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Hi all. I have two kids--- DD, 14 is a 9th grader and DS, 11 is a 5th grader. DP had a vasectomy when DS was 2 and we've always been clear that two kids was the limit for us.
Until it wasn't.
We had a vasectomy reversal last year but didn't tell the kids. It ended up that both sides of the reversal were the more complicated type of proceedure and we were told that if fertility did return it would take 6-18 months. So, no hurry to tell the kids...
We were pregnant in less than 9 months. Now 10 weeks along and the kids still have no idea.
So, any ideas on how to tell them? How have your older kids reacted to a new pregnancy (especially if there is a large gap between kids)? We went to the midwife yesterday and she could hear the heartbeat (we didn't) and said we could come back tomorrow so *hopefully* we would be able to hear it. At that point, I'm comfortable telling them.
With DS it was actually really easy. We took a pregnancy test and told DD the same day!
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My sister and I are 12.5 years apart, and no one has ever told me why. We just don't talk about those things in our family. blush.gif lol.gif I can only assume I was quite a surprise (and my mom was 39, back in the mid-70s they tried to convince her it was early menopause).
My son will be five when LO is born, I figure that's an "improvement" of sorts. My sister still harbors resentment (mostly in jest) that she was the built-in babysitter. orngtongue.gif I'm so looking forward to having a set of helper hands, I think DS is going to do really well with it (at least I hope). I'm having the hardest time keeping the secret from him, just a few more weeks... He's been asking for a sibling for quite a while. It took a while for DH to agree though, we had originally set out to have an only. It was a fairly big surprise that I sufficiently bullied Dh into it, I didn't think he was EVER going to cave! eyesroll.gif
I know five years is a lot different from 11...I have an acquaintance who just had a baby after a 12 year or so hiatus, it looks like from the pictures I've seen on Facebook that the big siblings are really enjoying it.
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My older two arent as big as yours (they will be 7 and almost 5 when this baby is born). We've already told them. They are both very excited to help out. I didnt do much in a special way to tell them. Although I did video it when we told my 6.5 year old son. It was very cute to have that moment.
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Tired, have you decided how to tell them? My kids are younger than yours (2,4,6, right now) but I'm trying to figure out a fun way to tell them. I'm thinking MAYBE Valentines day. (I can get away with them not knowing until then and that will be around when I plan to tell our family.) I always make big sugar cookies for my family for Valentine's day. A big heart with their name written on in. (A 3rd generation tradition.stillheart.gif) So maybe I'll just have an extra cookie out with a big ? mark, or write baby Aug 2013. I always take pictures to show my mom how they turn out, so this may be how I tell them, too.
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Well, we told them this last Friday. We had a midwife appointment and had a good heartbeat, so I felt "safe" telling them.
Did. Not. Go. Well.
It was definately a shock and DD was pretty hysterical (thought we were pranking her, crying & laughing hysterically for about 30 minutes). Anyway, by the next day they both seemed much better about it. Neither of my kids do well with change, especially unexpected change, so I was right to be concerned. Now DD seems fairly excited, though still pretty confused, lol, and DS is back to his normal, "whatever" attitude. We've made an u/s appointment for a day they both have off of school (of course DD is getting braces that morning) so hopefully that will go well.
harmie--- with my DD we just told her when we were expecting DS (she turned 2 the next day). She had asked for a baby, though, so it was *much* easier than this time around!
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Sorry it didn't go well. :( But it will probably be a different story once there is a sweet little bundle actually there.
I do know my kids will be excited when we finally tell them. It's nice to not have to worry about that. :)
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Sorry it didn't go well! My mom was 12 when her youngest brother was born, and she had two younger sisters as well. She told me her *inward* reaction was to say, "Oh, no, not again." She said she still had memories (albeit vague and child-like) of when her first sister was born when she was 2. I think it is totally normal for children to not be excited about another addition, it is going to be a total upheaval of course! But, it's life! And kids adjust! And there will be sweet moments as well as challenging ones, just like every other day of your lives! I'm sure the idea will grow on them as they get used to it. And, think of it as a good thing that they can express how they feel to you rather than bottling it up inside. hugs to you!
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Oh, I think they're starting to get excited and seemed to be having fun with the idea yesterday (coming up with names, my son said the baby can have his Nintendo DS, they both want to go clothes shopping, etc...). It's just such a *huge* change in their lives and not one they were prepared for.
Thanks for the kind thoughts. :)
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The issue of how to preserve and promote cultural diversity through the mass media has been central in policy debates and regulations both in Europe and in North America. In the beginning of the 21st century, with the huge importance and technological developments of the mass media, the debate about how to reconcile the commercial imperatives of the media with the social goal of the promotion of cultural diversity has become even more crucial. More than any other cultural medium, the mass media (radio, television, and film, in particular) have become the arena where cultural supply is structured and where cultural identities are depicted and shaped. These media create, distribute, and promote the symbols and resources that are appropriated and redesigned by audiences. As Golding (1998) argued, the mass media "are unique in providing both
goods that command a critical place in the modern economy as well as providing the vehicles by which the symbols and values that people deploy in making sense of their lives are delivered and disseminated" (p. 16).
The idea of national audiences pertaining to a homogeneous group of people with similar interests, backgrounds, and ideas has never been in agreement with social reality and seems meaningless in the face of the processes of migration and multiculturalism that characterize contemporary countries and regions. This is the case in Mexico, with a heterogeneous audience with diverse ethnic, geographic, and class backgrounds that asks for plural public debates and access to the media.
What are the alternatives to promote and maintain cultural diversity in a country closely integrated with the United States, not just through economic trade but through the mass media? A starting point may be to discuss whether the media should fulfill a social role and whether they should be prompted or forced to promote cultural diversity. The answer to this question seems to be clear. The legal framework of Mexico, as is the case in Canada and the United States, expects the media, in particular electronic media, to promote diversity. The standing Radio and Television Federal Law in Mexico, although it does not explicitly mention the promotion of cultural diversity as a goal, mandates that radio and television stations foster gender equality and respect for the rights of vulnerable groups (Reglamento de la Ley Federal, 2003). It also explicitly prohibits any content that discriminates against ethnic groups (Ley Federal de Radio y Television, 1962, Art. 63).
As Freedman (2004) argued, references to diversity and pluralism appear in policy or legal documents that are highly deregulatory and liberalizing in character. This is true in a U.S. case, where a recent review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of media ownership regulation ended in a decision to loosen ownership rules and sanction further cross-media ownership (Freedman, 2004). It is also true for the Mexican case, where federal administrations have advocated neoliberal policies from the mid-1980s to the present day (Lozano, 2003). Mexican audiovisual and telecommunications industries have experienced significant changes since the early 1980s, consolidated in the 1990s, and have dramatically transformed the supply and consumption of these services in the early 2000s. Many years before the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Mexican government embraced trends and economic policies geared toward liberalization, deregulation, and privatization of the economy in general, and in particular the audiovisual and telecommunications sectors (Crovi, 2000; Gomez Mont, 2000; Sanchez Ruiz, 2000a). In contrast with the nationalistic and protectionist policies embraced by the different administrations since Mexico's independence in 1910 up to the 1970s, the 1980s represented a radical shift toward the adoption of neoliberal strategies and models. After a severe economic crisis in 1982, the administration of Miguel de la Madrid decided to open the economy in unprecedented ways. … | http://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-157946572/public-policies-and-research-on-cultural-diversity | dclm-gs1-002580001 | false | false | {
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Since the 1980s, there have been only four significant terrorist acts involving the use of biological or chemical weapons. The best known were carried out by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo group, which killed 19 people in two Japanese cities (Matsumoto in 1994 and Tokyo in 1995) by spreading the nerve gas Sarin in subway trains. Aum also worked on various biological agents and tried to disperse anthrax in Tokyo. It is also known that Al Qaeda members tried to acquire biological agents in the former Soviet Union, and there is ample evidence that Al Qaeda tried to develop and produce chemical and biological weapons in Afghanistan.
U.S. forces advancing into Afghan cities found computer files left behind by Al Qaeda members and a laboratory under construction during the Enduring Freedom campaign in 2001/2002. In October 2001, five U.S. citizens died from exposure to anthrax contained in letters sent through the mail, although the perpetrator remains unknown and a terrorist background has not yet been proven. Given that the attacks so far represent only a minimal fraction of the overall number of terrorist acts in the last 20 years, why are we so concerned? There are a number of reasons why we should be.
The likelihood that modern terrorists will use weapons of mass destruction is increased by their desire to inflict high numbers of casualties. Unlike most of the more "traditional" social-revolutionary and ethno-national terrorist groups in the 1970s and 1980s, groups like Al Qaeda do not differentiate between victims among the general population and selected targets such as political or military leaders. The victims themselves have no particular importance for the terrorists, except as part of a communication strategy. In fact, an attack against a large number of civilians may have an even bigger impact in terms of terrorizing the population and disrupting political and economic stability than attacks on so-called "hard targets," such as political leadership structures or the military. In other words, from the terrorists5 point of view, an attack is most "successful" when it kills the greatest number of people.
So far, most major terrorist attacks have been committed with conventional means, particularly bombs and improvised explosive devices. September 11 represented a new qualitative development because civilian airliners were turned into deadly, high-energy weapons. There is, however, no doubt that using chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) weapons in an attack would help to further terrorist objectives, either by causing mass casualties and/or by instilling even greater terror because of the particular nature of these weapons. Even if such an attack produced lower casualties than a conventional explosion, the perception of the particularly inhuman character of such devices, the fear of their contents and their possible long-term consequences (such as contamination or the spread of mass diseases) gives such attacks a new, frightening dimension and would probably cause widespread panic.
It is precisely this new dimension that is desirable from a terrorist's point of view, since terrorists need to sustain a high, possibly escalating level of violence to achieve their targets. Targeted states and societies tend to be able to cope with certain levels of violence. In addition, in most countries, comprehensive security measures have been introduced to prevent conventional terrorist attacks. "More of the same" often increases the resilience of a society facing such attacks instead of breaking its resolve. The coercive effects of terrorist acts increase considerably, however, with a sustained high rate of incidence, high casualties and particularly escalation, including the use of new kinds of attacks.
Factors that generally limit the usefulness of CBR weapons for armed forces, such as the risk to their own forces, the contamination of territory to be occupied or defended and the threat of retaliation, do not apply to terrorists, at least not to suicide terrorists.
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What made this possible is the housing bubble in the US, which was underwritten by the low interest policy of the Federal Reserve Board along with large-scale borrowing of funds from Japan and China. Low interest rates stimulated demand for expensive housing. Rising demand caused prices to rise, and rising prices raised expectations for even higher prices, stimulating still greater demand and higher prices. This spiral has allowed Americans to borrow greater and greater amounts of money against the apparent values of their homes to finance much greater consumption than they could afford from their own real incomes. (Perhaps "lured" is more apt than "allowed" here.)
A Decline in Consumption is Inevitable
Many analysts are predicting an end to this housing bubble. When the bubble bursts, housing prices may fall dramatically, forcing homeowners to curtail consumption in order to pay off their mortgages more quickly to avoid foreclosure. This cycle would have a huge impact not only on GM, Ford, and other auto makers, but also on all Japanese corporations addicted to the US market.
Many US mortgages are based on adjustable rather than fixed interest rates, meaning that borrowers must pay more just to service their borrowings when interest rates rise. This will exacerbate, in both speed and magnitude, the impact on consumption of a deflation (not to mention a sudden bursting) of the US housing bubble.
Laying off workers is not a method unique to the management of GM and Ford. The first things US corporations do when faced with straitened finances is to lay off workers and reduce wages and benefits to those workers they cannot lay off. GM has already announced it will be cutting fifteen billion dollars in insurance and health care fees it was obligated to pay to retirees who had worked many years for the company. If GM, like Delphi, files for bankruptcy, under provisions of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Law, it will be possible for GM also to reduce a variety of benefits to current workers. A vicious cycle may well result: reduced employment and income for US workers (along with shinking home values) reducing the buying power of American consumers, making the auto industry shrink even further.
Moreover, one would not expect US consumers to buy very many cars from companies tottering at the brink of bankruptcy.
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WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumSTATISM K – NEG ADDENDUM1. Index2. The state controls its citizens thru violence3. Anarchy solves nuclear war 4. Alternative solves1
WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumThe State monopolizes legitimate violence, and uses that as a mechanism to control the population
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, “On the State.”Due to the way they are structured, all states are a mechanism by which a minority imposes its will on amajority. They are not neutral bodies that can be used by any group for whatever purpose they desire. So-called "democratic" states are a mechanism by which a minority imposes its will on the majority; they justattempt to fool the majority into thinking that they are in charge when they aren't. Representativedemocracy is a form of minority rule that pretends not to be. States are not neutral tools that anyone canuse for any purpose; they are autonomous organizations that develop their own dynamics & interests.States generally maintain a monopoly (or near monopoly) on the legitimate use of violence. Legitimateviolence is violence that is viewed by the majority of the population as being acceptable. For the most part,the majority of the population usually sees the state as the only legitimate source of violence, withoccasional exceptions, and all other sources as illegitimate. Police use force all the time but ordinarycitizens are barred from using force except for a few cases specifically exempted by law. A society with astate is a society with specialized social roles for the use and authorization of violence (police, soldiers, politicians, generals, judges, etc.). The state attempts to monopolize violence so that it is the only source of violence, all others are suppressed. The state attempts to create a situation where, in the view of themajority, the state can use violence while others cannot. The state means some people can whack otherswith impunity.This monopoly of force can be delegated. For example, a state can make an exception for self-defense,legalize private security companies, or authorize the military forces of an allied state to operate on itsterritory. However, in all of these cases the state is the final authority for what violence may or may not beused, only violence it authorizes may be used. In practice the state rarely achieves a total monopoly, thereis usually at least a fringe that does not regard state violence as legitimate. In some cases the state'smonopoly of force may face major challenges from armed groups within society or even lose thatmonopoly all together (due to massive revolts, etc.). However, all states at least purport to hold amonopoly of force (even if this is a myth) and, to the extent possible, attempt to suppress all groups thatchallenge this monopoly, even if they are unsuccessful at it.The state's monopoly (or near-monopoly) on legitimate violence and its centralized, hierarchicalcharacteristics tend to reinforce each other. The state attempts to monopolize all violence, and to portray itsown violence (and violence it has authorized) as the sole legitimate form of violence, so as to strengthen its power and insure those on the top of the hierarchy maintain control over the rest of the population.Organizations that monopolize the legitimate use of violence tend towards hierarchy and centralization,easily coming to dominate the rest of the population. If some people can whack others with impunity thenthat ability means they can easily gain power over others. As a result of this, they can use force againstanyone who disobeys them with little likelihood of retaliation or resistance. This is a recipe for hierarchyand centralization of power into a small elite.2
WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumAnarchy is the only way to truly pre-empt nuclear war Kevin
, Staff Writer, Commondreams.org, “Invitation to Global Anarchy,” June,
,http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0624-06.htmPresident Bush and his administration have recently outlined a policy dubbed "strike first" —launching pre-emptive attacks on countries or terrorist organizations suspected of developing weapons of massdestruction (WMD).Let’s get this straight: Bush, despite the recent treaty signed with Russia, plans to keep 10,000 nuclear warheads indefinitely. Moreover, he plans to develop new types of nuclear weapons, target non-nuclear states, and, most likely, resume full-scale nuclear testing.Yet under "strike first," if he says another country is attempting to obtain WMD, Bush deigns onto himself the right to launch a pre-emptive attack. Even if he can’t prove it and even if an attack against our countryis not imminent, he claims, under this policy, the right to attack any country.Despite any credible evidence connecting Iraq to the 9/11 attacks and the serious concerns of senior military officials, the administration plans to debut this policy as soon as they can—with an invasion of Iraqto overthrow Saddam Hussein.David Sanger wrote in a New York Times article on June 17, "The administration, not surprisingly, isarguing for the widest possible latitude in implementing this policy, making the case that only it can definewhat poses a major and imminent threat to national security." The article continued, "... Mr. Bush's new policy could amount to ultimate unilateralism, because it reserves the right to determine what constitutes athreat to American security and to act even if that threat is not judged imminent."Have our so-called leaders thought about the implications of this? Or are they so full of hubris, so drunk on power that they think they can do anything and that the rest of the world will swallow it whole, just as thesupine media and a cowed Congress have in this country?Under this same doctrine, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea would be justified in attacking the UnitedStates to "pre-empt" our development of new types of nuclear weapons which target them (as Bush outlinedin his Nuclear Posture Review). However, if other countries were to do this, we would rightfully call itwhat it is—an act of aggression.This "strike first" policy, along with Bush’s provocative, aggressive new nuclear weapons doctrine, willsurely lead to two things—nuclear proliferation and more terrorism—making America and the world far less, rather than more secure. Bush’s policy practically invites attacks on Washington, New York, or other American cities.3
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The main thing keeping me from commenting on the story, though, isn't the fact that watching progressives happily dismiss serious allegations against one of their heroes as long as they come from women throws me into a funk. It's the other, less convenient one that this is a rape case and ought to be treated as such (provided, of course, that he did it). I can't say what I keep wanting to say: "It is perfectly obvious when something is rape and when it isn't, so why are we even arguing about it?"
Let's first be sure that we understand that Miss A's allegation is that she said, "Stop, not without a condom," and he held her down and did it anyway, without a condom and without her consent, IOW, rape.
This brings us to this utterly creepy other category that rarely gets discussed: quasi-nonconsensual or barely-consensual sex. I wish it didn't exist. It muddies the waters and gives ammunition to the would-be dismissers of sex crimes and lionizers of sex-criminals. But sadly, not all of what we usually end up labeling "bad sex" and filing under "Did that, don't do it again" is as simple as anorgasmia, raw spots, premature ejaculation, or cases of beer goggles in action.
Everyone had had an experience, sometimes many, where they consented to sex they had no question they didn't want, often in hopes the pursuer would fall asleep so they could go home. Most did it because trying to convince somebody probably drunk and maybe a bit belligerent that sex wasn't going to happen was going to take much longer and be more emotionally taxing than just getting it over with.
It's when you try to apply your own standards or your own experiences or your own sense of how things should be to other people's realities that you run into trouble. As most of us know, there is another category, that of consent given grudgingly to avoid a situation perceived at the moment as potentially even ickier than giving in to what you have no desire to give. But it's because there are such gray areas, not despite them, that it's a good idea to actually listen to someone who tells you s/he was raped.
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Mark unloads Gluttony's concerned parents onto Susan, and runs off after Rachel, who babbles that Vulcan Jen will buy the tickets and all Mark has to do is transport her to the airport. Mark tries to calm her down, explaining that no one expects her to leave. "Elizabeth does," she whines petulantly. A clueless Mark insists that his wife just needs time. "No, she asked me to leave!" brats Rachel, tears spilling down her cheeks. "She wants me out of the house....I understand. She's not my mother. She cares about Ella and I hurt her baby. I don't want to cause you any more trouble. I should just go." Mark starts to argue that the decision is far from made, but he suddenly chomps on his tongue and it begins to bleed. Wincing and nursing the wound, he sends Rachel home with the promise that her exile is far from being a reality.
Mark rushes away right past Susan, who is learning that Gluttony put on fifteen pounds in the past couple of months. "I just can't seem to stop her from eating," frets Mrs. Gluttony. Distracted after spying an obviously panicked Mark, Susan promises to send a nutritionist to counsel their daughter, and rapidly scoots after her friend.
Susan finds Mark huddling in a corner holding gauze to his tongue. "Ooh, you did a really good job," she grimaces, noticing the blood and mock-sternly ordering him to stick out his tongue. Mark rolls his eyes, but obliges, twisting his tongue to the right. "You bit it on the right side -- I can't see when you do that!" she laughs. "Come on, stick it out straight!" Mark blinks. "I did," he insists. He puts it out again. A gong strikes. The tongue is askew. Susan's face is awash with fear. "What?" Mark prods. Gong! Sorry, Mark. Thanks for playing. Hey, wouldn't it be a blast to combine ER and The Gong Show? Imagine how different season eight would've been with an interactive internet boot to deposit up people's bums. Mark's ass would rival Imelda Marcos's closet. Gathering her wits, Susan subtly tries to yank Mark's tongue straight to check the cut, pretending everything was fine. "It's not so bad," she sputters. "Just keep applying pressure." But Mark knows something's off.
Cut to the bathroom. Mark's glasses lie on the sink, and we pan up to his reflection in the mirror. Mark rubs his eyes, then lets go and stares at himself, possibly testing how long it takes to focus. He sticks out his tongue and notices the right-side wonk. SinkCam shows him splashing soothing cold water onto his face, with the strange hollow sound one might get if one listened to this through the drainpipe. We're then treated to a glamour shot of Mark's scar, which spans his bald pate; finally, as he dries his hands, frustration overcomes him and he bangs his forehead against the shiny towel dispenser. ["Because that's good for YOUR BRAIN. Yeah, I know the brain is well insulated by the skull. Still, that shit doesn't help any." -- Wing Chun] NostrilCam shoots straight up at Mark's face from the floor, and takes us to commercial with a truly terror-inspiring shot of Mark twisting his face into an expression of pained panic.
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This story is No. 1 in the series "Great Lakes Avengers". You may wish to read the series introduction first.
Summary: Whatever happened to Kit after the destruction of Sunnydale?
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Marvel Universe > Runaways(Moderator)JoeHundredaireFR181020,39965625,86517 Aug 0615 Aug 11No
You, Robot
Joe's Note: This originally started out as a way of consuming an FFA using Kit and one of the non-Xavin Runaways I'd completely forgotten about up until that point. And it still kinda is, because I just took the original chapter, cleaned it up, and added to the end. It's that last bit that really makes it shine, though, as we go charging towards the first of several crossovers between this story and Trigamy
Smirking, Kit waved her Gemini Staff in a lazy circle, guiding Victor through the air in slow loops. "C'mon, Energizer. You're not getting down from there until you manage to break my hold by flying on your own. The faster you can figure it out, the sooner you can get rid of me. Xavin already knows two different ways to fly thanks to her nifty awesome Super Skrull powers. Maybe if you can figure out one, she'll stop calling you 'android' all the time and actually remember your name."
Letting out a snort of derision, Xavin flipped to the next page of the latest issue of Cosmo, its pages having been well-thumbed by Nico, Gert, Karolina, and Kit herself since the witch's most recent visit to the local Ralphs. "Even the most simplistic of the target drones we used to hone our powers during my Super Skrull training has the ability to fly, Kit. The android will have to do something far more impressive to gain my respect."
Victor looked back and forth between the two of them as he scowled, arms folded over his chest as tendrils of electricity crawled over his fingers. "I should just fry you until you can't cast magic anymore and risk what Nico would do to me for revenge." Kit just raised an eyebrow impassively at the threat and he sighed. "I can't fly, damn it! I'm a cyborg, not Superman!"
"What's Chase's cute little nickname for you? 'Calculator Kid'? Shouldn't you be able to do math this simple?" With the staff augmenting her magical abilities, it was child's play for Kit to use the index finger of her free hand to draw a fiery 'A' in the air in front of her. "You can manipulate magnetic fields." Then she traced a 'B'. "Magneto and Polaris can manipulate magnetic fields too." Finally, a 'C'. "Magneto and Polaris can fly using their powers." Her finger flicked back and forth furiously, drawing a series of equations: 'A = B', 'B = C', and 'A = C'. "No brainer, Victor. It's that transvestite property thingy: if you all have the same powers and they can fly using them, then obviously you can fly too."
Victor's jaw dropped. "The transvestite property..?" Sighing, he reached up to rub his temples. "I knew that being a cyborg, I'd be smarter than most people around me… but holy crap. You're thinking of the transitive property, Kit. Transitive. Transvestites are people who dress in the other gender's clothing. And you and Nico are both witches, but you can't use the Staff of One as well as she can. I'm sure there are other magnopaths who get around on two legs; why does me being one automatically make me capable of flying in your head?"
That made Kit pause… for roughly a second. "Because I'm bored and you're the only one I can find to entertain me at the moment? Nico asked for a bit of 'her time' and so I'm staying out of her way, Karolina and I get along like oil and water, I'm not in the mood to get my brain rotted by whatever Molly's watching on DisneyXD right now, I'm too excited that Xavin's actually reading the trashy magazines I got her to take her away from that, and Chase is busy making sure Gert won't sit straight for the rest of the day." Twisting her staff, she flipped Victor so he was floating upside down. "So until you learn to fly or something better comes along, you're stuck with me."
"Ah. Well, that's good I suppose. If you'd actually decided you liked me, I might have to worry about you bugging me when there were other people free to spend your time with." A puzzled frown came over Victor's features. "I think I'm going to regret asking this, but Gert not sitting straight is a Kit-ism for..?"
That elicited another snort from Xavin's corner of the room as she turned the page again. "Even I know what she's speaking of and I'm from another galaxy altogether, android. Your creator must have been a truly pathetic individual."
Kit gave Victor an evil grin as she walked underneath him, reaching up to pat the top of his head. "Oh, I don't know about that. He makes amazing chimichangas when it's his turn to cook dinner." Turning her attention back to the scowling Victor, Kit ruffled his hair as she debated whether or not to actually answer his question. Really, messing with the hyper-religious cyborg was too much fun sometimes, mostly because she knew that she could drop a euphemism and he was almost required by his programming to follow up and ask for details to expand his ever-growing knowledge base. "Well, I know Chase had me buy a tube of KY last time we got supplies. Between that, the conversation Nico says she had with Gert last night, and the noises I heard coming from their room when I swung past to see if Chase wanted to burn a few hours shooting at me in BioShock 2 before I send it back to GameFly? I'm pretty sure Chase is in the middle of giving it to Gert up the ass. If you want to hop on the Internet, you can Google 'sodomy', 'anal', and 'buttsex' if you're really that curious."
Various expressions flickered over Victor's face as her words sunk in and his brain processed everything she'd told him. The air around him visibly rippled and the cyborg jetted backward to get away from Kit. "That's just… that's just vile! I didn't need to know that! My God, Kit, why would you feel the need to share something like that with me?"
"Because it did what I wanted it to?" Kit gestured to the distance between them. "You flew. Backwards. To get away from the mean and nasty Kit. I told you that I'd teach you to fly, and I did. Go me." Victor looked down at the floor and his eyes widened. The air rippled again and he dropped like a rock, hitting the floor with a loud thump. Kit grinned, though; even if he hadn't managed it long, he'd flown under his own power. So mission accomplished. Sorta.
The loud crash attracted Xavin's attention, the Skrull lowering her magazine and eyeing the pair before shaking her head in… amusement, Kit was guessing, judging from the way one corner of her mouth was quirked up. Then 'Back in Black' began to blare from her cell phone and Xavin waved one hand, making it rise up off the table before floating smoothly towards Kit. Yet another of the many and varied uses of Sue Storm's powers, Kit mused as she plucked the phone out of the air, and a particularly welcome one at that. After all, she lacked fine control over her magically-fueled telekinesis and had crushed the last two phones she'd tried to 'accio', and why bother actually walking to get something when you didn't have to?
Looking down at the phone's screen, Kit frowned at the unfamiliar number. Or at least partially unfamiliar; she knew that the 216 area code covered the part of Cleveland that Dawn lived in and her friend's cell number shared a 481 prefix with this caller. But the number as a whole? No clue. Only one way to find out, though. After tapping the flashing green button on the screen, she lifted the phone to her ear. "Hello?"
"Err, hi. Is this Kit the Witch Chick that runs around with the… well, Dawn calls you the Runaways and I don't know if you have an official team name? Xander's address book only has one person named Kit in it but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know his own Kit and this isn't Dawn's Kit at all…"
Kit blinked as she tried to process the ramble and then nodded as her brain managed to translate from Babbled Crap into English. "That's me. Although I'm not sure I want to talk to someone who not only shouldn't have this number but went through so much work to steal it."
"Well if you want to go ahead and hang up on Spider-Girl, I guess I can't stop you…" Kit's eyes widened and she held the phone out away from her head for a second, reaching up to pinch her arm. Ouch. Okay. She wasn't dreaming. But then… what the hell was going on that either had Spider-Girl - and possibly the rest of her team - in Cleveland or at least around Dawn's friend-slash-boss-slash-crush Xander? Bringing the phone back to her head, she found herself listening as Spider-Girl chattered away again. "…my teammate and new kinda-girlfriend Stature thinks you guys are cool enough that she was thinking about running away from home to join you before the Young Avengers got together. So I was wondering if any of you wanted to come out here to Vegas and hang out for the day on my dime so she could meet you face to face. If getting from there to here is a problem, I can send Wic… err, Crimson Curse to pick you up…"
Vegas? Well that sounded like all sorts of fun. Kit had never been more than an hour or two away from the Pacific coast, having arrived after the team's adventure in the Big Apple. And a meet and greet with a superfangirl wasn't much of a price to pay for a day out in Sin City. Except… wait a minute. If Spider-Girl was in Vegas and had Xander's cell phone, that meant Xander would have to be in Vegas too and that made absolutely no sense given how often Dawn whined about him overworking himself. "So, just out of curiosity, who are you really? Because while I might have believed that the Slayers teamed up with some superheroes for something, Xander doesn't go on vacation and so there's no way you can be both with Xander and in Vegas. Unless you met him in Cleveland, stole his phone, and now you're in Vegas…"
The girl sighed noisily. "How do you expect me to prove I'm Spider-Girl over the phone, Kit? I could use the phone to take a picture of myself hanging from the ceiling and send it to you, but I don't know where my costume is and I'd totally fall out of my top if I tried it as-is. Then again, you probably wouldn't mind that, would you? Hang on, lemme see if this thing has your email stored in it and then I'll-"
"Woah, no thanks. Last thing I need is my girlfriend kicking my ass because some random chick is sending me tit pics." Kit shook her head before looking around. Speaking of her girlfriend, did she dare go disturb Nico? Or for that matter, Gert and Chase? No on all three counts. Karolina? Oh fuck no. Victor would say no on general principle because it was her leading the expedition. Molly… didn't need to be exposed to Las Vegas, did she? That left her with exactly… "I've got a Skrull and a dinosaur. Everyone else is off doing stuff. Well, a Skrull, a dinosaur, and me obviously."
There was a brief pause. "Where's the rainbow chick?"
"Busy hating my guts because I'm dating the girl she wants to, even though she has a fiancée of her own." Spider-Girl let out a low whistle at that and Kit chuckled dryly. "Yeah. My sentiments exactly. So, are Xavin and Old Lace and I good enough? Because… actually, how soon do you need us?"
"Um, we're all Pacific, right? So no time changes. Um, noon tomorrow? Maybe one?"
Humming softly, Kit found herself reexamining her options now that she knew it wasn't an immediate need. "Well, Chase and Gert might be free then but they're pretty… eh. No offense to Chase because he's like a brother to me, but he pilots the Leapfrog, cracks jokes, and goes all pimp hand strong on thugs we need to intimidate. And Gert owns Old Lace. If you want to see a giant green metal frog and a dinosaur, I can toss a steak into the hold to lure Old Lace in and then fly it out to Vegas myself. Nico might be available if I ask nicely. Don't think a day will change Karolina's mind, although with Xavin coming, she might tag along. And I guess I could bring Molly, but then you'd have to watch everything you say because… well, it's Molly."
"Erf. Yeah. Definite no on the pipsqueak. And the dinosaur might get us in trouble with… someone. I don't know. Is it legal to own a dinosaur in Vegas? Or anywhere, for that matter?" Spider-Girl was silent for a moment as she thought about that. "Whatever. If you think your girlfriend would have fun and rainbow girl can behave herself, then bring them along. If not, I'll just snag you and this Xavin person. I just want this to be nice for Cassie, and someone being grumpy all day or sniping at someone else would so ruin that. Okay, so I'll call around 11:45 tomorrow morning to make sure you're all up and dressed before sending Anya in to grab you?"
Kit nibbled on her lower lip as she considered things. It could all be a trap, what with these being the junior versions of the Avengers who harassed the team before she joined. On the other hand, she could easily call Dawn who could call Xander who could make sure this Spider-Girl was on the level. Eh, what the hell? "Works for me. See you guys then." Ending the call, she looked up to find Xavin staring at her curiously. "So… I don't suppose you've ever been curious about visiting Las Vegas?"
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A suffix to a name of a person with high values (Such as a queen, or a priest); A more formal name than san (see san)
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Japanese name suffix used to address a person whom is honored and seen as being of high value Such as a Govermnent Official, Elder, Priest, etc. More formal than san
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Sama is an Arabic girl name. The meaning of the name in Arabic is `sky`. The name Sama has not appeared in the US top 1000 most common names over the last 128 years and so the name sama is very unique!
“The night walked down the sama with the moon in her hand.”
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sama is the epitome of greatness in human form.
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a girl whose vulnerable(not in a being raped kind of way -.-) to the world and has one person in the whole universe protecting her-every night and every day no matter where he is, and she would be waiting for him every night and everyday to be protected and loved while she loves him back--even more
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A higher level of respect than -san. Can be used with a surname or given name, although being used with a surname is more common. Can be used for someone you greatly admire, but professionals of most areas are referred to as -sensei, or simply sensei.
Chotto matte, Saitou-sama. Gomen ne. (One moment, Saitou. Sorry.)
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Sama is an abbreviation for samating - meaning awesome,cool, really or very good at something.
This word started out in a 1920's Brookly ghetto as 'some kind of ting' but during the great depression a bunch of cotton pickers emmigrated to England to make a living and word spread. Over time 'some kind of' was shortened to some to make some ting then shortened again to sama, hence samating. In the early 21st century samating was shortened to sama for convenience. So infact, if you think about it all you're really saying is 'some'... how silly.
Person 1: Is Pascal a good runner?
Person 2: Yeah, he is a sama!
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A camper or douchebag that far surpasses the typical level of asshole behavior found in the online gaming realm. Used to describe someone who is highly despised.
Most literally, it describes one who holds magical abilities that are attuned to the art of being a complete fag.
