text: Red Sox Free Agents Category Galleries Red Sox Sports Syndicated Sports DH David Ortiz The Red Sox DH had a big contract year, batting .309 with 29 homers and 96 RBI in 2011. He made his seventh All-Star game with Boston, and said he would like to return. His demand of a two-year deal might keep the Sox away though. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images) CL Jonathan Papelbon The closer will be a free agent for the first time in his career, and will likely command a big-money contract. He had a great 2011, minus the final game, going 31-for-34 in save opportunities with a 4-1 record and ERA of 2.94. With Daniel Bard not ready to take over the 9th inning, the Red Sox should work hard to retain Papelbon. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) SS Marco Scutaro The Red Sox have a team option for $6 million, along with a $1.5 million buyout on Scutaro. The shortstop has a player option for $3 million, but may take the buyout in hopes of signing another multi-year deal somewhere. He played in 113 games in 2011, batting .299 with 118 hits and 54 RBI. (Photo by J. Meric/Getty Images) C Jason Varitek The soon-to-be 40-year old captain played well in his first year as a backup, hitting 11 home runs and driving in 36 in 68 games. It may be worth bringing the veteran catcher back because of his leadership and superb game-calling. If Tek retires, Josh Beckett would miss him the most… (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) SP Erik Bedard After being acquired from the Mariners at the trade deadline, Bedard went 1-2 for Boston. He was serviceable, but very unreliable, which has become his reputation. If the price is right, he may be worth signing for a year or two, but the Red Sox should steer clear of anything more and with a high dollar amount (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) P Tim Wakefield The Knuckleballer won his 200th career game in 2011, but other than that it was a rough go for the 45-year-old. He finished the season 7-8 with a 5.12 ERA, and spent most of his time in the bullpen. He got his spot back in the rotation when injuries ravaged the Sox. While he hopes to return, it's doubtful Boston will want him back. (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images) RF JD Drew Drew has stated he will likely return now that his 5-year, $70 million deal is done. Drew played in just 81 games, hitting four home runs with 22 RBI. The Red Sox will likely search for a replacement for Drew outside of the organization. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) Next Gallery: Bills Beat Patriots 34-31 View Comments


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Mushroom Pepper Steak Recipe
- 6 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce, divided
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pound beef top sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 cup reduced-sodium beef broth
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 3 teaspoons canola oil, divided
- 1 cup julienned sweet red pepper
- 1 cup julienned green pepper
- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges
- 6 green onions, sliced
- Hot cooked rice, optional
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine 3 tablespoons soy sauce and pepper; add beef. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 30-60 minutes. In a small bowl, combine the cornstarch, broth and remaining soy sauce until smooth; set aside.
- Drain and discard marinade from beef. In a large nonstick skillet or wok, stir-fry the garlic and ginger in 2 teaspoons oil for 1 minute. Add the beef; stir-fry for 4-6 minutes or until no longer pink. Remove beef and keep warm.
- Stir-fry the peppers in remaining oil for 1 minute. Add mushrooms; stir-fry 2 minutes longer or until peppers are crisp-tender. Stir broth mixture and add to vegetable mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Return beef to pan; add tomatoes and onions. Cook for 2 minutes or until heated through. Serve over rice if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
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Enjoy this recipe with a full-bodied red wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah.
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"The only thing I did different was add 2 tbs of brown sugar and with the fresh gingerroot I added grounded ginger. This recipe is delicious, I will add it to my recipe box. I served with marinade cumcumbers and onions. For desert I used an instant pudding and the left over rice making a rice pudding. The entire dinner was less then 1/2 hr cooking."

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Super Monday Night Combat
Super Monday Night Combat is a third person shooter with a MOBA style gameplay. Players are pitted against each other in teams consisting of a variety of colorful characters, as they try to push past each other's towers to destroy the other team's money ball. Boasting a fast-paced action/RPG gameplay with loads of light-hearted, Team Fortress 2 inspired style; SMNC is a game you should not miss.
