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30. The Round Room
Ariashal awoke.
She was not in her bed; she was lying on a hard, cold, stone floor of what seemed to be a passageway. There was no light, save a dim glow coming through a partially-opened door down at the end of the long, stone hall. Uneasy, she got to her feet and began walking towards the light.
As she grew closer she could see that there was a room beyond the door. Illuminated by the sickly yellow light were chains, racks, spiked tables. Once she was at the door, she carefully peered inside.
The room itself was round, with no windows, nor any other doors that she could see. In addition to the chains and racks, she saw several types of shackles attached to the walls. A pool of what she suspected was blood puddled in the middle of the floor. Almost directly opposite her was a bizarre construct of horizontal bars, set at different heights; shackles dangled from these as well.
Hanging above the blood, suspended by his wrists from a heavy chain, was a naked man. He had been gagged and blindfolded, and his feet chained together.
Frightened, sickened, she drew closer. He was a tall man, tall and powerfully built. Heavy black hair, matted with sweat and blood, fell over his face and shoulders. He had been flogged, and from the blood still dripping down his back she guessed that the flogging had been quite recent. At a distance it was impossible to tell if he was still alive.
Who was he? What had he done to deserve such torture? Slowly, uneasily, she made her way towards him.
As she drew nearer it was possible to make out slight movements; he still lived. She could also make out scars across his back, legs, buttocks. This was not the first time he had been subjected to this treatment. How long had he been hanging here? She glanced up at his bloodied wrists.
A sudden, horrific freezing seized her heart, squeezing all blood away.
On his right hand was a massive black opal ring.
"No!" She managed, barely, to keep from collapsing to the floor. She ran to him, desperate to find a way to free him, to cut him from the bonds.
"My lord," she sobbed, wrapping herself around his still-bleeding legs, "What happened? Who did this to you?"
He did not move, or indeed make any sign that he was even aware of her presence.
Frantic, she grasped the chains wrapped around his ankles. They had been welded shut; there was an ugly dark patch on his skin where the flesh had been seared by the hot iron. She had nothing, nothing at all, that would allow her to break the chain. Desperate, she looked around the room. There must be some tools somewhere, must be something she could use to cut him free--
Behind her, the door slammed shut.
Ariashal whirled around.
Standing by the now-closed door was a man, or rather, a man-shaped blackness. Its blackness seemed almost to be alive; it swirled and eddied, the light casting strange patterns over its surface. "Hello, little queen," said a soft, silken voice.
"Who are you?" she demanded. "What have you done to my husband?"
The figure did not answer. Instead it made its way towards her, coiling and seething across the room as though it were made of oily black smoke. Instinctively she backed away.
"Your husband," purred the voice. "Your husband has been--disobedient."
Some of the smoky mass pulled away from the body, forming itself into wispy, clawed hands. It laid its fingers along the King's flanks.
"Leave him alone!" she cried fiercely.
"Oh, no. That I cannot do. I cannot leave him alone." The hands slipped over the King's body, leaving ugly red welts in their wake. "He is a magnificent physical specimen, is he not? Look at these shoulders! Look at this chest! The strongest of all my servants."
The smokey thing's voice had taken on a tone of admiration. She watched as it changed size, growing tall enough to stand face to face with the hanging King. "My pretty, pretty Numenorean," it said, lingering close enough to his face to have kissed him. "The noblest of all my conquests."
She realized, horrified, who the thing was. "Sauron," she whispered.
"Yes?" The smoky mass of Sauron turned towards her. "What do you wish, my little queen?"
"What do I wish?" Her heart pounded as though it would break free. "I want you to let him go!"
Sauron laughed, a sound far more horrific than mirthful. "I cannot do that, sweet Ariashal. He is mine. Do you know how long it took me to find him? Do you know how many years I searched for him? He is everything I wanted. He is a prince, and a sorcerer, and a general. Everything I wished for." Clawed hands slipped across the King's body. "Well. Almost everything."
