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In the study, published this Monday in Gastroenterology, researchers from the National University of Singapore and elsewhere claimed to be the first to show that a molecular classification of gastric cancer can identify subtypes that respond differently different therapies, a crucial step in the push to personalize cancer treatment.
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Tsugaru-jamisen (kanji: 津軽三味線, hiragana: つがるじゃみせん) or Tsugaru-shamisen (hiragana: つがるしゃみせん) is a genre of shamisen music originating in Aomori prefecture in the northernmost area of the Japanese island of Honshū. It is today performed throughout Japan, though associations with the Tsugaru area of Aomori remain strong.
The genre is played on a large shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles. Tsugaru-shamisen is easy to recognize by its percussive quality (the plectrum striking the body of the instrument on each stroke) and the lilt of the rhythms performed. Unlike most other Japanese music, some Tsugaru-shamisen pieces are in triple time, though the three beats are not accentuated in the manner of Western music.
Tsugaru-shamisen has a large and steadily growing repertory. Details are of course arguable and there is some variation among performers. Interviews with noted shamisen virtuosi such as Takahashi Chikuzan and Yamada Chisato and recordings issued by stars of the past allow one to produce the following table. Most of the titles given below exist in two versions: in song form (a vocal line with shamisen and drum (taiko) accompaniment) and as a solo shamisen piece (see sixth group below). Recently, younger performers have been attempting to combine Tsugaru-shamisen playing styles or motives with jazz, rock, and other forms of more commercial music. With the exception of the shin min'yō of group E these songs are usually considered to be "traditional."
The Tsugaru-shamisen repertoire[edit]
- A. Kudoki bushi (Quasi-narrative songs)
- "Suzuki Mondo" Now rarely played
- "Jonkara kudoki" Now rarely played
- B. Tsugaru (no) mitsumono ("Three Tsugaru Songs")
- "Tsugaru jongara bushi"
- shin bushi (new song)
- naka bushi (middle song)
- kyū bushi (old song)
- shin kyū bushi (new old song)
- "Tsugaru yosare bushi"
- shin bushi (new song)
- kyū bushi (old song)
- "Tsugaru ohara bushi"
- shin bushi (new song)
- kyū bushi (old song)
- "Tsugaru jongara bushi"
- C. Tsugaru (no) itsutsumono ("Five Tsugaru Songs")
- "Tsugaru aiya bushi"
- "Tsugaru san-sagari"
- D. Kyū min'yō ("Old folk songs")
- "Yasaburō bushi"
- "Tsugaru jinku"
- "Dodarebachi"
- "Ajigasawa jinku"
- "Tosa no sunayama"
- "Tsugaru ondo"
- "Torajōsama"
- "Tanto Bushi"
- Others
- E. Shin min'yō ("New folk songs")
- "Waiha bushi" (composed in 1932 by the singer Narita Unchiku [1888-1974])
- "Ringo bushi" (composed by Narita Unchiku in 1954)
- Others
- F. Kyokubiki (shamisen solos and improvisation). Potentially all songs of B, C, D, and E (most commonly B), as well as free improvisation, freely entitled by performers.
- "Iwaki" (Takahashi Chikuzan)
- "Arashi" (Yamada Chisato)
- Others, etc.
- G. Gassō or kyoku-awase (ensemble playing of multiple shamisen, occasionally supplemented by other instruments such as percussion, taishō-goto, koto, etc.). Most often versions of "Jonkara bushi;" sometimes other songs of groups B to E above; occasionally newly composed pieces or free improvisation on standard patterns.
Playing method[edit]
The Tsugaru-shamisen is characterized by many distinct phrases and styles. In acrobatic technique (kyokubiki), improvising is the feature. The player will often strike the strings and skin very hard and fast with the bachi. They use only left index and ring finger traditionally, and the scale is basically pentatonic (do re mi so ra). A technique unique to the Tsugaru-shamisen style in recent years is the tremolo played with the back of the bachi without hitting the skin.
Discussion of the repertoire[edit]
Group A presents songs that are only rarely heard today, though they were once the mainstay of the repertoire of itinerant, often blind, musician-beggars known as bosama. At the start of the 20th century, these kudoki were gradually displaced by shorter non-narrative songs. The bosama (and, in time, other performers) tended to concentrate their efforts on some five favorite songs (Group C). By the middle of the 20th century three songs (Group B) and their shamisen versions had become the core of the Tsugaru-shamisen repertoire, which they remain today. Indeed, "Jonkara bushi" — in a version that the old bosama would probably not even recognize — has today become virtually a symbol of the timeless "spirit of Tsugaru."
The songs of group D — though no less traditional than those of groups A, B, and C — were not, it seems, a major part of the bosama repertoire. Instead, they tended to be sung by non-professionals, generally without shamisen accompaniment. But with the Tsugaru-shamisen "boom" after World War II, these songs began to receive renewed attention. Shamisen accompaniments were composed or arranged by such performers as Takahashi Chikuzan (Takahashi 1976:142). Somewhat earlier there had been a nationwide movement to produce "new folk songs" (see Hughes 1985:144-54, 281-309; Kojima 1970), resulting in the songs listed in Group E. More recently still, solo shamisen versions of the songs of Group D have been arranged. Solo versions of the older songs have become the center of the repertoire, leading to the development of long solo improvisations (Group F) and ensemble playing (Group G).
One of the most the interesting characteristics of the Tsugaru-shamisen repertoire is what might be termed its cumulative nature. As can be seen from the listing of songs in Group B, newer variants of songs tend to coexist alongside older versions, rather than replacing them. Although the older songs and their shamisen accompaniments or shamisen solo versions have no doubt themselves been somewhat transformed from what they were many decades ago (and they of course were never an entirely uniform to begin with), it remains certain that the "old," "middle," and "new" versions are differentiated not merely stylistically but also historically. Their structural differences contain, as it were, a congealed history.
