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I'd have to look into it more for you as I set this all up a long time ago and don't recall what order it's applying everything specifically. However I'm currently only using 3 HDMI ports all going out to HDMI 1 on the back of the Elite. HDMI 1 for Cable, HDMI 2 Blu-Ray and so forth, all were set up by the online selection wizard I don't recall selecting the customization order just left everything default. It could be that your A/V receiver is slow in responding to the...
I was referring specifically to comments directed at advancements of one technology over another not to what's currently available on the market. However with that said yes the Elite is no longer available sadly and right now I'd have to say the best display currently on the market is a Plasma, specifically the Panasonic line of Plasma display's the ZT60, VT60 and ST60.
I'm recommend trying out the Logitech Harmony Touch Universal Remote with Color Touchscreen, I've been using it for quite some time now and I've never had any issues with it. http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Universal-Remote-Touchscreen/dp/B009EIUH6G/ref=dp_ob_image_ce
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Then it's quite possible off-axis viewing might be an important feature for you, however it's also very likely your company may not even know the difference unless they are video enthusiasts as well.
I don't watch movies of interest off-axis do you? I think most video enthusiast would tell you the same. So that point you are making is well, rather pointless. PS: However I'm not saying off-axis viewing is not important, in fact it does help some with general screen uniformity specifically in color. But it shouldn't be used as a negative when determining picture quality from the sweet spot which is what most video enthusiasts will be in when evaluating or watching content.
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1. If you are driving a company vehicle and you hit someone from behind does the company's insurance handle the case
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I agree with Mr Shamtoub & Ms Allen. You should be covered by your employer's insurance but you need to contact the insurance carrier or have your employer do it because you usually have only 30 days to respond. So....... You need to do this immediately!
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You can try calling Community Legal Services at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento to see if they will take your case. It is a program that represents indigent clients for free if you qualify. Law Students work on the cases with lawyers supervising them. If you do not have any luck with that program most lawyers in the Sacramento area will give you a free consultation.
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If you have lots of time on your hands you could show up and if the CHP doesn't show up the judge may dismiss the case. But from what you have described you probably should just pay the fine.
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The person who rearended you is responsible for your damages. If someone negligently repaired that driver's brakes then they would also be on hook. If you are going to be jerked around you need to talk to a lawyer asap. I have offices in Elk Grove and Sacramento and would be glad to meet you for a free consultation. | http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/95624-ca-glenn-guenard-178719/answers.html?page=3 | dclm-gs1-201630002 | false | false | {
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by Barry Mason
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Liberals dont flush! Theyre reared to make a mess of situations and leave the cleanup to Conservatives. Young adults are faced with many confusing decisions in life aside from whether or not their pants are in style. Liberals Dont Flush addresses some of these by wrestling with the following life questions and more:
*How do Conservatives and liberals behave in everyday situations?
*Do Republicans or Democrats really represent our best interests?
*Do I want big government changing my diapers for the rest of my life?
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*Whos working hard to keep racism alive?
*Is my school trying to educate me or brainwash me?
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1. NOW all those Galileans who, after the taking of Jotapata, had revolted from the Romans, did, upon the conquest of Taricheae, deliver themselves up to them again. And the Romans received all the fortresses and the cities, excepting Gischala and those that had seized upon Mount Tabor; Gamala also, which is a city ever against Tarichem, but on the other side of the lake, conspired with them. This city lay Upon the borders of Agrippa's kingdom, as also did Sogana and Scleucia. And these were both parts of Gaulanitis; for Sogana was a part of that called the Upper Gaulanitis, as was Gamala of the Lower; while Selcucia was situated at the lake Semechouitis, which lake is thirty furlongs in breadth, and sixty in length; its marshes reach as far as the place Daphne, which in other respects is a delicious place, and hath such fountains as supply water to what is called Little Jordan, under the temple of the golden calf,719719 Here we have the exact situation of of Jeroboam's "at the exit of Little Jordan into Great Jordan, near the place called Daphne, but of old Dan. See the note in Antiq. B. VIII. ch. 8. sect. 4. But Reland suspects flint here we should read Dan instead of there being no where else mention of a place called Daphne. where it is sent into Great Jordan. Now Agrippa had united Sogana and Seleucia by leagues to himself, at the very beginning of the revolt from the Romans; yet did not Gamala accede to them, but relied upon the difficulty of the place, which was greater than that of Jotapata, for it was situated upon a rough ridge of a high mountain, with a kind of neck in the middle: where it begins to ascend, it lengthens itself, and declines as much downward before as behind, insomuch that it is like a camel in figure, from whence it is so named, although the people of the country do not pronounce it accurately. Both on the side and the face there are abrupt parts divided from the rest, and ending in vast deep valleys; yet are the parts behind, where they are joined to the mountain, somewhat easier of ascent than the other; but then the people belonging to the place have cut an oblique ditch there, and made that hard to be ascended also. On its acclivity, which is straight, houses are built, and those very thick and close to one another. The city also hangs so strangely, that it looks as if it would fall down upon itself, so sharp is it at the top. It is exposed to the south, and its southern mount, which reaches to an immense height, was in the nature of a citadel to the city; and above that was a precipice, not walled about, but extending itself to an immense depth. There was also a spring of water within the wall, at the utmost limits of the city.
2. As this city was naturally hard to be taken, so had Josephus, by building a wall about it, made it still stronger, as also by ditches and mines under ground. The people that were in it were made more bold by the nature of the place than the people of Jotapata had been, but it had much fewer fighting men in it; and they had such a confidence in the situation of the place, that they thought the enemy could not be too many for them; for the city had been filled with those that had fled to it for safety, on account of its strength; on which account they had been able to resist those whom Agrippa sent to besiege it for seven months together.
4. Now when the banks were finished, which was done on the sudden, both by the multitude of hands, and by their being accustomed to such work, they brought the machines; but Chares and Joseph, who were the most potent men in the city, set their armed men in order, though already in a fright, because they did not suppose that the city could hold out long, since they had not a sufficient quantity either of water, or of other necessaries. However, these their leaders encouraged them, and brought them out upon the wall, and for a while indeed they drove away those that were bringing the machines; but when those machines threw darts and stones at them, they retired into the city; then did the Romans bring battering rams to three several places, and made the wall shake [and fall]. They then poured in over the parts of the wall that were thrown down, with a mighty sound of trumpets and noise of armor, and with a shout of the soldiers, and brake in by force upon those that were in the city; but these men fell upon the Romans for some time, at their first entrance, and prevented their going any further, and with great courage beat them back; and the Romans were so overpowered by the greater multitude of the people, who beat them on every side, that they were obliged to run into the upper parts of the city. Whereupon the people turned about, and fell upon their enemies, who had attacked them, and thrust them down to the lower parts, and as they were distressed by the narrowness and difficulty of the place, slew them; and as these Romans could neither beat those back that were above them, nor escape the force of their own men that were forcing their way forward, they were compelled to fly into their enemies' houses, which were low; but these houses being thus full, of soldiers, whose weight they could not bear, fell down suddenly; and when one house fell, it shook down a great many of those that were under it, as did those do to such as were under them. By this means a vast number of the Romans perished; for they were so terribly distressed, that although they saw the houses subsiding, they were compelled to leap upon the tops of them; so that a great many were ground to powder by these ruins, and a great many of those that got from under them lost some of their limbs, but still a greater number were suffocated by the dust that arose from those ruins. The people of Gamala supposed this to be an assistance afforded them by God, and without regarding what damage they suffered themselves, they pressed forward, and thrust the enemy upon the tops of their houses; and when they stumbled in the sharp and narrow streets, and were perpetually falling down, they threw their stones or darts at them, and slew them. Now the very ruins afforded them stones enow; and for iron weapons, the dead men of the enemies' side afforded them what they wanted; for drawing the swords of those that were dead, they made use of them to despatch such as were only half dead; nay, there were a great number who, upon their falling down from the tops of the houses, stabbed themselves, and died after that manner; nor indeed was it easy for those that were beaten back to fly away; for they were so unacquainted with the ways, and the dust was so thick, that they wandered about without knowing one another, and fell down dead among the crowd.
5. Those therefore that were able to find the ways out of the city retired. But now Vespasian always staid among those that were hard set; for he was deeply affected with seeing the ruins of the city falling upon his army, and forgot to take care of his own preservation. He went up gradually towards the highest parts of the city before he was aware, and was left in the midst of dangers, having only a very few with him; for even his son Titus was not with him at that time, having been then sent into Syria to Mucianus. However, he thought it not safe to fly, nor did he esteem it a fit thing for him to do; but calling to mind the actions he had done from his youth, and recollecting his courage, as if he had been excited by a divine fury, he covered himself and those that were with him with their shields, and formed a testudo over both their bodies and their armor, and bore up against the enemy's attacks, who came running down from the top of the city; and without showing any dread at the multitude of the men or of their darts, he endured all, until the enemy took notice of that divine courage that was within him, and remitted of their attacks; and when they pressed less zealously upon him, he retired, though without showing his back to them till he was gotten out of the walls of the city. Now a great number of the Romans fell in this battle, among whom was Ebutius, the decurion, a man who appeared not only in this engagement, wherein he fell, but every where, and in former engagements, to be of the truest courage, and one that had done very great mischief to the Jews. But there was a centurion whose name was Gallus, who, during this disorder, being encompassed about, he and ten other soldiers privately crept into the house of a certain person, where he heard them talking at supper, what the people intended to do against the Romans, or about themselves (for both the man himself and those with him were Syrians). So he got up in the night time, and cut all their throats, and escaped, together with his soldiers, to the Romans.
6. And now Vespasian comforted his army, which was much dejected by reflecting on their ill success, and because they had never before fallen into such a calamity, and besides this, because they were greatly ashamed that they had left their general alone in great dangers. As to what concerned himself, he avoided to say any thing, that he might by no means seem to complain of it; but he said that "we ought to bear manfully what usually falls out in war, and this, by considering what the nature of war is, and how it can never be that we must conquer without bloodshed on our own side; for there stands about us that fortune which is of its own nature mutable; that while they had killed so many ten thousands of the Jews, they had now paid their small share of the reckoning to fate; and as it is the part of weak people to be too much puffed up with good success, so is it the part of cowards to be too much aftrighted at that which is ill; for the change from the one to the other is sudden on both sides; and he is the best warrior who is of a sober mind under misfortunes, that he may continue in that temper, and cheerfully recover what had been lost formerly; and as for what had now happened, it was neither owing to their own effeminacy, nor to the valor of the Jews, but the difficulty of the place was the occasion of their advantage, and of our disappointment. Upon reflecting on which matter one might blame your zeal as perfectly ungovernable; for when the enemy had retired to their highest fastnesses, you ought to have restrained yourselves, and not, by presenting yourselves at the top of the city, to be exposed to dangers; but upon your having obtained the lower parts of the city, you ought to have provoked those that had retired thither to a safe and settled battle; whereas, in rushing so hastily upon victory, you took no care of your safety. But this incautiousness in war, and this madness of zeal, is not a Roman maxim. While we perform all that we attempt by skill and good order, that procedure is the part of barbarians, and is what the Jews chiefly support themselves by. We ought therefore to return to our own virtue, and to be rather angry than any longer dejected at this unlucky misfortune, and let every one seek for his own consolation from his own hand; for by this means he will avenge those that have been destroyed, and punish those that have killed them. For myself, I will endeavor, as I have now done, to go first before you against your enemies in every engagement, and to be the last that retires from it."
7. So Vespasian encouraged his army by this speech; but for the people of Gamala, it happened that they took courage for a little while, upon such great and unaccountable success as they had had. But when they considered with themselves that they had now no hopes of any terms of accommodation, and reflecting upon it that they could not get away, and that their provisions began already to be short, they were exceedingly cast down, and their courage failed them; yet did they not neglect what might be for their preservation, so far as they were able, but the most courageous among them guarded those parts of the wall that were beaten down, while the more infirm did the same to the rest of the wall that still remained round the city. And as the Romans raised their banks, and attempted to get into the city a second time, a great many of them fled out of the city through impracticable valleys, where no guards were placed, as also through subterraneous caverns; while those that were afraid of being caught, and for that reason staid in the city, perished for want of food; for what food they had was brought together from all quarters, and reserved for the fighting men.
9. But of the people of Gamala, those that were of the bolder sort fled away and hid themselves, while the more infirm perished by famine; but the men of war sustained the siege till the two and twentieth day of the month Hyperberetmus, [Tisri,] when three soldiers of the fifteenth legion, about the morning watch, got under a high tower that was near them, and undermined it, without making any noise; nor when they either came to it, which was in the night time, nor when they were under it, did those that guarded it perceive them. These soldiers then upon their coming avoided making a noise, and when they had rolled away five of its strongest stones, they went away hastily; whereupon the tower fell down on a sudden, with a very great noise, and its guard fell headlong with it; so that those that kept guard at other places were under such disturbance, that they ran away; the Romans also slew many of those that ventured to oppose them, among whom was Joseph, who was slain by a dart, as he was running away over that part of the wall that was broken down: but as those that were in the city were greatly aftrighted at the noise, they ran hither and thither, and a great consternation fell upon them, as though all the enemy had fallen in at once upon them. Then it was that Chares, who was ill, and under the physician's hands, gave up the ghost, the fear he was in greatly contributing to make his distemper fatal to him. But the Romans so well remembered their former ill success, that they did not enter the city till the three and twentieth day of the forementioned month.
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By Daily Mail Reporter
Her face a terrible mass of cuts and bruises this is the woman who tried to protect her Catholic husband as he was kicked to death by sectarian thugs in Northern Ireland.
Evelyn McDaid, a Protestant, suffered serious head injuries when she tried to save her husband Kevin, 49, who was brutally beaten by a 40-strong gang on Sunday.
But standing at the gates of her home today, Mrs McDaid said her husband would not want to see any more violence.
Yards away, at the scene of the murder, a shrine of Celtic football shirts and scarves and flowers bore messages including 'Rest in Peace' and 'You will never be forgotten'.
Eleven men have now been arrested over Mr McDaid's death.
Evelyn McDaid
Evelyn McDaid, wife of Kevin McDaid, who was beaten to death by a sectarian mob, shows the wounds she received when trying to protect her husband.
'He wouldn't want retaliation for it,' Mrs McDaid said.
'He wouldn't want my sons to get hurt, he wouldn't want this. He was trying to keep the peace, he didn't want all this - the nonsense that's been going on here for years and years. He wanted peace.'
Kevin McDaid
Kevin McDaid, 49, was attacked in Coleraine after football matches involving Rangers and Celtic
Mr McDaid, a former plasterer, had three sons and a foster son. His widow said the family's life had been shattered.
'My life's over,' she said. 'A big part of me is missing now. He was my soulmate and now that's finished. I have to try to go on for the wee foster boy and my other three sons.
'I have to try and go on but I've lost a very big part of me and I can never replace that, never ever.'
Neighbours said Mr McDaid was out looking for his children, Ryan, Mark and Lee, when he was attacked.
Ryan, 22, said: 'My father was a well-known man. He never did anybody any harm. He was well-loved. He was a 100 per cent father.'
The Catholic youth worker worked with the police to bring both religious sides together in his hometown of Coleraine, County Londonderry.
Flags had recently been removed from the area where he was attacked - the mainly Catholic estate in Somerset Drive, police said.
Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Taylor confirmed the motive was sectarianism, and said the victim was well-known and well-liked. 'He has been described to me as a man who would do anything for anybody,' he said.
Police were nearby at the time of the killing, responding to the disturbances after Rangers beat Dundee United 3-0 to take the Scottish Premier League from Glasgow rivals Celtic.
A neighbour of Mr McDaid said: 'They kicked him as he lay on the ground. They are just scum.'
Democratic Unionist MP Gregory Campbell appealed for anybody with information on the attacks to go to the police. Sinn Fein deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness also condemned the violence.
'Despite the enormous progress we have made over the recent past, sectarian hatred continues to blight many areas and loyalist paramilitaries continue to orchestrate sectarian violence,' he said.
'Politicians must lead by example and, through a clear commitment to a future based on partnership and equality, demonstrate that sectarianism and bigotry have no place in our society.'
Forensic police officers at the scene Kevin McDaid was killed
Forensic police officers at the scene where Mr McDaid was killed
The former plasterer and youth worker worked closely with the police. Flags had been recently removed from the area, Somerset Drive, a mainly Catholic estate, police said.
Another man, Damien Fleming, 46, was also taken to hospital with serious injuries after being assaulted in nearby Pates Lane during the disturbances. He is understood to have been targeted by a gang which arrived in cars from outside the area.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder but warned it could yet be a double killing.
Neighbour Peter Neill, who had a cut on his forehead after the violence, said of Mr McDaid: 'Kevin was a family man and he was loved by everybody. He never had any bitterness in him and he was attacked by scum.
'He was a gentleman. He was just the best big man you could have met.'
The celebrations of the Rangers football team were marred by the death of Mr McDaid, 49, after he was attacked following the games
At Mr McDaid's home a black police tent had been erected in the back yard of the terraced house.
Forensic officers dressed in white suits and wearing masks and purple gloves combed the scene for clues, photography officers were inside the houses while detectives and uniformed officers stood by the cordon.
Residents in night-clothes stood around stunned.
White lilies had been left. The note said: 'Kevin, you were one of the best.'
The area has been relatively calm since violence flared last summer over a republican internment bonfire.
Hazelbank Presbyterian Church minister Alan Johnston said: 'We are truly stunned and shocked by the news.
'We condemn murder and violence of any kind. It does not belong in the society we live in.'
He added that people had been drinking in the town following the football matches.
Nationalist SDLP Assembly member John Dallat said: 'This is the second time that this kind of lynching mob has been involved in Coleraine.'
Rangers beat Dundee United 3-0 yesterday to take the Scottish Premier League from Glasgow rivals Celtic.
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Great shot!!!
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Looks like a mating couple, are they male/female?
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BBC produced songs over the ages have been fantastically wonderful and amazingly consistent - why hasn't there been an American produced equal?
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Hm, probably because Americans are the biggest purchaser of those collections. (I’m answering on the whim, just a hunch) Thus we are satisfied?
I don’t know, all I know is this is a great question. Also KCRW in Seattle is still doing it’s thing. It would make for a good dvd collection if they ever decided they needed more money or something.
jaytkay's avatar
Maybe not equal to the BBC output, but we’ve had some great music series on PBS (public television in the US).
Maybe a big factor PBS is not a content creator The individual stations and independent producers create the shows. So there’s not the concentration of resources like the Beeb’s.
Anyway, I invite you to poke around Youtube for these shows, there’s some fantastic stuff:
Sessions at West 54th
Austin City Limits
wildpotato's avatar
WXPN, Live at the World Cafe.
Mountain Stage.
Dr_Lawrence's avatar
BBC produced more excellent programming that is not funded only my revenue from commercials. When producers do not have to pander to the lowest common denomenator, it frees them to be more creative and less constrained. That is espesially true for BBC radio productions to which I listen nightly.
flutherother's avatar
The BBC is publicly funded and isn’t out to make a profit. Its purposes are listed below:
1. sustaining citizenship and civil society;
2. promoting education and learning;
3. stimulating creativity and cultural excellence;
4. representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities;
5. bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK;
6. helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services.
It’s costs £12:00 a month per household which I think is excellent value and there are no advertisements.
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Canada’s CBC radio (3 or more) dististinct services, produces extraordinary music and other entertainment. We get great value for our public dollars.
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I knew hoped that my series on my engagement with a 9/11 Truther Nutjob would result in at least one Crackpot Conspiracy Theorist dropping by the comments section to further prove my points. One did and one of our wittiest regulars took him to town:
// The fact is our goverment where monitoring Osamas phone calls since 1998,and hundreds of people had to be ivolved to make it happened, and their pilot training where done in america, and still they can’t prove how building 7 fell without any planes hitting it, and why did the lobby blow up minutes before building7 colapsed. and the head security manager of building7 said he heard bombs going off, and even firefighters where telling people to clear the building because there where bombs in it.
Then on top of all of these unanswered questions, they still choose not to investigate the death of 3000 people at the world trade center. But yet they will shut down a whole freeway to investigate 2 or 3 people dying in a car crash. No goverment can be that incompetent,THEY KNEW.
One point that I didn’t make in my series is that conspiracist whackjobs often can barely write. If you’re not smart enough to figure out basic grammar how are you going to have the brains to beat the “New World Order”?
In The Know
***Sigh*** Are you a pilot? How many people does it take to fly an airborne commercial airliner? Buildings fall all of the time during earthquakes and a lot more fall after earthquakes (but usually thats from all of the explosives the republicans pack in the basements). Have you ever heard a bomb detonate? How about a natural gas explosion? Do they sound different? Would you know what a “bomb” looked like? How would a firefighter who was rushing to do his job as two massive buildings determine that something was a bomb? Did you ask these questions first before you decided that the simplest, most obvious solution was not the correct one? | http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/david-swindle/rebuttal-of-the-day-one-of-our-regulars-takes-on-a-truther-crackpot/ | dclm-gs1-201880002 | false | false | {
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I would like to express my opinion for what it is worth, about the Christmas lights at Noccalula Falls.
They are beautiful; however, if they were put there for the people to come and enjoy, they should try keeping the cost reasonable so people with two and more children would be able to afford to bring their family.
Believe me, you can cut your own throat by charging too much. Lots of people on fixed incomes can't afford $6 per person.
People with five or six or even more family members cannot afford to come and go through the park to see it.
A charge of $3 or $4 for adults and $1 or $2 (for children) would sound a lot better and would probably double, maybe triple, the crowd. Lots of people won't come back just because they feel they are being taken for a ride (or taken advantage of).
If you are going this for the people, keep it so people can bring the family and enjoy it. If you are doing it for the money, I suppose you should make it sound like there is more to be seen than meets the eye as you walk through the park.
Think about it.
Lillie Logan
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List the next great game you want from Capcom.
#21legionofpancakePosted 1/9/2013 10:00:00 AM
I just want Mega Man Legends 3, man...
Well, Courtney Gears didn't seem to mind.
#22RampantBlattPosted 1/9/2013 10:03:31 AM
AnonUnknown posted...
RampantBlatt posted...
Also, I want X9, but not as a cash-in. I want X9 to be the bridge to the Zero series. I want the War.
the "bridge" was X6... if you finish the game with Zero.
Hell, saying I want X9 as a non-cashin is ironic because everything after X5 was a god damn cash-in.
#23RyuuHou25Posted 1/9/2013 10:07:34 AM
RampantBlatt posted...
RyuuHou25 posted...
Mega Man X Reboot
However, that will never happen, realistically. If it does, I will treat it as a sign of the apocalypse.
The next one I plan on getting, however, is Remember Me, which thankfully is not actually made by them, only published.
The most I want in a new "line" of Megaman games is Protoman in the future. We have X, who was Megaman 2.0.
It is time for Protoman 2.0.
To do it properly, not so god damn cryptic and what not, and not going into these ridiculous storylines line 5 onward. Or at least disregard the X5 that is out, and do a proper X5 in the style of 4, with the anime cutscenes and what not and the awesome soundtrack, and the dual players, and just flat out bridge the gap and explain everything, be really story driven and what not.
And JUST X and Zero, no freaking Axel.
But, at the very least, there is that Facebook one that's slowly slowly being made which looks amazing, won't be a story based one, but at least it'll be an X game that's not on a freaking ios device.
PSN ID: RyuuHou24
#24RampantBlattPosted 1/9/2013 10:09:34 AM
...Cryptic? That doesn't really apply to Megaman X.
The only thing they need to do is cap the X series off with the War and lead into Zero.
A reboot isn't needed. X1-3 were fantastic, and 4 was a nice attempt I guess.
#25shivaPosted 1/9/2013 10:12:01 AM
Power Stone 1 and 2 with online play.
#26PigfartsPosted 1/9/2013 10:22:29 AM
Marvel vs capcom 2 DLC characters. Not going to happen but would be hot.
#27dexalotPosted 1/9/2013 10:32:57 AM
Resident evil remake + 0 hd collection for ps3
Resident evil Revelations HD for ps3 (and please keep the 3d)
Resident evil operation racoon city 2 for vita
#28SSx4LeonjrPosted 1/9/2013 10:34:27 AM
CrankShaft posted...
Resident Evil 7
Mega Man Universe
Fighting Game with all of their 2d characters together. (Street Fighter, Darkstalkers)
This Especially Mega Man Universe!
RE 7 ONLY if they remove the STUPID QTE'S!!!
A Darkstalkers & Street Fighter mix?....could be very interesting but I'd just like to see Darkstalkers get a Super Street Fighter IV makeover!
X-box GT: SSx4 Leonjr PSN name:D_and_K_Dobbs
Waiting for Final Fantasy:XIV A Realm Reborn (PS3)
#29AuthorNumber2Posted 1/9/2013 10:35:35 AM
New Mega Man GAMES and cameos in other games with MEGA MAN. Not some fatass dressed up like his poorly done box art. Also a MvC3 ldc character of him. He's been all of them up until now. It should be a no brainer. Zero is nice sure, but he's more of a MMX rep than the series as a whole IMO.
#30retep_onePosted 1/9/2013 10:36:11 AM
whatever the next street fighter is. or a fighting game consisting of old capcom fighters (like rival schools, darkstalkers, those who were left out in MvC 2, etc)
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Sugar1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
Butter/Margarine1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), softened
Flour2 1⁄4 Cup (36 tbs)
Ground cinnamon2 Teaspoon
Ground cloves/Allspice1 Teaspoon
Ground nutmeg/Mace1 Teaspoon
Salt3⁄4 Teaspoon
Baking powder3⁄4 Teaspoon
Buttermilk1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
Raisins1 Cup (16 tbs), tossed with 2 tablespoons flour
Flour2 Tablespoon
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3736 Calories from Fat 927
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 106 g162.5%
Saturated Fat 61.5 g307.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 453.4 mg
Sodium 1871.8 mg78%
Total Carbohydrates 660 g220.1%
Dietary Fiber 23.1 g92.5%
Sugars 359.4 g
Protein 60 g119%
Vitamin A 62.3% Vitamin C 14.5%
Calcium 61.1% Iron 114.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. In a 3-quart mixing bowl, cream together sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in egg. In a separate bowl, mix flour, spices, salt, and baking powder. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar-butter mixture, beating until smooth. Toss raisins with flour and stir into batter.
2. Pour batter into a greased 10-cup fluted tube pan. Microwave, uncovered, at Time Cook (power level 7) for 17 to 20 minutes, or until cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan. Rotate the pan 1/4 turn every 6 minutes. Let stand, covered, 10 minutes. Loosen edges invert onto a serving plate. If desired, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. | http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/spice-cake-1 | dclm-gs1-202020002 | false | false | {
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Jess Ennis takes her Gold medal position on the podium at the Olympic Stadium last night. Credit: PA
Olympic heptathlon champion Jess Ennis said that despite the pressure of being the unofficial face of the Games, the British public were a huge help in achieving her remarkable feat.
"The crowd was so loud it gave me goosebumps," she told BBC News this morning. "It's like nothing I've ever experienced before."
"I just wanted to run sensibly because I knew I had a good buffer," she said. "I just wanted to give it was a nice feeling crossing the line first!"
And after just a few hours of sleep, she said she's still coming to terms with her new reality: "I'm still just so excited...I still can't believe it's happened."
Jessica Ennis wows London
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Simple yet moving, the Ledwidge Museum is located in a quaint cottage that was the birthplace of poet Francis Ledwidge (1891–1917). He died on the battlefield at Ypres, having survived Gallipoli and Serbia. A keen political activist, Ledwidge was thwarted in his efforts to set up a branch of the Gaelic League in the area, but found an outlet in verse.
The museum provides an insight into Ledwidge's life and works, and the cottage itself is an evocative example of how farm labourers lived in the 19th century. It is about 1.5km east of Slane on the Drogheda road (N51). Opening hours can be erratic – call ahead. | http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ireland/county-meath/slane/sights/museums-galleries/ledwidge-museum | dclm-gs1-202080002 | false | false | {
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Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 28 out of 33
2. Negative: 0 out of 33
2. 91
4. At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength, the tacky-sounding Kung Fu Panda is high concept with a heart.
5. Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
The new picture provides a master coursed in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment.
6. Reviewed by: John Anderson
Infectious and inspiring, despite one's best efforts to resist its charms.
8. The voice cast includes Angelina Jolie as a tigress, omnipresent Seth Rogen as an acupuncturist who's a praying mantis, David Cross as a nasal crane and Lucy Liu as a cheerful viper.
9. It's not an instant classic, but it's imaginatively drawn, full of charming characters, alive with action sequences and blissfully free of the snickering scatology and endless pop-culture references.
10. The animation is consistently sporty and there are some choice comic riffs on martial arts movies.
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 248 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 66 out of 71
2. Negative: 0 out of 71
1. Oct 4, 2011
Recently, Dreamworks has been working hard to improve their story and dialogue, and they did use their time wisely. Their animation "Kung Fu Panda" blows it all, from comedy to action, like a boss. Full Review »
2. Nov 18, 2010
One of dreamwork's best. I got a karate kid feel from this. Jack Black was perfect for this role. I was laughing alot also. its a perfect family movie
3. Sep 5, 2011
After seeing the cutesy "Over The Hedge" and a beediocre disappointing "Bee Movie", I rolled my eyes when I met an action flick known as "Kung Fu Panda" and I enjoyed it.
The storyline was well-paced and it had a creative atmosphere that lies in the very existence of kung fu and has done anything to get some things done. It had some very emotional moments with gave this movie a heart to the original story.
The cinematography was magnificent when it comes to make a wonderful cast to play their rightful voices for the characters. Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman made an awesome mix of Po and Master Shifu because of their own personalities, different expositions, and their only chances of becoming friends to one another near the end of the movie. Ian Mcshane's performance as Tai Lung was amazing and his frightening presence gave me the shivers. James Hong as Po's father (who obviously played Chi Fu in Disney's Mulan) was very entertaining. The cast of the Furious Five were very good and they were given a little bit of screen time and were developed near the end of the movie which makes Angelina Jolie, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, and Jackie Chan very memorable in this animated feature film.
The CGI animation is very amazing and somehow beautiful in most animated feature films, The characters were very likable and memorable that even ex-Disney animators would find them entertaining, the comedy was hilarious with Po's moments and the sets stayed very true to the Chinese culture. The action scenes were very intense and very unique which makes this movie the first CGI cartoon to have action sequences.
The music score by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, The Road to El Dorado) and John Powell (in other Dreamworks Animation features) was very memorable and a lot of emotion to it to describe the characters feelings and the academy awards proved it.
The only problem that I do have with this movie was the clunky plot/script and not only that. It was too predictable.
Kung Fu Panda may not be a masterpiece, but it's a surprisingly good animated kung fu flick. It made $631 million dollars at the box office and it was as epic as Disney's The Lion King.
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I wanted to add: checking for sugar in the urine is not effective in screening for diabetes. Moms can spill sugar and not be diabetic and moms can be diabetic and not be spilling sugar. If you want to test your blood sugar, it needs to be a blood test.
Why would you need to supplement him if he's gaining weight? Four ounces a week is on the low end of normal, but it's still normal.
I nursed through three of my pregnancies and then tandem nursed those sets of kids until the older one weaned and it was just the little one.
I haven't heard of a newborn with GBS in their bladder and I'm not sure how it could happen. I know that women sometimes have GBS in their urine, when it's a systemic infection. You may want to consider consulting with a pediatrician or neonatologist to try to get your medical questions answered. My youngest was born in the caul and didn't have wet lungs.
I would really recommend having a doula if you're wanting to have a relaxed birth in a hospital. I worked as a doula in Syracuse, NY before starting midwifery school. Much of what I did was helping parents navigate the hospital system and support them getting what they wanted. Try www.doulamatch.net or ask in your local tribal forum.
One thing to consider is using a pH testing strip to test your vaginal pH. If your balance is off, you are at a higher risk for PROM. If your pH is what it should be, I would stop doing the rinses. Here is an article about vaginal pH: http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/lauren-streicher-md/when-your-vagina-phunk
If what you're eating is real food, I wouldn't track calorie intake. Don't let it stress you out.
I don't think so. Many adults don't either; I don't think it's reasonable to expect kids to eat a balanced diet when there aren't boundaries. Same with TV, I think that, if allowed to self-regulate, many kids would watch TV for hours and hours. The kids we know whose TV/computer time isn't regulated pretty much spend their day in front of a screen.
Maybe he wasn't ready to let it go?
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Shrinkage in Phoenix? Call it 'Smart Decline'
Shrinkage -- the term long associated with rust belt cities like Detroit and Cleveland that saw their heydays 60 years ago and have been in decline since -- is now being applied to Phoenix and other fast-growing areas of the Southwest and Sun Belt.
The Maricopa NPR affiliate reporter interviews a realtor, sustainable development advocate, development services director, and an urban planning expert on what to do with the huge swaths of land outside Phoenix prepped for development as exurban subdivisions but now lying vacant.
"This is the land of zombie subdivisions. Some experts believe up to 1 million dirt lots in central Arizona were in some stage of approval for new homes when the market crashed," reports Peter O'Dowd.
"Urban planners are floating a radical solution for areas like this. It's known as 'smart decline.' Justin Hollander, an assistant professor at Tufts University, wrote a book called Sunburnt Cities, about smart decline in the Southwest. After the bust, he says, more than a third of ZIP codes in major Sun Belt cities saw population losses."
The vacant properties closest to the urban core present opportunities in Maricopa, south of Phoenix, for smarter development unheard of before the foreclosure crisis.
From USA Today: 'Sunburnt' cities have a shot to control growth: "Cities such as Detroit and Buffalo are trying to adjust to economic decline by shrinking smartly - concentrating development in small pockets and razing abandoned homes to make way for parks.
"There's an extraordinary potential for 'sunburnt' cities to embrace the idea of smart decline" - doing more with less, whether it's fewer people, fewer home buyers or fewer jobs, says Justin Hollander, urban planning professor at Tufts University and author of Sunburnt Cities, which was published March 1 (2011)."
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Smart Shrinkage
"Smart decline" in not the right phrase to use, because "decline" means that things are getting worse.
I propose the neutral phrase "smart shrinkage."
Charles Siegel
Neutral Framing.
I propose the neutral phrase "smart shrinkage."
I suspect about half the population will get a negative impression (or have a LOL) at that phrase, Charles. ;o)
Nonetheless, I'm not a 'neutral framing' person. I don't care for 'decline' either, and you want the phrase to describe what is going on, positively. The city is right-sizing, reorganizing, revamping, re-sizing, re-working etc.
How about "la decroissance intelligente"?
We eliminate most of the criticism by eliminating those who don't understand what the phrase means.
Charles Siegel
Encadrement des Difficultés.
Vrai! Just saying "shrinkage" gives you something you have to immediately get past. Memorable, though.
Re-growth, re-sizing is really what they are doing if they want any hope of attracting anyone.
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Anne Hathaway Has Jane Austen Nightmares
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Anne HathawayAnne Hathaway endured nightmares during the making of Becoming Jane, dreaming revered English author Jane Austen was trying to kill her. Hathaway was nervous taking up the role of the legendary writer and feared critics would mock her attempts at an English accent.
She says, "I had really bad dreams about being chased around and stabbed to death with a quill by Austen. I was having panic attacks and would wake in the middle of the night sweating and breathing very heavily because it would have really broke my heart to have messed this one up. The pressure only stopped when people watched the film and they liked it. I guess I still need other people's approval."
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Puerto Rican Flag Populated for centuries by aboriginal peoples, the island was claimed by the Spanish Crown in 1493 following Columbus' second voyage to the Americas. In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and... [read more]
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ON A SAILBOAT Tuesday, our last full day in Puerto Rico, was the day I had most looked forward to. We were going sailing for the day. Sailing on the ocean. Ah. How wonderful. Well, it was and it wasn't. The sailboat was fantastic, the company good, and the food delicious. However, my body couldn't quite handle the waves and I was seasick most of the day. Go figure. Things got better midday when I ... read more
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This time around, Medicom Toy is going for a Japanese traditional approach for their latest figure, the Bearbrick Daruma.
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As with the majority of Jantzen’s work, this piece is purely conceptual and offers a suggestion for a unique design concept that could be used to harness the sun’s energy in a revolutionary way.
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An Arabian orphan becomes an unlikely messenger of god.
But unity in Islam's first theocracy was far from complete. Muhammad declared people free to worship as they wished. His Muslims were following the Jewish practices of fasting on Yom Kippur and facing Jerusalem while praying. In turn, he expected Jews to accept Muslim ways. But after Jews mocked his revelations and scorned his interpretation of their Scriptures, he changed fast days and redirected prayers toward Mecca. And the prophet turned warrior.
On one front were the Quraysh of Mecca. On another were the Jews of Medina, whom he now deemed Quraysh sympathizers. He hit the Meccans first, attacking their caravans. In one raid, his 300 men were confronted by 900 Quraysh. Surprisingly, he won. Arabs saw the victory as divine support for his cause. Three years later, a Quraysh force of 10,000 approached Medina. Muhammad, again outnumbered, confused the attackers by digging a trench around the city. The Quraysh force staged a two-week siege, then went home. Never again would Mecca threaten Medina.
Amid the frays with Mec-ca, Muhammad pressed his campaign against the three Jewish tribes of Medina. Two of the clans were ordered to leave town. But the third tribe, accused of helping the enemy in the Battle of the Trench, was not so lucky: The men were beheaded and the women and children sold into slavery.
In 628, Muhammad and 1,400 Muslims set out for Mecca—not as warriors but as pilgrims bent on visiting the Kaaba shrine. Outside the city, they met a Quraysh force. Instead of fighting, the two sides made a treaty declaring a truce and allowing Kaaba visits in subsequent years. But the truce collapsed, giving Muhammad cause to gather 10,000 men and march on Mecca. The city fell in 630, and the one-time orphan entered his birthplace as a conqueror. Inside the Kaaba, Muslims smashed every idol, sparing only the Black Stone, a meteorite on display, it was said, since the days of Abraham. "God has done away with the evils of ignorance," Muhammad told a crowd outside the shrine. "Blind loyalty to tribe is gone forever. All human beings are brothers to each other."
Men who had been his deadliest foes now embraced his faith. Soon, nearly every tribe in Arabia left paganism for Islam, and Muhammad stood as the absolute ruler of a strong new state. Followers, craving magic cures for their ailments, collected his cut hair, fingernail clippings, and spittle. But he continued to stress that he was mortal, "a man like other men." Aside from matrimony, his habits were simple enough. He ate dates and gruel, preferred rainwater over wine, slept on a mat, patched his clothes, mended his sandals, swept floors, and milked the family goat. What he enjoyed most, he once said, were prayers, pleasant fragrances, and women.
Living with him in the Medina mosque were 10 wives, most of them the widows of fallen Muslims or the kin of his political allies. He had no room of his own. But each wife had an apartment, and he moved each day from one spouse to another. He tried to treat all equally, as required by the Koran. But every 10 nights, the aging Sawdah forfeited her evening to Muhammad's favorite, the young Aisha. Another holy rule, limiting harems to four wives, came too late for the Prophet to comply.
When he fell gravely ill, the wives agreed he should stay with Aisha. On June 8, 632, he asked her to dispose of his last worldly goods—seven coins—and murmured his final words: "Rather, God on High and paradise." He died at 63 with his head resting on her lap.
The wailing of the wives told people outside that Muhammad was gone. But some refused to believe he was dead. Surely he will return, one declared. Then Muhammad's closest friend—Aisha's father, Abu Bakr—stepped forward. "If anyone worships Muhammad, know that Muhammad has died," he shouted. "But if anyone worships God, then know that he is alive and cannot die."
