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Cablevision Alerts Customers to Movies On Demand Offer and Other Alternatives for Coverage of the Oscars
Today Cablevision Provides Video On Demand Movies AT NO CHARGE To All iO TV Customers; Includes Academy Award Best Picture Nominees "District 9," "The Hurt Locker," and "Up"
Cablevision Enlists Former New York Post "Page Six" Deputy Editor Paula Froelich to Blog Oscars Live; Adds to Range of TV and Online Options for Coverage
BETHPAGE, N.Y., March 7 -- Following ABC Disney's decision to pull WABC off Cablevision at midnight Saturday, Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) alerted its iO(R) TV customers that today it would provide Video On Demand (VOD) movies at no charge, including access to Academy Award nominated films. Cablevision has also enlisted former New York Post "Page Six" Deputy Editor Paula Froelich to blog live coverage of tonight's Oscars and has communicated additional ways for customers to access Academy Awards red carpet and event coverage on television and online.
Cablevision Offers Customers Access to Entire Slate of On Demand Movies AT NO CHARGE
Today, Cablevision has invited all of its iO(R) TV customers to choose from its entire slate of on demand movies and watch them at no charge. This includes Academy Award Best Picture nominated films "District 9," "The Hurt Locker," and "Up." Nominated films available on iO On Demand include:
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- Julie & Julia
- The Cove
- A Serious Man
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Star Trek
- The Hurt Locker
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Inglorious Basterds
- Up
To order, customers go to the iO TV main menu, select On Demand, then Movies on Demand, then choose their movie. All customer bills will be credited for Movies on Demand ordered on Sunday, March 7th.
Paula Froelich To Blog Live Coverage of Tonight's Oscars; Another Way to Access Academy Award Coverage
In an effort to provide timely coverage of the Academy Awards after ABC pulled its programming, Cablevision has brought on board former New York Post "Page Six" Deputy Editor Paula Froelich to blog live and cover the event on Twitter. The New York Times best-selling author worked for the wildly popular gossip column until June 2009, when she left the paper to write her debut novel, "Mercury In Retrograde."
Customers can access Paula's live Oscar coverage on Twitter by following: Paula Froelich (@PFro) or by using the hash tag: #PFCablevision. Coverage is also available through Facebook by joining the group "Cablevision Viewers Say: No New Fees, ABC!"
In addition, below are just some of the ways to access Academy Awards red carpet and event coverage:
* E! -- "Countdown to the Red Carpet" from 5 PM to 6 PM Eastern Time and "Live from the Red Carpet: The 2010 Academy Awards" from 6 PM to 8 PM Eastern Time available on Channel 51 / 751 HD
* AP Live Stream - AP is offering live streaming of red carpet coverage via Livestream found online at www.livestream.com/aplive
* ABC's Oscar.com -- Delivers official clips and interviews found online at http://oscar.go.com/red-carpet/live-from-the-red-carpet
* Right TV -- Dedicated page that lets you watch the Oscars found online at http://tv.rightcelebrity.com/
* Hulu -- Updated clips throughout the night found online at http://www.hulu.com
* YouTube � An official channel dedicated to the Oscars found online at http://www.youtube.com/user/oscars?blend=2&ob=4
* Moviefone -- Delivers real-time red carpet photos, coverage of the night, and an up-to-the-minute Oscar winners list, along with video clips and photo highlights from the show found online at http://www.moviefone.com
* Oscars app -- The only official Academy Awards app for the iPod Touch or the iPhone provides real time updates on Oscar winners
Cablevision customers can urge ABC Disney to return WABC to Cablevision customers by visiting http://www.cablevision.com/abc or joining its Facebook group "Cablevision Viewers Say: No New Fees, ABC!"
Movies On Demand are accessible to digital customers with an interactive digital set-top box through channel 500 or the Enhanced TV menu on the iO TV user interface. All of iO TV's VOD programming is presented in crystal-clear quality with DVD-like functionality including the ability to pause, fast-forward and rewind programs through the remote control.
About Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading telecommunications, media and entertainment companies. In addition to its Optimum-branded cable, Internet, and voice offerings, the company owns and operates News 12 Networks, MSG Varsity and Newsday Media Group. Cablevision's assets also include Rainbow Media Holdings LLC and its programming and entertainment businesses, AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, WE tv and IFC Entertainment, as well as Clearview Cinemas. Additional information about Cablevision is available on the Web at www.cablevision.com.


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The World's Finest team-up that's been rumored and then teased in advertising for months finally gets announced as Warner Bros. Interactive reveals Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes today. Aside from Batman, Robin and Superman, the game will also feature Wonder Woman and Green Lantern.
The miniature Superfriends gather together to stop Lex Luthor and the Joker from wreaking havoc in Gotham City, with the same co-op destroy-&-build gameplay that have made these games so fun.
I, for one hope that this is finally the game that sees dev studio Travelers' Tales implementing online co-op in their Lego games. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes will be fighting crime on PC, Xbox 360, PS3, DS, 3DS, Wii and PlayStation Vita some time this summer, probably to take advantage of the Bat-mania that'll surround The Dark Knight Rises.


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This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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Located at Nashville's E.S. Rose Park on the historic Edgehill Civil War battleground area, the E. S. Rose Park Athletic Fields is a revolutionary shared facilities concept. E.S. Rose Park provides a state-of the-art, 24-acre community facility which includes baseball, softball and soccer fields; a basketball court; a walking track; and a training facility that meets NCAA Division I standards.
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Citroen is likely to focus on a more radical approach to family hatchbacks, led by the new Citroen C4 Cactus, instead of replacing the current C4 with another conventional Focus and Golf rival, according to the company's boss.
The Cactus concept is designed to show how Citroen plans to develop its 'C Line' of vehicles – in effect anything that doesn't wear a DS badge. Model cycles mean that while it will be called C4 Cactus, it will be sold alongside the existing C4 for at least four years.
However, Citroen managing director Frederic Banzet told What Car? that the firm is keen to get out of the conventional family hatchback market and offer something different, allowing it to focus on perceived value instead of getting involved in a price-cutting war with rivals from Korea (and eventually, China).
When asked if Citroen would have to build another regular C4 to replace the current car, Banzet said, 'No, I don't think so. We have to try to keep attracting conquest sales and that means not focusing on the average car like Megane, Focus or Astra. Or even the Koreans [Hyundai and Kia], who are being more aggressive in pricing.
Nor can we be in the low-cost game. What would happen in the longer term is that the C4 Cactus and the C4 would become one car.'
Citroen is hoping that its design-led C Line range of vehicles – which will be launched by the C4 Cactus next year – will prove a similar sales hit to the DS model line-up. DS models have now sold more than 350,000 editions worldwide, but their price margins mean that the cars are generally more profitable than the firm's regular vehicles.
Banzet also confirmed that while the C4 Cactus has been designed for Europe, it could be sold outside of the region. 'Originally the idea was just for this area,' he said, 'but it could be that it is sold beyond Europe, yes. We'd need to check what customers want and perhaps make some adjustments for their tastes, but the ethos behind the new C Line is a global one.'


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Episode 22 – Futility
The pains of loss, and trauma surge through my mind like the torrents of great oceans. Swept away I am in all the loss and pain, even loneliness of my long but short life. My life is unenviable. My existence almost unpalatable. My skin aches for touch and warmth to ease this deep pain inside of me. Ever since I was young I fretted what I was. What I am. Every day felt like an intangible joke at my expense. "Whoops, we told you wrong", I hear them say as they laugh. My heart wrought me to tears as I think about all the things others took for granted that I'd been denied. I even thought for a moment about a friend I'd once lost. She was transgender like me, but never had the opportunity to make that revelation before life could happen. A strange privilege to have when I was naught privileged in many other ways. My career of mediocrity as a fine example of that. Because I was a woman who used to have a dick, I was just not good enough for my accomplishments to garner me advancement. She'd married a woman once before, and had children. All of that life was taken from her when she told the world, "I'm a woman, and not a man".
And then eventually the burden of feeling alone made her give up. She was like my sister. So like me, and we seemed to understand each other so well. When she died… I almost envied her. Almost. I sought all my life to feel right with my body, and it took me 22 years to accomplish that, a task which Krista failed to see through. It was not her failure, but one of the world's. A world in which a transgender woman can be made responsible for their own life and death while it's being controlled by the system in power. I sort of looked up to her. I kind of liked her too. I'd have taken her on a date if I'd had the chance. So yeah, I was a little bit taken by her, and I thought she was beautiful. So yeah, when she died… It hit me pretty hard. I cried for days. I didn't know her terribly well, or not as well as I'd like but well enough to feel loss when she severed her connection with this world. I don't blame her, really I don't. I've felt myself only a few steps from her road more than a few times, once or twice driven there by my friends or those who I thought were my friends. I still recount the taunts and just inconsiderate things that were said. "I can't see you as a woman", "You know God didn't make you that way", and so on and so forth until I cried myself to vomiting over a porcelain bowl filled with noxious water. I remembered times when I was 11 and in the early throws of puberty where I cried that way into the commode over the way my body was, wailing "Damn you, God, why didn't you make me a girl. I don't want this. Please fix me."
