did think of you while we were driving around that day. I hope everything is going well. I can't believe everyone is already trying for #2 or is already pregnant with #2!! Thank you all so much for thinking of me. It means so much. I wasn't sure if I was going to come back and post again because of all of the sad memories, but if it wasn't for the support from all of you gals it would've been a million times harder. I'm so excited to defrost these lil embies, and see what happens. xoxoxo We all understand the need to take a break from the forums for a bit. I've had to do it a few times also. IVF isnt for the faint of heart, luckily us multiple cycle girls all poke in and read when we can and as soon as you see a familar name, boy you're just sucked right back in again. I'm thrilled to see you getting back on the roller coaster - because dammit, this time is it! I'll be right along with you - well that is if AF ever shows up, grrr why when you're waiting for it does it always decide to be late? FETs are sooo much easier, less appts, 2 u/s, and need I even mention that the crazy amount of stim meds we used to need isnt even a thought with a FET. Yiippee for that alone, right? No these are from a different batch, different clinic and crazy as it sounds I'll have to fly across country for this FET. When I had my Aug & Oct attempts my RE wasnt at all happy with the embryo quality and after the heartbreak of 2 more BFNs I couldnt just say "thats it then". We felt that our "last chance" was stunted from the get go when they thawed and werent good. So the search began and we did find a clinic without a 2-3 year waiting list - but the catch is they're on the other side of the country. So we adopted a batch that is remarkably similar to both of us, but unfortunately there are just 3 and they're slow frozen at 3 day. The RE did say that this batch has a good history, but my nerves are shot already, lol. I've got my unopened pack of BCPs just sitting and waiting and as soon as AF arrives I should get my schedule - eeek then I'll really be nervous, lol. I love how we'll get to hold each other's hand for this nerve wracking process - and its going to work for both of us! I insist on it, lol. Do you have a schedule yet? You've got a lot of cheerleaders Franny!! - xoxo Katie, I am also just waiting for AF...although I know I have a few more weeks. I didn't get a schedule..I just had all my meds ordered today, and was told to call with cycle day 1. Like I said I have no idea what to really expect, but way less meds and injections, and way less SnS's makes me a lot happier. This new clinic I am at is all about meditation and acupuncture. They have a healing arts center attached to it, and they must pump some kind of sedative in the vents because I was really calm and relaxed (for the most part) during my procedures, and I'm always a nervous nelly! I don't think it's strange to go across the country to get your babies at all!!! I got mine, and then moved my whole life to be closer to them so who am I to judge? hahaI think it's amazing that you want to give Ryan a sibling, and I know this is our time!!! You have no idea how happy I am to be able to talk about this with you again. Well I can only go by my last schedule, but from what I remember is was something like 2-3 weeks on BCPs then start estrace ( maybe 10-15 days of that?) then PIO starts 5 days before a blast transfer ( 3 days if its a 3d transfer) and baby aspirin and doxy and medrol until FET. Of course this new clinic prefers estrogen via injection so that'll be new for me, but on the plus side they'd rather I use crinone 2x day instead of PIO. With my old clinic I had to do both and as much as I hate those lumps I'm a bit concerned that last time my P4 levels were so low. Ahhh, we didnt even start yet and the questions and anxieties begin already, lol. Missed you girl.. Franny it is so wonderful hearing from you. Of course we remember you!!! I have often wondered how you were doing. You have been such an inspiration for many of us...especially me and I have missed your positive attitude so much. I am so happy to hear that you are back with us and this will work for you If there is anything I have noticed on this board is that sooner or later it does work for all of us. Best of luck to you sweety. I have to wait a few months since my baby was born via c section but I plan to join in around July. ahhhhh, FRANNY!!!!! I am so happy you are back. Obviously you touched alot of people and anyone who cycled with you would remember you! I still hang on these boards occasionally, just to check on past cycle sisters and I have become a silent stalker to some of the girls who's journey keep me coming back, waiting for a happy ending (leorira, I am talking about you girl). Congrats on adopting your embies, I will now start stalking you! It is your time girl! Katie99, I am so glad you are trying again for a sib for Ryan! Interesting you gotta fly, but it will be well worth it! Are you doing Lupron with your FET or just taking estrace and they will monitor your natural surge?? I did Lupron with Mady and it worked well for me because it took so long for my darn lining to get thick so I literally was on estrogen for a month until I started the PIO shots!! I love the idea of a clinic that encourages mediation and acupuncture!! Relaxed during a proceedure?!?!? That sounds so foreign to me How many embies do you have and how many are you transferring? Are they 3d or 5d embies? I can't tell you how excited I am for you Katie99!!!! Um...yes to a get together in New York or New Jersey!!! My best friend from college lives in Clifton Park and I try and visit her at least once a year and we meet up at Woodbury Commons once or twice a year so it's definitely possible!!! Rhonda-so good to hear from you hon!!! How are your beautiful girls?!?! 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Victoria the Voice High Council Files Edenia Series By Beth Hoyer Copyright Smashwords 2020 This is the diary entries of one Victoria Montreal Thunder original copy born of a tube through a female carrying a baby that grew up to be Victoria herself paired to High Council's servant Tom Mindbender Thunder himself. This is the recordings of Victoria's as recorded by her typing onto the computer her laptop her diary entries as ordered by the High Council's recorder of memories. "You to sort your books!" this command emailed to me from Morena Morgan my friend who's stuck close to me like glue. I emailed her in response "I don't have anything to do besides collecting books." Morena emailed "Just find ten to give up." I wasn't in the mood even with an attack of paranoia at the time. Schizophrenia reared its' ugly head chanting "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?!" This triggered my paranoia involving not being in private to go off bothering me as a result. Yuck. I didn't feel like sorting my books anyway. I just didn't. I wound up suffering from a voiced attack starting around three o'clock involving the bathroom number two. I was talking to Morena at the time when the attack started. Morena said "I urged you to sort books." but I wasn't in the mood from the voice's talk and paranoia aggravated. Yuck. I never told Morena that I was sick with a voice attack at the time I talked to her. Instead in the morning I told her by email of that sickness. I'm just waiting for her response. Ugh. Also I saw Dellen's show then around four o'clock I got creepy out by the voice's blaring went to the computer to type till five o'clock is when I went to go take my pills and eat some food. Ugh again. I made a mess onto my clothes involving the food the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I ate. I spilled jelly onto the areas of my thighs. "Yucky! Ugh this sucks." Also mom text emailed me "you to call me at seven o'clock." which I was creepy out on having to do that while sick with the voiced attack. I called mom at seven o'clock as asked by her "I'm sick tonight with me sick with a voiced attack involving the bathroom and voice bothering me." Mom said "I understand love you lots." hung up the call and left me to the computer. I wound up watching TV around nine o'clock till close to ten o'clock pill time is when my paranoia got aggravated so I went to the computer. I was able to go take my pill then attend to my teeth but I didn't wash my water bottle which I could have done that chore. Ugh terrible big time. Also I think around midnight is when the bathroom's attack involving voice quit but I kept on editing one story till my noisy head involving tiredness got too loud for me to concentrate. I went to bed even with that inner noises' blaring. Yuck. Sleep with REM sleep was a long time coming for me. I was sleeping with the voice going off but paranoia not aggravated hence I able to sleep. I slept somewhat poorly with wake ups for bathroom multiple times till around six thirty is when I got up given up on sleep as a result. Baby cute kitten didn't visit me till six thirty is when she visited me. I tried to get her to tummy sit onto my front but she refused and walked off. Aw poor cute baby kitten poor me. Also I emailed Morena "I give my regrets involving sorting books. I was sick with a voiced attack at the time." I'm not sure of when she'll respond to my email. She's been keeping odd hours involving bedtime and sleeping in the morning. Morena is weird sometimes. Oh well. I emailed Jolica Joliet a teacher from high school who emailed me out of a blue "You want to talk to me? Kindly email me mews if inclined out of needing someone to talk to." Jolica is a teacher from high school that gave me detention I'm still not forgiven her for that detention but she's used cats' pictures with her emails to make me respond. I wound up emailing her as a result saying "Hi Jolica hopes your day is good one." Jolica said "My day is sort of boring being in a grocery store as an employee than a teacher." I'm not sure of how Jolica wound up not teaching at the high school and working at a grocery store for a major chain dubbed "Americaversal" by the name. I tried to ask her once "How did you wound up working at that grocery store than teaching?" "Drop the subject and don't ask again!" she said in response which I wound up asking Merra in response "What's going on with Jolica Joliet changing jobs?" Merra claimed "You getting detention from her are why she was fired from her job by people sympathizing with you on that matter. Hence she's doesn't want to be reminded she made a mistake giving you detention and paid for it." I didn't say anything in response to that talk instead got told by Merra "Just keep communications with Jolica herself out of the High Council insisted out of curiosity that there's such thing as forgiveness. This forgiveness talk is something the High Council is trying to learn and cope with." I obeyed which I emailed Jolica of my day then after that I meant to email other people but I wasn't in the mood to bother. Ugh. Jolica responded with her email that was short and not filled with much to quote home with "Sounds like a nice day." Jolica is hardly talkative with her emails' contents despite I'm very wordy. Morena responded to my email which I was in a chat with her till eleven o'clock is when we both quit. I wound up eating a somewhat sub par lunch that was just finger foods than anything decent. Ugh I had cup candy which I piglet the remainder of the bowl. After that I had some cheese which I'm out of bread at the moment. I do have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but I'm saving them for dinner than eating them for lunch. I had a nutria grain bar of apple pie or some apple flavor into it. This was tasty stuff I guess. Oh well. I wound up emailing Morena who replied soon after that which I was in a chat with her. I'm still chatting but she's sluggish with her responses. Morena is taking forever to read my email and respond with her messages. Morena sucks big time with that behavior which annoys me. Ugh again. Also I ordered a Columbia girl doll called "Bristol Berlin" as named which is nice. I thought that doll would make a nice addition to my dolls' collection. Anyway that doll is a girl of the year doll involving baking or cooking or something I think. I'm not sure of which is which. Oh well. That doll Bristol reminds me of an actress with her facial appearance including her red hair and green eyes. This seems nice I guess with that reminder enough to buy a copy to order. Doll reminds me of actress Charisma Chic with the facial appearance and red hair with the green eyes. I have no idea what to make of that. Ugh here's to hoping I'll have enough money to pay for the remainder of my bills like cable and electricity. Schizophrenic voice has been saying "The cable bill would be in the two hundred and seventeen's range." Ugh I hope not anyway. I received my monthly paycheck today which totaled into the six hundred dollar range. I'm not entirely sure of the monthly paycheck's increase. Oh I used to get five hundred and eighty five dollars or around that amount but now I'm getting six hundred dollars a month. Seems nice I guess except that cuts my benefits down a bit. Ugh. Anyway I paid my cell phone bill which was almost one hundred dollars. The bill was mostly a few cents off the one hundred dollar mark. Ugh terrible big time to get a brand new cell phone and have to pay outrageous fees for it. Yuck. I wound up downloading stories from Smash-words' website to be saved onto computer out of needing something to do. I meant to get around to reading those stories than collecting them for downloading. Ugh sucks. Also wound up into a chat with Morena who balked replying a minute after I replied to her email message. Morena sucks big time with her cuts offs emails involving talking to me. Ugh really Morena! I was thinking of plagiarizing someone's work as in taking someone's idea to change it into an Edenia series' story or something to amuse myself with. I doubt that I would do that shitty idea. The voice says "Bad idea, not nice!" I have to agree with the voice's talk on that idea of mine. Morena after a lengthy pause ended chat with her saying "I'm going to clean the fridge" which she added "Ciao for now." Ugh. Morena sucks with her chatty mood not turning out to be chatty like I hoped she would be talkative. Ugh again. Anyway I had a story involving my own work involving wolves or people who could change into wolves I used part of that story to change into another story involving an alien from moon machinery like planet arriving to planet earth and learning various abilities while there. Ugh. This idea was my own plagiarizing my own story idea into another story idea for another character. I keep doing that plagiarizing of my work over and over. I think this is why my work won't sell online Smash-words' website because the reader knows I'm known for this plagiarizing of my work over and over. Ugh this is the pits. I received my cable bill in the mail which was paid electronically. Oh Yay for that payment. Ooh goody except the bill was like last month's bill one hundred and seventy seven dollars with some change in the late twenties. Ugh terrible. I've still got money left to pay for my electricity bill including other frivolous stuff that won't be a Columbia girl doll since I already bought one. Ugh. I can't afford two Columbia girl dolls as payment. I have to save money for cutesy cat's vet needs including my own personal needs. This stinks when I want to buy another Columbia girl doll but I don't have the money to bother. Ugh this is terrible big time. Ugh I and my big mouth got me in trouble with mom who's known as Bea Beatrice Bee as publicity known while also known as my mother raiser on the phone. I admitted to mom "I paid for a Columbia girl doll." which she said "Really Victoria!" Mom scolded me for buying that doll. Mom said "I think you should have saved my money for paying off dad instead of buying a doll. I thought you should have saved your money for cat's vet bill appointments than spending money on frivolous stuff like a Columbia girl doll." Jeez Louise now she tells me this talk and scolds me. Mom rudely hung up our call around seven o'clock after telling me "You to go call me back at eight o'clock after checking online for the Columbia girl doll's purchase order and cancel it." Ugh. I might have to lie to mom by phone at eight o'clock "The doll's purchase order was cancelled." I might have to tell mom what she wants to hear and not anything else involving this purchase order. Ugh sucks. I do hope that mom buys my explanation that I cancelled the doll's order and got part of my money back. Ugh. I don't aim to return that doll once I get it in the mail next week. I aimed to hide that doll into the closet and leave it there like one doll I bought off Columbia girl's website I hid into the closet. This lying sucks big time when I have to do that to mom and see what else I can do involving getting myself onto mom's good graces. Ugh hate lying but I'll tell her what she wants to hear and hope she'll buy my explanation. Ugh terrible. "I lied to mom" Chanted voice after I got off the phone with mom around eight thirty. I wound up phoning mom around eight o'clock and lied to her when I said "I did canceled the Columbia girl doll's purchase order." Ugh I haven't really cancelled that order instead just let the purchase go through. I'm still determined to have that damn doll around my home for displaying or maybe awhile after I paid dad off that vet bill's debt. Ugh can't wait anyway. Mom whined by phone "You should have waited till June to bother to buy that doll now. That doll was a girl of the year doll I thought would go on sale in June or later this year." Ugh jeez mom for this talks anyway. Oh well ended phone call lying to mom but I don't know if she's got the Source abilities involving detecting a lie like I can occasionally detect lies said to me. I can tell whenever someone said a lie to me by the voice saying "Liar!" into my mind in a female voice sounding like my own thought but not the schizophrenic voice. I'm told by Tank "Natasha your mother who birth you had schizophrenic voiced problems something that fascinated the High Council back then to think that voiced problem involving mind walking including hearing other people's thoughts. This thinking turned out to be a chemical imbalance problem in the brain of humans that were declared schizophrenic and not mind walker abilities. This problem is still fascinating to the High Council who suspects mind walker abilities manifesting into schizophrenic individuals who are hearing other people's thoughts besides their own thoughts. This is just a brain problem of individuals whose brain organs have the wrong chemistry that makes them hear voices something the High Council is still interested into." I wound up further hearing Tank laughing cutting the talk like the big three Meritanians Ramses the talker while his sisters Erra and Terra don't talk much did something joker with their mind walking manifestation power abilities. Ugh I also heard Merra who accompanied Tank snickering into my mind too like she's always cued to my mind to hear her all over the place. Ugh I never get a break from her noises despite thinking "I'm getting a break." I don't get a break as thought only to hear Merra say "Sticky Vicky you should type this down!" For the records I hate the joker name of "Sticky Vicky" shared with Nikolas Thunder himself who hates the name of "Sticky Nicky" as blared by Meritanians onto him while their telling jokes. Nikolas Thunder is a hybrid humanoid of a vampire but he can travel during the daylight and not burn up like some vampire species seemed to have problems with the sun. Nikolas got his name from being a cloned copy of Nikolai with my Tom's characteristics as his body but his own facial appearance. The High Council according to Tom "They claim to Nikolas that they created him and used me to create a vampire clone of me that they dub Nikolas Thunder. This is just a lie said to him out of that he came from Humania an obsessed planetary world the High Council is obsessed with and wanted Humanian natives into services of the group. I'm not sure of what the obsession of the High Council towards planet Humania other than they referred the world as home. I figured that Humania must be where the High Council originally originated hence they seemed obsessed with returning to the planetary world." Tom cut the talk and wound up walking into my bathroom into my two room apartment I was staying like a rude person without me questioning him further. I did sense a light show come from the bathroom and went to type his talk onto computer or laptop computer. I wound up urged to hit the toilet which I discovered the toilet appearing to be used by a male to my disgust I figured Tom did that either using it or the High Council roped him into doing that joke. I did sense myself filmed while in the bathroom by voice saying into my mind in familiar female voice "Your filmed!" I'm disgusted that the High Council has the bathroom recorded for Tom's going and arrival. Ugh hence I kept getting that filming talk into my mind. Yuck. I crashed around nine forty five with a bit of voice going including paranoia going off a bit "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?!" Ugh I slept fine anyway with some wakeups for bathroom despite the filming sensed into there with the familiar voice saying "You're filmed!" Also I wound up tummy sat by the baby cute kitten that came and visited me then tummy sat me lying in bed. Aw she's so cute when tummy sitting. I love that little shithouse fur ball galore. She's a cute little stinker even when's she stinks up the cat's bathroom that was into my bathroom. I put her kitty litter box I nickname "Dumperium" into my bathroom despite Tom kept stepping into it whenever he appeared into light shows of Meritanians' transportation. Tom kept whining to me "The Meritanians keep transporting me into that damn box like it's a signed arrival place despite I kept finding me into it. I hate that the cat's litter box is still insisted to be left into the bathroom by the Meritanians who need a place to concentrate onto whenever they transport me to there Argh!" Anyway I phoned mom twice this morning. At first she ignored me so I left a message saying "Hi its Victoria hopefully text email me mews phone wise. Let me know what's planned for today." Mom has today off from her grocery store job something that seemed popularity done among natives in the state of Long River Place which is to work into a grocery store. The second call mom picked up to whine "I'm cleaning my bathroom floor. I would come up to see you once I'm done with that chore." I hope she does come up to see me. Ugh. Mom went to visit Auntie Berliner's apartment as said by her sister or cloned copy on the phone who kept call short as two minutes "I'm driving and can't be on the cell phone." Auntie Berliner is named Berry Beatrice Bee but she hates the nickname of Barry associated with her name of Berry hence she's said "Just call me Auntie Berliner." Ugh also driving while on the cell phone is not a good habit hence I agreed to hang up the phone and wound up waiting for mom's arrival. I called town library "I'm calling to ask for Verona Vander's seven series book 'Seven times bangers'." That book was a movie's script book out now. Nice I guess. "We don't have that book but we'll inter library loan that book from another library." as said by librarian which I said "Okay that's fine with me." I hung up after Librarian asked me "Anything else I can help you with?" I said "No thanks!" and hung up. I'm glad that the library is inters librarian loan Seven times bangers which is good I guess. Oh well. Mom arrived into my apartment which she gave me some stuff like two books. One book turned out to be useless because mom ripped out some stuff from it so I doubt I would be reading that thing very much. Ugh again. Anyway today was mom's little Lancemas the feast of the three sisters. Mom already gave me her little Lancemas' gift earlier which I gave her a free lunch at Dublin Donuts using my gift card. Mom at Dublin Donuts wound up saying "I'm insisting onto my choice of food menu to eat for our meals but you can pick your own drink." which was strawberry milk. Tasty stuff but I think I didn't care for the food which was taco wrapping cheese and egg together. Ugh no wonder I was sick in the toilet soon after eating that food. After eating was library where I remembered I had two library books at home waiting for me to read. Both books aren't due till the twenty third this month. Oh Yay me for being halfway through one of those books. Ugh after library was to Torrington as the town is referred as Torrin's Ville by the High Council to a store for crafts called Shy Shanna's. Shy Shanna's is the name of the craft store despite unsure of where the name came from. The store is where mom and I took a look through that store. I found beads on sale but I didn't buy anything. "I considered buying pins for you using my gift card." I told Mom. Mom handled the pins and said "Their too heavy for me to wear. So save your money don't buy anything for me." Ugh no wonder the cloned ladies who work in the store were glad to see mom and I leave by relief expressions seen on their faces when we both left through the exit. Ugh I swear our browsing for handling items was causing the store clerks to become uncomfortable out of we both not buying anything. After we went to Shy Shanna's was Stephanie's an office like store where I took a look through that store for spiral bound notebooks. I didn't find what I wanted but I found two notebooks to use as journals which were on sale. "Do you want a bag for them?" The sales clerk wrote down his request by post it pad note instead of talking to me. I guess mom must have told him when I wasn't looking "You to write down your request." which he did. Nice of mom to tell him that but I don't know if mom told or he figured out himself. Oh well I confess that mom habitually tells people "You to write down what your saying to me and my daughter." Mom has a slight deafness hearing problem involving hearing hence she's insisting on these written notices towards people. She's still treats me like I can't hear at the time which I can hear. Problem is I have a little trouble telling the difference from what I'm hearing by ears and what I'm hearing by my mind as in Meritanians' snickering jokes including schizophrenic voice. I figured that writing down requests is a good way to figure out what the person wants from me hence mom's insisting. Anyway the two notebooks and stickers I bought were on sale for a nice discount. Cute I guess. I aimed to use them for journaling or maybe sticking notes from people into them for saving for later uses. After Stephanie's I think we went to grocery shop for food which I bought around twenty nine dollars worth of food from my credit card set aside for buying food with. Oh Yay me. Mom got me home "I noticed you looked sad and upset about something." as said to me. I whined to her "I think the cancellation notice of the purchased doll didn't go through. I think the Columbia girl company was still sending the doll." She took the news fine but scolded me "You shouldn't be buying that doll when you should have paid off your debt to dad." Ugh dad is Rob Marina as that cloned Lance Richard copy aka known as Jinks Montreal that currently lives in the same town as me but into a house down the road from my apartment. Also mom insisted "You to see my ex-husband as your father." They used to be paired together into marriage to raise me but since I'm a legal adult their no longer paired together and still on cordial terms using me as an excuse to get along. I'm not privy to the details of their separation but they refused to talk about the divorce as marriages' breakups as referred to as called. I suspect their still legally married but their not together in the same residences. Oh well. I tried to ask Merra once "Why my mother and father raisers still legally married despite living separated?" Merra in response gave up laughter and dumped me into the town of Win Ville's Lake Highlander Lake as referred by the High Council instead of answering my question. I wound up dumped back into my apartment onto my bed spilling water everywhere. Ugh my bed required bed stuff changed for fresh clean ones. Also my residence cat I dubbed Samantha Black was no where to be seen which I figured the transportation scared her hence she's hiding. I figured right then that the Meritanians were ordered "you to dump Victoria into Highlander Lake if she asks an inappropriate question." I also figured that the subject of mom and father raiser's marriage was not to be said or answered by the Meritanians who would dump the asker into the nearest body of water like a joke. Ugh Mom cut her visit short in response to my talk of that doll she saying "I'm still furious with you to ordering that doll you can't return. I insist that you to call me at seven o'clock tonight." "I will as you want mom." I said which she left slamming the door to the apartment including I felt the vibrations of the stairwell door downstairs bang shut. Ugh a neighbor had to ring my doorbell flasher put there by Mom who said "You can't seem to tell the difference from the noise of your head and your ears so use that thing." The doorbell flasher went off an hour later which I found a neighbor Matilda Marie as she's referred to handing me a note she thinking "Your deaf and can't hear me." as said by Merra mind scanning at the time. The neighbor after handing me the note bid me bye and left. I read the note which said "Please refrain from door slamming! Neighbors are sensitive to the noises!" I figured I'll tell mom by phone not to door slam the door next time which once the time was six thirty she text emailed me to phone her. "Call mom!" she said by message around six thirty. Ugh I was on the phone a deaf typewriter like phone with mom for over an hour till fifteen minutes to eight o'clock is when mom whined "I want to get off the phone and go read a book." She's a big reader of books despite I find that reading sometimes helps me forget the inner noises' blaring voices. I got the phone and didn't do much besides reading "Seven Fold" by Verona Vander with the TV on blaring. "Seven Fold" by Verona Vander is a part of her seven book series of seven books. Seven Fold is a sequel to the movie "Seven Daughters" involving a baby girl with a mark onto her arm. The baby girl is prophesied to grow up to destroy an evil witch queen to death. Something cute I guess. Anyway I read "Seven Fold" till ten fifteen is when my noisy head involving tiredness got too noisy for me. "Are you forgetting something forgetting some!" chanted the voice getting very loud that I couldn't read my book anymore. I quit for bed taking that book with me to my bedroom in hopes of reading more of it if I couldn't sleep. I slept fine as a result. Saturday or referred as Cat's Day was a gloomy day filled with rain and cloudiness that depressed me. I didn't go out at all as a result. Also my cutesy cat hid galore while I was at home watching junk on the Home and Garden Channel I favored involving a favored show involving the actress Charisma Chic marathoning till three o'clock is when they went to show something else involving twins dubbed Chip and Dip odd names. I think cute baby kitten was hiding in response to the stormy weather outside. She's scared brainless of those rainstorms. Poor baby cute kitten aw. Cat's Day was a fiasco with the voice chanting on and off all damn day which annoyed me "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?!" The voice's chanting had cutie avoiding me and hiding from me in response to that noisy issue including the stormy weather. Yuck. I wound up during the afternoon heavily reading Anna Alina's vampire series The Bloody Diaries reading book two with interruptions of cute baby kitten coming to lap sit me twice. She resumed hiding as a result as I went to resume reading that damn book. I read like one hundred and fifty pages of the library book within two hours with a break to entertain the cutest cat sitting onto my lap. Aw cute. "Call Mom" as text emailed me around six thirty to phone her which I did. I was on the phone for around an hour or fifteen minutes till eight o'clock is when mom said "I insisted on getting off the phone." Mom whined to me by phone "I missed my work shift because of issues in the toilet hence I unable to go to work." Ugh a pity anyway. Mom said "I scolded myself." while on the phone that "I could have gone to work and taken some medication for my upset stomach." A pity! After our phone call the TV showed that annoying show that always gets voice chanting results of that house contests' show saying "Love it! List it!" I saw that the show the TV was airing that night was reruns boring me to tears actually. Those reruns had me reading a book by Michelle Michael for over an hour. I think around eight forty five is when I recognized the nine o'clock episode was going to be a rerun I read Michael's book till a bit till ten fifteen or ten twenty is when I crashed. Ugh. I slept fine till morning from ten thirty to eight forty five in the morning. I did get visited by the cutest cat only once in the morning but soon after she visited me I woke up and got up and started my day. Aw cute of the baby cat to remind me to get up and get out of bed. Sunday was just a day I spend staying home bored to tears including watching TV and entertaining the furry bundle of fur. I phoned mom and left a message onto her answering machine saying "Hi its Victoria kindly text email me mews phone wise ASAP." Mom had today off from work but her text emailed me "I've gone to church." She didn't respond to my pleading message around ten thirty "Mom I want a phone call so text email me!" till noon is when she finally text emailed me "Call mom!" I was on the phone till around one o'clock is when mom whined "I want to go take a nap. I'm tired from my sick day on Cat's Day." This is a pity towards mom for being tired. Oh well poor Momsy. Anyway I wound up into a chat with Morena till two o'clock is when she rudely cut me off without a commentary of goodbye or anything. Morena sucks big time with her rude cuts offs involving online chat options. Ugh. Also I think I was lap sat by the cute baby kitten multiple times today. I think the cutie was trying to make up for not being social yesterday hence her lap sitting happy behavior today. Poor baby cute kitten poor me. Last night I read Verona Vander's book seven banger times for an hour till like nine thirty is when my noisy head got too noisy for me to concentrate onto that book. Ugh turned out to be number two in the toilet around that time hence I had to watch TV for thirty minutes till ten o'clock is when I crashed with the alarm clock attached to me. I set alarm clock for seven o'clock in the morning which woke me up fine. I didn't care to shower early as seven thirty. Yuck but I didn't care to take my pills early as eight o'clock with globs of chocolate spread to help my appetite when I walk around town. Also when I walked to the highway sidewalk I found my missing water bottle sitting on the sidewalk. I hauled grocery cart full of books yesterday to school which I gave to Morena then I hauled that empty thing carrying my water bottle to home. The water bottle fell out I found out when I got home hence I looking for that thing on the way to the doctor's office. Oh Yay for me for finding that thing. I instead of carrying that thing around town walked home and put that water bottle onto the window still in the stairwell and resumed walking to my doctor's office. The weather snowed a bit on the way but not much snow to cancel schools or plow roads or require booties. I wore my sneakers instead of booties. Oh well. Also I went to doctor's office with sore thighs. My thighs and legs whined in pain from three days of grocery cart hauling books to school. I think due to the snow I didn't haul grocery cart with me this time. Oh well again. I got to doctor's office fine but Stephanie Stephens the secretary had to write a note involving the doctor's lateness due to traffic. "The doctor will be late arriving from traffic." She wrote. The doctor arrived ten minutes pass the nine o'clock time for appointment and didn't see me till five minutes later. Ugh. Also last night read Verona Vander's book and wound up finding that book by e-reader downloaded fine including setting the e-book to where I was in that paper version. I didn't bother to read that e-book while I was out and about town or at the doctor's office or at school either. Ugh. I wound up at the doctor's charging e-reader because the battery was early ninety or around eighty nine percent so I charged that thing till doctor's appointment was over with is when I quit that charging. I found the charging made it to ninety seven percent than one hundred percent. Damn it. After the doctor's the voice picked onto me saying "Are you forgetting something?" I ignored and went to a small grocery store to take a look around. This visit was my first time to that grocery store but I didn't find anything worthy of buying like fruits or anything so I didn't buy anything. Oh well dumb me. I went to the bank and gave the teller forty bucks worth of coins and small bills together totaling forty dollars. I got forty dollars in twenties back. I figured I'll use one to pay dad the debt while I use the other for buying much needed restocking of stuff at home. I went to school to Morena's office which she told me "I scold you for showing up at my office. I don't want you showing up at my office anymore because of people's nosiness noticing you visiting me. I was appearing to be socializing and not working hence I'm insisting you not show up anymore." Ugh a pity hence she doesn't want me visiting her in her office. I went to the school library's computers to use for the internet's chat option which I pinged Morena. Morena pinged me back saying "I'm fine with you chatting with me electronically but not in person in my office." Oh well. I chatted with Morena electronically for an hour till eleven thirty or around that time I signed off and went to Dublin Donuts for buying lunch which was a bagel and cream cheese using a gift card. I went to the drug store to buy a candy bar using a gift card I was planning on eating in front of Morena but didn't bother doing that. Morena once we met for lunch in the café started whining "The government shutdown affecting people's food stamp card's money. I want you to avoid buying junk and being frugal with the food stamp card's money including the same with you buying of junk too." Ugh. Morena added "I think the government shutdown would affect your food stamp card's money not being reloaded for next month." Ugh terrible. After lunching with Morena I walked to drug store for pill refills which costs me eight bucks and fifty cents I had to use my own card to pay for because I couldn't find my gift card sitting into my wallet. Ugh sucks. I need to organize my damn wallet of its cards and stuff. This fact that I can't seem to find any cards involving gift cards in that thing is giving me trouble. Yuck. I had forty dollars but I opt not to spend that money instead I saved that money for dad to pay for cat debt bill including saving for the cutest cat's vet bills too. Ugh. After drug store I walked home and at home I was sick in the toilet with number two that got the voice going triggering my paranoia off. Yuck I was sick in the toilet twice with the voice and paranoia going off. I think around two thirty is when this paranoia's aggravation quit but the bathroom continued. I had that candy bar I shouldn't have bought from drug store. This is something Morena said "I've been whining to people to save their money for food and stuff and being frugal." Ugh. Around three o'clock before Dellen's show I was doing business in the toilet which the voice didn't comment a word in response to that nerve always going off with number two. I'm surprised that the nerve for number two didn't trigger the voice to go off around that time. Ugh. I watched Dellen's show which she's funny as always. Cute show anyway. I saw almost an hour of local news till around five o'clock is when the mailman arrived with Bristol Berlin the Columbia girl doll I ordered which I couldn't cancel out the order. I instead of mailing back the box for money back threw the box out with a journal I finished the other day. As for the doll I took her out of the box and displayed her onto a bookcase. Oh well. I meant to tell mom by phone that I got a Columbia girl doll but mom threw an angry fit while on the phone when I told her I ordered one. I didn't bother to tell her that the doll as ordered came into the mail today. Oh sucks. Also around six o'clock after dinner I called mom and was on the phone for an hour till seven o'clock a new operator came onto the phone line that made mom hung up. "Mom I requested a callback." which mom said "Call at seven thirty for me to use the facilities." This was done. Mom and I were on the phone for thirty minutes talking about books till mom said "I insisted I wanted to hang up." which the operator a male rudely typed "SK." symbol than let me say a word. I said my traditional message "I love you lots Momsy Bobsy." without knowing if the operator was still connecting our call or not and then hung up. Ugh damn the operator for their rudeness. I got into pajamas as a result then I emailed Jolica my damn day's outing stuff then I figured since I was chatty with my email to type a journaling entry into my journal. "Ooh what Columbia girl doll did you get?" This is Jolica's response to my lengthy email. She didn't stick around for me to reply or not reply. I meant to reply to that email but I'm just not entirely sure if Jolica would read that email tonight if I reply. Oh well. I went to organizing my books and dolls and toys around my home. I put the already read books into bookcases into my bedroom then I put the clutter on the dining card table into the dresser next to the table. Oh Yay me. Also opened a window and aired out the dust stirred up in here for thirty minutes till I froze cold and shut that thing. I turned on the heat and went to eat food for lunch including sending people emails. Oh nice. I sent Morena and Jolica emails of my day organizing clutter around here then after that I didn't do much besides chasing the poor baby cute kitten for a kissing and hugging faced ritual. The baby cat balked and ran off out of my reach and out of my sight. Dumb me. I'm home sick waiting forever for word from mom for a phone call tonight. She didn't picking up the phone at six o'clock. Ugh hence I'm stuck home waiting for her to text email me mews ASAP. Mom didn't picking up the phone at seven o'clock when I ranged her up. Ugh this is really an annoying habit of mom to do towards me when's I'm sick with a voiced attack and don't need this phone call ignorance of mom's. "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?!" sang voice creeping me out. Mom text emailed me around eight o'clock "Call mom." I whined "I'm working onto a story." as an excuse to get off the phone with her. Ugh jeez mom for falling for that trick like always. Ugh mom hung up as a result which I wound up onto the computer. Sunday was a fiasco with me sick with the voice involving the nerve for number two. I think around six o'clock is when the paranoia got aggravated enough to bother me including mom's unwillingness to text email me ASAP. Ugh. Mom's texting lateness drove the voice to blare too much including scaring me too much too. Yuck once I was on the phone with mom around eight o'clock I whined to mom of working onto a story which she took that excuse fine then got off the phone. After that excuses of a phone call I wound up working onto a story till nine forty five is when the bathroom quit and voice quit attacking me. Ugh something I've eaten must have bothering me as a result. Ooh goody. Also I worked onto my story till like ten forty five is when I went to lie down which I didn't sleep very good. I think I was nervous involving the voice's blaring that I slept somewhat poorly till six forty five is when I woke up and wound up saving my work onto disk by computer. Ugh. Last night I wound up reading one hundred pages of an e-book till five o'clock dinnertime. I read seven fold book seven series. Oh Yay me. I did check out the paper version of Vander's book but I have yet to crack that open to read. Oh well this stinks big time to check out books I have already the e-book version. Ugh. How greedy of me to check out books I already have the e-book version of. Ugh again. Anyway I read that e-book till five o'clock is when my noisy head got too noisy for me. I had to go take my pills and go eat dinner which I did. I ate four slices of buttered toast and some blueberries. Ugh screw the fact that I had to eat with the voice going off. Also I noticed around the five o'clock hour I keep wounding up sick in the toilet with number two that triggers the voice to go off including ruining my appetite to eat anything decent like fruits and vegetables. Ugh. Sometimes the voice comments "You having the e-book version of a paper version book you shouldn't check out from the town library." Like Verona Vander's book seven banger times when I got commentary after I tried to check out the library's version. I already have the e-book version I'm not reading much of very good. Ugh. Jolica when I asked her "What do you think of Verona Vander's seven series?" said "I raves that Vander's seven series is very good and well written." I already downloaded the series onto e-reader on her advice "You should get the books their very good." I'm trying to read more of that series but I'm just not keen or in the mood to bother. Ugh I just don't get it why's that series supposedly good according to Jolica which isn't attracting my eye to read the books entirely. Ugh. This is the same for Bristol Berlin the Columbia doll is named after who's an author who writes fiction works. Jolica on my asking by email "What do you think of Bristol Berlin the author despite there's a Columbia doll named after her?" said "I say some of Berlin's books are good like the apartment complex." which I could barely get into. Ugh. I just don't get it why's Berlin's books are supposedly be good but I can't seem to make myself read more of her works or any of her books. Ugh sucks. I asked mom by phone "Have you heard of this author Bristol Berlin?" She told me by operator interpreting "I found her books are terrible like a journaling entry that's telling this and that than anything involving descriptive writing. I found one example of that journaling involving her titled book Her Royal Cuteness about cats." Ugh I found that book Her Royal Cuteness rather good but heart breaking. I found the book okay enough to rate it a seven out of ten. Ugh too bad mom didn't care for that damn book. Oh well I ended phone conversation and didn't think of doing anything else till Merra's laughter was heard into my mind. Merra quit her laughter then said "How about a tale involving dying one?" I didn't comment a response for I figured she's always cued towards me to hear her for recording's sakes onto my laptop computer which I waited for her to say something. Instead she became quiet and I wound up typing onto computer a journaling entry out of Merra not saying anything. I emailed dad and Jolica a story a short story I out of needing something to do involving reading and typing. I did save an extra copy of that story to tell it in first person when I get around to that typing status. Ugh. Also baby cute kitten hung around in sight and wound up onto my lap but she got off fast and ran off. Ugh turns out she pooped number two into the cat's bathroom hence her friendly forgiveness behavior. Ugh poor cutie always pulls this friendly behavior onto me after she does number two into the cat's bathroom. Sometimes the voice chants whenever she's finished with number two in the cat's bathroom. Ugh a pity anyway that I have to put up with that damned noisy issue. Anyway I've managed to text email dad "Check your email I emailed you an Edenia series short story." Dad said in response "I'm shoveling snow." Ugh. I did email Jolica that story but that was by regular email than chat's email. Ugh that story was too long for me to email her by Chat's email hence I went with regular email. Ugh. Jolica responded to my lengthy email in Chat's email "Stay safe and warm." One time I typed a lengthy email involving my day which she responded with "Sounds like a good day." I typed another lengthy day's contents email to her in Chat's email which she responded with her twin saying "Sounds like a good day" than anything else. Jolica sometimes sucks when's she's not talkative with Chat's email emailing responses. This lack of talkative emails is the same with dad not talkative by texting him "How was your day?" which he responded with a short abrupt texting message "Fine." Ugh jeez daddy. Baby cute kitten has gone to hide somewhere at the moment. I'm not sure of where on Mars that baby cutie went to hide. Ugh I guess she's hiding underneath the damn couch again. Dumb cat dumb animal for hiding like that behavior than being social with me. Ugh can't the dumbbell be social than hiding from me?! Ugh what a dumb cat for her avoidance behavior and not being social like I expected her to be. Ugh. I went online Chat's email pinging Morena saying "Hi Morena what's mew with you?" I wound up into a short chat with Morena but she's whining "There's power outage at my house this morning into afternoon." Plus I think that's making her internet service not behave when's it's comes to responding to my emails. Ugh. Morena added "I'll talk to you later." signed out. I wound up turning the heat back on out of freezing in here. Monday referred by the High Council as Mars' Day is supposedly being freezing cold even though that day is a holiday. Oh well. I'm just not looking forwards to Monday because of that day is a holiday that's bound to make colleges' closed and leave me stuck at home bored to tears and slobbering the poor baby cute kitten with too much kisses and hugs fests. Also leave me bored to tears of the damn TV not showing anything decent besides crummy programs involving sporting events than anything else. Ugh screw the fact that the holidays preempt the talk shows and always show sports than anything decent. Ugh today's a holiday involving civil rights' memory leadership and stuff. Oh well. "Call mom." I got by cell phone which I wound up onto the phone with mom twice this morning like from nine o'clock to nine fifteen is when she whined "I