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UO student set to compete at Sochi Winter Olympics
The fastest athlete at the University of Oregon has never pulled away over the final meters to win at Hayward Field, and has never outsprinted a defender into the Autzen Stadium end zone.
Arthur Delaney's 100-meter speed? A mere 22 miles per hour. DeAnthony Thomas' 40-yard speed? A pedestrian 19 miles per hour.
Neither of them comes close to School of Architecture and Allied Arts junior Laurenne Ross.
With her Völkl skis clipped to her boots, Ross flies down the face of a mountain at 75 miles per hour, a blistering pace that this month has taken her all the way from the UO's campus in Eugene to the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, to avid skiers Janey Purvis and Robert Ross, Laurenne Ross started skiing at 18 months old, and was just 6 years old when she first tackled a black diamond-rated ski trail, reserved for advanced skiers only. When Laurenne was 7, her father – himself a former competitive alpine skier – was named Director of Cascades East Family Medicine Residency in Klamath Falls, so the Ross family left Canada for Oregon and Laurenne swapped the ski fields in the Rockies for those in the Cascades.
Ross went from strength to strength as a skier while living in Oregon, and from the start of the 2010 season, which got underway when she was just 21 years old, until the end of the 2013 season, she won the NorAm overall title, won the Super-G title at the U.S. National Championships in Squaw Valley, California, and finished second in the Downhill at the FIS World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Ten months removed from her Squaw Valley win, while competing in Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy – where a 17th-place finish in the Downhill represented her best World Cup finish of the current season – Ross got the news every skier dreams of.
"We had a meeting after the races in Cortina, and they told us there that we had made the Olympic team," said Ross. "I was a little bit relieved and really excited obviously. This is my first Olympics, and my season thus far hasn't been as spectacular as I hoped it would be.
"I feel really lucky, I feel really fortunate, and I know people believe in me because I haven't had that amazing season that I've had in the past. It's definitely starting to get better, and I feel really lucky and I'm psyched to be part of the team."
Ross is one of 124 first-time Olympians on Team USA's 230-member team, and is one of 20 alpine skiers, joining the likes of three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso, five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller, four-time World Cup gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin and two-time U.S. Super-G champion Stacey Cook.
But this Duck, who now lives in Bend and calls the slopes of Mount Bachelor home, excels at more than just skiing, and one of her many other talents has made her just as popular off the snow as she is on it. The artistically-minded Ross grew up playing the piano and violin, and after adding the guitar to her repertoire five years ago, now leads the USA team's jam sessions that have become so well known that the International Ski Federation produced a video about them last spring.
"[The jam sessions] are pretty regular," said Ross. "My teammate Stacey always wanted to learn the guitar, so when I started playing she expressed some interest. I think it was two years ago she bought herself a travel guitar and I've been teaching her ever since. We've been playing a lot, and Julia Mancuso plays the ukulele, and that's a nice addition. It's a fun way to get everybody together to sing songs. It's a stress relief thing, and a fun way for us to hang out without thinking about ski racing or the competitive environment we're always in."
However, being a professional athlete and recreational rock star can cause some problems when you're also a college student. This season alone, Ross has competed in the USA, Canada, Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy – all before arriving in Russia on Feb. 4 for the Sochi Olympics. That means Ross has to be selective about when she schedules her classes, balancing her time in Eugene with her commitments at ski runs around the world.
"It's definitely tough, but that's why I go [to the UO] in the springs," said Ross. "I don't have time to go in the falls or winters, or even really the summers. I don't really have the option of going to school during those times, but spring time is our downtime because our season ends at the end of March, so it's the time where I have the most freedom. I just make it work. I really love it, so I try and go as much as I can."
Ross originally attended Westminster College in Utah, but found the university didn't offer the classes she was looking for. She then returned home and enrolled in the art program at the University of Oregon, where older sister Allana earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009 and younger sister Hilary is currently working towards her physics degree.
"I have always been drawn to art, and Oregon's art program is great," said Ross. "If I ever want to switch my major to music, fortunately that is another good department at the university. I've been thinking recently about architecture, another strong program at the UO, so all of my preferences are promising and positive here.
"It's so close to home it just makes it a lot easier. For me it's a two-and-a-half-hour drive from my house, so if I want to go home on the weekends while I'm going to school I can do that. I usually have a lot of stuff going on in the spring like camps at Mount Bachelor, but being in Eugene is really convenient. And I really love the U of O."


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The Valentine's-themed update sees the hatted hostess Moxxi bring back the Innuendo Bot 5000 to try and make two rival clans go all lovey-dovey for each other. If only love was that simple, and not hilariously violent as it'll likely prove in the DLC.
According to 2K Games Community Manager Joveth Gonzales, Borderlands 2 is so overflowing with DLC that it's getting to a point where "technical limitations" may make it impossible to add any more – and, you know, maybe 2K and Gearbox could move on after that. That won't happen until April at least, as the fifth and final Headhunter DLC is due then – we're not taking bets on an Easter theme.
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Slow Burn LyricsArtist: JandekAlbum: The Door Behind Are you involved with another person Do you live alone I want to think about you No one comes to my house I take care of all the things I need to kill those squirrels running around in the top of my head You shouldn't have come here It's the place where I live You eat electricity You burn down the house So I forgot to kill you Go away and fall down dead And when you're all gone I'll live in peace in a house that's not burned down You can be my princess Everything's clear and clean and I like the temperature I turned it down to slow burn
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Double Beijing Paralympic gold medallist Jody Cundy is launching an ambitious bid to be part of England's 2014 Commonwealth Games team in Glasgow.
The Norfolk cyclist is bidding to follow the precedent set by Sarah Storey, who became the first Para-cyclist to represent England at the Games when she competed in Delhi in 2010. And while the 33-year-old Cundy admits it is a tough target, he hopes the success of his quest could help to "redefine" the nature of his sport on the back of the incredible success of 2012.