It was many years later that I hated doctors instead for giving me that arbitrary designation, without giving me the right to choose. I lost the ability to have faith in the divine, partially because of the bigotry and hate of the people of faith around me. Because I couldn't have faith in the benevolence of a being that would let evil befall the innocent, unwashed, and unknowing. I couldn't have faith in a system that would make a being like me. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate myself. I just hate the lot I was given. Sometimes. I couldn't forgive a system that could make me different and not stand and help me when that difference made me a pariah. I hated it because the people who stood for those values were themselves hypocrites who saw the would with blinders, unable to see their own indifference. All I ever saw of faith was the ties that bind and wrought blood and tears. Those children in that formerly closed Catholic School nearly killed me. Children?! Children nearly killed me for my difference! And those same God ordained systems had condemned a dear friend to eternity because she could not bear the suffering they forced upon her. I stand and push myself to my feet, now trembling in anger.
"FUCK YOU, WORLD! I will not let you drive me into the same abyss as so many others like me. I will not let you defeat me…. FUCK YOU, YOU ARROGANT BASTARD! This is my life, my time, my body, and my voice, and you'll never take me… NEVER, YOU FUCKING HEARING ME! NEVER!", I scream at the top of my lungs into the sky, trembling more with tears streaming down my face. "FUCK YOU, WORLD! WOOOOO!", I hear screamed from beside me. I turn my face down and see Fallon and Sylphie both crying and smiling at me. I break down into further tears as they wrap their arms around me and I collapse to the ground again. I can do nothing but cry and whimper into their arms as Sylphie cradles me a bit, rocking back and forth with Fallon's arms around us both. "Profound sentiments, my other self. Profound sentiments, indeed. Scream it all out if you must", Sylphie says into my ear.
Leaning me back, with tears still streaming down my face she continues, "I'm about to embarrass you for a good cause, Yuzu. (Yuzu looks at her blankly and shakes her head). Do you know why Yuzu fell for you?" Fallon turns bright red, and slaps her hand over her mouth, but doesn't try to stop Sylphie. Sylphie grins really big, "When she first met you she was sort of off put by you. She'd never known a transsexual before. You didn't know this, but your co-workers introduced you as Dr. Tranny behind your back, and they did this in the new employee orientation with Yuzu before they brought her into the lab." Fallon looks at me and shrugs, "Sorry, Alira… Never had the heart to tell you", she grunts in disgust remembering the nasty things they said about me. Sylphie resumes her story, "So Yuzu pictured this gaudy image in her head of a man in a lab coat, with a chest full from a stuffed bra, and a really out-of-place wig. Like something out of documentary, or a really bad TV trope. When they brought her back to the lab, she looked around and only saw one normal looking woman and two men in the room. Her escort, our boss walked up behind her and introduced you, and she was stunned by not only your beauty, but by how normal you looked. She actually got a little excited for a moment when Dr. Alira Roe was introduced to her, and she shook your hand."
Fallon puts her hand over Sylphie's mouth, "Stop, I thought you weren't able to remember our experiences anymore."
She looks her sternly in the eyes, to which Sylphie responds, "That's only true while we're apart."
Fallon gets really angry and stands up to walk out but is stopped by Sylphie. "Please, you need to hear this, and she especially does. And you know why", Sylphie says while tugging on Fallon's hand to make her reseat herself.
She sighs, just like Yuzu always did when she knew she'd lost, "Fine." Sylphie gives a very child-like smile and turns back to me. "Now, where was I… Oh, yes… Okay, so that night after the lab she laid awake thinking about you. She was utterly enthralled while also deeply abject to feeling that way about you. (At this point Fallon is very red-faced and covering most of her face.) She was struggling with how attracted she felt to you after only just meeting you and shaking your hand, but couldn't pull herself to let it be because you're a transsexual. She had a lot of contrived notions in her mind that she didn't know how to deal with. She worried herself so much she didn't sleep that night, thinking about you that much." "EEPP!", squeals Fallon, "You should've skipped that part", she says motioning at Sylphie very embarrassed. Sylphie chuckles at her, and Fallon groans and turns her head down, "Finish it already, will ya… Damn."
"Well, the very next day she looked horribly haggard and sleep deprived. And as soon as she walked through the door, you noticed and brought her coffee. 'Keep 'em coming?', you nudged her, to which she just tiredly nodded after taking a sip. The coffee that you made was delicious, and it helped pep her up pretty good for having not slept a wink. (Sylphie chuckles), So she watched you carefully all day, watching for when you'd bring her the next cup. And as she watched you she noticed how kind and cordial you were to everyone, even helping some of the same people she'd heard in the break room making lewd comments about you. Towards the end of the day you'd brought her so many cups that she felt bad, and thought she'd ought to go to the break room and a get her own cup. She poured a very full cup when the smell about it caught her as off. She sniffed it and the aroma was different, and then she sipped it. It was terrible, nasty coffee, nothing like what you'd brought her", Sylphie says and is interrupted Fallon. "No, Sylph, that coffee was fucking atrocious, I don't know how anyone drank it. After drinking Alira's coffee all day I nearly barfed from the flavor. Get it right", Fallon says emphatically.
"Okay, okay, yes… It was atrocious, I can agree to that. Why do you think I… Erma, Alira didn't drink it", Sylphie adds.
"Anywho, so she dumped it into the sink next to the machine and hastily returned to the lab. She watched you, trying to figure out where you got the coffee so she could get some more. You were really busy doing a spectrum analysis on a meteoric sample, when she decided to yawn really loud so you'd hear her. You noticed, and left the test running for a moment and went to a large bag by your cubicle and pulled a gigantic thermos out of it. Yuzu was taken aback by this, so she watched carefully as you poured two cups of coffee into blue plastic mugs, and brought them over.
'Hangin' in there, Dr. Kurosawa?', you gently nudged.
'Yeah, strangely. What is this?', Yuzu asked holding up the cup to you, 'I tried the break room coffee and thought I was going to die.'
'Oh, you tried that stuff', you said to her and chuckled a bit, 'Oh God, you have my condolences. I don't drink that junk, I'd rather die. No I made this at home.'
'But, I hate coffee usually, only drinking it when I have to. But this stuff actually tastes good. In fact, I like it', she said to you emphatically. You pulled me… Derp… I mean Yuzu aside, 'I soak fresh beans from my local bakery in alcohol based vanilla extract for a week, then put them in my veggie drier and grind them and keep them in an a decanter. Then when I brew the coffee, I brew it with straight, unflavored creamer, and 14 lumps of caramel from the same bakery which melt in the hot coffee, and I also add about a quarter a cup of sugar to the blend just throwing it right in with the ground coffee. If it comes out too syrupy I just put a little more milk in it to taste, and put it in the thermos and go.' She just looked into her cup of coffee and thought about all the things you did to make it taste so good, and then looked up at you confused. 'So why go through all that effort?', she asked you.
You chuckled a little, 'Coffee is so flipping gross to drink, but energy drinks make me physically ill. So I tinkered for a few months and stumbled onto this bakery that make crepes and coffee. The caramel brew had lumps of caramel that would melt into it as it brewed, and I tried some but something was still missing. And damn, the heartburn it would cause. So I tried a few vanilla blends and it still wasn't quite right. So then I made my own with extract, and the all milk brewing stuff was my idea. It was sorta a pain in the ass trying to find a good coffee maker that would let me use milk without issues. And I finally came up with something I could stand drinking, albeit it's a bit rich.' She looks at you totally floored and surprised. She also hated coffee, and energy drinks from that ill-feeling, and for the first time she started to relate to you as a normal person.