See: fag + mancer
Dammit, that fagomancer just camps behind the boxes and makes fun of whoever he catches by surprise. Lots of skill there.
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If someone does something maybe courageous and daring...You would say aboy the kid...
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A word that sprung up randomly sometime around June 2006 in the USA.
A word, usually used as an adverb, that can be used to emphasize or make greater of something you are saying.
(An adverb or adjective.)
Example 1 "Damn, that truck was assfully big!"
Example 2 "Ow! That beesting hurt assfully!"
Example 3: "That kid is being assfully bratty."
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The tip of your dick, so named because a kid on yahoo answers thinks that it looks like darth vader's helmet.
Im 14. when i masturbate like after i ejaculate it starts hurt. like the darth vader head part. plz explain?
anyway the shaft, the part that looks like darth vaders helmet on the end of ur dick gets sensitive and it hurts to keep going on then my stomach starts to hurt. explain
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The Japanese term for "is it good?". This work is used 100's of times a day by ALL Japanese people - even when the term does not fit the sentence or situation.
Let's start the assignment. IIDESUKA?
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What Black Bloc Believes
The Right to Fight
As the combined federal and local police forces of Washington get ready for what's expected to be a tumultuous anti-globalist protest at the World Bank and IMF meeting this fall, they'll be focusing on a little-understood corps of anarchists called the Black Bloc.
Somewhere between the Weather Bureau and the Baader-Meinhof gang stands the Black Bloc, recalling the Wobblies with a dash of ACT UP. Last week, member Mary Black (a pseudonym) sent a letter to the news service Alternet, telling a little about the group, which she says has no platform and largely comprises young white people who hold day jobs with nonprofits. "We believe that destroying the property of oppressive and exploitative corporations like the Gap is an acceptable and useful protest tactic," she wrote. "We believe that we have the right to defend ourselves when we are in physical danger from tear gas, batons, armored personnel carriers and other law enforcement technology. . . .
Note: With 280 protesters arrested and 230 injured, 18 still missing, and one dead in rioting at the G-8 summit last month, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi defended his police officers before parliament. "Let nobody compare me to General Pinochet," he declared, amid jeers.
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by TheBucketWoman
Disclaimer: I do not own Life with Derek or anything else I may reference herein including the songs I reference which were part of the meme. No profit is being made nor is any infringement intended. The title's meant to be a parody.
A/N: This, as you can probably guess, was part of the iPod shuffle challenge (hit "shuffle" and write drabbles based on the first ten songs; write only during the duration of each song,) that's been going around. I have been good and tagged by a lot of excellent people, so as much as this scared me (write something fast?? Egads!!) I had to try it. I think everyone I know has been tagged, but if you haven't and you wanna give it a shot? Tag—you're it.
1. "Basket Case" by Avril Lavigne, orig. by Green Day.
"Liz!" Casey yelled.
It was gonna be one of those days. Lizzie crossed the hall to Casey's room. Why delay the inevitable?
"Can you check this over for me?" Casey said, handing over some papers.
"I have to send it out with my application by next week!"
"But we looked at it ten times," Lizzie said. "Mom checked it. Ed checked it. Sam checked it. It's perfect, okay?"
"Liz?" Casey said, eyes getting bigger, rounder and wetter.
Why argue, Lizzie thought. There was no point. She took the pages. Again.
2. "Sleep Better" by Pete Yorn.
This was for the best. Everyone knew it. Logically. He needed to stay away, as much as he didn't want to. He pulled every trick he could think of to make her sick of him.
And as much as he didn't want to do it, he knew that it just couldn't work.
So he got her to break up with him. It took a couple of weeks, fighting on and off. And she cried which melted his resolve away, and she kissed him which melted his resolve away even more than the crying did. But he showed her that he was wrong for her.
So that Derek could take his shot.
Who knew it would take so long?
3. "Drink With Me" from Les Miserables
At a house party, there were so many of them that summer before they all went off to university, drinking proved to be rampant. It wasn't like anyone was checking ID.
Some of them were really maudlin drunks. Going over and over stories about girls they blew it with.
4. "Free" by Train
Not a relationship kinda guy. It even sounded like a line to him. He didn't do well with commitment, didn't buy girls things, and certainly didn't call them when he said he would.
When they lost interest in him, there was always another one handy.
Except he couldn't freakin concentrate long enough to pay attention to them. Not when Casey kept dancing around the living room, headphone wires tangling as she went.
5. "Cry Baby Cry" by Santana feat. Sean Paul and Joss Stone
"You're kidding, right?" Casey said.
"Casey," Max tried.
"You dumped me," she said. "Remember?"
"No actually," Max said. "You said you wanted a break from me."
"And that implied that we'd get back together," Casey said. "I just needed some time alone, but instead of listening to me. Not that you ever listened to me. You dumped me."
"What do you mean?" Max said. "I always listened to you."
"I practically screamed for help that whole week, she said " did you notice?"
"Drama Queen" he muttered.
"Yep..." Casey said. "Bye."
6. "Madame Ray" by The Long Blondes
Every girl had a going out playlist. Filled with what Casey was starting to think of as fight songs. Stuff that got played at sporting events...or should have. Stuff that got you riled up and ready for battle. Music to put mascara on. Music to help you deal with the flatiron even though you curse the day it was invented. She and Emily bumped hips and fists on the way out of the bathroom.
7. "She Comes Across the Room" by Easy Tiger.
When did this happen? Derek wondered.
He realized that he was on the phone at midnight. With Emily. It was her own fault for being the sensible one. She was calm. And she knew what she was talking about.
He needed her so much that he found it easier and easier to ignore the nagging feeling that she still maybe, kinda, sorta wanted him.
That wasn't ego. She had no reason to want him. She could have anyone she wanted, but somehow she latched on to his silly ass in grade one and it took ten years for someone else to get through to her.
And she was over Derek...but then Sheldon moved. And we were back to square one.
But he needed her help.
8. "The Hardest Button to Button" by the White Stripes
"Oh no," Nora said.
There was White Stripes on the stereo and a pile of assorted geegaws on the table.
George had a project.
Last time it was a ship in the bottle. This time it seems like a model car. Of some sort. She only just got the last little bit of glue off the table from last time.
But he had that look in his eyes. And he was drumming on the table.
So she guessed it was worth it.
9. "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson
"Derek," Casey said.
Still nothing.
"Come on, Derek," she said. "Off the bed."
He grunted. And turned over.
"It's been two weeks," Casey said. "You knew Sally was leaving for University."
She didn't know why she was starting on that line of thought. Knowing someone's leaving you doesn't exactly soften the blow, does it? If only he'd get mad, maybe she'd have something to work with, but this curling up on the bed and not tormenting her thing was really horrible. She was going to have to pull out the big guns.
He needed some protective Marti scorn to make things okay again.
10. "Hold My Hand" by Hootie and the Blowfish
Somebody let me into a frat party. I know. I was surprised too. I am so not frat guy. I'm not technically even a student here yet. I'm touring the damn campus, but someone said party and girls, so I went for it.
I didn't have any expectations. I've been turned down by the best of them.
But then. I heard a familiar voice singing along to something that was ten miles out of her range. Something about holding hands, etc. You know the one. The one that we all really like, but don't admit to liking. I was five when it came out. It was important to me all the same.
As was she.
What's with this past tense stuff? She is important to me all the same.
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Freddie had had a dream. He'd been standing at Sam's grave, but it wasn't in a graveyard. It was in the middle of nowhere, maybe so she couldn't get near enough to any of the other dead to beat them up. Who knew. He remembered thinking how sad it was that she'd been alone the last few days of her life, and in death, she'd be alone forever.
Like all horribly vivid dreams, it disappeared the minute he woke up. Unfortunately, reality's problems pressed much harder.
"Where ishee? Whadja do?" Freddie asked a nearby nurse groggily.
"Honey, we've told you a million times. You need to go home. Your mother is driving us insane, and visiting hours are long over. Come back tomorrow. And bring someone else's mom."
"Mmkay." Seeing as that nurse was going to be of no use, he headed towards one of the nearest rooms and, praying he'd gone to sleep somewhere in her vicinity as opposed to a different floor, he hoped the room was hers. "Sam? Are you here?"
There was no answer. For reasons unknown to him, Freddie's heart sunk. That was stupid. Just because she wasn't in this room didn't mean...
He shuffled out and disturbed a few more hospital beds before the nurses chased him away. His mom intercepted, suddenly finding a connection with her son in their mutual fear of leaving the safe hospital and facing the real world's bacteria.
Sam wanted food. Badly. And if someone didn't give her some, she was going to get angry.
Getting angry, though, was easier than doing anything about it. She was in a full body cast and absolutely immobile. This was the part in the movies when some disgusting dog jumped on the bed and licked any exposed part of her it could find-namely, her eyes and her lips. She hoped her mother had left Frothy at home.
Sam wasn't really hungry. She hadn't been in a long time. But chewing gave her something to do other than lying around feeling sorry for herself. It was one of the most calming activities she-
A shadow fell over her. Glaring, she looked up and saw him. The stuff of her nightmares, the reason she'd had nightmares for the first time in her life.
She wanted to kill him.
He was in a hospital gown, now. His eyes were redder than before and he was shaky, relying on his portable IV pole for support. He was paler than he'd been the night he'd almost killed her, but thankfully less filthy. And somehow, he looked a lot weaker. But, seeing as her arms and legs were suspended from the ceiling, she supposed she did too.
"They got you too, huh. I remember you." That gravelly voice she hated so much. Her insides were burning with anger and disgust and felt like vomiting all over his pale, thin face. "You were that girl who told me I wouldn't get nowhere. Thought you were dead. Guess you almost are. Since you're probably not gonna see tomorrow, I'll just let you know you were right. I ain't gonna be great ever. Thought I would, you know. But once you get a coupla bottles down, seems like anything's possible."
She didn't care about his stupid drinking habit. She wanted him dead. Dead and far away from her.
"You were pretty strong for a little girl. But you didn't have a chance. Used to be a WWE champ. Used to have a pretty wife and a boy. Used to be great. Ain't great no more. It's all gone, thanks to the drinkin'. All gone..."
The look he gave her repulsed her. He pitied her too-this idiot who lost his whole life, pitied HER.
"I killed them, you know. Just like imma kill you tonight."
Maybe that was the cause for pity.
He took a deep breath and raised his arm. One blow was all it would take, and she was a dead girl. This was not how it was supposed to play out. She was supposed to have the upper hand at their next meeting. She was supposed to beat him. And how could she if she was dead?
The wrestler turned around in surprise. A plump, elderly nurse scolded him from the door of Sam's room.
"Marty, I told you not to go around visiting after hours! Go back to your room, you silly goose. I know this stay isn't very fun, but keep being strong, okay?"
He chuckled dryly. "I'm not strong anymore."
"Now don't go saying that, it won't help you get better at all. Come on, you can lean on me if you want, we're taking you back next door."
Next door? He would kill her in her sleep...
A little "mmph" made its way out of her throat. The kindly nurse turned and said, "Yes dear? Oh, you're that darling that-hmm, why don't we keep you nice and safe and locked up? Just to make your night a little easier. Sound okay?"
It was hard to give the nurse the death glare when she said that. At least she hadn't used the word "scared." Maybe it did sound somewhat okay.
The nurse waved goodbye, locked the door, and left with Marty. He pressed his face up to the glass in Sam's window before the nurse pulled him away. If Sam could've shuddered, she would have. It was no use trying to sleep; she spent most of the night wondering if the locked door would keep him out.
Carly heard about what happened after Freddie had made it home. Visiting hours were over, and she could barely fathom what Sam must be thinking about her. Some friend I am. She's dying and apparently I didn't care enough to go see her.
At first she had wondered whether it truly was Sam who had hit her. One of the downsides of having an overly violent friend was living with the fact that should Sam decide to go crazy, Carly was powerless. But if Sam was insane, then was it really her fault?
I should leave dealing with paradoxes to someone with no life.
Freddie sat next to her on the couch, quietly staring at the blank TV screen. He hadn't moved a muscle for about fifteen minutes, which made every twitch of Carly's seem exaggerated. She shifted uncomfortably and the air in the cushion whooshed out, amplified by the silence.
"She's going to die."
Carly had never before been afraid of Freddie, but his tone of voice was so unfeeling she couldn't help it. "You don't know that." What a lie. They'd known it all along. Even if her injuries didn't kill her, Sam could no longer live with what she had become. Short of putting her in a straitjacket and locking her in a rubber room, they would physically lose their friend forever. Mentally, she was already gone.
"I read somewhere..." Freddie's voice cracked. "When a horse is in intolerable pain, it'll try and throw itself down on the ground and roll over. Guaranteed death."
"Sam's not a horse."
"Humans do it too. We call it suicide."
"Shut up!" There was no force in that statement. Freddie didn't even flinch. "Please, Freddie. This can't be the end of the line."
He glared at her. "What do you want me to do about it?"
"I don't know. But there has to be something. The horse doesn't always die, does it?"
Sam had spent most of the night trapped somewhere between dreamworld and reality, but by the time dawn broke she had drifted off. Her fear had awoken parts of her she hadn't even known existed, and a little Sam convention was taking place inside her head.
They were all walking around her house, eating her food, exchanging banter. But there was something wrong about each and every one of them. One wore a pink bandanna and carried a journal around with her; Sam never remembered writing down a word outside of the occasional "do-it-or-you-fail-this-grade-Miss-Puckett" homework. Another (a very small one) carried a calculator and adjusted her glasses every five seconds, muttering, "No, no, that' can't be right." Still another sat in a corner sucking her thumb, spouting childish gibberish every now and then.
But one of them caught her eye immediately, only because she seemed the most normal. Aggressive and cool, she had that easy smirk that Sam hadn't been able to form her mouth into recently. Because the Sam she was looking at was not afraid.
Normal Sam was sitting at the kitchen table, studying a towering burger as if trying to find the ideal bite zone. Sam approached her warily. "Hey."
The other girl looked up and eyed Sam in disgust. "Oh. It's you."
Wouldn't it technically be you, too?
"SAM!" cried Pink Sam suddenly, dashing into the kitchen. "OMG no one told me you were here! This is so totally awesome! Did you bring Freddie? I've been writing about him in my diary every day, just for you! Wanna read it?"
"What the fu-"
"Watch your language," advised Bespectacled Sam. "She abhors curse words."
"Did you just say 'abhors'?"
"Abhor. To hate, despise, dis-"
"Everyone shut up!" yelled Normal Sam. The kitchen fell silent. "I've been waiting ages for her to get here. It's time to get down to business. Get over here and sit down," she spat at Sam, who did so.
"You've been waiting for me?"
"More like I've been trying to get you back in here. One little thing goes wrong-doesn't mean you can take over," Normal Sam snarled.
"Please, let's try to keep this a little professional," the nerdy one cut in. "Sam has a multifaceted personality. Any one of us can take over, you are not to only one given precedence."
"Quiet, tiny."
"All I'm saying," Smart Sam continued nervously, "is that you've been in control for Sam's whole life, and we've been hiding out in the recesses of her mind. Maybe it's time others had a turn. Personally, I don't like being so unused. I'm going to atrophy, and then who'll keep all of you in check?"
"No!" Sam cut in suddenly. "I want that one back! The old me!"
"Well, well. Couldn't face the real world, could you?" Normal Sam smiled smugly.
"What are you guys talking about? You act like I'm...one of you. I'm not. I'm the real Sam."
"No," explained the little one. "You are Cowardice."
"You see, most humans switch back and forth between different emotions, virtues, and aspects of their personality every day. Sam, however, has kept one face to the world for most of her life. That is, until you became powerful enough to overtake this one." She jerked her thumb at Normal Sam. "You used to be a vegetable, a little girl even smaller than me, and the most exciting thing you ever did was drool. And then that man came along and woke you up."
"Are you sure you're a part of my brain too?"
"Believe me," she sighed, "Sometimes I don't believe it either. Three hundred and twenty nine career detentions. Unbelievable."
"Thanks," grinned Normal Sam.
"Well, what do I do?" demanded Sam/Cowardice.
"You have to give the position back to Aggression," said Smarty Pants.
"Okay. Cool. She can have it. No problem."
"It's not that easy," growled Aggression. "You need to do it when you're awake."
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Axiom wandered the streets of Shibuya, trying to get used to her new home. Everything here was so different – and everything she hated. Completely ruled by trends, with no individuality to speak of. She was her own person – always had been, always would be. Shibuya was the exact opposite of where she would want to live. It was noisy, with no architectural merit, crowded with people who all desperately wanted to be exactly like the person who was standing right next to them.
She stopped in front of a few stores, wondering if anything would be in her price range. She doubted it, but didn't care. She'd find something to wear. Her overly baggy cargo pants and t shirts were sure to get her through the rest of her teen years. At 15, she was completely unoccupied with looks, friends, and most of humanity. She didn't have time for them, just meandering around. She had her own things to do. Her music played in her ears as she wandered around the sprawling city.
Eventually, she got hungry. She stepped into a small café, choosing the most secluded table she could find. Just as she decided what she was going to order, a gaggle of giggling girls walked in the door, laughing and generally being airheads.
"Oooh, I don't know what to get. What are you getting?" one squealed. Axiom snorted, rolling her eyes.
"Did you say something?" one said venomously, turning to Axiom. She flicked her blonde and blue hair out of her face, restraining herself.
"I didn't say anything," she said flatly.
"But I heard you! You had to say something," she insisted, pouting. A few more turned around, glaring.
"Fine. If you must know, I was mocking you," Axiom said shortly.
She stormed out of the tiny café angrily, no longer willing to deal with the bubble-heads. She wasn't watching were she was going, and her feet were carrying her quickly across the street.
A honk.
A screech.
A crash.
A hand.
A jerk at her waist.
The sounds of the street assaulted her as her ear phones were ripped from her ears. Pain lanced across her back, then her shins, wrists, and palms.
"What are you, crazy?" a voice demanded.
Axiom rolled over, arms pressed tight to her stomach. People were talking loudly all around her. She longed for silence. She could see, but everything was blurry, and her eyes wouldn't focus on anything. Her head hurt, and blood – her own – oozed everywhere. The red liquid was swelling from a cut above her eye, beading on her hands, and tingling and staining her back and sides.
"Hello? Can you hear me?" The voice was worried now.
Axiom nodded weakly, sending pain shooting down her spine. "Yes, I can hear you, no I'm not crazy," she qualified. She knew that her injuries were making her snappier than usual.
The other voice – male, she recognized – sounded surprised. "Uhm, okay. Can you get up?" Her vision began to clear. She saw and felt a hand on her shoulder. The fingers were long and pale, attached to a thin arm. The face was pale as well, with a spike of orange hair poking up and around it. It touched his ears at the longest point, falling around headphones around his neck. She knew someone behind the boy wouldn't see the head phones because of his absurdly large collar.
"Yes, I think so." Axiom grimaced, and placed her hands on the side walk, pushing herself to her knees.
"Good. I'll...uh...hang on," he said. Axiom slowly gathered her bearings and returned to her surroundings. The people had already moved on, no longer looking at her or the boy.
"All right, bye," the boy was saying, and then turned to face her. "Let's get out of here. You need to sit down."
Axiom wasn't really ready to trust him, but her body ached, so she wasn't going to take chances. If the blood flow didn't stop soon, she might pass out. Being alone was not a situation she wanted to be in. The boy lead her down a few alleys, and before long, they were on a part of town Axiom didn't know existed. It was dark and secluded, with only a few shops and fewer people.
He led her just a bit farther, until they stopped at a huge mural painted onto a wall. It was a masterpiece – there were so many vivid colors she could almost hear the cacophony of sounds from each color. The reds were screaming their thoughts, yellows speaking soothing words, blues crying their sorrows. The greens twittered with excitement, purples offering advice, oranges watching it all with amazement. Blacks and grays lurked in the background, creeping and whispering terrors of the night.
She glanced at the boy and he was glaring intensely – seemingly at the mural. But she looked through his eyes – his heart was not with this mural. His heart was somewhere else, thinking of some far off turmoil. She stared at him, wondering just how he had come to find her...and save her.
Eventually he glanced at her. "Amazing, isn't it?" he said, staring at the mural this time. His eyes grew cheery, and he looked like a different person. She had not noticed before that his face was full of angst – that he was always glaring at something or other that no one else could see. "This is CAT's monument. For a long time, it was what I lived by. All CAT all the time." He chuckled. "Then I learned it wasn't so great after all."
He turned his face toward her. "I'm Neku Sakuraba. Welcome to Shibuya."
"Axiom Allegory. Thank you for saving my life," she said, blonde bangs covering her purple eyes.
The orange haired boy chuckled again. "You're names a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it? Truth Myth. Isn't that what it basically means?"
She almost smiled, remembering what she used to say when someone mentioned that. Now it was painful to think about the people who have given her the name. "I'd say I hated my parents for it, but it's impolite to disrespect the dead," she said flatly, still staring at the CAT mural.
Neku tensed. "I'm sorry. I didn't know. Your name is perfectly fine." A pause, then, "How long ago did it happen?"
"Just a few weeks ago. Today was the first day I chanced wandering around Shibuya by myself – not the greatest idea, apparently."
Neku bit his lip. "Guess not. It takes a while to get used to living here."
"Yo, Phones! Where's the chick?" a loud voice called out with no warning.
"Here, Beat!" Neku called, seeming exasperated. "You crude good for nothing lout…" he muttered under his breath. Axiom turned around to see the other boy that had called out.
He was taller – taller than both Neku and Axiom – with large muscles and a bright face. How someone like him and Mr. Sakuraba here came to be acquaintances Axiom would never understand. He was accompanied by a slender girl with killer fashion sense, who was laughing at the boy – the one Neku had called Beat. On his other side was a tiny girl who resembled the tall boy, with blonde hair and an adorable face. She had a bell charm around her neck that tinkled daintily as she walked.
"Axiom, meet Beat and Rhyme Bito," he indicated the tall boy and the shorter girl, "and Shiki Misaki." The black haired girl carried herself well, proudly. The trio kept walking closer to where Neku and Axiom were standing.
The youngest – Axiom assumed that tiny Rhyme was the youngest – immediately looked concerned. "What happened?" she asked, voice as angelic as her face.
Axiom remembered that, in addition to her body being sore, it was also covered in blood, a majority of it fresh.
Shiki answered for her. "She was nearly killed not that long ago. Neku saved her life. That's why he asked us to come – you know how clueless he is around girls." Rhyme and Shiki giggled, and Beat boomed a laugh. Neku glared, but did not blush. Axiom took little to no notice of the exchange. As far as she was concerned, these four would probably turn out to be like anyone else.
"Shiki, can you take her to your house and get her cleaned up? Eri can help, but I don't really want to deal with my parents asking why I'm bringing a bloody girl home."
Beat grinned nastily, sending Neku a significant look. Neku glared daggers. Beat kept on grinning. Once more, Axiom took no notice, but Shiki was talking to her.
"No problem, Neku. I'll tell Eri to bring over some things for you to try on."
Axiom nearly rolled her eyes. "Don't bother. I'll just wear this."
Shiki gagged. "I won't have any friend of mine walking around like a zombie!" She was appalled, much to Axiom's surprise and flattery. Friend? That was something to appreciate. First day in this town and someone who already considered her a friend. She wasn't completely sure how it had happened, but it had.
"Good. Well, just call Eri and get her cleaned up," Neku said after glaring at Beat for a few more moments.
Shiki immediately pulled out her cell phone, dialed, and was talking within ten seconds. "Eri? It's Shiki. Sorry I had to dash like that – hope you managed without me. But anyway, I've got a little bit of a fashion crisis here. Care you help?" A moment's pause. "Perfect. Well, Neku seems to have made himself a friend in serious need of our fashion expertise. Can you come pick us up?...Yeah, just in Dogenzaka. Five minutes max, all right? Call me if you get stuck in traffic." Shiki quickly snapped the phone shut, grinning at Axiom.
Beat suddenly paled. "Oh shit. I know that look! Don't say it, please don't say –"
"Make over!" Shiki and Rhyme shouted, giggling.
That sounds lovely, Axiom thought.
"Oh, come on, just get her some new clothes and get out! No need to torture her, Shiki," Neku laughed. Axiom saw that flash in his eyes – the same he had when looking at the mural. She wondered what the connection was.
"Please, Neku. Call it a girls' night out. A little welcome party, for just us. You guys can do...whatever it is you do. We'll be busy." Shiki said. "Oooh, look, here's Eri!" Shiki waved her friend down. Axiom reluctantly followed Shiki and Rhyme, both already chattering excitedly. She glanced uncertainly back at Neku. He smiled at her – and the flash in his deep blue eyes was meant just for her. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5833576/1/New-Friends | dclm-gs1-003490001 | false | false | {
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0.05935 | <urn:uuid:08945816-143b-4eb1-a586-f09d52e7ec68> | en | 0.990959 | Chapter 1 – Welcome home Barnabas Collins
"Children… get away from that man…" rang out a firm, distinctly feminine voice from behind Barnabas.
He turned towards the voice. Walking down the stairs was one of the most beautiful creatures he had ever seen.
A heart shaped face surrounded by long blonde curls, skin like porcelain and large bright blue eyes, currently narrowed in hostility and suspicion.
"He says his name is Barnabas Collins…" piped David behind him. "And I'm pretty sure he called me a hooker…" added Carolyn.
A sheepish look came over his face. His eyes flicked briefly toward the children, but were quickly drawn back to the blonde woman. He stared at her as she approached. "That will do Carolyn…" she said in a firm but gentle voice as she got close to him.
She was older than his first impression of her, but the faint lines on her face did nothing to diminish her beauty. And the figure under the conservative black dress she was wearing was slender and shapely. His eyes flicked down to the neckline of her dress before flicking back up to her face.
"A word please…" she said in a rather chilly voice
Elizabeth pushed the door of the drawing room firmly shut behind them. She didn't know what this handsome but oddly dressed stranger was after but she wasn't having any of it. Too many people had tried to take advantage of her family.
"If this is some kind of joke… consider it played. If it's money you are after… you've been misinformed" she said firmly. "But whoever you are you're not to look at those children again… am I clear?" she finished as she walked towards him.
She watched as he looked around the room. She couldn't believe how strongly he resembled the portrait over the mantelpiece. The portrait of Barnabas Collins. It was unnerving and uncanny.
"Your devotion to family… is admirable madam… and your suspicion understand" he said, touching a game of Operation and making it buzz. "A stranger arrives… claiming to be a distant relation. The question of motive is to be expected…" he added.
"As a Collins…" he said, looking at the photos on the table. She jumped slightly as he turned around. "Surely you are aware of the darkness that has long plagued family…" he said, slowly walking towards her"
His voice was like velvet, and he had the most piercing gaze she had ever seen. She felt like she could lose herself in those dark, almost hypnotic eyes… if she looked at them for too long.
"You mean our curse?" she said dryly as he walked around her, that unnerving gaze fixed on her. "Witches, ghosts, vampires…" she said as he walked away. "Myths…" she added dismissively.
She turned around, discreetly palming a letter knife from a nearby table. "And like so many before you… I suppose you are here to rid us of them… for a price of course…" she said, fixing him with a challenging stare.
Barnabas turned to the fireplace, sliding fingers over the woodwork.
"I can prove that I'm different…" he said persuasively. "Oh?" she said skeptically as he continued to examine the fireplace.
"Firstly I do not come seeking money… but rather to provide it…" he said in that velvety aristocratic voice. "Secondly… I know the body of this mansion as well I know my own…"
"Every nook… every corner… every secret!" he said, pressing a secret catch on the fireplace. A hidden door sprang open, revealing an array of colorful knitting. Liz's eyes widened slightly. How the hell did he know that?
"That's where I keep my macramé…" she said, managing to keep the surprise out of her voice. He couldn't be who he said he was… that was impossible… wasn't it?
"A disgraceful misuse…" he said as he turned to face her. Her expression was still suspicious but slightly less so. H
"Impressive… " she said crisply, walking towards him. "But there are plenty of old houses with hidden doors… I hope you have a thirdly" she said as she walked past him.
"Indeed" he said, looking at the fireplace again. "Tell me… what do you know of Barnabas Collins?" he asked.
"Just legends really…" she said, voice softening and becoming less frosty as she spoke of her ancestor. "He was confident and strong…" He looked around at her.
"Admired by all" she continued. "But he believed our family was cursed… and when his parents were killed he went mad. Went around insisting a witch had turned him into a vampire…" she said as he walked up behind her. He was standing so close it distracted for her for a moment.
"And what is known of his death?" he asked, looking at her over her shoulder.
"Nothing… not that I can think of…" she said, wondering why this stranger made her feel so nervous… so uneasy. She had dealt with many of his like. But this one was different…
"That… madam…is because he never died" he said, turning back to the fireplace. The ended of his cane went in a hole in the floor and he twisted it sharply. She watched as the clouds and sea in the design moved, and the wooden wolves howled. The fireplace slid back to reveal a set of stairs.
"I am Barnabas Collins" he said, firmly and with utter conviction. Her eyes widened in shock and she stared at him. She couldn't believe it. The man she had always was here… here… in her drawing room.
Which mean he had never been mad at all. "That means you're…" she said, still staring at him.
"A vampire madam… yes… and most regrettably so" he said softly, voice full of sadness. Her grip tightened on the knife behind her back. He was family yes… and undeniably handsome… but he was dangerous. Very dangerous. She had sensed it the moment she saw him.
"But more importantly I am a Collins" he pointed out persuasively. "And I give you my word of honor… neither you… nor any under this roof… need fear my cursed nature."
She looked into those dark eyes. He was either a very, very good liar… or he meant what he said. And somehow she couldn't help believe him. But she still didn't put down the knife.
"Family is the only real wealth, he would often remark. But clearly he was not opposed to other kinds" Barnabas said as he unlocked the door to the vault and led Elizabeth inside.
He was surprised how well she was taking this. He had half expected her to call him crazy and throw him out of the house… or faint. But not only had she kept her composure… she seemed to actually believe him.
That… along with her obvious devotion to her family… had definitely impressed him. And he was undeniably flattered by her response to him asking if she knew of Barnabas Collins.
"Oh my god…" she said as she got a good look at the contents of the vault. "We've been sitting on top of a fortune… all these years"
He put on a ruby pendant that was a particular favorite of his and turned to face her.
"Know this…" he said, eyes meeting hers as he started to walk forward. "I mean to stay. I mean to be part of this family again."
"On one condition" she said firmly. "Yes…" he said, wondering what she would ask of him.
"Promise me that this… all of this… will remain our secret" she said in a crisp, no nonsense voice. He could tell she meant it. She clearly wasn't a woman to mess around with. He felt his respect for her go up even more.
"So be it…" he said, holding out a hand. "Partners?" he asked, a slight smile curving his lips. She looked from his hand to his face, hesitating a moment before slowly taking his hand.
A smile spread over her face. "Welcome home Barnabas Collins…" | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8496237/1/Everybody-s-Fool | dclm-gs1-003540001 | false | false | {
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0.052644 | <urn:uuid:ab980917-67cc-4267-b177-8c78552ac526> | en | 0.989807 | A/N: Hello everyone and HAPPY 2014! The first chapter of the new year for Of Lies and I'll admit it does fell good. Thank you sooo much to the 500 reviews that I have gotten, you guys are completely amazing and I'm so thankful for all the support I have received with the whole 'Plagiarism' issue. My story is still posted which shows that is wasn't plagiarism as claimed by the other author, so I am happy to put all that behind me in light of the new year! This has another article for you all and I hope you like it,
I would like to say thank you for the person who suggested the changes for Draco's name - they were great!
A/N2: People have mentioned that they have lost track of the names given to the characters so I thought it would be best to write them all down for you:
Snake – Harry
Paws – Hermione
Swift – Ron
Raven/Ray – Luna
Badger – Neville
Bleach – Draco
Manic – Fred
Panic – George
Warning; Mentions of violence, and light slash and swearing,
Disclaimer; Belongs to J.K 'cept the plot.
Chapter 14,
Harry looked up surprised as an unfamiliar owl swooped down towards him, it was a dark coloured eagle owl and it landed proudly on his outstretched arm and Harry blinked. He carefully too the letter and fed the bird some bacon, it took off in the same proud fashion and Harry shook his head, he never understood owls. Flipping the letter over, he was surprised to see the Greengrass crest stamped in the wax, he decided to read it letter away from the cramped hall so he tucked it away, he felt rather than saw Dumbledore's eyes on him and he began to plan a cover story to fee the old fool. Harry was only picking at his breakfast because he was too on edge for the next article, it was going to be a thing of beauty and the follow up more so, it would build the foundations to making Dumbledore crumble and Harry was going to enjoy his front seat tickets.
Just how good is the article set to be Snake? Paws asked him in his mind and Harry bit back his smirk.
Let's just say the world is about to find out the Truth about Dumbledore… and his family… Harry trailed off and he saw her blink,
But I thought we only had information on one? She questioned astonished,
You didn't think I was just acting and having fun with Tom, did you? He asked rhetorically,
What in Merlin's name else has he got hidden? She exclaimed and Harry mentally smirked.
Oh Paws, you have no idea! He cut the connection as the news owls swooped in and Harry took his with disinterested air as if he didn't care about it, but he laid it out flat and it took all of his control not to grin. On the front page was another beautiful picture, and he truly had no idea where Rita got them, but this time it was of a man that looked like Dumbledore and he was being arrested by aurors and a screaming headline to finish the front page.
The Truth About Dumbledore;
The Father,
Where The Ideas Began,
We know now that Albus Dumbledore has a few secrets in his closest. After the truth about his relationship with Grindlewald was revealed by yours truly, this reporter was determined to find if there were any other hidden secrets that Dumbledore has fought endlessly to hide. I can tell you now readers, there are hoards of dirty little secrets that the supposed hero has kept under wraps; and for good reason.
