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I'll buy Paper Mario first, get some more money for Mario Kart, get some more, then get Kid Icarus.
I'll be getting the inevitable Pokemon game too, whenever that is. (Black and White's third game?)
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Depends what the launch titles are.
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Out of what's known, OoT is the only sure-thing... Maybe Kid Icarus... Though I may wait until it's been out awhile and get it cheap...
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How do I get the mii mask?
Do you save the mii on your remote or what???
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When you are in the city, go to Harriet's place. The Mii makeover is ALWAYS free the first time, no matter what you do or how long you wait, but after the first time it costs 3000 bells just like changing your hairstyle.
As for how you save it, any Mii that is saved on your Wii, (inside the console and not the remote), is able to be used as a Mii mask.
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Go to the city during a time when you can go to the city, and go to the barber shop. Talk to the barber and she'll tell you about all the deals that she's offering, including a free Mii makeover. It might be free for a limited time, I'm not sure, I got it pretty early, but I'm thinking that she'll give it to you for free as well.
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I think the first Mii mask per character is free. You have to pay 3000 bells for any others.
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Go to the city, then on the right side go into the Barber Shop and ask Harriet for a total makeover, sit in the chair, choose the Mii you want and voila!
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Publication numberUS4218784 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 06/033,164
Publication dateAug 26, 1980
Filing dateApr 25, 1979
Priority dateApr 25, 1979
Publication number033164, 06033164, US 4218784 A, US 4218784A, US-A-4218784, US4218784 A, US4218784A
InventorsGary Richards
Original AssigneeGary Richards
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Dual-purpose diverter valve
US 4218784 A
A dual-purpose diverter valve designed particularly to be incorporated within an air-pressure system associated with hot spas, tubs and the like, wherein air is pumped into the tub water to create a massaging action therein, the diverter valve comprising an enlarged cylindrical housing having an inlet port and an oppositely disposed outlet port, the inlet port being connected to the air-pump side and the outlet port being connected to the tub side; and wherein the housing thereof defines a transitory chamber in which there is provided a dual-valve arrangement, the dual valve being formed between the inlet port and a back-flow-vent port, the inlet port including an inwardly protruding angular-valve set having a flexible valve-flap member adapted to close the inlet passage when air is not being pumped to the tub, and wherein the flap-valve member is arranged to disengage from the inlet-passage valve set and engage the back-flow-vent port, thereby closing the vent port during air flow through the chamber.
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I claim:
1. A diverter-valve device in association with an air-pressure system adapted for use with a hot-tub-spa unit, or the like, having conduit and discharge nozzles connected to said tub unit, comprising:
a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port oppositely disposed to each other, said inlet port being connected to the upstream side of said air-pressure system adjacent said pump, and said outlet port being connected to said downstream side of said air-pressure system, whereby pressurized air flow is allowed to flow through said conduits and be discharged into said tub;
a transitory chamber defined by said housing and interposed between said inlet and outlet ports for air-flow communication therebetween;
an inlet-valve set formed as part of said inlet port and positioned within said chamber;
a back-flow vent disposed in said housing adjacent said inlet port, and arranged at right angles thereto to provide communication between said chamber and atmosphere, whereby said inlet-valve set is angularly disposed relative to said backflow vent;
a vent-valve set formed as part of said back-flow vent and positioned within said chamber; and
a flap-valve member operably disposed between said inlet-valve set and said vent-valve set, so as to engage and close said inlet port when said air-pressure system is shut down, and to engage and close said back-flow vent when said air-pressure system is operational.
2. A diverter-valve device as recited in claim 1, wherein said valve device is mounted in a vertical position within said air-pressure system intermediate said nozzles and the air pump of said system.
3. A diverter-valve device as recited in claim 1, wherein the angular displacement of said inlet-valve set is disposed at approximately 45
4. A diverter valve as recited in claim 3, wherein said flap valve includes a means to pivot said flap-valve between said inlet-valve set and said vent-valve set.
5. A diverter valve as recited in claim 3, wherein said pivot means comprises:
an extended lip member attached to said housing; and
a pin securing said lip member to said housing.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to diverter-valve devices, and more particularly to a diverter valve designed to control the flow of gas in one direction and the flow of liquid in the opposite direction.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As is well known in the art, various problems and difficulties are encountered in providing suitable means for controlling the air and water flow within the pumping systems of spas, tubs, or other types of bathing facilities, wherein air is pumped into the water of the units to provide a massaging action within the water. Generally, the water will have a tendency to flow into the air conduits leading to the pumping mechanism. Due to the different installing methods and arrangements of the conduits and pipes, there is always a chance that the back-flow of water will reach critical parts of the system. Thus, there is a need for a simple device that will allow the air to be freely forced under pressure through the conduits to the tub, and yet prevent the back-flow of tub water from reaching the downstream pumping mechanism.
Accordingly, the present dual-purpose check valve is so designed as to freely allow air flow under pressure to reach and discharge, as required, into the spa or tub unit; and it is further arranged to close the downstream air conduits to any back-flow of water when the pressure system is closed down or shut off, whereby any back-flow thereof would be vented through a back-flow vent discharging the water to atmosphere outside the air-pressure system.
Hence, the present invention has for an important object a dual-acting-valve flap which actuates between an inlet-port valve and an outlet-vent port, the valve flap being operably located in a transitory chamber through which air pressure transfers from an air-pressure system to the tub in one direction, and prevents back-flow of water passing therethrough by allowing the water to freely discharge through the vent port.
It is another object of the invention to provide a dual-purpose check valve that includes a simple flap-valve member that actuates between the inlet port and the vent port, and is arranged to engage each respective port during and after the operation of the air-pressure system.
It is still another object of the invention to allow flow of air under pressure in one direction, and allow liquid to flow in the opposite direction without entering the downstream air conduits.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a check valve of this type that has relatively few operating parts.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide a device of this character that is easy to service and maintain.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character that is relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and is simple and rugged in construction.
The characteristics and advantages of the invention are further sufficiently referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings, which represent one embodiment. After considering this example, skilled persons will understand that variations may be made without departing from the principles disclosed; and I contemplate the employment of any structures, arrangements or modes of operation that are properly within the scope of the appended claims.
Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawings, which are for illustrative purposes only:
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a tub having water stored therein, and showing an air-pressure system including the present invention within the system;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the dual-purpose-diverter-valve device wherein the valve-flap member is shown set against the inlet-port-valve set; and
FIG. 3 is a similar cross-sectional view thereof, with the valve-flap member forced against the back-flow-vent port.
Referring more particularly to FIG. 1, there is shown a tub unit, generally indicated at 10, this tub representing any of the known type spas, tubs or swimming pools that incorporate an air-pressure system, as indicated as 12. Because the present device is used in combination with an air-pressure system, only that system is shown and referred to--since the water, heating and filtering systems are well known, and not directly related to the present invention.
As is well understood in the art, tub units such as 10 are adapted to have hot water recirculated therein and, in addition, are equipped with an air-pressure-supply system 12 which provides a continuous flow of agitated water that acts as a massaging means to individuals within the tub or pool.
Accordingly, the air-pressure system includes an air pump 14 having a conduit or a plurality of conduits 16 that are provided with several pressure-outlet nozzles 18 that discharge air 20 under pressure within the tub at selected locations, as seen in FIG. 1 entering from the bottom wall 22 of tub 10.
Thus, when the air system is turned off, a problem occasionally arises when water from the tub will back-flow through the conduits, with a chance of reaching air pump 14. In order to prevent such an occurrence of water reaching pump 14, a dual-purpose check valve, generally indicated at 24 has been devised, as herein disclosed. Said dual-purpose-diverter valve 24 is positioned downstream of the discharge nozzles 18, and preferably at a location between the pump and the conduit-riser section 26, the check valve being preferably positioned vertically in the conduit system. Although, the check valve will operate in a horizontal mode, a more positive action results when arranged as indicated in the drawings.
The dual-purpose-diverter valve 24 comprises a cylindrical housing 30 which defines a transitory chamber 32, said housing including at each respective opposite end thereof an outlet port 34 and an inlet port 36. Outlet port 34 is secured to conduits 16, which will be referred to as the downstream side; and inlet port 36 is connected to the upstream side of the conduits 16. Included within the annular wall 38 of housing 30 is a back-flow vent port 40 which is positioned adjacent to and at right angles to inlet port 36.
Pivotally attached within the housing 30 is a flap valve member 42 which is set against the inlet-port-valve set 44 in a normally closed mode, when the system is closed down. (See FIG. 2.) However, when air pump 14 is activated, air pressure is forced through transitory chamber 32 from inlet port 36 to outlet port 34 in the direction of arrows 45, the pressure at this time lifts flap valve 42 to an upright position, as seen in FIG. 3. The force passing through inlet port 36 causes flap valve 42 to set against the inner valve set 46 of the back-flow vent 40. Thus, the pressurized air readily traverses through chamber 32 into the downstream conduits 16, without venting to atmosphere through vent 40 which is closed at that time.
To aid in the sealing or closing of inlet valve set 44, valve set 44 is angularly disposed at approximately 45 set 46. This angular position also shortens the pivotal rotational movement of flap valve 42, whereby a simple pivoting means can be employed therein. It is contemplated that various pivoting connections can be employed with the flap valve 42; and thus, as an example, flap valve 42 is shown having a flexible extended lip member 50 secured to housing 30 by a pin 52.
At the time air pump 14 is shut off, flap valve 42 will return to the angular valve set 44, thereby closing and preventing any back-flow through inlet port 36. Accordingly, when water passes into conduits 16 and enters chamber 32--as indicated by arrow 54 in FIG. 2--the water will be allowed to discharge through back-flow vent 40, indicated by arrow 56.
Thus, during the operation of the air-pump system, flap valve 42 serves the purpose of allowing pressurized air to traverse through chamber 32, and preventing the air from passing through vent 40. When the system is turned off, flap-valve 42 prevents water back-flow from entering the upstream side of the valve, and allows the water in chamber 32 to discharge to atmosphere through the open vent 40.
The invention and its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description; and it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope thereof or sacrificing its material advantages, the arrangement hereinbefore described being merely by way of example; and I do not wish to be restricted to the specific form shown or uses mentioned, except as defined in the accompanying claims.
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US5016618 *Aug 23, 1988May 21, 1991Simmons Thomas RMethod and apparatus for massage
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U.S. Classification4/541.5
International ClassificationA61H33/02
Cooperative ClassificationA61H33/60, A61H33/02, A61H2033/023
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Toyota argues the plaintiffs have been unable to prove that a design defect, namely its electronic throttle control system, is responsible for vehicles surging unexpectedly.
"Plaintiffs infer negligence and strict liability on the part of Toyota based on unsubstantiated circumstantial information," Vincent Galvin, an attorney for Toyota, said in court documents.
"Unless and until plaintiffs can provide factual allegations of a specific defect in the (electronic throttle control system) that caused the subject vehicle to experience a sudden unintended acceleration event, plaintiffs' product liability and negligence claims should be dismissed," he said.
Plaintiffs' attorneys contend the Japanese company bought back cars from drivers who reported acceleration issues, had them sign confidentiality agreements and some of its own technicians found vehicles speeding up without pressing the gas pedal. Toyota has denied the allegations.
The lawsuits, consolidated and assigned to Selna, seek compensation for injury and death due to sudden acceleration, while others claim economic loss from owners who say the value of their cars and trucks plummeted after the recalls.
In September, the company paid an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit with the relatives of four people killed last year in a high-speed crash near San Diego when a driver was unable to stop a runaway Lexus. The incident galvanized attention around possible safety flaws in some Toyota models.
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Long-cursed South Carolina, which lost the legal right to be called USC, is No. 3 in the USA Today coaches' poll. The Southern Cal of gridiron lore is No. 9 and looking strong since the Stanford loss.
South Carolina has reached heights never before thought possible. The football program stricken for a century by the "Chicken Curse" sits at the cusp of greatness within arm's grasp of the national title.
This is a school that has captured one conference title in its history — and it wasn't the SEC.
Spurrierville has won 10 straight games for the first time, and its 35-7 demolition of Georgia marked its third straight win against the Bulldogs — also a first.
"They can't say they own us anymore," Head Ball Coach Steve Spurrier said after Saturday's most impressive win.
The No. 3 poll ranking is South Carolina's highest since the 1984 team celebrated being No. 2 by losing to Navy.
The "real" USC also has reason to rejoice after climbing back from a 14-0 hole at Utah to win, 38-28.
Voters like that kind of road moxie and, with three top-10 schools suffering defeat, the Trojans picked the perfect weekend to mount a comeback charge.
USC moved up three spots to No. 9 in the coaches' poll and two spots to No. 11 in the Associated Press index.
Since the USA Today poll is the one used in the BCS standings, which debut next Sunday, this is real progress for a USC team written off as a tax loss after the Stanford loss.
USC has two remaining games against teams currently ranked in the AP top seven: Oregon and Notre Dame.
USC misses suddenly significant No. 10 Oregon State (whew) unless the teams meet for the Pac-12 title.
Can you get to the top, on Oct. 7, from No. 9?
Why not?
Others making our pat-on-the-back list:
-- West Virginia. We're not sure a team can win the national title giving up 63 points one week and 45 the next, but there is no denying the Mountaineers' "wow" power after Saturday's 48-45 win at Texas.
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BTW, don't knock SMB. It's one of the better games for the NES and most games for that era had similar endings.
Twisted Metal 3. Hard game, for a reward that wasn't quite worth it. All the endings were suck-ish. Understandably it's about dark humor: that's kind of the point to the storylines of EVERY TM. Unfortunately in TM3, EVERY stinkin' ending made a *mockery* of whatever character you chose. There is no irony, and the absurdity is overblown like a really bad fairytale. It isn't really as funny as its predecessors. Who the **** wrote this game's storylines for the characters anyways? It has about 14 different endings. Some are sort of funny but the rest just suck.
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Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom, a volume in Springer’s series of Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, is about representation theory and the fundamental role it plays in quantum mechanics and the prediction of quantum phenomena. The author concentrates on one example of a quantum system with symmetry, namely a hydrogen atom with a single electron. There are digressions aplenty, but the main goal is to make predictions of the numbers that characterize the basic state of a quantum system using only symmetry and the linear model of quantum mechanics.
The intended audience for this text includes advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students in mathematics, physics or chemistry. For physics and chemistry students, the author offers mathematical foundations for calculations that they may have already learned to do. Mathematics students get to see a powerful application of “pure” mathematics in an extraordinary story of a mathematical success.
After some preliminary background material on quantum mechanics and linear algebra over the complex numbers, we are introduced to Lie groups and Lie group representations. Right away we meet the major players: the special orthogonal groups SO(3) and SO(4) and the special unitary group SU(2). The next couple of chapters describe how new representations are created from old ones, what irreducible representations are, and why we should care about invariant integration. The book culminates with three chapters on the hydrogen atom, its symmetry and representations. A key piece of this is a presentation of Fock’s original construction of a representation of SO(4) on L2 (R3), the phase space of the hydrogen atom. Two final chapters look at projective representations, electron spin and quantum computing.
This is an attractive text with much to offer anyone interested in the interplay of mathematics, physics and chemistry. The author suggests that the book is ideally suited for mixed groups of science and mathematics students who can benefit by sharing and pooling their expertise. Nonetheless, the approach is rigorous and most results are proved, with the exception of a few things like the Stone-Weierstrass and Fubini theorems. Prerequisites include a strong background in calculus and linear algebra; a nodding acquaintance with differentiable manifolds and the Lebesgue integral would also be useful.
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Ron Chimelis, The Republican By Ron Chimelis, The Republican The Republican
on June 03, 2012 at 1:17 PM, updated June 03, 2012 at 1:24 PM
2012 UMass CommencementStudents cheer during the University of Massachusetts-Amherst 2012 commencement on May 11. The address by Chancellor Robert C. Holub warned of the challenges ahead.
Maybe those lists of endangered species should add another life form.
The optimist.
Thinking tomorrow might be better than today, or at least no worse, is so yesterday. Or yesteryear.
University of Massachusetts chancellor Robert C. Holub chose commencement to warn graduates not to get their hopes up.
"Your fortunes in the economy may rise and fall. Over the course of your life, they probably will rise and fall,'' the chancellor said.
"You may be on top one day and struggling the next .... still, your education is your own.''
All that was left out was Holub reminding our eager young graduates that we're all going to die someday.
If I'm a UMass grad in the audience, I am listening to the chancellor's warning and asking why I paid for all this education, just to get squashed like a bug in the real world.
It is hard to criticize Holub for telling the truth. Taken literally, his words are indisputable.
My problem with it is not just that graduation is not the moment to look at life in its most harsh, literal terms. Holub recognized as much.
It's that I don't think it's very healthy to live life that way in general.
Do not misunderstand. In a world of optimists and pessimists, I have always aligned myself with the P-Boys.
It still bothers me when people of influence sum up their vision of the future like this: It could be bad, you know.
Yet that seems to be the slogan, not the exception in 2012 America. This is why Holub's words, which took second billing at commencement to a tremendous speech by newsman Ted Koppel, have gone either unnoticed or unquestioned.
Holub inadvertently hit on what bothers me about current society. He disguised a cynical message as blunt candor.
What also bothers me is that his warning of a bumpy ride probably resonated with his audience. As the chancellor indicated, today's 22-year-olds are not so easily fooled into think a rosy future awaits.
Many have begun job searches and found dead ends. Others have seen their parents or friends butt heads with life and come out second best.
It also speaks to the assumption that most graduates are looking at the future in purely financial terms.
Had John F. Kennedy made his famous speech ("Ask not what your country can do for you'') in today's climate, I worry what the reaction might be.
In 1961, it sparked a generation of idealist, activists, Peace Corps volunteers and so on. Some of that still exists today, but it is being lost (or worse, disparaged) in a world where all generations are asking, "What's in it for me?''
Optimism has been mistaken as a synonym for naivete. Not only is that a hard way to look at life, the alternative of pessimism has the power of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Most stock market experts, for instance, identify widespread fear of a market plunge as a reason it may happen.
Walk into most any office. The people treated as most annoying are often not the grouches, but the minority of cheerful, upbeat folks who actually enjoy what's going on around them.
America was built on creativity and diversity, but a crucial ingredient was motivation. That only comes when people, often but not exclusively young people, put aside the cruel reality that it might not work out all the time - or even at all.
Holub is the outgoing chancellor. That's "outgoing'' as in leaving, not cheerful.
He has done many good things at UMass. It still unnerves me that his message to the Class of 2012 sounded like a rewrite of Barack Obama's 2008 motto.
"Yes, you can. But don't count on it.''
Looking at the future with trepidation is in. Believing it will all work out is so out that it doesn't even have a place at events designed specifically to celebrate it, like commencements.
The UMass graduating class has been warned not to get its hopes up. I liked our chances better when the message was to plunge our energies into making things better, not brace for the fact we can't. | http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2012/06/lifes_realities_should_not_intrude_on_every_moment_of_optimism.html | dclm-gs1-022620000 |
0.259431 | <urn:uuid:6ac92b78-daca-41a1-8c3e-2d24d34015eb> | en | 0.969639 | Wichita police are looking for the man who held up the Dollar General on S. Glendale.
Police say the suspect went into the store and went to the checkout stand where a clerk was ringing up another customer. He told the clerk to put some money in a pillowcase and demanded the customer's wallet.
At that point, a second clerk came up to the counter. The suspect ordered her around the counter. She refused and tried to knock the gun out of the suspect's hand. The two got into a physical altercation and he struck her over the head with the gun.
The suspect eventually took off without getting any money.
The injured clerk was taken to the hospital for stitches. | http://www.mcall.com/topic/kwch-jab-police-looking-for-dollar-general-robber-20110810,0,5142763.story | dclm-gs1-022630000 |
0.020988 | <urn:uuid:3f8ae0e4-a312-4b35-8a07-9f7aab4173c0> | en | 0.93768 | Police: Man tried to flush cocaine down toilet of Smyrna motel
alleged cocaine dealing
Anthony Jones, 38 (left), and Elzie Gibbs, 50.
Credit: Delaware State Police
Delaware State Police on Thursday arrested two men for allegedly dealing cocaine from a Smyrna motel, a development they say was the culmination of a monthlong investigation.
Detectives with the Kent County Drug Unit, with assistance from several other state and county task forces, around 2 p.m. executed a search warrant at the Economy Inn Motel, located at 4133 S. DuPont Highway.
Once inside the room, officers said they encountered Anthony Jones, 38, of Smyrna, who allegedly failed to follow commands to get on the ground and instead fled into the bathroom, where he began to flush cocaine down the toilet.
Officials said they were eventually able to wrestle Jones under control and take him into custody.
Also arrested inside the motel room was Elzie Gibbs, 50, of Dover.
Detectives allegedly recovered from the scene 15.5 grams of cocaine, along with drug paraphernalia believed to have been used to distribute the cocaine.
Jones and Gibbs were both transported to Troop 3 in Dover and arraigned at JP2.
Jones is charged with the possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, the possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver, first-degree conspiracy, tampering with physical evidence and resisting arrest.
He was jailed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in lieu of $31,000 cash bond.
Gibbs is charged with the possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, the possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver, first-degreey conspiracy and tampering with physical evidence.
He was jailed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in lieu of $29,000 cash bond.
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hi all-
I am a FTM with a 5 week old girl. Looking forward to sharing and learning from others. I am currently exclusively breastfeeding and am particularly curious and open to an attachment parenting style. One thing I am struggling with is all of the opinions from others on feeding and sleeping! One good thing about being sleep deprived is that I am not so afraid to speak my mind! It is still frustrating how everyone and their mother (including my own! Lol) has something to say about everything related to my baby!
Ok, vent over!
Other than that, mothering is pretty cool redface.gif
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Welcome to the wonderful, scary, heartwarming, crazy world of being Mom :)
As for others an'd the opinions, you would get it no matter what parenting philosophy you would subscribe to! People do mean well but I have found the "Thanks!" and going about your own thing the easiest response to them. Really, you do what you have to for your kid and what others think doesn't matter.
My sister used the Ferber "Cy it out" method with her kids. Swears by it! "They sleep through the night at 4 months!" she would say. My kids were in our room till over two. They haven't been back since (we do stay with them when they on occasion wake in the night). Hers are in bed with here most nights now according to her. Who came out better? I think the AP sister wins here ;) lol
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LOL You sound like me!! I've learned to tell the ones I don't mind offending to shove it, and everyone else I smile nicely and just say thanks. Here's my philosophy on the sleep thing, no 12 year old is going to come climb into your bed, or let you rock them, or nurse them or anything else, so enjoy it while you can because it goes fast! My 3 year old will sleep in his own bed, but he's scared to fall asleep on his own there, so my husband lays with him until he falls asleep, and sometimes he has to go back in during the night. The other day I asked him why he's still doing it when I told him ways he can wean DS off of that. He told me there was a bonding factor there that he's enjoying while he can.
So the way I see it, do what feels right to you, for as long as you can, because they grow up fast and before you know it you can't cradle them anymore, and you send them off to school and relinquish control to someone else, that's hard. If you raise a "mommy's boy or girl" in the process big deal, at least they'll come and talk to you when they're 16 and have they're first broken heart or have those tough questions that you don't want them asking their friends about.
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My 2 year old already wipes off my kisses. When I ask her why she tells me "Because I a snot!" and smiles at me.
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0.02017 | <urn:uuid:871408ab-125c-4e3f-8e99-c484fb23b39f> | en | 0.966725 | How Much Bang Do We Get For Our Infrastructure Buck?
| Thu Jun. 13, 2013 6:51 PM GMT
Responding to a CAP report about how to grow the economy, Josh Barro pushes back on the contention that we have a serious infrastructure problem. Setting that aside for the moment, his follow-up comment is worth addressing:
Is this true? I don't doubt that it costs more to build public infrastructure in America than it does in, say, China or Mexico. But is it more expensive than in Spain or Germany or Denmark? If so, why?
As I said, this is worth addressing. Unfortunately, I can't find anything very authoritative on this subject. Does anybody know of anything? Even given the obvious problems of construction in an already-built environment, the cost of building infrastructure in America, as well as the time it takes to complete anything, has always struck me as puzzling. If this problem really is worse here than it is even in other densely built, advanced economies, I'd sure like to know why.
UPDATE: Alon Levy has some raw numbers for rail projects here and subway projects here. His figures suggest that average U.S. costs per mile are considerably higher than in Europe. Stephen Smith takes a crack at explaining why here. (If it sounds familiar, it's because I linked to Smith's column last year.)
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Whenever there was a break in high school that wasn't just a three day weekend the first half would always be spent sleeping. When Chelsea finally woke up she found herself at Katrina's house. Chelsea had already explained over and over again to both sides of her mind that she would do something productive with her summer. She would have a good time. She would do stuff. Real stuff. Make stuff. Make friends. She guessed she was already off to a phenomenally fantastic start just sitting at Katrina's computer as her friend did her nails. Sarcasm was always a way to combat the evil forces of boredom. Chelsea looked at the bright computer screen in front of her. She couldn't tell which was giving her more of a headache. The screen being mostly white or the fact that it was an all too familiar blank Google page. Nothing to do on the internet. This was a new level of boredom. She couldn't even waste her life on the internet.
Maybe she could try to talk to Katrina but for some reason the epitome of their time ever hanging out was just them both being in the same room doing individual activities. Katrina's dad was away for the weekend like Chelsea's mother. The day before, Katrina was being dramatic saying that her single dad and Chelsea's single mother were on a date together and that was of course the only explanation that they were both gone for the same weekend for work. Apparently Katrina didn't know what a coincidence was. And if she did she would see it as a myth. The thought scared Chelsea to death. Though Katrina was her friend she couldn't imagine living with her and calling her her sister.
As Chelsea imagined the horror she found herself turned around in the computer chair and watching Katrina sit on her bed and paint her toenails a bright neon green. It hurt Chelsea's eyes just as much as the computer screen did. Thinking of such a terrible sibling, a question entered her mind. She thought for a moment about how Katrina would act to her asking and she understood Katrina would probably make something out of nothing. Chelsea pushed the question around in her head whilst petted Katrina's sleeping dog under the computer desk. Then again…
"Hey, Tri?"
"Mhm…" Katrina didn't even look up from what she was doing.
"Is your brother here?" Instantly as Chelsea had asked–or dared to–she had Katrina's full attention. Katrina stared Chelsea down with wide, lazar beam eyes. "I really wanna meet him." Chelsea said a bit less comfortable than before.
"You can't." Katrina said simply. She flipped her orange hair over her shoulder and dipped her brush back into the polish. She let the conversation go so quickly, losing her lazar eyes and interest in it all.
"I said no!" Katrina screamed, suddenly very irritated again. She had screamed so loud that Chelsea was surprised that a disembodied wind hadn't blown her hair back or tipped the desk chair she sat in.
In Chelsea's mind, she was at least thankful that she and Katrina were doing something together now. Even if it was arguing.
"What? He can't be that bad. How old is he? Seven?"
Katrina looked at Chelsea now as if she was crazy.
"He's eighteen." Katrina said, silencing Chelsea who had to take a moment to understand. "And he's totally insane." Katrina went back to painting her last few toes. "A couple weeks ago he tried to bash in his head on the marble countertop in the kitchen." She finished her toes in silence as Chelsea wasn't contributing much to the conversation anymore. But when she did it came out faint.
"You're exaggerating." Chelsea didn't quite believe her own words either.
"Just wait." Katrina said as she capped her neon green nail polish.
Night came almost too quickly. Chelsea and Katrina had fallen asleep in Katrina's bed after long talks about things Katrina liked and Chelsea disliked. That was conversation though. Chelsea kept the conversation back on Katrina's brother as much as she could. It was perhaps the only interesting thing at the time for her. All she learned from Katrina was that her brother was a freak that she should stay away from.
The hours ticked by quickly as Chelsea slept. The clocks of the house struck three in the morning and at that time all Katrina had said became a reality.
Chelsea's eyes shot open to the most frightening sound she had ever heard. It was the sound of pure horror, a man dying in the gutter from being stabbed. It sounded just like that to her. It was a gut wrenching, raspy, and disgusting scream. It was the wail of the Banshee. Chelsea stayed still in bed staring at Katrina who didn't even bat an eye. She stayed still, sleeping soundly. Chelsea held onto the sheets tightly and like a doppler effect, the screams left quicker than they came.