Without warning, the clawed hands were gone. In their place was a slim, fiery whip. Sauron drew it back, then slashed, hard, across his victim's chest. Fresh blood welled from the sliced flesh. "You have to be defiant, when all I wish is for your company. But no, you must run away, and defy me at every turn!" The flaming whip struck again. "You would lead the others against me, if you could! I cannot trust you! My greatest weapon, and I cannot trust you will not attack me!"
Again and again the whip struck. Blood spattered into the air.
"Stop it!" Ariashal screamed. She managed to reach the King, to throw herself in front of the searing whip. "Leave him alone!"
"You are brave, little queen." The flogging ceased. "Very well."
"Let him go!"
"I told you," purred Sauron, "he is mine to do with as I will."
"No!" She glared at the seething mass of smoke. "Give him to me!"
Sauron laughed. "Give him to you? Give him--to you?"
"Yes!" she shrieked.
"Very well." He stepped back. "I will give him to you."
Without warning the chains disappeared. The King dropped, limp, into a bloody heap.
Ariashal frantically went to work, struggling to untie the gag and blindfold. Somehow she would have to get him to his feet; she could not possibly move him in this condition. "I will have you free," she murmured, wiping away her tears. "You will be free soon."
"There is--one thing--I would have of you."
Ariashal looked up. Sauron had retreated a little, watching her with what she felt was some sort of twisted amusement.
"I want you to give me something, in exchange for--your husband."
"What?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper.
Sauron waved his hand.
In front of him appeared Imrahil, Adrahil and Zimraphel, still sound asleep.
"Your children."
"No! NO!!!"
Strong hands caught her arms.
Ariashal looked up. The round room, the bloodied King, the sleeping children, Sauron--all had vanished. She was back in her bed, back in Rhudaur, and the King was holding her.
"Twas only a dream," he soothed. "You are well and safe here."
"No," she sobbed. "He wanted--he wanted our children!"
"No." The King pulled her tight against his chest. "He cannot have them. Ever. Now--tell me this dream."
"It was--there was a round room, and chains, and--my Lord, he was--he was torturing you." She managed to describe the events of the dream, although every now and then her tears forced her to stop; she finished with the appearance of the children in the torture chamber.
When she was finally done, the King was silent for a moment. "Are you able to dress yourself, or shall I call some of your women?"
She managed a sniffle. "I--I think I can dress myself."
"Very well. It need be nothing elaborate." He slipped from the bed and moment later the door to the outer corridor opened. "Guard, bring me the lords Herumor and Khamul. Immediately!"
He returned to her side, gathering her to himself. "I suspect that Khamul has been trying to pry into your dreams, my queen. He knows he cannot do so to me, and so he has tried to violate you. I promise you he will never do so again."
Ariashal looked up at him. She could see the reddish glow of his eyes, and somehow that was comforting. "My lord," she asked, still shaking, "does Sauron--does he have such a round room? With chains and racks?"
He breathed in deeply. The glow was much brighter now. "Yes."
Ariashal knew she did not need to ask about the rest. Instead she buried her face against him, crying.
This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.


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Headsets throughout the tourSightseeing: Visits to Epidaurus, Meteora, Kalambaka
Scenic Highlights: Peloponnese, Mount Parnassus, Arcadian Mountains, Corinth Canal, Rion-Antirion Bridge
Local Guides for city sightseeing in Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae. Professional Tour Director while touring
Check into your hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to start exploring the Greek capital. Later, meet your Tour Director and fellow travelers and maybe join them in an optional evening out.