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During ESPN’s College GameDay, Rece Davis spoke about Missouri being 1-5 on the year in the SEC. He said Rupp Arena is not the place “to get your road warrior on”. Kentucky had the essential 6th man from the crowd Saturday night against Missouri. Lead by 24 points from Julius Mays, and 21 points from Alex Poythress, the ‘Cats held off the Tigers in overtime for the 90-83 win. Missouri’s Phil Pressey poured in 27 points, while Alex Oriakhi had 16 points and 15 rebounds in the losing effort. Pressey had a costly turnover in the closing minutes of overtime, and Oriakhi fouled out with the game still in question. If you watched the 1st half, you would have thought that Missouri was just too much for the ‘Cats. The Tigers were having their way on the inside, scoring at will around the basket. Phil Pressey was simply beating guys off the dribble and hitting his open teammates for easy baskets. The ‘Cats were attacking and active, but the shots were just not falling. Missouri continued to build their lead up to 13 points, and left Kentucky looking for answers. The ‘Cats were getting beat off the dribble, repeatedly. Kyle Wiltjer was a no-show while getting burned on defense. Anyone in a Missouri jersey was too athletic for Wiltjer to guard on this night. Archie Goodwin looked to be having one of those games that saw him sitting on the bench. A couple of careless mistakes, along with 0 points and 3 turnovers had Goodwin riding the pine. The play of Goodwin/Wiltjer were not the only things going wrong for Kentucky. They were being out-rebounded, and allowing Missouri to drive to the basket at will. Behind the play of Ryan Harrow and Alex Poythress, the ‘Cats went on a little run to close out the 1st half. Despite their troubles, the ‘Cats rallied behind a 9-0 run to pull the Tiger lead within 4 points. Missouri’s Phil Pressey comes down and nails a 3, but the ‘Cats respond. Just before the halftime buzzer, Willie Cauley-Stein got behind the defense and caught a deep pass for an easy slam. The ‘Cats trailed at the half 35-31, despite allowing Missouri 12 offensive rebounds and losing the overall rebounding battle 27-18. Harrow and Poythress lead the way for the ‘Cats with 12 and 10 points respectively. Willie Cauley-Stein only had 2 points, but added 5 rebounds and 4 blocks. Archie Goodwin opened the 2nd half for the ‘Cats with a 3-pointer, a steal, dunk, then a jumper. Before that, Goodwin had made one 3 pointer in SEC play. He also had missed both of his shots on the night, along with 3 turnovers in the first half. He was due for an explosion, and he had his moment. Goodwin burst out of the gates in the second half with 7 quick points, but then picked up his 3rd foul with 17:14 to play. Kentucky as a team opened up the half making 7 of their first 8 shots, and quickly took a small lead from the Tigers. Give credit to Missouri for taking the punch, but keeping the fight. The Tigers and ‘Cats traded basket for basket before Archie Goodwin hits another three ball and gives the ‘Cats the 54-51 edge. Alex Poythress continued to carve out space on the offensive end by using his body in the paint to score. Julius Mays was lighting it up for the ‘Cats on the outside. Kentucky stretched out it’s lead to a 7-point cushion before Missouri came clawing back again behind Phil Pressey. Just when the ‘Cats looked to clamp down and take a grip on the game, Pressey would make a huge shot and keep the Tigers within striking distance. Julius Mays came to the rescue again for the ‘Cats. He’s got a serious knack for beating the shot-clock and being the coach on the floor for John Calipari. Mays continued to match Pressey, and the game was too close to call. A huge problem for the ‘Cats has been free-throw shooting. In close games, all of your problems seem to rear their ugly heads. With the score 70-67, Archie Goodwin made one of two from the line to increase the UK lead to 4. After giving up a layup, committing a turnover, and giving up another layup, it’s 71-all with less than 2 minutes to play. Did I mention Julius Mays came to the rescue? With 1:31 left on the clock, he pump faked Missouri’s Laurence Bowers in the air and got fouled on a 3-point shot. Bowers picked up his 5th foul and Mays went to the line and made 2 of 3. The crafty veteran they playfully call “Uncle Julius” was coming up big once again for these young ‘Cats. UK 73-71, and WCS gets hit with a foul trying to snatch the ball away on defense. 73-all after the Missouri free-throws. Pressey drives past the Kentucky defense for a layup to give the Tigers a 75-73 lead with :55.2 secs. left. If Kentucky loses at this point, you have to blame their 12-22 FT shooting. If Missouri wins, you have to give Phil Pressey SEC Player of the Week. Julius Mays just refused to let his ‘Cats lose. On the very next play, Mays finds Cauley-Stein deep in the post for an easy bucket to tie the game at 75 with :36.3 secs. left. Missouri’s Phil Pressey drove to the hoop, Poythress bothered him just enough for him to miss. Julius Mays gathered the rebound and sprinted down the court for the heave. Mays launched a three at the buzzer that bounced off the side of the rim, and Archie Goodwin was all alone under the basket for an easy two that would have won the game. The game goes into overtime tied at 75. In the SEC’s 9th overtime period of the day, the ‘Cats opened up the extra stanza by watching Phil Pressey drive passed them for another layup. The ‘Cats looked to keep shooting themselves in the foot with turnovers on lob plays to nobody. Yet, Missouri could never answer and take a lead. In a 79-79 tie with 2:01 to play, Pressey rises and fires on a jumper that misses. Alex Poythress gets fed by Ryan Harrow in the post for an easy bucket. Pressey tried to answer back but got caught in the air between a shot and a pass. Poythress grabs the steal and gets fouled on the run-out, and he makes both free-throws to give UK the 83-79 lead. Pressey redeems himself a little by slicing down the lane again for another quick bucket to cut the lead back to two. Harrow gets fouled on the next possession after a near turnover, and the lead is 85-81 with :42.9 secs. left. Pressey tries to answer for Missouri, but his shot goes crying off the rim to Cauley-Stein. Mays gets fouled and makes two more at the line. Missouri misses, Mays goes back to the line and adds two more again. 89-81 UK with :20 secs. to go. Missouri would make another layup, and Goodwin would go 1 for 2 on FT’s. Kentucky 90-83, Ballgame. The ‘Cats rack up a huge win at home versus Missouri. After a much maligned free-throw shooting night, the ‘Cats make 8 strait in the closing moments of overtime to seal the win. Another huge resume’ win, and a clutch performance from Julius Mays. Mays finished with 24 points, Alex Poythress had 21 points and 7 rebounds, Harrow chipped in with 18 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists. Archie Goodwin scored all 18 of his points in the 2nd half, as the ‘Cats earn another hard fought win. The ‘Cats improve to 19-8 (10-4) on the year, and keep their NCAA Tournament dreams very much alive. Another great game from the guards, specifically Julius Mays. Alex Poythress was an absolute beast, and may have had his best game in a Kentucky uniform. Willie Cauley-Stein finished the night with 7 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 blocked shots. He played a big part on the defensive side for the ‘Cats. A key stat that separates the 2nd half/OT from the 1st. The ‘Cats won the rebounding battle 23-12 in the 2nd half and OT versus losing in that stat by 9 at the end of the 1st. Kentucky won the overall rebounding battle 41-39, to help secure the victory. This was one of those gut it out games for the ‘Cats. They had a collective will to win, and got it done. A true, refuse to lose attitude. In the closing press conference, Missouri’s Frank Haith praised Kentucky on their toughness in the 2nd half. It’s been a long while since someone has mentioned toughness and Kentucky in the same sentence. The ‘Cats are finally getting some credit, where credit is due. Big win, great game, Go Big Blue!
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Last Updated: 14/06/13 11:45am
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Watch Groves and Bellew open up on Ringside Extra.
Two of Britain's best were put under the spotlight on another no-holds-barred Ringside Extra this week!
Tony Bellew and George Groves were each given six of the best - of fight fans' questions!
They were both open and honest in the answers as the tweets showed us another side to these two world-title hopefuls.
Scroll down to see what they had to say on all manner of things...
Steve McG @stevemcg82
On build up for Froch fight, he had in his diary he floored you in sparring. What's your take on this?
Yeah, categorically. If you read Carl's diary it's true and I know he documents everything he does and likes to have a permament record of what went on. He got me and I managed to haul myself up and scrape through the rest of sparring - and then show up two days later and spar again! This was before the Kessler fight. Yes, it definitely happened.
Habid @habidhussain
What did you learn about your self with the sparring session with Froch?
TONY SAYS: It shows you that you are at that level, you compete with the guys. But sparring 16oz gloves and face-masks are completely different to fight night. But it lets you know you are there or thereabouts with that level. I was happy and just got the work done.
shane brandon @shane198211
What does @StGeorgeGroves make of @Carl_Froch's claims he would be an easy win?
I've never, ever had Carl down as a delusional person but he knows I am not an easy fight - or an easy win. After he floored me in sparring he invited me back two days later and after that parts of his team were telling me that I am going to be a world champion and wanted their pictures taken with me! He knows I am good fighter; this is going back three years and since then I have put in good wins, a good win the other Saturday. I'm ranked, I'm ready to take on anyone and I think he's trying to put a little bit of distance between us for now.
Brad Bramall @BradBramall
What makes you so confident you can beat Dawson? What's key to that fight for you?
It's just another fight! I know he poses different threats like they all do but I know that what he lacks is one of the things I am really strong in that department - mentally he is very weak. He falls apart halfway through the fight and he lacks concentration, whereas I have been in different situations and I have found a way of coming through. I just feel against Dawson I will find a way. In fact I WILL find a way. At some stage questions will be asked and with him being as successful as he has been, has he still got the desire to answer them? Does he still have the desire to bite on the gumshield and get off the floor? I haven't been a world champion so I don't know where he is willing to go and I know how far I am willing to go - and its further than him.
Adam Hill @AdamHill1310
Will you give Kenny Anderson a rematch? The first fight was brilliant
If it was a possibility it wouldn't be a fuss. I am willing to fight anyone but I don't think Anderson has boxed for a while. I was stripped of my British title so he could fight for it, he won it and he has vacated it since, so he's kind of a redundant opponent. I am looking at fighting for the world titles; I am now ranked so until he is world-ranked as well, he would be a major step backwards.
Hassan @BoxerHassan
Is there anything you regret doing in the first meeting between Isaac Chilemba?
I regret falling apart after seven rounds! I regret being exhausted on my feet and going back into my corner and not being able to catch my breath! So yeah, things like that, but I don't really regret it because it's told me I am not a machine and I am not a robot and I can tire, and when you do too much in training and literally leave it in the gym, then it can happen. I found out the hard way - halfway through a fight! I am glad I have learned this lesson because I'd rather it happened at this stage than on the big stage when I'm fighting for the belt. Lessons are definitely learned from that fight!
Brad Johnson @ClaretBrad
Your jab is world class I think. Do you think it's your best attribute? Or something else?
It is a pretty useful attribute and it does work for me sometimes! In most fights if you can control someone with the jab you can dictate the pace of the fight and you can also set up the next wave of punches, so the jab is very important. I think its neglected sometimes, especially at the world stage because they are just looking for big shots and to load up with straight rights or a leading left hook. But you need to get yourself in these positions first and the jab is the key to doing that. It's a good shot that I am fond of!
Mark O Driscoll @MarkTownPark
Will you be moving up to cruiserweight anytime soon? Or is making light-heavy still relatively easy?
The most-asked question on my Twitter! It's easy to do the weight as long as I'm given time and notice to prepare, the weight is never an issue. I hit the weight the week before the fight. For the last fight I was on weight for 2-3 weeks! The last sparring me and Carl did he gets on the scales after we had finished sparring and I think he was 166lbs and I got on and was 176lbs. It's easily done as I said. Preparation is everything, it is the key to everything and given enough time to make the weight, it's never a problem for me.
Thomas williams @1tomtommytom1
Who was your favourite fighter growing up?
Nigel Benn, he was in some great fights and he was always good to watch. It sounds like I'm lying but the first fight I saw was Benn against Gerald McClellan - and I haven't seen a better fight since. We all like fighters with big hearts and are ready to leave everything in the ring and he did. He spoke his mind, he was bit controversial at times, but he was just awesome to watch. It wasn't that he was no good and just came out and let his hands go and take out opponents, it was just the fact that he boxed at the top level and was successful - and was so unpredictable.
BoxingNut @BoxingNut1
If you could fight at any venue in the world where would it be - and who against?
Without a shadow of a doubt it would be Goodison Park! And I think a fantastic fight would be against... well, I know it would be a rematch and I don't even need to have to say his name! A rematch at Goodison Park and I can finally put the record straight without having any questions asked.
carl stanfield @skratchalien
Tattoos are sometimes said to be the mark of a warrior. Is the cat you had done a warrior symbol of some sort?BR>GEORGE SAYS:
Not the cat, no! There's quite a few I've got but unfortunately, sorry it's not a warrior. He's just lucky for me and if you see it up close he looks quite gentle! You aren't going to get any troruble off him!
Jon Fowler @GrowlerJon
Do you read fan tweets before a fight on the day?
No, I'm switched off from Twitter, I think just before the weigh-in. I have a team around me that virtually wrap me in cotton wool and they really look after me and without that team around me, I'd be lost because in the past I would've been on Twitter - in fact I'd be on Twitter in the dressing room before the fight! I get people around me that just care about me, don't care about anything else, just my well-being and my state of mind going into the fight. I'm, very, very lucky to have that team around me and they would kill me if I told you their names on here! But I won't do that to them - they know who they are!
Sean @ganly788
Would you two consider fighting each other? Absolute barnstormer!
You couldn't disagree with him, could you? We've got two good styles and they would probably gel but I doubt Tony can squeeze himself down to super-middleweight and I've got a few things to do down here before I think about moving up to light-heavy!
TONY SAYS: I can't squeeze down to 168lbs! The amount of times people say it, but money talks and I am sure everyone wants to be a world champion and I am not sure which one of is going to get there first!
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0.038558 | <urn:uuid:ded8cd72-c626-4b8a-a614-43864c4ee952> | en | 0.972042 | What? Goat named Shah Rukh in Janaki Vishwanathan`s debut Hindi film!
Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 12:21
What? Goat named Shah Rukh in Janaki Vishwanathan's debut Hindi film!
Chennai: National award winning filmmaker Janaki Vishwanathan`s first Hindi film `Bakrapur` has an unusual protagonist in the movie- a goat named Shah Rukh but she has brushed off any reference to the Bollywood superstar.
"It has nothing to do with Shah Rukh Khan. You see people have a tendency to name their pet animals after actors or someone they love. The goat is integral to the story so we needed a name for it... Something catchy," Vishwanathan said when asked if it is an attempt to poke fun at Khan.
Vishwanathan also said that `Bakrapur` is not a take-off on Cyrus Broacha`s MTV programme `Bakra`. It is just an imaginary title, where everyone makes a fool of everybody else.
Vishwanathan has earlier made four films, three in Tamil. The first film `Kutty` released in 2001 won her two National awards. She did `Kanavu Mei Pada Vaendum` in 2004 and then `Om Obama` seven years later.
Each movie dealt with social issues. `Kutty` focused on child labour while `Kanavu Meipada Vendum` reflected the plight of the devadasi women.
The journalist-turned-filmmaker acknowledged that it is difficult to get distributors for these type of movies including `Bakrapur`.
There are two songs in the movie and has been composed by `Agnee`, a Mumbai-based rock music band.
First Published: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 12:21
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Child of the Prophecy : Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will lose its essential mystic core.The prophecies of long ago have foretold a way to prevent this horror, and it is the Sevenwaters clan that the Spirits of Eire look to for salvation. They are a family bound into the lifeblood of the land, and their promise to preserve the magic has been the cause of great joy to them... as well as great sorrow.It is up to Fianne, daughter of Niamh, the lost sister of Sevenwaters, to solve the riddles of power. She is the shy child of a reclusive sorcerer, and her way is hard, for her father is the son of the wicked sorceress Oonagh, who has emerged from the shadows and seeks to destroy all that Sevenwaters has striven for. Oonagh will use her granddaughter Fianne most cruelly to accomplish her ends, and stops at nothing to see her will done. Will Fianne be strong enough to battle this evil and save those she has come to love? At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
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In the final book in her Sevenwaters Trilogy, Australian Marillier gathers the threads from the first two (Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows) and weaves them together into a rich tapestry of love and loss, family loyalty and personal sacrifice. The saga of the guardians of the forest at Sevenwaters takes up the story of Fainne, daughter of the former Druid Ciaran and the lost Niamh. Raised in the ways of magic, Fainne plans to become a solitary sorcerer like her father, but fate intervenes in the form of her grandmother, Oonagh, a sorceress with a penchant for cruelty and a desire to put an end to everything the Sevenwaters folks stand for. A prophecy tells of a way to preserve the old magic, and Lady Oonagh is willing to trick her granddaughter and torture her own son to break it. Though Fainne is forced to bow to her grandmother's will, the love of her family and her own strong ethics help her remember her true nature, as she learns about herself, her powers of sorcery and the part she plays in a prophecy that has tested three generations of women. Though the romance elements that dominated The Son of the Shadows occasionally appear, this book centers on personal growth and filial duty; it can be enjoyed as a read-alone book, but is better understood with the preceding titles. Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's elements make this an excellent conclusion to a fine trilogy.
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Excerpt from Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier
Chapter One
Every summer they came. By earth and sky, by sun and stone I counted the days. I'd climb up to the circle and sit there quiet with my back to the warmth of the rock I called Sentinel, and see the rabbits come out in the fading light to nibble at what sparse pickings might be found on the barren hillside. The sun sank in the west, a ball of orange fire diving beyond the hills into the unseen depths of the ocean. Its dying light caught the shapes of the dolmens and stretched their strange shadows out across the stony ground before me. I'd been here every summer since first I saw the travelers come, and I'd learned to read the signs. Each day the setting sun threw the dark pointed shapes a little further across the hilltop to the north. When the biggest shadow came right to my toes, here where I sat in the very center of the circle, it was time. Tomorrow I could go and watch by the track, for they'd be here.
There was a pattern to it. There were patterns to everything, if you knew how to look. My father taught me that. The real skill lay in staying outside them, in not letting yourself be caught up in them. It was a mistake to think you belonged. Such as we were could never belong. That, too, I learned from him.
I'd wait there by the track, behind a juniper bush, still as a child made of stone. There'd be a sound of hooves, and the creak of wheels turning. Then I'd see one or two of the lads on ponies, riding up ahead, keeping an eye out for any trouble. By the time they came up the hill and passed by me where I hid, they'd relaxed their guard and were joking and laughing, for they were close to camp and a summer of good fishing and relative ease, a time for mending things and making things. The season they spent here at the bay was the closest they ever came to settling down.
Then there'd be a cart or two, the old men and women sitting up on top, the smaller children perched on the load or running alongside. Danny Walker would be driving one pair of horses, his wife Peg the other. The rest of the folk would walk behind, their scarves and shawls and neckerchiefs bright splashes of color in the dun and gray of the landscape, for it was barren enough up here, even in the warmth of early summer. I'd watch and wait unseen, never stirring. And last, there was the string of ponies, and the younger lads leading them or riding alongside. That was the best moment of the summer: the first glimpse I got of Darragh, sitting small and proud on his sturdy gray. He'd be pale after the winter up north, and frowning as he watched his charges, always alert lest one of them should make a bolt for freedom. They'd a mind to go their own way, these hill ponies, until they were properly broken. This string would be trained over the warmer season, and sold when the traveling folk went north again.
Not by so much as a twitch of a finger or a blink of an eyelid would I let on I was there. But Darragh would know. His brown eyes would look sideways, twinkling, and he'd flash a grin that nobody saw, nobody but me where I hid by the track. Then the travelers would pass on and be gone down to the cove and their summer encampment, and I'd be away home, scuttling across the hill and down over the neck of land to the Honeycomb, which was where we lived, my father and I.
Father didn't much like me to go out. But he did not lay down any restrictions. It was more effective, he said, for me to set my own rules. The craft was a hard taskmaster. I would discover soon enough that it left no time for friends, no time for play, no time for swimming or fishing or jumping off the rocks as the other children did. There was much to learn. And when Father was too busy to teach me, I must spend my time practicing my skills. The only rules were the unspoken ones. Besides, I couldn't wander far, not with my foot the way it was.
I understood that for our kind the craft was all that really mattered. But Darragh made his way into my life uninvited, and once he was there he became my summer companion and my best friend; my only friend, to tell the truth. I was frightened of the other children and could hardly imagine joining in their boisterous games. They in their turn avoided me. Maybe it was fear, and maybe it was something else. I knew I was cleverer than they were. I knew I could do what I liked to them, if I chose to. And yet, when I looked at my reflection in the water, and thought of the boys and girls I'd seen running along the sand shouting to one another, and fishing from the rocks, and mending nets alongside their fathers and mothers, I wished with all my heart that I was one of them, and not myself. I wished I was one of the traveler girls, with a red scarf and a shawl with a long fringe to it, so I could perch up high on the cart and ride away in autumn time to the far distant lands of the north.
We had a place, a secret place, halfway down the hill behind big boulders and looking out to the southwest. Below us the steep, rocky promontory of the Honeycomb jutted into the sea. Inside it was a complex network of caves and chambers and concealed ways, a suitable home for a man such as my father. Behind us the slope stretched up and up to the flattened top of the hill, where the stone circle stood, and then down again to the cart track. Beyond that was the land of Kerry, and farther still were places whose names I did not know. But Darragh knew, and Darragh told me as he stacked driftwood neatly for a fire, and hunted for flint and tinder while I got out a little jar of dried herbs for tea. He told me of lakes and forests, of wild crags and gentle misty valleys. He described how the Norsemen, whose raids on our coast were so feared, had settled here and there and married Irish women, and bred children who were neither one thing nor the other. With a gleam of excitement in his brown eyes, he spoke of the great horse fair up north. He got so caught up in this, his thin hands gesturing, his voice bright with enthusiasm, that he forgot he was supposed to be lighting the little fire. So I did it myself, pointing at the sticks with my first finger, summoning the flame. The driftwood burst instantly alight, and our small pan of water began to heat. Darragh fell silent.
"Go on," I said. "Did the old man buy the pony or not?"
But Darragh was frowning at me, his dark brows drawn together in disapproval. "You shouldn't do that," he said.
"Light the fire like that. Using sorcerer's tricks. Not when you don't need to. What's wrong with flint and tinder? I would have done it."
"Why bother? My way's quicker." I was casting a handful of the dry leaves into the pot to brew. The smell of the herbs arose freshly in the cool air of the hillside.
"You shouldn't do it. Not when there's no need." He was unable to explain any further, but his flood of words had dried up abruptly, and we brewed our tea and sat there drinking it together in silence as the seabirds wheeled and screamed overhead.
The summers were full of such days. When he wasn't needed to work with the horses or help around the camp, Darragh would come to find me, and we explored the rocky hillsides, the clifftop paths, the hidden bays and secret caves together. He taught me to fish with a single line and a steady hand. I taught him how to read what day it was from the way the shadows moved up on the hilltop. When it rained, as it had a way of doing even in summer, we'd sit together in the shelter of a little cave, down at the bottom of the land bridge that joined the Honeycomb to the shore, a place that was almost underground but not quite, for the daylight filtered through from above and washed the tiny patch of fine sand to a delicate shade of gray-blue. In this place I always felt safe. In this place sky and earth and sea met and touched and parted again, and the sound of the wavelets lapping the subterranean beach was like a sigh, at once greeting and farewell. Darragh never told me if he liked my secret cave or not. He'd simply come down with me, and sit by me, and when the rain was over, he'd slip away with never a word.
There was a wild grass that grew on the hillside there, a strong, supple plant with a silky sheen to its pale green stems. We called it rat-tails, though it probably had some other name. Peg and her daughters were expert basketweavers, and made use of this grass for their finer and prettier efforts, the sort that might be sold to a lady for gathering flowers maybe, rather than used for carrying vegetables or a heavy load of firewood. Darragh, too, could weave, his long fingers fast and nimble. One summer we were up by the standing stones, late in the afternoon, sitting with our backs to the Sentinel and looking out over the bay and the far promontory, and beyond to the western sea. Clouds were gathering, and the air had a touch of chill to it. Today I could not read the shadows, but I knew it was drawing close to summer's end, and another parting. I was sad, and cross with myself for being sad, and I was trying not to think about another winter of hard work and cold, lonely days. I stared at the stony ground and thought about the year, and how it turned around like a serpent biting its own tail; how it rolled on like a relentless wheel. The good times would come again, and after them the bad times.
Darragh had a fistful of rat-tails, and he was twisting them deftly and whistling under his breath. Darragh was never sad. He'd no time for it; for him, life was an adventure, with always a new door to open. Besides, he could go away if he wanted to. He didn't have lessons to learn and skills to perfect, as I did.
I glared at the pebbles on the ground. Round and round, that was my existence, endlessly repeating, a cycle from which there was no escape. Round and round. Fixed and unchangeable. I watched the pebbles as they shuddered and rolled; as they moved obediently on the ground before me.
"Fainne?" Darragh was frowning at me, and at the shifting stones on the earth in front of me.
"What?" My concentration was broken. The stones stopped moving. Now they lay in a perfect circle.
"Here," he said. "Hold out your hand."
I did as he bid me, puzzled, and he slipped a little ring of woven rat-tails on my finger, so cunningly made that it seemed without any joint or fastening.
"What's this for?" I asked him, turning the silky, springy circle of grass around and around. He was looking away over the bay again, watching the small curraghs come in from fishing.
"So you don't forget me," he said, offhand.
"Don't be silly," I said. "Why would I forget you?"
"You might," said Darragh, turning back toward me. He gestured toward the neat circle of tiny stones. "You might get caught up in other things."
I was hurt. "I wouldn't. I never would."
Darragh gave a sigh and shrugged his shoulders. "You're only little. You don't know. Winter's a long time, Fainne. And--and you need keeping an eye on."
"I do not!" I retorted instantly, jumping up from where I sat. Who did he think he was, talking as if he was my big brother? "I can look after myself quite well, thank you. And now I'm going home."
"I'll walk with you."
"You don't have to."
"I'll walk with you. Better still, I'll race you. Just as far as the junipers down there. Come on."
I stood stolid, scowling at him.
"I'll give you a head start," coaxed Darragh. "I'll count to ten."
I made no move.
"Twenty, then. Go on, off you go." He smiled, a broad, irresistible smile.
I ran, if you could call my awkward, limping gait a run. With my skirt caught up in one hand I made reasonable speed, though the steep pebbly surface required some caution. I was only halfway to the junipers when I heard his soft, quick footsteps right behind me. No race could have been less equal, and both of us knew it. He could have covered the ground in a quarter of the time it took me. But somehow, the way it worked out, the two of us reached the bushes at exactly the same moment.
"All right, sorcerer's daughter," said Darragh, grinning. "Now we walk and catch our breath. It'll be a better day tomorrow."
* * *
How old was I then? Six, maybe, and he a year or two older? I had the little ring on my finger the day the traveling folk packed up and moved out again; the day I had to wave goodbye and start waiting. It was all right for him. He had places to go and things to do, and he was eager to get on his pony and be off. Still, he made time to say farewell, up on the hillside above the camp, for he knew I would not come near where the folk gathered to load their carts and make ready for the journey. I was numb with shyness, quite unable to bear the stares of the boys and girls or to form an answer to Peg's shrewd, kindly questions. My father was down there, a tall, cloaked figure talking to Danny Walker, giving him messages to deliver, commissions to fulfill. Around them, the folk left a wide, empty circle.
"Well, then," said Darragh.
"Well, then," I echoed, trying for the same tone of nonchalance and failing miserably.
"Goodbye, Curly," he said, reaching out to tug gently at a lock of my long hair, which was the same deep russet as my father's. "I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back." Every time he went away he said this; always just the same. As for me, I had no words at all.
* * *
The days grew shorter and the dark time of the year began. With Darragh gone there was no real reason to linger out of doors, and so I applied myself to my work and tried not to notice how cold it was inside the Honeycomb, colder, almost, than the chill of an autumn wind up on the hilltop. It was an aching feeling that lodged deep in your bones and lingered there like a burden. I never complained. Father had shown me how to deal with it and he expected me to do so. It was not that a sorcerer did not feel the heat of the fire or the bite of the north wind. A sorcerer was, after all, a man and not some Otherworld creature. What you had to do was teach your body to cope with it, so that discomfort did not make you slow or inefficient. It had to do with breathing, mostly. More I cannot say. My father was once a druid. He said he had put all that behind him when he left the brotherhood. But a man does not so easily discard all those years of training and discipline. I understood that much of what I learned was secret, to be shared only with others of our kind. One did not lay it bare before the ignorant, or those whose minds were closed. Even now there are some matters of which I cannot and will not tell.
There were many chambers in the Honeycomb. We lit lamps year round, and in my father's great workroom many candles burned, for there he stored his scrolls and books, grotesque and wondrous objects in jars, and little sacks of pungent-smelling powders. There was a dried basilisk, and a cup made from a twisted, curling horn, its base set with red stones. There was a tiny skull like a leprechaun's, with empty eyes. There was a thick grimoire whose leather cover was darkened with age and long handling. In this room my father spent days and nights in solitude, perfecting his craft, learning, always learning.
I knew how to read in more than one tongue and to write in more than one script. I could recite many, many tales and even more incantations. But I learned soon enough that the greatest magic is not set down in any book, nor mapped on any scroll for man to decipher. The most powerful spells are not created by tricks of the hand, or by mixing potions and philtres, or by chanting ancient words. I learned why it was that when my father was working hardest, all he seemed to be doing was standing very still in the center of an empty space, with his mulberry eyes fixed on nothing. For the deepest magic is that of the mind, and you will not find its lore recorded on parchment or vellum, or scratched on bark or stone. Not anywhere. Father owed his first learning to the wise ones: the druids of the forest. He had developed it through dedication and study. But our talent for the craft of sorcery was in our blood. Father was the son of a great enchantress, and from her he had acquired certain skills which he used sparingly, since they were both potent and perilous. One must take care, he said, not to venture too far and touch on dark matters best left sleeping. I could not remember my grandmother very well. I thought I recalled an elegant creature in a blue gown, who had peered into my eyes and given me a headache. I thought perhaps she had asked questions which I had answered angrily, not liking her intrusion into our ordered domain. But that had been long ago, when I was a little child. Father spoke of her seldom, save to say that our blood was tainted by the line she came from, a line of sorcerers who did not understand that some boundaries should never be crossed. And yet, said Father, she was powerful, subtle and clever, and she was my grandmother; part of her was in both of us, and we should not forget that. It ensured we would never live our lives as ordinary folk, with friends and family and honest work. It gave us exceptional talents, and it set our steps toward a destiny of darkness.
* * *
I was eight years old. It was Me�n Geimhridh, and the north wind beat the stunted trees prostrate. It threw the waves crashing against the cliff face, forcing icy spray deep inside the tunnelled passages of the Honeycomb. The pebbly shore was strewn with tangles of weed and fractured shells. The fishermen hauled their curraghs up out of harm's way, and folk went hungry.
"Concentrate, Fainne," said my father, as my frozen fingers fumbled and slipped. "Use your mind, not your hands."
I set my jaw, screwed up my eyes and started again. A trick, that was all this was. It should be easy. Stretch out your arms, look at the shining ball of glass where it stood on the shelf by the far wall, with the candles' glow reflected in its deceptive surface. Bridge the gap with your mind; think the distance, think the leap. Keep still. Let the ball do the work. Will the ball into your hands. Will the ball to you. Come. Come here. Come to me, fragile and delicate, round and lovely, come to my hands. It was cold, my fingers ached, it was so cold. I could hear the waves smashing outside. I could hear the glass ball smashing on the stone floor. My arms fell to my sides.
"Very well," said Father calmly. "Fetch a broom, sweep it up. Then tell me why you failed." There was no judgment in his voice. As always, he wished me to judge myself. That way I would learn more quickly.
"I--I let myself think about something else," I said, stooping to gather up the knife-edged shards. "I let the link be broken. I'm sorry, Father. I can do this. I will do it next time."
"I know," he said, turning back to his own work. "Practice this twice fifty times with something unbreakable. Then come back and show me."
"Yes, Father." It was too cold to sleep anyway. I might as well spend the night doing something useful.
* * *
I was ten years old. I stood very still, right in the center of my father's workroom, with my eyes focused on nothing. Above my head the fragile ball hovered, held in its place by invisible forces. I breathed. Slow, very slow. With each outward breath, a tiny adjustment. Up, down, left, right. Spin, I told the ball, and it whirled, glowing in the candlelight. Stop. Now circle around my head. My eyes did not follow the steady movement. I need not see it to know its obedience to my will. Stop. Now drop. The infinitesimal pause; then the dive, a sweep before me of glittering brightness, descent to destruction. Stop. The diver halted a handspan above the stone floor. The ball hung in air, waiting. I blinked, and bent to scoop it up in my hand.
Father nodded gravely. "Your control is improving. These tricks are relatively easy, of course; but to perform them well requires discipline. I'm pleased with your progress, Fainne."
"Thank you." Such praise was rare indeed. It was more usual for him simply to acknowledge that I had mastered something, and go straight on to the next task.
"Don't become complacent, now."
"No, Father."
"It's time to venture into a more challenging branch of the art. For this, you'll need to find new reserves within yourself. It can be exhausting. Take a few days to rest. We'll begin at Imbolc. What apter time could there be, indeed?" His tone was bitter.
"Yes, Father." I did not ask him what he meant, though it troubled me deeply that he seemed so sad. I knew it was at Brighid's feast that he first met my mother; not that he ever spoke of her, not deliberately. That tale was well hidden within him, and he was a masterly keeper of secrets. The little I knew I had gleaned here and there, a morsel at a time over the years. There was a remark of Peg's, overheard while I waited for Darragh under the trees behind the encampment, unseen by his mother.
"She was very beautiful," Peg had said to her friend Molly. The two of them were sitting in the morning sunlight, fingers flying as they fashioned their intricate baskets. "Tall, slender, with that bright copper hair down her back. Like a faery woman. But she was always--she was always a little touched, you know what I mean? He'd watch over her like a wolf guarding its young, but he couldn't stop what happened. You could see it in her eyes, right from the first."
"Mm," Molly had replied. "Girl takes after her father, then. Strange little thing."
"She can't help what she is," said Peg.
And I remembered another time, one summer when the weather was especially warm, and Darragh finally grew impatient with my persistent refusal to go anywhere near the water.
"Why won't you let me teach you how to swim?" he'd asked me. "Is it because of her? Because of what happened to her?"
"You know. Your mother. Because she--well, because of what she did. That's what they say. That you're frightened of the water, because she jumped off the Honeycomb and drowned herself."
"Of course not," I replied, swallowing hard. "I just don't want to, that's all." How could he know that until that moment, nobody had told me how she died?
I tried to dredge up some memory of my mother, tried to picture the lovely figure Peg had described, but there was nothing. All I could remember was Father and the Honeycomb. Something had happened long since and far away, something that had damaged my mother and wounded my father, and set the path forward for all of us in a way there was no denying. Father had never told me the tale. Still, it was an unspoken lesson built into everything he taught me.
* * *
"Time to begin," said Father, regarding me rather severely. "This will be serious work, Fainne. It may be necessary to curtail your freedom this summer."
"I--yes, Father."
"Good." He gave a nod. "Stand here by me. Look into the mirror. Watch my face."
The surface was bronze, polished to a bright reflective sheen. Our images showed side by side; the same face with subtle alterations. The dark red curls; the fierce eyes, dark as ripe berries; the pale unfreckled skin. My father's countenance was handsome enough, I thought, if somewhat forbidding in expression. Mine was a child's, unformed, plain, a little pudding of a face. I scowled at my reflection, and glanced back at my father in the mirror. I sucked in my breath.
My father's face was changing. The nose grew hooked, the deep red hair frosted with white, the skin wrinkled and blotched like an ancient apple left too long in store. I stared, aghast. He raised a hand, and it was an old man's hand, gnarled and knotted, with nails like the claws of some feral creature. I could not tear my eyes away from the mirrored image.
"Now look at me," he said quietly, and the voice was his own. I forced my eyes to flicker sideways, though my heart shrank at the thought that the man standing by me might be this wizened husk of my fine, upright father. And there he was, the same as ever, dark eyes fixed on mine, hair still curling glossily auburn about his temples. I turned back to the mirror.
The face was changing again. It wavered for a moment, and stilled. This time the difference was more subtle. The hair a shade lighter, a touch straighter. The eyes a deep blue, not the unusual shade of dark purple my father and I shared. The shoulders somewhat broader, the height a handspan greater, the nose and chin with a touch of coarseness not seen there before. It was my father still; and yet, it was a different man.
"This time," he said, "when you take your eyes from the mirror, you will see what I want you to see. Don't be frightened, Fainne. I am still myself. This is the Glamour, which we use to clothe ourselves for a special purpose. It is a powerful tool if employed adeptly. It is not so much an alteration of one's appearance, as a shift in others' perception. The technique must be exercised with extreme caution."
When I looked, this time, the man at my side was the man in the mirror; my father, and not my father. I blinked, but he remained not himself. My heart was thumping in my chest, and my hands felt clammy.
"Good," said my father quietly. "Breathe slowly as I showed you. Deal with your fear and put it aside. This skill is not learned in a day, or a season, or a year. You'll have to work extremely hard."
"Then why didn't you start teaching me before?" I managed, still deeply unsettled to see him so changed. It would almost have been easier if he had transformed himself into a dog, or a horse, or a small dragon even; not this--this not quite right version of himself.
"You were too young before. This is the right age. Now come." And suddenly he was himself again, as quick as a snap of the fingers. "Step by step. Use the mirror. We'll start with the eyes. Concentrate, Fainne. Breathe from the belly. Look into the mirror. Look at the point just between the brows. Good. Will your body to utter stillness...put aside the awareness of time passing...I will give you some words to use, at first. In time you must learn to work without the mirror, and without the incantation."
By dusk I was exhausted, my head hollow as a dry gourd, my body cold and damp with sweat. We rested, seated opposite one another on the stone floor.
"How can I know," I asked him, "how can I know what is real, and what an image? How can I know that the way I see you is the true way? You could be an ugly, wrinkled old man clothed in the Glamour of a sorcerer."
Father nodded, his pale features somber. "You cannot know."
"It would be possible for one skilled in the art to sustain this guise for years, if it were necessary. It would be possible for such a one to deceive all. Or almost all. As I said, it is a powerful tool."
"Almost all?"
He was silent a moment, then gave a nod. "You will not blind another practitioner of our art with this magic. There are three, I think, who will always know your true self: a sorcerer, a seer and an innocent. You look weary, Fainne. Perhaps you should rest, and begin this anew in the morning."
"I'm well, Father," I said, anxious not to disappoint him. "I can go on, truly. I'm stronger than I look."
Father smiled; a rare sight. That seemed to me a change deeper than any the Glamour could effect; as if it were truly another man I saw, the man he might have been, if fate had treated him more kindly. "I forget sometimes how young you are, daughter," he said gently. "I am a hard taskmaster, am I not?"
"No, Father," I said. My eyes were curiously stinging, as if with tears. "I'm strong enough."
"Oh, yes," he said, his mouth once more severe. "I don't doubt that for a moment. Come then, let's begin again."
* * *
I was twelve years old, and for a short time I was taller than Darragh. That summer my father didn't let me out much. When he did give me a brief time for rest, I crept away from the Honeycomb and up the hill, no longer sure if this was allowed, but not prepared to ask permission in case it was refused. Darragh would be waiting for me, practicing the pipes as often as not, for Dan had taught him well, and the exercise of his skill was pleasure more than duty. We didn't explore the caves anymore, or walk along the shore looking for shells, or make little fires with twigs. Most of the time we sat in the shadow of the standing stones, or in a hollow near the cliff's edge, and we talked, and then I went home again with the sweet sound of the pipes arching through the air behind me. I say we talked, but it was usually the way of it that Darragh talked and I listened, content to sit quiet in his company. Besides, what had I to talk about? The things I did were secret, not to be spoken. And increasingly, Darragh's world was unknown to me, foreign, like some sort of thrilling dream that could never come true.
"Why doesn't he take you back to Sevenwaters?" he asked one day, somewhat incautiously. "We've been there once or twice, you know. There's an old auntie of my dad's still lives there. You've got a whole family in those parts: uncles, aunts, cousins by the cartload. They'd make you welcome, I've no doubt of it."
"Why should he?" I glared at him, finding any criticism of my father difficult, however indirectly expressed.
"Because--" Darragh seemed to struggle for words. "Because--well, because that's the way of it, with families. You grow up together, you do things together, you learn from each other and look after each other and--and--"
"I have my father. He has me. We don't need anyone else."
"It's no life," Darragh muttered. "It's not a life for a girl."
"I'm not a girl, I'm a sorcerer's daughter," I retorted, raising my brows at him. "There's no need for me to go to Sevenwaters. My home is here."
"You're doing it again," said Darragh after a moment.
"That thing you do when you're angry. Your eyes start glowing, and little flashes of light go through your hair, like flames. Don't tell me you didn't know."
"Well, then," I said, thinking I had better exercise more control over my feelings.
"Well, what?"
"Well, that just goes to show. That I'm not just a girl. So you can stop planning my future for me. I can plan it myself."
"Uh-huh." He did not ask me for details. We sat silent for a while, watching the gulls wheel above the returning curraghs. The sea was dark as slate; there would be a storm before dusk. After a while he started to tell me about the white pony he'd brought down from the hills, and how his dad would be wanting him to sell her for a good price at the horse fair, but Darragh wasn't sure he could part with her, for there was a rare understanding growing between the two of them. By the time he'd finished telling me I was rapt with attention, and had quite forgotten I was cross with him.
* * *
I was fourteen years old, and summer was nearly over. Father was pleased with me, I could see it in his eyes. The Glamour was tricky. It was possible to achieve some spectacular results. My father could turn himself into a different being entirely: a bright-eyed red fox, or a strange wraith-like creature most resembling an attenuated wisp of smoke. He gave me the words for this, but he would not allow me to attempt it. There was a danger in it, if used incautiously. The risk was that one might lack the necessary controls to reverse the spell. There was always the chance that one might never come back to oneself. Besides, Father told me, such a transformation caused a major drain on a sorcerer's power. The further from one's true self the semblance was, the more severe the resultant depletion. Say one became a ferocious sea monster, or an eagle with razor-sharp talons, and then managed the return to oneself. For a while, after that, no exercise of the craft would be possible. It could be as long as a day and a night. During that time the sorcerer would be at his, or her, most vulnerable.
So I was forbidden to try the major variants of the spell, which dealt with non-human forms. But the other, the more subtle changing, that I discovered a talent for. At first it was hard work, leaving me exhausted and shaken. But I applied myself, and in time I could slip the Glamour on and off in the twinkle of an eye. I learned to conceal my weariness.
"You understand," said Father gravely, "that what you create is simply a deception of others' eyes. If your disguise is subtle, just a convenient alteration of yourself, folk will be unaware that things have changed. They will simply wonder why they did not notice, before, how utterly charming you were, or how trustworthy your expression. They will not know that they have been manipulated. And when you change back to yourself, they will not know they ever saw you differently. A complete disguise is another matter. That must be used most carefully. It can create difficulties. It is always best to keep your guise as close as possible to your own form. That way you can slip back easily and regain your strength quickly. Excuse me a moment." He turned away from me, suppressing a deep cough.
"Are you unwell?" I asked. It was unusual for him to have so much as a sniffle, even in the depths of winter.
"I'm well, Fainne," he said. "Don't fuss. Now remember what I said about the Glamour. If you use the major forms you take a great personal risk."
"But I could do it," I protested. "Change myself into a bird or a serpent. I'm sure I could. Can't I try, just once?"
Father looked at me. "Be glad," he said, "that you have no need of it. Believe that it is perilous. A spell of last resort."