Notable players[edit]
- Shirakawa Gunpachirō
- Takahashi Chikuzan
- Kida Rinshōe
- Fukushi Masakatsu
- Oyama Mitsugu
- Mihashi Michiya
- Yamada Chisato
- Shibutani Kazuo
- Hiromitsu Agatsuma
- Shin'ichi Kinoshita
- Michihiro Sato
- Yoshida Brothers
- Kevin Kmetz
- Masahiro Nitta
- Mike Penny
- Oyama Yutaka
- Shamimater Shishido
- Nitta Oyako
- Kyle Abbott
References and further reading[edit]
Daijō Kazuo
Daijō has spent most of his life studying The Tsugaru-Shamisen and has met many of the old bosama. His writings, often in semi-novelistic form, emphasize that everything originated with one "Nitabō". Most scholars[who?] reject this unilinear derivation of the genre.
- 1984 Genkon Tsugaru-shamisen. Gōdō Shuppan.
- 1986 "Tsugaru-shamisen no rekishi: sono seishin to fūdo." In Tsugaru-shamisen taizen (6 cassettes and book). Tokyo: King Records K25H-5274-8.
- 1995 Tsugaru-shamisen no tanjo: minzoku geinō no seisei to ryūsei. Tokyo Shin'yosha.
Groemer, Gerald
- 1991 The Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan: Adventures of a Tsugaru-jamisen musician. Warren Michigan: Harmonie Park Press.
- 1993 "Tsugaru-jamisen ni okeru sokkyō ensōteki yōso no bunseki" Tōyō ongaku kenkyū 57:41-61.
- 1999 The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Takahashi Chikuzan, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press. 321 pp., illust., biblio.
- 2012 The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Takahashi Chikuzan, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan, 2nd revised edition. Hirosaki:Tsugaru Shobō. 369 pp., illust., photographs, biblio.
The new edition includes a good deal of newly discovered historical information and brings the volume up to date. Currently only available from amazon.co.jp, it remains the most detailed study of Tsugaru-shamisen to date in any language. Includes a translation of Takahashi Chikuzan's autobiography (Takahashi 1976))
Hughes, David
- 1985 The Heart's Home Town: Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan. PhD dissertation, University of Michigan.
(introduction to Japanese folk song in general).
Johnson, Henry
- 2010 The shamisen: Tradition and diversity. Leiden/Boston: Brill. [ISBN 978 90 04 18137 3]
Kimura Genzō
- 1974 "Tsugaru-shamisen no keifu (1-24)," Tōō Nippō, Oct.16-Dec.14.
Kojima Tomiko
- 1970 "Shin-min'yō undō no ongakushi-teki igi." Engekigaku 11:1-29.
(Study of the "new folk song" movement)
Matsuno Takeo
- 1935 "Tsugaru min'yō-shi." Kyōdo-shi Mutsu 1:90-118; 3:115-157; 4:93-112.
Suda Naoyuki and Anthony Rausch
- 1998 The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen Music. Aomori: Aomori University Press.
(Abridged translation of Daijō 1995 and includes some more general anthropological material).
Takahashi Chikuzan
- 1973 Tsugaru-shamisen Takahashi Chikuzan (liner notes). Tokyo: CBS Sony SODL 17.
- 1976 Jiden: Tsugaru-shamisen hitori tabi. Tokyo: Shinshokan.
(Autobiography of one of the Tsugaru-shamisen greats of the past. Translated in Groemer 1991 and 1999).
Tanaka Sadako
- 1984 Tsugaru-shamisen no "mitsumono" ni okeru hikaku kenkyū—kyokubiki o chūshin toshite. Unpublished master's thesis, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku.
External links[edit]
- Takahashi Chikuzan Official Site
- Article on Yamada Chisato
- Nitaboh Official Site (about feature movie around - disputed - origin of Tsuragu-jamisen style)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF4JayttSk&feature=related
- Tsugaru-jamisen (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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(n.)the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
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in the know,privy to information.
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bef. 900; ME knowen, knawen, OE gecnāwan; c. OHG -cnāhan, ON knā to know how, be able to; akin to L(g)nōscere, Gk gignṓskein. See gnostic , can1
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On January 30th, 2013, the Legion Council unanimously approved the formation of the 501st Legion's newest unit: the Ireland Outpost! Founded by Outpost Leader Alan Delaney (TD-16178), Membership Liaison Stephen Mohan (ID-33330), and Public Relations Officer Paul Morrison (TD-44031), they are dedicated to carrying out the Legion's mission of giving back to the community across the Republic of Ireland. Congratulations and Éirinn go Brách, Ireland Outpost!


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Sport-by-sport - Wrestling
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UK Sport began funding Wrestling after it was announced that London had won the bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012. Compared to many others, it is a sport which does not have a great Olympic tradition in the UK and only one British athlete has represented Team GB in the sport at the last three Olympics.
There are two Wrestling disciplines at London 2012: Greco-Roman and Freestyle. In Greco-Roman Wrestling, athletes are only allowed to use their arms and upper bodies to attack their opponents' upper bodies. It has been part of the Olympic programme since the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 and closely reflects the version of the sport which was so popular at the ancient Games in Greece.
Greco-Roman is a male only discipline, while Freestyle has categories for both women and men. There will be a total of eighteen gold medals available across the sport in London. Great Britain will be represented at the Games by Olga Butkevych in the Women's Freestyle -55kg weight category.
On the international stage, it is a sport that has been dominated by Russia in recent times. Indeed they won eleven medals across the eighteen categories in Beijing in 2008, including six golds. Japan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia will also be hoping to put in a number of strong performances in London.
Did You Know?
Wrestling was one of the original sports in the programme of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece in 776 BC.
