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The Constitution
It is particularly appropriate that this exhibit was made possible by the generosity of the late Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR, who donated the royalties from his definitive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II to the Naval Historical Center.
When we think of Admiral Morison, this splendid series comes quickly to mind. He is also prominently associated with the history of the early discovery and exploration of the Americas. Yet, Samuel Morison's interests were as far-ranging as his knowledge was profound. In a long list of splendid books and articles, he discussed sources, events, and personalities of our early history with wit and acumen. His biographies of John Paul Jones and Matthew Calbraith Perry demonstrate a deep understanding of, and appreciation for, the struggles and sacrifices of America's first generations. It is my hope that this exhibit will, in its own way, serve the same purpose.
Rear Admiral, U.S.N. (Ret.)
Director of Naval History
Constitution's spar-deck battery included "chase guns" as well as these short-barreled 32-pounder carronades.
24-pounder guns on Constitution's gun deck.
The Constitution Gun Deck
By John C. Reilly, Jr.
From the early years of our country's history, the frigate Constitution has been one of the symbols of our national identity. Conceived during the presidency of George Washington, she protected American merchant seamen in the Quasi-War with France and projected American sea power into the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars. In the War of 1812, she earned glory in a series of victorious combats with British men-of-war and became part of the American legend. Joshua Humphreys helped to design her; such men as Edward Preble, John Rodgers, Isaac Hull, William Bainbridge, Thomas Macdonough, and George Dewey have commanded her. When she was threatened by the scrapper in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem Old Ironsides awoke national feeling and helped to save her. Still in commission as a ship of the United States Navy, she flies the fifteen-star flag of 1812 at her berth in the old Boston Navy Yard and reminds each new generation of Americans of the vital role the sea has always played in our people's history.
Five years ago, after
We are accustomed to measuring the strength of a navy in terms of many different types of ships and weapons. The seagoing fleets of 1812 were all
An eighteenth century drawing of a typical naval gun and its truck carriage. Weapons of this type were a mainstay of naval warfare from the introduction of gunpowder until well into the nineteenth century.
made up of wooden sailing ships which might differ in size and function but were all, basically, "sisters under the skin." They dealt in one weapon, the gun, and it was in terms of guns that a warship's size and power were measured. The bigger a ship, the more guns she could carry and, of equal importance, the heavier the guns she could use. Where a small ship might be armed with 6-pounders (guns which threw a 6-pound shot), a large ship-of-the-line, the battleship of her day, mounted guns firing shot of as much as 32 pounds in weight. Constitution falls into the upper middle of this spectrum of warship size. For her time, she was the equivalent of a large modern cruiser, armed with heavy ordnance.
Constitution's spar deck, her open "weather deck," was usually the busiest part of the ship. On a portion of it astern called the quarterdeck, the officer of the deck and the helmsman stood their watches. From here the captain — and the commodore, when Constitution served as flagship of a squadron—The rest of directed their commands. The spar deck was also the frigate's "engine room." Above it rose the massive network of masts and rigging which propelled Constitution through the water. This was often a hive of activity as the hands double-timed to their stations to make or to take in sail or to man the web of lines that adjusted the spars to take advantage of the wind. Part of Constitution's armament was mounted here; 22 32-pounder carronades were behind broadside ports (the openings seen in the upper portion of this display), while three bow-chaser guns were carried on the forecastle.
A 24-pounder gun in the period of the Revolution and the War of 1812. The gun is in its recoil position for loading, and the man to the left is keeping a strain on the train tackle to hold the ponderous weapon in place while the man at the muzzle rams the load home. The man at the breech is piercing the powder cartridge with a priming wire before inserting the priming tube: in his left hand is a linstock, a wooden staff holding a piece of burning slowmatch. When the gun is ready to fire, the two side tackles will be used to run it out. The numbers in the drawing identify parts of the gun and its outfit.
Linstock with Slowmatch
Train Tackle
Water Bucket
Side Tackle
Powder Box
Cascabel Knob
Nearby shot racks held the iron "cannon balls" that were the naval
gun's principal stock in trade.
When an enemy was in sight, the crew was called to quarters, as "battle stations" were then called. Since there were no loudspeakers in those days, the ship's marine drummer summoned the men to their stations. In a quick scramble of disciplined activity, everything not needed for battle was struck belowdecks. The galley fire was put out; furniture in the captain's and commodore's cabins was moved belowdecks to make room for the gun crews. A detail of men mounted each of the ship's fighting tops to make emergency repairs to battle-damaged rigging. Down below, the surgeon and his mates laid out their bandages and instruments and made ready to care for the wounded. Sand was scattered along the decks for better footing; tubs were filled with water for drinking and firefighting.
On the spar deck and gun deck, most of the ship's company busied themselves getting her armament ready for use. Each of the gun-deck 24-pounders had its assigned crew of a midshipman and 13 men. This was an unusual arrangement; midshipmen were more usually assigned to duty as assistant division officers or posted on the quarterdeck to relay the captain's orders in the din of battle. In 1812, however, Captain Bainbridge had twenty midshipmen on his strength, and decided to assign most of his young prospective officers to the big guns. Fourteen of Constitution's 15 gundeck 24-pounder crews were commanded by midshipmen; the 15th was in charge of the captain's clerk, who was apparently a versatile individual.