It was no longer possible to take time off from my studies. I had scarcely seen the sun all summer, for Father had arranged to have our small supply of bread and fish and vegetables brought up to the Honeycomb by one of the local girls. There was a spring in one of the deep gullies, and it was Father himself who went with a bucket for water now. I stayed inside, working. I was training myself not to care. At first it hurt a lot, knowing Darragh would be out there somewhere looking for me, waiting for me. Later, when he gave up waiting, it hurt even more. I'd escape briefly to a high ledge above the water, a secret place accessible only from inside the vaulted passages of the Honeycomb. From this vantage point you could see the full sweep of the bay, from our end with its sheer cliffs and pounding breakers to the western end, where the far promontory sheltered the scattering of cottages and the bright, untidy camp of the traveling folk. You could see the boys and girls running on the shore, and hear their laughter borne on the breath of the west wind, mingled with the wild voices of seabirds. Darragh was there among them, taller now, for he had shot up this last winter away. His dark hair was thrown back from his face by the wind, and his grin was as crooked as ever. There was always a girl hanging around him now, sometimes two or three. One in particular I noticed, a little slip of a thing with skin brown from the sun, and a long plait down her back. Wherever Darragh went she wasn't far away, white teeth flashing in a smile, hand on her hip, looking. With no good reason at all, I hated her.
The lads used to dive off the rocks down below the Honeycomb, unaware of my presence on the ledge above. They were of an age when a boy believes himself invincible, when every lad is a hero who can slay whatever monsters cross his path. The ledge they chose was narrow and slippery; the sea below dark, chill and treacherous. The dive must be calculated to the instant to avoid catching the force of an incoming wave that would crush you against the jagged rocks at the Honeycomb's base. Again and again they did it, three or four of them, waiting for the moment, bare feet gripping the rock, bodies nut-brown in the sun, while the girls and the smaller children stood watching from the shore, silent in anticipation. Then, sudden and shocking no matter how often repeated, the plunge to the forbidding waters below.
Twice or three times that summer I saw them. The last time I went there, I saw Darragh leave the ledge and climb higher, nimble as a crab on the crevices of the stark cliffside, scrambling up to perch on the tiniest foothold far above the diving point. I caught my breath in shock. He could not intend--surely he did not intend--? I bit my lip and tasted salt blood; I screwed my hands into fists so tight my nails cut my palms. The fool. Why would he try such a thing? How could he possibly--?
He stood poised there a moment as his audience hushed and froze, feeling no doubt some of the same fascinated terror that gripped me. Far, far below the waves crashed and sucked, and far above the gulls screamed a warning. Darragh did not raise his arms for a dive. He simply leaned forward and plummeted down headfirst, straight as an arrow, hands by his sides, down and down until his body entered the water as neatly as a gannet diving for fish; and I watched one great wave wash over the spot where he had vanished, and another, and a third, while my heart hammered with fear, and then, much farther in toward the shore, a sleek dark head emerged from the water and he began to swim, and a cheer went up from the boys on the ledge and the girls on the sand, and when he came out of the water, dripping, laughing, she was there to greet him and to offer him the shawl from her own shoulders to dry himself off with.
I did not concentrate very well that day, and Father gave me a sharp look, but said nothing. It was my own choice not to go back and watch them after that. What Father had taught me was right. A sorcerer, or a sorcerer's daughter, could not perform the tasks required, could not practice the art to the full, if other things were allowed to get in the way.
It was close to Lugnasad and that summer's end when my father told me his own story at last. We sat before the fire after a long day's work, drinking our ale. At such times we were mostly silent, absorbed with our own thoughts. I was watching Father as he stared into the flames, and I was thinking how he was losing weight, the bones of his face showing stark beneath the skin. He was even paler than usual. Teaching me must be a trial to him sometimes. No wonder he looked weary. I would have to try harder.
"You know we are descended from a line of sorcerers, Fainne," he said suddenly, as if simply following a train of thought.
"Yes, Father."
"And you understand what that means?"
I was puzzled that he should ask me this. "That we are not the same as ordinary folk, and never can be. We are set apart, neither one thing nor the other. We can exercise the craft, for what purpose we may choose. But some elements of magic are beyond us. We may touch the Otherworld, but are not truly of it. We live in this world, but we never really belong to it."
"Good, Fainne. You understand, in theory, very well. But it is not the same to go out into the world and discover what this means. You cannot know what pain this half-existence can bring. Tell me, do you remember your grandmother? It is a long time since she came here; ten years and more. Perhaps you have forgotten her."
I frowned in concentration. "I think I can remember. She had eyes like ours, and she stared at me until my head hurt. She asked me what I'd learned, and when I told her, she laughed. I wanted her to go away."
Father nodded grimly. "My mother does not choose to go abroad in the world. Not now. She keeps to the darker places; but we cannot dismiss her, nor her arts. We bear her legacy within us, you and I, whether we will or no, and it is through her that we are both less and more than ordinary folk. I had no wish to tell you more of this, but the time has come when I must. Will you listen to my story?"
"Yes, Father," I whispered, shocked.
"Very well. Know, then, that for eighteen years of my existence I grew up in the nemetons, under the protection and nurture of the wise ones. What came before that I cannot remember, for I dwelt deep in the great forest of Sevenwaters from little more than an infant. Oak and ash were my companions; I slept on wattles of rowan, the better to hear the voice of the spirit, and I wore the plain robe of the initiate. It was a childhood of discipline and order; frugal in the provision for bodily needs, but full of rich food for the mind and spirit, devoid of the baser elements of man's existence, surrounded by the beauty of tree and stream, lake and mossy stone. I grew to love learning, Fainne. This love I have tried to impart to you, over the years of your own childhood.
"The greater part of my training in the druid way I owed to a man called Conor, who became leader of the wise ones during my time there. He took a particular interest in my education. Conor was a hard taskmaster. He would never give a straight response to a question. Always, he would set me in the right direction, but leave me to work out the answers for myself. I learned quickly, and was eager for more. I progressed; I grew older, and was a young man. Conor did not give praise easily. But he was pleased with me, and just before I had completed my training, and might at last call myself a druid, he allowed me to accompany him to the great house of Sevenwaters to assist in the ritual of Imbolc.
"It was the first time I had been outside the nemetons and the depths of the forest. It was the first time I had seen folk other than my brethren of the wise ones. Conor performed the ritual and lit the sacred fire, and I bore the torch for him. It was the culmination of the long years of training. After supper he allowed me to tell a tale to the assembled company. And he was proud of me: I could see it on his face, clever as he was at concealing his thoughts. There was a gladness in my heart that night, as if the hand of the goddess herself had touched my spirit and set my feet on a path I might follow joyfully for the rest of my days. From then on, I thought, I would be dedicated to the way of light.
"Sevenwaters is a great house and a great t�ath. A man called Liam was the master there, Conor's brother. And there was a sister, Sorcha, of whom wondrous things were said. She was herself a powerful storyteller and a famous healer, and her own tale was the strangest of all. Her brothers had been turned into swans by an evil enchantress, and Sorcha had won them back their human form through a deed of immense courage and sacrifice. Looking at her, it was hard to believe that it might be true, for she was such a little, fragile thing. But I knew it was true. Conor had told me; Conor who himself had taken the form of a wild creature for three long years. They are a family of considerable power and influence, and they possess skills beyond the ordinary.
"That night everything was new to me. A great house; a feast with more food than I had ever seen before, platters of delicacies and ale flowing in abundance, lights and music and dancing. I found it--difficult. Alien. But I stood and watched. Watched a wonderful, beautiful girl dancing, whirling and laughing with her long copper-bright hair down her back, and her skin glowing gold in the flare of the torches. Later, in the great hall, it was for her I told my story. That night it was not of the goddess nor my fine ideals that I dreamed, but of Niamh, daughter of Sevenwaters, spinning and turning in her blue gown, and smiling at me as she glanced my way. This was not at all what Conor had intended in bringing me with him to the feast. But once it had begun there was no going back. I loved her; she loved me. We met in the forest, in secret. There was no doubt difficulties would be raised if we were to make our intentions known. A druid can marry if he wishes, but it is very unusual to make that choice. Besides, Conor had plans for me, and I knew he would not take the idea well. Niamh was not promised, but she said her family might take time to accept the idea of her wedded to a young man whose parentage was entirely unknown. She was, after all, the niece of Lord Liam himself. But for us there was no alternative. We could not envisage a future in which we were apart. So we met under the oaks, away from prying eyes, and while we were together the difficulties melted away. We were young. Then, it seemed as if we had all the time in the world."
He paused to cough, and took a sip of his ale. I sensed that telling this tale was very difficult for him, and kept my silence.
"In time we were discovered. How, it does not matter. Conor's nephew came galloping into the nemetons and fetched his uncle away, and I heard enough to know Niamh was in trouble. When I reached Sevenwaters I was ushered into a small room and there was Conor himself, and his brother who was ruler of the t�ath, and Niamh's father, the Briton. I expected to encounter some opposition. I hoped to be able to make a case for Niamh to become my wife; at least to present what credentials I had and be afforded a hearing. But this was not to be. There would be no marriage. They had no interest at all in what I had to say. That in itself seemed a fatal blow. But there was more. The reason this match was not allowed was not the one I had expected. It was not my lack of suitable breeding and resources. It was a matter of blood ties. For I was not, as I had believed, some lad of unknown parentage, adopted and nurtured by the wise ones. There had been a long lie told; a vital truth withheld. I was the offspring of a sorceress, an enemy of Sevenwaters. At the same time I was the seventh son of Lord Colum, once ruler of the t�ath."
I stared at him. A chieftain's son, of noble blood, and they had not told him; that was unfair. Lord Colum's son; but...but that meant...
"Yes," said my father, eyes grave as he studied my face, "I was half-brother to Conor, and to Lord Liam who now ruled there, and to Sorcha. I bore evil blood. And I was too close to Niamh. I was her mother's half-brother. Our union was forbidden by law. So, at one blow, I lost both my beloved and my future. How could the son of a sorceress aspire to the ways of light? How could the offspring of such a one ever become a druid? It was bright vision blinded, pure hope sullied. As for Niamh, they had her future all worked out. She would marry another, some chieftain of influence who would take her conveniently far away, so they would not have to think about how close she had come to besmirching the family honor."
There was a dark bitterness in his tone. He put his ale cup down on the hearth and twisted his hands together.
"That's terrible," I whispered. "Terrible and sad. Is that what happened? Did they send her away?"
"She married, and traveled far north to Tirconnell. Her husband treated her cruelly. I knew nothing for a time, for I was gone far away in search of my past. That is another story. At last Niamh escaped. Her sister saw the truth of the situation and aided her. I was sent a message and came for her. But the damage was done, Fainne. She never really recovered from it."
"What is it, Fainne?" He sounded terribly tired; his voice faint and rapsing.
"Wasn't my mother happy here in Kerry?"
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From http://zionismontheweb.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=383 and http://www.geocities.com/activezionism/Propaganda/PARADISENOW.html THE CASE AGAINST “PARADISE
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Whats wrong with Paradise now? Why not an Oscar?
Cinematically its a good combination of suspense and drama. Its a combination that takes you into the convictions of the Palestinian propaganda, one that is a rewrite of history, both recent and distant.
In the monolog in front of the video camera, the suicide bomber to be blames Israel for refusing to accept a two states solution. A fact that is false, for the Israeli side, the dreaded Zionists, had accepted all partition offers since they were first introduced in 1937, until the Oslo accord in 1993 and their implementation throughout the 90s.
Settlements? Settlements continued to expand in the Sinai until the very last minute, before they where evicted and with the rest of the Sinai handed to Egypt in 1982, in exchange for peace. As of today expansion of settlements never stopped their eviction; a lack of a peace partner was more effective in preventing this.
In the film the two terrorists cross the fence part of the security barrier, back and forth very easily, ridiculing this measure. In reality, since its construction, though not completed, the success of terrorist attacks on civilians within Israel proper, mass murder attacks; had dropped by 90%.
In the film one of the bombers, Haled, spares a civilian bus because he sees a child in it. In reality children were hardly spared.
At the Sbarro pizzeria attack on august 9th 2001, children were among the everyday customers, and 7 of the 15 slaughtered were children: Michal Raziel, 16, Malka Roth 15, Ra'aya Schijveschuurder 14, Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder 4, Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, Tamara Shimashvili, 8, Yocheved Shoshan, 10.
In many cases children and families were the preferred target, such was the case of Shiraz and Liran Nehmad aged 7 and 3, slaughtered with their entire family on march 2 2002.
Of Avia Malka, aged 9 month, who was gunned down in Netanya on March 9th 2002,
and the more famous Metzer killing.
Ilan Perlman, age 8, was murdered on a bus in Jerusalem with 11 others.
And the list goes on.
The lies of the propaganda are big and small. In the film the terrorists are warned by their operator to blow themselves if detected because the police take no chances. When in Netanya on December 5 2005, the local police detected a suicide bomber outside the Sharon Mall; they preferred to isolate him first.
In the film itself moral contemplation are sidelined at best. The main story is the carrying of their mission, a mass murder attack in Tel-Aviv. The secondary story is Haled, proving his loyalty to the Palestinian cause over the shadow of his father past betrayal. Morality isnt a third story, its a few paragraphs. When Suha, the love interest of Haled, raises the arguments against the attack, they are mostly tactical rather then moral. And she herself is a foreigner, an outsider, raised in Europe, a Europe, which supported the Palestinians, a Europe which that town, Nablus, rose against over the Danish cartoons. With a fanny accent her arguments are incomplete thoughts and sentences. The complete thoughts and sentences are spoken by the main characters, and their co-combatants, these are the usual rhetoric of Palestinian propaganda, lack of honor and no choice. Each is debatable in the real world, but eternal truths in that film.
The climax of the film is not the suicide attack at the end, whose horrors are spared from us. The climax is the lead character, Haled, describing his motives to their commander. He tells a story, which serves to prove his loyalty to the cause and gives us, the audiences, the reasons why he will carry on the bombing. He tells how the only time he left the West Bank was when he needed a medical treatment in Israel at the age of 6. And to get that his father had to sell out and betray. How likely is that? Theoretically its possible, as ordinary moviegoers we cannot examine hypothetical accusation unless there is an actual equivalent available to us on record. As Israelis we see how our medical services and welfare services are available to Palestinians. Including Hamas activists, terrorists.
His farther was executed for that betrayal, and he balms Israel for that, and that is his personal motive. But then he adds a political motive. They had somehow convinced the world that they are the victims on which he construct the films logic behind suicide bombing, if they can be the occupier and the victim I can be the murderer and the murdered. And here lays the tragedy of Palestinian politics and history, a near collective commitment for denial. For Israel did not mysteriously, nearly supernaturally, changed the worlds view on the conflict. When the world saw how Israeli civilians where deliberately and systematically targeted and slaughtered, the world came to see that THERE ARE VICTIMS ON THE ISRAELI SIDE. But the world DID NOT STOP SEEN VICTIMS ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE. In that one sentence, not only the political realities are denied and rewritten, but also the moral, and without the ability to see victims and innocents on the other side, the previously spared child becomes a legitimate target.
So why not an Oscar? Because political disagreements? Lack of morality? Denial? Misguided convictions? Can any of those reasons discredit a film from a competition if cinematographically it is good?
No! Not really. Films like people are allowed to be, immoral, obnoxious, infuriating, annoying and politically misguided. And even be remarkable in doing so.
So why not this one? Suicide bombing that is why.
Because no matter how one may believe his grievances are justified, (rightly or wrongly), blowing up the whole world around him can never be justified. And this film not only justifies it, but advocates it as well. Advocate it through the friendliness and friendship of its lead characters, their humor and infatuations. For it is not the gore and straightforward brutality that advocate violence in films, rather the cleanness of it as in this film suggestive violence that makes it look respectable and thereby acceptable. Backed by the pretext of telling Israelis things they dont like, (another false claim, for here, in Israel, Israelis have discussed genuine issues of mistreatment of Palestinians in films like Ehad mishelanu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097265/ and Nisuim Fiktiveem), it makes mass murder looks like an act anyone of us can do; even more so when it is backed and approved a Golden Globe and an Oscar, (nomination is as good an approval as winning).
Because once it becomes socially approved and acceptable that for whatever grievances we can blow up the world, some of us just might do it. Do you think Im exaggerating?
Perhaps
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But think of this forgotten news story. At the beginning of the Palestinian mass murder campaign one of the strongest critics of Israels was the government of Finland. With a typical Hasbara stupidity, the Israeli government responded by arguing that Finland, a former allay of Hitler, has no right to criticize Israel, ignoring the fact that country was forced into that alliance by a previous soviet invasion, and that it did not betray its Jews to the Nazis. Its a history that they have all the right to be proud of. A better line of argument by Israel would have been to simply stick to the basics and ask how come they have nothing to say against the targeting of Israeli civilians. For that silence, of saying nothing against suicide bombings and the targeting of civilians, while condemning every Israeli action with the harshest possible language, had the affect of making the Palestinian mass murder campaign of suicide bombing look understandable and thus acceptable. And that had the impact of gambling with peoples lives.
On October 11th 2002, the 19 years old Petri Erkki Tapio Gerdt, walked into the Myyrmanni shopping mall in the town of Vantaa, outside of Helsinki, the capital of Finland and blow himself up, killing 6 others and wounding dozens of shoppers. The resemblance to a Palestinian homicide attack on Israeli civilians is astounding, the method, suicide bombing, the target, civilians in a mall, and the weapon, a bomb with shrapnel to make sure as many as possible civilians will be hurt. Except Israelis and Palestinians it had all the making of the nightmare so eerily familiar to the residents of Jerusalem and Netanya.
How certain it is that the social acceptance given to suicide bombing by the Finnish government and other elements of European politics and society played a role in this kid choosing this horrible way? Only those with access to his mind can say that with absolute certainty. But the resemblance is inescapable, why else did the criticism of Israel by the Finnish government, since then, was largely mute in compression with other European countries?
Do you think Im frightening for no reason?
I do hope so, no one wants to wake up and see another Petri Erkki Tapio Gerdt in their midst, or any other suicide bombing for that matter. But to ensure that, it has first to be utterly, totally and unconditionally condemned and abhorred. And approving this film is exactly the way not to do so, for films like us, all of us, are not allowed to murder.
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[Featured Essay: from Fr. IAO131 ] ***THELEMIC VALUES: a new view of morality*** ***- Ye olde morality -*** Nearly every human alive has heard of the Ten
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[Featured Essay: from Fr. IAO131 ]
***- Ye olde morality -***
Nearly every human alive has heard of the Ten Commandments
that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai - the ten "thou
shalt not"s. This system of ethics as set forth literally in
stone by God and delivered through Moses is practically the
perfect symbol of what I propose to call "old morality." Old
morality consists essentially in the belief that there is an
absolute law of conduct, often rewarded with promises of
heaven or some kind of pleasure and punished with verdicts
of various types of suffering, even eternal suffering in a
firey "Hell." This notion of absolute morality is most
apparent in the Jewish religion, with its ten commandments
(Judaism actually has 613 commandments in total), but it
also appears in both Christianity and Islam (the "five
pillars of Islam"). Both of these religions are
characterized by their insistence on sin and the punishment
of hell following sinful actions. These types of absolute
morality are also apparent in many forms of Buddhism where
they have "sila," which consists usually of five "thou shalt
not"s. In some forms of yoga, there are what is called
"yama" and "niyama" which are essentially five "thou shalt"s
and five "thou shalt not"s.
Now, this old morality being by definition founded on a
notion of "absolute moral conduct," is also necessarily
quite inflexible. Not only did Moses invoke God as the
source and authority of his commandments, but they were set
in two gigantic tablets of stone.
In the course of history, one might say that these
commandments, Jewish and otherwise, were necessary for that
particular time. It can be agreed that many of these
guidelines were (and still can be) effective if employed in
the right circumstances, in the right cultures. For example,
"keeping kosher," a practice in Judaism, might be a highly
moralities, as discussed above, emphasize the absoluteness
of their rules and are therefore inflexible in their
adaptation to individual circumstances. Nietzsche described
this old morality, cognate with the Freudian "superego," as
"the great dragon" that plagues each person in their
* "What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer
inclined to call Lord and God?
the lion saith, "I will."
scale-covered beast; and on every scale glittereth golden,
"Thou shalt!"
The values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, and
thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons: "All the values
of things--glitter on me.
All values have already been created, and all created
any more. Thus speaketh the dragon." *
This dragon is contrasted with the lion, a symbol of a
certain stage of the "metamorphosis of one's spirit, which
corresponds with the discarding of this old morality.
***- Discarding of old morality -***
* "Anthropologists, archæologists, physicists and other men
of science, risking thumbscrews, stake, infamy and
ostracism, have torn the spider-snare of superstition to
shreds and broken in pieces the monstrous idol of Morality,
the murderous Moloch which has made mankind its meat
throughout history... Moral philosophy, psychology,
sociology, anthropology, mental pathology, physiology, and
many another of the children of Wisdom, of whom she is
confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in
certain conditions, more often on the craft or caprice of
the biggest, the most savage, heartless, cunning and
pander to their pleasure in cruelty." -Aleister Crowley,
Liber V vel Reguli *
The 18th and 19th centuries signaled the slow demise of the
conventional views of an Absolute Law of morals. This is
epitomized in Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead."
The essential realization that had crept in was that moral
judgment of things is entirely relative. Amazingly, Einstein
announced the relativity of space-time itself less than half
a century later. Nietzsche also summarized this
relativization of morals in one aphorism: "There is no such
thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of
phenomena."[2] In this, we come to see that morality as we
know it lies entirely in our particular interpretation of
phenomena, it does not reside in the phenomena themselves.
Thelema was surely the first religious philosophy to adopt -
or rather incorporate - this new notion of amorality. This
idea is more fully expanded in the chapter "The notion of
sin abolished" in the "Psychological Commentary to Liber AL
vel Legis" ( http://
geocities.com/hdbq111/essays/psych.html#4 ) as well as in
the essay "The Ethics of Thelema" by Erwin Hessle that
appeared in the first issue of the Journal of Thelemic
Studies ( ThelemicStudies.com ).
It is proclaimed famously in Liber AL vel Legis, the central
text of Thelema,
"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."[3]
The will being unique to "every man and every woman," their
different Laws are essentially not going to be identical.
This most definitely states that each person is to do their
own Will and not follow out the various laws and mandates of
others. Naturally, moral sanctions imposed from without are
discarded. The discarding of old morality during the last
two centuries is also reflected into the microcosm of each
human individual. Each man and woman must go through the
various stages of human development, and a large part of
this development is one's continually changing approach to
adopted values and many of us, especially during
adolescence, begin to question our adopted values that we
took initially to be true.
This questioning of values is what Nietzsche discussed in
his classic Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He declared there were
three metamorphoses of the spirit, the first of which is the
camel that essentially takes on the values of the society it
symbolic of the discarding of introjected values. On this
symbolic lion of the spirit Nietzsche writes,
* "My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the
which renounceth and is reverent?
accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new
creating--that can the might of the lion do.
To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto
formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent
work of a beast of prey.
forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the
holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love:
the lion is needed for this capture."[4] *
The prime characteristic of this lion-like attitude is "to
create itself freedom" by rejecting the "Thou-shalts" of
values imposed from without. Modernly, the old morality is
represented to the modern individual in the form of
"society" or "the State," which are imposed from without.
This lion symbol Nietzsche speaks of is essentially the
breaking free of old perspectives of value. These include
any imposed values acquired throughout one's development in
modern society, especially those of old morality.
In the field of psychology, Carl Ransom Rogers - an
influential psychologist who founded the client-centered
form of therapy and was president of the American
Psychological Association - delineated the progress of our
approach to values throughout our individual development. To
understand the transition to what Rogers terms a
"psychologically mature" outlook on values we must first
understand completely his model of the development of
values. In an essay he published called "Toward a Modern
Approach to Values," he first of all distinguishes between
"operative values" which refers to "the tendency of any
living beings to show preference, in their acitons, for one
kind of object or objective rather than another," which,
"need not involve any cognitive or conceptual thinking,"[5]
and what he calls "conceived values," which are "the
preference of the individual for a symbolized object,"
where, "usually in such a preference there is anticipation
or foresight of the outcome of behavior directed toward such
a symbolized object."[6] For operative values, Rogers gives
the example of a worm navigating a maze by choosing the
directions through it; for conceived values, he gives the
example of the value-statement "honesty is the best policy."
With this subtle distinction in values we may return to the
subject of becoming a psychologically mature adult.
Carl Rogers suggested that there are three distinct
perspectives or stages of value: the infant, the
psyschologically immature, and the psychologically mature
adult. The infant's view of values is inborn - it has "at
the outset, a clear approach to values. He prefers some
things and experiences, and rejects others. We can infer
from studying his behavior that he prefers those experiences
which maintain, enhance, or actualize his organism, and
rejects those which do not serve this end."[7] This infant
stage of values is entirely composed of operative values,
for conceived values require symbolic thought of which
infants are not even capable. The fact that is asserted is
that infants are inborn with a sense of valuing things,
which corresponds to what Rogers calls elsewhere the
"actualizing tendency," which is that tendency of all humans
(not just infants) to inherently move towards "those
experiences which maintain, enhance, or actualize his
organism," as previously mentioned. Rogers continues,
explaining that the infant's approach to values "is first of
all a flexible, changing, valuing _process_, not a fixed
system... What is going on seems best described as an
organismic valuing process, in which each element, each
moment of what he is experiencing is somehow weighed, and
selected or rejected, depending on whether, at this moment,
it tends to actualize the organism or not. This complicated
weighing of experience is clearly an organismic, not a
conscious or symbolic function. These are operative, not
coneived values."[8] The last aspect of the infant's
approach to values is that "the source or locus of the
evaluating process is clearly within himself. Unlike many of
us, he _knows_ what he likes and dislikes, and the origin of
these value choices lies strictly within himself. He is the
center of the valuing process, the evidence for his choices
being supplied by his own senses."[9] Essentially, the
infant's approach to values is what Rogers terms the
"organismic valuing process," wherein each phenomenon is
weighed and rejected depending on its potential for
actualizing the individual in question, and the source of
the evaluating process is clearly within the individual.
One would think that this soundly based and highly efficient
valuing process would not be worth giving up. The fact is
that all of us exchange this apparent effective valuing
process for a more "rigid, uncertain, inefficient approach
to values which chatacterizes most of us adults."[10] The
reason for this, Rogers posits, is essentially the need for
love from others, especially the parents. "The infant needs
repetition of this wanted experience. But this brings
complications."[11] Each child is scolded for doing things
the parent sees as unacceptable and rewarded for things
viewed as unacceptable. These various value judgments become
called the "introjection of values." Rogers explains, "He
has deserted the wisdom of his organism, giving up the locus
of evaluation, and is trying to behave in terms of values
set by another, in order to hold love."[12] It this new
stage, when the infant begins to start introjecting values
from outside as if they were his own, which corresponds with
Nietzsche's notion of the camel. The camel is that which
delights in bearing heavy loads, in this case the burden of
introjected values. On this Nietzsche writes,
* "What is heavy? so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then
kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be well
What is the heaviest thing, ye heroes? asketh the
in my strength... All these heaviest things the load-
bearing spirit taketh upon itself."[13] *
These introjected values in the individual corresponds as a
microcosm to the old morality, discussed earlier, that has
appeared in the course of human history. Rogers writes that
"because these [introjected] concepts are not based on his
fluid and changing." Like introjected value concepts, the
old morality is inherently fixed and rigid. Our lives as
children, through when we are adolescents, up until we
become adults, we are constantly introjecting values from
around us. Rogers notes that, "in this fantastically complex
culture of today, the patterns we introject as desirable or
undesirable come fom a variety of sources and are often
highly contradictory in their meanings."[14] This
assimilation into society with its values creates this
"highly contradictory" feeling within each person. Most
adults are at this stage of tension between their various
conceived values that they have introjected, and more
importantly Rogers describes the "wide and unrecognized
descrepancy between the evidence supplied by his own
experience and these conceived values."[15] This is because
his experience no longer dictates his values as they did as
an infant when his locus of evaluation was still within
himself. Now, this source of evaluation lies outside of
himself in most matters because of these fixed introjected
values that he has adopted. One consequence of these
introjected values being fixed is that "he must hold [these
conceptions] in a rigid and unchanging fashion. The
alternative would be a collapse of his values."[16] Carl
Rogers believed that this picture of the individual, that of
one with a large discrepancy between their experience and
their introjected, conceived values, "is the picture of most
of us. On this fundamental discrepancy Rogers wrote,
* "By taking over the conceptions of others as our own we
lose contact with the potential wisdom of our own
functioning, and lose confidence in ourselves. Since these
value constructs are often sharply at variance with what is
way divorced ourselves from ourselves, and this accounts for
much of modern strain and insecurity. This fundamental
discrepancy between the individual's concepts and what he is
actually experiencing, between the intellectual structure of
his values and the valuing process going on unrecognized
within him - this is a part of the fundamental estrangement
of modern man from himself."[17] *
It is at this point in development, where there is a
fundamental discrepancy and dissonance in ourselves, that
Nietzsche's lion is needed "create itself freedom" by
discarding the old values of "the great dragon" of "Thou
shalt not"s. Before, as a camel, the individual takes on and
introjects the values of his society at large, moving the
his source of evaluation from a fluid center within himself
most likely necessary for all humans to go through, even
though it has "divorced ourselves from ourselves." It is at
this point that the lion is needed, which is essentially
symbolic of the discarding of old values. This lion in its
rejecting of introjected values is a symbol of the
transition from this psychologically immature outlook of
values to becoming what Rogers called a psychologically
mature adult. Rogers said that "some individuals are
fortunate in... developing further in the direction of
psychological maturity."[18] Being a therapist he naturally
recommends the therapeutic climate for this further
development but also admitted that this development can also
happen in life where various conditions are similar to
***- The birth of a new system of values -***
If we discard our own introjected values, what do we have
left? This is what the two previously mentioned essays (the
chapter in Psychological Commentary to Liber AL and Hessle's
"Ethics of Thelema" (previously mentioned) on Thelemic
morals have neglected. Once the lion has found the old set
of values ineffective and useless, what takes the place of
this new void? Is "Do what thou wilt" simply just a call to
complete anarchy?
As we begin to discard these introjected values, we come
again to an approach to values that is similar to the
infant's perspective treated earlier. In this sense, "it is
fluid, flexible, based on this particular moment, and the
degree to which this moment is experienced as enchancing and
actualizing. Values are not held rigidly, but are
continually changing."[19] This return to a fluid and
flexible approach to values can only happen when we
relinquish our attachment to various conceived values that
have been introjected. The experience of our organism, which
is constantly changing, becomes more important to the
evaluation process than the thought structure of our values.
Also in similarity with the infant's perspective, this new
mature approach establishes, "the locus of evaluation...
firmly within the person. It is his own experience which
provides the value information or feedback. This does not
it is - outside evidence - and is not as significant as his
own reactions."[20] Further, "there is also involved in this
valuing process a letting oneself down into the immediacy of
what one is experiencing, endeavoring to sense and to
clarify all its complex meanings" just like in infancy.
Essentially, one returns largely to the infant's
point-of-view insofar as one's values are more fluid &
flexible, the locus of evaluation is re-established within
oneself, experiential evidence trumps outside evidence, and
a sort of letting go to be "in the moment."
Amazingly, as Carl Rogers says this new psychologically
mature look has much in common with the infant's
perspective, Nietzsche designates the stage after the
* "But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which
to become a child?
Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning,
HIS OWN world winneth the world's outcast."[21] *
The child is 'innocence' because he does not reference his
own actions against the values of others (whereby one feels
'forgetfulness' because his values is not a fixed system but
a fluid, ever-changing process, and he is 'a new beginning'
and 'a first movement' because his values are always renewed
in each moment, each calling a new judgment from his being.
The child is 'a game' because he does not take the following
of introjected values so seriously anymore - in fact, finds
those following them quite ignorant (Rogers writes that,
"[the infant] would laugh at our concern over values, if he
could understand it"[22]), he is 'a self-rolling wheel'
because his locus of evaluation has been relocated to within
himself, and he is 'a holy Yea' because in this bringing of
valuing into the locus of oneself naturally brings one into
being more accepting of experience in general. This image of
the mature child appears in an injunction by Christ to
"become as little children" (Matthew 18:3), and also
Blavatsky's injunction, "The Pupil must regain the
child-state he has lost,"[23] and finally Nietzsche's own
injunction "Maturity in a man: that means having found once
again that seriousness which man had as a child, in
Rogers emphasizes that similar to the infant, "the
psychologically mature adult trusts and uses the wisdom of
his feelings and his intuitions may be wiser than his mind,
that as a total person he can be more sensitive and accurate
than his thoughts alone."[25] As emphasized in a chapter
from the Psychological Commentary on Liber AL, reason cannot
adequately be the guide of the Will. Rogers offers this
"organismic valuing process" as a solution to not only what
may guide our actions when we discard reason as the sole
arbiter, but also it fills the vacuum created by our
questioning and discarding of values. The "child" of
Nietzsche who creates his own values is one who has adopted
this psychologically mature "organismic valuing process."
Like Rogers, we assert that "there is an organismic base for
an organized valuing process within the human individual...
It is part of the functioning life process of any healthy
organism. It is the capacity for receiving feedback
information which enables the organism continually to adjust
its behavior and reacitons so as to achieve the maximum
possible self- enhancement."[26] This natural inclination is
with us since birth and consequently covered over with our
adopted of various conceived values in our need for love and
esteem. Now as we being to question and discard our various
conceived values that have been imposed from without, we are
re-adopting many facets of this natural organismic valuing
process yet with the psychological maturity and insight of
the adult.
Finally, some often question whether relocating our valuing
process within ourselves will result in widespread anarchy.
Carl Rogers assures that although this process of organismic
valuing is entirely individual, the values that are created
share a large degree of commonality across humanity. He
asserted that "where individuals are valued, where there is
greater freedom to feel and to be, certain value directions
seem to emerge. These are not chaotic directions but instead
have a surprising commonality... this commonality does not
seem to be due to the influences of any one culture... I
like to think that this commonality of value directions is
due to the fact that we all belong to the same species... As
a species there may be certain elements of experience which
tend to make for inner development and which would be chosen
by all individuals if they were genuinely free to
choose."[27] In fact, Carl Rogers was able to identify
various common themes, or "value directions," that arise
when individuals are accepted and left free to choose their
own values: "They tend to move away from facades...
pretense, defensiveness, putting up a front," "they tend to
move away from 'oughts,'" "they tend to move awya from
meeting hte expectations of others," "being real is
positively valued," "self-direction is positively valued,"
"one's self, one's own feelings, come to be positively
valued," "being a process [as opposed to being fixed] is
positively valued," "perhaps more than all else, the client
comes to value an openness to all of his inner and outer
experience," "sensitivity to others and acceptance of others
is positively valued," and "finally, deep relationships are
positively valued."[28]
Although these may be general trends of "value directions,"
in Thelema it is recognized quite firmly that "There is no
law beyond Do what thou wilt." Instead of dogmatically
imitating these apparently common stances on values, we may
recognize that the very fact of a commonality of value
directions among all humans who are relatively free and
esteemed shows us that this process of understanding values
that we all go through does not end in complete anarchy as
some criticize. Essentially, "a new kind of emergent
universality of value directions becomes possible when
individuals move in the direction of psychological maturity,
or more accurately, move in the direction of becoming open
to their experiencing."[29]
***- Summary -***
The essential endeavor of this essay is to understand values
in a Thelemic context. First, the historical appearance and
dissolution of old morality, symbolized both as Moses' stone
tablets of the Laws and the "great dragon" of Nietzsche, was
defined as a system with a fixed and absolute rule of
conduct. It was discussed how our approach to values changes
continually throughout our individual development, and Carl
Rogers' model for understanding values was adopted as a
framework to understand this more deeply.
According to Carl Rogers, there are three distinct stages of
development where we have different approaches to what we
inborn organismic valuing process. This process is based on
what will actualize the infant the most in the moment
(called by Rogers "the actualizing tendency"), and
consequently it is a constantly changing process in contrast
to fixed, unchangeable principles. Slowly, largely through
the desire for love and esteem from others, we relinquish
this locus of values from within ourselves to various
introjected values that are imposed from without. This stage
of "introjecting values" from our parents and society as a
whole was shown to correspond with Nietzsche's notion of the
camel which "bears the burden" of its society's values.
This introjection of values creates a dissonance in
ourselves because of the gap between our experience and the
thought-structure of conceived values that we have
introjected. This is what Rogers distinguishes as the
"psychologically immature" approach to values. It is at this
are seen to be irrelevant, arbitrary, and useless. These
imposed values were seen to correspond both to Freud's
superego and Nietzsche's "great dragon," which assails each
individual. When we begin to question our values and discard
them, we become Nietzsche's "lion" who creates freedom by
giving "a holy Nay even unto duty"[31] and the many
conceived values that we have introjected.
It is by the questioning and discarding of values that it is
possible to move beyond psychologically immaturity into the
final stage which Carl Rogers calls the "psychologically
mature adult." In this final approach to values, we once
again bring our locus of evaluation within ourselves,
relying on experiential evidence. We "become as little
children" also insofar as we start to become more open to
all kinds of experience when we relinquish attachment to our
intimate immersion in the moment, although now as adults we
have accumulated the wisdom of many years of experience. It
is an interesting paradox that both in Carl Rogers' model of
the developmental approach to values and Nietzsche's
understanding of the "metamorphoses of the spirit," that the
most mature manifestation retains markedly the relation to
the "Child" or "infant." It is a delicate balance to strike
between the knowledge of adult experience and the innocent
has been done.
Since we relocate our valuing process to within ourselves,
it becomes entirely individual and relative. Some may argue
that this approach to values, as many have often argued
against the Thelemic maxim "Do what thou wilt shall be the
whole of the Law," leads to complete anarchy. This situation
of relying on the individual "organismic valuing process"
may appear to be anarchy to one still situated in their
fixed approach to values, consiting almost entirely of
introjected values from the duration of one's life, but it
is much different in practice. Carl Rogers assures that,
amazingly, universal "value directions" emerge when people
across all cultures are allowed freedom to develop fully
psychologically. The very fact that universal value
directions emerge may show that although there is much more
diversity, there is certainly still a certain commonality of
values that arises.
discarding we make way for the child within us, who brings
forth his or her individual approach to values - that
particular person's Will. This "child"- approach is really
only the "organismic valuing process" that we have had
inherently within us since our birth; it has only become
clouded over by the complex of introjected conceived values.
Just as the blazing sunlight is diffused and darkened by the
clouds, every individual's Will is obscured by this process
of introjecting values. Any star who wishes to burn as
brilliantly as possible would surely wish to disperse these
actualize their full potential can and must engage in this
process of the re-examination of values.
* "Instead of universal values 'out there,' or a universal
value system imposed by some group - philosophers, rulers,
or priests - we have the possibility of universal human
value directions emerging from the experiencing of the human
organism. Evidence from therapy indicates that both personal
and social values emerge as natural, and experienced, when
the individual is close to his own organismic valuing
process. The suggestion is that though modern man no longer
trusts religion or science or philosophy ore any system of
beliefs to <i>give</i> him his values, he may find an
organismic valuing base within himself which, if he can
organized, adaptive, and social approach to the perplexing
value issues which face all of us."[32] *
~ ~ ~
***- References -***
[1] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
trans. by Thomas Common, ch.1
[2] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1886). Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 108
[3] Crowley, Aleister. (1904). Liber AL vel Legis, I:40 and III:60
[4] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
trans. by Thomas Common, ch.1
[5] Rogers, Carl R.. (1964). "Toward a Modern Approach to
Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person" from
[6] Ibid
[7] Ibid
[8] Ibid
[9] Ibid
[10] Ibid
[11] Ibid
[12] Ibid
[13] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
trans. by Thomas Common, ch.1
[14] Rogers, Carl R.. (1964) "Toward a Modern Approach to
Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person"
[15] Ibid
[16] Ibid
[17] Ibid
[18] Ibid
[19] Ibid
[20] Ibid
[21] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
trans. by Thomas Common, ch.1
[22] Rogers, Carl R.. (1964) "Toward a Modern Approach to
Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person"
[23] Blavatsky, H.P. (1889) "The Voice of Silence," I:70
[24] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1886). Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 94
[25] Rogers, Carl R.. (1964) "Toward a Modern Approach to
Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person"
[26] Ibid
[27] Ibid
[28] Ibid
[29] Ibid
[30] Ibid
[31] Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1883). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
trans. by Thomas Common, ch.1
[32] Rogers, Carl R.. (1964) "Toward a Modern Approach to
Values: The Valuing Process in the Mature Person"
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He couldn't help but smile as he listened to the last message play. So, she'd finally come out and said those three little words. He didn't know why she'd left those messages, or why she'd apparently called the other ten times, but he did know he had to see her. No one knew he was back in town, although most likely by now they knew he was missing, which gave him – them – plenty of time to talk.
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"Hi, this is Sam Carter. I'm sorry I can't take your call, but please leave a message and I'll get back to you. Bye."
"Love you too, Sam."
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L13: Ok! –sighs- BL13, I don't want to end the story...
BL13: Fine. Not to seem boring or anything, but I don't own Digimon. I've tried to get it and I have failed! –tears up-
L13: -pats BL13 on the back- You'll be ok, BL13. You can always try again.
BL13: -perks head up- Really? Oh yeah. Yay! On with the story!
So much time had passed since I had conquered my amnesia. It may have only lasted a few days, but after that, I started living life... the way I wanted to live it.
Kari's house, 1 year later...
"I can't believe the day has finally come!" Kari exclaimed. She was fixing Gatomon's white veil, making sure that it wasn't crooked or anything. Yes, the happiest day that Gatomon had wished for had finally arrived: She was to be married to the love of her life in less than ten minutes.
Gatomon replied, "I know. It's hard to believe myself. All this time I've waited, and now..." She really didn't know how to finish it, so she just sighed happily. Suddenly, there was a knock on the bedroom door. Kari perked her head up and yelled, "No boys allowed!"
The door opened and Sora responded, "Oh come on. Do you really think I'd let a boy get in here?"
Sora married her boyfriend for 5 years, Tai Kamiya, right after Gatomon's ordeal. They had a boy, which the two named Taro. Sora became a junior high gym teacher while Tai became the high school gym teacher and in his spare time, coached a soccer team.
"Sora, I hardly see you anymore. What's up?" Kari asked.
"Oh, little Taro takes up a lot of my time now. He's standing for only a few seconds, but it's great." Sora responded. She was in a red short-sleeved bridesmaid dress.
"That's nice. I like the dress picked out for you."
