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WINONA, Minn. — Audiences will get a gentle reminder to not take the little things in life for granted as the Saint Mary's University Theatre and Dance Department presents "Our Town" 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8-10 and 3 p.m. Nov. 11 in Page Theatre.
Written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Judy Myers, "Our Town," is set in the small town of Grover's Corners, N.H., in the early 1900s, as told through the eyes of the stage manager. Set in three acts: daily life, love and marriage, death and eternity, the play presents universal ideas about family, love and life that are essentially the same as they were more than 100 years ago.
This work was especially selected by the Department of Theatre and Dance to celebrate the Saint Mary's University Centennial season.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors and are available online at www.pagetheatre.org or at the SMU Box Office, (507) 457-1715 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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WINONA, Minn. — Many area high school juniors and seniors will perform hands-on chemistry projects during upcoming Chemistry Nights at Saint Mary's University, which will run 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1.
Chemistry Night, sponsored by the SMU Department of Chemistry and the La Crosse-Winona local section of the American Chemical Society, is an annual event designed to help students explore the discipline of chemistry and appreciate the positive role that chemistry plays in our everyday world.
Each year students solve challenging but fun chemical problems, based on the National Chemistry Week (Oct. 21-27) theme. This year the theme is "Nanotechnology: The Smallest Big Idea in Science," and the experiments will involve liquid crystals, gold nanoparticles and magnetic fluids.
Students will work in small teams, using wet chemistry and working with chemical instrumentation in the SMU Department of Chemistry, under the guidance of SMU chemistry and biochemistry majors.
Prizes will be awarded to the teams that have the greatest success in solving the chemical problems. Prizes will include SMU scholarships of $2,000 and $1,000.
Eight area schools and approximately 50 students are participating this year.
For more information, contact Dr. Brett Bodsgard at (507) 457-6972.
WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University Gifts for Winona program is once again setting age requirements for applicants this year.
With more families asking for help and a smaller number of people who are in a position to donate, the program is once again being adapted. The program's main priority is to provide gifts to children 18 years of age and younger and individuals 60 years of age and older. Families will only be able to report gift requests for family members in these age ranges.
The annual gift-giving program — in its 11th year — helps more than 1,600 people have a much happier holiday season. The program has grown significantly each year.
Families may pick up an application form through one of the human service agencies that they work with (Habitat for Humanity, Project FINE, Winona County Community Services, Winona Senior Advocacy Program, Winona Volunteer Services or Women's Resource Center).
Completed application forms must be returned to Winona Volunteer Services (402 E. 2nd St.) from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, and 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2. SMU volunteers will be available for assistance on these dates.
This program exists through the generosity of the Winona community, as well as the work of other community partners including: Winona Volunteer Services, Winona Radio and the Winona Post.
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WINONA, Minn. — Elementary and preschool children from the Winona area are invited to attend the 12th annual Saint Mary's University Halloween Fun Night from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29.
Participants should stop at the guard booth at the main entrance of the Winona campus for directions on where to park.
Young trick-or-treaters should start out the evening at the Hall of Fame Room, located in the Toner Student Center, where tattoos and stickers, a coloring station, and other fun games will be offered, and the Cardinal mascot will greet pint-sized ghosts and goblins.
From there, SMU students will lead groups of trick-or-treaters through the residence halls of the university, where they can go door to door for candy.
Last year more than 750 youth participated in this free, safe and fun event, sponsored by the Office of Residence Life of Saint Mary's.
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WINONA, Minn. — This year's Saint Mary's University Walk of Horror is again guaranteed to give you goosebumps. New scares are planned around every corner.
The 16th annual hair-raising fundraiser for the SMU Cardinal fastpitch softball team will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 26-27 and 30-31 in the SMU bluffs. Walkers are asked to meet on the lighted path between the SMU baseball and softball fields, where the haunted walk will begin.
Groups are then escorted through the dark bluffs surrounding the SMU campus for approximately 20 minutes.
The cost is $5 for adults, $4 for students with ID, and $4 for children 12 and younger. Tickets are available at the gate.
SMU head fastpitch softball coach Jen Miller said the event is fun for all ages. The scare level is toned down for younger children and turned up for groups bold enough to face their fears. Last year more than 1,100 brave souls took SMU's Walk of Horror.
Proceeds from this event will be used for the softball team's travel expenses.
For more information, contact Miller at (507) 457-6923.
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WINONA, Minn. — The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts was once again selected to receive grant funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
For the 2013 fiscal year MCA has been awarded funding in the form of an Operating Support grant allowing the organization to continue to provide arts-based learning opportunities and programming to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds in Southeast Minnesota.
In 2010 and 2011 MCA was awarded funding through the State Arts Board's Community Arts Schools and Conservatories grant division and for the 2011-2012 year MCA was awarded formulary and merit-based funding for operating support. The consistent funding support by the Minnesota State Arts Board acknowledges MCA as a leader in community arts education for the state of Minnesota.
The Minnesota State Arts Board funding will help support and expand MCA's current programming in dance, music, visual art, and theatre for children and youth. Furthermore, the grant will allow MCA to venture into new community outreach projects, expand its visual art and theatre divisions, grow the adult arts wellness program, and remain fiscally responsible with balanced budgets.
In the 2012 MCA employed 31 teaching artists, served 1,032 local children/youth, 108 adult students, and over 3,500 people attended dance and music performances and events produced by MCA.
The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, exists to provide quality arts education and performance by nurturing and encouraging artistic expression in children and adults. MCA's service to the community ranges from recreational to pre-professional performing arts curriculum and programming designed to provide physical and aesthetic benefits, heightened self-respect, discipline, and confidence.
For more information about the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, visit www.mnconservatoryforthearts.org, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call (507) 453-5500.
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|Cutting the ribbon are, from left: Brother William Mann, president of Saint Mary's University; Michael Gostomski, chairman of the SMU Board of Trustees; Brother Larry Schatz, Visitor of the Midwest District of the Christian Brothers; and Jim Bedtke, vice president of the College.
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WINONA, Minn. — In recognition of national "Make a Difference Day," Saint Mary's University's Volunteer Mentors group is inviting Winona residents and nonprofit agencies to submit requests for service.
The university hopes to get as many students as possible out into the community between 9 a.m. and noon on Saturday, Oct. 27. Students are willing to help individuals and organizations with anything from painting to yard work.
Saint Mary's will supply the workers, if you supply the materials needed (paint, brushes, rakes, tools, etc.).
"Make a Difference Day" is the most encompassing national day of helping others, a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Created by USA WEEKEND magazine, this annual event takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October. For the fifth year, SMU is proud to join the millions of people throughout the nation who are participating.
To register your request, please call Chris McClead at (507) 457-7268 or e-mail email@example.com by Wednesday, Oct. 17. Please include details about what you need done, how many students are needed for the job and where you are located.
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There is much to look back on in the last year. We entered the next generation of gaming with the Wii U, and the Vita entered the portable gaming field. Lots of great games were released, even if there were very few new IPs. With 2013 looming before us, let's celebrate the gaming year that has passed… and what better way to do so than to make Game of the Year lists?
This last year… I didn't play too many newer games. I was focusing on my older backlog, futilely trying to cut down on it while the newer games piled up. Because of that, I don't actually have a lot of games to choose for my GOTY… I've only beaten a whopping eight games that were released this year, with only a few others I've played enough to consider for the running. With such slim pickings… well, you might be surprised in what's on this list.