Then she abruptly remembered she had a dinner date and movie with friends that night a week from then and blurted it out to you. You accepted her invite, and she called her friends to tell them. That next week you went to see the new sci-fi flick and her friends hated it, but both of you were deeply enthralled. It was so funny… The whole dinner date she watched her friends nervously, totally waiting for them to pick up something odd and go, "Why'd you bring a tranny?" But her friends had no clue. They just acted like she was one of the girls, in fact they were super chatty throughout dinner. Yuzu was still unsure about how to feel about you, and was just trying to get a feel for you. The fact that no one but her, and you knew was something that worried her. But as would be expected, nothing unusually happened or was detected. You even went to the restroom as a group during the film and it didn't at all seem weird to you that you were in the women's restroom together. It just felt normal, which you weren't expecting. Your old world view was quickly evaporating. Then after the movie you just didn't want to leave her. You wanted to stay near her for some reason, though the reason why was unintelligible to you.
As you two walked out, and said goodbye to your friends she said, 'Heya, Dr. Roe, you want to do anything else? Like, I'm not really tired and I don't want to go home just yet.'
'Well, my place isn't totally clean right now if you don't mind?', you replied.
The whole ride back you just listened to random songs off her smartphone's music play list, even sang along and talked about them a few times. She knew that you didn't know that she knew you were trans*, and was still surprised but how 'normal' it all was. She was happy to have you over and you two went to your tiny apartment you shared with a couple who had no children. They were asleep so you both just sat in the living-room for a bit talking about lab stuff, and then moved to the bedroom to watch another much older Sci-fi movie. Yuzu's heart was beating so fast being so close to you. She could smell you and was getting almost high off of it. (Yuzu covers her face and peers at me through her fingers for a moment, while sitting next to me.) As the movie was coming to a close, she could no more resist the urge to touch you, and she reached up and ran her fingers through your hair. You twisted and torqued like you were in pain for a moment, and she retracted. But she noticed you had goosebumps all over your arm, and she touched you again. You had the same reflex again, but softened quickly almost like you were melting from her touch. She pulled your ponytail down and turned you away from her and massaged your scalp with her nails and fingertips while playing with your hair.
You seemed to be in ecstasy. She laid you back, though, and as soon as she saw your face she saw that you were crying.
She didn't know how to feel, 'Why are you crying', you said. You just shook your head. And then the cruelty of those around you towards you occurred to her, and it was then she connected her old world view of those like you and it all made sense. In only a week, she saw the most happy, candid and caring person she'd met since she graduated as a Doctorate of Astrophysics. She'd also had her first taste of transphobic bigotry. She felt innately that it was wrong, but couldn't understand why. She pulled you over into her arms and cradled you and pet your face, and you trembled terribly and cried in her arms, and whimpered. Yuzu even started to cry a bit seeing your tears.
She just thought to herself, 'This kind and generous being had been so ostracized by the world that a mere human touch, which she'd likely been deprived for a while, could reduce her to tears so quickly.' I thought… Or Dita thought, 'What kind of world is it that could do this to such a gentle being.' And as you whimpered and moaned from every gentle touch she gave you, she fell in love with you. So in love with you that the only thing she could think of was being folding into you, as one being, so you'd never be alone. Forever", Sylphie finishes her story with a big smile, and Fallon is holding me as I cry into her arms all over again.
I chimed in, while still crying but now sitting up on my own, "Oh! How well I remember that night. How my heart ached for human touch as Fallon caressed me. Up until that point, I had to deal with my transphobic co-workers alone. And this is the last place I'd have chosen to work. I just couldn't make any other opportunities materialize. Moreover, I'd been dumped a couple of months back for the 3rd straight time when I came out to my partner that I was transsexual. I went out and had dinner alone every once in a while, and watched movies alone. I felt so alone that it was damn near unbearable at times. When she reached out to me that night, every emotion flooded out of me. Every single one. But that next morning when I woke up in her arms, I was the happiest I'd been in years. For the first few minutes she played with my hair I choked back the tears, but the dam just broke. I didn't have the strength to hold it in any more. And that was also the moment I fell in love with Yuzu."
"I'd let popular misconceptions mischaracterize you when I first met you, but that day, I stopped seeing you as a transsexual, and started seeing you as a woman", Fallon says, then continues, "You did come out to me later, and I just accepted it and took no issue, though I didn't tell you I already knew. From that point on, I didn't care what you were, or what the world thought about me and you… (Fallon laughs) Hell, the next day I made the point of planting a huge kiss directly on your lips in front of the entire lab. Though to be honest, I was just trying to shut them up. A few of the guys had hit on me, commenting about how attractive I was and when I told them I liked girls they said, 'Hey, you never know until you try, you might like it. I mean, isn't that what science is about, remaining neutral until proven otherwise'. But, I just didn't need to prove it. No one ever told a straight man or woman to try sleeping with the same-sex. Don't know why they felt they could. No matter. Alira, I love you", Yuzu says to me and smiles while petting my face.
A few extra tears flowed down my face as I heard that, "I love you, too."
"Hey, hey now, you two… No need to be a soppy mess. We are all here now. Sure, the world isn't perfect. Far from it. But, that's not really a reason to fall apart now is it… Also, 'New ability 101' time", Sylphie says to me. She whips out her hand and with a glow of light and static electrical energy she materializes a cup of coffee in her hand, and then another in the other. The cup seems strangely familiar. "Wait, those are my blue coffee mugs… How did you…", I say but I'm interrupted.
"Energy to Matter conversion. Using your two slightly differing knowledge sets I determined that the exotic matter pulls on Zero-Point energy. As I am made of the two of you, I figured that out. That said, it costs much more energy to make it than is actually contained in the object, but it's far less wasteful than making it otherwise. Most we can do though is make small objects, and conversions on small scales in our bodies. Our potential comes from the amount of those particles we possess. My assessment is that we were in a high concentration gradient when we were encapsulated in space-time. Not only that, but we stripped much of that gradient from Amma when she touched us, before we disappeared, which is why she came out before and is much weaker as a tempest. We were closer to the event horizon, which was actually in-between Yuzu and Alira's bodies. As we were pulled in and phased out, we pulled most of her particles with us. Which is why we're now 3 beings, or able to become 3 different tempests… We had more than enough energy to make 3 whole people",
Sylphie says then snaps her fingers and suddenly our bodies glow so bright we can't see.
It's warm and it tingled…
I feel strange, and I feel like my clothing and entire body are changing somehow.
The same sort of static energy that we saw before has engulfed us, and as it slowly dims I notice that the world around looks slightly different.
I look down at my hand, and it's huge… Or it seems huge compared to before… "What did you… OH MY GOD!", I shriek as I hear my voice. My voice sounds strange but also familiar… A voice I hadn't heard in 11 years. I look over at Fallon, and she's a fully grown adult and it's hard for me to tell if she's Yuzuho or Fallon. She looks like an older hybrid of the two. Sylphie is Sylphie, as she looks like a slightly smaller adult hybrid of the earlier form when we were fused. "What did you do? How did you do that?", I say looking at myself, "Hey you even made new clothing for us."
"Oh yeah, I pulled those uniforms from an idea you had in your minds. As for your bodies, I just accelerated the conversion that was maturing your bodies faster than normal, and brought it to its completed state. You should have about as much power as you had before. Unlike normal tempests, though, we don't get weaker as we reach maturity as the particle density doesn't drop sufficiently to cause a change", Sylphie says handing us the cups of coffee. Me and Fallon look at each other and then into the cups and sip, and then simultaneously gasp with surprise.
"This is my coffee blend from before!", I say to her almost stuttering at the end.
"While we are together we have the joint computational power of 3 minds, with no lag time. I figured out what I needed and made it. Though you two haven't figured out how to do that quite yet", she says smirking confidently while knocking on her head. We both drink the coffee and reminisce. Leaning against each other we think about the fondness we feel, and the fact that we once shared a body. Something we'd always dreamed of, though never spoke of. Thinking about how we'd had a child what was literally the a fusion of the two of us. It was a strange, but also pleasant feeling.
Sylphie sips a couple of times then chugs the coffee, and makes a loud satisfied gasp, "Well, shall we go and get reacquainted with the others again? They may not recognize us at first, but it's time we bring this part of our lives to closure. Don't you say?" Standing up, she grabs our hands and picks us up to our feet. She walks to the door to the stairwell, only turning back to snap her fingers as she dematerialized the cups we were using, "Com'on." We all hold hands in a chain as we walk down those several flights of stairs, and out we walk back onto the medical ward floor. Dr. Alirasdottir, Bjorn and Danielle and several of the other medical staff are standing out there, as well as a couple of maintenance guys trying to fix the door I broke. They don't notice us at first walking hand-in-hand, Sylphie holding mine, and me holding Fallon's walking down the hall. Then Danielle turns for a moment and does a double take as she recognizes me… Then, Yuzu, and Sylphie. Bjorn is taken aback and speechless by what he is seeing as the three adult versions of us walk down the hall towards them, hand-in-hand.