have to go to the bathroom. I asked you to call me back at nine thirty." Ugh this was agreed. I did that call back at nine thirty which we were on the phone for around an hour till mom whined "I needing to get off the phone for starting my car. I'm to getting to work from one o'clock to six o'clock." Ugh. Mom's working an early morning work shift tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning so phoning tonight isn't going to be much. I think the phone call tonight will be short to the point and left time for mom to go to bed early for that six o'clock in the morning work shift. This is a pity towards mom having to work that damn work shift. Ugh again. Baby cute kitten wound up slobbered with kisses and hugs fests. The cutie tolerated her paycheck for free eats fine without any protest but wanted out of my arms. I guess she wasn't in the mood for a hugging and a kissing faced ritual. This is a pity. Also I love giving the baby cat kisses and hugs fests. Sometimes the munchkin tolerates those kisses fine including hugs for me to do. Other times she'll run off and hide and avoid me and my kisses and hugs fests' mood. Ugh quite a pity anyway. Aw baby bun kin was on the couch then she went and hid somewhere. I guess she's fed up with me slobbering her with kisses and picking her cuteness up for hugs she doesn't feel like tolerating. Hence the munchkin has gone to hide and avoid me and my mood. Ugh I love that little munchkin bunches enough to pick her up for hugs and kisses. I love it when's the kitten's tolerant of the kisses and hugs. Aw she's so cute. I had the heat on all night and now I had to turn that off out of sweating bullets by armpits. Ugh this is a yucky feeling to feel involving the sweatiness of armpits. Ugh. I wound up watching HG while eating lunch till noon is when I went to the computer to send emails. I sent emails to people but not Morena or Jolica. Morena whined earlier "My house having a power outage hence internet isn't good." while Jolica wasn't too talkative with my previous emails' messages "Sounds good." Ugh. I finally sent emails to Morena and Jolica. In Jolica's email I said "I alerted you that I emailed you two Edenia series' stories for you to read when's you have time." Ugh nice. Too bad Morena doesn't have an email account for me to send her Edenia series stories for her to read because she whined to me "Smash-words' website giving me trouble downloading your free stories." I had to tell her "You to use Barnes and Noble's website for downloading my stories online Smash-words." Ugh hopefully that helped Morena download my free stories. Bah humbug to the fact that I'm stuck amusing myself at home out of unable to get outside walking around town or the driveway. The weather left ice all over the place including heavy snow too. Yucky weather! "Call mom." I got which I called mom. Anyway mom by her phone call said "There's ice on the driveway giving my car trouble driving out." Ugh poor Momsy Bobsy with her car. Oh well. Mom's car is nothing but a rusty junk bucket that beats eggs around the bushes and never seemed to be worth its job driving for mom. Yuck. Also I said jokes to mom by phone which I meant to use those jokes into a story and seeing what I can do involving those jokes I said. One joke I said "You should be getting a taxi and taxing around town like a taxi cab driver." Oh well. Cute joke anyway. Also sometimes I say jokes "You should be gulping peach pits and spitting them out." I said that joke but I said "peach pits should be spit onto the stairs leading to a church." involving something in the Edenia series. Oh I think I said that as an insult than a joke. Oh sucks. I sent emails to people then after that I don't know what to do today besides annoying the cutest cat ever with kisses and hugs fests. That's it if the cutie is around for me to do that annoying behavior onto her cuteness that doesn't care for it. Ugh poor kitty poor me. I must be bored to tears that I'm just not sure of what to do besides slobber fest the kitty with kisses and picking her up for annoying hugs fests she's not in the mood for. Ugh poor kitty poor me for being bored enough to annoy the poor cat. Ugh. I wound up with an attack of paranoia involving me sick in the toilet with problems hence I not able to do much tonight besides type onto the computer. I had an attack of voice Man's Day night into Terri's Day morning hence I never once slept into bed. I wound up with that damn attack out of sickness in the toilet with number two. I think around five o'clock is when the attack blew off. Yuck. Also I didn't go to bed instead I stayed up watching the news's programs on CBS channel till seven thirty is when I drank a chocolate milk drink then entertained the furry kitty onto my lap. Aw cutie is so cute when's lap happy. Aw love my little munchkin bunches to slobber fest kisses and hugs onto her cuteness. She's tolerant of her paycheck for free eats with being tolerant of my kisses and hugs' fests mood. Aw cute. After the attack I wound up napping three times one was an hour nap. Also around twelve o'clock I went outside to do laundry in the laundry's room despite the weather being cold outside. At least I waited till afternoon to do laundry out of how cold it'll be in the morning. Ugh. "Hi Morena how are you?" I was in a chat with Morena in the process of doing laundry. Morena said "I nagged you to vacuum the apartment which you should for your cat's sake. I nagged you for I think your cat's big bald spot onto her tummy was from you not cleaning your apartment very often very good." Ugh this stink big time. After vacuuming I replaced the kitty litter to Samantha Beatrice's bathroom which cutie pooped twice into there and has yet to pee. Oh well. I guess that's a nice thank you for cleaning out her crap. Oh well again. Anyway after that cleaning I threw out the vacuum's crap into the trash can in the kitchen cupboards. I talked to Morena till three o'clock. "I have to go home to attend an eye doctor's appointment." She told me ending the chat. A pity! Also saw Dellen's funny show she's funny. I wound up for dinner around five o'clock eating crappy foods hence I constipated and unable to have results into the toilet till eight o'clock after phoning mom for two hours. Ugh. I was on the phone with mom for two hours with a fifteen minute break for bathroom for mom including resuming the phone call till eight o'clock is when we quit. I wound up in the toilet with problems like diarrhea. Yuck. I wound up with the voice going last night which I read a bit of Michelle Michael's book till nine o'clock is when I focused onto the TV. I watched TV till ten o'clock is when I crashed into bed. Ugh boy was I glad to sleep. Ugh. I slept for around twelve hours even with the voice picking onto me "Get up!" The voice insisted "You to get up!" but I refused and remained asleep. Ugh. I had a weird dream involving someone named Denise. She and I were traveling around a town looking for a bookstore. One bookstore was under construction while the other appeared to be a new age shop with those new age's stuff involving candles and crystals. Oh well. One guy in a suit there talked to me "I want something from you." I explained by voice "Denise and I were deaf." The guy didn't seem to listen to me for he again asked me "I'm asking for something." I had to hand over my wire charger for cell phone which he took fine. Ugh. Also Denise wound up onto her laptop highlighted by a projector screen's light signing onto that thing. I don't get it that dreams involving Denise. I dreamed of going to a beach to sit in chairs with a couple appearing to be fighting that refused to talk to each other despite me saying "I'm insisting that you to talk." I wound up doing arts and crafts involving pottery and went to find a kiln for firing that pottery into. One person wound up leading me through a school's building that was on the beach to a kiln which the pottery kept changing designs whenever I carried it to the kiln including into the machine for firing that piece of art. Ugh don't get it my mind anyway. I made a sporting games' themed piece of pottery using my name and the rings but my mind kept changing the piece of pottery all over the place's design. Yuck. I wound up onto a boat which I handed the boat's driver my umbrella like it was payment for boarding into a bin. After that I went to sit down but had to exchange my seat because an old man needed to sit there. Ugh. The boat ride was through the night with the sky blurring of stars streaking though the sky. Also there was an owl like shaped drone machine that floated above the boat only to crash into it out of getting out of juice. Someone aboard the boat took that owl drone and threw it overboard. After the boat ride was done I reached land to find my umbrella in a bin which I couldn't find despite taking out several umbrellas. I wound up picking up an umbrella then taking it to disembark the boat and reached a boardwalk with a city. I followed the old man to a restaurant where he sat at a table. I went to another table to sit and met other people there which I wound up waking up as a result. Ugh. I did have some idea of me holding onto an umbrella while seated at the table only to get someone yanking it from my hand yelling at me "I'm accusing you of stealing that thing the umbrella!" Yuck. Around eleven o'clock or earlier I bugged dad to drive me around "Hi Daddy are you free to drive me around for errands like library drug store and groceries?" Dad agreed giving me a time of one o'clock saying "One o'clock pickup." Dad arrived five minutes early around twelve fifty five. Ugh he's habitually early like I am with meetings involving Morena and the schizophrenic's club gang at the local college. Ugh. I found three soap opera magazines I won't read because I can use the internet to find out online the synopsis of the soap operas and junk like that so I donated those magazines. I can watch those soap operas on TV to figure out their storylines so magazines are useless for me including canceling the subscription too. Ugh I made sure to scrawl out my name and address to those soap operas' magazines including one on mountain I donated I doubt I would read. Oh well. I made sure the magazines had the names and address scrawled out by marker so they won't be returned to my home. Oh Yay me. Also I picked up four children's books I thought I would read if I get around to it. If not I'll donate those books to the school's library when that's possible. Ugh. I dropped off two books I already have the e-book versions of so I didn't need the paper versions. The voice has been picky onto me "You having paper versions of e-books you shouldn't check out but read by e-reader instead." Ugh this is the pits. Also voice has been picky onto me "You having paper versions of e-books when you should be reading by e-reader instead of the paper versions." Ugh I meant to get around to reading by e-reader those e-books but I haven't in awhile despite earlier last week I read an e-book for over an hour reading one hundred pages straight. Oh well. I saw a teens' novel at the town library that was newly being checked in which I asked for that book to read. The librarian told me "The book wasn't ready for being checked out. I'll put your name onto the list for that teens' novel." Ugh nice. I went to drug store for pill refills for one pill I'm currently on for schizophrenic's talk. The drug store's clerk said "Hi Victoria here's your prescription. You have to pay eight dollars and fifty cents for the pills." this is like I seemed to be doing lately. This paying for prescriptions is the pits and not what I had in mind to do actually. I just don't like this paying for my pills when I preferred to get them for free like I normally gotten them last year. This year the pills are costing me money something I just don't care for. Ugh. After paying for prescriptions which was by all of a gift card and a part of a twenty dollar bill I didn't buy anything else. I was rather disgusted with the fact that I had to pay for my prescriptions which I left without buying any of the products. Ugh. I went grocery shopping which I think dad bought something then put his item into the car and then resumed going to the grocery store to wait for me. Ugh a pity anyway. Thanks to this stupid government shutdown I have an advance of money into food stamp card this month but in February nicknamed Fabs next month I won't have any food stamp money processed unless this shutdown of the government quits being shut. I'm being frugal with my groceries' food stamp money hence I didn't buy much besides five items for eleven dollars. Ugh I guess I'll be frugal for awhile. Oh well. I tried to buy ten dollars worth of groceries but I went over that amount by a dollar and twenty five cents. I'm not buying much food nowadays. I'm trying to buy food for ten dollars or less till I get my food stamps restored. Ugh. I'm trying to avoid piglet onto food so I can make it last awhile till the time for grocery shopping arrives. Hence I bought food from the discounted food reject bin and that was just muffins I aimed to freeze into the freezer and eat for dinner with some spread for them. Oh well. Also cutesy cat's got a vet appointment for tomorrow because her bald spot onto her tummy has gotten worse off instead of hair growing the spot's gotten more bald and bigger. Ugh hence I had to schedule a vet's appointment to figure out what's going on with the poor baby cute kitten. Aw. I love my cutesy cat enough to slobber kisses and given her hugs' fests. She's so tolerant of the hugs and kisses like the behavior is her paycheck for free eats and a free warm body to cuddle bum with whenever she's cold and wants my lap. Aw love my cutesy cat the baby bundle of fur bunches. She's so cute. I only have two subscriptions to two magazines I cared about which one is on gymnastics my favored sport and the other is on science fiction fantasy. I like both magazines their good reading anyway. Even annoying is fantasy and science fiction magazine keeps on rejecting my work. I kept getting voice saying "Enjoys your work but won't publish them." I keep getting this commentary involving whatever works I sent to that magazine which cans be anything involving poetry and Edenia series' stories. Ugh. I'm not happy that the magazine keeps on rejecting me and refuses to accept any of my work into their magazine. This is an annoyance whenever I keep on submitting stories and poetry to them but they keep giving me excuses to reject my work and balk accepting. I feel like their rejecting my work on purpose because I'm self published online smash-words' website something they don't care for and don't want anything to do with. Ugh. Drat the fact that the magazine according to dad "They want to make money." I whined to dad once "They keep on rejecting my work." This was what dad's response to my whining. Ugh. I'm not happy that I have to enter contests into their magazine including trying to get already published work reviewed into fantasy and science fiction magazine. I got refusals on that reviewing as a result. Ugh damn the editor for that damned balking. Also annoying is no one's taking me seriously as a writer. I keep on posting links to smash-words' stories but no ones bothering to like those links even if I post them online. I once posted "I finished a seven thousand word Edenia series story" online. Hardly anyone bothered to acknowledge or like that status. Damn those idiotic people for their damned ignorance. Also annoying is when I posts about my Edenia series online I receive ignorance and no one bothering to like my statuses. I feel like my writing career posts online are ignored and dismissed and not given any support. Only Morena supports me with that posting and likes links but anybody else is careless and don't care towards me or for me and my writers' life posts. I've been tempted to post something saying "Like this status or be deleted." I'm just not happy with the ignorance online involving the Edenia series' works I do including anything involving my writing career too. Ugh. "Read 78 pages of 'Cold Snap' by Allison Brennan last night" my post online. I'm hoping I would get someone else besides Morena liking that post. Ugh. Only Morena likes my posts with someone else occasionally likes my posts but that's not all the time occasionally. Oh well. Also went online smash-words' website and downloaded three stories that seemed to be erotica porn like which were free. Oh well their by Janna Japan who's got thirty five people favoring her online there. She's lucky people favored her involving her erotica porn stories. Ugh. So far eleven people have favored me as a result of self publishing over one hundred stories online smash-words. Most of those stories are for free while some are for fees that aren't selling. Ugh damn the public for their insistence of wanting my stories free. Ugh. I feel like something I've typed into my stories' paragraphs' contents are turning off readers from buying my stories with fees. Instead this is making them prefer my stories to be free. Ugh hence whenever my stories are for free their easily bought and downloaded by hundreds and thousands. Ugh. Ugh hence my line "I'm a best seller of works such as Edenia series that is always downloaded by the hundreds and thousands." I used that line into my biography paragraph to make people think I'm a best seller like a trick when it's not really true. Ugh. I noticed I seemed to get my free stories downloaded by too much like hundreds and thousands while my fees' stories aren't given a damn downloaded status. This sucks big time when I can't seem to convince the public to download my fee stories for samples including buying them. Ugh. I swear something of the stories' paragraphs turn readers off from wanting to buy my stories hence their insistence of the stories being free by how well they download the stories that are for free. Ugh this fucking sucks. Baby cute kitten wound up with a ten thirty vet appointment today. She hid but showed herself while I was on the phone with mom. I wound up snatching her cuteness up and locked her into the bathroom. Poor cute baby kitten didn't like that at all. Oh well. Anyway I talked to mom by phone till close to ten o'clock is when we hung up. I was chatting with Morena by cell phone at the time too but around that time I ended chat on having to put cute baby kitten into the cat carrier. Ugh. I'm glad I locked the baby kitten into the bathroom for she gave me lots of trouble putting her into the cat carrier. Ugh she kept resisting including climbing out of that thing which I had to catch her multiple times till I succeeded in getting her locked into that thing. Ugh again. "I'll come around ten fifteen." like he said by text email response to my question's text email message "What time to pick me and cutie up?" Ugh dad tried a back roads route but the street was blocked so he had to take another back roads' route to the vet hospital. The vet appointment went fine to my relief. Cutesy cat's hair onto her bald spot is growing again and seemed to be improving. Ooh goody. This is the same for her bald spots onto her back end and tail too. Oh Yay for that hair growth. Also after vet saw cutie the bill was only fifty cents less than twenty bucks to my relief. Oh Yay for that the bill was cheap. Ooh goody. I got home and wound up putting the remainder of my one hundred dollar money into book safe. I think I have sixty dollars left into book safe. Oh well. "Hi Morena." I emailed Morena. I was in a chat for thirty minutes till eleven thirty is when she rudely cut me off. Ugh jeez Morena for that cuts offs. Ugh. Anyway around eleven thirty I assumed I was hungry because of the noises of my head sounding so I had a banana then fifteen minutes later was sick in the toilet. Yuck to have that problem involving the sickness in the toilet that gets the voice going. Ugh again. I around eleven forty five walked to Mickayla's which I had to use the road to avoid icy sidewalks and snowed areas that weren't shoveled. Yuck. This sucks. Ugh I had to walk with traffic as a result of this damned walk to Mickayla's. I got to Mickayla's a minute early before Morena arrived with Ted. She could have picked me up and driven me to Mickayla's. Damn Morena for being inconsiderate. Ugh. Also food was what Morena said "I insisted you have non dairy like food." I did bring a bag of cheese with me which Morena paid me five bucks for that. Morena has been picky onto me "You should stop eating dairy products. I want you to avoid the cheese eating including dairy products. I want you to see how your body's system would do without that dairy food eating." Ugh. I had non dairy food including water to drink like I normally have with my food which is just water than anything else. I was sick in the toilet fifteen minutes after I finished my food. I'm not so sure if Mickayla's food aggravates my stomach to be sick with toiletry sicknesses or that the food I ate for breakfast caught up with me. After eating Mars as nicknamed this student of Morena's that Morena tutors at the local college showed up very rudely and was rudely late. He ordered the same food that Ted ate too but more of the food department. Also Mars got Morena to get me to walk home which she wound up driving him and Ted around for errands. Damn Mars for this rudeness damn Morena for this driving rudeness. I was forced to walk home thanks to the rudeness of Mars' inconsiderate behavior and forced to walk home thanks to Morena and her inconsiderate behavior of her car not having room for me. Thanks a lot you both idiots! I got home and wound up sick in the toilet with a problem hence I annoyed with Morena and Mars. I worry that I'll walk home while sick with toiletry problems and won't be able to get inside my apartment to use the bathroom despite voice going off out of a medical emergency hitting a neighbor. Ugh. I worry that the emergency crew will be rude and won't let me get inside my apartment once I'm home from a walk. I worry that they say "We accuse you of looting someone's apartment!" when "I actually live there." which they'll say "Yeah right move along." I also worry that I'll be sick with the voice going off involving the bathroom and can't use the toilet at my apartment thanks to the emergency crew's not willing to let me inside my apartment. Also worry that the emergency crew will not be letting me inside my apartment despite I saying "I live there" and showing my ID card. Ugh I worry that the emergency crew the cops will arrest me instead and throw me into jail instead of listening to me and my wording involving living at that apartment building. Ugh I hate my worries actually. I worry that when I'm walking home from some place I won't be able to get inside my apartment to rest from the voice's attacking me. I noticed whenever I'm walking home from the library the voice picks onto me including triggering my paranoia to go off bothering me. This is something that bothers me whenever I'm walking home from the town library. Ugh. I hate walking to the town library because of the voice picking onto me while I'm on the way to there. I also hate walking home because of the voice's picky noise whenever I walk home. I just don't care for walking to the town library and walking to home either. Also I get the voice's pickiness whenever I walk a certain road route to home. I always get the voice going picking onto me hence my worries of unable to get inside my apartment to rest and go to the toiletry's business. Ugh. There are some occasions I've managed to walk home and avoid the voice's talk but that only involves me walking fast and having to go number two in the toilet. Ugh. Also I got ten bucks into my wallet for spending money for spending onto junk or just plain old stuff for the cutest cat ever. Aw I figured that'll be my limit involving buying anything in stores just ten bucks. I'm not sure of what to do with the fivers I received from Morena and change. I figured I'll put the fivers some place into my apartment hiding somewhere for me to save on hand for Bea Beatrice Bee the First's honor. Oh well. Grandma Bee always gives me five dollar bills something I'm trying to honor her memory by saving those fivers for her honor. Ugh. Hence I'm just not entirely sure of where to put the fivers I have somewhere around my apartment. Ugh again. I'm more inclined to put the fivers into a cup somewhere and work on saving twenty bucks worth of fives then exchange it for twenty dollar bill from the bank. I figured that'll be nice of me to do that saving including exchanging I guess. Oh well. Baby cute kitten once I was home was around socializing with me. I guess the munchkin wanted to sit onto my lap but I balked on going to type by computer. Ugh did give the baby cutie kisses onto the top of her head. She tolerated the kiss fine. Aw cute. I love that little kitty so much to slobber kisses onto her head including gathering her into my arms for hugs' fests. She's so tolerant of the hugs and kisses. Aw love my little munchkin bunches. She's so cute. Yesterday was mom's day off which I used an operator for deaf to contact her by phone. Mom whined "You seemed to have trouble telling the difference from what you're hearing by ears and your mind. Just use that deaf relay operator service for contacting me including phoning people." I dialed the operator who said "Relay operator at your service." I said "Please dial this number." I give the number. Operator said "Dialing number." This followed by saying "Ringing one ringing two female 'Hello.'" I ranged mom around eight something o'clock and reached her "Mom you willing to hop and skip to Alaska from Australia?" Alaska and Australia is a joke I use onto mom by phone. Mom said "I needing to do errands before coming up to see you so talk to you later." Operator reported "Person hung up." Ugh "Thanks." I hung up. I watched TV while journaling till eleven o'clock is when mom arrived. She supposed to arrive around ten o'clock to ten thirty but she was thirty minutes late. Ugh she's always late as ever whenever arriving to my home. Ugh again. Anyway mom proceeded to use my computer to look up a business then looked up the Appalachian Trail in state that's in my area of the state. She looked them both up then wrote the information down by notepad. She intended to write that into my journal but I gave her a notepad instead. Oh well. After computer mom drove me to Dublin Donuts where we had mom's choice of sandwich but my choice of drink involving water. Mom had coffee but she barely drank that and had me throw that out. Ugh what a waste of drink anyway. After we finished Dublin Donuts was to library next door mom driving to there and parking in the lot. Mom wound up buying two cookbooks she found. I bought a Terrific Terri book that was in paperback despite already having the hardcover version. Oh well. Once I was done buying the book I picked up a script book of a movie that's a library's book which is a month loaner. I did ask librarian earlier this week for a library book I spotted onto their desk but the book wasn't ready for me to check out. The librarian put me onto the list which I'm not sure of what the list's length of people reading that book is. Ugh. Mom drove partially to a store but she turned around after signing "Stupid." I wasn't sure of what she meant by that wording including signing that. Oh well. Mom went to Americaversal store where I used that new bag mom gave me including mom buying our stuff. I got gum and something to eat as a dessert while at home. Mom bought our stuff then drove me home where we piglet onto the dessert food. Mom left for home which she told me "You to call me at six o'clock." "I agreed on that talk." I said. Mom wound up signing "I love you" as she left which I said "I love you Momsy Bobsy." I went onto computer and sent people emails then after that only two responded to my emails while others didn't yet. Oh well. This stink big time when I send emails that people aren't responding to the messages. Yuck. I swear something I said into the emails' contents turns people off from responding. Ugh hence I think this attitude. Ugh again. I sent a lengthy email regarding my day to Jolica which I ended with "I'm always chewing gum whenever I'm not home from being out after meals." Jolica's response was "I love gum." Ugh she's hardly wordy with her emails towards me. Oh well. I sent Tommy my boyfriend or paired husband as he's referred to an email mostly a picture of a naked cowboy dancing. Tommy somewhere doing duties for the High Council responded with "Laughing out loud. How are you doing?" I have yet to respond to that email out of that I sent him a joke email earlier and he never responded to that email. Ugh. I sent Jolica an email regarding books but I think that emails' contents had something into it that turned her off from responding. Ugh hence I think my emails to people always turns people off from responding. After emailing I went to watch TV while having the voice picking onto me very loudly that I couldn't think. "Are you forgetting something?" sang voice over and over very loudly that I couldn't think of my own thoughts "Forgetting some." One voice said "Stay home" in response to me thinking "I need a hospital visit." Ugh that was done which I stayed home than going out to the hospital's emergency room for an entire night's stay before in the morning making up the doctor's mind to admit me or not. Ugh again. Anyway mom text emailed me around six o'clock "Call at seven thanks mom." Mom must have gone to church hence her seven o'clock phone time request. Ugh. I text emailed dad around eleven o'clock in the morning like always when's I want a conversation with dad. I said "Hi daddy. How are you and kitties today? Sam's been lap happy but cute." Dad responded with "We are all fine right now." Dad doesn't respond much to my questions of the texting messages with his favorite word "Fine." Ugh dad doesn't say much besides that wording towards me. Ugh again. Anyway after my outing with mom who left around one o'clock I text emailed dad again. I said "Hi dad how's your day going? I'm home with cutest cat roams from being out doing errands." Dad said "At the dump going Americaversal next." Mom has told me over and over "You to not to tell dad that I was visiting you. This is none of his business." Ugh I haven't really told dad that I was out with mom driving me for errands but I've emailed Morena and Jolica with that telling included. I wound up barraged by the voice while I was home doing nothing but TV and trying to relax. I wound up talking to mom by phone around seven o'clock even with that barrage going but the paranoia wasn't much. Oh goody that I got to talk to mom by phone then after that I watched HGTV channel junk than animal planet's show. Oh well. Mom was babbling "I bought two books from library. One was a Terrific Terri's book costing in bookstore forty bucks but I paid fifty cents for it. The book was being a cookbook involving desserts which seemed tasty." This talk made me drink lots of water. Ugh. Also whenever mom mentions food to me by phone I get mouth watered cravings hence I have to go gulp some water. This is the same for me gulping water whenever there's a food commercial on TV. Ugh. I was too creepy out by the voice's barrage to tolerate animal planet's show as a result. Ugh wound up watching reruns of "Love it or List it." Both episodes ended with a "Love it" result. Ooh goody something I like involving those episodes than ending with a "List it" for sale episodes. I don't care for that involving the house going to the real estate agent to sell. Yuck. Around nine thirty, I read a bit of Michelle Michael's book. I think I read for thirty minutes while glancing at the TV for results of stuff then around ten o'clock I crashed into bed and slept till bathroom woke me up. Ugh I woke up with bathroom including a stinging in pain ankle on my right foot. I'm not so sure if I slept wrong or not. Oh well. The pain isn't the first time I've gotten it but I've woken up with the pain multiple times. Ugh the pain is always a pain in the petunia bothering me enough to wake up and start my damn day. Ugh. I could only try two minutes of sleep before I gave up and got up starting my damn day. Ugh I had the heat on all night but turned that off on how warm it'll be in here. Oh well. Local news predicted forties for Sunday then some cold temperatures for the remainder of the week. Ugh. I swear something of my emails' contents always turns people off from wanting to respond hence balking to reply by people. I send emails to people online and sometimes get ignorance to respond. Ugh. I swear like I said that something of my stories' paragraphs online smash-words always turns people off from buying my stories or downloading samples of my stories that are for fees. Hence I always get free stories downloaded for a high number more than my fee stories that aren't downloaded at all. Ugh this sucks big time when I think the stories' paragraphs always makes me think "Something of the contents turns people off from wanting to buy my stories." This idea is in place because of downloads of my non fees' stories that are in high numbers. Ugh. I think this status of my stories being downloaded when their free is aggravating me when I can't seem to earn any money off my writings. I can't seem to convince magazines or anybody to publish my work and give me money. Ugh I'm always taken advantage of my writings involving people not bothering to paying me like gymnastics' magazine I submitted an article and they didn't paying me despite having that article into their magazine's February issue. Ugh. I emailed a story to dad and Jolica using line "Story I don't know what to do with it oh well." Something I thought of involving the seven series Verona Vander. I thought of one scene during the last seventh book of the series the battler. I also thought of a scene after that book was done with. A teenaged boy Lance Knight is brought to live with his grandma an old woman in a house which the boy said "I don't know my heritage or where I was born." "I tell you a told a story of being born in another world called Aire with cloned copies including your sister Lizette taken out of that world as a baby." as told by grandma "You were considered the heir to the throne of Lance Richard. You the high king heir to the throne despite your sister will be princess with you." Lance Knight is somewhat believes the grandma "I'm not sure of what to make of that story." Lance Knight recalls himself as a youngster visiting another world with his sister and becoming king there. Lance Knight realized "The world is real." despite my Aunt Susan said "That world is fake and calling it a childhood memory." Lance Knight realized "That world is real." and realized "I've got believers into my family remaining sister despite Auntie Susan doesn't believe who is busy being pretty and thinking of attracting people's eyes like a pretty woman." Lance Knight realized "The world is real called by a name Aire." which he discussed with his sister who said "I believes." despite pretty Auntie Susan said "I don't believe." Lance Knight asked his Grandma "I want to discuss that world Aire with you and whoever believes." Grandma said "I believe the two people who have been to that world themselves which is you and your sister." Lance Knight realized "Aire would be heaven to live in once I'm dead to Terra's world." Lance Knight realized that and realized that fact towards the others who believes his talk involving his sister Lizette and Grandma. This story idea takes place after the events of the Battler in the seventh and final book of the series. Susan marries has four children named after deceased in train explosion brothers and sister. Susan as an old woman dying gets dreams of a lion saying "I'm demanding you to acknowledge me." For Susan was in denial about Lance Richard "I'm calling the god king a children's imagination memory." Susan realized "Lance Richard the god king is real." She spoke to her children "I tells you children of Lance Richard the god king who is real you should believe." Who her children somewhat said "We believe with some disbelief." Susan said "I acknowledged Lance Richard as my god king." dies and joins her family in Edenia as heaven to go to once dead. I wrote the idea involving Susan down into a notebook and finally got around to typing that idea down today this morning. Oh goody for me. I guess that's nice anyway. Ugh I doubt this story would be accepted by a fantasy and science fiction magazine. I think this story's got confusing stuff into it that doesn't make sense despite the contents involves like religious story. Ugh I don't know what to do with that damn story anyway. This sucks. Also I emailed Jolica once of another story which she emailed I back "I'm being confused with the story. The story needs editing which its okay so far from what've read." Ugh that story was on "The Dying One" I already put into my computer journal earlier. Oh well. I have yet to receive a response from dad involving the story I emailed him about "The Dying One." I hate it when dad doesn't bother to responding to my emails as soon as possible. Ugh how annoying. I threw out the garbage including an unfinished notebook of journaling I didn't bother to finish. I think voice scolded me "You could have finished that notebook." I maybe I should have finished that notebook but I didn't bother. Oh well. That notebook I didn't finish was originally a worthless sketch book that was only worth a dollar and not five bucks I bought off the Barnes and Noble's bookstore website. I feel like I got ripped off when I bought that journal off that bookstore's website. Ugh. The journal was getting too bent out of shape when I was writing into it including that the notebook didn't have lines for me to write with like some notebooks have. I hated that notebook and I hated writing into it. I was glad to throw that damn thing out even if it was unfinished. Ugh. I was urged by voice "You to go take your pills and eat food." but I refused on calling mom. I should have listened to the voice's suggestion because mom picked up the phone at eight forty five in the morning and hogged me to ten o'clock is when she finally quit. Ugh hence voice picking onto me when I got off the phone with mom "You to go take your pills and eat food!" Also damn Morena "Hi Morena." "I'm raving about this archery contest I saw online." and then she told me "The results of women's competition. A Highlander archer won over a First One that was fourteen years old." Ugh I guess that's nice. Also Morena added "I want to go watch the men's competition. Talk to you later." She ended our conversation which I was talking to her while talking to mom by phone. Ugh not impressive because mom asked me "How old is your cat?" I got distracted by that talk with Morena on my cell phone "Sorry you care to repeat?" "How old is your cat?" Mom had to repeat her question which I quit the talk with Morena and focused onto mom "She's thirteen years old." Very rude of me! Around ten o'clock mom whined "I needing to go start my car for work at noon." which we both hung up. I finally got to eat taking my pills and eating breakfast which was muffins the remainder of them with butter on top and the remainder of fruit juice. I finished the bottle. Nice. Plus mom did ask me "What you had for breakfast?" which I didn't tell her "I didn't have breakfast yet/" instead I claimed "I had chocolate spread and that fruit juice." This was a lie but the voice scolded me "You being a liar. You lied to mom." Once I was off the phone with mom I had chocolate spread for breakfast making this a truth than a lie towards mom. Oh well. After breakfast I felt sleepy so I took an hour nap by armchair falling asleep face mashed into the armrest out of sleeping comfortably. I don't sleep lying back using the foot rest. I sleep with my face into the armchair's armrest. I always find that easy for me to sleep that position despite this sometimes aggravates my hips. Around noon I woke up to the noises of my head going off saying "Are you forgetting something?" over and over "Forgetting some." Ugh turns out to be my cell phone involving posts from Jolica who posted pictures of something else than pictures of herself and her son or family. Oh well. I had lunch then after that I thought "I would figure out what to do besides bugging dad to drive me to the hospital emergency room." as suggested by the voice saying "Hospital." I'm trying to withdraw from eating cheesy foods hence I'm sick in the toilet a lot including suffering from nerve number two making my head sing too much. I had a singing head yesterday that lasted all afternoon with the chanting blaring "Are you forgetting something?" way too much hence I thought "Hospital emergency room seventh floor?" One voice suggested in response to that thinking "Stay home wait another day." I obeyed despite one voice today suggested "Wait till Monday for hospital visit." Ugh I've got mental health doctor's appointment coming up in February which I'm not entirely sure of if I can wait that long to whine to the doctor of my voiced problems. Ugh. Bah humbug Bay's Books. I ordered a journal involving the book by Terrific Terri. I ordered that off a goodwill company from Minnehaha from Bay's Books for around eighteen dollars. Ugh. Barnes and Noble's website didn't have that journal for selling plus their used copies cost like thirty dollars and some change something I didn't agree with and went with eighteen dollars off Bay's Books. Ugh again. Also thanks to the trouble of signing into my cell phone's account I went with auto pay option because I kept on having to change my damn password for that damn account. Damn the cell phone's damn account services hence I went with auto pay. I hope I don't regret that paying status. Ugh. This is my online blog's entry "In a Nutshell." One night I reading one hundred pages of an e-book till five o'clock dinnertime. I read "Thievery." by Anna Alina book sixteen in her "Bloody Diaries" series. Oh Yay me. I did check out the paper version of that book but I have yet to crack that open to read. Oh well this stinks big time to check out books I have already the e-book version. Ugh. How greedy of me to check out books I already have the e-book version of. Ugh again. Anyway I read that e-book till five o'clock is when my noisy head got too noisy for me "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?!" I had to go take my pills and go eat dinner which I did. I ate four slices of buttered toast and some blueberries. Ugh screw the fact that I had to eat with the voice going off. Also I noticed around the five o'clock hour I keep wounding up sick in the toilet with number two that triggers the voice to go off including ruining my appetite to eat anything decent like fruits and vegetables. Ugh. Sometimes the voice said "You having the e-book version of a paper version book you shouldn't check out from the town library." Like Anna Alina's book "Bloody Beautiful." when I got commentary after I tried to check out the library's version "You shouldn't check out the library's version when you have the e-book to read." I already have the e-book version I'm not reading much of very good. Ugh. "Hi Jolica what's your opinion of Anna Alina's Bloody Diaries' series book Bloody Beautiful?" my email to her. She replied shortly "I say Anna Alina's series is very good and well written. You should purchase them by e-book and read them." I already downloaded the series onto e-reader on her advice. I'm trying to read more of that series but I'm just not keen or in the mood to bother. Ugh I just don't get it why's that series supposedly good according to Jolica which isn't attracting my eye to read the books entirely. Ugh. This is the same for this Author Janna Japan's works. Jolica said by email "Some of Janna Japan's books are good like The House Mouse." which I could barely get into. Ugh. I just don't get it why's Janna Japan's books are supposedly be good but I can't seem to make myself read more of her works or any of her books. Ugh sucks. Mom according to phoning talk in response to my question "What do you think of Janna Japan's works?" She said "I found Her Royal Cuteness book on cats terrible like a journaling entry that's telling this and that than anything involving descriptive writing." Ugh I found that book rather good but heart breaking. I found the book okay enough to rate it a seven out of ten. Ugh too bad mom didn't care for that damn book. Oh well. "Hi Daddy let me know what you think of this story." I emailed dad a story a short story out of needing something to do involving reading and typing. I did save an extra copy of that story to tell it in first person when I get around to that typing status. Ugh. Also baby cute kitten hung around in sight and wound up onto my lap but she got off fast and ran off. Ugh turns out she pooped number two into the cat's bathroom hence her friendly forgiveness behavior. Ugh poor cutie always pulls this friendly behavior onto me after she does number two into the cat's bathroom. Sometimes the voice chants whenever she's finished with number two in the cat's bathroom "Cat pooped clean it up!" Ugh a pity anyway that I have to put up with that damned noisy issue. Anyway I've managed to text email dad "Check your email I emailed you an Edenia series short story." Dad said in response "I'm shoveling snow." Ugh. I did email Jolica a story but that was by regular email than Chat's email. Ugh that story was too long for me to email her by Chat's email hence I went with regular email. Ugh. "Check your email I emailed you a story. I hope your day is a good one despite the cold." Jolica responded to my email in Chat's email saying "Stay safe and warm." One time I typed an email involving my day which she responded with "Sounds like a good day." I typed another lengthy day's contents email to Jolica which she responded with her twin saying "Sounds like a good day" than anything else. Jolica sometimes isn't that talkative with her emailing responses. This lack of talkative emails is the same with dad not talkative by texting him which he responded with a short abrupt texting message "Fine." Ugh jeez daddy. Baby cute kitten has gone to hide somewhere at the moment. I'm not sure of where on Mars that baby cutie went to hide. Ugh I guess she's hiding underneath the damn couch again. Dumb cat dumb animal for hiding like behavior than being social with me. Ugh can't the dumbbell be social than hiding from me?! Ugh what a dumb cat for her avoidance behavior and not being social like I expected her to be. Ugh. "Hi Morena how are you?" I wound up into a short chat with Morena which she said "I'm worried of power outages at my house this morning into afternoon. I think that's making my internet service not behave when's it's comes to responding to emails." Ugh Morena signed out which I wound up turning the heat back on out of freezing in here. Monday is supposedly being freezing cold even though that day is a holiday. Oh well. I'm just not looking forwards to Monday because of that day is a holiday that's bound to make colleges' closed and leave me stuck at home bored to tears and slobbering the poor baby cute kitten with too much kisses and hugs fests. Also leave me bored to tears of the damn TV not showing anything decent besides crummy programs involving sporting events than anything else. Ugh the fact that the holidays preempt the talk shows and always shows sports than anything decent. Ugh. Monday's a holiday involving civil rights' memory leadership and stuff. Oh well. "Hi Mom what's mew with you meow?" I wound up onto the phone with mom twice morning like from nine o'clock to nine fifteen is when she whined "I have to go eat breakfast. I asked you to call me back at nine thirty." Ugh. I did that call back at nine thirty which we were on the phone for around an hour till mom whined "I'm to get off the phone for starting my car and getting to work from one o'clock to six o'clock." Ugh. Mom's working an early morning work shift tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning so phoning isn't going to be much. I think the phone call tonight will be short to the point and left time for mom to go to bed early for that six o'clock in the morning work shift. This is a pity towards mom having to work that damn work shift. Ugh again. Baby cute kitten wound up slobbered with kisses and hugs fests. The cutie tolerated her paycheck for free eats fine without any protest but wanted out of my arms. I guess she wasn't in the mood for a hugging and a kissing faced ritual. This is a pity. Also I love giving the baby cat kisses and hugs fests. Sometimes the munchkin tolerates those kisses fine including hugs for me to do. Other times she'll run off and hide and avoid me and my kisses and hugs fests' mood. Ugh quite a pity anyway. Aw baby bun kin was on the couch then she went and hid somewhere. I guess she's fed up with me slobbering her with kisses and picking her cuteness up for hugs she doesn't feel like tolerating. Hence the munchkin has gone to hide and avoid me and my mood. Ugh I love that little munchkin bunches enough to pick her up for hugs and kisses. I love it when's the kitten's tolerant of the kisses and hugs. Aw she's so cute. I wound up watching HG while eating lunch till noon is when I went to the computer to send emails. I sent emails to people but not my ideal people. Morena whined earlier "My house having a power outage." while Jolica wasn't too talkative with my previous emails' messages saying "Seems like a nice day." Ugh. I finally sent emails to my ideal people Morena and Jolica but in Jolica's email I said "I alert you that I emailed you two Edenia series' stories for you to read when you have time." Ugh nice. Too bad Morena doesn't have an email account for me to send her Edenia series stories for her to read because she whined to me "Smash-words' website giving me trouble downloading your free stories." I had to tell her "You to use Barnes and Noble's website." Ugh hopefully that helped Morena to download my free stories. Ugh. Bah humbug to the fact that I'm stuck amusing myself at home out of unable to get outside walking around town or the driveway. The weather left ice all over the place including heavy snow too. Yucky weather! Anyway mom by her phone call whined "There's ice on the driveway giving me car trouble driving out." Ugh poor Momsy Bobsy with her car. Oh well. Mom's car is nothing but a rusty junk bucket that beats eggs around the bushes and never seemed to be worth its job driving for mom. Yuck. Also I said jokes to mom by phone which I meant to use those jokes into a story and seeing what I can do involving those jokes I