Cundy said: "I have raced in able-bodied competitions before and reaching the Commonwealth Games would be such a massive step forward for me that it gives me all the motivation I need. I probably have to improve by two and a half seconds over a kilometre to make the squad. It's a big challenge because there will be a far stronger level of competition than there was for Delhi. It might be unattainable but if I don't try I'll never know. I always try to push the boundaries and if I get beaten by a bunch of able-bodied guys it will make me even more hungry to improve in the future.
"I want to completely redefine Para-cycling. I want to achieve things that only a handful of other people can do. If I could make the Commonwealth Games squad, it would be a huge achievement and show people what is possible."
Cundy, who is part of the Sky Sports Scholarships programme which funded Paralympic athletes in the run-up for London, win bronze in the 4km pursuit but knows he will be best remembered for the foul-mouthed rant after his disqualification from the C4/5 time-trial.
He is not proud of what he calls his "John McEnroe moment" – but accepts that it served to further change perceptions of Paralympic sport.
"Much as it wasn't my proudest moment, it has definitely helped change the image of the Paralympics and made people aware that we take our sports and our success just as seriously," he added.
"I am probably always going to be remembered for that, rather than as the guy who has won five Paralympic gold medals and three bronze medals. But things are already starting to change. The other day I saw myself on a big 30-foot poster on my training route, and I had to stop and take a picture.
"These are landmark moments for Paralympic sport. What we need now is to ensure a lasting legacy."
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GOP Decides to Let Rick Scott Speak at RNC
The RNC released the schedule for the first day of the RNC, and lo and behold Scott actually made the cut. He'll be speaking sometime after 7:45 p.m., directly after House Speaker John Boehner and right before GOP chairman Reince Priebus. Though, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will have far more prominent speaking spots later in the night.
"What I'm going to talk about is pretty much what I do every day and what I ran on," Scott told reporters this morning. "It's how do we get our state back to work."
Which is odd, considering the Romney campaign has been trying to portray Florida's economy as still struggling under Obama, while Scott meanwhile is trying to take credit for any recovery.
The national GOP hasn't embraced Scott all that much. He didn't offer an endorsement during the presidential primary, and given his unpopularity, that just seemed fine with the candidates.
Several other Floridians will get more important speaking spots during the campaign. Marco Rubio will have the honor of introducing Mitt Romney on Thursday night. Former Governor Jeb Bush and Senate candidate Connie Mack IV will also address the convention.
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Kim K can finally breath a sigh of relief! Hours after the judge finalized her divorce from Kris Humphries on April 19, the reality star decided to celebrate with a relaxing trip to the salon in Studio City, Calif. Do you love her quick & comfy, on-the-go outfit? Vote below!
Just hours after the judge signed off on her divorce from basketball star Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian ditched her glam mode and put on something a little more comfy and sweet as she treated herself to a mani-pedi at a salon in Studio City, California. Do you like this simple and chic maternity look on Kim?
Kim Kardashian's Comfy and Chic Post-Divorce Outfit
Kim showed up with a bang at her divorce court settlement hearing on April 19. The starlet was definitely dressed for the joyous occasion. Kim's sexy and sophisticated pleated, black dress and pointy black heels looked beyond fabulous. She definitely could have headed straight to a red carpet fresh out of court with an outfit as stylish as this one.
But Kim chose to tone it down later that day when she went to the salon to celebrate and treat herself as a free woman. She sported (pun intended) an extremely comfy pair of black leggings and some flip-flops. She showed off her growing baby bump in her tight-fitting black tee while throwing a white shirt on as a stylish cover-up.
Although this many not be Kim's best maternity outfit look , it sure is the comfiest! Tell us Hollywoodlifers, do you love or loathe Kim's post-divorce celebration outfit? Make sure you vote below.
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why in the world is there an entire article dedicated to deciding if she looks good in some yoga pants and a tank top?! WHO CARES. she was going to get her nails done and she just wants o be comfy. NO one deserves to be subjected to this type of ruthless unnecessary criticism. Judge her all you want on her actions but not how she looks.
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you are a public toilet, I know you, so please just shush. Kim is killing it and you haters are so in trouble? you have got nothing to back home to, she has her Beauty, Kanye and her wonderful family, some of your families do not even care about each other, and the Kardashians are together. I envy them. you can critisise all you like, but, you will never match their standard, no matter how they have earned their wealth, it their strategy and it worked for them. good thing is; they did not kill anybody.
Kim, you always look good in what ever you put on. size does not matter.
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Being a WordPress blogger it is obvious that you are much concerned about the blog security. We all like to keep our blogs secure against the hackers. WordPress users are lucky enough that there are several security plugins and other template tweaks to safeguard the blog from hacking attempts. One of them is changing the default wordpress username 'admin'. If you haven't done this yet, I strongly recommend to do it by referring here.
You should know that by default wordPress allows unlimited login attempts through the login page. It may encourage the potential hackers to give a try! It can be prevented by using Limit Login Attempts plugin. It helps the admin to limit the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies. Brute force is one of the oldest form of hacking, where a hacker run a script and attempt to login to your account by trying different combination from dictionary Words. Depending upon complexity of your password, it may take 1 hour to few days to get access to your account. This is one reason, why I keep asking you to stop using "admin" username, and change it to something else. Also, always use a complex password.
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I have a used 07 PreRunner double cab SR5 TRD Off Road package. Is there a way to find out exactly was this truck had installed from the factory with this package? I have a towing receiver, but don't know if this indicates a "towing Pack" with extras. Ex: larger radiator, trans cooler, etc.
I know there are different versions of each package.