Publisher: Uber Entertainment
Playerbase: High
Graphics: High
Type: Third Person Shooter/MOBA
EXP Rate: Average
PvP: Match Based
Filesize: 2 Gbs
Pros: +Incredibly fun MOBA-style action. +Character-specific play styles. +Stylish & colorful art direction. +Hilarious voice acting. +Solid soundtrack. +Teamwork oriented gameplay.
Cons: -Leaver issues are almost epidemic. –Too few maps/characters. –Steep character point prices. -Character balance issues.
Super Monday Night Combat Overview
Super Monday Night Combat is a third person MOBA that puts players in the role of gladiators/fighters in a futuristic televised combat game, in which the objective is to destroy the other team's moneyball. It takes inspiration from many games and genres, from DOTA, Team Fortress 2, to tower defense, and mashes those genres together in a humoristic cocktail that will have you laughing as you gun down your opponent. The variety of characters and classes leads to different play styles and team roles that are all as important in the making of a balanced, victorious team. Each character progresses through matches by improving their abilities, recruiting new minions and buying power-ups. Once the match ends, you're left with some coins to purchase products & endorsements, or you can always save up for a new character. The classes are;
Commandos – This high difficulty, high reward close range class has you surging through enemy lines with movement powers in order to dispatch specific foes with melee abilities. Warning; about as solid as wet tissue!
Strikers – Generalists with a leaning towards ranged combat, but the ability to play many roles well. Essential for a team, they fill the gaps that specialists cannot fill.
Enforcers – Strong, tanky pros with some solid damage and utility abilities. These are the characters you want to initiate, and take the brunt of enemy punishment.
Defenders – Support and defense specialists, efficient at holding positions, buffing their team mates, and keeping them healed. Absolutely necessary; they are the glue that binds the team.
Sniper – Long-range damage dealers meant to support other classes with accurate fire support. Player skill makes or breaks this class.
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Super Monday Night Combat Full Review
Super Monday Night Combat is back, a definite upgrade from the Xbox Live's Monday Night Combat, this time in free-to-play flavor, and with a whole lot more content (though perhaps still not quite enough). If you pick your game by style or flair, then folks, let me tell you this is one you will not want to miss. It includes a meager, but interesting cast of characters, some solid potential for team play oriented action, and enough challenge to go around. It's also very closely inspired from Team Fortress 2, while also picking from other genres such as MOBAs and tower defenses, mixing various elements into an entertaining mix that blurs the lines of different genres. That being said, does Super Monday Night Combat hit the gold mine with this new mish-mash of a gameplay, or does it fall flat?
Well, for a starter, it hasn't been said enough how bloody hilarious this game is; this is exactly the kind of flair that attracts and "Wows" new players, but that's not exactly so important for the long term appeal, though more on that later. Graphics are definitely one of this game's strong points, and the rocking soundtrack isn't bad either, complementing well the characters/maps. When you start up the game, you'll most likely not be entirely sure what to expect, after all this isn't exactly a straightforward FPS. Well, unfortunately, there's not much interaction in the tutorials as they are actually written guides complemented by YouTube videos. Is that a bad thing? Well, while this makes the size of the game smaller, it seems a bit lacking as far as tutorials go, though there is thankfully a training mode you should most definitely try before playing a real game. Once that's done, you should nonetheless still have an acceptable understanding of game mechanics, enough to get you started in your first game.