Chelsea sat up in the bed keeping her eyes on Katrina. She couldn't understand how she was still sleeping. The only explanation was one that frightened Chelsea more than the fleeting scream. Katrina must have gotten used to it. That scream didn't come from Chelsea or Katrina, it could have only come from the other inhabitant of the house.
Chelsea could barely see through the pitch black room all except for the yellow light coming from the crack under Katrina's bedroom door. Chelsea watched the bright gap for what felt like an hour. She widened her eyes in an attempt to see more in the darkness though it didn't help. Though she prayed she wouldn't hear the scream again she was waiting for it to come back. She was terrified but through it all she tried her best to pull herself back to reality. What if whoever screamed was hurt? What if something was wrong? Obviously it was if someone was screaming.
Chelsea's adrenaline kicked in and she rose from the bed placing her bare feet on the soft carpet. She moved silently in her silk pajamas following the light from under the door. Her steps were short in the darkness until another much higher pitched scream stopped her dead in her tracks. It was like an animal being tortured and just as Chelsea heard it she practically tripped. Something soft moved just by her leg and she felt so much better when she realized that this time it was just Katrina's dog Reggie. He had been sleeping soundly in the middle of the floor until Chelsea had stepped on him. Chelsea calmed her heavy chest and Reggie–who was fine–scurried off under Katrina's computer desk and lied down to sleep once more.
Chelsea's focus returned to the door and now she took a few, much more careful steps towards the light. Just as she was about to take ahold of the doorknob she saw two shapes break the flow of light underneath the door. Two feet. The only other person in the house was standing just on the other side of the door. And they just stood there. Waiting. Then just like the shrieks they left as quickly as they had come. The feet had walked to the right just up the hall. Chelsea felt a bit trapped in the bedroom, unable to escape. There was the soft click of a door opening and the squeak of old hinges. Chelsea took this as cover to open up Katrina's door and peer out into the brightly lit hallway.
Chelsea's eyes took a moment in the light to adjust and then she saw him. And there seemed to be nothing wrong. She couldn't see his face but she could see he was tall with blue jeans and a dark jacket. He put his left hand through his thick black hair before disappearing through the doorway to the hall bathroom.
What was strange to Chelsea was the lack of strangeness to him. Maybe being fully dressed in the middle of the night was strange but it wasn't enough for Chelsea to believe Katrina's rantings about her freakish brother.
The bathroom door slowly started to close using its old hinges for help and right as it clicked shut Chelsea heard another, even louder, more terrifying shriek. It wasn't the dog and it wasn't her imagination. It was him. Chelsea slammed Katrina's bedroom door shut. In the darkness she waited with her eyes jammed shut. She heard the bathroom door open once more and the soft smacks of bare feet on tile transfer to carpeting. The bright flow of light by Chelsea's feet was broken once more from Katrina's brother leaving the bathroom and going down the hall to the kitchen.
Once the sky outside Katrina's window turned to a rich blue Chelsea stepped out of Katrina's bedroom and into the hallway. It was still lit but there was no sight of Katrina's brother anywhere. The door to the hall bathroom was open and Chelsea took her need to change out of her pajamas as an excuse to check it out.
As she changed clothes she saw nothing out of the ordinary in the bathroom. A shower, shower curtain, sink, toilet, mirror. Nothing strange. Nothing worthy of a scream. She put her pajamas back in Katrina's room with Katrina still sleeping. Chelsea considered going back to bed. It was probably no later than five-thirty in the morning but her stomach rumbled and she knew she was in desperate need of five a.m. cereal. Walking down the hall the kitchen opened up before her and she went straight to the pantry for the Lucky Charms but was pleasantly surprised to see Katrina had Frankenberry. Chelsea poured herself a bowl and watched the milk turn pink. It was just about the same pink that was coming from the sunrise through the kitchen window. In the front yard was a big brown and black Rottweiler that was most likely the neighbor lady's. He was sniffing the green grass to the right side of the driveway just beyond the limits of Ms. Barker's property. Chelsea watched the dog for a moment as it buried its nose in the grass and seemed to bark without opening its mouth. The bark sounded closer than the dog and Chelsea smiled when she looked down to her side seeing Reggie. He was sitting obediently, wagging his tail against the floor like a sweeping broom. Chelsea looked at him with a puzzled face but then just took the milk back to the fridge. Reggie followed and awkwardly stepped around the opening fridge.
"You're a weird dog you know that?" Reggie perked up his ears to Chelsea's speech.
Chelsea pushed bits of her pink cereal down into the milk trying to drown every marshmallow in the pink milk so it wasn't too hard. Reggie barked again but a little louder this time. Chelsea looked down at him and tried her best to think of what he wanted. She picked up a bit of her cereal that was stuck to the rim of her bowl and held it down to Katrina's Bichon. Reggie hopped up on his back legs and took the cereal piece from Chelsea's fingers and munched on it happily.
Chelsea took her bowl with her from the kitchen and into the living room patting her leg for Reggie to follow. Now with a taste for Frankenberry he did.
Chelsea took a seat on the couch noticing the living room was just as empty as the kitchen. It had a television, a coffee table and a mantle but no brother. If Katrina had a bedroom certainly her brother would have one too. From Chelsea's previous middle school visits to the Crane house she never saw a room for Katrina's brother. She never saw the brother either. She knew there was a guest room upstairs next to Katrina's dad's room and his office but that was always barren. Chelsea wondered if it was just as vacant now as it was back in middle school. She sat on the couch and stared up at the staircase to the second floor. It was worth a shot and Katrina probably wouldn't wake for another few hours.
Chelsea heard a lapping noise like water from a dog bowl and looked down to see Reggie sitting next to her on the couch face deep in her bowl of cereal. She quickly pulled the bowl away from him. He licked his now pink and dripping chin which made Chelsea laugh. She put her hand under his mouth and caught most of the pink milk and wiped much of the stuff from his chin only realizing after that her hand was now covered in it. The closest thing to a paper towel in the room was Reggie so in the end he got a nice pet from Chelsea's dirty hand and for some reason he looked happy about it.
"C'mon." Chelsea said to Reggie. She put her empty bowl on the coffee table in front of her and got up with Reggie following extra happily. Monster Trilogy cereal can do that to a dog.
The now pink dog raced up the stairs after he saw where Chelsea was heading and he waited patiently at the top with his tail wagging. Chelsea saw the door to Katrina's dad's bedroom on the left and then his office door on the right leaving the guest room just ahead. The door was opened slightly and Reggie ran right in. Chelsea followed and saw the only inhabitant of the mostly blank room was Reggie lying in the bed.
"C'mon Reggie." Chelsea patted her leg again for the dog to follow and they went back downstairs. Reggie still happy. Chelsea still confused.
Chelsea took her bowl to the kitchen and washed it out. Things were silent all except for the sink's running water and a ruckus from below the kitchen floor. Chelsea stopped the water. It sounded again. It was much like a strong punch to a pillow. Reggie immediately left Chelsea's side and ran around the kitchen island and down the small staircase to the closed basement door. The ruckus sounded again and Reggie was starting to scratch at the door.
"Reggie! Get away from there." Katrina shouted, effectively making Chelsea jump out of her skin. Katrina ran from the hallway into the kitchen and Reggie ran to her jumping up into her arms. She held him tightly but then held him out much like a Mogwai over a bathtub. She scrutinized his pink mussel and then looked at Chelsea who just stood silently. "Why is he pink?" Chelsea just shrugged as if not knowing. She just wondered why Reggie couldn't go near the basement door. And then it hit her. The noises in the basement and the vacancy of the rest of the residence. He had to be down there. It was the only unchecked place left and he was the only one who could make those noises. Katrina's brother. | http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/corky-and-violet/boo-radley-v2-track-2 | dclm-gs1-022760000 |
0.302361 | <urn:uuid:496d2ebe-e1b5-4073-9e58-5e76cba71eff> | en | 0.959489 | Gore Brings Global Warming Crisis to the Stage
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hide captionAl Gore tours the Live Earth stage in East Rutherford, N.J. Live Earth is a worldwide, 24-hour concert series with the goal of increasing environmental awareness.
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Al Gore
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Cities from Rio to London to Shanghai to East Rutherford, N.J., are hosting mass concerts as part of Live Earth, a 24-hour concert series taking place on all seven continents. The series is intended to raise awareness about solutions to climate change. Concert organizers are required to try to minimize waste by using renewable sources of electricity and recyclables, among other guidelines, but critics say that a worldwide rock concert with some musicians traveling in private jets is inherently not "green."
Scott Simon talked to former Vice President Al Gore, who has been at the forefront in the debate over global warming and is chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a partner of Live Earth.
Is there something incongruous in you flying around the country in a huge, air-polluting airplane and shouting "global warming, global warming"?
Well, our whole civilization has a pattern that has developed over the last 150 years that makes it easy to participate in generating the global warming pollution, but many of us have long since become what's called 'carbon neutral.' I'll be traveling by Amtrak from the first of these concerts in North America on the Mall to Giants Stadium, and the concerts themselves will set a new green standard.
I'm not sure if I understand this phrased as "carbon neutral." To be "carbon neutral," wouldn't you have to stop breathing?
Well, the phrase is actually used to mean two things: reducing CO2 pollution as much as you can and then through the use of offsets, verifiable, audited reductions of CO2 emissions elsewhere to have a net impact of zero or less.
I wonder, in this day and age when, as you know, there are so many other ways of communicating with people and making them part of the same mass event. Since you're urging other people to refine the way they live and find solutions, wouldn't it make more sense to not have seven locations on the planet where you're gathering a large group of people together and all that implies—rather than, for example, you're reaching millions of people as we're talking now.
Not two billion people, and a huge amount of attention has gone into minimizing the carbon impact. Many of these great acts are performing near their own homes. Jon Bon Jovi, for example, lives in New Jersey and will be performing at the Meadowlands. Jon incidentally has the number one album in the world this week. Madonna will be performing near her home in London, at Wembley Stadium. Many of the acts have actually been in the vanguard of awareness and activism on the environment. Others are new to the cause, and we welcome them because music connects with people in a way that no other medium does. And this is a planetary emergency, and the only way we can solve it is by getting the word out to enough people to create a sea change in public opinion worldwide.
Mr. Gore, I saw you on "The Today Show," and you convinced me you don't want to run for president. Is there something I missed?
No, I don't have any plans to be a candidate.
That's not the same thing now.
Well, it's the nuance you may have heard me repeat, but it's one that has a purpose. I haven't made a so-called Sherman statement, but the reason for not doing so isn't an effort to be coy and leave the door open for running. It's just there's no reason to do that. But I'm involved in a completely different kind of campaign – to try to change the minds and hearts of people all over this country and in the rest of the world about this climate crisis. And we are making a little progress worldwide, but we're still nowhere close to where we need to be in convincing the majority in every country to demand of their leaders in every party that we make the major changes necessary to avoid causing catastrophic damage to the Earth's climate. I'm a father, and I'm a grandfather. This generation owes it to those who come after us to do the right thing, and I make no apologies for focusing my energies and attentions on trying to come up with the best, most effective, imaginative solution to this crisis.
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By Kirsty Wynn
Houses for children as young as 4 to give them a chance in property market
Charlotte Kynoch in the house her father Matt built. Photo / Jason Dorday
Parents concerned about rising house prices are increasingly buying properties for their children - some while they are still at primary school.
Children as young as 4 are having houses bought for them by parents who then rent out the property until the child can legally own it at 18.
Others have started home deposit funds to help children when they become first-home buyers.
Alan Henderson of property agency Erskine and Owen has matched investment properties with several clients who were buying for preschool and school-aged kids.
"One couple are in the process of buying their second property of three for their children who are 5, 6 and 8 years old," Henderson said.
"It is usually when the children are at primary school and the parents have a bit more of a disposable income and they want to set their children up."
Janet Xuccoa at property accountancy firm Gilligan Rowe knew of many families who had started home deposit funds for children and grandchildren.
"It is a very smart idea," Xuccoa said. "If they can't afford to buy a property then putting money in an account each week, if they can afford it, is sensible."
One grandmother spoken to by the Herald on Sunday had opened "home deposit" bank accounts for her two granddaughters at birth and had been been putting $20 a week into each account.
"We know it is not going to be enough for them to buy a house but it will help out with a deposit and it is what we can afford to do," the woman said.
Xuccoa said parents were commonly buying a property they could rent out until their child was ready to take ownership or move into it.
Matt Kynoch and wife Alicia said they would love to buy daughter Charlotte, 3, a real house one day but as a young couple they are focused on getting themselves mortgage-free.
"We are scared to think what things will be like in 20 years when Charlotte looks to buy a home."
The family's replica villa, built by brother Andy, father Barry and Matt, was for sale on TradeMe but failed to reach the $20,000 reserve.
The miniature villa has been used in a TV ad for AMI Insurance.
John Bolton from Squirrel Mortgages said parents were also using term deposits to guarantee home loans for their adult children.
"We are doing at least one of these a week," Bolton said.
"It is more attractive for parents because they can still earn money on the deposit and they do not have to put their house up."
Auckland parents bought their two girls a house each. Photo / Chris Loufte
Hand up for two daughters
A couple who bought a house for each of their daughters say they've given their girls a hand up to the first rung of the property ladder - not a hand out.
Auckland parents Kathy and Nigel Robertson (pictured) feared rising house prices meant home ownership had slipped out of their children's grasp - so they bought the two girls a house each.
The couple bought their 19-year-old a three-bedroom house in Glenfield and their 25-year-old an apartment in Grey Lynn. The daughters maintain the mortgage repayments.
"We were fearful they would never get into their first home without our help and we wanted them to have that security," Kathy said. "They are learning a lot as landlord tenants. They pay rent and collect rent but if there is anything major we are there to give advice."
- Herald on Sunday
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More like this: true stories, hunger games and people.
Funny, but true!
Seriously, so true haha
Tom Hanks and his daughter mocking Toddlers & Tiaras. I'm dying!!! HILARIOUS!
nerdy pick up lines
...hourglass with extra minutes
high koality pin.
Hunger Games Humor, wont get a old for a long, long time.
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Wow lol...I guess the sexistness of Mad Men is for real.
True story!
Night Story
Dwight Wisdom.
So true. Everytime!
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Ruthie's World! Party Time! Excellent!
So Cecilia is bringing Sam and David, the Wonder Twins, into the kitchen, and Annie's all, "Where've you been? You've been gone for hours!" and the twins say, "It's a surprise! For you!" but Annie has to make them not actually spill the beans as to what this stupid surprise is, and maybe she might want to ask Cecilia about keeping the twins out for hours without Annie's having any idea where they are. Nope, she just invites Cecilia to supper. Makes sense, I guess. Cecilia deserves some kind of reward for taking the twins out of Annie's hair for the day.
The doorbell rings, and RevCam opens it to find Chandler there, scratching his forehead because he's deep in thought, like, whatever is bugging Chandler is so absorbing that he rings the doorbell and then goes back to scratching his forehead. And Chandler explains that his dad made him the executor of his estate, and it's Chandler's theory that his dad did this because he hated Chandler, and RevCam is sure that can't be true. Chandler: "He put me in charge as a way of saying, 'Ha! I may be dead, but I can still make you miserable!'" So refuse to do it, suggests RevCam, and how nice of the RevCam to suggest that Chandler shirk his dead father's last wishes, and Chandler rejects this since he's too "responsible" or some such, and RevCam can barely hide his irritation as he asks if there's anything he can do, and when Chandler says there isn't, RevCam says, "Then why are you here?" and I feel so sorry for the churchgoers saddled with these two vicious, petty ministers running the show, and RevCam, no dummy, invites Chandler to stay for dinner, which of course Chandler accepts. As Chandler walks past him, RevCam actually seems to glare at him, like, you can totally tell how much Stephen Collins hates still being on this show.
Back at the school, Martin shows up in his coach's office, and Coach says, "The assistant coach said you were still here," like maybe Coach doesn't know the name of this assistant coach, such is the level of writing on this show, and Martin says that he ran "an extra five miles" and then hit the weight room, and Coach smiles this of-course-you-did- you're-my-dedicated- star-player smile, and then introduces the guy who's been in the office all along but who Martin managed not to see, and it's the stranger from practice, who turns out to be a scout for the (phoney baloney) "Miami Gators." Martin says they're "a great team" that almost went to the Series last year. The scout says, "Would you like to play for them? Would you like to be a Gator? Martin?" and I guess Martin's supposed to be speechless and that's why the scout kept asking him questions, only the scout didn't even give Martin any time to answer any of his damn questions anyway, like, not even any of the bit players on this show know how to act, and Martin says something about its being his dream to play pro ball, in the continuing tradition of 7th Heaven actors having to explain what emotion they're feeling, since they are unable to express it through their acting. Commercials.
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• Conclusion: In short, the WDT910SAYM doesn't stand out in any way. In an office, that might mean it gets a cubicle next to the bathroom, and it'll always get left out of the March Madness pool. But it'll never get fired, because it's a solid performer that's inexpensive to buy and cheap to run. Content with free pizza once a month and a discount commuter rail pass, it'll never ask for a raise. As long as you aren't demanding perfection, it's a decent addition to your kitchen.
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Cherrapunji, India is noted for its insanely wet atmosphere, and long ago the War-Khasis tribe in Meghalaya used the secondary roots of the Ficus elastica tree to make these living root bridges. Check out the beauty of age-old eco design in the gallery and video above. | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cherrapunji-living-root-bridges | dclm-gs1-023190000 |
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"The Truth Hurts"
Steve finds out that Artie has been hiding life changing information and the team fights to find Paracelsus before he achieves immortality on Warehouse 13.
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"Lost and Found"
"What Matters Most"
Pete and Myka head to a high end gated community when a mysterious artifact turns up on Warehouse 13.
H.G. Wells comes back to assist Pete and Myka in their search for an artifact that can force confessions out of people on Warehouse 13.
"The Sky's the Limit"
Pete and Myka head to Las Vegas to investigate a series of crimes entrenched in the world of magic on Warehouse 13.
"The Big Snag"
Pete and Myka are sent to live out a 1940s crime thriller in an episode that pays tribute to film noir on Warehouse 13.
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Pete and Claudia work together on an investigation involving a radical environmental group while Artie learns coming back to work won't be as easy as he'd hoped on Warehouse 13.
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By: Mallory Brooke
By: Mallory Brooke
I received some questions on my last blog, so I'm answering them today! Read all about dewpoint along with a quick tropics update in today's blog
It's Thursday...that means one day closer to Friday (and a beautiful weekend)! Ok, back to business.
I received two great questions on my blog Tuesday.
First, I'll answer Ronnie's question: Could you explain what the dew point is?
The official definition from the American Meteorological Society is "The temperature to which a given air parcel must be cooled at constant pressure and constant water vapor content in order for saturation to occur."
A more simple way to think of it is the amount of moisture in the air for a given temperature. The higher the temperature, the moisture the air can hold. That's the reason we feel so much more moisture in the summer than in the winter.
The closer the dewpoint is to the temperature, the more moisture is in the air and the closer the air is to saturation. With a temperature of 85 and a dewpoint of 75, it feels incredibly uncomfortable outside. A temperature of 85 and a dewpoint of 55 is comfortable. However, in the winter, a temperature of 35 and a dewpoint of 30 doesn't feel humid. Winter time comes down to "which day feels more dry" and "how many bottles of lotion do I need today"?
I hope that answered your question Ronnie!
Onto Eddie's question: Also does the dew point determine humidity or does humidity determine the dew point?
Eddie, dewpoint determines humidity. We consider this a "relative" humidity, because it's "relative" to the temperature. Given a temperature and dewpoint, we can calculate the humidity using an equation called the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. I won't go through the whole equation here (it still hurts my head and brings me back to dynamics class), unless someone *really* wants me to.
Please feel free to ask any questions about my blog or on blog topics in the comments section. I'll answer them as soon as I can in the next blog.
Finally a tropics update for us. At 11am Thursday morning, Hurricane Danielle remains a Category 2 storm with a heading to the east of Bermuda. This leaves Bermuda in good (relatively) spot because the most intense portion of hurricane is on the eastern side. Tropical Storm Earl continues on a westerly path with winds of 45 mph. He's expected to strengthen to hurricane status by the weekend.
I'll have another update on the tropics Friday. Blogs will be on hold for a bit as I go on vacation next week, but will be back on Labor Day!
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Tend and Befriend
By: BriarCraft, 12:08 AM GMT on March 29, 2012 +2
As regular visitors here know, I had total hip replacement surgery on March 15th. I'm doing fine and looking forward to being able to take walks again and to tend my garden without pain. Someday. But recovery from hip replacement takes time. Bones and tendons and muscles have to heal before I can bend and tote and stretch like I want. That's okay, because I can feel myself healing and getting stronger every day.
In the past month, I have learned -- or more accurately -- relearned that there is strength in friendship and value in humor. I was reminded that "cheerfulness and positive attitude are good medicine for a quicker recovery". While waiting for my surgery a nurse revealed that some people become so nervous and overwrought before surgery that they have to be sent home to come back already tranquilized another day. Anyone who denies feeling nervous before surgery is lying or drugged. But to feel so overwhelmed with nerves as to be sent home... How sad, I thought. Surely if such people had close family or friends or faith, they wouldn't feel so overwhelmed. And how lucky I am to have close family and a far-flung support network of friends in WUville.
There are plenty of essays and books on the subjects of friendship and humor and positive attitude. Below are a couple short essays that might be of interest to you.
The Healing Power of Friendship
By Lila Havens, Staff Writer,
People who have strong social ties live longer and recover from illness faster than those who don't. Maybe friends are the best medicine.
Bob is divorced and lives by himself. He's also a loner. After a stressful day at work, he does what he usually does. He heads home, zaps a frozen dinner and kicks back in his recliner to watch TV.
Like Bob, Kiesha is divorced and lives alone. But when she has had a bad day at work, she doesn't go home to an empty house. Instead, she asks a friend to meet her at a neighborhood bistro. They have a glass of wine, talk about their lives and share a few laughs.
Both Bob and Kiesha found ways to relax after a trying day, but Bob's way of dealing with stress is riskier than Kiesha's. People who get a little help from their friends live longer and healthier lives than those who isolate themselves.
Health and social ties
A person who has friends has a better chance of staying healthy than someone who has no support system. Friendship seems to cut the risk of disease by lowering blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol. A person with strong social bonds who does get sick has a better chance of surviving a serious illness.
Why? It may be that people with solid support systems have stronger immune systems. Stress is known to wreak havoc on the body. Friendship may help defuse the effects of stress. It may also be partly because people with strong support systems tend to take better care of themselves. Friends may encourage each other to change unhealthy habits. They also help each other during illnesses and other difficult times.
Friendship confers both physical and mental health benefits. People with strong friendships tend to suffer less from depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness. Older adults are less likely to develop dementia when they have satisfying relationships.
Recent research seems to show that friendship may help us live longer. In fact, friendship seems to offer greater health benefits than having a spouse or family.
*One study of older adults in Australia found that those who had lots of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the 10 years of the study than people who had just a few friends.
*A large study of nurses with breast cancer found that those who didn't have close friends had four times the risk of dying from the disease as women who had a large circle of friends.
Strong evidence of the power of emotional attachment is a condition known as non-organic failure to thrive. It occurs in babies who are emotionally neglected - their physical needs may be taken care of, but they are not held, cuddled or spoken to. These babies don't grow properly, and they become listless, depressed and prone to illness. Many of them die before they are toddlers. The ones who survive develop long-term learning and behavior problems.
"Tend and befriend"
In times of severe stress, men typically have a "fight or flight" reaction. The body revs up, preparing either to do battle or to flee quickly. Women are more likely to seek emotional support in the face of danger. Researchers coined the term "tend and befriend" to describe this reaction.
This urge to create, maintain and rely on relationships during times of stress may explain why women outlive men. Since friendship seems to reduce disease risk and increase longevity, a conscious effort to "tend and befriend" might be the key to a longer, healthier life.
The Healing Power of Humor
By Maud Purcell, LCSW, CEAP
The Ojibway tribe recognized it. The Old Testament even references the healing properties of humor: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Although our ancestors couldn’t explain it scientifically, they knew intuitively that laughter was good for the body as well as the soul.
More recently Norman Cousins, in his book “Anatomy of an Illness,” describes how he cured himself of a debilitating disease through the use of humor. He reportedly watched old Marx Brothers movies and laughed uncontrollably. He believes his own laughter cured his disease. He subsequently lived a long and healthy life — well into his 80s!
Today we have a better understanding of how laughter affects human physiology. It:
*Reduces pain. Our bodies produce pain-killing hormones called endorphins in response to laughter.
*Strengthens immune function. A good belly laugh increases production of T-cells, interferon and immune proteins called globulins.
*Decreases stress. When under stress, we produce a hormone called cortisol. Laughter significantly lowers cortisol levels and returns the body to a more relaxed state.
The other good news is that humor has a positive impact on intellectual and emotional functioning. It:
*Helps put life’s trials and tribulations into healthy perspective by making them seem smaller.
*Aids us in overcoming fear.
*Allows us to take ourselves less seriously.
*Triggers our creativity.
As you can see, humor can be the curative our ancestors professed it to be. But how can you incorporate more laughter into your life, when you are already overwhelmed by daily demands? Won’t humor be just one more thing to add to your “to do” list?
Fortunately there are ways to bring levity into your life without adding extra pressure. Find one of the following methods that works for you:
-“Humor up” your work environment. Bring kids’ toys to work and keep them within reach. When you are stressed, take out a toy and play. That irate customer on the phone will have no idea that you are keeping your cool by playing with a Slinky. -Place funny pictures of friends and loved ones around your office, including ones of you when you were a ridiculous-looking kid.
-Create a humor file. Fill it with funny cartoons, sayings and jokes, as you run across them. When things are looking particularly grim, refer to your file. You’ll get a good laugh and be able to put things back in perspective in no time.
-Create sitcom situations. When you find yourself in a nerve-wracking situation (such as locking your keys in the car), think of how Groucho or Lucy would handle it.
-For recreation, do some of the things you did as a kid. Go to the zoo, an amusement park, bowling or swinging — the sky’s the limit! You’ll find that these activities completely take you away from all of that “heavy” stuff. And the escape will do wonders for your attitude.
-Exaggerate a stressful situation. Take your situation and make it even bigger than it is. You might think this will cause more stress; however, blowing the problem up will allow you to see the absurdity of it, and afford you a great belly laugh.
You have a choice: You can continue to be a “grown-up,” and let all of the frustrations and disappointments in life weigh you down, or you can introduce levity into even the toughest circumstances. If you “let a smile be your umbrella,” you are likely to enjoy each day to its fullest and spend less time at the doctor’s office.
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So while I watch my garden become overgrown with weeds, I'll pay special attention to the flowers that struggle through and ignore the rest for now. And I'll get my gardening fix on others' blogs and vicariously enjoy their flowers and veggies.
I won't be planting seeds this spring. Instead, I'll tend the friendship garden that thrives here in WUville. And since I'm not allowed to bend more than 90 degrees at the hip, maybe you wouldn't mind pulling just that one weed over there...?
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It's Springtime Somewhere
By: BriarCraft, 10:37 PM GMT on March 06, 2012 +0
In recent months, we've talked about foul weather fun and taking the other road. This month, spring is starting to work its way northward and has already arrived in the southern part of the country. My activities this month have nothing to do with spring. I'll be having hip replacement surgery on March 15 and then I'll be out of action, recuperating and doing my rehab exercises. I won't be around WUville very much and when I am, I probably won't be looking for anything too serious.
Instead, I invite WUfriends and lurkers to post photos and observations of spring, cute or funny or interesting things you run across during your internet surfing expeditions, or whatever happens to be on your mind. I could simply shut down my blog, but instead, I'd rather leave it open if somewhat neglected. I'll stop by when I'm able and enjoy whatever you have left here, and I'll contribute what I can. I should be back to my usual WUville activities in early April.
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Elevation: 302 ft
Temperature: 58.1 °F
Dew Point: 44.3 °F
Humidity: 60%
Wind: 4.0 mph from the South
Wind Gust: 6.0 mph
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Still, there won't be any quick changes.
Under Mexican law, two more cases from Oaxaca must be decided in the same way before a precedent is established allowing gay marriage—and only in that state. For each of Mexico's 30 other states, five separate cases would have to be decided that way to establish precedent for gay marriage.
Experts say the Oaxaca ruling puts gay couples in the state a step closer to being able to get legally married.
"They are rulings that will favor the recognition and nondiscriminatory access to marriage," said Miguel Rabago Dorbecker, a law professor at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City.
