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Author's Notes: Just a little drabble I wrote a while back and decided recently to have my Beta look at. It's silly, and fluffy… you've been warned, so that means flames aren't allowed! I do hope you enjoy!
Snape heard the quiet sniffling as he passed by the Transfiguration door. Normally he would not care, but his curiosity took hold, and he paused in his descent to the dungeons to peek his head into the Transfiguration classroom.
Professor Hermione Granger was sitting at her desk, her face buried in her hands, her shoulders rising and falling with her quiet sobs. She was murmuring something into her palms, and every now and again shaking her head. Snape raised a brow and opened the door slowly, but it made a noise anyway, announcing his arrival.
Hermione's head snapped up and he saw the tear stains on her cheeks, her cinnamon eyes shining bright with even more tears, her eyelids swollen. Her lips were open in surprise, and her hands were up in front of her face at the shock of him in front of her.
"Severus!" she exhaled, and hurried to turn her chair around. He saw her fumbling with her robes as if trying to hide what he had seen. "You startled me." Her voice was hoarse.
"Did I?" Snape wasn't sure why his feet kept moving toward her desk. He'd never seen her cry, and he hadn't wanted to. She was too beautiful for that. Suddenly, a rage swept through him. Why was she crying? Who had made her cry? His expression darkened as he stormed around her desk and swiveled her around to face him. "Why are you crying?" he demanded, taking hold of her delicate shoulders and shaking her gently.
Hermione tried to hide her face. "It's nothing, Severus…"
"Hermione," he growled, using his thumb and forefinger to capture her chin and lift her face. "Tell me."
She suddenly burst out crying, her whole body wracked with sobs as she leaned forward to hide her face against his chest.
"You didn't hold my hand at dinner!" she wailed, her fists clenching as they wrapped in his black robes.
Snape frowned, his hands on her shoulders going slack. What in Merlin's name… she was crying because he wouldn't hold her hand at dinner? He had been the one to make her cry? He was slightly annoyed she would cry this hard over something that seemed so trivial…
"I was eating…" he explained sheepishly, then cursed inwardly for even offering an explanation. He didn't do explanations.
"You don't care for me!" she howled as tears soaked through his teaching robes.
Snape had had enough. He stood at his full height, bringing Hermione up from her chair. His arms wrapped tightly around her, one hand entangling in her curls and grasping the nape of her neck. He molded her body to his, and claimed her lips with his own.
When they parted, Hermione hiccupped and continued wiping away her tears. "You always try to distract me that way."
Snape narrowed his dark eyes at her. "What has you so insecure, Hermione? Even you must admit this is a bit dramatic."
Hermione sniffed indignantly as she rested her hands on his chest. "You spent the whole summer making love to me and telling me how beautiful I am…" She didn't look at him as she murmured, "Of course, the whole summer. You're ashamed to be seen with me in public."
Throwing his hands up in the air, Snape rolled his eyes and sighed loudly. "You're impossible, woman. Most of the staff is already aware of our… affiliation; do you want to announce it to the students, as well?"
Hermione's head snapped up. Indignant, she repeated, "Affiliation?" Head held high, she turned away from him and stalked toward her quarters, throwing her mass of curls over her shoulder as she went.
Realizing he'd merely directed her emotions from sadness and hurt to anger and hurt, he quickly made to catch up with her. He took her elbow and tried to spin her around, but she kept going, forcing him to enter her quarters with her.
She started taking off her robes, and Snape stood frozen to the spot as she stripped down to her skivvies before facing him. One of her brows was raised, and she had her hands on her hips.
His mouth was agape, and he hastened to shut it. He'd seen her in her undergarments plenty of delicious times, but he was confused by her actions. He'd thought she would deny him tonight. Slowly, he started unbuttoning his teaching robes, his eyes steadfast on her.
"Hermione, I'll shout it from the Astronomy Tower if that's what it takes to appease you," he promised fervently, his eyes running over her wild hair and silky skin, her ample curves and the lacy fabric that covered his favorite bits.
"I think a kiss goodnight should do it, Severus. Oh… you've already given me one of those." She smiled evilly. "Well then, goodnight. See you at breakfast?" With that, she pivoted on her heel and gracefully entered her bedroom. He heard the lock click.
Nostrils flaring, a furious glare aimed at the door, he stomped out of her rooms and headed to the dungeons.
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Faith is to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true (Heb. 11:1; Alma 32:21), and must be centered in Jesus Christ in order to produce salvation. To have faith is to have confidence in something or someone. The Lord has revealed Himself and His perfect character, possessing in their fulness all the attributes of love, knowledge, justice, mercy, unchangeableness, power, and every other needful thing, so as to enable the mind of man to place confidence in Him without reservation. Faith is kindled by hearing the testimony of those who have faith (Rom. 10:14–17). Miracles do not produce faith, but strong faith is developed by obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ; in other words, faith comes by righteousness, although miracles often confirm one’s faith.
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we spoke to grover norquist of americans for tax reform on this morning's washington journal. here's a portion of the conversation. >> host: welcome back to the "washington journal" and over -- grover norquist joins us. i want to get your thoughts on the news of the growth and opportunity project report out from the republican national committee, the chairman of the republican national committee is having a press conference that started a few minutes ago at the national press club, talking about changes that the party needs to make in terms of outreach, changes to how to dominate a presidential nominee. just on what you've heard so far? >> guest: first of all is important to do a postmortem on an unsuccessful campaign. republicans at every recent to believe that -- would capture the senate and when the white house as well and it didn't happen. now at the same time republicans had 30 governors and democrats have 20 and at the state level more republican state legislators than democrats. there are 25 states where republicans have united control in both houses and only 12 states, less
, a possible tax on bank deposits and austerity measures that could result in the loss of thousands of jobs. that has sparked a protest. welcome to a brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. >> jamie: good to see you. good morning, to all of you. it happens that time is running out fast in cypress. if they can't reach a deal, the european central bank will stop providing emergency funds to cypress after monday, triggering a collapse of the country's banks. greg? >> shannon: hey, jamie, eric. it is crunch time here in cyprus. the economic fate of the country could be decide in the next several hours. all of europe and the united states is watching. the action rate now is in brussels. officials are meeting with the top brass at the u.u., the european central bank. they are trying to figure out a bailout for the near bankrupt country. the terms are tough, including the bank levy, 20% on big depositors at the main bank, which has been very controversial. in addition to that, other demands on the bank system have people worried about their job, worried about their moan. we were out and abo
of the nation of cyprus. the government elected to come up with a plan be after the parliament levied a tax of up to 10% on anyone who had any bank deposits. now the question is whether they going to do. this is important for us and of course, that can affect our 401k. but that dow average just hit a record high. greg is following the story from london. reporter: that's right, folks today are scrambling to come up with a new way from dragging all of your done with it. they voted down a plan that would see big bites taken out of private bank accounts. again, there has to be a way to get this country out of the way. one way to do it is lax banking regulations. moscow has a stake in all this. officials are reportedly looking for a big loan. back in, with strings like energy and getting rights for the people. the banks are worrying that people. we are told that it could be closed until some kind of deal is done. atms are working. you can get about $1300 out of it and atm each and every everyday. but the hitch is that the atm's run out of money by about 7:30 a.m. so you have to get there early.
spent it all. >> jesse: only 30 million. >> clayton: and now talk about what the taxes look on all of this. can i play the opposite side. you win million, 25% of that lump tum gone to the federal government and 84 information gone to, 0 gone to the federal governme government. >> alisyn: and then new jersey has a high state tax as you can see, 10.8%, so 36 1/2 million will go to new jersey, i know you're thinking, can i move today to texas? and i know you shall the winner are listening and kudos for your ingenuity. yes, you might be able to move to a state with no state tax, but new jersey might still take it. >> jesse: and if chris christie has its way, going to get more of your dough because i think the 7.8 to 9.8, good luck. >> clayton: hallelujah. still taking home 216 million dollars. that's what he would get it end. >> jesse: what would you do with that kind of dough. >> alisyn: let's talk about that. >> clayton: i don't know. >> jesse: would you buy me a boat. >> clayton: i would buy you a boat first. i don't know helping starving children i would help jesse get a boat. >> j
the challenge of passing a budget that raises spending, it increases taxes to the tune of about a trillion dollars. with the republican budget, looking down the road and tried to give back to that balanced budget. lou: $5 trillion. the ryan budget would cut 5 trillion from the level of increased spending. government would grow. more than 3 percent per year. you do support the ryan budget. >> i do. and it is really about making sure that we protect medicare for the long term, for those who are over the age of 55, protecting social security. but we also have to take a step back and realize that these programs are not going to be able to operate the same years down the road. so free and the generations like myself, if we want those programs to be solvent we're going to have to make some adjustments which is what the budget does. it is just simply using common sense and looking at the map that we cannot continue down the current path that we're on. lou: common sense does not apply when we talk about the second amendment in this country in washington d.c. you have to be ratified that the assaul
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up shortly. martha: we have brand new fox polls out this morning about budget and taxes. look at numbers. people were asked what bugs you the most when paying your taxes? the list is so long. how could you think about what bothers you most. number one, 43% the way the government spends their money, 43% is what really bugs them the most. 38% goes to one of the president's biggest talking points during the campaign. people say they don't think some folks pay their fair share. goes on from there. the tax forms and amount you pay which is always bothersome. what do you think? bill: i think i need more options than just four there. the other thing that showed up in the fox polling how significant the debt was and how people are reflecting that. we'll talk about that later. martha: teenager gets first paycheck and think they make x-amount of an hour and expect the whole paycheck to reflect that. they go, oh, so much of my paycheck is gone. welcome to the tax system. >>> cyprus is getting a new ultimatum today. the european central bank is now telling the island nation to come up wit
to tax people's savings in exchange for $13 billion international bailout. dramatic and unprecedented the no vote in cyprus is the rejection of efforts to impose a bailout on the island, one that would have taken money from the bank accounts of people like these. they were delighted at the news. >> this is an historical moment. not only, of course, with cyprus but in my opinion we are living in historical times. a new era. >> we all felt like someone's -- like someone was putting a gun to our heads. >> inside parliament, there were hours of heated debate. in the end, the president's party abstained and no one voted in favor. this is out a leader of the opposition saw the. >> i hope a constructive dialogue will take place, and we managed to reach a consensus on how to proceed forward. it is a very difficult sign. the rejection of the agreement between the euro group and the government is not the end of the road. it is just the beginning of a very hard fought fight. we know it very well. >> it may well be that on top of the rage people felt having their hard-earned savings taken away, t
2011, it's being talked about heavily to get this, uma, to tax bank deposits in italy. so we had that bank deposit tax rejected in cyprus, these other measures are still in flux right now to save the banking system in cyprus. the situation is pretty dire right now. we're waiting for the deadline to pass on monday, see what happens there, uma, i'm going to give it back to you. uma: it's definitely scary, and the stakes remain quite high. thank you sop for that update. jon: a woman who is seen on surveillance video is then found dead just hours later. now police help the public will help them find her killer. the latest on this murder investigation. >>> and sweeping renovations could be coming to guantanamo bay to the tune of $49 million. a look at what the pentagon is proposing for the detention camp there and what it means for taxpayers, that includes you. it's coming up in a live report. hey. they're coming. yeah. british. later. sorry. ok...four words... scarecrow in the wind... a baboon... monkey? hot stew saturday!? ronny: hey jimmy, how happy are folks who save hundreds of d
the president wanted. >> well, he got his revenue. he has gotten his revenue. obama care has 21 new taxes. my goodness. i'd like to get rid of obama care in total and rid of those taxes. you've got to look at some of these other components of the problem. and you cannot tax your way out of this. i quite frankly liked the op-ed in "the wall street journal" today that showed our budget with the stablization pulling back on all of those spending components and putting ourselves in a position of growth would give us household income growth of $1500 in 2014 and $4,000 per household within this ten-year window. and what we're saying is, you've got to get this under control. now, the president wants to continue to spend and put new spending in place by getting new revenues. that's not workable. the american people don't want that. they want to see some spending restraints, some control, some common sense brought to bear in this budget process. >> congresswoman, i want to get you on the record about senator rand paul coming out in support of comprehensive immigration reform. right now it looks like r
they do support raising tax, only on the wealthy americans but esensely, what's changed, they didn't pass a budget for four years, any budget threat they passed would have included a tax increase and felt vulnerable in the campaign. well, president obama got re-elected by promising a tax increase on high-income americans to reduce the deficit. so now, finally, senate democrats feel that they can go ahead and echo that position. that's change. >> an narc the president is expected to release the white house budget in april. what kind of compromises, if any, can we expect to see there? >> i think he is going to kind of come up and say the same things that he has been saying. we will look at the changes he will make to the entitlement program. the republicans saying they will not raise tax and what the democrats might do on entitlement reforms if they can find any kind of common ground that would be possible there. >> bill schneider, anna palmer, stick around. we would like to come back to you later in the hour, if that's okay with you. >> sure. >> thanks. >>> could bill clinton be talking ou
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amendments on the keystone xl pipeline. there were amendments on the medical tax device that pays for obama care. there are amendments on all sorts of things that don't have to do with the budget. so it was as political as it was about policy last night. >> yeah. but amie, you know, democrats passing this first budget in four years here, how significant is that? and what does it call for? >> well, it's significant just like andy said. it's sort of all politics at play. but you know, it's so vastly different from what the republicans in the house want. so i don't think -- and it's different than what the president wants. so i think that list just posturing. you know patty murray expressed optimism. she said that they might be able to bridge that divide. but i'm rather skeptical of that, alex. >> yeah, i'm curious, andy, why do you think? because you've got one being passed by the democratically controlled senate, and then you've got the house, or the gop control, do you think there's any chance these two extreme budgets in terms of their perspectives, will be mitigated and something will be
with the beginning, and we look for to continuing the discussions. >> cypress has long been a tax haven for russian companies who have billions of euros in separate banks, but many russians who live on the island are outraged at the proposed levy on their savings. >> this country has cheated us and stolen our money. yes, stolen. it was not their money. we brought it here. we did not earn it here. >> for now, a separate account holders are relieved that parliament shot down the proposal. >> it was time to take a stand. they are sure to find a solution. the separate people are strong. we can take a lot. we have proven that before through many tough times. >> the cypriot government is still searching for any viable solution. even the country's archbishop has offered to help by digging into the pockets of the church. 17 billion euros is the son the island needs to keep afloat, approximately equivalent to the country's economic output, and it is more than the eu is willing to put up without a significant contribution from cyprus itself. >> for more, we can go now live to nicosia where our correspondent
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's the thing. they were ready to tax everyone. i don't care if you would ten euro zone in the bank or a million euros in the bank, they were going to hit you with this tax. obviously that scares the heck out of people. >>alisyn: luckily it was shot down, that plan, because it was so controversial. how did europe react to all of this? >> it's interesting because i don't think the europeans were ready for this to happen. they hatched the plan over last weekend, the i.m.f., e.c.b. and the european union and i think they thought they had the votes. this puts them in a precarious position. the finance minister is in russia. russia gave them a bailout last year, low-interest bailout, almost three billion euros. a lot of this money belongs to russian businesses. but a lot of it legitimate businesses too. the bottom line is i don't know if that was supposed to make it politically correct to go in and steal money from everyone, including regular citizens. >>brian: the russians look like the compassionate ones. it's not fair to the people of cyprus to do this. they say that private gas company offered to
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with $129,000, you would have been taxed $8,700, gone. taken right out of your account just like that. the people in cyprus protested and rushed to withdraw their money. look at the protest lines at the banks. any bailout needs to come with strings attached and the russians, guess what? why are the russians not happy about this tax? because about $30 billion, a third of money in cyprus belongs to russian people. russians park their money there because the taxes are so much lower. this would be a tax on russian money, too. for now the banks remain closed until thursday. the cyprus stock exchange remains closed. the uk is flying one million euros in cash to cyprus for british soldiers who might run short of money. this is a really interesting situation to watch here in cyprus. >> imagine your bank being closed. >> yeah. you have no access for three days. >> it's a reminder of how fragile and interconnected some of the pieces are in the european story. we're watching a recession deepen in europe. >> also when you think you have awe tax haven. >> that's right. >> christine, thank you. >>>
, the largely party line vote was 50-49, it followed a marathon overnight session, it would increase taxes by $1 trillion over the next decade and goes to the republican dominated house where it's not expected to survive. the senate has already voted down the house's plan. >>> in georgia a 14-year-old and 17-year-old are in custody expected to be charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 13-month-old boy. the baby's mother was pushing the little guy in a stroller thursday morning when two men approached her and demanded money. >> they're still looking for the gun and the motive. nick valencia is in the small town of brunswick in southeast georgia. nick you've gotten new information from police, what is that? >> reporter: good morning, victor. i just got off the phone with brunswick police officer todd rhodes and says the two suspects have officially been charged with first-degree murder and also tells me in response to this alleged alibi from demarcus elkins, the older suspect, now his aunt was saying that he was with her that night, that it's impossible that they got the wrong
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citizen pay a tax on their bank deposits whether they wanted to or not. they would take that from the savings accounts. this is the first time we've seen a eurozone bailout structured in such a way. if it passes. if it doesn't, cypress says it will grow bankrupt. right now minimal effects on our markets here at home. but the dow is trading lower. here is background on cypress. it is at the eastern end. mediterranean sea, 30 miles south of turkey. you see it on the map. it is a very small country, smaller than the state of hawaii. its population of a little more than a million people is roughly the city of dallas. its gross domestic product of $23.6 billion is about the same as the state of vermont. there will be a quiz on all of this later. charles payne, fox business network around ceo of w street.com. charles, a little country. why such a big deal? >> it is such a big deal for several reasons. first of all we know greece is small country, not as small as cypress but these things have a ripple effect. also the draconian nature of this. everyone watching this thinks their saving a
the same goal, bringing these workers out of the shadows and into becoming and being tax paying members of society. >> michael: that's kentucky tea party senator rand paul's embrace of immigration reform. it comes a day after the republican national committee released their autopsy report on why the g.o.p. continues to nose dive in favorability. the recommendation is to support comprehensive immigration reform. the senator's move comes after the drone filibuster and the straw purchase. here is maria from the university of cal berkeley where she is the development director of the chief schuster earl institute. welcome to the war room. >> glad to be here. >> michael: what do you make of his new stance? >> i think it's really a revelation, and i welcome yesterday's g.o.p. autopsy report. i think it is a recognition that if the republicans intend to be a national party, they have got to broaden their appeal to the fastest growing part of the electorate. but words are only one thing. let's see what they do in terms of actually voting for immigration reform. >> michael: yes, because they very
reports new york is offering tax incentives to lure the show back to the big apple. as far as who would replace fallon after he moves on up in the lineup the new york post said nbc could dip into the "snl" pool once again, the great seth meyers is rumored to be the top man for the job. cnn reached out to nbc but the network is not commenting. >>> it was 50 years ago today when pop culture changed forever. today is the 50th anniversary of the release of the beatles' first album. please please me. the lp hit shelves in britain on march 22nd in 1963. sales started out slow. but it would hit number one in may. the british invaded and the beatles never looked back and neither did society. >>> game of thrones fans you still have a full week plus to wait for the premiere of season three but we can help you get your fix before then. don't miss my interview next week with game of thrones cocreator david benioff and i'll try to pry a few secrets out of him about the upcoming season. we asked you earlier to come up with a new cheer for harvard's basketball team. go crimson! at least we've got most
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apply tax on people's bank deposits. the finance minister is in moscow to ask russia for help. >> that's because almost one-third of the money in cyprus banks is, guess what, from russia. all right. in paris french police have been raiding the home of the imf chief christine lagarde. >> so far police are not saying why, but her lawyers say it has to do with a french court's investigation of lagarde's role in intervening in a long running dispute between a businessman and a french bank. >> remember lagarde succeeded dominique strauss kahn. >> authorities say he was shot at his home last night after opening the front door. police are talking to neighbors and also searching the woods near his property. >> they're also looking into the possibility that the shooting could be related to his high profile job. clemens became the chief of the state's prison system just two years ago. at a news conference a short while ago colorado's governor was clearly emotional while speaking about his friend. >> to me, to i think all of us in many ways he's -- helped define what a public servant is. he did h
just that, alex. being nuanced in whether he's talking about drones, tax reform -- he's always been very nuanced to make sure he has -- and people starting to realize a wider vision for his own political career and that's exactly why he didn't mention specifically pathway to citizenship. what's interesting, though, prior to that a.p. story i can share with you that the chatter was he was going to talk about pathway to citizenship. so i might -- you know, the big question is, did he back away from that after he heard the chatter and heard that individuals were not welcoming it in the extreme part of the party. let's be clear. short of a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumenteds, the republican party is still going to have a latino vote problem. what's going to happen, unless we provide a pathway to citizenship eventually, what's going to happen is every day american latinos are going to always have a question mark when they interact with every day americans when people are going to ask them, are you here as an american citizen or a legal resident? >> well, this is becoming
bailout. yesterday, the cypriot parliament rejected a bill to tax bank deposits. today, lawmakers crafted a plan "b." we have a report from jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: why would the finance minister of a sun-kissedile be braving moscow's weather? because he's desperate for money. he came begging for around $5 billion euros and doesn't intend to leave without it. >> there were no offers, nothing concrete. we are continuing discussion. we are happh a good beginning and looking forward to continuing this discussion over the next few hours. >> and while the cypriots have flown to russia, the russians have flown to cyprus. in a country where cash points still work, even if the banks behind them don't. these banks are not set to reopen until next tuesday. any dash for cash, and they could collapse. >> cyprus is facing on the economic side a question of survival. >> reporter: even the orthodox church has joined the scramble for a solution. the island's archbishop today told the president he would put the church's vast property portfolio up as collateral. yet, t
for passage tomorrow of paul ryan's budget that cuts taxes for the rich. that budget, of course, does not include stimulus spending, but a just released gallup pole shows a mere 72% of americans support a federal government spending program designed to create more than one million new jobs. that also has majority support among republicans. freshman republican congressman thomas massey told a roomful of reporters today you know, i'm new here, but what i'm learning is that the budget is just kind of a guideline. we know it is dead on arrival, we know it is a pretend vote. here is speaker boehner reacting to something president obama was cause saying on his arrival in israel today. >> i would rather be heckled than ignored. you only tease the ones you love. >> he is willing to more than tease the ones he love. >> apparently republicans are willing to tease various parts of the base to make them think we have a plan. it is really not much of a plan, it is kind of the part of the problem they don't seem to understand, the policies don't match up with what they say their values are. that's
defense these anmissle systems. i feel like sometimes the american tax payer is told we need these systems. we invest all of this money and more likely than that we probably will never use them. we can take the money we are spending in the systems and invest in programs that people can really use. we are told we need the systems but they do not work. at the end it is a big waste of money. i want to know if i am wrong in thinking that way or if there are other people thinking that way. we put all this money in the systems -- we need to be paying money into schools and scholarships and crime and social programs. we put it in a bomb that we probably will never use. host: an estimated $9 billion? guest: every year. reagan's vision, we are not putting a lot of fight dia behind an impregnable shield. i do apologize for being scary but i often try to underscore -- if the north koreans try to attack us i think they would fail, even without missile defense. their missile systems and nuclear weapons would probably not even get this country intact if they tried to put it on a --g-range it o'clock dic
of money are the banks, the departs of the they said we think you should tax departs. imposing austerity is not going to work here, there's only a million people. this country sdwaedoesn't want this because they're a business model. their business model is to attract deposits here. they pay 4% and 5%. so that's the big fight, how do they come up with that 5.8 billion. they may have to shut down banks. that's why you're seeing lines at the atm. >> so how does this resolve itself over the next week? >> reporter: so the banks are going to be closed at least until tuesday. that's the deadline that the european central bank has said to cyprus you better come up with the deal or else we're going to cut off your banks. that means they're not going to fly in cash like they have been doing, they're not going to provide liquidity. if you don't know what that means, it's very simple. the weak banks will fail, they'll get shut down and people will lose a lot of money. that's probably how it's going to end up happening in some form or fashion. the weirdest possible outlier is that cyprus says, you kn
building. and the protesters achieved v parliament abandoned the pla tax their bank accounts. the country is still despe, on the vergebankd iftdoet, t and government coulroke thalit nd o stocks, even the protesters know that. >> it is a domino effect it will start here it will not end here. it will -- financial collapse will commence here in cyprus, all throughout europe and will affect the united states most definitely. >> reporter: which means this beautiful i the fate of the european and perhaps world economie nick schifrin, abc news, cyprus. >>> all right, statue of liberty which was shut down after hurricane sandy set to reopen in time for fourth of july. the statue itself survived the , bulad sits badly d. making it uoritor repairs should be compl summer trav >>> after a relentless final few weeks of winter, we are pleased to report that spring arrives. at 7:02 eastern time. just a few hours from now. as abc's ginger zee reports it's welcome news for the northeast after another major winter storm. >> reporter: it is like a broken en plows down. shovels out and that familia
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Why can't jhola gur become an international product like maple syrup?
Vikram Doctor, ET Bureau Jan 18, 2013, 02.59AM IST
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How many stories must there be of Indians ruining their luggage with improperly packed food?
There are stories of pickles oozing vicious orange oil that inevitably stains the owner's best white shirts. Or of fried snacks packed in multiple layers of paper, yet the grease seeps through to leave large blotches on saris. Or bottles of fruit syrup that seemed quite solid yet unaccountably shattered in transit, soaking everything in stickiness that reveals itself ominously when you pick up your bag at the conveyer belt.
I have to admit I have contributed to this with my passion for jhola gur. This is the sweet date palm sap that is cooked into light syrup and which is only obtainable in Bengal in winter and all my efforts to find a source in Mumbai failed.
This means I have to arm-twist any friends going to Kolkata in winter to bring some. "You owe me for three blouses," my colleague Bachi Karkaria yelled last winter, as she handed me a tell-tale sticky jar.
This winter I have had better luck. Another kind colleague took the precaution of asking the man selling it, who told her to buy a special plastic bottle which he filled with the syrup and sealed tight, and it didn't leak a drop.
But even better was the friend who managed to find jhola gur packed as it is in the villages where it is produced, in small earthen jar with the lid sealed on with mud (and it even had a little straw ring on which to stand). It was so well sealed in fact that I had to chip the mud hard to get it off and some of it inevitably fell into the syrup inside, but that was a small price to pay.
The first jhola gur that I got (in the plastic bottle) was the kind I was used to - a thick dark syrup that doesn't seem that sweet at first, then seconds later hits you with a rich toffee taste. It is totally addictive and I didn't think it could be bettered until I tried the earthen packed kind.
And I really think these pots should come with warnings attached because the taste was so insanely good I almost dropped the pot and I don't even want to think about the waste if it had broken.
This second syrup was lighter than the first one, both in colour and consistency, so had evidently been cooked less. And the taste, after that split-second not-so-sweet moment, was not as darkly caramel, but instead had an exuberant nuttiness that lead into the light, fragrant toffee taste.
Unlike many syrups it was not cloying, and there was a very a definite danger of finishing off the whole thing at one shot. I had to restrain myself from calling my friend to ask if she would be going back to Kolkata this winter.
Jhola gur comes from Phoenix sylvestris, the silver date or wild date palm. It is closely related to the Arabian date palm, P.dactylifera, which gives us the dried fruits we are familiar with. P.sylvestris also produces sweet edible fruit, but their quality is not as good, but the writer Chitrita Banerji tells me that when Bengali Muslims could not afford expensive imported dates, they have eaten these, for example during Ramzaan, when the fast should be broken with date. She also recalls a chutney made these dates, dried plums and raisins, but the main value of the tree is clearly for its sap.
Chitrita has written in her wonderful book Life and Food in Bengal about her first taste of the fresh sap, on a winter morning in a village in Barisal: "It is the most natural and uncloying sweetness I have encountered."
She notes how it ferments very fast into liquor, which is one main use for it. But for gur it must not ferment, which is why it is only made in cold weather, and even then, early in the morning when the pots in which the sap collects are taken down from the trees and the sap cooked at once.
Wild date palms grow across India, but in most places it is just used, as with similar juice from palmyra and coconut palms, to make toddy, which is why this sort of liquid gur is not more common. In Sri Lanka the juice of the kithul, or fishtail palm is used, which is supposed to be even better.
The other reason jhola gur is not more common is because, even in this form, it will soon ferment, so it needs to be stored in the fridge. This is why it is usually cooked further till it solidifies when cooled, into the patali gur that has a melting fudgy texture and a near chocolaty taste(and has already featured in this column long back).
This nolen, or fresh, gur is made into sweets that have some of that taste, and the liquid form too is used in sweets but most Bengalis I have asked have a vague conviction that this should only be eaten by itself, poured on hot luchis or rotis. Having tried this, I can only agree (though I might add that pouring it on plain dahi is also pretty good).
Most Bengalis will also automatically quote the last lines of Sukumar Ray's poem Bhalo re Bhalo in which he lists all the things he loves in this world, but ends by saying "Sobar chaite bhalo/Pauruti aar jhola gur" (best of all is liquid gur eaten with bread). | http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-01-18/news/36415600_1_syrup-date-palm-plastic-bottle | dclm-gs1-294360000 |
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I tried Boot-Repair with different options, and each time I get error: file not found.
First time I selected sda3 as a separate EFI partition (which is correct) here's the configuration http://paste.ubuntu.com/1493581/
Second time selected sda1 (Backup EFI partition), here's the configuration http://paste.ubuntu.com/1499490/
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JP-8, or JP8 (for "Jet Propellant 8") is a jet fuel, specified and used widely by the US military. It is specified by MIL-DTL-83133 and British Defence Standard 91-87, and similar to commercial aviation's Jet-A.
It was specified in 1990 by the U.S. government as a replacement for government diesel fueled vehicles.
The U.S. Air Force replaced JP-4 with JP-8 completely by the fall of 1996, to use a less flammable, less hazardous fuel for better safety and combat survivability.
The U.S. Navy uses a similar formula, JP-5. JP-5 has an even higher flash point of > 60 °C (140 °F), but also a higher cost.
Outside of powering aircraft, JP-8 is used as a fuel for heaters, stoves,[1][2] tanks,[3] by the U.S. military and its NATO allies as a replacement for diesel fuel in the engines of nearly all tactical ground vehicles and electrical generators, and as a coolant in engines and some other aircraft components. The use of a single fuel greatly simplifies logistics.
JP-8 is formulated with icing inhibitor, corrosion inhibitors, lubricants, and antistatic agents, and less benzene (a carcinogen) and less n-hexane (a neurotoxin) than JP-4. However, it also smells stronger than JP-4. JP-8 has an oily feel to the touch, while JP-4 feels more like a solvent.
When used in highly supercharged diesel engines with the corresponding low compression ratio of about only 14:1 or below, JP-8 causes troubles during cold start and idling due to low compression temperatures and subsequent ignition delay because the cetane index is not specified in MIL-DTL-83133G to 40 or higher. Because lubricity to the BOCLE method is not specified in MIL-DTL-83133G, modern common-rail diesel engines can experience wear problems in high-pressure fuel pumps and injectors. Another problem in diesel engines can be increased wear to exhaust valve seats in the cylinder heads, because a minimum content of sulfur is not specified in MIL-DTL-83133G. Sulfur in fuel normally contributes to a build-up of soot layers on these valve seats. According to the notes in this standard, it is intended to include a cetane index value in one of the next releases.