Delving in to the murky past of Albus Dumbledore was not an easy feat, but it was worth the work it involved. We have heard the startling revelations of Dumbledore in his youth, I wanted to find out what upbringing young Albus had for him to crave such power and control. I looked first in to Percival Dumbledore and I gained a quick idea to where Albus found the idea to rule over muggle originally from. Percival Dumbledore was, to the public, an honorary man, he had married a beautiful muggleborn by the name of Kendra Thomas, and had a wonderful family. But it was merely a front to fool everyone from his true dark nature. You see, in the small village, Mould-On-The-Wold, where the Dumbledore family resided before Godrics Hollow, there were a series of brutal attacks on Muggles and it was leaving the ministry of the time in a mess. The attacks continued for a couple of months and no one was gaining any new information, Percival Dumbledore was working the case and seemingly trying to capture the culprits. Many say he worked harder than most, but their opinions changed when the truth was discovered. There was another attack, this one more vicious and bloodthirsty, I won't write the details, but it was a crime we today would accuse death eaters of committing, and the assailant got himself caught by a team of wizards who were watching the nearby muggle village. The wizard, caught in a hooded cloak and a covered face was revealed at the scene and it was none other than Percival Dumbledore (See picture). He was taken back to the ministry where he admitted that he had attacked 3 muggle children and killed 2, yes children, but it gets worse readers. Percival was please with himself, he admitted he was proud of what he had done and the only thing he was disappointed in was that he had been caught before he could kill them all. Yes, and that is a direct quote from the ministry transcripts of the crime. He was immediately sentenced to Azkaban where he later died still serving for his crimes, and it raises the question of how much of his beastly behaviour he taught to his children? Is this where Albus Dumbledore first got the idea that they could rule over muggles? Did he learn to hide his true-self as much as his father? And did he think his fathers imprisonment was unjust? Nothing is clear and I believe we, as a nation, deserve to know if one of our heroes is not as they seem. We do not know, but I will do everything I can to see the truth brought to light because without it, we could all be in danger of a power hungry psychopath; just like his father.
Rita Skeeter, Special Correspondent to the Daily Profit,
Rita Skeeter, no matter what anyone said, was a literary genius and he'd correct anyone who said otherwise. It was like the first article, the entire hall was in silence as they digested what the paper was telling them, the sound picked up slowly, but there was a difference. This time there was whispers and Harry's eyes darted around the hall to observe everyone, the main expression, where last time it was anger, was fear. Many muggleborns were gazing from the paper and up to Dumbledore in terror and the whispers grew louder until people were screaming and some were even rushing from the hall. Harry looked towards Swift and Paws and even they looked unnerved by the article, Harry didn't blame them, to hurt a child was something he would never think of doing and the only reason he had forgiven Tom was because the man was slightly addled when he threw the Cruciatus at him in 4th year. Thinking about the Dark Lord, Harry's attention snapped up to the head table and to Tom who was looking a mix between exceptionally pleased and livid, Harry's eyes drifted along to the headmaster and he wanted to cackle, Dumbledore looked as if someone had kicked him in the stomach, but Harry could see in the fury in his baby blue eyes. The noise was getting too much for him so he slipped out of the hall and finally allowed his smirk to come forward, the article was an obvious success by the people still fleeing Dumbledore's presence and he happily skipped up to his rooms. Luna was sat in the chair and a pretty smirk on her face,
"Well done, Snake," She said and Harry mock bowed,
"What can I say, Dumbledore left it all there." He replied and she laughed,
"Is there going to be a follow up?" Luna asked and the expression on Harry's face was anything but reassuring for Dumbledore.
"A four-part special,"
"Perfect," She purred, "This will keep him on his toes."
"Definitely, and I plan on using that as much as possible." Harry stated, he threw himself down and pulled out the letter from Greengrass.
"What's that?"
"A letter from a Greengrass, I had forgotten that I said I would correspond with Hadrian." Harry told her as he slit it open, the parchment was rich and expensive and he unfolded the well written letter.
Dear Mr Harry Potter-Black, Lord to the Noble and Most Ancient Houses of Potter and Black,
I am writing to you in the hope you are in good health and to fulfil my suggestion of correspondence.
I wish to continue our discussion on the ministry as I found your arguments and points of view refreshing and highly enlightening, it has been a long time since I have spoken to someone with ideas that do not solely benefit themselves. Admittedly, our world will have to have some dramatic governing changes for any such ideas to be placed and, unfortunately, our world is stuck in a time of gold and corruption.
I was surprised to see your absence at the past two wizengamot meetings, and even more so to see your seats being held by none other than Albus Dumbledore, especially as our topic of conversation did not hold the Chief Warlock in high esteem. Of course, no one mentioned your absence even if they were questioning it, but I think they know something is amiss due to the fact that Lady Malfoy was sat proudly in the Black seats during both occasions.
Furthermore, I am enraged that Dumbledore covered himself so well after such an atrocious article came to light, I am sure you know the one of which I speak, and I cannot believe he was allowed to brush something of such severity metaphorically under the rug. Rita Skeeter is right, it does make you wonder what else he has hidden and I am more than willing to discover the true nature of that man. With the minister now on probation, and about time too, I am interested on what will transpire now the second, some may claim the first, main authority figure's confidence is called in to question. I foresee many changes to commence if this continues in such a way.
Your input would be marvellous, and I would be interested to know if you have heard anything about the current happenings as you have proven to be accessible to carefully concealed information.
Yours Sincerely,
Hadrian Greengrass, Lord to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Greengrass,
The seal was stamped below the signature and Harry closed the letter thinking, he did enjoy speaking with Hadrian Greengrass, the man actually held intelligence beyond buying what he wanted and they shared many views on the ministry. The letter was slightly unexpected simply because Harry had forgotten that he said he would correspond, but that was through fault of his own and not the others. The veiled question about his absence was a valid one, and he would have to be careful of what he said, it wasn't as if he thought Hadrian would betray him, but the information was very sensitive and would cost him his life if got out. He would have to think on his reply, it would be good to get an outside input on changes needed within the ministry and the view of the wizengamot, especially now his articles had picked up; he was extremely jealous that he wasn't going to be there.
"Anything interesting?" Luna asked and Harry nodded,
"Yes, I had forgotten that I agreed to correspond with Hadrian, it will be interesting to have his input."
"Yes, he is full of knowledge and a decent view of the world."
"I agree, he is a pureblood that actually thinks beyond buying anything they wish."
"I'll see you later, I am expected in Charms soon." Luna said and Harry nodded, he pressed a kiss to her cheek as she left. He went up to his room and sealed the letter in his trunk and set a mental reminder to reply at the quickest possible time.
Where in the name of Circe did you find this? Paws demanded and Harry laughed,
Its another rather impressive one, isn't it?
Its brilliant, Snake, please tell me you have a follow up? Swift entered the conversation and Harry smirked.
Roll on next week and you'll have your answer, Rita is set to send me another draft soon and it'll be printed, Harry told them and he could feel the glee from them.
Oh how the mighty will fall, Swift sighed happily,
And we have front row, Harry agreed,
We will have to schedule a meeting, Gryffindor rooms tomorrow to discuss the wolves and our hunt. Paws said and they agreed, Harry closed the connection and opened the one he had with Tom, the man wasn't teaching, but he was thinking about something and Harry would bet he knew what it was about. He walked to the man's classroom and entered to see Tom sat behind his desk looking at the wall deep in thought, Harry sealed the door allowing his glamour to fall and happily sat down the desk bringing Tom out of his thoughts.
"You have a follow up." Tom stated and Harry smirked,
"Of course,"
"It will be just as informative."
"Most definitely,"
"Next week,"
"The old fool really does have skeletons in his closet," Tom mused and Harry scoffed,
"Oh you have no idea,"
"I do wonder how Dumbledore is going to recover from this, it is one thing to have loved the previous Dark Lord, but to have a muggle hating father when Dumbledore himself cries the good of muggles is going to raise questions." Tom said and Harry smirked,
"I think the best part about this was the fear he gained because of it, and he's pissed too, I saw it in his eyes."
"Oh I do not doubt that he is, but it is only going to get better for us." Tom pointed out with a smirk and Harry laughed lightly,
"So much better, Dumbledore isn't going to know what hit him." Tom pulled Harry down on to his lap and trailed light kisses along his neck, Harry hummed in pleasure,
"Watching you destroy the person I hate the most makes you even more desirable, did you know?" Tom asked him lowly and Harry gasped when he bit down on his neck.
"I'll keep that in mind," Harry returned before his lips were claimed and his hands found their way in to Tom's hair, he couldn't help but moan in to the kiss, there was something about kissing Tom that just did it for him. Tom's hands had drifted lower until they rested extremely low on Harry's hips and Harry pulled back reluctantly,
"Why start something you know we can't finish?" He asked in a groan and Tom smirked, his eyes were dark with desire and his hands had not moved.
"I blame you."
"Of course you do," Harry sighed, "You have to teach and I have a lesson to go to, so this will have to wait until after I've had my meeting and seen Moony."
"Your wolf is intelligent," Tom noted and Harry's eyes widened,
"Holy shit the world is ending, Tom gave a compliment." He gasped and there was a part of him that wasn't joking, Tom sent him a withering look to which Harry answered with his own innocent expression.
"Amusing as you are," He drawled, "I was quite surprised,"
"I know, humour is on my résumé. Speaking of which, you weren't all Dark Lord on Remus were you?"
"I only glared at him once, and he deserved it." Tom reassured and Harry rolled his eyes.
"Fine, but be nice, he's all I have left because of Dumbledore, I don't need you scaring him away."
"I don't think he scares that easily Harry, the man is a werewolf." Tom said and Harry grinned,
"Good because we're going to be pushing things to the limit." Tom finally removed his hands and brushed one through his dishevelled hair making Harry sigh, he had a think for messing up the immaculate hair because the man looked hot no matter how it was.
"Have fun teaching, I am off to potions." Harry pulled himself up gracefully and pulled down the wards when his glamour was fully up, "Oh and Halloween is on Friday." With that he vanished from to room. Harry fell in to step with Draco once he had entered the dungeons and the blond flashed him a smirk while shaking his head.
"I don't know how and I don't know when, but well done." Draco said and Harry laughed.
"They only get better, and trust me; the last one is the icing on the cake." Harry told him,
"How good are we looking at?"
"I was completely stunned, to the point where I couldn't process anything. My mind literally shut down in shock." Harry replied seriously and Draco blinked,
"Oh Merlin, I thought this one was shocking."
"No, it gets better/worse depending on how you look at it."
"It is isn't it? Now, we're having a meeting tonight, in those rooms after dinner."
"Got it," they both fell silent as they stopped outside the classroom, no one looked surprised to see them walking together because many of them were seen with their potions partners outside of class anyway. The lesson took longer than Harry would have liked, but he happily made his way to transfiguration afterwards. The halls were filled with the article and Harry was pleased, they seemed to be more shaken up about this one than the one before and he couldn't wait to see the next draft, if the follow up was anything as good as this one then Harry knew he would keep Dumbledore off his back. Unfortunately, he wasn't watching where he was going after transfiguration because he ran in to a furious Ginny.
"Hey Gin-,"
"They have no right to print this about Dumbledore, they're making him out to be a monster when he can't control his parents." She snarled and Harry blinked, he put on a righteously angry expression and nodded emphatically.
"I know, who does this Skeeter think she is. You can't choose your family, just look at the Dursleys!" Harry agreed vehemently, Ginny looked slightly placated that he agreed and she wrapped herself on his arm.
"I want to know why she's out to get Dumbledore again, I mean, hasn't she done enough?"
"She has the need to target someone, Gin, I think she just got sick of writing about me." Harry shrugged, he ignored the fact that she was clinging to him again and threw up his Occlumency shields to prepare for the pain he knew was coming. Just as predicted, as soon as he stepped in to the hall he felt a shadow of the pain Tom directed at him, he bit back his sigh and plastered on a smile for Ginny as she went on about something she did.
Ginny herself was feeling the same amounts of disgust, but for different reasons. She was sick of acting like she was in love with the Boy-Who-lived, she knew why she was doing it and the reward was going to be perfect, but it was tiring and sickening for her. When Dumbledore first came to her, she had been excited and thrilled to be chosen for the Boy-Who-Lived, she couldn't believe that she was the one who was going to be the future Lady Potter, but then reality hit her. Harry Potter was nothing like he should have been, he was quiet and shy, but he lived up to his name when he saved her from the basilisk. Dumbledore was paying her well to get close to him and she was succeeding, but this year was so much more difficult because of the death of that mutt Black, the damn brat had turned in to a pathetic child and it was driving her crazy. She was practically throwing herself at him and he was barely interested, she would suspect he was gay, but that wasn't possible because the he was the Boy-Who-Lived. Even if it didn't matter in their world if someone was gay or straight due to male pregnancies and blood adoptions, Potter couldn't be gay because she had to be the new Lady Potter. She deserved the title and the money and the privileges that came with it and she would get them whatever it took. After everything she had to deal with because she was poor, everything should be rightfully hers, it wasn't her fault that they didn't have any money so it shouldn't stand in her way like it did and being Lady Potter would stop that, especially after her husband dies fighting Voldemort. And he would die, Ginny was sure of it because only Dumbledore had enough power to destroy him. She would have to speak with Dumbledore about doing something because even when he was on love potion they were moving slowly, Ginny shook her head, it would all come together eventually, after all, what could go wrong? She clutched at his arm and continued to talk, it would all be worth it in the end.
"Isn't Halloween on Friday?" Harry noted picking up on something she had said.
"Yes, this is why Professor Dumbledore is letting us have a half day so we can go to Hogsmead." Ginny told him and Harry perked up at that, a day in Hogsmead on the cursed Halloween, Dumbledore was pushing the boundaries.
"Oh, that'll be fun, I missed all the Halloween trips before." Harry said tilting his head, he knew exactly what he was going to do for Halloween and if everything went to plan Friday was going to be interesting.
"Hey Gin, I'll see you later yeah? I have to get this essay done for Snape or he'll have my head, I've got training and Occlumency so I have to do it today."
"Of course, Harry, but don't work to hard." She gave him a sickeningly sweet smile as he left, he had a blonde to see about a plan.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the genius extraordinaire has arrived." Harry announced grandly as he swept in to the Gryffindor rooms, the others looked at him in amusement and Remus shook his head.
"Right then," He muttered and Harry grinned,
"I was channelling Tom, what do you think?" He said seriously and they all laughed at that.
"I think the last time you said something like that, Cub, you gave me a mini heart attack." Remus commented amused, Harry smirked.
"Why is that, Moony?"
"Because you said, and I quote, over inflated arrogance that is paired with an astonishing large ego," Remus drawled and the others raised their eyebrows in confusion.
"He's said worse," Paws said with a shrug and Remus nodded.
"While I don't doubt that, was the Dark Lord sat opposite him?" Paws, Badger and Bleach choked on air while the twins, Raven and Swift snickered.
"Why would you do that?" Draco exclaimed and Harry rolled his eyes.
"I was making sure he wasn't being horrible to Moony, you know what he can be like."
"Snake, you do not tell the most feared man in the wizarding world that he is arrogant with an ego." Paws said slowly and Harry waved her off.
"He didn't mind,"
"I wonder why?" Remus muttered with a grin and Harry laughed,
"That was why he glared at you, wasn't it?"
"Yes and it was down right terrifying." Remus shuddered and Harry laughed before becoming serious.
"Down to business," Harry turned their attention back to the meeting, "The current article is going to cause a stir, I am hoping that with this and Halloween coming up it will keep Dumbledore off my back because he is busy doing damage control. These supposed lessons we're meant to be having are an inconvenience, I have too much to do, too much to plan for and I can't spend needless time acting like I worship the ground he walks on. Tom has my Occlumency covered, my other 'lessons' are with him so they are fine and if this keeps Dumbledore away I am free to complete my plan for the wolves and we can go on our hunt." Harry took a breath and looked around to see them nodding.
"What about Ginny?" Swift asked, "She is the only thing, if the articles work their magic, setting you on edge." Harry and Luna exchanged looks that were anything but pleasant, if anything they were evil.
"I think I have that covered." Harry purred and no one asked any more.
"Bleach, do you have anything?" Harry asked the blond who threw him a dirty look,
"Still not going to change my name?" He sighed and Harry smirked before adopting an all too innocent look.
"We could change it, actually I've been thinking of some." Harry said, "I mean, we could have Albino, Snowy, Pearly or my personal favourite; Snowflake." Draco grew more horrified as Harry went on and by the end he was holding his hands up in defence.
"Bleach is fine, perfectly acceptable actually." He said hurriedly and Harry grinned.
"I thought so, do go on."
"I've been working on all the potions you gave me and I've come up with an antidote to one of them and that was the blood poisoning one. I thought, as it was the most vicious, I would concentrate on that and it was nasty to counteract, only the fact that I've access to illicit ingredients was I able to do it." Draco explained and Harry's expression darkened, he eyed Luna carefully and she rolled her eyes with a small smile. "I've made a batch so we do have counters, but it has to be administered within the first 5 minutes of consumption or it isn't a guarantee that it will work."
"That's good, its better than most could hope for. Well done, Bleach, impressive work." Harry said impressed and Draco smirked.
"Thanks, I've been working on identifying and countering the others, but it is slow progress because I have to be careful with my work. It doesn't help that I don't know who's making the potions so I can't work in front of Severus, plus the fact you don't trust him even in the slightest."
"No, I don't, and the only reason he is still alive is because of Tom. Unless he changes his attitude then its going to stay that way."
"Well, the potions are coming along, but it is slow." Draco said, "Now, a bit of a problem has come up and its one we should have foresaw."
"The Slytherin's are beginning to talk, your presence at my ball was very clearly noted and now, with your masks fully up, they are questioning what's going on." Draco told him and Harry cursed.
"Damn it,"
"That's not all, others are whispering, there were a few other families at the ball and they are all wondering the same thing."
"This could ruin everything," Swift groaned.
"If this gets out, you're worse than dead Snake." Paws said worriedly and Harry gripped his head.
"Not now, things are just picking up." He murmured,
"We can contain this," Luna said and Harry knew she was thinking,
"Go on,"
"There are rules when one agrees to go to a ball, especially a grey and dark one. If Bleach begins to spread the word that his family is calling a complete Act of Silence then no one would speak, anyone stupid enough knows that they are signing their death 10x over." Luna stated and Harry's eyes lit up, he turned to Draco who was smirking.
"I'll write to my father, tell him to send word and I'll begin tonight when I enter the common room."
"I had forgotten about the Act of Silence." Paws mused with a small smirk, "The joys of involving ones self within the Dark."
"I didn't even think they still used them." Remus said in disbelief and Harry smirked.
"Most of the things Sirius told you about the grey and dark houses are still in action, they love traditions and some of the old traditions keep a lot of grey and dark people safe." Harry told him seriously.
"I can understand that,"
"If Bleach can get the word out fast enough then I shall be covered, all it takes is one loose tongue and I'm done. I know questions are being whispered within the Lords, but they are staying quite for the time being."
"Yes, but we know that will not last." Swift stated,
"Especially with how the Order are digging." Fred added talking for the first time, he and his twin had been oddly quiet since the beginning of the meeting and Harry turned his attention to the pair.
"Do tell us what your devious minds have found." Harry said to them and they grinned,
"We, that is to say my twin and I," George began,
"Have been investigating what the Order have been up to," Fred continued,
"It's quite easy to get information out of a certain metamorph,"
"And the help of a few listeners and the eyes and ears,"
"We've been gathering quite a bit."
"Tonks will speak to you?" Paws asked and the twins nodded,
"Yes, I don't think she knows that Dumbledore's wand has been loose around us." They answered together.
"So what's going on?" Badger asked and the twins threw him an apologetic look.
"Augusta Longbottom seems to be working more solidly with Dumbledore, from what we have deduced, it was he who suggested cutting your trust vault in the hope that it would repress you even more so I would keep your watch out for more spells." George told them and Badger's expression turned evil, Harry shot him a look.
"Reign it in for now Badger,"
"I got it Snake, just pissed."
"Carry on gents,"
"She's become his other set of ears within the wizengamot because of the Longbottom seat, Weasley is to low down to be any of use, but Augusta hears things about the influential." Fred picked up and Harry hissed.
"That Act needs to get spread quickly, Bleach, do you think Zabini will help you, he seemed more open to my presence opposed to Nott?"
"Blaise will be game, he loves a scandal, but he'll ask for something in return so be careful, he isn't as superficial as he appears to be."
"I think I can appease his needs, I have a feeling I know what he wants anyway." Harry said sharing an amused glance with Luna.
"What else has been going on?" Paws asked the twins.
"The Order are trying to gather supporters for Scrimgeor." Fred told them, "With Kingsley on the same level as him they are slowly making their way around the light Noble Houses."
"The real problem is when they being on the Noble and Most Ancient, they are the ones who have the majority vote and with Dumbledore controlling my seats at the moment he can practically own the wizengamot." Harry sighed and tugged at his hair, Luna slapped his hand away and Harry smiled, "Sorry."
"Dumbledore was speaking about the latest legislation they have just blocked as well as the ones they are trying to get pushed through." George remembered, "They've, yet again, added another restriction to the werewolf rights and that was drawn and proposed by Umbridge-." He was cut of by a low, vicious hiss issuing from Harry, his eyes had narrowed in to slits and his fists clenched.
"Do you know the exact legislation is?" Harry demanded and Fred drawled out a scroll.
"We took the liberty on making a trip to the ministry." He said as he passed it over.
"Do I want to know how you managed to get in to an apparent secure room?" Remus questioned amused and slightly alarmed, the twins shared a smirk.
"You're a marauder," Fred said,
"You work it out," George finished and Remus shuddered.
"That what I'm worried about."
"THEY'RE BEING HUNTED!" Harry's enraged voice cut through the comedy, he was gripping the parchment in a vice like grip and it was beginning to smoke with his anger.
"This law says anyone who has been enacted in to the 'Werewolf Protection Program' is able to capture and contain a werewolf in 'suspicion' of endangering the public by any means necessary. It practically allows people to hunt wolves." He snarled and his magic was beginning to curl around him, "She's opened a new section of the DMLE for this and it was passed by a majority vote, it becomes valid from yesterday."
"They can't do this!" Paws exclaimed furiously, "Don't they know its wrong?"
"Amelia Bones won't sit well with this, she's all for rights and equality." Swift stated shaking his head,
"Yes, but if she doesn't put up with it then she loses her job, and having someone else in the Head spot is something we cannot have. Who knows who they'll put there and if Amelia is removed." Badger pointed out,
"They'll never stop until all the wolves are gone, its as simple as that." Remus growled and Harry shook his head,
"It will not come to that, I swore I would do something about the wolves and I intend to stick to it." Harry stated strongly and Remus sighed.
"That's all well and good Cub, but you have to keep yourself alive."
"I swore on my magic Moony, I will not stand for it." Remus eyes widened at that and a small smile came to his face.
"Thank you," Harry gave a sharp nod and began to pace,
"Damn it, I could really do with having Tom here now." Harry burst out and Remus gasped.
"That's it, its been bugging me since you got in here!"
"His scent on you is lacking, its like its been covered with something and it isn't that nice if I'm honest." Remus explained and Harry cursed.
"Ginny," he spat and went over and hugged Luna making sure he covered her entire frame with his body, "How's that?"
"Good," Harry sighed, "But don't mention it to Tom,"
"Don't mention what to Tom?" Said man drawled from the doorway and Harry blinked.
"Um hi?"
"You called?" Tom said with a raised eyebrow and Harry's shot up.
"I did?"
"Huh, well who knew?" Harry shrugged, "Have you had the latest report from the wizengamot?"
"I know there has been a new law past, Lucius was trying to obtain a copy, but on the day in question the scroll was suspiciously absent." Here he turned to look at the twins who smiled sweetly, Tom rolled his eyes and turned back to Harry. "Am I to assume that I will not like it?"
"Oh I don't know, if your feeling up for a little wolf hunting then its right up your street." Harry said brightly handing it over, Tom's eyes darted over the sheet and his eyes flashed.
"It seems that amphibian hunt you offered me has been brought forward." Tom hissed and Harry smirked.
"Hm, I believe you are correct about that Mr Riddle, do you propose a date?"
"Of course Mr Potter, Halloween is fast approaching and the evening is completely free."
"And we both know that odd things often occur on All Hallows Eve."
"It is a most unfortunate date, but it will make such a lovely finish to an otherwise dreary day."
"Indeed," Harry agreed,
"Until later?"
"Of course," Tom flashed a smirk and swept from the room, Harry watched him leave and turned back to the others, all of which were staring at him with different varies of disbelief and shock.
"Can I help you?" He asked them and they all shook their heads.
"You don't see it, do you?" Bleach asked and Harry looked at him blankly.
"See what?"
"You know what Snake, never mind." Luna said, "Back to the laws,"
"Umbridge is dead, I'll go over Swifts plans for than and adapt them. The wolf situation will be moved forward, Tom and I will scout the place with Remus, that way Tom can analyse the building while Remus and I check out the lands and then Remus can evaluate our findings to see if its wolf friendly." Harry decided, he was pacing furiously muttering to himself, "Until the area has been okayed then its pointless placing the ward up, its going to take enough power as it is."
"Ward?" Remus asked and Paws pulled out a copy of Harry's workings.
"It was a piece of genius on Snake's part." She said as Remus looked it over,
"This is amazing Cub," He breathed and Harry grinned,
"I do have some brain cells up there."
"I bet this took ages," Remus said and the group scoffed,
"Yeah, try 3 days." Bleach told him with a smirk and Remus' eyes bugged.
"You did this in 3 days?"
"Yeah, it was important," Harry shrugged, "But it doesn't matter if we don't have a safe house so I'll talk to Tom and get back to you."
"So the wolves are, hopefully, covered," Swift said making a note of it, "What other laws do they want put through, you said Dumbledore was speaking about them?"
"He's trying to legalise the Order, make it so they can work in the open and with the ministry against the dark." Fred rolled his eyes, "But if anything he's only aiding the Dark Lord, the wording is weak at best and if it goes through as it is now, the Death Eaters will become a legal organisation."
"Who in Merlin's name is wording it, Mad Eye?" Harry asked rhetorically, he nearly choked when they nodded.
"You have got to be kidding me?" Paws gasped,
"Nope, apparently because he worked in the ministry and he's second under the old fool himself, he was the best person for the job because Dumbledore is too busy."
"What about Shack?" Swift asked,
"Don't ask me how the crazy man's mind works." George said in exasperation, "But it has yet to be proposed, if they have any sense they'll give it to Tonks to take to her parents, both of which work in the legal business."
"Yes, well let's hope they don't retain any intelligence, shall we?" Harry drawled and everyone agreed.
"Do you know when they plan to propose it?" Paws asked and the twin shook their heads.
"No, not yet, they're waiting for the right time."
"Meaning, if something does happen after Halloween then it'll be proposed in the next session." Swift thought out and Harry nodded,
"Yes, it is the logical option, but that is good for us because the final proposal will be rushed." Harry pointed out,
"Now, they haven't actually noticed Remus' absence yet and that's mainly due to Kreacher, they use the elf to 'feed' him having Tonks order him because of her Black blood." Fred told them and they snickered,
"That would be useful if; A, Tonks was actually on the Black family tree and B, if Kreacher wasn't fanatically loyal to Harry." Paws laughed and Remus blinked.
"Kreacher?" He questioned and Harry nodded with a smirk.
"Yep, the elf loves me now and he's actually saved your life a few times."
"Why the change?"
"Not a change, more of a breakthrough." Harry corrected and Remus' eyes flashed.
"Who else?"
"Anyway, I think we should be prepared for Dumbledore's reaction to when he finds out that Remus has disappeared from the wards he put around the door. He is going to be thinking the worst which means he's going to be fanatical because of the things Remus knows behind the obliviates." Swift stated bringing them back,
"Yes, and he's going to become more observant to Snake's movements because if Remus' escaped by himself then Dumbledore will believe he would contact and/or come for Snake." Luna added and Harry cursed.
"Problematic, but not to difficult to work with I guess,"
"Anything else from the Order?" Badger asked the twins who shook their heads.
"No, nothing of importance." They said together sitting back and throwing their arms around Bleach, the blond rolled his eyes but didn't throw them off and Harry spotted a slight pinking of the usually pale cheeks, he hid his smirk.
"So with Remus safe and on the research tail, the wolves are in progress, the Order has been discussed and the article is on its way we have one last thing on the agenda." Harry said, "Our hunt!"
"We've scouted out most areas connected with Dumbledore, I know the man has a lot of secrets, but there is only so much he can hide from the past." Paws sighed in frustration.
"I am guessing you have been finding dirt on Dumbledore?" Remus said,
"Yes, no matter how much he has tried, he's left tiny details for us to find." Swift answered and Remus thought for a few seconds.
"Might I make a suggestion?" Remus asked,
"Please do, I cannot think of anything." Harry said eagerly,
"Try looking in to the Flammels, Dumbledore studied under Nicolas Flammel for 20 odd years and, even though I've only met him once, I know that Flammel would have kept records, even in death they'll be something."
"Why in Merlin's name did we not think of Flammel!" Paws exclaimed,
"Its like first year all over again!" Swift groaned and Harry just shook his head.
"I need to eat more chocolate."
"Chocolate?" Remus' eyes actually perked up at that and Harry snickered.
"Still not over your chocolate addiction then, Moony?" Harry questioned lightly and Remus scowled.
"I do not have a chocolate addiction." He grumbled,
"Suuure," Harry said sceptically, "Winky," his elf popped in smiling.
"What cans Winky bes doing for Master Harry?"
"I'm fancying some chocolate and I think Remus is having withdraw symptoms,"
"Oh no," She shook her head flapping her ears, "Winky is getting lots of chocolate right away." she popped away and came back with what only could be described as a mountain of chocolate, Remus' eyes glazed slightly and Harry smirked.
"Thank you Winky," She disappeared beaming and Harry turned to Remus,
"Chocolate, Moony?" Remus threw him a filthy look, but grabbed as much as possible.
"I'm going to the library," He muttered sullenly as they laughed,
"So Paws, if you could research everything you can about the Flammel residence, Swift, you plan our outing, Luna, carry on with well your stuff and Badger can help, Bleach on potions and heirs, Remus is also looking in to the heirs if you want to run your things passed him and I'll set the articles up and get on to the wolves." Harry told them all, "Twins, carry on with what you've been doing, and that mail ward."
"We've made progress with that, we're running preliminary tests currently."
"Well, let me know how you get on."
"Course we will,"
"Anything else?" Harry asked,
"Do you know what is going to happen Halloween, minus the disposal of Umbridge that is?" Badger asked and Harry's smirk was nothing short of demonic.
"Be on your guard from Thursday onwards." Harry said and all eyebrows rose except Luna who was also smirking.
"Thursday? But what in Merlin's name has been planned?"
"Currently nothing that I know of, but if my plan goes perfectly, and I can't see it not, then we, well you're, going to have a very irate Dark Lord on your hands."
"Snake," Paws sighed and Harry shrugged,
"If it works then it will cover two things,"
"Just don't get yourself killed,"
"I'm not worried about me, now you guys on the other hand have to be careful especially when he comes demanding answers."
"Wonderful, he's trying to kill us." Bleach complained, "I'll go speak to Blaise now, see what he wants." The blond vanished from the room via the dungeons root and the twins transformed and followed him out much to Harry's amusement, Swift and Paws got to their feet also.
"See you Snake, be careful,"
"I always am, in a round about way." Paws rolled her eyes and left through the library passage while Swift went to the 7th floor, Harry looked to Luna.
"It's really getting interesting now, isn't it?"
"Of course Harry, this is where the fun starts." He laughed at that and they left, Harry changes in to a snake and wound around Luna so she could carry him out secretly. She let him slide down on the defence corridor and Harry slithered his way to Tom's office, he, with difficulty, managed to get in to his office and he couldn't help but release a snakey laugh when Tom stared blankly at the door. The man's attention snapped downwards and he blinked before massaging his temples with a sigh, Harry flicked his tail to shut the door and slid over to Tom and up the chair to drape himself over the man's shoulders.
Multiple animagus forms?
Yess, three to be exact,
Is there anything completely ordinary about you, at all? Tom asked in exasperation and Harry snickered which sounded odd as he was currently a snake.
My blood is actually red in colour, apart from that I don't think so.
I didn't think so, Tom sighed, Harry slithered over to the desk and changed back with a smirk.
"Where do you think I got the name Snake from?"
"Your ability to work around and get out of impossible situations,"
"Ok, that's a very valid point, but no, I managed my Parsel transformation before my animagus which is why I have three opposed to two like the others."
"Ah," Tom nodded in understanding, "Now, with this law just passing, there is going to be an increase in wolf attacks. I will need to speak to Lucius to see if he has any leads."
"No time like the present, and we have time turners." Harry said and Tom raised an eyebrow.
"You are coming?" Harry smirked.
"You can complain when you actually don't want or mind me being there." Harry returned and Tom rolled his eyes.
"Very well, are you changing?" Tom ignored Harry's smirk of victory deciding to think on his behaviour at a later date, Harry looked down and nodded.
"Yes, I can't say I look all that intimidating in jeans, extremely good looking sure, but not intimidating."
"You have 5 minutes." Tom drawled and Harry rolled his eyes, he tilted his head and smirked.
"Are you going all Dark Lord on your minions?" He asked and Tom merely looked at him, "Right, of course you are." Harry took out his wand and span it making the shadows around him thicken, he kept rotating it until he was draped in them and then he sharply flicked his wand upwards. Tom watched as the shadows surrounded Harry and then slowly slid away from him except now he looked different, he was dressed in elegantly styled black robes which the shadows seemed to cling too, there was no part of his skin visible except the bottom half of his face which looked stark pale contrasting with the shadowy half mask that seemed as one with his face, his eyes snapped open and they were pulsing a deadly killing curse as his magic and the shadows swirled around him before settling slightly.
"Shadow magic?" Tom said impressed, not that he let it show, Harry smirked,
"I have a shadow wolf animagus," When Harry spoke it seemed to make the shadows whisper, Tom smirked.
"I think I may enjoy having you at this elite meeting."