The decision issued Wednesday was well received by the Mexican gay and lesbian community that still hopes to achieve the same rights as heterosexual couples.
"This makes it possible for the new generations of gays to see some hope that Mexico will recognize their rights, and that they can one day live their sexuality openly," said Jaime Lopez, president of a gay civil association.
Lopez and his partner were one of the four gay couples who were the first to marry in Mexico City in March 2010.
"This ruling makes it possible for people to file similar lawsuits throughout the country," Lopez said.
Lopez, however, pointed out that despite being married, he and his partner still lack a lot of the rights held by heterosexual couples, including social security.
The court said its decision applies only in the case of the three couples in Oaxaca but it indicted that its effects might be expanded throughout Mexico, although not in the short term because each of Mexico's states and the capital district has its own, individual civil code.
Gerardo Rojas, a 43-year-old photographer, said having the right to get married in Oaxaca could help people understand gays should have the same rights as everybody else.
"Within our community there will be people who won't want to get married, but there are also people who are conscious of their role in society and will want to formalize their relationships through marriage," Rojas said.
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noose inflation hedges, as it's do noug, over the intels and microsofts and googles of the future. if you want economic growth, you are must strengthen and stabilize the dollar. the fed is doing the opposite. >> john, what if gold dropped substantially and the dollar rose. what would that mean for our economy? >> it would mean growth yet again. you wouldcy limited capital would flow away from these inflation hedges that achieve no real economic growth and back into the knowledge economy, back into the technology firms that will make us more efficient. back into the ideas of the future. >> so it would be good, be a good thing. get gold town, get the dollar up. >> listen to this, folks. team obama is talking about a growth policy by cutting corporate tax rates and reforming the corporate code. that's right, i said cutting the tax rate. if there's any truth to it, i will optimistically support it. free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity, including corporate business tax reform, which i have wanted for so long, i can't even remember. i'm kudlow. we'll be back soon. >>> w
will hear from a google vice president who served in the u.s. house of representatives in 1990. hosted by the center for american progress, this is 55 minutes. >> that is a really tough act to follow. i am delighted to be here. let me tell you one quick story about our host and one of my favorite people. i did a column one time in which are referred to her as the sugar ray robinson of policy issues. sugar ray robinson was pound for pound the greatest boxers in the history of the game. whenever i see her, i say hi, sugar. one of my younger reporters said to a colleague, she is a different generation. it is a terrific -- it is terrific to be here. he is a tremendous asset. his real claim to fame is he is part owner of the boston celtics. to but the more we will talkjonathan teaches at thehe has written 150 books. i say about pat moynihan that he had written more books than most senators have read. i am dazzled by that. he is also a senior adviser at the center for american progress. he's very interested in the subject. susan, we have to stop meeting like this. we have done more seminars.
will amount to about $16 million u.s. starbucks along with google and amazon have been using legal loopholes to minimize their corporate taxes in britain. execs of all three companies recently got a public -- >> despite the fact that starbucks, how much money it makes. it's kind of like a drop in the bucket. >> well, yeah. yesterday we pointed out that between all the various ways that starbucks takes there is really nothing left, nothing at all left for profits. today what the company announced is that they are going to take the money that they pay in royalties and the money they pay on inter-company events like loans, and here going to no longer take deductions. what does this mean in reality? in practice it means there will be money, more money, for starbucks to pay as corporation tax, but here's the thing. >> okay. >> they say they'll pay maybe $50 million this year. the numbers are still being worked out. similar amount next year. well, you might have gotten that the british say, oh, yes, nice round of applause. not a bit of it. people are saying in this country tonight fair enough, sta
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? >> can i google it? >> bad news. bad news. fiscal cliff end of the world apparently. >> is it dangerous cliff. >> seems to be. >> how do you feel about it? >> i am a middle class woman whashgs do you think? >> isn't that like a government? this is embarrassing. >> what will happen if they don't fix it? >> it remind me of something i learned about in school but i am going to guess some type of cliff like mountain avalanche type of cliff maybe. >> how tall is it? >> i would say 370 some feet. >> many people thought it was an actual cliff. i guess the word fiscal -- >> some people thought it was a movie or the guy from cheers cliff. >> janice dean has the weather report for us. >> some people say it feels like an avalanche out there. >> you can see the temperature change. 25 degree difference in new york. that's why people are angry. what happened to our warm temperatures. 31 in nyc, 32 philadelphia. we are talking about witnessed chills what it feels like outside. feels like 17 in buffalo feels about 5-10 degrees difference when you head outdoors. make sure you bundle up. satellite radar
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tablets like amazon, google and samsung. >>> facebook could get another boost on wall street. the social media site is joining the nasdaq 100 index. shares will be added next week. the nasdaq 100 represents the 100 largest nonfinancial stocks trading on nasdaq and investors say it's somewhat of a victory for facebook, which has struggled on wall street since its ipo in may. >>> 4:51. the feds are targeting a baby recliner maker after five infant deaths. this is the new model of the napa valley nan called the chill. the cpsc says in a complaint that the device causes substantial risk, injury and death to babies. the commission says it has received more than 70 reports of children nearly falling out of the recliners. so if you have one, beware. >>> time now is 4:52. coming up, the bay area grocery chain that's in danger of going belly up. >> plus, let there be light. the livermore family that apparently loves to celebrate christmas. look at that. >> that's beautiful. >> and your canines clamoring to get outside? if they are, get yourself a doggie doorbell. we'll explain when we come back.
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of a coke machine. it is already this. this is nothing new. google and comcast have filed similar things. now things are so interconnected it is a problem. >>trace: thank you, sir. controversial video shot in a los angeles firehouse, the same firehouse that got mixed up with a porn shoot. next. ays a key role throughout our livesiv es. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. gives you a low $18.50 monthly plan premium... and select generic hypertension drugs available for only a penny... so you can focus on what really matters. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. >>trace: the same los angeles fire station where an adult video was filmed last year at the center of another controversy, a new video shows a woman dressed up in fire gear with little clothing dancing with a hoop. the fire department professional standards division is investigating and after we learned of the porn shoot the fire chief acknowledged that he had posed for racy photos at the station way back when he wa
of income to go after giants like starbucks, amazon and google, which have taken advantage of loopholes to allow them to pay minimal tax in britain. >> not paying their fair share, despite being over the u.k. on every high street. it's gisting behavior. i pay my tax, why not starbucks? >> sometimes they position themselveses in other country to avoid paying high taxes here and britain. amazon did $320 million in turnover in the u.k. it paid less than $3 million in british tax. all of this within the law but parliamentary law accused them of immorally minimizing the tax obligation. some say don't blame the big guys. >> i don't moral is the way we ought to levy our taxes. it should be set out in law and fairly enforced by the tax authority. individuals have their own moral compass that guides what they choose to do. >> starbucks does appear to feel the heat of public pressure. saying we need to do more. we are looking at the tax approach in the u.k. the u.k. said it will tighten its tax regime but it has not said how. other european countrys have similar concerns. with some calling for mo
the country to washington, dc, and, yes, it is a charity and you can give money. if you google "honor flight" it will take you to it. >>shepard: good stuff, trace. >> researchers are testing a new weapon in the ballot against alzheimer's disease. we reported on this last night. doctors say the so-called brain pacemaker could stem memory loss. it could be a big development. >>shepard: more breaking news from the supreme court. the supreme court will hear pay for delay drug case. the u.s. supreme court agreed do decide whether brand name drug companies may pay money to go next drug rivals to keep the lower price markets off the market, a practice estimated to cost consumes and the government billions a year. the arrangements are known as pay for delay or reverse payments and they have for a decade vexed antitrust enforcers after a court decisions that allowed the practices. a go -- generic case will be paid to keep the drug off the marriage. and they will hear the case on whether gay marriage should be protected federally, and that will be taken up in march and we could know by the summer. res
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storm sandy this year. google reports more folks wanted to know about the korean performer who dances like he's riding horseback. psy could not knock whitney houston from the top of searches in 2012. the death prompted more searches than the gangam music style that went viral. >>> got crisis? according to the "wall street journal," which our parent company own, the milk business could be in for a long-term troublesome time. the journal points to statistics show not guilty 1975, each american drank 28 gallons of milk. gross. you see, then that number has fallen. the journal reports it's because of price increase examines more people being concerned milk is high in calorie, which it is, and turning to bottled water. the milk companies are fighting to win back customers, pushing back with protein enhanced milk. more news for dairy lovers. scientists in europe say they found the oldest evidence yet of cheese making. 7500 years old. researchers tested pottery fragments from poland, which had strainers that could have helped make beer, honey or cheese. hopefully beer. they say they found
upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. >> gretchen: big fox news alert for you. you are looking at brad new video this is kit kate middleton and prince william leaving the hospital. the expectant mom was hospitalized for morning sick. she is head to kensington palace for r and r. this doctor is the expert on this sort of thing. the big news is she's out of the hospital which from your point of view is good news. >> that means she will eat and drink and maintain her nutrition and weight. very good news. >> gretchen: what did she suffer from. >> for those of lucky of pregnant and children we know what morning sickness foals like. >> right. hyperemesis gravidarum is morning sickness on steroids . persistant nauseous and vomiting and unable to maintain nutrition and hydration that can lead a woman in a state of the sarvation that is bad in pregnancy and it is a condition that we don't understand the cause of and related to pregnancy hormones and it leads t
know. they can go on the google. >> it's not the usual spelling. >> knots not the typical spelling. >> thanks for watching. aaron burnet "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" tonight, our lawmakers celebrate the holidays with a tree lighting, but they still can't see the light when it comes to the fiscal cliff. 28 days to go. what will it take to get a deal? >>> plus, the stern warning for syria from nato. the use of chemical weapons will bring an immediate reaction from the international community. we ask our panel if the united states will go to war. >>> and a new hollywood movie about the hunt for osama bin laden sparks oscar buzz and outrage. questions over just how much confidential information the film makers had access to. an "outfront" investigation. let's go "outfront." ♪ >>> good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, let there be light. finally, some bulbs turned on in washington this evening. well, on the congressional christmas tree, that is. pretty beautiful. lights, love, camaraderie, song. but while our lawmakers took some time to celebrate
? >> i have no idea. >> where is it? >> can i google it? >> bad news. it's bad news. fiscal cliff. >>> end of the world, apparently, right. >> if you wanted to take one of these cliff bars, if you wanted to take one that tasted like the fiscal cliff. >> which one would you choose and why? the one that tastes like crap. >> we're all going to fall off the face of the earth. >> they need to fix it. that's what they're paid for. >> what happens if they don't? >> we're going to lose some money. >> it reminds me of something i learned in school, i'm going to guess some like of cliff, avalanche. >> how tall is it? >> i'd say at least like 370 some feet. >> i don't know. it sounds like something disgusting to eat or something. >> you heard of it? >> it's part of our economy going choooooooo. >> i'm pretty sure we don't have a fiscal cliff. >> we fell off of it. >> yes, we did. >> is it a dangerous cliff? >> it seems to be. >> how do you feel about it? >> i'm a middle class woman. what do you think. >> so is the president on the naughty or the nice list? >> he's definitely naughty. >> what
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the web site. just google elizabeth warren. i think i want to write her a check plyself. i would really love to see her join the ranks of the united states senate and get rid of scott brown. 1-866-55-press. what the current audience can expect from my show is the unexpected. >>stephanie miller challenges the system, now it's your turn. >>it's a little bit of magic. >>connect with "talking liberally with stephanie miller" at facebook.com/stephaniemillershow and on twitter at smshow. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ [ inaudible ] ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show," welcome it to, twenty-two minutes after the hour. we are so competitive, aren't we karl? >> that's right. >> stephanie: ed asner who is on today's show also made news busters. he asked a fox news producer if he could urinate on him. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. you win this round, asner. >> in fairness to asner, maybe he thought it was a shower with bill o'reilly that he was getting into? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: let's continue. bryan fischer on that there american
to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. >>> we're back with tonight's "outer circle" where we reach out to our sources from all over the world. to seoul where they are getting ready to react to an expected missile launch by north korea this month. paula hancocks is following this story. i asked her what more we know about north korea's plans. >> tom, as north korearies. to launch its second rocket this year, as early as monday, the u.s. is making preparations of its own. the navy is moving two guided missile destroyers to the region, although they're not saying exactly where. pyongyang says they are trying to send a working satellite into orbit. but the u.s. and other countries simply don't believe that. they believe that this is a cover for testing the long-range missile technology, which is banned by the united nations. one senior government official here in seoul tells me that a motivation behind this rocket launch may also be domestic instability. the source s
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fighting, what they were saying to me in english versus what we googled them saying to the persian press in persia was radically different as to the status of the u.s. fleet headquarters and so forth. so we do have a constant problem in which many of the people working on -- >> what did they say? you said you spoke to them in persian. >> okay. when they spoke in english, they would talk about how we genuinely want reforms and that so long as the reforms occur, the united states, of course, would be welcome to keep the fifth fleet headquarters in bahrain. not when i spoke to them in persian, but when we googled their names in persian to call up what they had said to the iranian press, they talked about how the colonial vestige of the american satan must be expelled forthwith. so a slight difference in tone between what they were saying in english and what they were saying in persian. that's constantly a problem, of course, in the middle east as you know where interlocutors will be told one thing, and they will be told another thing subsequently. when it comes to television, most baa rainn
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is not the only working on this. google has also filed patent on this technology to target advertising based on how many people are in a room watching a tv set at any given time. no word on whether these patents have been granted. greg: it's so easy to make a comment on this, so i won't. jenna: neither will i come on that note. we are keeping a close eye on developments in north korea where leaders are planning to launch a long-range bottle rocket. what this means for the united states and our allies. also, a possible serial killer case is unfolding in the suspect in custody commit suicide behind bars. we will have the latest for you next begin. tomato, obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could've had a v8. five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to y
to this question. there is apple. there is facebook. there is google. >> uh-huh. >> and there is one more. and there's this competition. is that where the game is in the digital revolution? what happens between those four companies? >> well, i definitely think those four companies are sort of very much affecting the whole sort of digital landscape, but there's a lot of other companies out there that are making meaningful impacts. you guys had mark pink its onits on yesterday. >> you watched. >> yes, i watched. for gaming we're for music, and netflix for video. many other companies are doing many things as well. >> you saw the gangnam-style guy, getting reportedly $8 million from youtube, and the itunes it down load. what does that say about the future, do you think, of the music industry? they can get $8 million from youtube? >> i think it's great, because all of these sources of revenue just means we're going to get the music industry back to growth again. >> daniel thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you can visit cbs "this morning."com to subscribe to our spotify
in both grades. california 12th graders were not tested. google has donated $5 million of advanced placement courses in math and science more than a dozen bay area schools. the owners to use that word will distribute the money through a competitive process. the process is known as the '80s them program. it encourages traditionally underrepresented female and minority students to demonstrate strong academic potential to explore science, technology, engineering and math, or stem, courses and consider careers in those areas. more than 139 schools around california are adults eligible to participate in the a piece stem access program. schools from alameda county san mateo county and santa clara can apply. the raiders >> the writer is taking on the denver broncos at the coliseum last night.broncos quarterback paid manning throughout his 30th touchdown pass of the season at the game's opening drive. they beat the raiders 26 to 13 last night. carson, threw one interception that thwarted a possible scoring chance the raiders. lost a fumble was set up a touchdown for the broncos of open its
of this and that for the year. so google, the most searched things of the year. whitney houston was the biggest trending celebrity of the year. she passed away several months back. also, the justin bieber breakup with actress selena gomez was the most inquired about celebrity split. andy murray was the most searched olympian. "skyfall" topped the movie list. "gangnam" was the top trending song. and in fashion, british olympic kick designer stella mccartney was the top trending label of the year. >> can you believe it's going to be 2013 in a couple of weeks? this particular groom was going to the chapel to be married. the only problem, he was arrested and spent the night in jail. he was driving 100 miles per hour near valparaiso, indiana. officers saying he was switching lanes, almost totaled his jeep. they waited until he pulled into the church's parking lot. this as relatives were waiting and shouting at him to slow down before he performed a doughnut. he told police he was late for the wedding and just been released from jail earlier that day. didn't make the wedding. >>> and the fully loaded cheese b
goldman sachs talking about avalanche basically they can continue to battle against google, the market share that some people have been speculating apple was likely to lose. cheryl: that is a stock to watch for the week and today we will see you in 14 minutes. just talking about the november unemployment rate, dropping 7.7%. 6,000 new jobs added. far better than expectations but behind that number is the fiscal cliff. if congress doesn't act jobless unemployment benefits will go from a 72 week maximum down to 27 weeks. could that force a spike in the jobless rate again for 2013? joining us is todd schoenberger of wells fargo, senior economist. i know you were not thrilled with the numbers that came out today but you also have the issue of unemployment benefits and what that does to the economy. are you worried? >> you bet i am worried. if we leap off of the fiscal cliff you are looking at a minimum of 500,000 jobs eliminated and i am not talking low-wage jobs. i am talking about high five digit to six digit jobs. that will impact the overall economy. not just in the united states, also
, pizza has a lot of calories. you can find this information out on google. anybody who is dying like to try to knows about calories. what did they have to posted in the restaurant? you can easily get that information elsewhere. stuart: why is this requirement in obamacare? what has the killer accountant to do with my health care delivery system? >> this might be an attempt to preventive medicine. stuart: that's your rationale? that's all you have to say? >> a drop in the bucket to what you're asking me to put myself in the obama administration shoes. >> this is what makes my head off like a bottle rocket. we should be focusing on the fontana of the structure, not nanny state junk forcing restaurant chains to post calories. stuart: that's the best answer. i had been in restaurants where the calories in each dish is noted. i have altered what i order based on the calorie count. i found a useful. stuart: the information about the to being fattening given to you by the government? stuart: and just trying to raise some mild objections. let me escape. that includes private practice doctors
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• Bring something to carry water in, and at least one gallon of water. Your favorite ultrarunning snacks. We will provide some snacks as well. Also, if you can, please contribute a snack for the grub table (chips, a box of gels, energy drink powder, cookies, M&Ms, whatever you'd like to share!).
• Sunglasses, sunscreen, dust mask, goggles, headlamp (we're starting when it's still dark so you can avoid the worst heat of the day).
How often are aid stations?
• There will be at least one official aid station. This is the start and finish!
• We also plan to have a basic mostly water aid station out in deep playa, with a few random snacks.
• AND "the playa provides." People set up basic stations with water, snacks, even alcohol to fuel you on your run! :)
• We need help, so please let us know if you want to help more! (see below.) Also, if you are conning your lover/significant other/sibling/friend/adoring fans to come and watch, they can watch while pouring other runners water, taking splits, fanning runners as they come in, hang out. We have beer and we love cheer!
How can I help?
• You want to volunteer? Awesome! We need people to help the runners by pouring water, distributing snacks, and cheering the runners on. Contact cherylish at yahoo dot com if you can volunteer. This is a great way to cheer on or crew a friend while helping others out as well.
Are you serious? A 50k in the desert? And at Burning Man?
• We're serious! Ultrarunners are a rare breed, and Burner Ultrarunners are even rarer. However, there's a few of us out there, so let's get together and do one of the most extreme 50ks out there.
Do I need a ticket?
• You sure do! Burning Man is an experience, so don't come just for the race. Everyone needs a ticket - even me!
What should I do in case of a dust storm?
• Runners should carry goggles and a dustmask at all times. If the dust bothers you, please ask help from our volunteers. If you have asthma, carry your inhaler. Luckily, the time of day makes the risk of dust storms less likely. B/c the race starts to early, and b/c dust storms tend to be later, we've been lucky every year. Cherie the RD runs with a bandanna around her neck and with face-fitting sunglasses, with a pair of goggles in her drop bag.
You ultrarunners are awesome. I can't get enough of you. What should I do?
• Everyone loves us. Feel free to stop by Camp Twin Bikini (TBD by placement) to check out the map, the race results, stick your head through a face cut out, attend the Librarian Cocktail Party, have a letter written, or more. We love you too!
50k is way too long, but I like to run.
• We'd love it if you help pace a tired 50k runner. You'll get to run slow, eat potato chips, and have a blast! OR you can ride your bike alongside someone willing if you really don't want to run.
Do you have any race reports? I'd like to read it from the perspective of someone who ran it.
I didn't get tickets this year. I want to run and I want to go. Can you help?
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Is there a Facebook page?
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I'm really slow and I can't deal with the heat. Can I start earlier?
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Chapter Thirteen
Something woke Michaela, jolted her out of a deep, unrestful sleep, and before she even opened her eyes, she had a feeling she knew what it was.
She was lying on a flat hard surface and she was cold - freezing, in fact. When she opened her eyes, she was in a dark room, the only light was artificial, pouring in through the picture window on the wall to the right. She didn't have to turn her head to know that it was light from a neighbouring office building. She let her fingertips gently graze the surface she was lying on; it was cool and smooth. Wood, she guessed. A desk, she figured, in an office, and for a moment she wondered how exactly she'd gotten there...until it came back to her, very slowly, like recalling bits and pieces of a strange dream.
Michaela remembered the way his fingers had been twisted in the fabric of her blouse and pressed against her shoulder, hard, so hard it hurt, and there was such strength in that fist, in his very knuckles, and they held her against the wall of the elevator, she remembered that. And she remembered his knee between her thighs and the way she squeezed against it with both her thighs, like some sort of ridiculous effort to get him to draw it back away from her, though he knew she'd need it when she tried to alleviate the pain. She remembered the way her own fingers had curled and twisted and pulled and pushed against him, how under his clothes his body was like rock: unmovable, impenetrable.
And she remembered how close he had been to her in those last few moments before she gave away to the white hot pain in her shoulder and the terror that brushed against her hip as he slowly released her. His face had been so close to hers that she could smell the sickly smell of thickly-applied greasepaint, of hair that hadn't been washed in god knew how long, of a rancid breath fanning between them, and of sweat on his skin, the smell she recognized in Roger from time to time. The smell of a man.
But surely this was no man she was dealing with.
As Michaela's eyes adjusted to the darkness, she listened and heard the sirens of the police and the firetrucks making their way to the explosion, the source of her abrupt awakening. What was it this time, she wondered. A school? A blood clinic? A nursing home?
She pressed her eyes together tightly as the pain in her shoulder came back to her, beginning at the wound itself and seeping up and over her shoulder, down over her collarbone, up along the curve of her neck. Though she wanted to look at it and assess the damage, it simply couldn't be done. She couldn't lift her head, couldn't turn her neck, couldn't roll onto her side or anything. Though she was freezing and wanted to curl into a fetal position and huddle herself into a ball for warmth, she was exhausted; her body was exhausted. Everything hurt, not just her shoulder; her head was pounding, her hand was aching, and her toes were almost numb...
Michaela wiggled her toes, freely, without the restriction of stockings or the ballet flats she'd found. She opened her eyes as a horrible feeling seeped over her.
She was cold because her clothes had been removed.
Gasping, Michaela jolted upright into a sitting position, letting out a scream as the wound in her shoulder burned. But she found to her horror that she was right; her eyes widened as she looked down over her body and found she was adorned only in her pink panties and matching bra.
"Oh my god..." she breathed in disbelief, tears stinging the back of her eyes, as she swept her hands down over her legs, her taut belly, along her sides, over the swell of her breasts...as if she couldn't quite tell if she was imagining things or if, indeed, she was lying there in her underwear. Her chest heaved as she took in great gasping frightened breaths; if she'd been lying there in her underwear, it meant that someone had taken off her clothes, someone who wasn't her, someone who...who...
Who'd had an erection before she passed out.
Michaela clutched at her stomach as though afraid she was going to be sick. With a bit of effort, she swiveled her legs over the side of the desk and doubled over; if she was going to be sick, she was going to be sick on the floor, not all over her bare legs. She closed her eyes tightly and tried to focus on the fact that she felt nauseas, not on the possibility that she'd been raped. She set her hands on the desk to steady herself and tipped her head, letting the nausea wave over her until it seemed to dissipate, and then she tried to clear her head.
She had blacked out, she didn't remember anything. Surely he could have done...whatever while she had blacked out and she wouldn't have come out of it.
But there was a telltale sign missing. She felt pain all over, she did, in her shoulder, her hand, her head...but not there.
Swallowing tightly, Michaela rose her head and looked out the window for a moment, into the neighbouring office building which held no comfort or promise. She let the thoughts come and settle in her mind and she gave each and every one of them the consideration they needed. Trying to block out the sirens way off in the background, bouncing off the towers of downtown Gotham, she concentrated on her voice inside her head.
He had an erection. Surely he would have...
But why wasn't there any pain?
You woke up in your underwear, Michaela.
But...the sprinklers...clothes were soaked...no point leaving them on...
Michaela pressed her fingertips to her temples to silence her thoughts and soothe her headache. She took in strong, steady breathes and let them out in relaxed exhales. If she had been raped, there'd be signs, signs she could definitely check for. Leaning over, she looked down at the carpet and then at her toes. She flexed them and wiggled them and kicked her feet a little, before very, very gently letting herself slide off over the side of the desk and set her feet down on the carpet, unsteadily. She leaned back against the desk, clutching it with both hands, and concentrated on what her body was telling her.
Her legs were weak, to be sure, but there was no pain between them. She moved them a little, wondering if the movement might aggravate any damage done, but she felt nothing. The wound on her shoulder burned and she had to keep herself from pressing the heel of her hand right into it, to try to alleviate some of the pain, but that was by far the worst thing that hurt.
There would have been pain if he raped her...there's no way there wouldn't have been. But she didn't know that for sure. Unless he had used something for lubricant, but she didn't feel anything.
Swallowing tightly, Michaela pressed her lips together and let her fingers sweep under the hem of her panties to gently touch herself. She took in a calm breath as she decided, after a moment, that nothing felt out of the ordinary. She wasn't wet, naturally or artificially, and there wasn't pain and she wasn't sore and she didn't seem to be bleeding.
She was so overcome with relief that she didn't hear the snort from the far corner of the room, or the voice that came out of the darkness until it was too late.
"Want some privacy?"
Michaela gasped, too startled to scream, and pulling her hand out of her panties, she collapsed onto her knees and threw herself against the wall, as if it would protect her or, at the very least, shield her semi-nakedness. She pulled her legs up under her chin to hide herself and urgently searched the darkness for the source of the voice, the nausea starting to rise once more.
She heard him giggle over the sounds of her own shaken breaths from the corner and when she looked, she wondered how in the hell she hadn't noticed him sitting there before. He was enclosed almost entirely in darkness; though it wasn't impossible to see him, it would have been easy not to spot him if you weren't looking for him. He was sitting right in the corner, his long legs stretched out in front of him, one crossed over the other, while his arms were crossed over his chest. She could see the great big Chelsea smile grinning at her, along with the great big black pits for eyes. The sight of the makeup on his face in the dark was, all in all, nightmarish.
"By all means," he said, still giggling. "Don't let me stop you."
Michaela's jaw shook, from humiliation or anger or pain or cold, she didn't know which. "Where are my clothes?"
She watched him shift his legs; she could hear him smacking his lips in the darkness. "On the chair." he told her, nonchalantly.
"What chair?" she said, her voice shaking.
Michaela could almost feel the look her was surely giving her. "You can't wear them, they're soaked right through, y'know."
She took a moment to look around, but she couldn't see over the desk in front of her, and next to him stood a bookshelf, but no chair. She'd have to move if she wanted to look for them, and she couldn't move right at that moment, she just couldn't. Instead she looked over at him once more, noticing that he was still wearing his clothes, even though they'd been soaked through too. "That's why you took them off me?"
He tsked there in the darkness, as if to say duh.
A very awkward tension settled nicely into the air between them right at that moment. Michaela hugged herself to keep from shivering because she knew he could see her, everything she did; the last thing she wanted to do was appear vulnerable, even though she was in her underwear, and freezing, and wounded, and aching all over.
Why was he there? Had he been sitting there in the corner watching the the whole time? How long had she been out? Every question would rush through her head and then churn her stomach.
"Why are you here?" She asked, her voice shaky from fear and the cold. She was at her most vulnerable, she figured; now would be the best time of any to strike against her.
He mused a little. "To make sure you don't go into shock, for one."
She blinked at him. It unnerved her that she couldn't see his eyes at the distance they were at in the darkness; all she could see were two big gasping black pits in his eye sockets, and it scared her even more. She didn't know if he was playing with her or telling her the truth; why would he be so concerned whether or not she went into shock? Unless of course...
"You're not going to...to..."