"Yes, Gatomon picked out all of the bridesmaid dresses as their crest color."
"Oh, very interesting. Well, you might as well wait in here until it's time." Kari finished, and Sora sat down on the bed, watching Kari continue to fix Gatomon's veil.
Another knock came, this time it was from Mimi. "Gatomon," she whispered, "they're ready for you."
"Thanks, Meems." Kari joked, reminding her of their childish nicknames.
Mimi became a fashion designer. While vacationing in England, she met a wealthy entrepreneur named Charles. They fell in love, and had a baby boy named Austin 2 months ago.Mimi winked and rounded up all of the bridesmaids in their order. They made their way to the backyard and the first two to walk down the aisle were Kari's two cousins Kichiro and Mitsuko, accompanied by their digimon.
Kichiro, Mitsuko, and their parents moved back to Odaiba so the family wouldn't be as spread out as they were. The two kids always went to their favorite cousin Kari's house for Sunday dinner. Kichiro, Mitsuko, and their digimon are content with their lives thus far and plan for a big future.
Following right behind the siblings were Sora and Joe, accompanied by Biyomon and Gomamon. Joe, after becoming a certified neurologist 2 years ago, paid off all of his college bills and focused on his love life. He decided to marry his colleague and partner, Samantha, who was a phlebotomist. They were married 4 months ago and she is pregnant with twins. Joe looks off to his right and spies his lovely wife and grins at her, and she smiles back. Sora nudges him in the shoulder, keeping him from stepping on her shoes. He notices and keeps walking.
The next two in line were Yolie and Ken. Ken and Yolie were married around the same time as Tai and Sora. Both parents have demanding jobs, especially with three children: an adopted 4-year-old boy named Kiyoshi, and fraternal twin girls Akako and Sakura. Yolie is a radio talk show host, while Ken is a stay at home chemist. Ken has gotten very crafty with how to keep his kids away from ruining his work. It is never a dull moment in their house. Yolie and Ken quickly looked back at their three kids, who were covering Hawkmon, Wormmon, and each other with Silly String. They rolled their eyes and chuckled softly, knowing that they will have one hell of a mess to clean up later.
Next down the aisle were Amaya and Tai, trailing behind were BlackGatomon and Agumon. Amaya became a psychic with BlackGatomon attending to the customers while they wait. On occasion, BlackGatomon digivolves into LadyDevimon adding a bit of a dark and mysterious aura to the business. In her spare time, she illustrates for local authors. Amaya adopted a two-year-old girl named Mika, which she heard from a client meant "new moon". Amaya may have a girl, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want a husband too, which she also sees in her future.
Amaya looked over to her left and saw Davis, giving everyone in the aisle a big smile. She was highly confident that he was beaming at the Kamiya siblings in particular. Davis may not have any kids yet, but he still has a great career doing what he was always best at doing: being loud and talking about soccer. He became a professional soccer announcer. In his spare time or his days off, he helped Tai with his soccer team. After interviewing some of the soccer fans, he found his old girlfriend, Emily, cheering on his favorite team in the stands. After the game, he went out celebrating and ran into her again. The once quiet Emily that he knew was still quiet; she was a librarian at Odaiba Elementary, but she was also an avid soccer fan now. They started dating immediately, and in a couple weeks, he'll work up his courage and pop the question. Hopefully, she'll say yes.
Tai snapped his head in Amaya's direction and smirked at Davis, then he looked off to his right and grinned at Izzy. Izzy became a computer technician. He has no wife or kids, but that doesn't mean that he's not looking. He's just not interested at this phase of his life.
Then the maid of honor, Kari, strolled down the aisle with the best man, who was T.K. Kari and T.K. were married a month after Gatomon's ordeal. They had a girl, which they named Haya. Kari is a kindergarten teacher, while T.K. is an English teacher. In his spare time, he is an author. His most prized work, The Digital World Chronicles, is going to be published in a matter of months.
T.K. turned to his right and saw his brother Matt taking a picture of everyone walking down the aisle. Matt and his band finally got a break; the four of them are living the rock star life. Their band, Digital Climax, has just completed their world tour with their final concert in Odaiba. They are currently collaborating on their third album. Matt may not have kids or a wife, but he'll settle down eventually. For now, he just wants to drink from the fountain of success. Matt gave a thumbs-up to his little bro, to which T.K. returned.
Kari turned to her left and saw Cody, who gave a small smile. Little Cody was not so little anymore. He had hit a bit of a growth spurt since the group had last seen him. Cody has finished his schooling and has decided not to go to college. He wants to be a kendo teacher for now. Kari smiled back at him, and took her place with the other bridesmaids while T.K. strode over to where the groomsmen were.
There, at the end of the aisle standing beside T.K., was Wizardmon. He kept his hands in his pockets and his eyes cast downward. He was obviously very nervous about this. Then, his eyes drew up to see if Gatomon was there. Under a white rose arbor stood his love. She was wearing a white veil, specifically designed for her. She had two bows on her tail: a white one and a pink one, with the white one being above the other. She was also carrying a bouquet of pink, red, and white carnations.
As she made her way down the aisle, stopping aside of Wizardmon, he turned to her and whispered, "I don't know what to say except that you look like an angel."
She giggled and replied, "Thank you."
The pastor, who was Emily's brother, took his place in front of the couple. After quieting the guests down, he stated, "Normally, I do weddings for humans, whether they be religious or not. But when I was asked to marry these two, I was a bit perplexed about how to do this. I had never performed a wedding for digimon. Therefore, I wrote what I believe could pass as matrimony."
He stopped to clear his throat as the guests chuckled a bit. "Now then, do you, Wizardmon, take Gatomon to be yours forever? To always love her no matter what obstacles life throws at you? Do you promise to give your heart and soul to her from this day forward?
"I do." Wizardmon answered through a grin, which Gatomon could see from the corners of his mouth.
"And do you, Gatomon, take Wizardmon to be yours forever? To always love him no matter what obstacles life throws at you? Do you promise to give your heart and soul to him from this day forward?
She nodded and replied through tears of joy, "I do."
"Then, by the power vested in me and by the Harmonious ones, I now pronounce you 'husband and wife.'" The two giggled a little, as did the other guests. Even the pastor smiled at his little joke. He finished, "You may kiss the bride." Gatomon put her paws around Wizardmon's neck as he kissed her sweetly, while everyone clapped and cheered. The two ran back up the aisle, along with everyone else. While holding Wizardmon's hand, Gatomon took her other paw and threw her bouquet behind her head. The lucky catcher was Amaya, who smiled to herself as she had a vision of herself at the alter with a man she did not recognize.
Gatomon and Wizardmon decided to build a home in the Digital World on File Island. They visited Kari four or five times a week, and they were always there for Sunday dinner. After deciding that they wanted kids, they went to Elecmon and adopted two eggs: One to hatch into a YukimiBotamon and another to hatch into a Mokumon. Every five years, Gatomon and Wizardmon would return to Nightmare Castle, only to be certain that Myotismon would never return. Their children were warned to never go near Nightmare Castle to ensure their safety.
Wizardmon and Gatomon remained together forever. Everything started to go their way after the amnesia episode Gatomon's experience. They were living life the way they had only dreamed of...
... and nothing could be better.
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0.059584 | <urn:uuid:1358c0c5-9a54-4575-ae06-ade6a5843ea9> | en | 0.979174 | Authors note: Oh yeah! Despite my best intentions I kind of forgot to finish this didn't I? It would be only polite to round things up and explain what the heck is going on. Sorry for the delay! Now what story should I tackle next? Suggestions gratefully received, although no promises on completing any or all any time this century!
Chapter Seventeen
The Doctor let out an almost girlish giggle of glee as he flung an arm around the stiff shoulders of the deeply affronted Dr Cameron.
"See Rose!" he crowed. "I've always said there was no problem on Earth that couldn't be fixed by sitting down with a nice cup of tea. Turns out that that was an understatement!"
Cameron shrugged away from the arm, taking a step backwards as she stared around the gathering crowd in alarm. She seemed to gather some measure of reassurance as her eyes alighted on a familiar limping figure arriving at the rear of the gathering.
Chase pushed his way to the front of the group, grasping the brown haired doctor by the shoulder as he peered intently into her slightly dilated eyes. "Alison! Are you feeling okay?" he demanded urgently. "You were practically cataleptic a few minutes ago."
"Oh, she'll probably feel a bit groggy for a while. Coming out from under a blood control spell is bound to knock a few brain cells out of alignment!" the Doctor commented blithely, before patting the slim woman on her other shoulder. "Still, could be worse, I once knew a man who was hypnotised and never snapped out of it. Ended up chasing anything in a dress. What's worse, was that it didn't even suit him."
Cameron blinked at this in slack-jawed astonishment. It was Cuddy's voice that cracked out in incredulous scorn at his statements. "Are you trying to say half of my staff have been placed under some sort of magic spell?"
The Doctor grinned at her whilst waving his hand in a rather patronising gesture. "Weeeelll" he drawled "Only magic as defined by Clarke's third law*. In actuality, the Sycorax were transmitting a stream of Arctron energy, focussed through a specific biocellular sample, in order to override the neuroreceptors in their victims' brains. Comes across like a cheap bit of voodoo to scare the pants off of a primitive society leaving them ripe for a takeover."
Cuddy blinked at him for a moment before throwing both hands up in frustration. "I don't believe this!" She exploded. "This whole situation is just completely impossible."
The Doctor grinned. "Ah, well that's where Clarke's second law, and my personal favourite, comes in. 'The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.'" He leaned forward to give her a conspiratorial wink. "I admit I gave Arthur a bit of help with that one, it's kind of my specialty!"
Rose gave a snort from behind him, folding her arms in fond exasperation. "Go on then, give them the technobabble speech!" she urged him with a grin. "You won't be satisfied until we can all appreciate just how you brilliantly you've managed to save the day again!"
The Doctor spun to give her a glare of affronted dignity, the hem of his paper gown flapping around his knees. The frown lasted all of three seconds before it crumpled into a cheeky grin. "Oh well, it was sort of brilliant now that you come to mention it. There aren't many people who have such supreme physiological control of their autonomic cellular processes to be able to bioengineer a worldwide signal hack using their own body as a transmitter." He shrugged in exaggerated modesty. "I couldn't resist the elegance of the solution, considering our current surroundings. You could even call it haematopoetic*"
House rolled his eyes and let out a brief snort and the Doctor stood on his bare tiptoes to peer over the shoulders of Chase and Foreman to bathe him with his most brilliant grin.
"See? It's all worked out for the best. If we had ended up in London like I'd planned, no-one would have got that pun!" The grin vanished as quickly as it had come as the Doctor's mobile features pulled themselves into a reproachful pout. "Although, whilst I have stopped expecting applause for my brilliance, I was kind of hoping for more than a snort of derision!" he grumbled. "Do you know how hard it is to manipulate the formation of 2.4 million erythrocytes a second?" He flung an arm around Rose's shoulders, giving her a squeeze whilst continuing "Especially whilst undergoing a well meaning ultrasonic attack". Rose took a few seconds to stiffen in indignation at the insult but was distracted as she noticed a small grimace of genuine discomfort cutting creases in the Doctor's forehead.
"You're okay, though, right?" she demanded in sudden alarm, shifting beneath his arm until she could slide her own in a protective embrace around the skinny ribcage.
He smiled down at her soothingly. "'Course I'm okay! I always am aren't I?" He raised his free hand to run long fingers through the messy fringe at his left temple. "I just have a bit of a …"
He froze as a movement caught his eye. Raising one eyebrow, he cast an interested glance over the trim figure of the white-coated doctor standing before him, her arm raised to her head in an eerily parallel gesture.
"Are you alright Dr Cameron?" he asked in a suddenly intent voice, breaking free from Rose's protective embrace.
Cameron lowered her arm slowly to her side, shrugging herself out of a bewildered daydream. "I… I think so" she stammered, then winced. "Apart from what feels like a galactic sized hangover!" she grumbled, then flinched as the Doctor's hands shot up to hover a few inches from either side of her forehead.
"May I?" he asked quietly. Then, ignoring her look of confusion, he touched feather light fingertips to the corners of her eyebrows.
The Doctor closed his eyes in concentration for a moment and then dropped his arms, letting out a quiet "Ah!" He shuffled back, flicking a rather sheepish grin towards Rose. "Ooops!"
House's voice cracked out in cold suspicion "Ooops? What 'oops'?"
The Doctor turned towards him and shrugged nonchalantly, holding his hand up palm out in a conciliatory gesture, although the way he shifted from foot to foot gave a distinct impression of concealed embarrassment. "I may have underestimated the power of the signal just a smidge" he murmured, holding his finger and thumb in front of his face to indicate a trivial gap. "Well, I was still awash with Arctron energy myself after my regeneration" he muttered defensively to no-one in particular. He turned back to face Cameron again, talking soothingly. "Now it's nothing to be alarmed about, but I may have left behind in you and the others a slight… echo."
Alison raised perfectly sculpted eyebrows in bewildered alarm. "What?" she queried in a deeply confused tone.
The Doctor patted her reassuringly on the shoulder once more. "Oh it's nothing to be worried about really, but I may have left a portion of the planet's population a little … um .. Doctored!"
Rose let out an amazed bark of laughter. "Oh God!" she snorted. "Be afraid! Be very afraid!" she ground out sardonically, ignoring the Doctor's glare of disapproval.
"It won't be permanent!" he snapped at her huffily before turning back to Cameron. "Red blood cells have a limited lifespan in the body before they're replaced. You should be back to normal in … oooooh .." he paused for a guilty second before continuing "a maximum of three to four months." He smiled a sickly grin at her blank face. "But in the meantime you might want to stay away from a few things, like strong magnetic fields, and raspberry jam, the kind with the seeds in. Oh and cats, I never could get the hang of cats. Thursday mornings may get a bit interesting for a while, and you probably shouldn't…" He trailed off as he detected Rose's growing grin. "Okay, okay, I might have been a little premature on the whole 'elegance' thing, but I did break the hypnotic lock and so have eliminated the Sycorax's whole blackmail 'We can make millions jump to their death unless you surrender' ploy." He squared his shoulders inside the overlarge leather jacket. "All that remains is to take a little trip upstairs to their spaceship and negotiate a truce, now that we're in a stronger bargaining position…"
His words were cut off as the large foyer was suddenly flooded with a blinding white light as the whole of the mirrored front of the hospital lit up. The glass panes rattled in their frames as a thunderclap echoed out beneath a night sky that was momentarily brighter than the brightest New Jersey day.
The Doctor froze for a moment, then darted forward, barging his way between the frozen forms of Chase and Foreman to hurl himself headlong down the staircase to the main lobby below. Rose barely lost a second before she was off after him, the others breaking out of their startled immobility to follow more slowly a moment later.
They caught up to him just outside the main doors of the hospital. He was standing barefoot on the tarmac outside, staring up bleakly at the falling snow, the slim blue-tipped wand clutched forlornly in one hand.
Rose reached out a tentative hand towards him. "What's wrong, Doctor?" she queried softly, then flinched back as he lowered his eyes to pierce her with a tight glare of unbearable bitterness.
"Oh, just the usual human response" he bit out cynically. "A whole head for an eye, isn't that the philosophy?" His shoulders slumped in defeat as he glanced down at the sonic screwdriver in his hand. "It looks like someone's gotten their hands on some alien tech and worked out how to use it." he muttered, then continued softly, almost below hearing. "You know sometimes I wonder if I have it the right way round, believing that I'm protecting humanity from the monsters."
There was an awkward frozen stillness that hung in the cold air of the barren threshold, before Rose reached out a hand again, laying it gently on the Doctor's arm.
"At least come inside out of this snow before you catch cold" she murmured, glancing down at his bare legs.
The Doctor's jaw loosened slightly as he looked down at her. "It's not snow." he informed her dully. "It's ash. The remains of the Sycorax spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere after someone blew it out of the sky." He smiled bleakly. "I guess my negotiation skills won't be needed after all."
Chase spoke up hesitantly from the doorway. "But isn't this a good thing? Weren't the … um … Sycorax" he stumbled over the word, his voice laced with uncertainty and embarrassment. "Weren't they the bad guys?"
The Doctor snorted softly, his expression still grim as he let Rose gently tug him towards the cover of the entryway. "I guess everything's relative" he muttered quietly. The harsh lines of his face softened thoughtfully as he watched Dr Cameron reach out a hand to catch one of the falling gray flakes on a forefinger before closing her eyes with a shudder and turning away.
House collapsed back into his chair, gazing with vacant eyes across the clutter of his desk, his mind a million miles away. He reached absent-mindedly for his oversized tennis ball with one hand whilst listening to the muted uproar of the hospital drifting from the rooms all around his office. No-one was quite clear on what exactly had transpired that cold Christmas morning, and the uncertainty was fuelling the hysteria and mindless panic until the whole building resembled an overturned ant heap.
There had been pandemonium as a belated rush of bewildered hospital staff, patients and visitors, drawn by the flash of light, streamed out of the hospital and clustered around Cuddy like flies on dung. In the heaving and shouting press of people, House had lost sight of the Doctor and his companion, and no-one seemed inclined to give him a sensible answer as to where they'd gone.
House leaned back in his seat, levering his long denim clad legs up until they rested, crossed at the ankles, on the edge of his desk, providing a little relief from the throbbing pain that was cramping his ravaged thigh muscle more insistently than normal. He tossed the tennis ball to his left hand and reached his right into the tight pocket of his jeans, pulling loose the small test tube of blood that his mysterious patient had tossed to him, and which was all that he had to remember him by. Much to his chagrin, by the time he'd brutally elbowed his way out of the mêlée and returned to the lab, it had been annoyingly thoroughly and systematically denuded of any traces of the evening's excitement.
He stared thoughtfully at the tube, pivoting it up and down between two fingers until it resembled one of those drinking bird desk-toys. The dark viscous liquid sloshed backwards and forwards in a depressingly familiar way.
He wasn't quite sure how long he'd sat there, in the gradually brightening room, but he was aware of the electric sensation of another personality invading his sanctum a good few seconds before the soft, apologetic cough broke the silence.
He looked up, his iceberg cool gaze clashing with a warm burnt umber intensity. There was a complicated pause as a hundred conversational gambits were clearly considered and discarded.
It was the Doctor who made the first move, crossing over from the doorway to drag the leather recliner from the corner of the office to a more conversational distance in front of House's desk, then flopping down into it with a whoomph of exhaustion.
House raised an eyebrow at the rumpled man in front of him, taking in the creased, tight fitting brown pinstripe suit and the long brown trenchcoat that seemed to sit easily on his lanky frame.
"I'm surprised to see you back here." House finally grated out. "I had you pegged for a more love 'em and leave 'em type and to hell with the aftermath!"
The Doctor cocked his head slightly, a tight smile pulling at his pointed features. "I suppose I am, in a manner of speaking. But I can't abide loose ends" he murmured softly.
House tightened his fist over the tube of blood, but the Doctor wasn't looking at that. His gaze never wavered from House's face. "Discounting for a moment your dubious intentions and understandable ignorance, it occurs to me that, despite everything, I suppose you could say that I owe you my life." The Doctor's speech was slightly halting and he shifted slightly in the low chair, obviously uncomfortable under House's slight smirk.
House raised the other eyebrow, abandoning his nonchalant pose and letting his feet fall down from the desk as he leant forward intently.
"And are you going to repay that debt by giving me a few straight answers?" he demanded hotly.
The Doctor didn't flinch from the sudden belligerence. He stared calmly at House, one side of his mouth quirked in a crooked grin.
"That depends" he spoke in an affable tone, steepling his fingers together lightly beneath his chin. "On whether you have the courage to ask the right questions."
House narrowed his eyes, the muscles of his jaw tightening as he leaned forward, elbows on knees, to pierce the shorter man with a hostile gaze.
There was a long expectant pause, then House abruptly broke eye contact with a violent shake of his head. "This is ridiculous!" he spat out. "I know what you want me to think but that sort of thing is pure escapist fantasy for weak-minded idiots who can't face dealing with the real problems before them. I'm a doctor. I believe in the rational, the explainable." He leaned back in his chair away from the other man. "I may not know exactly what's been going on here. Static discharge, mass hypnosis, elaborate government conspiracies…" he paused in his breathless rant, looking back at the still figure in front of him "Weird mutated freaks … Who knows! But there will be answers, and they will be logical!"
His voice had risen to a near shout but was cut short by the Doctor's soft snort. "Oh give it a rest!" the other man mocked cuttingly. "I've been hearing a lot about you and you are not renowned for your logical and considered approach to problem solving. You go with your instincts. With what feels right at the time, even sometimes against all evidence to the contrary. And you make it work for you." The Doctor awarded him with a dazzling grin. "That's what makes us both so fantastic!" he beamed.
House's mouth pulled into a reluctant half-smile at the arrogance but he remained silent. The Doctor leaned forward, his gaze softening in sympathy. "All I'm asking for here is a little faith in the unexplained. I think it would do you a world of good, although I can see that that doesn't come easy to you."
"You want me to just go with your flow?" House asked cynically. "I bet there are a few drowned swimmers in your wake who regret making that decision."
The Doctor tilted his head in weary acknowledgement of that, then in a sudden impulsive gesture, darted a hand into the pocket of his long brown coat. House watched uncertainly as the man fumbled around for a distracted few seconds, muttering to himself as more of his arm disappeared into the mysterious recesses of the lining.
"Aha!" he exclaimed triumphantly, pulling out a fist full of junk and examining it with interest. He pulled a bit of fluff from an old baby-shaped jelly sweet and popped it absent-mindedly into his mouth. "I knew I had this left!" he muttered rather indistinctly, peering at his haul. He was left with a couple of funny shaped foreign coins, a small furry ball of fluff that House could have sworn twitched in the non-existent breeze, and a large red and yellow medicine capsule. The Doctor picked the pill up carefully between thumb and forefinger, thrusting the rest of the handful back into his pocket, and placed it delicately on the desk in front of House.
"It's a pain pill. From a little planet not that far in advance of yours. Picked it up a few decades back. When I last wore this coat in fact, but it should still be good." He winked at House knowingly. "Should knock the socks off your regular Vicodin and last a fair bit longer too!" he whispered conspiratorially, then leaned back pensively. "You could try analysing it if you like but you should know that it's a rather fragile little molecule." he mused. "Wouldn't stand up well to testing. I'm guessing that you're not above a bit of a gamble but remember, the House doesn't always win." He paused, fixing House with a challenging look before leaping to his feet and striding dynamically to the door in a swirl of coat tails. He looked back for a moment, meeting distrustful, cynical blue eyes.
"I guess it's your choice then." He called back, his dark eyes serious for a moment. "It comes down to whether you'd prefer to know or to believe."
The moment of gravity passed and the Doctor erupted once more into a mischievous grin. "Guess I'll see you around then Doctor!" He called cheerfully. "Ciao for now!"
And with that he was gone, leaving House staring thoughtfully after him.
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0.024326 | <urn:uuid:aadb623d-a74c-4faa-b0a7-635928e5dde9> | en | 0.986655 | Sam and Dean stood in the middle of the room packing their bags then behind them the door opened and John stood there.
"So boys" he said entering the room.
"Yes sir" Sam said as the brothers turned to face their father.
"You ignored a direct order back there" John said looking at Sam and Dean.
"Yes sir" Sam repeated.
"Yeah but we saved your ass" Dean said.
There was a silent pause and then John sighed. "You're right"
"I am?" Dean asked, not believing that his Dad had agreed with him.
"It scares the hell out of me. You kids are all the family I've got but I guess we are stronger as a family" John said "So we go after this damn thing, together" he said with a nod and Sam and Dean smiled.
"Yes sir" they both said.
Sam then reached in his pocket and brought out his phone.
"What are you doing?" John asked.
"Calling Kyra" Sam said.
"No" both Dean and John said at the same time.
"Why not, she's part of this family" Sam said.
"I want Kyra left out of this, it's not her battle" John said and Dean nodded. Sam looked at them both, he couldn't believe that they were going to leave the youngest Winchester out of it, but he guessed it was something that he'd have to deal with.
"Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And if they give you shh...
Then they can walk on by
My feet, feet can't touch the ground
And I can't hear a sound
But you just keep on running up your mouth yeah
Walk, walk on over there
'Cos I'm too fly to care, oh yeah
Your words don't mean a thing
I'm not listening
Keep talking, all I know is
Mamma told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And they can't detain you
'Cos wings are made to fly
And we don't let nobody bring us down
No matter what you say it won't hurt me
Don't matter if I fall from the sky
These wings are made to fly
Kyra sung as she stood on a table in the little bar. Everyone around her was clapping and cheering. She smiled and jumped down into Adam's arms. He caught her bridle style and spun her around. They pressed their foreheads together and Adam gently kissed Kyra's lips.
When they parted Adam put Kyra down.
"That felt like something out of Step Up" Kyra laughed.
"Trust me chick, it wasn't half as cheesy" Adam said.
The landlord gave everybody drinks on the house and someone stole the show by standing on a table and singing karaoke. Kyra smiled and held Adam's hand tightly as she watched the performer.
This was everything she ever wanted, a normal boyfriend, a normal job, a normal life. But even though she had everything she wanted Kyra knew that she would never escape, her family problems were always going to be three steps behind her. She still looked over her shoulder every noun again to check that nothing was there.
After a few drinks Adam was a little bit drunk so Kyra decided to get him home. They only lived a few blocks down so they walked. Adam was a happy drunk so Kyra wasn't too troubled.
"Come on" she laughed as Adam hung of her shoulders.
"I am so in love with you" Adam said.
"I'm in love with you too but we really need to get home" Kyra said dragging Adam by his hand.
"Adam and Kyra sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g" Adam sung.
"First comes love" Kyra said.
"Then comes marriage" Adam said.
"Then comes baby in a baby's carriage" a voice said from behind them.
Kyra spun around as fast as she could with Adam still clinging onto her. Behind them in the ally was a man, Kyra knew it wasn't an ordinary man.
"Leave us alone" she said in a deep voice.
"Now Kyra be nice" the demon said stepping forward. "I only want to talk"
Suddenly Adam dropped to the ground pulling Kyra with him.
"Adam!" she exclaimed as she knelt next to his unconscious body. "What did you do?" she shouted turning to the demon.
"Relax; I only put him to sleep for a bit so we can talk in private" the demon said walking further forwards.
"Don't take another step!" Kyra shouted as she pulled a flask out her pocket.
"Holy water, seriously Ky. That's a little pathetic"
"Who are you?" Kyra asked.
"My name is Tom" he said.
"That's hardly a demon name" Kyra said.
"Funny, I would have said Kyra was an odd name. But you don't see me complaining" Tom said.
"Shut the hell up, what do you want?" Kyra asked crossly.
"The Winchesters. Dead" he said in a low tone.
Kyra braised herself with the holy water.
"Chill honey, I want your Father first. Then I'm coming for your brothers, then you" Tom said in a slow voice.
"I have no idea where my brothers and Dad are" Kyra said.
"Now that's something I just don't believe" Tom said and he started to stride forward.
Just as he got a few feet away from Kyra there was a bright light and Tom screamed. The white light was so strong that Kyra had to cover her eyes. After a few seconds the light faded and Kyra was alone with Adam and the demon had gone.
"What the…" she said as she looked around. She then heard a voice inside her head, first it was like a high pitched scream but then a male voice came through.
"An angel is forever on your shoulder" it said and then Adam woke up.
"What happened?" he asked.
"A demon" Kyra said helping him up.
"Was I drunk?" Adam asked.
"Yeah, how do you feel now?" Kyra asked.
"Like I've got a mega hangover" he said looking down at her. "But I'd rather that than be dead" he said.
"I'm with you on that one, lets go" Kyra said.
A few days passed and Kyra couldn't sleep. On the fourth night of sitting at the kitchen table with her head in her hands Adam put a tray of tablets on the table in-front of her.
"What are those?" she asked looking up at him.
"Sleeping pills" he said sitting on the table in-front of her, he picked the tray up and popped out two white pills in his hand. He then held his palm out to her along with a glass of water.
"You want me to take them?" she asked blinking up at him.
"Yes, your getting sleep deprivation symptoms" he said.
"Such as what?" Kyra asked irritated.
"The ice-cream was in the oven, your make up is a mess, there's burnt toast stuck in the toaster and look down"
Kyra looked down and saw that her bra was on the outside of her shirt.
"Whoops" she sighed.
"Yeah whoops" Adam said.
"No wonder you didn't let me go to the corner shop" she sighed.
"Just trying to look after ya" Adam said and shook the tablets in his hand.
After another heavy sigh Kyra downed the pills and a few minutes later she was out for the count.
"Hello, wakey wakey Kyra" a distant voice said.
Kyra mumbled and shook her head, refusing to open her eyes.
"Geez, how many pills did he give you. Rise and shine sleepy head" the unfamiliar voice said.
Kyra eventually opened her eyes.
The sun was bright and she squinted, it was a cold, crisp morning. Kyra was very confused to find herself lying on the ground by a frozen over lake.
"Where am I?" she asked looking around.
Then a guy bobbed next to her.
"You're in your head silly" he said and then jumped up again.
Kyra blinked again and got up slowly.
"I'm dreaming?" she asked.
"Yep" the man said joining her by the lake.
"Who are you?" Kyra asked turning to look at him.
"I'm, your guarding light" the man said with a slight pause.
"Guarding light" Kyra mumbled "An angel on my shoulder?"
"Please don't flatter me" the man said.
Kyra was really confused.
"Is this real?" she asked.
"Yeah, afraid so"
"Even though it's in my head?"
"Even more so" the man smiled.
He didn't seem threatening; he was quite short for a bloke, probably about the same height as Kyra. He had longish dark hair and a slightly hooked nose, his voice was one you wouldn't forget in a hurry.
"Why are you here?" Kyra asked.
"I'm here to tell you what to do next" he said.
Kyra frowned "I don't need anyone telling me what to do"
"You let Adam tell you what to do"
"That's because he knows what's best for me"
"Oh really" the man said.
"Look I don't know who you think you are but…"
"I'm gonna stop you right there missy" the man said putting his finger on her lips. Kyra pulled back and the man laughed. "Who was it that saved you from the nasty, horrible demon" he said as if he were talking a child. Kyra didn't answer. "That's what I thought" the man said. "So as I was saying, you need to go find your Father and your brothers and assist them" the man said.
"Kyra" the man said with a stern voice.
"Make me" Kyra said crossing her arms.
"A demon is going to kill your Father" the man said and Kyra looked at him.
"Why should I trust you?" Kyra asked.
"Why would I lie?" the man asked.
Kyra looked at him.
"Lincoln, that's where you're Dad is. This is the address. Go and save him, don't go and he's gonna die" the man said handing her a piece of paper and then Kyra woke up.
"You are the best boyfriend ever" Kyra said as she got into the Mustang and shut the door. Adam leant in the open window.
"You can't choose your family" he sighed and kissed her forehead. "Just be careful"
"Remember what I told you" Kyra said looking at Adam with a concerned face.
"Check who's behind the door before I open it, salt and holy water are in the kitchen" Adam nodded.
Kyra looked up at him.
"Are you sure you're gonna be alright?" Kyra asked.
"I'm sure, now go. Your brothers need you" Adam said tapping the roof of the car. Kyra nodded and headed off down the road.
Kyra pulled up at the address she'd be given in her dream. She looked around and frowned. She'd been taken to a disused factory.
"Bullshit" she mumbled and was about to drive off when she heard the sound of an engine. She followed the sound and was pleased to see her Father's truck, just as she was about to run forward she saw another figure in the darkness. It was a woman; she had blonde short hair and was wearing a red jacket. She was watching John and Kyra decided to hand back and watch her Dad's back.
Kyra followed the blonde woman, who she decided was a demon, as the blonde woman followed John. As the demon took short cuts Kyra sometimes lost sight of her Father but he soon came back into view as the demon closed in. Kyra came to a stop behind some rusty barrel as John stopped inside a room, the demon came out and John seemed to know who she was.
They started talking and Kyra wasn't close enough to hear what they were saying. She gasped when she recognised another demon appear, it was Tom, the demon from the ally way. They continued to shout and then the female demon shouted "NOW!"
Kyra watched as John handed over a gun, Kyra was so confused. Obviously she'd missed quite a bit. She watched Tom ready the gun and the click echoed in the large room. He then suddenly shot the female demon.
"You shot me!" she shouted "I can't believe you just shot me!"
"It's a fake!" Tom said throwing the gun to the side. The gun slid over the floor and landed right next to Kyra's feet, she silently picked it up and hooked it into her belt.
So from what had been said so far Kyra could make out the following. Tom and the women were demons and they wanted a special gun that was in John's possession. The gun seemed to be strong enough to kill demons, that was one powerful gun. No wonder the demons wanted it.
Both the demons then started to walk towards John.
"You're dead John. Your boys are dead" the female demon shouted.
"I've never used the gun, how could I know it wouldn't work?" John said moving backwards.
"I'm so not in the mood for this. I've just been shot!" the demon shouted.
"Well then I guess you're lucky the gun wasn't real" John said and Kyra smiled.
She hadn't seen his for years and yet he hadn't changed a bit.
"That's funny John, we're gonna strip the skin from your bones, but that was funny"
Kyra decided that she needed to intervene so she hit on of the barrels as hard as she could. The loud bang gave both her and John a chance to run.
Just by chance Kyra and John ran into each other in the underground pathways.
"Dad!" Kyra exclaimed and John pulled her into his arms.
"What are you doing here Kyra?" he asked almost crossly.
"Saving your butt" Kyra said.
"Come on" John said pulling her down a corridor.
John suddenly stopped and started messing around with a valve, suddenly water sprayed out.
"Come on" Kyra said pulling on his sleeve.
She held her breath as the two demons came running around the corner. Tom looked at her and smiled.
"Hey beautiful" he smirked and John put his arm protectively in-front of Kyra. Still smirking Tom stepped forward but he screamed when the water burned his shoes.
"Holy water John. Real cute" the female shouted.
John laughed and he pulled on Kyra's jacket, motioning her into a run.
"Who is that demon?" Kyra asked John as they ran outside.
"Her name is Meg" John said as they came to a stop by his truck. They both looked down at the slashed tires. "Damn it" John sighed.
"I parked over here" Kyra said running over to her car. "Damn it!" she exclaimed seeing that her tires were also burst.
"This way" John said turning backwards and Kyra followed.
"We're lost" Kyra said after a while of running.
John reached into his pocket and got his phone out but he suddenly flew backwards hitting the wall. His phone flew into the air and hit Kyra's head before it landed on the ground.
"Ow!" she shouted.
There was a laugh and Tom walked out the darkness.
"That was impressive" he said smiling as he walked forwards.
Kyra reached around her back and laid her hand on the gun behind her back.
"Not so fast" Tom said and Kyra suddenly found herself unable to move. She struggled to move her arm away from the gun as Tom approached her.
"You are so sneaky" Tom said coming to a stop only inches from Kyra, he reached around her back and put his hand on top of hers on the gun. He didn't take his eyes of hers for a second.
"Get away from her!" John shouted.
"Oh John, I forgot you were there" Tom said.
He pulled the gun out of Kyra's belt and slammed her to the wall next to John.
"You okay kid?" John asked and Kyra nodded.
"Ah ha" she said.
"Isn't that touching?" Tom said tilting his head to the side.
Meg soon appeared out the black.
"Look what I've got sis" Tom said.
"Ever heard the expression, kill two birds with one stone?" Meg asked.
"Let me have a go Meg" Tom said, not taking his eyes of Kyra.
"With pleasure, I only need John" Meg said.
Kyra suddenly dropped to the floor and Tom quickly ran over and grabbed her arms behind her back.
"KYRA!" John shouted as Tom dragged her away.
"DAD!" Kyra shouted back but as quickly as he had arrived Tom disappeared into the darkness with Kyra in tow.
"You're not going to get anything from me" Kyra said as Tom threw her into a room inside the factory.
"On the country, I'm going to get a lot from you" Tom said shutting and locking the door behind him. Kyra stood in the middle of the room and he looked at her.
"Like what?" she asked.
"Target practise" Tom said and Kyra suddenly flew across the room and hit the wall. She landed on the floor with a thud and groaned in pain. "Entertainment" Tom said throwing her into another wall. "Companionship" he said with a slower tone, this time he didn't chuck her across the room but he walked over to her and bent down. "Love" he said with a more questioning voice.
"Yeah, love" Kyra laughed "Sorry bud, I'm taken"
"No your not" Tom said getting angry and standing up.
He looked down at Kyra as if he were thinking of what he could do.
"You're weak, pathetic" Kyra said as she rolled onto her side.
Tom then started to kick her side; he then pushed her over and straddled her hips.
"Kicking a girl?" Kyra laughed looking up at him.
Even more angered Tom started to punch Kyra's head, after four or five hits he climbed of her and Kyra rolled onto her front and spat blood from her mouth. The door suddenly opened and Meg stood there.
"Tom, you were supposed to convince her to join us" she sighed looking down at the bloody Kyra.
"She made me angry" Tom said looking at the damage he caused.
"Well get her to the hotel" Meg said and then left the room.
Tom walked over to Kyra and picked her up in his arms.
"Get of me" Kyra said but she was in too much pain to wriggle free. It wasn't long till Kyra blacked out in his arms.
Slowly Kyra began to open her eyes. Her head throbbed and ached. She attempted to move her arms but they were tied to the wardrobe handles behind her. She looked around and saw her Father tied onto the bed.
"Dad?" she called in a little voice.
When he didn't answer she called again. "Dad!"
Suddenly making her jump the door burst open and a man stood there with a woman behind him.
"Be quiet" the man said and as he blinked his eyes turned black.
"You demons are friggin everywhere" Kyra sighed.
Then the woman came out from behind the man and stabbed a needle into Kyra's arm.
"What the bloody hell was…" Kyra didn't even get time to finish her sentence before she fell asleep.
"Dad" a familiar voice said.
"Kyra" another familiar voice said.
Kyra blinked her eyes open to see Sam's eyes darting all over her face, probably taking in all the cuts and bruises Tom had given her.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asked.
"Helping" Kyra smiled and Sam looked at her sympathetically.
Sam cut the ropes on Kyra's wrists and helped her to stand; he then pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly.
"I've missed you" he whispered.
"I've missed you too" Kyra said hugging him back. They both then looked over at Dean who was leaning over John.
"He's still breathing, Dad wake up DAD!" Dean shouted.
Dean went to cut the ties holding John down.
"Wait, wait" Sam said.
"What?" Dean asked.
"He could be possessed for all we know" Sam said.
"What are you, nuts?" Dean said.
"We gotta be sure" Sam said reaching into his bag and bringing out a small flask.
"You cut Kyra loose without testing her" Dean said.
"Oi" Kyra frowned.
"Hi by the way" Dean said.
Sam suddenly threw some holy water into Kyra's face; she froze and spat some out onto the floor.
"Geez Sammy" she exclaimed and wiped her face on her sleeve.
"Happy?" Sam said to Dean who shrugged and then sprinkled some water onto John.
John then started to wake up "Sam, why are you splashing water on me?"
"Dad are you okay?" Dean asked cutting the ropes.
"They've been drugging me" John said as Dean helped him up. John then saw Kyra's beat up face.
"Sweetheart" he said.
"I'm okay Dad" Kyra smiled even though it hurt her face to do so.
"Where's the colt?" John asked.
"Don't worry Dad, its safe" Sam said.
"Good boys, good boys" John said as they help him up.
As the Winchesters hobbled towards the door a fireman and porter came in who were obviously possessed by demons.
"Go, go back" Dean said shoving everyone back inside the bedroom.
Just as Sam managed to lock the door the fireman's axe came smashing through.
"Here's Johnny" Kyra laughed.
Sam bent down and poured some salt along the bottom of the door, almost as soon as the salt was down the banging on the door stopped.
Dean piled John through the window and between then Kyra and John climbed down the fire exit.
Kyra moved John so that he was leaning against the wall and waited for Sam and Dean to come. Sam came down first and as he ran out into the road Tom rammed him to the ground.
"SAM!" Kyra shouted.
She ran over and jumped on Tom's back, she wrestled him backwards and he tripped on the pavement and fell on top of Kyra. She could hardly breathe from being winded.
"If you wanted a hug Kyra you only had to ask" Tom said and then Sam appeared and pulled Tom away. As Kyra tried to catch her breath she saw Tom swat Dean away who landed on a car bonnet. Tom then proceeded to punch Sam around the head over and over. Kyra ran over to Dean and shook him.
"Where is it Dean, where's the colt?" she shouted at him.
Dean glanced over to Sam's duffle bag that had been thrown aside in the chaos. Kyra ran over to it and rummaged.
There was suddenly a loud shot that rang through the air. Tom froze mid punch and fell side-wards. Everybody turned to the source of the noise. Dean ran over to Sam and pulled him up, along with John they all look at Kyra who had the colt in her hand. She was still holding it in the air, staring blankly at the dead Tom.
"Kyra" Dean said trying to snap her out of her daze. When she didn't respond he shouted "KYRA!"
"Yeah" she blinked looking over at Dean who was propping Sam up.
"Move" he said and she slowly got into a run and followed them.
Dean drove everybody at a hut that was in the middle of nowhere. Dean ushered John into one of the back rooms and Kyra and Sam took turns cleaning each other up. When Dean came back Kyra had cleared all the blood from Sam's face and he was just finishing hers.
"How is he?" Sam asked Dean but not taking his eyes of Kyra's cut lip.
"He just needs a little rest, that's all. How are you two?"
"Fine" Kyra nodded.
"I'll survive" Sam said. "There" he whispered to Kyra as he finished dabbing blood away. Kyra leant forward and kissed his cheek.
"Thanks" she whispered and Sam hugged her gently before Kyra sat back on the couch and rested her head. Dean watched the pair, because their age was similar Sam and Kyra had always had a close relationship that Dean was a little jealous of.
"Hey you don't think we were followed here do you?" Sam asked.
"I don't know, I don't think so. I mean we could have found a more out of the way place to hole up" Dean said.