"Of course you will, Tom." Harry said brightly, "I can't believe you doubted that fact." Tom shook his head and flicked his wand, his 'Lord Voldemort' robes and cloak wrapped around him and he drew up the hood, Harry smirked shaking his head.
"And you wonder why people stutter in your presence."
"You do not." Tom pointed out, his voice slightly distorted due to the hood and shadow spell.
"Yes, well I have been told that I am not ordinary."
"That is correct,"
"Yeah yeah," Harry curled himself in to Tom's side and buried his face in Tom's neck as he was side-apperated to Malfoy manor, Harry didn't move for a few seconds as his stomach settled and the he extracted himself and shuddered.
"If there is one method of transport, besides portkeys, that I cannot hack, its side-along apperation." Harry muttered his face tinged a slight green, Tom tried to hide his amusement, but failed and laughed at Harry.
"Yeah yeah, laugh it up." Harry grumbled,
"You can travel through the shadows and through flames, kill without a second thought and throw yourself through the air with careless disregard, but you cannot side apperate without becoming nauseous." Tom said before laughing again, Harry threw him an unimpressed look.
"I hate you."
"I know," Tom had stopped laughing, but Harry could still feel his amusement and was less than pleased,
"I've side apperated you before, many times," Tom pointed out with a smirk and Harry nodded,
"I know, but that was completely different circumstances and I'm usually high with delirium." Harry shrugged, "I'm weird, get used to it."
"I think I am, slowly." Tom said shaking his head, Harry followed the Dark Lord through the halls and they stopped at a large empty room which was obviously used as a meeting room. Tom conjured up a seat for himself, which Harry thought oddly resembled a throne though he chose not to comment, and flicked out his wand, he drew a replica of his dark mark and jabbed the skull.
Elite, he hissed and the mark flashed before vanished in a swirl of smoke, Harry backed up behind the throne and had the shadows cling harder to him as 7 people apperated in to the room and dropped to their knees.
"My Lord," They murmured and Harry could detect a slight smirk curling on Tom's face, not that anyone else could.
"Rise," He commanded in an icy tone and they moved to their feet silently.
"You have all heard of the new laws on werewolves that has been passed." He began, "Lucius was unable to obtain the exact wording of the proposal due to it being missing at the time, I have, however, read a copy."
"My Lord, may I ask how?" Lucius questioned and it was obvious it was pissed that he hadn't managed to get it, this time Tom's smirk was more prominent.
"A Snake and his connections."
"How in Merlin's name did he manage to get in to that room, I only have access due to the minister?" Lucius exclaimed easily putting together the details and so had Snape by his expression, "Um apologise, My Lord." Tom waved him off.
"I believe he has a pair of menaces, Severus, I am sure you are familiar." No one missed Snape's light shudder.
"Unfortunately My Lord, I am,"
"Now, as to how I was given this information is not important." Tom said bringing the point to the forefront, "The latest law is making Umbridge's selected legally allowed to hunt wolves."
"What!? They can't do that!"
"That is ridiculous."
"Yes, which means something needs to be done. Lucius, have you any leads?"
"I have My Lord, I was going come to you this evening. Rabastan and Rodolphus used their connections in Knockturn while I used the ministry to comply a list of names. Most of which have turned up on the Werewolf Protection Program which has just been instated within the ministry." Harry's attention snapped solely on to Lucius and the shadows grew oppressive within the room, they flickered around the death eaters and the elite shifted.
"The names Lucius," Harry hissed causing the shadows to whisper and hiss, the entire elite jumped slightly and it would have been amusing if Harry didn't want the names.
"I have them," Lucius drew out a roll of parchment, the shadows came up and took it from the blond elite member and it vanished from sight. Tom looked slightly amused at the fear he could see in his elite's eyes, but only Harry knew that due to their link.
"I want a full list of everyone in the WWP and want them to be monitored." Tom ordered, "Rabastan, Rodolphus and Bella in Knockturn and the more shadowy areas, Izar and Lucius in the ministry, Severus with the old fool and Dolohov use your connections."
"Yes, My Lord," he dismissed them and they apperated away, Harry emerged from the shadows and the expression of his face was nothing short of evil.
"I don't think Umbridge is the only one who is going to die this week." Tom commented and Harry's eyes blazed.
"I think it's time the hunters became the hunted."
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Former Mumbai Ranji Trophy cricketer Vishwanath Ramachandra Bondre died here last night. He was 77.
"I heard from Shivaji Park Gymkhana round 10 pm that he died of a heart attack," informed Milind Rege, a former Mumbai captain who was his teammate for one year.
Vishwanath Bondre
Vishwanath Bondre
Vishu Bondre played 8 games for Mumbai as a lower order batsman and a medium fast bowler and formed a combination with former India fast bowler Ramakant Desai for his employers ACC, Shivaji Park Gymkhana and Mumbai (then Bombay).
With competition so intense for places in the eleven in Mumbai's Ranji Trophy team in the 1960s, Bondre could play in very few games between 1965-66, his first season, and 1969-70.
In all five years that he played for Mumbai, they were the Ranji Trophy champions, an indication of how strong the team was. "He was a fine all round cricketer though he did not play much for Mumbai as competition for places was so intense.
But he played a lot for ACC and SPG in local cricket and both those teams were also very strong," said Rege. In all, Bondre played 28 first class matches and scored 638 runs with 71 as his highest score while he also claimed 40 wickets at just over 30 per victim.
However, most of these matches included tournaments like Moin-Ud-Dowla in Hyderabad and Buchi Babu in Chennai which were considered first class games in those days but were later removed from the list.
Mumbai and Maharashtra Ranji Trophy teams, who are plying quarter final at Wankhede Stadium here, observed a two-minute silence to pay their respect to the departed player.
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The planet Mercury appears frequently as a setting for many of the stories of Leigh Brackett, and Mercury and Mercurians are frequently mentioned in other stories of the Leigh Brackett Solar System. Brackett's Mercury shares some characteristics with the astronomical Mercury, but in other respects functions as a consistent fantasy world with recurring landmarks and characteristics that reappear from story to story. Some of these fantasy characteristics are of Brackett's own invention; others reflect some of the scientific theories about Mercury that were current before the mid-1960s. Readers of this article are advised not to depend upon it for scientific or astronomical information but instead to consult the article Mercury (planet).
Astronomical characteristics[edit]
Mercury in the Solar System stories of Leigh Brackett is the closest planet to the Sun. Its most notable characteristic is that it is tidally locked to the Sun, that is, it makes a full rotation once for each of its 88-day orbits. As a result, it keeps the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, just as the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. The sun-facing side is known as the Sunside; the side facing away from the sun is called the Darkside.
A Mercurian sidereal day (the period of rotation) lasts about 87.97 Earth days, but since Mercury does not rotate with respect to the Sun, there is no such thing as a solar day or night in usual sense. However, although the times of rotation and revolution are identical, due to Mercury's eccentric orbit, the subsolar point varies in position by up to 20° east or west of the mean. An observer standing on the boundary between Sunside and Darkside at perihelion could observe the sun set below the horizon, only to rise again at aphelion, stay in the sky for 44 Earth days, and then set again at perihelion (an observer on the other side of the planet would see the opposite sequence). Observers closer to the mean antisolar point would observe a shorter day, those closer to the subsolar point would observe a longer one. As a result, there is a strip, over 500 km wide at the equator and narrowing toward the poles, where there is an 88-day long day-night cycle; this region is known as the "Twilight Belt".
Although Mercury possesses a breathable oxygen atmosphere close to its surface, most of the planet is uninhabitable, as surface temperatures on Mercury range from metal-melting temperatures in the immediate subsolar point in the center of the side of Mercury facing the Sun (the Sunside) to cold enough to liquefy oxygen on the side of Mercury facing away from the Sun (the Darkside). In the Twilight Belt, however, temperatures fluctuate between Sunside heat and Darkside cold; in a few places, there is a habitable zone where temperatures are not too extreme for life.
Mercury also has a highly eccentric orbit, which slowly slowly precesses around the Sun. Some scientists hypothesize that another planet may exist in an orbit even closer to the Sun to account for this perturbation. This hypothetical planet has been named Vulcan.
Nothing is known of the pre-history of Mercury before the arrival of the Terrans. There is evidence of an ancient, long-lived race of silicon-based life-forms, but their day had passed long before the Terrans came (Shannach-The Last). The only intelligent forms of life found on Mercury were small furred humanoids, who lived a Stone-Age existence among the rocks of the Twilight Belt by hunting the rock-lizard.
The Terrans who came to Mercury were primarily involved in exploiting Mercury's rich mineral resources under the auspices of various companies, such as Mercury Metals and Mining and the similarly named (if not identical) Mercurian Metals. Few of them were adequately prepared for the rigors of the life; the brutal climate of Mercury, its swings between heat and cold, its electrical storms, and its severe exposure to solar radiation caused a terrible mortality. Terro-Mercurians tend to have ebony-black skin and dark hair, by which they can generally be recognized throughout the Solar System (Shadow over Mars; Queen of the Martian Catacombs).
Mineral resources[edit]
Mercury possesses an abundance of rare and heavy metals that are rare on Earth and unknown in other parts of the Solar System, including: copper; Yttrium, used for armaments (The Demons of Darkside); pitchblende, from which Radium and Uranium can be extracted (A World is Born); and the rare radioactive crystal known as the sun-stone (Shannach – the Last).
Life in the Twilight Belt[edit]
The inhabited regions of the Twilight Belt are not a single area, but a honeycomb of valleys, some containing hot springs, each separated from the others by sheer volcanic cliffs, taller than Earth's Mount Everest. As the atmosphere of Mercury is extremely shallow, communication between the valleys can only occur by those possessing a breathing apparatus, as the mountain peaks reach into virtually airless space. Mercury has only one notable concentration of population, in the Trade City of Solar City (aka Sun City). Due to the strong electromagnetic field surrounding Mercury and the storms generated by the sharp twilight transition between heat and cold, the Twilight Belt is marked by powerful electric discharges. (A World is Born). The storms are worst at perihelion; the Terro-Mercurian colonists use metal pylons and copper cables to channel and collect the electric power from the charged atmosphere. Metals tend to become highly magnetized under these conditions, and normal navigational instruments are rendered useless.
Mercurian aborigines[edit]
Mercury is known to have evolved three forms of sentient life. Among these were a group of glacially-slow silicon-based life-forms that were almost extinct by the time the first settlers arrived; the crystalline life-forms of the Darkside (see below), that remained largely unknown to the settlers save as rumor; and the furry aborigines of the closed valleys of the Twilight Belt.
The furry aborigines were non-human, but humanoid, and had achieved a barely Stone Age existence before the arrival of the settlers. They were patriarchal and clannish, living by hunting rock-lizards. Male children hunted with wooden spears, and were forbidden certain quarries; when they came of age, if they were successful in the ritual of the Man's Hunt, they were awarded flint spears and became members of the community (Enchantress of Venus).
Although the aborigines had little physical power compared to the human settlers of Mercury, and many were ruthlessly massacred by the least scrupulous of the mineral exploiters, they were not to be underestimated. The aborigines inhabiting the cliff-caves of Arianrhod, near the Darkside, had developed a powerful form of telepathy, capable of discerning events across a planet; this skill was learned by the Terro-Mercurian Jaffa Storm (Shadow over Mars). They could be very friendly to humans on occasion, for instance adopting the orphaned Eric John Stark and raising him to adulthood.
Despite the harshness of its environment, Mercury has evolved its own remarkable fauna, including:
• Rock lizards, carnivorous reptiles growing to an immense size, hunted by the Mercurian aborigines.
• Flying lizards, jet-black pterodactyl-like creatures with yellow stomachs (Shannach – the Last).
• Electric beasts, a form of energy-life feeding on the lightning generated in the Mercurian atmosphere, and attracted to metal (A World is Born).
• Mercurian cave-cats or cave-tigers, twenty feet long with four pale eyes, eight legs and a tail armed with bone barbs (The Halfling).
• Mercurian hunting bats, metallic purple and green in color, with wings and fangs. They are attracted to salt, and their bodies are sheathed in silicate scales (similar to glass) that protect them from the lightning (Cube from Space).
The Darkside[edit]
The cold and airless Darkside of Mercury is little known, as only a few travellers have entered that region and survived. Currents generated by Mercury's passage through the Sun's electromagnetic field prevent radio communication and would damage the instruments of any rocket that attempted to land there. Furthermore, for some time, those who returned were afflicted by a morbid psychosis that was fancifully attributed to "demons". This was eventually traced to a form of intelligent life inhabiting a crystalline matrix and possessing the power to affect mind-waves. These life-forms have since become quiescent and no longer pose a hazard (The Demons of Darkside).
See also[edit]
Core Mercury stories[edit]
Marginal Mercury stories[edit]
Non-Mercury stories[edit]
• The Halfling (novelette; Astonishing Stories February 1943)
• The Citadel of Lost Ships (Planet Stories March 1943)
• The Beast-Jewel of Mars (novelette; Planet Stories Winter 1948)
• Queen of the Martian Catacombs (Planet Stories Summer 1949) published in book form as The Secret of Sinharat
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I'm a student engineering and I have an assignment to make an object which involves movement. I've chosen to make a gameboy advance SP, but I'm having some issues. I was wondering if you would be able to help me with certain aspects.
I'm having a lot of issues with constraining the Dpad. (You have to be able to press up/down + left/right at the same time, but without rotating around the axis). I made a sphere under the Dpad and removed a sphere in my base part. I added 2 angular constraints so now it kinda does what i want but not entirely. For the angles I have to constrain 176-180 with resting position at 178. I can't figure out how i can constrain 178-182° with 180 at resting position.
I also have no clue on how to stop it from rotating.
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Get more intelligence from your data using Cypher and Neo4j - UPDATED for Neo4j 2.0
Graphs are on the rise. From the Facebook Graph to the Google Knowledge Graph, large internet companies are taking advantage of graph queries to improve the value they can get from data they already have. Neo4j is one of the new breed of graph databases that allow for similar capabilities in companies that can't justify building their own graph persistence or querying implementation from scratch.
In this article, we'll look at Cypher - the language for querying and updating graphs in Neo4j. It's a declarative, SQL like language for simply specifying graph based queries.
This tutorial is designed for the newest version 2.0 of Neo4j, which was released in December 2013.
Getting started
Start by downloading the Neo4j file at
• On Windows: Run the installer and start the server with the Neo4j Desktop App.
• On Linux/Mac OS unzip the file and start from the directory bin/neo4j start (stop it again with bin/neo4j stop)
Open the Neo4j Browser on http://localhost:7474 and you should see the following welcome screen. Feel free to explore the guides that are available.
Figure 1: The Neo4j Browser
Graph basics
Before we can jump into Cypher, we need to cover just a couple of key points about graph databases. In a graph database, we persist information in labelled nodes and typed, directed relationships that connect them. Both nodes and relationships can have arbitrary properties (key: value pairs).
So for example, in Figure 1, nodes are used to represent movies (“Cloud Atlas” and “The Matrix” labelled “Movie”) and people (actors “Hugo Weaving” and “Tom Hanks” and director “Lana Wachowski” all labelled “Person”). Relationships are used to capture the fact that the actors have ACTED_IN the movies and the director has DIRECTED the movies. All of them have additional properties, e.g. the roles property on ACTED_IN.
Figure 2: The Movie Domain Model
Note that all relationships are directed. While you might be able to argue for a bidirectional relationship for concepts like friends, clearly it is not needed for modelling the domain. Only in domains where the direction is really relevant (e.g. twitter followship). In all other cases it is semantically equivalent as all relationships have a directionality, but they can be traversed either way. Whether I want to know all of the movies Tom Hanks has acted in or see all of the people who've worked at “Cloud Atlas” movie, I'm able to express and run both queries easily.
Also note that unlike a "relational" database where you'd probably add a many:many join table to capture the relationship between actors and movies, in Neo4j we can just add properties like the roles (characters) the actors have played right onto the relationship, making modelling both simpler and more natural.
Finally, notice that there is only an optional schema in Neo4j based on labels. Any node or relationship can have any properties. There might be unique constraints or indexes declared on certain labels and properties which are used for query optimization.
Figure 3: A graph to describe a graph
So a graph stores information in both nodes and relationships. Relationships are used to organize (and traverse) nodes, and both nodes and relationships can have any number of key:value properties.v
Importing Data
To import the movie dataset we’ll be working with we can just run :play movies in the command line which will bring up a larger import statement. Click on that to bring it into the editor and hit the run button on the right side.
After a few seconds it will have imported the data, the visualization shows a single node.
To see a bit more of the graph, open the “star” tab on the left and run the “Get some data” query.
Click on one movie node to bring up a pop up for styling the graph. On the right small tab you can select the color, size and property to show (“title”), do the same for the people nodes and choose their name as property to display.
Figure 4: The Browser Visualization and Styling
Understanding Cypher
Historically, writing graph traversals has been painful enough to persuade many developers to put up with the limitations of a relational store for information that's better fitted to a graph database. With Cypher, that has changed. While it takes a little while to become comfortable with the syntax of Cypher queries, it doesn't take long to understand the power of the language and to get used to writing queries.
Feel free to run the queries we discuss directly in the browser and look at the results.
At its heart, Cypher allows you to describe the patterns you want to look for in a graph. Let's say that you wanted to look for any two nodes which had a relationship between the first and second nodes. This is the Cypher query you'd write:
MATCH (a)-->(b)
RETURN a, b;
We’re describing a pattern in the MATCH clause, where the node we're starting on (a) has an outbound relationship to another node (b). As we want to return the information about both of the nodes and any properties that they might have we just RETURN a, b.
Naturally there are a lot of results as this is a pretty broad query (it finds all pairs of connected nodes). You see the visualization, and on the tabular view (right icon) you see the a rendering of the JSON representation for each row with the properties of the nodes.
Try the following query:
MATCH (a)-[r]->()
RETURN, type(r);
There are a number of differences in this query. Firstly, we don't care about what node we're connecting to, so we don't need to assign it a variable in the MATCH clause for referring to it in the RETURN clause.
Secondly, we're just displaying the name property of the first node rather than returning the entire node. Finally, we're using square braces to refer to the relationship and we're using a special "type()" function that allows us to know what *kind* of relationship connects the two nodes.
As an aside, there are only two absolute data integrity constraints in Cypher. Firstly, a relationship must always directionally connect two nodes (they can be the same node). Secondly, you must always give the relationship a type. The type can be anything you want, but whether it's a FRIEND, ROUTE, DEPARTMENT or YELLOW_ELEPHANT, you need to provide the type of a relationship when you create it.
Answering Real Questions
The queries above start to give us a sense of the syntax used by Cypher, but how about we look at some real queries to get a sense of how this works in practice?
Let's say we wanted to find all of the actors in our database and all of the movies they'd acted in. Try entering the following query and see what you get:
MATCH (a)-[r:ACTED_IN]->(m:Movie)
RETURN, r.roles, m.title;
What does this do? Well, we're still doing a full graph search - don't worry - we'll see later how to use bound nodes to run more performant, local queries. But now we're limiting the type of relationship to ACTED_IN, so we're not finding producers, directors or reviewers. Note that the movie node (m) is tagged with the label :Movie so that other engagements (e.g. tv-series) are not considered. Then we're returning the name of the actor, a collection of the roles they played in the movie and the title of the movie, so we get to see all of the actors, roles and movies in the database.
One of the types supported by Neo4j for properties is "array", so that's how we're getting an arbitrary set of roles. Another approach would have been to create one ACTED_IN relationship for each role an actor played in each movie, but in this case we're putting all the roles into a single relationship to show that property values in Neo4j are not just limited to numbers and strings.
So, we just wrote a query to find out all of the movie titles and roles that each actor has been associated to. If directors have a relationship with movies of type DIRECTED, what do you think the query would be to show all of the actors’ names, movie titles and directors’ names for every actor/director/movie combination in the database? Take a moment, have a go in the query console and see what you get.
Did you get it working? Here's a query that would do what we wanted:
MATCH (a)-[:ACTED_IN]->(m)<-[:DIRECTED]-(d)
RETURN, m.title,;
So we're still using a full graph search to start on every single node in the graph. We’re trying to match a more complex pattern where an actor has an ACTED_IN relationship with a movie AND where the movie has a DIRECTED relationship from a director. For example, if a movie didn't have a director it wouldn't be a match, and if an actor acted in a movie with two directors, there would be two records - one for the actor, the movie and the first director and another for the actor, the movie and the second director. In the last line we're deciding what information to include in the result set. In this case it's the name of the actor, the title of the movie, and the name of the director. Run the query (if you didn't already) and have a look at what you get.
Let's say you wanted to find all of the actors who directed the movie they acted in. What change would you make to the query? Give it a try and see what happens.
Here's a solution:
MATCH (a:Person)-[:ACTED_IN]->(m)<-[:DIRECTED]-(a)
RETURN, m.title;
We want to say that whoever ACTED_IN the movie, i.e. person (a) also DIRECTED the movie. By putting the same variable name for the far end of the DIRECTED relationship, what we're saying is that the same person must both have acted in and directed that same movie to match the pattern and be included in the record set. I also removed the from the RETURN clause as it wouldn't be a valid reference as there is no "d" in the query any more. Run the query and you'll see it returns a lot less results.
Starting Somewhere
Sometimes you'll want to run a full graph search for use cases like graph wide migrations or exporting all of your data, but most of your queries are likely to be much more constrained. In the case of the movie database, maybe we want to see all of the movies that Tom Hanks has acted in (within the data set). To do that, we need to constrain the property on the actor bind an actor node.
MATCH (tom:Person)-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)
WHERE = "Tom Hanks"
RETURN movie.title;
In a production environment, you'd create indexes for looking up a nodes by their key properties. Eg. user by their email address or a product by its inventory number, we’re creating one index and one constraint for our dataset. With those in place the bound queries are sped up and uniqueness is guaranteed for movies by title (might not reflect reality).
CREATE INDEX ON :Person(name);
CREATE CONSTRAINT ON (m:Movie) ASSERT m.title IS unique;
So if you now run the same query again, it will use the index on :Person(name) to quickly look up the starting point and only traverse in the local neighbourhood. There is also a shortcut notation for these lookups without a WHERE clause.
MATCH (tom:Person {name:"Tom Hanks"})-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)
RETURN movie.title;
More Complex Queries
There are lots of other things that can be done in Cypher. Aggregate functions allow you to return distinct records, a sum, average, min, max, count or even a collect (which aggregates values into an array or list). For example:
MATCH (a)-[:ACTED_IN]->(m:Movie)<-[:DIRECTED]-(d)
RETURN,, collect(m.title);
This query returns every pair of actors and directors who worked together on a movie and for each pair it returns an array containing all of the titles of the movies that they worked together on.
Figure 5: Tabular Results from a Cypher Query
We can also constrain queries. For example, we can constrain a query by a property of a node or relationship. For example:
MATCH (tom {name:"Tom Hanks"})-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)
WHERE movie.released < 1992
RETURN movie.title;
This returns all of the titles of the movies that Tom Hanks acted in that were released before 1992. We can also constrain based on comparisons. An example would be:
MATCH (tom {name:"Tom Hanks"})-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(a)
WHERE a.born < tom.born
This returns the names of all of the actor colleagues older than Tom Hanks who have acted in at least one movie with him.
It's even possible to constrain based on patterns. For example:
MATCH (gene {name:"Gene Hackman"})-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(n)
This query returns the names of all of the people who have acted in at least one movie with Gene Hackman but who have also directed at least one movie. Hint. It’s “Clint Eastwood”
We've barely scratched the surface of Cypher, but hopefully you're starting to see just how powerful it can be for writing sophisticated graph queries. Cypher also allows you to create and update data in the graph, which we haven’t covered here.
If you'd like to find out more, head on over to where there are a range of resources for learning more about implementing graph solutions using Neo4j.
This article covers the first part of the Neo4j online course. For the graph epiphany, read the comprehensive Graph Databases book by Jim Webber and Ian Robinson, which is also available as a free PDF on And last but not least check out how other companies are using Neo4j to create innovative systems.
Peter Bell
CTO/Founder of Speak Geek
Peter is a contract member of the Github training team, and provides enterprise corporate training on a range of NoSQL data stores including Neo4j, as well as lean startup/product and mobile training and consulting to enterprises. He's also the CTO and founder of Speak Geek, which trains business people to more effectively hire and manage development teams.
Updated to Neo4j 2.0 by Michael Hunger
Peter Bell & Michael Hunger
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What We Leave Behind
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The only thing we do on this planet that connects us past the time we are alive here is to leave children behind. Yes, we can leave works of art and fiction; we can construct buildings, pass laws, create organizations but eventually our imprint will disappear. With children (and as long as humans exist on the planet, which lord knows might not be too long at this point), we can leave part of our genes, part of our behaviors, part of our effort here. If you are a very lucky human without children and great accomplishment, you might be revered the world wide for your sonnets or philosophies or plays or notions. We all know the names of those people right now. But most of us, truly, have nothing but family.
People who don't have children shouldn't despair about this fact because often what we leave behind isn't that wonderful. We have bad habits and large foreheads that likely should be wiped out of the human population. But the truth is, the chain of humans is what there is for us. From our cave beginnings, we've wanted to exist, to remain, to be, and we can do that through progeny. Our mammalian brains keep us going, even when covered with the patina of higher brain function.
That biological connection doesn't necessarily explain why we love our children so much, though. After a while, children become people we have to learn how to like (love is always there) because they will become the people they want to be, not the people we want them to be. They will have their own desires and feelings and goals, and these will go counter perhaps to our wishes for them. They will have habits we don't like and believe in ideas we pushed away long ago. They will ask us to meet them as equals, and that is a new skill as we've always just thought of them as our children.
And then, well, we have to change. We have to become people we haven't been before, people with adult children. I realize that my mothering time is so fragile and tenuous now. My role has stretched to the thinnest measure, a transparent thing, barely able to hold together. I can support them emotionally, send them money, talk to them, encourage them, but that role that started when I found out I was pregnant and their very lives depended on what I ate and what I did or did not drink is over.
I know why people suddenly have midlife babies. It's scary to go into this part because we can see that we are now preparing to leave, eventually. This big people are the ones who matter now, not us. They are the ones to have the future children, to keep the chain alive. Not us. frankly, we aren't needed any more--except if we can eek our one more baby! Heaven forefend.
We live a lot longer now that our cave foreparents. The women were lucky to live through the first baby--we give birth to creatures way too early. So we have this life to live after the babies are men and women.
Anyway, I'm blathering about all this because my oldest is home. As we walked around the Lafayette Reservoir, I was looking at him, seeing the man he was, feeling the woman I had become, someone who was connected to the world through this man before me. Not his mother, really, in the active role of the word, but the person who left him here, the person who left part of herself here through him. Here he was my connection, from which I must truly disconnect in so many ways.
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Beautiful Sons
I enjoyed your student's comments about your gift to the class at UCL.A.
I don't have kids but since visiting to the schools, I look at the tiny little heads and appendages of children, my heart aches. I wonder about the problems we are leaving them.
Beautiful essay, Jessica.
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We leave behind more, and I
We leave behind more, and I realized that after writing this. But it's all so ephemeral. We leave patterns and wiggles and waves of ideas, but then they all just seem to float away. As Anne Lamott wrote in her novel, "All New People," in "one hundred years, all new people." No one who is here will be here.
Wow--am I being morbid?
Thank you for your compliment to my sons.
Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
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I live vicariously
through my friends. Their children are college age and it's amazing to see these fully grown humans interact with their parents and with me. I had held them as week olds.
Life is pretty amazing.
Death is like a lawnmower.
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What a wonderful job it appears you have done!
Your last comment really hits the mark; I read somewhere that "a parent's job is to work themselves out of a job". And what work it is. The most joyful, humorous, funny, frustrating, difficult, rage producing job a human can have. Never boring (unless you count the times you have had to play Candyland 50 times in the same hour). Then the sorrowful moments come, slow and gradual; each milestone (beginning school, becoming a teenager, graduating from high school and then college) brings the sobering knowledge that your job will soon be downsized.
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I have configured Huge Pages for use with Java and it appears to be working well although I have a question about the accounting in /proc/meminfo. To illustrate
# grep HugePages /proc/meminfo
AnonHugePages: 274432 kB
HugePages_Total: 1008
HugePages_Free: 596
HugePages_Rsvd: 594
HugePages_Surp: 0
My question concerns the "Free" and "Rsvd" numbers - why do they not add up to "Total" of 1008? They actually add up to 1190. What am I not understanding here?
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This is because HugePages_rsvd is essentially read from HugePages_Free. Meaning, out of 596 huge pages which are free, 594 are already reserved by some application for use. That is kernel has committed that those 594 huge pages are available for the application.
If there is a request for 3 huge pages now, then it will fail as only 2 are available to be reserved. Think of it as a malloc() call, when you reserve memory virtual pages to account for the VSZ for the process but when the process actually uses them, it becomes the RSZ (running set) of the process.
As huge pages are always resident on main memory, when an app requests them kernel decrements it from free pool and increase the Rsvd counter.
This is from the kernel source.
38HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of huge pages.
40 allocated.
43 but no allocation has yet been made. Reserved huge pages
44 guarantee that an application will be able to allocate a
48 maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
49 /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages.
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by unitron (#46496911) Attached to: OMG
...which, if you're still in classic mode, you can lay eyeballs on by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
And there was considerable reaction to it, much if not most of which was negative, and there was a very corporate-speak laden reaction to that by the editors here or the people who sign their checks and tell them what to write, and that led to the Slashcott and the creation of some new "Slashdot-ish" sites by some of the refugees from here.
And that was just in February.
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by gmhowell (#46496099) Attached to: U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration
I don't think that's the point. I believe the point is that a dictatorship or single party rule is more efficient than a democracy or group run system.
Or it could be that the US is more in bed with the interests of businesses and is more likely to agree with them.
In any event, your reading of that isn't necessarily the correct one.
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by gmhowell (#46495869) Attached to: Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate'
Agreed. I'm an aviation enthusiast. I've never been in the cockpit of an airliner. I'm fairly confident I could reprogram the FMS of one in-flight to fly any route I wished. I've done it on flight sims that are fairly accurate, and they all tend to work about the same way.
Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night as well?
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i have a problem with rspec and Netbeans 7.0.1. I try to run a rspec test but so far i can't convince Netbeans to do so. I just don't get any output at all although i installed all the necessary rspec gems. Unit tests run perfectly though.
Do I have to install Netbeans 6.8 or am I doing something wrong here?
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The Solution is to maunally install Rspec, since Netbeans doesn't have RSpec Version 2 support:
gem install rspec -v 1.3.2
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I want to make a textView (maybe another control?) that makes a marquee horizontal effect when replacing current text for another, I mean, when I set 'tv.setText("my text to replace");' I want that the new text has a marquee effect replacing the old text, maybe cleaning previous.
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What kind of power supply do I need for a Lenovo H320 to run a low profile graphics card like this one that requires 300 watts, given how small the case is?
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You will need a PSU of 500 Watts, but Lenovo does not have this type of PSU for your computer case. FSP Inc. did special PSU for Lenovo.
This PC has an Expansion PCI Expressx16 slot for video card and you cannot install any video card you like because the power supply is only 180 Watts and it's not compatible with any other PSU from the manufacturer.
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- Cancel your subscription HBO. Fast, simple, effective.
- Never attend a Warner Bros film the first 4 weeks it comes out. The Studios usually get a higher percentage of the Box Office dollars the early weeks of a release. So wait to see their films and get your kids to wait as well.
- Never buy a Warner Bros DVD new. Just about every title can be bought on eBay and elsewhere at lower prices used (many under $3). This also means your dollars will not reach Time Warner.
- Be vocal. Spread the word. Call the company to complain every time you disagree with the political insults their divisions throw. A quick Google search will provide names and phone numbers.
Let management hear your voices, and not feel the effect of your spending.
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I record screencasts in 720p resolution, but would like to put up 1080p as well. This brings a problem: how can I record videos in 1080p such that they still look OK when scaled down to 720p? I've been thinking about DPI scaling (on Windows), but maybe it's possible to go the other way, i.e. record at 720p and then use some sort of smart scaling to produce a (relatively speaking) high-quality 1080p render?
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Generally speaking shooting in 1080p and scaling it down to 720p is not a problem with cameras as I do this all the time and it looks just fine. When I do this I may also be mixing 1080p and 720p raw images, and I always scale to the lowest resolution. When I render a 1080p I will generally render a 720p version as an answer print to view before committing the final cut to a 1080p render. I say this with caution because I have not worked with screencasts or using screen motion capture software.
However, shooting in 720p and trying to make it into 1080p is a losing battle because then you are asking software to make up for pixels that do not exist. You can try it, but I don't think you will like it unless someone makes a software product something like Twixtor that adds frames needed for extra slow motion shots.
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Screencasting has its own set of weird issues for downsampling, though, especially when you're going between resolutions which don't have a reasonably clean ratio between them and when there's a lot of precisely-placed one-pixel-thick horizontal or vertical lines. – fluffy Sep 1 '12 at 21:52
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I was going through a friend's tagged pictures and accidentally tagged another of our mutual friends in it. How do I remove the tag? (The picture was uploaded by someone who isn't a friend.)
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On the side of the photo it will have the people who are tagged, hover over it and it'll give you a small picture of the friend you accidentally tagged, in that little picture it'll have the option "remove request" click in that and you're done.
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Not true. This is only if you own the photo, not if it is a friends photo. – Fogest Dec 7 '13 at 5:18
Worse yet: even if you own the photo, sometimes it won't let you remove the tag. – Ross Presser Jan 10 at 19:14
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There's no option to remove a tag of your friend you requested on others photo but however you can remove your own tag.
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Are mandatory service bulletins really mandatory?
The question about mandatory bulletins has been around at least as long as I’ve been in this business. Although the guidance material out there continues to indicate conflicting positions within the FAA I think that the latest guidance makes it easier to determine the answer to the question “Is a mandatory service bulletin required for airworthiness compliance?” In this issue we will talk about what a service bulletin is and what the rules say about them being mandatory in the eyes of the manufacturer as well as the eyes of the FAA. Maybe we can come up with an answer that you will be able to hang onto for a while.