Alternative Fuel Technologies, Redford, Michigan, (Founder, James McCandless) has successfully completed work, through an Army/SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant (Phases 1 and 2), on mitigation of the valve-wear issue pursuant to using JP-8 fuel in common rail diesel engines, and recently received an award granted by The National Science Foundation, ( and has been selected by NSF to work with them on fuel injection research for alternative fuels. The Army has recently selected Alternative Fuel Technology to move forward with Phase 3 SBIR after successful completion of the Phase 2 work. Phase 3 is commercialization. Contracts are currently being negotiated.
Workers have complained of smelling and tasting JP-8 for hours after exposure. As JP-8 is less volatile than standard diesel fuel, it remains on the contaminated surfaces for longer time, increasing the risk of exposure.[4]
JP-8+100 (F-37) is a version of JP-8 with an additive that increases its thermal stability by 56°C (a difference of 100°F). The additive is a combination of a surfactant, metal deactivator, and an antioxidant, and was introduced in 1994 to reduce choking and fouling in engine fuel systems. Commercially, this additive is used in police helicopters in Tampa, Florida.[citation needed] JP-8+100 is also used for Canadian Forces CP-140 Aurora, CC-130 Hercules and the CC-115 Buffalo.
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1. ^ Modern Burner Units, JP-8 is used by Army Food Service Specialists (cooks) to fuel MBUs, in accordance with U.S. Army Field Feeding Manual FM 10-23
2. ^ Babington Airtronic Burner burns JP-8 and other distillate fuels, and is the current common heat source for Marine Corps food service equipment.
3. ^ the M1 Abrams series of battle tanks uses JP fuel in its gas turbine engine
4. ^ Day, Dwayne A. "Aviation Fuel". U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission.
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Will Priyanka Chopra marry Hurman Baweja?
Written by: By Subhash K. Jha, Bollywood Hungama
Published: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 15:12 [IST]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]For those who think they know which of the 12 Priyanka Chopras Hurman Baweja marries at the end of What's Your Raashee, here's a shocker.
Ashutosh Gowariker has completely changed the bride-selection finale. Hurman's character walks away with a completely different girl from the one that the hero selects in the novel.
It took a while to convince the novelist Madhu Rye. But Ashutosh finally made sense in convincing the litterateur that an identical ending in the film will work as a total spoiler for those who had read the book.
Rye had also never imagined that all the 12 candidates for bride-hood would have the same face. But Ashutosh had made up his mind. "If I had 12 different actresses playing the 12 brides-in-waiting, a star-hierarchy would've been created in the audiences' mind. And the one Harman would've married would've been considered 'The Star' of the show. I wanted all the 12 girls to be looked on with equal curiosity and interest by the audience. And for that I need to take up the challenge of making one actress play all the 12 parts."
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Why is this issue something that worries you?
What warning signs have you seen already?
Three nations have tested anti-satellite weapons in the last three decades: the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s, then China in 2007. The latter shocked a lot of people. China sent a kinetic weapon – a solid warhead – slamming into one of its own weather satellites, causing an explosion which created thousands of pieces of debris in one of the most crowded orbits around earth. The worst part was not the demonstration of capability, as pretty much everyone knew China could do something like this, it was the question of why they chose to demonstrate it in the manner in which they did. What’s more, any country that has a medium-range ballistic weapon and a reasonable commercial satellite programme can develop an anti-satellite weapon, and there is no real international agreement on what norms of behaviour are acceptable. I am pretty sure that France, India and Israel all have the capacity.
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Could other channels of communication not defuse the situation?
On the flip side of risk, what are the opportunities?
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Jul 3, 2010, 09:51 PM
Hey before getting butchered for asking this I just have one simple question.
I am a photographer and I want to create a photo book / portfolio app.
I want it to be very simple, think swiping though photos on the camera roll.
Can I do this myself easily with very little coding knowledge or should I hire someone? How much would you quote the project?
Thanks a million!
Jul 4, 2010, 04:38 AM
Could you write a website that does what you want (you can use Apple specific JS to get swipes etc). If so the simplest way would be to use a UIWebView to embed that. I would note that even if you want this on your phone and your phone only you have to pay Apple $99 (a year) for that...
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Thanks. I am thinking of it more as a book not so much a portfolio.
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They may rarely predict future events, but most people believe they are meaningful
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SUNDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- People worldwide subscribe to the belief that you are what you dream, concludes a new series of studies published in February's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Psychologists' interpretations of the meaning of dreams vary widely," lead author Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said in an American Psychological Association news release. "But our research shows that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insight into themselves and their world."
For example, 149 university students in the United States, India and South Korea in one survey largely agreed that hidden truths present themselves in their dreams, a theory a nationally representative sample of Americans also supports.
Dreams also affect how people act when they awake, another study found. A survey of Boston train commuters found that when they dreamed of a plane crash the night before a scheduled air trip, they would be more likely to change their travel plans than if they had had a dream about an increased terrorist threat or consciously thought about their plane crashing. Dreaming about a plane crash also caused them as much anxiety as would a plane disaster actually occurring on their planned route shortly before their trip.
While most people said dreams rarely predict future events, they still found them meaningful, even if they were uneventful or plain bizarre, Morewedge said.
Not all dreams are equal, though. When asked to recall a dream about a person they knew, 270 Americans taking an online survey gave more significance to pleasant dreams about someone they liked than bad dreams about someone they didn't like.
"In other words, people attribute meaning to dreams when it corresponds with their pre-existing beliefs and desires," Morewedge said.
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Obama signs his first bill--an act on equal pay.
Even though Lily Ledbetter couldn't make her case to the Supreme Court, many of us probably believe that people should be able to sue for wage discrimination at a point beyond the 180-day period after their first discriminating paycheck, particularly if, like Ledbetter, we've worked at a place for years (decades!) and don't uncover the pay disparity until retirement.
A recent WSJ editorial makes the objection clear--arguing that the Ledbetter act will "create a new legal business in digging up ancient workplace grievances." Here's more:
On the other side, Martha Burk, co-founder of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, says the act doesn't go far enough, since the real problem was Ledbetter's lack of awareness of what her coworkers made. "The main reason Lilly Ledbetter got shafted was that she didn't know her situation compared to the men," Burk writes in a HuffPost piece. "Employers are under no obligation to report pay statistics, and in most companies you can get fired for talking pay with co-workers."
She shares this interesting detail about New Mexico:
Bill Richardson (Obama's choice for commerce secretary who voluntarily dropped out of consideration) has just signed an executive order in his state that is ground breaking. Not only will the state as an employer have to study and report it's own pay practices when it comes to gender and race, so will private sector companies that want state contracts.
Update: The excellent Opinion writers at USNews.com are in heated Ledbetter debate. See Bonnie Erbe's argument in favor of the law and Sam Dealey's argument against it.
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Comment: Re:I know i'm going to get zapped by this but... (Score 1) 156
I think so but at the same time it reminds me of "old school" cable where people were buying the Mike Tyson fight and charging for it, i personally saw the Tyson and Holyfield fight (Tyson bit off his ear) and had to pay $20.00 for it and it lasted what? Fifteen seconds? Thank god the $20.00 paid for beer afterward.
That seems to be the problem in my mind, the Companies concerned are not getting a cut of that revenue.
Comment: I know i'm going to get zapped by this but... (Score 1, Interesting) 156
I found out about Popcorn time from Huffington post last week and used it 3 times. It was amazing. If you did not get the chance to see it then, too bad. Netflix sucks by comparison for something that lasted 4 day's.
Now as for legality, I feel something might have been illegal about it (hehe) but i wish it were not. I am totally unashamed about what i did. It truly was something to see.
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Comment: Re:They likely give the Chinese govt full access (Score 1) 46
by npridgeon (#46310845) Attached to: Why Is Dropbox Back On the Chinese Market?
That's right, and I would imagine the people of China know this, and act accordingly.
China's got the right idea when it comes to censorship and monitoring of the internet. They are a ?communist? country so they have the right, or even the responsibility to monitor how people use public utilities. As for America and the NSA, they claim to be an open society with a government of the people, for the people, yet they increasingly treat those same people as criminals and terrorists for doing simple things like making backup copies of movies or music that they may have purchased completely legally.
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Comment: Re:Use end to end encryption? (Score 1) 234
by npridgeon (#45247357) Attached to: Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance
I can see this being the thing that pushes the next generation of processor development and operating system development. If companies can make encryption automatic, easy and invisible to the end users - and trustworthy, it will catch on. At first it will slow our computers which will drive demand for bigger/faster computers. Then, someday, it'll be ubiquitous and common practice.
Comment: It happens (Score 1) 228
by npridgeon (#45228217) Attached to: The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers
I work in a sawmill in Canada. All our cameras are routed to a central location and recorded. It's a great troubleshooting tool, but also a great way to make sure people are doing their jobs. If our internet connection were faster, this information would be available over the internet now. It is happening now.
Comment: why open in a new page? (Score 1) 1191
by npridgeon (#45009407) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)
Why not make it with a "show more" link that expands, even showing comments, and "show less" to go back to the topics? When I hit back, it shows the beta hints again. Interesting design. probably looks better on a tablet in portrait. Unfortunately, my monitor is in landscape mode. If the 50% wasted space is for ads, adblocker and noscript is gonna block them.
Comment: Re:Short answer: (Score 1) 686
by npridgeon (#42080537) Attached to: Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground?
People actively seek out and view the webpage
Notice how you didn't say "I spam my oversized/bliking/popup banner all over other sites to get people to view my webpage"? People find your page because you provide information they need, not because they see your ads. Personally, I can honestly say that not once in my life have I read/viewed/purchased anything from clicking a banner. And yeah, I know the whole subconscious brand recognition shpeel... Still - I never buy anything on the brand name alone. Except for Sony, their products I don't buy specifically because of their brand name. But I digress.
I don't have any mod points to mod you up, and you're already at 5 anyway, but...
I agree completely with you about Sony. They could sell pure gold for a cent an ounce, and I wouldn't buy it. Worst company on the planet. A true evil corporation with no care for their customers, their customer's privacy or security.
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While looking for something else, quite out of mere coincidence I stumbled upon few comments about how diabolical case class inheritance is. There was this thing called ProductN , wretches and kings, elves and wizards and how some kind of a very desirable property is lost with case classes inheritance. So what is so wrong with case class inheritance ?
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One word: equality
case classes come with a supplied implementation of equals and hashCode. The equivalence relation, known as equals works like this (i.e. must have the following properties):
1. For all x; x equals x is true (reflexive)
2. For x, y, z; if x equals y and y equals z then x equals z (transitive)
3. For x, y; if x equals y then y equals x (symmetric)
As soon as you allow for equality within an inheritance hierarchy you can break 2 and 3. this is trivially demonstrated by the following example:
case class Point(x: Int, y: Int)
case class ColoredPoint(x: Int, y: Int, c: Color) extends Point(x, y)
Then we have:
Point(0, 0) equals ColoredPoint(0, 0, RED)
But not
ColoredPoint(0, 0, RED) equals Point(0, 0)
You might argue that all class hierarchies may have this problem, and this is true. But case classes exist specifically to simplify equality from a developer's perspective (among other reasons), so having them behave non-intuitively would be the definition of an own goal!
There were other reasons as well; notably the fact that copy did not work as expected and interaction with the pattern matcher.
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And what about a little elaboration :) ? – ashy_32bit Jun 22 '12 at 15:15
It seems like such an asymmetric equivalence would be a useful thing in the OO paradigm, in the same way that at the type level a ColoredPoint is-a Point but not vice-versa. Might have to call it something other than equals though... maybe subEquals? – Luigi Plinge Jun 22 '12 at 18:58
@LuigiPlinge perhaps canReplace, supersedes, specifies, or overrides for the reverse relationship? Anything to indicate the >=-ness (or >: if you like) of it. It seems much easier for me to name it in terms of >= rather than <=. – Dan Burton Jun 22 '12 at 22:26
On second thoughts, such a thing would be tricky (impossible?) to implement due to the possibility of upcasting, so maybe it's not such a great idea – Luigi Plinge Jun 22 '12 at 23:52
This example is not compilable in 2.10.2 – ruslan Aug 3 '13 at 7:22
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The syscall.Mmap() call takes a length argument of type int, which is only good for 2GB. How do I mmap a bigger file then?
Note: 64-bit system, so address space is not a problem.
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Look in http://golang.org/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_unix.go at the Mmap method on mmapper. You should be able to copy that code and adapt it as required.
Of course you won't be able to mmap to a []byte, since slice lengths are defined to be "int" (which is 32-bit everywhere at the moment). You could mmap to a larger element type (e.g. []int32), or just muck with the pointer to the memory, but it won't be a drop-in replacement to syscall.Mmap.
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Even if I map to []int64, it will only handle max 16GB files, right? Still quite limited on modern 64-bit platforms. – Rio Jul 24 '12 at 12:06
That's 16GB at a time. You can rebuild the slice header as often as you want without having to re-mmap. – dsymonds Jul 26 '12 at 6:50
That's disappointing. Slices are supposed to be a better replacement for pointer arithmetic so they eliminated pointer arithmetic (except with the "unsafe" package), but slices are hamstrung! I would think that the slice index type should be uintptr with automatic conversion to/from other integer types. – Matt Jul 27 '12 at 18:51
go1.1 will have 64-bit ints on 64-bit platforms, which will largely solve this. – dsymonds Sep 28 '12 at 5:29
Note that this is unix only. Go in Windows has a different api for memory mapped files. – kristianp Jan 12 '13 at 5:16
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This is code for a linked list in the C programming language.
#include <stdio.h> /* For printf */
#include <stdlib.h> /* For malloc */
typedef struct node {
int data;
struct node *next; /* Pointer to next element in list */
LLIST *list_add(LLIST **p, int i);
void list_remove(LLIST **p);
LLIST **list_search(LLIST **n, int i);
void list_print(LLIST *n);
The code is not completed, but I think it's enough for my question. Here at the end of struct node "LLIST" is used, and it's also used as a return type in the prototyping of the function list_add. What is going on?
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typedef creates a new "type" in your program, so the return value and types of parameters of those functions are just your struct. It is just shorthand for using struct node for the type.
If you were to create a new node, you could do it like this (using the type):
LLIST *node = malloc(sizeof(LLIST));
node->data = 4;
node->next = someOtherItem;
list_add(node, 1)
Also, with the function prototypes in your question, you don't really need the double pointers; since the data in your struct is just an int, you could do something like
LLIST *list_add(int data, int position);
then the list_add function would handle the allocation, copy the int into the struct and add it to the linked list.
Putting it in at a certain position is as simple as changing the next pointer in the node before it to the address of the newly allocated node, and the next pointer in the new node to point at the next one (the one the node before that one was originally pointing at).
Keep in mind that (given the rest of your function prototypes) you will have to keep track of pointers to every node you create in order to delete them all.
I'm not sure I understand how the search function will work. This whole thing could be implemented a lot better. You shouldn't have to provide the location of a node when you create it (what if you specify a higher number than there are nodes?), etc.
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That's a typedef. It's actually doing two things at once. First, it defines a structure:
struct node {
int data;
struct node *next;
And then does a typedef:
typedef struct node LLIST;
That means LLIST is a type, just like int or FILE or char, that is a shorthand for struct node, your linked-list node structure. It's not necessary - you could replace LLIST with struct node in all of those spots - but it makes it a bit easier to read, and helps hide the implementation from pesky end-users.
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LLIST is just another type name for the struct that has been created. In general, the following format will create a type "NAME" that is a "struct x":
typedef struct x { ... } NAME;
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C requires that you reference structs with a "struct" prefix, so it's common to introduce a typedef for less verbose mention.
That is, the declaration of your struct has two parts, and can be rewritten as such:
struct node {
int data;
struct node *next; /* pointer to next element in list */
typedef struct node LLIST;
So, LLIST is just another name for struct node (thanks Chris Lutz).
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LLIST* is a pointer to a structure defined by the LLIST struct.
You should do
LLIST* myList = malloc(sizeof(LLIST)*number_of_elements);
to have some memory allocated for this list. Adding and removing items requires you to reallocate the memory using realloc. I've already written some piece of code for lists (made with arrays).
I might post the code as soon as I'm home, which is currently not the case.
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I have looked through a few posts on this but none really solve the issues I'm having.
Quite a few suggest:
self.tableView.scrollEnabled = YES;
However, this doesn't enable me to scroll.
The cells are updated dynamically so reloadData is called a few times throughout the "test" I am doing. Once finished the cells are created based on the length of an Array and at the moment they go off the bottom of the screen. I was hoping scrolling would be automatic but no such luck.
If some code would be useful just let me know and any advice would be great
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Please post any relevant sample code. – Bryan Luby Feb 16 '13 at 4:05
are you able to use the table otherwise? aka: select items from within the table. – Grymjack Feb 16 '13 at 6:06
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I'd like to be more explicit about my closures regarding their argument types. So I would write something like
List<Y> myCollect(List<X> list, Closure<X,Y> clos) { ... }
I know that Groovy won't use that type information, but Groovy++ may use it at compile time. Can this be be achieved (other than putting it into a comment)?
UPDATE: The title may sound misleading, but I thought the above example would make it clearer. I'm interested in specifying types of a closure which is the argument of some function. Suppose, I want to redefince the built-in collect. So I'm interested in writing myCollect, not in writing clos. What I want to achieve is get compile time errors
myCollect(['a', 'ab'], { it / 2 }) // compile error
myCollect(['a', 'ab'], { it.size() }) // OK
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In the type Closure<V>, the V represents the return value of the closure, not its parameters. As such, it wouldn't make sense to have a Closure<V, X> since you can't return two values. – Nancy Deschênes Jul 26 '13 at 1:16
I mean Closure<X,Y> to accept a single X as input and returns Y. So it can be applied to the items of List<X>. I updated the return type of the function. – Adam Schmideg Jul 26 '13 at 8:57
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You can define the types of a closure's parameters, but the syntax shown above is incorrect. Here is a closure without parameter types:
def concatenate = {arg1, arg2 ->
return arg1 + arg2
And here is the same closure with parameter types
def concatenate = {String arg1, String arg2 ->
return arg1 + arg2
Groovy does do some compile-time type checking, but not as much as Groovy++ (or Java). Even if the type information is not used at compile-time it will be checked at runtime, and is also valuable as a form of documentation.
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please, see my update. Of what type is your concatenate? Is it Closure<String,String,String>? Or what? – Adam Schmideg Apr 18 '11 at 17:07
I accept this answer not because I'm happy with it, but this is the only one :( Maybe, my question wasn't clear enough. – Adam Schmideg Jul 22 '11 at 10:35
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What I am trying to do is show a window, that does not explicitly have a height/width, (both values ommited or set to Auto). I was guessing that the window would find out its size by auto - calculating all contained usercontrols sizes, but this doesn't actually work!
Instead I get a big window with Actualwidth and Actualheight values both set to 512 (?!?!)
Window declaration:
<Window x:Class="Window3"
Showing this window as a dialog via:
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim dlg As New Window3
End Sub
Is there a solution for this? I don't want to explicitly set the size of my window because many controls in the form will be collapsed based on constructor parameters, and trying to find the actual size of the form would be tricky (and ugly).
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You may also want to center the window with .WindowStartupLocation set to "CenterScreen" – Anders Lindén Jul 5 '12 at 14:16
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Set the window's property SizeToContent to "WidthAndHeight". This should help.
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I'm using a datagrid with its default scrollPanel which set "opacity" to "0.7".
I want to change the opacity to "1" but the ScrollPanel is just created by some "div", not using "CSS" resources. So, I could not override any CSS resource also CSS attribute.
Please suggest me how to change the "opacity".
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Even though it its setting in some div element you can set the opacity in css... In your css type the following
.gwt-scrollpanel {
Opacity : 1.0 !important;
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Thanks, but scrollPanel of the DataGrid does not use gwt-scrollpanel. It is just two <div>, so I used "DOM.setElementAttribute" to update the Opacity and saw it takes effect. – Xuna Jan 17 '12 at 3:03
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I am seeking to understand that "average" file size for a folder on my computer. I have calculated the true average of files (total size / no. of files), however I would, ultimately, love to group together files into file-size categories as follows;
Files < 1kb: 23 files.
Files < 100kb: 276 files.
Files < 1mb: 786 files.
Is this possible using a batch script?
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I smell XYZ problem here... – Hello71 Jul 21 '11 at 16:36
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Yes this is possible.
You will need to write some code that follows along an algorithm of your choice, using variables to store values.
The algorithm could look perform actions like this:
• define File-Size-Range-Groups ( < 1kb, < 100 kb, etc )
• Sum the number of files in each File-Size-Range-Group
• Sum the individual file sizes for a File-Size-Range-Group total
• Output the sum value of files in a File-Size-Range-Group
• Output the average (total file size sum for File-Size-Range-Group / number of files in File-Size-Range-Group)
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The main purpose of the article was to tweak America's oldest civil rights organization, the National Rifle Association, for opposing some of the more rash anti-gun proposals being considered by state legislatures, such as allowing courts to take away a person's firearms on the basis of a temporary restraining order.
Another recent Times article about communities trying to keep sex offenders out of their neighborhoods quoted a liberal saying: "It's counterproductive to public safety, because when you have nothing to lose, you are much more likely to commit a crime than when you are rebuilding your life."
As is usually the case when liberals start proposing gun restrictions, they assume only men will be disarmed by laws taking guns from those subjected to temporary restraining orders. But such orders aren't particularly difficult to get. It doesn't occur to liberals that an abusive man could also get one against his wife, whether or not his accusations are true.
Rather than helping victims of domestic abuse, this -- and other Times' proposals on guns -- only ensures that more women will get killed. A gun in the hand of an abused woman changes the power dynamic far more than keeping a gun out of the hands of her abuser, who generally can murder his wife in any number of ways.
The vast majority of rapists, for example, don't even bother using a gun because -- as renowned criminologist Gary Kleck notes -- they typically have a "substantial power advantage over the victim," making the use of a weapon redundant.
As the Times eventually admits around paragraph 400: "In fairness, it was not always clear that such an order (taking guns from the accused wife abuser) would have prevented the deaths."
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In one of my articles I wrote about My First Windows 8 Application – Metro Puzzle there I talked about Windows 8 Metro application and demonstrate how to build app for Win 8, the application I built was Puzzle 15. later I started to get requests to explain the steps for building that game.
So I'm writing the steps for building a Puzzle 15 Game.
Step 1: The Puzzle Base
There are several ways to build the puzzle layer, In my demo I chose a simple way of a Canvas with 16 children's type of StackPanel.
Basically I have a lower canvas with the Board image, on top of it I put another canvas with 16 Stack Panels, each panel spread to 100X100
Now, when I have the main puzzle structure I added an image of size 95x95 to each Stack Panel. (the reason it’s not 100X100 – is to leave a space between each), for each image I set the Tag property with the value of the image – 1.png Tag = 1
I’ve also add a timer for counting the time took to solve this puzzle and another int property to count the moves the user made.
Step 2: Find
One of the most common things we’ll use in our code, is FIND:
• Find Stack Panel by Image Id
• Find the Empty Panel
• Find the Value by position
Find the parent of image with a specific Tag value
StackPanel FindStackPanelByTagId(int tag)
if (tag == 16)
return (from stackPanel in ContentPanel.Children.OfType<StackPanel>()
where stackPanel.Children.Count == 0 select stackPanel).First();
return (from stackPanel in ContentPanel.Children.OfType<StackPanel>()
from img in stackPanel.Children.OfType<Image>()
where Convert.ToInt32(img.Tag) == tag
select stackPanel).First();
Find the position of StackPanel without children
int FindEmptyItemPosition()
int index = 15;
if (((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i]).Children.Count == 0)
return index;
return 0;
Get the Tag value by StackPanel position
int FindItemValueByPosition(int position)
return ((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[position]).Children.Count > 0
? Convert.ToInt32(((Image)((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children
[position]).Children[0]).Tag) : 16;
Step 3: Scrambles
Now we have are puzzle structure and Find method helpers, the first thing is to Scramble or puzzle.
So I wrote a method that runs n times and generate random numbers from 1 to 16, for each number find the current StackPanel that hold him. (FindStackPanelByTagId) .
If First and Second number are smaller then 16 then - swipe the images and tag values.
If One of the values is 16 the swipe - One Stackpanel will be cleared of Items
void Scrambles()
var count = 0;
while (count < 25)
var a = _rnd.Next(1, 17);
var b = _rnd.Next(1, 17);
if (a == b) continue;
var stack1 = FindStackPanelByTagId(a);
var stack2 = FindStackPanelByTagId(b);
if (a == 16)
var image2 = stack2.Children[0];
else if (b == 16)
var image1 = stack1.Children[0];
var image1 = stack1.Children[0];
var image2 = stack2.Children[0];
Step 4: Check Board
Each move the user do, perform a loop and checks values from 1 to 16. if the numbers are not in the correct order than nothing happen.
Else You stop the game timer and display a win message.
void CheckBoard()
var index = 1;
for (var i = 15; i > 0; i--)
if (FindItemValueByPosition(i) != index) return;
WinGrid.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
Step 5: Move Items
Before we can apply move of items we need to check several things, the first thing is:
Check if the Item Can move, Checking all panels around the specific item with -1 +1 -4 +4, if one of them is empty then he can move.
StackPanel CanMove(UIElement itemToMove)
var count = ContentPanel.Children.Count;
if (!(ContentPanel.Children[i] is StackPanel)) continue;
var stackPanel = (StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i];
if (!stackPanel.Children.Contains(itemToMove)) continue;
if (!IsBorderSwich(i, i + 1) && i + 1 <= 15 && ContentPanel.
Children[i + 1] != null &&
((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i + 1]).Children.Count == 0)
return ((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i + 1]);
if (!IsBorderSwich(i, i - 1) && i - 1 > -1 && ContentPanel.
Children[i - 1] != null &&
((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i - 1]).Children.Count == 0)
return ((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i - 1]);
if (i + 4 <= 15 && ContentPanel.Children[i + 4] != null &&
((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i + 4]).Children.Count == 0)
return ((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i + 4]);
if (i - 4 > -1 && ContentPanel.Children[i - 4] != null &&
((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i - 4]).Children.Count == 0)
return ((StackPanel)ContentPanel.Children[i - 4]);
return null;
The Second - if both of the items you want to swipe are in the Board borders do nothing.
private readonly int[] _bordersNums = { 0, 4, 8, 12, 3, 7, 11, 15 };
bool IsBorderSwich(int a, int b)
return _bordersNums.Contains(a) && _bordersNums.Contains(b);
Now after we have those safety methods we can move the items based on user clicks: Just register to ItemManipulationStarted on the entire windows, for each event check if the item isn’t image do nothing,
if it does, call the CanMove method to verify that this item can move around.
private void ItemManipulationStarted(object sender,
ManipulationStartedEventArgs e)
var item = (UIElement)e.OriginalSource;
if (!(item is Image)) return;
var to = CanMove(item);
if (to != null)
txtMoves.Text = _moves.ToString();
MoveItem(item, to);
e.Handled = true;
MoveItem - Move Item From One StackPanel to Another.
void MoveItem(UIElement item, StackPanel targetPanel)
foreach (var stackPanel in
ContentPanel.Children.OfType<StackPanel>().Where(stackPanel =>
stackPanel.Children.Count > 0 && stackPanel.Children.Contains(item)))
Step 6: Check If Puzzle Solvable
This part of very important, because half of the starting positions for the n-puzzle are impossible to resolve.
The Puzzle 15 (n-puzzle) is a classical problem for modeling algorithms involving heuristics. Commonly used heuristics for this problem include counting the number of misplaced tiles and finding the sum of the Manhattan distances between each block and its position in the goal configuration. Note that both are admissible, i.e., they never overestimate the number of moves left, which ensures optimality for certain search algorithms such as A*.
bool CheckIfSolvable()
var n = 0;
for (var i = 1; i <= 16; i++)
var num1 = FindItemValueByPosition(i);
var num2 = FindItemValueByPosition(i - 1);
if (num1 > num2)
var emptyPos = FindEmptyItemPosition();
return n % 2 == (emptyPos + emptyPos / 4) % 2 ? true : false;
Step 7: Setup a New Game
Now, when we defined everything we need, let’s write the New Game method, reset all timer and moves number back to 0, call the Scrambles method, and while the game is unsolvable continue scramble the game, once it’s solvable start the timer.
public void NewGame()
_moves = 0;
txtMoves.Text = "0";
txtTime.Text = Const.DefaultTimeValue;
while (!CheckIfSolvable())
_startTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(1);
GridScrambling.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
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GeneralMy vote of 5 PinmvpMichael Haephrati1-Mar-13 2:28
QuestionQuestion??? Pinmembermr.pakapun16-Jan-13 15:28
AnswerRe: Question??? Pinmembermr.pakapun17-Jan-13 4:31
QuestionWhat about puzzle 8 and 24 ?? Pinmembermr.pakapun16-Jan-13 2:54
AnswerRe: What about puzzle 8 and 24 ?? Pinmembermr.pakapun16-Jan-13 15:20
QuestionAsk! PinmemberPramana Adi Putra10-Jan-13 13:01
AnswerRe: Ask! PinmvpShai Raiten20-Jan-13 1:52
GeneralMy vote of 5 PinmvpKanasz Robert21-Sep-12 1:27
GeneralRe: My vote of 5 PinmvpShai Raiten29-Sep-12 20:38
QuestionA few improvements PinmemberGrimlock10-Aug-12 2:21
I have a few remarks on how you scramble the board when you start a new game. You can do things a lot easier.
First, a small remark on CheckIfSolvable()
Instead of an int, you can use a boolean:
instead of
if (num > num2)
you can do:
if (num > num2)
parity = !parity;
if ((emptyPos / 4) % 2 == 0) parity = !parity;
return parity;
(You don't need to know how many, just whether it's even or odd.)
Second remark:
It is not necessary to keep scrambling if a grid is unsolvable.
You can make it solvable by swapping any 2 blocks.
if (!CheckIfSolvable()) // if, not while!
// Swap position of block x with position of block y
And then scrambling itself.
This is how you randomize an array in one go:
int[] array = Enumerable.Range(0, 16).ToArray();
for (int i = 15; i > 0; i--)
int r = _rnd.Next(0, i);
int temp = array[r];
array[r] = array[i];
array[i] = temp;
You can then assign these positions to the blocks.
otherwise, nice work
SuggestionCool! WPF version of this game PinmemberMember 471378513-Jun-12 2:32
GeneralMy vote of 5 PinmemberAnurag Gandhi12-Mar-12 9:50
AnswerGreat game PinmemberMarsh Joseph19-Feb-12 22:49
GeneralRe: Great game PinmvpShai Raiten19-Feb-12 23:05
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Or the way a butcher sizes up some hanging beef before going to work on it. Except, you're the beef.
And after you give up the money, the guy smiles to himself and slides into a nice black Escalade. He doesn't thank you. But he sure thanks the politicians who made it happen. He helps re-elect them, so they or their families make fortunes.
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Then you must be in Illinois.
That's the state where Chicago machine politicians and their union muscle boys slap taxpayers in the mouth, year after year after year, and all voters do is repeat that line from "Animal House," "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"
It's revealed in some fascinating (and infuriating) Tribune stories by investigative reporter Jason Grotto, who in collaboration with WGN-TV uncovered some amazing city pension scams.