"Yeah" Sam sighed. He looked around the room and then looked at Kyra. "Hey Kyra" he said and she looked up at him sleepily.
"You saved my life back there" he said.
"And I'd do it over and over again" Kyra smiled weakly.
"So I guess your glad I brought the gun huh?" Dean smiled.
"Dude, I'm trying to say thank you here" Sam said turning to look at Dean crossly.
Dean shrugged and started to clean his gun collection.
"Kyra, Kyra wake up" Sam said.
Kyra slowly blinked her eyes open and looked around the room. Dean was one side of the room and Sam was the other. By the door stood John.
"What's going on?" Kyra asked as she stood up. As both her feet hit the floor she flew side-wards and was pinned to the wall.
"I could have killed you a hundred times today" John said walking forwards. He moved closer to Dean and Kyra had the sense to stay quiet, for now.
"But this, this is worth the wait" John said wit malice in his voice. "Your Dad, he's in here with me" John or what was a demon said. He looked at Dean and smirked. "Trapped inside his own meat-suite. He says hi by the way. He's gonna tear you apart, he's gonna taste the iron in your blood" the demon controlling John said.
"Let him go or I swear to god" Dean said in a deep voice.
"What, what are you and god gonna do? You see as far as I'm concerned this is justice"
"Justice for what?" Kyra asked.
"Kyra quiet" Dean warned.
The demon ignored Kyra and moved closer to Dean. "You know that little exorcism of yours that was my daughter"
"Who Meg?" Dean asked in a hush voice.
The demon then turned and walked over to Kyra, as he got closer Kyra could see his yellow eyes.
"The one in the ally that was my boy" he said.
"You understand?" yellow eyes asked turning back to Dean.
"You gotta be kidding me" Dean said.
"What? You're the only one who can have a family, you destroyed my children" the demon said.
"They were trying to kill us, if they had just left us alone then we wouldn't have destroyed them" Kyra said and Dean looked at her angrily.
"Kyra I won't tell you again" he said with a deep tone.
"Why aren't I allowed to speak, why have you always got to be the dictator?"
"You should listen to your sister for once Dean. I mean she's not going to be here that long. How would you feel if I killed your family?" the demon asked.
Kyra looked from Dean to Sam, the whole time Sam remained still.
The demon then smiled "Oh that's right, I forgot I did. Still two wrongs don't make a right"
"You son of a bitch" Dean said.
"I wanna know why, why'd you do it?" Sam suddenly asked. The demon turned and slowly walked towards him.
"You mean, why'd I kill Mummy and pretty little Jess?" it asked.
"Yeah" Sam said.
The demon then turned back to Dean.
"You know I never told you this but Sam was gonna ask her to marry him, been shopping for rings and everything, you wanna know why?" the demon asked now standing in-front of Sam. "Because they got in the way"
"In the way of what?" Sam asked.
"My plans for you Sammy, you and all the children like you"
"Listen, do you mind just getting this over with cause I really can't stand the monologging" Dean interrupted.
"Again" the demon said spinning around "Exactly like Kyra said, a dictator. Always wanting the lime light, hey Dean? Funny, but that's all apart of your M.O isn't it? Mask all that nasty pain, mask the truth" the demon said.
"Oh yeah, what's that" Dean said with his Die Hard attitude.
"You know you fight and you fight for this family, but the truth is they don't need you. Not like you need them. Sam he's clearly John's favourite, even when they fight its more concern than he's ever shown you. And little Kyra, his baby girl, his princess that he'd do anything to protect" the demon said venomously.
"I bet your real proud of your kids to huh, oh wait I forgot me and Kyra wasted them" Dean said with a smirk.
He then suddenly let out a cry of pain.
"Dean!" both Kyra and Sam shouted.
They watched as blood started to seep from their older brother's chest.
"Don't you let it kill me!" Dean shouted at John.
Meanwhile Sam shouted and pulled at the force holding him to the wall. Kyra watched the events unfold in-front of her; she tried really hard not to let tears fall from her eyes. Dean screamed louder and blood started to come out his mouth.
"Dean!" Kyra exclaimed as she started to pull forwards, trying to break free.
"Dad, please" Dean begged.
"Don't give up Dean" Kyra said "Don't give up"
He then passed out and his head hung low.
"Dean!" Sam shouted. "No!"
A few seconds passed and then John spoke quietly "Stop, stop it"
"Dad fight, don't let it win!" Kyra shouted.
Suddenly Sam managed to grab the colt and he stood in the middle of the room pointing it at John.
"You kill me, you kill Daddy" the demon said taking control.
"I know" Sam said and shot the gun.
Kyra gasped as for a second she thought Sam had gone for a fatal shot but he's only hit John's leg. John's body started to flash like it was lightning then both him, Dean and Kyra fell to the floor. Dean gasped for air and John didn't move.
"Dean!" Kyra said rushing over.
"Hey Dean, oh god. You lost a lot of blood" Sam said joining her and Dean's side.
"Where's Dad?" Dean asked.
"He's here, he's right here Dean"
"Go check on him" Dean whispered and when Sam protested Kyra went over and looked at John.
"Dad" she whispered.
"Sammy!" he suddenly shouted regaining consciousness. "Its still alive, it's inside me. I can feel it. You shoot me, you shoot me in the heart son" he said.
Kyra fumbled backwards and Sam stepped forwards and pointed the gun.
"Do it now!" John shouted.
"Sam don't you do it" Dean whispered from the floor.
"Shush" Kyra said kneeling down to him.
"You gotta do it, I can't hold on much longer" John said pain stricken.
A few seconds passed and Sam lowered the gun as he did John screamed and black smoke flooded out his mouth. The siblings watched it go.
"Come on, get them in the car!" Kyra said as she started to pull Dean up.
"Just hold on alright, the hospitals only ten minutes away" Sam said to John who was in the front passenger's seat. Kyra and Dean were in the back, leaning on each other for support. Although it was more Dean leaning on Kyra, she wasn't hurt that bad but she was scared that Dean was more hurt than he was letting on.
"I'm surprised at you Sammy, why didn't you kill it?" John asked.
Sam looked at the wiry Dean in the back seat; he then looked at Kyra who shrugged.
"Look, we still got the colt, we still have the one bullet left we should start over alright I mean we already…"
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I port cdc personal profile with MIDP (phoneme advanced MR2 2008) to my arm-based embedded device. (Linux system 2.6)
then I copy all my files to my device.
I can run a demo program like this:
"cvm com.sun.xlet.XletRunner -name basis.DemoXlet -path democlasses.jar"
"cvm -cp democlasses.jar basis.DemoFrame"
It works well.
I tried to run my HelloMidlet.class in my ARM-based device.
But it shows the error message:
/mnt/usb/me/midp/midp_linux_fb_gcc/bin/arm/runMidlet: line1: /root/jpj/phoneme_advanced_mr2/cdc/build/linux-arm-generic/bin/cvm: not found
Does anybody know how to fix this problem.
It looks seems the issue of PATH.
But I can't create a directory for CVM and the libraries. Because the memory isn't enough. I mount a USB disk and running programs which stored on this disk.
Please help me. I'm a student. It spend a lot of time and I feel very depressed.
By the way, I can't use Button and Label in my AWT program.
Does this means that personal profile didn't support this?
How can I do if I need a button in my program.
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in the after-hours, if people are short-covering they're doing it obviously in a more difficult environment. david: who would have guessed it was in double digits less than a year ago it is trading over 200. it hasn't traded over 200 a share since september 14th, 2011. this is long way coming. liz: long way to go. david: have you been to the airport recently? you go to the airport all the time. you go home to the airport to get back to new jersey. airport delays as faa furloughs begin to kick in. liz: rich edson at the airport. what are you hearing overall about the situation, rich? overall we got hundreds of delays yesterday. airline association says we could see up to a few thousand delays because of this when you look at this, go around the country, there are delays in charlotte, there are delays elsewhere. faa is saying there are delays basically close to coast. as far as specifics are concerned they could not provide us with any ties of numbers. that has a number about folks, especially republicans in congress say this is entirely structured by the faa to inflict what they say is maxim
versions of android operating systems on a phone especially when i'm in a sensitive environment, government, financial, health care, things like that. melissa: yeah. so, morgan, you're talking about more and more offices are saying rather than providing a device, they'll let you go and buy and bring in whatever you want to use, and then they help you get on their system, and if more and more people are bringing in androids, that it's becoming less secure, is that what you mean? >> yeah. i mean, you know, at some point you have to understand is it good enough, and from, you know, it used to be price, security and speed, pick two when you built the network, now it has to be all three. be you're not secure, from a government standpoint it's not going to get used. but especially from a financial standpoint. i don't want my personal details leaking out, and i don't want somebody compromising my banking app that's supposed to be trusted. so very much you've got to worry about that. melissa: so, rob, how dangerous do you think this could be? is my bank account threatened, or is this just dangerous
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I don't know if anyone else out there watches the CSI and CSI: Miami shows on television (presumably someone else watches them or they would not continue to make the show), they involve Crime Scene Investigators sifting through evidence to find the bad people responsible for the crime. It may not be the best TV show but my fiancé and I often enjoy watching it trying to guess who the bad guy is. However the thing that bugs me about that show (and a lot of other TV shows and films) is the way they show computers working, the computers on these shows have slick interfaces that flash up instant results of a query including a driver's license image and other related data, they offer 3D analysis of tire tread matching, shoe print matching, DNA matching etc etc., even the login screen is slick and inviting. Now we all know that no reasonable computer interface looks like that and although some of those things might be technically feasible today it would probably take more developer effort than could be justified by likely sales of shoe print matching software! At those points in the TV show I just choose to suspend reality and enjoy the show.
So in Longhorn the technologies in Avalon are going to bring the types of user interfaces we see in these shows within the easy reach of developers. Great!
Well of course the cynical among you are probably saying something like “but I actually don't really want something that looks like what they show on TV“ well I'd probably agree with you as the TV shows are always going to show something a little more simplistic than a what might be used in the real world simply so that the viewer can easily follow the plot. That's not to say that elements of what is typically seen on TV aren't useful and isn't something we should provide in the next generation of computer solutions. For many people today computers remain too difficult to use and offering a glitch free user experience that guides you through getting a task done with animation helping show the flow of the task will I believe help here. There's a video of Real Estate on Longhorn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/productinfo/ that shows what a future user experience might be with Longhorn. Watch the 3D flyover nearly half way through the video isn't that cool!
To me the vision for Avalon and Longhorn is to put in place a set of technologies that will allow us to offer the next generation of user experiences. Maybe one day I'll see someone using a computer in a movie and won't roll my eyes and sigh quietly in complete disbelief! | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmassy/archive/2004/01/30/65368.aspx | dclm-gs1-203300002 | false | false | {
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Ask in response: Will you sign a contract? Who is organizing and editing this article? Do I get final edit rights before it goes to press? That will stop any random parties who want to get lots of stuff for their show for free.
Toba Garrett has revised this recipe in he new book "Master Class" to say that the ganache should be at room temperature but it should have hardened up before you add it to the buttercream. You could use chilled ganache as long as you let it come to room temperature before you add it. And for those who are looking, creme de cacao is a generic chocolate liqueur that tastes just fine in this recipe. So does Irish Mist or Glayva or any sweet Scotch/whisky based...
If you are busy then you are busy. Your family would have to reserve their cake ahead of time just like the paying customers even if you do give it to them for free. So you can see that there are two separate issues: discount, and timing. NOBODY can invent extra time...least of all family. If they have not reserved a cake ahead of time then they cannot expect one even if they wanted to pay you double...right?
I always called customers. Then an evening appointment only if necessary (for a wedding cake). But please remember that Cottage Food states permit "inspection" of kitchen. So you need to post your EVENING hours on your website, that may help.
That is for making piped decorations NOT for covering a cake. Add as much butter as you used shortening. Add 2X as much sugar as you used the first time. Then beat in some heavy cream or liquid coffee creamer. Add about 1/2 cup per pound of fat, or until you have a smooth consistency icing for covering cake or six... And next time test with a half recipe.
Beg or borrow or buy hte book Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen. Most of your questions are answered with the professional terminology there. Some of us do work with TQM, but it would take several hours to write down how this works in a baking business...
The deepest cake tins are angel food tins at 4"deep. Do you have a 5" deep (top to bottom) tin? Why not make layers?
Lots of European sponge cake recipes that use eggs, sugar, almond flour. Use google for "almond torte" or "almond sponge" or "almond cake" you will find more recipes there than you can shakl a stick at.
How about you stripe the icing bag. I would lay down a layer of green and fill with yellow to make a subtle green edge. Both shades will show. Better that than alternating columns of green and yellow ruffles...
Use the cardboard. Stick that down on the separator plate with a good quarter-cup gob of buttercream. The board protects the cake plate from scratching. The cardboard base also permits you to take the plate home from the event and give the leftovers to the party on something that they can stick into their fridge.
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Cyberpunk derivatives[edit]
Person's essay advocates using the term postcyberpunk to label the new works such writers produce. In this view, typical postcyberpunk stories continue the focus on social implications within a post-third industrial-era society, such as a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information and cybernetic augmentation of the human body, but without the assumption of dystopia (see Technological utopianism). Good examples are Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire. In television, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has been called "the most interesting, sustained postcyberpunk media work in existence."[4] In 2007, SF writers James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel published Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Like all categories discerned within science fiction, the boundaries of postcyberpunk are likely to be fluid or ill defined.[5]
Cyberprep is a term with a very similar meaning to postcyberpunk. The word is an amalgam of the prefix "cyber-", referring to cybernetics and "preppy", reflecting its divergence from the punk elements of cyberpunk. A cyberprep world assumes that all the technological advancements of cyberpunk speculation have taken place but life is utopian rather than gritty and dangerous.[6] Since society is leisure-driven, uploading is more of an art form or a medium of entertainment while advanced body modifications are used for sports and pleasure.
Retrofuturistic derivatives[edit]
Dieselpunk is an art style based on the aesthetics popular between World War I and the end of World War II. The style combines the artistic and genre influences of the period (including pulp magazines, serial films, film noir, art deco, and wartime pin-ups) with postmodern[clarification needed] technology and sensibilities. First coined in 2001 as a marketing term by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his role-playing game Children of the Sun,[11][12] dieselpunk has grown to describe a distinct style of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering. Examples include Rocketeer, The Legend of Korra, Crimson Skies, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Dark City, Greed Corp, Gatling Gears, Iron Sky, K-20: Legend of the Mask and Skullgirls.[13]
Decopunk is a recent subset of Dieselpunk, centered around the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne art styles, and based around the period between the 1920s and 1950s. In an interview[14] at CoyoteCon, steampunk author Sara M. Harvey made the distinctions "...shinier than DieselPunk, more like DecoPunk." and "DieselPunk is a gritty version of Steampunk set in the 1920s-1950s. The big war eras, specifically. DecoPunk is the sleek, shiny very Art Deco version; same time period, but everything is chrome!" Its fandom arose around 2008.
Atompunk relates to the pre-digital period of 1945-1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age, Communism and concern about it exaggerated as paranoia in the USA along with Neo-Soviet styling, underground cinema, Googie architecture, the Sputnik programme, superhero fiction, the rise of the US military/industrial powers and the fall-out of Chernobyl. Its aesthetic tends toward Populuxe and Raygun Gothic, which describe a retro-futuristic vision of the world.[15]
Futuristic derivatives[edit]
Nanopunk refers to an emerging genre of speculative science fiction still very much in its infancy in comparison to other genres like that of cyberpunk.[16] The genre is similar to biopunk, but describes a world in which the use of biotechnology is limited or prohibited, and only nanites and nanotechnology is in wide use (while in biopunk bio- and nanotechnologies often coexist). Currently the genre is more concerned with the artistic and physiological impact of nanotechnology, than of aspects of the technology itself.[17]
Other proposed derivatives[edit]
Clockpunk is similar to steampunk in that it portrays Renaissance-era science and technology based on pre-modern designs, in the vein of Mainspring by Jay Lake,[20] and Whitechapel Gods by S. M. Peters.[21]
The term was coined by the GURPS role playing system.[18]
Splatterpunk, a term that David J. Schow coined in the mid-1980s at the World Fantasy Convention in Providence, refers to a subgenre of horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence.[23] Though it gained some prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, and attracted a cult following, the term "splatterpunk" is currently used less often than other synonymous terms for the genre.[24]
Catherynne M. Valente uses the term "mythpunk" to describe a subgenre of mythic fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern techniques. Writers whose works would fall under the mythpunk label are Ekaterina Sedia, Theodora Goss, and Sonya Taaffe.[26]
"Dreampunk" is a proposed subgenre of cyberpunk which is inspired by dreams, and thus uses "dream logic" or fairy tales as opposed to science or magic. Works cited as dreampunk include many of the works of filmmaker David Lynch and Lewis Carroll's Alice series. [27]
1. ^ Bethke, Bruce (1997, 2000). "The Etymology of "Cyberpunk"". Archived from the original on 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
12. ^ Piecraft; Ottens, Nick (July 2008), "Discovering Dieselpunk", The Gatehouse Gazette (Issue 1): 3, retrieved 2010-05-23 .
14. ^ "Rayguns! Steampunk Fiction". Interview transcript. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
15. ^ Sterling, Bruce (2008-03-12). "Here Comes "Atompunk." And It’s Dutch. So there". Retrieved 2010-07-04.
18. ^ a b Stoddard, William H., GURPS Steampunk (2000)
23. ^ Carroll, David (1995). "Splatterpunk". Tabula Rasa #6. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
24. ^ Remy, J. E. (2007-07-24). "Types of Horror/All Sorts of Punk". Die Wachen. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
26. ^ Walter, Damien G (2008-02-14). "New women's worlds in fantasy". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
27. ^ "What is Dreampunk?". 20012-05-01 |url= missing title (help). Retrieved 2014-03-08.
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Paradigm(s) prototype object-oriented
Appeared in 1993
Designed by Walter Smith
Developer Apple Computer
Typing discipline dynamic
Major implementations NewtonScript
Influenced by Self, Dylan
Influenced Io
NewtonScript is a prototype-based programming language created to write programs for the Newton platform. It is heavily influenced by the Self programming language, but modified to be more suited to needs of mobile and embedded devices.
NewtonScript vs. Self[edit]
Changes were primarily aimed at three perceived problems with Self.
One is that the typical Self snapshot requires 32MB of RAM to run in, whereas the Newton platform was designed to use only 128KB for the operating system. This required some serious paring down of the engine to make it fit and still have room for applications.
Another issue was performance. Since the language would be used for the entire system, as opposed to just running on an existing operating system, it needed to run as fast as possible.
Finally, the inheritance system in the normal Self engine had a single parent object, whereas GUIs typically have two — one for the objects and another for the GUI layout that is typically handled via the addition of a slot in some sort of GUI-hierarchy object (like View).
The syntax was also modified to allow a more text-based programming style, as opposed to Self's widespread use of a GUI environment for programming. This allowed Newton programs to be developed on a computer running the Toolkit, where the programs would be compiled and then downloaded to a Newton device for running.
However this also led to what is generally considered the most serious flaw of the system. Since the code was written on one platform and run on another, it was practically impossible to debug. Better debugging code in the Newton engine would have helped offset this problem to some degree, but the limited memory made this difficult. Instead the developer would get a vague indication along with an error code, without any ability to match it to lines in the original code. However, software packages exist to allow Newton programs to be written on the Newton device itself.
NewtonScript is also one of the conceptual ancestors (together with Smalltalk, Self, Act1, Lisp and Lua) of a recently created general-purpose programming language called Io. NewtonScript employs an inheritance model called differential inheritance where only the differences with its parent prototype are stored in a list of properties (known as slots in Io). This is a very useful feature for resource-constrained systems. The Io language implements the same differential inheritance model.
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By By Darrell Trimble | NFL Insider
There once was a time when people who kicked a football for a living were considered second-class citizens in the NFL -- a nuisance, a necessary evil. But now that the salary cap has eaten away at teams' depth, the importance of good special teams has elevated their importance.
Games have always been won or lost by kickers, but teams like the Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson were so good that they could win with poor production from the position. Coaches are now more aware that having bad special teams can cost them a job.
That's why the Carolina Panthers tagged punter Todd Sauerbrun as their franchise player and why the New England Patriots signed Adam Vinatieri to a three-year $5.3 million deal that is one of the rare guaranteed deals in the league.
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0.038964 | <urn:uuid:bf79fa32-057f-4c5b-891e-155d05a66a8d> | en | 0.800501 | tag:freecode.com,2005:/tags/stories?format=atom Freecode Projects tagged with stories 2009-11-03T20:40:09Z tag:freecode.com,2005:Project/75611 2009-11-03T20:40:09Z 2009-11-13T21:26:33Z Rakontu Rakontu is a Web application that small groups of people can use together to share and work with their stories. It's for any group of people with stories to share and a reason to share them. Members build shared "story museums" that they can draw upon to achieve common goals like promoting a cause, learning from each other, and finding solutions to problems. It is based on ten years of research and practice in the field of organizational and community narrative and is a companion to the free e-book workingwithstories.org, which helps people use narrative techniques to help their communities and organizations. It uses questions, annotations, and links to organize and connect stories in more meaningful and useful ways than is possible in other social media applications. Other features such as safe storytelling via fictional attribution, the bridging of online and offline worlds, and fluid contribution roles are designed for the unique situation of people sharing stories for a reason.<p><a href="http://freecode.com/projects/rakontu"><img alt="Screenshot" src="http://freecode.com/screenshots/dd/a1/dda16b11843a446ca530e75483af0258_thumb.jpg?1258142010" /></a></p> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> communities, narrative, stories, social software, organizations</p> <p><strong>Licenses:</strong> GPLv3</p> http://freecode.com/users/cfkurtz tag:freecode.com,2005:Project/75651 2009-11-05T21:35:51Z 2013-04-28T18:39:07Z XML-Grammar-Fiction XML-Grammar-Fiction is a Perl package that provides processors for lightweight markup languages and corresponding XML grammars for writing prose (e.g. stories, novels, and novellas) as well as screenplays. The XML grammars can in turn be translated to XHTML and DocBook/XML. XML-Grammar-Fiction currently offers only very basic functionality, but has good support for UTF-8 and allows one to write bidirectional texts conveniently. It is still under development and may exhibit some quirks. <p><strong>Tags:</strong> XML, Writing, grammar, fiction, story, stories, novellas, novels, books, authoring, Screenplays</p> <p><strong>Licenses:</strong> MIT/X</p> Shlomi Fish http://freecode.com/users/shlomif tag:freecode.com,2005:Project/80051 2011-01-18T15:06:09Z 2011-07-14T01:53:59Z ScrumDo ScrumDo is a Web application to manage your agile Scrum based projects. It gives you the tools to create and track user stories in your project. Some features include automatic burn-up charts, drag and drop iteration planning, the ability to export to Excel, edit your stories, and import your changes back in, a history tool to track where you've been, and a predictions tool for looking ahead. Multiple scrum teams are supported off a single backlog.<p><a href="http://freecode.com/projects/scrumdo"><img alt="Screenshot" src="http://freecode.com/screenshots/d3/e8/d3e8065af843e188e175bf34628a6de9_thumb.png?1295363248" /></a></p> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> Agile, Scrum, project management, stories</p> <p><strong>Licenses:</strong> LGPL</p> http://freecode.com/users/scrumdo tag:freecode.com,2005:Project/84400 2012-10-24T10:03:41Z 2012-10-25T20:27:35Z Fairy Books Fairy Books lets you create digital versions of all your child's favorite stories, or even create entirely new stories together. You can take pictures of existing book pages or import pictures from the gallery, then record the story using your own voice, the way you want it to be told. Fairy Books is the perfect storytelling companion for when you can't read to your child yourself. <p><a href="http://freecode.com/projects/fairy-books"><img alt="Screenshot" src="http://freecode.com/screenshots/65/ec/65ec00fe7baa4ceca17b764378031d37_thumb.jpg?1351082036" /></a></p> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> children, stories, books</p> <p><strong>Licenses:</strong> Proprietary</p> http://freecode.com/users/acorntech tag:freecode.com,2005:Project/85015 2013-01-29T21:35:59Z 2013-01-29T22:23:00Z BoardJS BoardJS is a JavaScript library that simplifies the way of making interactive presentations, stories, and ads. The library works by writing commands such as adding text and images, moving objects, and showing tooltips; once the .go() function is called, commands will be executed one by one. The list of commands will be interpreted in the library as a timeline. 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Now I have an urge to figure out what sites you go to and make a post just to see you freak out XD
But seriously, that’s pretty awesome. I haven’t run into you once, but that’s the power of the internet for ya. you could be 5000 miles away, and I could still find you somewhere
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Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
Someone left the cake out in the rain...
Review from Issue 18 of NGamer magazine, on sale Wednesday, December 5.
Import review:There's no doubt in our minds that at some point in the recent past, Umbrella Chronicles was a very different game to the one that has finally emerged. Far from being some elaborate mystery for us to unravel, the evidence has been there from the start - early interviews with Capcom's team suggested Chronicles would be a game more like Resident Evil 4, while later interviews changed the script. After the brilliant Resi 4, it's a shame we never got that original concept, but it's hard to fault Umbrella Chronicles for what it's not, when what it is is so ridiculously fully-featured and complete.
You are dead. Continue?
You want levels? How about 12 hours' worth, all set in the midst of the zombie holocausts from Resident Evil Zero, 1, 2 and 3, and featuring a final, all-new level to wrap up Umbrella's Story? You like guns? Capcom have provided every famous weapon from the series, every one upgradable using the points you'll earn on your missions and each handling in its own unique way.
And how about the characters? Every chapter of Umbrella Chronicles stars characters from the original games, with each given different introductory cutscenes depending on who you choose to play as. Even better, further unlockable missions are based around untold side-stories from the series and help patch over Resident Evil's big mysteries - like how Rebecca Chambers made it from the Umbrella management training facility to the Mansion, or what Wesker was up to while the STARS team was preparing to move on the Mansion.
Chronicles is the most blatant example of fan service Capcom could have conjured, filling in every gap in the story with new cutscenes, lengthy dossiers, files, and those new chapters that patch up the continuity holes and rewrite the questionable parts of the series' chequered past. Umbrella Chronicles is like a 1970's exploit-o-movie version of Resident Evil's story - not smart or especially stylish, with everything about it designed to appeal almost exclusively to the most niche of audiences. But, what it does offer fans of the series, it offers perfectly.
Chronicle trigger
Aces, then. We'll have some of that. Except, as successful as Chronicles is as a fan-pleasing piece of Resident Evil cake, it's a very ordinary shooter. Sega's Ghost Squad may be pushing around fewer polygons than Super Mario 64, but it's the most exciting all-out shooter on the Wii; like two sides of the same coin, Ghost Squad succeeds where Umbrella Chronicles fails, and conversely, fails everywhere Resi succeeds. Where Chronicles is long, Ghost Squad is short; where the zombie blaster is beautiful, Ghost Squad looks like an especially unattractive Dreamcast game.
Like Ghost Squad, Umbrella Chronicles is an unmistakably cheap game, but again, in a very different way. The Zero stages use the 3D models that provided the backdrops to Resi Zero, the mansion levels are ripped straight from the Gamecube Resident Evil Remake, and since the 3D models used to recreate Raccoon City were of too low quality for a modern game, the Raccoon City stages are torn from the code for Resident Evil Outbreak on the PS2. Recycling like that might make Al Gore a happy man, but it's a cheap and easy turn-around for the boys at Capcom, and rather makes us question the price of the game.
And where Ghost Squad is a thrilling rollercoaster ride of a shooter, Resident Evil is a particularly lethargic ghost train - riding along at a snail's pace, you encounter zombies and other beasties every now and again as if they were an afterthought. It's as if Capcom were so intent upon making an atmospheric and frightening game, they forgot what it is that makes a lightgun shooter so entertaining - there's no relentless pace, no test of your reactions, and you'll even have to conserve ammo and save your biggest and most fun guns for the astonishingly resilient bosses.
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The full question :
Find 2 functions $f,g: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$
$f,g \neq 0 $
so that $fg = 0$
The confusing part is the way it is written, as far as I can tell there is no product of anything other than $0$ which yields $0$, is there??
Perhaps they meant $f(g(x))$ in this question?
Thanks in advance
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Maybe there are two function, each of them is sometimes zero sometimes not (which is what they may mean by $f \ne 0$). – GEdgar Feb 20 at 17:58
$f\neq 0$ only means "$f$ is not always zero", i.e. "there exists $x$ such that $f(x)\neq 0$. – Clement C. Feb 20 at 17:59
Note: homework is not a tag to use on its own - it helps to give a subject too. – Mark Bennet Feb 20 at 18:00
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Try this: $$f(x)=\begin{cases} 1& x>0 \\ 0 &x\le 0\end{cases}$$ $$g(x)=\begin{cases} 0& x>0 \\ 1 &x\le 0\end{cases}$$
Note: If they meant $f(g(x))$, then you would still need $f$ to be zero somewhere.
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I was going to suggest the same with rationals and irrationals. The idea is the same : split $\mathbb R$ into two sets. – user88595 Feb 20 at 18:00
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$$f(x)=\max(x,0)$$ $$g(x)=\min(x,0)$$
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Let X be the domain of f and g. Let f and g s.t. for any $x \in X$ we have $f(x)=0$ or $g(x)=0$. Than f(x)g(x)=0 in X.
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Email notifications should be sent to commenters when replies (or questions) are posted to their comments. Otherwise comments which need followup will have loose ends and the question might not get an approved answer (question gets abandoned prematurely).
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Someone asked this already: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1206/… – gnostradamus Jun 30 '09 at 20:47
Dunno about email, but some form of notification of further comments would be nice. But only in some cases where you specifically opt-in for notifications, by default it's fine as it is. – Jonik Jun 30 '09 at 20:50
I asked for something similar to @Jonik: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/… – Kip Jul 1 '09 at 0:56
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If this is even considered, it should only be after a long period of account inactivity. I'll throw out one week as a starting point. It should also be disable-able on your user preferences page. I don't need dozens of notification emails from a site I visit every day. :)
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Why limit this to long inactivity? Some of us don't check old questions every day just to see if someone replied. I like instant notifications. If you don't want this, just turn it off. – Abdu Jul 23 '09 at 16:15
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We have our main site at:
which we don't want to alter. Then we have our web clip app at:
If someone visits the app URL in normal Safari then the Safari UI will still display. But if the user adds the app URL to their home screen, and then they tap that icon they will launch the app URL without the Safari UI as intended.
My question is how do you go about getting the user to use the web clip app from their home screen when they start from mysite.com? What I'm thinking is that we have a link on mysite.com that points to mysite.com/app/. Then when they click that /app/ link they'll go to the app but it won't be in "app mode". Can I detect that it's not in app mode and display a message like "add this page to your home screen to use the app"? And then when they do visit in app mode obviously just let the app run.
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closed as off topic by Kilian Foth, Glenn Nelson, MichaelT, Martijn Pieters, Mike Brown Mar 4 '13 at 15:29
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Apple's Safari Web Content Guide has a lot of useful information, as well as the Safari HTML Reference.
In Javascript you can check if it is an open as a WebApp:
if (window.navigator.standalone) {
// Code if open as WebApp
} else {
// Normal iOS Safari
To tell Safari that it is WebApp capable, you have to set:
For more information on WebApp configuration take a look at Creating Compatible Web Content, Configuring the Viewport, and Configuring Web Applications.
So, to do what you want to do, have something like so:
<div id="nonapp">
<p>This is telling you to add to home screen!</p>
<div id="app" style="display: none;">
<p>This is telling you your content!</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.navigator.standalone) {
document.getElementById("nonapp").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("app").style.display = "block";
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Yes I was already thinking to do that on the front-end with Javascript. Is there a way to detect it on the back-end though? – Ryan Nov 6 '12 at 2:20
You could have the iPhone send the server a signal, and the server dishes out the correct code, which is document.write()ed onto the page. – question Nov 6 '12 at 2:53
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It is unacceptable to simply accept everything we see on TV, hear on the radio and read... Media has been a powerful tool for progamming thoughts long before newspapers, magazines and the internet. It has always been in the best interest of those in power to keep folks ignorant and consuming... | http://redroom.com/blog-keyword-tags/media-guide | dclm-gs1-204220002 | false | false | {
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On Zombies and Barack Obama
Zombie bumper sticker
Now that Social Media dominates as the forum for public commentary on topics political, religious and cultural, you do not see as many bumper stickers on vehicles. But the other day in traffic, I pulled up behind a Toyota Matrix (same make and model that I drive) and was intrigued to see a sticker on the rear car window that said ZOMBIES with the “O” turned into the Obama logo used in the last presidential campaign.
There have been a lot of accusations pointed toward Obama supporters since the 2008 election. That they are socialists. Pie-in-the-sky liberals. Naïve progressives. But ZOMBIES? That makes no sense at all.
The bumper sticker obviously is intended to suggest that Obama supporters all fall mindlessly in line with whatever the President says. But clearly that is not the case. In fact one of the problems Obama has had to face is a disparate voting bloc that abandoned his party during the 2010 midterm elections. Obama supporters did not turn out to vote for Democratic candidates in the midterms and Republicans took over Congress (but not the Senate) as a result. If Obama supporters were indeed political ZOMBIES they would have marched to the polls and voted for Democrats without question. Instead many of them ignored the urgency of the midterm election, perhaps figuring that everything would be okay in America so long as Obama is president. But they were wrong.
In fact it was independent voters who most frequently either voted against Obama or did not show up to vote in the mid-term election. By definition independent voters are not ZOMBIES because they swing from party to party depending on who they most think represents their views.
So if the bumper sticker is pointing ZOMBIE fingers at anyone it appears to be the people who oppose Barack Obama as president. And in fact we find greater evidence that Obama’s presidency has turned his opposition into partisan ZOMBIES who will vote for anyone, indeed anything that walks, talks and shows flesh (especially white flesh) different than Barack Obama.
The Tea Party certainly marches around like howling zombies. Gathering in small numbers, Tea Party Zombies are recognizable for their narrow agendas that they repeat like ZOMBIE mantras. Less taxes! Shrink government! That’s about the extent of their ZOMBIE-like ideology. Captured in the harsh light of day or in the glare of TV cameras, Tea Party ZOMBIES are prone to emitting drool as they push up their bifocals and scream harsh words about taking America back.
The other ZOMBIE crowd is Republicans who follow the cult-like meanderings of Birther ZOMBIES and other conspiratorial ideologies created in an attempt to undercut the legitimacy of the incumbent president.
The current King of ZOMBIES is Congressman Paul Ryan, whose Pathway to Prosperity or whatever it’s called demands severe cuts to all sorts of social programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And there’s good reason. The Living Dead don’t really need health care or security in old age. Further proof that it is the Republicans, not Obama who represent the interests of ZOMBIES in America.
And should we forget that followers of Rush Limbaugh call themselves dittoheads? How much more ZOMBIE-like can you get? Followers of Glenn Beck, Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity similarly evidence little appetite for factual examination of the opinion-based, partisan fare of these ZOMBIE lords. Their followers repeat Republican talking points as if their brains have been removed.
So next time you pull up behind a vehicle with an NRA sticker, a Jesus Fish or a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker, do yourself and the nation a little favor and get out of your car at the traffic light. Walk with your arms sticking straight out. Remember to drool a little as you walk stiff-legged up to the car in front of you moaning “Government bad! Free market good! Obamacare bad!” You will be instantly recognized by members of the real ZOMBIE community, the conservative right. And welcomed with open arms as long as you have a checkbook and a voting card. | http://redroom.com/member/christopher-cudworth/blog/on-zombies-and-barack-obama | dclm-gs1-204230002 | false | false | {
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Robotech: Invasion's single-player campaign still suffers from the same bland gameplay and mission design that plagued its predecessor.
Two years ago, Vicious Cycle released a cel-shaded shooter called Robotech: Battlecry, set in the first of the three Robotech anime miniseries. The developer has followed that effort by releasing another shooter called Robotech: Invasion, based on a different miniseries from Battlecry. While Invasion includes online multiplayer capability, a feature not included in the original, the game's single-player campaign still suffers from the same bland gameplay and mission design that plagued its predecessor. Additionally, the migration away from a cel-shaded graphics engine has taken away the primary charm of the original game.
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Robotech: Invasion's conflict centers on the struggle between the Invid and humanity for control of Earth.
Invasion is set in a time period that correlates with the third Robotech miniseries, known as Robotech - The New Generation. The conflict centers on a new alien menace known as the Invid, who have colonized Earth for the purpose of harvesting a powerful substance known as protoculture. The Invid, the human armies of resistance fighters, and the human Robotech Expeditionary Force all rely on protoculture to fuel their high-tech powered armor and weapons. In the game, you'll play the roles of various resistance fighters armed with powerful cyclone armor that lets you morph between a humanoid soldier and a motorcycle rider.
While being able to transform between foot soldier and motorcycle rider sounds cool on paper, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. For one thing, riding on a cycle feels extremely slow. Even after you unlock boost mode and better models of cyclones, the sense of speed you get is more akin to pedaling a bicycle than riding a 21st-century combat bike. What's more, it's much harder to fight while in cycle mode, because your personal shields are deactivated and weapons are limited to slow-moving homing missiles. Since the Invid are both powerful and fast moving, it makes more sense to constantly stay in humanoid mode, so you can track and aim more easily. Therefore, don't expect to be switching back and forth between humanoid and cycle mode while caught in a fight. The way the missions are designed, you'll primarily use your cycle to get from place to place or to quickly escape a timed explosion.
In humanoid mode, you can switch easily between first and third person viewpoints. The heads-up display is reminiscent of Metroid Prime, with a large, round readout that takes up much of the screen with gauges, ammo counters, a compass, and other readouts. Depending on what type of cyclone armor you have, you'll have access to a low-light, night vision mode, thermal vision, and later in the game, stealth camouflage.
You're able to carry two different weapons, one of which must be the modular, protoculture-powered gallant rifle. This weapon is interesting because it improves over the course of the campaign. The gallant starts off as a slow-firing pistol, then becomes a fast-firing automatic rifle, and finally it's fitted with a scope that gives it an extremely powerful sniper mode. The other weapon slot must be a standard projectile weapon, many of which can be picked up from the few human enemies you'll encounter in the game. But for the bulk of the time, you'll rely on your gallant because it's versatile and powerful, and protoculture ammo is plentiful as it's dropped by all fallen Invid.
You can lock-on and track most of your enemies by holding down a shoulder button. You can still make fine adjustments on your aim by using the right thumbstick; this is an important tactic, as the Invid are particularly vulnerable in the eye. Nail an Invid trooper in its eye, and it'll die a lot faster. There's also other location-specific damage--concentrate fire on an arm or mounted gun, and you'll see that appendage fly off as it is hit.
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• Release date10/5/04
• ESRB Teen
• Developer Vicious Cycle
• Genre Action
• Elements First-Person Shooter
• Context Sci-Fi
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My daughter started her second year of Middle School last week. After a year of being a 6th grader at the bottom of the school's totem pole, she was excited to return to a place that she'd formerly found intimidating. It was no longer a new and scary world. She was returning to school as a seasoned, worldly (dare I say a little jaded) 7th grader.
And because my daughter apparently knows everything about everything, I sat down with her to ask about what tips she might have for kids (and parents) who are just starting Middle School this year, and feeling a little nervous.
She had a lot to say. Parents, feel free to pick and choose from these nuggets of wisdom… and edit accordingly.
Daughter: Middle School is really hard if you go it alone. You need friends who will watch your back when the mean kids start coming around.
Me: Are there always mean kids? At every school?
Daughter: Yes. I mean, not to freak anyone out, but mean kids are everywhere. But it's ok, because that's just the world. You just need a few friends who'll watch out for you.
Me: What do you do if mean kids still target you anyway, even when you have friends?
Daughter: That's a tough one.
Me: Why?
Daughter: Well… you know how you always tell me to ignore the mean kids and remember that they're probably just unhappy in their own lives and that I should just walk away?
Me: Yea…
Daughter: That doesn't work. Just go find your friends, and tell them what happened. Just make sure to remember that sometimes your friends can turn into the mean ones. So watch out for that.
Me: Wow. Sounds like a rough world, Middle School.
Daughter: You have no idea.
Daughter: The thing about trying to be popular is that if you're popular, you never know if kids are your friends for real, or if they just want to be around you because you're cool. So you never get to just relax and be yourself with people. Plus, most of the popular people are so obsessed with being popular that they have nothing interesting to talk about. I suggest not being popular.
Me: Did you try to be popular last year?
Daughter: No.
Me: What if a fairy godmother came to you and told you that she could make you super-popular if you wanted, with just a wave of her wand? Would you do it?
Daughter: I don't think so. Because then I'd have to worry about makeup and stuff everyday, and I don't have that kind of time.
Related: The 25 most awkward back-to-school photos...EVER
Daughter: I totally recommend making friends with geeks and nerds, especially if you are one.
Me: And you yourself are you one?
Daughter: I'm absolutely a geek! All of my friends are geeky and we like geek stuff.
Me: Like what?
Daughter: Like comics and sci fi and books and role playing games and whatever. If you're a geek, it just means you like whatever you like, and you don't care if other people like it or not. Do NOT reject stuff you like, ever! Just like what you like, because there are always kids who will like that stuff too.
Daughter: The thing about Middle School is that you have a bunch of different teachers, and they all want you to be something different. So you have to be ready to have a different personality for each one.
Me: What do you mean?
Daughter: Like, last year when I was in Madame D's class (French), I had to be super obedient and never do anything other than answer her questions because otherwise she got super mad and she yelled. And then in Ms. C's class (English), I had to try and be really outgoing, because she likes the kids who speak out. And in Ms. A's class (Math)… well, she just hated me, so I really couldn't do anything about that.
Me: Ms. A didn't hate you.
Daughter: You weren't there.
Me: I always thought you should just be yourself and try your best, and if you do teachers will be happy with you.
Daughter: Yea. That's a total parent thing to say.
Me: Oh.