The gun crew first unfastened the lashings which held the gun secure at sea. This had to be done with care. Gun carriages were not fixed to the deck; if one should break loose in a seaway, the consequences could be dangerous to the ship and fatal to the men who had to bring the massive rolling weight under control. To this day, a dangerously-irresponsible individual is sometimes called a "loose cannon."
The crew now removed the covers that kept dampness out of the bore, and took various gunnery implements from their racks. Guns of this period were equipped with firing locks, but lengths of lighted slow match-cord soaked in an inflammable solution; it burned down slowly, as a lighted cigarette does-were put in safe places along the gun deck for use in case a lock should fail. Down below the frigate's waterline, the gunner and his assistants opened the forward and after magazines and began to break out sausage-shaped flannel powder cartridges for the guns and carronades. Other men took stations along the lower decks to pass cartridges up to the gun crews.
Constitution "shows her teeth" and hoists her battle ensign as she prepared to engage Guerriere, 19 August 1812. Spar-deck carronades and gun-deck 24-pounders are run out for action. Guns and carronades are numbered on each side, forward to aft. The two guns represented in this exhibit are Numbers 12 and 13 of the port battery, the third and fourth guns from the right in this painting.
Tools of the gunner's trade (not to scale). The sponge, moistened with water, extinguished sparks in the bore after firing. The worm cleaned unburned fragments of cloth powder bags from the bore. Ladles were originally used to load powder; after cartridge bags came into use, they were used to extract loads from muzzle-loaders without firing. The rammer sealed cartridge and ball in place; the scraper and searchers were used to clean the gun and to find damaged spots in the bore. The handspike helped to move the gun carriage and to raise the gun breech so the wedge-shaped quoin could be moved to adjust the gun's elevation. The priming wire pierced the powder bag to make sure that the flame of the primer would ignite the powder charge, while the tompion kept the bore dry while the gun was not in use. (From Albert Manucy, Artillery Through the Ages (Government Printing Office, 1949).)
As Constitution drew near to her enemy, all was made ready. The captain took his station on the quarterdeck, from which he could direct the helmsman and order the handling of guns and sails. The marine detachment took their positions with loaded muskets, some on deck and others in the fighting tops. Gun crews checked the loads in their massive weapons and waited in silence for the action to begin.
When Constitution was within reasonable shooting range of her adversary—usually no more than a few hundred yards—the gun-port lids, which kept wind and spray out while cruising, were opened. At the command "run out!" men pulled on the side tackles to roll their guns forward until the muzzles protruded through the ports. One of the gun crew thrust a wire pick through the vent to pierce the cloth powder bag, inserted a priming tube (a length of quill, packed with fine powder) into the vent, and then primed the pan of the firing lock--similar to the locks used in flintlock firearms--with fine powder from a flask or horn. The lock was cocked, and the gun captain--the senior enlisted man of the gun crew--took the end of the firing lanyard and stood, knees flexed, behind the gun and sighted along the barrel.
The captain's order to commence firing was passed by megaphone to the division officers, who then directed their guns. A ship's guns might open fire together in a single broadside, or each division might be ordered to "fire as she bears." As the target came into view through his gun port, the gun captain waited for the proper moment in the ship's roll, depending on whether the object was the enemy's hull or his masts and rigging. At the right moment, the gun captain pulled the lanyard to trip the firing lock. This struck flint against steel, sending a spark into the pan. The ignited powder in the pan sent a flame through the priming tube to set off the powder charge in the gun and hurl its 24-pound iron shot at the enemy with a reverberating thunderclap of sound and a swirl of whitish smoke.
For every action, as Isaac Newton told us, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The tremendous push needed to send a cannon shot on its way at many hundreds of feet per second also made the gun jump back on its carriage with great force. In a crowded space like the deck of a ship, this had to be controlled. Where a modern gun's recoil is absorbed by combinations of strong springs and hydraulic cylinders, this gun depended on its heavy breeching to bring it safely to a stop. The bore was wiped out with a sponge moistened with water to put out smoldering bits of powder bag or grains of powder that might remain inside the gun. The powder passer, who shuttled between the gun and the lower-deck hatch to pick up powder charges from the gunner's assistants, brought a flannel cartridge to the gun and
This scale drawing of one of Constitution's 24-pounders illustrates the limit of elevation possible with the gun carriage of 1812 and shows how the gun was secured for sea when not in use.
Loading and aiming a muzzle-loading smoothbore gun was simple in principle but required training and skill in practice. (From Manucy, Artillery Through the Ages)
handed it to the loader who pushed it into the muzzle. The cartridge was pushed firmly home with the rammer, and a wad of scrap fibers was rammed down after it. A shot man brought the iron ball from a nearby shot rack; the loader inserted the shot in the muzzle; then followed with another wad and rammed the load into place. The gun was now ready to run out, prime, and fire. In the earlier stages of an engagement, this might be done in an ordered fashion, with the ship discharging whole broadsides or firing by division to the word of command. When two ships finally came to close quarters, they usually began to fire at will, each gun loading and firing as rapidly as possible under the direction of its own midshipman and gun captain. At the close ranges of that day, effective shooting depended not upon pinpoint accuracy, but upon rapidity. When the target was looming only a few yards away there was no question of aiming, but simply of getting off as much metal as possible to overwhelm the enemy. While some captains, such as Stephen Decatur and the English Philip Broke, drilled their men in firing at longer ranges and taught accuracy and coordination of fire, many officers in the days of sail considered short-range rapid fire the principal test of a well-trained gun crew. The impact on eye, ear, and mind of this kind of close-range violence can only be imagined. As Louis de Tousard described it in 1809 in his American Artillerist's Companion:
The havock produced by a continuation of this mutual assault may be readily conjectured by the reader's imagination. Battering, penetrating and splintering the sides and decks; shattering and dismounting the cannon; mangling and destroying the rigging; cutting asunder or carrying away the masts; piercing and tearing the sails so as to render them useless; and wounding, or killing the ship's company.