"What, kill you?" And he laughed as though the idea had never ever crossed his mind, although she was quite confident that it had at some point that night.
Michaela didn't understand. She shifted against the wall into a more comfortable position (or as comfortable as the situation would allow) because she figured there was an explanation coming. As she moved, the wound burned and she hissed, trying to keep herself still so she wouldn't aggravate it. She dared a glance down at it and the sight of it frightened her; it was deep and jagged and looked so horrible; she could see it'd been half-assed cleaned up, but it would scar if she didn't have it properly looked at, she knew it, and she also knew there was no way she was going to get it properly looked at anytime soon.
She sighed heavily as she let her head rest against the wall, looking at him across from her. She then looked down at the wound. "What's this for?"
In her head she knew he wouldn't give her a straight answer, but then again maybe he would; he was sitting there, after all. Something was begging to be said.
"What, that?" the Joker pointed at it in the darkness, as if he didn't know full well what she was talking about, and then he shrugged. "Oh, y'know..." he smacked his lips. "Blood for blood."
She didn't understand what he meant exactly until she remembered what she had done to him in the office a mere hour or however long before, when she cut his face with her name tag. That must have been what he meant; she'd drawn his blood, he'd drawn hers.
Michaela pressed her eyes closed, wondering why she had asked him at all. He did it because he could; did he ever have a better reason?
"Please leave," she begged him, her voice barely louder than a whimper, and she heard him shift where he was seated. All she wanted was to be left alone, suffer by herself, try to make sense of everything that had happened in her own time, in the quiet, without his eyes taking in every move she made. When she opened her eyes again, she was startled to see him standing up, staring at her from the corner. "Please."
She heard him chuckle inside his throat, a nasty chuckle that made her want to pull his teeth out, and he took a torturously slow step towards her. "Why, need some time to yourself?"
Michaela glared at him, hating the mocking tone in his voice. She wanted to scream at him, but what good would possibly come of that?
"Need to..." his voice became low and breathy as he took another step towards her. "Take care of something?"
She knew what he was referring to by the tone of his voice and it made her stomach jump. Pulling her legs closer to her chest to hide herself from him, Michaela considered making a dash for the door as he came closer to her, but thought against it, remembering her half-nakedness. She stared up at him, relieved and disheartened that she could finally see his eyes in the low light, that she could take in the look on his face and the smile on his lips that somehow, somehow made him resemble something human.
The Joker came to a stop as he towered practically overtop of her, grinning down at her with a great big yellow-toothed smile. She knew he was loving this; he was practically writhing in the discomfort he was causing her. "Sure I can't...give you a hand?"
With that, Michaela snapped. "Get out," she growled at him, infuriated and disgusted all at once by his lewd suggestion. Though she knew he only said it to get a rise out of her (and clearly succeeded), she simply couldn't keep down her anger a moment longer. "Get out!"
The Joker held up his hands and took a step back. "Alright, alright, I'm going."
He was laughing to himself, too, the bastard. Michaela watched him, hatefully, as he rounded the desk and went towards the door. As soon as he settled his hand on the doorknob and twisted it, he looked back at her. "But I wouldn't come out dressed like that."
And then, finally, he was gone.
Michaela was alone maybe twenty minutes to a half an hour before she braved the cold and put on her clothes, still damp from the spray. Her skirt was thick and heavy and her blouse and camisole were not only completely ruined (having been ripped on the left shoulder) but a large, grisly blood stain smeared down the one side, reaching almost to her hip. She could only imagine what she looked like in the torn ensemble and the thought of it made her eyes pinch but she took in several gulps of air and tried to toughen up. She slipped on the little ballerina flats she had found and hugged herself for warmth, looking around the office for a serendipitous sweater or spare jacket or coat or anything, but alas, there was none to be seen.
She knew the room was probably being guarded; there were probably clowns stationed outside the door of the office, waiting for her to try to leave so they could call the Joker over to put a stop to it. But she couldn't stay in the office; she felt trapped. At any time he could come waltzing in and do god knows what, god knew what else.
Somewhere in the downtown area the police sirens were going crazy; although she knew another venue had been disposed of, she found it difficult to give it too much of her mind at that moment. She was exhausted, and the wound on her shoulder throbbed, no matter how much pressure she applied to it. She needed to survey the damage, clean it up the best she could with what was available; but it meant leaving the office.
Suddenly the Joker's voice rang in her head: I wouldn't come out dressed like that.
Almost as if he expected her to come out at some point.
Slowly, Michaela padded to the door and pressed her ear against it. She could hear voices of the clowns making conversation, and noise of what sounded like Gotham City News on a TV, as per usual. But no one seemed to be standing directly outside the door.
Looking down at the doorknob, she gripped it with her hand and carefully turned it. It gave way easily enough, and slowly she pushed the door open. No one stopped her, nothing stood between the office and the hallway. Down to her left the hall gave way to a larger conference area set with the television and chairs and a coffee table.
The clowns were standing by the wall while the Joker sat with his back to her, watching the TV as he lounged in one of the leather chairs. The hostages were nowhere to be seen.
Swallowing, she stepped out into the hallway, and without taking notice of what she was doing, let the door open too fast and it creaked.
The clowns both stopped talking and snapped to attention, looking at her through the clown masks, and she froze, staring at them. The one took a step towards her, grabbing his gun at the ready. "Where d'you think you're going?" He spat at her through the mask.
With one hand pressing against the wound and keeping her tattered blouse more or less together so the clowns wouldn't get a glimpse of her bra, Michaela opened her mouth to answer that she was going to find the ladies to at least get a look at the sorry state of the wound that had been inflicted on her.
But, much to her surprise and the surprise of the clowns, the Joker answered for her. "Leave her be."
Michaela gaped, and the clowns both looked at the Joker questionably. "But boss-"
She watched then as the Joker shifted in his seat, looking up at the clowns thoughtfully before turning his gaze towards Michaela. His eyes were bright and playful, and there was a cheerfulness in his tone that she didn't recognize, but it made her want to strangle him and watch the life burn out of his eyes. "She won't go far. Will you, Mi-kay-lah?"
Michaela sneered at him but considered the look he gave her: completely serious, a teasing smile on his mangled lips, not moving a muscle. She frowned; he looked as though he knew something she didn't, completely delighting in an inside joke, and considered her as though she should have known, too.
The wound throbbed, and she winced as pain pulsed up along her shoulder and into her neck. The smile that had threatened the Joker's mangled lips exploded suddenly, telltale, and she stared at him as a very sudden realization poured over her.
The cut wasn't just a cut. It was a mark.
She'd been marked.
That's why he hadn't worried about her escaping him; she couldn't. Even if she survived this shit-show, even if she'd found her way home and the Joker found his way back to Arkham, she would never be free of him. She would carry him with her wherever she went, for as long as she lived.
Her knees buckled and she put her hands out against the wall to break what would have been a nasty fall. Her heart began to pummel against her chest and her breath began to quicken, but she willed herself to stay calm. She could feel his black eyes watching her, she could feel that smile crawling over her skin, slicked with greasepaint, as if she were completely exposed to him, as though she had nothing she could hide from him.
She swallowed the scream that was rising in her throat. She closed her eyes to deter the tears pricking behind her eyes. She took slow, steady breaths to fight off the panic attack she knew was coming.
If it was seen...if she survived and the mark was seen, everyone would know. Everyone would know who did it, and they wouldn't listen to her explanations; they'd draw their own conclusions.
And Roger...if Roger ever saw it...
Michaela twisted her body away so she wouldn't face the Joker, so that he couldn't see the tears pouring down over her cheeks. No wonder he hadn't been concerned about her escaping. There was no escaping.
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"Y'know, I suppose I should ask you the obvious question, at least while I've got the chance."
Chell glanced up at the little, robotic, personality sphere as it rolled along it's rail, turned backwards so its blue eye faced her, the most likely only surviving human in the whole Aperture Science facility (or what was left of it), running along below him. She thought inwardly to herself if this was really a good time for any questions at all. True, Wheatly typically meant well, and was the only sentient device here that she had encountered that did. And, he was friendly, and good company. And he was supposedly trying to help her, but as they both knew very well already, his help had already gotten them in bigger trouble, and either way, Chell wasn't sure she could trust the little sphere that fully just yet. She was only following him now because there was little else she could do, and Wheatly clearly knew his way around these ruins better than she did.
Keeping that all in mind, she guessed Wheatly was entitled to asking a question or two of her. But not now. The time for that definitely wasn't now. Right now was the time to run. Fast. And try to quickly find a way out of here.
Because GLaDOS was still alive.
And they could both agree that was very bad.
"I was just thinking about earlier," Wheatly continued, his little spherical body moving in sync with his talking. He may be a robot that was nothing more than a single sphere with one robotic eye but despite not having much means of expressing emotion with all of that, he managed it quite well, "Y'know, when I…accidently…woke up you-know-who? Terribly sorry about that, too. Really, I am. Not at all what I had planned."
Chell knew he was sorry. He had so repeatedly again and again when their attempted escape went south with GLaDOS's reactivation and landed Chell back in an eerily familiar mess she had hoped she had already escaped.
"I was just thinking about what she said to you, and it's left me kind of lost. I'm…not kept in the loop very well about what happens in this place sometimes. Which, given circumstances, might be a good thing. But you two clearly have met before."
Chell slowed to a stop and looked intently up at Wheatly on his rail. She guessed his question before he even said it.
"So my question is, how do you two know each other? There's clearly a story."
Of all the questions he could've asked, it had to be this one. A question about an incident that she'd rather forget.
Now wasn't the time for this.
Wheatly wasn't going to let the subject drop, however. "She said it's been a 'long time' since she had seen you. Just how long? Surely not as long as I think it is, because if it's as long as I think it is, then I think that would put you at a time and place in this laboratory's history I don't think I like thinking about you being at…I don't think. Which leads me to my next point. This talk of you murdering her. Is that…I dunno…metaphorical? Or…did you really kill her? Or, at least try to? And when was that? Because, again, if it's the time I think it is…ugh, that would not be good."
Chell, as she frequently did, had little to say about the matter. What was there that she could say? Wheatly had already just about guessed the truth. It was remarkable that he hadn't done it before now. He clearly didn't like the sound of the truth, but it was the truth nonetheless.
"Are we possibly referring to some murdering incident that occurred before I came along?" Wheatly continued, obviously hoping the truth actually wasn't truth, "Because now that I think about it, there's only one murdering incident that I know of that took place against her, and that's…not a high point in history, not for the likes of me," he looked at her for a long moment with his one electric blue eye, that one eye again managing to convey more emotion than it probably should, "Please tell me it's not the event I'm thinking of."
Chell only hung her head, unable to deny what she knew to be true.
Wheatly's one eye widened. "It is the time I'm thinking of, isn't it?" he asked, "But then…that would make you responsible for…all of this."
The personality sphere looked around at their immediate surroundings, and Chell saw that if he had arms, Wheatly would be using them to motion at their tattered, aging, and ruined surroundings. Again, she couldn't make eye contact with the little robot.
"Well, that's just great. You do realize what you've done, right? I mean, sure, she probably had it coming to her, whatever it was that you did to her. But didn't you stop to think about the consequences that might have had on the rest of us that were stuck fending for ourselves?"
Wheatly's tone was rising. It was clear that he wasn't exactly thrilled to hear this. It only made feel Chell more guilty about it, which also made her feel stupidly guilty about hurting the feelings of a robot.
"Why is it I'm always the last to know about these things?" Wheatly ranted on, now wandering back and forth on his rail, talking aloud more to himself than Chell, "Why is that? Does the universe simply not like me? Heck, I was the last to know she bit it when it all began! Sure, I thought 'good riddance' like we all did at the time, as she certainly didn't seem to be doing us any favors back then, but that was before we knew this would come of it!" again, he made the armless gesture at his surrounding with that one eye of his as a replacement, then sighed, "You know, I didn't think much of it when I found you where I did, all locked up and in stasis, but now I think I'm starting to see why. To keep you from messing things up more. Probably somebody's idea of punishment for what you did to her, and to us goodly robots that never did anything wrong to you humans."
Chell looked around that her decaying surroundings, and agreed with that sentiment. She barely remembered events after she had supposedly 'murdered' GLaDOS, but she knew it was no accident she had ended up back inside Aperture Science and in stasis for who knew how long just to be woken back up and find that she was quite likely no better off than she was the first time, if not altogether worse. This probably was meant to be punishment for her potentially reckless but seemingly fitting and oddly satisfying actions from before.
"Probably some kind of punishment for me too, and I didn't even do anything! But that's how it always works! Never had any kind of respect in this place. So they stick me with the fate of being the one stuck with guiding the very human who messed up all of our lives!"
Wheatly fell silent for a moment, not at all looking happy, then suddenly rounded on Chell, glaring at her.
"Y'know, I don't have to put up with this. Not at all! In fact, I haven't been stuck with this for one bit! I can quit at anytime and just go back to my stupid, boring, life running around and around and around on this stupid rail! Maybe I can't escape this mad joint and the whole crazy lot of you, but it seems I was better off that way! So goodbye, you smelly human! You do what you want, but I will have no part of it!"
And with that, Wheatly spun around on his rail and sped off on down it, heading away from Chell. Chell started a half-hearted attempt to follow, but Wheatly went faster than she could run, and was rapidly out of sight, and gone, leaving her alone. Silence quickly fell in the ruins of the facility, which sent a chill down Chell's spine as she realized just how very vulnerable she felt standing around like this on her own. She didn't have any idea where to go from here, not without Wheatly. This was a part of Aperture Science she had never been in before, outside the accursed Enrichment Center, and was suddenly much more complicated than she remembered it being anyway. And to top it off, the broken feelings of a robot stung her much more than she thought it would.
For a long while she just stood there, feeling lost.
But then she decided it wasn't like she was beaten yet. She had been in a situation like this before and managed actually rather admirably, and survived. So if she had done it once, what was really stopping her from doing it again? Sure, maybe she did have two AIs mad at her now, but she really only needed to worry about the one, and avoid the other, which would be easy as he seemed to be avoiding her now. And maybe she was to blame for getting them all in this situation of here and now, but if she could do it over, even if she did know what she knew now, she'd do it all over again with few qualms, simply because she knew it was the right thing to do. Regardless of what happened, and how it was done, GLaDOS had to be stopped, and right now, she was the only one willing to do it.
Heartened by these thoughts, she was just about to venture off in the most practical direction when Wheatly came rolling back to her at top speed.
"I'm sorry!" he declared as he approached, sounding back to his relatively optimistic self, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any of that! I'm just…y'know…bitter for being left alone in a crumbing facility with no one to talk to but a bunch of demented robots for the past several hundred years, half of which are no longer working right! I just wanted to blame my troubles on…something and then lash out at it! I mean, can you blame me? It's a miracle I haven't gone mad in this accursed place myself!" he slowed to a stop to hang above Chell's head like he had never left, "And then I thought to myself, why am I chewing you out? You couldn't have known what would've happened when you did what you did! What you did was perfectly logical given the circumstances. And you're just as much a victim in all of this as I am! You're not to blame, not at all, and I'm sorry I even stopped to think that. 'Cause we both know who's really to blame for all of this."
Chell nodded. GLaDOS was to blame for all of this.
"And to heck with this whole joint, anyway! Like I really care what happens to it, and all in it. Hardly anything left to care about. Nobody that matters, at least. Just me, you, and Miss Back-from-the-dead-who-I-hope-had-stayed-dead-and-will-hopefully-soon-be-dead-again. Hasn't brought me any good staying here anyway, not at all, so I figure, the sooner we get out of here, the better! And if we have to fight to do it, then so be it! I'm willing to die trying, how about you?"
He looked at Chell with his expressive single eye again, and looked for all the world to be smiling, despite not having a mouth. So Chell returned the grin.
And then, it was back to business.
"So, where were we?" Wheatly asked, looking around quickly to get his bearing before starting off again, Chell following, "Ah yes, escaping. This way should do it, then, I think. I remember this corridor, too. Funny story to go with it, too, from about a century back when those blasted turrets tried to organize themselves and failed terribly. Good times, I tell you, good times…" | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6300924/1/Who-To-Blame | dclm-gs1-023650000 |
0.085146 | <urn:uuid:2ab50949-37b0-483c-a4f0-be966a7225ef> | en | 0.992126 | Okay, I am pretty excited to be finally writing a GrayLu fanfic! (Crying in the background lolz) The reason I wasn't able to write one before was because I was persuaded by a friend to practice writing my fanfics through the use of different characters and gain experience after I give it my best shot. I am not really a fan of NaLu but I think they are adorable. :" *sigh* So please bear with me and my amateur talent in writing. Please, kindly REVIEW and do whatever it takes to tell me how to improve my writing! I love hearing them so that I can improve. So here is chapter one of " The Lucky Ones"
"Layla, have you read the reports that I gave you last week? Remember soon enough you will inherit all of my fortune and I want you to do your best and don't disappoint me." Layla's father warned her as he paced around the wide room which consists of a study table and it's walls were painted with peach pale colors that made it gloomy to the eyes.
"Yes, father." The young lady answered In her most respectful tone. Layla Heartfilia was the daughter of one of the most influential and richest man in the whole kingdom of Fiore. Her mother died giving birth to her and didn't have memories of her. Whenever she would ask her father to talk about her mother he would say the same thing that the past did not matter and that everyone was supposed to look forward to the future.
Well this was in the past. As of right now Layla Heartfilia was remembering the past when her father used to live. She was disowned by her father for she ran away with Jude who she was in love with. Her father was opposed to idea of getting married with a nobody. Layla sighed as she remembered the times when her father lived and what her life used to be. She felt bad for leaving father and that the cause of his death was because she selfishly only thought about her happiness and crushed his father's heart. But that was all in the past the golden-haired maiden assured herself.
"Layla! Would you please get the hell out of there? And bring me my beer from the fridge." An annoyed voice commanded from the other room.
"Yes, dear." Was all Layla replied. She will not cry even though she was treated like trash by her husband. She married Jude believing that he loved her and promised her eternal happiness if she marries him….but it turns out all that he wanted from her was her money. Ever since she was disowned by her father and her father died leaving all the fortune to her other sister Lira who was now wasting all the money for who-knows-what the way her husband treated her changed. He was drunk one day and confessed that he married her for her money. Layla cried her heart out but she couldn't do anything but accept that this was going to be her life. She has to be responsible for her decisions. She was now pregnant three months and was afraid that if Lucy comes to the world Jude would treat her badly as he treated her.
"What is taking you long woman?" Jude yelled again.
"Sorry, here you go dear." Layla hurried and served the beer to her husband who done nothing but drink since this morning. He couldn't even get a job or even hold a job. This man was pathetic! And she hated herself for not being able to do anything.
"H-honey…why don't you get a job huh? We are behind payment with our bills with the house and—" Layla stammered fidgeting her fingers and not looking at her husband directly.
"Are you trying to tell me what to do?" Jude shouted angrily and slapped the poor woman and her hands automatically pressed against her stomach as she landed on the floor making sure that no harm came to her baby.
"N-no!" Layla fearfully muttered getting up to her feet and moving away in case he decided to hurt her again. She wouldn't risk the life of her baby. After a few hours Jude told her that he was going out with his friends for a party. Layla nodded and was glad that she had the place all to herself. This happened everyday. Her husband would get out of the house and party and she would be left alone in the house and he would come back home drunk and would abuse her. As she looked at herself in the mirror the once well-fed lady and was gifted with a beautiful face was now suffering with bruises all over the prominent face.
Layla was tired of her life! All that she ever wanted was to be loved. She has never experienced the love of a parent and now she has deluded herself into thinking that her husband would be the one to finally make her feel that for once that she was loved. So during her free time she would open the television and watch her dramas. She loved watching dramas! And after watching a few of it commercial came and announcement given that there will be a shooting near the streets of Magnolia and her favorite actors where going to be there! Layla got all excited and checked the schedules and saw that it would be held three days from now. She would have to ask for her husband's permission to go there. After changing into a new set of clothes she prepared herself to do the house chores starting with their room which was messy thanks to her husband.
Layla decided to clean the house and prepare dinner for her and Jude when there was a knock heard in the middle of the night and she hurried and opened the door to see Jude who was in for a surprise!
"Hello, wife!" Jude greeted cheerfully and casually passed by her wife earning a shock face from the girl.
"J-jude! I didn't expect you to be so early!" She gasped worrying that he would change and get angry again as she followed suit.
"It's alright! You should rest now." He grinned. She had no idea what was making her husband act like this but she prayed fervently that this would keep up so that she could get permission to go the gathering three days from now.
"Well, no, do you want to eat now?" She asked him and prepared the food that she cooked. Jude followed and sat himself in one of the empty seats.
"I have something to tell you…. I finally got a job! My friend helped me." Jude's eyes were sparkling with pride and this got Layla's attention.
"Really? What kind?" She asked curiously but was elated with happiness that bills around here were finally going to get paid.
"Don't ask….not important."
"Well…okay. Ummmm, Jude? Can I ask for your permission for something?" Layla used her sweetest and most melodic voice and twinkled her eyes purposely to an oblivious Jude.
"What Is it? If it's money I still don't have it." He answered grumpily holding out his spoon carelessly as he scooped his soup.
"No! It's not that. You see three days from now…I watched it on TV and I saw that there was going to be some sort of parade. Can I perhaps come?" Layla's voice became softer each word and waited for his answer.
"Hmmm…when is it?" He asked still not paying attention but rather to his soup.
"Well, in three days." She answered confidently. Jude finally had the time to look at her and his eyebrows twitched and Layla felt uneasy.
"Okay…but don't expect me to get you there." He stated getting back to finishing his soup. A smiled slowly spread from the girl and she felt happy that everything was being okay.
"Just get out before I change my mind." He muttered. He finished his soup and was now getting to the living room and looking for the remote. Their house was only two-stories and it was rather small. They were able to pay for the house from the last budget that she got from when she was still with her father. That night I woke up and got up and came to the roofdeck. It has a window that can be opened and the stars at night was a sight to behold. The air was chilly but she smiled peering into the darkness.
"Can you feel it baby? The air is so chilly and mama is getting cold." Layla talked to her stomach as she rubbed it comfortingly. "Don't worry, baby….I promise that you won't have a life like this. I swear you will be happy." Layla said conversationally to her baby as tears streamed down her face.
"Mama, will protect you." She gasped wiping away her tears as she continued to gaze at the stars hoping that they will grant her wish for her baby's happiness.
Three days have passed and Layla choosed her outfit carefully praying that she would meet all of her favorite actors. Her husband left early for his 'job' and she didn't bother him with what his job really was for fear that he might take back the permission he gave to get out of the house today. She walked out of the house locked it and breathed deeply into the morning air. She started walking and gazed intently at her surroundings. And after a few hours of walking she got tired and patted her stomach worrying that this wasn't good for the baby. So she decided to rest for a while and started walking again. After walking the long distance she finally arrived.
"Watch it lady!" One guy warned as bikes and other vehicles passed by almost hitting me. And when I neared the crowd that was hurdling in one space a girl in her twenties held a microphone and announced that the shooting will be starting in a few more hours.
So Layla explored the place while waiting. She saw couples younger than her walking hand in hand and felt jealousy as to how they lived a care-free life. She saw children who were playing in the park laughing innocently and having the time of their life and Layla thought if her child would be like those children playing. That's when she suddenly starts to get the notion that someone was following her. She looked back and saw that there were two men who smiling creepily at her and she started to fasten her pace when the guy with the shades caught her arm.
"Where you going babe? You lost?" He snickered still holding on to her hands. She suddenly felt fear as the two men cornered her.
"Hey, you creeps! How dare you corner a girl! Have you no shame?" A new voice approached and I dared to look and a saw a girl close to my age with shoulder-length hair and black hair as night stubbing her fingers in our direction.
"Crap….let's just go…." The guy who held my wrist let go and glared in our direction. I stood there in place and waited for them to get as far as possible.
"Hey, are you alright miss?" The girl who saved her asked walking beside me. "You look sick." She added.
"No, I'm fine…must be the nerves. Thanks, for helping me!" I remembered bowing as I gave my thanks.
"No, need! It was a pleasure." She grinned and helped me up. "So why are you here? You don't seem to be a girl from around here."
"I just went to see something but got lost. And, yeah I'm not from here." I explained and she looked at me for a few seconds with an unfathomable expression.
"Ohhh… you should be careful there are a lot of creeps around here." She warned with a serious face.
"The names Ur by the way. Ur Fullbuster." She stated holding out her hands to me. I stared at her hands not knowing what to do when she laughed and grabbed my left hand.
"Layla…Layla Heartfilia." I answered back returning the gesture.
"I see….cute name….Layla." She smiled so big it could have reached her eyes. "So got anything to do Layla?" Ur asked.
"Not really….I'm just passing the time!" Layla felt happiness for having to meet a new friend.
"Then come with me! I'll show you around." Ur pulled Layla and she stopped and her face looked pale instantly as her hands held onto her stomach. The blonde looked worriedly at her new friend.
"Is everything alright?" She asked to the raven-haired girl.
"Yeah….I just have to remember to take it easy since I'm carrying two lives here." Ur muttered finally looking fine again.
"Two lives?" Layla asked racking her brain for what she meant.
"I'm pregnant!" Ur shouted gleefully as she hit the girl who looked stoned-face beside her.
"Seriously? So am I!" Layla exclaimed smiling back excitedly.
"Really?" Ur asked back again. And for a few minutes they smiled contentedly to themselves when a smile creeped into their faces.
"SISTERS!" The two girls screamed with joy as they hugged each other laughing after breaking from their hug.
"Wow….we need to talk and learn a lot from each other!" Ur announced excitedly pacing from her place and her eyes twinkling in anticipation. The blonde agreed and they decided to stay in one of the benches that the park provided. They sat there and telling each other about their lives and who were the lucky bastards that they had married. Ur was first to talk about her life. She told Layla that she wasn't born from a rich family but was lucky that she married a rich man who could provide for her and her baby. But unfortunately….the father of her child left them three months ago with nothing but money for their future. Ur threw a fit and Layla was there comforting and listened attentively to what her friend has to say.
"Wow….never knew where he could have gone?" Layla asked patting the other girl comfortingly who dampened her clothes with tears.
"Nah, the guy was a bastard for leaving me and our soon to be baby. We don't need him." She said wiping away the last of her tears and urged Layla to tell stories about her past. She wasn't comfortable with the idea of sharing her problems with others but figured that Ur was her trusted friend already. So she poured all of her secrets to her and like what the other girl did, cried when she finished her story with 'her husband changing for the sake of not having the money from her father.' Ur stared at her for a long time with her mouth open in disbelief.
"What a son of a bitch. He treats you like that? Let me at him!" Ur who was comforting her friend a few seconds ago and now angered with the knowledge of what Layla's daily lifeand what her husband does to Layla.
"No, I need to get through this. I have to be strong for my baby." Layla reasoned making Ur sit down but she held on to Layla's hand with force enough to shake them both.
"Are you sure you're going to be alright though?" Ur asked worriedly. "You can stay in my house?" She offered. Layla was almost tempted to take the offer but decided she didn't want to burden Ur with her unlucky life.
"No, I'll be fine. I'll manage somehow." That's when people suddenly got everywhere and was making a fuss shouting 'it's about to start' and both girls remembered why they came here in the first place.
"I have to go somewhere." Both girls shouted In alarm and they laughed at this.
"Promise me we'll see each other again!" Ur cried reaching for Layla.
"Yeah, I promise soon!" Layla murmured reaching out for the other girl at the same time and they stood their dramatically.
"And if that husband of yours decides to hurt you…come to me and I'll beat the crap out of him." Ur swore with a hunted look. Layla shivered with her warning but nevertheless shook her head and the both of them set of into different places. Layla was glad that she finally was able to meet another face besides her husband. Even back when she was with her father she never had friends. Well, true friends that is…..she discovered one day that they were only making friends with her for her money. She didn't trust anyone so much then. But this girl Ur, she was a good person. And she really hoped to see her again someday.
"Yes! Glad it hasn't started yet!" Layla sighed in relief and walked closer to the gathering crowd. And people were pushing to get a better view.
"No way!" A familiar voice that she was so sure sounded minutes ago and the voice came a few meters away from her.
"Ur?" Layla asked in surprise.
"Wow! I didn't expect that you're interested in this kind of stuff!" Ur cheerfully stated while she made her way through the crowd to get to her.
"Yeah, guess I forgot to tell you…I'm a fan of dramas!" I shouted holding her hands when she got through.