This morning's included sightseeing features the highlights of Athens with a visit to the Acropolis. In the afternoon, after bypassing Lamia into Thessaly and by way of Trikala to Kalambaka, spend the night in the vicinity of Meteora, which will be visited tomorrow. (B,D)
A short drive to Meteora, which is a cluster of monastic buildings perched in an unforgettable manner on a set of rising rock formations. Your included visit is certainly the day´s highlight. Later, retrace your steps southwards to reach Delphi for an overnight. (B)
Included morning sightseeing in Delphi, in ancient times known as the "Navel of the Earth." Located five minutes from the village, the ancient site, backed by imposing Mount Parnassus, is in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the country. Sightseeing will guide you along the Sacred Way to see the Temple of Apollo, some of the treasures, and the theater. This afternoon, follow the Gulf of Corinth through Nakpaktos to Antirion over the new spectacular bridge towards Olympia for an overnight. (B,D)
The original home of the Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC, Olympia was a sacred precinct to the god Zeus, whose temple once housed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This morning's included sightseeing takes in the ancient stadium where the games were held and the temples of Zeus and his wife, Hera. Later, travel across the mountains of Arcadia, passing through Tripolis before entering the Argolis, land of Greek myths and legends. Stop awhile to visit the Epidaurus theater, which can still seat 14,000 spectators. Overnight in Nauplia on the Argolic Gulf. (B)
This morning, visit the imposing ruins of the site of Mycenae with a Local Guide (entrance fees included), the ancient city Homer called a "city rich in gold." It was here that the Golden Mask of Agamemnon was unearthed, along with many other treasures that matched exactly Homer's descriptions in the Iliad. Enter the city by the magnificent Lion's Gate and stroll up to Agamemnon's Royal Palace. Then, to the Corinth Canal for a brief stop before continuing to Athens for two overnights. (B)
An opportunity to see island life from the cruise ship on the optional three-island cruise, visiting Aegina, Poros, and Hydra. Poros is a lush island with a maze of narrow streets. Aegina is the main producer of pistachio nuts in Greece, while Hydra, where beautiful boutiques line the scenic harbor, is home to a large artist's community. (B)
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I realize now that it's what my parents so desperately wished to argue all along. No, my parents didn't deny my brother and I the fair in our youth. That said, we weren't always the kids with the unlimited ride armbands either - though we did have nights of exceptional whining success. My parents were generous enough for us to have an awesome night, but stern and wise to let us know when enough was truly enough. We complained and whined. I probably cried. But you know? I'm old enough to applaud them for it now. And apologize, too. I know how kids can be, and I recognize now the degree of the stupidity of our incessant want for just one more ride or try. I don't remember being specifically angry at my parents in any of my memories of the fair, just that I had a great time and always anticipated the next year's festivities. To me, that says my parents did it right.
Those stuffed animals prizes are really quite a burden anyway. Wouldn't you agree?
At any rate, all I remember of that night is the dark fairgrounds - bustling and filled with happy fair-goers - twinkling lights, the far-off rumbling of the demo derby, and seeing my grandparents.
If memory serves correctly, the only reason we were even there that night was to say goodnight and goodbye to my grandmother who was on a bingo date with some friends. I believe my mom, dad, brother and I had spent the evening with Grandpa, and none of us wanted to leave for home without a proper goodbye from both.
Hugs and kisses sought and received, we loaded back into the car and got on the road.
It's a simple memory, but the sensory and emotional content make it substantial. I may not remember all of the day's events, but I do remember how happy I was to be able to hug and kiss them goodbye, which is enough for me.
I've been thinking a lot about family lately. I think I've said it before, but I keep largely to myself in most situations. I like people, but I often find that I have a difficult time letting them in. I have friends, a few very close ones, but I rely on family for many things. Like my friends, both sides of my family give wonderful advice, are always willing to listen, encourage one another in hard times, and cheer for successes.
I've been criticized heavily for it in the past, but I'm happy I was raised to be so close to my family. I can only hope that I'll be able to raise my own kids (no, I'm not pregnant) with the same kind of mindset in a similar environment.
I spent yesterday evening at that same fair with my grandparents. We were playing bingo, so we couldn't talk too much, but it was nice just to be with them for awhile.
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A heater, air-conditioner, fan or any other device that is equipped with a thermostat can make your life at home much more comfortable and easy. The problem is that not every device comes equipped with such option and equipping it with a thermostat may require a lot of additional accessories. If you are looking for a thermostat accessory but don't know where to start, this article will help you.
First of all, it's important to know what type of accessory you will need since there are protocol adapters, distribution panels, remote sensors, power supplies and locking guards each offering different features for different parts of a thermostat.
A protocol adapter is used to connect a receiver with a communicator. In case your thermostat is not working the way it is supposed to, ensure that this accessory is not broken. You may not need to replace the entire device and simply replace one detail instead.