Daughter: So the thing about lunch is that it's really hard to have an appetite when there are all these boys around doing TOTALLY GROSS THINGS like picking their noses and wiping it on the tables and THAT'S why lunch tables are sticky, and also why I always come home with my sandwiches not eaten, so you shouldn't get mad at me and say I waste food. It's not my fault.
Me: Noted.
Daughter: If you haven't heard that many bad words in your life, you should probably prepare yourself because kids swear a lot in Middle School.
Me: When? Like, in class, or at lunch or what?
Daughter: ALL THE TIME.
Me: Were you shocked by all the bad words you heard last year?
Daughter: A little, but not too much because I've heard you swear before.
Me: You have not! I don't swear in front of you! [Writer's Note: I admit I have a serious potty mouth on me, but when the kid was born I realized I was going to have to change as a human in order to not swear around the kid.]
Daughter: Right, Dad. You go on believing that.
Daughter: There are a lot of slackers at my school, and I don't like that. You shouldn't be a slacker in Middle School because if you do, it'll be a lot harder to do well later in life.
Me: What do you mean slackers?
Daughter: Kids who don't pay attention in class, and goof off because they think that'll make them cooler. I don't think they even do homework.
Me: This from the kid who groans every afternoon at homework time?
Daughter: Hey, I still DO my homework. But I don't think some kids do any! And my advice to 6th graders is to ignore slackers because they're just being lame because they think it's cool not to care about school. I mean, it's not like I care about school all the time, but you have to take it seriously because grades are important if you want to go to college.
Me (silently to self): See, brainwashing WORKS.
Me: Do you think grades are taken too seriously by parents and teachers?
Daughter: Sort of. I mean, like, let's say a kid gets a B in Math.
Me: A hypothetical kid?
Daughter: Yea. Ahem. A kid gets a B in Math, and the Dad says he thinks the kid should be able to get an A instead.
Me: Hypothetical Dad.
Daughter: Right.
Me: Of the hypothetical kid.
Daughter: Exactly. It's not fair, because a B is a perfectly good grade, and the dad should just relax and let it go.
Dad: That's a great point. If the kid works her butt off to get that B, I bet the hypothetical Dad would be fine with it. But if the kid is actually really good at Math and only gets Bs because she doesn't slow down and focus enough, then maybe it's ok for that hypothetical dad to urge the hypothetical kid to work just a little bit harder.
Daughter: …..
Me: Just speaking hypothetically.
Daughter: Hmmph.
So there you have it, Folks! SO much good advice! Good luck, all you Middle School kids! We're rooting for you!
-By Seth Taylor
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Comment: Re:Understandable, but... (Score 1) 378
by Jonboy X (#45792289) Attached to: Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries
I usually get away with shopping late, but I guess I got my hand caught in the cookie jar on that one. There was no way I'd show up to the family X-mas party without a gift for my nephew (who is also my Godson). I'm just annoyed that Amazon displayed so much confidence in their shippers, and it ended up causing me headaches. The other 51 weeks of the year, 2-day shipping means 2 (occasionally 3) days. They're probably as good as anyone on the planet at shipping consumer goods to people, so when they said, "We've got this," I believed them. Meh.
by Jonboy X (#45789509) Attached to: Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries
I ordered a toy for my nephew 5 days before Christmas, with Amazon Prime 2-day GUARANTEED shipping. Right on the item page, Amazon GUARANTEED that it would arrive by Christmas. I don't hold UPS responsible. I hold responsible the vendor that made the claim. I spent my Christmas Eve driving to a Toys-R-Us 3 towns over, instead of sipping egg nog and decorating the tree.
Comment: Re:Scalpel or gun can be used for good or bad ... (Score 2) 406
by Jonboy X (#45615517) Attached to: Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work
TFA presumes that we as engineers are smarter, better humans than everyone else, that we can and should forsee all of the ethical implications of our work. It's pure hubris, and I call shenanigans. By and large, engineers do what their employers pay them to do, to feed themselves and their families. IMO, every link in the chain should be held to the same standard of moral accountability. We're not exempt, but it's unreasonable to expect us to take any more (or less) responsibility for the bad things that our work makes possible.
That said, I once quit a job working on systems that could be used for what I perceived as evil. My girlfriend (also an engineer) works for a military contractor, and I give her a hard time about that occasionally. Her response is that she works on detection systems, not weapons. To my mind, it's at least a waste of good engineers to further meaningless political power struggles, and keeps the warmongers in business.
Comment: Re:Liability of exit nodes (Score 1) 186
by Jonboy X (#44707663) Attached to: Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August
Who in their right mind would run an exit node in the first place? Who is this person who thinks it's a good idea to send data and requests on behalf of anonymous users who don't want to get caught doing it themselves?
All I can think of are:
1. Good Samaritans with fat data pipes and legal immunity
2. People who want to get on watchlists, to prove a point
3. Underinformed nerds
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An anonymous reader writes "What if you walked into your datacentre on a normal day, and disco music started playing, neon lights turned on, and a mirror ball started rotating? That's exactly what happened to Simon Hackett, the managing director of Australian internet service provider Internode. Looks like he made some comments about such a situation at some point and his network engineering team took them a little seriously. Classic. Video attached — his reaction is priceless."
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How do you prevent PIP from re-downloading previously downloaded packages? I'm testing the install of matplotlib, an 11MB package that depends on several distro-specific packages. Everytime I run pip install matplotlib, it re-downloads matplotlib. How do I stop this?
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You can use a specific environment variable PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE and make it point to a directory where your packages will be stored. If they are to be installed again, they will be taken from this directory.
There seems to be also an additional option for PIP pip --download-cache which ought to do something similar, but I have never tried it myself. For your example, to avoid re-downloading matplotlib every time, you would do the following:
pip install --download-cache /path/to/pip/cache matplotlib
Does that answer your question?
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I'm not sure if PIP does it too, but with easy_install if you have the package as a .tar (or presumably zip?) file in the local directory it will try to use that one first. – Wayne Werner Apr 26 '12 at 16:21
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Create a configuration file named ~/.pip/pip.conf, and add the following contents:
download_cache = ~/.cache/pip
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You could
# download and extract package to build path
pip install --no-install matplotlib
# the build path could be found by
pip install --help|grep Unpack\ packages\ into -A 2
# then rm pip-delete-this-directory.txt inside the build path
# this prevent pip from removing package from the build directory after install
# you could check the content of the file
rm build/pip-delete-this-directory.txt
# from now on you could install matplotlib quickly
# this uses single build directory
# and can speed up compiling by caching intermediate objects.
pip install --no-download matplotlib
Also, you could manually download the package
pip install -d dir_for_packages matplotlib
Then install it by un-tar and python setup install later.
The pip install --download-cache works in a similar way w/ extra checking: it firstly search for the latest or specified version of the target package from web, if the search has result and there is cached package in the directory specified by download-cache, the cached package will be used instead of downloading. For example,
pip install --download-cache . pymongo
will download pymongo package to current directory:
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I have an asp.net web app, and I have added some related class projects to my solution file. When I run the web app, I want to break and step through the code in the class (when a class is referenced).
I don't get an error messages. The code in the class project just does not kick in.
I have searched and read this post Debugging a Class Library but no luck.
How do I get that to work?
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Have you tried breaking just before the class gets invoked, and then hitting step into? – McGarnagle Jun 10 '12 at 20:10
yup....tried that too – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 20:15
IIS or Cassini? – Tomas Voracek Jun 10 '12 at 21:20
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Can you try to stop the ASP.NET process? I usually have this problem when the asp.net service is still running, and I compile (by asp.net service I mean the icon that appears near computer clock). Try to close that, recompile, then run.
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I have stopped the service; I have shut down and re-launched vs2010, I have rebooted the machine as well.... no luck – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 20:20
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Are you sure you have <compilation debug="true"/> set in your web.config file? Are the classes in the same assembly as the rest of the application?
edit: The only other thing I can suggest is stop IIS and/or all instances of the vs development server, clean the project, rebuild, and give it another shot. Also be sure there is only one web.config and you aren't running in release against Web.Release.config or something.
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yes I have that setting correct in web.config – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 20:04
yes to your second question as well – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 20:07
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This sometimes happens. Check Debug>Modules to see if there is your dll loaded. It seems that VS debugger doesn't have .pdb file available. Clear Temporary ASP.NET Files in your .NET folder, Clean/Rebuild and try debug again.
Also do not forget to run VS as Administrator. Try to Attach to process instead of F5.
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How can I "attach to process"? I mean I know where to find that in the menu item.. but how do I know which process to select? By the way... I am using IIS – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 23:11
In "Attach to process" there is column ID, which contains ProcessID. Run TaskManager and in Command column you can see name of your AppPool and its ProcessID. – Tomas Voracek Jun 11 '12 at 6:48
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You can call in your code this function, and the debugger will pop-up
alternative you can call the Debug.Fail("Stop me to see what next");
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Not sure I understand what you mean by "call your code in this function". Can you explain please? – LearningCSharp Jun 10 '12 at 23:15
@LearningCSharp at the line you wish to break and start the debugger, place this code. When your function run and reach this line the debugger will pop up. – Aristos Jun 10 '12 at 23:16
@LearningCSharp If your program reach this line and the debugger is not popup, then ether you have compile it with out debug=on, ether you need to restart the iis, with the iis-admin. – Aristos Jun 10 '12 at 23:23
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I have a the following simple table in postgreSQL:
CREATE TABLE data ( id bigint NOT NULL, text_column text, );
The values of the text_column , as I see them in the phpPgAdmin web site, are numbers (long). As I read, postgreSQL keeps a pointer to the actual data. How can I fetch the actual string value of the text_column? Doing:
select text_column from data
returns numbers...
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Are you absolutely sure the text_column is defined as text? The behaviour you are describing sounds as if the column is defined as oid - which is the stupid default behaviour of Hibernate when creating LOB columns. Can you copy and paste the output of the \d+ data command in psql? Make sure you do show us the exact output, not some kind of "obfuscated" one. – a_horse_with_no_name Aug 28 '12 at 9:05
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You must've read too deep. PostgreSQL returns the actual data when you select it. If it's returning numbers, then numbers are stored in the field.
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Maybe it is because i'm using Hibernate (the text_column defined in my entity as String, annotated with @Lob) and it stores the actual data in someplace else? – Ben Bracha Aug 28 '12 at 8:53
As far as I can tell, @Lob is used for BLOBs (or CLOBs) and is not meant for human-readable data. What was wrong with @Basic? Also, is the String you're getting back via Hibernate correct? (i.e. what you put in earlier.) – aib Aug 28 '12 at 8:59
I do get the string right using hibernate (I have an XML there, and I think the actual type used is CLOB). What is @Basic? – Ben Bracha Aug 28 '12 at 9:01
What came up in the Hibernate documentation alongside @Lob when I looked at it for the second time in my life :) – aib Aug 28 '12 at 9:09
Oh, I'm sorry - I do have @Basic for that column as well. – Ben Bracha Aug 28 '12 at 10:30
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Works fine , May be the field values are in numbers:
> \d+ type
Column | Type
name | text
test_id | integer
select name from type;
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I'm a desktop C# developer (that is not ASP) and am wondering about version targeting for small personal projects. These are, of course, trying to reach as wide an audience as possible, and so I've been targeting .NET 3.0 (which is the latest version on a Windows Vista system without any service packs) and 2.0 (which is simply the most compatible version compatible with VS2008).
Unfortunately, this precludes me from learning any technologies such as LINQ introduced post 3.0, and, with an upcoming switch to VS2010, I'm wondering if I should target the new 4.0 platform at the expense of uses without the latest and greatest, or should I just stick to trying to reach as wide a userbase as possible?
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Do you expect your users to have access to web connections and time to do downloads? – mmr Apr 20 '10 at 0:18
@mmr - I'm expecting them to run the exe, see some error message, and give up thinking it's a problem with the program itself. – MiffTheFox Apr 20 '10 at 7:10
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I would recommend moving to the .Net 4.0 Client Profile.
Although it doesn't have a large install base yet, it's a small download that your users can easily install.
If you don't want your users to need to download the framework, you should target 3.5, which most people already have.
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Exactly, its not a huge hassle anymore. – ChaosPandion Apr 20 '10 at 0:08
As sort of a follow-up to this, I recently tried to deploy an application written to target .NET 4.0 on a friend's system running Win7 Ultimate, but not the latest .NET. His responses summarized: "Okay, it's a small install, I can handle it." "Oh, I have to restart? Meh, I'll look at it later." I still haven't heard back from him about it. – MiffTheFox May 31 '10 at 4:10
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I would just use 3.5 or 4.0(if it where me I would go for 4.0). It's not like it will cost anything for them to update to the latest framework and probably will be included in the auto updates.
I would not just strictly do 2.0 anymore since in my opinion it's like rewarding bad behavior like programming these days for IE 6. If no developers say where going to move onto the newer and better versions of the software then what incentive do the people who have the older stuff to upgrade?
Once lots of their favorite stuff stops working they will upgrade fast.
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I usually use .NET 2.0. The reason being many people (at least in my case) are running at least Windows Vista or Windows 7, which comes with .NET 2.0 (I believe). If they have XP, many have already have .NET 2.0 as well.
Believe it or not, many people still have slower connections, so downloading a newer framework (e.g. 3.5 or 4.0) might be a bit much and turn them away from your product.
In the end it depends on your clients and how much you know about them. If you're not sure, either go with 2.0 or 3.5. I wouldn't go to 4.0 just yet as it's relatively new and not many people have adopted it yet.
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Completely disagree.. .NET 4 is a LOT smaller.. Full installation is only 46 mb, and if you take the client subset - it's smaller. – Artiom Chilaru Apr 20 '10 at 6:34
46mb on a dial-up connection takes a while. Trust me. It can easily turn people away, I've seen it happen. – user Apr 20 '10 at 7:28
I once tried to run a application written for .NET 3.5 on a fresh install of Vista. It ran fine, up until it hit a LINQ method and crashed because System.Core wasn't available, so I estimate Vista to come with 3.0 baseline. – MiffTheFox May 31 '10 at 4:11
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Here are some usage statistics from our WPF application that you might find interesting. If you're going the WPF road, then I would highly recommend using .NET 4. It's simply so much better in terms of font and image rendering. We currently have 24% of our users running the .NET 4 version. But we do have a .NET 3.5 version to make installation smoother.
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Anybody discovered anyway to make this happen. I want to have a cmdlet that creates output from a database. There is no concrete schema, each 'row' can have different fields. In something like javascript this would be no problem, each object would have whatever properties it needs; but powershell isnt like that.
I tried a naive implementation but all I got was an enumeration of the Key, Value dictionary that expandos pretend to be.
Expanding the question.
What object should the get-datarows cmdlet push down the pipe (it accepts arbitrary queries). I dont know what object types to instantiate and push. A db query could return a row with User=dave,Age=12, then another row with User=pete, Favcol = red. Next time I run the cmdlet a query might return something totally different (Type=shoe, color=red,use=dancing). Being able to instantiate a pipe of expandos works perfectly here (except it doesn't)
My best go so far is to generate a type on the fly using reflection.emit, but this requires me to know the schema of the objects. I could do it by looking at the first object returned by the db query but that might not have all possible attributes (as in the first 2 user rows above). I could read all the way to the end; make the type, rewind and the push instances of the dynamically created type, but thats not very efficient
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I am coding in c#
I want to be able to do
mycmdlet -query "users" | ft
mycmdlet -query "products;type=shoe,size>1" | make-pretty
I dont want the user to have to do a whole bunch of data shaping; that's the whole purpose of the cmdlet
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In PowerShell, each object can have its own properties. This will cause some problems with table formatting, but it can be done. I would suggest avoiding this though. Maybe use blank values on fields that a row does not have. – JasonMArcher Jun 17 '11 at 20:50
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I figured it out. powershell has its own expandos; psobject. This is what is actaully pushed by WriteObject. But you can make your own
So do
var obj = new PSObject();
obj.properties.add(new PSNoteProperty("foo", 42));
obj.properties.add(new PSNoteProperty("bar", "xxxx"));
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There isn't any reason you can't have objects with different sets of properties in the pipeline. It should work fine. I do this all the time.
Can you be more specific about what isn't working? Perhaps an example of what you're trying to do?
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I'm either misunderstanding your question, or I do it all the time. My code is all at work, but in psuedo-
$results = Get-ResultSet...
$columns = @{}
foreach ($column in $results.Columns)
foreach ($row in results)
$return = New-Object PSObject
foreach ($key in $columns.keys)
$return | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name $key $row[$columns[$key]]
Your custom object will have as many properties as columns and each property will have the value you want.
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i am writing a cmdlet in c# not powershell. A key piece of info there - sry – pm100 May 24 '11 at 0:57
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I am attempting to find a place to start debugging this issue at. I do not experience this issue if I create a new, MVC2 project, but I am trying to integrate into our companies existing MVC solution.
I am adding a ScriptManager to the MasterPage. Something like this:
<telerik:RadScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnableTheming="True" EnablePageMethods="True">
Here is what I see when I try and run.
I'm extremely new to MVC and unsure of where/how to start debugging this. I have a hunch it has something to do with either the Global ASAX or Web Config file, but without any more information I'm not sure where to begin poking around.
Has anyone seen this before?
partial-answer: it seems that moving the script manager inside of the closing tag resolved this issue, but the second I tried to add a control to my View I am back to looking at garbage. Plus, it doesn't match what I had to do in the default app. Wondering why.
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Some asp.net controls simply won't work in MVC because they rely on features that MVC doesn't support, such as viewstate. I'm not sure if the Telerik ajax controls are in this boat or not, but you can't assume any control will work. Generally, the more complex the control, the less likely it will work.
I notice that you have it working in a default project, but perhaps that project has no real data or doesn't use the same features that your production app uses.
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telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/mvc-getting-started.html Telerik controls, for the most part, are supported. I am doing the very very very most basic thing, not even adding an actual control with content -- just the script manager. This is 100% a supported control. I am in agreement with you that the production app is introducing conflicting data, but I am curious if its just like... a route redirection, or something. I don't know what 'things' could be conflicting in the MVC environment. – Sean Anderson Jun 16 '11 at 22:58
@Sean Anderson - Not sure if PageMethods or Theming are supported in MVC, you could try making those false. Also, are you registering the HTTP Handler? – Erik Funkenbusch Jun 16 '11 at 23:29
Yes, the HTTP Handler is registered. I've copied the web.config over from our production app and the Rad AJAX control is still showing up, it is (probably) something outside of this web.config file. – Sean Anderson Jun 16 '11 at 23:34
@Sean Anderson - I'm curious as to why you have an Html.EndForm() and </form> – Erik Funkenbusch Jun 16 '11 at 23:36
I do not know. I have inherited this code and Html.EndForm() is completely new to me. – Sean Anderson Jun 16 '11 at 23:41
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Transactions in Memory-Optimized Tables
Row versioning on disk-based tables (using SNAPSHOT isolation or READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT) provides a form of optimistic concurrency control. Readers and writers do not block each other. With memory-optimized tables, writers do not block writers. With row versioning on disk-based tables, one transaction locks the row and concurrent transactions attempting to update the row are blocked. There is no locking with memory-optimized tables. Instead, if two transactions attempt to update the same row, a write/write conflict (error 41302) will occur.
Unlike disk-based tables, memory-optimized tables allow optimistic concurrency control with the higher isolation levels, REPEATABLE READ and SERIALIZABLE. Locks are not taken to enforce the isolation levels. Instead, at the end of the transaction validation ensures the repeatable read or serializability assumptions. If the assumptions are violated, the transaction is terminated. For more information, see Transaction Isolation Levels.
The important transaction semantics for memory-optimized tables are:
• Multi-versioning
• Snapshot-based transaction isolation
• Optimistic
• Conflict detection
Each of these semantics is explained in the following sections.
Rows in memory-optimized tables can have different versions. Concurrent transactions access potentially different versions of the same row.
Memory-optimized table data is version-based. For any row there may be different row versions that are valid at different points in time. Disk-based tables maintain different row versions when READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT or ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION is ON. Memory-optimized tables maintain different row versions, even if READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION are OFF. The row versions of memory-optimized tables are not maintained in tempdb. Instead, the row versions are maintained in-line, as part of the memory-optimized data structures storing the rows in memory.
All operations in a single transaction use the same transactionally-consistent snapshot of the memory-optimized tables. All transaction isolation for memory-optimized tables is snapshot-based. For example, a transaction using the serializable isolation level to access memory-optimized tables will perform all operations on the same transactionally consistent snapshot.
Transactions that access memory-optimized tables use this row versioning to obtain a transactionally consistent snapshot of the rows in the tables. The data read by any statement in the transaction will be the transactionally consistent version of the data that existed at the time the transaction started. Therefore, any modifications made by concurrently running transactions are not visible to statements in the current transaction.
Conflicts and failures are rare and transactions on memory-optimized tables assume there are no conflicts with concurrent transactions and operations succeed. Transactions do not take locks or latches on memory-optimized table to guarantee transaction isolation. Writers do not block readers. Writers do not block writers. Instead, transactions proceed under the (optimistic) assumption that there will be no conflicts with other transactions. Not using locks and latches and not waiting for other transactions to finish processing the same rows improves performance.
In addition, if a transaction (TxA) reads rows that have been inserted or modified by another transaction (TxB) that is in the process of committing, it will optimistically assume the other transaction will commit rather than wait for the commit to occur. In this case, transaction TxA will take a commit dependency on transaction TxB.
SQL Server detects conflicts between concurrent transactions, as well as isolation level violations, and will doom one of the conflicting transactions. This transaction will need to be retried. (For more information, see Guidelines for Retry Logic for Transactions on Memory-Optimized Tables.)
The system optimistically assumes there are no conflicts and no violations of transaction isolation. If any conflicts occur that may cause inconsistencies in the database or that may violate transaction isolation, these conflicts are detected, and the transaction is terminated.
If a conflict is detected, the transaction is terminated and the client needs to retry.
The following table summarizes the error conditions for transactions that accesses memory-optimized tables.
Error conditions for transactions accessing memory-optimized tables.
Write conflict. Attempting to update a record that has been updated since the transaction started.
UPDATE or DELETE a row that has been updated or deleted by a concurrent transaction.
Repeatable read validation failure.
A row that was read by the transaction has changed (updated or deleted) since the transaction started. Repeatable read validation is typically occurs when using REPEATABLE READ and SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation levels.
Serializable validation failure.
A new (phantom) row has been inserted in one of the scan ranges in the transaction, since the transaction started. The row would have been visible to the transaction if the row had been committed to the database before the transaction started. SERIALIZABLE validation typically occurs when using SERIALIZABLE isolation and validating PRIMARY KEY constraints.
Commit dependency failure.
The transaction took a dependency on another transaction that failed to commit, either due to one of the failures in this table, an out-of-memory condition, or due to failure to commit to the transaction log. This failure can occur with both read/write and read-only transactions.
Transaction Lifetime
The failures mentioned in the previous table can occur at different points during a transaction. The following figure illustrates the phases of a transaction that accesses memory-optimized tables.
Lifetime of a transaction that accesses memory-optimized tables.
Lifetime of a transaction.
Regular Processing
During this phase, the user-issued Transact-SQL statements are executed. Rows are read from the tables, and new row versions are written to the database. The transaction is isolated from all other concurrent transactions. The transaction uses the snapshot of the memory-optimized tables that exists at the start of the transaction.
Writes to the tables in this phase of the transaction are not yet visible to other transactions, with one exception: row updates and deletes are visible to update and delete operations in other transactions, in order to detect write conflicts.
If an update or delete operation sees that a row has been updated or deleted since the logical start of the transaction, the operation will fail with error 41302. The message for error 41302 is "The current transaction attempted to update a record in table X that has been updated since this transaction started. The transaction was aborted."
This error dooms the transaction (even if XACT_ABORT is OFF), meaning that the transaction will be rolled back when the user session ends. Doomed transactions cannot be committed and only support read operations that do not write to the log and do not access memory-optimized tables.
Commit Dependencies
During regular processing, a transaction can read rows written by other transactions that are in the validation or commit phase, but have not yet committed. The rows are visible because the logical end time of the transactions has been assigned at the start of the validation phase.
If a transaction reads such uncommitted rows, it will take a commit dependency on that transaction. This has two main implications:
• A transaction cannot commit until the transactions it depends on have committed. In other words, it cannot enter the commit phase, until all dependencies have cleared.
• In addition, result sets are not returned to the client until all dependencies have cleared. This prevents the client from observing uncommitted data.
If any of the dependent transactions fails to commit, there is a commit dependency failure. This means the transaction will fail to commit with error 41301 ("A previous transaction that the current transaction took a dependency on has aborted, and the current transaction can no longer commit.").
Validation Phase
During the validation phase, the system validates that the assumptions necessary for the requested transaction isolation level were true between the logical start and logical end of the transaction.
At the start of the validation phase, the transaction is assigned a logical end time. The row versions written in the database become visible to other transactions at the logical end time. For more information, see Commit Dependencies.
Repeatable Read Validation
If the isolation level of the transaction is REPEATABLE READ or SERIALIZABLE, or if tables are accessed under REPEATABLE READ or SERIALIZABLE isolation (for more information, see the section on Isolation of Individual Operations in Transaction Isolation Levels), the system validates that the reads are repeatable. This means it validates that the versions of the rows read by the transaction are still valid row versions at the logical end time of the transaction.
If any of the rows have been updated or changed, the transaction fails to commit with error 41305 ("The current transaction failed to commit due to a repeatable read validation failure.").
This error can also occur if a table is dropped after an insert, update, or delete operation and before the transaction commits. This applies only to insert, update, or delete operations in natively compiled stored procedures. Such write operations performed through interpreted Transact-SQL cause the DROP TABLE statement to block and wait until the transaction commits.
Serializable Validation
Serializable validation is performed in two cases:
• If the isolation level of the transaction is SERIALIZABLE or tables are accessed under SERIALIZABLE isolation.
• If rows are inserted in a unique index, such as the index created for a PRIMARY KEY constraint. The system validates that no rows with the same key have been concurrently inserted.
The system validates that no phantom rows have been written to the database. The read operations performed by the transaction are evaluated to determine that no new rows were inserted in the scan ranges of these read operations.
Insertion of a key in a unique index includes an implicit read operation, to determine that the key is not a duplicate. Serializable validation for unique indexes ensures these indexes cannot have duplicates in case two transactions concurrently insert the same key.
If phantom rows are detected, the transaction fails to commit with error 41325 ("The current transaction failed to commit due to a serializable validation failure.").
Commit Processing
If validation succeeds and all transaction dependencies clear, the transaction enters the commit processing phase. During this phase the changes to durable tables are written to the log, and the log is written to disk, to ensure durability. Once the log record for the transaction has been written to disk, control is returned to the client.
All commit dependencies on this transaction are cleared, and all transactions that had been waiting for this transaction to commit can proceed.
• Cross-database transactions are not supported with memory-optimized tables. Every transaction that accesses memory-optimized tables cannot access more than one database, with the exception of read-write access to tempdb and read-only access to the system database master.
• Distributed transactions are not supported with memory-optimized tables. Distributed transactions started with BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION cannot access memory-optimized tables.
• Memory-optimized tables do not support locking. Explicit locks through locking hints (such as TABLOCK, XLOCK, ROWLOCK) are not supported with memory-optimized tables.
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So you say there are 19 EOs he has lined where are they? Why are "We the People" not able to see these 19 EOs before he passes them? Where is the Feinstein Bill she is planning to introduce? I love ya Katie....but I need to see real information.
Was using "Bush" sexist or pornographic then?
Sorry Mikey, your race baiting is just puff and fluff Sir. The fear is from THE GOVERNMENT, not some silly thugs down the road. When "The Man" comes for our weapons the first place they will hit will be the cities, so I need not be concerned about them. Yet another example of how the Left goes straight for the lowest denominator and low info people to fuel their agenda.
This President has solidified the facts that he: 1. Can not lead his own Party or the Political Players in General. 2. Can not be creative with new thinking or ideas 3. Does not really know how to negotiate since he continues to resubmit the same proposals over and over again and has yet to even mention specific cuts or reductions he would make. 4. Continues to prove that he does not have the People's best interests at heart.
I think its funny and really descriptive of the Obama Administration in how they handled the "Death Star" petition. The website says that if you reach a certain number of signatures the WH must respond...right? So the "DS" petition made and the Administration "refused to respond". !!!! How typical of this lying swindler in office. HE COULD HAVE SIMPLY RESPONDED "NO". But instead they "refuse to respond". So basically he lied yet again> How about those CSPAN cameras that were supposed to help him have "the most transparent administration ever"? I mean can this guy ever do what he says he will do?? On Anything??
I wouldn't doubt it! Once they can prevent us from having semi auto, then lg cap mags, then certain calibers...the only ones that will have those are the Feds, Police and Criminals.
Do not let these people get away with defining this debate!! I am on HuffPo and Politico a lot and this is exactly what they are doing. They refuse to even consider that mental health is part of this debate! There are things that can be done to compromise, 2 people to vouch for you possibly, but c'mon, there are 300 Federal Laws and over 20k state and locals laws regarding guns! Not much more you can do besides banning them all! We must control and steer this debate and NOT let the same media that looks the other way for F&F, in Benghazi, the entire vetting of Obama and so many other things that we Conservatives lose at when we let them control the conversation.
So much for the compassionate Mr. Obama by leaving his informant out to dry, to be tortured and his life ruined. I think Rand Paul should reignite his stance on withholding funding to those two faced double crossing animals. I bet that would serve as good TV to see the single positive thing that Obama has been part of since his ascendancy, be used to show his true colors and what a self serving person he is.
I dont get this whole argument here and the defense of Obama. It is clear beyond doubt that his Rose Garden statement was a generalized statement about "acts of terror". It was not a specific statement calling the Benghazi issue "an act of terror" or a "terrorist attack"! Period. You can extrapolate and add "intention" and "context", but his words are what they are. EVEN if he did.....even if he did call Benghazi a terrorist act or intended to, he was asked specifically and directly numerous times if it was and he said NO. He stated the same at the UN. I just can't see how the media can defend this. If he didn't call it that, he lied at the debate. If he did call it that in the RG, then he and his administration tried to deceive us
She is so funny! Ms. Maddow....Ryan is NOT the Presidential candidate! It is NOT a contest between Obama and Ryan, its between Romney and Obama. I'd ask, Ms. Maddow, does or does not Obama's plan cut $700B from Medicare?? Well??
Wow, out of all that confusion in this video, I'd have to say that it was refreshing to hear Tamara actually state that these are NOT assault weapons and that it is disingenuous to call them that. Assault weapons are fully automatic weapons.
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There is no "natural" way of learning. Can you name one pro playing today who followed the natural way of learning?
Right from holding the racket (the correct grip for different strokes), tennis needs to be learnt through its details. Ask someone who doesn't play tennis to show you how the pros serve. They will never use the continental grip and bring the racket edgeways.
Putting the outside foot first, being sideways on the serve, leading with the edge, using the correct grip, using topspin rather than hitting up with open face, split-stepping - everything is taught to most people or they learn on their own indirectly, but using the material other people have learnt from. Seldom does anyone come up with any of this on his/her own "naturally."
The correct way of learning tennis which is followed by all proven pros and juniors and college players is to learn the technical fundamentals correctly. Then they can improvise and innovate on their own, and sometimes those become the material of the next "textbooks."
High-speed video helps to observe the strokes in slow motion and facilitates learning, removing myths which may have been floating around. Even plain old Tennis Channel is good.
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Wash and condition your hair. You don't need to use any special type of product, just something that leaves your hair manageable and suits your hair type. Finger dry hair using a
Creating loose curls is easy, especially with long hair. You are going to want to start with putting a product in your hair, such as a moose, to hold in the curl when it's curled.
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The sane asylum
Short story By: kcazing
Zac was just a simple writer when he was committed to the PV asylum for the criminally sane where the insane are in charge.Now he and his cellmate must do all they can to stay sane and survive.
Submitted:Jul 29, 2011 Reads: 31 Comments: 0 Likes: 0
"I'm sane, I tell you! Sane! S-A-N-E! Sane! Why are you putting me in here?! I'm sane!" Zac struggled against the nurses' arms. "Let me go!"
The nurses tossed him into the cell and slammed the door shut behind him. Zac began banging on the door and continued to do so even after he knew the nurses who had brought him there were long gone. Finally, he slumped against the door.
"But I'm not crazy..." he whimpered.
"Of course you aren't," a voice behind him said soberly. "Why else would you be here?"
Zac whipped around suddenly aware that he was not alone.
"Who are-" he began, but the woman sitting before him waved him silent.
"Name's Smoke," she said in reply to the unfinished question. "Welcome to the Pax Valley Asylum for the Criminally Sane. I've been an inmate here for about seventeen years, give or take a lifetime. They count time weird around here." She shrugged. "And you are?"
"Zac," the man replied cautiously. While this little dialogue had been going on, Zac was assessing Smoke. The name was fitting for despite the fact that she was at least as tall as he was, her extreme thinness and the bagginess of her clothes made her seem insubstantial. To accentuate the name even further, a limp, smoldering cigarette hung from her mouth. Smoke seemed to be assessing Zac as well, regarding him coolly through mismatched eyes and stringy blue bangs.
"You dress... like a professor," Smoke stated matter-of-factly.
Zac blinked. "Wh-what?"
"You dress like a professor. You look like you're a pretty stuffy guy, all down-to-earth, never had a chaotic day in his life." Smoke nodded, removing her cigarette from her mouth for a moment. "You are a lawyer or a professor, aren't you?"
"I most certainly am not a lawyer!" Zac cried indignantly. "I'm a writer."
Smoke snorted. "Then you must not be very good."
"And why is that?"
"Because if you were..." Smoke leaned forward, "then you wouldn't be in this hell hole."
Zac stared at her, confusion and anger smoldering in his eyes. Smoke just shrugged and flopped down on her back.
"Whatever, no need to get angry about it. We might as well try to get along; we're gonna be together for a long time."
"What are we even in here for?" Zac asked desperately. This was all too much for him; if he didn't get answers soon, his frustration and confusion caused by all the chaos might just inspire him to cry.
Smoke rolled over to look at him.
"It's because we're sane," she replied soberly. "I thought I made that clear to you earlier."
Zac felt lightheaded as he looked at Smoke's grim expression, and that was the last thing he remembered before he passed out.
* * *
"Hello? Hellooo? Is anybody in there?" asked an annoyingly perky voice.
"Give the poor guy a break, Bleik. He's been having a rough time adjusting." Smoke's voice.
"I'm not attempting to make it hard on him!" replied the happy voice, Bleik. "I simply don't want the poor guy to miss breakfast!"
Zac managed to wrench his eyes open, then let out a high-pitched noise of surprise. The small, grinning, lime-green... animal standing over him was smiling a wide doll-like grin.
"Good morning, starshine! The earth says hello!" the animal chirped, thus identifying itself as Bleik, the owner of the excessively happy voice. "It's time for breakfast, so why don't you two come along with me?"
"Who- what- in the world- are- is?"Zac stuttered, attempting with all his might to form a coherent sentence and failing.
"Oh, how rude of me. I'm Bleik, and I'm going to be your rehabilitation officer!" giggled the animal. "I've been working with Ms. Smoke here since she came here, and I must say she's made quite a bit of progress! But you don't seem to be as extreme a case as she was..." Bleik's face rolled into his head and a new one spun out to replace it, clicking into place, and causing Bleik to look thoughtful. He furthered the look by scratching his head and tapping his foot. After a few seconds of doing this, the happy face spun back into view, and Bleik stated that it was time to go to breakfast.
Zac lingered for a moment with Smoke, totally dumbfounded.
"What is that thing?" he asked quietly.
"He's a dog, I think. I dunno. His ears are kinda long and pointy for a dog's though... maybe he's a rabbit of some sort..." Smoke's voice trailed off as she thought about this. While she mulled over Bleik's species, she busied her hands by putting her hair up with a skeleton beret and putting a pair of goggles over her eyes. "I try not to make sense of this place; I'm afraid it might start to be simple, if that makes any sense."
Zac shook his head. "Not really."
Smoke sighed. "I'm afraid that if I try to understand the way they think, that I might start to think like them. And that's something I never want to happen. Ever. Even if it does get me out of here." Smoke headed for the door. "Let's get going."
Zac followed after her, still confused and curious. "But if it gets you out of here, would it really be such a bad thing?"
"Yes," Smoke growled, as if to close further discussion. "Anything that makes me more like them is a bad thing. I will never allow myself to become like them."
Zac nodded. "I do suppose that going insane is quite a bad thing."
"Psh," Smoke said. "You don't understand."
"Then explain it to me," Zac replied petulantly.
Smoke blinked slowly and appeared to be thinking about something important. "I suppose I could... and I probably should, too." She looked hard at Zac. "Let me tell you a story."
Zac nodded and looked attentive.
"When I first came here, I was about twelve, I guess... I'm not sure, to be honest. I can't remember. I do remember, though, that when I first arrived here I shared a room with a young girl- she couldn't have been more than eight- named Camille. She was nice kid- one of those kids that comes home from school and does their homework and chores first thing. But I'm getting distracted, aren't I?" Smoke laughed, but her face was sad. Zac just gave a nod. "Anyway, so Camille and I were cell-mates and best friends. We shared everything with each other. But the longer we talked, the more I noticed strange things about her. She was totally preoccupied with this weird theory that all this," Smoke gestured around her for effect, "was some dream, and that if she died, she'd be free to go. She started getting more and more obsessed with this idea, until one day..." Smoke grimaced. "We were outside, on one of the towers. And Camille- she- she....." Smoke's voice grew small, "she threw herself off the tower. She was smiling and laughing as she fell." Smoke's face was grim, sad. "The thing that really got me though, was what the nurse who had been watching all this said- 'Pity. It's always a shame when they die so soon after rehabilitation.' -but she didn't sound or look like she pitied her at all." The anger had returned to Smoke's voice. "That's why I can never let myself be like them. I never want to end up like poor Camille, or like the nurse who watched her fall."
Zac walked in silence beside Smoke after that. There isn't much one can say to something like that, at least, not something that would matter if a stranger said it.
Smoke laughed darkly. "I suppose it's something that happens all the time, but it just seems all the more poignant when it's someone you know."
"Especially if they're so young," her companion echoed.
"Yeah." Smoke fished around in her pocket and pulled out a limp cigarette. "I need a smoke."
"Can I give you a light?" Bleik asked cheerily.
"Sure," Smoke replied impassively. After puffing on the cigarette for a while, she asked, "What are we going to do today, Bleik?"
"Well, you two get to do literary analysis today!" the lime-green creature crowed. "You've got some great stuff lined up today. Real classics." He gestured to a door. "I'll be back for you at the end of the day." Bleik happily skipped down the hall, leaving the two of them alone.
"What happened to breakfast?" Zac asked pitifully.
"Breakfast often gets short-changed," Smoke said with a shrug. "It's part of the rehabilitation. You get so hungry you go crazy. Had it happen to the guy who shared the cell next to me. He ate his cellmate."
Zac swallowed, hard. "Does that happen often?"
"Not really, but it ain't pretty when it does."
"I see."
Smoke took a long drag on her cigarette. "Let's get this over with."
The two spent their day reading incomprehensible literature and answering even more incomprehensible questions on said literature. Every once in a while something would make sense, and they would be asked a question on what was wrong with that passage. At noon, a nurse came in to check on how they were doing and to give them their lunch- a strange variety of assorted fruits. While the nurse was there, they played the perfect crazed angels. As soon as she left, however, they were ridiculing the lack of logic or respect for grammar in the pieces. They made strange statues out of their lunch, then devoured the art out of sheer necessity. When Bleik finally came to retrieve them, the two were quite entrenched in a discussion about one of the 'incorrect' passage's philosophical significance.
"I think he's trying to say that life, the universe, and everything is totally unpredictable and random," Zac said in a professor-like voice.
"I think he's saying that blackjack is the most important game in the world," Smoke laughed, puffing on her cigarette.
"Did you have a nice day?" Bleik asked sweetly.
Smoke looked at him, realizing for the first time that her rehabilitation officer was there.
"Oh. Hey." She held out her packet. "Here's my busy work."
Bleik took the packet from Smoke huffily. "I wish you wouldn't be so flippant about this."
Zac handed his packet of literature over as well. "Here you go."
Bleik's face spun into its 'sad' position. "You two really don't take this seriously, do you?"
"Nope," the two chorused in unison, brushing past Bleik. "We're headed back to the cell."
The next day, the two were treated to a lovely lecture on the history of pliglebee. Despite the fact that they both payed close attention to the lecture, neither Smoke nor Zac was able to discern just what pliglebee was. The day after that, the two discovered that pliglebee was a sport somewhat similar to croquet, but much more violent and with constantly changing rules. They lost miserably, and quite painfully. For several days following, Smoke and Zac did not see each other during the day and were forced to do incredibly dull, nonsensical math, until finally it seemed the monotony would be what drove them mad.
After a week's time, (by the asylum's calendar) something interesting finally happened. It was not, however, quite to the two's liking.
"Happy New Year's!" Bleik crowed.
Smoke groaned and sat up, glaring at the lime green intruder. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Too early..." Zac moaned, rolling over and onto the floor.
"So, what's everybody's resolutions?" Bleik chirped, ignoring Smoke and Zac's complaints. "What do you want to do this year?"
"Keep my sanity," Zac replied grouchily, crawling back into his bed. "And going back to sleep."
"Get out of this hell hole," Smoke muttered, still exhausted. She pulled her pillow over her head. "Now get out of here so I can go back to sleep.
Bleik stared. "What a silly thing, you two. But no matter- we're going to be busy, busy, busy, this year! Smoke, you'll be going into some more intensive therapy to bring out your inner psychosis; Zac, you appear to be being equally difficult, but you're still new to the system. I think it would be a good idea to wait a while before we bump you up to more intensive therapy."
Smoke shrugged. "Whatever. Now get out. I'm tired."
"Now, now, Smoke, it's time for you to start your therapy. Come along...." Bleik's face remained in its happy position, but his voice was rather annoyed.