Giant Robot Chickens
So how does it all work? Similarly to other MOBA's, you get on a localized matchmaking queue, get matched up, pick a character, and there you go. Games are fairly straightforward; two teams are fighting to take each other's moneyball down, and to do so, you must push towards it with the help of friendly "bots", weaker minions that are released constantly, wave after wave. You will have to take down enemy defenses and pros in order to do so, with the help of a variety of bonuses and super minions you can yourself purchase. The action itself is smooth, the performance is generally good, and winning a game feels very rewarding. Throughout every match, you progress in levels through kills, gaining points you can either put in one of your character's 3 spells, or his offense/defense stats. Matches are filled with bonuses you can grab, ranging from bacon to neutral "creeps" you can take attack for gold/experience, notably Chickey Cantor, a giant robot chicken with its very own soundtrack (YouTube it, it's hilarious). The main issue on this level doesn't actually come from the gameplay; it's simply that leavers are absolutely rampant. There has seldom been a match during the reviewing of this game where there has not been someone absent from one of the two teams.
Cool Guys + Explosions
The character designs are excellent, ranging from floating inventors to a gangster gorilla (complete with Thompson machinegun), and each has a complete set of voice acting, some fairly intricate taunts, and a complete set of role-oriented abilities, dividing characters between damage dealers, tanks, support, long-range damage, and sometimes a few wild mixes thrown in. This leads to a very firmly team oriented gameplay, and lone wolves will often suffer, and make their team suffer in turn. Characters in SMNC are on a rotation, which means that you'll get access to a different number of them every week unless you've bought them from the money store, and that you're very likely to see the same characters over and over again. Thankfully, most of them are a blast to play with, and each has a solid variety of spells or supportive abilities to throw around. They can also all be customized in a variety of ways, for one with endorsements, a sort of items that give you a bonus while, while giving you a disadvantage for the sake of balance. The other way is products, that are basically special effects you can add to your arsenal, with an example being a bomb being dropped upon your death, or a speed boost upon spawning. Both of these types can be purchased with money won in-game, with real money from the cash store, or can be randomly won after a match. You can also add taunts and change the skins of your character or weapon, if the entire experience just isn't crazy and bubbly enough for you.
Bacon Galore
Most of the humor found here is not only contributed in great part by the two announcers, constantly cracking jokes as the match goes, but also by the very iconic character cast. You'll often hear other "pros" yelling out one-liners, and added to the already crowded background, this makes the entire experience very flashy, intense and bright. In fact, playing Super Monday Night Combat often feels like one big sugar rush and it's undeniably very hectic fun. Like a sugar rush however, it can be a short experience as there are currently few characters and maps to enjoy, which definitely blocks what could be a much more fulfilling, prolonged experience. The issue is compounded by the fact that the money store is not at all cheap, and that it takes a LOT of in-game points to purchase a single character. The announcers, while funny, will end up sounding very familiar with time; there's only so fun that can be obtained from repeated humor. As mentioned previously, the money store is not cheap, and taunts can cost upwards of 6$ a piece. The only thing that can be bought with in-game combat credits are endorsements, products and characters, if you want anything more, you'll need to dish out some serious money.
Final Verdict: Great
Super Monday Night Combat is a rewarding strike out in a new direction, bringing humor and third-person action to MOBAs, while keeping intact the tactical play known to the genre. While it lacks a certain amount of content, the foundations are there for an excellent and competitive game with a hefty dose of humor, including such pop culture favorites as bacon, chicken robots and rocket launcher-wielding teenage girls. If you enjoy shooters/RPGs, and can stand the occasional leaver, you'd be shooting yourself in the foot by missing this gem. Well, what are you waiting for? Go get it while it's hot!
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Super Monday Night Combat System Requirements
(estimates based on Monday Night Combat)
Minimum Requirements:
OS: XP(SP3)/Vista/Windows 7
CPU: 2 GHz Processor
RAM: 1GB of RAM
HDD: 2 GB Free
Graphics Card: DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0 compatible, VRAM 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series or ATI Radeon X1900
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- Super MNC Now Available On GamersFirst - Posted on March 1, 2013
The free-to-play arena combat game of the century hits GamersFirst.com for the first time.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
An Earnest Attempt.....
25 comments:
- Clara {Clover and Violet} said...
So much prettiness on one page!! Love them all!
- January 31, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Nicky said...