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With respect, a part of marketing is selling the lie. That sounds terrible, but I think it has always been so. You're correct when you say Sony no longer produces DSLRs. And you're certainly correct about what an A3000 actually is. But it has to go somewhere on the shelf. And Sony wants it on the shelf next to the real DSLRs. So, they sell the appropriate lies.
To me, the real shame about it is, that it is so feature poor. I know they did that for the price point, but there is such a thing as too cheap. I think it would have been better if it had been a bit shinier. For the money, the IQ should be great; but I think Sony made too many compromises to meet that price point. I think they did the same thing with the A58. I don't know what it means for Sony's overall direction. Hopefully, nothing. But it does seem unlikely they will ever build another true DSLR.
As for the fate of all DSLRs, I think we'll see a day where the mirror will go away and DSLR will be more a body style than a physical arrangement inside the camera. It could be that Sony is trying to build that mental connection between their mirrorless cameras and the shape of the body, but it could also be that Sony saw the opportunity to build a cute little camera with high sales potential for the holidays.
Either way, at that price, many people will accept it the way it's been marketed. They don't know and don't care to know the difference.
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Re: Montreal has no mayor: Tremblay resigns due to corruption.
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If you look you will see that the mob is well into Canada , there is no law for being in the mob , the difference in Quebec is they didn't hide it.
Sooner or later next province will come out..
The Calabrese Mob Ndrangheta have strong influence in Ontario and this not something that is not unknown , most of the Ndrangheta person exiled themselve to Ontario so you can see that they are present.
We all knew what was going in Quebec and then add all those people bragging having good relations with Mayors and Politicians and people doing what they want.
Some companies owner were even bragging that they were receiving an amount for each contracts , it's not the way to keep it secret.
Then you get all these reunions , parties , event with all of them together , so it's not what makes it go secret.
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Dude, I live in the Niagara Peninsula. Hamilton and Niagara Falls are here. There is more mob activity that goes on here than anyone will ever care to admit.
It isn't, however, heavily involved in politics or construction, at least outside of a very limited scope in Niagara Falls or the few construction companies that are *known* to have mob ties. Beyond that, there's very little political involvement, and the mob doesn't have their hands in the jar of every construction company. Comparatively speaking, there's ziltch in Ontario in that regard compared to what goes on in Quebec. I say this as someone who works in the construction industry.
Like I said, you guys in Quebec were just more corrupt, and on top of that weren't very good at doing it, either.
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So, who's going to win it all?
You'd be hard pressed to find a team that can challenge Texas in the Big 12. USC has the Pac 10 locked down in a big way. The ACC? Clemson? Wisconsin should be extremely tough in the Big 10. The cannabalistic SEC is a toss-up, as usual, but Arkansas has to be at the top unless Tebow can learn to pass and LSU finds a capable replacement for Jamarcus Russell. The Big East winner will be Louisville or West Virginia, but nobody in the conference can play defense so it really doesn't matter...
First of all, teams that should go undefeated. Texas and USC have the easy road to undefeated seasons (fairly weak conferences), which make them immediate contenders and probably favorites for a rematch in the title game, but there are certainly some other teams capable of making it through the season unbeaten. Either one of the Big East powerhouses, if you can call them that, has the ability to run the table, but the BCS probably won't like their schedules any more than the Big 12 or Pac 10. The Big 10 should be a fairly tough place to play this year if Ohio State finds some offensive leaders and Michigan can replace the defensive stars they lost to the NFL, but Wisconsin has almost the entire team returning from a one loss season, which has to make them a favorite. The SEC is too competive to have an undefeated, but if they manage one, that team should be a shoe in for the national title game. The ACC has no clear cut leader, but Clemson has some real talent to work with if the can get consistent play at the QB position.
As far as the major conferences are concerned -
Pac 10 - This is a one horse race. USC all the way. They will be better than they were last year and the losses last year were flukes anyway. PREDICTION - USC
Big 12 - This is a one horse race with a couple of ponies trying - Texas wins it, but A&M and Oklahoma will try to make it interesting. Texas lost five NFL caliber players on defense, but returns an excellent offense minus three lineman and always reloads with their excellent recruiting. Oklahoma has to find a replacement for Adrian Peterson and a good majority of their defense. Allen Patrick filled in well for Peterson, but he's not the horse that Stoops needs at RB to compete. A&M either has a lot of returning talent or just overachieved last year, because they didn't have a single player drafted for the first time in about 30 years. Texas Tech is always a spoiler, but never consistent enough to content for the Big 12 title. PREDICTION - TEXAS
Big 10 - I believe the Big 10 will be a lot of fun to watch this year. Wisconsin is going to be very tough along with Michigan, Ohio State, and possibly Penn State. Michigan is bringing back a strong offense with a lot of star power, if they can stay healthy, but lost six starters from a great defense. Ohio State's defense should be extremely tough, but might be vulnerable up the gut and their offense has to find starters to replace every skill position, except RB, where they should be very good. Penn State is a wild card and good be a very good team or a .500 team. It's hard to call at this point. PREDICTION - WISCONSIN
SEC - As I said earlier, this is a tough place to play. If you can make it through unbeaten or with one loss you should probably be in the national title game, but that's easier said than done. LSU has a ton of talent, but the need to find skill position replacements on offense, especially at QB. Their defense should be one of the top 10 in the country, as usuall. The defending champs have a lot of holes to fill on defense and need Tim Tebow to show that he's more than a gimmick QB. Tennessee has a great passing game, but lost all their starting wide receivers and they either refuse to or they just can't run the ball consistently. They also have to replace key starters on both lines. Arkansas is a one trick pony with Darren McFadden, but it's quite a trick and they have some under-rated talent around him on both sides of the ball. Alabama could suprise a few folks and is a spoiler. Auburn is always tough, but could be sliding and Georgia is in the same boat. South Carolina is a lot like Texas Tech, in that they can beat anyone on any day, but they're too inconsistent to be a real contender. PREDICTION - LSU
Big East - Rutgers was a nice story last year, but I don't expect another year like that from them. Louisville and West Virginia own this conference. Both are returning excellent quarterbacks and offenses, but nobody plays defense around here so it's a little hard to gauge just how good they are. The schedules may be a little weak for the BCS. PREDICTION - WEST VIRGINIA
ACC - How far have the great one's fallen? Miami and Florida State are both just hollow shells of their former selves and nobody really fears playing either program anymore. Boston College and Wake Forest both looked pretty good last year, but I'm afraid they're more like Rutgers than Virginia Tech and Clemson. VT and Clemson are the teams to watch in the ACC. If Tech can keep Ore healthy and keep feeding him the ball their defense should make enough plays to keep them in the hunt. The opposite is true for Clemson. The Tigers should score a ton with their two headed monster at running back, but their defense has to show up and keep the opposition out of the endzone. PREDICTION - CLEMSON
For all you Conference USA, Notre Dame, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt, and WAC fans out there - Let's keep it as real as possible, ok? Especially for you Notre Dame fans, who I'm sure will be rather upset, beating up on the Service Academies and getting beat down by the other national contender really doesn't help your case.
When it's all said and done I believe we get a rematch of the 2005 Rose Bowl, due to the fact the both of their schedules are weak enought for them to go undefeated but will be strong enough to put them at the top of the BCS. The Big 10, SEC, and ACC all make strong arguments, but in the end they don't have any undefeated teams. West Virginia may go undefeated, but should lose in "strength of schedule" to USC and Texas. They'll be this year's Boise State. In the end we get a rematch of a classic from the Rose Bowl a couple of years back with Texas upsetting USC behind the arm and legs of Heisman candidate (and possible winner) Colt McCoy, the lightning quick Jammal Charles, and potential top ten draftee Limas Sweed.
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Asked: 2 years ago
Collecting ALL of the scrolls?
I know it's entirely unnecessary, and I could even get all the trophies without doing it, but I really want to collect all the scrolls in the game, along with everything else. I know that every level has a scroll detailing that level's Trial, and no level has more than three other scrolls beyond that--is there anywhere Online that I can check how many scrolls there are in total in each level, so as to be sure I haven't missed any in levels with less than the maximum? Or perhaps a way in-game to determine that I have them all for a given level? (I already checked both of the walkthroughs on this site, of course)
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From: Gunsm1th 2 years ago
You can try simpoldood's LoS channel
If you look at each vid's Description box, you can count how many Brotherhood Knight scrolls there are.
He didn't list the Trial scrolls in the description though.
I don't know if the Focus Scroll counts since it's an item instead of just a simple scroll.
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Who the hell are you to tell me
What to do, why to do, why bother
Leech in a mask of virtue
Such waste, to ever think of you again
Hey Judas, your Christess was our lord
Hit and run, your will be done
Never sorry, never wrong
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Master passion greed
"Hello. How are you?
Let me explain one thing.
All for her and more for me
Why is it so hard to see?
I see no sense in doing this
Not enough for me
I fuck up everything but let me explain."
Some day you shall flee,
Panting and weak
Master passion greed
All within me gone but pain and hope
Hoping that the pain would fade away
Greed, your master passion
I Feed the mouth that bites me
Mammon, opiate of the masses
The reek of your lies draws flies
Seek her
Seduce her
Tame her
Blame her
Have her
Kill her
Seek her
Seduce her
Tame her
Blame her
Feast on it all
With awakening the tears will begin
To my everlasting shame silence took me
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This song is about Tarja, the former vocalist's husband Marcello. He is the Master Passion Greed, known to Nghtwish as a greedy businessman who made Tarja greedy.
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• Summary: Railroad Tycoon II, based on the award-winning original for PC, steamrolls onto Sega Dreamcast with a boxcar load of new enhancements. Control 40 plus cargo types using over 60 different train engines from around the world and establish transportation empires while outmaneuvering fellow robber barons. Play the Stock Market, manage your resources and watch as your empire grows throughout history. Expand
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1. If you are a sim fan you MUST have this game.
2. Despite the unwieldy user interface, this will have Dreamcast strategy fans drooling. Definitely not just for trainspotters.
3. So incredibly detailed it'll blow you away.
4. All aboard! This game will appeal to sim fans and model-train collectors alike.
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Big and complex with Grand Canyon-esque depth and a boatload of possibilities, this is one sleeping giant you may not want to pass up.
6. Solid gameplay, numerous options, and attention to detail make Railroad Tycoon II an excellent simulation.
7. The game is packed with over 70 scenarios including everything from the original Railroad Tycoon II and their Second Century expansion pack, plus all new scenarios designed exclusively for the Dreamcast.
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1. MarceloG.
Sep 6, 2003
This game is fantastic, but i just don't find new maps in the intenet for it. I accept suggestions.
2. MarD.
Oct 19, 2001
Wow this game rocks!!
3. Dec 2, 2013
I spent a lot of time on RT2 and despite old graphics, it's better that RT3.
That's because RT2 is more challenging than RT3.
But still
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1. Aug 10, 2011
Hynes's voice is refined into an emotive croon. Inventive pop from a bright indie talent.
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With a humble ten songs, Hynes banishes our woes and turns a shoulder to the glut of all too mundane music released this year, reminding us that someone can still make a perfectly influenced yet original collection of songs. This is how a record should be made.
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That image on the cover might be confusing but this is not an album by Antony and the Johnsons. Blood Orange is Dev Hynes, a Texas-born British singer-songwriter. Coastal Grooves is mostly funk and while the opening three songs are totally joyous and, well, funky (especially Sutphin Boulevard and Iâ Full Review » | http://www.metacritic.com/music/coastal-grooves/blood-orange/critic-reviews?dist=positive | dclm-gs1-296640000 |
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Wait—you can transform your life by altering your thoughts? Believe it. Martha Beck on the mood-altering, immunity-bolstering, luck-making impact of changing your mind.
Okay, this time you're serious. You're going on a regimen that will really improve your health—not like that crash diet: You'll snarf down antioxidants; exercise moderately but consistently; balance fats, proteins, and carbs; and pay attention to the way you explain whatever happens to you.
So What's Your Story?
The way she told the story of her bird's disappearance—what researchers have called "explanatory style"—was making her situation much worse. Her explanation of Bonkers' great escape showed the three key markers of pessimism: She described the problem as being personal ("I made it happen; these things always happen to me"), permanent ("Things will never get better"), and pervasive ("My whole life is rotten; I'm such a loser").
On the other hand, I'd noticed that whenever something good happened, she explained it as a fluke. " This cute guy from work asked me out," she said one day. Caroline explained the man's interest in her as his own "insanity" (not personal) and assumed it wouldn't last (not permanent). She stressed that other people's interest never lasted, even though I knew she had been the one to end most romantic relationships (not pervasive).
Why See the Glass Half Empty?
Despite its attendant miseries, there seems to be a useful place for a pessimistic explanatory style. Some people appear to downplay positive aspects of their situations to limit their expectations and help them feel less pressured. They're less likely to feel let down if things go wrong.
Researchers Julie Norem and Nancy Cantor call this defensive pessimism. My friend Julia calls it inoculating yourself against disappointment. In the seven years I've known her, Julia has changed her explanatory style deliberately, gradually, and successfully. Giving up defensive pessimism may invite disappointment in certain situations, but overall, Julia's quality of life and her physical health are benefiting as she turns herself into a thoroughgoing optimist.
This doesn't happen overnight. If you're a habitual pessimist, you know there's nothing worse than those bouncy optimists.
Habitual thought patterns are like ruts in a dirt road. The mind slips into them over and over, and at first, steering down another route is extremely difficult. Stopping habitual thoughts as they flash along these pathways, turning one's mental energy to a new way of thinking, requires an effort that is not merely impressive but heroic.
How to Change Your Mind
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The way to start changing your mind is not to force it or command it but to watch it. Jeffrey Schwartz, MD, who studies obsessive-compulsive disorders, teaches his patients "mindful awareness," a form of meditation that can free them from intrusive thoughts—a technique that has also been shown to help other patients stop a blue mood from becoming full-blown depression. The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
When Caroline did this, her mood changed immediately. Instead of drowning in thoughts like "Bonkers never loved me!" she learned to say, "Oh look, there's a pessimistic explanation." This gave her enough space, enough mental distance, to at least consider a more optimistic story.
If you want to change your explanatory style, start by evaluating where you fall on the spectrum from pessimism to optimism. Researchers do this by analyzing the way people use the "three Ps" (personal, permanent, and pervasive elements) in their descriptions of past events. (You can use this quiz.) Unless your score shows you to be wildly optimistic, consider nudging yourself further toward the bright side.
Staying the Course
The great thing about developing an optimistic explanatory style is that it's self-reinforcing. It increases your hope and expectation that your whole health-and-fitness regimen, mental and physical, will be worth the effort. This frame of mind will help keep you not only happy but healthy; studies have linked it to improved immune function, better lung function, quicker recovery from heart surgery, and a lower risk of heart disease. I've also noticed that it correlates with my clients' ability to achieve all their goals. Changing your thought diet—your way of thinking—may be the best thing you can do to stay on your food diet.
I suspect this is why Caroline, like many of my clients who successfully change their explanatory patterns, has experienced an unexpected side effect: She's in the best shape of her life. She's managed to drop a pattern of emotional eating, stay on an effective workout schedule, and lose five pounds. Even more dramatic are the changes in her posture and facial expression, which have gone from cringing and miserable to alert and interested, making her much more attractive and approachable. Not only does her mood improve every time she observes and alters a negative explanation rather than getting mired in it, but her body appears to love the change.
And I suggest that Caroline can expect this trend to continue. Is this an optimistic explanation? You bet. I'm sticking to my diet.
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- Suspected that killing is related to drug gangs
- Victim named locally as Hani Abou El Kheir
A witness described today how a mob wielding knives and swords plunged a blade "into the ribs" of a teenager killed in Pimlico before running off "as if nothing had happened."
The witness also told how the hooded gang "jumped on him like a pack of dogs" before leaving the scene.
The boy fell to the ground and pleaded “don’t do it” before he was repeatedly stabbed by the gang, who were wearing hoods and bandanas, according to witnesses.
The boy, named locally as 16-year-old Hani Abou El Kheir, was treated at the scene in Pimlico by paramedics but died a few hours later at a south London hospital.
His mother was said to have been held back at a police cordon while her son was bleeding to death.
Tonight it emerged the teenager had become known to drugs intervention workers only last week. Hani was on the "periphery of having some sort of contact with gangs or activity such as drugs", a council drugs worker said.
His name had been passed to drugs workers and he was due to get a visit from outreach workers if it re-emerged.
The teenager's name had been flagged up to drugs workers on Wednesday, Mr Savizon, 34, said. "He wasn't deemed significant in terms of being in a gang."
Mr Savizon added: "It was more of a bookmark just to see where this young person was. Everything I have heard about him... he was a very timid young man."
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "It is heart breaking to see the life of another young Londoner taken so tragically.
"My thoughts are with this young man's family at such a terrible moment.
"This horrific incident serves as an unwelcome reminder that although violent crime in the capital continues to fall, we must continue our fight to tackle youth violence and get knives off our streets."
Two witnesses described how the victim was running for his life when he tripped. He was then attacked by around 15 teenagers who stabbed and kicked him before leaving him for dead.
Scotland Yard said officers were called to reports of a stabbing in Lupus Street at 6.50pm. The boy was taken to a south London hospital but died at 8.45pm. He was the first teenager to be murdered in London this year.
Lupus Street remained cordoned off today as forensic experts examined the scene. The street, close to Pimlico Underground station, is yards from the gang-plagued Churchill Gardens estate and is home to Pimlico Academy.
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Friends of the teenager, who lived on the estate, say he was a former pupil at the Academy.
One said he wanted to go to college. “He was a really calm, cool guy. I don’t know of any reason that anyone would have beef with him.”
Jerry Collins, Hani's former principal said: "The pupils and staff at Pimlico Academy were deeply saddened to hear about the death of our former student Hani Abou El-Kheir and extend our deepest sympathies to his family.
Another witness 22-year-old Teodor Watson, who lives in a tower block overlooking the scene, said he heard what sounded like a brawl. “I came outside just seconds after it happened because I heard a lot of commotion. I saw the victim standing and holding his stomach and about three or four young blokes running down the street.
“He was reeling and swaying and stumbling for about 20 seconds. He had his head down and was holding his stomach and then fell. People started gathering and calling the ambulance. He was white all the other boys who were running down street were white. They took a long time to stabilise him maybe 20 minutes, half an hour.
“They were giving him CPR. You could see the wound from up here. The wound was huge, I live on the fifth floor and I could see it from here. “
He said the victim was wearing jeans and a black waterproof jacket.
“He said they were carrying knives, some of them with wide swords. He said the victim was screaming and trying to get away,” he said.
There were reports that some members of the gang turned up at the estate in a Mini car.
Steve Russell, 46, a project manager who was visiting a friend on the Churchill Gardens Estate next to where the murder happened, said he saw the victim’s mother run up to the cordon as paramedics treated her son.
He said: “She was screaming with grief and shouting her son’s name but they wouldn’t let her through.“
The Churchill Gardens estate has become a drugs blackspot in the last year.
The area's problem with illegal substances is new, and it does not have a drugs background.
The murder comes after a series of incidents linked to gang crime on the Churchill Gardens estate.
Last year aspiring football coach Oliver Husseini, 17, was left fighting for his life after being stabbed in nearby Gloucester Street.
Just weeks later gunshots were heard on the estate.
The gangs issue will be top of the agenda at a meeting between Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and local councillors today.
Cllr Nickie Aiken, Westminster Council’s spokeswoman on community protection, said: “Once more we have seen the tragic blight that knife culture has inflicted on the capital.
“Our thoughts are with the family of this teenager and we will offer whatever help we can.”
Police said there had been no arrests.
Anyone with information should call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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2013 Record: 73-89 (Finished 4th in NL East)
The Philadelphia Phillies had hoped that 2013 would be the year that they returned to their glory. They hoped that the 2013 season would be the year that they regained their crown as NL East champions. However, a year full of injuries and disappointment has forced the Phillies to take a new look at the team.
Guaranteed Contracts
Cole Hamels, SP: $118.5MM through 2018
Ryan Howard, 1B: $85MM through 2016
Chase Utley, 2B: $27MM through 2015
Jimmy Rollins, SS: $11MM through 2014
Jonathan Papelbon, RP: $26MM through 2015
Mike Adams, RP: $7MM through 2014
Cliff Lee, SP: $62.5MM through 2015
Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez, SP: $12MM through 2016
Arbitration Eligible Players (Probable return or not)
Kyle Kendrick, SP (Likely)
Antonio Bastardo, RP (Likely)
John Mayberry Jr., OF/1B (Likely)
Ben Revere, OF (Likely)
Kevin Frandsen, INF (Likely)
Free Agents
Roy Halladay, SP
Carlos Ruiz, C
Having Ryan Howard and Chase Utley back in the beginning of the 2013 season had the Phillies management hopeful for a successful season. They had filled the hole at third base with Michael Young, and had fixed the bullpen issue by signing Mike Adams in the off-season. They even got Ben Revere in a trade, so that they finally had a true lead-off hitter. However, all these plans crumbled when multiple injuries occurred throughout the season to most of these players; Howard missed half the season with a knee injury, Utley was out for a month with an oblique injury, Revere missed half of the season with a broken foot, Delmon Young missed the beginning of the season because of surgery on his ankle, and Mike Adams didn’t play for most of the season due to three tears in his shoulder. The real issue for the Phillies was that they did not have the depth to replace these injured players, and that led to their horrific 73-89 season.
The Phillies have an aging team and their farm system is one of the weakest in the MLB. They will have three players making over $20 million (Ryan Howard, Cliff Lee, and Cole Hamels) and 5 players making over $10 million that are 33 years or older (Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Jonathan Papelbon, Ryan Howard, and Cliff Lee) Add those contracts to the 7 million that is owed to Mike Adams, that equals $96 million the Phillies are paying players that are over the age of 33. There’s nothing the Phillies can do about those contracts but regret and endure. The real issue with this is the contracts are a restriction for the team this off-season. Having that much guaranteed money on the books makes it hard to improve the roster. Even though Roy Halladay and his $20 million salary are coming off the books after this season, the Phillies still have little room to spend this off-season if they plan on staying under the luxury tax. The team in the past has tried to stay under this tax, and will try this year, but if they really want to succeed then they will have to exceed the tax threshold.
The Phillies have numerous holes to fill, and all eyes are on General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. to fix them. The team has a vacancy in right field, third base is potentially open (based on whether Amaro is confident in Cody Asche), the catcher’s position is in question as is the dependability of the bullpen.
The Phillies bullpen had an ERA of 4.19, the fourth worst in the MLB behind the Astros, Rockies, and Mariners. It also had the highest BB/9 rate in the MLB at 4.30. If they plan on becoming contenders, they need to make some free agent signings to make the bullpen situation more stable. Jake Diekman, Mike Adams, and Jonathan Papelbon are all but locks to make the team, and Antonio Bastardo is likely to return after posting a 2.32 ERA in 48 appearances, even after he was suspended for PEDs. One or two spots will be filled by a combination of B.J. Rosenberg, Mike Stutes, Joe Savery, or Justin De Fratus. That leaves about one or two spots left to fill, leaving just enough room for an improvement. There are multiple combinations the Phillies could use to complete their bullpen, so predicting who they are going to sign is almost impossible. Obtaining a player that was successful but suffered injuries like Ryan Madson, Jesse Crain, or Eric O’Flaherty isn’t out of the question. The other option would be to pay more money for a more guaranteed guy like the San Francisco Giant’s reliever Javier Lopez or the Indian’s Matt Albers. The Phillies could try to trade for a reliever like David Robertson, but the price will most likely be too steep in prospects for the Phillies to give up. However, they will have to do something this off-season to fix this bullpen or else their hopes for a playoff team are as good as gone.
The team will have to keep in mind that whatever money they spend on the bullpen will cut into the amount that they have for getting an impact bat and starting pitcher. The top outfield bats on the market are Jacoby Ellsbury, Shin-Shoo Choo, and Carlos Beltran. Ellsbury and Choo are both left-handed bats, which the Phillies have an abundance of, and are likely to be asking for big bucks considering their agent is Scott Boras. Beltran, however, could be a different case. He plays right field, is a switch hitter, and will not cost the Phillies a long-term contract since he is 37 years old. Yes, I know you’re saying “But they already are overpaying older players on their team.” This case is different, as Beltran would not be signed to the 4+ year contracts the other players were signed to. Beltran would be a perfect fit for the Phillies lineup, since they haven’t had someone to protect Ryan Howard since Jayson Werth left in 2011. If they could sign him to a contract similar to the one Torii Hunter agreed to with the Detroit Tigers, then the Phillies will have solved their right field problem. They could sign the 33-year-old Nelson Cruz, but he may want more years and money than the Phillies would want to give up. Other solutions the Phillies could use is have a platoon in right field between a veteran and a young player in Darin Ruf (and I use the word “young” loosely.) Platooning Ruf and another player like Corey Hart, Mike Morse, or Chris Young could work like wonders for the team. They did it with Geoff Jenkins and Jayson Werth in 2008, and it turned out perfectly. However, there are still many questions surrounding the outfield.
Domonic Brown and Ben Revere should be growing concerns on the Phillies radar this off-season. Ben Revere is recovering from a left foot injury, and his progress needs to be monitored to see if he is able to play next season. If not, the team must have a suitable backup not named John Mayberry Jr. to replace him during the start of the season. Domonic Brown is the bigger concern of the two players. On the grand scheme of things Domonic looks as though he was a dominant force for the Phillies. He actually was for most of the season. He had a .272 batting average with 27 home runs and 83 runs batted in for the entire season. However, looks can be deceiving. Brown during the first half of the season played 94 games and hit .273, with 23 home runs and 67 runs batted in. During the second half Brown played 44 games and hit .271 with only 4 home runs and 16 runs batted in. Brown silently struggled during the second half and that should be a cause for alarm. Could the Phillies possibly use him as a trading chip for a bigger right-handed bat like Mark Trumbo or package him with Cody Asche, Jesse Biddle, and whatever prospects are left in the system to get someone like Giancarlo Stanton or Ryan Braun? It would create an opening for superstar prospect Maikel Franco at third base, but the likelihood of this situation occurring is very small. In any case the Phillies have to keep an open mind to this option if the occasion arises. During this off-season an outfield bat should be the top priority for the Phillies, whose offense was ranked as the fourth worst behind only the Miami Marlins and both Chicago teams.
The starting pitching for this franchise has taken a turn for the worst. It went from the four aces to the two aces and three question marks. The Phillies only have two starting pitchers locked in the rotation and those are Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee. They have three spots open, one most likely filled by Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez, and another potentially filled by Kyle Kendrick, although somebody like Jason Vargas could be a suitable replacement. Roy Halladay is doubtful to come back due to his struggles this season. The Phillies need to find a starter that can sufficiently be a #3 pitcher. Masahiro Tanaka is the main guy to pursue this off-season, however the Phillies have been very hesitant with international free agents and would not want to pay the huge bill just to negotiate with the man. Josh Johnson is an interesting suggestion if he can prove that he is healthy, although the question marks attached to him are abundant. Another option could be to sign Bartolo Colon to a one-year deal, but he has recently stated he wants to stay with Oakland and it is questionable he will keep up his production next year at 41 years of age. The two pitchers that the Phillies should mainly focus on are Ubaldo Jiminez and Ervin Santana. Both had tremendous seasons with Jiminez going 13-9, 3.30 ERA, and having 193 strikeouts and Santana going 9-10, 3.24 ERA, and posting a WHIP of 1.14. Both would be a major upgrade to the rotation, and would make the uncertainties of the #4 and 5 spots less important. They could easily be signed to deals similar to C.J. Wilson and Anibal Sanchez’s contracts. No matter whom the team signs to pitch for them, the question remains on who will be the team’s catcher?
Carlos Ruiz will likely stay with the team he has been with his whole career, and he should. In a previous article we talked about the impact Carlos has had on the Phillies over his career, and will let you have a better idea of what he is worth. He will probably get a two or three-year deal worth around $21 million. If they Phillies were to get real tricky this off-season, they could even trade for a power catcher like Wilin Rosario, who was rumored to be on the trading block if the Rockies decide to pursue Mike Napoli. You could even argue that the Phillies should sign Napoli himself due to his impact bat, and that may very well be the case. However, “Chooch” is the most likely out of all the solutions, as the Phillies won’t want to take the risk with Napoli’s hip injury and their hesitation to trade anymore prospects away.
An interesting fact about this off-season is that the Phillies don’t have to worry about players given qualified offers by their previous teams. Usually when a team signs a player that was given a qualified offer, they have to give up their first-round pick as compensation to the team who lost the player. This makes many teams hesitant to sign players during the off-season, which eventually drops the player’s asking price. An example of this is from last year when Kyle Lohse, who was projected to get a deal near five years with $70-75 million, only got $33 million over three years. Also, that first round pick could end up being a superstar in the next few years, as seen in the case of Michael Wacha being the compensatory pick for the Cardinals when the Angels signed Albert Pujols. The Phillies however, do not have to worry about this. Since they have a top ten pick (they have the seventh overall) then they only have to give up a second round compensatory pick to the other team. It’s still a hurtful price, but it gives the Phillies an edge over other teams to sign a player that is connected to qualifying offers like Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury, or Ubaldo Jiminez.
If the Phillies do make the right amount of moves this off-season, they could be a contender to win the NL East. However, making all of these moves will have its risks, and the Phillies must be able to take these risks if they want to succeed. They must get a legitimate outfield bat, above-average pitcher, and upgrade the bullpen. They have the edge of the protected first-round pick, and should use that advantage to sign a legitimate free agent. Out of all of these options, one thing is for certain Ruben Amaro must act. If Amaro stands pat similarly to the last few years, then the Phillies will not have a chance to compete in 2014.
All things said and done, here are the two projected opening day lineups for the Phillies next season (one is the likely situation and the other is my prediction):
Most Likely Lineup:
CFBen Revere
2BChase Utley
RFCarlos Beltran
1BRyan Howard
LFDomonic Brown
CCarlos Ruiz
SSJimmy Rollins
3BCody Asche
My Lineup:
CFBen Revere
2BChase Utley
RFCarlos Beltran
1BRyan Howard
LFMark Trumbo
CCarlos Ruiz
3BMaikel Franco
SSJimmy Rollins
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Cops: Second Car Involved in Hogan Crash
8/29/2007 11:08 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
TMZ has learned that Florida police have interviewed the driver of a silver Dodge Viper that may have contributed to Nick Hogan's horrific late night crash earlier this week, that left Nick's friend seriously injured.
Nick Hogan, Dodge Viper
Sources tell TMZ that several witnesses can place the Viper near the crash scene moments before and after the collision, but it may not be the only vehicle involved.
A rep for Clearwater Police Dept. tells TMZ, "We suspect there may be other witnesses and we encourage them to come forward."
Nick's father, Hulk Hogan, happens to own a silver Viper, but cops made it very clear that the wrestler is not a suspect.
As for Nick's passenger, TMZ has learned that 22-year-old John Graziano is still in "very serious condition." Sources inside the hospital tell us, "John's condition hasn't changed since he arrived."
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2391 days ago
janet barker
Nick, It's a hard way to learn about being reckless. Praying for your friend John. Praying for u 2 as I'm sure u r racked with guilt.
2391 days ago
Who cares if you're first if you don't have anything to say? Idiot.
If it was the Hulk's Viper, that would explain how he was on the scene so quickly.
2391 days ago
As usual, the plot thickens.