Smoke looked at Zac. "Guess I'll see you this evening then. Bye." She grabbed her cigarettes, goggles, and a jacket, waved to Zac, and then she was gone.
Zac's day went in the way it usually did- incomprehensible literature with even stranger food, then returning to the cell. However, Smoke didn't return to the cell until late that night.
She slunk in, trying to be inconspicuous and flopped down on her bed.
"How did your day go?" Zac asked. "Mine brought me closer to cannibals then I ever wanted to be before."
Smoke looked up at her cellmate. "I have to get out of here," she said in a small, desperate voice.
Zac moved closer to her, worried. "What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it. Suffice to say, I have to get out of here, and soon."
Zac looked carefully at Smoke, trying to determine what had upset her so. Her hair was mussed and her mismatched eyes were tired. Her clothes, disheveled to begin with, were even more so and had been stained with some dark pigment, though in the gloom of the cell he couldn't make out the color. Something had clearly gone wrong, but he couldn't determine just what it had been, despite the many theories that now buzzed about in his head.
"Don't ask again, please," Smoke pleaded. "I just want to be left in peace."
Zac nodded, but was still worried. "O-okay then," he murmured.
"Thanks," Smoke replied. "Could you grab my cigarettes?"
"You really should quit," Zac said as he handed Smoke a fresh pack. "It's bad for your health."
"And the rest of life here isn't?" she asked darkly, lighting her cigarette with a match she had stashed in her shirt pocket. She took a long drag, then puffed at it in silence for a while.
"We seriously need to get out of here," she said finally.
Zac nodded in silent agreement. "This place will be the death of us."
Smoke said nothing, but puffed pensively on her cigarette until Zac went to sleep, calculating possible means of escape.
The next day, Zac awoke in his cell alone.
"Smoke must have already left..." he murmured, gazing at her empty bed. "Wonder what she's doing right now..."
Zac got dressed, paced around the room for a bit, and then sat back down. It was quite dull to be alone in his cell, and once again he wondered what Smoke was up to.
"I guess today's therapy is solitary confinement," he mused. "I'd say that this might actually be the way to drive someone to madness, but I'm not sure who's listening."
He got up and paced again, wishing he had some company or at least some paper to write on. He rummaged around, looking for something to write on. He managed to find a pen in his pocket and then began to search for paper. Sighting Smoke's cigarette box, he headed over to take the foil out. There was a dark red-brown stain on the box, but Zac ignored it, more interested in saving his sanity through writing.
He spent the rest of his day writing stories he usually wouldn't have, trying to keep his sanity.
* * *
"See ya, Zac," Smoke chirped.
"Waaaa?" Zac asked groggily, lifting his head up to stare at Smoke.
"I have rehab to go to, bright and early!" she said with a slightly too wide smile. It was as if the exhaustion and desperation of the previous nights had melted away in some bizarre awakening. "See ya."
Zac stared after Smoke, unsure of what had happened. He got up, dressed, and was soon greeted by a nurse.
"Good morning," said the nurse in a sanitized tone. "Today is the day after New Years. Would you like to join us in the mess hall for a day after New Year's breakfast buffet?"
Zac blinked. "All... right..."
But New Years was a while ago... Zac thought to himself. He didn't say anything though, not wanting to jeopardize the opportunity for a meal.
"Follow me."
The mess hall was abuzz with life. Inmates, ranging from the totally sane to the nearly rehabilitated milled around tables and picked at the buffet. Rehab officers and nurses also milled about, making sure everyone was being good. Zac approached the buffet table and loaded up a plate for himself, reminded by the smell of normal food just how hungry he really was. A hand fell on his shoulder, and he jumped.
"Relax, it's just me," Smoke said jovially in his ear.
Zac turned around to look at her. She had a bruise on her left cheek, but didn't seem to notice. Smoke smiled, and it was the smile that sent chills down the spines of grown men. Zac felt the hair prick at the back of his neck.
"I figured out how we can get out," she whispered conspiratorially. "I figured it out. I'm going to kill them all..." She drew out a bloody knife.
Zac paled. "What are you-"
"Shhh!" Smoke hissed. "I want to be the one to spill it."
"How did you get that?" he hissed back, confused and somewhat frightened by Smoke's sudden change in character..
"I stole it from Bleik," Smoke said proudly. She looked like a child who had just won their first baseball game. "I'm going to kill them with it."
Smoke jumped up on the buffet table.
"You hear that, folks?" she dictated. "I'm going to kill all you rehab officers and nurses! Starting with..... you." Smoke pointed the knife at Bleik, who quickly looked from side to side, a desperate look having rolled into place. "You recognize this don't you, Bliek? It is yours after all. You shouldn't leave things like this lying around; the crazies might find them." Smoke's lips curled up into an even crueler smile. "Payback's a kicker, ain't it?"
Smoke jumped down from the table and advanced on Bleik, free hand out stretched. She grabbed him by his ears and lifted him up for all the assembled to see.
Over Bleik's frenzied pleas for mercy, Smoke began to speak, "Here I hold but one gear in the machine that imprisons us. I am a revolutionary. I will destroy these gears and earn us our freedom!" She looked like she fancied herself to be a Moses of sorts. To all standing there, she looked like the executioner, displaying the head of a guillotine victim.
"Any last words of worth?" she inquired darkly, as she began to slide the knife into the thin slot between Bleik's face and the rest of his head.
Bleik pleaded for his life in near gibberish.
"I thought not," Smoke sneered, and with that she plunged the knife into his head and twisted her wrist, causing the ring of Bleik's faces to pop out of his head. It flew through the air, then hit the floor, rolling to a stop at Zac's feet. He bent down and picked it up, turning it in his fingers. Happy, sad, mad, frightened, thoughtful... the only five faces printed on the ring.
Smoke raised her victim's now lifeless body up, the empty hole where his face should have been staring back at the crowd. It was obvious by her expression that she expected cheers, and, out of fear, a weak hurrah did rise. She grinned triumphantly.
"Who next?" she cried to the audience.
"That will be quite enough, Miss Smoke," came a calm voice. "You needn't make any more fuss. We are quite terrified by your display and have decided to let you go."
Smoke looked at the nurse who had spoken. Her voice was small as she asked, "Do you mean it?"
"Indeed," the nurse replied.
"I can leave?"
"Go right ahead." The nurse gestured to the door.
"He he heh... hah hah, hah!" Smoke burst out into hysterical laughter. "See? They are cowards! Kill one, and the rest will bend to your will like putty! That's all there is to it! Getting out is easy! Why did it take me so long to see?"
The nurse came over and took Smoke's hand. "The door is this way."
As Zac watched the white-coated nurse lead the madwoman away, he made himself a promise.
"I can never be like them," he swore under his breath. "I won't give in.
"I never want to end up like poor Smoke."
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Written on CRIME REPORT: Memphis teen charged with attempted murder in gang-related attack :
What kind of gun? How did he get it? What law would have stopped him? Why won't you tell us?
Written on Mother was asleep when 4-year-old son accidentally shot and killed himself in Memphis :
in response to anybodybutO:
None of you know what happened in that house other than a four year old apparently by accident shot himself with a gun that was in the home. You do not know if the mother was even aware the gun was in house, who owned the gun, where it came from, was it legal or illegal. Again, this is a horrible tragedy and prays go out to the family.
The issues you raise would be investigated and the facts reported by a real newspaper. We'll see whether we have a real newspaper with competent reporters or not.
Written on Boy, 4, dies in apparent gun accident in Memphis :
in response to davej:
first this is a tragedy, but i have a question for the paper, once the outrage over a gun death ends and the police investigate, why don't we ever see if the police arrest the parents for a illegal gun if it was, we never get a follow up from any newspaper, perhaps if the gun were illegal, serial numbers missing, stolen, wouldn't meet with the present libby agenda and thats why it isn't mentioned later?
Right on Dave. For the 5th time I'm calling on this "news" paper to give us the facts on the guns used in all gun crimes in this county. Only then will we know whether our existing gun laws are being enforced. This mother may yet be charged with something, i.e. reckless endangerment, but who knows what existing gun laws were violated if our "news" paper will not report the facts? What kind of gun was it? How did it come to be in the home? Was it stolen? What laws, existing or proposed, could have prevented this tragedy?
Written on CRIME REPORT: 2 charged after stabbing sparks gunfight outside Sherwood Elementary School:
Okay CA, how about we start right here? Did Yancey, Gates or Tillman have a carry permit? Did they legally acquire their guns? If not, how did they get them? What kind of guns did they have? Do they have prior convictions that make it illegal for them to have a gun? Did the guns have serial numbers? If so, has past ownership been traced and were the guns ever reported stolen? If the serial numbers were removed will there be charges added for that offense? What additional charges will be brought for violation of existing gun laws, state or federal? Of the new laws that have been proposed, which would have prevented any of these 3 from having a gun? How about adding real facts to the local gun debate?
Written on Letter: The Golden Rule got lost:
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with it. The failure of leadership at every level has everything to do with it. Nationally we have been without competent leadership in the White House for 12 years and in Congress for that long or longer. Our City Council spends it's time renaming parks and trying to find ways to raise taxes instead of addressing the problems that are destroying this city. I don't know what the County Commission is doing, certainly nothing to make things better. Civility is challenged when the vast majority of hard working people see their earnings and savings and home values decline while their leadership continually increases taxes, attacks their personal freedom and lacks the vision and intelligence to lead.
Written on Letter: Weak case on guns:
in response to fishnlawyr:
Perception vs. Reality. The news media loves grime, gore,and guts.
There also seems to be a reluctance to explain violence beyond "He had a gun and shot someone for no apparent reason"
Such illogical shooting and killing sure makes big headlines and dramatic impressions BUT does it present a true picture of America?
I have kinfolks who live across the street from Central Park in NYC. If you read the headlines, shouldn't they dump their place and move to Germantown?
What is missing from media reporting in this country is honest, non-Politically Correct information. There also seems to be a reluctance to paint with a larger paintbrush. Instead we have a perception of our society painted with a q-tip.
I want to see the backstory of the perps. An honest one. I don't give a rats patootie if his mama cries about her 17 y/o baby being killed so he was a church-going baby... and how he left two children who are at home crying for the loss of their daddy. I want to know what he did for a living. How did he support those children.
Then I want to talk to the baby-mamas and let them explain how they take care of those little children. Where do they get their money? Did any of it come from the deceased?
Oh yeah, and I want to know where he got that pistol he was carrying when someone else busted a cap in his backside.
You know, the C/A corresponded with the members of CACRFC a few days ago asking for input into how the C/A covers crime. (For those of you who don't know, CACRFC is an elite club of egalitarian intellectuals who discuss heavyweight issues of the time and, on a monthly basis, meet for food and drink as well as the personal enlightment that comes from intelligent discourse. Kinda like the Bluff City equivalent of the Alguonquin Round Table)
I think another of the things that the C/A needs to start doing is reporting the employment situation of the guy doing the shooting as well as the guy getting shot. It may be interesting to discover just how many of the perps have jobs.
Oh well, I think I'll submit the issue to the whiz-kids at CACRFC at the next meeting.
For the third time this year, I call on this newspaper to give it's readers the facts on guns used in criminal acts in this county. Is it that difficult to find out from the police what kind of gun was used and how it was obtained, especially in situations when a gun was used by a juvenile? Will the police not reveal whether the serial number on the gun matches that of a stolen weapon? Are you simply too lazy to ask, or do the answers not fit your political agenda? If so, please spare us any future commentary, editorials and letters on gun control since you are unwilling to provide facts to support informed argument, pro or anti gun control. Or maybe you could give your readers some light so that we can find the facts ourselves.
Written on Memphis police officer who killed teen will not be prosecuted :
Since the officer was off duty, MPD and the City are not responsible for his actions. Even if he was on duty, civil liability would be limited to $300,000.00 and any trial would be non-jury. The City doesn't settle unless liability is pretty clear. (see the case of the woman hit by a padlock thrown by a City mower in Cordova) The City has salaried lawyers on staff so attorney fees are not a consideration. The family can sue the officer individually and there is no monetary limit if he was off duty, but how much money does he have?
Written on Letter: The rest of the story:
Those who want to limit the rights of the law abiding don't care about facts. They just know that they don't like guns so they should be able to limit others rights to have them. For the second time I call on this newspaper to report on the history of each and every gun used in a crime in this county. Was it legally obtained and owned? If not, how did it come to be in the possession of the holder? Exactly what kind of gun was it? I thought the CA motto said something about lighting the way.
Written on Letter: Memphians can choose to love their city:
John, most don't love to hate Memphis, but feel that Memphis loves to hate them. When I moved here in the late 70's to pursue a post graduate degree at Memphis State I saw some promise. That increased in the 80's with downtown renewal and great success at the airport among other economic growth. Then it got worse. The quality of public education declined, political leadership declined, teenage pregnancy increased, crime increased, blight increased, taxes increased, businesses left and the gains made in the 80's disappeared. Some leaders spoke of East Memphis devils and others said if you don't like it then get out, so people did get out to the point that the have nots now outnumber the haves. We had our chances and blew it.
Written on Winning bidder chosen for Nineteenth Century Club building; preservationists say demolition is likely :
Obviously you have never been to the Forbidden City or the Summer Palace or the Great Wall. I do appreciate your comments about the non profit status and abuse of that. Unfortunately, there is just not enough money in this city to save historic structures. Remember, we need to give it all "to the children".
in response to oldgrouch:
Over 100 years ago the people of this city thought the monument and the park were a good idea. Over 100 years later we find it easy to condemn their judgment, especially since they are not here to defend it. Over 100 years from now our ancestors will be judging us. Will they find it easy to tear down our monuments based upon the attitudes of their time, or will they acknowledge the past and then simply add their own? Centuries ago someone wiser than any of us said "judge ye not lest ye be judged". Can we move along now?
Oops! Change "ancestors" to "heirs". Our ancestors are judging us now.
Written on Letter: Rules for gun owners:
So once a year someone is going to the home of every law abiding gun owner to make sure they still possess their legally acquired firearms? How about someone going to the home of every person with a criminal conviction of any kind to make sure they have not acquired a gun? I appreciate your military service, but I don't know whose constitutional rights you were protecting.
Written on Letter: Crime and race:
Mr. Blakely, it took real courage for you to attach your name to this letter. Thank you for that. For those who believe as I do that the root of the problem is too many children born to single mothers unable to support them, former juvenile court magistrate Claudia Haltom has established a program to reduce/eliminate teen pregnancy. The juvenile court clerks office should have contact information. The CA ran a story about the program within the past few months.
Written on Letter: Human rights, not gun rights:
What a canard. Anyone who needs these basics for survival can get them as well as a free education. Where are the free guns being distributed?
Written on Memphis lawyer vows to fight 60-day suspension for criticizing judge :
The lack of civility in today's society is on display everywhere, from Congress to the courtroom to television to the roadways to these message boards. Remember Perry Mason? Sure, it was TV, but the show accurately depicted how judges and lawyers and witnesses and jurors should conduct themselves. Try your case like a gentleman or a lady and if you're not satisfied take your appeal to the next level.
Written on Memphis officials question police on crime reduction strategy :
Let's face it. The leadership of this city is not serious about reducing crime. Either they don't know what to do or are unwilling to take the drastic measures that need to be taken. There has been some lip service to another program to fight poverty, but even if successful such a program will not effect crime for years. At least some council members are starting to speak out. When are we going to hear from the district attorney's office and the judiciary?
Written on Husband opens estate of slain Memphis police officer:
Please MPA, do your best to see that all officers have a valid Last Will and Testament. Same goes for sheriff deputies and fire fighters.
Written on Gun access cited in homicide rise in Memphis:
Written on Letter: NRA's arrogance:
Hey Les. Your father, bless his soul, used to drive a Ferrari. Some people would call that arrogant. In the hands of the wrong person that car could become a dangerous weapon. How about a task force to study dangerous high performance sports cars?
Written on Letter: Silly 'solutions':
in response to Sluggers:
Hold on and let me do my morning check.............................good deal, none of my guns walked away and killed anyone on their own last night.
Viper is right, we need much stricter laws anytime guns are used for crimes. Double or triple the prison terms. Public caning like in Singapore would do wonders here in the US.
Until lawmakers show they are ready to get tough on these violent criminals that walk our streets, I don't want to hear any BS about gun bans. We've had guns in the house for my whole life, none have taken a life.
Let's see, the 19 year old who shot a man over a dice game in today's CA. Perfect example of what element of people are giving guns a bad rep.
Same here. My father brought guns home from Europe after World War II. He bought me my first gun when I was 8. None have ever hurt even a fly. Like this dice game idiot (the second dice game shooting this month) and the 15 year old who bought a gun on the street, it's the guns obtained illegally that are the problem. Has that 15 year old been interrogated to find out where he got that gun?
Written on Poverty industry drives Memphis economy:
Under what category do we include all the stealing, like the UPS package that was stolen off my porch last week? Illicit trade? Poverty trade? Philanthropy? Off the books?
Written on Slain Memphis officer Martoiya Lang's children given to their father:
No one, not the father, grandmother or anyone else, is going to receive any money that rightfully belongs to the children. Donated money will be placed in trust to be distributed pursuant to the terms of the trust or as ordered by a court of competant jurisdiction. An encroachment may be granted for necessary living expenses depending upon the means of the parent/legal guardian to support the children. This encroachment is the only money that the father or grandmother would be able to get their hands on and that is supposed to be used only for the basic needs of the children. However, as with child support paid by a non-custodial parent, the party with primary custody could divert some of that monthly encroachment to their benefit i.e. groceries, rent, cable tv, utilities, transportation, etc. Officer Lang should have designated a beneficiary for her life insurance and employee benefits and that money will go to that designee no matter what. If she did not designate a beneficiary for one or both, then the money is an asset of her estate and will pass pursuant to the terms of her will. If she did not have a will, the laws of intestate succession will control and her husband will receive 1/3 of her estate and her children will evenly divide the other 2/3. Again, any money that passes to the children will be under the control of the court and cannot be paid to them until they are at least 18 unless the court grants a request for an encroachment. Such is only granted in extraordinary circumstances.
Written on Letter: Stick with science:
You are free to choose your own path Mr. Aldred, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:2)
Written on How part-time schedules and irregular hours keep working Americans poor :
in response to Mamba:
Maybe they should form a union and strike against themselves for not being bright enough to get a degree and a better job than part time at Walmart.
Dang!! Another fool has spoken. If everyone had been as fortunate as you, who would you call when your plumbing,car-(jalopy), garbage pick-up or any of the other menial your eyesight need immediate attention?
Just because a person doesn't have this worthless piece of paper called a degree, does that mean that they should have to work for slave wages to take care of their family?
I'll bet good money that you're one of the idiots that thinks everyone on some type of assistance are deadbeats, and are looking for "free stuff". You witches will make a buzzard gag.
"worthless piece of paper called a degree". Worthless piece of paper called a degree? Is that what you tell your children, your neighbor's children, your nieces and nephews? Some will say that a degree from Memphis City Schools is practically worthless to many, but that doesn't mean we should give up.
Written on Letter: Lives are lost when gun ownership is legal:
The latest mass murder is so horrific, what with little children being the victims, that the movement to make all or some guns amd ammo less available is going to get traction. The question is, what realistically can be done? All guns are not going to be outlawed, not in our lifetime. Legal gun owners are not going to willingly surrender their guns without significant compensation. The criminals certainly are not going to surrender theirs. I expect that for now there will be ownership restrictions placed on some firearms and maybe a ban on extra capacity clips. But, the fact remains that the gun is only the instrument chosen by a deranged mind to commit mayhem. The severely deranged will find another means to carry out their lunacy, i.e. Timothy McVeigh.
Written on Letter: The evidence is clear:
You all can battle back and forth forever on the cause of global warming, but the question remains, what are you going to do about it? Even if all commerce came to a halt in this country and we turned off all the power, how long would it take to affect climate change, especially if the rest of the world makes no changes at all? Who is going to revert to the living standards of the 1800's while our governments, local, state and federal,do absolutely nothing to lead the way? Buildings lit all night, streetlights everywhere, buses and trolleys riding around empty, these are just a few examples of local government waste that no one ever mentions while gnashing their teeth over this pointless debate.
Written on Letter: Caught in their own trap:
Richard, how do you define "rich"? If you mean the top 1%, JohnnyK is right. The government could take all of the wealth of the top 1% and operate for a few weeks at best. Then the wealth of the next 1% would be taken and so on until eventually even you would be considered rich and your assets taken away. Bet you'd sing a different tune then.
Written on Memphis congressman asks feds to honor state laws legalizing marijuana possession:
in response to Johns47:
Contrary to popular belief, there are people who become dependent on marijuana. They develop a pattern of marijuana use that looks strikingly similar to addition:
1. They need more to get high than they once did
2. The effect is diminished over time; they continually chase that “original” high
3. Negative consequences are piling up due to marijuana use
4. They try to quit, but find themselves craving a joint – they rarely stay quit more than a few months at a time. Some can’t go more than a day or two.
5. They feel “bad” when they don’t smoke – they have become used to the effects of the drug and only feel “normal” when they have used it
Although marijuana is considered by many to be a “harmless” drug, it has dramatic effects on the brain and lungs. Marijuana is essentially an hallucinogen, altering for many the sense of time, sound, touch, and sight. Memory impairment is a common side effect of marijuana use. Long-term smokers may develop bronchitis or chronic chest colds, and can even develop emphysema.
Marijuana today is far more potent than the marijuana of the 60s and 70s. Regular use of marijuana can cause permanent brain damage, and some studies have linked marijuana use to Alzheimer’s disease.
The myth that marijuana is not addictive is belied by the fact that the number of people seeking treatment for marijuana addiction doubled during the 90s and continues to increase.
One of the biggest obstacles to getting someone into treatment who has a marijuana addiction is the denial that marijuana is addictive. Unfortunately, many people misunderstand the word “addiction” and use the wrong criteria to determine if they are indeed addicted.
You sound like those silly movies they showed us in junior high school 40 years ago, you know, the ones that made you want to smoke dope because it seemed like alot of fun, and it was! Practically everybody did it in high school and college in the 70's and 80's and probably still do. The hospitals and mental health centers are full of pot smokers, right? What a crock of ....
Written on CRIME REPORT: Suspect charged after missing videogame leads to Fox Meadows armed robbery :
in response to Whatthehellsgoingonoutthere:
"There now the list is complete :-)"
Not quite:
7. Dude wouldn't front him a smoke/asked for a smoke.
Drats, you beat me to it! Consequences mean absolutely nothing to these thugs. Prison? Isn't that like summer camp?
Written on Wendi C. Thomas: Clayton candidate debacle weakens an already weak state Democratic Party :
in response to WhitehavenOpinion:
Thomas Paine...
The Memphis City Council and ALL of the school boards are composed of INDEPENDENTS. In fact, ALL CANDIDATES for ALL school boards are REQUIRED to be NON-PARTISAN under the penalty of removal from office pursuant to TN statute.
The Tea Party Republicans of Shelby County's six (6) suburban cities ALL voted for an "education tax" due to an all together different motivation than the "confusion" that resulted in the "tax increase failure" in Memphis PLUS UNINCORPORATED SHELBY... UNINCORPORATED being a likely source of 98% NO votes!!!!
I am surprised YOU couldn't have analyzed this, while forgetting the public transgressions of Republicans like former Sen. Stanley or Rep. Curry Todd?
BTW, your comments above failed to address the word RACIST???
Your TONE... "WE" should be "overjoyed" to have your RELUCTANT support?
Thomas Paine, is this not the straw that breaks the "reluctant" Democrat's back? Like you, I was a Democrat for much of my life, but the Democrat party left me, I did not leave them. Nevertheless, I have not become a Republican. No, I am waiting for the emergence of the party that represents the vast majority of the citizens of this nation, those who go to work each day, support their families, pay their bills and stay out of trouble. The vast majority currently can choose only between the lesser of two evils.
Written on Now that the city is in charge, ideas are pouring out for the future of Beale Street :
Several years ago the wife and I went to the New Daisy theatre on a regular basis to see various groups, some old some new. Minglewood Hall has taken over that market. Last year she wanted to go to Beale Street for her birthday. We walked around listening for something appealing, like the blues, and finding nothing ended up at BB Kings where the house band plays tired old Motown, night after night. I still look at the Flyer every week to see who is playing on Beale, but nothing attractive in a long time.
Written on Changing times: Politicians' tears more common now :
Yes, only divine intervention can save us now.
Written on Letter: Always a cost:
For those of you on Medicare, have you ever looked at an EOB to see how little is paid on the doctor's total charges? Well below 30%, sometimes as low as 10% to 20%. TennCare is as bad if not worse. By the time the doctor pays his medical and administrative staff, treatment of Medicare patients results in almost no net gain and maybe a net loss. Couple that with the expense of becoming a doctor and you will understand why Medicare patients are being rejected. To get the best medical treatment you need more than Medicare.
Written on Letter: Lost in the middle:
Another independent thinker has spoken, although it appears that he held his nose and voted for one of the major party candidates in spite of his realization that neither has pledged to do anything for the vast majority of citizens of this nation who go to work each day, support their families, pay their bills and stay out of trouble. Oh, and since "Dennis" lives in Bartlett, he was denied his right to vote against the sales tax increase underhandedly proposed after the "muni" vote, a tax that even this newspaper acknowledges lacks a clear purpose.
Written on 'Y'all need to do better,' public tells panel overhauling Shelby County Juvenile Court :
No Ms. Newsom, YOU need to do better, you and the untold number of irresponsible parent(s) who let their children run wild and unsupervised and uneducated not only in this city, but in cities across this country. And you, Ms. Harris, are exactly right, training is the answer, training young people not to have children that they are incapable of properly raising. Sure, there are problems in the court system, always have been and probably always will be, but the answer is not more money to keep kids out of prison, but how to keep them from being born into an environment where they are neglected and abused. Just read this paper and see the number of victims of juveniles and young adults committing murder and mayhem each day.
Written on Letter: Undecided for a reason:
Congratulations Ms. Patterson. You have seen the light. Obviously you are one of the vast majority of citizens in this country who go to work each day, support their families, pay their bills and stay out of trouble, the vast majority that has been abused and ignored by the two major parties over the past twelve years during their respective reigns. Never mind that the silver spoon super rich candidate has the electorial votes of this region already sewn up, making any vote for either major party candidate irrelevant. My father used to say that the American people will consistently vote against their own best interests. Unless you are an absolute loser or fabulously wealthy a vote for either of these two is not in your best interest.
Written on Chris Peck: The future of white male politics :
Although I will vote (I tried Friday, but the line was too long), for the second time in a row I will not be voting for either major party candidate. Why? Because neither party, and by extension their candidate, has shown any commitment to do anything for the vast majority of the citizens of this country, those who go to work each day, provide for their families, pay their bills and stay out of trouble.
Over the past 12 years both parties have let most of us down when it comes to our individual welfare and the stability of the nation. Our homes have lost value. Some cannot afford to sell, thereby restricting the ability to move to areas with greater income opportunity. Financial markets have been flat with the Dow still below the 2008 high and the Nasdaq at just over half the 2000 high. Interest on savings accounts is less than 1% making cash in a mattress attractive if you doubt the stability of your bank.
The national economy is in doubt as well with staggering debt, a huge trade deficit and unemployment. We have been at war for 11 years and our internal security is a constant concern. The media remind us almost daily about growing poverty and declining education. Yes Chris, there are many more women in college now than men, but what does that say about the future of families and children?
In the face of growing unemployment prices continue to rise on almost everything. How can this be? Those increases are not going to pay higher wages and associated benefits. Advancing technology is supposed to lead to greater efficiency not higher inflation.
As a Boomer I have to fault my generation for much of this situation. I grew up in a time of great promise with advancing technology, men on the moon, and unlimited possibility. Antiestablishmentarianism morphed into a greed to accumulate all that you can or redistribution from the haves to the have nots.
Barring some unimaginable disaster, the vast majority who go to work each day, provide for their families, pay their bills and stay out of trouble will be alright throughout their lifetimes, not because of the 2 major parties, but in spite of them. Until either commits to the vast majority, neither will get my vote.
Written on Wendi C. Thomas: Higher sales taxes to expand pre-K in Memphis a wise investment :
If the imposition of the tax increase was conditioned upon the funds being used only for Pre-K, or there being no property tax increase for many years, or even upon the resignation of Ritz and/or other pro tax Commissioners when the tax is not used for that purpose, the referendum would probably pass. Wendy admits that there is no such guarantee for Pre-K funding so all we have is a "might" or a "could" which, as Ichabod points out, is not going to get it.
Written on University of Mississippi crowns first African-American homecoming queen :
Whatcha got to say about that, Pepe Lepeu/LSmith and all you conspiracy theorists?
Written on CRIME REPORT: Man accused of setting Hickory Hill home ablaze with Molotov cocktail:
in response to busyatwork:
When tobacco was deemed bad for you, we were shown all these people with tobacco related diseases. Now they say weed is bad for you, but I've never seen a case of a weed related disease. Why is that?
Haven't you ever seen the movie "Reefer Madness"?
Written on Chancery Court clerk charged with identity theft in insurance scheme :
"Scott knew the detective was there because Scott was using Carnell Mitchell's name." What? The previous sentence said Scott answered with his actual name. Anyway, Amy, Amy, Amy, what were you thinking? To throw away all those years with the County for something such as this. I am so sorry for you.
Written on Memphis judge whittles jury questionnaire in upcoming murder case :
in response to lifespalette54:
This is the same Judge who gave the teenager 30 days for killing a father of 2 with his car.......
Makes one wonder just what the qualifications are to be a Judge.....apparently it doesn't take much.
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Energy Voices: Insights on the future of fuel and power
Are electric cars really cheaper than gas cars?
A new website from the US Department of Energy compares the energy costs of driving an electric car relative to gasoline prices. The tool might prove useful, Styles writes, but only as long as it is grounded in the best information we have about the vehicle choices that potential electric car buyers are actually considering.
By Geoffrey StylesGuest blogger / June 27, 2013
An electric charging station is shown in Montpelier, Vt.
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The site’s documentation indicates the eGallon calculation is based on the average energy usage of five specific EVs, including the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Ford Focus EV, along with the 2012 EPA fleet average fuel economy for what EPA defines as small and mid-size cars. The result is side-by-side postings of the US average gasoline and eGallon prices, plus a drop-down menu to replicate that for each state. The site also includes the chart at left, comparing these two prices over the last decade.
A Big Underlying Assumption
Two facts become immediately apparent. First, electricity is generally a cheaper fuel for cars than retail gasoline. That’s true for a variety of reasons, including the higher end-use efficiency of electric motors compared to internal combustion engines and the lower cost of most of the fuels used to generate electricity in the US. For example, the natural gas burned in power plants sold for the equivalent of $ 20.40 per barrel last year, while the global benchmark for oil averaged nearly $112/bbl.
And just as there’s no single gasoline price for the whole country, neither is there a single electricity price. Even the state averages used by the DOE to calculate eGallon prices mask a bewildering variety of regionalelectricity price tariffs and tiers. So your cost to recharge an EV might not just vary by location, but by time of year, time of day, and the specific rate plan that applies to you. My main concern about the site derives from something much simper: the big central assumption that EVs compete with the average cars sold in America last year.
What Do We Know About Trade-Ins for EVs?
According to the eGallon site, the average small-to-medium US car in 2012 got 28.2 miles per gallon (mpg) in combined city and highway driving. Using that figure, and with residential US electricity prices averaging 11.6 ¢/kilowatt-hour (kWh) in March 2013, the national eGallon price for March would have been $1.14/gal., compared to $3.71/gal. for unleaded regular gasoline. But what if we assumed that the cars most often compared to a new EV were not average cars, but other efficient cars, as logic and my intuition suggest? If we substituted the fuel economy data for a conventional Ford Focus or Toyota Prius hybrid, the eGallon price would jump to $1.26 or $2.03, respectively.
In some respects this result is fairly obvious. If you were already contemplating buying a hybrid, an EV won’t save you as much as if you were thinking of buying a conventional mid-size sedan. However, this distinction is important enough that the DOE should consider refining its eGallon calculator. EVs are much like wind and solar installations that cost more than conventional alternatives, but are expected to produce over their lifetimes economic or environmental benefits that offset those higher costs. The attractiveness of that big up-front investment is directly proportional to those benefits.
I don’t have the data that would clarify the actual comparisons EV buyers are making, but someone must, perhaps including DOE. And it turns out that this isn’t just important for calculations like eGallon, but also for assessing the cost-effectiveness of federal EV policy.
EV Subsidies May Be Too Low But Are Already High for the Benefits They Create
That brings me to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of federal EV tax credits last fall. The report merits a posting of its own, but one nugget I gleaned from Monday’s presentation in DC was that the CBO found that the current federal credit of up to $7,500 per car was still insufficient to make most EVs cost-competitive on a full-life basis with conventional cars. Yet despite this, the effective cost to taxpayers of each gallon of gasoline saved by a Leaf-type EV was well over $6 when compared to conventional cars getting average fuel economy, but over $10 vs. high fuel-economy compact cars. That’s assuming they save any gas at all, because of the way the Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules have been structured Implied costs for greenhouse gas emissions avoidance were even more startling, at over $400/ton of CO2 in most cases.
Conclusion: To Be Valuable For Both Consumers and Taxpayers, DOE’s eGallon Must Reflect Realistic Vehicle Choices
The desirability of a tool like “eGallon” is rooted in the convoluted way we talk about transportation fuel economy and energy costs in this country. Miles per gallon itself is a poor metric, compared to something like gallons per 100 miles. It obscures the high value of modest improvements in high-consumption vehicles, while exaggerating the value of shifting from very efficient to ultra-efficient cars. It’s also more useful for policy makers than consumers, who are ultimately concerned about outcomes in dollars per mile or dollars per trip.
Recognizing the impracticality of training 300 million consumers to think about this subject differently, eGallon might prove useful, but only as long as it is grounded in the best information we have about the vehicle choices that potential EV buyers are actually considering. Since current EV incentives apparently provide a poor return to taxpayers, an overly simplistic tool that drives consumers too far in that direction might be worse than not having such a tool at all.
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Biggest volcano on Earth found: It's been hiding under the ocean (+video)
The biggest single volcano on Earth is in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Hawaii and Japan. Dubbed 'Tamu Massif,' the humongous volcano erupted almost 150 million years ago.
By Correspondent / September 6, 2013
Researchers created this image of Tamu Massif. Colors indicate altitude (red and yellow are high; blue is low). The gray area (lower right) shows the footprint of Olympus Mons at the same scale. Tamu Massif might be the biggest single volcano on Earth, with a footprint comparable to Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system.
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A volcano submerged under the Pacific Ocean might be the biggest volcano on Earth – depending how you measure it.
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A volcano identified under the Pacific Ocean might be the biggest volcano on the planet.
“Our final calculations have determined it is about 120,000 square miles in area, or about the size of the state of New Mexico, making it by far the largest ever discovered on Earth," says geologist William Sager, who has studied the massive volcano for more than 20 years and who gave it the name "Tamu Massif." "It rivals in size some of the largest volcanoes in the solar system, such as Olympus Mons on Mars.”
That last statement might be a bit of a reach – Olympus Mons is not only the size of Arizona, it's also more than 70,000 feet tall. You'd have to stack five or six Tamu Massifs on top of each other to reach that high. (The largest active volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which stands 33,000 feet tall, but has a footprint only about 2,000 square miles.)
Tamu Massif gets its name from Texas A&M University (TAMU), where Sager worked and taught for 29 yearsMassif is a loosely defined geological term for any mountain-sized feature, from the French word for massive.
Sager and his team had been studying a large underwater area about halfway between Japan and Hawaii, known as the Shatsky Rise. After identifying three mounds in the plateau, he says, "We got tired of referring to them as the one on the left, the one on the right, and the big one."
What makes Tamu Massif so remarkable, in addition to its enormous footprint, is its simplicity. Unlike most other massive volcanoes, it erupted from only one vent, Sager argues in a recent paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience. It's not a complex of several volcanoes, like Hawaii's big island, but "a single, immense volcano constructed from massive lava flows that emanated from the center of the volcano to form a broad, shield-like shape."
In fact, Tamu Massif's slopes are so gentle that it looks more like a plain than a mountain. Climbing it, if it weren't underwater, would be more like a long walk than summiting one of the Rocky Mountains. With slopes of less than one percent, Sager says, “If you were standing on its flank, you would have trouble telling which way is downhill."
The volcano was formed about 145 million years ago, at a "triple junction" where three tectonic plates were ripping themselves apart. The nearly flat slopes show that the lava must have poured out at tremendous rates, Sager argues, constructing the entire, enormous volcano in just a few million years.
“Its shape is different from any other sub-marine volcano found on Earth, and it’s very possible it can give us some clues about how massive volcanoes can form," says Sager. "This is important information for geologists trying to understand how the Earth’s interior works.”
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In Iraq, British forces hand over control of Basra to the US
American forces will seek to disprove the perception that they are more heavy-handed than the British.
By Jane ArrafCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor / March 31, 2009
General Ray Odierno, the US military commander in Iraq, spoke during a ceremony where British forces handed over military control of the Basra region in Iraq to the US.
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British forces handed control to the US military in the port city of Basra Tuesday in a ceremony marking the end of British authority in Iraq and the biggest step in the dismantling of the US-led coalition here.
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With a flurry of speeches in British and American accents, the US Army's 10th Mountain Division flag was raised and a British Royal Navy flag lowered over the base at Basra airport that has served as their base during some of the city's worst violence.
"The accomplishments of British forces were nothing short of brilliant," Gen. Ray Odierno, the US military commander in Iraq, told the guests seated outside the airport terminal. He highlighted the British role in reconstructing the city's infrastructure.
With vastly improved security in Basra since the Iraqi Army moved in to dislodge Shiite militias a year ago, the US general taking over the sector says one of his main preoccupations will be convincing Iraqis that US forces will not be more heavy-handed than their British counterparts.
The military operation launched by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite led-government last March is seen as a major turning point in Iraqi security and reconciliation.
"It's amazing," said Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top US general in charge of operations in Iraq, in an interview after the ceremony. "Here we are one year later. You take a look at the economy, you take a look at the level of security – how fast things are moving – we gained about five or six years in one year's time."
A calmer city
The atmosphere in Iraq's second biggest city is dramatically different from when Shiite extremists controlled both the city and the port. Businesses have reopened, and life has returned to the streets.
Mr. Malaki's military operation, launched a year ago without consulting the US, would have failed to drive back the militias if General Austin had not stepped in and persuaded him that he needed US air support and other help, military officials say.
The US became more engaged in Basra last year at a time when the war here had become deeply unpopular in Britain. Participation by what had been the US's staunchest ally, had become so politically controversial that, with mounting British casualties, British forces were largely confined to their bases, US military officials say privately.
US officials, though, are careful not to imply that the British troops, generally admired by the US military, did anything other than successfully finish the job they set out to do.
"That's why we're not calling it a 'relief-in-place,' " the normal term for a hand over of authority during an ongoing mission, says one US military official privately. "A transfer of authority reinforces [the fact that] they have successfully completed the mission." | http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/0331/p06s21-wome.html | dclm-gs1-205360002 | false | false | {
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The expected price of the 918 Spyder is $845,000
The expected price of the 918 Spyder is $845,000.
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RE: a step in the right direction
By Sunrise089 on 9/10/2013 3:56:09 PM , Rating: 2
What good is 590 lb-ft of electrically-supplied torque EXCEPT for going fast in a straight line a few times?!
I know you didn't say so, but your tone suggests to me the 918's powertrain is somehow unique in torque generation. But the Aventador makes 510 lb-ft, and the Veyron more than 800.
So you can get torque other ways, but as I mentioned above the 918's system is costly in terms of weight. That's the MOST important factor for people who don't just 'care about going fast in perfectly straight lines.' The cool thing about torque from electric motors is it's on boil down so low. That should actually be pretty cool from like a 5mph roll. But on a racetrack revs are always going to be much higher so while torque matters there's nothing special about torque made from the 918.
RE: a step in the right direction
RE: a step in the right direction
RE: a step in the right direction
By chmilz on 9/10/2013 7:13:58 PM , Rating: 2
Considering this car just broke records at Nurburgring, I'd say that torque is being applied just fine. In fact, it's being applied better than fine. It's being applied better than any other production car before it. It broke the previous record by 14 seconds - that's an eternity considering over the last few years shaving a tenth of a second off the record was considered an accomplishment.
By Reclaimer77 on 9/10/2013 7:35:22 PM , Rating: 2
Nürburgring has killer straights where you can run flat-out. The 918 has more power than pretty much anything else on that list you're looking at, so of course it set that time.
Let's put it in perspective, the previous record holder is now giving up like 200 horsepower to the 918!
Most "production" cars don't have 900hp.
By Concillian on 9/11/2013 1:05:38 PM , Rating: 2
If you're on a track, then you scrub off almost as much energy in braking for a corner as you push out accelerating out of that corner. A "small" electric reservoir makes sense in this regard if the generation can be done in a way that doesn't interfere with the feel of threshold braking... then the electric motors used as a bit of a turbo boost as you accelerate out of the corner.
Done properly, I have no doubt it has the potential of outperforming a comparable torque and HP ICE only car... while also reducing the stress on the braking system (which on an 800 HP 3600 pound car are going to be quite considerable stresses)
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A snapshot of the night - After Dark - Haruki Murakami Fiction Book
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After Dark - Haruki Murakami
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After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Date: 24/03/12, updated on 19/07/12 (63 review reads)
Advantages: Description and atmosphere, an intriguing snapshot of the night
Disadvantages: Shorter and less developed than his others
I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami's books and have read all of them at least once. I recently read After Dark for the second time. For fans it is definitely worth reading and a casual reader might also enjoy it but in some ways it is not really representative of his usual style. It is good, but not his best.
After Dark is much shorter than many of Murakami's other novels, which means that it doesn't contain as many twists, turns, flashes into other times, places and worlds as some of his other stories. Due to its brevity After Dark does not develop its characters or story in great depth. It is a simple snapshot of a few hours after midnight in Tokyo. However, it is typical of Murakami style description where he portrays people and places in a realistic, modern way including every day details such as brand names.