Happier for seeing your projects Mary and your socks! hehe They look like shamrocks and strawberries! Cute
Love your rose star blocks - I hope to get around to making one of these after finishing a couple of things...
And I want to make one of these colourful spiderwebs too! Well just about anything you get up to..
- January 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Lady Jane said...
I think you are remarkable with your time frames. I have been working for weeks to put a cape together. I love the spiderweb and I really like the cherry block's fabric. Very nice. Cheers. LJ
- January 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- jeanne e. said...
again, loving your rose stars! i finally made my two and they totally sew together quickly than hexies! i am still not sure what i want to do with them...maybe a table topper. :) your spider web quilt is also quite lovely. it is snowing here in maine and coming to your blog has cheered me up...such great colors! thanks.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM
- Archie the wonder dog said...
Love your spiderwebs - the background is a wonderful choice!
- January 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- selfsewn said...
you are making beautiful things...so you are..or is it to be sure??
- January 31, 2012 at 1:20 PM
- elizabeth said...
I am also trying to finish some of my UFO's. I don't remember having ADD growing up, but I definitely do when it comes to my quilting projects....I am always thinking about something else : ) Your spiderwebs are gorgeous, and I know whenever this quilt is finished it will be super gorgeous!
- January 31, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Frog Quilter said...
Cute socks!!!! Your projects are beautiful...
- January 31, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- Linda said...
I love your choice of fabrics. In the Spider quilt have you used specific ranges. If so, what are they, please?
- January 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM
- Little Island Quilting said...
Love it all...as usual ;-)
- January 31, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- Terri said...
You live and learn... I think that's why we abandon various projects. We see a new challenge, and want to start it right away... we want to learn another new thing. That's not a bad thing.
I love your spider web. I'm going to sign up as a follower so I can see it finished... or not. Whatever you decide. You made me smile, and that's a good thing.
- January 31, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Rachaeldaisy said...
At least when you get distracted you get distracted by other pretty projects!! All your fabric choices are wonderful!
- January 31, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Patchwork and Play said...
The background fabrics on the Spiderweb quilt are SO perfect! I love the variations you've used! And the cherry fabric- is there anything more wonderful than cherry fabric! And maybe your Rose Stars could be called Kitchen Stars! LOL!
- January 31, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Material Mary said...
The spiderweb quilt--stunning...the paper pieced blocks are just so yummy....Here's encouragement to finish them up!!
- January 31, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- Cardygirl said...
Love both projects...you are inspiring me!
- January 31, 2012 at 3:27 PM
- Nifty Quilts said...
Your spiderweb looks fantastic! I may have to make this one too...someday. Love the Rose and Star as well.
- January 31, 2012 at 3:45 PM
- Kim with a K said...
Love your blocks!
So bright and fun!
- January 31, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
all the fun colors really cheered me up today. LOVE the Rose Stars!
- January 31, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- MB in MI said...
Love these projects! Keep up the good work..they'll be beautiful.
- January 31, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Mary on Lake Pulaski said...
I don't think I've seen your spiderweb before It's gorgeous. Two more beautiful rose star blocks too Mary.
- January 31, 2012 at 11:43 PM
- Kris from DukeSaysSewWhat said...
I love every photo in this post! Those latest rose stars are your best yet! Cute socks, too!
- February 1, 2012 at 12:13 AM
- Carla said...
Bright and cheerful projects, just like your socks...can't beat that!
- February 1, 2012 at 1:41 AM
- Marit said...
Love your spiderwebs! Sometimes a bit of a break on a bigger project is a good thing. This will be so pretty.
Your star and rose blocks are also very pretty - every single one!
- February 1, 2012 at 3:28 AM
- Lucy @ Charm About You said...
The spiderweb is amazing! How bright and beautiful :)
Loving the newest rose and star blocks too. That chicken is brilliant!!