said. One joke I said "You getting a taxi and taxing around town like a taxi cab driver." Oh well. Cute joke anyway. Ugh. Also sometimes I say jokes "You gulping peach pits and spitting them out onto the lawn and hope for a tree to grow." This like one joke I said "People gulping peach pits and spitting them out onto the stairs leading to a church of the High Council." involving something in the Edenia series. Oh I think I said that as an insult than a joke something the High Council found out and scolded me in a visit to them they said "You insulted us you to give your words of loyalty for that insult." "I give my loyalty." I said with sarcasm which the speakers Shad and Onya said in response "Meritanians transport Victoria out!" I wound up transported to my apartment in Win's Ville as that town is called despite nicknamed Dead men's Village by the High Council. Nothing happens in Win's Ville hence people insisted "I want to be buried there." I'm not sure of why they want to be buried in Win's Ville despite the town is a college town for students to attend a small branch of the major college University of Long River Place. Oh sucks Last night was a fiasco around ten o'clock I wound up with an attack of voice scaring me "Paranoid feeling are you forgetting something forgetting some?" sang voice. Yuck that bothered me too much to go number two in the toilet a lot. Ugh I noticed the nerve for number two gets the voice involved with its chanting "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?" Ugh which the voice has included "Paranoid feeling!" with its talk. Neighbor Jade Jeffery as that clone is called an older clone of someone I'm not sure of whom she is really. Jade downstairs didn't like my toiletry's business ranged my doorbell around midnight with a note in hand "Your toilet is too loud for me to sleep through so quit that noise. I'm getting up at five o'clock in the morning." Ugh again I didn't say anything to her instead told her "Sorry I'm sick." "Dad you up and awake?" I wound up whining to dad "Sure I'm up and awake." I whined "I'm suffering from an attack of voice." by texting message which he responded with a message telling me "You to go watch TV and put up with the noises." Ugh. I with the cat on my lap read and finished Michelle Michael's book which I finished. I rate that book five stars online Good Reads' website including ten stars onto my book lists I consider that book finished. Oh Yay for me. Also I managed to read thirty pages of Verona Vander's seven's seven series book seven fold. Oh Yay for me like I said. I managed to read that book even with the cat on my lap entertaining her while watching crap. Ugh. The local news's crap started around three o'clock in the morning so I wound up watching that then I thought I would finish Michelle's book which I did. Oh goody for me for finishing that book which was rather good. Also I wound up showering around nine o'clock than me sick with a voiced attack around seven thirty or around eight o'clock like I habitually have done with the showering. I managed to shower warmly without the voice going off bothering me. Goody! "Hi Mom its Victoria I'm up so text email me mews phone wise." I text emailed mom around nine o'clock for a phone call then showered and discovered mom text emailed me to call her "Call Mom!" I was on the phone for around an hour with the TV on blaring crummy shows out of charging my cell phone at the time. Ugh. Anyway after the phone call I was able to take a nap for around an hour till a little pass eleven o'clock is when I woke up. I did try multiple attempts to nap after that but I couldn't sleep much. Baby cute kitten hung around me in sight lying next to me in my armchair. I petted her cuteness including rubbing her furry belly but she tolerated that fine. I guess that my noisy head got too much for her to withstand that she's gone to hide somewhere and avoid me and my noises. Ugh. I swear I give up a scent or a noise in response to me having a noisy head such as me tired. Ugh hence cutie went to hide and avoid me slobbering her with kisses and hugs fests. Poor baby cute kitten. I wound up this morning emailing Morena I saying "I'm whining of me sick all night with the bathroom number two. The toilet's noises were disturbing the downstairs' neighbor despite I sick." Morena said "I rather suggested you go cold turkey with the dairy products as in quitting eating the food. You were seeing how your stomach feels involving the food and drink without eating or drinking dairy products." Ugh again. Anyway Morena added "You want to meet today at Mickayla's?" I said "Yes." Then at eleven o'clock she emailed me "Sorry I have to cancel our lunch plans on how cold it got outside. I don't want you to get sick from the cold and frostbite." Yucky anyway for this weather to be cold as ice and frostbite like. Yuck. I bagged up the cheese products including the dairy products intending to bring them to school but Maureen cancelled lunch at eleven o'clock. "You want to meet another day?" I asked Morena who said "I agree for a brunch date at ten o'clock tomorrow Friday followed by me driving you home to pick up your dairy food from home. I will keep your dairy products' food and drink till your stomach problems quit." I'm hoping if my stomach proves that I'm allergic to dairy then I won't be eating and drinking that product stuff for the remainder of my life. Ugh sucks. Morena said "My husband Jefferson Jones is allergic to dairy can't take in dairy products anymore hence I've got no dairy products at my home for my husband's sake. His body has gotten to the point that it can't stand dairy products into his stomach hence his problems in the toilet." This sucks. "Morena thinks I should stop dairy products food till my stomach problems of being up for hours sick quits to see if that's making me sick or something else." my text email to dad around five o'clock. Dad sent me text email message involving what I whined about involving what Morena thinks with me and my eating food "Stop drinking milk. Stop eating ice cream. Eat less cheese. And stop drinking that breakfast drink. Did you ever read what's in it? You get told but you won't change and you won't get an appointment at CWH to talk to your doctor about this problem. You prefer to do nothing because it's easier and you love sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Change your diet or stop complaining about it." Hence today for breakfast I had chocolate spread which I'll have to quit eating including those chocolate milk soy drinks. I'll have to quit buying those chocolate milk soy drinks out of how expensive it is involving seventeen dollars for twelve bottles. Yuck. Anyway for lunch was just toast with butter onto it. I wound up meaning to eat four pieces of toast but since I'm trying to save food I'm eating just two pieces of toast instead. Oh well. Also I wound up for dinner having two sandwiches of toasted bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The food was the only food I had left that wasn't dairies for me to eat. I figured I'll eat that including toasted buttered bread too. Nice. Plus I was sick in the toilet with a problem around the ten o'clock hour involving what I had for breakfast which sucks. I wound up eating something non dairy for lunch which brought on constipation hence I unable to have results in the toilet till two o'clock during the lunatic's talk show. Ugh. I've been watching the lunatic's talk show around the two o'clock hour after a talk show at one o'clock including before Dellen's show at three o'clock. I've been watching those three shows back to back followed by local news at four o'clock for the weather report. Oh Yay me. Mom wound up working a full afternoon work shift today hence she's not available for a phone call at six o'clock our regular time. Ugh mom's boss is terrible big time when the boss assigns odd hours for mom to work. Yuck anyway. I'm not so sure of when my monthly paycheck gets deposited either tomorrow the first of February or Monday the fourth of February. Ugh I'll have to pay attention to my bank account to see which day is that depositing done. Ugh. Usually when the third of the month falls on a Sunday I get my paycheck deposited on Friday the first. I'm hoping this keeps true to habit as I hoped. Ugh. Thanks to my stupid stomach's troubles involving the toilet including me suffering from unable to sleep from the voice's talk because of me up for hours doing number two in the toilet I'm on a no dairy diet of foods. Ugh. I had last month one day a week for three weeks me sick in the toilet with number twos involving the voice getting involved for all hours of the night keeping me from sleeping. This sickness was the last straw involving my dairy intake eating hence I gave the food up to Morena to hold for me including either hold or use. Ugh. Anyway I went to the town library today where I returned Verona Vander's book "seven banger times." I rate seven stars out of ten online. Nice I guess. Also I dropped off a magazine on gymnastics I finished which I didn't read the articles back to back instead only read what I cared in that magazine then donated the thing to the town library. That was nice of me. I picked up four books one I'm unfinished with reading I hope to get around to finishing that book when I do. Ugh. Also went to drug store where I paid eleven dollars and ninety cents for two pills for my deductible payment plans. Ugh to pay anyway. I used to get the prescriptions for free but now they cost me money I have to pay. Yuck. After drug store I went grocery shopping where I tried to avoid buying dairy products including sugary foods too. I wound up just buying healthy foods I could figure out was healthy including some drinks that was on sale I figured I'll drink them at school in front of Morena to examine. After grocery shopping I went home where I didn't do much besides send people emails out of needing something to do. Ugh. Also I slept fine from ten o'clock to around eight o'clock but my lack of sugary foods such as chocolate spread ruined my pills' wake up status at nine o'clock. I was falling asleep when ten thirty rolled around. I had to nap quite a lot as a result of that sleepiness. I'm not sure if that sleepiness was a result of me sick in the toilet earlier this week. Ugh noticed a pattern involving me sick in the toilet up for hours on Monday nights to Tuesday mornings for three weeks. This is a yucky problem to have. Yuck. I checked out four books today from town library totaling my checking out books to five books I have now at home waiting for me to read. Two of the books were Anna Alina's Bloody Diaries' series books two and three. The books always end in cliffhangers something I just have to check out involving books two and three. Ugh. Book two is an unfinished book I meant to get around to finishing it once I consult my list of where I ended that book. I aimed to finish that damn book then read book three followed by the withdrawn copies of books four and five I have on that series at home in my bookcase. I can't wait to read those books oh well. I also checked out Terrific Terri's Terrible Two's series I thought I would finish that series. I already read the earlier books of that series when they came out but I never finished that series. Ugh don't get it at all why I couldn't finish that series when Terrible Two's first came out. Ugh again. I found a book by Kelly Keller which I saw at the library's desk called "Slayer." some Anna Alina's Bloody Diaries' vampire slayer knockoff book that caught my eye enough to check the book out. "I want to check that book out." I asked librarian. The librarian said "You have to wait awhile before you could check that book out. Others asked for it so I'll put you onto the list." Ugh. Also I have at home a prequel themed script book involving a prequel movie for the book. I meant to get around to reading that prequel to the seven series' script book. Oh screw it to my mood for not bothering to read that library book. Ugh. Since I've gotten those library books into my home I have yet to crack them open or finish one of the three books I'm in process of reading. Ugh this sucks. Also one of the three books I'm reading is called "Moon Dreams" by Janna Japan that was reviewed with one stars online Bay's Books' website. Ugh I'm trying to get into the mood to finish that damn book despite being partially way through Japan's book despite put off with the spelling and languages' uses. "Moon Dreams" is providing to be a terrible book involving the languages' uses into it involving characters' talks "Ye old privy" is an example for bathroom. "Ye old privy" is still used for bathroom in that story including talks on that subject. I hate the languages' uses involving the bathroom including the subject. I preferred the language to be cleaned up and told in proper English terms than slang terms making me guess what's said. Ugh this is annoying me too much enough to want to give up that damn book. Yuck. I'm also reading Anna Alina's book "Prince Bloody" after viewing the movie version to "Prince Bloody" on TV. I wound up reading the first three books of the series Prince the Bloody till I got to "Prince Bloody's" book in the series. I think I should have focused onto "Prince Bloody" than any of the books of the series because the series is getting boring for me. "What do you think of Anna Alina's series Prince the Bloody?" I asked her. "I won't read more of that series." according to her on the phone "I already read the first book of the series. I won't read more of the other books after finding the first book religious like involving a back from the dead theme." Ugh mom added "I hate books involving religion themed back from the dead themes. I find them inappropriate to read and won't read them period." I told mom "I'm reading Anna Alina's book Thievery the latest book in her Bloody Diaries' series. I'm trying to get motivated to read the e-book version despite wanting the paper version to read." Mom spoke "I hate e-books I prefer paper books instead." "Ugh I haven't been in the mood for e-books by e-reader lately. I'm not so sure of why I can't stand reading by e-reader despite e-books is somewhat popular for people to read." I said which I added "Oh well. I don't get it my attitude for e-books by e-reader." Mom said "Then don't read by e-reader but focused onto paper books." I blame mom for this damned attitude towards e-books because she's old fashioned and been more interested into paper books than reading anything electronically. Oh I swear mom's attitude towards electronic books is rubbing off onto me. Oh well. Last night I got onto the phone multiple times trying to reach mom till like ten after nine o'clock is when I finally reached mom. "Hello please leaves a message after the beep!" her answering machine said in a male voice which I said "Mom its Victoria pickup the phone I'm calling you! Kindly text emails me mews ASAP!" "Its Victoria kindly text email me mews ASAP." I sent to her cell phone. Mom ignored me and my pleas for a phone call till nine o'clock is when her text emailed me saying "Call mom!" I was on the phone for an hour till like ten of ten o'clock is when we signed off "Good night Momsy!" "Good night Victoria!" said mom. Ugh. I wound up sick in the toilet with diarrhea like problems three times last night. I don't know if something I'm eating is making me sick or something I'm withdrawing is making me sick with the toilet. Yuck. I took Morena's suggestion "You should not be flushing the toilet after ten o'clock in the evening." I did flush last night ending around nine o'clock when I woke up around five o'clock to pee I didn't flush but I did flush around seven o'clock when I woke up and started my damn day. I had a weird dream involving people becoming superheroes after eating certain foods like some lemony like substance that gave them the ability to morph into invincible people that was bullet proof from guns including a height and body appearance change. I saw in that weird dream was the Hamden house including my room and the kitchen. I also dreamed of Tiger the girl cat hanging around in that dream. Ugh I don't get it the dream except assumed this was a memory of my life at that house. Ugh don't know. Also the anniversary of Tiger's passing is coming up this month which it'll be two years since she entered eternal rest sleep. Ugh a pity to dad who's not recovered from that yet. Ugh he's keeping one girl cat Willow alive too long instead of putting her down asleep. Willow's suffering from bathroom sicknesses including a very thin form of not eating much food enough to be skeletal. Ugh Dad keeping Willow alive is annoying when he should put her down asleep the moment she turned out to be sick with her sicknesses. Ugh damn dad. I worry that one of those days I'll show up to dad's house when dad isn't home and find Willow dead on the kitchen floor a victim of a cat fight by one of the cats putting her down into eternal rest. Ugh I have nightmares of that situation. Yuck. Also I worry that I'll take Walnut dad's girl cat from his house and haul her to my apartment soon after Willow is found dead on the kitchen floor. I'm not sure if that'll be good for Walnut or good for Samantha. Ugh. Samantha isn't welcoming towards other cats and animals hence she's more solitary cat and more a one person furry baby cute kitten like she is towards me. Cutie tolerates my hugs and kisses galore like that's her paycheck for free eat around here. This is a pity. I woke up around seven o'clock this morning and didn't do much except waited till eight thirty to shower and ring mom up by phone. Mom text emailed me "Call Mom!" as she wound up texting me around nine o'clock. I was on the phone with mom saying "I'm debating on when to go to church." Ugh. "I'm debating on whether to go in the morning or in the evening." She said which I said "I give no feedback in that matter because I hate attending church." I don't particularly care for attending church masses every once a week for a religion that dictates this crummy status. Yuck mom said "You should go. Church is good for you and your soul." Ugh mom made up her mind "I'll go in the morning." We both hung up the phone then I went to the computer. I sent whining emails to Morena "I'm whining of mom's insisting I go to church when I don't care for church's religious beliefs." I said in one email then I said in another email "I hate church and don't care for religion and won't go no matter how people like mom insisted I go to church." "That's alright for you." Morena responded but didn't stick around for a talk or for my reply of a cat saying "EEE!" including thumbs up symbol. She sucks big time when's she's not around for a talk much. I was itching to talk to someone today like Morena "I want to talk to you." but she wasn't available by not responding. Ugh. I don't know what's going on with Morena not being around for a chat like I hoped she would be. Ugh I love chatting with Morena but I hate it when's she isn't available like I hoped she would be like today. Ugh again. I crashed around ten thirty last night but I didn't flush the toilet till morning around nine o'clock is when I woke up and started my damn day. Ugh. "Hi Mom what's mew with you?" I ranged mom up by phone around nine o'clock but mom picked up to whine "I'm not being ready for a phone call. I'm doing laundry and eating breakfast hence I insisted on another phone call at nine forty five." Ugh I showered and ate breakfast then charged cell phone twice followed by charging e-reader too. I also phoned mom and was on the phone for forty five minutes till ten thirty is when we got off the phone. Ugh. I did tell mom "I'm having a lunch date with Morena today." Mom said "Good tell me about that once I'm home from work." Morena emailed me "Sorry I have to cancelled our lunch date." when she emailed me around eleven o'clock. Today was nice and mild out enough to have the window open including nice to get outside walking around for garbage tossing out including wearing a nice sweater jacket. Ugh I was hoping to walk to school for lunch with Morena to enjoy the nice day but she said "Sorry I have to cancel out on meetings with teachers union." I'm not happy about staying home slobbering the poor baby cute kitten who seemed to say "I wishes you out of my sight and away from me." She tolerated my hugs but tried to bite my nose when I kept on giving her kisses hence I know she wants me out of the apartment and away from her cuteness. Poor baby cute kitten aw. I put on khaki pants that fit me fine but a sweater I put with that was a bit see through hence I had to wear a bra. I think I'll get rid of that damn sweater out of the see through status of that thing. I hate clothes that require me to wear a damn bra. Yuck. Since Morena cancelled our lunch I've been wearing raggedy sweats as a result of not having to wear a nice pair of pants including a nice sweater. Ugh Morena for canceling our lunch when I wanted to get outside today and walk. Ugh. I'm depressed today enough to spend more money off junk online somewhere. I just don't want to do that money spending after buying six e-books for fifty four dollars or around the amount of fifty five dollars. Ugh. I told mom by phone last night "I spend fifty five dollars onto e-books." Mom threw an angry fit "I'm finding that spending not proper! You could have used that money for paying off debt to dad!" Ugh thanks a lot mom for that attitude. Ugh. Also annoying is I'm fed up with paying dad that debt money I owe him. I'm fed up with mom throwing angry fits to me buying expensive things like e-books and Columbia girl dolls. Mom sucks and so does dad. Ugh both suck big time. I'm just annoyed with this damned debt I owe dad to pay him back money wise. I'm so fed up with paying dad this debt money I owe him. I'm just tempt to tell mom by phone "The debt is already paid now." or maybe I'll do that a few days later just to get her off my back "You shouldn't be spending money on stuff." I was on the phone with mom twice last night "Mom pickup the phone!" I called her at seven o'clock but she ignored me so I ranged her up at eight o'clock and reached her. Mom picked up to whine "I'm working overtime. I just got into my apartment. I wanted you to call me back at nine o'clock in an hour's time frame." Ugh. I ranged mom at nine o'clock which she after thirty minutes of talk "I wanted to end the phone call." which I gave her "Goodbye mom!" Mom was instead of hanging up "I'm into a rant involving the damn dumpster and how germy that was." Ugh jeez mom. Well I finally hung up our call around nine forty on moms whining "I want to hang up!" The operator typed the stop keying symbol and I hung up "GA to SK." I didn't bother to watch the remains of a TV show instead I journal by journal till ten o'clock when I crashed into bed. Ugh again. Also slept till six thirty woken up with bathroom which I flushed this time despite unsure of when the neighbor gets up despite sure she gets up at five o'clock in the morning. Ugh I took a nap for an hour sleeping till seven thirty is when I got up and started my damn day by checking stuff onto the computer. Ugh oh well. Baby cute kitten's gone to the couch to snooze which she tummy sitting this morning when I entered the living room. I guess she's being cute as a munchkin enough to be slobbered with kisses and given hugs fests. Aw cute. I snatched cutie for a hug that tolerated that fine then got out of my arms to sit onto the couch. Aw cute. I love that little munchkin bunches to slobber her with kisses and hugs fests. She's so tolerant of her paycheck for free eat around here. Aw cute. "Dad you free for driving me around for errands? Please and Thanks!" Dad has been whining "I doing you favors without any thanks and pleases." I saying "Please and thanks!" which dad said "I agree with a time of one o'clock." Dad by texting whined "One day a week for driving you around is what I insisted on." I asked him "what about Saturdays for our errands' outing?" which he never text emailed me a response. "Jerk!" I felt like texting in response to his silence. Mom by phone this morning said "I'm not coming up today by my car having a problem from driving over a branch I'm sticking close to home." Ugh poor Momsy. Aw. Anyway dad arrived five minutes early which he drove me to the town library where I dropped off two finished library books. One book is a script book to the movie Prince Bloody featuring Bristol Berlin in that movie nice. I rate that book ten stars in my book lists for amusing me to read it entirely Thursday night for two hours. Also dropped off Anna Alina's Bloody Diaries' series I rate seven stars out of ten. I figured why not finding the book good but the vulgarity I found into the book was inappropriate. Also I finished that book during one morning of me sick with a voiced attack from the bathroom. Ugh. "Thursday night into Friday morning I was sick with a voiced attack including multiple cases of bathroom." something I whined to mom by phone in the morning "I don't know what's going on with my stomach." Mom said "I think this case is something else beside you withdrawing from dairy products. I insisted you go seek a physical doctor on this case." I said "I have an appointment on Thursday." I during my voiced attack avoided using the flush part of the toilet. I only put the tissues into a plastic bag and threw that out in the morning. Ugh I was trying to be accommodating to the downstairs' neighbor whining of my toilet going off "Your toilet is too noisy for me to withstand tolerant." Ugh. I picked up a world war two book I think I should have checked out but I didn't bother despite impressed with the cover of the color red. Oh well. I noticed books with the color red have been attracting my eye enough to check them out from the library. Also I picked up some books by Terrific Terri involving the Dollar Shot's small books that are supposedly be fast reading. This is my second time I've checked out those Dollar Shot books and haven't read them the first time I checked them out. I'm determined to read them since I checked them out again. I also picked up a romance novel told by a guy that's seemed interesting but I doubt I would read that damn book. Oh well. That book was an impulsive checkout. Ugh. After library I went to drug store intending to buy a notebook but the line for cashier was too long and made me avoid buying anything as a result. I had no patience to wait for me to buy my notebook I wanted. Ugh hence I gave up and left the store. Dad went into the store for something involving medication but didn't stick around waiting for me instead he went to the car. Ugh I saw him do that rude behavior. After I went grocery shopping which I bought some chocolate milk and something involving reduced bakery cookie cake I thought I would eat it once home. I was craving chocolate hence I bought the drink including craving cookies hence I bought the cookie cake. Ugh I ate the cookie cake at home but not the drink. I once I was home chased the baby cat around intending to slobber her with hugs and kisses but she balked and ran off. Oh well dumb me for that slobbering the kitty behavior that the kitten wasn't in the mood and ran elsewhere. Oh well again. I received my journal today which is good I guess. I have to leave feedback for the seller online their website for selling me that journal. Oh Yay me I guess for getting that journal in the mail today. Ooh goody. Also cute baby kitten wound up onto the couch snoozing that was the reception of kisses onto the top of her cute furry head. She tolerated the kisses fine like the kiss was her paycheck for free eats around here. Poor baby cute kitten. Aw. "Thanks from a Fantastic Fan!" I said as my feedback comment to the seller for selling me that journal Fantastic Fans. I do hope they bother to leave feedback involving me leaving them feedback. "Great to deal with you again!" they said in response. I ordered stuff from Bay's Books before and leave high fives feedback but the seller sometimes didn't bother to leave me feedback which annoyed me. This lack of feedback hurt my feelings and made me think they just wanted my money and not thanking me for buying their item. Ugh last time I'm buying something from them for not leaving me feedback for me. Ugh. Also I wound up buying bananas two of them for dinner which I had. I was still itching to eat so off I went nuking up some French fries and ate that too. I think I ate way too much for dinner because I'm stuffed into my stomach. Ugh at least I ate food anyway. I'm like halfway through a notebook for journaling which I meant to go buy another one today but the line to the cashier was too long and I saw dad leave the store and not wait for me. I gave up buying that notebook as a result of long line and dad's rudeness. Ugh sucks. I'll have to wait till later to buy another notebook or maybe from the school's store to journal into. This'll be fun for me to journal when I get around to it from buying notebooks and writing rants and stuff into them. Ugh nice I guess. I use those written word journals to write stuff into them then once I'm done with a notebook I toss it out into the dumpster like symbolizing throwing out problems that bother me. I feel much better after I toss out a journal. Oh Yay for me. I worry with the noises in my head connected to the nerve for number two that I'll wound up with an attack of voice one night and have just peeing in the toilet than anything number two. I had a case of that once which I'm hoping I won't have another case of that again. Ugh. I've had cases of my paranoia aggravated in response to me having sicknesses in the toilet including me sick with voice too. Yuck. I don't care for the nerve to number two to get the voice involved making it hard to do anything like sleeping or resting or anything shitty crummy like that status. Ugh again. Dad came over with papers for me to sign which he had me fill out in the car than in my apartment's home. Poor baby cute kitten hid as a result and hasn't come out of hiding since that damned visit of me in dad's car. Dumb cat dumb animal. Ugh. Also I ordered two journals involving the Fantastic Fans' series. Oh Yay me except the bill was around twenty six dollars. I doubt that mom would like that fact that I spent money when I owe dad money for the cat's vet bill. Ugh a pity anyway. Mom would throw a hissing angry fit in response "You spending money onto stuff than paying dad back that vet bill!" "Ugh a pity!" I said. Baby cute kitten must be hiding in response to me slobbering her head and face with lots of kisses earlier. I guess that the munchkin got fed up with the kisses I was giving her and went to hide somewhere to sleep without me disturbing her cuteness. Poor baby cute kitten aw. I love that little kitty cat galore. I love to slobber kisses onto the baby cat's head and snout. I love to pick her up for hugs and kisses onto her nose. I love it when the baby cat's tolerant of my kisses and hugging moods. I love that little stinker bunches. Cutie came out of hiding and got snatched up for a hugging cuddle. She tolerated the cuddle fine by licking my nose then demanded to be put down which I agreed. Poor baby cute kitten for always picked up for hugs and kisses every where around here. Aw. I love my little munchkin bunches to pick her up for hugs and kisses. I love it when's the baby bundle of fur is so tolerant to my hugging and kissing moods. I love that little kitten mitten galore. She's so cute. Ooh I'm dying to order a new edition of Verona Vander's seven series' books with a different cover on it. I'm not sure of where I should order the books from. Ugh Bay's Books has them for fifty dollars while Barnes and Noble's website has them for sixty five dollars. Ugh not entirely sure which is better quality Bay's Books or Barnes and Noble. Ugh sucks decisions. I think my college days of reading multiple books are ingrained within me because I'm still reading multiple books in progress. The multiple books are a habit I had since college that I'm still taking in present day. Ugh. Also I started book three of the Prince Bloody's series by Anna Alina last night reading like thirty pages of that book. I found that book was rather vulgar with vulgarity languages' uses including terms for insults and sexual innuendo. Ugh no wonder I gave up that series after reading the first two books of Prince Bloody. Ugh I meant to finish that series or just read and finish book three. I meant to go skim the ending of the third book to see how the murder mystery turns out including how the vampires managed to get a soul saved. Ugh again. I'm just finding Prince Bloody's series rather vile and vulgar with the languages and the intended subject too. Hence I don't care too much for the book. Yuck. I might as well consider skimming Prince Bloody then get rest of the books of the series to skim. Ugh. After I skim that book Prince Bloody I aimed to read more of the other books if I'm inclined but I'll be skimming them. I don't think I can tolerate the vile vulgarity into that series. Yuck. "Are you forgetting something forgetting some paranoid feeling?!" sang voice I was wrong with the attack of voice happening later this week. The attack of voice is happening tonight enough to bother me. I wound up attacked by voice all night into this morning. Yuck. This sucks big time anyway when's I'm to shower soon enough but I'm not sure if I can shower even with the inner noises' blaring. Yuck. Ooh I'm to shower soon enough I can't wait to shower today and avoid the inner noises' blaring bothering me. Yuck. Something I thought of involving the seven series Verona Vander which seemed like fan fiction to me. I cleaned the toilet giving that dirty thing a good scrubbing then I cleaned the dirty spots in the tub but not a whole scrubbing. Ugh I cleaned the sink in the bathroom but not a good job or a whole scrubbing. Oh well. Also I cleaned out Sam's bathroom as in replacing the kitty litter with fresh kitty litter then I did garbage tossing out twice. I tossed out a bag full of tissues I used for when I was sick in the toilet one night. Ugh also tossed out the old kitty litter with the jug and some old food containers too. Oh Yay me. After cleaning I opened a window and am taking advantage of the nice mildness today to have the window open for awhile. Oh nice that today is nice enough to have the window open. Ooh goody I guess. Oh around ten o'clock when local news interrupted their talk show with donkey turnip's address I wound up going to HG channel then craved more chocolate. I went to win's Deli for a sandwich and some food. Everything cost me twenty five dollars and some change including an extra plastic bag full of food to carry than my cloth bag. Ugh. I wound up once I was home piglet onto the food including having cutesy cat hanging around demanding her share. I won't feed the baby cat human food despite she hangs around me begging for some. Dumbbell cat is so stupid when it's comes to human food. Ugh dumb animal dumb cat. Oh well. Speaking of the dumbbell cat she's gone to the couch to snooze cutely and being cute little munchkin when's slobbered with kisses and given hugs fests. She's so cutely tolerant to the hugs and kisses I slobber that furry bundle of fur with. I love that little mouse house galore even whenever she gives off stinky farts. Poor baby cute kitten for always let it rip with those stinky farts of hers. I think she's copying me letting it rip in front of her hence she's letting it rip in my presence including onto my lap. Ugh. Today's a holiday that's bound to bore me to tears actually. Ugh a story involving the group called High Council's boredom. Pele is a soccer player a human male breaks leg scoring winning goal for team in a playoff college match he learns "Your team has lost the next match without you there." He makes deal with the High Council to continue playing after healing from leg injury for his junior and senior years in college. "You will serve us with undivided loyalties!" says High Council. Soccer player Pele as named said "I'll serve you once you assure me of healing my leg to play soccer for my junior and senior years' of college including major league playing." "You have our agreement." As said by Shad and Onya the speakers of the High Council who added "Any bus knock him out now." Pele gets knocked out unconscious put into a tube and cloned despite Meritanians ordered "You're to sicken Pele with memories of his clone's playing while he's unconscious." This is done which healing involves being cloned with the cloned copy having better leg taking human's place. Original human is contained into tube of Hall of Voices at first doesn't realize he's cloned till later. Clone given original memories of playing soccer. Original by thinking "I'm realizes I'm cloned and trapped into tube status to my disgust." High Council play games of chess with soccer players mostly males out of boredom. I crashed around ten thirty last night which I woke up around two o'clock in the morning with my head singing "Are you forgetting something?" The noises of my head were keeping me from sleeping properly hence I had to remove some blankets. I slept without my blankets as a result and cut that inner noises' blaring. Also cutesy cat came and visited me but she didn't stick around for a tummy sits onto my chest instead ran off even after I caught her cuteness. Dumb cat dumb animal. Ugh. I woke up around three thirty with again noises in my head I wound up laying there for awhile "Are you forgetting something?" Merra's voice said "I suggested you get up and read a library book." I didn't bother and wound up resuming sleeping till seven o'clock is when I woke up by daylight and got up. Ugh. I didn't flush the toilet till ten minutes to eight o'clock is when I did that flushing out of respects to the downstairs' neighbor whining of my noisy toilet. Ugh hence I gave up flushing after ten o'clock in the evening. I just put the toilet tissues into the garbage and hope for the best. Ugh. Also last night I eyed one bookcase full of books and thought the hard covers should be on the bottom shelf than on the first shelf. This bottom shelf thought meant my bookcase was top heavy and would tip over hence I moved books around last night for five minutes. Ugh sucks. I showered around eight thirty regular times frame of showering then mom text emailed me. "Call Mom!" she text emailed me. I wasn't sure if she would come see me today or not despite today's her day off from work. Ugh hence I took my pills fifteen minutes early and ate chips while on the phone with mom. Mom said "I assured you of coming up." which around nine o'clock "Love you lots." I wound up taking a well deserved nap till like ten thirty woken up by my noisy head chanting "Are you forgetting something?" Ugh hence I got up and wound up nose into an e-book instead of the library's version of that book. Voice has been picky like Morena "You having checked out library's books you already own the e-book version of you should forget checking out just read the e-book version." This is something I'm slow to listen or obey. Ugh. I wound up reading an e-book by Anna Alina book ten of her Bloody Fever series focused onto one character grown up into an adult female. Anna Alina's series involving vampires' book is rather interesting book so far from what've read and determined to finish. Mom arrived around eleven o'clock something or maybe around eleven thirty I didn't pay attention to the time. Oh well was nose into an e-book while charging e-reader as a result of waiting for mom despite a noisy head. Ugh. "Here kitty. Where's she gone?" Mom tried to get Sam to come out of hiding for petting but the kitty hid while mom was in the apartment. Poor kitty seemed to have forgotten mom. Oh well. "I want to go to the town library." Mom said "I agree to your talk and will drive you." Mom and I went to town library where mom said "I'm staying in the car while you went into the library to drop off books." I picked up two books one involving Anna Alina's involving her Bloody Diaries series called Bloody Fever. I picked up a book by Terrific Terri who's a good author with a book's cover that attracted my eye enough to check out that book. Oh well. Mom and I went to Bi's pizza where I tried tomato salad and pepperoni which tasted okay but rather plain to me and didn't seem interesting anyway worthy of trying again. Oh well I did eat bacon on top of my cheese pizza which tasted okay and rather interesting than plain cheese. Nice after pizza was for pills which I picked up Prozac for eight dollars and fifty cents a part of my payment plan. I used my own dollar money to pay for the pills than card. Ugh. "I want to go to Barnes and Noble." Mom said "No I don't feel like driving that lengthy to there." I went grocery shopping after because mom said no to going to Barnes and Noble's bookstore "I want groceries." I said in response which Mom said "I agree with you." After groceries was home where we piglet onto some candy Reese's peanut butter cup in egg shape and some cake brownies from "Small Wonder." Mom tried to get Sam to come out of hiding for petting but Sam didn't bother and remained in hiding "Here kitty, come out and be petted!" Mom left for home in disgust "I'm disgusted with your cat not around for petting." I said in response "Sorry Momsy Bobs." I emailed Jolica which I said "Today mom came over for a short outing of library to drop off finished library books including one I don't think I can finish out of losing interests. I picked up two library books and checked them out. One of the books' so far is rather interesting. I went to lunch at Bi's pizza where I tried bacon topping onto cheese tasted ok even though first time I ate them both together. After that was groceries then home kiss faced the cat which mom dropped me off." Jolica read my email right away like she was online and responded with her message regarding bacon on pizza "I preferred pepperoni on pizza instead." Oh nice. After emailing Jolica I emailed Tom a copy and paste of my message to Jolica's to Tom's Chat email option. He wasn't online reading that email. He hasn't been online in six hours according to Chat's email. Ugh sucks. Also sent Morena a lengthy paragraphed email that hasn't yet bothered to read that email or responded. Ugh sometimes Morena sucks with her lack of communication involving Chat's email which sometimes annoys me. Ugh again. "Yesterday I went to read and finish Bloody Diaries' book Prince Bloody a library book. I read a bit of yesterday. Also I started last night Prince Bloody which I read around fifty pages. I'm just not sure of when to start reading again. Oh well." My email copied and pasted to people Jolica responded right away with "Happy reading." I'm waiting for responses from Morena and Jolica. I emailed to Jolica "What are you reading book wise?" "Morena won't respond and she'll ignore you." says voice which I heard Merra laughing into my mind like she told a joke again. Oh well again but I'm sure that my cousin newly discovered cousin who's seemed to be a leech involving dad's billionaire status dubbed Christina Christian as she calls herself. Christina Christian emailed me out of the blue "Hi Victoria it's your cousin Christina Christian cousin of your brother's wife Tamara Mykola emailing you." I didn't know what to say to her in response except my email involving reading Prince Bloody. "She will respond" said voice which Merra said blaring "You know this Christina Christian is trying to leech money from you out of Horus" name of Jinks Montreal my assumed father "Is richly known with money well off. Just don't tell her much of monetary issues but bore her with books. She'll lose interests and start to leech off someone else." I obeyed to do that babbling about books which she has yet to respond. Anyway baby cute kitten has gone to the couch to snooze and be a cute little kitten mitten. I love that little mouse house even whenever she stinks up the cat's bathroom. She's my stinky little kitty. Aw cute I guess. Mom text emailed me at eight thirty in the morning saying "Have a good day. Call me tonight at seven love you mom." Mom's working a work shift from ten o'clock to four thirty this afternoon. Nice I guess. Oh mom did claim by phone "I'm working overtime to five o'clock if the store is busy from people panicking of the winter storm hitting later today." Oh well hate those storms. They cause a panic in the grocery store and gives mom extra overtime work. Ugh Mom loves her job but she's always tired from not able to get enough rest. This is a pity towards mom for always being tired as a tire iron that should be retired. Ugh. I woke up early as fifteen minutes before seven o'clock. Ugh also I woke up and figured I'll stay up so I did that wakeup. "Hi Morena what's mew with you meow?" I emailed her catching her online she saying "Howdy Victoria!" Anyway I emailed Morena by Chat's email which we were in a chat for thirty minutes from seven thirty to eight o'clock is when she quit chat "I have to go do errands before work. I'm getting a pair of sports' glasses for me to see when doing archery." Nice I started my damn day with rituals involving showering including eating breakfast after I got dressed. Ugh I exchanged my clothes multiple times till I settled onto Georgia labeled clothes of red which I wore while out today. Ugh again. "Hi Morena what's mew with you?" I emailed Morena again who responded but kept chat short as a minute "I'm working so sorry I can't talk long." Ugh I hated that I wanted to talk to Maureen but she wasn't talkative. Ugh terrible big time. I walked to Mickayla's intended to arrive there early as slow as I could till halfway there I realized that pharmacy called my landline last night and left a message. I figured I would waste time walking to pharmacy "I'm asking why the pharmacy called my landline?" Ugh I walked to the pharmacy which turned out to be a pill refill of Geodon pill for again eight dollars and fifty cents. I hate my new health insurance plan involving me paying for pills for a deductible payment plan. Yuck. After pills I walked to Mickayla's for sitting around waiting for Morena to arrive. Morena was late as five minutes and arrived after texting me a message by cell phone. "I am on my way." She said by cell phone text email. Ugh I didn't save that message instead delete it once she arrived. Morena and I settled onto hot dogs and French fries but seltzer water for her and me pink lemonade drink in a plastic bottle for me. We intended to share the French fries but the waitress or cook got our order wrong by giving our plates individual French fries. Ugh terrible big time when that had to happen. Anyway Morena wound up saying "I'm insisting that you stay in the school library as I worked till three o'clock. I noticed you were not happy about that news. You look sad." She said when she told me of me staying till three o'clock instead of driving me home right away. I didn't tell Morena "My mood was deflated by you insisting I stay at the school till three o'clock instead of going home right away." Ugh. Morena went back to work which I went to the school's library and fooled around by computer including visiting the bathroom that smelled of someone smoked into there. This was a yucky smell despite smelling of marijuana yuck anyway. I suspect one of the students using the computer smoked into the bathroom and then resumed their work onto the computer. Ugh yuck. I managed to buy a book for twenty five cents by this singer named Jewel called "Dawn's Light." I liked that singer enough to buy her book I saw was selling at the bookcase for books the school library was selling. Nice. After that I coughed up forty cents for printing four pieces of paper from word for printing one story I had in an email to dad. That story is fan fiction to Alina's story I thought I would print it out and have mom read it whenever she's here in my home from Australia I nickname her southern area of the state where she lives. Morena arrived around three o'clock but she didn't take me to the car right away instead she went to talk to the librarian on some paperwork then scolded me "You shouldn't shout!" when I verbalized "I need help how to log off the computer. I don't know how to log off." Ugh Merra was laughing into my mind at the time hence I had to use the librarian's help. After library Morena and I went to her car where she drove me home which I picked up two half full bags of books I was donating. I wound up donating the seven series in paperback including some rejected library books that the town library was giving up for free I didn't feel like reading. Ugh. Oh I ordered some used books off Bay's Books which should be arriving soon enough. I noticed the ordering of items is easy to do but the delivering of things kills me and drives me crazy with impatience. Ugh hence I shouldn't be ordering stuff. Ugh I'm bored to tears with the damn TV including not having someone to talk to. "I want to talk to you." liked to have Morena available to talk to but she's not onto her computer today. Ugh this lack of someone to talk to sucks big time. Also I threw out the garbage then after that opened a window and aired out the dust into here I stirred up dusting some things on the computer and TV's equipment. Ugh about time I dusted both the equipment of the computer and TV. I organized my Columbia girl dolls. Last night I took out Matilda May doll to put onto a bookcase out of wanting a doll to display. Voice scolded me "You shouldn't be displaying Matilda May doll which should be boxed in the closet." That talk was said despite the doll was in good condition when I put her onto the bookcase for display. Voice bothered me just prior to me going to bed said "I insisted on Matilda and Malina dolls being boxed into the closet." Voice also mentioned "You should be boxing Malina doll too." Both Matilda and Malina doll were in good condition which voice insisted "You should box them both for preserving them." I ignored the voice's order and went to bed sleeping till daylight was sensed around seven o'clock is when I woke up. Sometimes when I'm trying to sleep in the morning the voice blares "Get up!" Sometimes the voice acts like an inner alarm clock annoying me enough to either ignore or by compulsion I get up and start my damn day. Yuck to have that inner problem. Also this morning I woke up and wound up doing what voice ordered me boxing Matilda and Malina's dolls into the closet. I had Kelly Keller doll on display but I didn't care for that damned doll so I boxed her with Matilda and Malina doll. I wound up taking out both dolls and thought "I would display Matilda and Malina doll." I don't care for Kelly Keller dolls or that their worse condition