*Accurate as of May 2012
Selected athletes:
Olga Butkevych


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Isaiah and I recently moved into my mom's guest house to be closer to work, save money for the wedding and a house and just enjoy general togetherness for a while. The experience of moving, hunting for furniture and needing a little help is showing me all over again how amazing my mom is. She works between 50-80 hours a week. She cooks, she finds time to hunt for us on Craigslist (found us a few pret-ty awesome finds for our place), she thinks of us often while garage sailing and grocery shopping and she listens while we talk 100 mph at night about our day and how awesome/frustrating/numbing/unusual our days were.
It's been much needed. We're both in a "need our moms" kind of phase…and I'm pretty pumped to be living so close (backyard) to mine.
Isaiah and I both get along famously with each other's moms and our own. They're so radically different, both beautiful, both extremely wise and talented in different ways. It's been great having "2 moms" so far. One of them always the answer to everything.
Here's hoping everyone has a mom or "mom-ish" person who's exactly who you need her to be. Because if you don't, we might lend you ours.
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The fuzzy, soft, gray-green foliage mounds nicely and glimmer in the early morning dew. Produces sprays of tiny, chartreuse flowers in the spring. Lady's Mantle is a clump forming, slow spreader that can be used as a groundcover but don't expect it to dominate an area - more of a filler plant.
Care: Generally prefers partial shade but can take the sun in northern areas. Lady's Mantle will do well in poor soil if provided with adequate moisture. In cool, northern climes you may find that it self-seeds. Can have some foliage disease problems in wet, humid conditions - good air movement and fungicide, if needed, will help.


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Quality underpins both safety and efficacy and the MHRA promotes the understanding and development of quality assurance in the development, manufacture and distribution of medicinal products. This section of the site explains how the MHRA carries out this area of work.
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Those cheap, corny B movies and serials of the '40s and '50s are alive and well sort of. Consider the not-so-cheap Congo, a stale thriller (based on the Michael Crichton novel) that made $81 million at theaters last summer.
A clichéd jumble about a greedy corporation called TraviCom trying to mine fabled blue diamonds from deepest Africa so it can dominate the communications industry, Congo stars Dylan Walsh as a sensitive primatologist and Laura Linney as TraviCom's telecommunications whiz. Their acting consists mostly of looking good while operating assorted techno-gadgets amid a fake-looking jungle (despite the film's Costa Rican locations) and unconvincing animatronic primates (alternating with costumed actors) especially Walsh's charge, Amy, a supposedly endearing talking ape who's being returned to the wild. Throw in killer gorillas, a crotch-attacking leech, and a volcano spewing goopy digital lava, and Congo emerges as an update of one of those cheesy old jungle serials like...well, like Jungle Drums of Africa. In this 167-minute epic, two brawny Americans (Clayton Moore and Roy Glenn), working to prevent a uranium mine from falling into foreign hands, encounter a plethora of obstacles, including a witch doctor, hungry lions, tigers, hippos, and a hyena whose ''laugh'' sounds suspiciously human. What with the feisty, nicely permed missionary's daughter (Phyllis Coates, the first and sexier Lois Lane on the old Superman TV series), who's as resourceful as the guys, and her smart pet chimp, it all starts to sound like...Congo.
At least Drums proffers naive, occasionally surreal charm, thanks to stock footage, stiffly delivered lines like ''Oh, Carol, will you ask the natives to take care of that lion?'' and a brief shot that reveals a beefy guy in culottes and blond wig stunt-doubling for Coates. Will Congo provide such goofy yuks in 40 years? It should be so lucky. D


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A Well Regulated Militia
Argyle, Texas is a spot in the road in North Texas with a population of about 3,200 brave souls.
And one of them slept in what the police called "a large pool of blood" and lived to tell about it.
It seems that a couple of folks in their 50's drank enough to float the Battleship Texas one night and decided to play Quick Draw McGraw. You know this is not going to end well, right?
At first, the 53-year-old woman told police that she had had been cleaning her .44-caliber Ruger Vaquero when she shot herself in the hand and shoulder.
The nervous boyfriend, who smelled of alcohol, told police the same story. But he later admitted that he had been responsible for the shooting.
The man said that the couple had been practicing "quick draws" on each other during a night of drinking. He insisted that he was not aware that the gun was loaded.
Now, when you're drunk enough to go to sleep in a large pool of blood, odds are fairly decent that you're not gonna be sober enough to come up with a good story. And to stick to it.
We call that so drunk that you had to hold on to the grass to lean against the ground. And if your idea of romantic is to shoot your woman and have her take blame for it, then hunka hunka burnin' love, Honey.
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Thank You to the Lifesavers in Boston
It's not possible to imagine writing a blog post about anything right now in light of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday.
I do want to share one observation, however. When I watched the footage of the explosions, I saw everyone (of course) running away, to safety. And then I saw the Boston police officers. They didn't run away. They took a pause and then they started to run–towards the blast. Towards the smoke, and towards the wounded and the blood and the shrapnel. Towards someone's son and daughter lying on the ground.
What an incredible show of courage and bravery: to choose a life where when things explode and people are dying and are maimed and losing limbs on the street, that you run towards them. And you risk your life because that's your calling.
I've written about the fire fighter paramedics who saved my hand eight months ago when I was in a terrible car accident, but never more than today do I feel the need to salute the brave men and women of the police force, fire department, National Guard, Armed Forces, and all others who choose to run towards tragedy because it's what they do.
It warms my heart and breaks it at the same time.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, the city of Boston, and the families and friends of those who run towards bombs and smoke and horrific tragedy and not away from it.
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Website: Decided to play webmaster tonight and worked on my site a bit. Not quite ready yet to make it live. But I will put it up soon.
Music: Got "In The Beginning…" by Genesis recently. It's all their early stuff. I hadn't listened to it much since my roommate in college had it. It's kind of fun.
GTK+ (GtkTreeView): Committed the last (knock on wood) API change for GTK+ 2.0 for GtkTreeView. I'm pretty happy with most of it. There are a few warts left (column sizing), but I think it's definitely an improvement. For GTK+ 2.2, it'll definitely be very cool.