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It all depends on the type of a thermostat that you select. If it is a manual type, it will only help you turn the device on and off. Other types of thermostats, including programmable, electronic and remote, offer tens of additional features you may benefit from, starting with automatic temperature adjustment and ending with the possibility to control them from a smartphone.


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Bryan Adams Announces January U.S. Dates
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Bryan Adams has announced his first U.S. dates of the New Year. Adams, who has no less that six Texas dates on the books for next month, kicks off his 2013 shows on January 20th in Atlanta, Georgia and winds things down on January 26th in Washington, D.C.
Nearly 30 years since scoring his first Top 10 U.S. hit with "Straight From The Heart," Adams has been a fixture on the rock scene for well over a generation. When we last caught up with him we asked him about the moment when he realized he had finally made it: "Basically back in about 1984 -- must've been '85, we released Reckless and we were doing our first headlining tour of America. And I walked over to Keith Scott, my guitarist, and I said, 'What's different? Y'know, we're doing the same songs.' Basically what it was, was it was our time, and things were just starting to come together. And people started playing the music and they're still playing the music. So, it's really nice."
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December 10 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
December 11 - Lubbock, TX - Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
December 12 - El Paso, TX - The Plaza Theatre
December 13 - Midland, TX - Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center
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December 15 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater
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January 24 - Virginia Beach, VA - Sandler Center For The Performing Arts
January 25 - Philadelphia, PA - Merriam Theater
January 26 - Washington, DC - National Theatre
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Aang, Katara, and Sokka travel to a village that relies solely on the predictions of a cloud-reading fortuneteller. Sokka is skeptical and tries to disprove all the predictions. Upon discovering a nearby volcano is about to erupt, Aang and Katara manipulate the clouds as a warning to the oblivious villagers. The group manages to evacuate the village before the volcano erupts.
While camping out beside a river, Katara spots a fish jumping out of the water. Convinced the fish is taunting him, Sokka grabs his fishing rod to catch it, only to realize the fishing line is gone. Aang confesses that he had crafted a necklace for Katara out of Sokka's fishing line to replace the necklace she lost, much to Sokka's annoyance. Sokka attempts to catch the fish by throwing the fishing rod at it; when that proves unsuccessful, he takes out his knife and runs into the water after the fish.
When Katara puts the necklace on, Aang sees her in a completely new way, shedding light on his ever-growing crush on her. Sokka teases Aang by saying, "Smoochy! Smoochy! Someone's in love!" He makes kissing faces at the fish he finally caught, but the fish slaps him with its tail and lands back in the water. However, Katara remains ignorant of Aang's crush, commenting that Aang is only a good friend. She even compares him to Momo, much to Aang's dismay.
Upon hearing loud noises nearby, the trio witnesses an old man being attacked by a huge platypus bear. To their surprise, the man does not express concern, the reason being that Aunt Wu, the village fortuneteller, predicted he would make a safe journey; he ultimately does, as Appa scares the bear away. The man hands them a wrapped umbrella, saying that the fortuneteller told him to give it to any travelers he met, and he subsequently walks away.
The moment Aang opens it, it begins to rain, thus proving the fortuneteller was correct in predicting that some travelers would need the umbrella. Sokka, however, is skeptical, and, in an attempt to debunk the fortune, he remarks that the sky had been cloudy all day, essentially saying that anyone could have predicted it would rain. To emphasize how easy it is to make such a prediction, he makes one of his own: "It's going to keep drizzling." Ironically, the rain immediately stops and the sun comes out.
At Aunt Wu's place, Aang meets Meng, the fortuneteller's assistant. She instantly falls for him, as demonstrated by a romanticized shot of Aang seen from her point-of-view, establishing a love triangle between her, Aang, and Katara.
Meng develops a crush on Aang solely based on Aunt Wu's prediction that she would marry a man with large ears, and Aang's ears seem large to her. Meng also points out that her name also rhymes with Aang's, which is seemingly another important factor in developing a crush on him.
At that moment, a woman emerges from the other room and tells Meng that she just received a fortune, predicting she would receive a rare panda lily from her true love. Afterward, Aunt Wu comes out and asks the trio who would like to go next. Sokka looks away and Aang looks to Katara, who answers, "I guess that's me."