Let me start by making my personal position on this issue very clear. Compliance with mandatory service bulletins is one of the most important maintenance actions that an owner/operator can take to keep their aircraft in the safest and best possible condition. The manufacturer knows better than anyone else when special maintenance needs arise and the issuance of service bulletins is the chosen method for keeping us all informed. Not to mention what compliance with mandatory service bulletins can do for the resale value of the aircraft. My objective in this article is to help you understand the difference between the manufacturer’s highest level of suggestive maintenance (mandatory service bulletins) and the regulations.
Service bulletin
“Service bulletin” is a term that is used in our industry to describe notices that are sent out by equipment manufacturers to keep those who use and maintain the equipment aware of changes, errors, findings, new ideas, etc. It is an effective way for manufacturers to get information out to the market quickly. I’ve heard “service bulletins” called many things; service letters, customer bulletins, change notices, the list goes on and on. Each manufacturer has established its unique naming convention as well as numbering methodology. For the purposes of this discussion let’s just refer to them inclusively as service bulletins.
When manufacturers began issuing bulletins forever ago, I presume that they were just “bulletins” if only for a few months or years. But eventually the manufacturers must have realized that there were different levels of seriousness or criticality to a bulletin and began to further categorize them as recommended, optional, informational, mandatory, alert, etc. Having no standard for the terminology, it was left to the manufacturer to categorize the bulletins as they thought was best. The lack of standardization at least contributes to the confusion.
The evolution of the service bulletin, particularly in the business aviation community, has left us with a multitude of different types and different levels to hash through and try to make sense of. When the manufacturer attaches the term mandatory to a service bulletin, it’s human nature to ask the question, “Are mandatory bulletins really mandatory?” Or “What is mandatory anyway?” and look to the regulations for the answer. The manufacturer can categorize a service bulletin as mandatory, but where in the regulations does it say that service bulletins issued by the manufacturer are mandatory? Well, it doesn’t.
Airworthiness directive
Somewhere along the line, the FAA decided that a bulletin that had been issued by a manufacturer to correct a serious enough condition that operators needed to comply with the service bulletin, even though it was not considered “mandatory” by regulation, needed a new designation. It issued an airworthiness directive. 14 CFR Part 39 has been set aside for capturing all airworthiness directives issued by the FAA. This makes every airworthiness directive a regulation, and thus compliance becomes an issue of aircraft airworthiness. The distinction between mandatory and non-mandatory service bulletins is determined on a case-by-case basis and decided only by the FAA. Issuance of an airworthiness directive is one way that a service bulletin can be required by regulation. New guidance material issued by the FAA explains a few other ways that a manufacturer’s bulletin can become an airworthiness compliance requirement.
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The images reveal two people pushing the car from a truck into a storage locker at Storage Express on Southport Rd on the city's south side.
Detectives told Fox 59, it belongs to the Sports Club of America out of Kansas. The owner had parked it outside a south side hotel on June 20th when someone snatched it up.
John Barlow, a manager at Storage Express, couldn't believe what he saw when scrolling through the surveillance video.
"We saw a race car being brought onto the property, being stored inside a storage space for one day," said Barlow. "And then it was being rolled out, actually driven off of the property."
He said the quick turnaround made him suspicious so he got on the internet and searched for an stolen race car from Indianapolis. Within seconds, he came across a blog posting about the exact same car. He immediately contacted police.
Storage Express also handed over names and drivers license information of everyone who stored items at their south side facility on that day.
"It all just kinda came together and we were like 'Yes!' We're going to catch somebody," said Barlow.
IMPD detectives believe the car is still in the Indianapolis area. It is a black and white Mazda "Indy Style" race car with the number 27 on it.
Police are also looking for three other vehicles also stolen from the same owner on the same night: A white and red Ford F350 pickup with a North Carolina license plate ABB1661, a 24 foot white Pace Arrow trailer, a red Honda Recon ATV.
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My first job after leaving secretarial college was as an office junior. It must have been 1941, and I would have been about sixteen years old.
I remember my journeys into work from Highhams Park to my place of work in the City of London. I usually left the house by 7.10am to walk to the local railway station. I had a season ticket which was called a Workman’s Ticket which allowed people to travel early morning at a cheaper fare. I would catch a steam stream into Liverpool Street Station, and then continue my journey from there by tube. On arrival at the tube station, I often discovered the platforms jammed with people that had used the station as an air raid shelter and had slept there overnight. Some people would be lying only feet away from the platform edge. Most were wrapped in blankets, but some were wearing their ‘Siren Suits’. Some of the stations that I traveled through had three-tier bunk beds installed on the platforms.
I particularly remember the windows of the tube trains were painted black, for blackout reasons. There was a small hole in the black out. This was designed so that you could see the station stops. However the hole was so small that only the person adjacent to it could ever hope to know where the train was. The journeys were a nightmare; there were so many people in the carriages. People were packed in like sardines, and it was hot and there was a smell of B.O. Often I couldn’t get passed all the people in time to get off, and I would have to get off at the next station and travel back.
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1 Hezekiah son of Ahaz began to rule over Judah in the third year of King Hoshea's reign in Israel. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, a the daughter of Zechariah. 3 He did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight, just as his ancestor David had done. 4 He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and knocked down the Asherah poles. He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had begun to worship it by burning incense to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan. b 5 Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was never another king like him in the land of Judah, either before or after his time. 6 He remained faithful to the LORD in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the LORD had given Moses. 7 So the LORD was with him, and Hezekiah was successful in everything he did. He revolted against the king of Assyria and refused to pay him tribute. 8 He also conquered the Philistines as far distant as Gaza and its territory, from their smallest outpost to their largest walled city.
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Zachary John Quinto, born June 2, 1977, is an American actor and film producer. Quinto grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was active in high school musical theater. In the early 2000s, he guest starred in television series and appeared in a recurring role in the serial drama 24 from 2003 to...
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My husband and I are brand-new kitty parents and my girl, Stoli, has been sneezing a lot with a running nose. She isn't sluggish at all and is constantly running around, playing, eating, using her box, and loving us both. Maybe she's allergic to something? Is that possible?
Asked by Stoli on Jan 6th 2013 Tagged kitten, cold, sneezing in Illness & Disease
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Izadore (Izzie)
Catsters always recommend a vet visit within a few days of adopting a kitty. Not because there's for sure something wrong, but having a vet on board is like having your own physician. They keep us well and it's someone to call when there are any concerns, like now. It's not possible for us to tell by computer if your baby has an upper respiratory infection (kitty cold) or is allergic to anything from litter dust to plug-in deodorizers. But I do know that these things start out slow and before you know it, they can get very serious. If Stoli were my kitty, I'd at least phone the vet and ask for their advice.
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3D printers are now more affordable and easy to use
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RE: The real trick is going to be the materials...
By 91TTZ on 7/30/2013 4:48:41 PM , Rating: 2
I agree. Right now all the hype is being created by people who aren't really mechanically inclined and can't foresee these things.
The people who are mechanically inclined would probably know that you could have bought a CNC lathe or milling machine 20 years ago that's more capable than a 3D printer. You can machine wood, metal, or plastic with one and create parts of much higher quality. Those who have used CNC machines know that a 3D printer isn't revolutionary at all.. it's just another tool you can use for the job.
By blue_urban_sky on 7/30/2013 6:13:28 PM , Rating: 2
And how much is a CNC lathe or a milling machine today? Although I think the list of stuff is a lot of rubbish for people that don't have access to CNC machines and alike it would be great little hobby tool.
I wanted to make a surround to dock my N7 in the car and this would give me a cheap method of making it.
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In Topic: random generators
Yesterday, 02:13 PM
You need an engine for every independent and deterministic stream of random numbers.
Say, for example, that you want enemies to appear randomly during the game but in a predictable way so that you can save the game and replay or continue to play with the same stream or enemies (not only for replay, but also to stop the player from reloading because the stream of enemies was not in favor of the player; reloading with a predictable state ensures the same stream of enemies in the future as well, so no use reloading to get an easier game).
You also want your power-ups to appear randomly, but for the same replay and reload purposes as with enemies, you want to ensure a predictable stream of random numbers. Let's say a new power-up is generated every time a power-up is picked up (the game contains, say, three of them at any time).
With a common engine in this case, enemies are generated based on if and when a power-up is picked up, and that breaks replayability and predictability. You need to decide if things such as replayability and predictability are important.
In Topic: Need help: a vector of different extended classes
Yesterday, 10:08 AM
Look up slicing; your vector stores Entity objects by value, so only the Entity part of your EntityArrow ends up in the vector. Your vectors has to store pointers and you need to allocate your Entity objects dynamically instead.
In Topic: glOrtho - a beginner question
Yesterday, 06:22 AM
gluLookAt does nothing more than apply an equivalent rotation and translation. If you can describe the orientation and location of the plane by some parameters to gluLookAt, then you're set.
For example, if the center of the plane is located at (px, py, pz) with a normal pointing towards the direction (nx, ny, nz), then you should be able to locate the view point with something like gluLookAt(px, py, pz, px+nx, py+ny, pz+nz, ux, uy, uz) where the vector (ux,uy,uz) orients the plane (you may want to orient the up vector along, for example, the point X3-X1).
The orthographic projection is then set up with width and height corresponding to the distance between X1 and X2, and X1 and X3, respectively. Make the projection symmetric if the point (px, py, pz) is at the center of the plane.
You can also replace the call to gluLookAt with the equivalent rotation and translation yourself if you know your linear algebra. The vector X=(X2-X1), Y=(X3-X1) and Z=X cross Y, or some variant thereof, defines the coordinate system as seen from the projection plane. A translation to shift by (px, py, pz) the coordinate system is also necessary.
In Topic: Function Pointers in Structs
11 March 2014 - 10:49 AM
Some obvious drawback are:
1. The object has to physically contain a pointer for every "member function" you want to use.
2. The syntax is worse in the sense that you have to provide the object twice: once to obtain the function pointer and once to pass it to the function. In C++, for example, the hidden this-parameter is implied from the syntax you use to call the member function on and you only mention the object once.
3. No way to force the two objects to be the same. Nothing stops you from doing test1.get_a(&test2).
Don't fool yourself that it's more OO because you have an object on the left hand side of a period and a function on the right hand side; OO is just as fine with the object as a parameter instead. It's about how you design your objects and functions to operate on them, not about what syntax you use to call a function.
One benefit of storing a function pointer is to get runtime-dynamic behavior. For example, as Olof said, it is a similar approach to how virtual functions are typically implemented. For compile-time behavior, there's no reason to store the function pointers.
In Topic: Matrix Stack & New OpenGL Standards
06 March 2014 - 02:58 AM
If you are worried about losing the matrix functions in the new versions, then you are also losing display lists and immediate mode rendering at the same time. Vertex arrays and shaders are the only way forward in the new versions. Also, this is not really new. The new API which dropped all the old stuff was released nearly six years ago.
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Is there a minecraft free trial??
I heard there was a minecraft free trial but then i saw something that said there was no free trial, there was a classic mode. What is up with this and is there any way possible to try the game b4 buying the full version?
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From: Chuchkill27 3 years ago
No. I'm sorry to say this but minecraft classic is a building server, and there is no trail. Classic is just a building version, no mobs, night/day, inventory or items.
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Not that I'm aware of. Though, there is a free version.
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"Once you go Black..."
First person shooters have become a pretty trite affair these days. It seems very few first person shooters (FPS) can set themselves apart from the rest. Most of them either end up being generic or have the “been there done that” feel. Games like Goldeneye and Halo have successfully left their mark in FPS history for being both innovative and having interesting concepts. Criterion Games, the developers of the high octane Burnout franchise decided to take their first stab at the genre with Black. Using the same Burnout engine, Criterion attempted to set themselves apart from other FPS by using bigger explosions, more destruction, and actually putting a lot of emphasis on the actual guns. They hoped to set themselves apart by ushering in a sense of realism with the guns, as well as firing them. While Black delivers on what it promises, it falls just a bit short of being a great game.
Black takes you into the world of a unsanctioned military. You know, the kind with huge risks and little reward; the kind that's above the law that no one knows about, and requires you to do whatever it takes to complete the mission. The game puts you into the shoes of a black operative named Sergeant Jack Keller. It seems that Keller has been detained for some of his prior actions in the game. Keller is in chains and is being interrogated, and relays what exactly what he has done to get him to this point. The game's story is told through live action cutscenes similar to Need for Speed Most Wanted's cutscenes. These scenes give you a oppressive black ops interrogation type feeling. The story itself might be a little hard to follow if you're not familiar with at least a little bit of military lingo. However, you'll quickly forget names and faces once the action starts. Just as a warning, the ending leaves you with a cliffhanger. If you didn't realize that Black was planned as a trilogy, you might be a bit disappointed.
Gameplay 8/10
What makes Black different from other FPS out there? Criterion apparently wanted to set themselves apart by being the biggest, loudest, and most destructible FPS on the block. Black has been inspired from several movies like the Rock and Black Hawk Down, which have Hollywood style gun fights. First things first, Black's motto is “Guns are the stars.” And boy are they ever! Every gun looks and sounds like their real life counter part. You've got the Glock 17, MP5, AK47 G36C, Uzis, and rocket launchers to name a few. Each gun has been recreated to resemble to genuine article. Everything from the recoil to the muzzle flash has been realistically created. Another thing the developers did was give a lot of attention to the actual reloading. As a person who has operated some of the fire arms found in Black, I was impressed by how well the developers translated the reloading animations. Most other FPS have never had this much detail in the actual reloading. Hell, even all the menus in Black has little snippets of a reloading animations from different firearms in the game. Guns like the Mac 10, Uzi, and Glock can be reloaded rather quickly, but rifles and the M60 have longer reload times. Another interesting concept about reloading in Black is the blur effect. When Keller begins reloading, your focal point will become blurry to the point that you won't be able to see anything but your weapon. This was done deliberately by the developers. Anyone who has reloaded a gun knows you need to concentrate on the gun itself when you're reloading. Having two different reload animations for each weapon is another interesting concept in Black. They really aren't that different. When you're taking fire, Keller will reload quicker, and when you're out of harm's way, he'll take his time. For example, Keller will tap the side of his MP-5 before inserting a fresh magazine into the gun when there is no imminent danger.
So we know the guns in Black look and sound amazing. But how does Black stand from a gameplay point of view? Honestly, I'd have to say Black is a little shallow. The game starts out strong with great presentation and visuals, but it ends up getting extremely repetitive. Hardcore FPS fans might get tired of Black extremely quickly. You start out each level with at least one gun. As you progress through the levels, you'll come across a bunch of different weapons. However, you can only carry two weapons at any given time. This is good because most operatives can't carry fifteen different high powered weapons. This also adds a little bit of strategy into the mix too. You'll have to make a decision as to whether you'd opt to keep the more accurate single shot Glock 17 for a close quarters Spas 12, or a rapid fire Uzi instead. You'll also be able to hold a maximum of nine grenades too. Grenades can be tossed simply by pressing L2. It's an effective way to lure commandos out of cover or eliminate several of them at once. Every defeated enemy will drop ammo and a select few guards will drop a first aid kits which will bring up you life by a little bit. Health kits, which restore a lot of vitality, can be found scattered around the levels too. However, these kits can only be found on the easier difficulties.
The game's eight levels all play like a battlefield. You'll constantly find yourself under fire and returning fire. The game certainly encourages you to go in with all guns blazing because ammo is never scarce. The fire fights themselves can be pretty intense. Unloading an automatic weapon will cause dirt, dust and grit to fly everywhere. The muzzle flash of your enemy's weapons will be your only way of keeping track of them. You'll also be able to blow apart a large part of your environment. For example, if the guard in the bell tower is giving you a hard time, then flank him by shooting the large bell directly above him. Then watch as the bell falls right on him. There are a couple instances in Black where you can use the environment to effectively eliminate guards. The levels are actually rather linear, but each one of them are large and laid out well. You'll mostly find yourself fighting through urban areas like cities, buildings, and dockyard areas. Each mission should take you a good 30-45 minutes to get through on your first time.
While this may sound well and good to some; Black will end up getting repetitive. You're pretty much left with shooting mercenaries and blowing things up. The game is certainly catered to people who love to destroy or blow stuff up. A large part of the world can be ripped apart. For instance you can shoot out walls, doors, blow up cars, buildings, etc. What is amazing is how a current generation system can handle everything that's happening at once. Black is any extremely impressive game in this respect. However, there are certain problems that are keeping Black from perfection. One of them is variety in gameplay. You can't commandeer vehicles, operate machine gun turrets, etc. Many of these things almost seem standard in other FPS.
Another issue with Black is it's AI. While they are competent, they do behave a little oddly. One of the first things I noticed is that many guards will sometimes run dangerously close to an explosive object. For example, guards will run close to a fuel barrel, cars, or a large gas tank. Naturally, you'll aim for the explosive object to eliminate them. While this produces a satisfying effect, it does take some of the fun out of the game. Something else I noticed about the AI is that they completely ignore dead bodies. There are some stages that allow you to use a stealthy approach by equipping silencers to your weapon. You can quietly eliminate a guard and leave his body. Patrolling enemies won't even have the smallest sense of curiosity as to why his buddy is slumped on the floor. Another odd thing about AI behavior is their reactions. For instance, in the beginning of the dockyard level, you can throw a grenade at the two patrolling guards right below you. This will quickly eliminate the two guards, but there is another guard on high ground not more than 100 feet away who will simply stand there like nothing happened. There are actually several instances where something like this occurs.
It's sort of a shame because the AI is not bad beyond these points. Most enemies are good shots, and they will effectively destroy your cover if you hide for too long. Some will even try to hang on for dear life after shot off a high ledge. It's things like this that make Black entertaining to play through. However, there isn't a whole lot of enemy types. You've got you're standard trooper who will die in a few shots, you've got one that wears a little bit more body armor, shield wielding guards, extremely accurate snipers, RPG (rocket propelled grenade) guards, and shock troopers. Shock troopers are perhaps the most dangerous of the bunch if not handled correctly. They have tons of body armor, a metal face mask, are extremely fast, will charge at you fearlessly, and are always equipped with a shotgun. On harder levels they will make quick work of you with one or two direct shells. Needless to say these shock troopers will have a hard time hitting you from a distance. Other than the shock troopers, there isn't a whole lot of variety in enemy behavior too. Most mercenaries will fire at you from a distance and are quite accurate. They'll take cover from time to time, but they'll reveal themselves a little too often. Like I mentioned before, some guards have the tendency to take cover behind an explosive object like a car. What's a little strange is that none of you're enemies are equipped to throw grenades at you. While you can argue the RPG guards are enough, it certainly would have been more challenging if guards did throw grenades once in a while. Most of these issues can be ironed out by turning up the difficulty setting. It's a little disappointing the AI wasn't handled as well as it could have been.
In some missions, you'll be backed up by a few of your comrades. While it's nice to have supporting fire, the friendly AI is a little dumb. For one, your friends will never die. Even if they take a direct hit from an RPG, they'll be walking around like they never felt it. Secondly, the friendly AI are horrible shots. Sometimes they'll engage an enemy standing no more than five feet away and they'll miss each other several times. You'll end up doing most of the dirty work during these missions. It's not to say they never kill anyone. But in missions with at least a 100 enemies; the number of kills your comrades get can probably be counted on a single hand. Something that Black seems to be lacking is the ability to sprint. The movement in Black is fine, but the lack of sprint is a little odd. For example, if an RPG comes careening at you, you're forced to sluggishly back away from it. This will cause you to take more damage than necessary because you can't sprint quickly away. Even despite these issues Black can still be an entertaining game for the time it lasts. The game provides non stop white knuckle action. The game throws tons of enemies at you and it never ceases to feel chaotic.
One thing that might absolutely shock you about Black is that there is no online or offline multiplayer in at all. This is strictly a single player ordeal. Apparently Criterion wanted to put all their effort in designing a memorable single player experience. The only problem is the single player is nothing extraordinary. It's fun and fast paced, but there are other FPS that have better single player campaigns. It almost seems odd that a FPS in today's market wouldn't have some sort of multiplayer. This is quite a shame because once you get through Black's 6-7 hours of gameplay, you'll have almost nothing left to keep you coming back.
<.b>Graphics and Sound 9/10
It's pretty clear that Criterion has spent a great deal of time on the audio and visual presentation of this game. It's not surprising because Criterion's latest iteration of the Burnout series, Burnout Revenge, looks and sounds amazing. Black is one of the best looking FPS for the PS2. The levels are large and nicely detailed and the particle and special effects look simply stunning for a current generation game. As I mentioned before, the guns look great and resemble their real life counterparts down to the muzzle flash, recoil, and even scratch marks. The explosions are particularly nice. There's something pleasant about destroying a large gas tanker next to a building and watching rubble and shards of glass fly everywhere. Even with all the action and explosions going on at once, the game's framerate rarely stutters. There are some instances where the game does take a dip, but it's never too often and it's hardly distracting. This is extremely impressive for the aging PS2. The only thing I noticed about the visuals were some of the breakable objects could have looked better. If you go up close to some of them you'll notice lines or seams that reveal how the object is going to break apart after you shoot it. This is sort of a bummer, but it's pretty trivial to gripe about something so insignificant. Other than that, there really isn't much to complain about visually.
The audio in Black is just as strong as the visuals. What makes Black's audio so strong is the sound of the guns. Each gun sounds powerful and crisp. The RPG is particularly awesome. When an RPG is fired at you, you'll immediately know to get the hell out of there from the shrieking noise as it jets through the air. Another great thing about Black's audio is the music. The music is superb in this game. They seem to perfectly match with the gameplay. High energy music will play during intense scenes, while more “sneaky” music will play during stealth situations. I honestly loved the music in the game. Unfortunately, there simply isn't enough of it. There are many times where the game is like Killzone, were there is no music whatsoever. Hey, at least the music that is in Black is great. On another note, the voice acting in Black is well done too. Each of the characters put forth a extremely believable performance. The military lingo and radio chatter during missions are well done and make you feel like you are a part of the action. However, you might find it a little difficult to understand some of the jargon. Black is an extremely thorough package when it comes to audio and visuals.
Replayability 6/10
Here's where the game takes a turn for the worst. Black can be beaten in with 6-7 hours even if you aren't rushing. When I checked my game clock, it said I had beaten the normal setting of Black in 4 hours and 56 minutes. That is pretty horrible for any kind of game. To add more salt to the wound, there really isn't anything that will keep you coming back to Black. You can try harder difficulty levels, which will unlock silver weapons for you. Silver weapons are a cheat that allow you to have infinite ammo for any gun you pick up. This cheat is satisfying for the few levels that allow you access to RPGs. Other than that, there really isn't much point to this cheat because ammo is plentiful in this game. It might have helped matter for Black if there were at least some sort of multiplayer even if it was offline. Unfortunately, we are stuck with a game that feels more like a tech demo rather than a complete game.
In the end, Black is a competent shooter that falters in some areas, but still ends up being an enjoyable shooter. Black provides some extremely intense firefights with nonstop action along with great audio and visual presentation. On the other end of the spectrum, Black is extremely short, lacks multiplayer, has low replayability, and has some subtle gameplay issues. Black might disappoint those who are in love with FPS like Halo or Timesplitters. Those who like relentless white knuckle action will eat this up. But, due to Black's extremely short length and lack of multiplayer, it's hard to recommend this as a $40 purchase. This game would make a solid rental that can be beaten in a weekend. However, for a gun enthusiast like myself, I found it extremely hard to stay away from Black. Hopefully Black's sequel will remedy some of the issues with this title and make it a FPS that ranks among the Goldeneyes and the Halos.
Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 04/10/06
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Viewpoints: Rob Jenkins
The final installment of the popular Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will soon be landing on shelves at a Wal-Mart, Target or Kroger near you. Rumor has it the volume may also be available in bookstores.
I don't know about your kids, but mine are practically beside themselves with anticipation. It's been almost two years since they've been tempted to hex anyone or join a witches' coven.
Somehow an advance copy of the manuscript has found its way into my wretched, ink-stained hands, and I'm sorry but I can't wait to tell everyone how it turns out. (SPOILER ALERT: If you don't want me to ruin the story, stop reading now.)
Chapter one finds our hero once again at No. 4 Privet Drive, the home of his much-despised Muggle relatives, the Dursleys. Their treatment of Harry in this book makes us hate them even more than we have come to hate them in the previous six books, if possible. Unlike actual people, the Dursleys have absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Late in the summer, mysterious magical beings visit Harry with vague and enigmatic warnings concerning what awaits him back at Hogwarts School of Witchraft and Wizardry. Bravely, Harry resolves nevertheless to return to Hogwarts, lead Gryffindor to another House Cup, and give his rival, Draco Malfoy, a wedgie.
Ultimately, the Dursleys - who have forgotten his birthday yet again - so enrage Harry that he performs a bit of forbidden magic, causing those rotten Muggles no small discomfort, let me tell you.
Then, fearing retribution, Harry flees the Dursleys' house with nothing but the clothes on his back, his broomstick, his wand, three sacks of schoolbooks, a 200-pound trunk and an owl in a cage.
The young wizard makes his way to a secret magical location, where he is reunited with fellow adventurer Ron Weasley, erstwhile romantic interest Hermione Granger and Hagrid, Hogwarts' gamekeeper, who once played left tackle for the Los Angeles Rams.
The real trouble begins on the train to Hogwarts - a mysterious occurrence that frightens everyone aboard. But only Harry makes the connection to the strange warning he received at the Dursleys. He of course shares this information with Ron and Hermione, who in turn assure him that everything will be just fine. And that they're just friends.
Back at Hogwarts, the new school year gets off without a hitch. In Quidditch, Harry leads the Gryffindor side to a miraculous come-from-behind victory. He, Ron and Hermione break numerous Hogwarts rules but are seldom caught. When they are caught, they're rarely punished, nor are the incidents reported to the Georgia Department of Education.
Then, one dark and stormy night, something really terrible happens ... But I probably shouldn't say anymore. In fact, I've already said way too much.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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More than 100 spectators gathered at Ocean Beach Pier to watch for signs of the tsunami surge, that was expected around 8:40 a.m. Friday. There was a significant media presence, handful of law enforcement and lifeguards on alert.
Since the pier was not closed, spectators took advantage of the view, despite warnings.
Surfers also took advantage of the increased wave activity. One surfer emerged from the water at 8:45 a.m. saying he felt slightly "more juice" than normal.
Lifeguards on duty told KPBS they were called in early, but there were no additional lifeguards needed.
Law enforcement said they were present to "keep the peace" but not to restrict access to the pier and beach.
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The 8:40 a.m. advisory came and went without a noticeable surge, but foggy conditions may have limited the view.
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I'm a little tardy in getting around to this, but with the passing of former Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer, I'm reminded of my own brush with the charismatic politician.
I first came to Baltimore in the fall of 1982, hired at WCBM Radio to do afternoon sportscasts, Baltimore Colts pregame and postgame shows, and color analyst work for Baltimore Skipjacks American Hockey League broadcasts. It was a fun gig, and the hockey games were a big part of it.
Now I'd been to the old Baltimore Civic Center many times, and it was a never-ending source of wonder. Here's a building, built in the 1960s when they should've known better, that had so few decent seats it was amazing. Because there was a full-blown stage on one end, the seats were installed in straight lines down each long side and in the end zone. Therefore, you had many seats that only looked out onto other seats. There was no attempt to aim every seat.toward the middle, meaning that your neck would get an arduous workout, depending upon where you sat.
When I started hosting a nightly call-in show in January 1983, I couldn't help but make a number of comments about the inadequacy of the local sports arena. Nothing truly nasty, but pointed nonetheless. Anyway, my remarks got back to Schaefer, who called station manager Harold Deutsch and expressed his disagreement with my criticism, telling Duetsch, and I'm quoting here, "Tell that Washington guy that our building is as good as any in the country..."
Really? I found that hard to swallow. My station manager wasn't angry with me, but asked if I had any response he could relay to Schaefer. I told him to ask the mayor if he thought the Civic Center was as good as the Capital Centre in Landover. Schaefer's response: "I've never been to the Capital Centre, but I'm sure it is."
The Cap Centre had opened in December 1973, so at the time, it had been around for almost 10 years. But Schaefer hadn't been there yet? Not even for an ice show or the circus? Wow.
All these years later, and the Civic Center - now known as 1st Mariner Arena - still stands. The Capital Centre has come and gone. Schaefer, to his everlasting credit, did get the ball rolling on the stadium complex at Camden Yards, a direct response to losing the Colts and the potential loss of the Orioles. Prior to the Bob Irsay debacle, he'd been averse to any criticism of Memorial Stadium, but finally got the picture.
I'll always remember his comment upon returning from a tour of several out-of-town ballparks, before a design was selected for Oriole Park. "I hope they put in a fountain like they have in Kansas City," he said. "Those baseball games can get pretty boring."
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Anyone had to deal with a cough this late in pregnancy? I'm a little concerned about coughing during labor. I've had lots of Braxton Hicks contractions now for almost 2 weeks and I find it hard to breath through them without coughing like crazy. I don't like taking medication if I don't have to, but I've wondered about having a cough suppressant handy for when I go into labor, but not sure how this will affect baby. Anyone out there had to go through this and any suggestions?
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I have had a cough since mid February. I also had a cold with a productive cough when I gave birth to my first son (who was an induction with pitocin) and I had an epidual with that delivery. The only thing I will say is that if you are still coughing during labor, I would think twice about an epidural. I couldn't cough to clear my throat because of the epidural and it was very scary because I felt like I couldn't breathe.
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Unrelated to pregnancy, last year I had a cough that was going to nearly break my ribs, and had just had it with being overly drugged to only partially deal with it. ( most of the best cough supressorers are based on codeine cause it works so well.
So my doctor gave me these little gel capsules of Benzonatate 200mg ( mine are generics for a drug called Tessalon) and I could not believe how well they worked!!!!!!!!!!!!! Complete lifesavers, no affect on my mental clarity what so ever. My medic hubby said that they were some sort of numbing thing and he has seen then carefully broken open and a single drop can numb half a toungue! ( he and the bottle mentions that they are very dangerous to break open and swallow cause they can numb the through and cause short term swallowing issues.
I have some left over and keep them like they are gold for the next time I need then, hopefully never. You might look up and decide is you feel they are save and ask a doctor about them.
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I had a cold/flu at 38 weeks too. I was home sick from work Mon-Thurs, coughing like crazy. I actually think it caused me to go into labor. My DS was born 10 days early on that Friday, just as I was starting to feel better. It wasn't really a problem though - just a nuisance, although I do suspect that it caused my water to break - I didn't have any contractions before that, and had been feeling fine pregnancy-wise, but started slow leaking, and then some minor cramping until I was put on pitocen at the hospital. The most annoying thing was that during the birth I lost my voice and could only whisper, and I did have an epidural so they wouldn't let me drink anything, and the ice chips were helping keep my throat lubricated.
I don't think the coughing hurts the baby though. Basically I blame the coughing for my water breaking, and therefore for the pitocen, and therefore for the epidural, but that's just my personal experience - would not happen to everyone that way.
Good luck!
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With my first pregnancy, I had a terrible cough. As in, during my college art class, I kept leaving the room with loud, prolonged coughing fits, and during a really bad one was kind of hanging onto the wall so I wouldn't fall over and coughed til my water broke (I was 40 weeks though!). Labor started naturally about 5 hours later.
The coughing in labor didn't bother me.
The coughing with a postpartum bottom was MISERABLE.
Have you tried taking a tablespoon of dark honey, or a half cup of warm water with a tablespoon of honey and a tablespoon of lemon juice in it? This can be really helpful to a cough.
Hugs! I hope you feel better by the time baby comes.
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I'm about 37 weeks and got the cold that my husband and kids just got over. Sore throat with a nighttime cough and some congestion. The cough does feel really uncomfortable. I've been taking some honey with lemon juice for the sore throat and drinking more hot pregnancy tea when I was making iced tea out of it. That seems to be helping me and the warmth is soothing. I almost felt like taking a Benedryl last night to sleep but managed to deal without it. Hope you feel better soon...I feel good that we all got a summer cold out of the way before babe comes.
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My 4 year old has two very rotten top front teeth. He was nursed until he was 2. At 2 his teeth were pearly white. Once he started drinking the water (we had well water) his teeth began to rot. We found out later the cause of rot was the well water - very high iron amongst other things. So now his two front teeth are exactly half 'brown' and the bottom half white. It looks like the white has been completely chipped off to expose the brown. Anyhow, constant brushing hasn't caused any improvement. I have begun to add cell salts and xylitol toothpaste. My question is...Can I keep doing this and hang on till he begins to lose his teeth being that he's 4? Can his brown teeth permanently damage his permanent teeth. My mom suggests to wait until his permanents come in. Meanwhile keep up the xylitol, diet, cell salts and brushings. Has anyone else had a child with this much decay and later had normal permanent teeth?
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Melissa, this is not personal experience, but I recently posted a similar question about my 3 year old on the Very Young Kids' Teeth Yahoo group and the response I got was that it wouldn't be wise to do nothing, but making major changes in dental routine could halt the decay, which would mean the permanent teeth likely wouldn't be damaged. In addition to the diet, cell salts, xylitol, and brushing, ozone treatment was recommended.
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i think i would see a pediatric dentist with a quickness if it were me.
also, i never heard of well water causing decay.
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My sister went 37 years without a cavity and when she moved to a house with well-water, she got one within a year. He dentist said it's most likely from the well-water. I know many around here are not fond of fluoride, but dentists usually claim that decay from well-water is because it doesn't contain fluoride.
OP, I also would head to the dentist. It could become very painful for your child if the decay continues. If you disagree with the dentist's treatment plan, you don't have to follow it. I would definitely have his teeth looked at, though.