"Same! We really are soul sisters!" Ur said and we looked at each other until the shooting started and a girl in her mid-forties showed up in a black cardigan that concealed her chest and was wearing shorts that revealed a lot of skin and she was followed by a man in a cowboy suit playing with the guns on his hands.
"Oh my gosh! It's Bisca and Alzack!" Both pregnant ladies screamed at the top of their lungs as the cheering people around did the same. Both girls screamed wildly as they witnessed one of their favorite actors and jumped from their place.
"Wow! Bisca is sure pretty! She doesn't age a day!" Ur told Layla not taking her eyes off the girl doing her tricks though. Layla nodded in agreement and both girls were star-trucked for the meantime. The shooting went on for an hour and as the cast packed up and finished their shooting both Ur and Layla tried to get to see more of the aspiring actors but failed.
"Oh men! I'd do anything to be on her shoes." Ur tearfully murmured at the moving car that held the actors away.
"Yeah." I giggled and found that Ur had a kind of split personality.
"Hey! What about we see each other again tom?" Ur said and she put on her smiling face.
"I don't think I can go out tom though." Layla told her sadly.
"I'll come to your house then." She quickly found a solution. Layla thought if her husband would get mad and decided it should be alright.
"Okay." Layla agreed and gave out the directions to her house. They parted and promised they would see each other again. The next day Ur went to their house while Jude was away. Layla learned that she worked in a place called Fairy Tail Cafe and that it was a restaurant that served different kinds of food. They talked about their favorite dramas and actors and ate the food Layla prepared and researched healthy tips for their babies deciding on what names they should name them. This went on for months and Ur would always visit whenever Jude was away and whenever he was there he won't beat her wife as he usually did before only occasionally. Until one day Jude came home and his wife greeted him to see that he was sweating bullets and a had a haunted look on his face.
"What's the matter?" Layla asked worriedly bending down to her husband's face.
"L-layla….we need to get out of here!" Jude spoke indifferently.
"Why?" Layla asked and was afraid that harm might come to their child.
"The job I was in ….had a few problems and now we need to get out of here! Pack your stuff." He instructed getting on his knees and packing his stuff.
"Where are we going?"
"My co-worker said that we could join him and go to Love and Lucky a sort of place out of the city of Magnolia."
"How long will we be there?" Layla asked.
"I don't know." He answered fretfully. Layla started packing her stuff and remembered that Ur was coming tonight to hand over a few dinner to share. She suddenly felt really sad as to why she had to leave her only friend who was finally becoming really important to her and more of a sister. She left a letter that explained why she won't be seeing her there anymore and left it where Ur could see it.
"Layla….I need to tell you that whatever happens…I have come to learn and realize….that I do love you." Jude tearfully said while begging on his knees. "I'm sorry I was blinded by money….but I do love you and I want us to start afresh." With this Layla cried and nodded reaching out for her husband. And the both of them fled from the night off to Love and Lucky.
The same night…Ur knocked on the front door of the Heartfilia's and carried a bag full of pasta that she made for Layla and her. Time came and nobody answered the door. She would usually be greeted by the cheerful voice of Layla and a smile on her face. Not that she wasn't allowed to barge in since she knew where Layla hid the house keys underneath the door mat. Worry filled her as she finally got the keys and opened the door.
"Layla? Are you here? I got pasta." Ur called out. She looked into the rooms and searched everywhere until she saw a letter that was tucked in Layla's bed. She snatched the paper and opened it and recognized Layla's neat hand-writing.
Dearest, Ur
Maybe as you read this letter I am on my way somewhere far. Me and my husband Jude decided to get out of town and start a new life. I am really afraid since I don't fully trust my husband and that I think I'm going to give birth in a few days. I'm sorry for leaving in such short notice. I promise to write as much as possible. Thank you for the last few months that we spent together. You've given me so much happiness. You're almost like a sister to me. Tell me when your baby turns out to be a boy or a girl.
All my love, Layla
As Ur finished reading the letter she was enveloped by sadness for not being able to say good-bye to her friend.
"Layla…" Ur cried out clutching her knees and sobbing quietly in one corner.
After two weeks have passed Ur and Layla would write letters about the latest news about their lives and lived as normally as they could. Until one day Layla was washing the dishes and felt a strange pain on her abdomen as her hands automatically grasped her stomach.
"Jude!" Layla screamed in panic as water streamed down her legs and she knew that it was time for the baby to come out. Her husband came running out from re-constructing their new home.
"What is it?" Jude asked placing his hands around her.
"It's time for the baby-" And she was stopped as a scream was placed with her words. Jude understood and carried his wife to the neighbors who knew how to give birth to infants.
And back in Magnolia as Ur was working on her shift in Fairy Tail Café she felt the same and screamed at everyone.
"Gildarts! It's time." Ur clenched her teeth.
"Time for what?"
"The baby is coming out!" And with that everyone in the café panicked as they called for help and decided to take her to the nearest hospital. And at the same day April 25 Layla and Ur gave birth. It took six hours for them to undergo the whole hardship. And finally both were tired from the whole procession and Layla give birth to a baby girl who was crying.
"G-give her to me." Layla commanded holding out her frail hands towards her daughter.
"Here." Jude passed the crying baby to her wife. The moment her hands clutched on warm cloth that was wrapped around the child she cooed to the baby and smiled. This was one of the best moments of her life. She has finally given birth to her child. All of the pain and suffering she felt from giving birth and it was one of the hardest trial she ever dealt with but it was worth it. All the pain she felt all these years she overcame it for her. For her baby.
"J-Jude she's so pretty…." Layla almost cried at the sight of the child.
"She looks so much like you…" Jude answered smiling at the both of them.
"What will we call her?" Jude asked sitting down at the corner and glancing around.
"You should rest now." The girl who helped Jude and the one who shouted instructions to Layla giving birth. And left for them to be with the new-born child.
"Soon . I'm thinking of Lucy?" Layla finalized.
"Lovely name." Jude replied.
"At last! That w-was hard." A grumpy Ur called out and reached at the empty space for her baby.
"It's a boy Ur!" Gildarts called out giving the baby to her searching hands.
"Really? I shall call him Gray."
"Because, he's named after one of my favorite characters in one drama I watched with Layla." Ur answered hugging the baby close to her heart. And both Layla and Ur were happy to have finally seen their babies the fruits of their labor. After three days they were finally able to restore the energy they lost and have regained strength.
"Layla! I have a baby already! It's a healthy boy. I swear he's so cute." Ur shouted excitedly to the girl in the other line of the phone.
"Really? Mine is a girl! I named her Lucy." Layla chatted happily. Before Layla left Magnolia they vowed to call their children by their favorite actors and they did.
"I can't believe we gave birth the same day." Ur said.
"Yeah….I miss you." Layla sighed. It has been a year since they last met and they only have talked on the phone for the first time since Layla has installed it in their house.
"Yeah, me too! Anyway, gtg my son is crying again." Ur laughed at the other line. Layla understood and after talking to Ur came to visit the sleeping Lucy.
"Hey, there baby Lucy…" Layla cooed at the infant who was sleeping peacefully in the nursery that they made for the child. Years passed and she spent it with her family and for once was happy.
Layla was working in one of the company outside the city of Magnolia. After working so hard she became successful and became the president of the company that she worked hard on. It took her five years to get to where she was. And her husband was working in the company as well. It was a company for drama productions. They were already successful in making fourteen movies in two years. She called the company Heartfilia Theater Company. Her lovely daughter Lucy grew up to be a kind-hearted little girl. Her mother spends time with her as much as she could.
"Ma'am we'll be going home now." Her secretary Meredith called out.
"Of course. Good Job and safe trip home!" Layla thanked her secretary for the hard work and decided to pack and go home as well. As she locked the room to her office and was greeted a good bye from most of the leaving workers. She preferred to commute home since it was a hassle to get a cab. And on the way home she felt like someone was stalking her. She turned around to see a man wearing shades lurking behind the lampposts.
"Show yourself!" Layla commanded in an authorative voice.
"Good Evening Mrs. Heartfilia…." A man who showed up and removed his shades smiling at her.
"Who are you and what do you want?"
"Well….I know your husband…Jude. We used to work together back in Magnolia you see." The man answered politely as he took a step nearer. Layla got the notion that this was the man that they were hiding from for the past seven years. She really was intrigued with what her husband used to have for a job.
"Co-worker? In what business?"
"So your husband didn't tell you did he?" The man smiled showing his teeth with golden tooth.
And Layla found out that her husband was involved in illegal business. He was helping this man transport drugs that could give a person high and ecstasy. It has been going on for months and that her husband owed this man a lot of money….or rather Jude stole from this man. Layla's knees began to feel weak shaking from the every word that she heard from the man. These past few years her husband changed for the better and was nice to Lucy. He never even treated her like they way he did years ago.
"How do I know that you're not lying?" Layla shouted glaring at the man with pure hatred. Who was he to ruin her perfect life? Everything was perfect and he just had to destroy her dreams that were coming true.
"Well, why would he suggest to leave years ago?" The man viciously spatted. "Look at the facts…he stole money from me and ran!" Then again I remembered that night when he was so afraid and urged me to leave at once.
"It doesn't matter! That was all in the past. I know he has changed." I started to walk away and forget that I ever talked to this man and forget all the confrontations we had.
"Better hurry, Mrs. Heartfilia…or it might be too late." The man laughed and disappeared into the night. Then panic overwhelmed Layla thinking of her husband and Lucy her daughter at home. She ran as fast as she could arrived with the door opened.
"LUCY! JUDE!" She screamed and got herself to open the lights. The place was a mess. It looked like tornado hit and every furniture was destroyed. She followed where the footprints that came from the floor since it was muddy outside due to the rain. Slowly opening the room from the third floor she saw a man who was holding on to a broken vase and was lying down with his mouth open. But that was not the one that held her attention. It was because blood was everywhere.
"AGHHHHHH! JUDE! Don't die on me!" Layla screams and pleads could be heard all over the place as she crouched down to sob and wail furiously to her dead husband. It looked like he was shot and looked around to see that they were robbed as well. She remembered the man and came to the realization that it was that man that did this as hate filled her.
"LUCY? Lucy, honey where are you?" Layla called out helplessly. She prayed with all her heart that no harm has happened to her daughter. She will die if something happened to her.
"Mama! Mama!" A sob came through in one of the closets. She hurried over and opened it to see a crying Lucy huddled over the trampled clothes and was clutching her teddy bear.
"Lucy! Are you alright? Did they hurt you?" Layla asked her daughter frantically hugging her daughter and patting her back.
"Mama, I'm fine…..but….papa—" Lucy trailed off and suddenly her eyes started getting red and she cried holding on to her mother.
"Yes, I'm so sorry Lucy. Stay here! I'll call the cops. Stay here!" Layla told her. Lucy whimpered but nevertheless obeyed and stayed put. Layla called the cops and reported the murder with shaky voice. After a few minutes they arrived and asked her and Lucy to stay in the car while the investigator demanded answers.
"So when you arrived after talking to this man…you ran home and saw your husband right?" The investigator said calmly. Layla nodded and hugged the now sleeping Lucy close to her.
"I see…for now Ma'am we will be expecting you to stay with us until we catch the killer on the loose." He trailed off scanning the information he got and got off the car. Why did this happen? Why does everything she loved has to be taken? When everything was almost perfect….life always seemed to be taking away something from her.
The next day they were invited by the girl cop named Sabrina to sleep in her house. Last night she didn't have the chance to scan the place around since she was still traumatized from the events from last night so she held on to Lucy as she fell asleep. She got up and explored the house. It wasn't as big as their mansion but it had a welcoming touch and it's white walls were enough not to remind her from the bloody red-walls that she witnessed last night. And for all she knew the corpse of her husband was taken somewhere for further investigation. And now Layla saw Sabrina smiling at her.
"Good Morning Mrs. Heartfilia! If you're worrying about you company I called them and told them that you will be off today." Sabrina cheerfully updated her and invited her for breakfast.
" Sabrina-san….do you mind if I use your phone?" Layla asked politely.
"Sure it's down there." Sabrina pointed while preparing breakfast as she disappeared from view. Layla called the house of one person who she knew she could ran to and trust for the matter whenever she needed help. The only person who can help and understand her at a time like this. As she dialed the familiar numbers and waited as the phone rang a couple of times a voice sounded.
"Hello? Fullbuster residence." A manner-like tone spoke out.
"U-ur? It's me Layla….I need your help."
So that's chapter one! Sorry, if it's all about Layla and Ur. But I swear it will only take two chapters! The next chapter will be about how Gray and Lucy meets for the first time! :D *shouts in excitement* BOOYAH! I'm pretty excited now. Sorry, if Layla's life seems too tragic. Anyway, REVIEW and tell me what you think. So here's chapter one of my first GrayLu fanfic.
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Alas, Twilight shall never be mine, and thus I have no claim to it.
It had been a long day at work and when I entered the brightly lit house, I was surprised to find that all was silent. Although Bella wasn't the noisiest of teenagers there were usually some signs of life - the TV switched on, or the radio playing in the kitchen or the hum of the oven - but today there was nothing. I knew she must be home though; she wouldn't have left all the lights on otherwise. Perhaps she had fallen asleep upstairs.
"Bella?" I called. "Are you in?"
There was no reply for a minute and then she called down to me. "I'm here, dad. I'm just in the bathroom. I'll be down soon."
Happy that the mystery of her disappearance had been easily solved, I took of my jacket, shoes and gun belt and went upstairs to get changed out of my uniform. My belt was getting a little tight lately so I'd probably have to cut down the junk food and the Vitamin R. But not anytime soon.
"Hey, Bells, do you want pizza tonight? It'll save either of us cooking."
"Sure. Just make sure there's no meat on mine, like usual."
I shook my head at her request. Imagine getting a vegetarian pizza; I didn't see the point in ordering it in if you weren't going to get a meat feast.
Placing the order, I sat down in my armchair with a beer and switched the game on, wincing as the screen flickered to life just in time to show the Mariner's miss another play.
Ten minutes later the doorbell rang and I went to answer it, giving the skinny punk kid delivering our food the money and a watchful glare for good measure.
"Bells, pizza's here."
I sat down and started eating, but paused a moment later when there was no sound of my daughter thumping down the stairs as she usually did.
"Just a minute," she shouted down.
However five minutes passed and there was still no sign of her.
"Bella! Your food's getting cold."
"I'll be down in just a minute."
This time there was a hint of panic in her voice that made me set aside my own food and cross to the bottom of the stairs.
"Bella? Honey, are you alright?"
"I'm fine!" She wouldn't have convinced anyone. "Really."
I climbed the stairs and glanced into her empty bedroom. She wasn't still in the bathroom, was she? I mean, I'd heard stories of teenage girls taking forever to get ready - Billy had his hands full with both his girls - but surely they didn't take this long.
"Bells, what's going on?" I banged on the wooden door. "Come out of there."
There was no reply.
"Bella, I'm serious, come on."
"I can't," she finally wailed.
I was completely confused. "What do you mean you can't?"
From the other side of the door came the sound of muffled crying and I winced. This time when I spoke to her I softened my voice. "Come on, Bella, what's wrong? I can hear you crying in there. I'm about to break the door down any minute now."
"No! Don't do that!" Now she sounded panicked.
I didn't know what to do. No-one had ever given me a helpful guide of how to bring up a teenage girl and I was completely lost as to how to approach this. Should I back away and leave her to come downstairs in her own time, or should I demand that she get out here now just so I could check that she was all in one piece still? Not for the first time, I cursed Renee for leaving both me and my daughter alone to fumble our way along together. I didn't think I was a bad father, but there was just some stuff that I felt Bella missed out on.
Suddenly an image flashed in my mind of Bella falling over in the shower and being unable to get up, but being too embarrassed to ask for help.
"Bella!" I banged on the door, my panic now making me frantic. "Are you hurt? Do you need help?"
She was crying again and her sobs cut through me. I didn't have a clue what to do.
"I think I'm alright," she finally replied.
"What do you mean, you think you're alright. Either you're hurt or you're fine."
I leaned my forehead against the door, my eyes closed as I heard the sounds of her misery.
"I just..." she started and then paused. "I'm bleeding and I can't make it stop."
I could've cried in relief. "Well that's alright then. Let me just go and grab the first aid kit and we'll patch you up and get you down to the emergency room."
Her scream stopped me in my tracks and quite frankly frightened me.
"No." Her voice was quieter this time. "I don't need to go to the emergency room, daddy. It's not that kind of bleeding. I haven't had an accident." She dissolved into sobs again.
Suddenly it hit me. The bleeding, not coming out of the bathroom, getting upset and not wanting to tell me what was going on.
"Shit!" I allowed myself to swear softly. Leaning back against the wall opposite the bathroom, I buried my face in my hands. I knew without looking that my face was probably bright red.
Not for the first time, I cursed my ex-wife for running off and leaving me alone with my daughter. Don't get me wrong, I loved Bella and I had fought hard to keep her with me when Renee had tried to take her, but there were some things that daughters should learn from their mothers and this was one of them.
I wasn't a girl. I knew the theory behind how stuff worked for women, but it wasn't something that I cared to think about or that I thought I could impart to Bella without having to pay for years of therapy in the future. I couldn't leave her stuck in the bathroom forever though, especially when I knew she was upset.
Taking a deep breath, I stood up straight and knocked lightly on the bathroom door.
A watery-sounding, "Yeah?" came through the door.
"Ummm, I'm going to run to the store and get you some...stuff, okay?"
I turned to go down the stairs and then realised I couldn't just leave Bella in the bathroom to hyperventilate when I was away. I stared at the plain white walls, searching for some kind of inspiration to hit me.
"Er, while I'm gone why don't you... take a hot shower and I'll be back before you know it?"
I was stopped again from my retreat by Bella. "I don't... I didn't bring any clean clothes in with me." Her voice trailed off at the end until she was practically whispering.
"I can get you some and leave them outside."
I stumbled into my daughter's room, which had been her private sanctuary since she turned eleven and had finally decided that she was grown up enough to have her own space to look after. I was completely disorientated. I tried to find clothes that I thought she would be comfortable in, but quickly gave up the hunt and settled on a pair of sweats I came across. I almost left just that outside the bathroom door, but a glance at Bella's laundry basket told me that I'd forgotten to get her underwear. This was excruciating. In the end I just grabbed a ton of stuff out of the right drawer and buried it under the other clothes. I felt ridiculous as I did it, but it made me feel better.
"Clothes are outside, Bells. I'll be back as soon as I can okay."
She sniffled, but I could hear her pulling herself together on the other side on the door. "Okay. Thank you."
"No problem, honey."
Running downstairs to grab my car keys, I was struck by just how bizarre the evening had become. I knew it was only going to get more surreal though. Grabbing the phone off the wall, I dialled a familiar number. It was answered almost straight away, luckily by the very person I needed.
"Susie? It's Charlie. Look, I know this is a strange request, but do you mind meeting me down by the general store in about twenty minutes? It's an emergency."
I probably shouldn't have added that last part, it would only make her worry, but this was an emergency damnit! My baby girl was upset and I had no idea how to help. This needed a woman's touch, and Sue was a community nurse as well so she would know how to deal with the...problem.
"Of course." I could hear the rattle on the other end of the line where she was getting ready to leave. "Bella's alright, isn't she?"
"She's..." I didn't know how to answer that. "I'll tell you when you get there. She's safe and everything, but I really need your help."
There was silence on the other end and then Sue finally spoke. "Okay then. I'll meet you at the store as soon as I can."
"Thank you." I couldn't convey my gratitude enough over the phone.
Jumping into the cruiser, I was half-tempted to put the blue lights on, but even in my panicked state I could tell that it would be slightly excessive. How other families dealt with the stress of this, I really didn't know. I pulled up to the grocery store in record time, but then had to wait an additional ten minutes for Sue to get there, and she wasn't alone when she finally showed up.
I sighed in disbelief. "Harry. How are you doing? Sue, thanks so much for coming out."
"No problem." She squeezed my arm reassuringly. "I hope you don't mind that I brought the big lug along. He insisted on coming when he heard it was an emergency."
I shuffled uncomfortably at my exaggeration and Harry immediately picked up on it.
"We are here for an emergency, right, Charlie? There is a reason why I drove at breakneck speed to get here?"
I scoffed at that. "Breakneck speed? In that old piece of crap."
"Hey!" He patted the hood of his ancient Corolla lovingly. "Don't mock my baby. I'll have you know that she's the fastest thing this side of the country."
Sue rolled her eyes at that and turned back to me. "Charlie, the problem? What is it? You know we want to help if we can?"
I did know that. But I also knew that this would have been a lot easier to explain if Sue had come by herself.
"It's Bella," I began, and then stopped. I had no clue of the proper...terminology...or whatever that I should use.
"Yes," she prompted. "What about Bella?"
I opened my mouth and then closed it again at the look of curiosity on my best friend's face. If I didn't know any better I would say that he was enjoyed my discomfort far too much.
"She's... She's reached that age..." I could feel the heat spreading up my neck and crossing my face. "She has... women's stuff," I finally managed to spit out. "And I don't know what to do?"
A loud whoop immediately rang out across the parking lot as Harry collapsed against his car, howling with laughter. Sue had an expression on her face that was a mixture of pity and amusement, but she at least had the good grace to not laugh out loud.
"Don't tell me," Harry wheezed, "that you're too scared to go down the girly aisle by yourself." He cackled, his hand holding his stomach. "Just wait until I tell Billy this one."
I scowled at him, the temptation to shoot him growing every second.
"Harry!" Sue slapped her husband's arm. "Don't be so insensitive. You didn't deal so well with Leah when she got her period for the first time either." She put her hands on her hips. "You've got no room to laugh."
Harry's face paled at the mention of his daughter and he turned to me frantically.
"Christ, Charlie. If your Bella's anything like my Leah you want to make sure you're as far away from her as possible during that time of the month."
"Harry!" Sue scolded. "That's your daughter you're talking about."
"Yeah, and I don't want to be anywhere near her when she starts throwing stuff," he countered. "Seriously, Charlie, if you need to get away, just call and me, you and Billy can go fishing."
Sue shook her head. "Any excuse to go fishing," she muttered. She turned to her husband. "Why don't you go ahead and get back? I'll give you a call later when I need to be picked up."
Harry looked confused. "I thought you were just going to the store. Why can't I come in with you?"
His wife put her hands on her hips and glared at him. Even I knew the answer to this one, although I was dreading the moment Sue forced me down the feminine products aisle with her.
"Honestly, Harry, do you really think I'm going to let Charlie deal with this one all by himself? He'd probably buy the wrong tampons and then traumatise the poor girl by just throwing them at her and leaving her to it." She patted my arm. "You're doing a fabulous job raising her, don't get me wrong, but this is something best left to me. You'd only stutter and get embarrassed and then Bella would be just as flustered and nothing would ever get sorted out. So Harry, go home and make sure Seth hasn't burned the house down and Leah is actually watching him and not on the phone with the Uley boy, and I'll sort Charlie and Bella out."
I let myself relax at Sue's take-charge attitude. I mean, she had pretty much told me that I was useless in this instance, but hadn't my call for help already proved that?
She gave Harry a kiss goodbye and he left with a wave and a snicker. Bastard was probably going to jump on the phone as soon as he got home and tell Billy all about my ineptitude.
Shopping with her was a revelation. I had no clue what I was looking at. There were so many packets and brands. Stuff with wings, stuff without wings and none of them looking anything like a bird. I trailed behind Sue, red-faced, as she quickly and concisely explained to me what I was looking for and what she thought I should get Bella. Wanting to leave that part of the store as quickly as possible, I just agreed with everything she said and what she put in the basket she carried, and then hurried through the check out as quickly as possible. I could almost feel my own moustache bristling with embarrassment.
I drove both of us back to the house where Sue took the grocery bag off me and disappeared upstairs. Seconds later I heard her knock on the bathroom door where my daughter was still hiding.
"Bella, honey, it's Sue. Can I come in please?"
Standing at the bottom of the stairs, I saw the door creak open minutely and revealed my first glimpse of my daughter that evening. Like I had thought earlier, she had been crying. Her face was all pink and swollen and her eyes were suspiciously bright. She ducked her head back into the bathroom when she saw me and Sue clucked, shooing me away with her hand.
Unsure of what to do next, I hovered as Sue shut the bathroom door behind her and I was left stood in the silent hall. After a few minutes without any sign of either lady, I turned and switched on the TV, throwing myself down onto the sofa.
I scrubbed my hand over my face tiredly. The same game from earlier was still playing which seemed wrong to me somehow. It felt like this evening had stretched on for years, instead of just the hour it had taken for me to get an answer from Bella and then fetch Sue.
Grabbing the discarded box on the table, I took a huge bite of cold pizza, wincing at the slimy taste. Upstairs, I could hear murmurings as Sue and Bella talked, but unless I switched the game off then I couldn't understand what they were saying, and I didn't even think I wanted too.
About thirty minutes after Sue had vanished upstairs, she returned back down and went to the kitchen, picking up the phone. When she was down calling Harry to pick her up, she came and sat next to me, grabbing a slice of my pizza.
"Well that's sorted now."
I cast a wary glance back up the stairs. "She knows... everything she needs to now?"
Sue shot me a look but nodded. "Yes, I've had a talk with her. The best thing you can do now is just pretend the whole thing never happened. The poor girl's already feeling embarrassed, having to talk to you about it would only make her feel more uncomfortable."
We sat in silence, finishing off the last of my pizza, until finally there was the beep of a horn outside.
"That'll be Harry." Jumping up, she called goodbye to Bella upstairs and then turned to me. Stepping forward, she leaned down and pressed a kiss to my cheek. "You're doing a good job with her, Charlie. You're a good father." She offered me a smile and then opened the front door. She was halfway out before she turned back. "Oh, but if anything like this happens again, send Bella straight to me, ok?"
"OK," I agreed readily. "And Sue?" She paused. "Thank you."
She smiled and nodded, waving before the door shut behind her. As much as I didn't think that I wanted a woman in mine and Bella's lives, a tiny part of me envied my friend at that moment for having a wife like that.
A low creak from the old stairs alerted me that Bella was finally venturing down. She was dressed in her pyjamas and looked a lot more composed than she had the last time I'd seen her.
Sue had told me not to mention anything that had happened tonight to Bella, but I had to make sure that she was feeling better about everything.
"Everything sorted now, Bells?"
She hesitated next to the sofa and fidgeted with the hem of her shirt. "Umm, yes thanks."
That was all that needed to be said on the subject, really.
"Come and have your dinner. The pizza's cold now, but you can probably heat it up again if you want."
She shuffled forwards. "It's fine cold."
She still looked uncomfortable so I raised my arm and she hurried forward and sat next to me, tucking herself into my side. I grabbed her pizza from the table and set it on her lap so she could reach it more easily.
"Thank you for calling Sue," she whispered after she had finished her food.
I hugged her. "No problem, honey. Better her than me, right?"
She laughed and the remaining tightness in my chest from this evening disappeared at the sound.
"Right," she agreed.
We settled in to watch the remainder of the game together.
"Love you, daddy."
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Examinations of people who 30 years earlier had elected to have brain surgery for epilepsy show that half of them have been free of seizures nearly all of that time.
William H. Theodore and Kathy Kelley of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Bethesda, Md., contacted 48 epilepsy patients who had had the operation between 1965 and 1974. In each of these patients, doctors had removed a portion of either the right or left temporal lobe, depending on where the individual's seizures occurred. The corresponding brain portion in the other, intact temporal lobe was able to compensate for the cognitive functions formerly orchestrated by lost tissue.