Aang is quite worried about what Aunt Wu and Katara will talk about, so he consults Sokka for his opinion on what he thinks they will discuss. Sokka says, "Boring stuff, I'm sure: love, who she's going to marry, how many babies she's going to have", confirming Aang's suspicions that they are talking about love. Curious about his role in Katara's future, he makes an excuse that he has to go to the bathroom, but really sneaks off to eavesdrop.
After a brief talk about cosmetics, Katara asks Aunt Wu whom she will marry. Aunt Wu says that she can see "a great romance" for her and that the man is "a very powerful bender". Aang is delighted to hear this, and he begins to jump and dance around.
Come Sokka's turn, Aunt Wu predicts that his future will be full of "struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted". Aunt Wu subsequently beckons Aang into a private room. She chooses a fortunetelling method which involves throwing a bone into a small fire and observing the cracks. When Aang picks one and throws it in the fire, it explodes.
Aunt Wu explains hysterically that he will be involved in a great battle between the forces of good and evil which will determine the fate of the whole world. Aang, already aware of that, dismisses her prediction, as he is more interested in his future with Katara and whether they will get married. When he asks about love, Aunt Wu says that she did not see anything. Upon noticing Aang's disappointment, she grabs a piece of shattered bone and tells him that she missed the crack on it, explaining to Aang the crack means that if he trusts his heart, he will be with the one he loves.
Later that day, Sokka complains about fortunetelling being a hoax. While ranting that his life will be joyful instead of full of self-inflicted pain as Aunt Wu predicted, he kicks a pebble; ironically, it ricochets off of a sign and hits him in the head.
The group notices a crowd of people gathering in the town. They learn that it is time again for the annual cloud reading, a ritual in which Aunt Wu predicts the fate of the villagers by studying cloud formations. She reads the clouds, and one of her predictions is that Mt. Makapu would not destroy the village that year. Since the town believes in Aunt Wu's fortunetelling ability, they all begin to cheer, as they have no doubt she is right.
Later, Katara becomes obsessed with Aunt Wu's predictions, as she repeatedly asks her for more readings. Sokka remains very skeptical of fortunetelling while Aang, discouraged that Katara seems to have no special feelings for him, asks Sokka for some advice. He tells him that the best way to get a girl is by acting aloof, thinking that the girl in question is Meng. When Katara comes by, Aang acts like he does not notice her, but Katara remains oblivious to his feelings. Aang decides to get her a panda lily on the rim of the volcano with Sokka, but when they reach the top of the mountain, they discover that the volcano is in fact going to erupt, contrary to Aunt Wu's prediction. They rush back down to the town to inform everyone of what they saw, but no one believes them because they still have complete confidence in Aunt Wu's predictions.
Knowing that the only person the villagers will listen to is Aunt Wu, Aang decides to steal her cloud reading book. Meng comes up from behind him and admits that she has been stalking him the whole time, but knows that he does not like her; Aang did, however, respond to her clearly let-down feelings by saying that she would easily find a great man in the future. Using the book, Katara and Aang manipulate the clouds with a combination of waterbending and airbending. They convince Aunt Wu to make a second reading, which of course now tells her that the volcano is going to erupt. Aang and Sokka quickly organize the village's earthbenders, as well as anyone capable of digging, to make a giant trench around the village to redirect the lava. Just as the lava surges over the trench, Aang unleashes a massive gust of wind to cool the lava, solidifying it into a giant wall. Sokka mentions offhand that he sometimes forgets how powerful a bender Aang really is, and Katara is struck with realization about the love fortune Aunt Wu gave her.
Aang sheepishly hands back the guide for cloud-reading to Aunt Wu, but instead of being reprimanded by the woman, she praises him. Aang tells her of his suspicions that earlier, she had never actually seen love in his future and merely made something up to make him feel better. To this, Aunt Wu tells him that like how he reshaped the clouds, he could shape his own destiny.