than Matilda or Malina doll. I haven't displayed Matilda doll in awhile so I put her out onto a bookcase into my bedroom. I put out onto a bookcase in my hallway to the bathroom a terrible condition doll in older dress and hair braided. I figured I'll put that doll there so I can avoid worrying about knocking her off the bookcase if it's by accident or on purpose. Ugh. I originally put Matilda doll in hallway's bookcase but I kept bumping into that doll when walking to and from the bathroom. I replaced her with a doll just to avoid worrying about knocking that doll accidentally onto the floor or having doll being sliding off the bookcase. I received my books yesterday in the mail. Oh Yay except didn't get my utilities and cable bills. Ugh I was hoping on paying for both bills as quickly as I could then go buy frivolous stuff like e-books of books I liked enough to get them. I've got some books in the mail I already have copies of I thought "I'll take those two books with me to the trip to New York City." Trip is in April. Ugh no idea if that's a good idea or not. Oh the school's got a NYC trip in April I'm hoping to go and bring a book with me to read than bringing my e-reader. I think a book would do than an e-reader anyway. I did a book bringing status when I went to school trip to Boston. This was rather nice that I had a book to read while not worrying about battery going dead from the e-reader's status while I'm reading it. Ugh I wasn't near a charging station for that e-reader to be charged hence I went with a paper book instead. Oh well. The trip to Boston wound up involving me visiting a museum with Morena and others of the deaf club members' gang. I had fun but I was rather bored with some of the exhibits. Oh well hence I read a book which I read the last book of the series. I had a time reading that book while on the bus ride to Winsted because I was too sick with the voice. I didn't finish the book instead I finished the part involving one character Jacob as named and skipped the rest of that book instead of finishing it. Ugh. I should have considered finishing that book despite starting that book. This sucks. Mom decided to ruin my mood tonight by being not available for a phone call at eight o'clock. I ranged her up at that time our regular time of eight o'clock. Operator claimed "Line is busy." I did ask operator "Please redial." I still got "Line is busy" response from the operator. "Thanks." I said and I hung up as a result. Ugh mom's phone's manners need work. She could have text emailed me by now but she balked and had a busy signal. Ugh. I said at six thirty or around that time in a text email message "Its Victoria its 630pm home awaiting word so text email me mews ASAP." Mom balked sending me a message by not texting me yet hence I at eight o'clock ranged her up and received busy signal's talk by operator. Mom sucks. Voice claims "Mom's busy signal is on purpose." This talk makes me think mom deliberately had her line busy so she won't have to talk to me at eight o'clock our regular time frame for talking. I'm just not happy with mom at the moment involving her damned phone silence. Ugh again. I said "It's Victoria who's annoyed with your silence. Get off the phone I'm calling you. Text emails me mews ASAP." Mom has yet to respond with her apology or that she was on the phone with someone. Ugh mom is so rude with her damned phone manners. Ugh. Around eleven o'clock in the morning I sent dad a text email message saying "Hi Dad. How are you? I'm managed to arrange my dolls and books. I hope you got outside for a walk. It's mild out enough to walk with windows open." I wasn't kidding with that mildness temperatures like mom told me by phone around the ten o'clock hour. Ugh. I saying by text email message to mom in the morning around eight thirty "Its Victoria its 830am I'm up so text email me mews on your day." Mom text emailed me around ten o'clock saying "Give me a buzz if you can mom." I was on the phone for thirty minutes despite chatting with Morena by cell phone's chat option at the same time. Ugh hence I not chatty with Morena and my mom both when I conversed. Ugh. Morena "I ended chat for husband to use my computer." while mom and I continued our chat but I wasn't talkative with her. I was sick with nerve number two getting the voice going at the time and anxious to get off the phone for bathroom. Hence I wasn't talkative which mom hung up onto me as a result of both of us getting off the phone. I resumed my damn day doing nothing much besides watching DIY network's hour long show "Building Alaska." I liked Alaska enough to visit that state but I doubt that I would be willing to live there. Ugh living in Alaska would be nice for vacationing but living there for awhile isn't my taste. Oh well. I watched HG channel's "Fixer Upper" on their morning marathon till one o'clock is when they went into a thirty minute "House Hunters" marathon I didn't care for. Hence I went with DIY network channel's "Building Alaska" about homes being built in Alaska. Sounds nice I guess. After that I wound up eating dinner which was partially burnt in the microwave oven. I forced myself to eat that food as a result of needing to eat and not wasting food. Ugh terrible big time to burn my food. Yuck. Around five fifteen I text emailed dad "Good evening daddy. How was your day today? I managed journaling today by computer and written word. Also organized junk around here too." Dad replied "Cleaning all day." I think I should have thrown out that burnt food because I've been sick in the toilet with problems involving voice and diarrhea. Yuck. The nerve for number two can get the voice going "Are you forgetting something?" This talk gets the voice's blaring going on without an end. Yuck again. Mom text emailed me at nine twenty saying "Call mom." I was on the phone from that time till ten o'clock is when mom hung up our call after we both said our "I love you" messages. Ugh I couldn't do anything to phone someone else so I said towards operator before I hung up "Thanks." I tried to say thank you towards the operator for service before I hang up. Ugh. After I hung up I took my pill and wound up not doing much besides meaning to go to bed and sleep but I'm just not sure of when to sleep. Ugh again. Mom last night by phone "I apologized for my busy signal at eight o'clock. I was talking to Auntie Sandy who called me for a chat." Ugh sucks at least that busy signal wasn't on purpose like what the voice called "That was on purpose." Oh well. Also I went to bed last night and slept till eight fifteen woken up by cutesy cat demanding me up and awake. Ugh I got up but didn't start my day till eight thirty five is when I showered and got dressed. I meant to go take my pills and go eat food. Ugh. I received nothing involving cable and electricity bills in the mail but coupons to Barnes and Noble. Ugh plus a check for nineteen dollars from housing authority group in Waterbury. Ugh sucks. I wound up paying my electricity bill which is a fixed payment price of ten dollars. Oh Yay for that. Also I used the coupons from Barnes and Noble to buy books for a discount. Ugh one of the books I bought were a very expensive hardcover set of seven books in the series that comes in a trunk like box. I used the twenty percent off coupon to buy those books despite already having a set on hand. Ugh. I'm always buying copies of books I have on hand for maybe keeping for either reading or just plain old keeping them for supporting the authors' works. Oh well this sucks. Anyway mom would throw an angry fit "I hate it in response to you buying those seven books set for over hundred dollars despite saving ninety nine dollars using the twenty percent off coupon." Ugh. I doubt that mom would be proud of me for buying those books. Mom has brought up the subject "You owing dad money for cat's vet bill like owing him one hundred and twenty dollars you still have to pay him for." Ugh hence mom's insisting "You not buy any books or anything expensive till you've paid dad off first." Ugh terrible. I didn't tell mom by phone last night "I bought books using that coupon from Barnes and Noble." I only told her "I got coupons from that bookstore." but that was it involving telling mom that I bought books. Ugh. I think my big mouth would one day tell mom that I bought books and make her upset as a result. Ugh this sucks big time. Ugh again. Also a set of seven series' books "You ordered off Bay's Books wound up declared shipped." but the seller didn't give a tracking number. Ugh this sucks anyway. I don't know what to make of that seller anyway with their attitude involving money and selling books. Ugh. I wound up pinged by Morena who kept chat short as five minutes she went to resume work. I don't know what to make of Morena and her attitude involving chatting with me. Ugh terrible. The books seven I ordered which the seller included a tracking number after awhile of slow response. The seller even left me "Five stars too for buying our product!" Ugh nice I guess. I don't care for the slow response to mail me the books. Yuck. Also mom noticed my cardboard box of seven's books in hardcover on a visit to my apartment once she asked me "Where you got that box?" I told her "Barnes and Noble for one hundred dollars." Mom said "You got me mad at you for owing dad money. I wasn't happy with you spending that money onto useless stuff." Ugh. I did admit to mom "I bought a memoir by a singer for twelve bucks." Mom said "I wasn't happy about that buying." Ugh that book was bought with a coupon discounted from original fourteen dollars to twelve dollars. Ugh. "I wasn't so happy about that news." Also I talked to mom by phone last night which she assured me "I'm coming up to see you today." which she did scaring me in the bathroom. I was in the bathroom washing my hands when mom tapped me onto the side freaking me out. Ugh not nice of mom to do that damned joke. Ugh again. Anyway mom brought a bag of sneakers for me to wear to use for my own two feet when walking around town. I put on one pair and wore than while I was out with mom till the shoe store is when I exchanged shoes. Mom and I went to Dublin Donuts for a lunch which was paid by mom's gift card including our drinks which was water like mom. I picked orange juice but mom picked water so I copied her and took out water instead. After lunch was to the town library where I picked up some paper versions of e-books I currently have onto e-reader. That e-reader is getting useless for me to use. I can't seem to get internet connection anywhere else than my home with that thing. Plus the battery of that thing keeps going down too much that I'm always charging that thing every damn day. Yuk. One of the paper books I picked turned out to be a seven day loaner I doubt that I would be reading or bothered to read anyway. I might as well return that thing to the town library unread out of that the book is a seven day loaner. I don't care for seven day loaners. They feel like homework assignment for a book report. Yuck terrible big time when's I checked that book out without realizing this crummy fact that the book is a seven day loaner. Ugh. After the town library was to a shoe store next door where I found a pair of baby blue sneakers I wore and tried on. I found the shoes fit me fine and were on sale for like almost seventy bucks. Mom used the trust fund's checkbook to pay for the shoes. Nice. The trust fund's checkbook mom seems to have only pays for me and my needs than anything else which my cutesy cat isn't qualified to use the money to pay for her needs. That trust fund totaling around ten thousand dollars is for me only and my needs. Ugh. Once mom and I finished the shoe store we went back to the car to drop off my older pair of shoes while I wore the newer pair of shoes. They worked fine for me. Also mom and I went to store where I found three pairs of pants to try on. I tried to fashion show them to mom but she wasn't around in the dressing room's area. Ugh I had to try on those pants by myself in the dressing room. One pair of pants turned out to be leggings. Another pair was sweats while the third was too big for me to wear. I wound up picking two pairs of pants that fit me fine which mom paid by trust fund's checkbook. Nice like I said. We after the store where mom bought a tee shirt in v-necked style for me to wear which I didn't try on Mom used her own money for the items from the store. I kept on noticing one customer kept on hanging around me spying onto me. I think my open sweater jacket was making the security of the store hang around me too much. Ugh. After the church was to church for confession which mom explained to the priest doing confession "She's deaf and would need to write down the words of her confession." The priest's understand of that talk. I wrote into my journal for the priest to read "Lied about buying items when I should save my money." Priest wrote "Please say the prayers of Lance Richard one time each. Are you sorry for your sins?" I didn't say anything physically only nodded my head and gave a thumbs up. The priest said something blessing like towards me then that ended confession "I bless you." Mom had her turn at confession which she went to sit down and do some praying after confession was to grocery store where we bought cupcakes from the reject bakery bin including ice cream. Mom bought her version of ice cream which I did the same thing copying her but I bought orange juice with my food. Oh well. We after the grocery store went to my home where I had a cupcake but balked eating ice cream. I didn't feel like eating ice cream. Ugh Mom piglet onto cupcakes and ice cream by bowl including using plastic silverware. Mom insisted "You to accompany me to church." which we sat around wasting time for four o'clock mass at church. Mom tried a nap by armchair while I journaling by notebook. Baby cute kitten hung around being playful and being cute like a kitten. She clawed the armchair with mom sitting into it from the back. I had to chase her off which she ran off and hid behind the couch. Dumb cat dumb animal wound up playing chase games with me chasing her around while mom napped by armchair. Mom ten minutes to four o'clock declared "It was time for church." I brought along my bible to read which I only got to Genesis' part when mass was over with. The bible I brought with me had boring stuff explanations of the bible and translations in the beginning part than starting with Genesis' part. Ugh. Also my head was singing too much while I was at church. I swear I give off a noise in response to me suffering from a voiced attack of voice. Yuck. Voice was going "Are you forgetting something?" The voice was chanting that over and over while I tried to pay attention to the mass in church including reading my book the bible I brought along. I found the paranoia wasn't much this time to my relief. Oh Yay for that. I took communion which "I don't want to take that." but I took it from the priest by hand instead of having the man of cloth sticking it into my mouth. I habitually have the priest or whoever gives communion stick that into my mouth but this time I took my hand out for that situation. Ugh. After church mom and I went next door to pizza which I ordered bottled water and mom got soda with caffeine in it. Ugh mom took a caffeine pill in front of me despite I tried to take my pills involving mental health and hormones while mom was in the bathroom. Oh well. Mom whined of the pizza taking forever to cook which had bacon on top of the cheese pizza. The pizza left me gulping lots of water as a result of how hot it was. Ugh terrible big time when mom being hungry gobbled up her pizza but picked onto me when I ate my pizza slow. Mom said "I was in a hurry to get home before sunset. I don't like night driving and wanted to get home before it was nightfall." Ugh poor Momsy. We both after our pizzas chewed gum and then mom drove me home which she washed her keys and glasses into my kitchen sink and used my bathroom then she left for home. I wound up turning on the TV to news but I didn't pay attention to that news because of being sick in the toilet with number two that made me nervous. Ugh I wound up around six o'clock going to HG instead and going onto the computer. I sent a lengthy email to Morena which I talked about my day with mom using multiple paragraphs. I sent an email to Jolica who responded with one word "Cool." Ugh I emailed a cousin an answer to her question involving a finished library book I finished. I tried to explain that book to Christina including the series in my email but I doubt I was very good explaining that book. Ugh. I can't seem to explain books towards people much in emails or same in person either. I can read a book but explain the contents to people aren't what I had in mind. Oh well. "I spent today hanging out with mom eating meals like lunch and dinner. Also we shopped for some stuff like sneakers and pants including tops from target. After that was church for confession and mass. I had a good day today." This is my email to Jolica by Chat's email which she responded with one word "Cool." I sent that email to Christina but took out the word "Today" and replaced it with "Saturday." Ugh Christina was online but didn't respond to my email. Ugh again. Also I sent a whining email to Morena of my mood and the same to Jolica of my depressed mood. Ugh this sucks when I whine to people and their not available for me to whine to about my mood. Ugh. I updated my online journal twice. One entry was a page length involving how bossy the voice was with the American girl dolls. The other entry was on my outing with mom on Saturday. I did delete the fact "Mom paid for my pants and shoes using a checkbook to the trust fund." I didn't feel like broadcasting that I had a trust fund mom used to pay for my items. Ugh I also deleted the vulgarity words I used into the original journal which I deleted out names I changed to protect peoples' privacies including the same for mom which I don't say what name mom goes by. I just call mom by the word of "Momsy" or some mother like labeled name. Oh well. I wound up watching soap operas out of that was out of service till almost three o'clock is when I went to see if the channel was in service. The channel is showing a talk show at the moment involving this lunatic guy who's a closet comedian. I don't care for closet comedians or lunatics who are acting inappropriate for their ages like this guy in his talk show. He's in his sixties and tries to be funny which makes me think "What an idiot!" I don't care for this guy's show and his antics. Plus he never helps gay or lesbian couples find love instead he focuses onto heterosexual couples. I swear this guy is anti-gay and anti-lesbian hence he's not helping either one find love matches. I just don't care for that guy's show for not helping lesbians and gays find love. He's more into heterosexual couples instead. What an idiot like I said. Ugh. I submitted a story earlier to a fantasy and science fiction magazine and got rejected today. Ugh makes me feel down in the dumps when I get rejected by the editors of that magazine. Ugh again. I feel like no matter what works I submit to that magazine their always going to reject me and my work. I feel like they got my name onto a rejection list to always reject period. Ugh sucks big time. Also I feel like the editors of that magazine like to reject people's work out of that the rejection gives them a kicking feeling of a high when they do that rejection. Hence their doing that damned rejection with me and my work. Yuck. I'm to do laundry today once I shower and go eat breakfast. Ugh can't wait to go wash and dry my clothes plus get my new pants washed and dried too. Ugh about time anyway. I submitted poems to that magazine and they still rejected me. I read the magazine's poems and found nothing to make sense involving what their looking for. The poems I read seemed to be based off famous authors' of poetry than anything else. Ugh that magazine for rejecting my poems. Ugh. Also annoying is when I keep on submitting work to that magazine I'm still rejected. Yuck I keep on submitting poems to that damn magazine and they keep on rejecting me. I swear the poems I submitted were good but their looking for name authors to submit poems than unknowns to submissions of poems. I talked to Momsy by phone for around an hour this morning. Mom whined "I skipping work due to a sinus headache I felt I shouldn't have called out sick but gone to work anyway." Poor Momsy! Also I whined to mom "My latest rejection of an Edenia like fan fiction story." which mom said "I approved of that rejection." Jeez mom for that attitude. Ugh. Mom said "I found the Edenia story inappropriate for you to submit to a magazine for money or acceptance. I think you were plagiarizing people's work like the author's work involving the Edenia's series." Ugh again when's I'm depressed and down in the dumps at the moment that despite baby cute kitten's gone to hide somewhere and avoid me. Ugh dumb cat dumb me for slobbering the poor kitty with kisses and hugs fests to feel better. Ugh sucks. Also I'm to walk to school for the deaf club meeting which I'm just not entirely sure if I should go or not. I might as well go anyway and fidget spin while I wait for deaf club meeting to start. Ugh something amusing I guess for me to socialize today. Ugh again. I went to deaf club meeting today with the voice going off attacking me "Are you forgetting something?" Yuck. I'm just not entirely sure if mom would be talkative by phone tonight despite she text email me "I'm working five o'clock to nine o'clock tonight." Ugh. Also I wound up since I'm home sick with the voice going off involving number two. Yuck again to have that problem. Ugh. I spent all afternoon reading and finishing this book borrowed from the town library which I finished. Oh Yay me. I rate that book three stars out of ten stars for creeping me out involving a lunatic acting out murders from a book a fiction book. "I found the book rather icky with the themes." by email today Jolica said "I found that subject interesting enough to consider reading the book." Yuck but I did tell her who wrote that book. Also around Dellen's show I finished that library book I rate three stars online website. I wound up with the voice going as a result of me finishing that book. Ugh I find I was sweaty and rather hot from finishing that book. I don't care for the damned sweatiness when I finished that book. Yucky status anyway! I watched Dellen's show then saw most of the local news till like six thirty is when they went into world news I hate watching. World news always has doomed and gloom news I don't care for anyway. Yuck again! Also I got text emailed by mom around seven thirty to phone me at "You to phone me at eight thirty." which I did that after I read for an hour a book I finished that book later tonight. Oh Yay me. I talked to mom for fifteen minutes I whining "I wanting to finish reading that Harry Potter book." which mom was understand allowed me to get off the phone. Oh Yay. I was sick with the voice at the time around eight o'clock hence I sick in the toilet with problems plus Sam tried to get onto my lap to comfort me but I couldn't withstand her. I wound up around eight thirty phoning mom even while sick with the voice attacking me. I talked to mom for a short time then after that went to back to that book which I finished tonight. Oh goody and Yay for me. I shook off the voiced attack last night around eleven o'clock but I didn't go to bed till around eleven thirty with the heat on low. Oh well. Also I woke up around six thirty for bathroom which I didn't flush the toilet but resumed sleeping till eight fifty is when I woke up from a weird dream. I don't remember what weird dream I had as a result of not writing that down. Ugh I remembered a weird Edenia series' story weird dream involving one female character named Natalia Mahalia herself turning out to be a cloned copy of a deceased baby child by her mother Empress Anastia Juliet Palina Bornova. I think I dreamed of a scene involving Natalia. Oh well. The scene involved traveling through a hospital setting and reaching a tube room holding tubes of water that's large sized for adults to be contained into them Natalia following her mother with people through that area. I wound up dreaming of me into a bathroom or a waiting room waiting for something while reading a magazine. I think I used the facilities of a hospital room then sat down waiting for someone to enter the room like a doctor's examination room. I don't get it that dream anyway. I wound up sick with a problem involving number two and the bathroom triggering the voice to go off bothering me. Yucky problem to have! That weird dream of me in a doctor's room using the bathroom and waiting for someone was from me staying in the hospital for four days while sick with a problem. Ugh I just remembered that fact. Ugh. I noticed I get memories into weird dreams sometimes that turned out to be something else than I remembered. Oh well. On Monday night the twenty-fourth I was sick with voice attacking me all night into the morning of Tuesday morning. I wound up reading multiple books as a result of me sick with the voice and managed to finish one library book that was due in a week's time frame. Oh Yay me. Anyway I'll find out on Tuesday April second of I hope my number two sample providing results of what's going on within my inner system. Ugh I can't wait to find out and find out what the hell's going on within me. This sucks when I have a doctor's appointment that day which I hope to find out the results of that testing status. Yesterday I bugged dad "I want to do errands outing." which he text emailed me "Later." I bugged dad around ten o'clock "I want to do errands' outing." I bugged him again around noon something he sent me a whining texting message "I agreed to pick you up at two o'clock for errands." "Ugh library is closed at two o'clock." Dad arrived with his all black car that's black inside and outside which I said to him "Nice vehicle." Anyway I went to the town library which was closed around two o'clock so I dropped off a library book and donation into the library's book drop. I dropped off a library book I doubt I would read including donating a book I don't think I'll read which I dropped them both off. Ugh. After library was groceries which I got some pills for free but they weren't enough to fill in a month's time frame. Ugh also I got shampoo two bottles for seven bucks which was on sale buy two for seven dollars. Oh Yay me. I got two Terrific Terri's books both in paperback I was admiring online Barnes and Noble's website I aimed to get around to reading when I do. One book was a knockoff of another author's writing which was just some advertising to make people buy that book and read it. Ugh terrible. Also I found toothbrushes' coupon from my receipt which I used to buy four toothbrushes in a package on sale for three bucks discount. Oh Yay me. I used money into my safe to pay for everything in drug store including a little of my card's money too. Oh well for me. I went grocery shopping after that which I bought lots of food totaling fifty two dollars and some change leaving what's left of my food stamp card's money totaling in ten dollars and some change. Ugh. Also I put the safe's money into the bank out of not keen of keeping money into my safe. I don't feel right keeping money in huge amounts into my safe. I preferred to keep jewelry instead. I just do. I told that fact to mom by phone last night "I don't like keeping money into book safe." Mom took the news well. Oh well a pity. It was a good thing I put that money into my bank account because Barnes and Noble had a sale of seven series e-books from each six dollars and ninety nine cents to one dollar and ninety nine cents each. I took advantage of that sale to buy those e-books which I already have the paper copy of. Oh well. Voice and Morena would be picky onto me "You buying books you already have a copy of." Like me buying e-books I already have a paper copy of something that I get pickiness from Morena. Voice picks onto me for checking out paper copies of e-books I already have downloaded into my e-reader. Ugh can't seem to stop that pickiness' talk. I wound up using the heat on last night which I should have turned that off before I went to bed. Ugh. I got a hot flash with sweatiness during my sleep hence I had to turn off the heat and sleep without that on. Ugh. Also I woke up around midnight for that hot flash and turning off the heat. Yuck to turn off the heat but I was hot flashing with sweatiness. Ugh terrible big time. I slept fine till seven thirty is when I woke up with voice blaring at me "Get up! Call mom!" I didn't bother and resumed sleeping till eight fifty which I started my damn day. Ugh. Mom text emailed me around nine o'clock a minute before that saying "Call me please." Ugh I missed that text email message till ten o'clock is when I checked the cell phone for charged status. Ugh this stink big time when I miss mom's texting messages. Ugh. I talked to mom for five minutes which mom ended phone call and I went to do some chores around here. I threw out two finished notebooks of journaling I finished yesterday. Oh Yay me for finishing those notebooks. Ooh goody. Also one notebook took me seven hours to write the remaining pages into it to finish that notebook which I was done around four thirty. Ugh I had another notebook in my purse I was a few pages from finishing so I finished that too after dinner. Ugh nice. I threw out the notebooks this morning and noticed the lot was empty of cars except one useless car that's not in operation. I figured that I would do laundry which I did that chore today and finished around twelve thirty. I have to put away my clothes when I get the chance to do that putting away chore. I wound up on the phone with an operator that refused to cooperate with connecting me with mom. Ugh hence I blame that operator as a result of balking to connect me with mom like I hoped would do. Ugh. I wound up with the voice going off tonight "Mom's to text email me a response for phoning tonight." I tried to phone her at seven o'clock but she ignored me according to the operator. I'm not entirely sure of when mom would respond to my texting message tonight for a phone call. I hope the time is soon enough because I'm going to be sick all night with these bathroom sicknesses. I wound up on the phone with mom for a short time till like I had to get off the phone out of suffering from the voice attacking me at the time. Ugh. I wound up out with Ted, Mars and Rachel to the zoo. I went as simple as that to that zoo. Yesterday I put on my black ski sweater and pink pants including my blue sneakers which I wore to an outing with the deaf club members' gang to the zoo. Oh Yay me. Ted got Rachel to pick me up "I got confused to which car was Rachel's in the lot." Ugh terrible big time. Oh well. Anyway Rachel drove to Mars's house which she picked Mars up who slept in the car ride to the zoo. Ugh I didn't sleep but I tried a few times. Ugh again. Arrived at the zoo which the parking lot was crowded full of people and hardly any room around for Rachel to park her car. Ugh Rachel had to park her car in an adjoining park as a result of the crowded parking lot. Ugh. Also I wound up eating two cheese sandwiches around eleven o'clock before Rachel picked me up around noon. I shouldn't have eaten those sandwiches "I didn't want to whine of needing to eat." while I was there at the zoo. Ugh again. I went to the zoo which Christina helped me "There's a discount for the price of admission." Nice of her which we paid for our tickets then walked around inside the park. Nice. I saw nothing involving cheetahs but I saw cat like animals that were tigers and leopards. Ugh I was hoping on viewing a cheetah but I didn't at all. Oh well. I saw multiple wolves of different colors including a red panda I could have snapped a phone photo of but I didn't bother. I also saw a bald eagle too. I even snapped three phone photos of a tiger sitting down resting. Cute I guess. After that we went to eat which I had two peanut butter cookies and tried Christina's mozzarella sticks but Maureen being critical of me being lactose intolerant "You to quit eating that including eating the rest of my French fries." Ugh. The park closed around four o'clock to my relief Morena said "I all decided to go to a restaurant in another town that had a deaf head cook for eating more food." Nice. I while there had garlic bread than any of the cheese pizza which Morena "I'm still picky onto you being lactose intolerant. I insisted you focused onto something else than the pizza." We after eating Rachel drove Mars to Al's where Mars grocery shopped which I journal by notebook while in the car ride to Torrington. Mars didn't take long but he fell asleep again in the car ride to the grocery store including to his house where Rachel dropped him off. Ugh poor Mars for not sleeping much. After Rachel dropped Mars off was dropping me off which I wound up sick in the toilet with problems that triggered the voice to go off bothering my paranoia. Ugh I talked to mom by phone during that status for like ten minutes. Mom let me go off the phone she thinking "You was tired from the walk in the zoo." I didn't tell her that I was sick with the voice going off. Ugh I don't tell mom by phone of me sick with the voice going off mostly. I don't bother. "I'm working onto a story." and mom falls for that trick always and we hang up. Ugh. I was sick in the toilet till like two thirty is when I felt something else than number two so I watched TV till three o'clock is when I went to lie down. Sam got my closet door open during me asleep while I was in bed trying to shake off the voice's attack. Yuck. I noticed the voice chants whenever I'm tired from doing nothing but watching TV including editing stories. Ugh something I noticed and didn't care for anyway. Ugh. Also I flushed the toilet around three twenty in the morning when I shouldn't have bothered. I'm terrible big time with that toilet's flushing after the neighbor complained of my noisy toilet. This is a yucky problem to have but I went to bed and slept till seven o'clock woken up by my noisy head. Ugh. I swear I couldn't sleep much after seven o'clock hence I getting up and sending email to Jolica who responded right away with a facial picture of hearts in eyes. Cute I guess. Also I emailed Christina who's not online but will respond later whenever she's free. I noticed that Christina responds online the computer than onto her cell phone. This is something I noticed I do towards people emailing them in Chat's email like Morena I tend to text email by cell phone in Chat's email. Oh well. Ugh I talked to Morena by chat's option which she cut me off whining of "My keyboard not working properly." Jeez Maureen! I talked to mom around ten thirty for around thirty minutes. Mom was boring me with her talk "I'm itching to get off the phone to bug dad for a drive to library." Ugh mom agreed to get off the phone which I hung up. Oh Yay. Also I text emailed dad "I want a ride outing request." who said "I'm out of having physical therapy." Ugh jeez dad. I wound up around eleven thirty after eating some food walking to drug store by myself while wearing a winter coat. Ugh I tried to get a prescription for hormones refilled by the pharmacist who claims "The twenty first is when that'll be filled." Ugh. I got my mental health prescriptions including a strawberry like seltzer water drink I drank outside the store on the way to the school's café for a sandwich. I had peanut butter and jelly sandwich wrapped in plastic then after that I had that strawberry water drink too. Also I was sick in the toilet with problems that made it hard to walk to church Saint Joseph's for mass bulletin or to the town library. I walked home instead. Ugh. I should have walked to the town library because dad's proved to be too lazy to drive me tonight to there. I called library and asked them "You to set three books aside for Me." which they said "We did that by email." Thanks to dad's unwillingness to drive me I have to wait till Saturday to get those damned books. I'm dying to read those damned books but I can't because of dad's laziness and that tomorrow the library is closed due to an eatery like holiday. I got home and wound up with the voice singing which gave me a bit of a paranoia attack. I went onto the computer and shook that off. Yuck. I around four o'clock wound up with the voice chanting "Are you forgetting something?" Mostly the voice chanting that over and over till like four thirty is when I was sick in the toilet with a problem hence that cut the voice's chanting off. Yuck. After voice's chanting I at five o'clock took my pills I got from the drug store. I was out of pills for evening including emergency supply for dinner. Hence I had to walk to the drug store by myself for pills refills pickup. Ugh. Also I didn't eat much healthy food for dinner. I had crummy waffles two of them including some chips from a blue bag that's some Spanish like chips. Ugh I also had water like I've been having with my meals than anything else. I haven't had anything to drink besides water from the sink in the kitchen as my drinks. Ugh also while at the drug store I settled for some seltzer water with a strawberry like flavor which I'm not sure if that's got sugar in that drink or caffeine like substance. Hence I didn't have anymore of that drink for dinner or for snack. I had a snack earlier around one thirty during a Nashville talk show that's seems to be filmed six months ago and aired six months later. They show summertime stuff in their show when's the time's not even summertime but wintertime. Yuck. Today's a holiday involving Lance Richard the god king. That's nice I guess. Last night I text emailed dad "You home?" which he was with his question "What do you want?" I said "Library to pickup books their closed tomorrow." Dad agreed by texting "Ten minutes." Dad wound up driving me to the town library where I originally checked out three to read but there were two books at the checkout desk I saw that attracted my eye so I checked them out. Ugh nice. Three of the books I checked out were by an auto buy author I favor but I haven't yet bought her e-books of her latest series yet. Oh well I meant to buy them using a gift card but I don't want to. I prefer to wait till those e-books are on sale for half off discount instead of buying fifteen bucks for them. Ugh. Also I saw two books on the checkout desk that attracted my eye enough to check them out. Oh Yay for that checking out. Oh well. I went home and wound up exchanging my clothes to pajamas then cutesy cat lap sat me. I wound up around seven thirty starting that book Verona Vander's latest book in her seven series. I only read that book for thirty minutes till eight o'clock is when I ranged mom up. Oh around the seven o'clock hour I wound up with the voice going off. Yuck. Hence I had to read a book out of trying to avoid the inner noises' blaring. Yuck again! I was on the phone with mom till close to nine o'clock is when we got off the phone. I didn't do much last night other than journaling by notebook and watching the stuff on HG channel involving house flipping in Las Vegas. Ugh boring show. I hate house flipping. I don't care for house flipping. Yuck. I prefer HG to not to show house flipping series on their channel but interior design shows instead. Ugh. HG used to show interior design shows and now their cancelled all of them. The channel is showing house flipping themed shows including house hunting themed shows too. How boring! I hate house hunting including house flipping. I don't care for either one of them situations onto HG channel. Yuck. That channel seemed to be showing house flipping than anything else nowadays. Ugh this stinks. I crashed around ten o'clock and slept like a log till woken up by the voice going off "Are you forgetting something?" Ugh plus cutesy cat was cuddled bumming me at the time which made it hard to wake up and start my damn day. Ugh I woke up around nine forty in the morning to mom's text email "Call Mom!" including Morena's email. Ugh again. I wound up onto the phone with mom in my pajamas which I talked to mom till ten fifteen is when she got the operator to give the stop keying symbol. I hung up and went online finding Morena wasn't online for me responds to her email message. Ugh. I wound up with a weird dream "Me packing my clothes and items into red suitcases." something I told to mom by phone. I'm not sure of what Mom thought of that weird dream "I took that dream as good news." Ugh. After phone call I finally showered and took my pills then ate crappy crummy foods out of cravings to chew something. Ugh I've been eating foods non stop since ten thirty in the morning since I took my pills. I also have been eating dairy foods too. Ugh again. I emailed Morena and like I told her "I was eating out the remainder of my foods before I go buy more." Ugh something I think this is bound to make me sick in the toilet with problems including an all night marathon of being sick with voice and number two too. I emailed multiple people which only Jolica responded with a short message reply. Ugh Jolica is always short with her messages to me "I know." Christina is hardly online to reply to my messages and so is Lizard Lizette who's named Lizette but insisted on the nickname of Lizard. I don't know what to do today besides slobbering the baby cat with kisses and hugs fests out of unable to get outside walking around enjoying today's weather. The weather is warm outside for windows open but rather cloudy and gloomy outside. Yuck. This weather is bound to depress me actually. Ugh. I read and finished Charisma Chic's book yesterday afternoon. I found that book rather informative involving interior design. Ooh goody I guess. I rate that book ten stars out of ten stars for being informative involving interior design including Charisma explaining her interior design choices for rooms. Nice. After that I started again "Nana's Kisses." by Janna Japan a book I've been reading galore and having trouble trying to finish. Ugh I think I read one hundred pages of that book till I got one hundred and forty five pages left to finish. Oh Yay me. Also I read "Children's Blood" by Anna Alina's Bloody series last week on Friday till I got one hundred pages of that book and decided to go take a break for reading something else instead. Oh well. I started before dinner last night this library book "President's Tester." by January Japan I'm not sure is a relation to Janna Japan despite the same last name. I found that book rather interesting from what I'm reading. I've read and skimmed "The President's Son" by Japan because I read that book years ago and never bothered to get around to reading the "President's Tester" book second in the four book series. Oh well. Anyway I finished "Children's Blood" a book I read entirely in one sitting on Friday while sick with the voice's attack and the bathroom. Ugh this sucks to be sick with the voice and bathroom. Ugh hence I up for hours reading a damn book. Also these voiced attacks hitting me have hit on Fridays for two weeks and kept me up for hours. Ugh sucks when's that has to happen. Ugh plus I'm not looking forwards to Friday this week because Saturday is the New York City trip by bus. I'm not so sure if I can sleep on Friday night into Saturday morning. Ugh. I might be up for hours reading a damn book out of excitement to sleep including me sick in the toilet with problems. Ugh again. My big mouth talked to mom by phone "I buying four signed Charisma Chic's books around seventeen dollars each." which mom said "I scolded you for buying those books. I think you should have just bought one than four." Ugh mom said "I scolded you of this buying." Mom has been on my case "You to save money for the cat's vet bill including for the doctor's bill." The bill involving doctor's is around one hundred and forty dollars. Yuck mom said "I expected you to pay for the bill entirely yourself." Ugh hence I'm to do that yuck again. Also I've checked my bank account "I'm discovered I've got one hundred and fourteen dollars left to pay for any cat vet bills my cutie requires." Ugh mom whined by phone "You having to pay for the cat's vet bill by yourself without any help from dad or anybody." Ugh I have a trust fund mom uses to pay for my stuff but she told me "Trust fund's money won't go to your cat. You'll have to pay for yourself out of your own money. Hence trust fund I uses to pay for you is for you only and not for my cat." Ugh again. I hate Chat's email service because some of the stuff I see post online are inappropriate for viewers to view. Mostly that sexual themed stuff I don't care to view very much which includes porn and crap. I hate Chat's because of this stinking porn. Yuck. I hate being online Chat's involving seeing inappropriate stuff I don't care for. I hate that website to use for posting links for my stories that get ignored and not liked Ugh. I hate Chat's because hardly anyone likes my posts. This is the same online my blog's website which hardly anyone likes my posts or messages. I say "Ugh to the people for their ignorance. This sucks." Yesterday was the ten year anniversary of adopting cutesy cat into my home. The munchkin's birth date is in July starting on July eighth than any other date because the vet accurately figured out her age and figured she's born in July. Cute I guess. I didn't do much yesterday other than skimming the ending parts of "Nana's Kisses." a book that's giving me trouble reading with a lack of motivation to finish. Ugh hence I skimmed the ending as a result. Yuck. Also I wound up reading a bit of "President's Tester" till I realized there was something involving controlling people with mind control that creepy me out. I couldn't finish that damn book as a result or skim the ending parts. I gave up that book out of creepy out "You should have finished that book." as blared by voice. I finished "Bloody's Bone" by Anna Alina which I rate an eight for amusing but the ending part bothered me and left me a bit bored to tears. Ugh hence that rating including that rating of four out of five stars online a website. Ugh. Anyway I did get my signed Charisma Chic's books in the mail. Ooh Yay for that but I admitted to the priest later for confession "I lied to mom by phone on the prices of those four books I ordered." Mom said by phone "I think you ordered underneath ten dollars each." Priest wrote "Why did you lie to mom?" I wrote "The books all cost me one hundred dollars total than the prices of forty bucks like I lied to mom." Ugh terrible when I've been going to this church for confession to the Lance Richard god king order in the city. I walk to that church and wait my turn for confession which is in a private room of a priest with a facial appearance of my father Jinks Montreal himself always displaying black beady eyes and never speaking to me. The priest seemed to have taken a vow of silence to me for he's always writing down his words in cursive handwriting including never bothering to sign language his words. Oh well. Mom said by phone once "I've been seeing this priest for confession at Jacinta's Church which is on Main Street in Win's Ville which you should go." I went out of some compulsion like feelings of Meritanians manipulating me to go. Merra said by mind talk to me blaring "Just go!" I wound up hit with a compulsion to go as a result which I walked to Jacinta's church and went inside. The church looked like it was formerly used for a forgotten god or something I'm not sure of what god but I suspect the High Council. I found people waiting in line to a room which I joined them followed by them going inside one at a time. This priest I saw was twin to my father's looks by facial appearance but hair was different instead of long black hair had short curly balled hair. I wasn't sure what to make of this priest who had a yellow pad. The priest wrote "What sins do you wish to confess? Write that down than talk the room's not sound proofed." I know I have something to confess to the priest when I go for confession is saying to the priest "I lied to mom on the prices of books I ordered despite her nagging me to save my money." Ugh no idea what the priest would say in response "Are you sorry?" I'm guessing. Priest wrote "Just admit this sin to your mom and chant the prayer 'Ay Kabaiya!' three times for pleading to beg for forgiveness." I was about to write "Okay I'll do that." when the priest removed the yellow pad and waved me out. Ugh rude but I guess he's not happy with having to do confessions for other people who are just using the priest for whining of some horrible news. One night I started a religious themed book by King Kingsbury called "To go to the moon" about the survivors of the transfer from planet Earth to Aire as that world should be called. Ugh I'm just not entirely sure if that author should be writing about tragedies that hit the USA. Oh well. I mentioned by phone "I using Weather's Field as a town name and the apartment complex I lived in called Sharon Lane." Mom wound up throwing an angry fit while on the phone mentioning "I'm insisting you take those names down involving legal issues including laws to use actual names of people, cities and locations." "Ugh now you tells me." I said in response. Mom said "I insisted you delete the actual names of people cities and locations from your stories." Ugh I told her what she wanted to hear "I'll be doing that deleting as you requested." I wound up not telling mom that I self published online my Edenia fan fiction story online called "Susan's Denial" for free online that self publishing Smash-words' website where I've self published stories before. Ugh. Mom has been throwing an angry fit onto me in person and onto phone "You doing someone else's work into stories for money and stuff." which is the same hissing angry attitude towards me "You using actual names of people and locations." Ugh again. I wouldn't be surprised if I get a big mouth courtesy of the Meritanians thinking it's funny to embarrass people I compelled to say "I self published Susan's Denial online Smash-words website." which knowing mom she'll say "I insisted you take that story down and delete Susan's Denial from your files of stories saved." Ugh terrible big mouth me which I blame the Meritanians thinking "This is funny to embarrass people." Ugh I'm surprised this mood to journal took till now Monday the thirteenth. Ugh I don't get it my mood at all anyway. This sucks. Anyway Morena by email said "I mentioned forty bags of donations for forty days of