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Automated storm water sampling
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District 8 requested water monitoring for the TH 23 reconstruction project. Information was needed on the in-place point source discharge of the City of Spicer storm sewer. A site was installed at the end of Manitoba Street near Green Lake on August 16, 1999. Rain, level and flow data were monitored remotely for one year. Automatic samples were taken during rain and snowmelt events. The equipment was then moved in October 2000 to Lake Avenue off Salisbury Beach, which is not far from the original site. Rain, level and flow data are downloaded remotely to watch for sample events. Automatic samples from rain or snowmelt events are taken periodically for testing. Monitoring will end June 30th, 2011.
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Reconstruction of Trunk Highway 36 in North St. Paul included lowering of the grade of TH 36 under Margaret Street. As a result, some of the grade is below the water table. The required DNR water appropriation permit calls for a drainage blanket and flow monitoring. Metro Water Resources requested that OES design and maintain the flow monitoring indefinitely.
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The 94 & Lowry Ave site, installed in 2009, monitors an area that contains just freeway drainage off I-94 in Minneapolis. The goal is to confirm and gain better data on chloride and phosphorus levels in Mn/DOT only storm water. Automated samples are taken during rain and snowmelt events throughout the year.
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Pretty Lights Turns on Your Glowstick at Fillmore Miami Beach on October 2
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This Friday morning will be greeted by the mashed up sounds of your mouse clicking and you going, "Come on, come on, COME ON!"
Why is this news? Because this time, it will be sample-smashing hoodie monster Pretty Lights causing the commotion, as you frantically try to get a ticket to his show at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 2.
And it's all ages, so steal a baby, dip it in Day-Glo paint, and go shake your ass on South Beach.
Pretty Lights is for sexy people. But if you aren't sexy going into the show, you sure as heck will be on the way out. When he starts bashing his laptops together, your shameful stutter becomes "glitchy" and your bad gas is just gastrointestinal bass drops. If all else fails, his bonkers light show will blind your prospective lovers just long enough to dance with you.
And because the show is fairly early, there's enough time to invite that sexy stranger for some dancing, a bit of skinny dipping in the warm end-of-hurricane-season waters, and maybe even making the ultimate mash-up ... A human baby!!!
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Miniature computers. The C Book. This is the online version of The C Book, second edition by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley in 1991. This version is made freely available. While this book is no longer in print, its content is still very relevant today. The C language is still popular, particularly for open source software and embedded programming. We hope this book will be useful, or at least interesting, to people who use C. If you have any comments about this book, or if you find any bugs in its presentation, please send a message to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Why Your Desktop PC Draws Power Even When You Shut Down or Hibernate. Many people say they use Hibernate instead of Sleep mode because Hibernate draws no power.
Unfortunately, when it comes to desktop PCs, they're wrong. Desktop PCs still use some power even while they're shut down. Laptops generally don't use any power while shut down or hibernating, as that would cause unnecessary battery drain.
Cryptography. Fake IT Support scam. There are lots of ways you can be conned on the internet, there is a new way, by fake IT support ringing you up caiming to be microsoft or other computer company and claiming something is wrong with your computer, when there is nothing wrong with your computer it is working as it should, watch the video below to find out how this scam works.
Do not be taken in by this spam no computer company whether it be your ISP or Microsoft know what is going on, on your computer unless you tell them. This is real and is happening these people keep phoning me up and as a computer expert I tell them to get lost and hang up and that is what you should say and do to them. The people that phone me have a Indian voice and start by say there is something wrong with your windows computer, i don't get conned by it because i know computers, you can stop been conned to by knowing your computer, do some research and get educated, this scam only works because people don't know how a computer works.
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The DAESSY Mini Adjustable Mount, model M75-AM, is a stand for a tablet computer and a computer mounting kit for wheelchair designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, or mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. The system has several points of adjustment to set up and position the mount. Two rotating joints can be angled and twisted in various directions to adjust the horizontal tube position. The system is supported on the wheelchair by a frame clamp assembly attached to either side of the wheelchair's frame. The frame clamp assembly includes an inner piece and a removable receiver. The inner piece is bolted or clamped to the wheelchair frame while the receiver holds a vertical tube. The mounted device is attached either directly or with a specific adapter to a quick release plate, and attached to the horizontal tube of the mount assembly by a quick release base that secures the device and allows for quick detaching of the device from the mount. The complete mount can be lifted out of the receiver and removed from the wheelchair leaving only the frame clamp assembly attached to the wheelchair frame, and swung away when the adjustable height clamp lock handle is loosened. DIMENSIONS: The system has a height adjustment of nine inches and a height setup between 18 to 31 inches from the frame clamp to horizontal tube position. CAPACITY: 10 pounds.
Price: 980.00 to 965.00.
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Birds Sensed Severe Storms and Fled Before Tornado Outbreak
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NASA's Fermi Mission Brings Deeper Focus to Thunderstorm Gamma Rays
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The "Destiny Fulfilled ... And I'm Lovin It" tour was a show for all five senses Sunday night at FedExForum.
The women of Destiny's Child let the audience feel the heat the minute they popped through a trap door on the stage dressed in neon purple, gold and orange sequined dresses and pants.
The trio let the audience hear their medley of hits and - standing against a backdrop of neon lights that was enough to light up downtown Memphis - they weren't any trouble to see.
What a way to end a career. The mega-popular R&B girl group has decided to call it quits after a 75-city tour scheduled to end Sept. 10 in Vancouver.
Memphis was the second stop on this last tour and it was worth the ticket price that ranged from $47 to $77.
In glittery gowns, the three women who have grown up before our eyes hit the stage with "Say My Name," and the audience obeyed, screaming "Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle" as the trio worked their way through their first No. 1 hit, dating back to 1997.
From there the group sent out a call for all "Independent Women" to throw their hands in the air, and with cell phones blinking in the blackness, the women in the audience once again did what they were told.
Destiny's Child was in control and the cheering crowd let them know they were appreciated.