Sokka happily tells the villagers that Aunt Wu was wrong, but a man, who they had encountered earlier when a platypus bear was attacking him, says that the village was not destroyed, as Aunt Wu predicted; she never claimed the volcano would not erupt, only that it would not destroy the village. Sokka retorts with an aggravated "I hate you", and Katara drags him away. With that, the trio leaves the village to continue their northern journey. Meng and Katara wish each other goodbye, and as Appa flies away, Meng's final comment is that Katara is a floozy.
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- Also starring:
- Tsai Chin - Aunt Wu
- Jessie Flower - Meng
- Clyde Kusatsu - Calm man
- Additional voices:
- Dee Bradley Baker
- Tsai Chin
- Jack DeSena
- Jessie Flower
- Clyde Kusatsu
- Cameron Monaghan - Poi and Ping (only appearance)
- Lauren Tom
- Mae Whitman
- Dave Wittenberg (only appearance)
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- Main article: Transcript:The Fortuneteller
- Main article: Writing in the World of Avatar
Avatar Extras
- Main article: Avatar Extras for Book One: Water
Series continuity
- Though Aang battles against a volcanic eruption for the first time in his life, it is the second known time for an Avatar; the other occurrence was when Avatar Roku fought to protect his home in "The Avatar and the Fire Lord".
- The parasol given to Aang by the traveler is seen again in "Appa's Lost Days" when the sandbenders raid Appa's saddle for loot.
- Aang and Katara use the fact that clouds comprise of water and air to bend them for the first time in the series. They use this knowledge again in "The Desert" to bend the water for the group to drink while stranded in the Si Wong Desert. Later in the series, during their travels around the Fire Nation in Book Three, they frequently employ cloud manipulation to disguise Appa and avoid the risk of being spotted.
- Meng is the second girl to have a crush on Aang; the first was Koko, a Kyoshi Island resident, seen in "The Warriors of Kyoshi".
- Aunt Wu's prediction that Katara would marry a powerful bender foreshadows the development of Aang and Katara's relationship over the series and specifically the last scene of the series.
- This is one of the few episodes in either series which has no antagonists.
- Notably, none of Aunt Wu's predictions are proven false throughout the franchise.
- The necklace Aang makes for Katara, which she wears at the beginning of the episode, disappears once they arrive at Aunt Wu's village.
- After rescuing the calm man from the platypus bear, Sokka's bone knife sheath disappears and reappears from shot to shot.
- When Sokka emerges from the river, he is soaking wet. However, when he is yelling at the calm man in the next scene, he is completely dry; he is never shown drying off.
- When Team Avatar first meets Aunt Wu and she asks, "Who's next?", Katara's braid disappears.
- In the shot depicting Team Avatar leaving Aunt Wu's building after having their fortunes told, the door to the building is a strikingly bright red; in an earlier scene and throughout the rest of the episode, the door is a mere rusty brown color.
- When the gang gathers the villagers to warn them about the eruption, the woman who speaks first is initially wearing a purple and pink robe; when she speaks again, it turns green. Her robe continues to change colors several more times.
- When Aang realizes Mt. Makapu will erupt and drops the panda lily into the volcano, the flower is replaced by CGI flames when it hits the surface of the magma.
- During the volcanic eruption, the trees should be on fire, but they are not.
- Aang and Katara are seen sharing an umbrella in this episode. Sharing an umbrella is an old romantic motif ("Ai-Ai-Gasa") in Japanese history[1] and is commonly used in manga and anime.
- The volcano is called Mt. Makapu. Meaning 'bulging eye' in Hawaiian, Makapu'u is a name given to the extreme eastern end of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands.
- A special sneak-peek of this episode was featured at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con.[2]
- In ancient China, osteomancy, a type of pyromancy, was practiced in the Neolithic period and Shāng and Zhōu dynasties in the form of burning or heating oracle bones—usually the scapulae (shoulder blades) of oxen or turtle shells—to produce cracks which were read as portents. This was the form used by Aunt Wu to see the future.
- Katara reveals in this episode that she hates papayas.
- The statues seen being burned by the lava flow bear resemblance to real-life statues called daruma, which are commonly seen in Japanese shinto shrines.
- It is definitively shown that even with identical twins, one can be born a bender while the other is not. Of course, this would not apply to Air Nomad twins, who would always be born as airbenders.