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Climbing the corporate ladder
by drewbie (Chaplain)
on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:40 UTC ( #363296=perlmeditation: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
As we're moving farther and farther from the dot-com boom, my lack of a degree is really starting to come back and haunt me. I left school to be part of the "internet revolution" because I saw something facinating being built which I felt had great potential. Thus my first job as a HTML monkey, which quickly lead into my first programming forays - the humble formmail script and soon thereafter basic database-driven applications w/ oraperl (perl 4 pre-DBI). This was 1996 and I knew I was onto something big and exciting.
As I continued working and building my skills, my lack of formal schooling didn't matter. Times were good and jobs were plentiful. I could easily demonstrate my skills and prove I could do the job even though I had no degree. However, that's not the case any more. As more and more of my work is tucked away behind closed doors, it's becoming more difficult to demonstrate the increasing sophistication of my work. So how do you compensate?
During my day job I use lots of CPAN modules because I don't believe in reinventing the wheel, and the boss is agreeable to ocasionally submitting patches back to the community. This is one way of demonstrating skills, but patches usually don't show you know how to architect an application, just improve it. In the next week or two I'll be starting work on a personal project using Mason, Class::DBI, and whatever interesting release might come along on CPAN. I'm doing this primarily as a resume highlight, but I intend for it to be a profitable venture as well. I definitely plan on using this as a way to sell myself, and to have good, unencumbered sample code for interviews. I'm also focusing much more on good UI design, and designing applications that are easy for an end-user to learn and use. I think it's safe to say that "programmer designed" UI's often suck from a usability point of view. My early ones certainly did.
It seems that more and more these days, if you don't have a degree you're almost considered to be lesser than those with one. I say this NOT to knock on those degree holders out there, because they certainly deserve recognition for their achievements and persistence. This time of Graduation serves to remind me of those who toughed it out and the need for a degree these days. But what about the "self-made man"? How does he make himself standout in the crowd? How can he demonstrate the experience he's built up?
I know all about the benefits of networking, and am slowly building my contacts. But what about those times when you don't know someone in the company who can help get you past HR? What can you do besides go back to school (high on my TODO list already)?
I do not lack a degree because I'm dumb. on the contraty, I'm a smart guy, and I believe current and former coworkers would agree. I've single-handedly designed & developed 10k line web applications. I wrote a complete e-commerce system back in the day (that was my rite of passage, like writing a templating system or database wrapper is today). I've done lots of interesting things with creating PDF's on the fly. Problem solving is fun and enjoyable, and it motivates me to go to work in the mornings.
When looking for the next big challenge, how can I move myself to the front of the pack? Thanks for your ideas and tips.
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Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by jZed (Prior) on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:50 UTC
As Yogi said "If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there". I bring this up only by way of asking what your goals are other than "climbing the corporate ladder"? What are your interstes either in programming or outside of it that you would find satisfying to work on? Or ones that you could get passionate about as you did in 1996? It's those interests and passions that will get you where you want to go. If you really want something and you're good at it and you know where you want to go with it, those things will speak louder than degrees when the chips are down.
My end goal is to keep advancing myself professionally. I really enjoy being just a developer right now. But I don't want to be a pure developer forever. I want the chance to gain more leadership experience, which usually means you have to climb the ladder a bit or strike out on your own. That leadership experience is one of the things I see more and more of as a requirement for "Senior Developer" positions, so it's a bit of a catch-22. You can't get the experience w/o moving up the ladder, but it's not easy getting to the first step so you can start climbing.
The project I mentioned is one I've been sitting on for a year that should be interesting both from the standpoint of developing a business around it and technically (ie. the problems are not trivial to solve and will require a bit of thinking outside the box).
Outside of coding, I intend to do a lot of sailing/canoeing/kayaking this summer. I'm going to get outside more - something I don't do nearly enough these days. Being outdoors and "experiencing" nature really energizes me, but at this point I'm unsure of how I can use that to advance myself professionally.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Callum (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 09:53 UTC
A few comments for getting through the HR CV sift and into the hands of someone technical.
There will generally be a hierarchy of degrees for a typical technical role -- at the top is a relevant science/tech degree, then a non-relevant sci/tech degree, then non-tech, then no degree. Not directly applicable to you, but for myself (astrophysics) and many others it's important.
Distance learning, night classes, etc can be of great use, even if you're only taking one course a year your CV now says you're currently taking a (relevant) degree. This isn't 100% of course, as some companies definately don't want people studying whilst working, but in many cases it will get your CV through the initial sifts and onto the desk of someone who can evaluate it on it's technical merits.
"But what about those times when you don't know someone in the company who can help get you past HR?" I'll be a bit flippant and say -- find someone who can. If your covering letter can say that you've spoken with Joe Manager about the job then it stands a chance of bypassing the sift altogether.
Unless time is short, write to the HR department before you submit a CV, ask if they've any preffered formats for receiving CVs -- they may like to receive it in a particular easily OCRable font for example, or if they accept email applications in a particular document format. Also enquire if there's a particular person that applications should be addressed to -- ie rather than IT applications go to -- at the least this ensures the company recieves your CV the way they want it, with the added benefit that a couple of people there may recognise your name the next time they see it.
That's a good point. So "Finish my degree" moves from my TODO list to my DOING list, therefore I show initiative. And that is (almost) always a good thing.
Another good point. This echos what Ask The Headhunter has been saying for a long time: Study the companies out there, find one that you want to work for, and then cultivate a contact so can get you in the back door.
Here's an interesting article off that site. Basically it says: Be honest, don't lie, and it's your responsibility to make yourself outshine the others.
If you need a rule to follow, let it be this: Speak the truth.
• Let it be the listener's responsibility to take your words at face value and act on them accordingly. If you're afraid the truth won't help you achieve your goal, then it's up to you to find a more compelling and honest way to communicate your point. The challenge is yours.
• Take others at their word, and let it be their responsibility to be honest. If it turns out they're lying, stop doing business with them; stop associating with them. The challenge is theirs.
I'm in a similar situation. Left school early because I ran out of money and started working. Did several (10) years hard time as an SA (actually dug it, but quite tired of it now) and slowly moved into writing more and more code. I'm now writing software for a living. It's quite nice. However, when I was job hunting after getting laid off it was fairly apparent that not having a degree (and not currently working on one) was quite detrimental.
Luckily I have a job that I love. I have a strong desire to make sure that I'm in as good of a position as I can be to always have jobs that I love. (for the most part I have, I consider myself extremely fortunate) As a result of my recent experiance job hunting (and much prodding and poking from my fiance) I am taking classes again.
After much thought about work and life schedules I realized that spending 3 nights a week in class would not be practical. So I started taking classes at Uo Phoenix. The classes are reasonably challenging (have not taken any techincal classes yet) and the format is fantastic. I'm fully aware that a deg. from UoP is not going to carry nearly as much weight as a deg. from a more traditional school but I figured that with my experience would get me past a lot of the roadblocks.
The amount of work needed for the classes is by no means less than the amount of work needed for "traditional" schools. You just get to do it when you have time to. The classes are condensed into 6 weeks and you will cover the same amount of material that would be covered in a normal 16 week semester. I would work an average of 4 to 5 hours a night 4 nights a week on the class I was taking. I expect that will change depending on the class but that's been my experience with the 3 classes I've taken so far.
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Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by WhiteBird (Hermit) on Jun 11, 2004 at 13:17 UTC
Depending on where in the world you live and what schools you have available, you can look into the possibility of getting some of your degree credits through either testing out of certain courses and/or through experiential credits. You can get credit for things you've done simply by submitting documentation from your employer to the school showing what you've accomplished. You still have to pay a certain fee to gain credit that way, but it's a good way to get part of your degree out of the way.
If you're an experienced programmer why should you have to sit through a class in Basic PC use? Or in Program Design? Talk to a school admissions counselor and the department head of the CIS division and find out how many credits you can get for the stuff you already know.
Good idea. I must confess though that my first thought was: Isn't that how a "degree mill" works. :-) While I couldn't get out of compiler theory, I should be able to at least get credit for all those freshman/sophmore seminars they make you attend.
All this talk of school has inspired me to start doing some serious inquiries into taking classes again. I had a friend who got her Masters from UMass Boston last year and had good things to say about them, so I'll probably start there first since tuition is more reasonable at a state school.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by zentara (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2004 at 16:26 UTC
"But what about the "self-made man"?"
The best way is to start your business.... are you really a self-made man if you get onto the "corporate welfare roles?"
Me? I have learned to love being poor and under-employed.... because I can still proclaim my "innocense". Once you declare yourself a professional, heavy responsibility (karma) seems to come your way. I worry about my soul more than anything the "rat-race" can give me.
While there are definitely many "corporate welfare roles" out there, they are not the ones I'm looking for and pursuing. The biggest advantage I know of for working for a corporation is that they often have resources I probably would not have as an independent. I'm talking about things such as oracle licenses, "enterprise" apps such as ERP, CRM, etc that require large amounts of cash to purchase.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides of the coin and IMHO it's unfair to lump all corporate jobs into "welfare". I don't want to be poor & living paycheck-to-paycheck. I have a wife and child that I have to think about, and they need stability. Ever priced a family health insurance plan? Want corporate contributions to your retirement? My point is simply that corporate jobs aren't all bad.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by McMahon (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 18:29 UTC
Build yourself a killer resume.
Put all of your excellent skills and experience at the beginning of it.
Write a cover letter that shows that you know the domain, the job, and the company.
Don't be afraid to tweak each resume you send out to appeal to that particular company.
I don't have a degree either, and this strategy has worked well for me since 1997.
I've been doing this to varying degrees in the past, but that is excellent advice and I'll continue to do better. More and more I've been reading that you should not have a stock resume. Instead, customize a resume for each potential employer to highlight the experience that would be most beneficial for that position.
Congratulations on your success!
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2004 at 21:19 UTC
I know that you say that you know about the benefits of networking, etc. But I still have to say that how you look for a job should be the first thing that you focus on to overcome the lack of a degree.
First of all if you don't have a degree, then it is likely that any kind of automated cut will cut you. Unfortunate but true. And, short of getting a degree, there isn't much that you can do about it. Therefore it pays to look for jobs in ways that are unlikely to be hit by an automated filter like that.
Since you've got Perl experience, I have to recommend Anyone posting jobs there has someone involved in the hiring process who understands the Perl community. Such people are more likely to be able to evaluate the quality of an applicant. Likewise get involved in your local perlmongers group if there is one. (You can always start one if none exists...) That is an excellent way to get contacts. For instance if you were in LA, you'd have heard about 3 different companies hiring within the last month. And you can ask on the list for the names of good headhunters.
And if you're spending time on the job boards, don't. To understand why not just read this article. About 2% of hires happen through job boards. And your lack of a degree puts you at a disadvantage there. No amount of work on your resume will change the fact that those are not effective for finding you jobs, and that your lack of a degree really hurts you there.
And a last option to consider. Work for yourself. There is no question that you're willing to overlook your own lack of a degree. When people hire consultants they generally ask different questions than when they hire employees. You might just find that your lack of a degree is less of a barrier there. But be warned that being successfully self-employed has its own challenges. Nor is this an easy market to do it in.
As always, tilly you have some excellent points. I decided today that it's time to go back to school and will be filling out an application for UMass Boston this weekend. I'll probably only do 1 class a semester for a while, but that's better than nothing!
I've been on the perl jobs list pretty much since the start. That is my gauge of the perl jobs waters, and I'm happy to report that the water is definitely getting warmer. Unfortunately, nearly all the jobs posted are not in the New England area. If I was in CA I'm confident I could have gotten a new job a long time ago. But I'm in Boston, which has been slower to recover from the tech job losses in the last few years. It's picking back up, but the volume (for perl anyway) is still much smaller. Now if I was a Java guru ...
I don't think I've looked at job boards in months. I occasionally troll for "perl" in Boston but I don't waste more than a few minutes doing so. I read the Ask the Headhunter article you referenced, and completely agree with Nick's conclusion. BTW, I highly recommend his email newsletter to everyone. He has some spot on advice regardless of your specialty.
Finally, long term I would love to work for myself. But I'm not there yet, and will probably finish school before I try striking it out on my own. What I'm trying to do now is start some small projects I can work on the side that could turn into full-time ventures. Again, that's all in the future. I have a family to think about, which unfortunately limits my entrepreneurial abilities.
That I know not to be true. I've pointed recruiters to (and seen their offerings appear there) who had no knowledge what so ever about any "Perl community" except for the fact the only person they knew with significant Perl knowledge was me. I know of others who succesfully point recruiters to Being able to figure out a webform to post a job opening doesn't make one understand the Perl community.
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know how the situation is in the USA, but I've worked for a consulting company in .nl for a couple of years. And unless you have been hired by a company before, almost every application for a consulting gig starts with sending a resume, which is used as a first filter for the company potentially hiring you. Now the difference is that for many consulting gigs, you have to do a very specific thing - so they might weight experience more than degree. But that's a chicken-and-egg problem, to be able to get (more) experience, one must have experience.
I agree, indeed it is a chicken-and-egg problem, but I don't see that much as a big problem. From 1994 to 2000 I've contracted 60 people and to be able to hire the better ones, I had to read and analyze hundreds of resumes. I discussed this work with several other (personnel) managers and almost everybody does stress the importance of experience, but there are several forms of experience.
The form most considered is experience in a paid job, for an employer. Quite often, applicants for a job at my cmpany, didn't have such experience, but they had exerience in working at home or (as a student) at university or high school. And they could show that experience: websites, database-driven, several scripts, server logs and statistics.
For me, and quite a lot of managers of small companies, a degree is absolutely not important, and neither is experience in a paid job. Just be able to show you have experience.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by perlfan (Deacon) on Jun 11, 2004 at 22:25 UTC
I would seriously consider finishing your degree. I have a bachelors, and I am working on my masters *just* so I can compete. Your hard work will pay off. Besides, it is much easier to convince management of your worth/skills if you can tell them that you are finishing your degree and have an anticipated graduation date.
I've come to the same conclusion. See my earlier reply to tilly about applying to school.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by cLive ;-) (Parson) on Jun 11, 2004 at 22:46 UTC
I'm heading that way too drewbie, but I more sort of fell into managing. What worked for me was to spot problems outside of my immediate area of responsibility and then fix them (making sure you're not treading on anybody's toes :).
I get a say in the hiring process for new developers here now and, personally, I can't remember if anyone on my team has a degree. What I look for is passion. Passion for what you do and curiosity to know more. I'll even consider people with currently weak Perl skills if they've already proved they can learn and adapt. Of course, unless I get hassled directly, I only get to see the resumes HR and my boss have filtered :)
As for the getting the resume through HR - I used humor to get interviews (I had two sections on the skills part of my resume, "Things I can spell" (ie, thing's I've used but have little memory of right now), and "Things I can do". I think I also added a bullet point about "can hold a conversation without staring at my shoes" somewhere too.
But then, in a more formal corporate environment that might not quite work as well. But I'm happy sitting here in shorts and bare feet pottering away...
I think the key thing is to keep track of your achievements outside of development. How have you improved efficiency? How did you organize the dev process to improve QA? etc... and, if you are organizing chunks of work for work mates, how are you ensuring they do the work to an acceptable quality level?
My management stuff is 5% of my time, but I find that general fixing of broken processes etc takes up a lot more time.
just my .02 of rambling thoughts...
cLive ;-)
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by baruch (Beadle) on Jun 12, 2004 at 04:23 UTC
Hi, Drewbie. Your comments touched a nerve. Unfortunately, having a degree is increasingly becoming the magic key. The dilemma is that many of us are highly qualified, experienced, competent programmers, yet that lack of degree keeps us from getting in the front door. Many of us were busy learning how to program, while others were getting their degrees, so to speak.
I think this is part of the cycle for new technologies. Early on, there are no degrees, because no one's done it before. At that stage, the need for people to learn the technology is critical, so mere paper qualifications aren't important. As the technology matures, there are more teachers, more students, and eventually more degrees.
Management types seem to be comforted by the paper qualifications. It's safer for their jobs. If they are faced with two candidates, one with a degree (but who can't program), and the other who may be a god, but has no degree, a manager will probably opt for the degree. It's simply safer for him. If the god doesn't work out, he has no defense. He hired the guy, and now the guy's gone. But if he takes the degree, he's not at risk.
It has been my experience that a degree doesn't have much to do with programming ability either way. Some great programmers have degrees; many do not. And there are plenty of crappy programmers out there, with and without paper.
I don't see a good solution for this, for those of us (such as myself) who have no degree. It is getting harder to find jobs in corporations, as they move to requiring more paper. I am seeing smaller, hungrier companies willing to take a risk with someone without a degree. Unfortunately, these companies often can't pay much. They are taking risks because they're already marginal. Not much job security.
As to moving yourself to the "front of the pack", I'm not exactly sure what you meant by that. I've always tried to make sure I'm at my best, and to let my skills speak for themselves. To me (and it sounds like to you, as well) getting in the door is the hard part. Once I get a chance to show what I can offer, I feel I have a good shot at a job. Certainly not a shoo-in. There are better programmers than I am; but at least a fair chance at it.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by deprecated (Priest) on Jun 12, 2004 at 05:41 UTC
I hope you'll pardon my not addressing your node point-by-point.
I, too, am one of these people without a degree who has occasionally gotten a bit of flak for it. In general, I find that the people that give me this flak are those with degrees who have wasted 4-8 years of their lives obtaining said degree.
Let me elaborate a little further.
I failed algebra in high school. Shortly thereafter, I decided high school was a waste of time, and dropped out. I started college. After 2 years of that, I got a better offer. Work, and support myself full time, or go to college, and incur debt. This was an easy decision.
I still don't really understand math in a pure sense. However, in the last month, I've been required to "learn" set theory and pieces of calculus through my job. In fact, the only way I ever came to understand Algebra itself was in terms of programming. My professor was very understanding and allowed me to use programs I had written to solve equations on tests.
So now I'm 26, and I have almost a decade of experience under my belt. The last time I was actually hunting for a job, it was because I was unhappy with the job I had. I found a new one, and was prepared to leave when my current employer offered me a 20% raise. I realized at that point that the only implication of that was that they had been paying me 20% less than they thought I was worth to somebody else. This, too, was an easy decision: I took the new job at a slight cut, knowing they wanted me for who I was and what I could do for them. I'm generally much happier with this employer.
Whoever is giving you guff has (usually) one of two reasons:
• They wish to pay you less than you are worth.
• They wish to justify the time they spent in school and the money they spent on it.
While I don't really like to point at demagogues and pop psych, I might suggest you read The Fountainhead.
Don't let it get under your skin. If you're where you are, and they're where they are, you have a definite competitive edge. Don't let their insecurity rob you of that.
and no, i'm not bitter. not even a little.
Tilly is my hero.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by bradcathey (Prior) on Jun 12, 2004 at 16:20 UTC
Drewbie, I realize I'm a little late replying to this node, but I do bring a slightly different angle to your dilema.
I'm not a Perl programmer by trade, I'm a graphic designer. Before I get to the Perl stuff, let me tell you about my design pilgrimage. I don't have a degree in design, it's in music. I knew my skills and talents were in design back in high school, but when I went to college back in the late 60's, it was the era of doing-your-own-thing, bucking the establishment. So I did music and nearly starved to death.
So, I went back to design and started looking for work. Of course, all potential employers wanted a degree, in spite of my abilities. So, I struck out on my own, lucked out, and for 26 years have been self-employed and have employed approx 100 others over the years.
I fell into Perl when I started doing web development. I started with a used copy of an 1995 edition of some forgotten Perl book and just started hammering out scripts to handle forms and send e-mails. I now love programming (though I have so much to learn, as coming to the monastery nearly a year ago has shown me, but that's a whole other story). Now, my favorite days are when I get to program--not design.
The fact that I don't have a degree in design or computer science has not stopped me. Granted, I don't want, or have ability, to be a full-time programmer like yourself, but hanging out your own shingle means you can call the shots. Oh, believe me, there are times when being self-employed is scary, but now I get to do two things I love without anyone asking me if I have a degree in either one. And when I do get asked, it's fun to see the reaction when I tell them it's in music.
Be encouraged! Think outside the box! And consider choosing your own path and creating your own destiny, even with the pitfalls. All the best!
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by sfink (Deacon) on Jun 12, 2004 at 21:46 UTC
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 13, 2004 at 13:56 UTC
Find a good recruiter. Seriously. A few years ago, I moved from .us to .nl. I had zero contacts in .nl, but I had to find a job. On a monday morning, I had contact with a recruiting agency - I explained by background, what I was looking for, and they assigned me to a recruiter most appropriate for my wishes. Before the end of the day, he had set up two job interviews for me on the following Wednesday. On Wednesday itself, he had set up another interview for me on Friday morning. Friday at noon, I had three job offers to pick from, and I started work the next Monday.
Half a year later, I decided to quit my job (three months before the company went belly-up). For a few weeks, I unsuccesfully tried to find a job on my own. So, I contacted the same recruiter - on a Friday afternoon at 4pm. By 7pm, he had set up two interviews for me on Monday morning. On Monday, there were two more interviews set up on Tuesday. On Friday, I had four offers to pick between.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Sandy (Deacon) on Jun 14, 2004 at 21:52 UTC
I have no answers, but I do have a different perspective.
I have too many degrees (PhD), not in computer science. When looking for a job, no one would even talk to me.
So, how did I get my current position... I stubbornly went to a job fair, and after numerous technical people refused to talk to me, I started saying "I have a PhD, will you still talk to me?". This usually embarassed them into talking to me. The rest was up to me. I got 2 job offers doing that.... However, the job that I ended up with was more luck than anything else. I was standing in the hallway arguing with the HR lady, arguing that just because I was 'over educated' didn't mean that I would get bored and quit the company after 2 months. As I was arguing, some manager came along, who was also 'over qualified' and felt the kinship. We talked, complained about engineers, and he offered me a job, and I promised him that I would not quit after two months. I've been here 8 years now.
You'd think people would learn... while looking for fresh blood with my new supervisor, scanning CVs by the hundreds, he cavaliarly discarded all CVs that did not have a bachelor degree, but also discarded all CVs that had more than a bachelor degree. I pointed out his flawed logic to him, and he blushed, but I do not think that this has made a lasting impression.
Do I have solutions? Nope, but I think the key is getting in to actually talk to the persons who you would work with.
Me, if I were in the position to do so, I would hire people who love programming, because, IMHO, it is truly the real requirement to becomming a good programmer.
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picture of butthole
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Beat the horse until it's dead, and then keep beating the said horse.
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Tree fiddy? Are you fucking sorry?
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Mom's spaghetti
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-someone apologizes for something-
must be canadianHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. Same with Australia and 'cunt'. We get it, shut the fuck up.
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I'm sorry you're such a cunt.
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Do Australians say "Shut the fuck down?"
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Done, what do I do with the body?
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Fax it to him
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Default to hating everyone on here and adjust accordingly afterwards.
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I used to hate you til now
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Upvote every meme until it becomes mainstream, then downvote it furiously.
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I am at least 3% sure that doge is included in "every meme".
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Such... okay, no, not doing it.
[–]alekzander01 121 points122 points ago
The Doge slowly die out
Hunted to extinction for its Karma rich pelts
[–]Bloodysneeze 20 points21 points ago
This reaches far beyond memes.
[–]CrabbyBlueberry 24 points25 points ago
"Memes" doesn't just mean the stuff in /r/AdviceAnimals.
[–]lvysaur 27 points28 points ago
You whippersnappers don't remember the days when memes were memes and image macros were image macros
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And slender was just some documentaries on YouTube.
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Except it started on Something Awful, not YouTube.
[–]Sadsharks 2 points3 points ago
Victor Surge...never forget
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Do not confirm your agreement with another user by stating "This."
It never ends well.
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Up up
It's the code word.
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This picture says quite the opposite.
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I really don't know what I expected.
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[–]Theguyinthebushes 8 points9 points ago
But there are no women on reddit.
[–]Officer_McLovin 30 points31 points ago
Exactly, saying "literally this" is the way to go.
[–]gmooa 146 points147 points ago
Don't post the picture of the safe unless you already opened the damned thing.
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I promise guys, Ill open it soon!
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It got opened. It was filled with dead spiders and disappointment.
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and the salt lake made of Redditors tears.
[–]Mac-- 13 points14 points ago
...Orrrr maybe I'll just move away from this damn thing and not tell anyone.
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It was opened!
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Don't defend yourself. The more you try to explain, the worse it'll be.
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What do you mean by that? Care to explain?
[–]tahlyn 34 points35 points ago
The more you try to explain, the worse it'll be
Care to explain?
I see what you did there.
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The more you try to explain, the worse it'll be
Care to explain?
I see what you did there.
I don't, care to explain?
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What are you saying??? Care to explain?
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[–]Pizza_bagel 104 points105 points ago
Like if OP gets caught in a half-truth or posts something controversial they'll usually post a response, but it ends up back-firing. They'll over explain things and it makes them sound desperate or else they'll post something even dumber. I used to work with this black girl, so I can say with some authority that minority posters do this more often. I'm sorry, but it's true. I once saw this girl get in trouble and lie repeatedly to try and get out of it. It came pretty naturally to her, as is to be expected, but my boss wasn't having it. He could tell she was lying even though he was a dumb dago. So yeah, never defend yourself, or you'll get down voted by a bunch of dagos.
Edit: Did I mention she was black?
Edit 2: Oh, I see how it is.
Edit 3: Seriously, I dated an Italian woman once. I have nothing against them. Y'all are too sensitive. PC bullshit.
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I see what you did there...yet I still feel that you should go fuck yourself. Paradoxical.
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I have been creeping your posts. I saw this comment and I was just wondering if the story about your girlfriend and mcdonalds was true, since you said that the meal was 3.50.
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100% true. I added in the $3.50 thing because because numerous people mentioned that they thought the story was going to end with her charging me $3.50. Me being a person who can't resist a good laugh, I was compelled to throw it in there.
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Can you fax this to me?
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Only for tree fiddy.
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Unless you're actually funny. Then the seriousness only makes it funnier.
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I used to think I was funny. Then I joined Reddit.
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"I used to think I was funny. Then I joined reddit"-/u/DouchebagMcShitstain 2013
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... Or is it 2014?
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Don't ask why someone downvoted you.
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Eventually, somebody else will reply with "I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You're absolutely right because x y and z." And then your karma will go positive.
[–]ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR 117 points118 points ago
Right, if you ask about your own downvotes you will be downvoted hard.
BUT, if you ask why another poster was downvoted, you both will be upvoted. It's really weird.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted, you're perfectly correct.
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And don't edit your downvoted post with:
"Edit: Downvotes? Really?"
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Just don't mention the d-work
"Edit: How did I even mistype that? I meant to say the d-word."
[–]ReferencesCartoons 104 points105 points ago
I'll give you the d-work
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Brown chicken brown cow.
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[–]Seraph_Grymm 32 points33 points ago
Did the Titanic sink bravely?
[–]Reilic 24 points25 points ago
Actually like a little bitch but the crew died bravely.
[–]righteous4131 10 points11 points ago
Ow ice it's too much fuck this I hate everything
[–]lhamil64 12 points13 points ago
I've had people comment on my posts saying "I don't know why you're getting downvoted...". I honestly wouldn't even know because I don't go look at my previous posts unless someone comments.
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Also for the love of god: Don't complain in a separate comment. This will just double the number of downvotes you receive.
[–]go_bwaaah 5 points6 points ago
Even if it's on a post on a totally legitimate argument against geraffes?
[–]citizen511 29 points30 points ago
Don't use your age to make your argument unless you're prepared to be downvoted by everyone older than you.
[–]ThatGuyYouDontC 8 points9 points ago
What if you are currently the oldest living person that uses reddit?
[–]Thisonework 12 points13 points ago
But… but… I'm 253 years old
[–]unafragger 130 points131 points ago
Do not write unwritten rules on reddit, for when you do, they are no longer unwritten.
Edit: Shit!
[–][deleted] 29 points30 points ago
But you never edited it
[–]319223149 23 points24 points ago
If edited within 5 and no replies, it doesn't show as edited.
[–]Joseph_Santos1 20 points21 points ago
2 minutes. They're called ninja edits.
[–]_______QUEBEC_______ 6 points7 points ago
That's not how it works. If you edit before one or two minutes , there won't be the asterisk.
[–]TomRiddleJr 215 points216 points ago
don't edit your comment with 1500 points to say
[–][deleted] 116 points117 points ago
My first Gold was for the comment "El Poopacabra"
[–]Cliffhanger_baby 27 points28 points ago
You're telling me you've had more than one? Stop hogging and share the love!
[–]I_Live_In_A_Balloon 11 points12 points ago
Yeah there are people me who haven't gotten my their share!
[–]TURBULENT_DISPLACE 9 points10 points ago
What about with 1600?
[–]FishInhaleTheirPee 117 points118 points ago
you can either get karma or a good discussion, never both.
[–]DatFoon 17 points18 points ago
I think it's dependent on the subreddit, really. If it's anything on the front page like /r/funny (especially /r/funny), then this is true. However, head over to say, /r/TrueAtheism, and you might find the users there are more open to an actual discussion.
[–]FishInhaleTheirPee 11 points12 points ago
that's true. i think as a rule of the thumb you can say what i stated is true for the default subs and a lot of the big ones. in the smaller ones you can actually have a good discussion and state controversial opinions without being downvoted to hell (if you don't behave like a psycho-asshole)
recently i discovered /r/TrueReddit which is an awesome sub imho
[–]elbobsterr 48 points49 points ago
Everyone will ask for [oc] no one will like it
[–]meades15 70 points71 points ago
OP must deliver
[–]xalgorafan 25 points26 points ago
Unless (s)he is delivering information that will contradict the hivemind. Then you're damned either way.
[–]SamFroogle 8 points9 points ago
Reddit noob here... What does this actually mean?
[–]Theusernamemen 18 points19 points ago
Like if OP is asked for a photo or explanation of something
[–]SamFroogle 9 points10 points ago
Ah ok, thanks
[–]CrabbyBlueberry 13 points14 points ago
OP stands for "original poster". Suppose OP posts a picture of a mysterious safe that he discovered in his basement. OP had damn well better follow up with pictures of the inside of the safe.
[–]PheerthaniteX 9 points10 points ago
Another reddit noob here. Did this safe thing actually happen? I keep hearing "the safe was opened" but know nothing about it other than that there was a safe, and it was opened.
[–]Br3wster 10 points11 points ago
It happened.
[–]lo4952 3 points4 points ago
I believe that the safe was opened by a different Redditor, who found only spiders an disappointment inside.
[–]Aniquin 2 points3 points ago
The safe was first posted on March 16th, 2013 by /u/dont_stop_me_smee to /r/pics. In his post OP stated that his friend moved into an old gang house and found this in the garage. Many people wanted OP to break into it somehow. OP claimed to have "contacted a safe expert", but took ten months to actually open said safe. After opening the safe, OP posted pictures of the empty safe.
Needless to say, Reddit doesn't like /u/dont_stop_me_smee anymore...
[–]nakedwithclownface 116 points117 points ago
grammr correcktly and dont speling mistakes.
[–]reallygoodgarbage 32 points33 points ago
I defiantly it's misteaks.
[–]Toxicstein 14 points15 points ago
No, their my-steaks.
I'll show myself out.
[–]a_sneeky_beever 8 points9 points ago
[–]NiceGuyMike 9 points10 points ago
your wrong!
[–]DERPYBASTARD 17 points18 points ago
Where is it? I lost my wrong!
[–]-eDgAR- 22 points23 points ago
Don't lie in the title to make it seem like OC if you are reposting
[–]yakuchombo 36 points37 points ago
Whenever there is a relevant XKCD, post it.
[–]Sane-eyes 6 points7 points ago
Sub-rule: there is always a relevant XKCD.
[–]borhoi 63 points64 points ago
If you in any way agree with any kind of feminist ideology whatsoever you're a ridiculous feminazi who hates all men.
If you disagree in any way with any kind of feminist ideology you are a fedora wearing, neckbearded, chauvinistic jerk who hates all women.
There is no in-between.
[–]Joseph_Santos1 18 points19 points ago
I'd like to add to this by saying that if you disagree with too many sexist comments about women, you will be labeled a white knight and ridiculed.
[–]nicblair 17 points18 points ago
don't let mean people on the internet effect your daily life
[–]lindzmarie33 43 points44 points ago
No spoilers for movies, shows, books, etc. without a warning.
[–][deleted] 42 points43 points ago
[–]abandonedaltair 7 points8 points ago
how do you do that??
[–][deleted] 52 points53 points ago
It's a special feature for those who have bought Reddit Gold for another user.
Why don't you give it a try?
[–]abandonedaltair 31 points32 points ago
I've been here long enough to not fall for that
[–][deleted] 11 points12 points ago
[–]abandonedaltair 16 points17 points ago
But not long enough to find all of the text formating tricks reddit has
[–]Bossman759 3 points4 points ago
[](#s "spoiler)
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[–]alekzander01 14 points15 points ago
Joffrey dies after choking on a throne of Dicks.
True story, I read the books brah, all 6 of them. My favorite one was A Crash of Prime Ministers.
[–]dudeitsabe 36 points37 points ago
If you have a religion and make any references to it, you'll be severely ridiculed
[–]yuloforce 9 points10 points ago
Oh, so you turned to Christianity for hope after your mother was diagnosed with breast cancer? Fucking religious scum.
[–]dudeitsabe 5 points6 points ago
"Seriously!! Don't you know about SCIENCE?!?!?!"
[–]ThePolishJag 45 points46 points ago
NEVER speak your mind, agree with the mob, the mob is your friend.
[–]morphotomy 47 points48 points ago
we call it the hive, thanks.
[–]DoctorRimJob 43 points44 points ago
Yeah! What he said!
[–]PlushSandyoso 162 points163 points ago
Tip your fedora before saying m'lady.
[–]Dasbaus 30 points31 points ago
[–]ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR 44 points45 points ago
+fedoratip 50 fedoras
[–][deleted] 17 points18 points ago
Under no circumstances should you EVER mention the...
Edit: I say not to mention it and look what everyone does... jeez.