That said, let's begin!
Portable Game of the Year
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Out of all of the games I played this year, most of them were portable. Therefore, this was the hardest of all of my choice. While a lot of the portable games I played were great, my GOTY pick has to go to Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Uprising is indeed an ambitious project, and one that is handled fantastically on the 3DS. The lighthearted story and characters really make the game a joy to play through, and the graphics and soundtrack (and even the 3D effects) bring the world together. On top of that, the varied gameplay, customizable weapons, and the checklists make it so that the game has tons of replayability. The game does have a few quirks, such as the awkward controls, but overall it's a great experience, portable or otherwise.
Console Game of the Year
New Super Mario Bros. U
I've always been wary of the 'New' moniker of the Mario series. I never enjoyed the DS original, and very new entry seemed a rehash of the same old paths. Couple that with the fact that I felt pretty neutral towards Super Mario 3D Land, and I almost never gave New U a shot.
I'm really glad I did, though. New U might start a little average, but it soon opens up to a great platforming experience. The level design is fun and solid. Most importantly, it's challenging when you want it to be, mainly in trying to get the Star Coins in every level. It's also fun to play either alone or with friends, so you're not left in the dust if you only want to play one way or the other. Finally, Miiverse's integration is flawless and useful–you can get a lot of tips (or notes of frustration, or awesome artwork) easily. New Super Mario Bros. U is the perfect type of launch title; fun, shows off the hardware, and gives people a reason to buy the new system.
Downloadable Game of the Year
The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave
Quite a few great downloadable games came out this year, especially from indie developers… it's really a shame I didn't get to most of them. The very little I've played of The Walking Dead almost made me put it up as my downloadable GOTY alone–however, only playing a part of the first Episode makes it really hard to put it on the list. Instead, I turn to a completely different type of game for my pick.
The Denpa Men is a traditional RPG at heart; it's turn-based, and relies on having the right Denpa Men, the right items, and the right level to get through the game's multiple dungeons. However, how you acquire various Denpa Men is how the game really shines. Using AR and nearby radio waves, the game randomly spawns Denpa Men of different elements and abilities, and if you're lucky, you might even get a sparkling Denpa Man with a powerful attack spell. It's simple, yet very addictive concept, and makes it so you want to go everywhere and try to find new Denpa Men. The gameplay is very much like Dragon Quest, so if you like old-school RPGs with an interesting twist, this game is right up your alley… it's certainly up mine!
Honorable Mentions
Even if I didn't play too many games, I still had to make some tough choices for my Games of the Year. Other games I've played are pretty great too, and at least deserve a mention!
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is a fun third-person shooter, and was a great game for someone who doesn't typically enjoy the genre. Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is a great mix of nostalgia, fanfare, and unique gameplay. Dear Esther was an engaging and emotional experience, even if it's a bit difficult to label it as a 'game'. Pokemon Black 2 is a good sequel that reminds me of what Gold/Silver/Crystal did for the original games. The Walking Dead may very well be the best adventure game I've ever played.
So, looking back, I wish I could have had more time with the games that came out in 2012. Many hits came out this year, and with the lineup for 2013 so far, it's only looking to get better. It looks as though the backlog is only going to grow larger!


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A mysterious donation of £1.8 million to the RIBA and V&A Museum's Architecture for All campaign has left fundraisers amazed.
The cash windfall - said to be from an 'American gentleman' - means the drive to raise £10 million to fund the move of the RIBA Drawings Collection to the V&A has reached the halfway point.
It is understood that the deal, which is shrouded in secrecy, was negotiated through the US-based American Friends of the V&A.
The one-off gift will make up a hefty chunk of the funding required to transfer the drawings and also pay for their new home, designed by Wright & Wright Architects and Gareth Hoskins Architects.
Such is the importance attached to anonymity that not even the chair of the British Architectural Library Trust, Michael Rose, is allowed to know the identity of the donor.
However, he is still extremely pleased. 'Of course we are all delighted to have received such support, ' Rose told the AJ. 'We hope that it will encourage other individuals or groups to come forward with large donations. It would make life a lot easier if six people did the same thing and covered the cost on their own, ' he added.
The cheque - which was finally signed off last week after months of negotiations - will now be added to the £3.27 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund agreed earlier this year.
Details of the deal emerged at the launch of public fund-raising, which includes the Adopt a Drawing initiative. This will allow any individual or company to sponsor parts of the exhibition from the smallest sketch to the entire reading room.
The campaign was launched to find the cash to transfer the priceless Drawings Collection, allowing it to be fully open to the public for the first time.
For further details on Adopt a Drawing, contact Georgina Brown on 0870 060 5504.
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School scholarships bill is bad legislation
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Jan. 25 — To the Editor:
SB 372 gives businesses a tax credit against contributions to private and home school scholarships, and it is a bad bill. It is part of a number of bills under consideration in the New Hampshire Legislature that import a national movement and would dismantle public education. Don't forget that we are a state whose public education system is outperforming the rest of the nation.
I am a resident of New Castle and a former member of the New Castle Budget Committee. All my children have attended public school and I have run companies, which paid the business profits tax.
This country was built on the philosophy that public education is the right of all citizens. And it is the duty of all citizens to fund it. This bill injects just the type of privilege and exclusion into the system that our forefathers fought against.
First, this bill could reduce the state's revenue by $85 million over the next four years and decrease education adequacy payments to our towns by $18 million. Many of the recipients of these funds could be private school parents who don't need them.
If it encourages other families to put children in private schools, this means loss of revenue for the local public schools.
Second, under this bill, businesses that want the credit will contribute to a "scholarship organization." The provision for establishment of these organizations is unclear in the bill as introduced.
Under the bill, there is some accountability for "scholarship organizations" to the Department of Revenue Administration but no accountability to the Department of Education. The Department of Revenue Administration is not set up to enforce the stipulations of the bill and, like most of the state government, it does not have the funds to do so.
There is already a tried-and-true system for allocating funds to pay for education and this is a system under the control of local, duly elected officials — the public school system.
Third, the bill cites as its purpose the "freedom of choice" for parents. But freedom of choice is in the eye of the beholder. Parents already have the choice to home school or send their kids to charter schools. But, by defunding adequacy payments, this bill reduces local choices over the quality of education for the rest of the population.
David Borden
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When we landed in London we were prepared with maps, directions, and a full stop-by-stop itinerary for taking the tube from the airport to our friends' house. This was ironic, because in Heathrow we encountered multiple information stands that were all open, helpful, and 100% fluent in English! There was a giant desk solely dedicated to helping travelers navigate the multitude of well-marked, English-announcements underground. Nonetheless, the preparation paid off and we flawlessly reached their apartment. A lovely place in Notting Hill we were sure to run into Hugh or Julia at the blue travel bookshop.
The three day visit was slightly marred by Darren's work schedule and my catching a cold, but we still had lots of fun. There was:
The first quarter of the Superbowl (boooooring), or the far more exciting giant plate of Darren's famous nachos (but made with Daniela's twist of extra cheese, extra gauc, and extra deliciousness).
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The perfect Superbowl spread!
Charming walks through Notting Hill
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|Classic double-deccker bus. Hardly a Flecha Bus!