2391 days ago
janet barker
#2 I was thinking the same thing. If it was his viper,SHAME ON HIM.If he was driving and at the accident,SHAME SHAME SHAME on HUCK HOGAN.
2391 days ago
Jen Jen
This is getting more and more ridiculous! The rumor I heard on the radio on the way to work this morning was that he was racing this so called viper. Either way its a shame, and it seems like this could have been prevented- by someone, be it either his parents, or the state/law if they had taken his license away from him after the other numerous speeding offenses. If this "friend" of his dies will he be charged? He was knowingly speeding and he should have to pay the consecuences for that.
2391 days ago
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as soon as they mentioned the sraightaway down court I knew he was racing. But all the danger is really kind of attractive on him, he's growing up quite nicely. i am praying for a healthy recovery for John Graziano. GODSPEED GODSPEED GODSPEED GODSPEED
2391 days ago
name withheld
Oh jesus, it wasn't daddys viper you fools. Those cars are practically a dime a dozen in Florida.
2391 days ago
damn it just gets juicer everyday. whats next?
2391 days ago
Perez Hilton
Face it, Nick is a bit feeble minded. He couldn't even graduate high school in Florida. His driving record shows he is not capable of making prudent decisions. What are Mr. & Mrs. Hulk gonna do with Nicky Retardo is a valid question.
2391 days ago
#8 - I lived in the Tampa Bay area for 8 years, and I don't recall seeing too many Vipers. Do you live there?
2391 days ago
Dawn Day
What a terrible WAKE UP CALL!!! I guess when Hulk took Nick to watch those grusome videos of what could happen it just didn't sink in. It's a shame that a war veteran had to be the example!
2391 days ago
there are no cooincidences. how do you think he got there so fast? it's not rocket science, people.
2391 days ago
as good as tmz is, i would have thought they could get some kind of info on the injuries of one or both boys. i am sure you are trying tmz. good luck with that.
2391 days ago
If it was Hulk, that would explain how he was on the scene so quickly. If it wasn't, its a bit curios that he got to the scene so quickly. I'm sure there were other cars involved. These drag racing wannabe idiots think its cool to soup up their Toyotas and then take them drag racing on public streets. The police have to take Nick's licence away before he kills someone. And his parents should assume some responsiblity. C'mon a 17 year old with a driving record bigger than most 40 year olds? he's only been a licensed driver for a year!! Why would his parents allow him to drive such a car with his record?
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Jordan Sand on Urban Nostalgia
by Maeri Megumi
Posted: April 1, 2008
Sand presented the changing landscape of Tokyo, particularly in relation to the idea of preserving memory, from the 1960s to the end of the 20th century. As he explained, because Tokyo experienced several major destructions in the 20th century such as the Kantô earthquake in 1923, the massive air raid during World War II, as well as the redevelopment in preparation for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games, actual historical remembrances of the past must have been quite diminished. Despite the loss, however, what is often called the Edo-boom began in the mid-1980s, and there has been growing enthusiasm in the rediscovery and preservation of the history of Tokyo, not only of the time period called Edo but also of the pre-industrial modern period.
Categorizing property rights into five types – public, commons, community, appropriation, and heritage, Sand effectively provided examples of each type with illuminating pictures and explanations. For instance, the adaptation of the concept of "public space" (which was absent in pre World War II Japan) induced the neologism of hiroba (public space) and the creation of public spaces such as Shinjuku Nishiguchi Hiroba in 1965 in Tokyo. Also, several leading architects' attempts to develop Tokyo in different ways with different aims showed the changing landscape of Tokyo from the city of politics to the city of commerce, and of imagination. The period from the bubble economy in the late 1980s to the early 1990s produced numerous high-rise buildings and triggered a marked increase in the use of steel instead of wood in construction. At the same time, however, Sand pointed out that grassroots activities were begun by intellectuals as well as ordinary city-dwellers to preserve the history of futsû no (ordinary) Tokyo, employing various means, such as local magazines, preservation movements, and the development of new kinds of museums.
Sand emphasized that the notion of "nostalgia" should not be treated merely as a subordinate factor when talking about reinvention/rediscovery of history, particularly in recent times. As he showed clearly, the nostalgic longing for the past is a powerful motivation and a driving force in the current (post-modern) movement of historicizing of the past.
In relation to the importance of "nostalgia," Sand also touched upon the issue of the changing function of museums. The didactic role of museums to exhibit hard, unchanging "past," "truth," or "authenticity" is changing to include a more interactive space. The museums today strive to offer new environments where people can re-live, or imagine the past, which is indicative of a paradigm shift in the meaning of what exactly a museum is.
Sand's talk was fascinating and refreshing as he spotlighted a softer side of reinvention and appropriation of history in comparison with the more capitalistic approach to the use of "history" as grand narratives of nationalism, myth-making, or commercialism. While he focused on the particular examples of Tokyo, the changing roles and meanings of "memory" are definitely applicable to much wider contexts outside of Japan as well.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A measure to shore up New Mexico's unemployment compensation program was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Susana Martinez.
A new system will be implemented in 2015 for automatically setting the tax rates paid by about 45,000 businesses to finance the state-run program that provides benefits to unemployed workers. Taxes will remain unchanged for employers through next year.
"There is no other bill that will so positively, effectively and quickly help business like this one does," said Terri Cole, CEO of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. "The bill insures long-term fund solvency, avoids massive and arbitrary increases, and eliminates political interference."
In the past, the Legislature and governors have often dictated the range of rates that would be paid by employers - reducing the charges when the unemployment fund was flush with cash during good economic times and later raising tax rates when the fund started to run out of money.
There was a balance of $30 million in the unemployment fund as of Tuesday, and it's estimated that should reach about $142 million by the end of 2014.
The fund had a balance of more than $500 million several years ago but that was drained after the economy soured and payments increased for unemployment benefits. Unemployment has since leveled off in the state. The jobless rate was 6.8 percent in February, down from 7 percent a year ago.
Martinez said the new rate-setting system will provide more fairness for business owners.
Rates vary for businesses, depending on their employment history. The new system will require businesses to pay a higher tax rate if they have a heavy turnover in their workforce and unemployment claims exceed the employer's payments into the fund.
Currently, businesses with the worst unemployment experience hit a maximum contribution rate and other businesses end up subsidizing them by paying more to keep the program solvent.
In 2011, Martinez used her line-item veto power to reject a $128 million tax increase on business that the Legislature approved to improve the unemployment program's finances. The state Supreme Court later invalidated the governor's action, but lawmakers and Martinez agreed last year to a smaller increase for employers to keep the fund solvent while an advisory group considered possible changes in the rate-setting system.
The latest plan for shoring up the unemployment fund passed the House and Senate this year with strong bipartisan support.
"Politicians in Santa Fe shouldn't be using an unfair and arbitrary rate structure to change costs on businesses year after year,' the governor said in a statement. "That's not predictable, and it's far too political. With these reforms, we are taking the politics out of the management of the unemployment fund and making it a true insurance system that is more predictable and fair for New Mexico small businesses."
Also signed into law Wednesday were measures to:
- Increase the civil penalties for fraudulently causing the overpayment of unemployment benefits.
- Allow the state Game Commission to suspend or revoke someone's hunting or fishing privileges for longer than three years, which is the current limit. Supporters say the tougher penalties will help crack down on poachers who shoot elk and other big game for the heads and antlers, leaving the meat to rot.
- Permit the serving of wine and beer to guests at a bed-and-breakfast. Owners and operators will be able to buy a low-cost liquor license for serving limited amounts of wine and beer with food.
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A shooting Thursday night on South Bend's west side sent a teenager to the hospital.
It happened around 9:15 in the 700 block of South Falcon Street, that's near Harrison Park. Police say a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg.
Captain Phil Trent tells NewsCenter 16 the victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
No word yet on the circumstances surrounding the shooting. But Captain Trent says police are looking for a dark Chevy Impala that could belong to the suspect or suspects involved in the crime.
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Indonesia to raise fuel prices despite protests
Friday - 6/21/2013, 10:20pm ET
Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia announced a fuel price increase of up to 44 percent late Friday, reducing the costly subsidies that have kept pump prices in Southeast Asia's largest economy among the world's lowest.
The subsidies are a significant drain on the country's budget. The budget approved Monday sets the 2013 fuel subsidy at $20.2 billion -- nearly 4 percent of total economic output.
The increase -- the first in five years -- will raise the price of gasoline from about 45 cents to 65 cents per liter and diesel fuel from 45 cents to 55 cents.
Policemen were deployed to guard fuel stations across the country, where cars and motorbikes lined up Friday evening to buy fuel under the old prices. The government has ordered all stations to be open around the clock.
Aviliani, a noted economist, applauded the move, saying the subsidies have put pressure on the country's trade and current account deficits as well as local currency.
She urged the government to control prices of staple goods and the value of the rupiah currency.
To try to minimize protests, 10 mobile phone companies plan to text about 240 million cellular users to explain why fuel prices are being increased, said Gatot S. Dewabroto, the spokesman at the Ministry of Communication and Information.
He quoted one message as saying: "Fuel subsidies are not well targeted. They are being enjoyed by the rich and have created injustice."
A public information bulletin will be published in newspapers laying out the government's arguments, said Dewabroto. It notes, for example, that Indonesia's fuel prices are lower than seven neighboring Southeast Asian countries and explains that the country once was able to produce enough oil to satisfy domestic consumers but now must import fuel to meet skyrocketing demand as millions of news cars and motorbikes hit the streets each year.
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The End of an American Dream is a collaboration between 71-year-old Lee "Scratch" Perry and Steve Marshall in which Marshall has done all the heavy lifting. It is he who composed the music and played all the instruments on the disc. Those instrumental tracks are full of samples and other computer-generated sounds, including everything from actual musical instruments to traffic noise, all arranged into a rhythmic, percussive whole. Perry's role is restricted to what appear to be free-associative vocal improvisations over those tracks. Marshall adds echo effects and sometimes juxtaposes two or three Perry vocals within a track, but the legendary Jamaican artist seems to have just come into the studio and let fly, leaving it to Marshall to integrate his musical musings into coherent songs, more or less. Perry repeats words from one track to the next, and although titles have been assigned to those tracks, sometimes it seems like one title would have worked better on another track than on the one to which it has been affixed. The opening song, for example, is called "Disarm," but Perry spends most of it reciting the names of different countries; it's the final track, "Disco Cats," that finds him using the word "disarm" over and over. He seems to just sing whatever comes into his head, and sometimes that means borrowing words from other songs. For example, "I Will Be There" features lyrics from Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" and Bob Marley's "Punky Reggae Party." Despite its foreboding title, The End of an American Dream is not one of Perry's more ambitious efforts; it doesn't sound like it took him more than one session to record his contributions to Marshall's music, and it doesn't sound like he brought any advance preparation to that session.
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First of all, let me show you guys the equation in question.
CFL Equation
In this equation S, V, and t are known constants. CFL is also known. We have an initial value for D, and we have no idea what k is.
What I need to do is find ideal values for both D and k that would minimize the residuals squared of a calculated CFL and a measured CFL. Using residuals squared is just a way for me to check if they're the best possible values, but it's fine if there's another way to go about this that uses some other method.
The residual squared is just the absolute value of the difference between the calculated and measured CFLs, which is then squared. The lower the residual squared, the better the fit we have. So I need the smallest possible residual squared resulting from putting both k and D into the equation. That'll result in a calculated CFL, which I can then compare to a measured CFL, allowing me to calculate the residual squared.
My first idea for how to do this, since I'm not sure how to use Excel equations, was to fix the value of D (since we have an initial starting value to work from) and then vary through different values of k, putting them into the equation to find a calculated CFL, and comparing that to the measured to find the residuals squared, until I find one that results with the smallest residuals squared. Then I fix k at that ideal value, and vary D until I find the smallest residual there as well. Then I fix D again, and go back to varying k. My idea was that I could keep bouncing back and forth like that until both D and k were within a certain percentage of their previous values. I assumed it would reach some sort of equilibrium with this method
However, the numbers just go crazy, and end up either going to zero or going to infinity. So I need to rework my process. Which is where you guys come in!
How would you go about finding the most ideal values for both D and k, which would result in a calculated CFL closest to the measured one, assuming you are given values for every variable above apart from k? Remember to factor in that the value of D given initially is simply a starting place to work from, and is not the most ideal value.
I've been working on this program for a long time (at least a month), and I'm just stuck as hell and desperate. I was hoping you guys could help me out.
Here are some initial values to work with:
S = 19.634954
V = 12.271846
D (initial) = 0.01016482
CFL (measured) = 0.401
t = 4
k = ?
Thank you for any ideas you might have.
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As Dean said, your system has two unknowns, and in the general case an infinite number of solutions (different pairs of (D,k)). By fixing D, CFL is a continuous function of k, and as such, you should be able to find a k that gives the CFL you measured (within some accuracy). For this problem (i.e., finding k given CFL) you can use the Goal Seek tool. Here is how:
1) Problem setup: Use the name of the variables to name the cells in which you input their values (Go to Formulas--> Defined Names --> Define Name and give some the name of each variable to a cell). Then input the values of your parameters in these cells, (give k an arbitrary value, eg = 1), and input the formula in cell CFL like: =(S/V)*SQRT(D/k)*(ERF(SQRT(k*t))+SQRT(k*t/PI())*EXP(-k*t)) Again, note that S,V,D,k and t are defined as named ranges.
2) Problem Solution: Go To Data --> Data Tools --> What-If Analysis --> Goal Seek and enter the following parameters: Set Cell: CFL To value: 0.401 By changing cell: k
This gave me k=0.151759378, which results in CFL = 0.401261265054823.
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I hope this helps?
Edit: Finding some solution pairs using VBA:
1) Place the measured CFL value in a cell (I chose H2).
2) Replace named ranges k, D and CFL. I used rngK, rngD and rngCFL, each one starting from row 2 till row 20.
3) Fill down rngD with a step (I took 0.01) using the formula =INDEX(rngD,ROW()-ROW($C$2))+0.01. The first entry of rngD is in cell C2 and has the value 0.01016482. The formula is copied down to all other cells in the range.
4) Fill down rngK with some initial values (I took =1).
5) Fill down the rngCFL range with the formula =(S/V)*SQRT(INDEX(rngD,ROW()-ROW($G$1))/INDEX(rngK,ROW()-ROW($G$1)))*(ERF(SQRT(INDEX(rngK,ROW()-ROW($G$1))*t))+SQRT(INDEX(rngK,ROW()-ROW($G$1))*t/PI())*EXP(-INDEX(rngK,ROW()-ROW($G$1))*t)). I use the ROW() and INDEX() functions to refer to the Range element I need.
6) Finally, use this code in a sub:
Dim iCnt As Long
For iCnt = 1 To Range("rngk").Count
Range("rngCFL")(iCnt).GoalSeek goal:=Range("H2"), changingCell:=Range("rngK")(iCnt)
Next iCnt
The above generates 19 pairs (D,k) that give the measured CFL value.
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Is there a way to automate this process using code? – TheTreeMan May 29 '13 at 16:27
I added an edit that shows how to automate using code. – Ioannis May 30 '13 at 3:02
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You can't solve for two unknown variables in a 1 formula system. However if I take D as given then you have a 1 unknown/1 formula system.
I just simply used 1 column as a guess of k (for me column B. I used another column to represent the calculated CFL with the guessed k (for me column C). I have another column that has either a 1 or -1 (for me column D). Lastly I have a column that represents the absolute value by which I want to increment my guess.
I named cells with the given values of the variables to make it easier to use them.
I started with a guess of k=1. Here are my formulas in my first row which was 7.
C7 =(s/v)*(d/B7)^0.5*(ERF(((B7*t)^0.5))+((B7*t)/PI())^0.5*EXP(-1*B7*t))
nothing in D7 or E7
in row 8: B8=B7+E8+D8 C8==(s/v)*(d/B8)^0.5*(ERF(((B8*t)^0.5))+((B8*t)/PI())^0.5*EXP(-1*B8*t)) D8=1 E8=.01
in row 9 the B and C column is just copied down but D and E are as follows D9==IF(C9>cfl,1,-1) E9==IF(D9=D8,E8,E8/10)
Once you get those in you can just copy down however many rows you want.
What this does is every time the residual of the CFL switches signs the increment's sign will also flip. Additionally, the absolute value of the increment will also shrink by a factor of 10 to give more precision as it goes.
This is by no means the best way to solve your problem but it is a way.
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This is actually a fantastic way of going about it. I think I'll make an attempt using this method if the solver route doesn't pan out! – TheTreeMan May 29 '13 at 16:28
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I didn't go on a trip.
I didn't discover some foreign substance that could change the world.
I didn't find true love. [Well, I did, but... -sighs- Shika-kun doesn't like me that way. -Pouts-
And I wasn't doin' anything of particular interest.
Nope, I just got lazy. -Grin- And didn't feel like writin'.
But I was observing. I observed stories of those who reviewed them, those who wrote their own.
Some authors need to stick to reading. But, I'm strayin' from the main point here.
I noticed that not a day goes by that this story isn't favorited, or I'm put on someone's author alert or favorite authors, occasionally, I'll even see this story put on someone's alert even though it's completed.
It makes me feel like I actually have talent.
-Mutters- Even though this story is made in a fit of boredom.
Anyways! I have the sequel to this... almost done.
It shall be called "The Dating Game"!
... Until I come up with a better name.
Y'all wanna know what took up most of my time? My site, Fated Love [I think there's a link in my profile. and Shinobi Legends. Dunno what that is?
Go to:
http // shinobilegends . com / referral . php ? r MirageofMemories
There. Spaces go bye-bye, 'course. It is very addicting. It's a Naruto fan-site type-thingy.
Oh, and I suppose I should give yall a preview:
Once upon a time, in a small village named Konoha lived a couple. They weren't exactly traditional, they weren't practical and they weren't by any means normal. After all, how normal could it be falling for what was once your teammate and fiancé? But some people would call them cute and that they complimented each other.
She was happy, could be hyper, cheerful and an all around perky person.
Whereas he was cool, calm, collected and if you ask her, she would say he had—
"A stick up your butt! You need to remove the friggin' stick from your butt, Neji Hyuga! Have you no sense in adventure at all?"
"Tenten, your sense in adventure is cutting Hanabi-sama's hair and dying it blue while she's asleep." Tenten crossed her arms. "Hey, that brat asked for it. She broke my favorite kunai!" Neji let out a heavy sigh. "I thought you and Hanabi-sama had a truce."
"Yeah, well that was before she broke my kunai. And if you ask me, the haircuts an improvement and the blue hair brings out her eyes." Neji sighed, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. "Tenten, you can't act so reckless here. The elders allowed our relationship to slow considerably and let you stay here as my live-in girlfriend, but I wouldn't push your luck." At Tenten's sigh, he looked at her and backed her up against a wall. "I don't want you to be kicked out of the Hyuga Compound. Or worse, get really pissed off and end up blowing up the Hyuga Compound." Tenten looked appalled. "Neji Hyuga! I would never blow up the Hyuga Compound!" There was a short pause as Tenten thought about it. "Besides, you Hyugas have your own mini-town and I'd have to find someway to blow it all up and I'd have to find some way around your and your family's annoying byakugan… and, quite frankly, I don't want to deal that."
Keep in mind, that this is a rough-rough-rough draft. It may not be the same in the final. Anyways... eh...
-Shikamaru Nara's Fangirl- | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3448530/15/To-Be-Or-Not-To-Be | dclm-gs1-297720000 |
0.186862 | <urn:uuid:bbe8d469-7d75-49dc-8093-1a077a82d2dc> | en | 0.992351 | (A/N: This short story's a sort of prequel to another fanfic idea I have which is in the planning stages and won't be up for a while yet. It's not really a prequel, but the incident in this story becomes important in the fanfic itself at some point. The story will take place three years after this one. Anyway. Oblivion doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Bethesda, you know how it goes.)
"Mother!" the nine-year-old boy admonished. The needle glinted in the gloom as he pushed it through the papery skin beneath in neat, uniform stitches. "If I didn't find you, you could have bled to death!"
"I know, sweetie," murmured his pale mother. Her dark eyelashes rested against her pale skin. Her son's hands felt warm on her chilled arm, and she couldn't stop shaking.
"We need more thread," said the boy, tying it off. He grabbed a stained rag and wiped off the last of the blood. "There, done."
"Thank you, Magnus," his mother murmured. She looked down at her forearms. Twin scars, beaded with blood and stitched up expertly, stretched along their white length. "I'll have to get some more."
"Where do you get the thread?" said Magnus. He returned the needle to the box on the table and clicked it shut. "I've looked everywhere, and it doesn't grow on bushes or underground. I checked."
"Put out the fire," said Celine.
Magnus dropped the question like a hot coal, and his chair scraped the worn floorboards. Celine closed her eyes again so she wouldn't have to see the sky veined with red and yellow as the heavy door creaked open. She could hear the crunching of leaves, a bitten-off swearword as Magnus tripped over the harrada root by the well. She really had to dig up that thing… she listened to the scraping of earth and rocks, the creak of the door, and the footsteps and the grunt as Magnus hauled in a bucket.
She opened her eyes. "Good, you got earth."
"You said water causes a lot of smoke," said Magnus, tilting the bucket over the fire. And he was right – the fire was risky enough as it was, but for Celine's wounds to be infected could mean disaster.
Getting hurt in the first place had been beyond stupid. Already, Celine flinched at the memory. If Magnus hadn't come…
"I'll clean that out tomorrow," said Celine. Dirt rolled onto the floor.
Once upon a time, boys his age could play with toys, thought Celine as she watched her son. His dark hair hung over his eyes as he finally stamped the last of the dirt into place. He swept up the empty bucket, leaving the door open behind him. A breeze heated Celine's face, drying the tear before her son could return and see it. The sky cast an orange glow on her skin, leaving her arms looking demonic.
Magnus flitted back in, closing the heavy door with no effort. It was testament to the strength that boys his age shouldn't need – not even farm boys from the old days worked as hard as Magnus. Farm boys never had to forage for themselves. Farm boys never had to look over their shoulder for trouble if they strayed out of the house.
Guilt tugged at her. His father would not have approved. He would have demanded that Celine keep him locked up, where he would be safe. And he had been one of the most gentle people Celine knew.
But Celine knew better than he had. She knew that if Magnus didn't grow up embracing the new world, it would kill him. Every day, she shooed him out of the door to gather ingredients and wild-growing food, every day she crossed her fingers and prayed to Talos he would come back. As she had since he was seven and a half.
And every day, she would sigh with relief when he returned, usually with a couple of new scratches and scars. If they were lucky, it had only been the wild harrada roots that caused it – plants from Oblivion whose razor-sharp blades clawed at whoever wandered too close.
It was risky, letting him roam. Too risky. Daedra prowled out there, and in the dark they scratched at the boarded-up windows, and Celine heard their scratchy calls on the hills. A lone child wouldn't stand a chance in the wild.
No, she told herself. A child whose parents were anybody else would not have stood a chance.
Magnus had survived three weeks ago when a daedroth had chased him with unnatural speed for its bulky form. Magnus had survived when he was five and a scamp snuck into the house. Magnus had survived when the clannfear broke down the fence when he was seven and almost killed him.
That had been the day Celine realised she couldn't shelter him anymore. She'd already taught him everything she knew, and every day she took him gathering herbs and food with her, because the house wasn't safe. Every day he crept with her and watched – and sometimes helped – when she had to fight something. He knew more about sword fighting than men five times his age, even though he still was a boy and possessed only a boy's strength. He knew that daedra typically ate only each other unless they were beyond starving, because no people lived on the planes of Oblivion.
But how could he learn to survive, if he relied on her too much?
He'd been delighted that day, when she told him to look for ingredients himself. But she'd followed, keeping her distance, keeping hidden. He'd been so careless, but after the third scamp almost gouged out his eye he learned. He learned when a daedroth rose its head from where it had been drinking at the stream, and he remembered his mother wasn't there to protect him. He learned when a clannfear caught up to him…
It had killed Celine to stand there and watch. But he had to learn. And he had – he'd dropped and played dead for over an hour when the daedroth spotted him, he'd taken out the clannfear's legs, killed the scamp with only a burn on his cheek to show his trouble. When he'd found out his mother watched over him two months later, he'd been indignant.
"I can take care of myself," the boy had insisted, with white scars stark against his face and a bleeding scratch on his chin.
Celine missed the old days, where he would have grown up without knowing what part of a sword was the pommel, where he didn't have to know about the poisonous plants of the highlands and wouldn't have a clue about starting camp fires. Days that existed ten years ago, a world with a bright blue sky and grass that was actually green and lush, instead of the stunted brown blades that struggled for life.
Those days were gone now.
But not forever, thought Celine, looking to her son. He sat on the floor by the door with his forehead creased into a deep frown. One day, the heir will save us. He will take the Amulet of Kings and relight the Dragonfires, and banish the daedra. It'll… it'll take time, that's all. We just have to keep waiting.
All the same… it was thanks to Magnus's stubborn attitude, eagerness to learn and sheer luck that the boy hadn't died yet.
"Mother," he suddenly cut into her thoughts, his dark eyes meeting hers. A faint, white film spread over them, the cause of his poor vision. She hoped he wouldn't go blind… "I've been thinking."
"Yes, Magnus?"
"No furniture has been disturbed," said Magnus. "The windows we boarded up are still boarded up and have no more scratches on them that weren't made last night. There is no possible way you could have dropped a dagger and sliced both of your arms that deeply. How did you get those injuries?"
In the other world, nine year olds had been dumb as bricks and didn't need to be smarter.
Celine sighed. Closed her eyes again. How could she be so stupid?! Already she'd fucked up the rest of his life – he'd never know what it would be like to have a playmate his age, he didn't even know what his reflection looked like, and he thought the only human being in the world aside from him was her.
And she'd got depressed enough about it to almost fuck it up even more and leave him. In the other world, she'd cover up her behaviour. Tell him to mind his own business.
But in this world, not asking questions could kill him.
"Sometimes," she said carefully. "when people get very sad, they want to hurt themselves."
Okay. Perhaps not the whole truth. But she had to treat him like an adult.
By lying, like a normal parent would?
Guiltily, she shoved the thought aside.
"Why?" Magnus blinked at her.
"It makes them feel better to feel physical pain instead of mental pain," she said, and Magnus nodded in understanding. But she said, "Remember what we discussed about that?"
"Yeah," Magnus said. "Mental is what you think and physical is what you feel with your body."
She nodded. "But it's a very stupid thing to do."
"Then why did you do it? You're not stupid."
"Sometimes I have stupid moments," she forced a smile.
"Were you sad?" the boy went on, tilting his head. He looked so unworried.
In another world, that would have been alarming. Even now, it saddened Celine that her son felt no concern for her. But she'd trained him that way, trained him so that he knew that one day she might fall and never get up, and that he would have to ignore it and get on with his own life and live. If he allowed himself to be upset, his focus would lapse. And something could kill him.
"Yes," said Celine. "And it was stupid of me to."
Magnus's face split into a smile and he nodded. He loved to think he was better at her at something. "Well, you'll never do it again, will you?"
"Of course not," said Celine. Magnus grinned.
"So it's okay now," he said.
"Yes," she lied.
But the feelings were always there. The despair, the fear, the nightmares and the terror. She hadn't had a good night's sleep since the old world, when the only daedra she knew were the ones the mages summoned, before Magnus was even conceived. She hadn't had a happy dream since two years before even that.
Fear dominated her days. She feared for Magnus's health and safety, she feared the cultists would find them and kill her son, she feared the clannfear that clawed at the door at night would finally shred it apart, she feared that her son would grow sick with an illness that could only be cured with herbs made extinct by the Oblivion crisis, she feared…
She hated being alone.
She had Magnus, but she was alone. His father didn't stand beside her, and hadn't since the Hero of Kvatch failed Tamriel. On that lonely day, Celine gave birth alone with no midwife or herbs. Exhausted, she'd cleaned herself and the squalling baby up, thanked Talos the birth had gone as smoothly as it could.
She'd panicked every time Magnus caught a cold in those early days – he'd been such a sickly baby that worry disrupted her sleep more than his crying did – she fretted at her loneliness and she missed people. She missed safety. Missed not having to strap a sword to her belt each time she stepped outside the house. Missed being able to buy potions from an apothecary, missed the annoying guards who'd made her life hell, missed animals and green grass and blue sky –
Magnus, attuned to this world, never realised he shouldn't have to live in a place where he feared for his safety even as he slept at night. He had no idea that living in the middle of the wilderness in fear of the Mythic Dawn didn't have to be normal. He was oblivious that most children grew up with two parents whom they wouldn't bury until past their twentieth birthday.
He didn't know the beauty of green grass, blue sky, a butterfly, a white-coated wolf, the snuffling of a puppy, the smile of a father. He didn't know what snow was, what the ocean sounded like, he'd never shivered in his life when not stricken by a fever because Tamriel was so warm that he could stand outside, soaking wet, in the middle of the night and not be cold.
But that wasn't the worst thing.
The worst thing was that one day, he might go out and never come back. And yet, she couldn't afford not to. Damned if she did, damned if she didn't. If she didn't, his reflexes would dull, his memory would forget how to survive and his mind would gloss over the importance of keeping alive. Any day now, the Mythic Dawn would find them, and Magnus would have to hide. Any day now, he'd curl up in that tight hiding space, barely breathing with fear. Any day now, she would die screaming and bloody at their hands.
It would come, too. Their luck would not last forever.
And when that day came, she would die knowing she'd made damn sure her son would be able to survive without her. She knew that however young he was, he would be able to fend for himself.
When it came, she would die knowing that one day, he'd live in a world where he could hear the gulls calling on the wind, taste a melting snowflake on his tongue and lie in a field of green.
And that night, he would go to sleep in soft, linen sheets, without a single nightmare awaiting him. | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5126882/1/The-Red-Veined-Sky | dclm-gs1-297750000 |
0.084447 | <urn:uuid:14ee8e4d-eb65-49e3-8585-d4ca3d3630be> | en | 0.99357 | Warning right now for extreme mental disorders raging through this. Mentions of sexual abuse, rape, violence, suicide, cutting and strong apathy. Also a buncha shit I forgot about. Sorry to offend anyone by writing this piece or anything. I had a sudden inspiration at God knew what time out of nowhere, so I just wrote this. I stated this at 2AM, powering my way to 4AM, and from this morning's 8:30 to the current 11:27. I just wanted to write a piece like this. This is set from 2x06 to 2x10. This portrays a completely opposing thought to Kurt's character than we thought before, so be prepared. This is very clear-cut. It seems confusing but you'll get it most at the end if anything. Anyway, I do not own any of the scenes from 2x06 to 2x10 that are very lucidly described here.
If I did offend you, I'm sorry and didn't mean to. I love you all, you're all gems for just reading this, so… overall, I'm unsure how to feel about this piece, but I had a great sudden urge to write it so ciao! xo Sam/Peanut Butter.
The glass dome on the ceiling almost looked like a dream.
The glass looked so fragile. He wondered if it would break and fall on his head, shattering him into a million pieces. He fixed the large glasses he had on his face, Chanel, authentic, he'd gotten at a midnight auction on the nineteenth of February two years ago – a large jacket that he himself thought hid his entire existence away in fabricated nothing. The weight he'd lost hidden by thick fabric, and his pants were this quite lovely plaid-style. His shirt was hidden, along with his rather obnoxious red tie. Kurt took off the glasses, adjusting to the light.