Taylor Ross, 10, of Memphis said she was happy to be at the show as a pre-birthday gift from her mom, Cynthia Ross.
"I am sad they are breaking up the group, but glad because I get to see them before they split up," Taylor said. "I love Beyonce and Kelly the best. They are so exotic and I know all their songs and dance moves."
After tearing through their hits from "Bootylicious" to "Survivor," each of the three got to showcase how they have collectively sold 50 million albums worldwide since forming in 1990.
Michelle Williams, 24, the first of the group to release a solo album, received much love from the audience, taking the crowd to church as she sang a solo gospel song from her 2002 album "Heart to Yours."
Kelly Rowland was next up, and she asked the audience to help her sing her Grammy-winning duet "Dilemma" since rapper Nelly was not on hand to help.
Then came "B" as in Beyonce, who performed her show-stopping hits "Baby Boy" and "Dangerously In Love."
Beyonce can dance, and she showed her stuff doing her now-famous "Beyonce Bounce" as she left stage.
Unlike hip-hop shows that just have a black curtain behind the artists, each time the women of Destiny's Child appeared onstage the set changed colors. Moving staircases appeared out of nowhere, and with their initials "D.C." in 6-foot-high letters above their heads, the trio went out on top in Memphis.
"Memphis, we are so glad to be here and we love y'all," yelled Beyonce as the crowd screamed for more.
The Destiny's Child set was preceded by one-name wonders Amerie and Mario, who went onstage shortly after 7 p.m.
R&B diva in the making Amerie and heartthrob Mario rocked the house in separate 40-minute sets.
Amerie was first up and had the unenviable task of warming up the crowd before the Destiny's Child lovefest started.
The 22-year-old was good, but she could learn a few tricks from Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle. But the crowd was nice to her and screamed when she sang her Billboard hit "1 Thing."
Performing since he was 4 year old, 19-year-old Mario had the women in his palm of his hand when he jetted on stage in black sunglasses and baggy jeans.
As he gyrated and worked the crowd, he slowed things down for a minute and threw in a tribute to R&B love song king Luther Vandross, who died this month.
From there Mario ended with his hot hit, the heartbreak plea "Let Me Love You."
Like a true gentleman, he ended his set by thanking his fans and Destiny's Child. And he should have, because it's not often you get to take part in one of the hottest tours of the year.


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!! OMG, LARYNX SANDWICH: the new Valley Girl "fry" !!
I just read this great piece in DAZED by NZ writer Brent Randall, about how Britney has an industry induced throat disorder which means her larynx is totes collapsing; in fact soon she'll be asking them smurfs to climb inside and pull her concertinaing glottal folds apart...FLAPPER SMURF !
Read Randall's piece after the jump.
"According to psycholinguistic researchers, Valley Girls are responsible for a growing linguistic trend that some experts are suggesting will be the downfall of the English lexicon.Vocal fry or Glottal scrape is a relatively new trend among predominantly young, white American girls. Britney, Ke$ha and the Kardashians all employ these borderline guttural croaks. Once a clinically diagnosed speech disorder, the style has now been recognised by speech therapists as the new Valley Girl "fry".
The typically American Valley Girl 'uptalk' towards the end of a sentence turned declarative statements into questions. Vocal fry is more gritty than its predecessor. Where Valley Girls used a cutesy, lilting pitch based in their higher registers, vocal frying constricts the larynx cartilage causing the vocal folds to sandwich against each other. Dropping the vocal register from a squeaky Paris Hilton baby-voice, down to a low rattling hyper-sexual glottalization, often octaves lower. Mmm, sexy, mashed vocal chords - so hot. The trend suggests a change not only within the lexicon but more importantly, a shift in our cultural psychology and the way we interact with each other.
Valley Girl speak was generally perceived as overly feminine, soft and almost submissive, whereas vocal fryers could be seen as more masculine, gruff and derisive. Women's voices are, on average, an octave higher than a man's. In order to properly fry the vocals, a woman has to physically change the muscles in her throat, dropping her voice into those gravelly registers to vibrate the larynx at a lower frequency. It begs the question; why?
It's Britney, bitch. Well, her and the plethora of poptards infiltrating and actually changing the linguistic markers of the American English landscape. Like, duh. Instead of slamming these new evolutionary markers as blights on our linguistic landscape, we should be celebrating the trailblazers of modern phonetic pioneering. Without them, we'd probably still be speaking like Shakespearean beef-witted blind-worms, and ain't nobody got time for that.
The fifties gave us jive talk. The seventies gave us Valleyspeak, and the nineties gave us dope slang. So where are we now? Linguistic trends and sociolects are generally formed from environmental influences. Social groups, television, music and general subcultural shifts are all responsible for these new paralanguages. It's a global meta-communication that we all feed and contribute to without really noticing it."
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Nunukan is also the name of the largest town on Nunukan island. There are not many tourist attractions here, most travelers just pass Nunukan on their way from or to Malaysia, as Nunukan has a immigration office and there is a small airport here.
Nunukan island is located in the north eastern corner of Indonesian Borneo, only some meters away from the Indonesian border to Malaysia, and there are regular ferry connections to the Malaysian city of Tawau in Sabah province.
Traveling to Nunukan
Nunukan has an airport with connections to some Indonesian cities and there is a harbor with regular passenger boat connections to many islands around Indonesia.
Pelni ships stop in Nunukan, connecting the island with Sulawesi and go as far as Surabaya on Java island. However, such a trip takes several days. For example, a trip on the Pelni ship "Umsini" from Parepare on southern Sulawesi island to Nunukan will take about 40 hours, and costs 260,000 IDR for "Ekonomi" class and 555,000 IDR for 3rd class, that is you get a bed in a six beds cabin.