The iron solid shot was the 24-pounder's principal ammunition. Explosive shells were not used in ship-to-ship actions at this time, as these were thought to be more dangerous to the user than to the enemy. Thus, naval guns of 1812 relied on the battering effect of solid shot rather than on the bursting force of shells. In the early stages of a frigate engagement, while two ships were maneuvering for the most advantageous position, a captain might try to use dismantling shot to disable the maze of sails and rigging on which his opponent depended for movement and maneuverability. As the ships drew close to one another, some of their guns might load with grape or canister to sweep the enemy's decks. Use of this antipersonnel ammunition turned a ship's gun into an enormous shotgun, and its effect at short ranges could be devastating. "Hot shot" were simply iron round shot, heated red in the galley stove for use against an inflammable target. The sizzling ball, embedded in the wood of a building or a ship's hull, could ignite a fire if not quickly extinguished.
Since fire was a mortal threat to wooden warships, hot shot were only occasionally used in shore bombardment. Constitution did not use them in ship-to-ship actions.
The principal object of naval battle in 1812 was not to sink an enemy, but to batter him into surrendering. It was difficult to destroy a wooden warship with solid shot. Unlike naval actions of our own century, where ships
Flint firing lock of the type used in 1812. The double-headed cock holds two flints and could be quickly reversed if one flint became worn or lost. (From Sir Howard Douglas, A Treatise on Naval Gunnery (London, 1820))
were usually sunk rather than taken, relatively few wooden sailing warships were sunk in combat. Damage to his ship and casualties to his crew could compel a captain to surrender; in some actions the ships came alongside and the opposing crews attempted to board and fight it out at hand's reach with small arms. Whatever the circumstances, war at sea in those days of our ancestors was hardly for the timid. It took a special kind of courage to "stand to your guns" at ranges measured in scores of yards, Wooden ships and smoothbore guns look picturesque today; to the men of 1812, they were everyday reality, some of it quite grim by any standard. May this display help all of us who see it to remember that our nation has been built and maintained by the effort and sacrifice of the generations that have gone before us. And may it also remind us that, now as then, the physical capabilities of machines are always less important than the qualities found in the minds and hearts of the people who use them.
Today, as in 1812, the "men behind the guns" spell the difference between victory and defeat.
For Further Reading
Tyrone G. Martin, A Most Fortunate Ship; A Narrative History of "Old Ironsides." Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1980. (A former commanding officer of Constitution presents a carefully-researched, readable account of her career.)
Howard I. Chapelle, History of the American Sailing Navy. New York: Norton, 1949. (Design study of the evolution of sailing warships in the American navy, with illustrations and numerous ship plans,)
John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time. London, 1905. Third edition, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1971. (Daily life and war at sea in the British navy. Though some details of American naval life differed, this work offers a valuable appreciation of life in a sailing man-of-war.)
Albert Manucy, Artillery Through the Ages; A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1949. (Kept in print and currently available, this is a helpful introduction to the general subject of early artillery on land and sea.)
Peter Padfield, Guns at Sea. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. (General illustrated history of naval guns and gunnery from the introduction of gunpowder through World War 11.)
Harold L. Peterson, Round Shot and Rammers. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1969. (Generously-illustrated introduction to muzzle-loading artillery as used in the United States. Though Peterson focuses on land, rather than naval, gunnery the two had much in common.)
Constitution's 1812 quarter bill lists the crew for Gun No. 13, the second gun represented in this display. It has a full crew of a midshipman and twelve men, but lacks an assigned "powder boy."


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- 0Jan 30, '12 by Mintyfreshness23I am doing a career change into nursing and I have done all of my pre-reqs for the ADN program and will be taking the TEAS V on February 29th. Besides the ATI study guides, anyone else have any suggestions and ideas to what else to study that would be helpful? Thank you!
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The link to the PDF version of the McGraw-Hill study guide is posted on page 3 of this thread. Just copy and paste it into your browser. Good luck with your studies!
- 0Jan 30, '12 by Mintyfreshness23Thank you very much! I take the exam on Feb. 29th and because of a fulltime job and taking care of my children after work takes a toll on my study time. Therefore, I need all the study guidance as much as possible! Thank you again!
- 0Jan 31, '12 by RonnieDita, ADNCan anyone report more on how well the McGraw Hill study guide helps for the TEAS V? I have been studying it for a month now. I have been doing pretty good on the tests. Can anyone clarify if this study guide is an accurate help?
- 0Mar 24, '12 by _fireflyI took the TEAS 5 last weekend and I scored in the 99th percentile. I studied the ATI study book and took all of the McGraw-Hill Study Guide practice tests. I find that taking the practice tests are a really good way to zone in on your weaknesses.
The ATI book does a good job giving you the bare bones of what you need to know for each topic, but there were definitely a few science questions that are just not covered in the ATI study guide. But that is also something you'll see in the practice tests. I would bet that people tend to score about the same on the real test as they do on those practice tests. There is definitely value in getting familiar with the format of the questions and how long it takes you to finish each section.