Sylphie lets go of my hand as we now stand directly in front of Amma, who with the back-lighting of the hallway lights reminds me of how she used to look a little bit. Sylphie salutes Bjorn in a very peppy, energetic way, "I've brought them back as you ordered, Sir". He salutes then drops his arm and chuckles shaking his head. I can tell Amma is smiling to see me again though her hands which cover her mouth, just as I was, but perhaps I look like a hybrid of teenage Alira and adult Alira from before breach. Danielle reaches out to me with both arms, putting her hands on both shoulders and pulling me closer to her. She wraps her arms around my neck firmly but gently and whispers into my ears, "Welcome back, my kooky granddaughter. You've changed so much, so fast. (She pulls away a bit). Going to give an old woman a heart attack with all these surprises. Why don't you give me a rest already, Kiddo", she chuckles.
Sylphie looks at Amma and gives a sulky face because she didn't get a hug. Amma gives a very endearing smile to her, and then almost lunges at her and gives her a big hug, "I guess this makes me a great-grandmother of sorts now, doesn't it? Though, this is probably the strangest family reunion on the face of God's green creation."
"Hallo, Amma!", Sylphie says.
"I haven't been called that in quite a while. Welcome to the family, kitten. Why's it that my family is always the strangest thing you'd ever lay your eyes on", Danielle chuckles again while wiping a tear from one eye.
"Indeed, it is. Amma, you know I remember everything they do as long as they're close to me like this, right?", Sylphie says.
"Humph, well then… Maybe next time I can get you to fix the screen door when it falls off the hinges. Al, you never did get around to that, did you?", Danielle says to me.
"I 'spose not", I laugh nervously to her.
"As for the matter of Ed. It needs to be addressed and addressed now", Sylphie says strongly with a very serious tone.
"Honey, there isn't much we can do. We can lose our heads and storm the fort. That isn't what Eduardo would want you doing. We have to think this through and not do anything rash. He sacrificed himself to get me out of there. Though technically I did die…", Danielle says.
"No, that won't do. I've already lost one father. I'm not going to lose another", I say in a firm tone.
Amma shrugs at me, and puts one hand on my shoulder, "Look, I know you mean well, but what goods challenging the sleeping giant going to do but get you killed."
I pull away from her causing her arm to fall slackly to her side, "No, Amma. I've run my entire life. Running scared from every bully or homophobic dick-cheese I ever met. And crying in Yuzu's arms all the while because I couldn't stand up for myself. It's time I stopped running away. Neither you nor Yuzuho can protect me for my entire life. It's not fair!", I exclaim.
Yuzu wraps herself around my right arm tightly and sets her head on my shoulder like she does when she sees me serious about something, and when she worries. She feels overly warm to the touch.
"Bornin, I hate to say it, but I believe Mrs. Green it right here. There just isn't the resources for our island nation to launch an all out assault on the heart of Neo Zion where he's being held, and even if I could get you in there, I'd not be able to get you out", Bjorn says in a very sombre, serious tone.
"I'm staying out of this… I'm a doctor, and I'll not condone any action that causes loss of life", Dr. Arisdottir says then walks back into her clinic setting her medical tablet in the wall charger on the way in.
"Look, there has to be something we can do… Three powerful tempests of the likes that no one has ever seen are standing right here. There has to be something, anything", Sylphie pleads.
Fallon clutches me even tighter and I can sense that she's crying a little as she hides her face against my shoulder. "I don't care how I have to get there, I'm going. There is nothing you can say or do that can stop me. This world has already taken enough from me. No more!", I shout frustrated and emotional.
"Whoa now, child. Calm down, this is not the time for our tempers to flare. We shouldn't be taking this out on each other", Danielle says to me trying to calm me, "I've already lost enough people in my life… If I lost any one of you now… Well… I don't know what I'd do."
"We need to maintain our calm, and realize that the situation can't be changed and that any attempt will lead to bloodshed. It's suicide to think of going into the heart of the beast for one man. He made his choice, and we should trust that what he did was for the best", Bjorn adds trying to calm the situation.
"Bjorn, no offense, but it's the inaction of good people which is why there is so much pain and suffering in the world. Should we stand idly by while more harm is done. Neo Zion needs to fall. It's far overdue. How long are we going to let them have a strangle hold on our world. Do you think going into space or hiding behind this shield is going to keep you safe forever? Didn't they just kill Danielle and everyone on one of your most powerful ships in one fell-swoop?", Sylphie begins to shout angrily at Bjorn.
"Enough, babe, we should all go have a stiff drink and calm down before this gets out of hand", Danielle commandingly, but gently says.
Fallon pushes me away from her, almost slamming me into Amma and starts to shout, "What is wrong with you people?! You're so eager to go off to your deaths?! Do you not see what will happen to you if you go there?! I don't want to watch anymore death… I'M FUCKING DONE!… Don't get me involved in this… None of you have any idea what I've gone through, or the people and things I've lost since I've been thrown into this crazy fucking world?!?! DO you? (Everyone stares on shocked with blank faces.) You don't… I was adopted into a family that treated me like a commodity, that sold my body to the highest bidder to be a disposable field medic. They never cared if I made it back. They knew, secretly that I was a lesbian, and they used it to force my compliance. To peddle me out for wars and fights they themselves started with rival factions. They only got me into the academy because they wanted the rank and prestige that my accomplishments would merit them in favors from the church. I watch men blow each other to pieces and tear each other limb from limb with their tempests… I watched soldiers treat the captured like chattel. I'M FUCKING DONE WITH WAR AND BLOODSHED AND HERE YOU ARE TRYING TO START ONE!!!! War is heinous, and it's never right, even if you think you're doing it for a good cause. And Sylphie! You should fucking know this intimately, if you know me as you say you do. Or are you too jaded by Alira's desire to reclaim lost time? Revenge will reap only disaster. War, violence and bloodshed will never bring back those who are lost. Nor will it ever make right the bloodshed done in its name… You have no idea the horrors I've seen. You don't know what it's like to revive people who've been so thoroughly traumatized that they've lost the will to continue living… I don't want to watch them… (Crying profusely now)… Watch them put your mangled remains into garbage bags while they toss you into unmarked mass graves… I WON'T! If you want to march off to your deaths, do it on your FUCKING own. I want no part in wanton violence and slaughter."
Fallon stomps away crying, and I'm overwhelmed by her reaction. I've never seen her get mad, more than just frustrated. And I feel guilty that I'd not taken the time to understand and know what had happened to Fallon since she'd arrived in this world. Felt guilty for only thinking of my selfish desire to save Ed, and for ignoring her distress as she clung to my arm.
I started to cry a bit as I called to her, "YUZU!"
"No, Alira. Stay away from me… I don't want to lose you again… Don't hurt me like that again. Please… (She's sobbing now) Just… Just go away… Please… I love you… Just… Fuck", she turns and runs away from me. I start to run after her but she activates her tempest and disappears in a streak of gold light.
I turn around and Slyphie is sobbing too, because of her memories of what Fallon experienced at the hands of her adopted family. Amma is holding her in her arms, and Bjorn is leaning against the wall with one hand against his face with a very sombre look. The maintenance men test the door and leave just staring back in confusion about what just happened, a little shaken by it. All the medical staff are hiding in the sick bay, waiting for the argument to blow over, and I'm shaking and crying myself again…
I'm simultaneously angry, sad, frustrated, and ready to beat down the door of Zion for what they did to us. Then the strangest sensation comes over me. A strange sensation of Deja Vu… It's so powerful it overcomes everything I'm feeling. Even though we're more than 2 meters apart we all sense each other… And we sense it… An immensely weird sense of Deja Vu. Every tempest nearby looks up at the sky towards space. We can all sense it… All at once… This ominous dark spot seems to be pinged out there in deep space. It feels familiar, though we can't grasp what it is… But it's moving…
"Where are you going in such a hurry, mysterious object. Com'ere, lets look at you.", Sylphie says while stretching an arm out to the sky…
Then my vision blurs a little and my head aches as Sylphie taps our minds to understand this object.
She lets go of my mind.