- February 1, 2012 at 5:15 AM
- Julie said...
my, my... i love your spiderweb! the colors are fantastic! :-) can't wait to see it how you decide to quilt it. and fyi... when on vaca, if i got on the internet i still checked to see what beautiful stuff you were working on. makes me smile every time. see ya soon!
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- Typical placements include Liberty Mutual, RNK Telecommunication, Natural Microsystems, Inc., NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
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A "Beyond Invaluable" Experience
I worked as a legal intern at Mint Energy, a competitive energy supplier in Burlington, MA. It was a great all-around experience, and I got to see what practicing corporate attorneys do every day.
Working with the general counsel, I was exposed to a broad spectrum of legal issues. As someone who has a strong interest in both corporate and environmental law it was fascinating to see how and where these two areas meet. It was an exciting place to work, as you never knew what type of new legal issue was going to walk into the office on a given day. I was responsible for helping out on a wide array of projects, everything from regulatory compliance filings and contract revisions to civil litigation matters and lease provisions. If you are a student interested in business law, you simply must apply for the Business Practice Credit. I strongly recommend it to anyone that wants to gain hands-on legal experience to complement your course work in business law. — Thomas Moore '15
Working at the Massachusetts Securities Division (MSD) was a dream come true. Right away, I was treated more like a member of the team than just an intern. Attorneys were constantly taking an interest in what I was doing and making sure that I was learning.
I had many of the responsibilities that entry-level attorneys have. I assisted in the drafting of an administrative complaint, reviewed subpoenas, took part in an investment adviser exam, observed a deposition, and researched cutting edge securities issues, such as crowd funding and using eminent domain to obtain underwater mortgages for the purpose of refinancing.
The highlight of my experience was helping to prepare for and then observe an administrative hearing, after which I assisted in the drafting of the post-hearing memorandum. Through this experience, I was able to see a case from the pre-hearing to post-hearing stage and get an up-close look at how administrative law really works. I loved every minute of my experience and I hope to return to MSD as an attorney one day. — Erin Gaudreau '14
Sony Music Entertainment provided me with an experience that goes above and beyond invaluable. During the summer of 2013 I was able to work with the Business and Legal Affairs Division in New York City. After the first week I felt as if I was home; everyone was truly welcoming. The environment really kept me on my toes and I was working with many other attorneys beside my supervisor, Neil Berman, on various projects and contracts. I was able to draft different types of agreements such as: trademark license and co-existence agreements; asset purchase agreements; tour production agreements; joint and co-ventures; record label agreements; contest and sweepstakes rules for promotions; and nondisclosure agreements. I was also fortunate enough to get an invitation to attend a trial with one of the senior attorneys, Wade Leak, in which Sony was a party to a copyright royalty claim, so that I could see the litigation side of things. I felt as if everyone truly valued my opinion on all matters, which helped to further nurture a very rewarding learning environment. I can only hope that I get the chance to encounter and work with Sony Music's talented attorneys in the future since, after all, the music business is truly a small world! — Alexandria Hock '14
During spring 2013, I interned for the Office of Ethics & Corporate Compliance at Fresenius Medical Care in North America (FMCNA), which is the largest dialysis provider in the world. Given that FMCNA is a vertically integrated company, I gained experience and exposure to every aspect of FMCNA businesses, including clinical services, pharmacy, and products research.
During the summer of 2012 I was an intern in the enforcement section of the Massachusetts Securities Division. My work included IPO and REIT investigations, and research on Fifth Amendment privilege, the role of investment advisors in hedge funds, and on pooled investment vehicles. I also drafted inquiry letters and subpoenas and did citation checks for administrative complaints.