giving for Lancemas the holy days. I urged you to do that giving up stuff for Lancemas like forty bags of stuff a day for each day of the holy days." Oh well. Also today I gave up five books I doubt that I would read or read again. I donated those books as a result to the school's free bookshelf including magazines mom gave me I doubt that I would read. I also was urged to give up a book on a soap opera that was defunct but I didn't think I could donate that damn book. Ugh I meant to donate it or reread that book but the soap operas are kind of defunct hence I keeping that book as a result. Ugh. Soap operas aren't much around TV or around internet. I hardly see much TV's soap operas on TV other than four of them that I don't bother to watch much. Ugh. There's one soap opera I don't watch on TV I'm not impressed with that soap opera. I prefer to watch soap operas on other channels instead. I find "The Hour Glass" soap opera boring me to tears hence I don't bother to watch that much. Ugh I do watch "Rags" soap operas including "Medical Hospice" the soap opera but I don't watch the soap operas very much at all. I just don't anyway. Morena can be a manipulator towards me doing things I don't care for. "I'm donating towels." I said by email to Morena who said "I insist you laundered towels you're donating instead of just giving them to me to donate." Ugh jeez Morena. Ugh again. Also I read this author's book about apartments I'm finding that book rather boring me so I skimmed the ending. Ugh I rate that book two stars online where's I'm on a book's profile website. Ugh I doubt that I would be reading anymore of that author's work. Mom has that author on a no read list out of that she is more of a journaling writer than a descriptive personal writing person unlike a popular romance author Nikolina Nikolai I favor that works for Veronica Thomas Incorporation. Ugh again. "This author Nikolina Nikolai." according to mom on the phone "is more descriptive with her scenes describing them and stuff involving writings." Ugh lucky Nikolina Nikolai on selling her works very well and earning tons of money off her writings. Ugh lucky. I can't seem to convince the public online this vanity press's website to buy my stories. The public seemed inclined to get my stories for free. The public sucks big time when they prefer my stories free than buying any of my stories for fees. Ugh I hate the public. Also annoying is when I'm stuck having to use this vanity press website for publishing stories that a fantasy and science fiction magazine rejected. This sucks to do that but I don't get much feedback onto my stories from family and friends. Ugh. Family and friends don't give me much feedback on what they think of my stories hence I have to submit them to magazines including self publishing them online with a paragraph to ask for commentary posting involving what readers' think of the story. Ugh. I hate it when people don't give me constructive feedback I want involving my stories. Ugh dad trashes my stories and finds them not good. One friend online uses excuses to avoid responding to my feedbacks' requests like excuses of being too busy to read my stories. I around two thirty bugged dad with a text email message "I request you to take me out for errands." Dad responded right away instead of forever "The outing is at the time of four o'clock." Dad arrived around four o'clock "Where to?" which I said "I insisted on town library to go driven to." I dropped off three library books one I already read or skimmed and didn't read entirely. Oh that book was on the apartments I found boring and skimmed the ending. The second book was Nikolina Nikolai's book "Immortality" the last book in the one's series I didn't agree with the book's contents involving the previous book. I thought the story was a tad too dark and negative something I didn't agree with. Yuck. I don't know if I would get around to reading "Immortality" or not. Oh well. Also dropped off a paper version of an e-book I have on e-reader already called "Fallen Flat King" by Matilda May. I meant to get around to reading that book whether it's by e-reader or by paper version. Ugh don't know why I haven't despite downloading the e-book version. I went to the rejected bookcase for withdrawn books and picked up four books which they appeared to be vampires or paranormal bent themes books. Nice I guess. I picked up Lora Lorena's novel "Rule Breaker" I'm not sure of why that book was withdrawn other than that book's story was probably not popular among library patrons or something like that status. Ugh. I found and picked up a second book Michelle Michael's book "Flame Thrower" which I think that book is a teens' novel by the size and picture of it involving that book. I'm not sure of that anyway. I picked up a third book Carly Caroline a Chicago vampires' novel. I've heard of Caroline's work but never gotten around to reading her work before. Oh well. I also picked up a fourth book by Carly Caroline novel into her urban fantasy series. I think the series is told in first person because of the female on the cover involving urban fantasy. I'm sure of that status. Ugh. Morena told me by email "I have advice for you involving clutter in your apartment. My advice is one thing in an equal value thing out. I meant four books you take in you have to give up four books for donations like that for an example." Ugh. Anyway I wound up with the voice picking onto me last night around four forty five after sickness in the toilet. Ugh triggered paranoia to go off as a result. Yuck cutest cat tried to comfort me by being social. I took my pills and ate food then wound up onto computer. Also during the computer's time the voice quit but continued while I was on the phone with mom. I was on the phone with mom for almost two hours with a break of ten minutes in between phone calls. Oh well. My stomach still acted up when I was on the phone with mom hence I in the bathroom around seven twenty twice but I didn't flush that time. I flushed the toilet after I got off the phone with mom around eight fifteen. Ugh. I watched the cute brothers' show which was nice but too bad one is married and the other is probably has a girlfriend to marry later. Oh well. The brothers are easy on the eyes to watch and funny anyway. I like their show their silly sometimes. Oh cute. I woke up around eight thirty this morning with the voice going off waking me up like an inner alarm clock. I think I was sick in the toilet multiple times despite the noises of my head. Ugh boy was I glad to take my pills and eat some chocolate spread for breakfast. Ugh glad to take my pills and cut the inner noises. Ugh. Love my cute little baby bundle of fur to slobber with kisses and give her cuteness hugs. She's so tolerant of her paycheck for free eats around here. I love that little stinking cutie so much. Aw cute. I emailed Lizard Lizette involving Morena's advice which she responded right away "That's good advice for sorting." Well nice. I emailed Jolica involving that same talk but she's not responding right away or reading my message which I guess she's busy with work. Oh well. I emailed Morena who was online but ignored me. I guess she was on her cell phone checking Chat's email while ignoring pings from people. She won't download the chat option by cell phone out of that she doesn't want to be tied to her cell phone involving that option. This is a pity anyway. Yesterday I emailed Morena "You want to meet for a lunch date at school?" which she said "I agree for a lunch date at school around noon." Oh Yay for that lunch date. Plus the day was nice and sunny and a bit cloudy. Oh well the clouds threatened to rain a bit but never rained actually. Ugh. I wore my NYC pink hat to the school while wearing a pink Denver Colorado tee shirt and sweat pants. I think Morena said "I approved of your outfit." Nice. Anyway I went to school and met Morena for lunch which Mars joined us by buying Mickey D's food for Morena's and himself which he ate in front of us. Nice. Also Morena wound up onto her cell phone talking to whoever was on there. She told me "The caller was someone named Son Johnson whose wife was in the hospital that might need my interpreting services later for being deaf." Ugh also Mars left which I wound up sitting with Morena for awhile till one o'clock is when's she left carrying her lunch and cell phone to her ear. Ugh. I went to the free bookshelf in school after Morena hit the elevator which I wound up finding that ideal book I had in mind to read wasn't there in the bookshelf. Someone took that book before I could take it to read. Ugh hate that happening. Yuck. I walked home and wound up watching HG for two hours with the cat on my lap. Cutie pie was lap happy once I was home and social. I guess she missed me and loved to sit onto my lap like a cute kitten mitten. Aw. HG aired this damned Caribbean show involving house hunting in the Caribbean than anything else as a marathon. They showed newer episodes of that series around nine o'clock that night. Ugh boring. Also Dellen's show didn't have Dellen as the host instead the show had a guest host which I found was funny. That guest host was funny as a bunny ear cat hopping around cutely. Aw nice I guess. Oh well. I got an issue of gymnastics in the mail involving the national championships for colleges. They featured Okie Dokie the college for women as nicknamed by the High Council that won the title. The title for men was dubbed Waterford despite known by another name by the High Council. Nice I guess. I have yet to read that magazine. I meant to get around to reading gymnastics but I'm just not in the mood. Ugh terrible. Anyway after Dellen's show I saw the local news which I watched till weather report then I went back to HG's Caribbean show which bored me that around five forty five I went to local news for sports report and stuff like that. I skipped world news because they habitually show doom and gloom news than anything positive. Yuck something I don't care for watching anyway. Ugh. Around seven o'clock I wound up onto the phone with mom for over an hour till like close to eight fifteen is when mom started whining "My stinking apartment stinks! I insisted on getting off the phone to get outside!" Ugh. I got off the phone and didn't do much this evening other than lap sat by the cutest cat who tried to nap onto my lap multiple times but got off and went to the couch. Aw poor cutie booty the baby cute kitten. I crashed around ten o'clock last night and wound up cuddled bummed by the munchkin who bathed herself too much annoying me. I hate it when's she's bathing herself while next to me in my bed because that annoys me. Ugh she finally quit that and went to sleep with me sleeping fine. I woke up this morning for bathroom and figured since I was up I'll stay up. Also cutie was no where in sight on my bed but on the couch onto her familiar spot for sleeping. Aw cute love that little munchkin bunches. She's so cute. Speaking of the munchkin she's got a bald spot onto her back that she's scratching repeatedly despite my efforts to keep the apartment clean of dust and dirt. Ugh I think cutesy cat needs a vet appointment for a steroid shot for her allergies. This is a pity. I've got one hundred and eighty dollars saved into book safe I'm hoping is an enough to pay for most of the baby bundle of fur's vet bill when it's time for me to get her to the vet for a steroid shot including a checkup onto that bald spot onto her back. Ugh. I just have to let dad know that I'm requesting a vet appointment for the baby cat so he can drive me to the vet for when's it's time for that to happen. Ugh can't wait to let dad know of this including calling the vet. Poor baby cute kitten with her allergies. Aw love that little munchkin bunches but hate it when's she's suffering from allergies that makes her itchy enough to scratch a bald spot. Poor munchkin! I wound up with a weird dream involving gymnastics' gym and some fat guy. Ugh that fat guy was obese and refused to let anyone use balance beam equipment for gymnastics. Ugh don't get it that dream. That fat guy wound up fighting with people for use of a gymnastic balance beam with me putting a hand onto his back and keeping him sitting up while he was pushing or fighting with people. Fat guy wound up pushing something off the balance beam's area and walking off after that fight. I got up off the balance beam's area and went to sit onto the rugged floor to watch a TV a flat TV screen airing something. Ugh. I don't get it that dream anyway. I don't do gymnastics anymore since I'm likes too old to do that sporting event. Also that dream had people doing gymnastics onto equipment including equipment that was older and not for gymnastics uses but seemed for that sporting. Ugh. I don't get it that weird dream or what the hell it means. Ugh again. Also I emailed Auntie Berliner on books I was reading which she emailed me a recommendation involving a vampire series I've seen on TV but never bothered to read the books. Oh well sounds like fun I guess. That vampire series was for teens something I saw at the town library I never bothered to get around to reading till Auntie recommended them to me. Ugh. I have library books on hand I've meant to get around to reading which I'm like halfway through one of them "Unmade songs" by Katie Caitlyn. I'm finding that book rather interesting so far from what've read. Problem is I don't remember much of book two to refer to book three I'm currently reading. Ugh I remember some details of that book but I'm not entirely sure if I remember what's that book is about. Ugh sucks. I might have to reread the series trilogy "Magical Majesty" again to remember what book one and two are about despite reading book three. Ugh this sucks like I said when I don't remember much of books' contents. Ugh again. I wound up walking outside in the weather to the town library where I wound up with the voice going off. Yuck. I sorted of tolerated that noises by going to the town library to sit around reading and finishing this library book "Unmade Songs" by Katie Caitlyn. I finished that book oh Yay me. I couldn't sleep much since last night. I kept waking up for noises of my head including the bathroom which I didn't flush the toilet out of trying to not be noisy for my downstairs' neighbor. Ugh. Also I wound up accidentally turning on the heating blanket hence I discovered this fact when I went to resume sleeping despite cutie the cat pointing that out to me. Ugh again. I turned off the heating blanket and adjusted that thing somewhere where I couldn't accidentally press the button or switch. Ugh hate it when's that has to happen. Yuck. Anyway I read the pill bottle's label for my hormones' pills and discovered this taking those pills involved the morning than in the evening. Hence I have to quit the evening taking them and take the hormones into the morning with my other pills. Ugh sucks. I opt not to take my hormone pills last night hence I wound up with voices talk and sick like problems into the toilet. Yuck but I tried to sleep the best I could. Unfortunately around five o'clock something in the morning I gave up sleeping and got up to send email to people. Ugh. I emailed Auntie a short email then I did the same to Morena who was online but on her cell phone hence her ignorance. Ugh Jolica hasn't bothered to reply to my email in awhile. I guess that she's busy or something hence Jolica's lack of response. Ugh terrible. I wound up home with the voice going off involving the toilet's number two. I think I'm creepy out involving mom's visiting me. Or Mom's coming to see me or something like that fact. Ugh. I watered and fed cutest cat food for she needed more food anyway. Oh well nice of me to feed her more food and water. Nice. Last night I wound up with the voice going off bothering me involving the damn toilet. Yucky problem to have but I forced myself to talk to mom by phone without alerting her of that problem. I talked to mom for around an hour till seven o'clock is when we finally got off the phone. Oh Yay. Also last night I read a library's version of Carly Caroline's work involving Chicago vampires which I finished. I was creepy out too much to sleep when ten o'clock rolled around so I read and finished "Singer" by Carly Caroline. Ugh. During the ending part of Caroline's book I felt creepy out on finishing "Singer" but I finished that book I rate four stars out of five online good reads' website. Oh Yay me. Around two o'clock the voice quit its attacking barrage onto me which I went to bed and slept despite a little creepy out by the inner noises going off. I slept till five o'clock woken up by bathroom but I thought I would sleep some more on the advice of the voice blaring at me to do that which I did "You should sleep some more." I heard blared into my mind. I woke up around seven o'clock and decided to send emails to people out of needing something to do while computer staring. I find that computer staring while sick with the voice creeps me out bothering my paranoia quite a bit hence I don't computer stare. I find that reading a book with the TV on is much better for my paranoia and creepiness feelings despite not bothering to do the computer nowadays. I still use the computer sometimes whenever I'm sick with the voice but that's only before I go to eat dinner even with the voice going off. Yuck. I checked out the tenth edition anniversary of Chicago Vampire series by Carly Caroline which I discovered the main story was twin to a library book I finished hence I skipped that and skimmed a bit. I wound up reading the bonus content of that book which I haven't finished yet. Oh well. "Morning Sweetie: I'm in church then work nine to three give me a buzz tonight at six pm love you mom." This is mom's text email message to my cell phone this morning. I didn't respond out of unsure if mom would get that message. Mom whined by phone "I've been getting multiple texting messages that were spam I deleted." hence I haven't really text emailed her a response. Oh well. Morena by emailing me in Chat's emails said "I suggested you get rid of books that aren't Nikolina Nikolai's works." Ugh she knows I favor Nikolina Nikolai too much to the point of collecting her works. I also thought of getting rid of books that were already on e-reader too. I also kept some books that weren't easily found by e-reader or e-book form. Ugh. Morena said "I insisted you sort out fifty books." which I did that job but not much but I bagged the books too into cloth bags for her to pick up on Thursday Morena said "I'll come by on Thor's day also known as Thursday to pick up the books." I can't wait to get rid of those books. Ugh. Also can't wait to get rid of a bookcase and have Morena take that thing off my hands. I've got ideas on what bookcase I should get rid of which I'll go see if I can do that getting rid of that bookcase I've got in mind. Ugh again. Ugh Wednesday night I had a little trouble motivating myself to sleep into bed to be wake up by alarm clock at seven thirty. Ugh I woke up around six o'clock Thursday morning by cutie pawing me awake and sitting onto my front on her butt. Cute I guess. Anyway I wasn't able to open a window because of the rainy stormy weather that day yesterday. Yuck and terrible weather anyway. Ugh. Also I showered around eight o'clock starting my damn day. I had a debate on what to wear with my clothes tee shirt wise and sweater wise. I picked a tee shirt in blue and a sweater in pink including my blue sweats and wore my sweater jacket. Ugh Ted text emailed me around eight fifty "Morena was going to be a little late." which I responded on his request "Text email me that you got the message." I said "I got your message." After that I spent the rest of the time peeking out the window waiting forever for Morena's arrival which she arrived around nine fifteen. Morena text emailed me "I was here in the lot." as I got my two bags worth of books including a mini skirt I was donating. After that Morena drove to Ted's apartment which she picked him up "Ted sit in the front while you sit in the back." She ordered. Ted is always talking to Morena while in the front hence Morena's wants him to sit in the front's seat for talking instead of back seat. Ugh hence I'm always seated in the back. Yuck. Anyway I charged my e-reader intending to read that thing while in Morena's car but picked one of the donated books I figured I'll read instead and keep. Ugh I wound up reading a withdrawn library book I was donating I wound up keeping as a result. Ugh. Morena arrived to the mall in a location I wasn't sure of where it was because I was book reading. She parked the car and then we went inside where we met her friend Tanner who seemed to need to be on a diet. Her friend was on the pudgy size side like I and Morena are while Ted's needs to gain weight. We all took a walk around the mall only walking a part of the mall then went to eat lunch. Morena said "It was okay for you eating cheese onto your food finding eating that once is okay for you." I wound up sick in the toilet with problems soon after eating that food. Ugh yucky and terrible to have that result in the bathroom. Anyway Morena drove us to Ilia as that store is called by the High Council in a town dubbed Heaven next to the ocean. I haven't seen the ocean in awhile or a long time so the viewing was rather nice. We after arriving was sitting around waiting for Tanner and another of Morena's friends named Tina to show up. Nice. "I considered buying a chair for my office." As said by Morena but she said "Nope don't want to buy that chair." when's examining the box for that chair. Ugh a pity that Morena bought a bottle of wood polish than anything else. Also we went to the café for drinks for Tina to eat food. Morena had soda while I had water both our drinks in glass cups. Morena is still onto a no plastic kick involving products. She won't use products that come in plastic. She's trying to eliminate the uses of plastic from her house including using them for anything hence she's refusing products' buying that are in plastic containers. Ugh nice idea I guess. After our drinks and food we took a walk around the store then went to the other part of the store where people could load bags for products including carts too. "I insist that you to buy a cushion for you computer desk's chair on that your original cushion is shredded." As said to me by Morena. Ugh I did that buying costing me six dollars and got some change back. Ugh. Morena said "Nope." to me buying a stuffed toy or some bath towels I was thinking "That's an impulsive buys." Ugh Morena managed to convince me "You to just to buy the cushion." which I did. Anyway the weather rained when Morena drove to the mall and kept up the rainy weather when she drove to Ilia. After Ilia the weather quit raining but was terribly cloudy and miserable. Yuck. Morena drove Ted and I home which on the way out of the parking lot I saw a couple that reminded me of a couple I've seen online next to a car. I didn't point them out or anything just guessed that the couple was them but I didn't see their faces. I only saw their body shapes including their blonde hair to assume that status. Ugh. I wound up paying attention on the way home with the voice going "Got to pee!" over and over involving pee urges. Ugh plus the voice started chanting its familiar question "Are you forgetting something?" in response to me late taking my pill at five o'clock. Morena stalled on getting me home instead she drove to Ted's and had me "You to help him haul some stuff from my car's back end into his apartment." Ugh once done I conversed with Morena in the car ""I living in the apartment complex where Ted lives for his apartment seems nice." Morena said "I disagreed with your talk because of the lengthy walk to school from there." Once at home I text emailed dad "Good evening Daddy I'm home with cutest cat roams got dropped off by Morena and is slobbering kitty with kisses." Dad text emailed me twice saying "Cute" at first then said his traditional message "Ok." Ted said "I noticed today that you don't say much besides the words 'Ok' and 'Fine' to me whenever I tried to get you into a conversation." Those words are dad's traditional familiar words he always habitually says to me than anything else. Ugh dad always says those words to me in texting messages than anything else messages' wise. Ugh again. After I got home mom text emailed me "Call mom if you're home." I ate my dinner which was toasted bagel with cheese and orange juice. I shouldn't have eaten cheese with my meal but I wasn't in the mood for a lengthy nuking food time because of having to phone mom. So I made my sandwich with my pill I took and ate that then after that phoned mom. I was on the phone from five forty five to eight ten in evening. I guess we both had lots to say involving my outing with Morena which we discussed locations including how Morena's got to there by driving on roads. Nice I guess. During the phone call I wound up with an upset stomach that involved cramps for number two. Ugh mom put me on hold multiple times but I didn't using the toilet instead jotted notes by journal instead while on hold. Oh well. Around eight ten in the evening mom started whining "I'm wanted to get off the phone." so I agreed by saying "I love you lots Momsy Bobsy bye." I hung up and did something involving my cramps in the toilet then got into pajamas. Cutest cat ever got onto my lap but she didn't stick around long enough she got off. Aw poor cutie pie I guess was cold hence she lap sitting me. I opened the windows above the air conditioner last night out of how stuffy it got into my apartment. The weather once I was home for the evening wasn't too bad for windows open. I had the windows open all night which wasn't too bad. I woke up this morning for bathroom and with the sunlight shining gave up sleeping. I got up and figured I would send people emails out of needing something to do before I go shower. I wound up into a talk with Morena by Chat's option onto cell phone but she's not being too talkative with me "Sorry I'm working." She said. Ugh. I'm just sick with a voice attack at the moment involving the toilet hence I sick repeatedly with the toilet at the moment and trying to tolerate that noisy issue till I go phone mom at eight thirty tonight. Morena ended chat which I wound up onto the phone with mom for a short time because mom was working a morning shift at six o'clock. Ugh also once off the phone I wound up editing one Edenia series' story out of needing something to do. Ugh. Anyway yesterday I roped dad "You into driving me around town." Dad picked me up around two o'clock an hour after Morena said "I'm working hence I ended chat." Morena said "I insisted you get rid of ten books." which I donated to the town library yesterday including some library books I doubt I would read or finish. Oh well. Dad drove me to town library where I donated books "I asked librarian for Malinia's memoir 'Shining time.'" "We don't have that book but we would have to inter library loan for you." Oh well sucks big time ugh. After library where I almost forgot to donate my bag of book I had on hand which I forgot to get rid of those books till I almost left the library is when I remembered that joke. Ugh dumb me. Anyway after library I went to drug store where I bought toothpaste and a notebook out of that the store's notebook supply wasn't much. I did whine to the cashier a guy "You don't have much supplies in notebooks." But I still bought a notebook a two subject one. Oh well. After drug store was grocery shopping where I bought food and used my clothe bags to carry my items to dad's car. Dad said "I'm not coming into the store instead stayed in the car." Oh well nice I guess. Also I wound up once I was home watching TV show Dellen's Show then a bit of local news blaring about a golf tournament. Boring me to tears actually so I went to HG to watch till six o'clock is when I phoned mom. Oh I made sure to eat dinner before phoning mom. Oh nice. I was on the phone for around two hours till eight o'clock is when we got off the phone and I went to watch TV watching HG channel stuff rerunning and then nine o'clock a newer episode. Nice. I crashed around ten o'clock last night and woke up for bathroom around six o'clock in the morning but I figured since I was tired I might as well continue sleeping which I did fifteen minutes to nine o'clock is when I woke up and started my day. I remembered having a weird dream of visiting a manicurist's nail salon for a manicure which "You want your nails done?" I received rude reception including a half done job onto my nails. This seemed to have something to do with me being a walk in customer "Your not here for an appointment." Ugh also the nail salon seemed to be having a party or something involving food too hence people hanging around eating their food. Oh don't get it this damned dream anyway. Yuck. I've meant to chop my nails out of that their getting long might be too long for me to type. Oh well. Also had a weird dream of me visiting some school looking for a bathroom toilet and couldn't find it enough "Where's the bathroom?" I asked a teacher where that was. Also wound up into a restaurant where I threw dishes from the table onto the floor like a rude kiddy. Ugh don't get it this damned dream anyway. Yesterday mom came over after a short phone call in the morning "I'm coming to see you as you requested." I phoned her and asked "Can you come up and see me?" Well nice I guess of mom to come see me. Nice! Also I gave mom books that later took them back and donated them to the town library. Mom said "In the car smelled the mustiness of the books. I donated the books." I was giving her including me donating books I wasn't going to read. Ugh sucks. Mom met Steve Stevenson a Tom Mindbender Thunder look twin's guy who likes me in the town library. "Steve this is my mother raiser Beatrice Bee. This is Steve Stevenson." I introduced him to my mom that they both had a chat while I went to the library's desk "I'm asking about a Nikolina Nikolai's book 'Glass island's' due date." "Book wasn't due till two weeks later." which I didn't recheck it out instead figured I'll quickly read that fast and be done with soon enough I'm hoping. Ugh. After library was to stop and shop using cloth bags to hold our purchases in them which mom whined "The grocery store charging ten cents for plastic bags hence I gave you tons of cloth bags to use." Oh well. After stop and shop was home to nuke some pizza into the oven which I ate but wound up sick in the toilet with problems later on. Ugh I whined to mom on the phone "My problems with dairy intake later on that made me sick into the toilet." Mom said "I suggested you eat food that's non dairy." Oh nice I guess. Mom said "I have to show you forms involving going over the trust fund's paperwork including how much the money was left in the trust fund." Around nine thousand dollars and some change left into the trust fund. Oh goody. I'm hoping to whittle down the trust fund's amount so I can get the money deposited into my bank account for me to use instead of having mom using it for paying for stuff. Ugh. Also I'm no longer onto energy assistance matching payment plan at the moment. I need to start saving money for my electricity bills including for cutesy cat's vet bills too. Ugh. "I asked on using the trust fund to pay for my electricity bills including for my cutest cat's vet bills." Mom said "I claimed that the trust fund is for you only and not for the cat or for anyone else which includes those electricity bills you have to pay yourself." Ugh sucks. Mom said "I insisted on you going to church for confession." which I said "I have nothing to confess to the priest." I was out of not willing to confess anything to the priest. Oh well. My confession I would say "I would be feeling like punching my cat with my fists." I hope not on that punching status. Ugh. I had a calico cat I would punch with my fists and hit out of being angry from school and not having an outlet to get rid of my anger hence I would fist the cat Patty with my fists. Ugh quite a pity that she's doesn't care for me fisting her. Yuck. Also Patty was put down humanly for having an inoperable tumor that was giving her pain and making her not eat food. Ugh she was put to sleep as a result. Oh she went willingly for being put to sleep without any defiance or anything like that. Ugh nice of me to do that to her after the abuse I gave the poor kitty with my fists. Ugh. Anyway dad and I adopted two kitties Tiger and Willow a few weeks later that were kittens' ages. Tiger seemed to favor me while Willow was favoring dad and she kept on favoring him over the years. I don't think Willow liked me anyway. Ugh. I doubt that I would be getting a calico cat after Samantha's life gets to the point she needs to be put down humanly. I don't think I could withstand a calico cat. I abused one and another one didn't care for me instead favored someone else. I don't think I'll ever get a calico anyway. Yuck. I think I'll get a black cat like Samantha my cutest kitten is entirely black and refer her as some cutesy name of Demeter from my father raiser Jinks Montreal having a cat with that name. Cute name I guess. Those names of Demeter and Vikat were names I wanted to name Tiger and Willow originally but dad said "No not those names! I don't want to be reminded of something horrible with my life!" We picked Tiger for tiger tabby stripes and dad picked Willow from his favorite TV show he favored enough to tape. Ugh. I blame that trust fund as reason why's I'm not earning extra money off my writings. Ugh I blame the fact that the trust fund's existence is why's I'm seemingly not earning any money of my own from anything like my writings. Ugh. I'm seemingly losing money off impulsive buys including me buying things I shouldn't have bought in the first place. Ugh this is something mom noticed and pointed out to me "You seemed to be buying things you shouldn't be buying." I think Morena said "I noticed this fact too." and has been picky onto me buying things. Ugh again. I blame the fact that the trust fund's existence is why I can't seem to be earning extra money off my writings or anything I sell online Bay's too. I blame the fact that the trust fund being there for me is why I can't seem to earn money of my own. Yuck. I find if I try to earn money of my own I won't get the money at all. Ugh something I noticed involving me having a trust fund blocking me from earning extra money of my own. This is a yucky problem to have. The lack of money I'm trying to earn of my own involving my own writings is the pits when's I can't seem to convince the public to purchase my stories. All I get is public wants my stories to be free than buying the stories for fees. The public sucks with their attitude involving my stories. Ugh. Baby cute kitten wound up lap sitting me which I snatched her up for a nice hug fest and kisses too. Cutie tolerated the hug and kiss fine. I guess that's her paycheck for free eats around here. Aw cute. Also I emailed dad and Jolica this story of Lance Knight. I figured I'll include stories into my journals if I'm inclined to do that inclusion. Oh well. I tagged Morena "Hi Morena you around for a chat?" who replied "I'm here so what's mew with you?" which I was online talking to her for thirty minutes till around eleven o'clock is when she ended chat "I have to go do something else like chores." Ugh. Morena by her emails' messages said "I suggested you go out for a walk today to take advantage of the nice sunny day to walk to the green in town and sit down reading a book." I don't feel like doing that today because I'm sick in the toilet with problems including today's Sunday I don't normally go out for walks much on Sundays regardless of the weather. Also I text emailed dad "Good morning daddy check your email I emailed you a short story involving Edenia series I'm working on. Let me know what you thought of story." Dad according to cell phone read that text's message but didn't respond. Ugh sucks. Also mom around eight o'clock in the morning sent me a text email message saying "Good morning lovey, I'm working nine-thirty am to two pm. Have a good day, call me at six pm. Love you, mom." Ooh all I have to show today is problems with the toilet that's bound to annoy the neighbors for uses of the thing. Ugh. Morena said "I suggested you get outside walking around." but I don't do that on Sundays like I stay home bored to tears and clean the apartment than doing anything else. I also slobber the furry baby too much too. Poor kitty has gone to hide to avoid me slobbering her head too much with kisses including pick me up hugs. This is a pity when's the kitty's fed up with me slobbering her too much that's she's gone to hide and avoid me. Ugh. I'm just annoyed by my head thinking ideas or scenes for Edenia series but when's I go to type those ideas down the mood evaporates or goes away leaving me frustrated and stuck with those damned ideas into my head I can't seem to type down. Ugh again. I'm also annoyed that I can't seem to write down those damned ideas either despite thinking of them. Ugh. I spend my time writing journaling thoughts than writing stories for me to copy onto computer later. Oh well. Also those notebooks are for me to fill in with my writings then once I finish those damn things I throw them out into dumpster with my garbage. I symbolize throwing out the notebooks with throwing out problems than keeping the notebooks on hand. Oh well. This garbage's notebook tossing out is something I've done multiple times including emailing to people that I do that habit. Morena said "I know you do that habit of notebook throwing out. I encourage you to do that but I'm not buying notebooks for you to write in if you're going to toss them out into the dumpster." This sucks. Plus I noticed with my writings I seemed to be recycling already published stories to have this character's point of view or changing one story to have something else. I like I did with one story involving something I changed into a point of contact story between a group of people and talking sentient plants that live in the ocean. Ugh. Sometimes I can't seem to type anything brand new down or think of anything involving ideas to type down hence I'm stuck recycling stories. I don't seem to like this damned stories' recycling. I prefer to think of something brand new than the same old recycling lined stories to have this story's point of view or something else. Ugh even annoying is I'm sending stories and poems to magazines that are being picky with what story or poetry they accept. So far I've received nothing but ignorance and rejection. Ugh I can't seem to get any of my written words accepted into magazines. I find my written words have something into them that turn people off from wanting to buy my stories or same for accepting them for publication. The public like my friends and family sucks when's they won't very descriptively tells me what I need to do towards my stories to fix them up for public to buy them. I find I emailed short stories involving the Edenia series to friends and family multiple times. They won't respond with their creative critique on what they think needs work with my stories. Only Jolica responds by Chat's email with her opinion but that's about it. I don't get responses from dad or anyone else besides her involving my stories. Ugh. I saw a Nikolina Nikolai's e-book on sale for online Barnes and Noble's website which I purchased but won't read. I have yet to bother to read and finish an e-book by e-reader. I meant to do that reading even voice is nagging me "You to do that reading too." Ugh I only have sixty dollars and some change left into bank account before I get my monthly paycheck within a week's time frame. Ugh I'm hoping the bank won't get greedy and suck most of sixty dollars out of my bank account. I owe dad money for glasses which I already paid dad twenty dollars. I was hoping to use one of the twenties in sixty dollars to pay dad what I owe for glasses' bill. Ugh. Also I was hoping on using the remainder of sixty dollars to put twenty into my book safe for cute baby kitten's future vet bills. The rest of that for spending money onto something I need to purchase out of not using my card. Ugh again. I've been more interested into reading paper copies of books I have by e-reader than reading those e-books. Ugh voice has been nagging me "You to read the e-books by e-reader!" but I won't bother doing the reading. Ugh don't get it at all. I don't get it why's I won't read and finish an e-book by e-reader when I'm more inclined to read the paper copy which is either paperback or hardcover. Ugh. Some books I have on hand are awkward for me to read because their hardcover but I'll still read them despite balking on reading the e-books version. Oh well. I wound up around five thirty with the bathroom's problems triggering the paranoia to go off bothering me. Ugh I ranged mom around six o'clock who whined "I'm not being ready for a phone call. Call me back at six thirty." so I ranged her up again around six thirty and talked for twenty minutes. Mom said "I suggested you ring me up around nine o'clock." but I didn't bother out of creepy out by the voice and paranoia hitting me at the time. I sort of gave up telling mom by phone of me creepy out by paranoia and voice hitting me at the time. I just use excuses to get off the phone with her and not phone her again that evening. I read and finished "Glass Island" by Nikolina Nikolai last night which completion of that book creep me out including cutesy cat sitting onto my lap too. Ugh cutesy cat was cold and tried for my lap but I couldn't withstand her very good hence she got off and clawed the armchair as a result. Ugh. Last night dad text emailed me "I'm going to Sanne's residence in Greenleaf." I asked dad "Do you need me to feed the kitties?" Dad replied "Yes." answer including "There's a time frame of feeding the cats." Ugh. I wound up with eating dinner around five o'clock with my pill then around five thirty I walked to dad's house carrying my purse in a backpack form including a memoir Ugh. Only Willow was around for food which the other kitties hid and didn't show themselves around dad's house. Dumb cats dumb animals. Also I walked home and watched the remainder of local news till six thirty is when they went to doom and gloom world news I hate watching so I went to HG till seven o'clock is when I ranged mom up for a phone call. Mom kept call short as thirty minutes due to whining "I'm falling asleep." Ugh quite a pity anyway which I hung up and watched the HG's channel till ten o'clock is when I went to bed crashing asleep willingly. Ugh. Baby cute kitten was friendly last night enough to demand attention including trying to play chewy with my hand petting her. Dumb cat dumb animal. Ugh dumb me for petting her cuteness that she wanted to play chew with my hand. Oh well. After that I crashed and slept till six o'clock in the morning woken up by bathroom but since I was tired I crashed and slept till fifteen minutes past nine o'clock. "Check your cell phone!" I was woken up by my noisy head involving my damn cell phone receiving texting messages from mom and dad. Ugh mom around eight o'clock text emailed me "Call mom!" a phone request but I was asleep at the time so mom added "The phone request to seven thirty tonight." Ugh. Also dad said "I begged you to go feed the kitties!" "I refuse." Which I said then around ten o'clock after dad begged again "I beg you to go feed the kitties. I have no one to feed them with." I relented and went to dad's house feeding the furry bundles of his. Tigger was around acting as mister social while Walnut was meowing at me with her big mouth. Willow was around stuffing her face and acting like a snob on the bob. Oh Bogey I nicknamed Bogart was no where in sight. I guess he was hiding somewhere into dad's bedroom. Ugh poor kitties. I walked home and did laundry and finished that chore. Oh Yay me. I just have to put away clothes including pajamas and bath's towels then I'll be done as a doornail with that chore. I can't wait anyway. I've got Pavel Palin's memoir "Water's Son." I'm currently reading despite calling that book done online Good Reads' website. I rate that book two stars online that website. I consider that book done with as read despite reading it in real life. Oh well. I'm reading Palin's book out of that mom talked onto the phone "I give a subject on varying reading material. You should read more of non fiction than fantasy fiction you seemed to be reading way too much of than anything else." Ugh. I forgot to update my computer journal with my online journal. Oh well. At least I remembered to do that updating. I'm still updating my computer journal with those online journaling entries to save on hand if I think it's worth doing that. I wound up sick I'm home sick with the voice going off scaring me at the time hence I turned on the air conditioner and TV and went onto the computer to update my computer journal out of needing to waste time till five o'clock pill taking time. Ugh Canada's main channel went out of service hence I'm stuck with National as a result. Yuk. Also cutest cat avoided me this morning with my attempts to pick her up for a slobbering kiss and hugs fests. I guess that the baby cat isn't in the mood for a hugging and a kissing ritual. Aw poor kitty poor me. Ooh the baby munchkin turns thirteen this month which "She's." according to mom by phone "A geriatric cat that's old in sixties like sixty five." Ugh jeez mom for ruining my mood involving the baby cat's and her lifetime of living with me. Aw. "Throw her outside" says voice who adds "Get another cat." I hate the talk by the voice making it tempting to remove baby cat for being old and get a kitten to have for slobbering. Yuk. Yesterday mom after a late phone call came over to see me which was a good thing. Mom and I went to Dublin Donuts which I had lunch with her eating food even though I ate an hour ago. Ugh. After we had lunch mom drove to Americaversal store where she told me "I insisted you purchase silverware for ninety four cents each buying three of them for me to use." I wound up buying them including a notebook for journaling. Ugh Americaversal store is some big major chain that sells items besides food. After store we went to library where mom stayed in the car while I went inside. I couldn't get into the mood for books for me to purchase or check out. Ugh walked out empty handed. Oh well. Anyway mom drove me home which she said "I insisted you walked me to the car." I did despite itching to use the toilet hitting me at the time. Ugh I went back into my home and did my business then sat watching HG's "Fixer Upper" a defunct big state eye's base show. I saw Delen's show that was a rerun which I didn't mind because I got to journal by notebook wasting time till four o'clock local news' aired their program. Nice I guess. I around six o'clock ranged mom up who picked up to whine "I'm not being ready for a phone call for I'm busy eating." according to her. "I want to ask you to call me back at seven o'clock in an hour's time frame" which I did. Ugh mom was rather rude with her ending the phone call around eight o 'clock "I love you lots Victoria talk to you tomorrow." She didn't let me get a word in involving loving her which I would have said "I love you Momsy Bobsy." Ugh I hung up and wound up watching a TV show on HG channel around nine o'clock airing a newer episode then I crashed at ten o'clock. I had a weird dream involving a floor length apartment in a building that appeared to be a city or something like that. I don't get it that dream anyway. I just don't at all. I dreamed of having a Chihuahua dog as a pet for walking with while outside wandering around the building's inner workings that seemed to be like a maze. Ugh. I dreamed of me running for a titled position which I said "I agreed to jointly join Morena Morgan for that titled position." despite someone else a guy was favored and seemed to be arrogant to think "I'll win no matter what you campaign for ha." Ugh just don't get it that dream anyway but the comment sounded of Ramses' talking commentary into my mind despite he doesn't broadcast talk to me occasionally. The Meritanians that comment to me the most are Merra and Tank which I'm always hearing them blaring talk. Merra makes sure I hear her broadcast all over the place like I'm cued to her. I sometimes have trouble telling the difference from my noises of my head from her talk. Her voice sounds similar to the noises of my head hence I have to type it down and then ask Merra "Did you say this to me?" Merra sort of evades answering that question instead just continues onto her joker jokes. I dreamed of a TV's show characters' puppets I tapped onto their backs and they retaliated by trying to bite me. I signed in American Sign Language as that referred "No biting!" Also those puppets turned into my cat playing chew the hand that feeds her game. Plus there was a Chihuahua dog hanging around that had puppies which I took the mother dog and put a leash on her while in an apartment and walked outside into a maze of an inner building I trying to get outside but couldn't figure out where. Ugh. I think my eating same meals for lunch and dinner twice in two days have caused me a problem with the toilet. I was sick earlier with the voice going off "Are you forgetting something?" including hearing "You need to eat better foods." Which sounded of Merra's talk but I wasn't sure. Cutest cat hung around me watching TV while sick with the voice going off. I was rather confused to her behavior or why's she was hanging around me. These hangouts turned out to be her trying to comfort me with the voice going off she sensed that problem. Also I wound up not sleeping very good last night into this morning. I woke up early as four o'clock in the morning for pee urges and resumed sleeping till daylight around six thirty or around that time is when I woke up but resumed sleeping till eight thirty is when I got up. Ugh. "Are you forgetting some? Are you forgetting something?" sang voice in response to me having number two urges in the toilet. Ugh I don't know what's making me sick in the toilet tonight other than blaming me eating two twin meals for two days in a row hence I'm sick tonight. Ugh again. I text emailed mom by cell phone saying "Its Victoria its seven o'clock I'm home awaiting word so text email me mews ASAP." I meant to phone Momsy tonight but I'm not sure if she's going to be willing to talk by phone tonight at whatever time's she's free for a chat. Ugh. Mom's got an early morning work shift tomorrow at six o'clock hence she's not going to be chatty