"Excuse me," he asked to a boy with gelled hair that was just passing by. This boy – he stuck out, even in a sea of navy, red and white. "Can I ask you a question? I'm new here."
The boy's lips curled into a small smile. The uniform made him look atrocious. He looked like he lived a nice, happy life in a nice, happy bubble. "My name is Blaine."
He extended his hand. Kurt was nearly afraid to shake it, but somehow, his hand fumbled its way towards this boy's – Blaine's – hand and he shook it. Quite frankly, he didn't look like a Blaine.
"Kurt," he watched the number of passing by students. "So, what exactly is going on?"
"Warblers," the boy's eyes lit up completely. "Every now and then, they throw an impromptu performance in the senior common room."
He still looked like he was living in a land of bubbly rainbows and clouds. Kurt almost envied him for the striking confidence he showed with that smile, and the glitter that his hazel eyes – more green in his light – struck Kurt completely. He said something else about the school that Kurt had completely missed as more students pooled into the common room, but he understood the overall. To be honest, Kurt wasn't really interested in sunshine pants.
"So wait," Kurt said. His voice was light, and held none of the contempt that was rising in Kurt's thoughts. "Glee club here is kind of cool?" he couldn't even think of any better words to represent his thoughts that weren't spiteful, mean, or just plain horrid. This boy, this broken brunette, that had been the object of Karofsky's fists from day one was envious of this boy – sunshine curls. He couldn't really see him as Blaine. If he saw him as Blaine, he would be giving him a name, a meaning and right now, Kurt didn't like him at all.
"The Warblers are like rock stars." Dear Prada, just shut up. Your teeth are incredibly large.
This however, made Kurt's eyebrows rise in surprise either way, because in a school where any Glee club were like 'rock stars' meant one thing: it was safe.
"Come on." Blaine – sunshine curls – grabbed Kurt's hand and Kurt felt his heart thudding. "I know a shortcut."
They ran into a hall, hand never letting go.
This seemed so surreal, out of a movie. In Kurt's head, a lovely piano-like melody was playing that was soothing over his bones. All contempt and…fear…erasing from Kurt's mind and body. Blaine never let go of his hand. Suddenly, Kurt's mind flashed to impossible romances, like the Titanic. The walls were brighter. The world was like a dream, an elaborate beautiful fantasy. His hatred of Blaine suddenly erasing if only for a fleeting moment, and he felt somewhat cherished as long as Blaine held his hand and the piano kept on playing –
"I'll never let go Jack," Rose whispered, as she let go of Jack's hand. "I promise."
The yellow flowers. The decked halls. It was all so magical. He remembered being eleven and waiting for his Hogwarts letter to get out of this crummy place because Puck shoved him into a locker and called him faggy and gross.
It was perfect, every piece falling in – except for Kurt.
"I stick out like a sore thumb," Kurt said out loud.
"Next time don't forget your jacket new kid," Blaine smoothed out his jacket and suddenly, Kurt can feel all of the smoothness of the leather and the purity of everything all in one go. Blaine winked at him and Kurt felt like they shared a secret. Kurt's stomach was in knots. He felt like a butterfly – or ironically, a warbler, a bird, floating. Flying. "You'll fit right in."
First tones of something a lot like Teenage Dream filled the air. Kurt suddenly felt that those were the right words to describe everything he was feeling. Like a teenage dream, unreal – completely and utterly surreal.
"Now if you'll excuse me."
Now when Blaine sung, Kurt's stomach wanted to projectile vomit glitter. He sounded like a complete and utter – well, dream. Kurt suddenly felt like he was savouring the first bites of his favourite cheesecake, as mascarpone and cherry lightly filled his nostrils in a fluffy-feeling make-believe. All of them were getting along with it, cheering and Kurt simply clutched onto his bag as tightly as possible. Suddenly weighed down by his rubber boots, almost as if he was trying to grip onto reality itself in fear of it sailing through his head and crashing into the form of Karofsky.
"Don't ever look back. Don't ever look back."
And Kurt won't. He grinned, clutching even tighter on the clutch on his bag. He hadn't seemed to register the fact that this was not his reality. There were cheers, mounds of them – applauses like Kurt had been starved of. Except he really didn't seem to care anymore. It took him a moment to realise that he was clapping too. His grin left but if he had a mirror, he would've realised his eyes were glistening a rather faint blue.
Blaine's last look, the last look he shot, was at Kurt.
Kurt suddenly felt like he was the centre of everyone's attention. Blaine had walked towards him and now all eyes were on Kurt. He felt like they were to see how mismatched his clothing was, how off he looked, how he was misplaced there but all Blaine did was offer him a smile. "I suppose you really are rock stars," Kurt chimed in, still trying to register the applause.
"You don't like me very much, Kurt," Kurt had stopped right there, dead in his tracks. Had Blaine been able to read his mind? Blaine had smiled anyway though, almost as if nothing can dampen his mood.
Kurt didn't dare meet Blaine's eyes as Blaine added on. "So I'd have to put some love potion in your cup of coffee. How does a latte sound?"
Kurt was thrown back completely, stunned. It almost sounded like a date.
Blaine chuckled. "Come on."
The piano started playing again in his mind. Suddenly, years of piano practice that he'd never dared to skip that had left his hands sore and in pain didn't seem to matter at all.
This time, Kurt had reached out to grab Blaine's hand. And he never did let go of it either.
If Kurt had a perfect scene for a coffee shop, it would all be warm-coloured, beige, cream, brown – kind of like Starbucks without the green logo. Just plain warm colours…and that was exactly how the Dalton dining hall was like.
Blaine had pushed the small coffee cup. Kurt would've preferred a bigger size but he knew that he should technically cut down on his caffeine consumption. "Latte." Blaine called out.
"Thank you," Kurt said in a low voice, almost as if he was worrying about disrupting the fabulous design on the walls that even Kurt would have never thought of in a billion years.
"This is Wes," Blaine explained. "David." Each nodded to their name.
"It's very civilised for you to invite me for coffee before beating me up for spying," of course, none of them appeared to be able to hit him, but Kurt knew better than appearances gave. He also knew that there was no way that he could be in this beautiful room without something going terribly amiss, and since he was so used to being pushed to his limit, he would expect this. It won't be painful. At least there was no discomfort in his stomach as of yet, just the warmth of the latte.
"We're not going to beat you up," Wes' dark eyes didn't seem to have any amount of darkness in them. Ironically, they were nearly pitch black.
David called him endearing with a grin. Blaine sipped his coffee.
Blaine then added on in an understanding voice, "Which led me to believe that spying on us wasn't the real reason you came."
Kurt wanted to throw up now. He'd much rather have Blaine beat him up or throw the scolding hot coffee on Kurt's face. Kurt actually felt like everything was written from him. Can Blaine see Kurt's vacant eyes, his visible ribcage underneath his shirt, and the thoughts of self-abuse that he'd been running over his mind for days now? Can he hear any of it?
Kurt can only smile, a fake smile, before chuckling humourlessly. "Can I ask you guys a question?" They didn't say anything which led Kurt to believe that their silence was a silent 'we're waiting for the question' type of thing. "Are you guys all gay?"
Various chuckles were only thrown in response instead of the shove Kurt had expected.
"Uh, no," Blaine explained, eyes still lit with humour. "I mean, I am, but the other two have girlfriends." He pointed to them in indication when talking. Kurt realised that Blaine used hand gestures a lot up until now. He didn't know what that meant. He didn't know what any of that meant.
The latte was still warm.
"There is a zero-tolerant harassment policy."
"Everyone gets treated the same." This all seemed like fucking music to Kurt's ears and he had quite a restrictive taste of music currently. Usually choosing to scream in his pillow at the dead end of the night and calling it heavy metal. "No matter what they are. It's pretty simple."
Kurt was rendered speechless. Blaine was still staring at him, almost as if he was waiting.
"Would you guys excuse us?" Blaine asked, and they left, just like that. Knowingly. Almost. They said something but Kurt's anxiety was pretty much through the roof and the coffee he'd just ingested tasted too bitter in his mouth.
"I'd take you're having trouble at school." Blaine simply stated.
Kurt wanted to ask how sunshine curls knew.
"I'm the only person out of the closet in this school," Kurt finally admitted. "And I tried to stay strong about it, but there's this Neanderthal who has made it his mission to make my life a living Hell. And nobody seems to notice."
All of these words seemed unclear. They were raging with some other emotion that Kurt couldn't read, an emotion that made his stomach drop ten times lower and his mind shout: just don't think about it anymore.
"I know how you feel," Blaine finally said. Kurt wanted to retort that no, you don't, but Blaine's eyes told a different story. "I got taunted at my old school. And it really…"
Blaine shook his head, as if trying not to think about it, "…pissed me off. I even complained about it to the facility. They're sympathetic and all but I can just tell that nobody really cared. It was just like 'hey, if you're gay, your life is just going to be miserable'. There's nothing you can do about it. So I left. And I came here," another gesture with his hands and his eyes wandered around, barely flickering with emotion as it was. "So that was that."
Kurt stared down.
"So you have two options," and now, Kurt had met Blaine's eyes again. "You know I'd love to tell you to just come and enroll here but tuition's also kind of steep and I know that it's not an option for everyone or…"
Kurt's eyes were hungry for the other option. "You can refuse to be a victim."
Suddenly, Kurt was unsure. His mind reeling with a thousand thoughts. Blaine suddenly said those words that rung into Kurt's ear, "prejudice is just ignorance. You have a chance right now to change it."
"How?" Kurt just really didn't want to. His stomach was concaving in, almost like a mash of pain and that…other unidentifiable emotion.
"Confront him. Call him out." Blaine said, and then added on.
"I ran, Kurt." Blaine said. "I didn't stand up. I let it all chase me away and it's something I really, really regret."
Kurt nodded, standing up to leave.
He really didn't want to think this way, but…what if Kurt wanted to be the victim?
Kurt slid out of his bed. He looked into the mirror, grunting as he took a handful of his hair which was falling out. Either from lack of food or because he wasn't quite maintaining it. Even if he wasn't quite maintaining it, why it was falling out was making him angry and confused. Burt had called him downstairs, and Kurt didn't even meet his eyes. He was wearing one too many layers, skipped breakfast and drank three cups of coffee.
All of them were lattes. His mind was still swimming in this warmth ecstasy.
He could not stop thinking of Blaine, or the conflicting emotions when he'd seen Blaine. Sometimes, he hated him. Mostly because Blaine reminded him of himself, and he hated himself. Kurt never knew why but he had contracted this hatred for his body. In his English glass, he had to fill in blanks and found the word guilty on his paper. He rolled his eyes. Guilty as charged, Kurt was ultimately avoiding reality by thinking of Blaine and Dalton. Every little corner reminded him of the perfection that was Dalton academy and to be honest, he wanted to escape there…
His cellphone buzzed. Once. Twice.
In the choir room. Courage.
In the hallway. Courage.
So Kurt stood up. He screamed. He yelled. He was done being in pain. He was angry now and suddenly grew five inches and ninety pound of muscle and just wanted to stand. He got…
A kiss.
His mind raced and he felt like falling flat on his face. The image of Blaine's text still numb in his mind. He didn't know why. He couldn't tell anyone. Not anyone but Blaine.
He didn't know why, but nobody can know. Nobody.
But Blaine.
Kurt was walking with Blaine. Blaine all decked in his Warbler uniform. Suddenly seeing him out in the real world made Kurt believe that something was terribly wrong with the world. It made Blaine real. He still quite resembled Prince Charming. Suddenly, when he smiled, he made Kurt melt instead of annoying him with his teeth.
Kurt just didn't know why his emotions shifted so quickly. Just that Blaine was safe. Hearing him talk about his struggles at his old school suddenly made Kurt feel like Blaine was safe. The only safe person in Kurt's life. The only one Kurt stuck an 'okay' label to.
"Just let me do all the talking," they were walking up together towards one of the school entrances. Almost climbing. Almost something.
"There he is," Kurt said, eyes on Dave.
He wondered if the blue sweater he was wearing could get any bigger compared to how small he felt. Suddenly, the jutting of his bones underneath was hurting him and there was just ice. How long had it been since he'd had anything but coffee?
Lattes. All of them.
"I've got your back."
Kurt's mind flashed to the Warbler performance – "Don't look back." Kurt was only looking forward at Dave's face.
"Excuse me," Kurt's stomach churned at Blaine's politeness, almost reminding him that Blaine was pretty much the equivalent of a fictional character in a romance novel.
"Hey, lady boys."
Dave stared at him. "That your boyfriend, Kurt?"
Blaine's voice suddenly turned icier. "Kurt and I want to talk to you about something." He sounded so strong. Kurt wondered how he could've been fragile at all. If it was all a lie. Everything seemed like a lie.
"I gotta go to class."
He touched Kurt's chest, even lightly. Kurt was suddenly aware of the sharpness of his chest.
"Kurt told me what you did," Blaine said, eyes settling down at the jock. Not quite giving up with the extreme confidence he was sporting now.
"Oh yeah?" the large male stared back up at Blaine. "What's that?"
"You kissed me," suddenly, Kurt spoke. He couldn't believe how he sounded, different. At least to himself. He sounded different.
"I don't know whatcha talking about."
Kurt looked at Blaine. His stomach was seriously hurting him. Kurt pinned it down to hunger. He was unaware of when was the last time he'd eaten. It was seriously jagging up his stomach now. But what if you wanted to play the victim?
And like a guidance counselor or a therapist, Blaine calmly said. "It seems you may be a little confused. And that's totally normal. This is a very hard thing to come to terms with and you should just know that you're not alone."
Dave turned around, suddenly fury in his eyes.
Kurt seriously felt like throwing up by now. Kurt heard a series of grunts as Blaine was pushed up against the fence. All Kurt can suddenly see was blood pooling from skin, bursting…he couldn't fucking take it! Kurt suddenly had the power to push away the large male. Out of nowhere. He didn't know how any of that can make sense.
"Stop it!"
Stop all of it. He suddenly left. The feeling slightly went away. He didn't want to look back at Blaine. Suddenly, he was afraid all of the visuals in his head would come true. The blood that Kurt had been accustomed to seeing. All of it.
"Well, he's not coming out any time soon," Blaine said. "What's going on?" he said, as he noticed Kurt sitting down.
"Why are you so upset?"
Kurt felt his mind spinning. "'Cause until yesterday, I have never been kissed. At least, one that counted." He just waited for Blaine to kiss him now, to set it perfect, and right. To go back to that moment in Dalton. Piano keys still playing in Kurt's mind.
"Come on. I'll buy you lunch." Kurt's stomach nearly growled at the thought of food entering it. As they walked down, Kurt's eyes stared at the side of Blaine's face as his hand went to Blaine's. Kurt never quite stopped staring and as they left, their hands met with each other, if only for a second – for that second, neither of them let go.
His Father saved him. He was going to Dalton.
The uniform fit perfectly. His measurements were much better now than before. He wasn't always hungry and hurt. Suddenly, Kurt felt like floating again. He cannot feel most of his bones as previously. Most of his favourite pants now fit again as accustomed to the weight gain. Suddenly, Kurt felt like this was a fantasy again, a perfect elaborate fantasy.
He walked in with a grin that can burn through the whole world. He wore a pin, just so he didn't feel out of place. It was the only thing he can dress him up in. He walked down those halls, proud. Suddenly, everything else didn't matter and Hogwarts can nip its butt.
A random male wanted a high-five.
It was all just so perfect.
"And now, as a welcoming addition to the Warblers: Kurt Hummel," he heard his name as golden doors opened.
Kurt walked in. They were all cheering. The applause he'd been starving for. Right there.
"In our oldest tradition," Wes looked up at Kurt with a smile, "For our newest Warbler."
"Kurt," Blaine looked down at the cage. "Pavarotti."
Kurt heard Wes drawl on, talk about the importance of the bird. It was so small in its cage. Kurt tried to maintain a smile, but it reminded him of something…someone. "It's your job to take care of him, so he can carry on the Warbler legacy."
Suddenly, Kurt's stomach was hurting him again and he couldn't look at those innocent, dark eyes. They reminded him of someone.
"Protect him. That bird is your voice."
Somehow, Kurt took him. It didn't feel so scary anymore. He felt like he can take care of this bird. This bird. Kurt made a joke, and when nobody laughed, he tried to disregard what he'd said. Wes had done his 'order in the court' wooden hammer smashing against the table, and Kurt was brought to attention.
"Council come to order…"
He got a solo. He went to Rachel. The song she said she wanted people to sing for her funeral – Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
"It won't be easy. You'll think it's strange…when I try to explain how I feel. That I still need your love after all that I've done…you won't believe me…"
Kurt sung his heart out. They didn't give him a solo, but somehow, that didn't matter. He blamed Pavarotti, as he fed the adorable bird. He didn't really blame him. How could he? As Kurt fed him, Blaine walked in. Somehow, it was strange having Blaine and Pavarotti in the same room. It was somewhat wrong, somehow. He didn't really understand. Kurt didn't really know that it wasn't because he didn't understand – it was because he didn't quite want to understand.
All Kurt did was sit down, stare at Pavarotti, feel…some strange intense emotion, and then feed him a lot of food. All of which Pavarotti didn't much of at all. After the third day, Kurt got him nibbling on a very small piece of cracker but he stopped nibbling after a while, turning to his water. It made Kurt concerned for the bird, that he'd barely eat, and he didn't sing quite as much. Sometimes, Pavarotti wouldn't sing at all.
Kurt pressed his head forward. Pavarotti looked sad.
Blaine walked down towards him, holding a coffee – now, that Kurt was looking down at Pavarotti's food habits and back at Blaine – he realised he'd never seen Blaine without some form of caffeine but he'd very rarely seen Blaine eat. Of course, he wasn't around Blaine 24/7, a meager amount of time. He wondered if it would be considered rude for Kurt to ask Blaine to take off the form-fitting blazer just to see what was underneath. "I might even say you're a little love struck for Pavarotti."
Kurt smiled softly. A sudden twinge of emotion twisted in his stomach. "Well, he's quite a charmer."
Kurt looked back down at the bird, that was burying his face anywhere away from Kurt. Blaine sat his coffee down, opening Pavarotti's cage and the bird eagerly flew into Blaine's hand.
"Wait, wait!" Kurt said.
"He needs to be out of his cage a little," Blaine simply said, laying the warbler on his shoulder. He fluttered his wings. "Don't worry. His wings are clipped."
Kurt placed his hand towards Pavarotti's feet, hoping the bird will hop on. Blaine chuckled. "Not when I'm here."
"Oh," Kurt chuckled softly. "So Pavarotti likes you, doesn't he?"
Blaine shrugged with a small smile on his face as he pulled Pavarotti up in his hand again. Blaine had spent the next six minutes trying to get the hyper bird in the cage now before shutting it. "If you're going to take him out, don't do it inside. Try to keep it in the dorms," he murmured against the cage. Pavarotti moved towards Blaine again. Blaine had fed him a few crackers and the bird hungrily nipped. This made Kurt's stomach hurt him. He didn't know why, but it was almost as if the bird had told him that something was wrong with him. Something was wrong.
Decked in perfect golden lined colours, white walls, brilliant maroon curtains and coffee-coloured rooms – there was something wrong. Kurt can't put a finger on it, but something.
He watched as Pavarotti sulked in his cage. Blaine left with his cup of coffee.
Kurt laid a hand on Blaine's. Blaine didn't do anything. He smiled, and let Kurt squeeze back. Kurt stood up, and they walked downstairs. They went to the dining room. Kurt reached in for fluffy, comfort food that tasted amazing and was warm.
In the back of his mind, it never left Kurt that one of Blaine's hand was grasping tightly against Kurt's. The other one was picking at his food, as if there was something wrong with his food. This made Kurt uncomfortable for a bit, and the taste of heated mac and cheeses, rice pudding, hot chocolate and dumpling soup made him forget the fact that Blaine was picking at his food for a moment.
Kurt looked up, meeting Blaine's eyes and suddenly felt an uncomfortable tightness in his chest.
"Blaine," sunshine curls, Kurt smiled weakly. "Aren't you hungry?"
"Oh, no," Blaine said it with his usual careless demeanor. He shrugged. "Big lunch." Kurt's finger graced over the small bone on Blaine's bony wrist.
Kurt didn't say anything. "Blaine…do you have curls when your hair is ungelled?"
Blaine was thrown back by this question and nodded his head, allowing a soft smile to appear on his face. "Wild, horrific Medusa hair."
Kurt chuckled humourlessly, eyes still set on Blaine's wrist as Blaine took the first bite of food. As Kurt saw Nick walk towards them, Blaine suddenly took another bite almost as if all food had suddenly became interesting.
"Kurt?" Blaine raised an eyebrow.
Kurt sighed. He hadn't realised he'd been gripping too tightly on Blaine's hand. "I'm sorry. I'm just…stressed," he tried to find the word for it.
"Just wait until the next semester," Nick dully muttered, taking a spoonful of his rice.
Kurt's eyes never left Blaine's wrist for some time as he nodded dully. There was no piano music playing in his head tonight.
"Don't try so hard next time."
"I didn't realise that caring was frowned upon."
Kurt knew what that meant, as he washed his face for the seventh time that day, trying to wash away any evidence of…his entire face. It was almost as if he was just trying to conceal his identity. His socks were suddenly too bright. His boxers too tight. His mind was reeling with numbness, and he can't quite grasp on anything anymore.
It was all fleeting. Something was wrong, as he washed his hand with too expensive soap, and washed away his face with lukewarm perfect temperature water.
Walking down the hallway late at night after his standard skin-care routine that wasn't going to suffer here, with a mask of a lovely cucumber and mint infusion, he had passed by the nurse's office. He walked inside and found Nick on the bed.
Kurt slicked into the room. "Nick Duval?"
Nick looked up at him and now, Kurt can see how small Nick looked. He looked so short all of a sudden, even though he was only an inch shorter than Kurt.
"I don't know how you did it in your old school, but did you notice we all wear uniforms here?"
Kurt's mind suddenly played that statement that Blaine had told him, over and over again, as his eyes dropped to Nick's body. Nick looked okay. He looked okay. Jeff was suddenly walking towards Nick, laying a hand on Nick's cheek.
"Leave, Kurt," Jeff's voice was soft, innocent. Like its always been.
Kurt moved closer, and Jeff's eyes suddenly filled with a flash of fury. "Kurt, please! Just go! This isn't for you to know or anyone to find out!"
Kurt suddenly felt something was wrong, something. He found himself catching a glimpse of what. Nick's cheeks coloured. He was embarrassed. He looked exhausted, and now that Kurt was paying complete attention, Nick's shoulders were shaking horribly.
The uniform hid most of it. Kurt can only see what had spilled onto the sheets with contact of Nick's ass to the sheets.
Now, that Kurt was thinking about it, he continued to make his way down the hall, splashed hot water on his face in an attempt to erase that image as he turned towards the toilet, and threw up the contents of his stomach. He mewled in pain, curling up and holding his head in his hands. An intense emotion burst from Kurt, making his stomach and chest tighten.
"Hey," Kurt looked up, eyes full of tears, finding Blaine there, as Kurt was pulled up by him.
"N-N-Nick. The blood…"
Blaine shut his eyes, nodding his head in confirmation. Kurt was suddenly shell-shook. Nick, so innocent and adorable, what kind of monster would dare attack him in any way? Make him bleed that way? Make him possibly traumatised for life.
"It's okay," Blaine said, rubbing Kurt's shoulder. "He's going to be okay."
Blaine's reassurances did nothing to Kurt's mind, which was replaying it over and over again. He only heard stories about these kinds of things. He didn't really want to think about them. He passed by the nurse's office, finding Jeff painfully clinging onto Nick's body, almost afraid to let go. In that moment, Kurt can recongise the one intense emotion sprouting from Nick's eyes.
Kurt's hand went to Blaine's, holding it tightly. The hallways were too vast, too silent. Which was perfect because Kurt wanted to forget. The candles were lit. They always were at night times. If the lights were open, it would disturb some people, but everyone knew it wasn't quite realistic that all the Warblers be in bed by nine pm, and even if so, in the case of an emergency, the ability to see where one was going was crucially important.
Kurt's eyes seemed to wander towards the candles near Blaine's room.
The roses were dead. One of the candles unlit. Kurt seemed to notice, as Blaine had taken him to his dorm room, which he normally share with Jeff. Jeff probably wanted to stay with Nick.
Kurt was hurting again. He normally stayed with Nick. He normally watched his cute rosy heart face in the morning, with that brilliant white smile, and those eyes that were to-die-for. He watched him every day. How could this have happened? He almost always suspected that the Warbler halls were like a castle sometimes.
There was a dragon in their castle. It unlit hope, and destroyed fragile, pretty things. Like roses and Nick.
The light was slowly stripping away into something darker, a bit too dark for Kurt's taste. Kurt didn't that Blaine was by his bedside, holding his hand until he fell asleep. He woke up groggy and foggy. He took a steamy shower, and wore the uniform, which suddenly felt wrong, almost as if he was being stripped of identity. Kurt then realised he wanted very much to just be stripped of identity. He threw his pin away, and left with Blaine.
They held hands again and the piano was playing softer than usual.
They were all sitting down, happy chatter, roses all around, and vases bursting to the brim with lilies and ribbons. Kurt felt disturbed for some reason, as images of Nick still played in his mind. Something was wrong. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. Kurt wondered if he should mention Nick, or Jeff. David said something. Blaine drank coffee, seeming completely unbothered by it.
Nick walked towards them, eyes completely vacant. Knee slightly bobbing up and down when he sat down, almost as if he was trying to keep control of his body. Jeff sat down beside him. Jeff's eyes were just as vacant. Nick emptily ate his sandwich. He laughed bitterly.
Nobody said anything. It was as if whatever happened to Nick yesterday didn't really happen as long as nobody talked about it.
"You're not going to make it as a Warbler if all you care about is getting noticed."
Blending in. Like Nick. Like Nick who was raped that nobody really gave a damn about. Like Nick who flinched silently when Blaine touched his wrist, and the Nick that was wandering around the halls late at night. That Nick. It was almost like Nick wasn't noticed at all. No support. Nothing. It all didn't exist.
Nick was fake happy all the time. And he was perfect at it.
With that thought in his mind, Kurt felt his cold skin meet the lukewarm water again.
"I know it's going to take some getting used to. But you'll fit in soon enough. I promise."
Kurt didn't want to fit in. He didn't even want to know what it meant. Today, he accidentally found Nick in the bathroom. Nick's arms were slashed completely, his arms around the toilet bowl as he threw up. He didn't quite catch Kurt staring, as Kurt watched the blood run down from Nick's arms. There was a razorblade right beside Nick's arms. Nobody would know.
He stepped backwards, and hit Blaine's body.
Blaine pulled Kurt away from it, practically shoving Kurt down the hallway with him, almost as if not wanting to see Nick break, almost as if preventing Kurt from doing the same.
"Blaine! This is ridiculous! Life's not all sunshine and rainbows! Nick has been raped. He cuts—"
Blaine looked at him, straight at him. "Don't you think we know?" it took for a while to notice that Blaine's neck was full of bruises, his hands were cold and clammy. His hair was dishevelled into their natural curl state. His eyes had grey circles. His cheeks were sunken in. "I know, Kurt."
The images were still vividly haunting Kurt. He was sitting down with a notebook on his desk a few days later. Between worrying about Nick, slipping in secret notes of care and love in his blazer that ended up crumbled and into the trashcan and wondering about what Blaine really had, or any of these people did, he'd gotten behind in his schoolwork. This was something he couldn't afford at all, so he had sat down and had done most of his work. This led to solitary confinement for days. Kurt realised it was much more peaceful to bury his nose in countless of information other than going to Warbler practice or seeing Nick walk by with those bands that were made to hide everything.
It came close for Kurt to realise that Nick would die one day because of blood loss if he kept this up. He really wanted to call someone but every adult authority seemed to be brainwashed. He can go anywhere in the weekends and all, but to be honest, he didn't either have the time with Blaine scheduling Warbler sessions – and wanting to tag along. It seemed friendly at first, and now, it was forceful, like he wanted Kurt not to come to terms with everything. Like he wanted to hide everything from Kurt.
Blaine had put down a stereo, smiling at him as he walked into the room. "Hey."
With that being said, Kurt had somehow forgotten that Christmas was coming.
"You scared me," Kurt chuckled humourlessly. Blaine looked so put together. He saw a glimpse of Nick passing. He seemed fine as well. Everyone seemed fine, but really, everything was so skin-deep, so superficial, so…nothing.
"I'm Marley's ghost and I'm here to tell you to stop studying so hard."
Kurt wanted to bury his nose in his book right now, but his eyes never seemed to meet Blaine's. He looked for bruising, for grey circles under his eyes – nothing. Either Blaine knew how to apply good makeup or Kurt had been confined to this dorm room for far too long. He realised the last time he remembered going out with Blaine and Mercedes was in November. They were in mid-December, with the 25th seemingly right around the corner.
"What's with the boom box?"
"I need you to sing with me," Blaine said. "Well, rehearse with me. I got a gig singing Baby It's Cold Outside in the—"
Somehow, Kurt's mind froze after Blaine saying that song. It was somewhat of a cliché song, but it was also something Kurt remembered from his childhood, where everything was better. Of all the songs, Blaine just happened to blurt out that perfect one.
"Uh, personal favourite," Kurt knew that Blaine probably didn't want to hear a sob story about how he used to sing this with his Mother all the time before. "Too bad they'd never let us sing together."
Blaine had a nearly quizzical expression. If you knew Blaine Anderson quite well, you'd say his eyes dulled up and he was fumbling with his fingers out of nervousness.
"I mean, as…two artists," Kurt corrected.
Suddenly swooned by the amount of lightness in his chest, Kurt didn't realise until very later that studying and Nick somehow was at the back of his mind, non-existent, with Blaine's so glittery-beautiful eyes.
"So are you going to help me out here?"
Kurt made some ludicrous comment about anything to get him to stop studying or something or rather. To be honest, all Kurt wanted to do was escape the reality of Dalton now. Before, it was McKinley. He wanted that fantasy back, that perfection – and Blaine was going to sing with him and everything was snowy and fluffy. He wanted to forget everything. Even about Nick. He knew this was wrong. He knew this was probably the way that Blaine was thinking, the way that everyone was thinking – everyone would escape the world and ignore everyone's issues simply because they can't handle it anymore.
By the end of the song, Kurt was on the couch, leg on top of the other, eyes meeting with Blaine and it was so surreal and dream-like that Kurt thought it was wrong not to think about Nick. Or Jeff's pain over Nick. Or David. Or anything but Blaine's eyes looking back at him right now as their hand met for a momentary slide together, gripping tightly for only a second. But for that second, they were never letting go.
When Blaine made a comment about Kurt being much-better than that girl, Kurt curled his lips, tasting a sudden infusion of ice-cream. Something he'd tastelessly eaten outside from what he'd told Franny, one of the passing workers, to get for him. He didn't want to face real people, and he decided if he was going to be a scolded, old bat in a cave, he might as well eat as much ice-cream as possible.
Then Will walked in and suddenly, Kurt felt sudden excitement. To be honest, McKinley didn't seem as much of a Hell as the…feelings he got at Dalton sometimes. Sometimes. Not like right now.
Kurt would realise later if Blaine hadn't done the duet with him, he'd have thrown himself at Will and told him to take him away.