Thanks to the help of professors at New England Law | Boston, I was able to work in multiple internships that range from NASDAQ OMX/BOXR to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The faculty made themselves available for an exceptional amount of advice, discussion, and guidance when I decided to enter the field of business and corporate law. The Business Practice Credit allowed me to gather the necessary experience from these internships and garner enough knowledge to now have a great opportunity to work in compliance at a major financial institution following graduation. The professors and supervisors I worked for at these internships made this possible. The Business Practice Credit is where all opportunities began for me, and it is the best way to become involved and experienced in business law. — David Erickson '10
Spending a semester working in FINRA's Enforcement Division was a challenging and gratifying experience. I was able to get a realistic and varied experience of what it is like to be a securities litigator through important assignments that were critical to the success of pending cases. Representative assignments throughout the internship included drafting settlement documents, preparing an appellate brief, drafting complaints, and taking investigative testimony. I worked closely with senior staff on every assignment and my suggestions and recommendations were always given due consideration. Feedback on assignments was thorough and incredibly helpful. The skills and law that I learned through practical experience at FINRA complemented my securities class work at New England Law | Boston perfectly. The collegial atmosphere made every minute spent at FINRA an enlightening, rewarding, and enjoyable experience. — Matthew Hranitz '09
My experience at Sedo.com, LLC was invaluable. The Business Practice Credit gave me the opportunity to work as an in-house corporate legal intern at a rapidly growing Internet company. I felt that this position provided me with the opportunity to further explore the areas of law I was most interested in; more specifically, Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Law. I faced new challenges every day and dealt with matters I would not have dreamed of encountering as an intern, such as: drafting joint venture agreements, arbitrating trademark disputes, and interacting with attorneys that represent extremely high- profile clients. This opportunity served as the perfect practical component of my law school education. — Keith J. Bae '08
My experience through the Business Practice Credit placement gave me perspective on the legal side of companies and business transactions. My placement was with the Enforcement Division of FINRA. I gained a great deal of insight into securities law, and the NASD [National Association of Securities Dealers] gave me the hands-on, practical experience with the regulation of the United States securities industry. I was directly involved with all areas of enforcement and was able to draft sanction agreements and complaints, assist in depositions, and plan and prepare hearing documents. I have previous experience in the banking industry, and my placement at the NASD helped solidify my plan to go into regulatory compliance when I graduate. — Dan Brunk '07
I have been spending time with Circor's General Counsel, Alan Glass, weekly since the first week in September. I was fortunate to have working knowledge of the company through my experiences as a commercial insurance broker for Marsh and McLennan handling Circor's Director's and Officer's insurance program. Alan has been introducing me to different contacts amongst Circor's operating divisions so that I may gather and analyze the different term and conditions being used by the operation divisions for purchase and sale.
The backdrop to this analysis is application of the terms and conditions within the context of Article 2. I am also spending time with Alan as he goes through litigation management and mergers and acquisition protocols. I have found these differing roles to be very interesting and is has confirmed my interest in corporate law and the desire to pursue the role of in-house after law school. — Willem Erwich '06
The Business Practice Credit was a wonderful opportunity for me to explore my interest in business transactional law. I chose a placement in the Boston Stock Exchange legal department to match my specific interests. My hands-on experience there not only supplemented my learning experience in law school, but it also allowed me to make contacts in the area of law that I intend to pursue as my career. The Business Practice Credit offers invaluable practical experience for anyone who wants to explore the practice of business law. — Stephanie Shirley '05
My placement at RNK Telecom through the Business Law Practice Credit gave me the opportunity to experience an in-house counsel work environment. During my internship, I worked on several research projects that allowed me to learn about the telecommunications industry and the impact the law has on it. I was interested in business law when I entered law school, and this placement offered me hands-on experience in a business setting. — James Thurman '03 spent a semester as a legal intern at RNK Inc. (RNK Telecom) in Dedham, MA, where Douglas S. Denny-Brown ('97) is general counsel and vice-president of regulatory affairs


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this treatise
by a retail expert that includes a comment from Daniel Hurwitz, president and CEO of
DDR Corp.
The author, Jeff Jordan, is a partner at venture capital firm
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who previously served as president and CEO of OpenTable, which he took public in 2009. Before OpenTable, he was president of PayPal, so he understands the retail landscape.