Traveling in Nunukan
The town is not large and walking is a good way to get around. Like everywhere in Indonesia, there are many bemo busses (small busses for some ten people) and a large number of motorbike taxis available, and since there are very few foreigners coming here, people may even ask you if they can give you a ride.
Hotels in Nunukan
There are number of budget hotels around town, with a handful very close to the port. When exiting the harbour area, just walk straight down the street, when walking through the harbor gate you will be able to see two of the hotels a bit further down the road.
- Yus Hotel, Jl Pelabuhan Baru RT.16, ☎ +62.556.21245, fan double IDR 50,000,fan double IDR 70,000, A/C double IDR 110,000, A/C double IDR 160,000, acceptable and cheap rooms close to the harbor, the two more expensive options come with TV in the room.
- Gita Hotel, Jl Pelabuhan Baru, fan single IDR 55,000, some 20 meters from the harbor gate. Shared bathroom. No beds, just mattresses on the floor. Relatively clean. Good for a night while waiting for a boat. More expensive rooms are IDR 120,000 with beds and bathroom in the rooms.
- Hotel Marami, Jl Radio No.10, ☎ +62.556.23335, web http://www.hotelmarami.com, fan single IDR 120,000, new and clean, with tiled bathroom, free WiFi in lobby and in some rooms, in the town center next to a police station.
- Hotel Melati Indah, Jl Pelabuhan Baru, looks like it is in the IDR 150,000 price range, some 50 meters from the harbor.
- Laura Hotel, Jl Ahmad Yani No.3, ☎ +62.556.22295, A/C double IDR 350,000, expensive and good hotel with a good restaurant that is not too expensive.
Nunukan tourist attractions
Not many tourist attractions in Nunukan.
There is a large water village in the north of the town close to the airport. The water village has a large mosque, a huge vegetables and meat market and many small and large houses built on stilts in the water.
Hundreds of little shops selling things to the locals, motorbikes driving on the wooden roads, kids playing and even a billiard bar on stilts is in the village. If you look foreign, most of the locals will try to talk with you, even though they might not speak any English.


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26. A Careless Word
Her hands fumbled with the curtain in the dark, as she blinked the clouds of sleep away from her eyes. The sound was growing in urgency and intensity; a long and shrill scream that reverberated across the yard.
Curling up in a grey cloak, Zarhil ran across the garden, ignoring the glances and the voices whispered behind the shadows. There was light in her daughter´s chambers, and she charged in like a mad fury.
The women who were at the young Princess´s antechamber knelt to offer her a silent bow. She did not waste a moment with them, but instead rushed towards the entrance. Another woman was there –the Nurse-, muttering soothing words in a soft tone.
Zarhil pushed her away as well, and her eyes rapidly sought for the small figure who uttered the terrified screams. She found her crouching, her back pressed against a corner. Crossing the distance between them, she grabbed her hand, and held her down while she struggled and thrashed with a mysterious strength that the quiet girl did not posess during the day.
"Sssssh." she whispered in a hoarse voice. Tears gathered in her eyes, and one of them trickled down the hard skin of her face. "Mother is here. There is nothing to fear."
Slowly, the child´s struggles subsided. Her screams died in a choked sob, and two huge eyes flew open, shining in the dark like reflections upon the water of a well.
"You are with Mother." Zarhil kept crooning in her ear. The girl´s tense limbs relaxed slightly. Little by little, she even grew to accept the intrusion of her caresses, though she did not lean against her.
"You are safe. You had a bad dream."
Zimraphel shook her head.
"No! I didn´t. I never dream!" An anxious spark twinkled in her eye, and she went back to struggling. "Leave me alone!"
Zarhil dried her face with a swipe of her hand, and tried to smile.
"You did not dream."she nodded."You never dream. Please, let me stay with you."
After the initial fright had passed, the girl´s expression grew void and empty. In silence, she studied her mother´s anxious face as if it was but a mosaic or a painting.
After another while, she turned her back to her, and curled in her silk sheets. Zarhil laid a careful hand across her shoulder, almost expecting rejection, but her daughter did not move again.
Now that everything had settled back into an eerie calm, she felt more than ever the urge to weep against the sheets. Many times, she cursed herself for having allowed her family and the King to take her away from her sea-travels, her ship and her brave sailors, and imprison her on dark chambers where every shadow seemed to grow terrible and threatening. She cursed her own strength, of body and mind, that did not avail her against the spell of a suffering, cruel child.
Zimraphel, the baby that survived, was the only creature that she had ever loved with such a frightening intensity. Her family she had always respected, her sailors she had befriended - her husband she liked enough, whenever she was allowed to forget that he was the man who had taken the Sea away from her. But that fair, frail, fathomless creature who had grown in the Sea Lady´s womb by some poignant irony of fate had become her life. Her weakness inspired her tenderness, her pain made her suffer, her beauty excited her pride and wonder – her disease killed her.
How could such a small thing inspire so much passion?
Taken by an impulse, Zarhil hugged the tiny form tightly. The limbs went rigid again in silent protest, and soon she was forced to give up. Zimraphel had never accepted her mother´s blind love, never favoured her above her nurse or addressed her the words that she had heard his brother´s daughters whisper in their mother´s ears with a girlish smile. One day, as she had rushed back to her after a long and unbearable ceremony, the girl had turned towards the old woman who was combing her hair, and asked who she was.
It was the disease. The disease was at fault for everything, Inziladûn said- and sometimes, Zarhil was sure that there was something else that he knew. But who cared? He was even farther from Zimraphel than she was now, as she held her trembling body in her arms at night. Once, he had told her to ask the child if the dream that scared her so much had a wave in it. Zimraphel had merely shaken her head in denial.
A soft sound of fidgeting, coming from the other side of the bed, brought her to open her eyes. The girl was whimpering, caught into one of her horrible dreams. Zarhil cursed again, over and over, choking with the burning impotence of not being able to wrestle the demons away from her.