[–]SyanticRaven 20 points21 points ago
Spanish Inquisition?
[–]Thisonework 10 points11 points ago
I didn't expect that
[–]Br3wster 8 points9 points ago
Nobody did, especially the dirty Jewbags that poisoned the wells.
[–]MidnightDaylight 12 points13 points ago
[–]meowzers12 4 points5 points ago
Fact that Leonardo DiCaprio hasn't won an oscar?
[–]I_EAT_GUSHERS 31 points32 points ago
If you have a shitty opinion, make sure to start it with "I might get downvoted for this, but..."
[–]davis98[🍰] 12 points13 points ago
"I'm getting downvoted to hell for this, but I think child molestation is wrong."
[–]calnamu 7 points8 points ago
No, it's actually: "I know I will be downvoted into oblivion for this, but..."
[–]boobiesucker 16 points17 points ago
Don't murder
[–]TURBULENT_DISPLACE 15 points16 points ago
Welp, I tried.
[–]terattt 14 points15 points ago
Repeat whatever phrases you've seen other people repeating lately. This will make you funny and clever.
[–]riddle_me_this_goose 4 points5 points ago
And the karma.
[–]dummystupid 6 points7 points ago
Get some karma, never get a lot of karma.
[–]R1runr 7 points8 points ago
Don't hold up your spork! EVER!!
[–]MidnightDaylight 6 points7 points ago
Don't express a religion-supporting opinion. Ever.
Also words and stuff.
[–]KillerPalm 5 points6 points ago
Always ask the same questions on this sub.
[–]roastedbagel 77 points78 points ago
That's the cringiest shit on this entire site.
"We did it guys! We made front page!"
"Wow I keep reading these, they're great! Keep them coming!"
You're not the curator, we don't care what you think of the post, and aren't paying attention to you.
Guys? No, we're not on your team. We don't give a shit that this is your first front page post. You're a blip on our radar and we will forget you in 2 minutes. Nobody cares. Stop with the post-edits.
[–]MileHighBarfly 17 points18 points ago
I want askreddit mods to take away the entire edit function. Maybe others think its harmless or useful or even cute, but I am so fucking tired of "hooray my reposted question made the front page!" And "thanks for the gold!"
[–]roastedbagel 9 points10 points ago
Please share your thoughts here
The only problem with us disabling editing at all is we have tons of users who put their answer in the description which we don't allow, so we tell them to fix it which requires them to edit it and remove their answer.
[–]sweeppick09 32 points33 points ago
Unpopular Opinion Puffin never manages to be a truly unpopular opinion.
[–]ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR 30 points31 points ago
Holy shit, how many obscure advice animals are there now?
[–]rufus_ray 9 points10 points ago
billions and billions
[–]Minkzilla 5 points6 points ago
If some one asks you to fax it to them, you definitely should.
[–]TheIrwinComission 5 points6 points ago
If a female redditor mentions her body, at least five lonely males must ask her to PM pictures.
[–]sumnlikedat 15 points16 points ago
Don't write "this".
[–]riddle_me_this_goose 12 points13 points ago
[–]enlighghtened 10 points11 points ago
And the other
[–]morphotomy 13 points14 points ago
Don't mention jolly ranchers or doritos.
[–]Refriedspleens 8 points9 points ago
If you see anything related to broken arms and a mother's love, be sure to reply "Every fucking thread."
[–]peculiarpisces 9 points10 points ago
Don't speak out against alcohol or weed unless you want to get downvoted like craaazy
[–]SpencerCe89 3 points4 points ago
Apparently, Imgur is the only acceptable image host to use, and if you don't use it you are the devil.
[–]Yamnave 4 points5 points ago
Your comments will always go unnoticed.
Source: my comment history
[–]relytv2 13 points14 points ago
That America is the worst place ever, all law enforcement is evil, and everyone of everyone's liberties are being oppressed.
Edit: Universal healthcare is literally a gift from God Sagan and no other system could ever possibly work. Not just the far from ideal one in the US now, but literally any other system.
[–]794613825 9 points10 points ago
/r/atheism is literally Hitler.
[–]litlitlit 16 points17 points ago
Actually, it's figuratively Hitler. Bitch.
[–]callddit 11 points12 points ago
Don't thank people for gold, apparently. Although I don't see why this is a problem.
[–]CookiesWithMilken 12 points13 points ago
I have given gold on a number of occasions, always anonymously, and I always appreciate a "thanks for the gold" edit
[–]GirPhralad 13 points14 points ago
Don't be OP.
[–]sconce2600 2 points3 points ago
Have the most popular opinion.
[–]CaptainM0 2 points3 points ago
Post an askredditt question like "what can I do for 10 minutes a day that would make me a better person"
[–]LinearSimcon 2 points3 points ago
Don't hate on cats, it will come to claw you. Hard.
[–]Tapecaster 2 points3 points ago
Jennifer Lawrence . . .
[–]mojavesnowfrog 2 points3 points ago
Ooh! a paradox... if I write it, it won't be unwritten anymore!
[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago
Do not brag about your karma, do not brag about making the front page, do not post until you have been on for a month and mostly know the ropes.
[–]Snorma 5 points6 points ago
Been on here months and still dont know the fucking ropes.
[–]Vallessir 8 points9 points ago
Don't complain about downvotes if you get downvoted.
[–]TURBULENT_DISPLACE 10 points11 points ago
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[–]pullcow 1 point2 points ago
I work in digital advertising for a media publisher.
I haven't seen the Go Daddy ad and I don't know how reddit runs and sells it's advertising inventory.
But it is possible that you've been re-targeted and served the Go Daddy ad through tracking cookies.
Essentially, a lot of websites and publishers sell off some of the inventory they have to a network. If a bunch of sites do this, there becomes an incredibly large network across the net where you can be followed and re-targeted.
Often you are re-targeted because you landed on a website - say Go Daddy's or one where Go Daddy was specifically sponsoring because they felt that you were in their target market, and now because of the cookie data they have on you, they can follow you across websites that are part of the networked inventory and continue to serve you the same ad.
That's why you always see ads for things you've been looking at online.
But it's also possible that Reddit doesn't do this at all. Like I said, I don't know how they run their ads.
TL;DR - the ad may have followed you from somewhere else, depending on the way reddit sells it's ad inventory | http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/z2rhj/just_a_few_months_ago_reddit_was_boycotting_go/c619d0m?context=3 | dclm-gs1-005540001 | false | false | {
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[–]tframe 1 point2 points ago
Also don't use more the 2/3 cup of green beans at a time. Anymore, you will get an uneven roast. You will never have a better cup of coffee than one you roasted on your own! | http://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/15uf7l/hot_air_popper_roasting/c7qaymx | dclm-gs1-005550001 | false | false | {
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[–]ScarletRhiDelena 7 points8 points ago
Oh wow that would seriously make so much sense, I don't know why that did not come to mind, with the number being the same and all. | http://www.reddit.com/r/TheVampireDiaries/comments/14f31d/s04e08_well_always_have_bourbon_street_episode/c7cpitv | dclm-gs1-005560001 | false | false | {
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[–]seanadb 1 point2 points ago
Btw, this is the (currently) first comment after the story.
Destr0 09 November 2013 2:44pm I don't know. I'm black, 6+feet, broad shouldered well groomed, etc. and have the same experience wondering why the seat next to me on the bus is empty more often than not. Especially when someone will appear to be searching for anywhere else to sit or will even stand. But it ends there. If they would rather stand, that's their problem, not mine. It took me a long time to get here, but I can't spend my life worrying about other people's hangups. The bigger concern for me is the author's self loathing and negative view of himself. The while article is written like someone's depressing journal. If he thinks he's the only black person who hasn't felt like he identifies with "black culture", get in line. Stereotypes are just that, very broad brushes that generally don't fit the majority of the people they are put on. I've often found myself being one of the few blacks in my profession (architecture), at concerts of music I like or even cultural events (gallery openings or museums). I don't wallow in self-pity about. I like what I like and that's the end. I also like being black too. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
Good, thoughtful response. What are your thoughts on this? (genuinely asking, not being sarcastic)
[–]silthegr8[S] 0 points1 point ago
I can say that I agree with him. Many people go through this everyday, and, at first, I took the article as him attempting to shine a light on it, but I read it again and see it as him whining. As I said in my own experiences, it sucks that people have some sort of shitty pre-conceived notion about a group of people that they place upon every single one that they meet. Personally, I like the extra space. But, I do think that people need to chill and stop being so afraid and judgmental, negatively.
I posted this article to shine a light, that's all. Is it a shitty situation? Yes. Primarily, I'm just annoyed at how anyone that's slightly tanned or above must act in a specific way, or else they're, not only treated but, viewed in messed up ways. This effects everything, by the way.
I once dated this girl, it went well. Her mother and father, the whole family, loved because I turned her into a better person, their words paraphrased. But then they met met me and found out that I was partially black, and immediately started lobbying for her to get rid of me. She wouldn't do it. I ended up breaking up with her for other reasons. Anyways, this happens. That's life as a black dude.
[–]seanadb 0 points1 point ago
That is so surreal and messed up. Wish someone could take a cluebat to all those types of people you mention. It makes no sense! It smacks of something from the Twilight Zone, not reality and certainly not Canada. Sorry you have to endure that. :\
[–]silthegr8[S] 1 point2 points ago
Submission Statement
This is a phenomenal article because it gives everyone an insight into how blacks feel in society. A lot of people don't realize the hardships that go into being black. You're born with it, so you have no control over any of it. For instance, there are a lot of social policies, if you must, that one should, or must, follow. I'm a half black and half white (mother is african and father is italian) guy living in Canada.
Growing up, I have always been into opera but I was looked down on for this, and, sort of, forced into becoming a fan of rap/hip-hop. Unless you're willing to live a life of isolation, it makes living ridiculously difficult. I was molded at a young by my mother and father to become very knowledgeable in mathematics, and so growing up that's all my life, practically, revolved around. This didn't fly well because I was part black. However, I'm known as a black guy even though I'm just as much black as I am white. And to blacks, I'm known as a white guy. Then this new term of being "lightskin" came out, and I categorized into that by both. Its like you don't belong anywhere. Anyways, this isn't about that. Shit is always changing.
This article reflects what a particular race goes through every fucking day. It is annoying. A packed bus, people want to sit, but refuse to just because of one's pigment? That's ridiculous. About 4 days ago, I was at a McDonald's that was very much packed, it was around lunch time. I saw how long the line was, so I turned to this older lady beside me and asked her what she was ordering, and told her that to save time that I would have put it with my bill, and she would not have had to pay. She was skeptic, I understood, and so she declined. Then she kept trying to speak to me as if she wanted me to do but was scared. So we spoke for a bit, about 5 mins, and then she agreed. After the transaction, she told me that "not a lot of you are like this, you must be very tanned." As a person that isn't into scenes or making big deals out of things, I turned to her and said "no, I'm cut in the middle; I have a black mother and a white father, and yes, I was raised in europe but lived here (Canada) all my life". And then she proceeded to just bash blacks and teenagers. I'm a young adult and such but still.
I want this article to shine a light, which will allow others to realize how stupid it is to care about one's race. Take a seat. Say hello. Or just don't be an asshole. It isn't hard.
Edit: broke it up into paragraphs.
[–]seanadb -3 points-2 points ago
That is so strange. What city do you live in? I'm in Winnipeg, and grew up with people from all sorts of cultures/ethnic backgrounds. I've never seen anyone abused for racial reasons, so the idea that this situation happened to you is odd. It's possible it happens all around me and I'm oblivious to it, but those sort of comments are pretty hard to ignore (i.e. bashing of blacks/any ethnicity).
[–]psyyduck -3 points-2 points ago
I used to feel much the same way until I started meditating. The guy just needs to get help. I get what he's saying, it hurts a lot, but its like when the weather gets cold you find a jacket. The only wrong response is complaining and doing nothing.
It also helps to travel. Anything that gets you out of your old patterns.
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[–]pgc 1 point2 points ago
"post-racial society" is such a joke
[–]sakebomb69 -5 points-4 points ago
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[–]a-cocoon 18 points19 points ago
Later on in the thread, one of the members mentions and links to this article. And the hatred of women continues, without a hitch. It's amazing to me that they don't have any self awareness or group awareness of what they've subjected this woman to with their comments. All of her points in the article are sound and valid, but they can't hear any of it because they've already decided that all women are useless and that their viewpoint is unimportant.
One man admits to 'respecting' her decision "to continue to own who I am and what I want out of life." But complains that she went too far to smear the entire group as misogynistic. First of all, who's smearing who here? And how is it that they can't see that they are a massive part of the part with society, exhibited right here in how they've assumed her entire existence into their hateful little boxes? Just like forum member 'womanhater' says:
"she no doubt has $100K of student loans that will be 'forgiven' due to her 'public service' and since she (ahem) works for .gov, her entire 'caweer!' is yet more leaching off the actual production of the working class, to say nothing of the almost certain 8 to 1 consumption of health care resources over a lifetime versus men who will have to pick up the slack via higher taxes and increased insurance premiums, and on and on and on....
And this worthless fucking carbon matrix is allowed to fucking vote.
Ugh, I need booze!"
I just can't believe all this outright hatred of women. And that there is an outlet where they get to circlejerk and inflate their egos about it disgusts me. Yeah, I need a fucking drink too. | http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1g9sgj/it_happened_to_me_my_online_dating_profile/cai8j5r?context=3 | dclm-gs1-005580001 | false | false | {
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[–]navybluu 0 points1 point ago
I had one of those removed when I was in college. About the same size as yours, just lower on my neck, almost parallel with my shoulders. You're lucky...your arms won't pull on your scar. I had to have my scar resected a year later because the surgeon wasn't happy with how it healed because any movement of my arms pulled it slightly apart. I wish I still had the pictures of mine, but they were taken on a Polaroid (who the hell knows why, it was less than ten years ago). Mine never bothered me but my mom thought I looked like a hunchback so she made me go to the surgeon. | http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/10d1ys/benign_but_im_super_glad_to_have_had_this_thing/c6ckuk3 | dclm-gs1-005590001 | false | false | {
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[–]No_Please_Continue 0 points1 point ago
Yup, I got the same clip about 3 years ago. I didn't show my boobs so the snake ate the it always does, every time that guy shows that recording. Eh. Nature. | http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/13vci9/flash_or_gtfo/c77puu7 | dclm-gs1-005600001 | false | false | {
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[–]alofons 0 points1 point ago
That's interesting. I was talking from experience and intuition, since many GIFs have a huge size, and when I'm looking at a GIF loading, each frame seems to take roughly the same time.
I have done a simple test, using Imagemagick's "convert" to make a GIF consisting on some equal frames. The result is completely linear.
10 equal frames: 23551 bytes
20 equal frames: 46301 bytes
30 equal frames: 69051 bytes
40 equal frames: 91801 bytes
50 equal frames: 114551 bytes
(For reference, the original image is 64x64=4096 bytes when palettized to 256 colors, and the GIF size increases 2275 bytes per frame including LZW compression, so it looks like the entire image is being encoded).
If a popular program such as ImageMagick does that, I imagine that there may be many more programs that also do it. Maybe there's some limitation on this approach, or maybe no one has bothered to implement it (like true color GIFs).
A wild guess: Each GIF image/frame can only have one image descriptor. One can use it to specify the rectangle to be updated. Wouldn't this mean that if a pixel changed near the top-left corner, and another near the bottom-right corner, the whole frame would need to be retransmitted?
[–]riplin 0 points1 point ago*
I think you can get creative with the frame time though. But this is pure speculation. If you create 2 frames and set the delay to 0ms, it could update in the same 'frame'. But again, that's pure speculation.
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[–]Kilora Amariyo on GoblinKilora 3 points4 points ago
There has never been an MMO released (non-sandbox) that released content faster than players consumed it.
It isn't possible -- especially when you have players who play 40+ hours every week.
I personally have no problem with people who do that. My problem is when they whine like little children because the horrible creators of the game can't make content faster than they can play it. People need to learn to play multiple games, or take a damn break and not binge on things. If you did that with food, you'd have an eating disorder; with alcohol you'd be an alcoholic; but with video games, it's absolutely normal and a non-issue to binge?
[–]Orianas Ezian on Midgardsormrorianas 0 points1 point ago
The issue here is not so much that you can't add content faster than its consumed so much as that post WoW content is too easily and quickly consumed. Vanilla WoW was released on the 23rd of November in 2004 and Lucifron was killed on the 20th of January. So 2 months after to kill the FIRST boss of MC. Obviously there wasn't just one boss in MC so there were plenty of achievements to feed on (10 total in MC) leading up to Ragnaros which was finally killed on April 25th Almost 5 full months after the content was released was it cleared! We are what 2 months in and the entire dungeon is cleared with no harder content to look forward to for 5 months?
Which brings us to another issue that WoW addressed as well. The first battleground was released on June 15th and was a massive additional time sink. AV battles lasted DAYs and while there was issues getting in to them at times they was never a lack of interesting things going on in there. And just over a month later (July 15th) BWL the second raid instance (well 3rd if you count Onyxia which was released with MC) was released that again wasn't cleared until the 26th of September which is 2 and a half months after release. And 3 months later AQ was released.
Now while you may say that XIV can meet schedules like these you are also missing the point that we aren't seeing new content for the top tier for 5 months. And the content we are getting in 2 months is content that is a step back that honestly should been released about a month after release of the game. And have 2.2 fall in December and I doubt you would hear a percentage of the complaining you hear today about lack of content. If coil had been longer and more difficult overall I think we could be bothered to actually stick around but at this point I think most people will be jumping ship.
Edit: Also a point I forgot to mention the vast majority of players on a server hadn't killed the first few bosses of MC when BWL had released. I would consider myself hardcore and I was still running Magmadar (2nd boss) when Razorgore was first killed. Whereas now we have most organized FCs killing turn 4 (4/5ths of coil) in under 2 months.
[–]Kilora Amariyo on GoblinKilora -1 points0 points ago
So, in other words; aside from vanilla wow, I'm correct.
Good to hear.
[–]Orianas Ezian on Midgardsormrorianas 0 points1 point ago
Nice well thought out rebuttal to a point using one thing as an example. I could talk about BC that had 5 raids on release which weren't fully cleared until after BT was released (Kael was killed 3 days after BT patch).
If you want to get outside the realm of WoW its hard to find data but AV wasn't cleared legit until years after released in XI. And pandemonium warden was like a year.
Other longterm successful games? EQ perhaps? Not really familiar with the game so can't say honestly. But what I remember about the game is that it was super hardcore and hard and unforgiving.
There hasn't been other longterm successful MMO's that follow the WoW paradigm that have sufficient data available.
[–][First] [Last] on [Server]ilexuki 0 points1 point ago
ffxi had plenty of content at NA release, and because it was much slower paced, by the time you even got to where you could start new content,there would be more added. there was always something to do in ffxi, they had nms you could hunt for rare gear, hnms that spawned every couple of days, there was a full story for each city state, there were advanced jobs and zilart missions, dynamis.
by the time i even got my first 75 CoP was out, new missions,new areas, new adventures. i didn't catch up on all the content till they stopped making expansions years later.
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[–]e2thex_at_reddit 2 points3 points ago
Yes one can commit a felony by steal mail, then get a group of there friends to also commit felonies by voting for someone else.
maybe we should also out law all absentee ballets, I mean you could just send in request for a ballet for 30 of your neighbours intercept the ballet fill it out and send it in! I think there you would get 3 felonies!
The main point is if you are going to increase the barrier to voting, you should demonstrate that there is a problem you are solving. If you can not demonstrate there is a problem, then adding cost to the populace is not justified.
There are lots of illegal ID given out in rural areas (not that I have any data on that) so I think we should move all location for registering to the city, where we trust the people giving out voting cards. Does that sound reasonable? It would if I could demonstrate that 30% of the voters in rural areas should not have been registered, but not if I just say it is true
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In the same vein of stupid ideas; clearly everyone in rural areas are planning an armed uprising against the government, and the violent lynching of all non-whites, therefore we should remove the Second Amendment but only if you live outside of a city. Heyo! This game is fun. | http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12qhef/pa_judge_orders_partisans_to_stop_asking_voters/c6xgoqk | dclm-gs1-005630001 | false | false | {
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Is it just me but what is up with sandy . I mean hurricane sandy now a shooting at sandy school? Stuff is getting weird... Stuff is getting weird | http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/14x1d6/the_westboro_baptist_church_says_they_will_be/c7hccnb | dclm-gs1-005640001 | false | false | {
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Customer Satisfaction Lies Somewhere Between Pleasure And Pain
May 3, 2012
A new paper by Kyle Murray, a marketing researcher with the Alberta School of Business, puts a spin on the expression “you can’t please everyone.”
The pleasure-versus-pain principle
The researchers studied people’s reactions to two consumer experiences: tasting a cup of coffee and choosing a digital camera. In both studies, there was a quality product and one that had been altered to affect its quality. Test subjects were asked to rate their satisfaction with the product’s quality. The researchers discovered that respondents fell into two categories: promotion-focused (pleasure-seeking) or prevention-focused (pain-avoiding). “These two types of people respond very differently to having the same kind of service encounter or having the same kind of problem with a product,” said Murray.
“People who are promotion-focused tend to get a lot more hurt when something goes wrong, but they’re also a lot happier when something goes right,” he said. “The prevention-focused people are less upset when something goes wrong–when they buy a product and it breaks or they have a bad service experience–but they’re also less happy when something goes right.”
Can’t get no satisfaction? It may be a conservative bias
Murray notes that although the prevention-focused response was far less extreme than the promotion-focused response, the pain-avoiding group appeared less able to enjoy a positive consumer experience. As a consequence, their controlled reactions left them feeling less joy when something went right–a phenomenon the researchers labelled a conservative bias.
“That conservative bias changes the way they see the world,” he said. “They’re a little bit more constrained in all their responses, at least in the realm of satisfaction.”
Get to know consumer audiences
Prior research suggests that there is segmentation across both gender and age lines. Specifically, previous work indicates that women and older adults are slightly more chronically prevention-focused, whereas men and younger people tend to be more promotion-focused. Murray says that changing our consumer characteristics may not be an option, but being able to understand how the other side responds certainly is. For the customer service world, this means helping staff to understand both groups, and preparing them for the reality that when it comes to complaints, one style does not fit all.
“To some extent, they can tell front-line people that, as older people approach them, they’re going to be more prevention-focused, they’re not going to be as extreme either way,” said Murray. “But when something has gone really wrong with that 21-year-old’s game console, they’re going to be a lot more upset and more likely to tell their friends.
“On the flip side, when they take it home and it works well and they really enjoy it, they’re more excited and happy, and more likely to tell their friends about it.”
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European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery: official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (Impact Factor: 2.4). 02/2011; 40(4):816-25. DOI:10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.01.018
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ABSTRACT The conventional methods of education, certification and recertification in cardiothoracic surgery face a paradigm shift in line with recent innovations in diagnostics and therapeutics. The attributes of a competent clinician entail proficiency in knowledge, communication, teamwork, management, health advocacy, professionalism and technical skills. This article investigates the skills required for a cardiothoracic surgeon to be competent. The relevant practice of certification and recertification across various regions has also been explored. Validated and competency-based curricula should be designed to develop core competencies to successfully integrate them into practice. Challenges to the implementation of such curricula and potential solutions are explored. Patient safety remains the ultimate aim to ensure excellence of both competency and performance.
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ABSTRACT: Background: Research has demonstrated equivalent patient safety outcomes for various cardiac procedures when the primary surgeon was a supervised trainee. However, cardiac surgery cases have become more complex, and the Canadian cardiac surgery education model has undergone some changes. We sought to compare patient safety and efficiency of aortic valve replacement (AVR) between Canadian patients treated by senior cardiac trainees and those treated by certified cardiac surgeons. Methods: We completed a single-centre, case-matched, prospectively collected and retrospectively analyzed study of AVR. Patients were matched between trainees and consultants for age, sex, New York Heart Association and Canadian Cardiovascular Society status, urgency of operation and diabetes status. Results:We analyzed 1102 procedures: 624 isolated AVRs and 478 AVRs with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). For isolated AVR, there was no significant difference in 30-d mortality (p = 0.13) or in major adverse events (p = 0.38) between the groups. In the AVR+CABG group, there was no significant difference in 30-day mortality (p = 0.10) or in the rates of major adverse events (p = 0.37) between the groups. Secondary outcomes (hospital and intensive care unit lengths of stay, valve size and type) did not differ significantly between the groups for isolated AVR or AVR+CABG. Conclusion: Despite a higher-risk patient population and changes in the cardiac surgery training model, it appears that outcomes are not negatively affected when a senior trainee acts as the primary surgeon in cases of AVR.
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Dozens of Kenya's top athletes, including Olympic hopefuls, are unable to train properly and are living in fear for their lives as violence convulses the Rift Valley, home of world distance running, in the wake of last month's disputed elections.
Elite runners told the Guardian they had been forced to cut training after receiving death threats and being accused of fomenting post-election violence. Two athletes, including Lucas Sang, a former Olympic 400m runner, have been killed. The impact on runners' daily schedules has left some concerned that they will struggle at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in March and at the Beijing Olympics in August.
Ezekiel Kemboi, the reigning Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion, said yesterday that he was training only once a day instead of the usual three times. "You can't run here now unless it's fully light," he said. "I know my chances of Olympic success are going down, but I have seen the cuts on Lucas Sang's body."
His coach, Moses Kiptanui, regarded as the greatest steeplechaser ever, told the Guardian that he was warned by police that he could be killed at any time. Security officers last week accused him of transporting petrol to burn down houses, and of ferrying guns and bows and arrows to gangs of Kalenjin youths targeting people from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu ethnic group.
With 56 other past and present runners, including Kemboi and Evans Rutto, winner of the 2004 London marathon, Kiptanui signed a statement dismissing the allegations and complaining of being trailed by security agents. "I am scared," said Kiptanui. "The police are armed; they know me and they know where I live."
The area around Eldoret, whose 2,000-metre-plus altitude and cool temperatures are ideal for training, has seen the worst of the ethnic clashes since Kibaki's re-election win was announced on December 30. Yesterday more fighting erupted in western Kenya, as groups attacked each other with machetes and bows and arrows.
The area has historically been occupied by Kalenjins but Kikuyus, favoured by Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, bought up land vacated by white settlers at independence. Resentment has simmered for decades. Most Kalenjins in the Rift Valley supported opposition candidate Raila Odinga in last month's election.
Kiptanui, 37, was on his farm outside Eldoret in the first week of January when he first heard rumours that elite athletes, most of whom are Kalenjin, were being accused of fuelling the violence that chased thousands of Kikuyus from their homes and saw hundreds murdered. He suspected the athletes were being singled out because of their wealth - overseas race winnings have allowed many runners to buy farms and erect office blocks in Eldoret town. "Because we have money and move between training camps some people must have assumed that we funded the violence and give lifts to the gangs," Kiptanui said. "They may also think that we are ones who can afford to buy the land of those chased way."
Sang, who became a large-scale farmer, was killed in an apparent revenge attack on Kalenjins late last month. The same day Luke Kibet, the world marathon champion, was hit on the head by a rock, and only his fast legs saved him from an approaching mob.
Then, a week ago, Kiptanui says his driver was pulled over by three policemen. They asked where Kiptanui was, and warned that both of them could be killed for their alleged role in the violence. Accompanied by lawyers the next morning, Kiptanui recorded a complaint with the police, and was assured that he was not suspected of any crime, and that the officers would be questioned. But yesterday he was told that the policemen concerned had still not recorded statements.
Other athletes have had similar experiences. William Mutwol, bronze medallist at the 1992 Olympics, received a text message saying his "head would be turned into soup". On Tuesday Wesley Ngetich, 34, a marathon runner, was killed by a poisoned arrow.
The attacks and allegations have caused deep anger. Moses Tanui, twice the Boston marathon winner, said: "As runners we always represent the country as Kenyans, not Kalenjins. We are the ones that helped earn Kenya's good reputation worldwide, so why are we being targeted this way?"
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If she isn't divorced before she has this baby, technically in California, Kris can claim to be the father. Now that would be a blower
341 days ago
So Harvey, I guess their check cleared and you are back on board.
341 days ago
So by saying he knew what was up??? are you saying that he was in on the scam??? if so that is grounds for an annulment. The prenup is not on trial, the marriage is.
341 days ago
Guess this whole Kris knew about the prenup thing isn't going to work... Back to the drawing board. Wasser has about three weeks left to come up with something better... Tic tock, tic tock..
341 days ago
So here knew about the prenup,duh.. he didn't know she was going behind his back in 72 days and end it.
341 days ago
Ummm, just because he was crystal clear on the details of the prenup does not prove that the marriage wasn't a fraud. Kim's camp is reaching!
341 days ago
Kayan Phoenix
Just cause there is a pre nup, and he signed it, doesn't mean she didn't defraud him, she didn't even try to make her marriage work, she got her wedding she always wanted, then filed for divorce .. Don't know why she would marry him when she wanted a half a fruit cake guy that's into fashion like her, kris is manly, she should of just hooked up with kayne from the start, since he's liked her for yrs, Kim is a real dumb ass
341 days ago
#137 Kayan I get what you're saying. The thing is it wasn't about a marriage to "someone she loved", all it was was a scam for ratings and $$ for a "big wedding show". Humphries thought it was for love. What a cold blooded bi*ach.
They thought Kris H. was a pushover and he's proven them wrong. hahahahehehe
(Kanye seems to be MIA)
341 days ago
f*ck kris humpries that mofo. he hurt my baby kim so much. kardashians4ever
341 days ago
i hope he gets the slut for all she has.
341 days ago
If the Kardashians stopped....Harvey and his staff would knock them over!
341 days ago
The fact that he was involved in the prenup negotiations and knew he was going to profit from the marriage (i.e. reality show, magazines, interviews) does not mean he knew Kim was marrying him only to boost ratings on her "reality show'. TMZ is so pro-Kardashian and anti-Kris (hence all the "Kris is stupid" references) it's sick! I hope he gets what he wants. I don't think he would have married her had he known she was doing this ONLY for publicity.
341 days ago
When Kanye "announced" her pregnancy, seems that he mentioned it was "unplanned." On the contrary, it was carefully planned and strategized by Jenner & Kim. NOTHING is an accident with the K.s. Kayne now has figured it out, he got DUPED!! Child support will suck! The K.s will laugh all the way to the bank. Kayne, not so much-
341 days ago
Kim got "accidentally " pregnant because Kanye failed to propose to her on her birthday. Once that happened, plan B was to get pregnant.
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Kanye, get this...If Kim really wanted to be with you for love, she would quietly settled her legal problems and protect your unborn child. What proud mother-to-be wear Georgia pine heels and squeeze into pea-pod size clothes? And Harv, Kim can come out a winner and it's doubtful many would embrace her. Why don't you harp on how quick Mrs. K. got pregnant by another man, or how she claimed the divorce problem was stressing her out, when in truth, she is worried baby daddy is cheating. You are suppose to be fair in reporting.
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1. Hunam
Been playing this most of the day. I seem to be at war with just about every other clan in Japan. I’m too weak to attack a lot of them, but strong enough to not lose any ground. My units are more defensive so I have to goad them into the attack.
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2. Grimrita
I havent touched this turd in months. Certainly the weakest of the series by a country mile and the most ‘dumbed down’, whoops, accessible
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3. UuBuU
Most dumbed down? You’re kidding, right?
The amount of whining i’ve heard about this game being too difficult is unbelieveable.
Unlike previous Total War games, the AI is actually semi-intelligent and tries to win the game. Apparently people don’t like this and want the Rome experience where other factions are basically doormats you can either steamroll over or con out of land through the poor diplomacy system.
As for the reduced number of buildings and units, this has a lot more to do with the setting than dumbing down. You’re obviously going to have a lot more variety in a game set in the whole of Medieval Europe than in Japan.
Anyway – DLC looks cool. I love the Ikko-Ikki clan, so i’ll definitely be getting this at some point.
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Dozens help beautify the Idora neighborhood area today
Published: Sat, November 13, 2010 @ 10:17 p.m.
At first glance, the small rectangular lot at Parkview Avenue and Volney Road on the city’s South Side looks sparse and desolate.
Tufts of yellowing grass look like small islands surrounded by dirt spots, with intermittent skeletal remains of weeds. A few small bushes with bright berries are scattered about, and fallen leaves nearly obscure sections of tall grass.
None of that, however, tells the story of neighborhood transformation; the cluster of 6-inch holes in the ground does that.
“This neighborhood has had it rough,” observed Victoria Rusu, an officer with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. “[Residents] want their neighborhood to be beautiful and want their homes and lots cleaned up.”
Rusu and five others were filling the holes with columbine, black-eyed Susans and other perennials that promise to add color and blooms to the corner lot next spring.
The six also were among dozens of volunteers who took part in Saturday’s Community Clean Up Day, sponsored by YNDC.
For the complete story, read Sunda's Vindicator or Vindy.com.
1UnionForever(1470 comments)posted 3 years, 4 months ago
You still can't walk on the Idora area streets at night or even daytime for that matter. The urban gangstas will get you!!!
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2Nunya22(315 comments)posted 3 years, 4 months ago
Section 8 and other low income places isn't the cause of crime. If it is then why are rich people and middle class people commiting crimes as well?
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3Millie(192 comments)posted 3 years, 4 months ago
Section 8 housing and government assistance for teenagers having babies has contributed to the decline of all communities. Section 8 by itself may be a a helping hand but all it attracts to the house or apartment is more people with time on their hands that don't work. Before and after photos of the houses when the tenants leave would be an eyeopener for all the do-gooders on this site. The filth, damage and clothing left behind is disgusting-just ask anyone who has lived near one of these rentals. The great society has failed society. Accolades to the residents of the Idora Park area for wanting to make their neighborhood better.
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4Traveler(606 comments)posted 3 years, 4 months ago
Section 8 has failed because we have took away there need to work to support them self. Idle hands lead to trouble. With all there extra time saved but not working they have found crime and drugs as a answer to there boredom.