Drinking in a pub with mini-doors:
|Mini-doors! Who are these for?
|The beer was good. But hardly icy-cold.
|J? You there?
A delish short-rib stew (well, ribs of some sort, the butcher didn't have proper short ribs), accompanied by a fantastic caprese salad and mushroom & onion crostinis.
|Look at those knife skills. And some real cheese, yum!
|That looks like hearty winter soup.
Juaner, remember the recipe?
A stroll through a London park:
|The grounds at Kensington Palace.
Though we now know that the British left many marks on India, this type of trash receptical were not one of them
|Swans! (Not pictured: giant mutant ducks)
|Jesse took this exact same photo when she was in London in 1998!
(Damn she's old)
|All aboard!
(Including Darren and his cute pink doll)
|Ahhhhhh, BA jammers in Jaipur.
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Foraging for Fiddleheads
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A spring walk in the woods exploring in our backyard is fun during all times of the year. We have a special love for early spring when the forest begins to change from the muted winter landscape to the growth of new life in the forest. The green we were hoping to find fiddleheads while wandering one evening after work.
Fiddleheads are found along riverbanks during a very brief period in the spring. You can typically find them in grocery stories here in Maine for a limited time too. We were fortunate that our evening foraging led to fiddleheads for dinner or "suppah" to throw in an extra Maine twist. Super fun and so yummy too. We were sure to pick plenty, but not all. Leaving some behind will help to encourage growth again next year.
There is something extra special about enjoying a wonderful walk in the woods and closing out the evening with an amazing dinner found and picked with our own hands. Jared did most of the picking as the dogs ran and swam in the river and I got to soak it all in and create images.
Ah, spring is here!
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A Lessee's Dream: the Drastic Devaluation of the Russian Currency Has Triggered New Discussions of
The rent for leases, especially those in downtown Moscow and other large cities, is often based on the foreign currency exchange rate, which has recently increased almost threefold. Many businesses have been taken aback by this consequence of the economic crisis. Some of them have been put on verge of bankruptcy because of the increased rent and were forced to seek remedies in courts.
At the same time, Russian courts have traditionally refused to terminate or alter such lease contracts. Their standard rationale has been that entrepreneurs assume the risks of economic changes when entering into contracts based on a foreign currency, and, in any event, can foresee the economic crisis. Hence, many businesses are forced to settle their difficulties by resorting to quasi-legal means, for instance by attempting to find a replacement or by abandoning the leased premises.
However, the Moscow City Arbitrazh Court has recently issued a very controversial decision on the matter. It forcibly established a currency band in a lease agreement between Vympelkom (a Russian mobile service provider, operating under the "Beeline" trade name) and its lessor Tizpribor (Ruling of the Moscow City Arbitrazh Court in Case No. А40-83845/15-54-532 dated February 1, 2016). As a result, many desperate lessees have found new hope for a civilized legal solution for their plight.
Although this decision is a move in the right direction, in itself, unfortunately, it is poorly motivated. Its wording and legal arguments open the door to reversal upon appeal, which is scheduled for the next month. However, we believe that feasible grounds for the same outcome do exist in the Russian law. In particular, the Court based its decrease of Vympelkom's rent on the observation that the payments were higher than the comparable market average rent. This approach, however, can be relied upon only where the lease agreement is found to be void and the court has to retroactively calculate the price for using the premises in question. In the case at hand, however, the lease was valid, and the parties willfully negotiated its pricing terms. For this reason, motivating the decision by the mere fact that the rent exceeded the comparable market average was absolutely unjustified.
Vympelkom v. Tizpribor is strikingly similar to a case examined by the Senate of the Reichsgericht in 1920 to 1921 in Germany. An agricultural lease contract was concluded in 1913 for the term of 15 years (until 1928) without the right to unilateral termination. The rent was to be calculated based on the price of gold, which was a common practice aimed at minimizing economic risks during that historic period, when German economy was weak, the country lacked resources and had high inflation rates. By 1920, the gold coin drastically went up in price. The lessee therefore demanded to fix the rent in the nominal value of the Deutschemark, while the lessor insisted on payments in the paper equivalent of gold.
In 1921, the court of appeal remanded the case to a lower court with instructions to fix a fair rental price taking into account the equitable interests of both parties. The court specifically underlined that currency devaluation had shattered the balance of interests between the lessor and the lessee turning the leased property to a liability instead of an asset, while the lessor could derive economic profit from the onerous position of the lessee. The court declared such an arrangement inconsistent with the principle of good faith and applied the doctrine of fundamental change of circumstances.
Nowadays, agricultural lease is no longer a common phenomenon. Nonetheless, the currently widespread long-term lease of real estate is not too different. Much like the farmer, who leases land for several decades, lives there, fertilizes and digs it, perceiving the land as an inherent part of his life, modern lessees take the lessors' buildings and develop, repair, restructure and upgrade them. After that, the buildings have been brought to suit their needs with such precision that it is almost impossible for the lessees to leave, as moving would cause inconvenience for the employees, business and clients.
Much like in the 1920s Germany, in Russia, where economic crises have been the recurring phenomenon of the last few decades, many long-term lease contracts are fixed in US dollars or Euros and provide no opt-outs for early unilateral termination. After the exchange rate peaked much like gold in the 20th century Germany, thousands of lessees have been stuck with an asset that has suddenly transformed into a liability. They have neither legal nor other options to terminate the contract and are therefore forced to continue performing onerous contracts. At the same time, many lessors, who have no other currency obligations and, thus, no real grounds to receive payments in foreign currency, obtain unjustified benefits.
Vympelkom appears to be just one very prominent example of such a lessee. It leased office premises with the area exceeding 30,000 sq.m. in Moscow with the annual rent of approximately 25 million US dollars (payable in rubles). The contract was signed in 2009, when the yearly average exchange rate was 31.7 rubles per US dollar, while by the end of 2015, it had peaked to approximately 80 rubles per US dollar. As a result, the lease expenses of Vympelkom, which primarily receives its revenue in rubles, increased by almost 1 billion rubles. At the same time, according to Vympelkom's lawyers, the lessor had no currency obligations and was merely taking advantage of the situation refusing to renegotiate the contract terms.
Much like the farmer in an agricultural lease, Vympelkom took an unfit building, restructured and upgraded it for own business needs to the extent that it stopped being the same place visually. Inevitably, moving to another office would not only be highly undesirable but would also cause inconvenience for the business and employees. On the other hand, the lessor also has no interest in terminating the contract. It is unlikely that a new lessee could be easily found without a significant drop in the rent, given the size and the specific features of the premises.
Thus, the contract undoubtedly became excessively onerous for Vympelkom and unjustly profitable for Tizpribor while being impossible to terminate. In such a case, the law must interfere and restore the balance of their interests. The problem is therefore the way the court motivated its decision in the case under review. All of the legal rules used in the German case and other more recent cases do exist in the Russian law. Hence, upon closer consideration there are real legal bases for taking the same decision, which were not, however, fully made use of.
We will continue to monitor the progress of the case in the higher courts and whether they will approve of the new lessee-favouring turn in court practice, or will reverse the decision due to its shaky motivation.