- When the title of this episode appears, it lasts less time than any other episode title lasted for throughout the series.
- Jessie Flower, the voice of Meng, would later join the main cast as Toph Beifong.
- When Meng sees Aang for the first time, the shot of Aang from her point-of-view is similar to the romanticized shot of Katara seen from Aang's point-of-view, which came earlier in the episode when she put on her new necklace.
- When Sokka kicks a pebble and it bounces off a nearby sign, hitting him in the head, the Chinese character on the sign ironically reads "福", which roughly means "a good blessing".
- ↑ METMuseum.org
- ↑ P1011824. San Diego Comic-Con 2005. ASM (2005-07-19). Retrieved on August 7, 2013.


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What I also take from this, on a slightly off-topic note, is that 13.04 Unity is looking to be much improved for gaming.
What I also take from this, on a slightly off-topic note, is that 13.04 Unity is looking to be much improved for gaming.
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They've been mostly working on the LLVM Backend and the SI driver which haven't been getting as much headline space, but they've been churning out code like madmen lately. Several of them work for AMD, but I'm not sure about all.
Also, I'd be curious how much, if at all, the catalyst performance has gone up for that card over the last few years. I'd imagine some, but not much, and possibly has gone down as they would be focusing on newer cards.
Lastly, we'd need to know if the image quality settings were identical for each benchmark.
Regardless, fantastic job to all the radeon crew!
Very interesting article, I sure would like to see some more focus on comparing new versions with those existing a few years ago to see the progress.
Also, am I the only one surprised by how negligible the difference between the Unity and Xfce versions was?
The 13.1 legacy drivers does support that card, but only on X.Org 1.12 or older. So, catalyst should be working fine on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
This results is very impressive!
So what big items are left for HD 2000-4000 cards in the open-soucre drivers? OpenGL 3.3 compliance (not far off) and Power Management? Then the drivers are functionaly equivalent of Catalyst for those cards. Am I missing anything?
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CNN — Despite sweeping reform of food safety laws intended to make what we eat less dangerous, the number of Americans falling ill or dying from contaminated food has increased 44 percent in the past two years alone, according to a recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
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According to the Food and Drug Administration, listeria is an organism that can cause foodborne illness. Symptoms of infection may include fever, muscle aches, gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea or diarrhea. Pregnant women and adults with weakened immune systems are at the greatest risk and most healthy adults and children rarely become seriously ill.
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Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The fatal disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.
In people, symptoms of the disease include psychiatric and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.
BSE can cause infected animals to display nervousness or aggression, difficulty in coordination and standing up, decreased milk production or loss of body weight, according to the agency.
It is usually transmitted between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed to other cattle.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the odds of a person contracting mad cow disease, even after consuming contaminated products, are less than one in 10 billion.
Unlike most other meat-borne illnesses, such as those caused by E.-coli bacteria, cooking does not kill the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease.
Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone. The group also says to choose boneless cuts of meat and ground beef only if it has been ground in the store.
Last year, 29 cases of BSE were reported worldwide, down 99 percent since the peak of 37,311 cases in 1992.


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Thread: Computer Art
September 11th, 2006, 09:14 PM #61
I'm still wondering what happens if you twist the robot's nipples. Ooops, we're not allowed that word, are we? But you know, from a purely functional perspective, the robot doesn't just have mounds there, there are buttons, therefore they must do something. What?
Are you sure that japanese girl isn't wearing chinese silk?
September 12th, 2006, 12:33 AM #62
The buttons are holding on the armor. They work much better than zippers.
And just so you people don't think I'm slacking off... Another picture! This one is called "The Discussion."
September 12th, 2006, 07:34 AM #63
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I like the backdrop a lot including the wine fountain, pinot noire, I betcha. There ought to be a bunch of teenagers hanging around that place.
I like her dress and hair but I don't understand her posture; why and how that tremendous arch on her right side?
He looks like a young Olivier quoting Romeo.
September 12th, 2006, 09:04 AM #64
Um, wouldn't it make more sense to be facing each other if they're having a discussion?