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PAUL MCMAHON'S LIST OF THE BEST MOVIES HE SAW IN 2013 By Paul McMahon, the Distracted Critic I only managed to see seventy-one movies this year. It's just been too crazy to do any more than that. As you can imagine, it's nearly impossible to compile a "Ten Best" list working with such slim pickings.(…)
CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013) By L.L. Soares & Michael Arruda (THE SCENE: A very large tree in the middle of the forest. MICHAEL ARRUDA approaches and notices that there is a door in the tree. He knocks. A KEEBLER ELF opens the door) KEEBLER ELF 1: Hold your horses! KEEBLER ELF(…)
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CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT – COMING ATTRACTIONS: NOVEMBER 2013 by Michael Arruda and L.L. Soares (The Scene: A banquet table in Asgard. MICHAEL ARRUDA & L.L. SOARES check out the impressive display of foods on the table.) MICHAEL ARRUDA: Wow, what a spread! I hope we get to have some of these goodies before Thor and(…)
AVENGERS SCORE CARD A Refresher Course in Marvel History from L.L. Soares When X-MEN: FIRST CLASS came out last year, I wrote an article comparing the movie to the "real" first class of X-Men from the comics. People seemed to like the refresher course in Marvel Comics history, so I figured I'd do the same(…)
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The Geisha's Best of 2011 By Colleen Wanglund, "The Geisha of Gore" I write about movies, but I don't see very many new releases each year. Usually when I go to the movies I see old movies playing in revival houses. This year alone I've seen H.G. Lewis's THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970), Alejandro Jodorowsky's(…)
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FRIDAY NIGHT KNIFE FIGHTS: DC vs. MARVEL: THE MOVIE EDITION (Conclusion) With Michael Arruda & L.L. Soares MICHAEL ARRUDA: Welcome back to FRIDAY NIGHT KNIFE FIGHTS. Tonight it's Part 2 of our bout between DC and Marvel. L.L. SOARES: That's right, it's DC vs. MARVEL: THE MOVIE EDITION, where we decide which comic company(…)
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SAN DIEGO, July 21, 2013 – Veteran cyclist Jens Voight says "The Tour is a beautiful adventure." The beautiful adventure ended in Paris for the 170 riders who finished the centennial edition of the Tour de France under a full moon on the first ever evening finish in its history.
Fans enjoyed a spectacular awards ceremony using the Arc de Tromphe to project a dazzling light show for a picture perfect finale, which began with a breathtaking flyover by the Patrouille Acrobatique de France as the riders turned onto the Champs Elysees.
View our 2013 Tour de France finale slideshow above.
It was also a breathtaking finish with the top three sprinters in the world battling for the honor: Mark Cavendish of Omega Pharma Quicktep, Andre Grieipel of Lotto Belisol, and Marcel Kittel of Argos Shimano. The two big Germans boxed out the Manx Missile, and it was Kittel who hit the line for the victory. Kittel ended his second Tour with four stage victories.
Kittel said later it was a great Tour for his entire team."I think I surprised myself and in the end won four stages and won the yellow jersey."
Overall leader Chris Froome of Sky Racing enjoyed a ceremonial ride into Paris with his teammates, enjoying the traditional glass of Champagne along the route. No one wins the Tour without the support of a team. Froome relied on Australian Richie Porte to make it happen, and Porte was given the honor of leading the entire field into Paris onto the Champs Elysees. "To see your best friend win, you train together every day, it's an amazing story. He's such a good guy," said a smiling Porte.
Froome won four stages including the final time trial and the climb up Mont Ventoux, only the second cyclist to win the stage wearing the yellow jersey. He is the second British winner in two years, following his Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins in 2012.
Of his win, Froome said, "I expected it to be big, but it just took my breath away. Once we got onto here together as a team, I could feel myself welling up." Froome thanked his teammates and his many mentors and teachers over the year. He dedicated the win to his late mother, Jane, who died of cancer three years ago. "Without her encouragement to follow my dreams, I would probably be at home watching TV… I'm sure she would be extremely proud tonight."
"This is a beautiful country with the finest annnual sporting event in the world. This is one yellow jersey that will stand the test of time," said Froome.
Second place winner Nairo Quintana of Colombia made a big impression on the Tour in his first year of competition. The 23-year-old also won the best young rider's white jerssey and the King of the Mountains jersey, a tremendous accomplishment. Gustavo Adolfo Carvajal, Colombia Ambassador to France, presented the beaming Quintana his winner's jerseys.
Coming in third place with exceptional performances in the Alps was Joaquin Rodriguez of Katusha, whose two adorable children dressed in their own team jerseys joined him on the podium.
Popular rider Peter Sagan of Cannondale won the sprinter's green jersey, complete with a dyed green goatee he grew during the Tour. French rider Christophe Riblon was named the Tour's most aggressive rider for his sensational victory on Alpe d'Huez. Team Saxo Tinkoff was the top overall team, giving former champion Alberto Contador and GC contender Roman Krueziger a chance to step to the podium.
If Froome returns to defend his jersey in 2014, he will start the race in front of British fans in Yorkshire, the first ever start for a Tour in Great Britain. Take heart, it's only 342 days away.
NBC Sports Network airs a replay of the final stage at 8 p.m. ET Sunday. NBC Sports airs a recap of the entire 2013 Tour de France on Saturday, July 27, at 12:30 p.m. ET/PT.
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The New Museum in New York is featuring the outrageous work of artist Chris Burden, including his computer-driven "Ghost Ship" which once self-sailed off the coast of Scotland, and now is hanging on the side of the museum. (Photo: Dean Kaufman)
The California-based artist Chris Burden has tried everything from having his hands nailed to the roof of a Volkswagen bug to blanketing the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's grounds with street lamps. When it came to his latest show, he knew what came next: dangling a sailboat off the front of a building.