Currently, however, it is essential to ensure that contracts are fully equipped with the necessary exigency provisions prescribing renegotiation or termination of contracts in the events resembling currency devaluation. At the same time, as demonstrated above, even if a particular contract lacks such clauses, it may still be challenged in court. While the chances of success may not be high at present, the initiation of such a judicial process may trigger significant changes in the lessors' approach. Thus, the contract may be altered amicably and the lessees' dreams may come true.
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Today's state-of-the-art data warehouse typically looks like a complicated data warehouse deluxe. The data warehouse of tomorrow, though — the data warehouse supreme — will look quite different. There are few enterprises that have ventured in this direction, though due to overall cost and capabilities, it is still rare to find many data warehouse supremes.
The number of subject areas in a data warehouse supreme is unlimited because the data warehouse is virtual; it isn't all contained in a single database or even within multiple databases that you personally load and maintain.
Instead, only part of your warehouse (probably a small part) is physically located on some data warehouse server; the rest is out there in cyberspace somewhere, accessible through networking capabilities as though it were all part of some physically centralized data warehouse. With a data warehouse supreme, your warehouse users have an infinite number of subject-area possibilities — anything that could possibly be of interest to them.
Think of how you use the Internet today to access Web sites all over the world — sites that someone else creates and maintains. Now, imagine that each of those sites contains information about some specific area of interest to you — rather than advertising, job ads, electronic storefronts, and whatever else you spend your time surfing the Internet trying to find.
Also imagine that you can query and run reports by using the contents of one or more of these sites as your input. That's the model of the data warehouse supreme: opening up an unlimited number of possibilities to users.
The leading-edge corporations are beginning to pursue and deliver seamless convergence of different types of data: narrative documents, video, image, and ordinary data (such as numbers and character information). A data warehouse supreme has all this — all the different types of data that you need to support better business decision-making.
In terms of total capacity, a data warehouse supreme is huge; it surpasses today's limits. The distribution of the information across many different platforms, much faster and higher-performance networking infrastructure, and increasingly "smarter" database management systems — in addition to, of course, steadily increasing disk storage capacities —create this capacity expansion.


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Listen to a presidential candidate talk, and you usually won't get far before you hear about how wonderful Americans are. Or not just presidentials - consider any candidate. A candidate for county commissioner almost always will throw in a reference to how wonderful the people of the county are. It's partly pandering, sure. But partly too it's a nod toward the essentially good intentions of most people, toward the possibilities of what a people can make of a country.
This is a thread keenly missing from the dark Tapestry of the Donald Trump message.
We've heard plenty about all the people and groups insulted and otherwise denigrated by Trump and his campaign. At this point that roster includes nearly all of us. There's that new list, for example, of 250 people and groups specifically insulted by Trump; but that's a partial, since it only includes people insulted on Tweets, as opposed to in speeches, interviews or elsewhere.
Candidates in competitive races will go after some people and groups (the opposing candidate and party, to begin with). But the necessary leavening, to keep the mix from curdling, is to throw in notes of confidence about how terrific the American people - overall, as a people - are as well.
That's normal and standard in both parties. Hillary Clinton's theme of "stronger together" could have been adopted by a candidate of either party in most years past.
The sentiment - of a good, strong American people who are equal to the problems confronting them - shows up nowhere in Trump's acceptance speech. There, he paint the picture of an American living in dytopia, bombarded by crime and economic disaster, in need of a savior. He, of course, is that savior; he will save them all by himself. And not only that, they won't even need a voice in all this: He is the American people. The American people can, well, just shut up.
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I found out a hard truth
Someone special to me has left
How do I deal with it
I am hurting inside
But I can't show it
I need to be strong
Not just for me,but for him
I care for him deeply
I onlt want the best for him
This has been a reality check
I find myself in dreams
Only to find a smilr on my face.
I am hurting inside but I can't show it
Sometimes out on nowhere I start to cry
But I wonder are they good or bad tears
Time will tell
I keep in faith
That he'll be ok
Everynight I tell him good night
I could almost feel him
When I last hugged him
I don't have bad memories only good
I know he's coming back
But it's still hard to see him gone
He didn't go far
It dosen't matter
Cause he's my MARINE
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It's been a while since I felt I had anything news-worthy to document, but I have just come home from Edinburgh Fringe Festival – a new landmark for my theatre company, and a unique personal experience.
It was my – and our – first time at Edinburgh. We went to the Brighton Fringe earlier this Summer, but the atmosphere was very different there.
I don't know where to begin in relaying the events and the feelings of the Fringe, but I'll start with this: we got very lucky! We had an incredible team of people working on the show who all managed to not only perform a musical every day for fourteen days, but also to live together for that whole time, and to sell the shit out of the show on the Royal Mile in the hours before each show. This was something we expected to have to do, but not to enjoy doing. We had so much fun getting creative and individual in our approaches on the Mile that it only served our enthusiasm and energy leading into the show each day. The Mile was definitely as much fun as performing the show was, which is fantastic to say, given that before we arrived, we saw it as a daunting chore that was necessary to get more than one audience member in the room.
I'll leave the rest of the company talk for that blog. Suffice to say, for now, that we had a great time.
Personally I saw Edinburgh as a working holiday. Any performance I got to watch was a bonus, performing and marketing was a priority. However, we settled into a group routine fairly early, and it was a wonderful break from reality. Mornings were comfortable, making-up and warming-up was communal, and evenings were free and chilled. People would mill in and out of the shared apartment asking each other's daily plans and tagging along in a pic-n-mix style. We all ate together each night. We shared stories and laughs and skills. We learned little bits about each other. We got emotional. We got drunk. We all lost our voices. We made faithful use of our homemade 'survival kit' gifted to us by the friend who couldn't come along.
I saw a lot of free comedy, most of which was terrible, some was alright, and some quite good. I saw a couple of dance/physical theatre pieces, both of which were completely my cup of tea and very accomplished and beautiful. I went to an immersive piece set in a séance which had even me, a supposed immersive-theatre-maker, fooled for a while. That, I really enjoyed. I saw a couple of shows I couldn't pick out much positive criticism from at all – a few things that made me question the process of a show getting to the Fringe. I saw Scroobius Pip do some spoken word, with (spoiler alert) a rendition of the Duck Tales theme tune that will now never leave our god damn minds. I saw some amazing 'geekbox'ing by Shlomo. I saw a feminist adaptation of a classic Greek tale. I saw an all-female Titus Andronicus.
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Are People Making Rude Comments About Your Low-Carb Diet?
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Are you brand new to a low-carb diet? Have you returned to the Atkins Diet after a leave of absence? Maybe you've been following a restricted carbohydrate program for a while now. No matter where you are in your low-carb journey, sooner or later, you're bound to run into someone who feels a strong need to criticize what you're doing.
That's what happened to me when I started a low-carb diet in January of 2007. One of my friends showed up on my doorstep, noticed that Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution book was sitting next to my computer, and started lecturing me about the dangers of ketosis. Her reasoning? Ketosis was a toxic condition, so I needed to replace the refined carbohydrates in my diet with whole grains rather than eliminating them completely.
When people are rude about your eating style, nosy about the amount of fat or protein you're eating, and insist that the state of dietary ketosis is dangerous, you might not know what to say or do. For that reason, it's always best to be prepared ahead of time. With adequate preparation, you'll be able to pull an appropriate response out of your back pocket whenever the need arises.