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was eager to go into iraq. these days, the last thing the obama administration wants to do is go into iraq. in terms of will syria actually use them? i don't think we have any idea. what we do know, is they're not useful militarily. they're helpful in an negotiation, about getting them out. it's hard to see how they advance his cause. >> assad would face complete obliteration if he does this. and some say he wants asylum in venezuela or whatever. he's not a stupid man. why would he risk the wrath of the world ascending on him? >> it's hard to see how this advances his cause, except as part of the negotiation. if you're trying to get a better deal for your family, then, maybe it's useful. >> would this create an internal coup, with his background? i don't know how sane he is or not, and what he's done. he's killing his own people. he's butchering his own people. when do the colonels come after him, to use a latin phrase? >> i don't think that happens. if anything, i think assad may be a prisoner of his security establishment. i don't think he will be pushed aside by his aides. >> when do th
a high-risk test like this with so many eyes watching? bill: you mentioned the obama administration. how are they reacting? was is our response? >> our response tends to look first to the yate united nation. there is talk of proportional sanctions being considered at the security council should north korea test. but it's clear that is not going to change the trajectory of north korea's per suit of a nuclear program. bill: steven yates, thank you. we are watching this, sometime we believe in the coming days to 10 days. here's martha. martha: $120 million to develop the next electric car battery. it's not an independent venture. you are paying for it. the u.s. taxpayer. we'll tell you about the government's latest gamble with your money. bill: one man' home survived superstorm sandy. but it did not make it through the recovery. >> the township didn't know what happened. i called the governor' office and she said to me, are you sure your house is gone? i said, miss, you miss place a pen or pencil, you don't miss place a house. ♪ i wish my patits could see what i see. ♪ that over time, h
.s. and other countries. explain. guest: this is a longstanding concern and one reason why the obama administration has said they're not interested in sending sophisticated weapons and to syria. the organization referred to in the article is considered one of the most effective fighting groups on the ground. many of the members are seasoned fighters from the i wrapped insurgency. there also -- iraq insurgency. while they may be somewhat smaller raley numbers, they're far more effective on the ground and it is a growing cause for concern in the situation in syria continues to deteriorate. the u.s. has decided or looks like they will designate the front as a terrorist organization. in that way, that may put some controls on the funding going into this organization and isolated from the other rebel groups on the ground. fact of the matter is in an environment as volatile as the one in syria, without a major presence on the ground, it's quite difficult to deal with an organization like this one. host: this photograph gives you just one neighborhood back in may in damascus with the broade
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to come. that's up from 48% just a year ago. let's bring in our political panel, angela mcglowan and a former spokesperson for vermont gosh howard dean who is also a presidential candidate. ladies, thanks for joining us, look, there's a lot of pessimism right now as we're seeing right now, a degree of uncertainty amongst the american people and why do you think that is when we're seeing that the economy shall at least our unemployment rate dropped to below 8%. >> americans, americans are suffering, kelly. i mean, people today, most don't believe in the american dream anymore, most don't believe they can obtain a house or even keep their house, most are living from paycheck to paycheck, if they have a job and more americans are living on government assistance. now, is that the fault of the obama administration? is it the fault of congress? or is it the fault of the american people? we elected these people in office, and we reejected obama and his policy has failed us, kelly. we don't know what the middle class is today because the middle class continues to shrink. >> christy
or accept responsibility? here to debate this, fox news contributor angela mcglowan and democratic strategist maxwell. angela, i will start with you. is this really fair for him for him to be pushing the blame on quote unquote washington when he has been in the white house for four years. >> that's president obama. that's what he does. they pass the buck. instead of taking responsibility. the same old same old. he will blame washington, d.c. isn't he a part of d.c. >> he is a part of d.c. he is not the only one there he can't pass laws. we are talking about an economic recovery. we need to be looking at the people that can actually pass law in order to get that. >> zerlina he can't pass laws when nancy pelosi was speaker. she enacted all of his proposals. that's the president. he has lobbists that go to capitol hill and propose legislation, but harry reid hasn't even passed a budget. >> zerlina i want to bring this up too. a graphic in january the unemployment rate ticked up up to 7.9%. how long is it going to take for americans really to start feeling fed up with all of this espec
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If there is an application, does it work like "Time Machine" where it save backups of your computer and if wanted, go back to an earlier time on the computer for example where an virus was not there?
Here is an definition of Time Machine that Apple wrote:
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You could give a try to Back in Time. It is in repository.
In documentation he explains why he do it.
Why did I write the application ? When I read about Apple’s TimeMachine I thought it’s nice tool to have. I searched for equivalent applications for Linux and I find TimeValut and FlyBack.
Since February I'm making backups with it, but never had tried a full or partial restore.
It uses rsync and not the mechanism like inotify used by Time Machine. So it is running every x time and not each time the file is wrote.
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So you recommend Back in Time as a good equivalent to Time Machine? – jaorizabal Mar 15 '12 at 0:04
I prefer "Back in Time" in favour of "Déjà Dup" because it has more granularity when do the backups and keeping backups. During some time I've it configured to make backups every 10 minutes and it doesn't go very well, mainly because the destination disk was full. Now with backups every hour, I'm only notice is there when I undock the laptop and the usb disc goes away and it warns it doesn't have the destination disc :) Recovering files with GUI is ok, but my full recommendation it will be when I restore my computer from a crash without the application it works well. – Pipe Mar 16 '12 at 12:12
Thanks I'll give it a try. – jaorizabal Mar 16 '12 at 13:18
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You could do a full backup of the root folder "/" with Déjà dup, the default backup client of ubuntu. When restoring you can use a live cd to avoid your system entering in a weird state.
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Will backing up the root folder backup files on separate physical drives? Will it mount those drives if it needs to? – opensourcechris Dec 24 '12 at 13:38
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Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting Hill.
Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction—and his own good intentions—Wren hatches a plan to find the money’s rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners—people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren’s life—and the life of his trusting fiancée—the consequences will change them all.
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Walking to the Portobello Market shops in London’s Notting Hill one morning, wealthy gallery owner Eugene Wren discovers an envelope full of cash lying in the street. Rather than keep the money for himself or turn it over to the police, Wren attempts to find the owner by posting a notice around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act sparks a chain of events that soon links Wren, a man plagued with a shameful addiction, to several other Londoners—people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. When these volatile characters creep into Wren’s life—and the life of his trusting fiancée—the consequences will forever change them all.
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Per Twitter,
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Could care less about Holmes but this probably means OTree keeps his job. *sigh*
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lol, that dude was still on the roster? The fact that it took till this point in the season for a nobody giving absolutely nothing to the team to get cut just speaks volumes about the protection afforded to Jerry's personal pets.
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Don't know why he even made the roster in the first place.
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Jerry told us in the off season Holmes was the replacement for Laurent Robinson.
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I was hoping someone wouldn't bring that up. :(
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He was a Jed Clampett favorite. Only reason he made cut out of camp.
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Hmm, he actually has a reception on Thursday. Does this mean we are signing Armstrong?
Seriously though, this is the guy Jerry told us was going to be our #3 receiver and half this board bought it. :lmao2:
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O M G!!! How will we manage now :confused:
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is production will be missed:lmao2:
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In my head that has this music
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He's no Danny Coale
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this news can't be true. how can he be cut when he was supposed to be "getting a lot of playing time" as "laurent robinson's replacement"?
idiot jerry.
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Should have just kept coale. If nothing else CC would have been not so crazy during cut week
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lol Coale is still with the organization on the practice squad homie, but it really looks like Beasley and Harris are ready to step up and help more in that 3rd-4th WR role
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Some simply love to find the dark perspective of every transaction we make. If we sign Holmes, Jerry's an idiot. If we cut him, Jerry's an idiot.
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so armstrong or probably a corner or linebacker since we might have season ender there.
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An attacker deploying the Schuchard cyberweapon would send traffic between computers in their botnet to build a map of the paths between them. Then they would identify a link common to many different paths and launch a ZMW attack to bring it down. Neighbouring routers would respond by sending out BGP updates to reroute traffic elsewhere. A short time later, the two sundered routers would reconnect and send out their own BGP updates, upon which attack traffic would start flowing in again, causing them to disconnect once more. This cycle would repeat, with the single breaking and reforming link sending out waves of BGP updates to every router on the internet. Eventually each router in the world would be receiving more updates than it could handle – after 20 minutes of attacking, a queue requiring 100 minutes of processing would have built up.
Clearly, that's a problem. "Routers under extreme computational load tend to do funny things," says Schuchard. With every router in the world preoccupied, natural routing outages wouldn't be fixed, and eventually the internet would be so full of holes that communication would become impossible. Shuchard thinks it would take days to recover.
"Once this attack got launched, it wouldn't be solved by technical means, but by network operators actually talking to each other," he says. Each autonomous system would have to be taken down and rebooted to clear the BGP backlog.
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Whoever launched the attack, there's little we could do about it. Schuchard's simulation shows that existing fail-safes built into BGP do little to protect against his attack – they weren't designed to. One solution is to send BGP updates via a separate network from other data, but this is impractical as it would essentially involve building a shadow internet.
Another is to alter the BGP system to assume that links never go down, but this change would have to be made by at least 10 per cent of all autonomous systems on the internet, according to the researchers' model, and would require network operators to monitor the health of connections in other ways. Schuchard says that convincing enough independent operators to make the change could be difficult.
"Nobody knows if it's possible to bring down the global internet routing system," says Mark Handley, an expert in networked systems at University College London. He suggests that the attack could cause "significant disruption" to the internet, with an effect greater than the Slammer worm of 2003, but it is unlikely to bring the whole thing down.
"The simulations in the paper make a lot of simplifying assumptions, which is necessary to simulate on this scale," he explains. "I doubt the internet would behave as described."
Schuchard and colleagues presented their findings at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, California, on Tuesday.
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Hi guys,
I am trying to get an LED (attached to the i/o port of a microcontroller) to fade in and fade out without using PWM. I hooked up a resistor and LED pair in parallel with a large-ish polarised capacitor, thinking that as the cap charged it would prevent some current getting to the LED, resulting in a fade up to full brightness. When power was removed the cap would then slowly empty it's charge through the LED, resulting in a fade out. It worked for the fade out but not the fade in; it simply went to full brightness when power was applied.
I realised I would need another resistor between power and the cap to limit the speed at which he cap could charge. I set this up (see figure below) and it is kind of working; I get both a fade in and a fade out. But the fade in speed is not the same as the fade out speed.
I'm wondering if anybody knows if there is a way to calculate what resistor/capacitor values will give different fade in/out speeds? I'm also curious if it's possible to calculate how much current is passing through the LED? I used a 220 ohm to set a current of 20mA when supplied with 5V, but I'm guessing this all goes out the window now that the cap and extra resistor are attached.
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Charge throught D1 + R1.
Discharge through D2 + R2.
Fiddle the R-values.
Almost sounds like a 555 PWM circuit.
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A schematic say more than a thousand words.
This is what I tried to suggest, but now I think it won't work. Look at this:
It's the equivalent schematic. Current will flow directly through diodes and resistors to the LED. Sure, the discharge and charge times will be different, but the required resistors will also resist the LED current. So let's try to isolate R1 and R2 from the LED current.
This one might work. I have no idea. R1 and R2 could be combined into one potmeter. Give it a try! And while you're at it...
Replace D1 and D2 with LEDs. These will glow only shortly after a change in the switch position. But wait. How is C1 ever gonna discharge? Oh right!
Don't forget to model your output pin as a double throw switch connected to either V+ or GND. Your MCU will sink approx. as much current as it will source. There's our discharge path!
But will it work? You might have to use a much bigger capacitor! Or smaller LEDs.
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your problem is that the voltage does not drop linearly with time
see this link for details http://www.technologyuk.net/electronics/electrical_principles/rc_circuits.shtml
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We have two functions:
$$\begin{align*} y &= x^4-5x^3+2x^2-5 \\ y &= -11x-20 \end{align*}$$
My task is to find two closest points that can be found on these two functions.
Can somebody give any hints on how to solve these type of exercises?
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Do you mean the closest points of the curves, or the minimum difference between the two functions? – copper.hat Feb 8 '13 at 8:17
The minimum difference between the two functions. :) – Trom Feb 8 '13 at 8:23
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You want to minimize $x^4-5 x^3+2 x^2+11 x+15$. Take the derivative, set that to $0$, and solve. Unfortunately this is an irreducible cubic, so the solutions are not very nice. There are three real roots: approximately $-.6828742578$, $1.275428188$, $3.157446070$. I'll leave it to you to find which of these gives the minimum.
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Since you want the minimum difference between $$\begin{align*} y_1(x) &= x^4-5x^3+2x^2-5 \text{ and }\\ y_2(x) &= -11x-20 \end{align*}$$ you are looking for the minimum of $$ \left| y_1(x) - y_2(x) \right|$$ which will be a max / min of $$ z(x) = y_1(x) - y_2(x).$$ So write down the equation for $z$ as Robert Israel has done for you, differentiate $z$ and find its turning points.
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In Euclidean space, There is a classic Theorem claims that: The length of every rectifiable curve can be approximated by sufficiently small straight line segment with ends on the curve.
Now, The question is that: Is there a similar thing happen on plane of constant curvature? I.e., Can the length of every rectifiable curve on the plane of constant curvature be approximated by sufficiently small geodesic line segment?
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Yes, this is normally how the length of the curve would be defined, if it is not assumed to be smooth. – yasmar Nov 11 '11 at 18:26
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Anyone who's scarfed down junk food when feeling overwhelmed (but not necessarily hungry) knows that stress doesn't exactly cause humans to make the smartest decisions. But recent research shows that chronic financial stress doesn't just cause you to make a few bad decisions – it can actually lower your IQ.
It largely has to do with the idea of "bandwidth" – that you only have so much space available to think. And, that means if you're spending a lot of brain space obsessing over one thing, you have less space to think about other things. In their recently released book, "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much," behavioral economists Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir analyzed past research and conducted new experiments to show how the feeling of scarcity causes people to obsess over the thing that's scarce – whether it's time, food, relationships or money.
Their primary experiment had two parts. First, they asked a group of people to imagine they needed to pay $300 for a car repair. After that, they gave the participants tests to determine their IQ. In this version of the experiment, there was no significant difference in response to the intelligence test between poor participants and wealthy participants.
However, when the same experiment was conducted with a $3,000 car repair, the result was very different. The poor participants did significantly worse on the intelligence test than the wealthy participants – in fact, they scored 10 to 12 points less, about the difference between how you'd score after a good night of sleep and how you'd score after an all-nighter. The authors theorized that this was due to the loss of mental bandwidth – that it would be difficult and stressful for the poor to figure out a way to come up with $3,000, while the rich would have enough money to cover the expense without worry.
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Even if your budget is tight, there are ways you can make better financial decisions. The key is to create more space in your head by doing the following.
Automate as much as you can: Even if you don't feel like you have a bandwidth problem, automating your finances is a great way to ensure you're making good financial moves. There are several ways to do it:
• If you receive direct deposit for your paycheck, set a certain portion of it to be deposited directly into your savings account instead of your checking account.
• If your job offers a 401(k) or 403(b), set it up so that the money is automatically deducted before you ever see it. Plus, if your employer matches your contributions, you could have free money coming your way.
• Set up automatic bill pay for any bills you can, so you don't forget to pay them.
• Sign up for programs that make you automatically save. For example, some banks, including Bank of America, have programs in which for every purchase, they round the amount up to the nearest dollar and deposit the change in your savings account.
• Set up reminders: For everything that you can't automate, set up reminders. You can use a calendar program like Google Calendar and receive an email notification when a payment is due. You can also send yourself free text messages from a site like
Be mindful: One of the issues of bandwidth is that people often focus on the immediate problem without thinking about the future. When you feel yourself getting stressed about money, take a deep breath and give yourself some time to explore why you're feeling the way you are and how you can fix it.
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Four people have been killed in gun battles between rival gangs in Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region.
A large fuel-pumping station in the city was also attacked.
The latest violence brings the number killed in nearly a week of fighting between gangs to at least 10 people.
Violence around Port Harcourt has increased since militants launched a campaign last year for a greater share of oil revenue for the poor region.
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The fighting began on Monday with sporadic clashes between gangs that Port Harcourt residents say are vying for control of territory in the city.
Residents reported gunshots and explosions through Friday night and on Saturday the battles intensified.
Security forces have set up roadblocks and mounted patrols in some areas of the city.
The security situation in southern Nigeria's oil-producing region has deteriorated since early 2006 with attacks on oil installations and foreign workers kidnapped for ransom.
The main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), agreed to a ceasefire last month but recently threatened to resume attacks.
The unrest has led to a 25% cut in oil output from Nigeria - Africa's largest producer.
President Umaru Yar'Adua has said tackling the unrest in the south is one of his top priorities.
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when a person who is usually not smart or makes dumb decisions happens to do something that everyone assumes is stupid, somehow pays off or is very successful at the end
rev. smartdumb
yo J just found a bag of $5000 cash. He bout to take it to the police station.
3 days later.....
yo J returned the money and the owner let him keep it and gave him an extra $5000.
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Words related to dumbsmart:
smartdumb dumb smart stupid successful
Someone who thinks they know a lot, and tries to talk like they're smart, but when engaging in debates, they never prove their point.
Fundo thought he was engaging in intellectual conversation with the smartest lady in the world, until he found out she was only dumb smart.
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1.) the act of smartly being dumb
2.) finding loopholes
3.) being a man
a female on facebook posts a status "boys are stoopid" a male friend quickly counters with a dim-witted comment "Well good thing I'm a man and not a boy."
this is an example of being Dumb Smart.
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Describes something that we are told is coming soon (game updates, TV shows, etc.) but we have heard it enough times to know better. Whoever is saying x event will occur soon is considered to own the trademark on the word because they have used it so many times.
"when are the new chappelles show episodes?"
"i dunno, soon (tm)"
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I have three servers, the load balancer runs nginx and passes the PHP requests upstream to one of two servers running php-fpm.
I was actually trying to test concurrency in the first place, so the php script on each PHP-FPM server shows a start and end time as well as the hostname, and after the start time is echoed it uses 100% CPU for 5 seconds before echoing the end time.
Neither server hits 100% CPU simultaneously for 4 concurrent requests and the timestamps show they are served consecutively which makes me think nginx and fastcgi is blocking all concurrent connections.
Running ab with 100 concurrent connection sees all processes on one PHP-FPM server (out of 10 available) processing and the other server is completely quiet doing nothing.
The nginx conf is:
upstream backend {
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
location / {
root /var/www;
index index.php;
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass backend;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
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Don't go passing FCGI over the network; use regular ol' HTTP for as long as you can. You're entering poorly-tested waters the way you're going.
At any rate, I really don't recommend using nginx as a load balancer. It really isn't the best (or even a "good enough") tool for the job. I think the best option is Linux Virtual Server, as it is transparent to the TCP connections and blisteringly fast, but if that's off the table for some reason, at the very least use haproxy.
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While this is off topic, can you elaborate on why LVS would be best. I have no specific reason to use Nginx so I'm happy to hear better suggestions. Out of interest, why should I not use nginx? – Paul Ridgway Aug 14 '11 at 21:42
"It really isn't the best (or even a "good enough") tool for the job." – womble Aug 14 '11 at 21:52
That's not a reason, that's an opinion. – Paul Ridgway Aug 14 '11 at 21:55
What else has anyone got to go on? Find me one absolutely objective study on the benefits of any software package relative to another. – womble Aug 14 '11 at 22:04
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I would suggest you to do the opposite thing. Leave this server as a load balancer and do the FPM config on the backends only. FastCGI is better served if nginx and fpm are in the same server talking over sockets or localhost, so it's something like this setup:
---- backend 1 with nginx + php fpm
server with two backends |
---- backend 2 with nginx + php fpm
that way if there's something blocking one of the backends it will not affect the second one and the load balancer will continue to serve stuff from it. Also be sure to tune the number of fpm children even if you are using the dynamic settings.
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Thanks I was considering that, I was trying to keep memory usage as low as possible on the PHP boxes. Having looked further I see nginx uses little RAM :) – Paul Ridgway Aug 14 '11 at 21:44
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If you really need to farm out to FastCGI servers instead of nginx + php-fpm boxes, you can try the fair module for nginx found here. The plugin assesses reposponse time from each of the backends and rotates respectively. Note that this will require you to recompile nginx.
If you don't want that, make sure at least that you are not using the ip_hash directive, since you will not get rotated when requesting over a benchmark (since the source IP is always the same) and try least_conn (found in nginx >= 1.2.2). More information here. Finally, adjust your criteria for nginx selecting the next server using fastcgi_next_upstream
fastcgi_next_upstream timeout http_503 http_500 invalid_header
in order to mitigate timeouts on overly loaded nodes. More on that, here
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Comment: Re:Tim Cook doesn't understand the Law (Score 1) 348
Are you familiar with the law? It doesn't define best interest. Not all shareholders a motivated purely by profit. Those that are motivated as such had an opportunity to vote him out of power (the law is on their side for that), but they couldn't garner enough interest.
Actually, ALL shareholders are motivated purely by profit. Think I'm wrong? Apple has enough surplus cash to indulge in such ventures. What if Apple posted a $10B loss? Think such money sinks would still be funded? Yes, willingly paying a premium for energy is a money sink.
If Apple was losing money, all of their shareholders would be concerned. Don't be fooled into thinking they wouldn't be.
Comment: Cook said it because Apple is rolling in cash (Score 1) 348
You best believe that if Apple was limping along financially then they wouldn't have splurged on such green energy ventures. Don't misunderstand me. Apple has the cash and they can spend it as they wish. But Cook is making a moral argument and it's only the success of the iPhone/iPad that allows him to do so.
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by SensitiveMale (#46297319) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass?
I put in my application for Google Glass as a joke.
I don't think you understand what a "joke" is. Unless, that is, the information you supplied on the application is funny in some way.
I don't think you understand what "doing something for a joke" is. Actually I think you do, but you're being deliberately obtuse so you could follow up with that idiotic following sentence.
Comment: Re:Maybe most women don't want to go into tech (Score 1) 545
by SensitiveMale (#46178029) Attached to: Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source
Is it social bias or is it just the way things are? Building toys that boys like and marketing them to boys isn't "social bias." Same things with toys for girls. The whole bullshit about "social bias" is that boys and girls are equal in every way and think, act, and prefer in the exact same way until "society" forces blue on boys and pink on girls. Total bullshit.
Comment: Instead of looking at server software Go with Dune (Score 1) 420
by SensitiveMale (#45965711) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server?
I share my files with SMB, but I use a Dune HD B1 player. It plays everything including Blu Ray structures, DVD structures, ISO, MKV, MP4, M4V, AVI, and so on.. So if you're looking to play your files on a single TV, get the best player you can. A Dune HD.
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Best way to detect that HTML5 <canvas> is not supported
Now that $.browser is being taken out of jQuery in favor of $.support, how would I detect IE8 with jQuery, or with plain javascript?
if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version, 10) === 8) {
Sorry, but HTML will not work for me. So I can not do this:
<!--[if IE 8]>
<script type="text/javascript">
ie = 8;
Specifically, I am looking to do work with the canvas tag and IE8 does not support canvas, but jQuery.support does not detect for canvas support.
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The whole reason for doing this is that you shouldn't need to test for IE8. Why are you trying to? – lonesomeday Jul 6 '12 at 21:33
That link doesn't say its being deprecated, it is just explaining that feature detection is more recommended than browser detection. – Tyrsius Jul 6 '12 at 21:33
what do you need to do in IE that is so impossible? the whole point of using jquery is to forget which browser you are working on – Ibu Jul 6 '12 at 21:34
@BishopZ stackoverflow.com/questions/2745432/… – lonesomeday Jul 6 '12 at 21:40
Sometimes people ask the wrong question. This question could have been: "How do I look for a number in a string that is greater than a certain number using a regex?" Why? Because I need to look at a browser agent string. "Why?" Because I need to detect if the browser is greater than IE8. Why? "Because I want to see if canvas is supported." Ah ha! So what you REALLY want to do is see if canvas is supported. Asking for help with your ORIGINAL problem is important. Not to pick on the OP too much :) – aquinas Jul 6 '12 at 21:48
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Test for the feature instead:
var el = document.createElement('canvas');
if (el.getContext && el.getContext('2d')) {
// canvas supported
As in the link suggested in comments by Brandon Boone, here's a function that does it:
function isCanvasSupported(){
var elem = document.createElement('canvas');
return !!(elem.getContext && elem.getContext('2d'));
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@BrandonBoone: Thanks, added – Andre Jul 6 '12 at 21:47
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If jQuery doesn't do what you need, I suggest using Modernizr for feature detection instead.
The other option, of course, is simply to stick with the older version of jQuery, before $.browser was deprecated. It still works just as well as it always did; no-one is forcing you to upgrade to the latest version.
Finally, you state that you can't edit the HTML so you can't use conditional comments. However, it's worth pointing out that IE also supports a Javascript equivalent to conditional comments. I would assume that you would be able to use this feature.
The following code is taken from Wikipedia - adapt it as necessary:
@if (@_jscript_version == 10)
document.write("You are using IE10");
@elif (@_jscript_version == 9)
document.write("You are using IE9");
@elif (@_jscript_version == 5.8)
document.write("You are using IE8");
@elif (@_jscript_version == 5.7 && window.XMLHttpRequest)
document.write("You are using IE7");
@elif (@_jscript_version == 5.6 || (@_jscript_version == 5.7 && !window.XMLHttpRequest))
document.write("You are using IE6");
@elif (@_jscript_version == 5.5)
document.write("You are using IE5.5");
document.write("You are using IE5 or older");
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Modernizer is great and what I typically use, but it is not installed on this project. Thanks for the comment. – BishopZ Jul 6 '12 at 21:45
@BishopZ - I've added other alternative solutions to the answer. – Spudley Jul 6 '12 at 21:52
wow, very interesting, thank you! – BishopZ Jul 6 '12 at 22:15
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I have an android application and my tester is learning how to implement tests using robotium. The application has an entity (object/pojo) stored in a sqlite database with id, description and some other info.
We need to some how do a setup in the test classes so that the application has one entity with a determined id, description, etc that can be used in the testing.
For the database access we have a Dao Pattern implemented + a extension of SQLiteOpenHelper create and manage updates to the database that gets injected in the Activity classes using Robo Guice. So far we're not using ContentProviders (There is a MockContentProvider class in the android test package), but if that is the best solution we might migrate to that.
The requirement for the setup implementation is not to mix test code with the app code. Any suggestions?
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I am not sure exactly what you mean by "The requirement for the setup implementation is not to mix test code with the app code. Any suggestions?" but im guessing you mean you do not want to reuse any code in the application in the tests???
Well I am afraid your best bet is then going to be have your either write code to populate the database, or have them exercise the application to get it into a given state then test. Personally Reusing your code might be the best option but you have to frame it in the right way and depends on what you are trying to test. For example, if you are testing that something in the database gets displayed properly then reusing our code is fine. If you was testing that putting stuff into the database works then reusing your code is not fine, you should then exercise the application to ensure it saves to the database properly.
The way i like to look at this is in the BDD style, anything in the "Given" steps happened in the past, your test should not care how it happened just that it happened so how it came to be in that state is not important, in these cases speed is probably the most important part.
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World Superbike bosses today confirmed that technical regulations for the championship will change to their new Evo-spec in 2015.
The rules change means that all teams will be forced to run very little engine tuning and run kit electronics but will be able to use full current-spec chassis and cycle parts subject to price caps on components.
The move comes some years after British Superbikes also made a successful change but has not gone as far as the domestic series and won't impose a spec-ECU.
On a more positive note, it should see the return of wildcards to WSBK rounds held in Britain.
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Fred Kight
Updated Tue, Aug 14, 2012 3:22 pm
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is campaigning today in the mostly rural, Appalachian part of Ohio.
Romney's first stop was in the small town of Beallsville in Belmont County.
Joe Vardon is a reporter with the Columbus Dispatch.
He was there for the "coal event."
"Today's speech...was more about what you saw than what you heard," says Vardon. "It was the visual of Governor Romney standing literally on top of a coal mine with dozens of coal workers...kinda standing behind him...and him talking about his overall support for the industry. It is that visual that is meant to contrast with President Obama and what are perceived to be his policies that have hurt the coal industry. It's a narravative that both Romney and the Republicans have pushed for a long time..."
Vardon says Romney's pro-coal message was welcomed by the Ohio coal-country crowd, estimated at 1500.
He says "A lot of people wearing hard hats (were on hand) and a lot of people who say 'coal is my livelihood so I'm going to vote for somebody who I perceive to be a supporter of coal.' Let's bring up, Romney, before he became a presidential candidate, had a checkered past with the industry. Some of the things he said about coal powered plants, some of the policies he pushed as governor of Massachusetts don't exactly align with it but as a presidential candidate he has pledged himself as a defender of the industry."
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Matt Tierney
2011 BMW 740i
This is the best argument for the badge-delete option that's so popular in Europe. From outside the car, you'd never know this BMW 740i has such a small displacement and such impressive fuel economy. It looks just like every other 7 on the road and drives the same, too.
Some potential buyers may be turned off by the meager 315 hp and 330 lb-ft of torque, but I found the car to be perfectly adequate for shuttling four people around town and down the highway. If you're driving other people around most of the time, I'd go so far as to say the six-cylinder 7-series is the best way to go because it's easier to be smooth off the line; the V-8 and V-12 cars tend to surge forward with even a very light application of throttle. The six will give you enough thrust to merge with any traffic, but its throttle is easier to modulate.