That boat opens "Chris Burden: Extreme Measures," his new retrospective in New York that fills all five floors of the New Museum with gigantic installations and performance-art videos. Visitors must walk under the 30-foot wooden vessel, titled "Ghost Ship," to get through the front door.
Chris Burden's full-size sailboat is secured to the New Museum with steel outriggers and wires. Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal
"It was supposed to read as a lifeboat on the side of the Titanic," the 68-year-old artist said, his graying mop-top and quiet demeanor allowing few glimpses into the wild-child artist who caused a stir in the 1970s. Mr. Burden would have preferred to secure the boat like a dinghy, with davits and straps, but the museum insisted on heavy-duty steel outriggers and wires.
"I understand," he said. "They're petrified. Come the next hurricane, you don't want that crashing down."
New Museum director Lisa Phillips, who curated the exhibit with several colleagues, called the sailboat a powerful symbol: "There is a timeless quality to it and reference to old fashion, hand built designs in response to the environmental catastrophes caused by the Industrial Age."
'Big Wheel,' one of the pieces in 'Chris Burden: Extreme Measures.' Benoit Pailley
Intended by Mr. Burden to be a crewless cargo vessel, the sailboat is outfitted with a computerized navigation system designed to handle the sails and control the rudder. In 2005, it sailed roughly 400 miles, eerily empty, in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. But it fell short of his original goal: Lacking a computer system sophisticated enough to sail on its own, it had to be operated remotely by a nearby mother ship.
Mr. Burden's large-scale installations tread the line between engineering and sculpture. The artist, who studied physics and art in college, doesn't see much daylight between the two disciplines.
As an art-school graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, his friends were physics students who played around in the lab the way he experimented and daydreamed in his studio. "They'd say, 'We follow our hunches, we freeze things to 300 degrees below zero and then we hit them with hammers,' " he recalled. "I thought, 'Wow, that's kind of what I do.' "
Mr. Burden, who as a young man had a studio assistant shoot him in the arm with a rifle in the name of performance art, doesn't see his recent installations as a departure from his earlier career. "In lieu of me doing a performance, the objects are performing," he said.
Many works in this exhibit feature an unspoken element of danger. At the New Museum, a three-ton iron flywheel whips around in circles, powered by a motorcycle. A yellow 1974 Porsche is balanced on a steel frame opposite an actual 365-pound meteorite. Seven-foot-tall Los Angeles Police Department uniforms hang along a wall equipped with Beretta handguns (the weapons are decommissioned).
There's a similarly chilling feeling about the sailboat suspended over the museum's facade, and not just because 4,000 pounds of wood and aluminum are looming over passersby on the sidewalk.
"There's this whole history of ghost ships which is really spooky—you come across the ship and there's nobody on board and the dinner plates are still on," Mr. Burden said. "Where did they go? What happened to them? Did the monster from the deep suck them away?"
The show, which runs through Jan. 12, is not the first display of a Burden boat. He started toying with the idea of a self-sailing vessel in the early 1990s, exhibiting three electronically rigged sailboats at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. He still dreams of creating a boat that sails itself to a dialed-in destination on its own.
The vessel, created by a boat builder in Scotland with mechanical work by experts from the University of Southampton, references the rising waters in New York last year after superstorm Sandy.
"When the water's that high," Mr. Burden said, "it's time to get in the boat and get out of here."
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Nex (coming from the Infernal word for "murder" or "death") is a powerful Zarosian general. She is a Zaryte from the plane Freneskae. She is located in the Ancient Prison, sealed away in the back of the God Wars Dungeon. With a combat level of 1001, she ranks amongst the most powerful monsters in RuneScape.
Nex is an immensely powerful entity and is one of Zaros' most powerful weapons of war. Along with Azzanadra and formerly Zamorak, she is one of Zaros' most powerful generals.
Slaying Nex does not count toward a Nihil task, likewise a kill does not count toward the "God Wars - Like a Boss" daily challenge.
In Zaros's quest to recruit mortal races, he made a promise to the Dragon Riders to solve their infertility crisis. In order to do this, he returned to Freneskae to harvest Mah's elder energy and manipulate life. Zaros considered his creations a failure. Although the proper name for these life forms is Zarytes, Zaros called them nihil as they meant "nothing to him."
One of the nihil, although originally shunned by the others, outgrew and outwitted the rest. It was for this reason that Zaros implanted a sliver of his being into the nihil and granted it sentience. This nihil as she came to call herself was Nex.
Following Zaros's downfall in the Second Age, a group of Zarosians were working to secure the area around the Mahjarrat ritual site to gain the upper hand. The leader of these Zarosians was Nex. Gaining power whenever she battled, Nex was considered unstoppable. Despite her immense strength, the forces of Saradomin were eventually able to imprison Nex and the powerful Zarosian army around the beginning of the Third Age. With much effort and sacrifice, the Saradominists managed to lead Nex and her army into a large ice cavern, where they enchanted them into a frozen sleep. Afterwards, the Saradominist forces built the Temple of Lost Ancients around it, ending the Battle for the Ritual Site.
Nearly a thousand years later a flock of aviantese transporting a newly created Godsword were ambushed by an army of demons as they passed through the mountains of Trollheim. Outnumbered, the aviantese were forced to retreat, into the temple. Each of the gods — Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin, Zamorak — sent combatants to this temple, beginning the battle for the godsword.
Years after these God Wars began, Saradominist priests (one of whom was Ashuelot Reis) were approached by a mysterious figure who spoke of Guthix. This entity taught them that Guthix was the only god who could end the chaos and stop the war. The priests abandoned the cause of Saradomin and became followers of Guthix. Their new leader taught them the ways of druids which included an ancient ritual that supposedly had the power to awaken Guthix itself. The priests and their leader performed the ritual, but the result was not what they had expected; the priests had accidentally reopened the prison, releasing Nex. Their leader, the one who convinced them to side with him and perform the ritual, revealed himself to be Sliske, a loyal Zarosian Mahjarrat.