The reader gets a brief introduction to the main characters. Mari is a 19 year old student of Chinese who has missed the last train home and ends up spending the night talking to a musician and being drawn into an incident in a local love hotel with some colourful characters including the owner of the "love ho", a female wrestler. There is a separate strand to the story featuring Mari's sister, Eri, who has been in a prolonged deep sleep. This section is very surreal and is a stark contrast to the realistic sections out in Tokyo. The relationship between the two sisters gets more attention as morning draws closer. Each chapter is headed up by a clock, showing how time progresses throughout the book. I like the way he explores that time seems to pass slower during the night when most people are sleeping and the atmosphere he builds.
This is worth reading for the atmosphere, but if this is first Murakami you read and you are not sure what you think, I would definitely recommend trying one of his longer ones where he has more room to develop characters and story to really show off his talent.
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ROH World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Steen attacked two men at ringside at the conclusion of the ROH Boiling Point iPPV. Zack Zimmerman, who was sitting two rows behind the men hit, stated the following about the incident…
"Kevin Steen assaulted two fans who mixed words with him post match. Steen grabbed one and made out with him. The man shoved Steen and Steen swung and hit the man in the face and then hit the fan next to him who spat. If these men were plants, they were interacting with us all night and were very convincing as fans. One man bled from the lip. The men were two rows in front of me and Steen POTATOED both."
The incident was caught on camera and security was shown jumping the barricade after the men before cameras quickly cut away to Steen leaving ringside. It appears the fans had been exchanging words with Steen during the main event and Steen jokingly kissed the one guy. A friend then spit on him and he was hit as well. If this is real, this isn't good news for Ring of Honor or Kevin Steen. There have been incidents in the past with Steen where management hasn't been happy with him. It didn't appear to be a work but we'll see.
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A bounty hunter holds dear the memory of his son who was killed by outlaws several years before. One day he kills a crook and then takes in his son, who swears vengeance upon his adopted father. This western chronicles their adventures together. The bounty hunter is happy with his new charge and so retires to resume his previous profession as a horse breeder. Things go well until the town sheriff is shot and the breeder's adopted son blames the crime upon him. But he is innocent and so rides out to prove it. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi | http://www.flixster.com/movie/santee/ | dclm-gs1-205530002 | false | false | {
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Aric Clark Fort Morgan Times
I love the holiday season. I love the lights and decorations. I love the cheesy movies and made-for-TV specials. I love the horrid sweaters, and the waistline-wrecking food. I'm one of those people who looks for excuses to play the Christmas music in early November sparking groans and eye-rolls from most of my friends.
Not everyone feels the same. For some people the holidays are a time of year to duck your head and get through. The same music I love is teeth-grindingly bad in other people's ears. What I see as cheerfulness seems aggressively, even falsely happy to others. When you're feeling down, the lights and bows and parties seem to taunt you with your misery.
Emotions are amplified in the context of these cultural celebrations. When we are grieving a loved one, the holidays can be a sharp reminder of what we've lost. As everyone around us gathers together to celebrate family and friendship, loneliness rises up.
Even those of us with lots of family to gather can be filled with mixed emotions. Rare is the family that looks like those cheery people smiling on the television. Most of our families have plenty of wounds that are still healing, and scars that might never completely disappear. Reunions at the holidays might be a cause for anxiety more than joy.
This emotional gap between those who are swept up in the mood of the season, and those who feel brushed aside by it is a potential source of misunderstanding. There is a tendency to disparage those who are less-enthusiastic, calling them "grinches", "wet-blankets", "party-poopers", and a number of other unflattering names. We lift good cheer up as normative and blame people for their own less-pleasing (to us) emotions.
This doesn't only happen at Christmas. When someone admits to depression or other mental illnesses they are often subjected to all sorts of dismissive advice. They are told to "just get over it." They get blamed for "ruining everyone else's fun." Can you imagine if we treated people with physical illnesses the same way?
"Just get over your diabetes." "Your cancer is ruining everyone else's fun."
It's time we learned that there isn't a right way and a wrong way to feel. If you're blue this holiday season I hope you are embraced by friends who don't need you to put on a show to be accepted. If you're practically a Christmas elf with bells on your pointy green shoes, then don't expect everyone else to share your level of exuberance. Let's all make room for people who experience the ups and downs of life differently than we do.
In fact, that is one of the secrets to giving and receiving deep joy. It's not about whether we are experiencing fleeting happiness in a given moment. It is about whether we are sustained by relationships of mutual hospitality in which we can truly be ourselves. Relationships where we are accepted whether our demeanor is prickly, or cloyingly sweet. Sometimes the perfect Christmas requires sharing someone else's blues.
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#1ChipNoirPosted 3/20/2013 1:47:07 PM
So I've reached Oerba, and I'm very confused about all the new level 1 components. I was under the impression I could go back and use these on freshly re-caught monsters, and end up with higher stats. But using all Mana Drops on Cait Sith for example, has him capping at level 15 with less magic than just using a normal potent drop.
How am I supposed to use these?
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#2ACrossCountryPosted 3/20/2013 2:27:53 PM
Cait Sith is a late bloomer, if you look at the monster growths document you'll see he gains the same magic through levels 1-15 whether on potent or on mana, so for those levels it's best to use potent. The major differences between mana and potent come in during the level 5 crystarium (since he's a late bloomer). Now the reason why his potent magic is higher than his mana magic for the same level and stat gains would be due to his starting stats. Your old Cait Sith probably had a higher starting magic than your new one. | http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/619315-final-fantasy-xiii-2/65743376 | dclm-gs1-205590002 | false | false | {
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Workplace Branding: Four Ways To Use Culture To Recruit And Retain
Hiring managers and recruiters may not spend too much time thinking about workplace culture and brand. Typically brand and culture come up when a recruitment team is scrambling to put together an employment ad or job description. In an effort to attract the right candidates, the team gets together and works feverishly to craft a brand statement, or debates a way to define the culture of the company in a way that makes the company appealing to candidates.
I have an alternate view: defining workplace culture and corporate brand is really the front end of the recruitment process. Waiting to think about workplace culture and brand until you need to recruit is like closing the barn door after the horses have left.
As I’ve written elsewhere, creating and maintaining a brand-based corporate culture can help businesses recruit and retain the very best talent. Here are a few of my thoughts about workplace culture branding, taken from the world of marketing and now infused right into your workplace culture.
1. Workplace Brand Promise
Brand promise is the foundation upon which to build a brand. In your team, discuss what the company’s brand promise is. What differentiates “insert your company here” from the competition? How do you offer value in your products and services? Sketch it out, then you’re ready to move to the next step: aligning brand promise and brand attributes.
2. Workplace Brand Attributes
Brand attributes are the descriptors you use to convey and support your brand promise. Ask your team: What word comes to mind when you think of your company’s brand? What does the brand stand for? What benefits does the brand portray? If your brand were an automobile or a soft drink, which would it be?
3. Workplace Brand Positioning
Now you’re ready to talk about positioning, which involves building a narrative to support your brand promise, using brand attributes. Ask your team: who are our current and future clients? How do clients interact with our company? Who are our target clients? Who are our major clients? What is the company’s vision, and how does that meet customer needs? What’s your competitive differentiator(s)? With the answers to these questions in hand you will be able to envision your ideal candidate, and ready to create a brand positioning statement that will appeal to that candidate.
4. Workplace Culture Perception Audit
The next step is a perception audit, conducted with current employees, willing customers and trusted advisors. Here are a few questions to ask your research group:
1. How is your company perceived by its clients?
2. How is your company perceived by its employees?
3. How would we like to have the company perceived? (Look back to your brand promise, attributes and positioning.)
4. What are the company’s strengths and weaknesses?
5. Who are the company’s main competitors?
6. How is the company perceived in the following areas: Quality, Awareness, Brand Associations, Brand loyalty?
Revamping your brand using workplace culture
With brand and positioning work in process, it’s time to inject workplace culture. By creating a strong, desirable culture brand you’ll be able to attract talent by sharing and communicating your excitement about the business’s potential and linking that potential to a candidate’s interests.
It’s easy, especially with so few jobs available, to think brand and culture aren’t what attracts employees, but your brand and culture are your best tools for recruitment and retention. Most people want to work for a brand they admire. Make sure your brand aligns with an appealing workplace culture, and you’ll have the edge. The goal is to be the place your employees want to be, the place job candidates want to be, the place customers want to do business with. Do the work of building an irresistible brand and culture. And let us know how you’ve done it at your company.
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1. @MeghanMBiro:disqus
Very good post Meghan! You are spot on here. An employer brand should
be the surmountable entity within any organization. It needs to start at the
top and trickle down to reach everyone within the company and that includes:
vendor partners, customers/clients, stockholders, etc., basically anyone who is
a shareholder in the organization. It's also something that is never one and
done. It will evolve over the years and need a “facelift” from time
to time. It is one of the most effective ways of developing employees into
brand ambassadors. A strong employment value proposition serves as a foundation
in an environment where happy employees refer others to work for the
organization, in addition to cultivating better customer relations which increases
client retention. This is a win-win-win situation.
2. Meghan,
What a great roadmap that companies can use to steer their corporate culture initiatives. As you so articulately explain in your 4 points, Workplace Culture Branding is not a one-two punch; in fact, it's the result of serious introspection, responding to a plethora of critical questions.
My favorite analogy in your post: “Waiting to think about workplace culture and brand until you need to recruit is like closing the barn door after the horses have left.”
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Due to changes in circumstance I'm putting my Burson HA-160D up for sale. From some angles in certain light the top panel shows a light shadow like pattern. Aside from that the amp is in like new condition. The price includes Paypal charges and shipping. I am considering offers from USA only.
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Might be interested. Quick question - does plugging in a headphone mute the line outs + does the volume knob control both headphone outs + line out?
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I'm pretty sure plugging in headphones mutes the line outs. (I haven't used it as a preamp since last summer and my studio monitors are currently being stored a couple thousand miles away.) The volume knob does adjust the line outs when they are in use,
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Renault sets a new level of elegance
January 23, 2014
You've heard of convertibles with fabric roofs and metal roofs? Well here's one with a glass roof. Renault is banking on its heavily- glazed Megane Coupe-Cabriolet offering a clear difference over rivals at the affordable end of the drop-top market. To do so, it needs to minimise the usual compromises associated with compact open- top cars sporting four seats, paying particular attention to practicality, driving dynamics and integrating a bulky roof mechanism without sabotaging the styling. A difficult task that remains so for this revised version. Stiffness is the friend of sharp, responsive handling but it tends to go walkabout when a car is divested of its roof. To help the Megane Coupe-Cabriolet retain as much of the road-going poise of the three-door Coupe and five- door Hatch models as possible, Renault took a number of steps to stiffen the chassis and the suspension. The body of the car is a full 80% stiffer than that of the previous generation Megane CC while the MacPherson strut front suspension features the Megane's innovative 'horned' subframe arrangement to improve lateral rigidity. There's also an electric power steering system designed to provide more feedback from the road surface. You probably won't expect this Renault to be especially rapid. But a car can still be responsive, even if it isn't downright quick and Renault's glass-roofed Megane CC is aiming to bring a new level of elegance to the affordable folding hard-top convertible market. Jonathan Crouch takes a look at the revised version the 130bhp 1.2- litre TCe petrol variant we tried is a perfect example of that. Although it takes 11.2s to cover the rest to sixty mph sprint, its roll-on pace through the gears is actually pretty impressive thanks to the engine's ample torque. The petrol engines need a bit of revving to produce their very best, which inevitably has an impact on fuel economy, so you may well feel that a diesel would be a better bet. The 110bhp 1.5-litre dCi option (which comes complete with option of Renault's clever EDC twin-clutch auto) might struggle a little of you're doing lots of open-road work, but the 130bhp 1.6 dCi unit is as flexible as you would hope. This improved version gets the front end re-style recently introduced to other Megane models. What's important though is that roof. Some hard-top convertibles set out to disguise the fact that the roof is removable through their styling but the Megane Coupe- Cabriolet intentionally looks like an open topped-car whether the hood is up or down.
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Runtime 1hr 21mins.
Genres Crime, Thriller, Horror
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An Adventure of Sorts–Behind the Scenes of a MATLAB Upgrade
By Bill McKeeman, MathWorks and Loren Shure, MathWorks
While choosing how to upgrade sort for MATLAB 7, we used MATLAB to prototype sort algorithms and to add the new sort direction qualifiers 'ascend' and 'descend'. We translated the prototype from MATLAB into C++ to add this latest version of sort to Release 14—and found a few surprises in the process.
Algorithms in MathWorks products and user applications use the MATLAB sort function for tasks ranging from alphabetizing lists to choosing significant singular values.
There are 12 types of sortable matrices in MATLAB: the eight integer types ([u]int8/16/32/64); plus single, double, char, and logical. Single and double may be real or complex; double and logical can be sparse. Full n-dimensional (ND) arrays can be sorted along any selected dimension, in either ascending or descending order. sort can also return the permutation vector relating the input values to the outputs, with call syntax ranging from the most simple r = sort(v); to the most complete [r,i] = sort(v, dim, dirflag);
The most readily available upgrade would use qsort from the C library, but qsort was too specific for the sort tasks that MATLAB requires. The C library qsort has a hard-coded stride of 1 (data is assumed to be arranged in contiguous memory). MATLAB also needs to sort data containing NaN values, which qsort does not accommodate.
The available C qsort implementations share a common characteristic: to achieve type independence, data access is indirect (via void* pointers) and the user supplies a comparison function. As a result, general-purpose sort algorithms written in C are inelegant and somewhat slow.
Selecting an Algorithm
Sorting experts recommend a three-level algorithm, insert/quick/bin, where each level calls the one to its left if the size of the array being sorted passes below some experimentally discovered cutoff. When we updated sort, we expected to require four levels (insert/quick/bin/quick). To achieve speed proportional to the size of the data (order N) bin sort requires as much auxiliary storage for the bins as it does for the input data. Because quicksort manipulates the data in place, it can sort larger arrays, albeit somewhat more slowly. (Hoare’s 1962 quick sort algorithm has undergone a generation of changes, particularly to improve performance when the data is not random.)
Bentley, J. L. and M. D. McIlroy, 1993. Engineering a sort function. Software—Practice and Experience 23, 11, 1249--1265.
Knuth, D. E. 1998. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
Cormen et al. 2001. Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill.
Prototyping Alternative sort Algorithms
We explored speed and memory tradeoffs by prototyping the basic algorithms in M. The prototypes work only on vectors. (Full ND arrays are discussed in Extending Vector Sorts to N-Dimensions later in this article.)
function v = viSort(v) % vector insert
for i=1:numel(v)-1
[m, k] = min(v(i:end));
v(i+1:i+k-1) = v(i:i+k-2) % make room
v(i) = m; % place min
function v = vqSort(v) % vector quick sort
if numel(v) > 1
piv = median(v); % divide
lss = v(v < piv); % and
eql = v(v == piv); % conquer
gtr = v(v > piv);
v = [vqSort(lss), eql, vqSort(gtr)];
function v = vbSort(v) % vector bin sort
n = numel(v);
if n > 1
mn = min(v);
mx = max(v);
binAvg = 200; % experimental
binCt = ceil(n/binAvg);
slope = binCt/(mx-mn);
binNo = floor(slope.*(v-mn))+1; % assign bin
bins = cell(1, binCt+1); % allocate bins
for i=1:binCt+1
bins{i} = vqSort(v(binNo==i));
v = [bins{:}]; % reassemble
As we planned to have vqSort call viSort when there were few enough data points, we modified the quick sort design.
function v = vqSort(v) % quick sort
if numel(v) < 32
v = viSort(v); % experimental
piv = median(v); % need approximation
lss = v(v < piv);
eql = v(v == piv);
gtr = v(v > piv);
We translated the M-code vector sorts into C in-place sorts so that we could test our four-level design hypothesis. The results surprised us. For vectors of random data on Intel x86 hardware, the most modern quick sorts were slower than the already-implemented quick sort in MATLAB! Algorithmic changes made to the modern sorts to ensure good behavior on less-than-random input were costly, while the existing MATLAB sort cleverly uses its pivot-picking approximation to do some sorting work.
We finally decided that best performance on random data was more useful than adequate performance on all data, and kept the existing MATLAB quick sort. (Performance results depend somewhat on the underlying hardware.)
We took into account that the C implementation of bin sort needs three passes: one pass to decide on the number of bins, one to bin the data, and one to call qsort on each bin. The results are left in place, conveniently ordered for output. We can justify this considerable overhead because it results in an order N, instead of NlogN, run-time algorithm.
Another surprise! We experimented to find a cutover from quick sort to bin sort, but never found it. Our best effort at a C-implemented bin sort was slower than our C-implemented quick sort, even on datasets containing up to 10 million elements. As a result, we abbreviated our development plan to a two-stage sort: insert/quick. Both these algorithms already have satisfactory implementations in MATLAB.
Extending Double Sorts to New Types: Plus NaN and Inf
Next, we extended the double sorts to the sortable MATLAB types. We recoded the insert/quick sort pair as C++ template functions parameterized by the underlying MATLAB types.
MATLAB sorts NaN values high, beyond all other single/double values. Because NaN and Inf need to be dealt with only for the real types, we implemented a function (called a jacket) to handle the cases for single and double. The jacket calls the usual sort routine on the finite values and handles the nonfinite values correctly for MATLAB. This jacket’s sorting prepass counts the NaNs and replaces them with +Inf. After the sort, the jacket overwrites an appropriate number of +Inf values with NaNs at the top end of the sorted vector. (Had we still been doing bin sort, this jacket would also have had to count and remove Inf values, as the bin selection algorithm depends on finite values.)
function v = vSort(v) % sort NaN jacket
if isfloat(v)
nans = isnan(v);
v(nans) = inf;
v = vqSort(v);
v(end-sum(nans)+1:end) = nan;
v = vqSort(v);
Extending Vector Sorts to N Dimensions
We extended the vector sorts to sort along a user-selected dimension of an ND array. Array data is laid out in memory in column-major order: elements in a column are adjacent in memory. Elements along another dimension are separated by a constant distance (the so-called stride, usually larger than 1). We prototyped in M first
function v = strideSort(v, d) % stride jacket
s = size(v);
stride = prod(s(1:d-1));
for i = 1 : stride*s(d) : numel(v) % #of elements
for j = i : i+stride-1
idx = j : stride : j+stride*s(d)-1;
v(idx) = vSort(v(idx));
We recoded the C++ in-place insert/quick sort pair to step by a stride, and then wrote a second level of C++ jacket to call them.
Extending Array Sorts to Permutation Vectors
We extended the array sorts to provide the permutation vectors, which required that the sort be stable, (i.e., sorting may not reorder equal values). The algorithms viSort, vqSort, and vbSort are stable, but our C++ implementations were not. Without requesting the permutation vector, you cannot tell whether the sort is unstable.
Rather than recode the insert/quick sorts, we chose to make a post-sort pass over the sorted data, detect runs of equal values, and then sort the corresponding subvector in the parallel index vector. Any NaNs presented a special problem because they had been interspersed with the Inf values. We found the original indices of the NaNs and Infs by making a pass over the original unsorted data.
Extending Array Sorts to Complex Values
The MATLAB algorithm for complex values first sorts by absolute value, then sorts by phase angle, and finally sorts to ensure stability for duplicate values. We decided to leave the MATLAB C code for sorting complex double values in place and call it from the jackets described above.
Implementing Ascend and Descend Flags
We passed the direction flags 'ascend' and 'descend' to the jackets. If the flag is 'descend', the output is reversed just before being returned. After the reversal, we ran the index vector sorts to restore stability.
Testing the Sorts
We tested for the following criteria:
• The sorts should accept all valid inputs (12 types of data, shapes from empty arrays to large ND ensembles, and valid dimension and direction flags) and otherwise fail with an error message.
• If requested, the sorts should produce the permutation vector.
• The sorts should “run as fast as C.” Suppose T means “type” and S means “shape.” Then we guarantee the following.
r = sort(v, dim, flags)T(r)=T(v) ^ S(r)=S(v)
[r,i] = sort(v, dim, flags)T(r)=T(v) ^ T(i)=double ^ S(r)=S(i)=S(v)
We checked that in each case the outputs were sorted and the permutation vectors applied to the inputs, given the outputs. We coded all the test routines in M, using the MATLAB functions class and size.
To test performance, we raced our algorithm against the C standard library qsort and the C++ Standard Template Library sort for simple cases. The MATLAB sort function is about five times faster than C qsort and a little faster than the C++ STL sort.
MATLAB provided a productive environment to explore enhancements to the sort algorithm. Prototyping the possibilities in MATLAB before recoding the algorithms in C++ helped us quickly understand our programming choices. We can still use the prototype M versions of sort as test components when we verify the MATLAB sort function’s behavior. Using MATLAB to upgrade MATLAB enabled us to deliver a higher performance sort, and we can use M-code to explain how we did it.
Similar to the MATLAB function sort with options 'ascend' and 'descend’, the function find has added functionality in MATLAB 7 that lets you find the 'first' or 'last' elements that meet some criterion. For example, if you want to find the first element in array X less than 42, use
This operation stops as soon as the first element meeting the condition is encountered, which can result in significant time savings if the array is large and the value you find happens to be far from the end.
If, instead, you want to find the final 10 elements > 17, then use
Again, the operation returns as soon as 10 values are found. If fewer than the requested number is found after the entire array is scanned, the return vector will have fewer than the requested number of elements.
Before sort had the option to return items in descending order, you had to perform the sort and then index from the end. With MATLAB 7, sort has the new 'descend' option, and find has the new 'last' option to combine the find with the indexing into a single function call.
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Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on independent Dozhd (Rain) TV that the adoptions agreement will remain in force until Jan. 1, 2014 due to its provision that it should be valid for a year after one of the parties terminates it, which Russia did on Jan. 1. But he added that all new adoptions and also those which hadn't been completed before the new law took effect will be banned.
"In cases when certain judicial procedures haven't been completed, a complete ban on adoptions by U.S. parents will be enforced," Peskov said. "The agreement isn't a mechanism that obliges Russia to provide its children for adoptions. It regulates the regime for our children there, the monitoring mechanism."
More than 50 Russian children were preparing to join their new families in the U.S. when the ban on adoptions was passed, but it wasn't immediately clear how many of them already got a court order allowing them to leave Russia by the time the ban was introduced.
"With regard to those who had failed to leave even though all formalities had been completed, and if there are some local abuses, we will naturally consider those cases," Peskov said.
"We are very hopeful that we will be able to complete the cases of adoption that had been begun before the law was passed. So that's something that we will be working on with the Russian government," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday.
She said that in response to the State Department's request for information from American families who were trying to adopt, it had received e-mails from some 950 people and was evaluating where each party stood in the process.
Nuland added that U.S. officials would prefer not to get into specifics because "we want to see as many children be able to have the future that we'd like for them as possible, and we don't want to be putting people in different categories." She also said there are privacy concerns with regard to both the Americans and the children.
Peskov's statement ended the controversy over the length of the agreement's validity. Russian rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov had earlier claimed that the agreement became void on Jan. 1.
In an apparent media counteroffensive, Russian state television and RIA Novosti on Thursday interviewed the boy, who said he hadn't written such a letter and would like to stay in Russia. The state TV also interviewed a parliament member claiming he wants to take care of the boy, whom he took shopping for a new phone and notebook.
Peskov insisted that the boy hadn't sent a letter to Putin, but promised to have a look at why the U.S. couple hadn't been allowed to adopt the boy.
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Observations of a visitor to South Florida:
1.Why have cars with signal lights when few drivers ever use them?
2.Why do so many drivers who do use their signal lights do so after the fact, as if to say, “Look what I did”?
3. Why do bicyclists ignore red lights? Why are they allowed to do so?
4. Why are drivers allowed to use phones while driving? They are not paying attention and are driving with one hand.
Re the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk:
1. Why do walkers not walk on the correct side — the right side?
2. When large groups of walkers stop to talk, why do they not move to one side, instead of blocking the walking area?
3. Why do smokers not use the cigarette-butt disposal units provided?
4. Why don’t bike riders warn walkers, a bell ring or a word, when they are passing very close to them?
This area needs information signs to educate those who have no consideration of others.
Zel Bocknek, Hallandale Beach
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I have the pregnancy pee strip tests. The ones you have to pee in a cup and then dip the stick in it. I rinsed my cup out really really well, like really well. A friend came over and she thinks she is pregnant too. So I offered her to take one of my strip tests. I buy a bunch off of amazon for cheap. She used my cup that I used 3 days previously. Her test came up positive but not as dark and fast as mine. So I gave her some more to take home. She took another one this morning and it came up negative. Is it really possible for her to get a positive pregnancy test from using my cup with rinsing it out so many times??
post #2 of 8
I wouldn't rule that out, but I can't be for sure. Did you just rinse it or did you actually wash it?
post #3 of 8
I would be very surprised if that was the case. Even if you only rinsed the cup, and not washed it, we're talking TRACE amounts of pee that would instantly be very diluted in her own urine.
post #4 of 8
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rinsed, but we're talking about like 5 or 6 times really REALLY well. And then set it under the cabinet upside down to dry over a body spray bottle I don't use. I still think she is pregnant. she's two weeks ahead of me if she is unless my own dates are wrong, which is possible. That is just so hard for me to believe that it's because of my pee.
post #5 of 8
What sounds more likely is a chemical pregnancy, meaning that the embryo (or zygote or blastocyst or whatever it is that early on) fails to implant all the way or implants and then is rejected because it is non-viable. Many doctors advise women not to test too early because such non-viable embryos are pretty common and can give women false hope. They'll get a positive test result and then a negative result a few days later as hormone levels drop back down. Most women have such chemical pregnancies but don't know about them either because they're not testing or because their testing misses the brief "positive" period and only catches the negative that follows. If it is a chemical pregnancy, she'll probably get her period in the next week or so.
(Someone with an anatomy and physiology background could tighten some of this up, but if you actually rinsed the cup thoroughly, I don't see how enough HcG would be hanging around for her to get a false positive)
post #6 of 8
FWIW I got a faint positive in the evening, then a negative with my morning pee. I went to see my Dr and had a blood test that confirmed I was indeed pregnant. I was about 4.5 to 5.5 weeks along; definitely past my expected date for AF. The tech that drew the sample had worked in reproductive care and explained that the urine tests may come up negative if tested outside a certain window - too early or too late. I'm not saying the test is wrong but I encourage you both to get the blood test done if you suspect you're pregnant. As far as I understand, the blood test is very definitive. Hth
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Originally Posted by skycheattraffic View Post
I was going to mention something along this line...I always get my first positives in the evenings, and the morning one the next day is generally barely there! (but darker again that evening)
post #8 of 8
She should take another test if she hasn't gotten her period/miscarried in a day or 2 and see if it comes out positive. I think it was a real positive. There's no way it could have been from you.
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In a last-ditch effort to deter American participation in the Gaza flotilla redux—the Audacity of Hope containing 36 American passengers is set to embark from Greece any day now—the US government sent out a warning about the possible repercussions of jumping onboard. On Friday, the State Department declared "that delivering or attempting or conspiring to deliver material support or other resources to or for the benefit of a designated foreign terrorist organization, such as Hamas, could violate US civil and criminal statutes and could lead to fines and incarceration." But critics say there's no evidence that any of the passengers intend to deliver anything to Hamas, and that the Obama administration is overstepping its boundaries.
The warning, according to American University law professor Stephen Vladeck, constitutes an unmistakable threat of potential prosecution under the so-called "material support" law—18 U.S.C. 2339B for you legal buffs out there. First passed in 1996, it has been perhaps the Justice Department's favorite tool for prosecuting terrorism cases since 9/11. The statute prohibits the knowing provision of "material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization." In 2001, the Patriot Act expanded the definition of "material support or resources" to include "expert advice or assistance."
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When asked if the State Department had evidence to suggest that any of the flotilla passengers did, in fact, intend to "deliver material support or other resources" to Palestinian terrorists, a department spokesperson responded that she did not. She instead referred me to a brief allusion in Monday’s press briefing regarding concerns about past arms smuggling into Israel.
Flotilla passengers claim that their only aim is to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza, which they contend is illegal, and deliver humanitarian aid to the Gazan people. Yet given the government's track record and expansive interpretation of the material support law, Professor Vladeck cautioned that, regardless of the activists' intent, Friday's statement should be taken seriously. "One can never take a warning as proof that a prosecution will happen, but it's certainly a very strong indication that the State Department will refer any such cases to the Justice Department," he said, adding, "It would be odd for them to issue such a warning and not be serious."
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(Sorry followers, I had to re-submit this there was a big mistake needing fixing)
And yes Piccolo is totally Batman.
Now with mp4 access I can upload the video in a much better quality. After getting some constructive feed back from the community, I have made some large changes. The addition of a longer ending and some re-drawn scenes.
Still having trouble with animating the mouths, any advice would be nice. As for the artwork and animation, you'll notice that this episode has many "moments" that are heavily influenced by different events in the show. You may also notice many simular looking stances and poses of the characters as I did use references from the show when drawing. I didn't feel like doing the background mattes.
I watched DBZ again for the first time in over a decade and I was just struct with such nostalgia, I had to do something. The idea for this episode I had when I was a kid but never had the means to make it. Even now I still feel that I have lots of learning to do. I am slowly trying to get better at flash and this was a big learning experience. I know there is a lot of DBZ material on Newgrounds, but this was just something I needed to make for myself.
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 31, 2012
This was amazingly perfect in every way.
DangerousBob responds:
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 3, 2012
You created an episode just over 12 minutes, a reasonable and unique wish within their universe. The fight was rather interesting to watch and I was not surprised to see her transforming into a monster as her power just continued rapidly increasing every moment the fighting continued.
I was rather impressed you did not end the fight with a large energy blast like every other fight in DBZ, but rather the difference in combat experience.
Downsides - Why was she turning into a super saiyan, she has no saiyan bloodline does she and why did she turn back into her regular human form after she lost the battle. I understand that you did not want Sage to die, but could you have at least given an explanation or more detail to the wish she made...
In fact, in this timeline can't the Eternal Dragon grant 2 wishes? What was the other wish?
Or was there another person who made their own wish?
...? *chants* Sequal! Sequal! Sequal!
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DangerousBob responds:
You bring up some good points!
I did want her to be more monster like as her power grew, your the first to really make that connection. As for the ending, I did not want to end with a large energy blast like you pointed out. That would be what people expected and its over done, I feel. I liked the early DBZ episodes where it was more about martial arts and besting your opponent with clever attacks. The idea for Sage was to have a villain that could not be overpowered. It came down to fighting skill and smarts, which was her weakness having unearned power.
Sage is not a Saiyan. The idea was that she started to look like a Saiyan because metaphorically she had become what she hated, she had became like Vegeta, a bully. As for her transformation, it was more that she was just glowing from the light cast from the energy ball she was holding, which also was pulling her hair up. That in mind she did have a huge burst in power, and had a white aura on top of that, not so much a transformation in the sense of a Super Saiyan, more of just a temporary boost in power do to the wish (kind of like how Goku goes red with kaioken).
At this time no sequel is planned. However that is not to say I won't make one. If I do your other questions will be answered as I actually do think this stuff through. ;)
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 31, 2012
Erm.. Piccolo is batman?
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 4, 2012
Wow that was AWESOME
Rated 5 / 5 stars August 30, 2012
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Class 534/770 - The hetero ring is six-membered and consists of one nitrogen and five carbons (e.g., pyridine, etc.)
Subclass of Class 534 - Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Definition: Compounds wherein the hetero ring is six-membered and consists
No. of patents: 90
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7405280Chromogenic substances and use thereof for the determination of carboxypeptidase activities
The invention relates to chromogenic compounds and the use thereof for the determination of enzymes of the family of carboxypeptidases N and carboxypeptidases U. The above is more specifically a compound of formula (I) in which A=(1), (2), (3), (4) or (5), R1, R2=H,...
7173114Lightfast colorant and lightfast ink composition including the same
A lightfast colorant and a lightfast ink composition including the lightfast colorant utilize a lightfast colorant that is derived by covalently binding a cinnamate derivative and a conventional colorant. The lightfast colorant improves storage stability as well as ...
7029502Azo dyes, a process for their preparation and their use in the production of colored plastics or polymeric color particles, and in the dyeing or printing of hydrophobic fiber materials
The present invention relates to an azo dye of formula wherein D is the radical of a diazo component of the benzene, naphthalene, diphenyl, thiophene, benzothiazole, benzisothiazole, thiadiazole, indazole, benzotriazole...
6506431Spore germination inhibitor and food containing the same
The spore germination inhibitor of the invention is 6-carbamoyl-2-pyridine carboxylic acid which is produced by a microorganism of genus Bacillus, such as Bacillus subtilis, and can inhibit germination of sporogenous bacteria resulting in the prevention o...
6492502Azo compounds, use in dyeing, compositions containing them and dyeing processes
Azo compounds of the 2-(4-amino)phenyldiazinecarboximidamide type and 2-(4-amino)phenylhydrazinecarboximidamide type, a process for their synthesis, their use for dyeing keratin fibers, dye compositions containing them, and dyeing processes....
6162417Pyrrolo isoquinolines
Compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X, Y, and R, independently of one another, is each a H; halogen, wherein said halogen is selected from the group consisting of .sup.123 I, .sup.124 I, .sup.125 I, .sup.131 I, .sup.75 Br, .sup.76 Br, .sup.77 ...
6133432Processes for preparing pesticidal intermediates
A process for preparing a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is C1 -C18 alkyl by reacting a compound of the formula RO2 C--CH2 CN (II) with a cyanide salt and formaldehyde o...
6046312Water soluble azo dyes and their synthesis and use
Disclosed are water soluble azo dyes, represented by Formula I or II, and their synthesis and use. The water soluble azo dyes are synthesized by diazotizing 4-aminopyridine and coupling the resulting diazo intermediate with alkylated metanilic or orthanil...
5747345Calcium specific diaza-18-crown-6-ether chromoionophores
Diaza-18-crown-6 compounds of the formula I: ##STR1## wherein X is a phenol, naphthol or quinolinol moiety selected from those of the formulae: ##STR2## R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independent...
5723586Disperse dyes
Disperse dyes of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein D signifies a diazo component which is usual with disperse dyes, K signifies an aromatic radical of formula ##STR2## Y signifies ##STR3## and the other symbols have the meanings as de...
5633355Monoazo disperse dyes from selected (aromatic amino)propionates or selected (aromatic amino)butyrates
The disperse dyes of formula I ##STR1## wherein the symbols D, K, R3-5, R10, m, z, n and Y possess the significances given in claim 1, are eminently suitable for dyeing or printing hydrophobic, fully or semi-synthetic, organic f...
5612221Avidin-binding fluorescing and quenching reagent for use in homogeneous assays
Avidin-binding azo reagents which alter the spectrophotometric properties of avidin and the use of such reagents in homogeneous assays are described....
5545400Deodorant method
A deodorant containing an azo metal complex expressed by the following structural formula 1, which is produced by mixing a solution in which azo compounds to be ligands are dissolved with a solution in which a metal salt is dissolved: ##STR1## I...
5532342Azo metal chelate compound
An azo metal chelate compound of an azo compound of the formula (I) with a metal: ##STR1## wherein A is a residue forming a heterocyclic ring together with the carbon atom and the nitrogen atom to which it is bonded, X is a residue forming an ar...
5525436Proton conducting polymers used as membranes
The subject invention relates to solid polymer electrolyte membranes comprising proton conducting polymers stable at temperatures in excess of 100° C., the polymer being basic polymer complexed with a strong acid or an acid polymer. The invention further...
5468848Basic azo dyestuffs of the 3-cyano-2,4,6-triamino pyridine series
The new basic azo dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## wherein the symbols have the meaning given in the description, are suitable for dyeing synthetic and naturally occurring substrates which can be dyed with basic dyestuffs....
New azinoneutromethines of the formula ##STR1## in which the symbols used have the meaning given in the description, a process for their preparation and their use in thermal and photochromic recording materials, as nonlinear optical materials, as pho...
5310888Arylazo chromoionophores
Disclosed are arylazo chromoionophores characterized by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen or a monovalent cation, Y is H or methoxy and R is a ringed aromatic organic structure which affects the optical absorption properties of the compound...
5298608Metal chelate of a monoazo compound and optical recording medium using it
A metal chelate compound comprising a monoazo compound of the following formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein A is a residue forming a hetero ring together with the carbon atom and the nitrogen atom to which it is bonded, B is a residue forming an arom...
52907564-trifluoromethyl-4'-nitrodiphenyl ethers
Compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen, halo, trihalomethyl, alkyl, nitroor cyano; X1 is hydrogen, halo, or trihalomethyl; R1 and R2 are hydrogen, alkyl phenyl or benzyl; n is 1 to 5, and Z is halo, ...
5278294Monoazo dye having diaminopyridine derivatives
A monoazodye of the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is CN, Cl or Br, one of R1 and R2 is phenyl and the other is --C2 H4 OC2 H4 OR3, wherein R3 is C
5262330Colorimetric methods and reagents for the assay of calcium in a test sample
A chromogenic compound found to be especially selective in the determination of calcium in blood of the general formula (I): ##STR1## where: R is hydrogen or lower alkyl; X is CH2, CH2 CH2, CH.dbd.CH, O, S, SO2,...
524502114-crown-4-ether derivatives
Named compounds are useful in making dry analytical elements for assaying lithium in serum. The compounds have the general structure: ##STR1## wherein R, R1, R2 and X are as presented below: ________________________________...
5215578Ink containing tris-azo dye, ink-jet recording method and apparatus using the same
An ink composition that includes water, a water-soluble organic solvent and a dye. The dye is represented by the following Formula, in which the number of sulfonic acid groups and the number of amino groups are each not less than 2, and the number of sulf...
5196521Azo dyes prepared using 2-alkylamino-3-cyano-4,6-diaminopyridines as coupling components
The dyes of the formula ##STR1## in which R1 is hydrogen, halogen or CF3 and R2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, where R2 must not be ethoxycarbonylethyl if R1 is hydrogen are suitable for ...
5158954Methyl -(2-substituted)pyrid-3-yl-ଲ-methoxy-acrylates, compositions containing them and their use as fungicides
Fungicidal compounds of the formula (I): ##STR1## and stereoisomers thereof, wherein K is oxygen or sulphur; Z is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; X is O, S(O)n, NR4, CR1 R2...
5093308Oxadiazolyl-benzene azo hydroxy-pyridone dyes for thermal transfer printing a yellow print
Azo dyes useful for thermotransfer printing have the formula ##STR1## where R1 and R2 are each H; alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkanoyloxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonyloxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl or cyanoalkyl each of u...
5077200Azo dye chromogenic substrates
Chromogenic substrates for the detection of hydrolyzing enzymes, processes for the preparation of these chromogenic substrates and the use of the chromogenic substrates. The quantification of hydrolyzing enzymes for diagnostic purposes has to date been ca...
5071968Azo dyes containing a 7-sulfoalkanoylamino-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline coupling component
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5043269Chromogenic substrate to peroxidase enzymes
A novel chromogenic substrate to peroxidase enzymes is provided which is comprised of a mixture of a colorless mixture of two compounds, such as, 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone and 2-hydroxy-2,4,6-cycloheptatrienone, which undergo an oxidative cou...
5038415Disperse dye composition useful for dyeing of printing hydrophobic fiber materials: mixture of pyridone mono-azo dyes and optionally a quino-phthalone
A disperse dye composition comprising (a) a pyridone monoazo compound of the formula (I), ##STR1## wherein X1 and X2 are each hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or others, and R1 is alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or...
5037968Adducts of an anion of an oxa acid and a keto compound, process for the preparation of said adducts, and process for the determination of the concentration of the anions of oxa acids using said keto compounds
Keto compounds in which to the carbon atom in the neighboring position to the keto compounds there is bonded at least one strongly electron attracting substituent and/or in which there is conjugating with the carbon-oxygen-double bond of the keto group a ...
4880431Aryl monoazo pyridone yellow compound having two vinylsulfone type fiber reactive groups bonded to a triazine ring for dyeing cellulose or polyamide
A monoazo compound of the following formula, ##STR1## wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or alkyl, R4 is alkyl or carboxy, A is ##STR2## in which R5 is hydrogen, methyl, methox...
4861344Reactive water-soluble azo dyes containing carboxy- or carbamoyl-pydridinium groups for dyeing textiles
Water-soluble azo compounds having useful fiber-reactive dye properties conforming to the general formula ##STR1## in which: A is phenylene which may be substituted or unsubstituted, or is a radical of the formula ##STR2## in which W is a ...
4837308Process for the preparation of azo compounds
A universally usable process for preparing azo dyestuffs by oxidative coupling consists in carrying out the oxidation in the presence of redox mediators with a standard potential of 0.2-1.5 volts and, if appropriate, an additional oxidizing agent with a s...
4826531Pyridine derivatives and their uses as fungicides and insecticides
Acrylic acid derivatives having the formula (I): ##STR1## and stereoisomers thereof, wherein W is R1 O2 C--C.dbd.CH--ZR2, R1 and R2 are alkyl or fluoroalkyl groups, and Z is oxygen or sulphur; A,...
4800195Substituted azo N-phenyl-N'benzoylureas and their use as insecticides and acaricides
Novel N-phenyl-N'benzoylureas which are useful as insecticides and acaricides....
4795746Substituted N-phenyl-N'benzoyl ureas and their use as insecticides and acaricides
4704452Azo dyes containing aralkyl-nitrophenyl diazo components
Monoazo compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which one of the two substituents R1 or R2 or both substituents are C3 -C8 -alkyl or a group of the formula ##STR2## in which R3 and R4
4685934Mono- and di-sulfo group containing compound having a substituted pyrazolyl diazo component radical and their use
Monoazo compounds of formula ##STR1## wherein R1 is a coupling component radical, R1 is C1-6 alkyl; C1-6 alkyl substituted by 1 or 2 substituents selected from chloro, cyano, hydroxy, C1-4 alkoxy, ...
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