Me and Fallon can both feel the tension and fear rising in her. She falls back against Bjorn who catches her. Her face is white as a sheet, and she can barely stand… "No… No fucking way… No… Noo…", Slyphie says as sheer terror is shown on her face clear as day. "Wha… (she pants…) Is going on…", she says as she collapses… She's laying on the floor mumbling something indiscernibly. I run up to her and cradle her in my arms, "Sylphie, what did you see… What did you sense. Tell me." "No… … No… We've got to… Just…", and Sylphie passes out. "Sylphie!", I say while trying to shake her awake. I can here her mind mumbling about some sort of danger, but I can't make it out. Fallon's mind disappears from my awareness as she runs off somewhere I can't reach her. What is this feeling I'm sensing… It's like a great black hole in the sky in deep space. It's ominous and confusing. Bjorn looks at me, as well as Danielle. "You sense it as well?", Danielle asks… We all nod… The doctor comes out to look at Slyphie, and two nurses hoist her up onto a bed. I follow them in, and the doctor scans her and sighs in relief, "She just fainted. But she's exhausted as well… We should let her be for now." I just back out of the room slowly and then fall against the wall farthest from the door and look up at the sky. "What is it", I ask myself as I search this strange and familiar but ominous feeling… I know I've sensed this before, but for some reason the memory is out of my reach like it was erased from my mind. At least partially. I'm confused. Worried. Thinking about Fallon, and still trying to swallow this guilt.
To be Continued…
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=Updating Catalyst/fglrx=
=Updating Catalyst/fglrx=
Revision as of 14:24, 30 July 2012
- 1 Updating Catalyst/fglrx
- 2 Removing Catalyst/fglrx
- 3 Issues
- 3.1 Build Fails and Log Shows "mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop."
- 3.2 "Errors were encountered while processing: fglrx-amdcccle" (on 64-bit systems)
- 3.3 Problems Starting Xserver
- 3.4 Slow Maximizing Windows/General 2D Slowness
- 3.5 Unsupported Hardware Watermark
- 3.6 Mesa drivers
- 3.7 Hang at logout
- 3.8 Suspend/Hibernation
- 3.9 Can't remove fglrx with dpkg (diversion issue)
- 3.10 This module/version combo is already installed
- 3.11 New kernel installed?
- 3.12 amdconfig not found after installation & "module does not exist" after boot
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Updating Catalyst/fglrx
DO NOT try to install a new version over an old one. Follow the 'Removing the Driver' section below to remove your existing driver, and then you can start at 'Downloading the latest Catalyst' to install the new one.
Removing Catalyst/fglrx
The uninstall script in the first command will only exist if you downloaded the drivers and installed the directly (rather than building packages as this guide does). Skip the first command if it does not exist.
$ sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh $ sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx
If you plan on using open-source drivers, you will need to reinstall some packages because Catalyst overwrites or diverts some key 3D libraries with proprietary versions. For more information on this issue, see this Ubuntu wiki page
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core $ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
Build Fails and Log Shows "mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop."
If the installation fails and you find the above message in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.780/build/make.log, it may be because you're using a pentium-build wrapper around gcc. See what the following ls command returns:
$ ls -la /usr/bin/gcc
If it shows that gcc is a link to builder-cc, temporarily redirect the link to point to the real gcc (gcc-4.4 in Ubuntu Maverick). This should allow you to install fglrx:
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 /usr/bin/gcc
When you're finished installing the driver, return the gcc link to its original value:
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/builder-cc /usr/bin/gcc
Launchpad link for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/555957
"Errors were encountered while processing: fglrx-amdcccle" (on 64-bit systems)
Most likely, you probably did not have the "ia32-libs" package installed beforehand. If you have a 64 bit install, the above dpkg command may complain that "Errors were encountered while processing: fglrx-amdcccle". This is because of a dependency of the amdccle package on 32 bit libraries. If you receive this error, use the following command, which will force the installation of all of the 32 bit dependencies, and then the amdcccle package:
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Catalyst 15.12 on 64-bit systems may require the --force-overwrite command in the above dpkg command:
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite fglrx*.deb
Problems Starting Xserver
If you get a black screen hang, the first thing to check is if xorg.conf is the problem.
You can disable the xorg.conf with:
$ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.disabled
Reboot and check to see if things work now.
You can reinstate the file with:
$ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.disabled /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Before tweaking ACPI settings, try ensuring /dev/null is chmodded to 0666. This intermittently changes when using the nano (and possibly other) editors with sudo and the group/world permissions are unset. This leads to the ATI drivers hanging on boot or otherwise. A quick and dirty init script saved as /etc/init/chmodnull does the trick for me -
$ start on filesystem $ $ script $ chmod 0666 /dev/null $ chmod 0666 /lib/udev/devices/null $ end script
This has been tested using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit on a ATI Radeon HD 4830 (HP Envy 15-1060ea). It's worth noting that I had to disable TLS (amdconfig --tls=0) to get things to stay stable!
If you've properly installed the driver, but experience problems when starting the X server, such as hanging, black/white/gray screen, distortion, etc., your system BIOS may have a buggy ACPI implementation. To work around, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a terminal (or failing that, boot to recovery mode) and run:
$ sudo amdconfig --acpi-services=off
If this method works, you should consider checking your system vendor's BIOS changelogs for relevant ACPI fixes, updating your BIOS, and reenabling the driver's ACPI services.
Slow Maximizing Windows/General 2D Slowness
As of Catalyst 10-6, a new, faster 2D acceleration method is used as the default, replacing the old XAA method. If you're not running compositing/desktop effects, and are having problems with 2D operations, you may want to fall back to the old XAA. This command will do that:
$ sudo amdconfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE
In the last case (at least) it is essential to run it without the Xorg server working. To do so, press CTRL+ALT+F1, log in and type the following (this will close all your programs so save your work before):
$ sudo service gdm stop $ sudo amdconfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE $ sudo service gdm start
Unsupported Hardware Watermark
This can happen if your card's PCI ID wasn't officially certified to work with a particular version of Catalyst. It does not necessarily mean that your card is unsupported, but it does mean that you shouldn't file bugs with that particular card/driver combination. If you installed the driver by downloading it from AMD/ATI, installing a newer version of Catalyst will probably help.
If you installed the proprietary driver included with Ubuntu or you do not want to upgrade to a newer version, it may be possible to work around the issue by using a control file from a newer version of Catalyst than the one you're running.
$ cd ~/; mkdir catalyst15.12; cd catalyst15.12/ $ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run $ chmod +x amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run $ sh amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run --extract driver $ sudo mv /etc/ati/control ~/control.bak $ sudo cp driver/common/etc/ati/control /etc/ati
Mesa drivers
If fglrxinfo reports that Indirect rendering by Mesa is in place, even though you have installed ATI driver, you might want to remove Mesa:
- Remove the package xserver-xgl.
$ sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl
- Explanation: If you installed this previously in order to make compiz work, it will not allow direct rendering on your display. You can check out if this is what it causing the problem by running
$ DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep render
- If it returns an ATI renderer, it means that xgl is being displayed indirectly on the display 1. (Taken from [1])
- Warning: This might make your compiz stop working as it is configured to use XGL. A solution might be to run the Envy script in order to configure compiz. Or, if Compiz stopped working due to "Composite" problem, check that the following is set in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection
Hang at logout
If you experience hangs when logging out (of X) it is probably due to the /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh script looking for X authorisation files in the wrong place when it starts up. You can kill the hanging authatieventsd.sh processes from a console tty to allow the shutdown of the X server.
Before the following commands verify that /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh exists after build and install, if not just do: (assuming that the installer is in the directory we used to install)
$ cd ~/catalyst15.12 $ sh amd-driver-installer-15.12-x86.x86_64.run --extract driver $ sudo cp driver/packages/Ubuntu/dists/lucid/replacements/authatieventsd.sh /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh $ sudo chmod +x /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
This problem can be fixed permanently with:
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/xdm/authdir $ sudo ln -s /var/run/xauth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
If that doesn't work then you can disable atieventsd with this command:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f atieventsd remove
You'll have to restart for this to take effect.
Suspend hibernation works with the latest driver.
For Radeon 3200, to wake up from suspend, I had to add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: (This settings is not good option, if you are using compiz-fusion or any other transparency-based thingie. Not working for HD 3850)
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "off" EndSection
Another way to get it working is to do enable Composite, but when you want to suspend simply disable Compiz Fusion. How would you do that? Easy! Install the fusion-icon package (in repos by default):
$ sudo apt-get install fusion-icon
After you have done that, launch it (Applications > System > Compiz Fusion Icon) and it appears in your notification area. To switch, simply right-mouse click on the icon and select Metacity. Your desktop will flicker and windows will dissapear, but after a while they appear again. Now try to suspend.
When you wake up again, you can (hopefully) unlock your screen and there you go! Now you want Compiz back again, so right-mouse-click on the Compiz Fusion Icon and select Compiz again. Desktop flickering again, but then voila! Your Compiz Fusion Desktop is back again! (At least, that is how it is supposed to work)
KNOWN PROBLEM: When you switch back, all your windows are on the same desktop. This happens because you switched to metacity.