"Mr Schuester," he stood up, laughing, all the glee in his eyes. He caught a reflection of him in the mirror, all rosy cheeks. Had Blaine done this to him? Made him feel so perfect, so lovely, made him forget everything in a fraction of a second an like a snowflake drifting on his tongue, made him melt so keenly on the inside?
Now that Kurt was revising it, the emotion had…had to be love. It had to be.
You just want to love people, don't you? But you don't love anyone. Not anyone. Kurt's mind was snippily telling him, but he really didn't listen right now. Everything was at the back of his head, like the apocalypse and Nick's cuts.
"Good to see you, Kurt," he gave him a quick hug that was barely even a hug. "Someone special?" he indicated towards the doorway.
Kurt had denied it, then said, "On the upside, I'm in love with him and he's actually gay. I call that progress."
In love. Now that Kurt said it, he can feel it bursting out of every core of his being. Starved for the affection that only Blaine can provide, wanting to see those eyes, so sweet – honey in the light when they were doing their duet. Everything was all so magical again, like a bursting beautiful fantasy. "How are you doing?" Mr Schue asked.
If it was only a day ago, Kurt would have miserably cried, but right now, all he could complain about, with that ridiculous smile on his face, "Classes are harder but people are kinder."
He made a joke about pencils and weapons and asked Mr Schue for why he was there. Mr Schue confessed to his situation of needing help of finding Sue a present.
Before Kurt can stop the words from escaping his lips, "I have the perfect idea."
It only dawned on him a few hours later, that he used the word 'perfect' and it made him feel pretty on the inside again.
Kurt had been walking down with a warm holiday basket for Blaine. It was a combination of Blaine's favourite candies – all seemed so bright and cheerful and Kurt didn't even care about the calorific content or nutritional value. He had also made a few muffins with the help of Franny, the worker that was so inclined to get him ice-cream, and just as he turned around the corner. He was faced with Nick curled up to a corner, and his eyes full of tears. Still somewhat in shock. Kurt turned around, walking across from the hallway.
He should've kneeled down and made sure Nick wasn't hurt or if his cuts weren't too severe, but until now, Kurt realised one thing about him: he ran away. A lot right now.
Kurt didn't seem to care at all. There was no courage in him, but none existed in Blaine either. He spun towards the bathroom, just to calm himself down. In the next five seconds, he threw up completely. There was Blaine on the ground, there was an incident amount of blood pooling from his head, dripping mercilessly against the ground.
Blaine was dead. Blaine just killed himself—
Kurt felt numb with shock.
This time, when he twisted to throw up again, he found himself falling somewhere. From a bed, a height, he threw up the contents of his stomach. Suddenly, everything was white. Everything was clear in Kurt's mind, clearer than ever before.
Kurt looked around, seeing his Father make him stand up, and pulled him against the hospital cot. How long had he been here?
"Blaine," Kurt called out in pain.
Burt didn't seem to hear him, as he pulled the sheet against Kurt's body. "Just calm down, okay?"
"How long was I asleep for?"
Kurt noticed that the calendar on the left corner, but couldn't believe the day. "A couple of weeks," Burt finally responded as Kurt nodded his head. "Do you want any coffee? I can get ya some coffee. They do it the way you like it here, with some low-fat creamer and shit."
"I'm the only person out of the closet in this school. And I tried to stay strong about it, but there's this Neanderthal who has made it his mission to make my life a living Hell. And nobody seems to notice." Blaine whispered. His predator and bully was watching him.
Kurt can remember, watching him walk down the hallways, hollow cheeks, gaunt, if anyone wanted to throw him around one or twice, it would've surely bruised him. He seemed so small and brittle.
Kurt's therapist explained that in Kurt's mind. He made it out so he was the victim. Pavarotti was Blaine. Pavarotti who wouldn't eat or drink, flinched at his touch but was warm and welcoming to everyone else.
"Protect him. That bird is your voice."
Kurt's therapist then went on to explain how he'd make himself the victim just so he would forget. He made an elaborate fantasy where everything was okay, where Blaine hadn't been bullied, where Blaine hadn't complained to the facility with hopeful eyes and was shoved away. Kurt made an alternate ending where Blaine just ran off and found someplace – that he didn't really slowly break, writhing, that his stepfather didn't really sexually abuse him. Kurt seemed to make up Nick's pain to take off some of the agony off Blaine, to pretend it was non-existent, but slowly, his fantasy had aspects of his real life.
That nobody cared when Blaine started self-harming, when Blaine was raped, when Blaine was pushed to the point where he just blew his brains out. That Christmas morning, Blaine had honestly thought it was a gift he'd given to everyone.
Most of all, his therapist had told him that he had created a fantasy where he wasn't Blaine's bully, that he didn't take Blaine into his arms and forcefully kissed him. She told him that Kurt had denied all of it, that he was in some sick way in love with Blaine.
"You said," she said, looking from the clipboard. Her black haired bob. "If I recall…that…you held his hand when you found him, right from when his pulse was very weak until it was non-existent. Is that correct?"
Kurt seemed to push this away. "When can I see Blaine?"
"Mr Hummel, Blaine is dead."
Kurt's eyes were a soft clear blue. He looked down at his hands, almost as if imaging Blaine's hand there. He can still feel Blaine's hand.
"Mr Hummel," her voice was curt. "You do not love Blaine. You have a personality disorder. You have only created a fantasy where you can love and feel emotion. You do not care about anything. You've stated this several times before."
"I can love," Kurt whispered with some soft darkness to his voice.
"Mr Hummel, you killed your Mother. You are a danger to your Father and everyone around you. You cannot deny this any longer. The intense emotion you were describing for years now?" her eyes were full of hardness, like Kurt was trash. "It was guilt, something you don't recongise if it's not in dream form. I have to transfer you to a psych ward."
Kurt stood up to leave, and walked outside where Burt was looking down at him. "What went on there, huh?"
"Shut up," Kurt murmured coldly under his breath.
Burt laid his hand onto Kurt's shoulder. "Don't worry. They gave me meds. Plus therapy sounds good, huh?"
Kurt didn't even look at him. "Where's Blaine?"
Burt didn't answer.
"Where. Is. Blaine?" Kurt repeated, voice full of current spite.
"You really wanna know?" Burt whispered. Kurt nodded his head. The drive was about fifteen minutes afterwards. Kurt had stumbled across the field. Burt looked uncertain as Kurt made his way towards the stone. He waited for some sort of emotion, anything. Nothing came. He looked down at the grave. Blaine Anderson. 1995-2012. There were no flowers. Nobody gave a damn about some gay kid. Kurt didn't really either. He stared at the grave for some time, waiting to feel some sort of emotion. He felt something conflicting, something in his mind – he didn't know. Maybe it was a feeling, something. Kurt was somewhat tempted to dig up the body to see him.
Somehow, he can remember it vividly now.
"I love him. You believe me, right?" Kurt said with a bit of tightness in his voice.
"Of course, I do, kiddo," Burt didn't believe a single word Kurt had said. "Come on. I gotta find some meds to put you on."
Personality disorders were untreatable. They can only hope some meds would work and that was a long shot as well. Therapy didn't work, so they stuck him in a school, maneuvering him with a straightjacket.
Kurt took a deep breath when he saw the institution he was being moved too. He knew this all along.
Kurt watched as Nick, a boy that used to be in his school, slit his wrists. Jeff, a boy with panic disorder, held him close. Trent threw up his food after eating the whole damn hall. David was bipolar. A boy named Sebastian Smythe had severe narcissism. Dalton was a lot like he'd imagined it – except in reality, he just didn't give a damn well fuck about any of these people. In his fantasy, or so his therapist said, he made it the complete opposite – that he was the only one with emotion. It was always the opposite in his mind. That didn't matter because Kurt didn't dream anymore.
Nick's self-harming escalated but the only one he leaned on was Jeff. Kurt liked making Jeff panic by keeping a rather large array of anything pointy he found around just so Nick can slit his wrists and die. When he did, Jeff was completely mute. He called Trent fat all the time until he was pushed into his currently 90lb state. Kurt played with David's meds until his rapid-cycling bipolar had spun out of control. He had slammed Sebastian's mirror into his face and slashed his body with a knife. Instead of his perfect body and face, he now had multiple scars.
This world was different. It was no fantasy. It was mere reality. Kurt could not love anyone. He had no ability to sing because to sing, he had to have a heart to sing. The minute he saw a bird like Pavarotti, he slammed it headfirst into the window and counted how many seconds until it was completely dead. In three years, he'd been moved to a cell with other people who wanted to murder and have sex with corpses. He was insane, but he was too young to be insane according to the DSM-IV anyway. His life was planned before him. The minute he turned 18, he will be diagnosed with a personality disorder he'd had since young and thrown in jail for the rest of his life.
His life was cold, dark, miserable and Kurt did not wish a better reality for anyone.
You fucking let go.
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In Ubuntu, I would like to know How do I access a specific file on a Windows share?
In Windows XP I could the use Run Command >>\\someserver but Im not sure what the equivilent options are in Ubuntu.
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nautilus "smb://someserver/share/path/to/file"
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thanks. that's what i was looking for! – sotiris Feb 19 '12 at 20:37
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LeBron James has a simple method to kill time between shootaround and tonight's game.
"Eat and sleep," James said. "I'll go to the hotel, get something to eat and then sleep and get ready for the bus."
James said he doesn't fall into the hysteria of fans, who swing wildly with each game. For the first two games, it appeared that the Celtics were hopeless. After the Celtics win in Game 3, suddenly the Heat should scrap everything and go back to the drawing board. That's the attitude on the outside, but James doesn't get caught up in it.
"In the playoffs, you never get too high or too low," James said. "We feel good about controlling home. We got here and we didn't play well, but we haven't gotten too high or too low in this whole series. It's the same attitude."
The other two main topics for the Heat since Game 3 has been defending Kevin Garnett and getting Dwyane Wade more involved offensively. You have to imagine Spoelstra will devise a wrinkle to prevent Garnett from getting the ball in such deep post position, but Miami is limited because of the personnel it has up front. They simply don't have a player with Garnett's mix of length and skill. As for Wade, he's done a good job of not forcing the action in the face of traps and double-teams. At the same time, he's one of the teams most dangerous weapons so the Heat can't be content for Wade to fill a passive role. They're determined to get him going early tonight, with transition opportunities an easy way to do so.
Once again, Chris Bosh is out tonight and the timetable for his return from a strained abdominal muscle remains indefinite, according to Spoelstra. There was some speculation that the Heat are holding Bosh out until they really need him, but considering the magnitude of this game it seems like he simply isn't ready to play.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828. Narrative of Sojourner Truth Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883 Gilbert, Olive 144 p., ill. Boston J. B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers 1850 Call number 326.92 T874N (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries)
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English Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883. African Americans -- Biography. African American women -- Biography. African American abolitionists -- Biography. Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography. Social reformers -- United States -- Biography. Slaves -- New York (State) -- Ulster County -- Biography. Slavery -- New York (State) -- Ulster County -- History -- 19th century. 2000-10-26, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2000-10-23, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2000-10-19, Lee Ann Morawski finished TEI/SGML encoding 2000-10-09, Andrew Smith finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.
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NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH, A NORTHERN SLAVE, EMANCIPATED FROM BODILY SERVITUDE BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN 1828. WITH A PORTRAIT. “SWEET is the virgin honey, though the wild bee store it in a reed; And bright the jewelled band that circleth an Ethiop's arm; Pure are the grains of gold in the turbid stream of the Ganges; And fair the living flowers that spring from the dull cold sod. Wherefore, thou gentle student, bend thine ear to my speech, For I also am as thou art; our hearts can commune together: To meanest matters will I stoop, for mean is the lot of mortal; I will rise to noblest themes, for the soul hath a heritage of glory.” BOSTON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1850. J. B. YERRINTON AND SON, PRINTERS, 21 CORNHILL, BOSTON. PREFACE.
THE following is the unpretending narrative of the life of a remarkable and meritorious woman—a life which has been checkered by strange vicissitudes, severe hardships, and singular adventures. Born a slave, and held in that brutal condition until the entire abolition of slavery in the State of New York in 1827, she has known what it is to drink to the dregs the bitterest cup of human degradation. That one thus placed on a level with cattle and swine, and for so many years subjected to the most demoralizing influences, should have retained her moral integrity to such an extent, and cherished so successfully the religious sentiment in her soul, shows a mind of no common order, while it heightens the detestation that is felt in every humane bosom, of that system of oppression which seeks to cripple the intellect, impair the understanding, and deprave the hearts of its victims—a system which has subjected to its own foul purposes, in the United States, all that is wealthy, talented, influential, and reputedly pious, in an overwhelming measure!
O the ‘fantastic tricks’ which the American people are ‘playing before high Heaven!’ O their profane use of the sacred name of Liberty! O their impious appeal to the God of the oppressed, for his divine benediction while they are making merchandise of his image! Do they not blush? Nay, they glory in their shame! Once a year they take special pains to exhibit themselves to the world in all their republican deformity and Christian barbarity, insanely supposing that they thus excite the envy, admiration and applause of mankind. The nations are looking at the dreadful spectacle with disgust and amazement. However sunken and degraded they may be, they are too elevated, too virtuous, too humane to be guilty of such conduct. Their voice is heard, saying—‘Americans! we hear your boasts of liberty, your shouts of independence, your declarations of hostility to every form of tyranny, your assertions that all men are created free and equal, and endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to liberty, the merry peal of your bells, and the deafening roar of your artillery; but, mingling with all these, and rising above them all, we also hear the clanking of chains! the shrieks and wailings of millions of your own countrymen, whom you wickedly hold in a state of slavery as much more frightful than the oppression which your fathers resisted unto blood, as the tortures of the Inquisition surpass the stings of an insect! We see your banner floating proudly in the breeze from every flag-staff and mast-head in the land; but its blood-red stripes are emblematical of your own slave-driving cruelty, as you apply the lash to the flesh of your guiltless victim, even the flesh of a wife and mother, shrieking for the restoration of the babe of her bosom, sold to the remorseless slave speculator! We catch the gleam of your illuminated hills, everywhere blazing with bonfires; we mark your gay processions; we note the number of your orators; we listen to the recital of your revolutionary achievements; we see you kneeling at the shrine of Freedom, as her best, her truest, her sincerest worshippers! Hypocrites! liars! adulterers! tyrants! men-stealers! atheists! Professing to believe in the natural equality of the human race—yet dooming a sixth portion of your immense population to beastly servitude, and ranking them among your goods and chattels! Professing to believe in the existence of a God—yet trading in his image, and selling those in the shambles for whose redemption the Son of God laid down his life! Professing to be Christians—yet withholding the Bible, the means of religious instruction, even the knowledge of the alphabet, from a benighted multitude, under terrible penalties! Boasting of your democracy—yet determining the rights of men by the texture of their hair and the color of their skin! Assuming to be ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave,—yet keeping in chains more slaves than any other nation, not excepting slave-cursed Brazil! Prating of your morality and honesty—yet denying the rites of marriage to three millions of human beings, and plundering them of all their hard earnings! Affecting to be horror-struck in view of the foreign slave-trade—yet eagerly pursuing a domestic traffic equally cruel and unnatural, and reducing to slavery not less than seventy thousand new victims annually! Vaunting of your freedom of speech and of the press—your matchless Constitution and your glorious Union—yet denouncing as traitors, and treating as outlaws, those who have the courage and fidelity to plead for immediate, untrammelled, universal emancipation! Monsters that ye are! how can ye expect to escape the scorn of the world, and the wrath of Heaven? Emancipate your slaves, if you would redeem your tarnished character—if you would obtain forgiveness here, and salvation hereafter! Until you do so, “there will be a stain upon your national escutcheon, which all the waters of the Atlantic cannot wash out!” ’
It is thus that, as a people, we are justly subjected to the reproach, the execration, the derision of mankind, and are made a proverb and a hissing among the nations. We cannot plead not guilty; every accusation that is registered against us is true; the act of violence is in our hands; the stolen property is in our possession; our fingers are stained with blood; the cup of our iniquity is full.
‘Just God! and shall we calmly rest, The Christian's scorn—the Heathen's mirth— Content to live the lingering jest And by-word of a mocking earth? Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which Europe scorns to bear? Shall our own brethren drag the chain, Which not even Russia's menials wear?’
It is useless, it is dreadful, it is impious for this nation longer to contend with the Almighty. All his attributes are against us, and on the side of the oppressed. Is it not a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God? Who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth as ‘a swift witness against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right?’ Wo to this bloody land! it is all full of lies and robbery—the prey departeth not, and the sound of a whip is heard continually. ‘Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil, maketh himself a prey. The Lord sees it, and is displeased that there is no judgment; and he hath put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and is clad with zeal as a cloak,—and, unless we repent by immediately undoing the heavy burdens and letting the oppressed go free, according to our deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. ‘The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.’ ‘O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. To him that smote Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy endureth for ever. And overthrew Pharaoh and his hosts in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.’ ‘Sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.’ ‘Even so, Lord God Almighty, for so it seemeth good in thy sight.’ ‘Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?’
In this great contest of Right against Wrong, of Liberty against Slavery, who are the wicked, if they be not those, who, like vultures and vampyres, are gorging themselves with human blood? if they be not the plunderers of the poor, the spoilers of the defenceless, the traffickers in ‘slaves and the souls of men?’ Who are the cowards, if not those who shrink from manly argumentation, the light of truth, the concussion of mind, and a fair field? if not those whose prowess, stimulated by whiskey potations, or the spirit of murder, grows rampant as the darkness of night approaches; whose shouts and yells are savage and fiend-like; who furiously exclaim, ‘Down with free discussion! down with the liberty of the press! down with the right of petition! down with constitutional law!’—who rifle mail-bags, throw types and printing-presses into the river, burn public halls dedicated to ‘Virtue, Liberty and Independence’ and assassinate the defenders of inalienable human rights? And who are the righteous, in this case, if they be not those who will ‘have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them;’ who maintain that the laborer is worthy of his hire, that the marriage institution is sacred, that slavery is a system accursed of God, that tyrants are the enemies of mankind, and that immediate emancipation should be given to all who are pining in bondage! Who are the truly brave, if not those who demand for truth and error alike, free speech, a free press, in open arena, the right of petition, AND NO QUARTERS? if not those, who, instead of skulking from the light, stand forth in the noon-tide blaze of day, and challenge their opponents to emerge from their wolf-like dens, that, by a rigid examination, it may be seen who has stolen the wedge of gold, in whose pocket are the thirty pieces of silver, and whose garments are stained with the blood of innocence?
IT is due to the lady by whom the following Narrative was kindly written, to state, that she has not been able to see a single proof-sheet of it; consequently, it is very possible that divers errors in printing may have occurred, (though it is hoped none materially affecting the sense,) especially in regard to the names of individuals referred to therein. The name of Van Wagener should read Van Wagenen.
THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself—but whose name, originally, was lsabella—was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York.
Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch.
Among Isabella's earliest recollections was the removal of her master, Charles Ardinburgh, into his new house, which he had built for a hotel, soon after the decease of his father. A cellar, under this hotel, was assigned to his slaves, as their sleeping apartment—all the slaves he possessed of both sexes, sleeping (as is quite common in a state of slavery) in the same room. She carries in her mind, to this day, a vivid picture of this dismal chamber; its only lights consisting of a few panes of glass, through which she thinks the sun never shone, but with thrice reflected rays; and the space between the loose boards of the floor, and the uneven earth below, was often filled with mud and water, the uncomfortable splashings of which were as annoying as its noxious vapors must have been chilling and fatal to health. She shudders, even now, as she goes back in memory and revisits this cellar, and sees its inmates, of both sexes and all ages, sleeping on those damp boards, like the horse, with a little straw and a blanket; and she wonders not at the rheumatisms, and fever-sores, and palsies, that distorted the limbs and racked the bodies of those fellow-slaves in after-life. Still, she does not attribute this cruelty—for cruelty it certainly is, to be so unmindful of the health and comfort of any being, leaving entirely out of sight his more important part, his everlasting interests,—so much to any innate or constitutional cruelty of the master as to that gigantic inconsistency, that inherited habit among slaveholders, of expecting a willing and intelligent obedience from the slave, because he is a MAN—at the same time every thing belonging to the soul-harrowing system does its best to crush the last vestige of a man within him; and when it is crushed, and often before, he is denied the comforts of life, on the plea that he knows neither the want nor the use of them, and because he is considered to be little more or little less than a beast.
Of the two that immediately preceded her in age, a boy of five years, and a girl of three, who were sold when she was an infant, she heard much; and she wishes that all who would fain believe that slave parents have not natural affection for their offspring could have listened as she did, while Bomefree and Mau-mau Bett,—their dark cellar lighted by a blazing pine-knot,—would sit for hours, recalling and recounting every endearing, as well as harrowing circumstance that taxed memory could supply, from the histories of those dear departed ones, of whom they had been robbed, and for whom their hearts still bled. Among the rest, they would relate how the little boy, on the last morning he was with them, arose with the birds, kindled a fire, calling for his Mau-mau to ‘come, for all was now ready for her’—little dreaming of the dreadful separation which was so near at hand, but of which his parents had an uncertain, but all the more cruel foreboding. There was snow on the ground, at the time of which we are speaking; and a large old-fashioned sleigh was seen to drive up to the door of the late Col. Ardinburgh. This event was noticed with childish pleasure by the unsuspicious boy; but when he was taken and put into the sleigh, and saw his little sister actually shut and locked into the sleigh box, his eyes were at once opened to their intentions; and, like a frightened deer, he sprang from the sleigh, and running into the house, concealed himself under a bed. But this availed him little. He was re-conveyed to the sleigh, and separated for ever from those whom God had constituted his natural guardians and protectors, and who should have found him, in return, a stay and a staff to them in their declining years. But I make no comments on facts like these, knowing that the heart of every slave parent will make its own comment, involuntarily and correctly, as soon as each heart shall make the case its own. Those who are not parents will draw their conclusions from the promptings of humanity and philanthropy:—these, enlightened by reason and revelation, are also unerring.
At length, the never-to be-forgotten day of the terrible auction arrived, when the ‘slaves, horses, and other cattle’ of Charles Ardinburgh, deceased, were to be put under the hammer, and again change masters. Not only Isabella and Peter, but their mother, was now destined to the auction block, and would have been struck off with the rest to the highest bidder, but for the following circumstance: A question arose among the heirs, ‘Who shall be burthened with Bomefree, when we have sent away his faithful Mau-mau Bett?’ He was becoming weak and infirm; his limbs were painfully rheumatic and distorted—more from exposure and hardship than from old age, though he was several years older than Mau-mau Bett; he was no longer considered of value, but must soon be a burthen and a care to some one. After some contention on the point at issue, none being willing to be burthened with him it was finally agreed, as most expedient for the heirs, that the price of Mau-mau Bett should be sacrificed, and she receive her freedom, on condition that she take care of and support her faithful James,—faithful, not only to her as a husband, but proverbially faithful as a slave, to those who would not willingly sacrifice a dollar for his comfort, now that he had commenced his descent into the dark vale of decrepitude and suffering. This important decision was received as joyful news indeed to our ancient couple, who were the objects of it, and who were trying to prepare their hearts for a severe struggle, and one altogether new to them, as they had never before been separated; for, though ignorant, helpless, crushed in spirit, and weighed down with hardship and cruel bereavement, they were still human and their human hearts beat within them with as true an affection as ever caused a human heart to beat. And their anticipated separation now, in the decline of life, after the last child had been torn from them, must have been truly appalling. Another privilege was granted them—that of remaining occupants of the same dark, humid cellar I have before described: otherwise, they were to support themselves as they best could. And as her mother was still able to do considerable work, and her father a little, they got on for some time very comfortably. The strangers who rented the house were humane people and very kind to them; they were not rich, and owned no slaves. How long this state of things continued, we are unable to say, as Isabella had not then sufficiently cultivated her organ of time to calculate years, or even weeks or hours. But she thinks her mother must have lived several years after the death of Master Charles. She remembers going to visit her parents some three or four times before the death of her mother, and a good deal of time seemed to her to intervene between each visit.
One morning in early autumn, (from the reason above mentioned, we cannot tell what year,) Mau-mau Bett told James she would make him a loaf of rye-bread and get Mrs. Simmons, their kind neighbor, to bake it for them, as she would bake that forenoon. James told her he had engaged to rake after the cart for his neighbors that morning; but before he commenced, he would pole off some apples from a tree near, which they were allowed to gather; and if she could get some of them baked with the bread, it would give it a nice relish for their dinner. He beat off the apples, and soon after, saw Mau-mau Bett come out and gather them up.
They owned a large farm, but left it wholly unimproved; attending mainly to their vocations of fishing and inn-keeping. Isabella declares she can ill describe the life she led with them. It was a wild, out-of-door kind of life. She was expected to carry fish, to hoe corn, to bring roots and herbs from the wood for beers, go to the Strand for a gallon of molasses or liquor as the case might require, and ‘browse around,’ as she expresses it. It was a life that suited her well for the time—being as devoid of hardship or terror as it was of improvement; a need which had not yet become a want. Instead of improving at this place, morally, she retrograded, as their example taught her to curse; and it was here that she took her first oath. After living with them about a year and a half, she was sold to one John J. Dumont, for the sum of seventy pounds. This was in 1810. Mr. Dumont lived in the same county as her former masters, in the town of New Paltz, and she remained with him till a short time previous to her emancipation by the State, in 1828.
*Yet no official notice was taken of this more than brutal murder.
But to return from our digression.
After leaving her mistress, she called on Mrs. Gedney, mother of him who had sold her boy; who, after listening to her lamentations, her grief being mingled with indignation at the sale of her son, and her declaration that she would have him again—said, ‘Dear me! What a disturbance to make about your child! What, is your child, better than my child? My child is gone out there, and yours is gone to live with her, to have enough of every thing, and to be treated like a gentleman!’ And here she laughed at Isabel's absurd fears, as she would represent them to be. ‘Yes,’ said Isabel, ‘your child has gone there, but she is married, and my boy has gone as a slave! and he is too little to go so far from his mother. Oh, I must have my child.’ And here the continued laugh of Mrs. G. seemed to Isabel, in this time of anguish and distress, almost demoniacal. And well it was for Mrs. Gedney, that, at that time, she could not even dream of the awful fate awaiting her own beloved daughter, at the hands of him whom she had chosen as worthy the wealth of her love and confidence, and in whose society her young heart had calculated on a happiness, purer and more elevated than was ever conferred by a kingly crown. But alas! she was doomed to disappointment, as we shall relate by and by. At this point, Isabella earnestly begged of God that he would show those about her that he was her helper; and she adds in narrating, ‘And he did; or, if he did not show them, he did me.’
By a little inquiry, she found which was the building she sought, went into the door, and taking the first man she saw of imposing appearance for the grand jury, she commenced her complaint. But he very civilly informed her there was no grand jury there; she must go up stairs. When she had with some difficulty ascended the flight through the crowd that filled them, she again turned to the ‘grandest’ looking man she could select, telling him she had come to enter a complaint to the grand jury. For his own amusement, he inquired what her complaint was; but, when he saw it was a serious matter, he said to her, ‘This is no place to enter a complaint—go in there,’ pointing in a particular direction.
But while the constable, through mistake, served the writ on a brother of the real culprit, Solomon Gedney slipped into a boat and was nearly across the North River, on whose banks they were standing, before the dull Dutch constable was aware of his mistake. Solomon Gedney, meanwhile, consulted a lawyer, who advised him to go to Alabama and bring back the boy, otherwise it might cost him fourteen years' imprisonment and a thousand dollars in cash. By this time, it is hoped he began to feel that selling slaves unlawfully was not so good a business as he had wished to find it. He secreted himself till preparations could be made, and soon set sail for Alabama. Steamboats and railroads had not then annihilated distance to the extent they now have, and although he left in the fall of the year, spring came ere he returned, bringing the boy with him—but holding on to him as his property. It had ever been Isabella's prayer, not only that her son might be returned, but that he should be delivered from bondage, and into her own hands, lest he should be punished out of mere spite to her, who was so greatly annoying and irritating to her oppressors; and if her suit was gained, her very triumph would add vastly to their irritation.
When Isabella inquired, ‘What did Miss Eliza*
*Meaning Mrs. Eliza Fowler.
‘Your only son, ‘PETER VAN WAGENER.’
When Isabella had obtained the freedom of her son, she remained in Kingston, where she had been drawn by the judicial process, about a year, during which time she became a member of the Methodist Church there; and when she went to New York, she took a letter missive from that church to the Methodist Church in John street. Afterwards, she withdrew her connection with that church, and joined Zion's Church, in Church street, composed entirely of colored people. With the latter church she remained until she went to reside with Mr. Pierson, after which, she was gradually drawn into the ‘kingdom’ set up by the prophet Matthias, in the name of God the Father; for he said the spirit of God the Father dwelt in him.
We now come to an eventful period in the life of Isabella, as identified with one of the most extraordinary religious impostures of modern times; but the limits prescribed for the present work forbid a minute narration of all the occurrences that transpired in relation to it.
‘ “John the Baptist,” (addressing Mr. Pierson,) read the tenth chapter of Revelations.’ After the reading of the chapter, the prophet resumed speaking, as follows:—
She left the city on the morning of the 1st of June, 1843, crossing over to Brooklyn, L.I.; and taking the rising sun for her only compass and guide, she ‘remembered Lot's wife,’ and hoping to avoid her fate, she resolved not to look back till she felt sure the wicked city from which she was fleeing was left too far behind to be visible in the distance; and when she first ventured to look back, she could just discern the blue cloud of smoke that hung over it, and she thanked the Lord that she was thus far removed from what seemed to her a second Sodom.
As she drew near the centre of the Island, she commenced, one evening at nightfall, to solicit the favor of a night's lodging. She had repeated her request a great many, it seemed to her some twenty times, and as many times she received a negative answer. She walked on, the stars and the tiny horns of the new-moon shed but a dim light on her lonely way, when she was familiarly accosted by two Indians, who took her for an acquaintance. She told them they were mistaken in the person; she was a stranger there, and asked them the direction to a tavern. They informed her it was yet a long way—some two miles or so; and inquired if she were alone. Not wishing for their protection, or knowing what might be the character of their kindness, she answered, ‘No, not exactly,’ and passed on. At the end of a weary way, she came to the tavern,—or, rather, to a large building, which was occupied as court-house, tavern, and jail,—and on asking for a night's lodging, was informed she could stay, if she would consent to be locked in. This to her mind was an insuperable objection. To have a key turned on her was a thing not to be thought of, at least not to be endured, and she again took up her line of march, preferring to walk beneath the open sky, to being locked up by a stranger in such a place. She had not walked far, before she heard the voice of a woman under an open shed; she ventured to accost her, and inquired if she knew where she could get in for the night. The woman answered, that she did not, unless she went home with them; and turning to her ‘good man,’ asked him if the stranger could not share their home for the night, to which he cheerfully assented. Sojourner thought it evident he had been taking a drop too much, but as he was civil and good-natured, and she did not feel inclined to spend the night alone in the open air, she felt driven to the necessity of accepting their hospitality, whatever it might prove to be. The woman soon informed her that there was a ball in the place, at which they would like to drop in a while, before they went to their home.
‘Send her to brother—, brother—, and where she can do the most good.
‘From your brother, H. L. B.’