Ignore Their Opinion
Being considerate of the opinion and choices of others can go a long way toward eliminating the inner turmoil that often arises when others confront your diet of choice. That isn't easy to do if you have a strong need to defend your decisions. Rather than focusing on yourself, one way of handling dietary confrontation is to first consider where the person's information is coming from, and then simply agree to disagree if it doesn't match your current regimen.
For example, my friend had recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. She had been studying the state of ketosis as it pertained to that condition. While both ketoacidosis and dietary ketosis are referred to within the medical field as simply ketosis, they are not the same thing.
I knew that my friend had done her research regarding diabetes, was extremely opinionated, and that despite the extensive scientific evidence in support of low-carb diets today,[1] she wasn't going to listen to anything I had to say. Especially since Dr. Eric C. Westman, one of the authors of The New Atkins for a New You, stated in a New York Times interview that the public perception of most low-carb programs is that they are nothing more than pounds of steak and piles of bacon.[3] Most people don't know the difference between a zero-carb diet and the Atkins Diet.
Since the discussion actually centered around the information that my friend had discovered online, and it didn't come from any reasonable research into the topic of low-carb diets themselves, I simply chose to ignore her opinion about ketosis.
I didn't defend my diet. I didn't offer any explanation for the book sitting next to my computer. I didn't even try to correct her misunderstandings about eliminating carbohydrates. I simply listened to what she had to say and directed my comments toward the state of ketoacidosis. I knew that was the perspective she was coming from. I also kept the discussion focused on HER and her diabetes, rather than allowing her to bring my diet and health situation into the conversation.
Difference in Ketoacidosis and Ketosis Explained
I was able to do that because I wasn't offended by her errors and because the conversation was about the topic of ketosis, not fat loss. However, being considerate and ignoring the opinions of others might not work if the person opposing you continues to use rude remarks and invasive questions that try to pry into your personal eating style.
If you can't just ignore the person's opinion or the situation won't allow you to simply agree to disagree, there are additional options and tactics you can use to stay in charge of your inner state.
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When you're faced with someone who thinks that what you're eating is wrong and refuses to let it go, the best response is to firmly define your boundaries. But you don't do that by appealing to a higher authority. In fact, if you try to use low-carb experts to justify your dietary choices, that will only make the situation worse.
Setting and keeping your boundaries intact isn't the same thing as being right. In fact, the need to be right will only fuel the conflict. Appealing to low-carb authorities might work if someone is sincerely interested in learning about low-carb diets, but it won't help with someone who doesn't see Dr. Atkins or Dr. Westman in the same light that you do.
Appealing to a book written by Gary Taubes, a blog post written by Dr. Eades, or an article written in a low-carb magazine is introducing information into the conversation that can be debated and argued. You don't want to put yourself into an arguable position. There's nothing to argue about. What you put into your mouth is entirely up to you, so you'll want to firmly define your boundaries in such a way as to assure the other person that what you're eating isn't a topic for discussion.
If someone isn't respecting your decision to restrict the carbohydrates in your diet, simply state:
"This is my choice, and I'm not going to discuss it."
Be simple, and get right to the point. Don't waste your time on flowery words, long explanations, or on trying to be diplomatic in hopes of not hurting their feelings. No matter what you say, you're going to hurt their feelings because their expectation is that they will be able to convince you that you're wrong. Expectations always set us up to experience some degree of disappointment when things don't happen in the way we expect them to.[2]
Don't give others the opportunity to do that to you. Don't allow them to lead you down a path where you don't want to go. Let them know right up front that you have no intention of participating in that type of game. Choose not to go there.
Respect the Opinions and Beliefs of Others
If you want others to respect your low-carb diet choices, then you have to give others the same type of respect and freedom. It doesn't matter what anyone else is eating. If someone is chowing down on a donut while they're insisting that a low-carb diet is dangerous or lecturing you about the danger of eating too much saturated fat while filling their shopping cart with potato chips, chicken nuggets, and frozen pizza, give them the freedom to live that contradiction. Judging is judging, and you can choose not to participate in that type of interaction.
Also, refrain from introducing your beliefs about a low-carb lifestyle. While you might be strongly tempted to explain what you believe about eating grain free or low carb versus low-fat diets, in hopes of creating a convert, be realistic. Most people are not interested in learning about something new. They are interested in confirming what they already believe or want to believe is true.
When others are caught up in their emotional need to convince you to conform to their opinion, that is not the time or place to introduce what you believe. People who want to argue are in no frame of mind to receive what you have to say. The focus is on them and what they think. Even though the conversation is about you, it's about what you are doing wrong. In that type of situation, your opinion about low-carb diets won't be welcomed. It won't even be heard.
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Once you've stated that you are not going to discuss your current dietary choices, you have to make sure that you do exactly that:
- change the topic to something more agreeable
- hang up the phone
- stop texting or emailing back
- leave the room, house, or building
- get out of the car, or drive away
If you allow the other person to step over the boundary that you've just created, then you have handed them all of your personal power for that issue. They won't believe you're serious, and will continue to question and make rude comments. While people don't always mean to be rude and obnoxious, it's not in your best interest to stick around. Let them have the last word, and just walk away.
Ignore the Critics of Low-Carb Diets
Let Your Results Speak for Themselves
The idea is that it's up to you to choose how you are going to react to the different situations in your life. No one is forcing you to stay and listen to what others are saying to you. You always have the option of ignoring their opinion, defining your boundaries, and walking away when others don't respect your choices. Don't hesitate to use that option. Getting defensive and argumentative doesn't bring inner peace. It only aggravates the conflict and keeps you from achieving the degree of health and peace of mind that a low-carb lifestyle can bring.


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Hi there,
I am currently on a year exchange over in the Czech Republic and I am experiencing difficulty with my online banking. Recently my Australian phone broke- the mobile which was connected to my online banking app. As this was an apple phone I was able to have the app saved in my phone through the app store and preorganised before I left Australia. However, this phone was broken recently and I had to acquire a new and cheap phone quickly before going on a ski trip. Now I have a new android cheaper version phone that does not let me download the Bankwest online banking app due to my location not being in Australia. Anyway, I tried working online as I wanted to transfer money from my savings account to my travel and go card from Australian post but I entered the password wrong once and now I am locked out of my online banking account- however luckily I still have access to the card. However, I need to monitor my funds and I still get charged when going to an atm.
Being international I also had to acquire a new SIM for Czech as obviously, my old Australian telephone company does not work over here. But now when I go to reset my security code my old sim when put in my new phone does not let me turn on data roaming to receive this SMS. I am not sure what to do nor who to contact, as I cannot exactly call Bankwest from the other side of the world without enormous expenses I thought I would ask your team first if there is someway I can prove my identity and be able to regain my banking PIN.
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Communism: The Arrogant Creed of the Intellectuals, Crony Philanthropists and Technocratic Laborforce Capitalists
"Accepting no laws but the laws of force,
these societies have been ruled by totalitarian ideologies
like Nazism, fascism, and communism,
which do not spring from the general populace,
but are imposed on it by intellectual elites."
Margaret Thatcher,
The Moral Foundations of Society, November 1994
Burke, Bastiat, Thatcher and Hoover, students of mankind and history, who were grounded first of all in humble reverence for God, recognized the framework of force and fraud that has plagued mankind for millennia. They labored as faithful shepherds crusading against the totalitarian hoards that played upon fear and food, security and aesthetics deftly choreographing the crowds of sheep to slavery.