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Can't remove fglrx with dpkg (diversion issue)
If dpkg refuses to remove an fglrx package and complains about a diversion of a file, you might need to manually remove it. For example, if dpkg complains:
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/share/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1.2 by xorg-driver-fglrx' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'
$ sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
This module/version combo is already installed
If you get this error-message, simply uninstall the previous version before installing the new one with:
$ sudo dkms remove -m fglrx --all
New kernel installed?
In theory, DKMS should automatically install the fglrx kernel module for your new kernel the first time you boot it. Should you need to manually install it:
$ sudo dkms build -m fglrx -k `uname -r` $ sudo dkms install -m fglrx -k `uname -r`
if amdcccle doesn't work and says Identifier is not a valid word. Use lower case letter in xorg.conf
amdconfig not found after installation & "module does not exist" after boot
This scenario is possible when the driver installation has seemingly succeeded and is possibly related to previous use of fglrx through the Jockey (i.e. you first used drivers provided by Ubuntu but then upgraded to ones available from AMD's website). When doing amdconfig --initial after driver installation, you might end up not having the amdconfig available at all:
amdconfig: command not found
After booting you might receive X error '(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)'. These do not necessarily indicate that the installation has failed completely. On command line, do
$ ls /usr/lib/fglrx/bin
and see if the command lists some Ati related programs. If they are listed but not found from /usr/bin, it is possible that the "update-alternatives" fglrx .deb installation does has been ignored. See man update-alternatives for more information about the concept and workings of alternatives. In practice, update-alternatives is supposed to create several symbolic links to the files in the fglrx directory, but it will be ignored if the alternatives for the very related gl_conf entry has been set to manual. Do
$ update-alternatives --get-selections | grep gl_conf
and see if the mode is manual instead of auto and if mesa is mentioned instead of fglrx in the path that is printed. In this case you need to
$ sudo update-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf
to set fglrx as the active alternative. You can alternatively (no pun intended) and additionally change the gl_conf into automatic mode before the installation this way:
$ sudo update-alternatives --auto gl_conf
After that, the alternatives should automatically be configured correctly when the graphics driver .debs are installed.


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Based on their HULC military exoskeleton and going into medical trials soon, Berkeley Bionics eLEGS have set a new precedent for rehabilitation and personal mobility going forward. [via BotJunkie]
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That is indeed the question.
Unless you've been living under a virtual rock, you are probably aware that Hellscream's Warsong (and some alliancey named, but far less cool sounding, version from Wyrnn) have been added into Ice Crown Citadel as of yesterday.
I am a little bit torn about this. I mean, I knew that the instance was "self nerfing", but I guess I sort of thought that the buff wouldn't be active quite so soon. I mean, my guild has only gotten 2 nights of solid Lich King work in the 25s (and 2 nights in the 10s as well!). Granted, we aren't a cutting edge progression guild, but we certainly aren't a slouch of a guild either, generally falling within the top 3-5% of guilds in the world as far as 25 man progression is concerned.
Why does it bother me? Because I know that as a guild we don't need this buff to kill the Lich King. We just needed more time to work through the mechanics of the fight. Our DPS is fine. Our tanking is fine. Our healing is fine. We just needed time. That's it. I suppose that perhaps I feel that by using the buff, my first kill is going to feel tarnished. Dirty. I'm always going to know that we could have done it without the buff.
However, now that the buff is here, we have a decision to make: To buff or not to buff.
While my moral high ground is screaming at me in my head to shun the buff in all it's 5% glory, giving it a proper two finger salute, and say "we've come this far without you, we can finish without you", my realism is also screaming at me. "Sure, you can do it without, but why make it harder than it needs to be? Why not access your Hard Modes sooner?".
In all honesty, who is going to know that we didn't use the buff other than us? Now that it's out, I am sure that the assumption is going to be that anyone who killed the Lich King after 03/02/2010 did so with the added benefit of the zone wide buff. Of course…I will still know if I did it with or without help. But, I am also one of a team of many, and I am sure that my feelings on the matter are different than others.
My moral dilemma aside, at this point it truly almost seems detrimental to our guild as far as progression goes not to use the damn thing. If it means we kill the Lich King even one week sooner, it means that we will have access to our hard modes sooner, which of course means more progression for us, which in turn boosts guild morale (at least theoretically). And I guarantee you that a good number of guilds out there won't be having this internal discussion, and are happy to see the free boost to their performance. So now if we opt to stick to our morals does it put us at a detriment? Probably, as I suspect most guilds will not be opting out of the buff.
It seems to me that it puts a good number of folks in a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't, situation.
So, what will we end up doing? It's still up in the air a little bit, as we've opened it up to discussion for our raiders to give their two cents on the matter. But I will say that the overwhelming number of people who have responded have said "buff it and get to hard modes"…so I imagine that is likely what we will be doing. While I am a little disappointed, there is a lot of good sense in using the buff as well, and I'm not so foolish as to not see that.
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This is an incredible story of a magnificent home that lies north west of Barcelona, Spain's cultural and artistic capital.
Draped in lush vegetation and offering an abundance of open spaces, this building is impressive not only in size but also in style. It's features are so unusual for a family home and it is almost unthinkable how such a grand project came about.
However this was not always a scene of domestic bliss and creative outlet. This towering building once housed the industry that produces the material we use to create most modern structures – cement.
This is a story of a visionary architect, Ricardo Bofill, who saw the potential for something beautiful to be created from an old dilapidated factory. The result shows the success of his hard work and the realisation of his dream, to create his dream home from an edifice long forgotten and diregarded.
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Dr. Irvin is an Associate Professor at OSU and is currently studying the idea that how medical and science information is presented can change someone's behavior. Her first project assesses health literacy and communication methods in order to better understand how people manage their health. In her second project, she evaluates the content of information on clinical websites and consent forms in terms of accuracy, reading level and sentiment. For both studies, the goal is to understand how people make decisions from this information and how it impacts their health. Lastly, she investigate how scientists present their results to other scientists. In her paper in Plos One 2015, Dr. Irvin and her colleagues suggest that the adoption of new transparent reporting standards may have contributed to a significant reduction in the percentage of studies reporting positive research findings among large-budget clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The culture of science is evolving to become more open and transparent, and she measures various outcomes affected by these new policies and norms.
Dr. Irvin earned a MPH in Epidemiology from San Diego State University and a PhD in Public Health, Health Behavior from the joint program at UC San Diego and San Diego State University. She worked for 10 years at San Diego State University on NIH-funded behavioral epidemiological surveys and behavioral interventions. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the National Institutes of Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research. While at NIH, she conducted comparative effectiveness analyses related to mammography screening, including a meta-analysis of quasi-experiments (Irvin & Kaplan, Plos One, 2014) and population-level estimates of non-normal results, follow-up care and diagnosis following mammography (Irvin, Kaplan et al, Women's Health Issues, 2015). She assessed the effects of trial registration on primary outcome reporting among large-budget cardio-vascular interventions (Kaplan & Irvin, Plos One, 2015; Irvin & Kaplan, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2015). Dr. Irvin has broad experience in NIH-funded research in tobacco control, nutrition, physical activity, bone health, and cancer screening research. She has a strong interest in community-based research, previously working with the Asian American communities in California.
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Recently, I participated in a panel discussion on ED's international strategy, "Succeeding Globally Through International Education and Engagement." Maureen McLaughlin, senior advisor to Secretary Duncan and director of international affairs, asked me what advice I would give to U.S. students contemplating whether or not to study another language.
My suggestion? You absolutely should! For one, it's fun, and beyond that, there are countless benefits. Here are my top five reasons for learning another language:
- Learn about new cultures and ideas. Language and culture are intertwined. Whatever language you choose to learn, it will always tell you something about the society in which it is spoken. Whether it's through words whose meanings have evolved over time, popular sayings, or knowing cultural faux pas to avoid, you will learn more than just grammar and vocabulary.
- Better understand your own language. When you learn a new language, your natural reaction will probably be to compare it to your own. You'll start to notice similarities and differences in mechanics and structure that will make you think more about your first language.
- Establish meaningful connections. Making an effort to speak to someone in his or her native language, even if you're not the best at it, shows how interested you are in getting to know them. I've also learned that there is no better way to improve than to have a native speaker help you. They may not know that you're familiar with their language at first glance, but when you make the effort, you might just get a really good tutor and a new friend. I did!
- Gain a professional advantage. Having foreign language skills can set you apart and give you an edge over the competition. Many sectors hire bilingual or multilingual candidates to avoid costly mistranslations, deliver services to non-English speakers more efficiently, and to gain access to documents unavailable in English. While researching the French Revolution for a class, I found so many intriguing sources–journals and letters–that weren't in English. Familiarity with French allowed me to incorporate them in my work.