Lady of the Seas, she muttered an old prayer, in an almost inaudible voice. With her right hand, she caressed over and over the dishevelled threads of her hair. Queen of Ships, help her find her way home.
The summer sun was shining intensely, even though it was still early in the morning. Inziladûn made a signal for his entourage to wait, and entered the comfortable shade of the inner gardens.
His hands fidgeted with the purple folds, that billowed so conspicuously behind his steps. No matter how many times he wore those ceremonial robes, kept his chin high with hieratic dignity and accustomed himself to have so many people around, there was still some wild side of his soul that felt the urge to tear everything out and return to the lonely sanctuary of his youthful studies.
That day would be especially trying, he thought with a frown. The last war against the desert tribes had officially ended, and today the victorious general would bring his prisoners to the King and the people of Armenelos. The people were bad enough –they were always eager to see blood-, but some of those accursed merchants would also be there, and among them Magon of Gadir, kin to the King. Whenever that crafty serpent had access to the King´s ear, be it for an hour or a minute, the Prince of Númenor had to gather all his allies and double his precautions.
"Already in a hurry, Inziladûn?"
The Prince looked at his wife, who was surrounded by three serving ladies. They were arranging the folds of her robes, and giving the last touches to her braided grey hair while they whispered and prattled among themselves. As they noticed his presence, however, they fell silent.
"We are expected." he replied, then noticed the bags under Zarhil´s eyes. "You have not slept well tonight."
The woman shook her head, and a shadow tensed her features for a moment.
Inziladûn swallowed. Whose nightmares those were, he knew it very well.
"Where is she?" he asked then, wondering at the same time at the impulse that brought him to ask that question. He should greet her when he came to visit, a voice whispered inside his mind.
"In her chambers." Zarhil answered, giving him a somewhat surprised frown. Inziladûn nodded, and left her with a muttered indication to hurry that should have rather been addressed to the other women.
As he entered the dark halls, he had to blink several times before he grew accustomed to the new light. Some women abandoned their silent tasks to kneel; the Nurse bowed obsequiously and let him through the door of the antechamber.
Míriel was reading. Her grey eyes were fixed on the pages of an enormous volume in absorbed concentration, and she did not even blink at his entrance. For a moment he stood at the doorstep, wondering at that strange Inzilbêth who had come back to life, her serene beauty animated –tainted- by a kind of vivid insistence.
Back when she was a baby, he had alternatively blamed her disease on her unfortunate birth and her heritage, but years later he had begun to wonder. Crazed ideas crossed his mind, and he fancied that his mother had come back, to stare with huge and enigmatic eyes at those who had killed, buried, and then forgotten her.
In an attempt to dispel his unease, he coughed a little. Conversations with his daughter had grown more and more difficult as the years passed by. She looked at him with cold indifference, and the rare times that she spoke her words made his blood curdle in his veins. Once, she had asked him why did he let her brother die, and no matter who he interrogated about this, everybody swore by the gods that they had not said a single word about that incident in her presence.
Little by little, his visits had disminished. They brought too much pain and puzzlement, and he was too busy to allow her to interfere in his manouevres, his bargains for support, and the tenuous relationship with his father. He had left her to Zarhil and her women, who soothed her when she had bad dreams and looked after her in those chambers, carefully hidden from the prying glances and harsh realities of the world outside. With all his soul he wanted her to be happy - and yet, she would never smile to him.
"Father." she echoed. Surprised, he looked at her, and she lifted her glance from the lines. He was not used to have her attention so soon.
"What... are you reading?" he asked, feeling as awkward as he had not felt since he was a child and a mad King had stared at him. She frowned, and covered the pages with both hands.
"A book."
And there it was, again. Her instinctive mistrust pierced his heart, then left nothing in its wake but a cold disappointment.
He took a sharp breath.
"Your mother and I are leaving for a celebration. She will come back at night to visit you."
Míriel´s voice came out muffled, for she had pressed her face against her protective hands.
"And I cannot go."
Shocked, Inziladûn gazed lengthly at her, but she did not lift her head up.
"I..." he began, unsure of what to say. He hid behind formality . "I... do not think it would be advisable."
"I do not care." she muttered. "I do not want to go with you. Leave me alone."
The Prince felt a knot gather in his throat. It was the disease. Nothing but the disease, he forced himself to remember. The Curse of Ar-Sakalthôr.
It was not her fault.
"Have a good day, Míriel."
As he crossed the threshold, and walked the length of the corridor in his way out, he had to force his rigid hands to unclench.
The triumphal celebration took place at the square that stood in front of the Palace´s front façade. Inziladûn watched the ceremony from the lower terrace, where some of the most powerful men in the realm had gathered around the King and his family.
Hours passed by, without a moment of respite for the chants and shouts. Prayers, sacrifices and dances gave way to a bloodier spectacle, as the enemy leaders were brought forth in chains and their throats slit to the crowd´s delight. Once that they were dead, voices were heard asking, demanding for more. The King nodded, -Melkor wanted his due-, and the higher ranked of the barbarians followed suit.
Inziladûn stood in silence, watching the rivers of blood flow from the stabs and the agonical expressions with repugnance. The soul of Man, unlike that of animals, Orcs or Elves, was a battleground where the god and the beast fought a perpetual struggle, the late Maharbal had taught him when he was a child. But at certain moments, when a kind of frenzy spread like a disease from man to man, from woman to woman and child to child, everything that was good was drowned under an animal bloodlust.
Next to him, Pharazôn was doing great efforts to appear brave in front of his family. His face was slightly pale, his jaw clenched, but he did not take his eyes away from the sight. His mother touched his shoulder with a proud smile.