Folks either earn their own bread, or they steal the bread of others.
Elites would rather cultivate seeds of manipulation rather than cultivate their own fields and harvest their own crops, to make their own loaves. Thus, they need laborers to do their dirty work and to administrate the deeds of plunder amongst the socially engineered slaves.
They accomplish their droll role via control of compulsory Education of the masses. For example: Fed Led and Globally aligned College and Career Ready Laborforce development. http://abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com/2015/02/alert-hr-5-student-success-act-of-2015.html?m=1
and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014
French Economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) challenges:
"Try to imagine a form of labor compulsorily imposed that does not infringe freedom or a transmission of wealth forcibly imposed that does not infringe property. If you do not succeed, then you must agree that the law cannot organize economic production without organizing injustice."
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) articulately crusaded against collectivism and goose-stepping regimentation providing millions of lives as evidence that: Citizens of a nation cannot have planned economy and have personal liberty. See Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath, The Crusade Years 1933-1955 for ample documentation. "Don't let anyone tell you that personal liberty can survive in totalitarian economics or that [the] preliminary state called "Managed Economy" can ever stop short of collectivism." https://dawnkazmierzak.net/2015/01/15/recognizing-statisms-sources-the-patterns-of-collectivisms-cronies
Continuing with Frederic Bastiat and The Law…
"When, from the confines of his office, a political writer surveys a society, he is struck by the spectacle of inequality that greets him. He weeps over the sufferings that are the lot of so many of our brothers, sufferings that appear even more saddening when contrasted with luxury and opulence.
Perhaps he should ask himself whether such a state of society has not been caused by former plunder carried out by conquest and by current plunder carried out by means of the law.
He should ask himself whether, given that all men aspire to well-being and improving their lot, the reign of justice is not enough to achieve the greatest activity of progress and the greatest amount of "equality" that are compatible with the individual responsibility ordained by God, as the just reward for virtue and vice.
He does not even give this a thought.
His thoughts go to deals, agreements, and organizations that are either legal or artificial. He seeks a remedy in perpetuating or exaggerating the situation that has produced the misfortune.
The fact is, outside justice, which, as we have seen, is just a genuine negation, is there a single one of these legal agreements that does not include the principle of plunder?
You say, "Here are men who lack wealth," and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills by itself or whose milk-bearing ducts draw from elsewhere than society. Nothing enters the public treasury in favor of a citizen or a class other than that which other citizens and other classes have been forced to put in.
If each person draws out only the equivalent of what he has put in, it is true that your law is not plunderous, but it does nothing for those men that lack wealth, it does nothing for equality. It can be an instrument for equality only to the extent that it takes from some to give to others, and in this case it becomes an instrument of plunder.
If you look at the protection of tariffs, production subsidies, the right to profit, the right to work, the right to assistance, the right to education, progressive taxes, free credit, or social workshops from this point of view, you will always find at their root legal plunder and organized injustice.
You say, "Here are men who lack enlightenment," and you turn to the law. But the law is not a torch that spreads its own light far and wide. It hovers over a society in which there are men with knowledge and others without, citizens who need to learn and others who are willing to teach.
It can do only one of two things:
either it allows this type of transaction to operate freely and permits this type of need to be freely satisfied,
It can constrain people's wishes in this respect and take from some to pay teachers who will be responsible for educating others free of charge.
But in the second case it cannot do this without freedom and property being violated, signifying therefore legal plunder.
[Morality or Religion]
You say, "Here are men who lack morality or religion," and you turn to the law. But the law is compulsion and do I need to say how violent and crazy it is to use force in this connection?
For all its theories and strivings it appears that socialism, however indulgent it is toward itself, cannot avoid catching a glimpse of the fiend that is legal plunder. But what does socialism do?
It cleverly shrouds the legal plunder from all eyes, even its own, under the seductive names of fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association. And because we do not ask so much of the law since we require only justice of it, socialism presumes that we are rejecting fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association and hurls the epithet "Individualist!" at us.
Socialism ought to know, therefore, that what we are rejecting is not natural organization, but forced organization.
It is not free association, but the forms of association that socialism claims to have the right to impose on us.
It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity.
It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility.
Socialism, like the old politics from which it stems, confuses government with society. For this reason, each time we do not want something to be done by the government, socialism concludes that we do not want this thing to be done at all.
We reject education by the state; therefore we do not want education.
We reject state religion; therefore we do not want religion. We reject equality established by the state; therefore we do not want equality, etc., etc. It is like accusing us of not wanting men to eat because we reject the growing of wheat by the state.
How in the world of politics has the strange idea become dominant of having the law generate things that it does not encompass: Good in its positive aspect, wealth, science, and religion?
Modern political writers, particularly those of the socialist school, base their various theories on a common hypothesis, definitely the strangest and most arrogant hypothesis that the human brain has ever devised.
They divide humanity into two parts. All men minus one form the first
And the political writer all on his own forms the second and by far the most important part.
In effect, they begin with the premise that men do not have within themselves either a principle of action or any means of discernment: that they lack initiative; that they are made of inert matter, passive molecules, and atoms deprived of spontaneity; and that they are at most a form of plant life that is indifferent to its own mode of existence and willing to accept an infinite number of more or less symmetrical, artistic, and developed forms from an external initiative and hand."
[Sadly in 2015, this is precisely the type of passive mass men that Federal Led taxpayer plundered "Education" is in the midst of developing using Marxist means of Technology to design a laborforce for State run commerce; The College and Career Ready laborers. Digitally designed, mutated, managed and monitored.]
Back to the crony connected Elite Designers and Dynamos:
"Each of them then quite simply supposes that he is himself, wearing the hats of organizer, prophet, legislator, teacher, and founder, this driving force and hand, this universal dynamo and creative power whose sublime mission is to gather together in society the scattered stuff of humanity.
From this given starting point, just as each gardener according to his whim prunes his trees into pyramids, umbrellas, cubes, cones, vases, fruit-tree shapes, distaffs, or fans, each socialist, according to his vision, prunes poor humanity into groups, series, centers, subcenters, honeycombs, and social, harmonious, or contrasting workshops, etc. etc. [honeycombs are very popular in cubicle world workspace design these days….]
[Can we say "Low hanging fruit" ?]
And just as the gardner needs axes, saws, sickles, and shears in order to prune his trees, the political writer needs forces that he can find only in the laws in order to marshal his society: customs laws, tax laws, laws governing assistance or education.
It is so true that the socialists consider humanity to be material that can be modeled to fit social templates that if by chance they are not certain of the success of these arrangements, they claim at least a part of humanity as material for experimentation.
We know just how popular the idea of trying out all their systems is among them, and we have already seen one of their leaders come in all seriousness to ask the Constituent Assembly to give them a commune with all its inhabitants in order for them to carry out tests.
[This would be the ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorized, the common core, college and career ready unified standards, corruption for cash Title funding…. The massive commune of communism under the Dept. of Education.]
In this way, every inventor makes a small-scale model of his machine before making it full scale. In this way, chemists sacrifice a few reagents [a generation of citizens] and farmers a little seed and a corner of the field in order to test an idea."
Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850
Nearly a century later, another European economist, Austrian Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), would elucidate the truth in his book The Road to Serfdom. The message was simple: centralized "Planning leads to dictatorship" and the directed organization of economic activity inevitably results in the "suppression of freedom."
"Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest;
it is the control of the means for all our ends.
And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and which lower—
In short, what men should believe and strive for."
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944
Experience has shown that in Communism, Control is more important than ownership. ……Who's pulling your strings?
The Law, Frederic Bastiat, 1850
[bold emphasis, mine]
The Crusade Years 1933-1955, Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath, edited by George H. Nash
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
The Moral Foundations of Society, by Margaret Thatcher, November 1994


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Sarah and Nick are a magical couple. You can see their sweetness and affection for each other in every shot. They are funny and sincere and so very kind to each other. You may recognize the lovely bride from her many memorable roles at The Guthrie Theater. (Go see a show, folks. She's TOTALLY BRILLIANT!) Nick and Sarah met at the Guthrie so it was a fitting place to tie the knot. Their perfectly relaxed ceremony was held in the dramatic Amber Box (notice the cool yellow tint on some of the photos?). After shooting fun photos nine stories above the Mississippi River we headed over to Theodore Worth Park for a ruckus reception. It rained multiple times on their wedding day but you can't tell, can you? We loved every minute.


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I'm in Venice today and can send only a short post from a coffee shop. The weather is great, we are going to have our shooting today otherwise it's fun, fun, fun. I love this sunny weather and the huge sandy beaches. Viva Italia 🙂
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Chapter 231: Six Loud Explosions!
At Armament Sect's entrance.
The leaders of the five forces led their respective subordinate experts and went in.
The scar-faced Tu Shixiong suddenly held out his hand, signalling everyone under his command to stop. Immediately after, all of the Dark Asura Hall martial practitioners nearby halted.
The group looked at him, wondering why he had stopped them.
"Do not enter this entrance," Tu Shixiong exclaimed in a low tone.
"But everyone else has gone in," Zhuo Qian commented in surprise.
"Before that thing in Qin Lie's hands has blown up, none of you are allowed to take even a single step into Armament Sect." Tu Shixiong glared.
The group was all deathly silent.
Tu Mo was the only one who dared to speak his doubts, "Father, why did you kill Lian Dong?"
"Because I've broken through to the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm, so Cao Xuanrui can't hold me back anymore. The reason he kept Lian Dong by your side means that he has already grown wary of me." Tu Shixiong's eyes shone with a violent light. "Don't worry. I have warred all over the continent since the day I was born. My whole life has been composed of killing all sorts foreign species and evil beasts other than human themselves. Plus, I've never revealed my true power. A mere Cao Xuanrui? Hmph, he is no longer someone I need to concern myself with!"
The moment he said this, Tu Mo, Tu Ze, Zhuo Qian, and many more of his subordinates all grew incredibly excited.
"The position of hall master is probably… probably not that easy," Zhuo Qian softly exclaimed.
"Relax, I'm taking this position for sure!" Tu Shixiong's face was filled with mad arrogance. "Don't worry. I planned this long in advance, and now the matter is set!"
"Father, why did you not stop them when Lian Dong wanted to kill Uncle Han and the others then?" Tu Ze asked.
"Because Old Han had entered Armament Sect. Even I cannot absolve them without a good reason." Tu Shixiong frowned, continuing, "But since Qin Lie had arrived, bringing that item with him, I then had a reason to let them escape. I will have a solid enough reason to defend myself with even in front of the grand hall master without being affected by rumors."
"Father, if the item in Qin Lie's hand is so terrifying, why didn't you remind the grand hall master or the other four forces?" Tu Ze asked again.
Tu Shixiong chuckled brutally, "Why would I care for anyone else besides my own sons? Forget the four forces, even if it was the grand hall master himself… if he's dead, he's dead. If Dark Asura Hall suffers a great loss and loses all their leaders, then perhaps Dark Asura Hall may follow after the name Tu in the future!"
The two brothers looked at each other while, their bodies shaking. They felt a sense of worship towards their own father.
"Now that's what you f*cking call an ambitious man!!" Tu Shixiong's subordinates all cried out in silence.
On the plaza.
Qin Lie beckoned Tang Siqi and Lian Rou, asking for them to come over.
Tang Siqi and Lian Rou appeared forlorn as they sighed inside their hearts. They walked away from Blood Spear martial practitioners and came to his side.
"Why have you come back?" Tang Siqi complained in a low tone.
"You shouldn't have come," Lian Rou also sighed quietly.
"Brat, you're Armament Sect's new sect master?" Zhan Tianyi looked at him. "A mere Natal Opening Realm martial practitioner dares to cause such a commotion. You really don't know how the word death is written, do you?"
"Your biggest mistake was allowing this kid to become your sect master!" Shi Jingyun hmphed, "Without his reckless actions, you artificers would have lived even though Armament Sect still would face its end. But now? Hmph!"
"You will all die alongside his recklessness!" Su Ziying looked at her broken finger and cried out somewhat hysterically.
The three great reverends and seven inner sect elders' who had their eyes on Qin Lie all had rather complicated expressions on their faces.
At this moment, they too had begun to wonder if it was really a mistake to have Qin Lie replace Ying Xingran.
The three great reverends and seven great inner sect elders sitting under ten spirit pillars sighed deeply in their hearts at this moment.
At this point, there was no longer any use for regrets. They would watch their sect head towards its downfall with their very own eyes, going down with it as well.
"Yu Dai visits the sect!"
"Jiang Yuan visits the sect!"
"Ou Yangsheng visits the sect!"
"Fu Zhuohui visits the sect!"
"Jiu Liuyu visits the sect!"
"Cao Xuanrui visits the sect!"
Suddenly, the loud calls came from Armament Sect's entrance one after another.
It was just like when Yuan Tianya, Liang Yangzu, Shi Jingyun, Wu Tuo, and Su Ziying had arrived.
At the center of the plaza, Su Ziying's eyes turned joyful, growing excited. "Damn you Old Yu, come over and kill this lowly bastard Qin Lie right now!"
"Qin Lie!" Jiu Liuyu's voice came coldly from outside, "I will have Yushi herself cut that boastful tongue of yours. Your tongue will be minced to tiny pieces and fed to the dogs!"
"This brat has stirred up countless troubles everywhere. He will definitely not be allowed to die comfortably!" Yu Dai laughed coldly.
Qin Lie, who was just about to take Tang Siqi and Lian Rou away from this land of conflict, heard Jiu Liuyu's threatening voice. Then, a violent nature hidden inside his heart uncontrollably exploded outwards!
His eyes turned violent as his face turned savage. "You want to mince my tongue and feed it to the dogs? You even want Yushi to do it with her own hands? Jiu Liuyu! I will have you die right now!"
Multiple fist-sized, metallic balls suddenly appeared on his palm and were tightly surrounded with electricity. The very instant after they appeared, they were then thrown towards the outer sect entrance at the foot of the mountain.
It fell in the direction of the six voices that announced their visit.
Chuckling, Xue Li didn't hide the joy in his heart as soon as he saw the Terminator Profound Bombs fly outside. He cried out madly in his heart, "Good! Very good! Extremely good!"
It was as if he had been waiting for Qin Lie to explode, for Qin Lie to throw out the Terminator Profound Bomb, for more blood to be shed, and for more deaths to occur within the city.
"What's that?"