- Build resilience, confidence, and independence. Like all new things, learning languages can be daunting, but the challenges you face are part of the process that make it even more of an achievement! Knowing that you have the skills to navigate on your own and communicate effectively provides a sense of security and comfort even in an unfamiliar environment.
Be it personal or professional, learning another language is a truly meaningful experience with benefits that can last a lifetime.
Please click on this link to watch the full May 23 panel discussion.
Marianne Zape, an intern with ED's International Affairs Office and a student at UC San Diego, speaks Tagalog, English and French.


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When you visit us, at our Celebration Service on Sunday or Wednesday night, you can expect to feel welcomed and appreciated from the time you pull into our parking lot. Friendly and familiar faces will escort you from the door to your seat. The music will be rich and the fellowship will be warm. The sermon will be dynamic, powerful, relevant and applicable to your everyday life! Our guests and members typically leave a CCF service with a desire for more. Come visit us soon so you can experience the life changing worship services at Canton Christian Fellowship!


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Protecting SQL Server Data with Encryption
Module 0: Getting started
Who is this course for? (1:01)
Who is Greg? (1:14)
What will I learn in this course? (1:22)
Configuring your lab environment (12:24)
Following demo code
Module 1: Core encryption concepts
What are cryptography and encryption? (1:39)
Encryption vs obfuscation (2:08)
Symmetric key cryptography (1:55)
Public key cryptography (1:34)
Cryptographic algorithms (1:24)
Applying salt (1:52)
Digital envelopes and signatures (1:10)
Hashes (0:59)
Quiz 1: Core encryption concepts
Module 2: Working with certificates
Certificates defined (0:57)
Certificate authorities (3:12)
Certificate requests (2:47)
Quiz 2: Working with certificates
Module 3: SQL Server keys and certificates
Supported certificate and key objects (1:22)
Service master key (4:40)
Database Master Key (2:20)
Supported encryption algorithms (1:27)
SQL Server symmetric keys (2:43)
SQL Server asymmetric keys (2:31)
SQL Server certificates (6:29)
Creating users from certificates (1:20)
Digitally signing stored procedures (6:17)
Moving a database with keys (2:29)
Lab 3: SQL Server keys and certificates
Lab 3: Solution
Quiz 3: SQL Server keys and certificates
Module 4: Using cell level encryption and hashing
CHECKSUM function (3:01)
HASHBYTES function (3:30)
Using cell level encryption (4:10)
Decryption keys (2:10)
Built-in encryption and decryption functions (1:09)
Lab 4: Using cell level encryption and hashing
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Module 5: Using Transparent Database Encryption
Rationale for TDE (3:04)
Implementing TDE (4:14)
Application impacts (1:02)
Moving encrypted databases (2:45)
Feature compatibility (1:28)
Backup encryption (1:01)
Lab 5: Using Transparent Database Encryption
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Module 6: Using Extensible Key Management
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EKM key hierarchy (1:12)
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Deterministic vs randomized encryption (1:20)
Associated permissions (1:15)
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Who's the Better Golfer? Tiger Woods or Happy Gilmore
There's no doubt that Tiger Woods is one of the greatest golfers to ever play the game. For the past decade he's dominated the sport like no one else.
Well, almost no one else.
His meltdown at the British Open, which resulted in him cursing at the ball reminded us of another dominant golfer. Although this particular pro golfer is fictitious, that doesn't mean that the two shouldn't be prepared. Of course that golfer is Happy Gilmore.
Both Tiger and Happy have some amazing accomplishments under their belts, but which one is the more dominant figure? Let's put their careers and personal lives side by side to crown one true winner.


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Patrick Watson | 27/06/12
What's that rumbling sound? Trees shaking in the ground, windows rattling in skyscrapers and carefully-placed glasses of milk vibrating off tables. Someone's getting seriously subterraenean, and that someone is Patrick Watson. He's going to be playing a two night event at London's Village Underground at the beginning of November.
But more news of that further down this article. First, you need to know that Domino is to release "the woozy and luminous" (The Sun) "Step Out For A While" as Patrick's next single on 20th August. This is the second single to be taken from his recent much acclaimed album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard. Listen to "Step Out For A While" right now, for heaven's sake:
And now back to the Live News! Patrick Watson has also annouced a performance at End Of the Road Festival and those two nights at London's Village Underground on 4th and 5th November. The Village Underground shows, entitled "Patrick Watson's Adventures Underground", follow the recent amazing sold out performance at London's St. Stephen's Church. Full UK and European tour dates are as follows:
- Aug 10th Saint-Malo FR @ La Route du Rock
- Aug 11th Haldern DE @ Haldern Pop Festival
- Aug 12th Groningen NL @ Oosterpoort
- Aug 13th Nijmegen NL @ De Vereeniging
- Aug 15th Praia do Tabuao PT @ Paredes de Coura Festival
- Aug 18th Hasselt BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
- Aug 31st Stadbally IE @ Electric Picnic
- Sep 2nd Dorset UK @ End of the Road Festival
- Oct 24th Utrecht NL @ Tivoli
- Oct 25th Tourcoing FR @ Le Grand Mix
- Oct 26th Brussels BE @ AB
- Oct 27th Hamburg DE @ Kunst
- Oct 29th Lyon FR @ L'Epicerie Moderne
- Oct 30th Paris FR @ Le Trianon
- Nov 3rd Vendôme FR @ Festival Les Rockomotives
- Nov 4th London UK @ Village Underground – 'Patrick Watson's Adventures Underground'
- Nov 5th London UK @ Village Underground – 'Patrick Watson's Adventures Underground'


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Introducing an innovation in voice training: Sing Anything - Mastering Vocal Styles! Available as a Kindle ebook (click left) or in paperback (click below). This exciting book will open your mind and voice to vocal mastery!
Begin by learning the foundations of vocal control: anatomy, breath control, and resonator shaping. Then receive step-by-step instruction on how to create healthy, powerful, and authentic sounds in Pop, Rock, R&B, Country, Classical, Musical Theater, and Jazz. Sing Anything also guides you through the history, phrasing, emotions, and correct tone for each unique style.
On this website, you'll find downloadable audio "Stylisms" as well as specially created Vocal Exercises. Check out the 'Recommended Listening' list and expand your knowledge at our 'Q&A' section. Go to the 'Downloadable Sheet Music' link to download sheet music to songs suggested in the book. Happy Singing and Happy Reading!
"Wow, this book is great! I have never seen or read a book that has gone into so much detail on how all of the body parts function to make your voice work properly. This is a wonderful book of reference and I will be using it personally, and I recommend that all vocalist check it out." -- Tony Lindsay, Lead Singer with Santana and Spangalang.
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(a) If an order to show cause has been issued by any officer, the office may cancel the order to show cause or, prior to the actual commencement under a served order to show cause, terminate proceedings thereunder, if in either case he/she is satisfied that the respondent is actually a national of the United States or an American Samoan, or is not deportable under the immigration laws, or is deceased, or is not in American Samoa, or the proceedings was improvidently begun; or after actual commencement of a hearing such officer may move that the case be remanded to the office on the grounds that it has come to the attention of the office that they are involved in the foreign relations of the United States which require further consideration. Cancellation of an order to show cause or termination of proceedings or remand of a case pursuant to the foregoing shall be without prejudice to the alien or the office. If an order to show cause has been cancelled or proceedings have been terminated pursuant to this section, any outstanding warrant of arrest shall also be cancelled.
(b) The basis and purpose of the prescribed rules in subsection (a) of this section are to empower the immigration office to issue and cancel orders to show cause and to empower the office to request warrants of arrest.History: Rule 3-86, eff 7 Dec 86.


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Vaughn Palmer has been the Vancouver Sun's provincial affairs political columnist, based in Victoria since 1984. His column appears on the Sun's page three five days a week. He has covered nine B.C. premiers -- and counting.
Palmer was born in Gaspe, P.Q., in 1952. He moved to B.C. in 1967 and finished high school in Nanaimo. He attended the University of B.C. and worked on the student newspaper, the Ubyssey. He began working for the Sun in 1973, starting as reporter. He has also worked as an editorial writer and rock music critic, an experience he describes as only slightly crazier than covering the B.C. legislature. From 1980-82, he was city editor for The Sun.
In 1982-83 Palmer attended Stanford University on a journalism fellowship.
He is a winner of the Bruce Hutchison Award for Lifetime Achievement, given by the Jack Webster Foundation, of the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism, given by the Public Policy Forum, and of the Jack Webster award for reporting.