by phone tonight. This is a pity towards mom for working that work shift soon after working an afternoon work shift till six o'clock in evening. This is a pity. I wound up yesterday cleaning the bathroom and then vacuuming the living room. Ted text emailed me "I want to come over and check your work involving cleaning." I said "Okay come over." He obeyed which he told me in person "I approved of your vacuuming but found your cleaning in the bathroom dirty." Oh well "This is the same for cleaning the kitchen which is dirty too." I gave Ted a bag of clothes "You to donate for me." "I'll do that fine." he said. Nice. After Ted's visit I finished a notebook worth of journaling but I used sloppy handwriting to finish that notebook. Ugh. Also I wound up tossing out magazines into a plastic bag with that notebook. Ugh again. I told mom "I tossing out of magazines." by phone which she was whining "You needing to scratch the name and address off the magazines." Ugh jeez mom. Anyway mom ended phone call thirty minutes later whining "It's too hot in my apartment I need to get outside to cool off." Ugh. I wound up watching TV last night including journaling into several notebooks. I picked a notebook but I didn't feel like journaling into that notebook so I put it back. I picked another notebook which I wrote using sloppy handwriting till I realized the journal wasn't what I had in mind to journal in so I put that back. I picked up a spiral bound three subject notebooks that was sitting onto my dining table which I wound up using and writing with neater handwriting. I wrote sloppy at first then after that was done I wrote neatly as I could. I couldn't read my handwriting in its sloppy form hence I opt to write neatly. Oh well at least I can read my handwriting anyway. Ooh cutesy cat's sleeping on the couch's footrest while purring her motorboat off. I petted her cuteness galore while she was on there. Cutie tolerated the petting fine with her motorboat going off. Aw cute love my little munchkin bunches. Today's Saturday which the HG channel is airing crummy shows onto their cable channel today. Yuck I don't care for those shows their airing today. Ugh. "The town library is open four hours today from ten o'clock to two o'clock." According to librarian when I ranged her up asking "What are the hours of the town library today?" I've got no idea what I can do while I'm there besides purchasing books or checking out books to go with the pile I have already. Ugh again. I sent an email to Jolica "I spent my day on Thursday cleaning the bathroom and kitchen including doing vacuuming." Jolica responded with "Cleaning is important!" Ugh Jolica's hardly talkative with her responses to my emails. I guess she's lengthy with other people like her sister Juliet Joliet as named. That's interesting guess anyway. Oh well. Ooh so far today I have to show is me eating crummy junk foods than anything healthy like fruits or veggies. Ugh sucks. This stinks. Also I wound up sending emails to people who didn't reply. Only Jolica read my email but chose not to respond. Ugh I hate that status from people who don't respond right away or read my emails right away. Yuck. Yesterday I didn't do much besides eating inappropriate foods and watching boring TV. I also chased the furry kitty for hugs and kisses requests. Cutie refused and avoided me as a result. Ugh. Plus last night around seven o'clock while waiting for mom's phone request time at eight o'clock I started reading this book "Blood and Boneheads" by Nikolina Nikolai. I read like two chapters till I saw the time on the clock was seven thirty so I quit reading. Last night I wound up sick in the toilet with a problem that made my head sing a bit including paranoia off a bit. Yuck to have this problem. Ugh cutest cat hung around me as if trying to help me feel better. Aw poor me poor cutest cat. I phoned mom around eight o'clock "Hi its Victoria how are you?" Mom said "It's really hot in my apartment. I included needing to phone other people when eight thirty rolled around. I wanted to phone my sister." I said "I nicknamed Auntie Berliner by the name of Myrtle the Turtle for her slow driving in her car." Ugh jeez mom for not getting my joke by saying "That's not funny and quit referring my sister with that reference." Around eight thirty mom got the operator to type the stop keying symbol which we both hung up. I wound up watching HG last night featuring pools than anything amusing. Ugh boring which I could have read more of Nikolai's book but I didn't bother. Ugh. Sunday I spent the day with mom and Auntie Berliner which Mom text emailed me around eight o'clock saying "Call mom." I obeyed around five minutes later saying "Hi its Victoria what can I do for you Momsy Bobsy?" Mom said "I plan to come to your apartment with my sister there to meet us there." "I agree to that meeting." I said. "Love you see you soon." said mom who hung up which she arrived to my apartment around eleven o'clock. "You're not wearing a bra!" as blared by Mom in person who noticed I was droopy in the chest area. "Put on a bra for my sakes!" I was forced to put on a bra for mom's sakes. Yuck Also mom made me sit around waiting an hour or over that for Auntie Sandy's arrival. Mom tried to call her sister by my cell phone but didn't reach her so she tried her own cell phone and reached the Aunt who arrived around one o'clock. Well Auntie drove mom and I to Bar's Harbor in another state dubbed Massachusetts but Masses by the High Council. Bar's Harbor is where we ate lunch in a restaurant around two o'clock. All I had to show that day was sick with diarrhea from the foods I've eaten. Yuck. Also after the restaurant was to Lance Richard's shrine of mercy where we attended a church mass then left to the shrine's bookstore which is where I wound up sick with a paranoia problem. Hence I glad I had Nikolina Nikolai's book with me. I read that while waiting for the paranoia to blow off which it did. Ugh. After the bookstore was to home where Auntie dropped mom and I off then mom left "I'm insisting onto a phone call that night at eight o'clock." I wound up eating dinner with my pill the Geodon dosage then after that phoned mom for a phone call. Ugh again. After phone call I watched TV Sunday night then went to bed. Monday I didn't do much besides talking to mom on the phone lengthy then after that I stayed home slobbering after the furry kiddy but she nipped my nose when I tried a kisses fest onto her while holding her. Poor kitty didn't care for the kisses. Also I whined to mom by phone "That cat nipping my nose when I tried to kiss her." Mom told me "I insist you quit doing that hugging and kissing the cat." which I said "I'll try not to doing that behavior." Ugh I wound up picking a dog toy and been kissing that stuffed toy instead of kissing the cat. Oh well. Tuesday yesterday I woke up early as seven o'clock by alarm clock which was for phoning mom at eight o'clock "Hi it's Victoria. You are coming up to see me for a visit?" I ranged mom up who said "I assured you of coming to see you." Mom was later as ten o'clock than around the nine o'clock hour. Ugh. I did laundry during waiting for mom which I washed and dried my clothes including my bra then put the clothes in the suitcase into my bedroom which I later put away around six o'clock. Mom arrived around ten o'clock which she on my asking "Can you drive me to Barnes and Noble's bookstore?" Mom said "Nope I refused on using traffic and construction as reasons why I can't drive you. I ran into trouble with the road on the way to your apartment." I found this nothing but flimsy excuses. Ugh mom sucks with her excuses. Mom drove me to town library where I found multiple books trashy kind by an author I didn't care for but I'm sure that Jolica would care for those books. Also I found three books by Nikolina Nikolai a go to author for me that I already read and that those books were in a trilogy so I bought them for one dollar and fifty cents. Oh Yay me. Mom drove to Mickayla's in Turin as that town is called by the High Council. Turin is where we had an early lunch then went to target in another plaza. I tried on bras and a bathing suit mom picky "I don't want to buy for you." or "I don't want you having to buy them." Ugh mom said "I found the bras' not supporting you right." Ugh. After the trying on clothes was grocery shopping at Americaversal where I mostly bought bananas and blueberries then went home. At home I turned on the air conditioner "I want to use your computer." Mom said to me. I said "I allowed you to use my computer internet." She proceeded to do that finding what she wanted to find. She couldn't find what she wanted so she gave up the computer. Ugh. Also cutesy cat was friendly hanging around me and Mom on the computer. Aw cutest cat was pet able. Aw love that little munchkin but it sucks when I can't hug and kiss her anymore because of her old age have reached her limits involving hugging and kissing. This is a pity anyway. Mom left for home but told me "I assured you of a phone call around seven o'clock." "Call mom." she wound up texting me around five thirty I noticed five minutes later. Ugh I was on the phone holding in bathroom for two hours till close to eight o'clock is when mom said "I insisted on getting off the phone. I want to go read a book then go to bed." I hung up willingly on having bathroom urges to go which I went and wound up into my pajamas. I did put cutesy cat onto my lap multiple times whenever she came by me for petting including lap sitting. The lap sitting was just my way of getting a hug from the baby cat onto my lap who sat fine then got off. Aw cute. Also I wound up text emailed by Morena in Chat's email who said "I assures you of Ted's arrival tomorrow around nine o'clock." I'm hoping I can sleep tonight despite sick with the voice attacking me at the moment. Ugh. Morena's said "I'm having Ted come pick you up around nine o'clock in the morning." I'm hoping I should be able to shake tonight's attack of schizophrenia and sleep but if not I'm going to be up for hours reading a damn book instead. Ugh. I wound up updating my online journal twice. Once on my day's weekend outing and the second entry onto me was being sick at night with a problem. Ugh. Thursday night I was sick with a problem of voice attacking me involving the toiletry problem. Ugh I wound up onto the computer editing one story out of needing something to concentrate onto out of paranoia aggravated including the toilet bothering me. Ugh. I think somewhere around nine o'clock is when the attack of voice and toilet stopped which I didn't notice that out of typing onto the computer some story ideas. After that I crashed into bed around ten thirty then slept till three o'clock for bathroom on voice's suggestion "You to get up and use the toilet!" Ugh voice has been suggesting "There's something of kidney stones if you hold in your pee urges to waste." Yuck. I've been getting up as a result and going to the bathroom and then resuming bed for morning. Anyway Friday dubbed "Fry's Day" by the High Council who insisted "We insisted on naming that day "Fry's day." I didn't do much besides saving my work onto disk and then after that I wound up dressing myself into pants that were raggedy and a nice top. Ted when he picked me up for our outing to Morena's house said "I'm not happy that you're not wearing jeans." Ugh jeez Ted sucks when's he's picky onto my clothes. Ugh terrible. I wound up reading around one hundred pages of Nikolina Nikolai's book "Blood of boneheads" while in the car ride to Morena's house. We arrived to there fine which I asked Morena "I'm inquiring about your kitties Blackie and Gaia." She pointed out Blackie sitting onto a chair that sniffed my hand and accepted me petting him. Aw cute. Plus I went to use Morena's bathroom then came out and met Gaia sitting onto the floor that sniffed my hand and accepted me rubbing her belly when she bared that to me. Aw cute like I said. Oh well. Morena drove Ted in passenger seat with me in the back to a mall. Town's dubbed by the high Council "We insisted on naming town Dan's Bury." I spent part of the ride reading Nikolai's book because of pee urges "I got to pee!" as blared by voice which I heard "Your not two you should hold it in." I'm sure that comment was Merra's voice saying that. She's always stuck to my mind and my mind's contents like glue or seemingly commenting from time to time involving what my schizophrenic voice said. Yuck. After we arrived at the mall I finally got to use the bathroom then we took a walk around for a bit before going to the Cake restaurant to eat lunch. Morena said "I suggested you try something else than the usual Mickayla's food you habitually eat while with Me." which I did. I tried chicken with pasta which tasted good. Also I had the remainder of Ted's French fries because he couldn't eat the rest of it. Oh well. After lunch was a walk around the mall which I took a look in accessories stores then I tried on jeans in a store that was on sale. I picked three pairs of jeans which I only tried on one and found one fit me fine so I bought that using the seven dollars into my wallet including a debit card for the remainder of the price. Nice! After that was to another store which Morena bought Ted's hats then she bought me three tops I already tried two of them in a store. Nice of Morena. Mom said by phone later "You owe her a ten dollar gift card including a thank you note." Oh well. Morena got tired so she said "I insisted we sit down and rest." which we did. I wound up jotting notes into a journal I had in my purse then focused onto Morena on her cell phone. I also wound up playing with my fidget spinner that seemed to be broken a bit but it still worked. At least I'm not playing by my nails. Morena wound up ending the mall's trip which we went to Americaversal's store which there I didn't buy anything and neither did them. We both wandered around. "I found a journal I liked to purchase." I said but Maureen said "I insisted on you not to buying that thing out of how plain that notebook was." Ugh. After we finished Americaversal's store Morena chatted to someone by phone for twenty minutes while in her car Ted and I sitting quietly. Morena after the phone call was a drive around Newtown which she showed us Sandy Hook's school. After the drive around was to Morena's house where she dropped Ted and I at his car than going inside her house to use the bathroom. Ted let me jot notes by journal in my purse till around six o'clock is when I quit paying attention to where we were going. We arrived to Win's Ville around six fifteen which Ted went to Dublin Donuts to buy coffee and then he took his pills around six twenty five. I got home around six thirty and wound up eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with my pills and then attended to my teeth. I phoned mom for an hour long phone call. Around eight o'clock mom started whining "I wanting to get off the phone for a work shift tomorrow starting at eight o'clock in the morning twelve hours now." Ugh. I hung up and wound up lap sat by the socialized kitty who kept the behavior up out of missing me. I think she was cold from the air conditioner used last night hence her lap happy behavior. Poor kitty! I didn't do much last night instead I watched TV mostly boring HG shows involving a themed house hunting for lottery winners. Ugh I found that boring actually and then around ten o'clock I laid down despite unsure of heartburn. Oh well. I didn't get heartburn during the night but around two o'clock I woke up for bathroom pee urges and then resumed bed till like eight fifteen woken up by daylight. I didn't do much besides sending emails to people and thought I would update my journal entry involving my day yesterday. Oh well. I woke up around seven o'clock with the voice blaring at me "Get up time to get up!" Ugh I woke up but resumed sleeping for ten minutes is when I woke up for good. Also I wound up emailing people this morning before I went to take a shower. Only one friend replied to my emails while others ignored me. I think Morena responded to my email once I was done showering my cell phone indicating her emailing me. Ugh. Mom text emailed me around nine o'clock our regular phone time in the morning me to "Call at ten mom." I did that phoning which mom was whining "I'm having a splitting sinus headache and not feeling good." This is a pity anyway. Mom ended call ten minutes later whining "I want to go lie down and sleep off this splitting headache. Love you Vicky bye." The operator said "Person hung up GA or SK?" "Thanks SK." I said and I hung up. For the records I hate the nickname of Vicky for my name of Victoria. I always hated the joke of sticky Vicky used onto me by bullies teasing me in middle school which only Mavis Petersen was my friend. I'm still annoyed that the bullies got my friends females I considered friends to dump me and call me sticky Vicky instead of the name of Victoria. I still haven't forgiven those bullies for that for my friends wound up having sexual relationships with the males and females' bullies in high school to my disgust. Yuck. Ted wound up texting me around ten thirty "I'm coming around eleven o'clock for a kitchen cleaning." Ugh sucks. "I'm here." I text emailed to Ted my response. Ted arrived around eleven o'clock my cat on my lap indicating that arrival by getting off and running elsewhere. Poor baby cute kitten. Ted cleaned my kitchen and said "This is the dirtiest kitchen I ever cleaned." Ugh not really quoting Ted but guessing on what he said. Oh well. "You're a piglet what a piglet involving not cleaning the kitchen." I got from the voice followed by Merra's snickering laughter sounding into my mind like she told a joke for me to hear "Sticky Vicky is a piglet with the kitchen!" Jeez Merra. After kitchen cleaning which ended around one thirty Ted said "I have to go home to eat lunch." I did tell Ted "I was planning on nuking French fries." but once he left I turned out to be a liar and nuked some bagels I ate with butter onto them. "Liar, liar you lied to Ted!" said voice ugh me and my eating habits. Ugh dad text emailed me ten minutes to eleven o'clock saying "At Sanne's. Called doctor to reschedule didn't hear back." Ugh my doctor's appointment for tomorrow is being cancelled by dad being at Sanne's giving her health a priority over my health. He sucks with his priorities. Ugh. Also once Ted left I text emailed dad saying "Hi dad. How's Sanne doing? I've cleaned kitchen with friend's help. I'm eating lunch at home stormy weather outside." Dad text emailed his response saying "Raining here meeting Sanne at two thirty afternoon." Ugh not really quoting dad and myself but taking poetic license with what we both said. Oh well. I wound up sick in the toilet with problems today hence I unable to do much besides suffering from number two's problems including voice attacking me at the time. "Are you forgetting something forgetting some paranoid feeling!" sang voice. Also the handyman finally arrived with a shower stall handle which was good. I was able to shower around five thirty which I was sick in the toilet again multiple times. I tried to ring mom around six o'clock but her line was purposely busy and she refused to being picked up the damn phone. Damn mom for this phone games done onto me tonight. Ugh. I did text email mom around five forty five "Its Victoria its six o'clock at home awaiting word phone wise tonight by weather so text email me mews." Mom ignored my plea for a phone texting mews message ASAP. Ugh mom sucks big time when's she's does this joke onto me even when's I'm sick with the voice going off scaring me. Jeez mom! I feel like I said the wrong thing in my emails to people hence their balking responding to my messages. Ugh this is the pits big time when's I expects responses to my emails but get ignorance. Jeez people are terrible with their communications. Ugh. Jolica seemed to have given up responding to my emails. All she does is read my messages and refused to respond. Ugh I felt like something I've said turned her off from responding to my mews. Ugh sucks. This is the same attitude from Mavis too. I email Mavis but he won't be responding for he reads my messages. Ugh again. I had a weird dream involving a talk show host playing match maker with straight couples which she did that to me with a guy. Oh she's a lesbian and not straight so I doubt that she would do match making status. Ugh. Also that dream involved some Halloween room which I was to walk through while peering through my eyes covered by my hands. Ugh I don't get the dream involving that scary status. Yuck. I woke up around eight o'clock with dizziness and decided to get up anyway. Oh I think that dizziness involved me either tired or maybe jet lagged from my sleep of ten o'clock to eight o'clock. Ugh this stinks. Last night after a thirty minute phone call with mom I emailed Morena who read my message around nine forty in the evening but didn't respond. I emailed Jolica who read my lengthy email like I said but didn't respond. Ugh. I'm bored and rather depressed out of unable to do anything productive today. "I wound up this morning throwing out some junk that was collecting dust into my apartment." I said to Morena who said "I praised you with that throwing out of junk. Ted complained to me that your apartment is cluttered." I was talking to Morena from ten o'clock to twelve thirty is when she said "I have to end chat to go eat lunch." I wound up telling Morena "I'm having an area in my apartment to sort." I showed her a picture of items to toss out. Morena said "I praised you like I said already. I seemed proud." Oh nice. Morena has said "I've been critical of your eating habits. I like you to eat something else than what you've been eating lately." "I've been eating heavily onto tots and French fries alone than with anything else to eat." I said in response to her question "What are you going to cook for lunch?" which I said my answer "Tots and French fries." Morena said "I find both foods inappropriate for you to eat alone. I insist you eat with veggies or fruits." "Ugh I haven't been in the mood for veggies and fruits. I've been eating foods on what I'm craving to eat than eating anything decently healthy like veggies and fruits." I said. "Ugh you should eat something healthy than that junk." Morena said. I meant to go eat those nuked veggie meals but I was craving bagels with butter on them for lunch than veggies. Ugh hence I eating two bagels with butter spread onto them including cupcakes and orange juice than anything else to eat. Ugh this sucks. Also Jolica finally responded to my emails "I love to eat food from Americaversal's store." Her email was short about food than anything else. I ugh felt like one email said something wrong that insulted Jolica to not respond. Ugh hence I sent her another email last night "I love to eat tots and French fries something that Morena my friend is insisting I not eat." which she replied this morning "I love to eat food from Americaversal's store as my snack from work." I wound up with cravings for French fries but I didn't bother eating that tonight. I was sick in the toilet multiple times as a result that killed my appetite for French fries despite craving the food. Ugh. I realized I should have eaten fruits instead of heavily starch food like tots and French fries so I skipped that tonight for dinner. I had a plastic tin of strawberries and blueberries which I piglet onto than eating anything else. Ugh again. Also around the one o'clock hour I had some chocolate candy out of craving to eat them. Ugh that's the last time I'm eating that crappy junk food because I always wound up sick in the toilet with problems like thirty minutes later after eating that food. Ugh. "I noticed I seemed to be lactose intolerant." something Morena said "You seemed to be lactose intolerant. I insist you try to eat something else than a diet focused onto dairy products." Ugh terrible big time when's my dairy diet of foods had me ballooned up to one eighty six pounds in weight hence I've been on my new diet of dairy less foods and drinks for around two years so far. So far I've lost weight around twenty pounds I think from my new diet. I seemed to be focusing onto lesser dairy products and trying to focus onto water to drink for my primary drinks. I do tend to drink something else than water if I'm not paying for my meals at a restaurant. I order water if I'm paying for myself. Ugh. Also I managed to try drinking orange juice instead of dairy drinks for calcium's needs for my bones. I'm trying lactose intolerant drinks like milk that's supposedly be friendly for the lactose intolerant. Ugh the milk I drink I bought from the grocery store tastes weird to me but I'm hoping to continue drinking that occasionally including the orange juice. Ugh again. I wound up sick in the toilet multiple times tonight hence I had a noisy head when I went to phone mom around seven o'clock "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?" sang voice "Your always forgetful." I heard sounding of Merra. I talked to mom till like seven thirty is when she said "I insisted on getting off the phone." I said "I agreed on bathroom hitting me at the time for I have to go to the bathroom." Mom said "Love you Vicky." She hung up according to operator which I said "Thanks." I hung up and hit the toilet with the voice blaring "Forgetting some!" I didn't do much once I got off the phone but went onto the computer to send Morena an email who was online but apparently onto her cell phone hence she not responding right away after I emailed her. Ugh sucks. I emailed Jolica "I'm whining of my foods' habits including toiletry problems soon after I eat my dairy products food." I tried to be not so descriptive. Ugh Jolica responded right away with "Your diet needed adjusting." Oh well. Jolica's like me involving the food and diet eating. She's tries to exercise and lose weight including watching what's she's eating too. I'm trying that behavior myself but the exercising haven't been much and same for my eating foods. Ugh. Mom yesterday worked a weird afternoon work shift of two forty five to six forty five on her damn day off. This sucks when mom was texting me twice in the morning for a talk on the phone "Call mom!" The talks on the phone weren't much just ten minutes of babbling then hanging up and doing something else. Ugh. Also I wound up fooling around onto the computer out of needing something to do. I spent two hours computer staring till noon is when I quit to go eat lunch and focused onto the junk on TV like HG. Ugh. Anyway I was itching to type something but I couldn't seem to get into the mood to type anything besides search engine's queries. Ugh. I used a search engine to find the address of an author Nikolina Nikolai I favored involving her works. I was hoping to mail one of her books to Miss Nikolai to sign for me "Hi can you sign this book to Victoria?" I'm not entirely sure of that book's signage being done. I like to collect books of authors that are signed like autographed. Ugh hence I want one signed to me with my name and autographed like those Nikolina Nikolai's books I ordered awhile ago. Oh well again. I have four Nikolina Nikolai's books autographed which two are addressed to me. "To Victoria good luck with everything you do writing wise love Nika." with commentary included with them. I'm hoping on getting another book autographed to me from Nika as she refers herself once the book comes out in November or late that month. Ugh. Anyway I wound up with a weird dream involving me working at a fast food joint restaurant while wearing some kind of hearing aid pack that broke hence I having to leave the job and go home. Also during that home's leaving I met Mavis from school who currently lives in the west coast in the state referred as Western Coast by the High Council. I met Mavis who drove me to an apartment building despite me having suitcases which he said "I'm complaining of the stairs hurting my knees." Oh we stopped by some amusement room for kids to sit around resting from walking around. I'm not sure of what to make of that room "I wanted to play with the games." I said. Mavis said "I don't feel like playing games." so I went with him elsewhere. Oh that's when's I woke up to "Spoilsport you ruin my fun!" talk by Merra. I'm not entirely sure of what to make of this weird dream anyway. I don't get the contents at all. I don't remember this being a memory or not. Oh well. I sometimes have weird dreams of memories that pop into my mind occasionally. I don't think that weird dream I had was a memory. I'm not sure if I remember this anyway. Oh crummy to not remember. Ugh. Last night around five thirty, I emailed Morena "Hi Morena what's mew with you meow?" Morena was online Chat's at the time "Howdy Vika." We chatted talking about stuff till nine o'clock is when Morena said "I have to end chat to go do some personal hygiene stuff." Around nine o'clock I ranged mom up "Hi Momsy how are you?" "I'm tired of tiredness." Also mom whined "You needing to go take your pill at ten o'clock." I sort of fibbed or lied when I told her "I took that pill already around nine o'clock." when I haven't "Liar you lied to mom." Said voice which added "Vicky you shouldn't lie to people it's not proper." Like Merra eavesdropped onto my mind and commented that. Ugh. Mom around ten o'clock said "I'm insisted on getting off the phone." which I said "I agreed bye mom." I hung up and wound up taking my pill for real and lying down into bed. Ugh again. Also I slept with the windows shut all night which in the morning I woke up around seven o'clock and decided to open the window airing out the stink into here. The air into my apartment was stuffy and smelly Eli of the cat's litter box including the toilet unable to be flushed. Ugh. I used to flush the toilet at all hours of the night after ten o'clock but downstairs' neighbor ranged my doorbell around midnight with a note "I'm complaining of your noisy toilet too loud for my TV and keeping me up awake than sleeping." Ugh hence I gave up flushing the toilet after ten o'clock at night even whenever I'm sick with those bathroom number two's voiced problems. Ugh. Morena said "I find those all nights of you sick with voice and bathroom number two is your body's way of getting rid of something within you. I find this good but I booed that you was up all night with this problem hence you unable to sleep." Ugh a pity anyway. "Cool beans enjoy your reading." Jolica said in response to my lengthy paragraphed email to her in Chat's talking "I got a signed book by Nikolina Nikolai the author autographed to me Victoria Yay me!" I emailed Jolica "My day yesterday was a visit to the town library which including the books I was reading and checked out by Nikolina Nikolai." hence Jolica's short response. Ugh. Jolica's hardly lengthy with her emailing responses to my wordy emails. Oh well this stinks big time when's I suspects she's lengthy with someone else but not so lengthy with me. I ugh blame Jolica's sister Juliet for being whose Jolica is lengthy with while short with me. Ugh again. I wound up nuking some veggies that came in garlic sauce in the microwave which I ate most of that but didn't have the whole bowl. I threw the rest of the bowl's contents into the trash and didn't eat the rest of the crumbs. Oh well. Also I have chocolate chip cookies I managed to put into my refrigerator after sitting into my kitchen cupboard ignored for awhile. I figured that putting the cookies into the refrigerator would be better for them to be preserved than sitting into the cupboard getting bad and badly decomposed. Yuck. "It's Victoria its six o'clock home awaiting word phone wise tonight so text me mews ASAP." This is my message to mom's cell phone which I'm not sure if she'll pick up the phone at six o'clock or not. Oh well. I sent Morena an email "I'm telling you I'm fine for now." That despite I sick with the bathroom problem despite I should have said something but I didn't bother in response to her question "Are you alright with the bathroom and voice?" Oh well. Also I emailed Tommy I nicknamed my Tom after awhile of not emailing him. He's not responding to my emails in awhile like I expected him to do. His communications needs work actually. Ugh. I emailed Jolica "I'm reading books involving what I cared to read book wise involving both paper and electronic." Oh she replied as soon as possible like she was online expecting my messages "Well that's nice to read." My week in a nutshell was Monday I didn't do anything besides staying home piglet eating food and slobbering after the furry bundle of fur with kisses and hugs' fests. Aw. "Monday I'm to come to clean the bathroom." but he didn't "Sorry Victoria I have to go see a doctor on health issues." according to his text email. Ugh hence the bathroom isn't cleaned yet but I meant to go clean the toilet. Ugh. Tuesday was day of the schizophrenic's club meeting and laundry day for me. I washed and dried my clothes then after that attended the club meeting. "The meeting will be about posters for Harlow's party next month." This'll be great fun attending to the party. "Oh well great for you Vicky." Merra said while blaring into my mind which got the voice blaring "You're going. You're not going." Also Morena after interpreting a deaf club member said to me "I reminded you of an author Janna Japan visiting the school that Tuesday night doing a presentation onto her book." which I said "I agreed to go." Ted on my asking "Can you drive me home? Can you pick me up for the author's presentation?" Ted said "Yes I'll drive you home and yes I'll pick you up at six o'clock for the presentation." I had dinner that was bread and strawberries but I wound up sick in the toilet with problems involving number two that got my head singing loudly "Forgetting some! You're not going your going!" Yuck. The loud singing creep me out enough to trigger my paranoia off. Ted picked me up around six thirty. "I've arrived!" Ted text emailed me despite me not peeking out the window for him. Ugh terribly rude of me despite he told me in the car "Next time watch for me." Anyway Ted drove me to the school and found a parking spot easily which I went to the auditorium and spent most of that time reading Nikolina Nikolai's book "Graces" than paying attention to the author's presentation. Ugh rude of me. I was sick with the voice going off at the time hence I creep out unable to pay attention to Morena's interpreted signing including paying attention to the author's presentation. Ugh sucks hence I read Nikolai's book as a result. Anyway the presentation ended which I asked Morena "How much does Janna charge for autographing her book to myself?" I only had ten dollars worth of change money into my wallet. Morena rolled her eyes a pleasure like look from High Council despite a Human gesture of annoyance disgust and gave me twenty dollars "You to use the money to pay for that author's book for autographed and signed but you owe me money for it." Nice of Morena but I owe her twenty dollars for that book. Oh well. I got home around eight thirty. I ranged mom up by phone "Hi Mom its Victoria. I apologized for not calling you at eight o'clock as you expected me to do." instead told mom "Janna Japan the author did a presentation at the school as invited by Morena." I said nothing involving me sick in the toilet with problems involving voice to mom by phone. Mom understood I whined of this problem once "I'm sick with a voiced attack and can't talk to you now." She said "I'll talk to you later tomorrow and hope you'll feel better." I hung up saying "Love you thanks." The voice once I was off the phone with mom insisted "Text your dad!" The voice habitually says that saying "Text your dad!" said that saying while I sick with the attack of voice involving the toilet's number two. I gave up texting dad as a result of those voiced attacks "Dad I'm sick with a voiced attack tonight." Dad said in response "Go watch TV and just ignore the noises." I don't text dad whenever I'm sick with those voiced attacks. I just ignore the voice's orders and wound up sitting reading a book while having the TV on blaring crap. Sometimes I type onto the computer stories or editing one story out of needing something to do to concentrate onto. Ugh the voiced attack involving bathroom quit around midnight but I didn't get to bed till one o'clock is when I finished viewing a TV show on HG channel then I crashed and slept fine till like eight o'clock is when I woke up and started my day. Ugh. Also Wednesday yesterday I didn't do much besides kisses to the kitty then around eleven o'clock roped dad into driving me around for in town errands which he gave me a time of two o'clock during the Kelly Keller show. Ugh again to missing that show. I went to town library driven by dad around two o'clock which at library I dropped off two library books. One was Nikolina Nikolai's "Graces" I rate four stars online. The other book was something involving a High Council member seeking a romance like relationship that bothered me despite not reading that book. The romance with Tom put together by the High Council is what I blame for causing me to have a voice attacking me like triggering the voice to pick onto me. I blame this situation hence I refused to read books involving the High Council. Yuck I refused to acknowledge that I was born with this problem despite I blame my servitude with the High Council paired to Tommy is why I have a schizophrenic like voiced problem. Ugh. Anyway I picked up six books for four dollars and fifty cents. "How much are those two books that were sitting onto your desk?" I asked which the librarian said "I was confused to why they were there but give me twenty five cents for them both." I obeyed which I picked up those two books then after that I went to Druggie as the High Council refer that drug store for pill refills "Call that store Druggie as insisted." blared Merra. I at Druggie asked "Is my pills need any refilling?" The pharmacist said "No on refilling your pills." according to the pharmacist "You was caught up." so I left the pharmacy store. Voice picked onto me while I was leaving saying "Are you forgetting something?" Voice led me to believe there was something I forgot to pick up from the pharmacy store I couldn't remember as a result. Ugh sucks. Anyway I went grocery shopping which dad stayed into the car. I pulled out some money then used half of that to pay for some personal cleaning supplies like paper towels and toilet tissues. Nice I guess. Anyway once I was home I put everything away and then wound up throwing out the garbage. Ugh the dumpster was emptied out as a result. Oh nice. After dumpster was watching Dellen's show then local news till four thirty is when I went to HG because they were showing a press conference involving donkey turnip the idiotic king in the leadership position I don't care to watch. I don't care to watch donkey turnip shoot himself into the foot with his words have people criticized his wordings. Anyway around six o'clock I watched the sports report that aired around six thirty then I went to HG till seven o'clock is when I ranged mom up who ignored me. Mom wound up texting me "You to call me back at seven thirty." which I skipped TV five minutes to that time and wound up journaling. I talked to mom for forty five minutes by phone from seven thirty to eight fifteen. Mom wasn't too chatty on the phone with me. She only was saying one to three words at a time and hardly anything else. Ugh jeez mom must be tired hence her lack of conversation mood hence she ended called around eight fifteen. I wound up watching the twins Chip and Dip brothers' show till ten o'clock is when HG went into boring house hunting themed show I didn't care for so I skipped that for bed and slept somewhat badly. Cute baby kitten was a pesky pest during my attempts to sleep. The cat was pawing my face and demanding attention from me she kept it up during my attempts to sleep. Dumb cat dumb animal quit that around three o'clock which I got up and hit the toilet then slept undisturbed till around eight o'clock is when I woke up. Ugh. Also I wound up emailing people which only Auntie Berliner replied to my email. Jolica read my second email but didn't bother replying. Ugh. Morena was emailed but she wasn't online to read my message hence her not replying and reading my message. Ugh. I wound up sick in the toilet with problems involving number two that made my head sing as a result. Yuck. I'm not sure of what I'm doing tonight other than talking to mom by phone when's it's time around seven o'clock like she asked me to do by cell phone texting message. I talked to mom for forty five minutes last night till seven forty five is when she said "I asked to get off the phone because of working an early morning work shift Thursday morning at seven o'clock." "Are you forgetting something forgetting some?" sang voice which I said to mom by phone "I agreed to get off." out of creepy out by the voice picking onto me at the time. Also I wound up onto the computer editing one story to be told from third person he's point of view to me first person I point of view. Well nice that I did that including finished that story around ten o'clock is when I went to take my bedtime pill. Ugh. I wound up too creepy out with the computer so I went to the TV watching it while reading a library book by Charisma Chic. She's a new to me author I haven't read before hence I trying out her book. I rate Charisma's book around three stars out of five online but I'm not sure of what rating I'll give that book into my lists onto the computer. Ugh. I rate from anywhere from one star to ten stars depending onto my mood involving a book I read and finish I list onto my computer lists. Well Yay me for doing that listing anyway. Oh well. Also Charisma's book was a library book due within a week's time frame on Tuesday next week hence I stayed up reading and finishing that library book even while creepy out by the paranoia and the voice's talk. Ugh. I wound up emailed by the town library of a library book "Blue pill" by Nikolina Nikolai due within a week's time frame. I started that early this morning out of unable to sleep with the voice going off including paranoia. Yuck. I found Charisma's book had some vulgarity languages and sexual terms into that book's contents I didn't care for hence I rating that book three stars out of five online. I'll probably rate that book a low rating while into my lists onto the computer. Ugh sucks. "Blue Pill" is a medieval like teens book that's a part of Nikolai's Graces' series I already invested time reading her current books out. One is called Graces which other is called "Blue Graces" Their supposedly be stand by alones novels but I don't know what to make of the books. "Graces" I found rather interesting I'll rate it an eight into my book lists but rated the book a four online. Oh goody. Also "Blue Graces" was rather interesting enough to give the same rating involving my books' lists including online too. Nice! I rate Charisma's book a four onto my list onto the computer out of the vulgarity and sexual innuendo terms into that book I didn't care for at all. Yuck. I didn't care for the vulgarity languages of rhyming with duck and the word it too something the High Council frowns upon. They hate those words said into their presence and have asked Meritanians to dump whoever said those words in front of them to be dumped into the ocean. I didn't care for some of the sexual terms mentioned into that book including how sexy the author tried to make that book be. This turned me off and made me rate the book low as four stars. I wound up emailed by the High Council saying "Please correct for mistakes involving grammar and stuff." I opened file and discovered according to the High Council's body "An Entry into Edenia series told in letters of a character named Victoria Montreal." I was a little annoyed to get this email but kept on reading more of the file out of curiosity. File said Victoria Montreal is me aka creator of the Veronica Thomas Incorporation Publication for writing skills including me thinking of writing stories. I still type by laptop computer occasionally for the High Council's orders but that's lately for typing memories as they requested. Is it just me or is my life boring as usual? I find that my life is a bit boring. I don't know why. I think I'm bored with the same old thing, get up at a certain time and go to school. I'm getting a little sick of school lately. I just feel bored with school. I think I'm getting a case of "I'm fed up with college" bits again. I have a love hate relationship with college at University of Long River Place where I take online courses out of the High Council telling me in person by speaker Shad "You Victoria Montreal is an original and not a clone by your colored blood of red color. You are ordered to remain isolated at Jinks Montreal's residence with Dalton the titled holder as he wishes to call himself." This was done which I'm at Jinks Montreal's residence staying into his guest room as his well known daughter or offspring despite a cloned copy sent to be raised by Jinks aka Horus himself. I'm not entirely sure of what to make of this cloned copy being raised by Horus himself despite recalling that Victoria or a cloned copy was later sent to her brother's Robert Montreal to be raised further till adulthood. I'm not sure of what happened to Robert Montreal once I figured was fully grown. I know that Robert is an original and not a clone which I suspect that's he's sent to the Zesky Asylum to be contained into a tube for being an original. I think this is what originals of people are sent to tubes to be contained and sickened memories of cloned copies by the Meritanians thinking funny. I'm not spared of the Meritanians playing "Sick the clones with memories of originals." Joke as a result despite I still get those memories occasionally to type them down. I liked college but now I want to quit for good. I've been going to college on and off since I reached the declared age of choice which is nineteen years old. I'm tired of wasting my money for classes that I'll only flunk or audit. I'm currently at the age of thirty years old despite looking like I haven't aged into my facial appearance. I'm not sure if I've aged or not or the High Council is making originals have some not aged appearance status to mark them. I'm taking this class called "Women in Literature." The teacher told me "See me after class." I saw the teacher April Maple which brought jokes by students out of her earshot "April gets your maple." I'm sure that April is a cloned copies of an original hence her rhyming name "April Maple." Miss Maple I called her than calling her "Professor" told me "You should audit the class to keep your student grades in standing." I said in response "I'm not sure of that status but what does the school counselor Mister Dinnen says?" Mister Dinnen is a cloned copy of a Builder male who according to the files of the High Council "Dinnen was power mad to be in a leadership position and doing anything to kick people out of that title to achieve it himself." "I went to the school counselor to discuss this and the school counselor agreed with me so you're to audit the class." As said by Miss Maple as her answer. I asked her "What about the homework assignments and term papers?" Miss Maple said in response "You auditing the class won't have to do the homework or term papers. Just show up for your attendance is mandatory as part of the auditing requirements. You still have to do the reading reactions homework assignment as I insisted on you to do. That's all I have to say so leave." Miss Maple gave me a golden eyed glare of a Builder I shocked to get that look from her despite unsure if she was actually a Builder clone. Oh well I left the classroom taking the driver a Highlander driving me to Jinks Montreal's residence building where the vehicle got inside by garage. I didn't do anything homework assignment wise once I was safety into my bedroom or Jinks Montreal's guest bedroom of his penthouse apartment that's somewhere in the middle of the building and blocked heavily from being seen outside it without any porches. Oh well. I'm just relieved that I won't have to do the term papers at all but I do have to do the reading reactions too. Ugh, I was hoping to get out of doing some work in that class. So I'm not sure what else I could do for college. I wound up text by Mavis saying "You should see what other classes the college offers you." Mavis is a Builder clone of someone else that's related to me and seen as a cousin despite a Builder himself who has some inner ability to see what I'm doing as always. He's tries to be discreet with his ability to avoid spying onto me but sometimes he can't help himself hence his text by cell phone to my cellular communication. Dalton insisted "No phone calls within the residence but texting only. I don't want to hear playback of people's conversations as recorded by the High Council in their presence." I obeyed to text to Mavis "Nothing I can do involving college but quit being bored of it." Mavis said in response "My Mother raiser wants me to go a University in the state but this University costs about eight hundred dollars per class money which I don't have at the moment. I have to get a job for this just to earn for some college class." I wound up saying in response "I would rather do something else instead like read a book. I brought some books this weekend-" Mavis interrupted "I saw that you bought one on how to write a novel which you'll have to study really good because I want you to write my memoir book someday. I have to go to class talk to you later." That ended the conversation which I was going to say "I finished a story I think. I really would have to find an agent to make a career of writing for a living. I don't know how these authors in the world can write books and get their books published." I'm still trying to find out how people can get their stories published into books and things keep conspiring against me. I'm trying to ask people like my college professor April Maple "How do you publish your work into writing form?" and she said as always "Find out yourself." Those people always seem not very helpful at all. I also keep trying to find someone like Mavis or Dalton "Can you give me feedback on that story?" but Mavis said "I'm too busy to help." Dalton as insisted by that titled name than dad said "I'm not the person for you to get help with." I find their excuses make me think their either been lazy or way too busy to help. Humph, I'm not happy with that at all. I've talked to people in class before the teacher arrives