The icing on the six-cylinder cake is you save enough money by opting for the small engine that you can afford to pile on the luxury options and still have a car that stickers for less than a base 8- or 12-cylinder 7-series. And if you remove the badges nobody will ever know the difference, either.
Phil Floraday, Senior Web Producer
Great review about the "bmw 740" model! I have been trying to find an appropriate model with some basic requirements in Greece @ http://www.bmw.gr and now I've come closer to make a decision.Thanks,Jo
Perusing the test car's optional sheet was interesting until I got to the "M Package"! Whaaa, performance summer tires on a 6-cylinder luxo barge! In this price range, you either get the good stuff or trade down. (Sigh...) whatta about a Taurus SHO?
@DayeBy that same logic, a 535i has the same engine as this car, costs much less, and is more car than anyone needs. So why would anyone splurge on a 7? -_-
Why would an M anything be mentioned in the same breath as a 7 series?The M is dimunitive compared to the top German models.Although, IMO, the flagship of any German vehicle should only come with a V8 or more.
Infinity's M37 has more power and costs way less than this Bimmer. Call me crazy, but I'd go with the Infinity and maybe pick up an MX-5 or a Genesis Coupe with the spare change.
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The elettric power of the humans getting mixed with the energy of the fruits makes the sound audible, is the fisical contact between human and nature that generate the music.
Each fruit has acid in it that produces electrical tension, using a special technique we can boost these frequencies making the inaudible audible,
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The individual fruits are raised on wooden platforms, standing on a transparent plexiglass plate lit from under. Each time a fruit plays its base will lit up, staining the surrounding space, making it changeable and dinamic. Each platform is a home made midi controller which allow us to modulate the sound wave’s, creating more complex rhythms and sounds.
The sound frequencies are emphasized by a large videoprojection representing a macro vision of the fruits.
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You know when you wake up and you know it’s just gonna be one of those gas-tastic days? It’s not a problem if you have Gas-X® around. But if you don’t, sometimes you have to improvise. Here are some situation-specific noise-makers you can use to give yourself some cover. posted on
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1. Create a distraction
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Remember in Do the Right Thing how Mookie threw that trash can through that window? Who’s to say he wasn’t about to get his toot on? This technique is also called “changing the narrative.”
2. Find the nearest parade
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Publisher(s): DC
First Appearance: Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #3 (Aug. 2003)
Creators: Judd Winick
Number of Appearances: 38
Teams/Affiliations: The Outsiders
Allies: Indigo
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0.033786 | <urn:uuid:472007c1-7a44-4073-9512-2c6c0079ce0b> | en | 0.975066 | After years of huffing and puffing, lawmakers may pass smoking ban
Governor makes it part of his legislative agenda
— In their sixth year of trying, a group of state lawmakers said they believe they've found the right set of exemptions to set a statewide smoking ban on track for passage during the current session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Under House Bill 1149, smoking would be banned in bars and restaurants, but allowed on the gaming floors of casinos, as well as at cigar and hookah bars and fraternal clubs.
"We think we've found a nice sweet spot," said the bill's author, Rep. Eric Turner, R-Marion, who was joined by four other House members — two Democrats and a Republican — at a news conference announcing the proposed ban Thursday.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has not only endorsed a ban but has said any legislation should contain as few exemptions as possible. He has added enacting a statewide smoking ban to his legislative agenda.
Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, says some exemptions are necessary, but that his chamber — where smoking bans had previously died — will consider a ban for the second straight year.
An effort to close loopholes in Indiana's laws on human trafficking won the unanimous approval of a state Senate committee on Thursday, and it is now headed to the full Senate.
Lawmakers are rushing to get the measure to Gov. Mitch Daniels' desk ahead of February's Super Bowl — and the increased sex trade activity that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said accompanies the game.
"Our existing statute is inadequate to deter and prosecute these criminals, and so we urge the Legislature to pass the bill to update the law before the big game Feb. 5," Zoeller said in a statement Thursday.
Indiana's total revenue for December 2011 was $1.12 billion — about $12 million more than projected during a revenue forecast last month, according to a report released Thursday.
That figure is $53 million above the collections for the same period last fiscal year. Sales tax collections increased, totaling $529 million, or $24 million above collections for the same period last year.
December also saw a 2.1 percent increase in payroll withholdings compared to last year and a total of $345 million in individual income tax collections, which was $19 million more than last year but $12.5 million less than the monthly target.
State Budget Director Adam Horst said in a statement through the first six months of fiscal year 2012, state general fund revenues have increased 9.2 percent compared to the same period last year.
Sales tax collections and individual income tax collections have increased 7.6 percent and 9 percent, respectively, through the first six months of the fiscal year. On average, payroll withholdings have increased 4 percent.
"The first six months of the fiscal year typically represent 45 (percent) of annual collections with a greater percentage of tax revenues being received in the final six months of the fiscal year, especially during April, May and June," Horst said.
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home_finally_in_Evansville writes:
As long as the state profits from tobacco, they can not outlaw it.
Adebes writes:
Is everyone forgetting the business owner's right to choose how they run their business? It should be the owner's right and nobody else's business. Don't like it, don't be a patron. Also, these exceptions seem biased... How come the Casino patrons get to smoke and not the bar goers? All about revenue, huh Daniels?
fatdad writes:
What a bunch of useless nonsense. As a smoker I don't want any ban. If they are going to pass an ordinance it should include everyone. Why should any place be exempt. They really should make it illegal and give up all the tax revenue. That will never happen. Hypocrites and Do-gooders.
gremlin writes:
wonder how many places that are nonsmoking be for the ban will sue. after all they will be forced to loose there market. employers love the new law, you see they can get rid of brakes. after all the smokers will not need a brake now. every one knows if you do not smoke you do not need to take a brake.
the sad part is the loss of sales from smokers the law makers will need to build a new tax base.
hardrock (Inactive) writes:
HEY COURIER!!!, I do not know were to post this to get your attention but in the last 2 days you have some how missed reporting on the Robbery that happened at a restaurant downtown and the shooting last night at Fast Eddies. Talk about selective reporting to protect that Downtown image. All the stories mentioned are on Channel 14 news website. If this had happened any where else in town it would have been front page news.
Hickeyboys_Daddy writes:
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The Democrats are working hard to make sure that the REPUG NUTS don't kill unions and the democratic way of life here in the USA.
There are more good things about unions than bad things. Unions give workers their dignity back and ensure that they are treated right and paid a good wage for a days work. Unions are what made america what it is today. An America with a strong middle class structure.
The RepugNUTs want to make everyone else work for peanuts and work 18 hr days with no water breaks. They would have you work without earning any vacation or sick time. The Repugnuts would do away with the min wage and you would be have the right to work for 25 cents a day just like they did in the past.
It was the capatalists that brought in migrant Chinese laborers to build the railroads. They didn't pay them any thing much either.
Its the GOP who have shipped all our jobs to China and Mexico. Look at Whirlpool as an example. They exploit the Mexicans for Cheap labor.
Hickeyboys_Daddy writes:
in response to gremlin:
People who smoke would be smart to stop smoking now but I that's not going to happen. Because if they were really smart they would not have started smoking in the first place. Duh!
The dumbest thing anyone can do is to start smoking and get hooked on Nicotine.
Darla writes:
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That is true; smokers demonstrate no common courtesy or respect for their fellow citizens. Since that is a fact, legislation must be enacted to prevent their actions. My grandfather told me that there was the same outrage when speed limits were first introduced. Many don't know this, but there were no speed limits for quite a while after cars were introduced. There is a strange law on record that says that you must turn off your car and cover it with a blanket as to not spook any horses coming towards you (can't believe anyone ever passed that one). However, as vehicles became more popular and more common people owned them, they drove them with reckless abandon. The state and government had to step in and introduce speed limits.
Now, it's long past due, but the same goes for smoking on others. It's taken longer because of all the false propaganda saying that smoking was good for you being used until the 60's. Tobacco companies said smoking increased your lung capacity etc., when they knew (records prove as much) that smoking actually killed you. I work in CA about 30% of the time. They have had strong smoking laws on the books for quite a while now. Smokers there would never support any removal of those laws. Bars are more packed than any bars in IN, that's for sure. Income went up at pretty well all bars tracked after the laws passed. It's only the drug addicts, and that's actually what smokers are, afraid of not being able to trample the rights of others who are throwing a fit here.
generalsn writes:
Local politicians in Illinois were happy to see the state pass the ban. They don't need to bother with it.
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Snow Leopard in action looks a lot like OS X Leopard, but its significantly faster, according to Apple. (Source: Apple)
The new OS also improves accessibility, adding support for braille wireless accessories for the visually impaired. (Source: Apple)
Apple is ready to spread OS X 10.6 to the masses
Apple's new operating system, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", will beat the company's own launch target of September – an official launch date of August 28 was just announced. The new OS is priced at $29 per license for OS X Leopard users (with additional discounts for bulk license users). Apple notes, "Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange."
Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, describes, "Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re happy to get it to users earlier than expected. For just $29, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world’s most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support."
The new OS is set to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Windows 7 and delivers many major improvements for Mac users.
Over 90 percent of the 1,000 core programs in OS X had their performance tuned and improved, according to Apple. Many -- namely, Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat, and Safari -- were moved from 32-bit into a 64-bit world, which boosts memory performance, among other things. Apple says that its Finder is "more responsive", its Mail client is twice as fast, and Time Machine is 80 percent faster at its initial backup.
Apple includes the new QuickTime X and Safari 4 with the OS. Apple says that the new version of Safari is more resistant to plug-in crashes and 50 percent faster at general web browsing (Safari recently received the accolade of being listed by Futuremark as tied with Google's Chrome as the fastest browser).
The size of the installation has also been cut in half freeing 7 GB.
Apple is pushing a couple of new technologies with Snow Leopard. The first is its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) a technology designed to optimize multi-core usage. Another new tech is OpenCL, a C-based open standard, which looks to provide heterogenous processing on both GPUs and CPUs.
Ironically, one of Apple's biggest selling point with the new OS comes from competitor Microsoft. Apple explains, "Snow Leopard is the only desktop operating system with built in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and it allows you to use Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal to send and receive email, create and respond to meeting invitations, and search and manage contacts with global address lists. Exchange information works seamlessly within Snow Leopard so users can also take advantage of OS X only features such as fast Spotlight searches and Quick Look previews."
Unlimited licenses of Snow Leopard are available for $499, half the price of an unlimited pack for Leopard. The new OS will start shipping this Friday to customers that pre-order. has already been holding an unofficial pre-order for the last couple weeks and saw Snow Leopard jump to the top of its software sales charts.
Snow Leopard Server will launch on August 28, as well, alongside the new consumer OS. The Server edition comes with Podcast Producer 2 and Mobile Access Server and costs $499 for an unlimited license.
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By on 8/24/2009 7:54:41 PM , Rating: 2
I agree it is a good move, but I feel unless you move to newer hardware, you're pretty much SOL.
How would you know this for a fact without actually trying Snow Leopard?
There is no reason why my Macbook can't address 8GB of ram with a 64-bit OS, but Apple went ahead and made sure to cripple it to only work with a maximum of 2GB of ram, which sucks. I have a laptop that cost $1700 at the time it was purchased, but it was crippled by the company.
Dells, HPs, Lenovos, etc with the same hardware from the same period could support 8GB of ram, provided you have a 64-bit OS.
Sorry, this claim is simply wrong.
From your other posts, there is enough information to identify your exact Macbook model:
This MacBook model has GMA950 graphics. Using the list of Intel chipsets at we can eliminate the possibility of 8GB. All the mobile chipsets with GMA950 are codenamed "Calistoga". There is only one Calistoga variant which supports more than 2GB while also having GMA950: the 945GM, which supports 4GB.
Does that mean you can really use 4GB on the 945GM? No. If you carefully read the chip's manual:
You will find that it doesn't support 64-bit addresses for PCI, so PCI devices are always mapped below 4GB. It has a register, TOLUD, which is used to set the partition point between RAM and PCI address space. Every address below TOLUD is interpreted as a RAM address by the address decoder, and everything above is an access to PCI.
The highest possible setting for TOLUD reserves 128MB for the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller), probably since the APIC is the most essential memory mapped peripheral (a computer without an interrupt controller isn't terribly useful). This means that in theory -- if the OS/machine does not need any use of PCI devices other than the APIC -- a 945GM computer could use as much as 3.875GB of RAM.
In practice, of course, reserving more address space for PCI devices is required for a useful machine. You probably wouldn't be able to use things like USB, ATA/SATA, etc. if TOLUD was set to its maximum value. Apple appears to have chosen 1GB as the amount to reserve for PCI, leaving 3GB for DRAM.
Apple also chose to only advertise the machine as supporting 2GB, even though their firmware is set up to allow 3GB. Why they did this, I do not know, although I think I have a reasonable guess. The 945GM has a dual-channel memory controller. Installing SODIMMs in size-matched pairs allows it to enable "symmetric mode", which increases performance. That means if you want 3GB without disabling interleave, you are forced to buy two 2GB SODIMMs and waste half of one of them.
Apple is not a company which wants to try to explain something as complex as this to a non technical consumer. So you get a bonus over the promised 2GB, provided that you're willing to live with reduced performance (a 1GB+2GB DIMM configuration) or wasted memory (2+2).
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i don't get this one
is the ogre guarding the son on the right?
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Uh, no. Spend the money, get your son hooked on WoW, and he'll never get laid. Ever.
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1. 4 boneless chicken breasts
1. 1/4 cup lime juice ( or lemon)
2. 1/4 cup water
3. 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4. 2 teaspoons curry powder
5. 1/2 teaspoon salt
1. 1/3 cup smooth peanut butter
2. 1/3 cup water
3. 1 clove garlic
4. 2 tablespoons lime juice ( or lemon)
5. 2 tablespoons soy sauce
6. 1 teaspoon sugar
1. Cut the chicken lengthwise into 1/4 inch (1/2 cm) strips- you'll get about 4 or 5 strips from each breast.
2. Thread these strips zigzag fashion onto bamboo skewers, about 3 or 4 strips per skewer.
3. Don't squash the zigzags too tightly- leave them loosely threaded so the marinade can soak in.
4. Arrange the skewers in a glass baking dish.
5. In a small bowl, combine the marinade ingredients& pour over the chicken skewers in the baking dish; allow to marinate, refrigerated, for at least one hour, but no longer than three or else the chicken will disintegrate.
6. Meanwhile, make the dipping sauce.
7. In a blender combine all the sauce ingredients and blend until completely smooth.
8. Pour into a small bowl.
9. Preheat the barbecue, then grill chicken skewers over medium heat, brushing lightly with the marinade, about 5 minutes per side.
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Justin Bieber tries to pick a fight with a British Paparazzi reporter guy!
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#8 - gigamesh ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
fuken reck u m8 i swer down on me mams lyfe
fuken reck u m8 i swer down on me mams lyfe
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User avatar #24 to #8 - niimajneb ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
u r 1 cheeky kunt m8 i swer i will hook u in the gabber m8
User avatar #21 to #8 - ninjastarthrow (03/09/2013) [-]
u wot m8?
User avatar #13 - anomypingas (03/09/2013) [-]
Such a threatening voice.
User avatar #33 to #13 - turdburgalar (03/09/2013) [-]
I agree with this more than I agree with my weiners advice.
#6 - thalugg (03/09/2013) [-]
I like how the last paparazzi on screen is like "Ey man, you cant film me without asking?"
Some double-standards.
User avatar #11 - zackygates **User deleted account** (03/09/2013) [-]
I like paparazi.. Eh fights off Justin Bieber and doesn't afraid of anything..
#45 - galgawine (03/10/2013) [-]
u feckin litl kunt
User avatar #30 - thefunwehave (03/09/2013) [-]
He's the worst Canadian ever.
User avatar #20 - gjaa ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
Wait, why was the paparazzi guy so angry?
User avatar #31 to #20 - cryingchicken (03/09/2013) [-]
He left an audience at the O2 waiting for 2 hours before he finally came on stage. Thankfully, he was booed off stage.
User avatar #61 to #31 - gjaa ONLINE (03/10/2013) [-]
Wtf? What a prick.
User avatar #10 - naitsabesh ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
violent rage my ***
#23 - manwithanopinion (03/09/2013) [-]
he's even funnier when he tries to be tough.
#29 - 2scared2login (03/09/2013) [-]
Yes, Bieber is a fag. He is the same as when Christ Brown gets all tough in some guys face with 20 bodyguards behind him. But the guy was being a real douche. Still a stupid rage, but credit where credit is due.
User avatar #19 - MaccaBird (03/09/2013) [-]
I wish he would have died when he injected that ********* .
User avatar #43 - daboomee (03/10/2013) [-]
I don't hate Bieber because of his ****** music, I hate him because of **** like this. He wouldn't have acted so tough if he didn't have any guards with him.
User avatar #14 - drfrizz (03/09/2013) [-]
that was the most pathetic rage i have ever seen
User avatar #32 - supername (03/09/2013) [-]
Am I the only one indifferent to Beiber? Yeah I don't like his songs but I don't yet have a substantial reason to dislike him.
User avatar #28 - chayio (03/09/2013) [-]
Rofl, you can tell by his voice that he was almost on the verge of tears.
User avatar #16 - therealslim ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
What the **** was he going to do hes like a 100 pound ******* flower
The paparazzi could have ****** snapped him in half
User avatar #22 - travismackie ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
"What Did You Say?! Oh Yeah!?" gets back in car and does nothing...
#18 - stickandmove (03/09/2013) [-]
It's like choosing to fight in school because you know it'll be broken up in 14 seconds. The guy's right, he wouldn't have said dick without his bouncers. It's for the best, Bieber's built like a vegan.
User avatar #3 - mymiddleleg ONLINE (03/09/2013) [-]
Bet this little ****** wouldnt have done that if his minder wasnt there to stop him
User avatar #4 to #3 - mattlauer (03/09/2013) [-]
You think so?
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#1Gallic420Posted 4/13/2013 3:43:40 PM
I cant figure this out. I have a 3ds and my bro has a wii u, Were do I go in MH3U to play together?
* GT and pokemon FCs in quote
#2Banchou-kunPosted 4/13/2013 3:48:25 PM
I'm assuming you have wifi, the wii u player has to go to a multiplayer tavern in Tanzia, then the 3ds user talks to Neko and does a Friend Search. Should find the wii u player, and voila enter the same area.
#3Gallic420(Topic Creator)Posted 4/13/2013 3:54:20 PM
He doesnt have the option. Yes i have wifi
* GT and pokemon FCs in quote
#4Banchou-kunPosted 4/13/2013 4:01:45 PM
Did he set up his Wii U for wifi? If he hasn't make sure he has. Then try going to a multiplayer port in Tanzia, by speaking to Neko.
#5hhjghbhghnmhPosted 4/13/2013 4:02:43 PM
Gallic420 posted...
He doesnt have the option. Yes i have wifi
Which option? The multiplayer port? I think you've just gotta make sure the 3DS player's using friend search. But I was a 3DS player last time I was doing it, so I don't know that much about what the Wii U player's supposed to do.
#6void03Posted 4/13/2013 4:10:10 PM
Make sure the Wii U player goes into the multiplayer local play of Tanzia port and not network play.
The 3DS player will need to talk to the cat and do a friend search, or if you're in the port/tavern, go the next area (i.e, in the port and move into tavern) and press X instead of A so you can fast travel and use friend search.
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#7Banchou-kunPosted 4/13/2013 4:11:08 PM
hang on, you guys are like, in the same room right? The 3ds can't connect to the internet like the wii U can, so you have to be together if you want to play together. (no real info was given so just in case)
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#1Xeeh_BitzPosted 2/1/2014 7:43:08 AM
Topic, you can also buy Blacklist on Steam for $20, irrc. Black Flag is from the Nvidia promo so I assume it's activated directly on Uplay
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#2Skul_Posted 2/1/2014 9:19:43 PM
God damnit i activated my Splinter Cell Blacklist code on uPlay then proceded to never play it. I should have kept it and traded it for a game i do want.. Oh well..
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Publication numberUS2350574 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateJun 6, 1944
Filing dateJul 2, 1940
Priority dateJul 2, 1940
Publication numberUS 2350574 A, US 2350574A, US-A-2350574, US2350574 A, US2350574A
InventorsTienken Jr Louis C, Vordahl Milton B
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June 6, 1944.
L. C. TIENKEN, JR, ETAL AMMUNITION Filed July 2, 1940 A T RNEY mvsmons CZ Tien/(erz,
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mwwwwwwwm Patented June 6, 1 944- UNITED STTES AMMUNITION Louis C. Tienken, Jr., 016 Greenwich, and Milton El. Vordahl, Milford, Conn., assign'o'rs to Remington Arms Company, Inc.', a corporation of Delaware Application July 2, 1940, Serial No. 343,542
'7 Claims. ((31. 1073-43) This invention relates to the manufacture of an article composed of rolled strip material, and will be described more particularly relating to a rolled paper base wad for a shot shell. The base wad of a shot shell has the function of filling the space at the closed end of the shotshell tube, and has a hole thercthrough to allow the powder igniting charge te effect combustion of the powder contained in the shot shell directly above the base wad. The base wad must form a gas tight seal between the outer circumference thereof and the paper tube, and a seal between the powder space and the metal of the shotshell head. In
' the firing of shells, pressures of the order of 10,000 pounds per square inch are produced, so it is very important that the seal be complete, as otherwise failures will result. The base wads are usually made from strip paper or similar material. in the end of the shotshell tube. Following this, the metal or similar material head is placed over the end of the shotshell tube and a pressure is exerted upon the interior of the tube axially, so as to tightly compress the rolled paper wad and materially permanently deform the base wad, so that it will be a coherent wad and press close against the shotshell tube and the metal head. It is evident that the wad must be in such a condi- This is wound into a roll and then placed tion after axial deformation that it will remain closely adherent to the tube and will prevent gas leakage by the wad (between the wad and the tube) and will also prevent leakage through the spaces between the rolls of paper. Due to extremely high pressures that are developed, it is also necessary that the paper he in such a condition that it will not fracture and thereby allow the passage of the powder gases through the fracture.
One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a treatment for the base wad so that the paper will be in the proper condition to withstand the firing pressure without fracture, to prevent the passage of gas through the rolls of paper, and prevent the passage of gas by the base wad between the tube and the exterior surface ofthe wad. This becomes of particular importance with varying types of metal and particularly steel'shot-shell heads, because, if the head is expanded unduly by the powder pressure upon firing it' will be very difficult to extract the fired shell from the chamber of the gun.
The invention contemplates other improvements, which will become apparent from the following description.
In the drawing:
Fig. 1 is a fragmentary cross sectional elevation of a shotshell tube with the base wad in place before assembly and deformation of the base wad. Y
Fig. 2 presents a cross sectional elevation of a shot-shell head before assembly on the tube of Fistl.
Fig. 3 shows the completed assemblyof the parts of Figs. 1 and 2. 7
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevational'view of the assembled shotshell components of Fig. 3 after the metallic element and base wad have been placed in their final form. E P
Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevational schematic view showing in exaggerated form the expansion of the head upon firing. 7 i
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a rolled base wad before being placed into the shotshell tube.
Fig. 7 shows a means of placing 2. rolled base wad into the shotshell tube, and giving the base wad an additional compression.
Fig. 8 is a diagram showing the relation be tween extraction and the percent of wax in the wad.
Fig. 9 is a diagrammatic sectional view of abase wad showing the directional properties of a formed wad made in accordance with this invention.
Fig. 10 is a cross sectional elevation of a formed wad showing bulging. of the head of the shell due to the pressure of the base wad against the head when it is not headed properly. j
The invention will be described more particw larly as used in the conventional shot shellliaving a paper tube 2', rolled paper base wad 2i (Fig. 4) metallic head 22, battery cup and primer assembly 23. It is to be understood, of course, that this is merely for purposes of illustration and that changes may be made from the specific form that is shown.
As one means of winding the base wad, placing itwithin the tube and placing the metallic head thereon, reference maybe made to the patent to Hurd, No. 635,072. The present invention has particular usefulness in a shotshe ll hav ing a steel head or a head of similar metal bimaterial not having the same elastic properties as the conventional brass headed shell. The conventional brass headed shell will expand upon firing and thenreturn to its original position'so that it may be extracted with case from the chamber of the gun.
In the conventional use of a shot shellin a gun, an extractor is empl'oyed which ha h b that engages the rim of the shell and withdraws the shell after firing or upon opening of the breech mechanism in the usual manner, and if the head of the shell has become expanded and remains in this condition, it will prevent; the proper extraction of the shell from the chamber of the gun. This failure may be due to exces sive pressure necessary to pull the shell from the chamber'or from the extractor being pulled throughthe rim of the shell and leaving the.
It has been found when shell in the chamber.
or the weightof the complete impregnated wad with a wax, that satisfactory; results are obthe conventional base Wad is used in a steel shell, for example, that the base wad will fail that it will bind in the chamber of the gun and and the powder gases will bulge the shell and result in hard extraction of the shells from'the gun. It has also been found thatiftthe base terial that the base wad acts as a fluid transwad is composed of a soft plastic or similar ma mltting agent and transmits the P s u of e powder gases directly to the metallic head, which will also result in a failure of the head to perform satisfactorily.
The, paper tube. ofIFig. 1 may be formed in any of the usual manners and may have the 7 rolled base -wad 24 placed therein by a machine such as that disclosed by Hurd, No. 635,072. The rolled paper base wad 24 has a hole through the center for the powder igniting passage. rolled base wad before deformation; The paper is. rolled upon a spindle passing through thehole The 25, and takes the. form of a spiral roll. 7 head 26'. of Fig. 2 is placedupon the tube 20',
as'in Fig. 3, with the lip 21 entering the hole.
25 of the base wad. In order to have the base wad perform satisfactorily if it is deformed to Fig. 6- is a perspective view of such a the shapeshown in' Fig. 4, it is necessary that itbe treated in such a manner as to prevent the leakage of the gasby and through the base wad. It is to be understood that this treatment may take place before or after the paper has been placed in the rolled form. Itis also tobe understood that other substances besides paper may be used. In order for the'b'ase wad to perform satisfactorily, it must have aoere tain resilience in the transverse direction so that the pressure of the powder acting upon the base wad will not be able to pass between the tube of the wall '20 and the'base wad, and this seal must be maintained even when the metallic head expands outwardly under the pressure of a certain amount of waxed paper or'wax in the beater when thepaper for the wad is manufacs It is to befunderstood" that the's'e al'e merely examples of the Ways in which the wad the firing of the shell. In Fig. 5 there 'is shown,
a diagrammatic sketch of the expansion of the metallic head and paper tube under firing pressure, fsuch as shown in thedotted lines at 28 and 29. At the same time, during this outwardmoyernent of the base wad, there must be no leakage or failure in the layers of paper therein,
"soas to allow the gas to traverse the base wadin an axial direction. A certain amount of the firing pressure is taken up'in the base wad by resilience and is not transmitted directly to the head of the shot shell.
impregnated, for example, with. parafiin wax,
although it is to beiunderstood that other waxes.
besides parafllnwax may beused and other sub? stances giving the'wador paper the'proper char acteristics. This impregnation, however, must not be complete, or must not saturate the paper,v
because if the paperis saturated the wad will as 3| of Fig.6.
tained. Merely byway of example, the waxsaturation point of one paper used was about 28% of the total Weight of the impregnated Wad.
The .curve of Fig. 8 shows hardness of extraction plotted against the percent of wax in the base wad. Asa measure of-extraction, a gauge -was used-to-slip ov'er'the neck 30 -(Eig. 4) of the head of the shell. It is evident that if the neck will not pass intoa gauge of a. given size,
not allow extraction of the shell. This, of course,
is ,a more rigid test than the extractibility of a shell from the gun and gives a more positive indication of the effect "of the powder pressure on the head of the shelll mined, for example, that when, by this method,
10 to 15% of the shells fired will'not enter this gauge, that hard extraction and unsatisfactory performance will occur. It is to be noticed that there is a very marked drop as. the wax per-' centageis increased up toabout 2%, and that f up to 15%" of wax, approximately, may be used,
without again obtaining hard extraction. As the percentage of the wax is increased, as explained above, a more plastic action results, causing failure of the shell to perform satis- "factorily because of the transmission of .the pow- 'der. pressure to the head. V V a LOne'means of partially impregnating the wad "or, paper with wax consists, for example, ofdipping the formed wad of Fig 6 in a shallow bath. of wax so that one edge of the rolled paper Wad tured.
can be partially impregnated. Another. factor that affects the performance of the'shot shell is the condition of the paper of the base wad when it is impregnated. When an unwaxed dry paper base wad is deformed axially to its 'finalfor'm, therewill be but little resilience in an outward. direction or a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the axis of" the base wad. A wad such as thiswill not expand 'upon the firin of the shell, so thata' .the head As a means of accome plishing this, the shotshell wad or material is V expands outwardly there will be leakage o as between the'base wad and'the tube of the shell;
This- 11s illustrated diagrammatically inv Fig.:9.