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Alicia Lagano Marries Hector Rendon
"I'm so happy I married my best buddy!" the bride, 34, told PEOPLE
She plays a single lady on the small screen, but in real life, Alicia Lagano is a married woman.
The actress, who plays Selena on Lifetime's The Client List, married her longtime love, restaurant manager Hector Rendon, in an Old Hollywood-themed ceremony at the Malibou Lake Mountain Club in Agoura Hills, Calif., on June 7.
"I'm so happy I married my best buddy!" the bride, 34, told PEOPLE.
Lagano wore a Unique Bridal gown accented by pink shoes that were adorned with Qupid Luxe flower petals.
Her Client List costars, Loretta Devine, Rob Mayes and Laura-Leigh were there to help celebrate the couple, who will honeymoon in the Dominican Republic.


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The Founder Institute (www.fi.co), the world's largest startup launch program with over 1,000 graduate companies, announced today that it will be officially launching its first chapter in Manila.
With plans to run two semesters annually, the program aims to launch over 15 meaningful and enduring companies per year in the Philippines.
Anyone interested in launching a technology company is welcome to apply to the Manila Founder Institute at http://fi.co/apply/manila.
In less than five years of existence, the Silicon Valley-based Founder Institute has helped aspiring entrepreneurs launch over 1,017 companies across over 55 cities and 6 continents, which have created over 10,000 new jobs. Through the Founder Institute's rigorous four-month program, promising entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company with structured training, expert feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - without quitting their day job.
News of the launch was announced by in an article by Phoebe Magdiriliaa on Tech in Asia titled, The Founder Institute arriving in Manila.
In order to celebrate the launch, the Manila Founder Institute will host a "Pre-Curriculum" of free startup events for the general public;
- Startup Pitch Bootcamp, with Jessica Mah (CEO of inDinero)
- Founder Institute Information Session
- Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur
Manila is uniquely positioned to build meaningful startup companies, and the recent growth of its startup ecosystem is a testament to that. There are more startup events and incubators in Manila than in many other developed startup ecosystems, and the Founder Institute can provide Silicon Valley-inspired training to help improve the skills of entrepreneurs before they apply for incubators and seed funding." - Adeo Ressi, Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute
Leading the Founder Institute's efforts in Manila are Dale David, Founder of Pickld, who also founded the non-profit organizations MightyMinds, FilipinoMatters and GoTOTO; David Elefant, a startup incorporation specialist who has successfully mentored numerous startups; and Allan Tan, Founder of Ideyatech, creative software application company and has spent the last 10 years working in information technology.
"Manila is gaining speed on the startup ecosystem, as more and more accelerators and incubators are coming out, and even more great ideas are born each day," says Allan Tan, Co-Director of the Manila Founder Institute. "With more than 100 million in population in the Philippines, the potential for successful startups is huge."
"The Founder Institute is an amazing opportunity for startups to participate in, I wish I had this when I was first starting"- Dale David, Co-Director of the Manila Founder Institute.
"The Philippines is fast becoming a major center for startups in Asia," says David Elefant, Co-Director of the Manila Founder Institute. "Foreign investors have placed the Philippines on their investment maps, and by participating in the Founder Institute program, aspiring entrepreneurs can begin to build businesses suitable for venture investment."
Other successful entrepreneurs who have signed on to mentor founders in the program include:
- Adeo Ressi: Founder/CEO, Founder Institute
- Allan Tan: CEO/President, Ideyatech, Inc.
- Alvin Juban: President, Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP)
- Arup Maity: President , BlastAsia & Xamun Inc.
- Calen Legaspi: CEO, Orange and Bronze Software Labs
- Christoph Sollich: The Pitch Doctor, Startup Consultant
- Dave Condon: Founder & CEO , Axon
- David Elefant: Founder, Dayanan Business Consultancy
- Erick Garayblas: Founder, KuyiMobile.com
- Ferdinand Sarfati: President & CEO, Transcenture
- Jay Fajardo: CEO, Proudcloud Inc.
- Jeffrey Paine: Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures
- Jessica Mah: CEO/Founder, inDinero
- Joey Gurango: CEO, Gurango Software
- Jojo Flores: Co-Founder & Vice President, Plug and Play
- Jorge Azurin: Director, Freelancer.com
- Joselyn Capistrano: CEO, SQME Professionals
- Joseph Benjamin Ilagan: Co-Founder and CEO, Seer Technologies, Inc.
- Kevin Leversee: CEO, Startup Dragons
- Ma Rosario Gruet: VP-Business Development, CPI
- Oron Barber: Co-Founder and CEO, Leadya Services Inc.
- Pepe Tan: CEO, Ivant
- Rio Ilao, Perxclub
- Ron Hose: CEO, Coins.ph
- Sedarius Tekara Perrotta: President, Neuron Global
- And many more to be announced.
We hope you will join us in Manila and launch a company in 2014.
About The Founder Institute
The Founder Institute (www.FI.co) is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, aspiring founders are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk.
Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200 cities and 90 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 4,500 companies, which have created over 25,000 new jobs. The company's mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.
The Founder Institute was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi.


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The DeSales High school football team downed Glasgow 10-2 in Class 2-A quarterfinal action last Friday and will face Caldwell County this Friday with a trip to the state championship on the line.
Leading the way for the Colts (9-4) is slippery running back Dylan Byrd. The junior is averaging 123 rushing yards per game (209 carries for 1,599 yards) and has piled up 30 touchdowns (22 rushing, seven receiving and one kickoff return) in his first season as a starter.
The 5-foot-10, 163 pounder is also tops in receiving with 22 catches for 562 yards.
"He's as good as anybody in town,†said first-year coach Harold Davis, who was a member of DeSales' 1981 squad that made the 4-A state final before falling to Henry Clay 20-7. "He can run the ball, has seven touchdowns receiving and over 2,000 yards of total offense. A lot of good running backs can't do the things that he can do.â€
DeSales also reached the 2-A final in 2009, losing to Fort Campbell 29-9.
With just one game separating him from a long-held dream of reaching the state championship, Byrd sat down to answer questions about his life inside and outside the lines.
CHRIS CAHILL: During the regular season, DeSales was 6-0 when you ran for 100 yards or more and 0-4 when you didn't. Do you feel added pressure knowing that your performance is so critical to the team's success?
DYLAN BYRD: I don't feel any pressure, really. I'm going to get a lot of touches and I know what I have to do. I have a good line in front of me and they're going to help. It's crazy how much our defense and our O-line step up. A lot of people think it's all the running back, but the line has a lot to do with it.
CAHILL: Coach Davis said you remind him of former DeSales and University of Louisville standout Willie Shelby. What do you see as your MO?
BYRD: I am a speedy running back, but, if I have to, I can get the yards under pressure with people around me. I can still rumble to get the yards.
CAHILL: After seeing only limited action last year, what's been the difference this season?
BYRD: I think it's physical maturity, training in the off-season and the leadership role that I have as the starting running back. Other than the seniors, I feel like it's my duty to be a leader.
CAHILL: What would reaching the state championship mean to you?
BYRD: It'll prove to us that we were as good as we thought we were. At the beginning of the season we knew we were going to be okay, but a lot of people doubted us. Our (offensive) line has helped me and the rest of us do what other people didn't think we could do and our defense has made stops that are unbelievable.
CAHILL: Why do you wear number 30?
BYRD: My dad (Marcellous) was number 30 in high school. Me and my other two brothers (Nick, 19, and Adam, 18), who also played at DeSales, wore numbers in the thirties because we wanted to be like my Dad. He was a great running back for Dorman High School in South Carolina. He was my inspiration and got me playing football.
CAHILL: Do you have any pre-game rituals?
BYRD: Coach Davis gave us scapulars at the beginning of the year. When he was in high school they got them and they went to State. I say a prayer, kiss (the scapular) and then wear it during every game.
CAHILL: Win or lose on Friday, what are the areas you'll look to improve in the off-season?
BYRD: Footwork. I want to have a lot better, faster and quicker footwork. I want to be able to break free quicker and explode better. And I want to gain maybe 10 to 15 pounds and hit the weights hard.
CAHILL: What kind of mark would you like to leave at DeSales?
BYRD: I want people to remember me as one of the greatest DeSales running backs. I want to hold a rushing touchdowns record. I want to hold a (career rushing) yards record and I just want to be known for the great things that I did in football for DeSales High School.
Byrd and the Colts will host Caldwell County (10-3) this Friday at Fairdale. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Newport Central Catholic (9-4) will visit Somerset (11-2) in the other semifinal.
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