saying "I hope to write stories and become a published author." That people in class are mostly females hardly any males despite unsure if the title of women into the class is what turned males off from taking the class. I know there's a "Men in Literature" class but I haven't taken it on Miss Maple telling me "Just don't take that class it's for males only." Anyway the females in class I've talked to have been very negative in response "You'll do terrible in book sales if you ever get your story published." I hate it when people are negative about that. I like to write a story and publish it for people to read because I want to do that and earn some good cents too. I like to earn some money for a better living and if I have to do this by writing stories well I'll do that then even if I have to find out what I can do involving this situation using the internet. I figured I'll refer my journal entries to either you or to someone who I felt like writing to. I finished a book last night that is a self help book. I think I'll lend the book to you to read to encourage reading. I liked that self help book but the contents were a little girlish and strange. I think the book is geared towards women mostly. I'm not sure but the book's contents sure felt that way. The author is a woman Verona Vander who is a famous actress who wrote that book. I gave up reading a science fiction book by Terrific Terri as the author calls himself because I was feeling bored or depressed by the contents. I felt like I couldn't read that book anymore. So I set the book aside. That book I put aside is one of several books by Terrific Terri the author I didn't finish but will try to finish later. It's my second time reading that book by Terrific Terri. I'm feeling like I should have tried to finish that book but didn't. I also am not pleased that this book is part of a trilogy. I guess I'll have to read more of that author's books just to finish the series. I picked a book by Sharene Vander daughter of Verona Vander herself a book which I'm currently reading. I'm thinking of using that book as a bedtime book but the contents of the book are questionable for me to read before bed. The book is actually an adult fiction book. I say questionable because the contents are Sharene's stab at writing some children's stories in adult fiction. I'm hesitant to read that book before bed because of the contents of the book might disturb me well enough to keep me awake. I did read books by the Vander Incorporation before. I got the idea that I read the books by Vander family by the Meritanians compelling me to read those books. I guess I'll try my best to enjoy reading that book and will try to read book two of the second book once I finished this book one. Anyway I was lent two books I'm not even sure I'll get around to reading them. I'm not sure what to say to Morena who lent me those books. I felt like I had to take the books and read them. I figured I could always hold onto them for awhile and then give them back. Morena is a good friend who I haven't learned to say no to because I'm worried about hurting her feelings. I really should be up front from time to time on this. I'm disappointed that I haven't gotten to that point with Morena Latina as she's known by the name. I have to complain that I'm a spender of money. I keep writing to myself "You to save money." I am reminding myself to not spend my money. I feel like I compulsively spend money on things that are junk. It's like an addiction that I can't control. I mostly spend money on books and food. The food is from school I nickname the local college I go to for classes and other places such as restaurants too. I have a lunch box which I should be toting along with some drink bottle too. I really should be using the lunch box and drink bottle for school instead of spending money on food. I also hate it when I buy books that some turn out to be really bad enough for me to set aside or lose interest. Morena has said "I insist you to get books from the library." after I complain to her "Those books I bought are horrible despite reading them and a waste of my money." I really hate having to read books under a deadline. I just hate having to do that deadline thing for book reading. I don't like deadlines but maybe I should try it sometime instead of buying books. I figured I should try the library and see if I like the book. I have about several books set aside that turn out to be lousy because I couldn't get into them or finish them. I'm feeling like I should really try to check out books from the library instead of buying them. I think I compulsively spend money without thinking. I also don't think I have buyers' remorse but I'm not sure if I really do have that. I think I do suffer from that sometimes but buyers' remorse doesn't stick around long enough to affect me very much. This has me spending tons of money when I should be saving my money. I really would like it if I could save my money instead of spending it compulsively. I had it with the compulsive spending. I ought to save my money instead of spending it. I feel like I'm all talk and no action. I talk about saving money and I won't save it but I would wound up spending the money instead, ugh. With what happened at a college in Albany? I swear you High Council, keeps on making people inspired to commit acts of terror like getting a gun and shooting people in classes in your name. I'm not happy with the news lately involving people acting as Annoyovs as you call the people who act in terrorist acts in your name without you ordering them. The school's officials by news keep talking into conversation during their broadcasts "The school failed to go into lockdown two hours after the shooter shot some people." I feel like the school should have gone into lockdown after they found out the shooting. I'm also not happy with Albany College as that school is called not doing any apologizing towards you the High Council group for that inspired Annoyov behavior. I think the officials at Albany College should be fired for failing to do that safety behavior and apologizing. I also think some senseless deaths would have been prevented as a result of immediate lock down. I feel bad that the shooter is giving Annoyovs a bad name despite I know of a famous Annoyov servant of yours Tom Thunder himself. I'm wondering what happened to him nowadays? As I was saying I wouldn't be surprised if there would be anger towards famous Annoyovs because of what happened at Albany College. I'm hoping that I'm wrong about this anger feeling towards Annoyovs. The news wound up saying "This event will probably be known in history as a smear campaign against Annoyovs." I'm not happy that the famous Annoyovs known to do things into your name in peaceful ways will be hit with terrorist acts because of what I'm seeing on the news. The news said "We talking about this being one of the most deadly shootings in history." Makes me wonder what are they talking about? What about the Millennium tragedy where a continent piece of the United States was transferred from Planet Terra to Shadan or the planetary world as it's known Aire? Isn't that transfer a deadly history moment where many thousand people died? I think I'm confused here because I'm not so sure what I'm talking about. I'm disgusted that the school I go to have old men who are security guys. I think the school I'm in needs undercover people and some emergency phones. It's about time that they set up this security measure anyway. I also wonder about the college Morena herself works part time at Long River College in the State of Long River Place. I can't help worrying about some things that'll happen to be quite bad to Morena while she's at work. I'm not happy about what happened to colleges in the name of the High Council because I'm disgusted this happened. Ugh I did some sorting at your wife's house. I sorted through the junk in the attic parts of the house. The house that's willed to you by Samira Montreal your lovely wife has some attic spaces for my stuff to keep and store. I'm glad that I did some sorting today except I'm hoping that I won't have remorse for getting rid of some stuff I took out for the goodwill. This wore me out but it's good to be worn out to do this chore. A cloned copy of you I refer as Dad occasionally has told me "You to do the chore of sorting because we both have too much junk at my house." I'm glad I was able to do several boxes of stuff for this. The job is still not finished. I have to do more sorting at the other attic spaces too. I guess it'll be worth the sorting to give to the goodwill. I like to give to the goodwill sometimes. I hate it when I get remorse for getting rid of some stuff. There were some clothes I decided to get rid of but I'm feeling a little remorse for deciding that. Maybe I'll feel better later and also I sometimes feel funny getting rid of some books too. I sometimes get rid of books I don't want to read or keep anymore. This gives me a weird feeling which bothers me sometimes. I hate that feeling because it makes me feeling like I'm guilty to get rid of a book. I managed to get over the feeling of getting rid of a book sometimes. It's nice to give things away to the goodwill for people to use. This is like the saying "One person's trash is another person's treasure." I think people should try to give things to the goodwill instead of trashing them in the trash. I've seen things in the trash on curbs which makes me wonder why they give to the goodwill instead of trashing them. I'm not happy about that. This makes me disgusted and upset about the people leaving things for the trash. The trash really needs to be sorted and cleaned out for more land to build things instead of rotting the land for junky stuff. I'm disgusted but at least I sorted my junk at your house as it's called. Your cloned copy has been living into a backwards town in Long River Place State dubbed "Win's Ville" unsure of that name. I know that name came from the High Council who said "We insist on that name of Win's Ville than that name that rhymes with the word bin which doesn't make any sense." Anyway I cleaned out one attic of one part of the house but the rest of the house's attic I didn't bother to do that cleaning. I got too tired to clean some more plus your clone had three kitties trapped onto the first floor of the house while I was on the second floor sorting. The three kitties were heard making a racket of meowing from being trapped onto the first floor. Ugh drove me to not finish my job of sorting into the other two attics. I only sorted in one attic then once done opened the door to the stairwell which the kitties only one ran upstairs to sniff. The other one hung around demanding attention from me while the third a male dubbed Bogart ran into your clone's main bedroom to hide underneath the bed. Bogart is habitually afraid of visitors and is close to your clone despite your cloned copy calls himself "My name is Rob Marina refer me as dad, if you want, Victoria." I've been referring the clone as a clone as his titled name than anything else. I still call him daddy into his presence despite I'm not sure if he's still officially my daddy raiser by the High Council. Oh well. Talk more later on flip side Robert. I don't know what to type in here lately. I think I'm getting bored with things that my life isn't that exciting. That's what I get for living in Jinks Montreal's residence watched and spied on where I'm going. I'm suffering from being bored with a capital B, not much to add. I feel like I haven't heard from anyone in my circle on the college soccer team where I played goalkeeper. I don't know what's new with them despite I'm kept in contact by internet profile website. One of the players on the soccer team retired like I am retired announced "I had a baby boy last month." Her profile lists her as married said "I had my first child a boy named Carter." I find that good for her. I also have Mavis' family who considers me family despite Mavis' connection towards me. I found that Mavis' family involves Mavis and his younger brother Mason who announced "My wife had a baby at the first of the month." The child is Mason's second kid I refer Mavis and Mason as cousins in the family way. Oh well. I think I'll just hope this cousin sends me an email and a picture of the new tyke too. I just don't know what to do in Jinks Montreal's residence lately. I'm just dying for the cold to come rolling. Today is really hot that I managed to brave the heat to go outside to the College's City Library. I'm glad that I have something to do on the computer. I'm just not sure why I'm bored. I don't know what else to do next. How boring of me. Time Time Gone Time of old, Time of young, Time of all, Minutes, Hands, Hours, Seconds, Ticking away, Bit by bit, Life and life, Birth, New life born, Death, Life gone, Years, Centuries, Days, Going by, Forever gone, Into the past, Never to return, Again But remembered, In history, By the future, For eternity. I got up around eight o'clock in the morning excited about Lancemas Day when I lived into a dorm room with myself in a room shared by a door to another room that led to another roommate's part of the room. I recalled that Mavis came over to see me and we opened presents. I told by Mavis asking me "What do you want for Lancemas Day?" I said "No religious themed gifts because I don't feel any connection with religion at the moment." Mavis with a sheepish expression gave me some religious themed books based on the High Council group seen in a good light which I stuffed on the bottom of a box for storage at my Dad's house. I hate it when people promised that they won't do some thing and wounds up doing it. Also Mavis gave me some things I already had like a nightgown, a bathrobe and a pack bag. I already have the exact copies of them which I pointed out to Mavis. Mavis said "I keep on forgetting that I already gave you the items." Then we went to church called "Saint Lance the Redeemer." where I daydream not paying attention to the sermons that I even fell asleep. I was daydreaming about some story ideas that have been running in my head. I like to type down stories and I sometimes have ideas in my head that I either write or type down onto the computer. So I fell asleep sitting in church with Mavis who shook me awake. I wound up told by Mavis "You should visit your Dad's house in Win's Ville." Mavis and I didn't hung out too long instead he saw me to my dorm room despite escorted by the dorm room's keeper guard some black skinned humanoid with black human eyes that seemed to know whenever ladies or females have visitors into their dorm room. It's eerie like this guard dubbed Guard Beers seemed to have some sixth sense to alert him of visitors visiting females in their dorm rooms including kicking out unwanted males trying to slobber kisses onto females for sexual favors. Ugh anyway Mavis once he left I emailed dad in Win's Ville "Do you want me to visit you?" He sent me an email saying in response "Come see me when's its possible tomorrow the next day in the morning at eleven o'clock." Dad always sleeps later than I do despite I'm disciplined to get up around eight o'clock in the morning every day including disciplined to crash into bed around ten o'clock at night. I packed a bag and slept somewhat poorly despite sleeping in church. That sleeping in church was rather rude of me. I once I could sleep only slept two hours till eight o'clock when the alarm woke me up. I'm always woken up by an alarm clock or I'll keep on sleeping never woken up unless an alarm like noise wakes me up. This is a problem I noticed I seemed to have inherited from the High Council themselves' cloning medical advantages done onto me. Oh well. Once eight o'clock arrived I woke up and got up starting my day which around ten o'clock Mavis came with the guard. "You could use me." as said by Mavis who seemed to anticipate me going to Win's Ville. I thrust Mavis my overnight bag who said "Ooh Vicky!" For the records I hate the name of Vicky for it reminded me of the joke "Sticky Vicky" as teased by students in middle school who outcast me for being daughter of a deathless male named Jinks Montreal. Mavis acted as my bodyguard from Star's Hall as that town is called by the High Council as insisted than that name of Storrs in Long River Place State also known as Connecticut. The High Council insisted on the name change out of finding the name of Connecticut not making sense. Their responsible for name changes of various locations within the United States despite the nation isn't referred as America but referred as United States of High Council Republic. Sometimes people refer the nation "United Crap Republic" Or "UCR." I went to Mavis' family house to open a gift and I got some thing from him. A driver of the residence Jinks Montreal drove me to the Mavis' family house where I had lunch and then opened more presents. I even brought along my video camera and took some shots of the family and their cat a calico like female that's always cranky. After presents a declared Mavis' brother Mason and family wound up going home early which was followed by Mavis and I going home early too. I think Lancemas was ok but several relatives like Mavis' brother and wife including two off springs were falling asleep after opening presents. I think they were tired. Melanie as Mason's wife likes to be called said to me "I'm being tired from taking care of a fussy baby." hence she falling asleep on the couch. I even saw one of the kids a boy toddler aged dubbed junior yawning while sitting on the couch with his mother. I have a Lancemas tree up in dorm's lounge room's place which I have to decide on when to yank that thing down. I could wait till tomorrow after Lancemas' is over to bring the tree down or wait till January sixth another holiday celebrating your association as an All Seeing One God that isn't celebrated very much. I think I'll sleep on the subject of taking down the tree waiting to see on whether I'll make up my mind. I think Lancemas was better holiday than the fiasco on Thanks' Day as said by the High Council to change Thanksgiving to that name. I'm so glad about that cause I got to celebrate the holiday with my family and relatives too. Yawn, I've been tired lately as I remembered when I stayed in one of the apartments in Mountain View owned by Jinks Montreal himself. I heard a rumor that apartment complex was gifted to him out of someone loyalty towards the Lance Richard deity lord status. I've been getting up early for two days in a row as remembered around six o'clock. It'll be a third day in a row that morning and that's for class at another college I'm going for writings. I'm not a morning person and I find myself drinking caffeine soda so I could stay awake. Ugh I hate getting up early. I hate it when the weather is freezing in my place that I don't want to get up from my warm bed. Today the weather is freezing cold. Brr! I prefer to sleep late as around eight thirty. I find that I have to put up with bills such as high electricity bills because my heat is on electricity which means I have to be really strict on how high I leave the heat on. I also don't leave the heat on when I'm not home. I don't see why I should bother to do that. This costs me money. Today a house inspector came in today and examined the place. He found only two flaws but the rest of the place was fine. I just need to get a light switch fixed and a ventilator fan fixed and then the place will be in working order. I just can't wait, which means having to wait at a certain time for the handyman to visit and fix the two flaws. Last time I did that just for a toilet handle I wound up missing a class last semester for the handyman to visit and fix the problems. I really hate having to put my life on hold for the handyman to fix the two flaws in my place. Not my thing but at least the two flaws will be fixed. I think it's about time. So I just can't wait for bed tonight because I get to snooze some more. I also can't wait for weekend is when I get to sleep later than getting up early. I'm worried about the Landlord and the Handyman. I got a letter yesterday about the flaws and that there'll be another house inspection next month in Mars Month. What I'm worried about is the Landlord not providing a Handyman to fix the flaws found. I'm just worried about that because if I get kicked out, Dad won't take me back in his house. I don't want to go back to his house period. I like being in my own place and having stuff to do myself. I have mixed reviews about my first year in the place I've been living in. I just have to think positive about the Landlord getting the flaws in the place fixed in time for Mars' house inspection. I also worry about being kicked out too. I just will have to keep on thinking positive thoughts for this. I figured I'll wait till the beginning of Mars to complain to the Landlord if the Handyman hasn't made an appearance to fix everything that was listed in the letter by the house inspector. I can't help it that I worry about this. I have mixed reactions on living here due to fighting loneliness and boredom. I'm hoping that a pet will help to shake things up. I don't want to get a ferret for having a pet. I prefer to get a cat instead but I'm not sure what kind of cat. I've been eyeing my eye on this website of a local animal shelter. The dogs in that website have been mostly adopted except one. I don't feel like getting a dog at the moment. I feel like a cat will have to do for me. I just don't know if the landlord will grant me a cat or not. I just don't know at the moment. I have to wait till my lease is up in Mars to see if the Landlord will resign me. I also have a new worry about the Landlord telling me to leave after living here for a year. I don't know what I'll do then. I just will have to ask around for help if this happens. I'm hoping this won't happen at all. I can't help it that I worry. I guess I should stop worrying and leave it to a higher power like Lance Richard. My friend Morena has a saying "God helps those who help themselves." The saying means to Morena "God will help people if they help themselves with their problems." I guess I have to hope that my worries are for nothing and that I really should think of positive things instead. Ugh, Valentine's Day, was a stormy day despite declared a day for people to make love by the High Council or having sexual games rituals. New York City is where I currently live in got hit with the snow storm named Agita. I wonder where they thoughts up with those names for a storm anyway. I had a good day playing hooky from school while home at Jinks Montreal's residence stuck into my bedroom. I mostly watched videos onto my laptop computer from a channel website I subscribe to. They were a women's college gymnastics meet from Albany College competing against Fashion Yorkville College. I saw a questionnaire pageant called Miss America on the laptop which Dad taped for me by emailing me the entire tape which I saw. I don't get much TV channels here in Jinks Montreal's residence and I had to get the cheapest internet service for my laptop. I had a lousy reception when I first moved in into Jinks Montreal's residence. I wound up with the cheapest internet service I could get from Dad's input of emailing me. He also gets cable too but it's the more expensive kind because he gets more channels. I feel like that Valentine's Day's weather ruined some people's day of Love. Ugh, who cares about love? I had a boyfriend who turned out to be a jerk who blamed the moment of love on a spell instead of taking responsibility. The moment of love was touching me on the chest just to feel me. He instead of taking responsibility told me some friend of his made a witch spell on the both of us hence he acting this way. I just don't buy it at all. I wound up feeling disgusted, upset and used too. I wound up breaking up with him on the cell phone. What a jerk anyway, who needs to love someone else that isn't family? I feel like I'm fated to be alone for the rest of my life except the future could have surprises for me. I could fall in love with a guy again someday. I just don't know who it is. There was a guy at school who I liked but he moved away and hasn't returned my email response message to his email at all. I think this guy is an either busy or a real loner. I just don't know at all. There was another guy at school who I really liked when I first started school there in New York City people commenting "Is she your girlfriend?" I was hurt when the guy told other people "She's just a friend and not a girlfriend." I never got around to telling this guy how I feel because he says "I don't want to know much about you and your inner problems at all." That's the truth and who needs love anyway? I volunteered to sell some sodas for a deaf school in Toronto dubbed Tornado's College. I volunteered today along with a pizza sale for Southern Long River Place's State's scholarship too. I sort of got roped into doing the soda sale too. I was at a writers' club class meeting other writers mostly students of the college to discuss our work which one asked me "You willing to volunteer to sell soda for Tornado's College?" "I had nothing to do for the day of the soda sale." I blurt which the student a female appearing to be a Builder or Compeller using some mind control trick despite having an Asian like Highlander look onto her eyes. The student said in response "Terrific Vicky here volunteers for the soda sale." I wound up blurting out of compulsion "I agreed to volunteer." That was arranged and I got roped into service of volunteering to sell sodas despite another club the Annoyovs hosting a pizza sale at the same time. I told Morena on the phone some time ago "There's a school for the deaf in Toronto dubbed Tornado's College which we're raising money for." Morena gave me a bunch of questions "Where the money is going to in Toronto? What's with the school requesting money for college to give them? Why can't Tornado's College earn their own money without help from other colleges?" I'm surprised with Morena and her stupid questions. I think Morena is saying "I'm implying that the money isn't going to that school at all but to elsewhere like the High Council." I think I might want to ask around "What's with Tornado's College having this money issue?" As for the soda sale was lousy because only ten people brought soda. The people were said "I'm more interested in buying pizza than soda." I bought one soda myself and so did about some other people too. I practically had to beg people to buy some soda too "Buy some soda for Tornado's College please." I even asked "Would you please buy soda?" and some gave me "No thank you." While others said "I want pizza than soda." Ugh. I'm annoyed because the soda sale was lousy. I hate it when I put expectations high and they come crashing down to earth. Even one student I've seen hanging around me in my classes and in writers' club like a stalker named Tom Thunder said to me in response to me begging him "Would you please buy some soda?" He said "People won't buy the soda because of the soda machines and the soda in the school cafeteria." "This talk annoyed me!" I said in response which Tom wound up adding "Don't volunteer for soda sales anymore." I wound up once soda sale was done thinking "I'm not sure if I'll volunteer for the soda sale again any more. I think I'll just let someone else do the work when it comes to selling soda." By the way Tom Thunder is a member of the Annoyov club who seemed to be fixated onto me like a stalker or some male who's seemed to want me to do sexual games with him into bed hence he kept giving me this smirking smile whenever I see him around college. Ugh. Morena you by phone communications have been telling me "There's the High Council group doing scams for money coming out of Toronto." "I ask where you come up with this talk." I asked you by phone which you told me "I got this from a TV News program about High Council's servants scamming people for money. This scamming was to make people serve the group in response to paying off a debt." I'm told. I don't know what to do. I wound up e-mailing the president Sydney Australia no joke on that name despite dubbing herself that of the writers' club I'm an officer of which I'm secretary. I hope the President knows what to do about this talk by you which your talk has brought some doubts and has made me upset about the school for the deaf in Toronto. I have no idea on what to do about this attitude of yours. I'm not happy about this at all. Anyway I'm frankly disappointed in your lousy attitude towards the money we worked so hard to rise. I'm just disgusted by your talk said "I think your helping scammers of the High Council earn money." I had to e-mail the President of the writers' club about this talk of yours which I said "I received talk from a close friend that the money earned for Tornado's College is really going to the High Council's group scamming people out of money. I'm just upset with this talk so let me know what I can do to assure this friend's fears." I just hope there's proof of the money going to the school of the deaf in Toronto. I really hope so, so I could prove it to you and your lousy attitude. Where did you come up with this scam crap anyway?! I can't believe that you got it from a TV program! I'm just annoyed and not happy with you at all. I am upset about earning the money for a scam. I'm hoping that this scam thing is not real but something you misheard. That's what I'm hoping for. If it is a scam what are we going to do with the money we earned? I guess we could use it for something else instead. I just hope the school isn't a scam at all and that's what I'm hoping for. I hate to have you tell me "I told you so." when we find out if the school is a scam. Ugh, I'm disappointed about that anyway in your attitude of finding the negative thing involving what we're doing is good. Yuck this annoyed me. "Letters in the Edenia series featuring clone Victoria Montreal dubbed Yana Renova." This is written by the High Council insisting "You to correct for grammar mistakes." I corrected the grammar and mistakes including emailing to the High Council "Anything else I can do for you?"' They emailed in response "Nothing else but thank you for your service." I didn't do much after that but I wound up with the voice going off as a result despite unsure of what to do tonight besides the usual taking my pill at five o'clock and hope it'll do it's job in cutting the noises into my head. Ugh. Mom came over which cutesy cat let me know by getting off my lap and wounding up hiding behind the couch. Poor kitty is still shy around visitors. Oh well. Mom drove me to the town library where she bought a book by an author I doubt I would read. After that mom tried to buy a gift basket but the librarian didn't have anything for breaking mom's twenty dollar bill. This is really annoying. Ugh. After that gift basket was refused buying mom drove me to Ant's where we sat in the car waiting for whomever to show up. Uncle Budweiser as he's referred himself than no explanation to that beer name showed up. I pointed out to mom trying to take a nap in the car. Mom got Uncle Budweiser to help her with her fire alarm then after that Cousin Carina as she's referred arrived then Auntie Berliner followed by Uncle Jack Wiser Yay. Anyway we went into the restaurant and hogged two tables for eating our meals. Oh well I guess we were piglets eating food and gluttony galore. Oh sucks. I wound up into a writing conversation with Auntie Berliner "Did you get your hair cut?" I was talking about her new haircut she had which she told me something I didn't get it her words so she wrote them down into my notebook "Yes I got a new haircut." I find Merra's voice was blaring into my mind making it hard to hear what Auntie Berliner was saying to me out of that I kept saying "What?" over and over. Auntie Berliner figured I was suffering from a voiced episode wrote down her answer. Well nice. Auntie Berliner wrote "I had my hair cut for Len's granddaughter wedding. It was October nineteenth. So it does not grow that fast. So I keep it short and curly." I said as written out of Mom kept saying "Your shouting." "I'm growing my hair for wigs for people. My hair grows slow too." Auntie Berliner said by written "I would I could but I dye my hair so they will not accept it. Your hair is natural it will not be a problem. So what else is new? I heard you went to a party at school and enjoyed yourself. That's good. How are your friends Morena and the rest?" I wrote after I gave up voicing my answer on mom's shout comment "Morena's doing great. I email her occasionally she emails me back. I've got gift card to Banera for Morena for Lancemas. She likes Banera. Also party at school was fun. I took home a pie mom and I ate Thursday." Auntie Berliner wrote "That's nice. I made my own thanksgiving dinner. I miss making pies and cookies. I wish I had more time. The problem is I have is no one around to eat it even if I put it in the freezer. I end up throwing it out. So I cook as much as I can eat. This way it doesn't go to waste!" This is a writing conversation between me and Auntie Berliner at Ant's. I ate regular meal of Mickayla's meal of French fries and a hamburger plain but I didn't eat everything onto my plate. I only ate part of the meal and left some for the waitress to toss out. Oh well. Mom being a piglet ate her food including some of my curly French fries. Auntie Berliner had half her food while Cousin Corona only barely ate much of her food. Ugh a pity. Anyway it was Cousin Corona who paid for our meals. "Thanks Cousin Corona!" I wrote a note to her who she gave me a gesture of kissing onto her hand and towards me. Uncle Jack Wiser handed out birthday and Lancemas cards which I figured he's going to be busy during Lancemas' season hence he's handing them out now. Nice I guess. I got one hundred dollars from Uncle Jack Wiser in two fifty dollar bills for my book safe's money. Nice. I got a cloth bag from the restaurant's worker handing them out. That's nice. After eating our food I had to pester my relatives "We have to leave because of us hogging tables that people would like to use to eat their meals off of." Oh well Uncle Jack Wiser took the message and left then Uncle Budweiser followed by us girls going out to the car to hug and then leave. Mom took a scenic sunny route home which gave her trouble seeing where she was driving because of the glaring sunlight blaring into her eyes. Poor Momsy aw I had to help her navigate by paying attention to where we were going. This is a pity. Mom got me home and said "I asked for the computer." "Here kitty where are you, you silly fur ball?" she said searching for my cutest cat ever. Once she was done doing her search for the baby cat she decided to leave and not use my computer. Ugh I wound up socialized by the baby munchkin hanging around happy to see me home for a nice warm lap. Aw poor baby cat was cold hence she hanging around me for a lap sits including sitting onto my armchair. Poor kitty! This is the files of one cloned copy Victoria Montreal Thunder servant of the High Council created for Recorder of Memories to record for files' sakes. End.	{ "pile_set_name": "BookCorpus2" }
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Characterization of the binding of radioiodinated hybrid recombinant IFN-alpha A/D to murine and human lymphoid cell lines. The hybrid recombinant human interferon (IFN) rIFN-alpha A/D was radioiodinated. Specific binding of [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D was observed with both human and murine cell lines. The binding of [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D to human Daudi cells had similar characteristics to the previously described binding of [125I]rIFN-alpha A or -alpha 2. The following lines of evidence demonstrated that [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D bound with high affinity to the same receptor on murine cells as murine IFN-alpha and -beta: (i) the binding of [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D to murine LBRM cells was inhibited to a similar extent by natural murine IFN-alpha, natural murine IFN-beta, and rIFN-A/D; (ii) the Kd (approximately 2 X 10(-10) M) obtained from both competition experiments and saturation binding experiments with [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D was comparable to the previously reported Kd for the binding of natural murine IFN-alpha and -beta to other murine cell lines; (iii) the size of the cross-linked [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D receptor complex formed on murine LBRM cells was similar to the previously reported cross-linked complex formed after binding radioiodinated natural murine IFN-beta to other murine cell lines. Due to the current lack of readily available recombinant murine IFN-alpha or -beta for radiolabeling and the previously demonstrated biological activity of rIFN-alpha A/D on murine cells, [125I]rIFN-alpha A/D should prove to be a useful reagent for further studies of murine IFN receptors.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Evaluation of internal standardization for the determination of semivolatile analytes in difficult matrices by simultaneous multielement atomic absorption spectrometry. The aim of the present work is to investigate the use of the internal standardization technique combined with permanent chemical modification for the determination of two semivolatile analytes, such as As and Se, in difficult matrices by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. Bismuth and tellurium have been evaluated as internal standards to minimize matrix effects on the direct determination of selenium and arsenic in sediments, by simultaneous electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry using graphite tubes with integrated platform, pre-treated with different masses of Zr and Ir as permanent modifier. A Perkin-Elmer SIMAA 6000 simultaneous multielement spectrometer was used to study the correlation between two integrated absorbance signals. Matrix effects were evaluated by calculating the slope ratio between the analytical curve obtained from reference solutions prepared in 1.0% (v/v) HNO3 and analytical curve obtained from IS additions in matrix solutions. The results showed that Te was the optimal internal standard and 200 μg Zr and 20 μg Ir was the optimal permanent chemical modifier for both analytes. The instrumental limits of detection for As and Se were 1.48 and 1.96 μg L(-1) without the use of an internal standard and 0.59 and 0.35 μg L(-1) when Te was used as an internal standard, respectively. Relative standard deviations for a sample with matrix effect containing 100 μg L(-1) As and 200 μg L(-1) Se were 1.3% and 2.3% (n=20) using 100 μg L(-1) Te, respectively, and for a standard solution sample containing 100 μg L(-1) As and 200 μg L(-1) Se were 3.0% and 1.2% (n=20) using 100μgL(-1) Te, respectively. The accuracy of the proposed method was evaluated by an addition-recovery experiment and by the analysis of different certified reference materials. The recovered values were in the 95-100% range for both analytes.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Introduction ============ PPNAD is a rare cause of pediatric Cushing syndrome (CS). Diagnosis and management of this condition remains challenging. Although, there are diagnostic approaches and various tests to identify the cause of CS, but these tests appears to have incomplete diagnostic accuracy. Clinical case ============= A 2-year-old, previously healthy girl presented with rapid weight gain for 5 months. She had Cushingoid appearance, acne, hirsutism, hypertension, and normal pre-pubertal female genitalia. Her weight was 16.9 kg (\>97^th^ percentile) and height was 85 cm (3^rd^ percentile). Serum cortisol levels revealed loss of diurnal variation (35.0 and 30.1 μg/dl at 8.00 am and 11.00 pm, respectively). ACTH levels were unsuppressible at 22.4 (1^st^) and 20.5 pg/ml (2^nd^). Testosterone and DHEAS levels were undetectable. Abdominal USG were done twice. The first study showed enlargement of bilateral adrenals (right 1.6x1.2 cm and left 1.7x1.4 cm), but the subsequent one was unremarkable. Pituitary MRI was normal. CT chest included neck and abdomen revealed normal adrenal glands without mass. High dose dexamethasone suppression test (HDDST) revealed unsuppressible cortisol levels (baseline 51.9 and post-HDSST 47.2 μg/dl). Repeated ACTH levels were 13.6 and 15.1 pg/ml, suggested ACTH-independent CS. CT abdomen was reviewed by an adrenal radiologist expert and a small nodule (3-4 mm in size) of the right gland was identified, thus micronodular adrenocortical hyperplasia (MAD) was suspected. Laparoscopic right adrenalectomy was done. The right adrenal gland had normal gross findings, but histopathology revealed nodular thickening of the cortical tissue and internodular atrophy, which were compatible with PPNAD. After surgery, the features of CS were gradually subsided and cortisol levels were steadily declined to normal. Clinical lessons ================ Adrenal CS is more common in this age group, but initial hormonal profiles and imaging studies misled us. Non-suppressed ACTH levels could be found in adrenal CS. Other tests (CRH/HDDST) are useful to guide the diagnosis. Imaging studies should be best interpreted by experienced radiologist. Normal adrenal glands are not uncommon in MAD and its variant, PPNAD. Nodular thickening and internodular atrophy are pathognomonic of PPNAD even if no pigmentation seen in gross findings. PPNAD is caused by PRKARIA gene mutation which may present as isolated form or is associated with Carney's complex. Genetic testing is important because this disorder is bilateral involvement. Thus, unilateral adrenalectomy may be inadequate. Carefully follow-up is needed and contralateral adrenalectomy may be required in the future. Conclusion ========== Diagnosis and management of CS are challenges in pediatric endocrine practice, and should be best done by a team experienced in managing pediatric CS. Accurate diagnosis and localization is the key to success in managing these cases.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Central" }
Q: Combining Nodejs Net socket and Socket IO I have a windows application (Built on C# as windows service) that sends data to NodeJs Net Socket, So since Socket.IO helps making a Web Application a live one , without the need of reload. How can i allow Socket.IO stream the received data from NodeJs Net Socket to the Web Application , in the exact moment the Net Socket receives data from C#? So in the code that receives the socket data from C#: var net = require('net'); net.createServer(function (socket) { socket.on('data', function (data) { broadcast(socket.name + "> \n" + data + " \n", socket); socket.end("<EOF>"); //send data to web interface , does it work that way? //SomeFooToSendDataToWebApp(Data) }); }); Further more for the Socket.IO i have those lines , which i cant really figure out how to deal with them: //Should it listen to net socket or web socket? server.listen(8080); // Loading socket.io var io = require('socket.io').listen(server); // It works but only for one request io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket2) { socket2.emit('message' , 'Message Text'); }); P.S: I am new to nodejs & socket.io , so if its possible as well to explain their behavior. Edit 1 : My Front End Javascript to check it if it has any problems: //for now it listens to http port , which Socket.IO listens to var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:8080'); var myElement = document.getElementById("news"); socket.on('message', function(message) { document.getElementById("news").innerHTML = message; }) Edit 2 : Did follow jfriend00's answer as it seems my previous code tries were trying to send messages to an unknown socket, i only added this since i needed it to be sent to all the connected clients , so only one line fixed it ! socket.on('data', function (data) { broadcast(socket.name + "> \n" + data + " \n", socket); socket.end("<EOF>"); //send data to web interface , does it work that way? //The Added code here: io.emit('message',data + " more string"); }); A: It's a bit hard to tell exactly what you're asking. If you have some data you want to send to all connected socket.io clients (no matter where the data came from), then you can do that with: io.emit("someMessage", dataToSend); If you want to send to only one specific connected client, then you have to somehow get the socket object for that specific client and then do: socket.emit("someMessage", dataToSend); How you get the specific socket object for the desired connected client depends entirely upon how your app works and how you know which client it is. Every socket connection on the server has a socket.id associated with it. In some cases, server code uses that id to keep track of a given client (such as putting the id in the session or saving it in some other server-side data). If you have the id for a socket, you can get to the socket with the .to() method such as: io.to(someId).emit("someMessage", dataToSend); Your question asked about how you send data received from some C# service over a normal TCP socket. As far as sending it to a socket client, it does not matter at all where the data came from or how you received it. Once you have the data in some Javascript variable, it's all the same from there whether it came from a file, from an http request, from an incoming TCP connection in your C# service, etc... It's just data you want to send.	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Q: Testing GestureDetector on Image widget I have made a simple test case app where you click a widget using GestureDetector which triggers an update using setState to the tapCount variable. The app is working in the emulator with the text updating correctly as shown above, but as soon as I try a Flutter widget test, the widget test fails as the text does not update correctly in the test environment. Reproducible example: import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; void main() => runApp(MyApp()); class MyApp extends StatefulWidget { MyApp(); @override _MyAppState createState() => _MyAppState(); } class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> { int tapCount = 0; Widget build(BuildContext context) { return MaterialApp( home: Scaffold( body: SafeArea( child: Column( children: <Widget>[ MyImage( onTap: () { setState(() { tapCount += 1; }); }, imagePath: 'assets/my-image.jpg', ), Text(tapCount.toString()) ], ), ), ), ); } } class MyImage extends StatelessWidget { final Function() onTap; final String imagePath; const MyImage({ Key key, @required this.onTap, @required this.imagePath, }) : super(key: key); @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return GestureDetector( onTap: () { this.onTap(); }, child: Image.asset( imagePath, height: 100.0, ), ); } } In the pubspec, I downloaded a random image and verified the image successfully displays in the emulator. assets: - assets/my-image.jpg My test is the same as the sample with the addition of await tester.pumpAndSettle(); and tapping the image: void main() { testWidgets('Counter increments smoke test', (WidgetTester tester) async { // Build our app and trigger a frame. await tester.pumpWidget(MyApp()); await tester.pumpAndSettle(); // Verify that our counter starts at 0. expect(find.text('0'), findsOneWidget); expect(find.text('1'), findsNothing); // Tap the image and trigger a frame. await tester.tap(find.byType(MyImage)); await tester.pump(); await tester.pumpAndSettle(); // Verify that our counter has incremented. expect(find.text('0'), findsNothing); // this test fails expect(find.text('1'), findsOneWidget); // this test fails }); } When I run the test I get this error ══╡ EXCEPTION CAUGHT BY FLUTTER TEST FRAMEWORK ╞════════════════════════════════════════════════════ The following TestFailure object was thrown running a test: Expected: no matching nodes in the widget tree Actual: ?:<exactly one widget with text "0" (ignoring offstage widgets): Text("0")> Which: means one was found but none were expected When the exception was thrown, this was the stack: #4 main.<anonymous closure> (file:///Projects/untitled/test/widget_test.dart:27:5) <asynchronous suspension> #5 testWidgets.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_test/src/widget_tester.dart:82:23) #6 TestWidgetsFlutterBinding._runTestBody (package:flutter_test/src/binding.dart:566:19) <asynchronous suspension> #9 TestWidgetsFlutterBinding._runTest (package:flutter_test/src/binding.dart:550:14) #10 AutomatedTestWidgetsFlutterBinding.runTest.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_test/src/binding.dart:893:24) #16 AutomatedTestWidgetsFlutterBinding.runTest (package:flutter_test/src/binding.dart:890:15) #17 testWidgets.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter_test/src/widget_tester.dart:81:22) #18 Declarer.test.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:test_api/src/backend/declarer.dart:168:27) <asynchronous suspension> #19 Invoker.waitForOutstandingCallbacks.<anonymous closure> (package:test_api/src/backend/invoker.dart:249:15) <asynchronous suspension> #24 Invoker.waitForOutstandingCallbacks (package:test_api/src/backend/invoker.dart:246:5) #25 Declarer.test.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:test_api/src/backend/declarer.dart:166:33) #30 Declarer.test.<anonymous closure> (package:test_api/src/backend/declarer.dart:165:13) <asynchronous suspension> #31 Invoker._onRun.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:test_api/src/backend/invoker.dart:399:25) <asynchronous suspension> #45 _Timer._runTimers (dart:isolate/runtime/libtimer_impl.dart:382:19) #46 _Timer._handleMessage (dart:isolate/runtime/libtimer_impl.dart:416:5) #47 _RawReceivePortImpl._handleMessage (dart:isolate/runtime/libisolate_patch.dart:171:12) (elided 28 frames from class _FakeAsync, package dart:async, and package stack_trace) This was caught by the test expectation on the following line: file:///Projects/untitled/test/widget_test.dart line 27 The test description was: Counter increments smoke test ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Test failed. See exception logs above. The test description was: Counter increments smoke test If I try the same test, but with the Image inside MyImage replaced with another widget (e.g. another Text widget) inside main.dart, the test passes: class MyImage extends StatelessWidget { final Function() onTap; final String imagePath; const MyImage({ Key key, @required this.onTap, @required this.imagePath, }) : super(key: key); @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return GestureDetector( onTap: () { this.onTap(); }, child: Text( // replaced Image with Text and test passes! imagePath, ), ); } } This makes me think the issue is due to using the Image, but I can't figure out why. Code is also uploaded on GitHub if you want to try the test. A: Here is my take on why it's not working with an image. The flutter tests run in a FakeAsync zone and when you need to run real async code like loading an asset through an assetBundle the asset is not getting loaded and the image widget's size stays as zero and because of this the hit testing fails. If you set height and width of the image before hand the test passes.	