AS someone that has work on section 8 apartments they live better then most of the middle class. Look at all the single moms on it. How many are married in all but name (Wifey) to their man. They don't want to get married because then there government benefits will end. She will have a baby claim to be a single mom without support and claim section8, food stamps, medicaid, power and phone aid. Then move the man who often has a job in to the apartment off the lease. With the government paying all the bills they can live the good life off his check nice big TV, nice car, nice furniture etc.
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We broke the story on how Stephon Marbury’s former mistress Thurayyah Mitchell sued him for a million dollars because according to her, Marbury entered into a legal binding mistress contract (yes those contracts do exists). Mitchell won her case and Marbury had to cough up the cash. Marbury’s wife Tasha is now a part of the Basketball Wives reality show (I assume to help pay the debt) and confirmed the story according to Bossip. “It’s a true story…It happened. It’s over with. It’s in the past. Things happen. Why y’all get all…I saw Tami head ducking and dodging. What you ducking and dodging for?” “It did happen. And I don’t have a problem discussing or talking about it. But it’s not gonna be something that I talk about forever ’cause it’s old, it’s stale. It is what it is…Listen, we all make mistakes.” Let’s not give that child too much energy…Let her take her little money and keep it moving…She saw a come up and she ran with it.” A little money? I think we have to remember we aren’t all former NBA players, $1 million is still a lot of money especially to a woman who was a chef before she became Marbury’s mistress. Nothing like a wife who brushes off not just her husband having an affair, but also paying off the mistresses. She fits in perfectly with the Basketball Wives.
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Fever : The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
The first major biography of the legendary singer--an enthralling account of a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous
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"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she'd just stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper she sold twenty million records, made more money than Mickey Mantle, and along with pals Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby presided over music's greatest generation. Yet beneath the diamonds she was still Norma Delores Egstrom, insecure and always looking for acceptance.
Drawing on exclusive interviews and new information, Peter Richmond delivers a complex, compelling portrait of an artist and an era that begins with a girl plagued by loss, her father's alcoholism, and her stepmother's abuse. One day she gets on a train hoping her music will lead her someplace better. It does--to a new town and a new name; to cities and clubs where a gallery of brilliant innovators are ushering in a brand-new beat; to four marriages, a daughter, Broadway, Vegas, and finally Hollywood. Richmond traces how Peggy rose, right along with jazz itself, becoming an unstoppable hit-maker ("Fever," "Ma�ana," "Is That All There Is?"). We see not only how this unforgettable star changed the rhythms of music, but also how--with her drive to create, compose, and perform--she became an artist whose style influenced k.d. lang, Nora Jones, and Diana Krall.
Fever brings the lady alive again--and makes her swing.
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Excerpt from Fever by Peter Richmond
Dreamland on the Train
In Dakota
ON THE BARE stage of a small town hall in the middle of an isolated farm village in a large, empty state, a blond girl sat at a piano with her back to the audience, playing the music she loved more than anything else in life. She was ten years old. The year was 1930. The town was Nortonville, North Dakota.
Friends and neighbors had gathered on folding chairs on the floor below. Like most of the people in those times, they had little to spare. The Depression was as unrelenting as the summer winds that scoured their parched topsoil and buffeted the town hall's six narrow windows that day. But the people of Nortonville were happy enough to listen to the girl play, and not only out of a sense of obligation--everyone knew she had troubles at home--but because the fifth-grader with the remarkably upbeat disposition was an obviously talented child.
Norma Egstrom had never performed in a venue as grand as the Nortonville town hall. The biggest room she'd ever played before was the practice space behind the sanctuary over at the modest Methodist church, where she sat at the Washburn upright piano. The town hall was the big time, the social anchor of a community boasting one bank, one hotel, threegrocers, a restaurant, a bowling alley, a blacksmith, a livery, a hardware store, and a railroad depot. A long, thin clapboard structure, free of architectural adornment, the hall had been raised from the dirt a dozen years before, in all of three weeks, by townspeople eager to see their crossroads claim some sort of recognition in the beleaguered grassy outback of the southeastern part of their state.
It was here that Nortonville gathered to watch the motion pictures, as kids chewed the sunflower seeds that grew in the endless ocean of fields surrounding their homes. It was here that citizens came to hear the lectures that brought news about the world beyond the plains horizon. It was in the hall that they skated, played basketball, and danced. And it was in the town hall that Norma Deloris Egstrom made her public debut in a recital on that summer afternoon in 1930.
Finishing her song, she rose from the piano stool and heard the applause: the unequivocal and tangible affection that only an audience can provide, a feeling that can be especially gratifying when acceptance is hard to come by in the usual places. She had always been a shy girl; she would later say that she'd sung before she talked. Now she'd spoken, and she'd been heard.
People in Nortonville who recall that day won't go so far as to say that the girl was the best child pianist they'd ever heard, but they still marvel at her dedication. They speak of her with pride, though some concede that even before she played a note, the members of the audience were already disposed to like her. Norma Egstrom's dad, a father of seven, the station manager for the humble Midland Continental Railroad depot just down the street, was a gentle, kind, whimsical man. But he was also a drinker. He wasn't morose, or somber, or violent, but neither was he responsible or accomplished. Marvin Egstrom was a "rail"--an itinerant depot manager and agent--at a time when depots and railroads dotted the landscape of America.
Before his sixth child's birth, Marvin's curriculum vitae had been a checkered one. He'd been a superintendent with the South Central Dakota line down in Sioux Falls until his drinking prompted the railroad to demote him to station agent. After that, he'd hooked up with the Midland Continental, up north in Jamestown, North Dakota, where, according to documents from the archives of the railroad's owner at the time, Egstrom had been associated with a scandal involving fraud and larceny.The railroad had exiled him to Nortonville, with a significant cut in salary, when Norma was eight.
Most people who knew him would say that Marvin Egstrom and the everyday did not, in general, make a good fit, especially in a part of the nation where a man was defined by the acreage he owned. The railroad people had no real place there. They worked for a machine that signified transience in a state that was still enough of a frontier to pride itself on roots, literal and figurative. The Midland, not one of the more impressive lines, comprised only seventy-seven miles of track running north and south from Wimbledon to Edgeley with just a dozen stops in between.
Marvin Egstrom was a pleasant, ineffectual man who, like nearly all of his family's members, had music in his soul. It manifested itself in unconventional ways, like the performance of an impromptu jig in the post office in the middle of the day, or a solo sung to the rails at two in the morning. "A couple of drinks," recalled one of Norma's classmates, "and her father could do the best soft-shoe dance you ever saw."
Marvin's wife, Min--Norma's stepmother--cut a very different figure. She was stout, dour, congenitally cross, and surrounded by rumors. One concerned the freak accident in South Dakota--involving a torch and a frozen valve on a drum of gasoline--that had blown her first husband's head off. Speculation would persist that the man had killed himself. His widow's stern and humorless demeanor did little to lessen the credence of the tale.
Other stories came closer to home, and were far more credible: Min Egstrom, it was whispered, beat her stepdaughter.
The people of Nortonville (population 125) knew little about Norma's early childhood up the road in Jamestown, the county seat. Jamestown could boast the college and the mighty Northern Pacific's terminal, as well as the headquarters station of the humble Midland. It was also the home of the "bughouse"--the state mental institution, south of town.
Norma's real mother, Selma Anderson Egstrom, had died in Jamestown at the age of thirty-nine, when Norma was four. In April 1924, she had given birth to her last child, a daughter named Jean, and was confined to her bed after that. On August 6, Selma passed away, leaving seven children: Norma, her five older brothers and sisters, and her infant sister. Marvin and Selma Egstrom had been married for twenty-one years.
With the Reverend Joseph Johnson of the Scandinavian Lutheran church presiding, the memorial service was held in the Egstrom home. Toosmall to peek over the coffin's side, Norma was lifted up to peer into her mother's casket. She would recall seeing a frail woman at rest. Selma Egstrom's remains were sent to her family's hometown of Volga, South Dakota, where she was buried. Norma's infant sister, Jean, went to live with Selma Egstrom's sister until the girl's death, at age fourteen, of "a heart ailment of long standing."
Norma was now the youngest in the household: a four-year-old with no mother, an alcoholic father, and her music. It was upon the occasion of her mother's death that Norma wrote her first song. "I remember writing a lyric to the song 'Melody of Love' when my mother died, when I was four," Peggy Lee would recall, many years later when her imagination and sense of her own myth had been heightened. "It wasn't a brilliant lyric, but I think it was interesting that a child would write one. I would walk around the house singing, 'Mama's gone to dreamland on the train.'"
Norma's memories of her mother's home were vivid. In later years she would recall Selma's crystal and fresh linen, the scents of her baking, and the melodies her mother sang and played on the keys of her prize possession: a Circassian walnut piano. As in so many households of the time, entertainment in the Egstrom house was left to the creativity of the family, and music had always been part of the Egstroms' lives. Years later, a classmate would remember that both Della and Marianne Egstrom, Norma's two older sisters, had exceptional voices. "But they did not," recalled the classmate, "have the oomph to do anything about it."
Six months after Selma's death, the Egstrom home burned to the ground. Until the family relocated to another place in Jamestown, Norma lived with the former in-laws, and then the parents, of Min Schaumberg, who had been working as the nurse for Norma's married sister Della's first child.
Norma enjoyed her time with the elder Schaumbergs as best she could. The old man's meerschaum pipe, his German-language newspaper, his old-world ways--these intrigued and comforted her. Best of all, they had a player piano. During the afternoons, the Schaumbergs would try to coax the girl into taking a nap in the parlor, but she spent more time on her knees pumping the pedals with her hands than she did sleeping.
More often, Norma would be in the yard outside, peering out through the black iron picket fence as she waited for her father to visit and take her away, if only for a meal. One day Marvin Egstrom arrived with news: MinSchaumberg would be Norma's new mother. Min's son, Edwin, would be her stepbrother. One year to the week after her mother's death, Marvin Egstrom officially took a new wife. The unusual figure they cut--the thin, pleasant Marvin and the fat, frowning Min--would prompt many remarks.
"I didn't want to imagine him loving her after mama," Norma would later write in her memoir, Miss Peggy Lee. "I often wondered why Daddy and Min got married. Was it because of what Marianne and I heard ... about Daddy being asked by [his supervisor] to 'fix the books a little for the good of the railroad'? It was something about the per diem reports. Was it because Daddy was drinking and Min knew and might tell on him?"
Far likelier was that Marvin Egstrom, a widower with several children, wanted a woman who could run his household while he tried to hold down his own job and his children did their share around the home and in the community. Like all the kids in Jamestown, Norma and her siblings who still lived at home--Marianne and brother Clair--would be sent out to help on local farms. It was Clair she was always closest to, though he did torment his little sister in the universal fashion of older siblings. When they had to harvest pails of gooseberries in a local park, Clair would stuff the bottom of his own bucket with grass and leaves and talk Norma into exchanging pails. When they'd help out on a local farm, Clair would get Norma to milk the cows that he was supposed to milk. As for Min's own son, Edwin, neither Norma nor Clair was particularly fond of him. The feeling was said to be mutual.
It is not hard to imagine bashful, quiet Norma acceding to her older brother's schemes. Self-conscious about her weight and no doubt baffled by the inexplicable (to a young child) disappearance of her mother, Norma had trouble meeting someone's glance. Her reticence even extended to the legendary local barnstormer whose aerial antics above the fields outside Jamestown provided prairie entertainment. Still, despite her shyness, Norma was fascinated with Ole Olson's Curtiss; it was said he could pick up a handkerchief with the wingtip of his plane. Norma wanted to go up into the sky so badly that one day, when Olson told her he'd take her if she'd dance the Charleston for him, dance she did, and up she went.
The escape was fleeting. Within days of her father's wedding, Norma's stepmother had wielded the willow switch she'd commanded the girl to pluck for punishment. Whatever the woman's motivation, discipline was frequent and formidable: "Florid face, bulging thyroid eyes, long blackhair to her waist pulled back in a bun, heavy breathing," was Norma's later recollection of Min. "Obese and strong as a horse, she beat everyone into a fright. Even the men were afraid of her."
Added to the physical beatings were psychological ones. Her stepmother would criticize Norma's physical attributes: She weighed too much; her hands were too big. "I grew up terribly self-conscious of [my hands]," Peggy Lee once said, many years later. "I would hold them behind me ... fold them up, never present them flat to view but edge-wise only. I was one of the quickest handshakers you ever saw."
When the Midland relocated Marvin and his family down to Nortonville, the Egstroms didn't have much to move. Norma took her love of music, and a subtle sound that had imprinted itself in her head during the years she'd lived just a few blocks from the busy Northern Pacific tracks: the downbeat of iron boxcar wheels clacking one after another, hundreds of them, forever on end. She would carry the rhythm wherever she went--just as she carried the songs she had learned to love--for the rest of her life. | https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/peter-richmond/fever/_/R-400000000000000688557 | dclm-gs1-006090001 | false | false | {
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0.560102 | <urn:uuid:1e496745-5393-4b70-8d25-e310f473f458> | en | 0.995712 | Snape couldn't believe it but he had apparated into hell. Saying the incantation, any incantation because he couldn't imagine any place being worse than where he was, he had ended up no better off. Mind dulled by pain and torture, and the liberal application of the crucious curse, all he could think to do was to get away from Voldemort and the Death Eaters, to go anywhere they weren't, yet here he was, somewhere unknown, still being beaten. This time by children.
Broken and dying, he didn't have the strength to fight back or the power to apparate away again. This was the end. He coughed. Wiping his mouth he saw blood, too much blood. More flowed. He realised he was cold, so very cold that it seemed to have seeped through his body into his bones, claiming control. Snape could feel his extremities going numb as the blood flowed from his body, and what remained struggled to maintain his life.
Dying slowly, Snape was at least glad of the release from the pain, even if that pain was only a small repayment for the pain he had caused during his tenure as a Death Eater. Boy's laughter surrounded him and he heard the crack of bones as they kicked him again. At least Voldemort had been a little more imaginative in his punishment. Snape stopped struggling and relaxed, knowing it would be over soon. He wondered if anyone would notice he had gone, and if they did, whether they would care.
He doubted it.
There was a scream. Snape wasn't sure but he didn't think it had come from his lips. He had learned, early on, how to bare the pain in silence. The kicking stopped. "Get the fuck away from him. He's mine." The voice ordered.
God, no, Snape thought, Voldemort had followed him. He trembled, terrified, waiting.
Snape felt the boys move away, backing off slowly. "You can have him, he's broken anyway," one of them replied, laughing, but with a slight hint of fear tinging his voice. Struggling to open his eyes, Snape watched as they turned and ran.
Relief. Relief flooded over the dying wizard at the cessation of further beatings, but he stiffened as hands reached out and touched him tentatively. "It's OK, they won't come back, not while I am here." It was a girls voice, quiet but slightly tense. "Where does it hurt?" She wiped the blood from his mouth and the hair from his face.
Snape didn't respond, couldn't respond. Unable to speak he simply looked up, terrified.
"Everywhere?" She asked.
Snape nodded in answer.
"I'll try and help." She pulled a blanket over him. It smelt of dirt, rubbish and urine but it was warm. Snape faded away, hoping never to return.
Snape didn't so much regain consciousness as awareness of the pain throughout his body crept up until he could no longer ignore it. He moaned weakly, no longer able to tolerate it and no longer able to ignore it, weakened as he was by the physical and mental harassment and torture that he had endured.
Unable to move, panic rose in him as he frantically endeavoured to move any body part. Nothing responded as it should, his efforts produced only small, jerky movements no matter how hard he tried. That caused more panic. He coughed once and that started a fit of coughing he couldn't contain. It hurt to cough. He could taste the blood in his mouth. He shivered, the coldness bitting into him. He gasped for air between bouts of coughing and prayed that he would die soon.
Beside him a body stirred. Snape froze, not daring to move a muscle in case the beatings resumed. He flinched as a cold hand touched his face. Pulling back involuntarily expecting to be struck, he was surprised when it didn't happen. Instead, soothing words flowed over him as the fingers of that hand wiped the blood away and stroked his face, easing him gently into unconsciousness.
The same scenario was played out over and over again for an indeterminate time. Snape would wake, pained, chilled and terrified, uncertain of anything except that he wanted to die, only to be soothed by the gentle touch of a stranger.
At one point he willed himself to open his eyes and look at his surroundings. He saw a young girl, a street urchin, unkempt and dressed in rags looking out of a dirty window with broken glass. She had blonde hair and was humming something wistful, a tune Snape vaguely recognised, but couldn't place. He closed his eyes, weariness flooding over him as his injuries took their toll, and slept.
Things gradually improved as his body healed, the worst, most dangerous injuries, the ones he shouldn't have survived, were still making their presence known, but at some point he regained enough awareness to realise they would no longer kill him. He wasn't entirely pleased with that scenario however - he still had no idea where he was and no real control of his body. He also realised he didn't have his wand.
Snape couldn't be certain that he had it when he escaped Voldemort but he though he had. Perhaps the boys that had beaten him had taken it. He knew he would have to find it if he was to have any chance of returning to Hogwarts. He tried to rise, at least to a sitting position, but his body protested. Wincing in pain, but containing the cry that rose to his lips, he fell back down, gasping as he hit the floor.
This time he didn't loose consciousness; this time he didn't get that relief. He was left conscious to watch as the blonde girl moved quickly to his side. She stroked his hair back. Snape could smell the dirt ingrained into her skin and under her fingernails. He noted that she was filthy and wore rags, she had now shoes, yet she touched him gently, her fingers straying only to parts they wouldn't hurt. He sighed, relieved to be in the care of such a gentle child, and wondered what had brought her to such a place.
Snape opened his mouth, wishing to speak, but still unable to. The girl watched him, watched as terror rose in his eyes. She stroked gently, not ceasing. "Shhh. It's OK, you will be alright. Don't try to talk or move, just rest. You have been badly beaten, but I won't let that happen again." She watched as the injured man considered her words then relaxed. "I am Jane."
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Warning:Slash. Alternate Universe. 'Out of Characterness'. HBP Spoilers.
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: R
Summary: The Spy who became an Artist. The Child who needed a home. The Recluse who became a Teacher and the Boy who saved the world. Sometimes, age is just a number and love can save the world.
Dedication: To Silverphoenix69 who kept me sane while I wrote this, and to Orionnaire for rescuing me and my French so many times.
NB: Story contains FIVE parts. Harry's age changes in each 'part'. To avoid confusion, keep this in mind as you read!
Le Petit Chat
Part I
The rain was setting by the time Severus was ready to leave, but he paid no attention to this. He would walk soaked and sick if he had to. He needed time out of the small studio that he called home and something as petty as rain was not going to stop him. Besides, it would help to break the silence or at least the monotony of his days. He liked the silence. The constant state of feeling guilt and regret, he could have done without, but time healed all wounds. Though, he was still waiting on the healing process to do its duty.
Five years, four days and counting.
That was the tally of how long he had lived with his sins. Well, not his sins exactly. He knew it wasn't his fault. He knew that he had done his best but they had still died and he still felt responsible. How was he to pay back his debt to the dead? It was a question that he had asked himself over and over but there was no solution that was acceptable. Most of them involved a healthy dose of reality and the courage to assimilate back into proper society.
As far as everyone knew Severus Snape no longer existed.
It was a name that once belonged to a wizard who had joined the wrong side. The wizard had not died but he may as well have. He was nameless now. No past, present or future because there were no people in his life to assign him one. Alone, silent and invisible to the people of this new era he was only as real as the stories that they told each night to their offspring.
He knew it. He could hear the whispers. Never mind that it had been years.
The Slytherin. No, the Spy. Some of the whispers had another tune to them, if he only paid attention to hear. The Death Eater, with the Dark Mark on his arm, who had betrayed his classmates by daring to join the side of evil. The deaths that had happened. He had been good at being bad after all. The Traitor. Well, actually not that traitor but one nonetheless. He and his comrades had sold their lives to the monster with a name too dark to say. The white shrouded in black. The recluse now. And one that had surprised all those who knew. The artist. Hidden. Talented.
The Spy who had become an artist.
It had a surreal ring to it, even when he said it in his head. He silently said it over and over, followed by words of explanation or begs of forgiveness. The dead could not forgive however. If he were brave enough he would seek out the ones who could grant him this reprieve. But, he wasn't a Gryffindor and Slytherins knew only how to be cunning.
The rain was pouring by the time he turned onto the street. Somewhere between Muggle-ville and So-what, he had lost track of the time. Since he couldn't very well go waving his wand about to use a time-telling spell he was left walking and walking for hours. And still the rain came down. Silent thanks went to whoever it was that was smart enough to invent the water-repelling spell. There were just some things that potions were too good to be used for.
Potions. Potions Master. His list of professions was long indeed.
It was the flash of peach that caught his attention. A rosier shade of peach. Peach mixed with a hint of red and the subtlety that was the colour white, to make the perfect blend of skin tone. With a mop of black hair that was not quite the shade of ebony that his own hair was. The figure was curled half lying on the mesh-looking metal of the muggle park bench. At some point the rain had thoroughly soaked him but now the little figure bent the droplets of water even in his sleep.
Severus could honestly say that he had never seen a child with that level of magic before. Most wizards relied on potions for protection when they slept because charms and spells only worked when one was conscious. Except for this child, apparently.
Severus walked over to him, a little reluctantly but determined. Up close the mop of hair was slicked over the tiny forehead and a good bit of it mingled with long lashes. He stirred, flattening the fringes of his wet hair over his forehead with a small hand, in a gesture that seemed automatic as he rose from his seat. Severus warily held his ground as the eyelashes fluttered upwards and the most amazing shade of green eyes looked up at him. They were the colour of summer grass but lit in childish innocence as if sparks of light illuminated them from within.
"Hello," the child whispered softly. "Are you going to take me home?"
"Home?" Severus asked just as softly. "Where do you live?"
"I live at Four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey." The reply was rotary.
"And who taught you how to say that?"
A small blush and a smile this time. "My Aunt Petunia."
"Do you live with this aunt?"
"Yes sir."
"What is your name?"
"Just Harry?"
He fiddled with the hem of his small shirt. "My Uncle Vernon says not to tell anyone my last name."
"How old are you?"
"I am five years old." Proud again, because he remembered.
"I suppose your Aunt Petunia taught you to say that too."
"Yes sir."
"Well where is your aunt and uncle now?"
Green eyes darkened with doubt. "I don't know."
"How did you get here?"
"My aunt took me and my cousin Dudley to the park but she's gone. She told me to stay right here and I stayed."
"Do you always listen to such preposterous instructions young man? It's raining, why didn't you try to find your way home?"
"She'll come back!" Indignant then, although 'preposterous' had him obviously baffled.
"So they have left you alone like this before?"
"Yes I thought so."
He was being very brave, fighting tears. Severus didn't like the look as the boy tried to unravel the thread on his grey shirt. His little fingers plucked at it. With his lower lip clenched between his teeth as his head bowed, small wisps of wet hair managed to separate from the mass of black still clinging to his head. He made quite the little image of innocence standing there. Severus gave in to whatever it was that clawed at the pit of his stomach at the look of tears in such pretty little eyes. He had seen eyes like that before, although those had been burning with anger. They reminded him of the debt he still owed to the dead.
"I cannot take you home. I don't know where this Privet Drive is, but I can have you over to my studio. I'm sure you probably feel rather uncomfortable in those wet clothes and you look as if your aunt and uncle haven't fed you for a year. Perhaps you'll come with me for a proper meal or at least until the storm has passed?"
His tone was all business-like as he proposed his solution. He had no idea what sort of intelligence someone of five managed, but he thought it insane to dumb himself down to that level.
Harry simply nodded. "Alright, but you'll bring me back here when the rain stops falling, right? My Aunt Petunia will be very angry if I don't come back. You won't steal me will you?"
"Steal you?" Severus looked down at him thoughtfully. "The idea had briefly crossed my mind but I'm not one to suffer fools lightly and I should think I am above even that. No I'll return you here as quickly as possible, provided you don't give me reason to send you back sooner."
They walked back in silence as each was caught in their own web of thought. Severus' stride took four of the little person's at his side so the walk was a little slower than it could have been. They knew each other's name now and Severus even knew a little more about his companion than he cared to but neither of them was the chatty type.
Severus actually hated to break the silence. "We're here."
"Oh." Green eyes blinked. "It's pretty."
He blushed as he said that as if he was barely ever allowed to give his opinion. Severus looked at him as he ducked in shyness and he couldn't help thinking that perhaps that was the case. The bits of information that he had gathered made him slightly uncomfortable and not just in the realization that although he couldn't stand children, this little boy had managed to capture his attention for a prolonged period.
"Pretty or not, it is all that I own."
There were three regularly occupied rooms - a bedroom, a bathroom and an everything-else room - but 'studio' was the name that he had dubbed it. There were canvases lined along the walls and paint sitting on the floor. Brushes were left balancing on any available space. For furniture there was a small couch near the centre of the room and a table and chair, for dining, behind it. There were paintings everywhere too of course. Hanging on the walls, drying where they were propped up against something else, lying on the mattress that was shoved into a corner for sleeping, the paintings gave the room a surreal air. Looking down at Harry, Severus supposed that this was what procured the comment of beauty. At his height the paintings were probably the only things worth admiring.
They ate in silence too.
Severus didn't have an house elf and it had been quite some time since he remembered to cook, so he relied on a quick flick of his wand and a spell that his mother had taught him years ago when she fell ill. The broth was simple because of the simplicity of the magic that made it. He had always liked the taste though because really, he had no other choice. Severus hoped that Harry liked it. It had no vegetables to deter from the taste and besides, he couldn't imagine someone as skinny as his little guest turning down food offered for free.
"Would you like some more?"
Harry shook his head.
Severus contemplated a drying spell but thought it best not to startle the child. When he had made the soup Harry had been preoccupied gazing in awe at the painting of a dragon that Severus had been working on just that morning. Just that morning, before mail had arrived. Before Severus had found the need to clear his head. Now that Harry had refused more soup there was no reason for Severus to whip out his wand. And although his mind could not entirely comprehend the reality of a wizard, as powerful as this child, not understanding what magic was, Severus thought to spare himself the bother of actually explaining. Besides, he could always dry the child later. Perhaps give him a potion to prevent him catching a cold also.
"You look like a wet little cat," Severus said thoughtfully, effectively breaking the new silence that they had fallen into.
Harry smiled his baby smile and ducked his head shyly again. "I like cats."
"I bet you do," Severus commented dryly. "Unfortunately you don't have quite the survival capabilities that they are rumoured to have and although nine lives would be beneficial at this point, I'd rather not assume that dying of a cold is beneath you. We will have to remedy that likelihood."
He moved away from the table. Since he had been standing to eat it was easy to manoeuvre his way to the other side of the room to fetch the potion that he would need. He showed Harry the vial just so as not to scare the child. Children hated medication, he remembered. Harry however seemed not to care. In fact he seemed pleased.
"One would think you've never been taken care of before," Severus said, thinking out aloud as he gave Harry a dose. "It's quite disgusting tasting you know so swallow quickly. I suppose you can feel lucky that you were never given medicine like this before."
Harry shuddered when he swallowed the potion. Severus took pity on him.
"Go lay on the couch and try to sleep. It will work better if you're not awake and I bet you would no sooner wish to remember the taste than you would if you happened to get sick." He instructed.
Harry didn't even think twice to follow the command. Instead he curled into the couch and seemed to immediately fall asleep. Considering that Severus had found him sleeping, it was no surprise really. Severus let him rest there for a while before finally giving in and pulled out his wand. He stood over the little figure, ready to cast the spell when he spotted it. Now that the child wasn't taking random swipes to hide it in his nervous little habit, Severus could see what hid beneath the fringes of wet black hair.
It was a tiny little scar in the shape of a lightning bolt on the child's forehead.
Severus' first impulse was to back away from the chair as quickly as humanly possible. The second was to levitate the child out of his presence. The third was to exact revenge against this offspring of the previous bane of his life, but that was silly because he still had a wizard debt to pay.
In the end he simply cast the drying spell on little Harry Potter before staring in awe at the true implications.
This little boy had saved the world at the price of his parents' lives. He had killed the Dark Lord and was left with only a lightning bolt mark. This little boy, who looked like he barely weighed twenty pounds and was the epitome of innocents had been marked by death and come out relatively unscathed. Severus had James' son in his home, on his couch, sleeping. Would wonders never cease indeed?
He looked like a kitten all curled up on the chair.
The artist in Severus reared its head and he barely had time to grab a fresh canvas, his other set of paintbrushes and paint, before his mind was working out angles and shadows. He took a seat on the carpeted floor, facing the couch. He wondered about moving the couch just a slight bit to the left, but then decided that the light was not so bad and he would rather not risk waking the child again.
And then he painted.
He got lost in the strokes of his brush and the colours that mixed and mingled on the canvas in just the right way to catch the cherubic face or the small body. He paused only to add a blanket at some point. He charmed it red and with hints of gold. Gryffindor colours. He dimmed the light with his wand to enhance the shadows even more. He wanted to capture the sense of innocence that seemed to dance in the air above the sleeping child. It had been so long since Severus had found himself in the presence of one so pure. It almost hurt to try and capture it but he was determined to get it right.
When he was finish he sat looking at it for the longest time. It seemed perfect, but perhaps his perception would change the next day when the little hero was no longer lying so trustingly on his chair. Still, it was probably one of the best pieces that he had ever done and something told him that it was more the model than his skills that had brought about such an effect.
Somewhere near the painting of the dragon he had left the letters. They were what had driven him to walk in the rain and now that he remembered them he looked around the room for them again.
They had arrived by owl post that morning within minutes of each other and were each stamped with an official looking seal of course. Severus had stared at each for so long that the wax had probably begun to melt from the heat of his gaze. It wasn't that he hadn't received letters before but these two were from the highest orders. One from his mentor and the other from the government. Either of them could render him a destroyed man in one way or another.
He opened the first as quickly as he could without actually damaging the letter.
Dear Severus Snape,
We are pleased to inform you that after a thorough investigation the Wizengamot has found you innocent on the count of treason... Your family estate and all personal property are hereby reinstated in your name and on proper identification will be returned to your possession... We hope to have your understanding that it was necessary to carry out this investigation and regret the years that have passed as we made our decision... We hope to have found you in good health...
There were a few bits of mundane information in between but Severus could focus only on the fact that he had been granted his identity again. That they had the power to previously rid him of it for five years, burned angry and bitter in his throat as it had for all this time. He had no reason to be an artist anymore. His manor was now back into his possession, if he wished he could disappear even further from existence. But he still had a debt to pay and he owed the world for his mistakes.
He reached for the second letter.
My dear Severus,
I hope this arrives to find you in good health. I am sure that by now you have received word of your acquittal from the Ministry of Magic. I was rather pleased to note that they have finally admitted what I have been adamantly trying to prove for all these years. Still it is better late than never and I am sure that while you will not find it in yourself to forgive the injustice of having them taken away, you are perhaps enormously pleased to be given your possessions again. If you allow it, together we can work to clear your name of the propaganda that has surrounded it for so long.
Perhaps a new identity is in order? There is a job that I have been saving for you these years and I wonder if now is the best time to offer you the position of Potions Professor of Hogwarts? Write me back as soon as possible to tell me of your decision.
And Severus, although you may dearly yearn to get as far away from England as possible now that you are allowed, and with your ties to France or the sheer brilliance of your artistic talent, I implore you not to run from your past. It is only in dealing with it by facing it that you will begin to heal. You have paid for your mistake of becoming a Death Eater many times over by becoming my spy and now that the Ministry recognizes this, there can only be a time of peace and healing ahead.
Keep in touch as always.
Albus Dumbledore.
The letter fluttered to the ground. Severus hung his head. A thousand thoughts flickered through his mind and each as opposites of each other. He could go away to France and walk the streets of Paris selling his painting. He would be recognized since his work was already famous. No one there would truly know him as the Severus Snape who had been a Death Eater. His fluent French would hide the British accent and if the wizards there accepted him as one of their own then there would be no need to hide. He could teach at Beaubaxtons. Not Potions, although he loved the subject. Perhaps Defence against the Dark Arts. He would never be allowed to teach it at Hogwarts. He could see the world again and heal in his own time instead of becoming the embittered man that he was well on his way to becoming. For now, at twenty-five, he was young and free. He didn't have to stay in England.
He looked over at the couch where the most innocent creature to wander into his life now slept. One day he would meet this child again. The cherubic look would be gone but the lightning bolt would still be there and if he cared to admit it the image of James would look out at him from the emerald eyes to judge him as the father had judged Severus. One day, if he stayed he could repay the wizard debt to the son in place of the father.
He accio-ed a fresh strip of parchment and a quilt, before he could change his mind, then he began to write a reply to the Headmaster of Hogwarts.
Dear Albus Dumbledore,
I would indeed be willing to accept the position of Potions Professor at Hogwarts if the offer still stands for my acceptance... I would however stipulate some conditions to this acceptance and hope that you will not find them too difficult to grant me the favour...
When he was finished he went into his bedroom to open up a floo to the castle and quickly flooed the letter over, lest he changed his mind at the last second.
On returning to the room he returned to sitting on the floor facing the sleeping boy and he grabbed the painting he had done. After only a moment of hesitation he began to paint again. This time he added the rug on which he now sat but instead of drawing himself, he drew a green and silver boa constrictor raised to stare enchanted at the boy curled on the chair. When he was finished with that he dipped a finer tipped brush into black paint and with a flourish, gave the painting a title, before adding his signature and the date.
Le Petit Chat…
The name seemed fitting to describe this little kitten. The hour was approaching in which he would have to wake the child but for now he could probably afford to fall asleep also. It had been a while since he had slept peacefully, but for now he knew that rest would come easier. Especially with an angel in the room who was a hero after all. Never mind that he was five and the son of Severus' childhood enemy. Perhaps in time the healing process would be completed. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2606907/1/Le-Petit-Chat | dclm-gs1-006230001 | false | false | {
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