- 0Apr 13, '12 by pradagirlHello everyone, I just took my TEAS V test today and missed the required score by 5 points (55), the test is very challenging and tricky. Bought the online practice test (total waste of money), it only helped me to know how hard the test will be. The questions on the back of the book are 5 times easier than the test itself. Not to scare anyone, calculators are not allowed and the science was more on Chemistry (calculation), water and temperature, cells, Nucleic Acids and scientific reasoning. I found the link below late last night, this helped a little. A lot of word problems in Math.
Teas v flashcard sets and study tools | Quizlet. Hopefully it will help you guys. Please let me know if you have any question, we have to assist one another in succeeding.
- 9Apr 14, '12 by twocrazycupcakesHi everyone!
I took the TEAS V yesterday. I only studied the ATI book for two days and it had all information for Math, Reading and English sections. There were numerous questions on my exam from the Science portion that were NOT in the ATI book at all. I was pretty ticked off at that. I used common sense and guessed on the ones I was not 100% sure of. Most of the questions that were not in the book were from earth science, human body, and DNA replication areas.
This was my first attempt with two days of studying which I would not recommend. Plan ahead!! I scored 90% adjusted individual score and 99% percentile national rank.
Individual Section scores were: Reading 93% Math 94% Science: 92% English: 77%
I have taken all required courses for the Nursing Program. I did not take the online practice exams due to a time factor. I wish I would have taken them because they are closer to the actual exam and format of the exam on the computer.
If I could do it over again, I would do this:
1) Study the ATI book cover to cover at least a month in advance.
2) Take the practice tests in the book and one of the tests on the ATI website.
3) Focus on my weak areas that the online test will provide a list of.
4) Take the final test on the ATI website to see if I still have any weak areas before the actual exam.
5) Refresh some highlighted points in your book and/or notes the day before the actual exam.
6) Eat some protein before the test. It is long. Take some deep breaths if you feel yourself getting anxious during the actual test. Re-focus and continue.
7) I brought earplugs with me to the testing center so I could concentrate better.
These are the areas of focus from SCIENCE that were not in the ATI book:
1) Know organs with exocrine and endocrine functions.
2) Know how the earth and moon relate to each other with regards to meteors and craters and the earth's atmosphere.
3) More specific information on the DNA replication process. It is very general in the ATI book.
4) Know about natural selection and the steps of adaptation process of organisms.
5) Know about why we take vitamins and what functions they have in the body.
6) Know about electrolyte balance in the body.
7) Know charateristics of plasma membrane.
8) Know how to match codons with correct amino acids using the codon chart.
9) Know about photosynthesis and why/how it is an oxidative/reductive reaction.
10) Know phases of state changes: Sublimination, Evaporation, Condensation, Vaporization
Some helpful tips:
1) Memorize Life Science: Domain-Species
Did King Phillip Cry Out For More Soup?
2) Memorize the Roman Numerals. Easy points!
3)The ENGLISH section has some tricky stuff in it. I did not study that section and I wish I would have spent a little more time on it.
--The subject-verb agreement is all over the test.
--Coordinating Conjunctions: What they are and how to spot them: FANBOYS
--Subordinating Conjuctions: What they are and how to spot them: Because, Although, As, As if, When, while
--Know how to spot synonyms and antonyms.
--Sentence Structure was tricky too. Read page 192 in ATI book and know it GOOD!!!
--Know capitalization chart. They put tricky ones on there.
--Know how to place quotation marks and also when you have a quote within a quote.
4) The READING section is straight from the ATI book.
--Just practice choosing main idea, themes, and topics.
--Know how to spot stereotypse vs. biases.
--Know difference between Persuasive, Informative, Expressive, etc... They trick you up sometimes.
--Know how to follow "Set of Directions" on Page 24. The several examples in the book and on the book practice tests are WAY easier than the actual questions on the real exam. You may want to practice this elsewhere not sure if there are any tools online. Example similar to the book (NOT FROM ACTUAL EXAM): You have a list of letters. Cross out the 2nd vowel, add a certain letter in a certain spot, move this letter to another position, what word do you have now, etc....
--The READING section is not hard but it is the TIME that gets you anxious. The best advice is to PRACTICE with a timer on this section. And do the ONLINE exams. It is worth the money. I wish I would have done them.
5) The MATH section is also right out of the both.
--The problems on the actual exam and exactly like the same type of problems on the practice exams.
--For sure, memorize the Roman numerals in the book on page 85. Very easy points to get on the exam!!!!!
--Get comfortable with fractions.
--Many calculations of buying things, pay checks, READ carefully....all very similar to the ATI book problems.
--Word problems with ratios seem to trip people up alot...like the book problems with the minutes on page 83. Be comfortable with those type of calculations.
--Know how to do metric conversions. An easier way is to move the decimal. Memorize KHD(U)DCM with U=units like meter, gram, liter and the letters are the prefixes like Kilo, Hecto, Deka, etc... Learn how to do conversions by just moving the decimal. Use the book problems similar to: Convert 5 km to cm.
--FOR SURE...know about charts and graphs...when and why you would use each one. Pages 94-99.
--Memorize Order of Operation PEMDAS and FOIL. Know that order goes from Left to Right.