As there will be "resiliencein' a dry wad, such as just described, in the. directions indicatedlbythe arrows 32, it is necessary fdr'the satisfactory performance of-such a wad in a. steel shell to have a resilience in the direction, "for example,
' of"thear1'0w, andthisis obtained bythe par act as a complete plastic material and will transs mit the powder pressure, as mentioned above directly to the head, and ,will cause failure thereof. It has beenfound that, if, for example,
he wad be impregnated with from 2 to 1 5% tial impregnation of the wad withla waxh. If the wad is completely impregnated with wax solthat it is plastic, there is no resilience, and-the powder pressure is transmitted directly to'thehead, as' discussed previously. If-themoisture-be reduced in the impregnated paper before it is deformed 1 or" headed, the optimum results are. obtained,
and it'has been found to be desirable to reduce th s, for example, to less than 1% moisture; If
It hasQbeen deterthere is moisture in the paper when it is deformed or headed, the results will not be as good as when there is is no moisture. The exact reason for this action is not known, but it is believed that a greater transverse resiliency remains in the wad after deformation of the wad by the heading punch in manufacture. A paper in dry form has a property which may be called stretch, that is, the amount that it can be pulled before the paper actually breaks apart. In one sample of paper, this was found to be about 1%, and the same paper, when deformed in the wad as shown in Fig. 4, did not perceptibly change in this property. However, if the paper of the wad was partially impregnated with wax before the deformation, it was found that the stretch property of the same paper after it had been deformed to the shape shown in Fig. 4, for example, was noticeably increased and in this same paper was found to be between 2 and 2 The exact reason for this is likewise not known.
Another means by which the wad may be given more resiliency in the transverse direction is shown in Fig. 7, wherein the wound wad is shown in dotted lines at 34 before it is placed in the tube 20. The die 35 having an aperture 36 with convergingwalls 31 is provided. The wad 34 is pressed through this die by a punch or suitable means and into position at 38 in tube 20. It is evident that it is compressed in the passage through the die 35.
For the best performance, it is also necessary that the wad be as tightly compressed as possible in the axial deformation thereof, so as to be completely effective as a seal to the powder gases. If a flat heading tool be used to axially deform the wad, the pressure necessary to produce the proper seal at the circumference of the wad with the paper tube will be such that it will force the base of the head outwardly, such as shown at 39 of Fig, 10. As one means of relieving this pressure adjacent the central hole and to prevent the outward projection of the head, a ring may be used on the punch forming the depression or concentric indentation 40, shown in Fig. 4. The portion of the wad at 4| is thereby slightly relieved and the wad is very tightly compressed between the ring 40 and the outer circumference 42, so as to produce the desired satisfactory results.
The problem that has been solved by the present invention is one that has been very troublesome and has prevented the proper development of many types of shot shell heads and, by the invention disclosed herein, it is possible to produce a shot shell that will perform satisfactorily and will properly extract from a gun.
It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the details shown, and that the appended claims are to be broadly construed.
What is claimed is:
1. A shot shell having a steel head and a rolled paper base wad, a substantial portion of said base wad having a partial wax impregnation of about 2-15% of the weight of the impregnated base Wad.
2. In the manufacture of shot shells having a base wad of rolled strip paper, the method comprising partially impregnating substantially all of said strip with a wax to the extent of 215% of the weight of the impregnated base wad, and then deforming the base wad axially so as to in crease the stretchability of the paper. g 3. In the manufacture of shot shells having a rolled paper base wad, the method comprising the steps of partially impregnating substantially all of the paper with Wax to the extent of 2-15% of the weight of the impregnated wad, drying the paper, and then deforming the rolled paper Wad.
4. In the manufacture of shot shells having a rolled strip paper base wad, the method of partially impregnating substantially the entire base wad with wax comprising impregnating a portion of the wad with wax and then diffusing the wax through the wad.
5. A shot shell having a steel head and a rolled paper base wad, substantially all of said base wad having a partial wax impregnation, said impregnation being not over 15% of the weight of the impregnated wad and sufficient so that the wad has the desired resiliency and gas sealing properties.
6. In the manufacture of shot shells, having a base wad of rolled strip paper, the method comprising partially impregnating substantially all of said strip to an extent not over 15% of the weight of the impregnated wad and sufiicient to give the desired resiliency and gas sealing properties, and then deforming the base wad axially so as to increase the stretchability of the paper.
7. In the manufacture of shot shells having a rolled paper base wad, the method comprising the steps of removing the moisture from the paper of said base wad, partially impregnating substantially all of the paper of said wad to the extent of 2 to 15% of the weight of the impregnated base wad and deforming the rolled base wad.
Referenced by
Citing PatentFiling datePublication dateApplicantTitle
US4136431 *Aug 1, 1977Jan 30, 1979Tucker Percy AApparatus and method for inserting indicia into pens
U.S. Classification102/464, 493/272, 86/11
International ClassificationF42B5/00, F42B5/26
Cooperative ClassificationF42B5/26
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Diana Nyad Conquers Florida Straits
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Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, on her fifth attempt to cross the treacherous Florida Straits, completed the historic journey Monday afternoon.
The 64-year old Nyad accomplished her life-long dream when she staggered onto a Key West beach just before 2 p.m., becoming the first person to complete the treacherous swim without the wave-breaking aid of a protective shark cage. Her 110-mile voyage took 52 hours, 54 minutes and 18.6 seconds to complete, according to Nyad's team.
The crowd at Smather's Beach swarmed her in the water, applauding and waving American and rainbow flags. In typical Key West fashion, conch shells sounded. About 2,000 people gathered to witness history being made.
Police had barricaded a section of the beach for her arrival, but Nyad swam off course the last few hundred yards. The crowds hustled down the beach to try and glimpse her as she pulled herself out of the water.
Nyad dragged herself up to her feet when it became too shallow to swim, wobbling up the last few feet to the sand. She looked like a zombie, her sunburned face staring straight ahead. Her lips were swollen and her mouth bruised by face gear she wore to protect her from venomous jellyfish.
With the record official, a friend and crew member hugged her, saying: "You did it."
She stood dazed for a few minutes as journalists, TV crews, supporters, tourists and residents crowded around her. A friend finally helped her take off her blue swim cap. In a video posted online, Nyad addressed the crowd:
"I've got three messages: One is, we should never, ever give up. Two is you never are too old to chase your dreams."
She paused for a moment while the crowd shouted "That's right!" and "Amen, sister!"
Nyad continued: "Three is, it looks like it's a solitary sport, but it's a team."
Then she stared into the distance and gripped onto a woman standing by her side as paramedics worked through the crowd with a stretcher.
Nyad finally was lifted onto the stretcher and was taken to shady area, where paramedics gave her cold water and fluids through an IV. She asked a paramedic what he could do for the pain inside her mouth.
After several more minutes, she was taken to the Lower Keys Medical Center on nearby Stock Island. For the first time, she managed a smile and raised her hand as she waved to the throng of well-wishers shouting: "Way to go Diana," "Amazing" and "Unbelievable."
Across the world, people on social media congratulated Nyad. President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Rick Scott took to Twitter to acknowledge her achievement.
"Never give up on your dreams," Obama tweeted.
Nyad left Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday to cross the Straits, home to stinging box jellyfish, sharks, sudden storms, eddies and the strong Gulf Stream.
Despite a Sunday-night storm that brought winds of up to 23 knots and bouts with nausea, Nyad made good time in the first half of the swim, with about 51 strokes per minute. A favorable current helped her average about two miles per hour, and by about 5 a.m. Monday she was on course to conquer her dream.
"The greatest variable here is the extension of human endurance," said her navigator, John Bartlett, who is leading her escort boat, the Voyager. "How long will it take her to make those last 100 strokes at the end, and all the ones from here to then?"
For Nyad, the journey began 35 years ago in 1978, when she first tried with a shark cage but came up short. She gave up swimming for decades, but conquering the Florida Straits continued to eat away at her. So in her 60s, she plunged back into the water and trained to regain her old form.
With a good marketing team that helped raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to support such an endeavor, she made her second attempt in 2011. It was hampered by shoulder pain and an asthma attack. Months later, jellyfish stings ended a third attempt.
Last year, she tried for a fourth time. The jellyfish got her again. She was pulled from the water, her face badly swollen.
This time at dusk and night hours when the jellyfish and other stinging creatures are most prevalent, she will wear a jellyfish protection suit. The first night she wore a specially designed prosthetic face make that also covers her lips, but it made it difficult to swim. The second night, she used a protection cream, dubbed "Sting Stopper," that was created by jellyfish expert Angel Yanagihara and the University of Hawaii.
A diver also was in the water with Nyad to scout for jellyfish. If any were seen, the mask would go on, according to her website. The divers are part of a 35-person support crew that includes kayakers, accompanying her in a flotilla of five boats.
Most long-distance swimmers have never even attempted the swim, with or without a shark cage.
It's a quest that Australian Chloe McCardel called the "hardest swim in the world today" before she attempted it earlier this summer. McCardel, 28, made it only 11 hours in her only try before suffering a "debilitating severe jellyfish sting" that forced her to stop.
Australian-based British swimmer Penny Palfrey, a 54-year-old grandmother, made it 78 miles in 2012 before she gave up primarily because of a strong eddy whose currents were pushing her away from the Keys.
In 1997, supported celebrated 22-year-old Australian Susie Maroney, who was hailed as the first person to complete the swim. She used a shark cage.
Walter Poenish, then 84, claimed that he was the rightful owner of that title. He said he made the swim, in 1978, also in a shark cage, and using flippers.
But the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame does not recognize either crossing because they were not completed under traditional English Channel swimming rules that forbid such aids.
At the time, Maroney was accused of cheating, by hanging onto the shark cage that was pulled by a boat. But even if she didn't hang on, it appears that the shark cage created smoother water for her to swim.
Her time was an astounding 24 hours and 30 minutes for more than 100 miles. That swimming pace was much faster than the 2012 Olympic gold medalist averaged for just 6.2 miles.
That's why today's swimmers say the Florida Straits was still an unconquered body of water -- until Monday.
A documentary about Nyad's voyage, called The Other Shore, will premiere Sept. 26 and is available online at
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against all odds 07-28-2012 04:23 PM
a few electric fuel pump questions:
1) If you are installing an electric fuel pump in a chassis that originally just had an engine mounted mechanical pump----where the fuel lines run into the top of the fuel tank----this means that the electric pump is not gravity fed for a few inches but it is still pretty close to the tank. Is this generally ok and not a problem?
2) In cases where you are still using the stock mechanical pump but also using an electric pump (say for racing) and sometimes you don't use the electric pump---like driving on the street, is this ok for the electric pump? How does this work----does the electric pump just "freewheel" when not turned on? Like if you put a fan outside on a windy day but did not turn it on, i would imagine that the fan would still turn. Would this be harmful to the elec pump?
F-BIRD'88 07-28-2012 05:05 PM
As long as the electric pump is mounted at the back near the fuel tank and mounted level or slightly below or slightly above the fuel level it will work like a charm.
Electric fuel pumps do have ability to "draw" fuel in on the inlet side.
A Carter P4070 makes for a very good axillary "pusher pump" to add onto a performance car with a engine mounted mechanical fuel pump.
The carter pump ensures the mechanical pump does not vapour lock and
sees a steady fuel supply.
You can drive with the electric pump off and switch it on when needed. You can even control it with a WOT "nitrous switch", on the carb,, controlled thru a relay.
against all odds 07-28-2012 06:19 PM
But how does it work when the pump is not turned on? Would this be a restriction in the line somehow?
a) What about TBI to carb conversions? Can we leave the stock electric pump in the tank?
F-BIRD'88 07-28-2012 10:12 PM
Remove the in tank EFI pump and use this pump on TBI to carb conversion.
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Billions of habitable planets 'may exist within our galaxy'
BILLIONS of potentially habitable planets may exist in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a new study.
Around 100 'super-Earths' may be found on our galactic doorstep, at distances less than 30 light years from the sun.
Astronomers came up with the prediction after conducting a survey of red dwarf stars, which account for 80pc of stars in the Milky Way.
They calculate that around 40pc of red dwarfs have a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth orbiting the "habitable zone" where liquid surface water can exist.
Where there is water, there could be life -- although being in the habitable zone is no guarantee that life has evolved on a planet.
Dr Xavier Bonfils, from Grenoble University in France, who led the international team, said: "Because red dwarfs are so common -- there are about 160 billion of them in the Milky Way -- this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone."
The astronomers surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarfs using the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile. A total of nine super-Earths -- planets with masses between one and 10 times that of Earth -- were found.
Two were within the habitable zones of the stars Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C.The astronomers found that habitable zone super-Earths orbiting red dwarfs occurred with a frequency of around 41pc.
On the other hand, massive planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn were rare around red dwarfs.
Because red dwarfs are common near the sun, many "super-Earths" may not be far away in astronomical terms. The scientists estimate there could be around 100 habitable zone planets within 30 light years.
Red dwarfs are cooler than the sun, which means that planets must orbit close to their parent stars to be warm enough to sustain life. This might not be good news for life.
"The habitable zone around a red dwarf, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface, is much closer to the star than the Earth is to the sun," said team member Dr Stephane Udry, from Geneva Observatory.
The research is reported in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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• Jun 30, 2010
"Chosen Ones" is a Middle Grade fantasy novel, but I think kids ages 5-9 would actually enjoy the story (being read to them) the most. There were some black and white drawings of the events in the story, but unfortunately they weren't that accurate to the details in the text.
The first half of the story was full of detail--most of it unnecessary to the story--which slowed the action. Very little happened. Many of the details were also very obviously based off of various "Chronicles of Narnia" books, but the details the author chose to mimic were not the sense-of-wonder inspiring ones. The kids (one named Peter) jump into a glowing pool at a Professor's house in England and end up on an island that has smart (though not talking) animals and people and they're expected to fulfill a prophecy. In the second half of the novel, the action picked up and the story became original.
The characters tended to be one-dimensional; they were defined by one trait and didn't act beyond it. Also, most of the potential crisis points where solved very easily and quickly, so the suspense was lacking in my opinion--though young children might find it exciting.
I sometimes didn't understand why the children or villains acted the way they did. For example, no explanation was given for why our hero children (aged 13 and 14) still went to the castle after they ran into evil warriors that were clearly from the castle. Also, there were a number of unrealistic non-fantasy elements. Most were minor things that weren't critical to the story, but others were critical--like a slave being able to create a complex technology that's new to him from a sketch in one day.
There were some quotes from the Bible, though anyone not familiar with the Bible probably wouldn't recognize that's what they were, and some Bible-like parallels (like a Passover-like meal of remembrance). The slaves worshiped a Lord of Hosts, their name for their Creator god. The two hero children had one magical power, and another, good character could do magic. There was no bad language or sex.
I read this story out loud to a 12-year-old girl. She fidgeted during the first half but became more interested during the second half. Throughout the story, she said things like, "Why did they do that? That doesn't make sense" or "Yeah, right, no one's that dumb" or "No kid would know how to build that!" At the end, she said, "I still don't get such-and-such." However, she said she did enjoy the story (though she's not interested in reading it again--usually she re-reads books that she loves), and she'd be interested in reading the second book in the series.
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World building and character development take a back seat to religious themes in British theologian McGrath's opener to The Aedyn Chronicles. Teenagers Peter and Julia fall into a glowing pond in their grandparents' garden and find themselves in Aedyn—a small, former paradise ruled for the past few centuries by a trio of masked tyrants. Hailed by the enslaved populace as chosen ones sent by the Lord of Hosts to throw off the oppressors, Peter and Julia participate in a secret communion ceremony (“Why do we eat salted fish on this night of the year and on no other night?”) then lead a successful rebellion. Along the way they learn to reject ritualistic temptations to choose personal safety or power over the greater good, and by the time they return to their own world they've also learned something about having faith—both in a higher power and in each other. Periodic black-and-white illustrations add a dramatic touch to the story. The perfunctory story line may not linger long with readers, but the clear, simply presented messages of its religious core will. Grades 4-6. --John Peters
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7/31/2011 7:08:34 PM
Tags: Heat Wave, Weather, Climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide, the future, Richard Hilderman
The United States is currently experiencing an extreme heat wave! At one time 32 states were under either a heat advisory or heat warning covering about 100 million square miles and affecting about 141 million people. At least 12 deaths have been attributed to this heat wave. Furthermore, parts of the midwest and southeast are experiencing severe drought conditions. What is the relationship between heat waves, weather, climate change and global warming? To address this question we must understand the link between weather and climate.
Weather is comprised of temperature, wind speed, humidity, precipitation, etc that occurs over only a few days. Climate, on the other hand, is the average weather patterns that occur over decades. In other words weather is concerned about the immediate whereas climate is more focused on the long term. The climate is currently evolving because of the human induced burning of fossil fuel that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This release of carbon dioxide is responsible for the current atmospheric carbon overload which triggers the current global warming trend (my postings entitled Fossil Fuel and Atmospheric Levels of Carbon Dioxide and Solar Activity, Greenhouse Gas Levels and Climate Change on Our Earth). Since global warming occurs over decades, it represents a shift to a warmer climate. This shift to a warmer climate increases the frequency of powerful storms and extreme weather events which is something we have experienced in the past several years.
Since climate change represents what is happening in the future, there is only one possible future if we continue in our use of fossil fuels. The continued burning of fossil fuel is triggering climate change by shifting the global temperature to a higher level. Some people believe we don’t have to worry about global warming until climate change triggers events that are harmful to us personally. Unfortunately this will be too late! The climate system has a time lag because it will take thousands of years to remove the excess carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere by burning of fossil fuel (my posting entitled Carbon Cycle). Thus, when we see the effects of global warming in the weather on a daily basis it will be too late to fix the problem!
If we want to see an increase in the frequency of heat waves like the one we are currently experiencing, all we have to do is continue our use of fossil fuel.
More information on the relationship of weather and the climate can be found in the book entitled THE WEATHER OF THE FUTURE: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen.
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AN Indonesian court has sentenced a British grandmother to death for taking cocaine worth $US2.5 million ($A2.4 million) to Bali in her suitcase.
Prosecutors had sought only a 15-year sentence.
Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, wept when judges handed down the sentence. She covered her face with a floral scarf and declined to speak to reporters on her way back to prison.
Indonesia, like many Asian countries, is very strict on drug crimes, and most of the more than 40 foreigners on its death row have been convicted of drug charges.
Sandiford's lawyer said she would appeal. Appeals take several years. Condemned criminals face a firing squad in Indonesia, which has not carried out an execution since 2008, when 10 people were put to death.
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The British Embassy said in a statement it was in contact with London to discuss the next step in providing legal assistance to Sandiford. It said the United Kingdom "remains strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances".
Prosecutors had been seeking a 15-year prison sentence for Sandiford, who was arrested in May when customs officers at Bali's airport discovered 3.8 kilograms of cocaine in the lining of her luggage.
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American officials said today that they had verified the accuracy of some of the information provided by a captured senior leader of Al Qaeda, and expressed cautious optimism that he would eventually divulge more detailed information about the terrorist network and the whereabouts of its surviving leaders, including Osama bin Laden.
The suspect, Abu Zubaydah, is the most senior Qaeda figure captured since Sept. 11.
''This is a work in progress,'' said an American official, describing the interrogations of Mr. Zubaydah, which are being carried out by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. at an undisclosed location overseas. ''Some of what he says is hard to confirm or deny, but other information is proving to have some accuracy to it. Some of it is proving to be quite valuable. These people who tell you that he's just playing with us, that's being excessively cynical.''
Few Qaeda leaders would know more than Mr. Zubaydah, a Palestinian in his early 30's who was Mr. bin Laden's chief of operations. He was the principal recruiter for Al Qaeda's terrorist camps in Afghanistan and is believed to know the identity of members who are hiding around the world in so-called sleeper cells.
Representative Porter J. Goss, a Florida Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and has been briefed on the interrogations, would not provide details of Mr. Zubaydah's purported confessions. But he said in a telephone interview, ''The Abu Zubaydah story is a good story, with more to come.''
American officials said they had still not been able to confirm the truthfulness of the most important claims made by Mr. Zubaydah, including his assertions that Al Qaeda had been close to building a crude nuclear device and that the group might attack American banks or shopping centers. On the basis of that information, the F.B.I. has issued terrorist alerts over the past week.
Officials say they fear that some of Mr. Zubaydah's claims are disinformation, possibly an attempt to create panic among the American public or to divert officials away from investigations that might foil future attacks. They say he may be attempting to mix truthful statements about matters of only limited importance to the terrorist network with lies and false leads on larger issues.
Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an interview, ''We have to be very wary of anything these people tell us.'' He noted that Mr. Zubaydah and other Qaeda terrorists were carefully trained in techniques of disinformation. ''These people are very smart, very well trained and very hard core,'' he said.
Government officials have revealed little about how and where they are interrogating Mr. Zubaydah and his associates, who were captured last month in Pakistan. They have refused to comment on reports that Mr. Zubaydah had been transferred to a military base in Pakistan or on Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. They did confirm that the questioning was being carried out by counterterrorism specialists from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working with the assistance of psychologists and other specialists.
Mr. Zubaydah, they said, had grown more talkative as he has recovered from serious gunshot wounds suffered in the shootout during his capture by the Pakistani police. ''He's getting better,'' said one official. ''He's doing all right now. He's certainly coherent.''
The Bush administration has insisted that Mr. Zubaydah and other suspects will not be subjected to any form of torture. But officials said other, nonviolent forms of coercion were being used, including sleep deprivation and a variety of psychological techniques that are meant to inspire fear.
Officials say they face unusual and uncomfortable challenges in interrogating Mr. Zubaydah, both because he is believed to be willing, even eager, to die as a martyr for his cause, and because he has been so well trained in deception.
''How do you deal with somebody who may feel, truly, that there is nothing to lose?'' one official asked, noting that during the cold war, American interrogators could often persuade a spy to talk by promising asylum in the United States or by offering large amounts of money. ''I don't think those hold much appeal to Mr. Zubaydah.''
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use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark 'cmpthese'; cmpthese(-1, { 'eval' => \&eval_code, 'noeval' => \&no_eval_code, }); sub eval_code { my $x = 0; for (reverse 0..9) { eval { some_more_code ($_); }; if ($@) { error_sub(); } } } sub no_eval_code { for (reverse 0..9) { if ($_==0) { error_sub(); } else { some_more_code ($_); } } } sub some_more_code { } sub error_sub { }
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For perlcheat, it doesn't matter how long a URL feels, or what you think is appropriate. It's about number of characters and what will fit, and what will not.
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CITIES are improving. Dashing late one evening from a meeting in the centre of Birmingham to the railway station last week, I noticed that there were still people going to and fro long after the shops in the pedestrianised streets had closed. There was a welcoming bustle of activity. This was no longer the bleak city centre I used to know. London is much more satisfying than it was 15 to 20 years ago. Now that Leicester Square, for instance, is closed to traffic, I am glad to recommend it to visitors; in the old days I was ashamed of the place.
Not all is gain, however. I was recently in the middle of Liverpool, also in the evening, The area around Lime Street station and St George's Hall is a sort of urban hell - featureless except for a few islands of the old Liverpool still standing, cut through with new roads along which the traffic sweeps, as if fleeing the city, unconnected with what is around it.
"Connections are what make successful cities. Unsuccessful cities are unconnected," writes Robert Cowan in a pamphlet on making cities work, echoing the famous opening lines of Anna Karenina - "All happy families resemble one another, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All successful cities connect; all unsuccessful cities are disconnected in their own way. At a recent meeting in Hammersmith in west London, which was part of a participative exercise in finding methods of improving the borough, the focus was largely on re-connecting communities that had been disconnected by major roads. Hammersmith has seven major east- west routes passing through it, not least because it stands between Heathrow airport and the centre of London. Even here the ideal is the connected city. But what to connect? How to connect? The short answer is - ask the real experts. These are not, by the way, architects, planners, road engineers, local government officials and the like, but the people themselves. Residents know exactly what works well, and what doesn't, what is pleasant, what depresses them, how far they have to go for some fresh air, what are the local no-go areas, what could quickly be improved. Thus in Hammersmith and Fulham, where the Architecture Foundation, whose chairman is Richard Rogers, has been working with the local authority to improve nine sites, consultation with local people has been the starting point. The method was to arrange day-long workshops. In attendance were various specialists, as well as members of the design team for the site. Local people turned up in moderate numbers, but there were enough of them to make the exercise meaningful. Between 20 to 40 people participated in each workshop. The inner suburbs of every large town in the land have problems similar to Hammersmith's. How to remove, for instance, the sense of danger that deters people from using the vast area of playing fields and open space called Wormwood Scrubs, a name familiar to most people only as a grim prison rather than as an amenity. … | http://www.questia.com/library/1P2-4913418/it-s-little-things-that-can-make-the-difference-in | dclm-gs1-028030000 |
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Competing in a Complex World: Brian Easton Analyses the Economics and Politics of Globalisation
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Analysis of globalisation must take the long view, accepting that it is a process that is almost two centuries old. The process is driven by the falling costs of distance, which encompass not only transport costs but also the costs of storage, security, timeliness, information and intimacy. These falling costs can have a huge impact on national economies, with immense political, social and cultural consequences. New Zealand must accept that globalisation is going dramatically to affect its economy. Its best course of action is to engage with the process--for which it needs a sophisticated understanding of its nature. Old theories must be set aside.
The Royal Society of New Zealand awarded me a Marsden Fund grant to study globalisation. The study is a continuation of my earlier research programme, especially that which is summarised in my book In Stormy Seas with its central message that the fate of New Zealand will be largely a consequence of what happens overseas, together with our ability to seize the opportunities and manage the problems those events create.
My study is founded on five themes:
* Globalisation is the economic integration of economies--regional and national economies.
* Globalisation began in the early 19th century, so the phenomenon is almost two centuries old. Since globalisation is an historical phenomenon, focusing on the last few decades throws away a rich source of insights.
* Globalisation is caused by the falling cost of distance: transport costs, plus the costs of storage, security, timeliness, information, and intimacy. This gives a driver for the globalisation process.
* Globalisation is not solely an economic phenomenon. It has political, social and cultural consequences.
* The policy issue is not being for or against globalisation, but how to harness it to give desirable outcomes.
The programme first develops the economic analysis, and then explores political and social consequences such as nationalism, sovereignty, policy convergence, cultural convergence, and diasporas.
Much of New Zealand economic thinking is trapped in economic models which have been superseded in the last 30 or so years. This does not mean the old theories are wrong, so much as that they can be advanced. Many of the policy stances that are derived from the superseded theories are still valid, but the current understandings are richer and more nuanced. In particular, I know of no reason to abandon the strategy of global connectedness, which is one of the principles of the government's growth and innovation framework.
The new analysis focuses on economies of scale and the costs of distance, phenomena that are largely ignored by the superseded theory. Their interaction generates outcomes that can be quite different from the standard theory without costs of distance and only diminishing returns. Sometimes the outcomes are not obviously intuitive to the well trained economist.
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The costs of distance are more than transport costs. They include storage, security, timeliness, information, and the loss of intimacy that separation causes. A paper 'Trade Costs', by James Anderson and Eric von Wincoop, calculates that the average American manufacture has a markup of 55 per cent from the factory door to the final domestic retail price. The price of an export involves a 170 per cent markup, or 74 per cent more than the domestic sale.
Analytically the costs of distance (or trade costs) may be treated as a tariff. (Recall that costs of difference are sometimes called 'natural protection'.) Total costs of distance far exceed tariffs. Moreover, they are coming down. In 1855 it took around three months to get from New Zealand to Britain, whether it was sending a package, a person or a message. Today it takes only a month to get to Britain by ship. That is because ships are faster, and they can go through the Panama Canal. … | http://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-140412238/competing-in-a-complex-world-brian-easton-analyses | dclm-gs1-028040000 |
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