‘She remained with us till far into winter, when we introduced her at the Northampton Association.’ . . . . . ‘She wrote to me from thence, that she had found the quiet resting place she had so long desired. And she has remained there ever since.’
THIRTY HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS in this country, men, women and children, are in SLAVERY. Is slavery, as a condition for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent? We submit the question without argument. You have common sense, and conscience, and a human heart;—pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister—make the case your own, make it theirs, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered—‘Guilty;’ the same sentence has always been pronounced ‘Let it be accursed!’ and human nature, with her million echoes, has rung it round the world in every language under heaven, ‘Let it be accursed! Let it be accursed!’ His heart is false to human nature, who will not say ‘Amen.’ There is not a man on earth who does not believe that slavery is a curse. Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to herself. She has uttered her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten; and till it perishes amidst the execrations of the universe, she will traverse the world on its track, dealing her bolts upon its head, and dashing against it her condemning brand. We repeat it, every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Try him; clank the chains in his ears, and tell him they are for him; give him an hour to prepare his wife and children for a life of slavery; bid him make haste and get ready their necks for the yoke, and their wrists for the coffle chains, then look at his pale lips and trembling knees, and you have nature's testimony against slavery.
At least thirty hundred thousand persons in these States are in this condition. They were made slaves and are held such by force, and by being put in fear, and this for no crime! Reader, what have you to say of such treatment? Is it right, just, benevolent? Suppose I should seize you, rob you of your liberty, drive you into the field, and make you work without pay as long as you live, would that be justice and kindness, or monstrous injustice and cruelty? Now, every body knows that the slaveholders do these things to the slaves every day, and yet it is stoutly affirmed that they treat them well and kindly, and that their tender regard for their slaves restrains their masters from inflicting cruelties upon them. We shall go into no metaphysics to show the absurdity of this pretence. The man who robs you every day, is, forsooth, quite too tender-hearted ever to cuff or kick you! True, he can snatch your money, but he does it gently, lest he should hurt you. He can empty your pockets without qualms, but if your stomach is empty, it cuts him to the quick. He can make you work a life-time without pay, but loves you too well to let you go hungry. He fleeces you of your rights with a relish, but is shocked if you work bareheaded in summer, or in winter without warm stockings. He can make you go without your liberty, but never without a shirt. He can crush, in you, all hope of bettering your condition, by vowing that you shall die his slave, but though he can coolly torture your feelings, he is too compassionate to lacerate your back—he can break your heart, but he is very tender of your skin. He can strip you of all protection and thus expose you to all outrages, but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels! What! slaveholders talk of treating men well, and yet not only rob them of all they get, and as fast as they get it, but rob them of themselves, also; their very hands and feet, all their muscles, and limbs, and senses, their bodies and minds, their time and liberty and earnings, their free speech and rights of conscience, their right to acquire knowledge, and property, and reputation;—and yet they, who plunder them of all these, would fain make us believe that their soft hearts ooze out so lovingly toward their slaves, that they always keep them well housed and well clad, never push them too hard in the field, never make their dear backs smart, nor let their dear stomachs get empty.
But there is no end to these absurdities. Are slaveholders dunces, or do they take all the rest of the world to be, that they think to bandage our eyes with such thin gauzes? Protesting their kind regard for those whom they hourly plunder of all they have and all they get! What! when they have seized their victims, and annihilated all their rights, still claim to be the special guardians of their happiness? Plunderers of their liberty, yet the careful suppliers of their wants? Robbers of their earnings, yet watchful sentinels round their interests, and kind providers for their comfort? Filching all their time, yet granting generous donations for rest and sleep? Stealing the use of their muscles, yet thoughtful of their ease? Putting them under drivers, yet careful that they are not hard-pushed? Too humane, forsooth, to stint the stomachs of their slaves, yet force their minds to starve, and brandish over them pains and penalties, if they dare reach forth for the smallest crumb of knowledge, even a letter of the alphabet!
It is no marvel that slaveholders are always talking of their kind treatment of their slaves. The only marvel is, that men of sense can be gulled by such professions. Despots always insist that they are merciful. The greatest tyrants that ever dripped with blood have assumed the titles of ‘most gracious,’ ‘most clement,’ ‘most merciful,’ &c., and have ordered their crouching vassals to accost them thus. When did not vice lay claim to those virtues which are the opposites of its habitual crimes! The guilty, according to their own showing, are always innocent, and cowards brave, and drunkards sober, and harlots chaste, and pickpockets honest to a fault. Every body understands this. When a man's tongue grows thick, and he begins to hiccough and walk cross-legged, we expect him, as a matter of course, to protest that he is not drunk; so when a man is always singing the praises of his own honesty, we instinctively watch his movements and look out for our pocket-books. Whoever is simple enough to be hoaxed by such professions, should never be trusted in the streets without somebody to take care of him. Human nature works out in slaveholders just as it does in other men, and in American slaveholders just as in English, French, Turkish, Algerine, Roman and Grecian. The Spartans boasted of their kindness to their slaves, while they whipped them to death by thousands at the altars of their gods. The Romans lauded their own mild treatment of their bondsmen, while they branded their names on their flesh with hot irons, and when old, threw them into their fish-ponds, or like Cato ‘the Just,’ starved them to death. It is the boast of the Turks, that they treat their slaves as though they were their children, yet their common name for them is ‘dogs,’ and for the merest trifles, their feet are bastinadoed to a jelly, or their heads clipped off with a scimetar. The Portuguese pride themselves on their gentle bearing towards their slaves, yet the streets of Rio Janeiro are filled with naked men and women yoked in pairs to carts and wagons, and whipped by drivers like beasts of burden.
Slaveholders, the world over, have sung the praises of their tender mercies towards their slaves. Even the wretches that plied the African slave-trade tried to rebut Clarkson's proofs of their cruelties, by speeches, affidavits, and published pamphlets, setting forth the accommodations of the ‘middle passage,’ and their kind attentions to the comfort of those whom they had stolen from their homes, and kept stowed away under hatches, during a voyage of four thousand miles. So, according to the testimony of the autocrat of the Russias, he exercises great clemency towards the Poles, though he exiles them by thousands to the snows of Siberia, and tramples them down by millions at home. Who discredits the atrocities perpetrated by Ovando in Hispaniola, Pizarro in Peru, and Cortez in Mexico,—because they filled the ears of the Spanish Court with protestations of their benignant rule? While they were yoking the enslaved natives like beasts to the draught, working them to death by thousands in their mines, hunting them with bloodhounds, torturing them on racks, and broiling them on beds of coals, their representations to the mother country teemed with eulogies of their parental sway! The bloody atrocities of Philip II., in the expulsion of his Moorish subjects, are matters of imperishable history. Who disbelieves or doubts them? And yet his courtiers magnified his virtues and chanted his clemency and his mercy, while the wail of a million victims, smitten down by a tempest of fire and slaughter let loose at his bidding, rose above the Te Deums that thundered from all Spain's cathedrals. When Louis XIV. revoked the edict of Nantes, and proclaimed two millions of his subjects free plunder for persecution,—when from the English channel to the Pyrennees the mangled bodies of the Protestants were dragged on reeking hurdles by a shouting populace,—he claimed to be ‘the father of his people,’ and wrote himself ‘His most Christian Majesty.’
That slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; that they are over-worked, under-fed, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep; that they are often made to wear round their necks iron collars armed with prongs, to drag heavy chains and weights at their feet while working in the field, and to wear yokes and bells and iron horns; that they are often kept confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together, made to wear gags in their mouths for hours or days, have some of their front teeth torn out or broken off, that they may be easily detected when they run away; that they are frequently flogged with terrible severity, have red pepper rubbed into their lacerated flesh, and hot brine, spirits of turpentine, &c., poured over the gashes to increase the torture; that they are often stripped naked, their backs and limbs cut with knives, bruised and mangled by scores and hundreds of blows with the paddle, and terribly torn by the claws of cats, drawn over them by their tormentors; that they are often hunted with bloodhounds and shot down like beasts, or torn in pieces by dogs; that they are often suspended by the arms and whipped and beaten till they faint, and when revived by restoratives, beaten again till they faint, and sometimes till they die; that their ears are often cut off, their eyes knocked out, their bones broken, their flesh branded with red hot irons; that they are maimed, mutilated, and burned to death over slow fires; are undeniable facts.
The enormities inflicted by slaveholders upon their slaves will never be discredited, except by those who overlook the simple fact, that he who holds human beings as his bona fide property, regards them as property, and not as persons; this is his permanent state of mind towards them. He does not contemplate slaves as human beings, consequently does not treat them as such; and with entire indifference sees them suffer privations and writhe under blows, which, if inflicted upon whites, would fill him with horror and indignation. He regards that as good treatment of slaves, which would seem to him insufferable abuse, if practised upon others; and would denounce that as a monstrous outrage and horrible cruelty, if perpetrated upon white men and women, which he sees every day meted out to black slaves, without perhaps ever thinking it cruel. Accustomed all his life to regard them rather as domestic animals, to hear them stormed at, and to see them cuffed and caned; and being himself in constant habit of treating them thus, such practices have become to him a mere matter of course and make no impression on his mind. True, it is incredible that men should treat as chattels those whom they truly regard as human beings, but that they should treat as chattels and working animals those whom they regard as such, is no marvel. The common treatment of dogs, when they are in the way, is to kick them out of it; we see them every day kicked off of sidewalks, and on Sabbaths out of churches—yet, as they are but dogs, these do not strike us as outrages; yet if we were to see men, women, and children—our neighbors and friends—kicked out of stores by merchants, or out of churches by the deacons and sexton, we should call the perpetrators inhuman wretches.
We have said that slaveholders regard their slaves not as human beings, but as mere working animals; or merchandise. The whole vocabulary of slaveholders, their laws, their usages, and their entire treatment of their slaves fully establish this. The same terms are applied to slaves that are given to cattle. They are called ‘stock.’ So, when the children of slaves are spoken of prospectively, they are called their ‘increase;’ the same term that is applied to flocks and herds. So the female slaves that are mothers are called ‘breeders,’ till past child-bearing; and often the same terms are applied to the different sexes that are applied to the males and females among cattle. Those who compel the labor of slaves and cattle have the same appellation, ‘drivers;’ the names which they call them are the same, and similar to those given to their horses and oxen. The laws of slave States make them property, equally with goats and swine; they are levied upon for debt in the same way; they are included in the same advertisements of public sales with cattle, swine and asses; when moved from one part of the country to another, they are herded in droves like cattle, and like them urged on by drivers; their labor is compelled in the same way. They are bought and sold, and separated like cattle; when exposed for sale, their good qualities are described as jockeys show off the good points of their horses; their strength, activity, skill, power of endurance, &c., are lauded, and those who bid upon them examine their persons, just as purchasers inspect horses and oxen; they open their mouths to see if their teeth are sound; strip their backs to see if they are badly scarred, and handle their limbs and muscles to see if they are firmly knit. Like horses they are warranted to be ‘sound,’ or to be returned to the owner if ‘unsound.’ A father gives his son a horse and slave; by his will he distributes among them his racehorses, hounds, game-cocks, and slaves. We leave the reader to carry out the parallel which we have only begun. Its details would cover many pages.
That slaveholders do not practically regard slaves as human beings is abundantly shown by their own voluntary testimony. In a recent work entitled, ‘The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of Northern Abolitionists,’ which was written, we are informed, by Colonel Dayton, late member of Congress from South Carolina, the writer, speaking of the awe with which the slaves regard the whites, says—
‘The Northerner looks upon a band of negroes as upon so many men, but the planter or Southerner views them in a very different light!’
Extract from a speech of Mr. SUMMERS, of Virginia, in the Legislature of that State, January 26, 1832. See the Richmond Whig:—
‘When, in the sublime lessons of Christianity, he (the slaveholder) is taught to “do unto others as he would have others do unto him,” HE NEVER DREAMS THAT THE DEGRADED NEGRO IS WITHIN THE PALE OF THAT HOLY CANON.’
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, in his letter to GOVERNOR COLES, of Illinois, dated August 25, 1814, asserts that slaveholders regard their slaves as brutes, in the following remarkable language:—
‘Nursed and educated in the daily habit of seeing the degraded condition, both bodily and mental, of these unfortunate beings, [the slaves,] FEW MINDS HAVE YET DOUBTED BUT THAT THEY WERE AS LEGITIMATE SUBJECTS OF PROPERTY AS THEIR HORSES OR CATTLE.’
Having shown that slaveholders regard their slaves as mere working animals and cattle, we now proceed to show that their actual treatment of them is worse than it would be if they were brutes. We repeat it, SLAVEHOLDERS TREAT THEIR SLAVES WORSE THAN THEY DO THEIR BRUTES. Whoever heard of cows or sheep being deliberately tied up and beaten and lacerated till they died? or horses coolly tortured by the hour, till covered with mangled flesh? or of swine having their legs tied and being suspended from a tree and lacerated with thongs for hours? or of hounds stretched and made fast at full length, flayed with whips, red pepper rubbed into their bleeding gashes, and hot brine dashed on to aggravate the torture?
Yet, just such forms and degrees of torture are daily perpetrated upon the slaves. Now, no man that knows human nature will marvel at this. Though great cruelties have always been inflicted by men upon brutes, yet incomparably the most horrid ever perpetrated have been those of men upon their own species. Any leaf of history turned over at random has proof enough of this. Every reflecting mind perceives that when men hold human beings as property, they must, from the nature of the case, treat them worse than they treat their horses and oxen. It is impossible for cattle to excite in men such tempests of fury as men excite in each other. Men are often provoked if their horses or hounds refuse to do, or their pigs refuse to go where they wish to drive them, but the feeling is rarely intense and never permanent. It is vexation and impatience, rather than settled rage, malignity, or revenge. If horses and dogs were intelligent beings, and still held as property, their opposition to the wishes of their owners would exasperate them immeasurably more than it would be possible for them to do, with the minds of brutes. None but little children and idiots get angry at sticks and stones that lie in their way or hurt them; but put into sticks and stones intelligence, and will, and power of feeling and motion, while they remain as now, articles of property, and what a towering rage would men be in, if bushes whipped them in the face when they walked among them, or stones rolled over their toes when they climbed hills! and what exemplary vengeance would be inflicted upon door-steps and hearth-stones, if they were to move out of their places, instead of lying still where they were put for their owners to tread upon! The greatest provocation to human nature is opposition to its will. If a man's will be resisted by one far below him, the provocation is vastly greater than when it is resisted by an acknowledged superior. In the former case, it inflames strong passions, which in the latter lie dormant. The rage of proud Haman knew no bounds against the poor Jew who would not do as he wished, and so he built a gallows for him. If the person opposing the will of another be so far below him as to be on a level with chattels, and be actually held and used as an article of property, pride, scorn, lust of power, rage and revenge explode together upon the hapless victim. The idea of property having a will, and that too in opposition to the will of its owner, and counteracting it, is a stimulant of terrible power to the most relentless human passions; and from the nature of slavery, and the constitution of the human mind, this fierce stimulant must, with various degrees of strength, act upon slaveholders almost without ceasing. The slave, however abject and crushed, is an intelligent being: he has a will, and that will cannot be annihilated, it will show itself; if for a moment it is smothered, like pent up fires, when vent is found, it flames the fiercer. Make intelligence property, and its manager will have his match; he is met at every turn by an opposing will, not in the form of downright rebellion and defiance, but yet, visibly, an ever-opposing will. He sees it in the dissatisfied look, and reluctant air, and unwilling movement; the constrained strokes of labor, the drawling tones, the slow hearing, the feigned stupidity, the sham pains and sickness, the short memory; and he feels it every hour, in innumerable forms, frustrating his designs by a ceaseless, though perhaps invisible countermining. This unceasing opposition to the will of its ‘owner,’ on the part of his rational ‘property,’ is to the slaveholder as the hot iron to the nerve. He raves under it, and storms, gnashes, and smites; but the more he smites, the hotter it gets, and the more it burns him. Further, this opposition of the slave's will to his owner's, not only excites him to severity, that he may gratify his rage, but makes it necessary for him to use violence in breaking down this resistance—thus subjecting the slave to additional tortures. There is another inducement to cruel inflictions upon the slave, and a necessity for it, which does not exist in the case of brutes. Offenders must be made an example to others, to strike them with terror. If a slave runs away and is caught, his master flogs him with terrible severity, not merely to gratify his resentment, and to keep him from running away again, but as a warning to others. So in every case of disobedience, neglect, stubbornness, unfaithfulness, indolence, insolence, theft, feigned sickness, when his directions are forgotten, or slighted, or supposed to be, or his wishes crossed, or his property injured, or left exposed, or his work ill-executed, the master is tempted to inflict cruelties not merely to wreak his own vengeance upon him, and to make the slave more circumspect in future, but to sustain his authority over the other slaves, to restrain them from like practices, and to preserve his own property.
A multitude of facts, illustrating the position that slaveholders treat their slaves worse than they do their cattle, will occur to all who are familiar with slavery. When cattle break through their owners' inclosures and escape, if found, they are driven back and fastened in again; and even slaveholders would execrate as a wretch, the man who should tie them up, and bruise and lacerate them for straying away; but when slaves that have escaped are caught, they are flogged with the most terrible severity. When herds of cattle are driven to market, they are suffered to go in the easiest way, each by himself; but when slaves are driven to market, they are fastened together with handcuffs, galled by iron collars and chains, and thus forced to travel on foot hundreds of miles, sleeping at night in their chains. Sheep, and sometimes horned cattle, are marked with their owners' initials—but this is generally done with paint, and of course produces no pain. Slaves, too, are often marked with their owners' initials, but the letters are stamped into their flesh with a hot iron. Cattle are suffered to graze their pastures without stint; but the slaves are restrained in their food to a fixed allowance. The slaveholders' horses are notoriously far better fed, more moderately worked, have fewer hours of labor, and longer intervals of rest, than their slaves; and their valuable horses are far more comfortably housed and lodged, and their stables more effectually defended from the weather than the slaves' huts.
These objectors can really believe the fact, that in the city of New York, less than a hundred years since, thirteen persons were publicly burned to death, over a slow fire; and that the legislature of the same State took under its paternal care the African slave-trade, and declared that ‘all encouragement should be given to the direct importation of slaves; that all smuggling of slaves should be condemned, as an eminent discouragement to the fair trader.’
They do not call in question the fact that the African slave-trade was carried on from the ports of the free States till within thirty years; that even members of the Society of Friends were actively engaged in it, shortly before the revolutionary war;*
* See Life and Travels of John Woolman, page 92.
that as late as 1807, no less than fifty-nine of the vessels engaged in that trade were sent out from the little State of Rhode Island, which had then only about seventy thousand inhabitants; that among those most largely engaged in those foul crimes, are the men whom the people of Rhode Island delight to honor: that the man who dipped most deeply in that trade of blood, (James de Wolf,) and amassed a most princely fortune by it, was not long since their Senator in Congress; and another, who was captain of one of his vessels, was recently Lieutenant Governor of the State.
They can believe, too, all the horrors of the middle passage, the chains, suffocation, maimings, stranglings, starvation, and cold-blooded murders, atrocities perpetrated on board these slave-ships by their own citizens, perhaps by their own townsmen and neighbors—possibly by their own fathers: but, O! they ‘can't believe that the slaveholders can be so hard-hearted towards their slaves as to treat them with great cruelty.’ They can believe that His Holiness the Pope, with his cardinals, bishops and priests, have tortured, broken on the wheel, and burned to death thousands of Protestants—that eighty thousand of the Anabaptists were slaughtered in Germany—that hundreds of thousands of the blameless Waldenses, Huguenots and Lollards, were torn in pieces by the most titled dignitaries of church and state, and that almost every professedly Christian sect has, at some period of its history, persecuted unto blood those who dissented from their creed. They can believe also, that in Boston, New York, Utica, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Alton, and scores of other cities and villages of the free States, ‘gentlemen of property and standing,’ led on by civil officers, by members of State legislatures, and of Congress, by judges and attorneys-general, by editors of newspapers, and by professed ministers of the gospel, have organized mobs, broken up lawful meetings of peaceable citizens, committed assault and battery upon their persons, knocked them down with stones, led them about with ropes, dragged them from their beds at midnight, gagged and forced them into vehicles, and driven them into unfrequented places, and there tormented and disfigured them—that they have rifled their houses, made bonfires of their furniture in the streets, burned to the ground, or torn in pieces the halls or churches in which they were assembled—attacked them with deadly weapons, stabbed some, shot others, and killed one. They can believe all this—and further, that a majority of the citizens in the places where these outrages have been committed, connived at them; and by refusing to indict the perpetrators, or, if they were indicted, by combining to secure their acquittal, and rejoicing in it, have publicly adopted these felonies as their own. All these things they can believe without hesitation, and that they have even been done by their own acquaintances, neighbors, relatives; perhaps those with whom they interchange courtesies, those for whom they vote, or to whose salaries they contribute—but yet, O! they can never believe that slaveholders inflict cruelties upon their slaves!
They can give full credence to the kidnapping, imprisonment, and deliberate murder of WILLIAM MORGAN and that by men of high standing in society; they can believe that this deed was aided and abetted, and the murderers screened from justice, by a large number of influential persons, who were virtually accomplices, either before or after the fact; and that this combination was so effectual, as successfully to defy and triumph over the combined powers of the government; yet that those who constantly rob men of their time, liberty and wages, and all their rights, should rob them of bits of flesh, and occasionally of a tooth, make their backs bleed, and put fetters on their legs, is too monstrous to be credited! Further, these same persons, who ‘can't believe’ that slaveholders are so iron-hearted as to ill-treat their slaves, believe that the very elite of these slaveholders, those most highly esteemed and honored among them, are continually daring each other to mortal conflict, and in the presence of mutual friends, taking deadly aim at each other's hearts, with settled purpose to kill, if possible. That among the most distinguished Governors of slave States, among their most celebrated judges, senators, and representatives in Congress, there is hardly one who has not either killed, or tried to kill, or aided and abetted his friends in trying to kill, one or more individuals. That pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, or other instruments of death, are generally carried throughout the slave States—and that deadly affrays with them, in the streets of their cities and villages, are matters of daily occurrence; that the sons of slaveholders in southern colleges bully, threaten, and fire upon their teachers, and their teachers upon them; that, during the last summer in the most celebrated seat of science and literature in the South, the University of Virginia, the professors were attacked by more than seventy armed students, and in the words of a Virginia paper, were obliged ‘to conceal themselves from their fury;’ also, that almost all the riots and violence that occur in northern colleges are produced by the turbulence and lawless passions of southern students. That such are the furious passions of slaveholders, no considerations of personal respect, none for the proprieties of life, none for the honor of our national legislature, none for the character of our country abroad, can restrain the slaveholding members of Congress from the most disgraceful personal encounters on the floor of our nation's legislature—smiting their fists in each other's faces, throttling, and even kicking and trying to gouge each other; that, during the session of the Congress just closed, no less than six slaveholders, taking fire at words spoken in debate, have either rushed at each other's throats, or kicked, or struck, or attempted to knock each other down; and that in all these instances, they would doubtless have killed each other, if their friends had not separated them. Further, they know full well, these were not insignificant, vulgar blackguards, elected because they were the head bullies and bottle-holders in a boxing ring, or because their constituents went drunk to the ballot-box; but they were some of the most conspicuous members of the House—one of them a former Speaker.
Our newspapers are full of these and similar daily occurrences among slaveholders, copied verbatim from their own accounts of them in their own papers, and all this we fully credit; no man is simpleton enough to cry out, ‘O, I can't believe that slaveholders do such things,’—and yet, when we turn to the treatment which these men mete out to their slaves, and show that they are in the habitual practice of striking, kicking, knocking down and shooting them as well as each other—the look of blank incredulity that comes over northern dough-faces is a study for a painter: and then the sentimental outcry, with eyes and hands uplifted, ‘Oh, indeed, I can't believe the slaveholders are so cruel to their slaves.’ Most amiable and touching charity!
Arbitrary power is to the mind what alcohol is to the body; it intoxicates. Man loves power. It is perhaps the strongest human passion; and the more absolute the power, the stronger the desire for it; and the more it is desired, the more its exercise is enjoyed: this enjoyment is to human nature a fearful temptation,—generally an over-match for it. Hence it is true, with hardly an exception, that arbitrary power is abused in proportion as it is desired. The fact that a person intensely desires power over others, without restraint, shows the absolute necessity of restraint. What woman would marry a man who made it a condition that he should have the power to divorce her whenever he pleased? Oh! he might never wish to exercise it, but the power he would have! No woman, not stark mad, would trust her happiness in such hands.
Would a father apprentice his son to a master, who insisted that his power over the lad should be absolute? The master might, perhaps, never wish to commit a battery upon the boy, but if he should, he insists upon having full swing! He who would leave his son in the clutches of such a wretch, would be bled and blistered for a lunatic as soon as his friends could get their hands upon him.
The possession of power, even when greatly restrained, is such a fiery stimulant, that its lodgment in human hands is always perilous. Give men the handling of immense sums of money, and all the eyes of Argus and the hands of Briareus can hardly prevent embezzlement.
That American slaveholders possess a power over their slaves which is virtually absolute, none will deny.*
* The following extracts from the laws of slave States are proofs sufficient:—
‘The slave is ENTIRELY subject to the WILL of his master.—Louisiana Civil Code, Art. 273.
‘Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES, WHATSOEVER.’—Laws of South Carolina, 2 Brev. Dig. 229, Prince's Digest, 446, &c.
That they desire this absolute power, is shown from the fact of their holding and exercising it, and making laws to confirm and enlarge it. That the desire to possess this power, every tittle of it, is intense, is proved by the fact, that slaveholders cling to it with such obstinate tenacity, as well as by all their doings and sayings, their threats, cursings and gnashings against all who denounce the exercise of such power as usurpation and outrage, and counsel its immediate abrogation.
From the nature of the case, from the laws of mind, such power, so intensely desired, griped with such a death-clutch, and with such fierce spurnings of all curtailment or restraint, cannot but be abused. Privations and inflictions must be its natural, habitual products, with ever and anon, terror, torture and despair, let loose to do their worst upon their helpless victims.
Slaveholders organize themselves into a tribunal to adjudicate upon their own conduct, and give us, in their decisions, their estimate of their own character; informing us with characteristic modesty, that they have a high opinion of themselves; that in their own judgment, they are very mild, kind, and merciful gentlemen! In these conceptions of their own merits, and of the eminent propriety of their bearing towards their slaves,—slaveholders remind us of the Spaniard, who always took off his hat whenever he spoke of himself, and of the Governor of Schiraz, who, from a sense of justice to his own character, added to his other titles those of ‘Flower of Courtesy,’ ‘Nutmeg of Consolation,’ and ‘Rose of Delight.’
When men speak of the treatment of others as being either good or bad, their declarations are not generally to be taken as testimony to matters of fact, so much as expressions of their own feelings towards those persons or classes who are the subjects of such treatment. If those persons are their fellow citizens; if they are in the same class of society with themselves; of the same language, creed, and color; similar in their habits, pursuits, and sympathies; they will keenly feel any wrong done to them, and denounce it as base, outrageous treatment; but let the same wrongs be done to persons of a condition in all respects the reverse, persons whom they habitually despise, and regard only in the light of mere conveniences, to be used for their pleasure, and the idea that such treatment is barbarous will be laughed at as ridiculous. When we hear slaveholders say that their slaves are well treated, we have only to remember that they are not speaking of persons, but of property; not of men and women, but of chattels and things; not of friends and associates, but of vassals and victims; not of those whom they respect and honor, but of those whom they scorn and trample on; not of those with whom they sympathize, and co-operate, and interchange courtesies, but of those whom they regard with contempt and aversion, and disdainfully set with the dogs of their flock. Reader, keep this fact in your mind, and you will have a clue to the slaveholder's definition of ‘good treatment.’
This is to certify, that I am well acquainted with Isabella, this colored woman; I have been acquainted with her from her infancy; she has been in my employ for one year, and she was a faithful servant, honest and industrious; and have always known her to be in good report by all who employed her.
NEW PALTZ, ULSTER Co., Oct. 13th, 1834.
NORTHAMPTON, March, 1850.
BOSTON, March, 1850.
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"That's Where It's At"
That's Where It's At 7"
Single by Sam Cooke
B-side "Cousin of Mine"
Released September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16)
Format 7"
Recorded August 20, 1963 (1963-08-20)
RCA Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre Soul, R&B
Length 2:35
Label RCA 8426
Writer(s) Sam Cooke, J. W. Alexander
Producer(s) Al Schmitt
Sam Cooke singles chronology
"Good Times"
"That's Where It's At"
"That's Where It's At" is a song written by Sam Cooke and J.W. Alexander.[1] Recorded by Cooke, it was released as single in September 1964.
The song was recorded in 32 takes on August 20, 1963 at the RCA studio in Los Angeles, although not released until over a year later.[2] The backing band on the single consisted of trumpeter John Anderson, bassist Harper Cosby, trombonist John "Streamline" Ewing, drummer June Gardner, saxophonist Jewell Grant, violinist Darel Terwilliger, and guitarists René Hall and Bobby Womack.[1]
It was not initially much of a commercial success, charting no higher than 93 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] By Cooke's personal standards it was similarly low, especially when compared to his previous and following singles ("Good Times" and "Shake", respectively), both of which were comfortably in the Top 20. However, the song has garnered a respectable amount of critical acclaim in the decades since. It is ranked 876th in American music critic Dave Marsh's 1989 list, The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. [3]
"That's Where It's At" has been covered by such artists as Van Morrison, Ray Charles and Bobby Womack, among others.
Chart (1964) Peak
Billboard Hot 100 93
1. ^ a b c "That's Where It's At|". Retrieved 2010-11-23.
2. ^ "Sam Cooke in the Studio|". Retrieved 2010-11-23.
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Sarutoshi Genki 'The Tormentor'
Genki, also known as the tormentor, grew up in the village hidden in the mist. When he was a young boy, he enjoyed making fun of others, and obtained pleasure from it. People do this everyday, simply because they hate themselves, and it makes them feel better. At age 7, his actions progressed, and he slowly became less sane. He entered the ninja academy at age 8, and quickly became a genin at age 9. He then went on to train in genjutsu, rather then working on element jutsu. His sensei warned him that genjutsu took a lot of time, and genius to use. But, the boy ignored it.
At Age 11, he completed a C rank mission, and was appointed as a Chunin. He then began reading genjutsu scrolls, becoming obsessed with the idea of screwing with other minds. He trained everyday with genjutsu, improving his chakra control and movement, finally able to use it without hand signs, but with simple gestures.
At age 13, he was awarded the rank of Jonin, for his special Genjutsu abilities. He was known as the 'Tormentor of the Mist'. Any ninja who would dare attempt to combat him, would be held in trace for days on end. His abilities were arguably godlike, to be able to destroy one's mind within seconds, is unimaginable. He then went on to complete various A rank missions, and select S-rank missions with ease.
After years of working with the ninja military, he decided to retire, at age 16. His best friend and long time rival Kokechi, took this as disrespect and called him on it. Genki was emotionally unstable, and his sanity was thinning. When the fight turned physical, Genki finally lost control. He grabbed his friend and looked directly in his eyes, with pure hatred and bloodlust, sucking the life right out of him. Once he had realized what he'd done, he ran off.
Ever since that day, Genki has trained his new genjutsu abilities on the road, constantly defeating S-rank ninjas and improving his speed, strength and the Tysugan.