Hopefully, these topics will help you prepare for your exam. I would HIGHLY recommend getting the ATI book and doing ALL the practice tests that ATI offers because you will see the same style questions on the REAL exam. Get comfortable with the types of problems and how to answer them.


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I hope you start this back up again.
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Was re-reading this and I'm hoping some day you decide to update it. While the manipulation of the flow of time would make it too much like wraithrune's in your eyes, and I can understand that, it might be best to at least st it that time flows faster in the sub-realities - even if it's at a fixed rate.
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the story is excellent I plan to read the rerwrite next keep up the awesome writing!
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First of all looks to be another fun story from this author. One part of it though is to me just ridiculous and it is not really the author's fault since Hollywood uses the idea all the time. The military or a corporation will seize a technology or keep it secret because it is too disruptive or dangerous. My challenge to the author or anyone else is to name one single real world example of that occurring. You can't. It has never occurred and there have been plenty of disruptive technologies and ideas that have destroyed entire industries.
So why does Hollywood keep using that device? It's cheap, it's easy and many people still seem to think the world is one big conspiracy. Of course I could have just said a lot of people are stupid.
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You really need to work on your fight scenes. Right now they read more as summaries than actual battles.
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Seems like a solid start.
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Will we see some Iron Man movie 'verse in this fic?
There was some pretty cool tech in those two movies.
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I commend you on nuking the time manipulation idea. Having that would instantly make Xander and his followers into gods, and detach them completely from the BTVS world. The only reason they would ever return would be to pick up new followers or to distribute extra rings of regeneration or starships they'd picked up. Anything much more than a 10-fold time factor distorts the BTVS world into insignificance. Up to about 10-fold, the BTVS steadily reduces in importance, removing all obstacles.
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Okay, I can see that Giles' advice is a lot more sensible than my knee-jerk reaction assumed. However,
> Then what would happen when the source of the miracle drugs is suddenly cut when you someday die, and the pharmaceutical industry has been brought to ruin by your potions. Suddenly, the world would find itself vulnerable to diseases, with nobody to provide medicine. It would only take a single epidemic to destroy civilization as we know it.
is a total fucking ball of crap. For several good reasons. 1) there are bound to be medical conditions which healing potions can't cure. 2) with a generally healthier population and without hospitals to spread infections, healing potions would probably *eradicate* many infectious diseases *forever* and those would never come back. 3) 100 years of progress in human biology, medicine and economics would change the game completely. Genetic tests and AI alone would change the medical industry completely. And that progress would continue since there would always be conditions that are too expensive to cure using healing potions (eg, you need one healing potion every day to survive), one of which is old age. And of course, the allure of pure knowledge.
Yes Xander would utterly destroy the pharmaceutical industry and most of the biomedical industry. This is a GOOD THING. It would free up vast armies of trained personnel and treasure for a century, to work on OTHER areas of research.
You may want to consider the
and the fact that healing potions are very, very cheap compared to traditional diagnostics, treatments and surgery. And cheap is good, expensive is evil.
Also, due to the way that public corporations work, once healing potions are released to the world on a global scale, cheaply, then the stocks of those corporations would plummet right through the floor and they would be immediately acquired in a hostile takeover. The new owners of those corporations wouldn't really care who had ruined them or why, they would be too busy dismantling them. And the old owners, though bearing a grudge, would probably not have the resources to pursue their grudge. And if they weren't totally ruined they would be too busy scrambling to recover.
So it's a game that with a little planning ahead of time, Xander could win decisively.
The same thing goes double for military takeovers of Xander since what nation would permit some other nation to subvert him? No, Xander's soldiers would immediately become private citizens or under a UN mandate.
Again, a little stockpiling and going for broke on a global basis would yield Xander the win.
And I want to note that *precisely* because of the massive inconvenience it would cause if Xander died, the entire world's medical industry would be focused on making him immortal. When you have a trillion dollar a year global industry depending on the continued survival of one man ....
Finally, in the long term Cordelia is far too greedy and vain to miss out on the opportunities afforded by healing potions. Especially if she starts making them herself.
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Yes it figures that Giles the anti-progressive arch-conservative asshole would try to slam industrialism down in the name of not making waves and catching any "bad" attention. After all, he refuses to give Buffy modern compound bows which are many times more powerful, accurate AND smaller than the shite crap she's forced to resort to on the show.
And that's not even mentioning modern parallel limb bows which were invented recently.
Because the truth is that there is NOTHING that hasn't been improved by modern engineering. Not bows, not arrows, not paper, and not even nails and screws.
But for the same reason that *of course* Giles is anti-progress and anti-industry, even in the face of massive human death and suffering, his opinion would be dismissed (rightly) as an old fuddy duddy by Willow. And Xander would have mentioned his idea to Willow BEFORE telling Giles.
In canon, Xander never takes his ideas to Giles first, unless he has no other options at which point he's just as likely to keep them to himself. So really you're stuck because round 2 is Willow coming in all excited at the idea of saving hundreds of thousands of lives, and dismissing Giles' opinions out of hand as anti-progress crap.
Your attempt at having an exclusive Giles + Xander anti-progress secret conspiracy: FAIL. Especially since EVEN IF Xander hadn't told Willow beforehand, he would immediately turn to her to commiserate after Giles turned him down. Or to "make it work". So really, that's 2.5 good reasons why your conspiracy idea is junk.