Due to the length of her enchanted sleep, Nex was not at full strength. Despite this, she quickly laid waste to vast quantities of combatants from all opposing sides. Rapidly gaining power from her participation in battle, she would soon be at full strength once again. Brought together by a common and powerful enemy, all four sides participating in the battle for the godsword united in battle against Nex. After the intense struggle, Nex and her army were ultimately trapped again, behind the frozen door.
When the God Wars Dungeon became accessible again in modern times, adventurers who entered seeking the godsword had ventured inside the gods' chambers and found pieces of the key to the sealed prison. With the frozen key completed, Nex could be engaged in combat once again.
The Death of GuthixEdit
Nex is amongst the characters who visit Guthix's lair after the player discovers it during The World Wakes. To bolster the ranks of the Zarosian faction, Sliske had once again freed Nex from her prison so that she could join the battle. Nex and the other Zarosians effortlessly cleared the path on their way and in the end, managed to corral the Guthixians, Commander Zilyana, and the player. Nex expresses no objection to killing Guthix. [1]; however, she is not decided on what her role is in this ambush.[2].Sliske passed while no one was paying attention, destroyed the wall that was blocking Guthix's chamber, reached Guthix and launched a deadly attack which killed him. Before Nex could celebrate Sliske's achievement and her freedom, Saradomin returned to Gielinor, arriving at Guthix's chamber. He imprisoned her once more and teleported all the Zarosians away. Nex still resides in her prison to this day.
Return of ZarosEdit
When Zaros returned to Gielinor with a new corporeal form, he called upon his most loyal followers to work on specific tasks, with Azzanadra, Char, and Nex being amongst the group. Zaros tasked Nex with keeping the young gods in check, keeping Sliske's game in order, and containing their destruction with as little open conflict as possible. She was also advised to continue to attack the other god's forces without her ancient prison.
Nex resides in the Ancient Prison, a room locked behind the Frozen Door in the southern part of the God Wars dungeon. The door can only be opened by completing the frozen key, which is created by killing foot soldiers of each of the gods (Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin and Zamorak). Each faction has its own piece of the key to be dropped. Key pieces are only dropped by combatants in the god's stronghold and outside the boss room; i.e. regular monsters not in the main area of the dungeon. As such, obtaining every part of the key requires at least level 70 Ranged, Strength, Agility and Constitution (none of these skills may be boosted). When assembled, the parts make a frozen key with ten charges to open the frozen door. The key can be repaired for a cost which decreases based on your Smithing level.
Just beyond the door is an isolated room with no enemies in it and stairs leading down to the ancient prison. Down these stairs is another safe room that contains a hole in the wall connecting it to the room that contains Nex's army. The area after this room is filled with Nex's soldiers, ancient warriors, ancient mages, ancient rangers, and blood reavers. This room is dangerous, and the monsters are aggressive. In the back of the room is the door to the second-to-last room to reach Nex. Opening this door requires either killing 40 of Zaros' followers or having equipped a full set of Ancient ceremonial robes. Having the Shard of Zaros is the only possible way to walk through the Zarosian army without being attacked by them.
The last room before Nex is another safe room. There are no monsters in here. The only entity in this room is Ashuelot Reis, who can provide banking services to the player. In this room is a magical barrier that seals Nex in her room. It can be removed to enter her room, but cannot be used to exit. The only way out of Nex's chamber is teleportation or death. Nex is not always present in her room; rather, she only appears when challengers have entered her room to face her.
Personality and relationshipsEdit
Nex is known to be malevolent and aggressive towards anyone who is not on her or Zaros' side. She holds a belief that a victory is not achievable without strategy and knowledge of the enemy.[3] Additionally, she respects a worthy opponent and treats them chivalrously.[4] Nex acknowledges - and does not deny - rumours that describe her as being of pure anger and hatred.[5] She speaks in a fashion commonly associated with hissing and snakes, extending her "s" sounds in almost every word.
She seems partial to all Zarosians, naming only Zarosian Mahjarrat when speaking of Guthix's awakening,[6] and expresses a specific fondness for Sliske, noting him as a friend initially[7] but later regretting her decision of trusting him.[8]
Nex acts aggressively towards both Commander Zilyana, whom she threatens with mutilation,[9] and the player, whom she berates Azzanadra for not killing.[10]
Nex will occasionally say various lines which are voiced.
Initial phase
- Fumus! Umbra! Cruor! Glacies!
Smoke phase
- Fill my soul with smoke!
- Let the virus flow through you!
- There is...NO ESCAPE!
- Fumus, don't fail me!
Shadow phase
- Darken my shadow!
- Fear the shadow!
- Embrace darkness!
- Umbra, don't fail me!
Blood phase
- Flood my lungs with blood!
- A siphon will solve this!
- I demand a blood sacrifice!
- Cruor, don't fail me!
Ice phase
- Infuse me with the power of ice!
- Contain this!
- Die now, in a prison of ice!
- Glacies, don't fail me!
Final phase
- Taste my wrath!
Nex's drop mechanics differ from those of other bosses while LootShare is in effect. Rather than simply dropping all of a high-quantity item to a single player, the drops are divided into 1–5 parts, depending on what the drop can be divided into perfectly. For example, rather than one player receiving 375 onyx bolts(e), the drop will be split up into five sections of 75 bolts and then distributed out through LootShare. However, it is still possible for one player to receive all five 75 bolt drops, depending on his or her potential to receive loot.
100% dropEdit
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Big bones 1 Always 567
- Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 817 kills.
20 charms are dropped at a time.
- Please add to the log (only if 15 or more creatures killed).