He forever lives in fear of that day, the day he lost his best friend, and his soul, to the Tysugan.
Tysugan: An S-rank Jutsu, the eyes become black with purple pupils spinning, in a hypnotic state. If anyone should look directly into the eyes, their entire life essence would be sucked directly out and transferred into Genki's eyes within seconds, sharing a fate with many others.. to be endlessly tortured until the day Genki can no longer see.
A story by [Shikamaru]
09-26-2009, 02:49 PM
Nobody liked it eh? Oh well.
09-26-2009, 03:01 PM
;1279287']Nobody liked it eh? Oh well.
that was amazing...but my character is bettere..JK!! your character would most likely beat me in a fight.
09-26-2009, 05:02 PM
Oh that's not my character, that would be insane, he's way too overpowered. He's just someone I decided to make up, because I thought It'd be pretty fun. | http://forum.naruto.viz.com/archive/index.php/t-24892.html | dclm-gs1-298150000 |
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To: None <>
From: Nicholas Mitchell <>
List: macbsd-development
Date: 01/04/1994 13:18:04
Hi, I had access to a IIsi for a few minutes
and tried out the new ci kernel and got 4 gray-bars.
(of course it has a Applied Engineering cache+fpu
but I started up with extensions off;
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They can graduate, but that doesn't mean they'll stay as ninja. Kakashi failed every team they had him examine before Team 7, so there must have been at least one team that was failed by their assigned jōnin leader, meaning they were sent back to the Academy. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:58, April 3, 2013 (UTC)
I know that. I think I said something like that in so many words. I'm just saying that there is an inaccuracy in the page as it mentions only 27 students being in the Academy but there being a Squad 10 and 3 People per squad (minus the Sensei as I know some people count them and stuff) means that there are 30 Students and not the aformentioned 27 as the page says. 3X10=30 or in a longer format 3 People X 10 Squads= 30 Students. so yeah. sorry for the confusion (although it happens a lot on here by the way people word things and understand/misunderstand whats being said to them. not meaning to be rude or call you out or anything but I'm pretty sure that you have noticed the same stuff happening all over the place here.) and just a question where did you get the thought of me saying "why are there Squads 7,8, and 10 what happened to the others?" (talk) 03:30, April 4, 2013 (UTC)
sorry for the IP address Signature I forgot that I wasn't Signed in at the time but I'm just typing this so that you know its me and not some bot or something. Lordofninjas1 (talk) 03:32, April 4, 2013 (UTC)
There was only 9 teams because if you remember team 9, Gai's team, was still active so that number was skipped. That means that there was 27 graduates and not 30. ( (talk) 18:32, May 7, 2013 (UTC))
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Jaxon Uhles comes from a football family, and his coach calls him “the ultimate football player.” Uhles and the T-Wolves' other linebackers face a tough task this week in slowing down Jenks running back Trey'Vonne Barr'e.
By Ryan Aber Published: November 28, 2012
To say Norman North's Jaxon Uhles comes from a football family is an understatement.
His dad and two uncles played high school football. One uncle, Ric, played for Oklahoma's 1985 national championship team.
One cousin, Lance, starred at Norman North and this season helped Emporia State to a 10-2 season.
Another cousin, Zac, was a key to Norman's offensive line this season and is committed to Tulsa.
So the praise that Timberwolves coach Wade Standley heaps on his senior linebacker is no surprise.
“He's the ultimate football player,” Standley said.
Uhles leads the Timberwolves into the Class 6A state title game against Jenks at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.
Jordan Evans, who committed to Oklahoma on Tuesday night, gets most of the attention on Norman North's defense.
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“If you aren't doing what you're supposed to be doing, he'll let you know,” Evans said. “He'll let me know.”
Uhles also makes plenty of plays.
In last week's semifinal win over Owasso, Uhles delivered a crushing tackle on Owasso's running back late in the game that helped Norman North hang on for a 49-42 win.
“He's having an insane year,” Norman North's Jake Higginbotham said. “He makes plays and I don't understand how he does it.”
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"We have a truncated trial. On one hand the civil party (Dehar) who was, let's say, at the time the victim, who is no longer the victim and no longer considers herself one and therefore she is out of the trial," Ribery's lawyer, Carlo Alberto Brusa, said Monday. "On the other hand, I remind you that the prosecutor has recommended that the case be dismissed. By consequence, today, we have a trial without accusations."
Ribery is alleged to have had sex with Dehar three times — including at the home of Kamel Ramdani, 39, one of several people who are on trial after a probe into a suspected network of prostitutes operating out of a nightclub called "Zaman Cafe" on Paris' Champs-Elysees first opened in 2010.
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Benzema has denied all the allegations. The 26-year-old Benzema is alleged to have paid €500 ($678) to have sex with Dehar in May 2008 the night he won the French player of the year award playing for his former club Lyon. At the time Dehar was 16.
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In real life Jeffrey A. Friedberg is one tough, street smart, connected guy; connected to the most powerful secret society holding the undisclosed truth yielding the quintessential power of all civilizations throughout the ages. As such, he has personified his own character into his protagonist, Jack Vane, a private eye with a guttural vocabulary that gets drawn into a "black hole" of intrigue and espionage beyond ordinary imagination in "Lost Relic Of The Gods."
An ancient relic, a golden globe dating back 5,000 years, about the size of a basketball with etchings describing a science and math more advanced than today's technology, turns up in the wrong hands and Jack needs to find it. The people with the "need to know" need Jack, so the knowledge about the power and history of this device, this relic, is bestowed upon him. In his discriminating and rather "nobody's fool" attitude, layered with disbelief, temper, deceit and ulterior motives, the story unfolds. Who are these people?
As explained to Jack, the power stems from, "The. Highest. Level." (That's not a typo, but an excerpt!) "This goes higher...than the White House." Jack learns, "It goes higher than somebody who only gets to be in power four years. These little presidents come and go, but we've been around a lot longer. We go a lot deeper. We're much wider. We began a long time ago, Jack...We've held the real power for over 2000 years, Jack. You see, we have ... information. We know everything. We know exactly how the world works and who to call. We're everywhere. After two millennia, you might say we have roots. See, we're the gentry, the old money. We are the real power. We are the hidden, permanent government of this planet, Jack."
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Comment: Re:Stills seems like it has to be an inside job (Score 1) 227
by JWSmythe (#46468223) Attached to: Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins
That was my immediate thought. Any decent system needs to ensure that it isn't running at a loss. To make that happen, they need an accounting system in place.
Rather than a loss, they managed a significant profit. The profit didn't go to the company.
I've seen lots of affiliate systems (sign up for a sight, the referring webmaster gets x%). In the adult industry, it's called shaving. The referring webmaster has a percentage of their sales (I've seen up to 25%), where it isn't recorded that they got the sale. Instead, it is credited to another account. The owner of the system doesn't always know. They see sales come in. They see payments go out. The shaved sales go to one of the developer's accounts (usually to a difficult to trace 3rd party).
If I were the developer, I'd have a friend in another country set up his affiliate account. The "lost" sales get paid out to him. He keeps a percentage, and pays me the rest. It can be very difficult to trace until there is a code audit. The audits don't usually come until the boss knows there's something funny going on. As long as the boss is getting a large profit, they have no reason to audit.
In the rest of the corporate world, it's skimming. Accountants can make it look like the missing funds are going to nondescript costs.
In both skimming and shaving, it becomes obvious when the person doing it gets too greedy. Like, it's difficult to justify that $1M/yr goes to miscellaneous custodian costs. And yes, I've seen exactly that, in a company that only made about $3M/yr profit. Sometimes it goes to consumable costs. It can be tricky to track if they're smart. When they get greedy, smart falls out of the equation.
Comment: Re:This is why we can't have nice tihngs... (Score 1) 227
by JWSmythe (#46468089) Attached to: Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins
You need to read up more on economics. Maybe swing by a local college and audit some economics courses.
No, most (all?) of the current in use today is backed by nothing. Well, nothing more than the idea that it's worth something.
I have a $20 bill in my pocket. It's not worth anything. There is a perceived value of it, so I can exchange that piece of paper for goods and services.
If it were backed by anything, there would be an obligation by the issuing party to exchange it for the commodity it was backed by. You can't go to the federal reserve and say "I want to exchange my $20 note for $20 worth of gold". Best case, you'd get a smile, pat on the head, and be sent on your way.
We effectively work with a bartering system. The perceived value of one service or object, for another. You can barter drugs, ammunition, or sex. That doesn't make any of them a currency, even though they'd each be good examples in your description. Actually, I think I like my examples better than the ugly paper in my pocket.
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Comment: Re:Re... or without a background check? (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46422145) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
I guess I lucked out.
I worked for a background information company a while back. I did a broad search for my real name (i.e., not my Slashdot name), and found all the other "me"s out there. There are several right around my age. There were doctors, lawyers, and a pilot. One, approximately my age, didn't live very far way, so we could easily be mixed up.
I had some nefarious thoughts as I was looking at their full record. I had their DOB, SSN, address history, phone numbers. I could have easily become a doppelganger.
Damn. I just checked on Intelius.com for myself. I know how they pull some of their records, and they use the same resources as some employment verification companies. The real me on there, based on age, cities shows all the wrong employers, the wrong education, and an extra relative that I don't have. Great. Maybe I should go try to buy a gun, to see what new shit comes up. It's been a few years.
Maybe it's just time to change my name to a string of random letters, and live in a nice cabin in the woods. I hear the property Ted Kaczynski was living on is available now. He lived pretty quietly out there for a while.
by JWSmythe (#46417733) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
You can make a somewhat functional oscilloscope with a Windows PC that has a sound card, Zelscope (or other free software), a headphone plug, a few resisters, and some alligator clips. For the fairly primitive stuff I've needed, it's worked fine. For higher frequencies (i.e., not in the normal audio range), you'd have to look at something better, but there are perfectly functional USB devices that will do the job for cheap.
If you want the Porsche of O'scopes, you'd have to pay the premium prices. It all depends on what you're trying to measure.
Comment: Re:Radio Shacks in Silicon Valley (Score 1) 423
by JWSmythe (#46417713) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
You know, there are a lot of people who hate you.
I lived in LA, and had two Fry's within a few miles of my house. I was explicitly forbidden from shopping without a chaperone (i.e., my girlfriend), because I'd always buy extra stuff, and I'd be gone for hours. Fry's is my favorite toy store.
Now, where I live, the nearest Fry's is about 490 miles away. Any time I travel to a city with Fry's, I make a point of going, just because. I don't really *need* anything, but let me loose in there, and I'll find all kinds of things I didn't need before, but I can't live without now. I'm not in some remote hole, I'm in one of the top 20 markets in the US. Take that as you will. Nielsen television/radio markets. DMAs. OMB MSAs. Yet, we don't rank high enough to get a Fry's.
by JWSmythe (#46417665) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
Funny you mention a lot of stuff that I'm working on as a side project. I decomputerized the engine in one of my vehicles, because when I really got into it, the design was horrible from the electronic and physical standpoints. Who the hell blocks 50% of the airflow to half the cylinders with a chunk of plastic to hold the injector spider (ya, weird design). My neighbors thought I was nuts, because I just kept pulling out parts saying "Nope. Bad. What the fuck were they thinking? That's awful, gone."
There was an awful lot of "What the fuck were they thinking?"
As it turns out, with this particular design, the transmission doesn't understand that the vehicle is moving, so it goes into limp mode. It has 2nd and 3rd gear only in limp mode. So I'm recreating the transmission control computer. Who needs automatic, when you can have push button shifting? The aftermarket unit is something like $700. To replace the transmission with the older mechanical one costs something like $1,000.
So I have:
3 shift solenoids that are on or off depending on the gear it should be in
1 PWM controlled solenoid, to determine the TCC (a computer operated torque converter)
3 shifter position sensors (I believe, I'd have to check my notes) to say what the gearshift is in.
1 brake position sensor (on/off)
1 variable resistance throttle position sensor.
1 pulse sensor for the vehicle speed sensor.
All in all, a pretty simple setup. I'm giving two push buttons, to shift up or down, for the forward speeds. Automatic was horrible at picking gears anyways. But now I have to run 3 solenoids to pick the gear, and send the appropriate duty cycle PWM to the TCC, based on the TPS and gear.
Like 1st gear low TPS gets a low duty cycle or it would stall. Full throttle in any gear gets a pretty high duty cycle.
Reading around, I could only find one company with a fairly open box, but it's pricy, and you get to assemble everything yourself. Or you can spend a bunch of money on a purpose built box that you have no control over.
I had to get a oscilloscope, to make sure the PWM was what I intended to put out. I got creative there, and found some software to use with a sound card. It works pretty well. It's not perfect, but good enough for this purpose, since I know what it's suppose to generate. I wouldn't try to tune something I wasn't controlling the source on though. Honestly, it had been years since I had used an oscilloscope. I was very happy with my results, and even sang to it by clipping it onto a microphone (probes, alligator clips, same thing. {grin}). I sang a C3 at 129.20Hz, which should have been 130.81Hz. Not bad, considering I didn't listen to a reference tone first, especially since I can't sing for shit.
Now picture going into a Radio Shack and saying that's what you're trying to do. They glazed over after the first 10 seconds, and then just said "if you need help finding anything, just ask." I asked for a bigger box to put the parts into while I was shopping. :) I did send them on a quest to find LEDs for me. Just saying "find me red, yellow, green, and blue LEDs, all rated for the same voltage" caused them trouble. I wasn't *trying* to be difficult. I just wanted to be able to swap them without playing too much with different resistors. As I recall, they found them online, but they'd have to order them.
Just asking for some heatsinks for some of the components I grabbed turned out to be too much for one store. It's not like I had a *huge* box, it was just a few parts out of their bins. They had some at one store, and a different type at another store, but not enough for the project. I relegated myself to repurposing old CPU heatsinks that I have at home. They'll do fine.
Comment: Save the mythology for church (Score 2, Funny) 431
by JWSmythe (#46417561) Attached to: Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams
School children should be taught *facts*.
If it's a religious owned/operated school, save the mythology for the theology class. Be fair, make it a honest comparative religions class, so they can see how their stories compare with the rest.
For public schools, leave the mythology out entirely, except in the historical context.
Teaching kids the mythology encourages them to grow up to be adults that believe the mythology. They fail to grow up and learn in the real world there is a cause and effect relationship.
The last thing I need is someone coming into my office asking for help, and then praying to their deity to solve it. When I fix their problem, they'll thank their deity, who didn't have a thing to do with it.
I swear, if one more person prays for a fix, I'm going to stop working. Let the deity of their choice fix it, and I'll go helping other people.
Ya buddy, your deity works in mysterious ways, that's why you still can't log into your email, and your application server is still down. Keep praying, maybe it will miraculously recover. Ha.
Comment: Re... or without a background check? (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46417111) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
I worry every time I have to go through a background check. It's not that I've done anything, or I intend to do anything. There's always a chance for human error.
I had an interaction with the police once. They got rather irate that I had a felony warrant. At least the officer asked for them to look at it carefully. It was my name, but my DOB was about 30 years off. That was years ago, and hasn't come up again, so I'm guessing the warrant was satisfied.
We're all just one clerical error away from failing a background check. About the time you're going through the background check, isn't the best time to try to get it fixed. Well, unless you're flying, then we're all one soundex match away from someone with a name or alias that sounds similar ours to get put on the no-fly list. Good luck getting off of that.
Comment: Legal interstate sales. (Score 1) 310
by JWSmythe (#46417063) Attached to: Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales
Well, at least in Florida, I (an individual firearms owner) can sell to another individual in person.
I was told by the operator of a gun store, that I *can* choose to ask FDLE to run a background check for the purpose of selling a firearm. They will only give a yes/no answer to if the buyer is ok to sell to.
I, as a private individual, *can* sell to anyone, in any state. It has to be shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer who is willing to do the transfer (i.e., pretty much any gun store). Around here, the cost to do the transfer is about $25, paid by the buyer. For the sake of not having the weapon seized in transit, it has been recommended to me, to ask a local store to handle the outbound shipment. The receiving dealer is responsible for ensuring local laws are followed. For example, if you live in California, and I sell you an AR-15, but not in a California-legal configuration, they are obliged not to give it to you. Likewise, if you don't meet the legal requirements to own a firearm, they will refuse it. I haven't personally been involved in such a transaction, but it is my understanding that if the transaction cannot be completed (the weapon is not legal in that jurisdiction, or the owner cannot take possession of it), it will be returned to me.
If you sell me a firearm, I, as a CCW holder, can pick up the weapon at the receiving store immediately, but they still call FDLE to ensure there's nothing new on my record. If I didn't have a valid CCW, there may be a waiting period, depending on the type of weapon.
There are some things that are illegal in Florida, but not everywhere. I happened to stumble across a few while looking at alternative ammunition. The "dragon's breath" shotgun shells are illegal here. I just thought they were interesting, although I don't see them being very practical. Flechette shotgun shells are also illegal. In theory, I could go buy them in another state. I may also be able to mail order them. If I am caught possessing or using them, I may be in trouble.
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I developed a web page and now i am validating it with w3c HTML4.0... I got one error it says
Error Line 30, Column 57: there is no attribute "DATA-FLEXMENU"
href="about.php" class="mainlink" data-flexmenu="flexmenu1">About Us</a></div>
Any ways of getting rid of this error .... Any suggestion...
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If it is HTML4.0 compliant then it's HTML5.0 compliant, try using the HTML5.0 scheme. – Ben Apr 8 '10 at 5:00
@omfgroflmao ya i am using HTML4.0 – Oscar Apr 8 '10 at 5:01
As rahul said, "data attributes are present in HTML5", change the doctype and try to revalidate. – Ben Apr 8 '10 at 5:04
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data attributes are present in HTML5.
see HTML 5 data- Attributes
Either you can change the doctype to html5 or remove the data attribute.
You can specify HTML 5 doctype like
<!DOCTYPE html>
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As unhelpful as it will sound, either remove the attribute "data-flexmenu" from your markup, or accept a non-valid result.
The results are accurate, the A element in the DTD does not contain an attribute definition for the attribute data-flexmenu.
Alternatively you could define your own DTD and host it on a central server and reference that instead of the w3c one.
Or (as pointed out) use HTML5 DTD not HTML 4 DTD
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gcc source-file
I think it is dynamic but I'm not sure. Is it system dependent?
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It is technically system dependent, but on most systems you're likely to develop for, the answer is "dynamic".
A few systems (mostly very old, embedded, or otherwise specialized) do not support dynamic linking at all, but most developers are unlikely to care about those systems. On those systems, the linker will of course default to linking statically (unless whoever did the port screwed up :)).
Some systems also do not offer static versions of their standard libraries, so you can't statically link them.
On many systems (especially any typical Linux system), you probably have a utility called ldd. You can use ldd <file> to check if it's dynamically linked to the standard library (assuming you know for sure what the library is called, it's usually libc though).
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Most linkers prefer dynamic libraries to static when linking, but normally they have flags to explicitly specify the behaviour. It's definitely system dependent - check your linker documentation for details.
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I wonder how is this possible in groovy to start an array from the n element.
Look at the snippet :
static void main(args){
if (args.length < 2){
println "Not enough parameters"
def tools = new BoTools(args[0])
def action = args[1]
As you see am doing here a dynamic method invocation. The first 2 arguments are taken as some config and method name , the others I would like to use as method paramerts. So how can I do something like this :
Edited : If not possilbe in native groovy Java syntax will do it :
def newArgs = Arrays.copyOfRange(args,2,args.length);
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That System.exit(1) is pointless. Java isn't C. – Esko Mar 18 '12 at 19:28
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To remove items from the beginning of the args you can use the drop() method. The original args list is not changed:
Other option, like you are trying is to access from N element:
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+1 for range notation. It is tidy and we already know we have >= 2 values. – David Mar 18 '12 at 20:40
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13 "And these are the measurements of the 27altar by cubits (the 28cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth ): the nbase shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one span ; and this shall be the height of the obase of the altar. 14 "From the base on the ground to the lower 29ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit ; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width pone cubit. 15 "The qaltar hearth shall be four cubits ; and from the raltar hearth shall extend upwards four 30horns. 16 "Now the saltar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, 31square in its four sides. 17 "The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about ; and its 32steps shall t33face the east."
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B a c h e l o r s d e g re e f or m i ni m u m w a g e S E P T EM BE R 2 0 1 0
For many years, the US has ingrained loan and credit card debt that these kids
into the millennial generation that collected for the past four years.
education is of great importance. Jobs
want someone with minimum bache- The millennial generation have grew up
lors degree. However, is it worth expecting that by going to college doors
will open and the world will be at their
spending and draining ourselves into
thousands of dollars into debt, when feet. Our own government continually en-
all it waiting for us is minimal wage forces this fantasy despite the decrease
job? It’s insulting that most jobs performance in our schools. The parents
nowadays will only accept bachelor expected life is set once their children re-
degree candidates for less than ceive their paper. Unfortunately still to
$50,000 salary. this day, the older generation doesn't com-
prehend that this nothing more than mere
Especially in this economy, these kids fantasy.
Georgetown Graduates de-
didn’t go to school to be making mini-
manding work
mal wage. Honestly it doesn't require It’s simple economics of supply and de-
even an high school diploma to re- mand. The surplus of bachelors degree are
ceive such thing so why should one now depreciate value since anyone study
four years for higher education.
bachelor degree? Will your $8.25 per
hour pay your entire bills? Probably Cont… to page 3
not! Still liable for that costly student
Ye a r o f th e R e p u b l i c a n s Inside this issue:
It’s at the end September that the republicans have a state offer very little to
and barely over a month chance to regain some con- no business taxes. In Why doctors wont 2
left until congressional trol in congress. They have addition, Texas is one of enter Primary Care
elections. This election has stopped the democrats pro- the 11 state tax-free
as much feud as the 2008 posing universal health- states. Tech taking over 2
election. The performance care. Are persisted in help- human jobs
of the Obama Administra- ing businesses by making How does the perform-
ance of Texas effect the
tion and Democrats have cost low to compete against Young Turks 3
left some people at odds. our global rivals. republican’s ideals?
The same spark people had Right now the US needs Heartache of 4
two years ago, doesn’t ex- For example; republican its business leaders and
ist this year. state, Texas, have won #1 entrepreneurs to create
business-friendly state of jobs. They agree with
With the bush tax cuts ex- the country. Besides the President Obama’s idea
piring this year, rising un- fact they are big oil and for made in America, but
employment, and govern- health industry. Their em- for that to happen the
ment taking over. It seems ployment rate is high as the
Cont… to page 2
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W h y D o c t or s w o n t e n t e r p r i m a r y c a re
With the decrease of med nately, the pay isn’t that suf- and/or PPO which are usually
school applications and ficient compare to other run by MBAs, who have little to
great federal support for fields. Especially, when they no healthcare experience. They
entering primary care. Why can trained in a different will make decision about the
we are still losing primary field in the same time with patients leaving the doctor
care physicians? Why is the higher pay. Last year, re- helpless despite years of train-
demand still high? Why ported the average was esti- ing. The elderly proven to be
even offer of full ride to mated to $201,000. more another burden because
medical school, if students they are most needed yet very
Primary care physicians are Dr. Dwight exam-
refuse to enter primary care costly to treat. Medicare will ines Mr. Darkins for
field? more at the mercy of insur- only pay less than 50% of fee. regular check up
ance companies and cheated Unless something changes its
Well for starters, medical by Medicare/Medicaid. In less likely that students would
students pay attention to the some hospitals, the physi- practice primary care.
economic value. Unfortu- cians are bound to HMO
“But in general, I
Te c h t a k i n g o v e r h u m a n j o b s
hate the self Walgreens and CVS had recently open up There are some customers who aren’t happy
checkout registers. with this new movement. “But in general, I
new self-checkout registers. So far custom-
ers have been pleased and the checkout hate the self checkout registers. I feel like I
I feel like I can
process is much quicker. Well at least can never go fast enough, so there are peo-
never go fast some of them. However, how does that ef- ple huffing and puffing behind me, and
enough, so there fect the current employees? I'm trying to move it along... Ugh”. It’s obvi-
are people huffing ous the company are trying to save revenue
This movement made have created more by eliminating employment. Although we are
and puffing behind efficiency for the company & customers. still in era of computers, should our jobs be
me, and Unfortunately the employees are now en- forsaken for this technology advancement?
I'm trying to move dangered. There are fewer human registers
leading the rest to unemployment.
it along... Ugh”.
C o n t … y e a r o f t h e re p u b l i c a n s
We need to embrace capitalism not punish its forgotten why America had democratic gov-
creators. ernment for the past two years? Angry towards
the bankers, housing bubble, bailouts, failing
The democrats are looking for the little guys companies and fraud. Ironically this was hap-
but it’s the big ones who are in control. These pen under republican watch. So everyone
people are making 6 figures and more but will voted and agree to democrat takeover. Now
be force to lose 40-50% of their own hard they have change their minds. Should things
The belief of the
earned money. Why should the top 25% lose go their way republicans should some control
republican party
much of income to the majority’s faults? to balance things out. However, in a recession
Despite the shinny green light for the republi- politics doesn't matter and need to keep that
cans nothing is set in stone yet. Have people mind. Don’t want a repeat of 2008 election
two years from now, do we?
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These employers are look- money. They need someone counterparts who are miss-
ing for not only paper but who has clue what’s going ing the experience, skills,
skill and for some experi- on and may not want to in- and/or network. This reces-
ence. vest time to train the newly sion is proving advantage
youngster. Granting oppor- for the older adults and
As in “what do you have to tunity for the older genera- leaving the youth behind.
bring into the table and tion to step in. Unfortu-
The rate of young
how will that help our busi- nately jobs that were once How have the youth combat
unemployment is ness?” leaving these kids obtainable for younger gen- this issue? Some have re-
very high are scratching their heads. eration are almost nonexis- futed college and focus on
Nothing in college have tent. building a trade to work in
prepare the youth for this. blue-collar. Some have de-
“They need Except for a few majors,The rise of evening degree velop their own business to
programs to obtain a
but the majority are plain avoid the corporate world.
someone who
bachelor and/or master de-
arts that holds no relevancy A few develop their network
has clue what’s gree. Permits the older
for the job they are apply- for job/career placement.
going on and adults to catch up and learn
ing. College overall doesn't Regardless, the youth need
may not want to new skills to strengthen
train you for a skill or tac- work because soon its them
their job application. Em-
tic needed in the real world. who will be running the
invest time to
ployers see their experi- show.
train and entrust Employers need a reason ence, skills, network, and
the newly hire you besides saving paper unlike their younger
C a r s : E u ro o r J a p a n
After all this argument, its sturdy in built, shorter Let’s have a little fun with
time to decide what is bet- breaking distance, and safer a game of “battle of the
ter, European or Japanese from accidents. Anyone can cars”. Our competitors;
vehicles. Now they both recall Audi, BMW, and Mer- representing Europe is Mer-
provide quality and prefer- cedes? cedes 2010 M-class and
ence for the customers. representing Japan is Toy-
People will admit that in Japan does provide safer ota 2010 Land Cruiser.
some ways are better than vehicles, and they have less Mercedes cost $43,239-
their American counter- tendency to breakdown. $92,520,hold 5 passengers,
parts. Therefore are more reliable, 4 year warranty, difficulty
can you recall Honda and to negotiate. Toyota costs
Consumer Report have Nissan for this evidence. $58,392-$65,970, holds 8
research and studied the Please note, that they aren’t passengers, 3 year war-
major difference. Where very fast. However, if you ranty, and much easier to
performance is concern, want to keep it simple with- negotiate. The winner is
European vehicles have out such expectations, these Japan, but its all prefer-
the best handling perform- models are for you. ence.
ing models. They are more
JTStreet e-newsletter is side file of original blog,
JTStreet on wordpress. This is basely a monthly letter
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected] to generate to the millennial generation of current
events. Like its counterpart, expect reports upon vari-
“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxi- ous topics such as technology, politics, etc… We will
cation, because youth is sweet & they are growing” - report such things that’s more impacting the millennial
Aristotle such as education.
“ A civilization which leaves so large a number of its
participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt nei-
ther has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting exis-
tence”- Sigmund Freud
I n t ro d u c e b l a ck b e r r y ’s n ew re l a t i v e , t h e t o rc h
RIM has outdone themselves this year with the release of the Torch. The slide black-
berry phone, which is very attractive to the buyers. For current blackberry holders,
understand that this phone is a fusion of the storm and bold. In addition, it performs
like the android. According to RIM, the torch is more advance with more features than
its predecessors. Including: expandable memory up to 32GB, enhanced music player, 5
MP camera, integrated social feeds, faster browsing, intro lessons, and better battery
life. RIM claims this phone should combat Apple’s iphone. We will have to wait next
year to see some results.
Unfortunately, as unique this phone is there are major downsides which could have put
RIM in better competition. Like the iphone, the torch is only available on AT&T. Not
many people will be willing to switch phone companies just to have the big next thing.
Blackberry’s new
Plus for those who aren't use to sliders may find some difficulty and are probably bet- member Torch, the
ter off with their current phone. slider torch phone,
provided by AT&T
Crackberry does a video of a full review on this phone. He also does a 14 minute re- services
view of the blackberry 6. http://crackberry.com/blackberry-torch-9800-review.
Overall, this phone is very unique and it is all about preference. Rather or not is this
phone worth making the switch or the purchase. Personally, I prefer the 3G Pearl and
Storm 2. After looking at this phone it will be given 4 out of 5. Why only 4? Its AT&T
exclusive and AT&T is known for its high cost compare to Verizon, t-mobile, and
sprint. Also the phone is huge and that’s not good if you only have small hands.
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Roadie positions itself as the next generation of guitar tuners. Think of it like a modern String Master, a device that fits snugly over your instrument's tuning pegs and does the hard part for you. Paired with a companion smartphone app, Roadie listens your guitar's strings and turns its gears until the instrument is on key. We dropped by the team's table at Haxlr8r, and the process was dead easy, quickly tuning a demo guitar without breaking a string. In fact, it's designed not to -- by comparing a string's elasticity with its frequency, the device can actually warn you when your guitar's wires are about to break. Not a bad trick, particularly for guitarists (like this editor) that aren't completely sure when their instrument was last restrung. The device's Kickstarter page has already more than half of its $60,000 goal, and has a little over a month left to get the rest. Looking for a way to chip in (and to avoid guitar maintenance)? Check out the source link below; Roadie tuners start at $79.
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1. m__w 86 months ago | reply
很舒服的布置 呵呵 200张了 打算VIP吗？
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3. cxx1029 86 months ago | reply
yeah, how can you never run out of space?! I have already....
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我冲动了 没摒住 25.85$ 心痛中...
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不能受影响, 继续摒!!!...
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I like the book-case, where did you get it? Is it a collection of boxes?
7. bombie 64 months ago | reply
Amethi: that's the cubitec from DWR, you get a bunch of boards and put them together however you like.
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Next week my eldest is turning 15. FIFTEEN! How is that possible????? Amazingly enough, she's absolutely fantastic. You see, I was a miserable teen and feared for her teen years. However, she is happy and she is a brilliant light in my life. When she was born, I knew she was wonderful and would be a wonderful person someday - I just never expected her to be THIS wonderful. My heart overflows with joy sometimes when I think of how rich my life is with her and her sisters. So much love.
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Hidden away the humming bird sits.
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