Oh and I will note here that Giles claiming that saving one person from dark magic is preferable to saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people is IMMORAL bullshit. And also completely out of character for Giles. After all, Giles had no problem murdering Dawn if it was to save the multiverse. Except of course that he set himself up to fail by warning Buffy he would kill her. He should have just kept quiet and done the job. But Giles has never been too concerned with saving lives as opposed to maintaining the status quo.
I find the notion of Xander being a leader ridiculous. You have to do a LOT of Alternate Character Interpretation to get that. Xander is a follower through and through and has always been portrayed so in canon, very consistently. In order to make him a leader, you have to rewrite his canon history as a facade and him being a covert manipulator. Like Dogbertcarroll does. I will also note that in canon Xander attempts to be a *preacher* and not a leader. He preaches about the evils of demons and vampires to Buffy and Willow. And well, they ignore him. So he's really a wannabe-preacher but natural follower. And so any fics where he spontaneously becomes super-powered and a leader for no reason whatsoever are just blatant out of character crap.
Giles is a monk. Buffy's a (horrible) leader. Willow's a monk / follower / wannabe leader. And Xander's a follower / wannabe preacher. Cordelia and Anya are both leaders and reluctant followers. Spike's a natural follower who only takes leadership of followers in the name of his leader Drusilla. Angel's another bad leader. Wesley is a leader by the end. Faith is a wannabe leader but really a follower - she's just more desperate than Xander at the wannabe part because being a follower's never worked for her. Tara's a born submissive. Kennedy's a probably decent leader. Dawn is a leader. Joyce is a follower I think.
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good addition mate, and good point from Giles to Xander.
maybe the books are not opening for Cordy because she has not yet decided which class to be in, it will be interesting tho which one she will choose.
looking forward to your next chapter mate and keep up the good work.
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I would rethink the 'no time manipulation' at all change to the story and perhaps settle for Xander can only slow down time on realities that he has claimed. The gang spending real time to attack and subdue a dimension is fine, but if they have to spend every waking hour dealing with the after affects they might only hit a new dungeon once or twice every 6 months if not longer. Plus it could easily divide their forces in dangeorus ways, if they are gone for 'real time' and never sure how long they might be gone. Everyone leaving Sunnydale to go into the new dimension and leaving the Hellmouth totaly empty for that period of time is a bit risky, but so is leaving less than a full team behind or going into a new dimension with less than a full team.
I would personaly suggest keeping the time controlled 'home base' dimension, but leave newly explored ones out of Xanders control. I am also a bit confused, did a recent rewrite remove that home base dimension they had before? Cause I was pretty sure the issue of where to store things had already been resolved in a previous chapter. In the very least they had gotten a lot of money Giles was supposed to be trying to launder and could rent a house or something.
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I suppose the author's notes are a bit confusing... although they only reflect the fact I've uploaded the fourth version of the chapter, the earlier ideas not coming right in the end.
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I like this story but I am a bit disapointed just like others of it's kind everyone and their uncle gets in on the action almost imediately. It would of been nice to see Xander do something for himself for once, not be pushed around by Cordelia, Buffy, Giles etc. Really limits Xanders ability to be an actual leader when he is still stuck in 'do what ever some one says' mode. Buffy is at her worst at this point in canon, she rushes off blindly into fights and does not respect anything Xander would say about how to be careful or avoid a fight.
I was very suprised that Angel didn't get invited into the group but I have my doubts at how long that will last. At least so far 'extra's like Waren, Tara, Amy, etc have not been forced into the group just yet. My suggest is keep the 'party' small, most fics of this type get bogged down with all the characters they add to the group and manage to do very little with any of them. Especialy when te author starts to visist other realities, it's hard to really interact with new characters if Xander already has a dozen or more people trailing behind him from the Buffy-verse itself.
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*snorts* "Everyone and their uncle" ? Nice figure of speech, just might use it :)
However, I should point out that in the canon, Cordy is a member of the group.
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I can hear…sort ofPosted: November 13, 2012 Filed under: Noise Leave a comment
My ear infection is a thing of the past. Or, I hope to never have to experience anything like it again.
I was deaf, for crying out loud. I'm used to being hard of hearing, but deaf? That was…foreign to me.
Even though most of the people in my life thought I should just get used to it, I couldn't just get used to not hearing anything, or practically nothing. I still heard the 5yo"s screeching, and the 7yo"s homework complaining, but the phone, or tv, or my husbands voice, they didn't come through very clearly.
I was deaf. And I didn't like it.
Today, I can hear like I did before the infection. And on a day like I was having today, which was full of challenges beyond my control (you know, kids, mostly), I was missing my deafness. I was yearning, as George Costanza was heard saying on Seinfeld, for silence. Utter and complete silence was what I wanted, and didn't get.
But it's a double-edged sword. I don't really want to be deaf. I just want to be able to turn off the annoying noises that make me irritable whenever I feel like it. I know I'm not alone; most parents, especially moms who stay at home, have this yearning from time to time.
But I am glad to be back to a somewhat normal existence. I still don't answer the phone, but I do occasionally make a call if I feel like I will have a quiet environment and the person on the other end has a voice in a frequency I have less trouble hearing than someone else.
I wondered what to do with this blog. I thought I should keep it. For now. Because I am still a hearing-impaired person, with a digital hearing aid in my left ear and no hearing in my right ear.
So I came back.
Be careful what you tell your preschoolerPosted: November 1, 2012 Filed under: Illness and Infection | Tags: ear infection, preschoolers, sinus infection Leave a comment
I am sick to death of being sick.