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Torva full helm 1 [d 1]Rare 13,887,061 Torva platebody 1 [d 1]Rare 28,531,312 Torva platelegs 1 [d 1]Rare 30,522,722 Torva boots 1 Rare 18,021,972 Torva gloves 1 Rare 10,645,959 Pernix cowl 1 [d 1]Rare 9,969,590 Pernix body 1 [d 1]Rare 22,441,244 Pernix chaps 1 [d 1]Rare 22,912,650 Pernix boots 1 Rare 13,561,636 Pernix gloves 1 Rare 7,976,646 Virtus mask 1 [d 1]Rare 5,672,497 Virtus robe top 1 [d 1]Rare 12,384,426 Virtus robe legs 1 [d 1]Rare 13,566,664 Virtus boots 1 Rare 10,926,628 Virtus gloves 1 Rare 6,602,136
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Onyx bolts (e) 375 Uncommon 3,199,125 Virtus wand 1 Rare 25,010,279 Virtus book 1 Rare 8,386,967 Zaryte bow 1 [d 1]Rare 51,826,467
Herbs and seedsEdit
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Grimy avantoe
(always with dwarf weed)
75 (noted) Uncommon 294,375 Grimy dwarf weed
(always with avantoe)
75 (noted) Uncommon 519,750 Grimy torstol 40 (noted) Uncommon 217,040 Magic seed 5 Uncommon 826,775 Torstol seed 12 Uncommon 188,796
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Magic logs 375 (noted) Common 369,750 Coal 2,400 (noted) Common 650,400 Runite ore 80 (noted) Common 854,880 Green dragonhide 400 (noted) Common 720,000 Uncut dragonstone 20 (noted) Common 259,440
One potion is dropped in a group of 10. The other potion will always be dropped in a group of 30.
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Saradomin brew (4) 10, 30 Common 19,230–57,690 Super restore (4) 10, 30 Common 28,560–85,680
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Nex's followers 1 [d 2]Rare Not sold Clue scroll (hard) 1 Rare Not sold Clue scroll (elite) 1 Very rare Not sold Starved ancient effigy 1 Very rare Not sold Court summons 1 Very rare Not sold
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Estimated between 1/277 and 1/408 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012. The drop rate of all Nex items is assumed to be equal on average, but Adventurer's Log data made them seem unequal.
- ^ Only when one of her unique items are dropped. It will continually appear until collected.
Rare drop table dropsEdit
Nex drops two rare drop table drops at a time. It is uncommon.
- This monster has access to the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth is not required to access the table.
Show/hide rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 200–350,3,000 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 Common 1,082 Uncut emerald 1 Common 2,082 Uncut ruby 1 Common 2,850 Uncut diamond 1 Uncommon 5,112 Loop half of a key 1 Uncommon 27,134 Tooth half of a key 1 Uncommon 30,352 Uncut dragonstone 1 Rare 12,972 Dragonstone 1 Rare 10,011 Dragon dagger 1 Uncommon 16,480 Rune battleaxe 1 Rare 24,213 Rune javelin 5 Rare 890 Adamant javelin 20 Very rare 1,240 Rune 2h sword 1 Very rare 37,288 Rune spear 1 Very rare 11,434 Dragon spear 1 Very rare 36,909 Battlestaff 200 (noted) Rare 1,572,400 Rune sq shield 1 Very rare 21,958 Rune kiteshield 1 Very rare 31,619 Shield left half 1 Very rare 64,586 Dragon helm 1 Very rare 59,231 Adamant bolts 200 Uncommon 11,800 Onyx bolts 150 Rare 1,257,600 Rune arrow 150 Rare 22,650 Vecna skull 1 Very rare 95,152 Water talisman 1 Uncommon 10,887 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) Uncommon 65,950–92,330 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) Uncommon 64,125–89,775 Chaos talisman 1 Uncommon 560 Nature talisman 1 Uncommon 399 Pure essence 1,000–1,500 (noted) Uncommon 14,000–21,000 Nature rune 60–80 Rare 21,660–28,880 Soul rune 20 Rare 4,440 Law rune 45 Rare 19,485 Death rune 50 Rare 17,500 Blood rune 50 Rare 25,000 Raw swordfish 125–250 (noted) Uncommon 55,375–110,750 Raw shark 250 (noted) Uncommon 285,750 Big bones 150–180 (noted) Uncommon 85,050–102,060 Coal 550–700 (noted) Uncommon 149,050–189,700 Adamantite ore 150–250 (noted) Uncommon 203,100–338,500 Silver ore 100 (noted) Rare 8,700 Runite ore 100 (noted) Rare 1,068,600 Rune bar 1 Common 14,177 Rune bar 50 (noted) Very rare 708,850 Clean toadflax 35–45 (noted) Uncommon 118,685–152,595 Clean snapdragon 30–35 (noted) Uncommon 113,640–132,580 Clean torstol 16–34 (noted) Uncommon 89,264–189,686 Snapdragon seed 1 Common 1,401 Torstol seed 1 Uncommon 15,733 Watermelon seed 3 Uncommon 7,590 Magic seed 3–7 Rare 496,065–1,157,485 Palm tree seed 10 Rare 1,565,080 Yew logs 450–550 (noted) Rare 160,650–196,350 Crystal triskelion fragment 1 1 Very rare Not sold Crystal triskelion fragment 2 1 Very rare Not sold Crystal triskelion fragment 3 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Melee) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Magic) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Ranged) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Agility) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Cooking) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (FM) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Fishing) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Hunter) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Mining) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Prayer) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Smithing) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (Thieving) 1 Very rare Not sold Brawling gloves (WC) 1 Very rare Not sold
Universal dropsEdit
- Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.
- These drops are dropped alongside main drops.
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Key token 1 Rare Not sold
- The plaque memorial in the safe and banking area reads: Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur, Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur, which translated from the Latin means: "Life is short, and shortly it will end, Death comes quickly which respects no one, Death destroys everything and takes pity on no one." The inscription is taken from the lyrics to "Ad Mortem Festinamus", a medieval song which served as a memento mori, a reminder of the certainty of death.
- For a while after the Evolution of Combat, when using Kick against Nex it would knock her back a tile, despite her stun-immunity icon. This has been fixed.