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Followup of psychoanalysis five to ten years after termination: III. The relation between the resolution of the transference and the patient-analyst match. As part of a long-term followup study of the outcome of psychoanalysis, we examined the relation between the extent of resolution of the transference at termination and the characteristics of the patient-analyst match. For twelve of the seventeen patients interviewed five to ten years after termination of psychoanalysis, the researchers found that the patient-analyst match played a role in the outcome of the analysis. Illustrations of the influence of the match in cases where the transference was resolved and those where it was not are presented.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Evidence for two distinct lysophospholipase activities that degrade lysophosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidic acid in neuronal nuclei of cerebral cortex. Neuronal nuclei were isolated from immature rabbit cerebral cortex and nuclear lysophospholipase activities studied using two different 1-acyl lysophospholipids: lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) and lysophosphatidic acid (lysoPA). Our interest in these two lysolipids arose from the observation that lysoPA could promote the acetylation of lysoPC by substantially inhibiting a very active nuclear lysoPC lysophospholipase activity, in a competitive manner (R.R. Baker, H. -y. Chang, Mol. Cell. Biochem. (1999) in press). As there was also evidence for nuclear lysoPA deacylation, it was of interest to see whether one activity could possibly utilize both lysolipid substrates. We now have evidence for two separate lysophospholipase activities in neuronal nuclei. The lysoPC lysophospholipase activity was the more active, more highly enriched in the neuronal nuclei, and showed optimal activity at pH 8.4-9, while the lysoPA lysophospholipase activity was maintained over a much broader pH range. The lysoPC activity was substantially inhibited by free fatty acid, and showed considerable stimulation by serum albumin, while the activity utilizing lysoPA was much less affected by these agents. When lysoPC was added to incubations containing radioactive lysoPA, there was no significant inhibition found in rates of release of radioactive fatty acid, indicating that the lysoPA lysophospholipase activity did not utilize the lysoPC substrate. In incubations with lysoPC, MgATP and CoA brought about a sizable formation of phosphatidylcholine whose radioactivity was equally distributed between the sn-1 and sn-2 positions suggesting labelling both directly from the lysoPC substrate and from fatty acid produced by the lysophospholipase activity. By comparison, with the radioactive lysoPA substrate, MgATP and CoA promoted relatively lower levels of phosphatidic acid formation whose principal labelling came directly from the radioactive lysoPA. Largely because of the high activity of the nuclear lysoPC lysophospholipase, there is considerable potential in the neuronal nucleus to limit the use of lysoPC in other reactions, such as the formation of acylPAF (1-acyl analogue of platelet activating factor). It is of interest that conditions associated with brain ischaemia such as increased free fatty acid levels, falling pH and declines in MgATP may allow a preservation of neuronal nuclear lysoPC levels for acetylation. The existence of a separate lysophospholipase activity for lysoPA allows an independent control of lysoPA which can serve as an important regulator of the nuclear lysoPC lysophospholipase.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Bristol Hotel, Gibraltar Bristol Hotel is Gibraltar's oldest hotel. It is located on Cathedral Square in Gibraltar, next to the Church of England Cathedral. Established in 1894 the 19th century, it occupies a white colonial building with swimming pool and garden, located to the south of Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, next to the Gibraltar Museum. The hotel has 60 rooms and includes a subtropical garden. During World War II, it served as the headquarters of the Royal Air Force and of a squadron of British flying boats and served as a temporary residence for British officers in transit. It is one of many European hotels named Bristol, after the extensive travels of the wealthy Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol. History The hotel was established in the 19th century and was named after Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, an extensive traveller of Europe. Prior to the opening of The Rock Hotel in 1932, it was regarded as Gibraltar's flagship hotel. In September 1899, Admiral George Dewey, who led the United States Navy at the Battle of Manila Bay, stayed briefly at the hotel before his return to the United States later that month. The New York Times reported the following on 6 September 1899: "Admiral Dewey spent most of the day at the Hotel Bristol where he is living ashore, receiving a constant stream of visitors. He has declined all dinner and public invitations, as he is suffering from indigestion." In 1915, Princess Salm Salm, the wife of a German prince and the eldest daughter of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army), lived at the hotel as a guest of the Queen of Spain. Her husband, Prince Emmanuel Salm, had been detained while hunting big game in Africa and was held as a prisoner of war in Gibraltar upon the outbreak of World War I. Princess Salm Salm left her five children in Austria to be close to her husband. According to some accounts, Princes Salm Salm was also considered a British prisoner in Gibraltar. In 1916, the prince and princess were released as part of a prisoner exchange negotiated by the King of Spain. In the spring of 1928, Rear Admiral Bernard Collard stayed at the Bristol during the court martial of Captain Kenneth Dewar after the notorious incident that the contemporary press dubbed "The Royal Oak Mutiny". Following the court martial, Dewar apologized to Collard in the dining room of the Bristol In April 1920 The Prime Minister Lloyd George who had landed from the P&O liner Naldara, accompanied by Miss Lloyd George, Lord Riddel, Sir Maurice Hankey, Mr. Davies and Miss Stephenson had lunch at the Bristol Hotel. In April 1931 Don Juan de Borbon Age 18, son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, who was a student at the Naval School at San Fernando together with his professor Capitain de Corbeta Fernando Abarzuza, arrived in Gibraltar by Spanish torpedo boat No.16. Arriving at 8.00am. They stayed at the Bristol Hotel, where he remained until invited by the Governor to stay at Government House. In September 1935, a recruiting drive was held at the hotel with the prospects increasing for war in East Africa arising out of the Abyssinia Crisis. The Second Italo-Abyssinian War broke out several days later with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). In October 1938, General John J. Pershing's 73-year-old cousin, Dr. Edward Hamilton Pershing, recovered at the hotel after contracting smallpox while traveling aboard the British ocean liner Strathmore. During World War II, the Bristol Hotel was the headquarters of No. 200 Group of the RAF Coastal Command. Military officers in transit also utilised the hotel during the war, including some working for the SOE. The war conditions at the hotel were markedly different from the experience of those living in Great Britain as there was no blackout and steaks were on the menu. The hotel declined after World War II; it had been met with competition from The Rock Hotel which had taken its status as Gibraltar's flagship hotel in 1932. In 1954, one visitor described their room as "roved to be a cheerless, bare place with an lithograph of Queen Victoria hanging on the wall and two camp beds". During the early 1960s, work was done on the hotel to add hot water. During the later part of the 1960s, the hotel improved the kitchen and pool by making both larger, and by working with and improving the garden club. Images References External links Official website Category:Hotels in Gibraltar	{ "pile_set_name": "Wikipedia (en)" }
Delaware Governor Signs Blockchain Regulation Bill into Law The governor of Delaware has officially signed a bill into law that recognizes the trading of stocks on the blockchain. In April, the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association (DSBA) had approved Delaware Law Amendments with the intention of delivering statutory authority for businesses in the state to use the blockchain to maintain corporate records. Passing the House at the end of June with one vote against it out of 41, this step brings to end a campaign that began in May 2016 when the-then governor of Delaware, Jack Markell, announced plans to embrace the blockchain and smart contract technology. It was also hoped that the initiative would provide a legal and regulatory environment for the development of the technology in the state in addition to help attract blockchain companies to Delaware. Now, after many weeks when the bill passed the House, the governor of Delaware, John C. Carney Jr., has put pen to paper and made the recognition official. Delaware Embraces the Blockchain Delaware is one state in the U.S. that has taken embracive steps toward the innovative technology. Previously, a Delaware judge had been reported to have urged investors to protect their votes through the distributed ledger. Last November, vice chancellor J. Travis Laster, said that the technology could help shareholders remove the middleman when it came to votes and shares. According to Laster, the current system is outdated and too complex, making it difficult to determine who exactly owns a share and how it’s utilized in decision making. However, with the recent signing into law, it remains to be seen what impact the blockchain bill will produce within Delaware. Yet, it could pave the way for other states to look into the technology more as it gains prominence in several use cases among various industries. Arizona is another state that is leading the way with the technology. In March, it was reported that the Senate had passed a bill that would give smart contracts and blockchain signatures legal binding status.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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[Demonstration of the presence during acute inflammatory reactions of a serum factor mitogenic macrophages (author's transl)]. 1. The authors have searched for the existence of mitogenic factor for macrophages in the serums of rats having undergone diverse immune and non-immune inflammatory reactions. 2. The evolution of the mitogenic activity of the inflammatory serums have been studied over a 48 hour period. This study underlined that the appearance of the mitogenic factor is very rapid since it can be found as early as 30 minutes after the injection of the irritant. 3. In most cases the evolution of the mitogenic activity of serums reveals a biphasic aspect: a strong activity is observed 1 to 2 hours after the injection of the irritant followed by a decrease of this activity which becomes weak or even null towards the sixth hour. It then increases to attain, after about 24 hours, values almost equal to those seen for the first peak.	{ "pile_set_name": "PubMed Abstracts" }
Hello and welcome to my Lightning Strike Raider build. It’s a build that spawned from the idea of using Hyaon’s Fury for…something. Anything. Which quickly turned into a simple build with a regular weapon, as Hyaon’s Fury is actually complete shit and is outclassed by any 10c rapier with proper stats. That’s where my idea of using Raider also comes from (for a ridiculous amount of frenzy charges which would synergize even better with Hyaon’s), and I decided to stick with it even with another sword as I like having a lot of frenzy charges. In any case, I wanted to make a build with a niche skill (and lightning strike is pretty niche, as far as i can tell), and this is what I came up with. It doesn’t shine by its boss-killing capabilities, but it’s a nice little build using a fun niche skill that can perfectly clear most content, and so is good as a league starter option. If I missed anything, my formatting isn't right, or anything else, do tell me. This is my first guide (as you can probably tell), so I'm prone to making mistakes. Enjoy the read ! Pros & Cons + High AoE damage + Good on a budget, can be pushed further with some investment + Good league-starter, the only item you really need is Lycosidae + High movement speed thanks to Leap Slam and 8+ frenzy charges + Combines dodge, evasion and block for damage mitigation + Very high lightning penetration (94% !) + Can run phys reflect, curse immune maps easily + Can run maps up to T15 without any issues + Not the best at uber lab (izaro hits hard) but you can run it with relative ease + Excels in open layouts - Squishy by nature as a Ranger - Can’t run ele reflect - Can run no leech maps but it requires some care - T16 and Shaper might prove difficult, this is not a bosskiller build. - Can sometimes be difficult to use in tight layouts or in the presence of obstacles - Probably not HC viable Gear My Gear and Gear Breakdown My Gear (3.3 ISC) Helmet Any rare helmet will do. The best enchantment you can get is "Lightning Strike Pierces 3 Additional Targets", saving you a few points on your skill tree to spend elsewhere, as Pierce is essential and will drastically improve your AoE capabilities. I did not find a good enough helmet with that enchantment, sadly. But it's definitely the best one available. 40% Lightning Strike damage is not too shabby, but it's definitely not as good as the pierce enchantment. Alternatives : Starkonja. If you can manage the resists on a build that already has a fair share of uniques, go for it. Any rare helmet will do. The best enchantment you can get is "Lightning Strike Pierces 3 Additional Targets", saving you a few points on your skill tree to spend elsewhere, as Pierce is essential and will drastically improve your AoE capabilities. I did not find a good enough helmet with that enchantment, sadly. But it's definitely the best one available. 40% Lightning Strike damage is not too shabby, but it's definitely not as good as the pierce enchantment.Alternatives : Starkonja. If you can manage the resists on a build that already has a fair share of uniques, go for it. Body Armour We have several options here. I use Shroud of the Lightless for an easy 6-link (Elemental Penetration allows me to remove Lightning Penetration) and a pretty good HP bonus since this build uses a lot of abyss jewels. The spell Shade Form is also nice, making you immune to physical damage and giving you phasing for a few seconds, but as it has an internal cooldown of 45 seconds, don't count on it too much. However, there are a few alternatives, such as a simple Belly of the Beast, Queen of the Forest (if you really want to go fast), or a rare Zodiac Leather. We have several options here. I use Shroud of the Lightless for an easy 6-link (Elemental Penetration allows me to remove Lightning Penetration) and a pretty good HP bonus since this build uses a lot of abyss jewels. The spell Shade Form is also nice, making you immune to physical damage and giving you phasing for a few seconds, but as it has an internal cooldown of 45 seconds, don't count on it too much.However, there are a few alternatives, such as a simple Belly of the Beast, Queen of the Forest (if you really want to go fast), or a rare Zodiac Leather. Amulet Any rare amulet will do. Important stats are : Best : HP, Lightning Damage, Added Lightning Damage to Attacks Good : Critical Strike Multiplier, Elemental Damage with Attack Skills Decent : Critical Strike Chance Any rare amulet will do.Important stats are :Best : HP, Lightning Damage, Added Lightning Damage to AttacksGood : Critical Strike Multiplier, Elemental Damage with Attack SkillsDecent : Critical Strike Chance Weapon Any rare foil with +25% Global Critical Damage Multiplier (most foils apply). Jewelled Foil is the best base, but a few others are decent too. Try to aim for Jewelled foil, dragonbone rapier or spiraled foil. Important stats are : Best : Attack Speed (aim for 1.80+ attack speed), Added Lightning Damage, Global Critical Strike Multiplier Good : Elemental Damage with Attack Skills, Critical Strike Chance Decent : Physical damage (this will raise the price higher without giving us a lot of benefits, but it's nice to have), elemental (fire/cold) damage (doesn't increase damage by a lot either, as we focus on lightning damage, but it's nice to have too, just don't focus on it) Normally, foils with such stats are relatively cheap. My current foil (linked here) cost me 30c, and it's a very good one for our purposes. Any rare foil with +25% Global Critical Damage Multiplier (most foils apply).Jewelled Foil is the best base, but a few others are decent too. Try to aim for Jewelled foil, dragonbone rapier or spiraled foil.Important stats are :Best : Attack Speed (aim for 1.80+ attack speed), Added Lightning Damage, Global Critical Strike MultiplierGood : Elemental Damage with Attack Skills, Critical Strike ChanceDecent : Physical damage (this will raise the price higher without giving us a lot of benefits, but it's nice to have), elemental (fire/cold) damage (doesn't increase damage by a lot either, as we focus on lightning damage, but it's nice to have too, just don't focus on it)Normally, foils with such stats are relatively cheap. My current foil (linked here) cost me 30c, and it's a very good one for our purposes. Shield Lycosidae. As a crit build, this is simply the best shield we can get. It has a low amount of life (up to 50), but the "hits can't be evaded" mod is highly invaluable and saves us from investing any resources into accuracy. It being a rather expensive shield at the moment, as a league starter alternative you can get Lioneye's Remorse which will bulk you up a bit with its big amount of HP. You might need to find accuracy somewhere else, though, either in your tree (we have access to a bunch of accuracy nodes) or on your jewelry. Lycosidae. As a crit build, this is simply the best shield we can get. It has a low amount of life (up to 50), but the "hits can't be evaded" mod is highly invaluable and saves us from investing any resources into accuracy.It being a rather expensive shield at the moment, as a league starter alternative you can get Lioneye's Remorse which will bulk you up a bit with its big amount of HP. You might need to find accuracy somewhere else, though, either in your tree (we have access to a bunch of accuracy nodes) or on your jewelry. Gloves Tombfist is the end-game gloves you are looking for. The wet dream of this build is a 2-socket Tombfist with a +1 to maximum frenzy charges corruption. However, that would be a very expensive item (at the time of writing this, it's 7.5 ex to get such an item). In the meantime, rare gloves will do (or a 1-socket tombfist too, a frenzy charges corruption is icing on the cake). Gripped gloves are nice, but a frenzy charges corruption is better. I haven't found any lab enchant to be particularly useful, and the frenzy charges corruption gives us the most dps anyway. Important stats pn a rare are : Best : HP, Attack Speed Good : Resistances Decent : Added Lightning Damage to Attacks (low rolls on gloves, nice to have but kind of mediocre anyway) Tombfist is the end-game gloves you are looking for. The wet dream of this build is a 2-socket Tombfist with a +1 to maximum frenzy charges corruption. However, that would be a very expensive item (at the time of writing this, it's 7.5 ex to get such an item).In the meantime, rare gloves will do (or a 1-socket tombfist too, a frenzy charges corruption is icing on the cake).Gripped gloves are nice, but a frenzy charges corruption is better. I haven't found any lab enchant to be particularly useful, and the frenzy charges corruption gives us the most dps anyway.Important stats pn a rare are :Best : HP, Attack SpeedGood : ResistancesDecent : Added Lightning Damage to Attacks (low rolls on gloves, nice to have but kind of mediocre anyway) Boots Darkray Vectors are the obvious choice for a build oriented towards Frenzy Charges. It gives you increased movement speed per frenzy charge (going up to 45% at 9 charges), and 2% chance to dodge attacks per frenzy charge. All in all, an excellent and cheap pair of boots for us. If you're playing in Standard, the best item is Darkray Vectors with a +1 Frenzy Charges corrupted implicit. Since 3.3, that corruption has been moved to Gloves, so you cannot get it in Incursion. If you do not like Darkray Vectors (shame on you), you can use Atziri's Step for more dodge, or regular Rare boots. Important stats on a rare are : Best : HP, resistances Good : Movement speed Darkray Vectors are the obvious choice for a build oriented towards Frenzy Charges. It gives you increased movement speed per frenzy charge (going up to 45% at 9 charges), and 2% chance to dodge attacks per frenzy charge. All in all, an excellent and cheap pair of boots for us.If you're playing in Standard, the best item is Darkray Vectors with a +1 Frenzy Charges corrupted implicit. Since 3.3, that corruption has been moved to Gloves, so you cannot get it in Incursion.If you do not like Darkray Vectors (shame on you), you can use Atziri's Step for more dodge, or regular Rare boots.Important stats on a rare are :Best : HP, resistancesGood : Movement speed Belt Here is where it gets interesting. Normally, the best base is a rare Stygian Vise with good rolls, or, if you can't afford that, a Leather Belt with good rolls. However, since I switched to Shroud of the Lightless, I decided to use Darkness Enthroned to use 2 abyss jewels, which are boosted by 50% by the belt. With good jewels, I can get a very good amount of HP and damage. Be aware though, you need good jewels to use Darkness Enthroned, and I don't think it's that worth it if you do not use Shroud of the Lightless, unless you have absolutely godtier jewels (aka, a lot better than mine) Stats to look out for on a rare are : Best : HP, resistances, Elemental Damage with Attack Skills Good : Flask duration, flask charges gained, strength (high rolls, 40+ can be interesting for the hp bonus and less constraints for gems) Decent : HP gained from life flasks, -% flask charges used Here is where it gets interesting.Normally, the best base is a rare Stygian Vise with good rolls, or, if you can't afford that, a Leather Belt with good rolls.However, since I switched to Shroud of the Lightless, I decided to use Darkness Enthroned to use 2 abyss jewels, which are boosted by 50% by the belt. With good jewels, I can get a very good amount of HP and damage.Be aware though, you need good jewels to use Darkness Enthroned, and I don't think it's that worth it if you do not use Shroud of the Lightless, unless you have absolutely godtier jewels (aka, a lot better than mine)Stats to look out for on a rare are :Best : HP, resistances, Elemental Damage with Attack SkillsGood : Flask duration, flask charges gained, strength (high rolls, 40+ can be interesting for the hp bonus and less constraints for gems)Decent : HP gained from life flasks, -% flask charges used Rings Any rare rings will do. I believe that The Taming can work well with this build, but I haven't tested it. The best base for your rings is Opal Ring, obviously, but these can get prohibitively expensive. I like to use a ring solely focused on defense (to cap my resistances) and another one more focused on damage. This tends to get less expensive, as rings that are both good in offense and defense are going to be extremely expensive. Stats to look out for (defensive) : Best : HP, resists (120+ total) Good : Accuracy (if you are not using Lycosidae, if you are, ignore accuracy completely) Decent : Attributes (as always, str gives us 1 hp per 2 str, int means fulfilling gem requirements, dex gives us evasion only, not very interesting) Stats to look out for (offensive) : Best : HP, Elemental Damage with Attack Skills, Added Lightning Damage to Attacks Good : Lightning Damage Decent : Attack Speed (minimal gain, don't make this a priority) Any rare rings will do.I believe that The Taming can work well with this build, but I haven't tested it.The best base for your rings is Opal Ring, obviously, but these can get prohibitively expensive.I like to use a ring solely focused on defense (to cap my resistances) and another one more focused on damage. This tends to get less expensive, as rings that are both good in offense and defense are going to be extremely expensive.Stats to look out for (defensive) :Best : HP, resists (120+ total)Good : Accuracy (if you are not using Lycosidae, if you are, ignore accuracy completely)Decent : Attributes (as always, str gives us 1 hp per 2 str, int means fulfilling gem requirements, dex gives us evasion only, not very interesting)Stats to look out for (offensive) :Best : HP, Elemental Damage with Attack Skills, Added Lightning Damage to AttacksGood : Lightning DamageDecent : Attack Speed (minimal gain, don't make this a priority) Flasks HP flask : Try to get a Divine flask, as they give the most total health. "Seething" making the recovery instant but 66% lower, you want the flask that gives you more hp over time rather than the one giving you less hp faster (eternal). As a suffix, aim for Staunching or Heat to remove bleed or freeze (I prefer staunching). Diamond Flask for more crit. Best mods are Experimenter's (more duration) and Heat/Staunching (whatever you don't have on your hp flask) Sulphur flask for more damage. Best mods are Experimenter's (more duration) and Warding (curses are annoying). You can replace this with a Jade Flask or a Basalt Flask for more damage mitigation. The Wise Oak is very important. Try to get a flask with max rolls, as this will improve your dps quite a bit. You also require your uncapped lightning resistance to be the highest for it to be useful. Balanced resistances are the best for defensive purposes, but for offensive purposes all you need is for your lightning resistance to be the highest. Atziri's Promise. An amazing DPS flask. Try to get the highest roll on the elemental to chaos conversion, as it's much more important than the physical one. You can mostly ignore the physical conversion, as you barely deal any physical damage to begin with. I think Vessel of Vinktar could be used, but honestly, that flask is shitty. I don't want to add Shock to my weaknesses on an already kinda squishy build. Screw that. If you like to suffer, feel free to replace Sulphur flask with it. But I'm warning you, you're going to take a lot of damage. HP flask : Try to get a Divine flask, as they give the most total health. "Seething" making the recovery instant but 66% lower, you want the flask that gives you more hp over time rather than the one giving you less hp faster (eternal). As a suffix, aim for Staunching or Heat to remove bleed or freeze (I prefer staunching).Diamond Flask for more crit. Best mods are Experimenter's (more duration) and Heat/Staunching (whatever you don't have on your hp flask)Sulphur flask for more damage. Best mods are Experimenter's (more duration) and Warding (curses are annoying). You can replace this with a Jade Flask or a Basalt Flask for more damage mitigation.The Wise Oak is very important. Try to get a flask with max rolls, as this will improve your dps quite a bit. You also require your uncapped lightning resistance to be the highest for it to be useful. Balanced resistances are the best for defensive purposes, but for offensive purposes all you need is for your lightning resistance to be the highest.Atziri's Promise. An amazing DPS flask. Try to get the highest roll on the elemental to chaos conversion, as it's much more important than the physical one. You can mostly ignore the physical conversion, as you barely deal any physical damage to begin with.I think Vessel of Vinktar could be used, but honestly, that flask is shitty. I don't want to add Shock to my weaknesses on an already kinda squishy build. Screw that. If you like to suffer, feel free to replace Sulphur flask with it. But I'm warning you, you're going to take a lot of damage. Jewels and Abyss Jewels No jewels in particular in mind. Regular jewels are interesting enough, but Abyss Jewels are the crème de la crème. You are going to want, most of all, Murderous Eye Jewels, as they can roll high damage for sword attacks. Searching Eye Jewels are also ok, but can't roll sword attack mods. Stats to look out for : Best : HP, Added Lightning Damage to Attacks, Added Lightning Damage to Sword Attacks Good : Global Critical Strike Multiplier Decent : Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance, Added Elemental (Non-Lightning) Damage You also need one (should be enough) jewel with the mod "Chance to blind enemies on hit with attacks". 3% should be enough, and it will reduce your chances to get hit by quite a lot. Skill gems My Skill Gems and Links Main Skill Lightning Strike (20/20) – Elemental Damage with Attacks (20/20) – Added Lightning Damage (20/20) – Multistrike (20/0) – Lightning Penetration (20/20) (5L) – Increased Critical Strikes (20/20) (6L) Other Possibilities : Swap out Increased Critical Strikes for Ancestral Call As I use shroud of the lightless, I drop Lightning Penetration from my 6L setup, as Elemental Penetration from the armor has the same value has Lightning Penetration, but for all elements. Why do I not 20% multistrike ? It only increases melee physical damage, which only affects the melee portion of Lightning Strike. The projectiles do not scale from melee physical damage but rather from your weapon’s damage, the tooltip is a bit confusing in that regard. All in all, a 20% multistrike doesn’t hurt us, but it’s rather unnecessary and an extremely minor (barely 1k dps gain for me) improvement. If you have a 20/20 Vaal Lightning Strike, you can put that in your 6L setup instead of a regular 20/20 Lightning Strike. If you don’t have a 20/20 Vaal Lightning Strike, here’s the setup for VLS : Vaal Lightning Strike (20/20) – Added Lightning Damage (20/20) – Elemental Damage with Attacks (20/20) – Elemental Focus (20/20) VLS is useful to give us a little dps boost. It comes up very often as it costs only 20 souls. It’s also nice to drop it down somewhere while we go kill stuff in another room (for example, if you have a breach expanding in two different corridors, drop VLS in one and go hit stuff in the other, works wonders). A single-target alternative that I have not tested is Blade Flurry, replacing Multistrike with Concentrated Effect. It's possibly better for bosses, but once again, I did not test it. It's good for Atziri, though, since LS has so much AoE you will most of the time end up hitting the mirror clone during the splitting phase, and kill yourself very quickly. CWDT Setup CWDT (lvl 1) – Conductivity (lvl 5) – Summon Ice Golem (lvl 3) – Immortal Call (lvl 3) Conductivity gives us a good damage boost as it reduces enemy resistances by an additional -29%. If you feel like you need more survivability instead, you can use Enfeeble in its place. Ice Golem and Immortal Call are self-explanatory. I prefer to keep CWDT to a low level so conductivity procs as often as possible, but you can try to bump it a couple levels more if you want. However, I did not test that. Movement Skill Movement skill : Leap Slam – Faster Attacks – Fortify The classic. No Specific Links Wrath (20/0) (More damage) Herald of Thunder (20/20) (More damage) Blood Rage (20/20) (More damage, also frenzy charge generator until you have enough points in Raider) Ancestral Protector ( ?/0) Level Ancestral Protector as high as your strength will allow. Since I already have too high STR requirements for my tastes, I kept it at level 12, which I find a reasonable amount. Bandits Bandits Kill all. If you are having mana issues, you can help Alira, but you’ll want to switch to +2 passive points eventually once you have mana leech. Ascendancy Ascendancy https://i.imgur.com/cOY7acW.png Levelling and Passive Trees Levelling Trees and Final Tree 29 points https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.3.0/AAAABAIBAABeBiAGogguF9wZjiP2MHxNknSgePl9dX7dfyuNfY25m42jirvjxKLTftRS7YPuDu96_W7-ug== I didn’t have anything in particular in mind while levelling, just taking some hp nodes and damage nodes here and there. You can take a mana leech node here if you want, next to Essence Sap, and skip the one I take later near Spirit Void. They are exactly the same, but you access the Essence Sap one earlier. 59 points https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.3.0/AAAABAIBAABeBS0FtQYgBqIILg2NF9wZjiP2KlswfEMxQzZHfkp9TP9Nkk4qUUdS7FuvZU1noHSgdO11y3j5efZ67311ft1_K4d2jX2Nfo25jb-YI5uNo4q3trvjvTa-p8LsxKLTftRS1ljaweOf6mLtg-4O73r8xf1u_ro= We take the Pierce nodes for increased AoE and we head towards duelist to grab some more HP nodes as well as one mana leech node for sustain. 91 points https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.3.0/AAAABAIBAABeBS0FtQYgBqIHHgguDPINjQ5IEZYWvxfcGY4byCP2JP0mlSoLKlswfDY9Ps9DMUM2R35JUUp9TP9Nkk4qUUdS7FVLWhpbr13yYeJirGVNZ6BsjHBSdKB07XXLePl59nrvfXV-3X8rh3aJ04w2jX2Nfo25jb-VLpgjm42dqqOKpcu0xbe2u-O9Nr3mvqfC7MMzxKLTftRS1ljaweOE45_nVOpi7YPuDu968NX8xf1u_rr_3g At this point we most likely have cleared Normal Lab and Cruel Lab later on, so we start taking Frenzy Charge nodes. Also heading towards the shadow tree for, once again, some more HP, and damage nodes. Final Tree - 114 points https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.3.0/AAAABAIBAABeBS0FtQYgBqIHHgguDPINjQ5ID8QRlha_F9wZjhnXGo0byB2DI_Yk_SaVKgsqOCpbLlMwWzB8Nj031Dt8Ps9DMUM2R35JUUp9TP9Nkk4qUUdS7FVLWhpbJluvXfJh4mKsZU1noGyMcFJ0oHTtdct4-Xn2eu99dX7dfyt_xn_7h3aJ04w2jX2Nfo25jb-TJ5UumCObjZ2qoS-io6OKpcusl60ztMW3trjKu-O9Nr3mvoq-p8LswzPEos_d02_TftQj1FLWWNrB44Tjn-dU6mLtP-2D7g7vevDV8Yr8xf1u_rr_3g== We finish by taking a couple more damage nodes, the jewel nodes, Acrobatics (I feel like it’s not really needed before maps, but you can take it earlier if you wish), and Vaal Pact (for more leech). This is just a level 91 tree, so if you level further, you can grab some more nodes like Forces of Nature or Revenge of the Hunted for more damage and hp, respectively. There's also a few duellist starting nodes that gives you a bit of HP, if you want. Playstyle Nothing much really ! Just hit the ground with your sword like Thor (if Thor had a gender reassignment surgery and started to really be into nature and fencing), and watch the lightning fly ! Considering Lightning Strike fires ground projectiles, some obstacles might make it difficult to hit certain targets. This is why we have Leap Slam and Frenzy charges, to be able to reposition very quickly to hit hard to reach targets. Do know that Lightning Strike has two components, the melee attack and the projectiles. The melee attack does a lot more damage than the projectiles (around 50-60% more if my math is right) but it also puts you more at risk since you are still kind of squishy. Adjust your position accordingly during boss fights, to keep a good balance between dps and survival. Be wary of Blood Rage once you take Vaal Pact, as it will drain your hp at a fast pace (especially if your map has Vulnerability curse) and, during periods without fighting, can actually kill you or leave you vulnerable for the next fight. If you want to deactivate it during downtime periods, simply remove the gem from your gear and put it back in again. PoB Link Spoiler https://pastebin.com/kSVeNhpv FAQ If any questions show up repeatedly, I will include them in this section. Outro Well, there we are. Thanks for reading, I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide, I also hope you've been able to withstand my inexperienced ass and my shitty photoshop skills, and I wish you a happy mapping experience ! If you have any questions, do ask ! I’ll be checking this thread regularly. Hello and welcome to my Lightning Strike Raider build.It’s a build that spawned from the idea of using Hyaon’s Fury for…something. Anything. Which quickly turned into a simple build with a regular weapon, as Hyaon’s Fury is actually complete shit and is outclassed by any 10c rapier with proper stats.That’s where my idea of using Raider also comes from (for a ridiculous amount of frenzy charges which would synergize even better with Hyaon’s), and I decided to stick with it even with another sword as I like having a lot of frenzy charges.In any case, I wanted to make a build with a niche skill (and lightning strike is pretty niche, as far as i can tell), and this is what I came up with. It doesn’t shine by its boss-killing capabilities, but it’s a nice little build using a fun niche skill that can perfectly clear most content, and so is good as a league starter option.If I missed anything, my formatting isn't right, or anything else, do tell me. This is my first guide (as you can probably tell), so I'm prone to making mistakes.Enjoy the read !High AoE damageGood on a budget, can be pushed further with some investmentGood league-starter, the only item you really need is LycosidaeHigh movement speed thanks to Leap Slam and 8+ frenzy chargesCombines dodge, evasion and block for damage mitigationVery high lightning penetration (94% !)Can run phys reflect, curse immune maps easilyCan run maps up to T15 without any issuesNot the best at uber lab (izaro hits hard) but you can run it with relative easeExcels in open layoutsSquishy by nature as a RangerCan’t run ele reflectCan run no leech maps but it requires some careT16 and Shaper might prove difficult, this is not a bosskiller build.Can sometimes be difficult to use in tight layouts or in the presence of obstaclesProbably not HC viableNothing much really ! Just hit the ground with your sword like Thor (if Thor had a gender reassignment surgery and started to really be into nature and fencing), and watch the lightning fly ! Considering Lightning Strike fires ground projectiles, some obstacles might make it difficult to hit certain targets. This is why we have Leap Slam and Frenzy charges, to be able to reposition very quickly to hit hard to reach targets.Do know that Lightning Strike has two components, the melee attack and the projectiles. The melee attack does a lot more damage than the projectiles (around 50-60% more if my math is right) but it also puts you more at risk since you are still kind of squishy. Adjust your position accordingly during boss fights, to keep a good balance between dps and survival.Be wary of Blood Rage once you take Vaal Pact, as it will drain your hp at a fast pace (especially if your map has Vulnerability curse) and, during periods without fighting, can actually kill you or leave you vulnerable for the next fight. If you want to deactivate it during downtime periods, simply remove the gem from your gear and put it back in again.If any questions show up repeatedly, I will include them in this section.Well, there we are. Thanks for reading, I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide, I also hope you've been able to withstand my inexperienced ass and my shitty photoshop skills, and I wish you a happy mapping experience !If you have any questions, do ask ! I’ll be checking this thread regularly. Last edited by Chnams on Jun 21, 2018, 3:13:57 PM Last bumped on Jun 21, 2018, 3:11:29 PM	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }
Q: Split a dataset into a list of dataframes with equal number of columns I have a data set with 36 columns and single observation. I want to split it into a list with each dataframe having 3 columns and then rbind them into a single data frame. I have been using the following code: m=12 nc<-ncol(df) df1<-lapply(split(as.list(df), cut(1:nc, m, labels = FALSE)), as.data.frame) df1<-do.call("rbind",df1) This code is working. But the problem comes when I try to run this code in shiny app. Can someone suggest a replacement for above code A: We can split the one row dataframe by generating a specific sequence do.call("rbind", split(c(t(df)), rep(seq(1, ncol(df)/3), each = 3))) where rep(seq(1, ncol(df)/3), each = 3) would generate [1] 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12	{ "pile_set_name": "StackExchange" }
Thread Tools Our friend Andrew Malcolm, over at Investors Business Daily, highlights an interesting story coming to us from Washington, but involving the Sunshine State. It seems that Florida‚Äôs recent efforts to conduct a thorough review of their voter rolls and purge the ineligible or the ‚Ä¶ er‚Ä¶ dead, have drawn the Attorney General. And what might the Department of Justice have to say about this record-keeping audit? Clearly, this has to be stopped. No, but you can make up who's being purged.....calling them the "dead" when you're really going after the "non-citizens." - 1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as ‚Äúnon-citizens‚ÄĚ and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote. - Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship. - Another 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county. The situation in Miami-Dade is also apparent in elsewhere in Florida. According to a local reports in smaller Polk County of the 21 voters flagged by the state ‚Äúnine appear to be citizens, leaving 12 as questionable.‚ÄĚ America still has those poor Muslims locked up in cages like wild animals down in Gitmo and Beautiful Long Legged Jug Ears is killing hundreds of innocent people with his "Wonderful Drones" is it any wonder the Jug Ear crowd doesn't care about "Voter Fraud" they know all the sh!tbums that don't have ID's will Vote For "Their Messiah" Obama is sure to get "The Wino Vote" Before you start a new thread, please take the time to check and see if a similar thread has already recently been posted. Scan the first page and the second, or also use the "Search" function. This will prevent redundant threads and as a result you‚Äôll have more people who will participate in your topic. Click to expand... Your thread is an extension to this one already posted.. come on mods fulfill your responsibility.. What's funny is that this statement would get me kicked out of this thread. I'm not kidding, there's 4 active threads right now that I can't access because agent 13 has decided that the rules don't apply to me. There's some secret set of rules out there somewhere that define how I'm supposed to act. I think I've got one secret rule figured out though. Kiss enough mod azz and you can pretty much get away with everything Harry gets away with. What's funny is that this statement would get me kicked out of this thread. I'm not kidding, there's 4 active threads right now that I can't access because agent 13 has decided that the rules don't apply to me. There's some secret set of rules out there somewhere that define how I'm supposed to act. I think I've got one secret rule figured out though. Kiss enough mod azz and you can pretty much get away with everything Harry gets away with. Click to expand... Wait a minute, are you accusing PF13 of arbitrary and capricious moderating? If so: I agree with you wholeheartedly. It really does this forum an injustice. No, but you can make up who's being purged.....calling them the "dead" when you're really going after the "non-citizens." - 1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as ‚Äúnon-citizens‚ÄĚ and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote. - Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship. - Another 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county. The situation in Miami-Dade is also apparent in elsewhere in Florida. According to a local reports in smaller Polk County of the 21 voters flagged by the state ‚Äúnine appear to be citizens, leaving 12 as questionable.‚ÄĚ Not too suprisingly think progress get things wrong as the try to twist facts. The people in Florida are reaching out to verify that people still belong on the rolls. If they just removed people when there was a question of them still being on the rolls THAT would be wrong. Reaching out to make sure people aren't removed in error is the responsible thing to do and should be applauded. Here's a question for those who think that Florida is doing the right thing by "purging" the registration lists.... How come, if it's supposed to be about "dead" people, 58% of the names being purged are of Hispanic origin but Hispanics only make up 13% of Florida's registered voters? About 58% of those flagged as potential noncitizens are Hispanics, Florida‚Äôs largest ethnic immigrant population, a Miami Herald analysis found. Hispanics make up 13 percent of the overall 11.3 million active registered voters. Wait a minute, are you accusing PF13 of arbitrary and capricious moderating? If so: I agree with you wholeheartedly. It really does this forum an injustice. Click to expand... Actually having those two in charge of this toilet is about perfect. Patters prefers that there be nothing but partisan bullschit being tossed about in here and agent 13 can't win any arguments if he has to stay honest. There was a time when the two of them didn't work so hard to drive away civil conversation. I actually came away from here smarter than when I entered back in the day. Those days are long, long since over though. Now Harry is considered a top-contributing poster. What a joke. What's funny is that this statement would get me kicked out of this thread. I'm not kidding, there's 4 active threads right now that I can't access because agent 13 has decided that the rules don't apply to me. There's some secret set of rules out there somewhere that define how I'm supposed to act. I think I've got one secret rule figured out though. Kiss enough mod azz and you can pretty much get away with everything Harry gets away with. Click to expand... You get banned for attacking specific posters without making a comment on the topic on hand. What SPECIFIC poster is Harry attacking? His post is an (attempt) at a humorous comment on the topic. BTW you and Jack B have been banned from the thread for a personal attack on me without any comment on the topic of the thread? See how that works. Not too suprisingly think progress get things wrong as the try to twist facts. The people in Florida are reaching out to verify that people still belong on the rolls. If they just removed people when there was a question of them still being on the rolls THAT would be wrong. Reaching out to make sure people aren't removed in error is the responsible thing to do and should be applauded. Click to expand... So you are going to ignore the rules established by Ian and just follow along??? What's funny is that this statement would get me kicked out of this thread. I'm not kidding, there's 4 active threads right now that I can't access because agent 13 has decided that the rules don't apply to me. There's some secret set of rules out there somewhere that define how I'm supposed to act. I think I've got one secret rule figured out though. Kiss enough mod azz and you can pretty much get away with everything Harry gets away with. Click to expand... I try not to break the rules, I have to admit it's pretty hard at times especially when I want to call somebody a dirty name. Not too suprisingly think progress get things wrong as the try to twist facts. The people in Florida are reaching out to verify that people still belong on the rolls. If they just removed people when there was a question of them still being on the rolls THAT would be wrong. Reaching out to make sure people aren't removed in error is the responsible thing to do and should be applauded. Click to expand... Applauded? Not taking away citizens' right to vote seems like the basics, not some above-and-beyond act to be lauded. Hey, that politician didn't steal campaign funds, and that cop arrested a man without beating him -- commendations all around!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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A newlywed couple from Winnipeg was among a crowd of thousands in Turkey over the weekend who were targeted with tear gas at a gay pride parade on Sunday. Istanbul riot police fired rubber bullets and water cannons into the crowd. Sam and Robyn Hagenlocher headed to Istanbul's central square to take part in the LGBT event Sunday afternoon. The pair met up with a new friend at a nearby cafe and were talking about the recent U.S. Supreme court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Sam (left) and Robin (right) Hagenlocher pose in Istanbul moments before riot police fired rubber bullets and water cannons on people celebrating in a local gay pride rally. Sam said the riot police had been lined up along the streets hours before the parade was set to begin. But then things took a turn and Hagenlocher said they noticed police move in on the crowd. Sam recorded police hosing people down and throwing tear gas into the streets with his camera. "At that point it still wasn't completely real yet," he said. "You're still sort of seeing it as a tourist, you're like, 'What the hell is going on?' You can't believe what you're seeing and then the tanks turned around on us and then it became real." The 29-year-old Winnipeg man said it was around that time when the tanks shooting water took aim in the direction of where he, his wife and their new friend were standing. "These big tanks had water cannons on them so they were watering the crowd while they were also throwing tear gas and firing rubber bullets," he said. 'What tear gas tastes like' Sam and Robyn Hagenlocher were at a cafe in downtown Istanbul on vacation when they witnessed police hose down and fire rubber bullets at people celebrating in the local Pride Parade. (Sam Hagenlocher) Hagenlocher said the group managed to get out of the area unharmed. "We dropped our phones and just ran and were just terrified and being chased by police, and learning for the first time what tear gas tastes like and feels like was frightening," he said. He added he doesn't know why the authorities turned on the peaceful crowd. "It was completely peaceful, there was nothing to instigate this kind of action."	{ "pile_set_name": "OpenWebText2" }

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