Does Swimmer's Ear cause sinus infections? I'm pretty sure it's all related. Just after I got my ear vacuumed and I thought 'finally all is back to normal' I started wheezing and sneezing like it's going out of style.
They told me to keep the hearing aid out of my ear until the infection is completely gone. Since I can hear about as much as I did before the infection, and my ear finally feels dry and mostly normal again, I have been cheating a bit here and there, wearing the aid for a couple of hours only when I felt it was absolutely necessary:
- At my 5yo's birthday party (Why there? I do not know. 14 kids between the ages of 4 and 7 make way too much noise for my liking.)
- At Halloween. My dad is in the market of considering buying a smart phone and wanted to 'practice' on my Blackberry, so in order to tutor him, I wore the aid for a bit. There were a few questions in between trick or treaters yelling at my door.
- At school drop off two days after I spent a day at the spa. Why not the first day after the spa? BECAUSE I did not know my 5yo advertised the fact that I spent the entire day at the spa to everyone at school. I was approached my more parents and kids than usual asking me about my pampering…
Note to self: be careful what you speak in front of Sonja.
Other note to self: ban her from owning or borrowing any internet-technology device until she's 18 or you'll end up finding yourself or your life all over Twitter, facebook and YouTube.
Hey, wait a minute…I already do that to myself.
Drive-throughsPosted: October 29, 2012 Filed under: Public, Technology | Tags: drive-throughs, Public Leave a comment
The drive-through is a prominent, metropolitan feature of the North American city. I would say here in Canada there are probably not quite as many drive-throughs as there are in America, but in my city, there are plenty. Coffee is a big one (Tim Horton's) but the standard fast-food chains abound as well, especially out in the suburbs.
I don't live in the suburbs. I live in the city and I can walk to Mom-and-Pop shops, delis, and little bakeries or butchers without needing a car. BUT, I do drive and have access to a car, and the drive-through is sometimes a part of our lives.
Or it was.
I have mixed feelings about the drive-through. As a hearing impaired person, it's always hard to hear anything that I can't see, especially words (unlike music, for example). I don't use the drive-through much, but sometimes I really want a coffee and I really don't want to battle parking and walk and stand in line and and and….
Coffee drive-throughs are probably the easiest to handle for me. Especially when I'm without kids. Kids always want donuts and then they have specific requests and then they change their mind and I have to engage in a conversation with the machinery outside the car window…I hate that. Much like the phone situation….I don't want to talk to the machine, I just want to order my coffee, watch the screen that tells me what I ordered and how much to pay at the next window, and move on.
When I lost my little bit of hearing with my ear infection recently, I couldn't even entertain the idea of a drive-through.
It wasn't something I thought I would miss, since I rarely visit a drive-through anyway (I can count on one hand how many times we've used one in the past year)….but there was hockey practice and it was early and the Tim's was right next door to the rink and I really wanted a decent cup of coffee…
Little inconveniences like that, the wish for something instant and not being able to get it, that was an adjustment. The expectation to have all conveniences within reach all the time that comes with city living…and then not being able to use them whenever I feel the pressing need…it was a little bit disconcerting.
How is that for being spoiled? I feel spoiled just typing this out…
My hearing is somewhat restored. I have yet to visit the drive-through.
At least now I feel like I have the choice. And that is big for me. It's also a psychological boost: I feel like them. I feel like I belong to the regular crowd who can, whenever they feel like it, go through the drive-through.
Denial, hearing loss, and self-advocacyPosted: October 28, 2012 Filed under: Hearing Aids | Tags: deaf, disability, discomfort of hearing aids, hearing aids, hearing loss, hearing loss in seniors, maladjusted hearing aids, self-advocacy Leave a comment
Few people wear clothing that don't fit them right, or feel uncomfortable. Many people don't leave the house if their hair isn't 'just so'. I don't know anyone (other than growing 7 year old boys) who wear shoes that feel too small or tight or are otherwise ill-fitting.
But hearing aids? I have heard, and experienced myself, the lack of will to go get them adjusted or changed if they don't work properly or don't fit right.
My grandmother in Switzerland was in her 90s when she died. The few times I saw her after her70th birthday she often complained that her hearing aids didn't fit well, or didn't sound right, or didn't something or other. She didn't wear them often.
Her hearing deteriorated a lot over the next years, as my mom can attest to, since she saw here pretty much yearly in the last 10 years or so.
But it didn't occur to my grandmother (I think) that it could just be that the aids were maladjusted. I don't think she cared too much either, she did isolate herself quite a bit toward her last few years, and only went out occasionally for essential shopping. And like me, she did like to leave the aids out when at home. Turns out, her hearing aids were at least 10 years old and she couldn't remember the last time she bought new batteries.
She just didn't want to wear them. So she didn't keep up with the care for them. They were out of date and the batteries were likely dead. And she didn't care. Or so it seemed to me at the time, and frankly, I could understand. Sometimes it's easier to not do something and be without and stay home and not worry about it. And she deserved that, after all the years of caring for everyone else all the time. So what if her tv was loud. So what if she didn't feel like conversing. So what.
I rarely wear my aids at home. I don't really want to hear the amplified sounds the children make anyway….I got me some noisy children here…. :)
Take the two-day argument over some Pokemon cards he found on the lunchroom floor and gave to his sister. Now he wants them back. I really, REALLY don't care about this and frankly, I should wear the aid without the battery just to tune out the excessive noise about that whole thing. Sheesh.