- Despite appearing to take a 4x4 or 5x5 space, the actual size is 1x1, which is the same as a player.
- After killing Nex, the Adventurer's Log will say: "I killed a devastating creature of Zaros, Nex." or after killing Nex several times, it will say: "I killed X devastating creatures of Zaros, all named Nex."
- However, getting an adventure log item from Nex would show the message: "After killing a Nex, it dropped a <item>."
- Prior to an update, Nex's drops were somewhat of a standard God Wars general, and the drops only went to one person.
- After the God Wars Instances update, it was possible to have Nex spawn multiple times at once. This bug has been fixed.
- On 19 May 2011 there was a Quick Poll on which RuneScape character you would like to follow on Twitter. Nex was the option with the second highest number of votes.
- Prior to the God Wars Dungeon graphical update, players climbed down a slope rather then dispelling a barrier and jumping down.
- Jagex added a "stomp" attack that dealt 100 damage to the player and shortened their Overload effect to prevent players from soloing Nex. However, her "stomp" attack caused her moving pattern to be incorrect, which resulted in players being able to solo her. After the God Wars Dungeon graphical update, the stomp attack was removed and replaced with Deflect Missiles instead.
- Nex's use of curses seems to be much more stronger then the ones players can use.
- Nex's Soul Split heals 2,500 lifepoints, regardless of what she hits (heal occurs if there is a hit.)
- Nex's Turmoil drains combat stats whenever possible visibly.
- Nex's Deflection curses fully block damage rather then partially protecting her, and can deal massive reflect damage onto the player even if their actual hit was lower then the reflect.
- Unlike the other God Wars generals, Nex and her bodyguards are not "ready to fight" in the prison. If there are no players inside the prison she and her bodyguards will despawn.
- If a player enters the arena via barrier, she will spawn shortly, provided that no other players are inside. If a player logs into the arena and there is no one else inside, they will have to wait for her to respawn instead.
- Nex's combat level of 1001 is a reference to her release date, 10 January (10-01). It was changed to 220 with the Evolution of Combat and it was changed back after legacy was released.
- According to the Book of Zaros - one of the sections of the Book of the Gods - Nex once owned a palace unto herself, and it was from here that she and Azzanadra planned their counter-attack following the fall of Zaros. What happened to this palace after Nex's imprisonment is unknown.
- On 7 January 2014, Nex received the following updates:
- Nex can now use the Deflect Magic curse.
- Nex now has an instance option, costing 800,000 coins per hour.
- When Nex uses her deflection curses, her wings will turn green for ranged, blue for magic and orange for melee, similar to the Kalphite King's wings when using a combat style.
- During the fight, there are a few glitches in some phases:
- When fighting Nex in her Shadow Phase, when she says "Fear the shadow!", instead of attacking, she may say another "Embrace darkness!" instead.
- When fighting Nex in her Blood Phase, if the player uses Dragon Breath with a Dragon Rider amulet, the amulet's effect may go off, causing a small bleed on her that does damage rather then healing her, even though bleeds heal her during that phase.
- During the Blood Phase, after she says "A siphon will solve this!", if she is not attacked, she will do nothing before she flies to the player and starts attacking them. After two or three attacks, she will then say "I demand a blood sacrifice!", compared to attacking her, in which she will attack five times before using her sacrifice ability. The same also affects her during her Ice Phase, if she cannot find any players to attack after saying "Contain this!".
- For the duration of December 2014, during her ice phase, Nex will say "Die now, in a present of ice!" The icicles that form the prison are replaced with presents. Along since the start of December 2014, she wears Santa's hat. This includes during quests like Fate of the Gods in which Zaros transforms into her with the hat on.
|Preceded by
|Succeeded by
|Corporeal Beast
|Strongest attackable monster in RuneScape
|Queen Black Dragon
|Preceded by
|Succeeded by
|Queen Black Dragon
|Strongest attackable monster in RuneScape (With the Queen Black Dragon)
|Kalphite King
- ^ Nex, Guthix's Chamber, RuneScape. "Player: I will side with neither. I want to destroy Guthix.
Commander Zilyana: Finally, someone who sees sense.
Nex: I cannot disagree."
- ^ Nex, Guthix's Chamber, RuneScape. "Player: What do you plan to do here?
Nex: ...It isss undecided. "
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "We are agreed; thisss is what Zarosss would desire. 'Knowing an enemy isss half the battle,' he would sssay."
- ^ Nex's Followers, author unknown, RuneScape. "A loose battlement caused Pernix to stumble, giving Nex the opportunity to strike, but he dodged her blow - again something that rarely happened to Nex. In admiration, Nex offered to take him under her wing."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "Legends have told of me; they describe me of a being of pure anger, pure hatred. Un-ssstoppable."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "The Mahjarrat, Azzanadra, Wahisssietel, Akthanakosss. They would wake Guthix; sssee what he has to teach usss."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "A loyal friend: Sss-liske. The trick-ssster; the rogue."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "Sss-Sliske would release me just to sss-steal my victory. I should have known he could not be trusted."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "You watch your tongue, Zilyana, or I will rip it from your mouth."
- ^ Nex, The World Wakes, RuneScape. "Azzanadra, you ancient fool. Your feelingsss mean nothing in the heat of war. You could have killed the human by now."


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by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Once from a big, big building,
When I was small, small,
The queer folk in the windows
Would smile at me and call.
And in the hard wee gardens
Such pleasant men would hoe:
"Sir, may we touch the little girl's hair!"—
It was so red, you know.
They cut me coloured asters
With shears so sharp and neat,
They brought me grapes and plums and pears
And pretty cakes to eat.
And out of all the windows,
No matter where we went,
The merriest eyes would follow me
And make me compliment.
There were a thousand windows,
All latticed up and down.
And up to all the windows,
When we went back to town,
The queer folk put their faces,
As gentle as could be;
"Come again, little girl!" they called, and I
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