One by one, they came to their ignominious end under the various curses and mockeries of their enemies. Inziladûn shivered. Even worse than the general madness, worse than the blood and the corpses that were taken away by piles, what shook him to the core was their glances just before they died. Their voiceless wonder as they stood in the heart of the Jewel of the West, and forgot knives, crowd and executioner to stare at the shimmering reflections of sunlight in the glazed tiles of the magnificent buildings, the white and ochre towers closing upon them like a beautiful shadow of death, haunted him even as he closed his eyes like a coward.
Once that the last of the bodies was dragged away, Ar-Gimilzôr turned his back to the crowd. The people in the terrace followed him to an exquisitely improvised banquet under a cover of braided branches of pomegranate trees. There, the victorious general –a nephew of the governor of Sor- was received with honour among the other guests, and was immediately taken under the wing of an insolent merchant whose long curls were held by gold ringlets like those of a woman. Azzibal of Sor, Inziladûn thought in distaste. The man´s father-in-law, asides from a long-standing associate of Magon of Gadir.
Refusing to be distracted by those thoughts, he watched the King in his throne. Gimilzôr was asking them something, with that severe expression that old age had sculpted in his features like a perennial frown. Gimilkhâd stood at his side, dressed in all his finery and crowned by a diadem of rubies. Under the gems, his dark hair shone like Umbarian ebony – the second in the family to require the services of their father´s favourite dyer, Inziladûn thought a little frivolously.
Soon afterwards, he also spotted his main enemy, Magon of Gadir. The fat merchant, dressed with his usual ostentation, was doting on his grandson in company of his royal daughter and another man. Melkyelid, who wore a flowing dress of yellow and gold with green embroiderings, frowned in disapproval at something that her son said, while Magon laughed loud.
"It is yet too soon for you to say such a thing!" he scolded, ruffling Pharazôn´s curly hair. That small gathering of golden-skinned people looked strangely eerie.
"Your grandfather is a man of extraordinary honour and renown in Númenor and Middle-Earth." Melkyelid told her son, vanity surfacing for a moment in her measured tone. Pharazôn stared curiously at the man.
"Do you rule a great kingdom?"
Magon gave a casual shrug, that was not devoid of affectation.
"Indeed. I rule a house in Gadir, and a couple of factories."
"That is true." the other, younger man nodded. Inziladûn did not see any similitude in their features, so he assumed that he had to be what those people called an "associate" – which, for them, ranked higher than blood kin. "And yet the most powerful men of Gadir, Sor and Umbar, the coastal outposts and harbours, the tributary barbarians and many nobles of Númenor bow before him and lie in his debt."
The young prince frowned.
"I do not understand." he stated, with the bluntness of a child. All the adults laughed.
"One day you will." Magon sentenced, ruffling his hair again. Inziladûn looked away, before they could see him and trap him with a polite and respectful invitation. Even farther, at the edge of the obsidian balustrade, his wife had spotted him and proceeded to call him with gestures. Talking with her was her brother Zakarbal, lord of Forrostar, and a man that Inziladûn wanted very much to have a talk with.
"Hail, Prince of Númenor!" the man saluted, raising his cup of wine. He answered with a nod, and approached them.
"Zakarbal of Soronthil." he greeted politely. "I am glad to see that you were invited."
Those words were not devoid of meaning. It had been some years since their common mistrust for the emerging merchant class, blood ties and a great deal of skill on his part had availed him to win the new lord of the northernmost province for his party, and Ar-Gimilzôr´s insane suspicions had haunted the man´s steps ever since. Zakarbal, a born warrior like his father, and therefore straightforward and not very subtle, did not know how to mince words at Court – and this, together with his devout reverence for the Númenorean gods was probably the only thing that had saved him from being considered a two-faced viper like the unfortunate people of the Western branch.
Still, the issue that had brought his name to the lips of the courtiers and people of Armenelos of late was of a very different nature. His wife had failed repeatedly to bear him a male heir before she was past the age, and now the prestigious Northern Branch, direct descendants of Tar-Anárion, ended with him. Inziladûn had sketched a plan to solve this problem that would reinforce his party at the same time, but it was very rarely that a high-born noble of the Line of Elros would be willing to listen to talks of adoption.
Zakarbal motioned to a servant, who brought wine to him. He accepted it with a smile, but instead of drinking it, he chose to stare into the eyes of his brother-in-law.
"Have you thought about it?" he asked bluntly. The nervous, uneasy shift that ensued told him better than any word that he indeed had.
Zarhil drank a sip.
"I... have." the man finally replied, looking at her. He was too proud to ask for support, but it seemed to Inziladûn that he was encouraging her to speak in some way.
"He was just saying to me that he had not found any other solution."she complied." I told him that our father´s line could not die, and that if he did not care for it himself, the King soon would."
"I do not want one of those accursed merchants to be my heir." Zakarbal mumbled, frowning at the idea. Inziladûn smiled in sympathy, though he was heartened deep inside.
"I do not think that it would go that far." he soothed him.
"No? Look around you." the Northern lord snorted. "They are everywhere. Even at the very feet of the Throne, so why not in my house?"
"Then, all the more reason for us to attack first." Inziladûn decided. "I have a candidate."
Zakarbal´s brow furrowed even further. It was obviously a very painful subject to broach for him, a decision that he had only made pushed by an even bigger threat. Inziladûn decided to offer him an arm where he could lean on.
"He is from the line of Elros, of course. Kin of Shemoun, the Southwestern lord, and son of a Council member. One of the very few who has not been bought by our worthy Gold-Makers, in fact, and therefore a natural ally."
Zakarbal drank again, mulling over these words.
"And... what about his father?"
Inziladûn shook his head.
"The gods are with us. He has a brother. An older brother." he added, after a moment of thought. "He is scarcely twenty, a very bright lad."
"And strong?" his brother-in-law asked. For the first time in the conversation, he seemed to be taken by an odd fascination for the idea.