Anyway. It occurred to me over the years that I too had all to readily accepted when something didn't work right with my ears. Perhaps this was because once or twice I got poor service from either a medical professional who wasn't up to the task of having the right bedside manner, so to speak, regarding a hearing impaired person, or perhaps it's my culture (Swiss, which is middle European) that easily and readily accepts blame for something. I remember once as a kid I was playing on a teeter-tooter with my sister and I managed to get my ankle caught. I was 5 or 6 and cried, limping, to my grandmother's house, complaining of swelling and pain. She took good care of me to handle the injury but at the same time she said 'you should pay better attention next time'.
I always remembered that.
So then as a self-absorbed, very isolated, hard of hearing teenager living in a new country learning a new language with hearing loss, at age 14+, well….I just blamed myself all this time that I couldn't hear. Or that the aids hurt. Or that the aids squeaked. Or that the aids didn't make me feel better….
It took many years to learn that I was the only advocate for my hearing loss. (Well, my mom was my biggest advocate but at some point I became an adult and had to take charge myself). Many years later, when I was offered to try out something different to help solve my complaint about a situation, I went ahead and did it. Why not? Some people in this industry of hearing impairment truly do care and truly do want to help. I tried a type of aid and when I didn't like it, returned it and tried something new.
I'm still not happy that my right ear doesn't hear anything anymore. I'm not happy that an aid can't help it. But I'm ok, since I still have hearing in the other ear and the aid works well to help me function at an almost normal level.
But I'm once again reminded of how important it is to be a self-advocate with my recent situation of Swimmer's Ear. And it also gave me a taste of what could be if I did in fact lose all of my hearing.
Relief from a vacuum cleanerPosted: October 26, 2012 Filed under: ENT, Illness and Infection | Tags: ear infection, ENT, itchy ear, Q-tips, Swimmer's Ear symptoms, vacuum instrument for ear, wet ear 2 Comments
My infected ear has been relieved by a vacuum cleaner.
Not a standard vacuum cleaner, mind you, but one designed especially to vacuum out crap inside your ear. And not the ones that you find in Google Images, which you can purchase and use on yourself (which I do not endorse, I'm just saying I saw some images).
I'm talking about the equipment the hospitals use on people who have ear infections. Read the rest of this entry »
My phone tried to kill mePosted: October 23, 2012 Filed under: Noise, Phone Leave a comment
I'm sitting at the computer, plunged into silence with the family out of the house, minding my own business. Concentrating. Actually enjoying the silence, for a change.
Then I heard a male voice talking. Scared the living daylights out of me. Is there someone in the house?
I turned around. No one here. I walked to the door….it's open but unlocked. I lock it. I walk to the side door, and back door, and lock both as well. I had left everything open because it was so sunny and warm….
Then I closed all the windows too.
I want a dog. A dog to alert me to noises I can no longer hear.
As I walk back to my computer in the living-room, assured there was no intruder in the house, I see the blinking light by the phone.
Aahh…someone must have spoken on the voice-mail. That is the voice I heard.
This is going to take some getting used to.
Selective hearingPosted: October 22, 2012 Filed under: Family | Tags: Family, hearing loss, kids, selective hearing Leave a comment
There are two females in this house with hearing problems.
Me and my 5 year old little girl.
I have a medical, real hearing problem. One that was diagnosed by a slew of medical professionals. It's called progressive hearing loss, among other terms.
My little chickie also has a hearing problem. One that was diagnosed by me. It's called selective hearing.
Now which of the two is more annoying to me?
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Oh, and by the way – I don't much enjoy it. But I am seeing results so I'm gonna keep going.
Great post! I love all of the articles and commentary you have on the misconceptions regarding stretching and flexibility. However, I think it's pretty important to note that a happy medium must be met between flexibility and function. In other words, while I feel you are right in that flexibility and stretchiness are a little too prized in the athletic world, its not wholly bad. Its only really pernicious in excess.
The quality, ideally, would match the quantity of movement in an athlete. For they would be able to do more, and accomplish it more efficiently.
At any rate, the idea that being flexible makes you impervious to tears and pulled muscles is both absurd and widespread. Once again, great post!
Since becoming "old" [25] and needing to warm up more (maybe it's just that I now sit at a desk), I've noticed movement quality is very "specific." Popular hip mobility drills (leg swings, fire hydrants, etc) do a poor job to prepare me for sprints or squats. Tension/force in end ranges actually does a generally good job, but it's hard to do so before a sprint (I don't bring a barbell and plates with me). Lunge variations are okay, but the speed has to be high, since the intensity is low [body weight].
I have a weightlifting training hall video where Ivan Chakarov [1993 world champion] says that he does no "formal stretching." He just gets warm with movements with the bar and progresses in weight…
…If I squat a single rep cold squat with a moderate weight, I'll struggle to reach depth because of tight hips/adductors. Now if I step away and do butterfly stretches, I'll find that my squat quality gets no better, despite a seeming adductor lengthening during the stretch.
Somewhat ironically, one of my best squat workouts was after some high intensity hitting on the tennis court.
Great post! I can't believe how often I hear the assumption that the increased flexibility will prevent injury. We have some athletes that are too flexible for their own good, leaving their shoulders especially vulnerable to injury. As with just about everything in life, you need to find that happy medium.


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