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Irony or hyperbole or sarcasm or a poignant observation on communication between the sexes; all work.
September 12th, 2006, 10:03 AM #66
I had left out a very important piece of the picture, I realized this morning. So now I have gone and fixed that, and reposted the picture up above. You'll now see there is another figure at the top of the stairs, who brings another whole aspect into the scene. I also fixed the lady's overly arched front a bit.
The story here, of course, is not the lady in front but the young man in the middle, made more clear now by the addition of the new figure up above. The choice of color for her is intentional: while her clothing, etc. are very fine, their shade is similar in hue to the building, indicating that she represents the temptation of the material (as does her beauty, of course). The other spots of color are the robes the men are wearing, representing their monastic vocation; and the water in the fountain behind the young man, more or less equidistant from him as the young lady, and representing purity.
I don't often go for a lot of symbolism, but this one seemed to come together that way.
As for what they are discussing, that is where your own imaginations can come into play...
September 12th, 2006, 11:23 AM #67
There lips aren't moving, but its easy to see what the males eyes are saying In a moment the girl will spin round, stomp over and slap the closer guy yelling, "You pig!"
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No, sorry, Dazzler, you're mis-reading it. They're monks; you can tell by their habits. He's telling her it's not his fault; it's god's.
Pardon the interruption but there is a new site you should definitely check out:
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September 12th, 2006, 06:17 PM #69Originally Posted by Hereford Eye
September 12th, 2006, 08:55 PM #70
Nice idea for a site but HE, why do you refuse to stay in your box? And why did I expect that from you?
Why don't the monks have beer bellies?
You need to go buy the ugly, old, fat, and dirty, people addition to this package, I'd like it a lot better that way.
September 12th, 2006, 10:03 PM #71Originally Posted by Rocket Sheep
September 13th, 2006, 05:07 AM #72
Well, if they were perfect they'd either be boring... or hiding something.
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Staying in the box would mean capitulation to the forces of ennui.*
Why don't the monks have beer bellies?
The Sheepster has a point, Mr. Radical Thorn, sir. True progress in CGI, and any ability to generate comic books from same, will require the ability to create all the varieties of the world's population.
Dealing with TLWSHLWM's computer and putting up the Seven Threads website has kept me out of the fiction business for the last week and a half. I can only do so many useful things for so many hours in a day and then I must take some time off to play.....or to sleep....or to lose my mind to never-never land...or post anonymously on other people's blogs....or whatever it is that happens to me.
* ennui is one of the Greek gods so unimportant that her name is not even capitalized.
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September 13th, 2006, 09:12 AM #74
No disagreements on the subject of character attribute variation. The human models are actually capable of a reasonable degree of manipulation, both skinny and overweight, although subject to the same limitations as aging - just as you can't imitate wrinkled skin save through painted on textures, you can't introduce rolls of skin such as heavy people exhibit. The skin on the models is not a deformable structure (at least not in an additive sense like this, although you can shrink and expand the 'envelope' as a whole).
The problem is more the conforming clothes. That the clothes attach themselves and move with the figure is one of the neat things about them, but they are quite complex models in themselves. The designers of the better quality clothes also build in adjustment parameters for them so that if the underlying figure is altered, the clothing parts alter too (which accounts for their greater cost, as the designer has to build a lot of extra stuff into them). However, there are limits to how far the clothing can 'stretch.' One limitation, aside from the physical parameters of the model's structure, is the texture applied to it. On real clothes, of course, more cloth is used to make a larger size. On a model, it just stretches the way the human model's skin is stretched (as a 3D model surface). When you do this the texture doesn't 'grow,' it just stretches too. So extreme enlargement just makes the textures look really bad, like a polyester pattern on someone who needs to lose a few pounds. There's a great sumo wrestler-sized model one can buy, but you can't put any clothes on him other than a sumo loin cloth...
Back on the picture front... I find that one can never tell where a given piece of art is going to go. I started out with the intention of making a sci fi picture of someone walking down an urban street, but ended up here instead...
September 13th, 2006, 12:07 PM #75
Cool pic! If she's the new sherriff, HE's in trouble!


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