"And strong." Inziladûn confirmed, encouraged. "So what? Would you ... agree to meet with him, then?"
The tenuous instant of trust dissolved in a rush, and Zakarbal instinctively recoiled.
"Well... I am heading North this month, as you know. There are many affairs I have to tend to, being the sole lord and King´s attendant at the same time." he mumbled, not unlike how a child who had been forbidden to talk to strangers would refuse a sweetmeat in the streets. The Prince sighed –too soon yet.
And he had already obtained a very important victory.
"Very well." he nodded, taking his first sip of the drink. "Take your time."
His brother-in-law´s eyes widened in slight alarm.
"Please understand that this is not a rejection of your generous proposal. I just..." he began, but Inziladûn cut him with a good-natured gesture.
"Of course not."
"He can look inside your soul." Zarhil informed him, in a mild yet dry streak of malevolence. "There is no need for explanations."
The Prince glared at her, then turned back to Zakarbal.
"That is very far from the truth indeed, in spite of the rumours. I simply understand that..."
Suddenly, however, a figure gesturing at him brought the thread of his words to die away in distraction. It was the Great Chamberlain, his chin discreetly pointing in the direction of the Throne. Careful not to startle his companions, Inziladûn ventured a brief look from the corner of his eye, and what he saw made his blood freeze.
Magon and the King were talking.
"What is the matter?" Zarhil -always so indiscreet- asked in surprise. He made a vague sign to her and her brother.
"I will be back." he mumbled, walking away. Zakarbal´s eyes widened, but he did not have time to do anything but bow in haste.
The figures of the guests came and went in a blur under the dimmed evening light. Inziladûn passed them by, in search of the man who had alerted him.
"There is an... interesting conversation going on." he whispered in his ear. The Prince nodded in understanding.
"Come with me." he whispered back.
Pretending to be deep in conversation, both walked side by side until they were near enough to the Throne. With great skill, the Chamberlain pretended to have been beckoned by a courtier and bowed to Ar-Gimilzôr. Inziladûn followed him.
"Congratulations on the victory, my King." he said, with another bow. His father´s eyes trailed over him vaguely, and he acknowledged him with a silent nod, absorbed as he was in conversation with the merchant. Profitting of this leave, Inziladûn stayed nearby.
"...his birthday was last week." Magon was saying at the moment. His lips curved into a smile that, for some reason, made a shiver cross the Prince´s spine. "A beautiful boy, they say, healthy and quite clever. Azzibal told me that he loves to wield toy swords and fight "filthy Morgoth-worshippers."
Ar-Gimilzôr´s features tensed. His eyes took that feverish glint that Inziladûn had learned to despise so much, and his hand tightened around the Sceptre.
Danger, a shrill voice pounded in his ears. He tried to choke his sudden fear, his bile as he met the golden merchant´s fatherly smile with a calm glance.
So this was what he had been planning to do...
"The line of King Elendil are proved traitors, who have been removed from the King´s august sight." he rebuked. "They should not be mentioned in his presence."
Ever gracious in his manners, Magon bowed low.
"Oh, dear. Indeed, I was out of line. I humbly beg for your forgiveness."
Inziladûn did not answer, but turned his attention to his father instead. Ar-Gimilzôr was frowning, and staring at a certain point beyond the terrace´s railing. He barely seemed to have heard his interventions, so absorbed he was in his own thoughts.
The light of the lamps and candles that servants were laying around them cut sharp lines on his profile, and lent a strange quality to his glance. With a startle, Inziladûn realised that he reminded him of the late Ar-Sakalthôr, brooding in the shadows. Out of a sudden instinct, he swallowed deeply and followed the direction of his father´s stare.
Down in the almost deserted square, under the faint glow of fannels, several men were washing the spurts of blood that remained upon the stone pavement.
For all the following days, the news of his informers were unanimously worrying. His father was oddly thoughtful, his nights were restless, and he had visited the temple of Melkor twice. Even worse, he had refused to meet with Inziladûn. Ar-Gimilzôr had always feared his son´s ability to unlock carefully guarded secrets and dark thoughts – this was something that he knew since he was a child.
Back when the Western line had been abolished, their lives had been spared, with the exception of Eärendur´s voluntary departure. This had brought some relief to Inziladûn, who had feared the worst for his friends. But, what about a new heir, the monster´s spawn, the continuation of their line and hopes? Would even he be innocent in the all-fearing, all-consuming eye of the King?
Ar-Gimilzôr had heard of the baby´s birth years ago, and done nothing. Probably, some kind of remorse for his grandson´s death –murder- had stayed his hand back then, but Inziladûn knew too well that the ambition of a merchant, the will of Melkor and a tyrant´s fear held a power that was all too terrible.
Curse that merchant! He had learned to read the King´s unlimited penchant for suspicion, and exploited it more easily and ruthlessly than his own son had done through the years. Númendil... Valandil... they might be ready to offer their own child as a sacrifice, but Inziladûn was not.
Day and night, he had the Merchant Princes who stayed as guests followed, and those from Sor with special care. But he could not follow the King´s every movement, not when his father denied him access, and this tore at his insides. He felt powerless, hurting himself over and over against the same stone wall. Disturbing visions plagued his mind, the same that had once warned him of his infant son´s birth and murder.
One night, as he lay restless in his bed, he was taken by an unnatural slumber, deep and fathomless like a black hole. Ghostly figures danced around him, of grey women whose eyes were brimming with tears.
All of a sudden, a pair of hands grabbed his cloak.. He turned around, searching for a presence, and found himself face to face with the anguished face of Emeldir.
Help us, Inziladûn! she cried. Shaken, he offered his hand to her, but it slipped away like a cloud of mist.
Even before the last tatters of the vision had relinquished their vivid hold on his mind, Inziladûn jumped from his bed, and felt his way in the darkness towards the hiding place of the Seeing Stone.
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