It wasn't long after the elites of the five forces entered the sect before they raised their heads and saw the metallic balls shining with lightning falling down on them from six different directions. They all instinctively looked towards the sky.
Yi Yuan was among them.
Terror—as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight—appeared on Yi Yuan's face as he screamed crazily, "AVOID THAT METALLIC BALL!"
Regardless of the other's reactions, Yi Yuan decisively called upon a secret art and spewed out a mouthful of blood.
Yi Yuan's body turned into a purple stream and slipped outside the sect midair while still stained in blood.
"Purple River Destruction Escape!" Cang Li screamed.
She hesitated for only an instant before feeling a chill run through her entire body. She also used the same method and unleashed the escape art, turning into a purple stream and escaping outside while drenched in blood.
She actually unconditionally trusted Yi Yuan's judgement!
"What the hell is that thing?!" Jiang Yuan yelled.
His yell barely ended before a metallic ball, with coiled lightning descended down upon him.
The six Terminator Profound Bombs exploded in quick succession.
Six shockwaves that could shatter the earth and stun the sky exploded almost simultaneously. The thunderous shockwave spread out, causing the space in this area to experience an obvious collapse as black paths appeared midair out of nowhere while flying out in every direction.
Like the surface of a mirror, space shattered inch by inch!
The flying spatial energy reaped the lives of all within this space like the humongous scythe of the grim reaper!
Armament Sect's outer sect entrance was instantly destroyed under this world-ending shockwave!
Every single buildings and structures promptly shattered into billions of tiny fragments!
The rocks actually weren't affected by gravity at all as they floated in the middle of the air and filled every corner of the collapsed space!
This eerie scene paused for only an instant!
In the next moment, hundreds of lengthy, thick threads of lightning shot out like pythons, violent serpents, or lightning dragons!
It was only then that the mad howls of death finally came out.
"Rrrmb! Clap clap clap! Zzzt zzt zzt!"
The sound of thunder exploding, the sound of lightning streaking through the air, the sound of bodies shattering, the screams, the shouts, the wails...
All sorts of sounds mingled together and resounded throughout Armament Sect, exploding in this hellish area!
The collapsed space had now formed into an unnamed abyss. Countless black tunnels appeared and disappeared like illusions within the abyss, as if they would reach the end of the world or the limits of the sky.
This scene had persevered for only a split second before the collapsed space automatically repaired itself. It was like a gaping, magical mouth that had shut up once more, swiftly returning to normal.
"Great explosion! Well blasted! Hahaha!" Xue Li cried out madly.
No one knew why he was so excited.
However, Armament Sect's outer sect, including all its structures, had already disappeared.
The six deep pits were like bottomless lakes that were hundred of meters wide, replacing the original Armament Sect with smoke coming from the foot of Flame Volcano.
"Zzzt zzt zzt!"
There were even small flashes of lightning within the six pits. The thick smell of burnt flesh permeated the air.
A few scattered people stood beside the six deep pits. They seemed to have lost their souls as they blankly stared at the six deep pits, trying to find their companions who didn't even leave behind a corpse.
It was as if these people's souls were directly shattered by the six great booms and became the walking dead...
Only facing the most extreme despair and shock would a martial practitioner who cultivated turn out like this.
Jiu Liuyu was gone. Cao Xuanrui was gone. Yu Dai was gone. Ouyang Sheng was also gone...
Jiang Yuan, Fu Zhuohui, Ji Liu, and a few dozen or so people scattered around the six great pits had soulless expressions on their faces. They were still looking into the pits, looking for any sign of anyone they knew...
Unfortunately, there was nothing.
"Well done! Well blasted! Truly the Terminator Profound Bomb!" Only Xue Li's mad laughter still filled the air.
Outside Armament Sect.
Tu Shixiong's body violently shook as he opened his eyes and attempted to speak. However, he soon realized that he actually couldn't utter a single word. What came out of his mouth was only a round of unconscious groans.
From their point of view, Armament Sect's outer sect had been eliminated in its entirety. They could see the plaza where the twelve spirit pattern pillars were situated without anything blocking their view.
The dozens of Armament Sect buildings that were supposed to stand between them and the plaza were gone!
They had all turned to dust.
"Cough cough cough!" From the other side, Yi Yuan spat blood, his face completely pale, while holding himself against the wall. He looked in utter shock at the once standing sect entrance.
In his eyes, the sect entrance had already disappeared. Now, only six hellish great pits remained—and of course the countless burned corpses which belonged to the five great forces.
Beside him, Cang Li, who had gotten used to seeing all sorts of bloody scenes, was vomiting intensely to the point where she had gone completely pale.
"Butcher, this butcher named Qin Lie! H-how dare he act so crazy and ruthlessly!!"
Cang Li had never feared someone this badly before.
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In November 1997, just after Christian Action started serving in Qinghai, a beautiful baby girl was found on a road in Xining City. Her name was Zhao Wenzhen. She was taken to the Xining Children's Home where she received surgery for a hip problem and all the love and care she needed to grow into a happy, intelligent, strong-willed toddler. Then in 2001, when she was four years old she made history by becoming the first child to be adopted from the Xining Children's Home. Her new parents Jeff and Crystal Kershaw came all the way from Cleveland, Ohio to pick up Zhao Wenzhen who now went by the name Meizi. In her new family Meizi also had a brother Spensor, and a sister Bailey to grow up with.
Fueled by the love and care of the Kershaw family Meizi has grown into a free spirited, vibrant character who loves to write stories and songs. She is a skilled pianist, a bright mathematician and loves sports. Wherever she goes her colorful personality always shines through. The whole Kershaw family has been blessed with Meizi in their family!
This year, Meizi, now a beautiful young woman of 16, and her whole family traveled back to the Xining Children's Home for a visit. Meizi was reunited with those who were a part of her young years; those who cared for her, along with some other children who were there when she was a toddler. One boy called BinBin who had received many surgeries through the years took a turn on the dance floor with Meizi.
Meizi is truly a blessed story--Christian Action was there at her time of need and was able to provide her with love and care. There are still hundreds more disabled and abandoned children who need that kind of love and care and with your support they will get it. Please consider sponsoring a child to help children just like Meizi.
Upon arriving back home Meizi wrote the following about her visit to the Xining Children's Home.
"I never would have guessed how much of an impact it would have left on me. I thought that it would be a cool experience, but China was much more than a fun vacation. It was life-changing excursion. Beijing was the first place our family visited. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the famous cites such as the Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. I specifically appreciated learning more about my culture and history. On the fourth day of our journey in China, we flew to my home province, Xining.
From the moment the airplane landed, I had this feeling that something was right. This sentiment continued throughout my stay as I began to fall in love with the culture and lifestyle. It was so different from America, yet so familiar. The odd thing was, that I began to remember smells and emotions that I had before my adoption. Especially at the orphanage. That was probably my favorite place our family went to. I was just so amazed at what God had done with the place and through the people working with it. Also, my heart went out to the kids there, and every minute that I helped serve, flew by so quickly. I never wanted to stop seeing the joy on their faces. I didn't want to say goodbye. And I don't have to... completely.
By the end of the trip, I made up my mind that this would not be the last time I came to China. I decided that if it's God's plan, I would like to come back to my country and orphanage again. Visiting China this spring break is a choice I will never regret. I had great memories, and look forward to making more in the future."