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He performs an analysis of the National Retail Federation's list of the Top 100 retailers in 2012, focusing on merchandise retailers that would likely be located in malls (removing grocery, drug, restaurant and online retailers). Mr. Jordan focused on three measures of retailer health: total sales growth, comp store sales growth and number of stores.
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On a positive note, he says most real estate professionals "understand that profound changes are afoot" and are trying to change the retail mix at their shopping centers and to downsize in smart ways.
Among those real estate pros is Mr. Hurwitz, who observes, "I don't think we're overbuilt. I think we're under-demolished."
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Tuna, Yellowfin – Indonesia Longline
Yellowfin Tuna are found and caught in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide with a variety of fishing gears. This report evaluates Yellowfin Tuna caught in the Indonesia longline fishery in the Western Central Pacific Ocean.
Yellowfin Tuna in the Western Central Pacific are at a healthy abundance level and are currently being fished at the maximum sustainable level in the tropical equatorial region where the Indonesia fishery takes place. The longline fishery for Yellowfin Tuna also targets bigeye tuna and catches some swordfish, marlins, sharks, and sea turtles. Because several of these species are overfished, threatened, or endangered, the fishery is considered to have a high impact on other species.
Several management regulations have been established to manage these species at the regional level, through the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, but management in Indonesia is currently poor. Indonesia is working to improve management of their tuna fisheries. The surface longline gear used to catch Yellowfin Tuna causes no damage to bottom habitats, but since tuna fisheries catch several top predator species, there is some concern that these fisheries may affect ocean food webs and ecosystems.
This fish may have high levels of mercury that could pose a health risk to adults and children. More info here about mercury in tuna. Check out our mercury in seafood section.


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|The Rockies lost another one thanks to Jim Tracy.
In the top of the 7th inning, in a 2-1 game, Jim Tracy elected to allow pitcher Alex White to lead off the frame. White was pitching well in his 2012 debut. He had given Tracy six strong innings and kept his team in the ballgame. However, he was as much of a guaranteed out as it gets in Major League Baseball.
The offense had just nine outs to work with, and an offense that has sputtered on the road, and had scored just two runs in the previous 18 innings. On a humid night at Petco Park where the air gets extremely heavy at night, runs come at a premium.
Of course, White struck out for the first out of the inning.
So what's the big deal? It was the first out of the inning and it was only the 7th inning anyway. Of course, saying that the Rockies bullpen has been overused is as big of an understatement as can be made. So it makes some sense to try to extend the starter for another inning.
The problem starts there, however. White was making his first big league start of the year. He had already given the club and the bullpen a huge lift by pitching through six innings. To this bullpen, it probably felt like he had pitched 16 straight innings. However, he was understandably tiring on the mound.
So what happened? White went back out to the mound and walked the first hitter, got an out, then gave up a single to put runners on first and third with one out. Tracy went and got White, choosing Matt Reynolds to face lefty Wil Venable. Reynolds got the strikeout. Tracy went back to the mound to get a right-on-right matchup with Cameron Maybin facing Esmil Rogers.
Rogers ended up getting the strikeout, putting the Rockies back in the dugout.
It may have seemed like great maneuvering by Tracy. He had pieced together three pitchers to get out of a runner-on-third-one-out-jam.
Look deeper. Now of course, there is no guarantee that a pinch hitter gets on base, in fact, the results may have been exactly the same. However, what if Dexter Fowler or Chris Nelson came in and got a base hit. The Rockies would have the tying run on with no outs and a plethora of possibilities to score the tying run.
Of course, the run never scored, the pinch-hitter never happened. So who knows what would have happened.
The Rockies then headed back to the field for the bottom of the 8th inning. Who was on the mound for the Rockies? Rogers. After getting a huge strikeout to end the previous inning, Tracy opted to go back to Rogers for the 8th. The frustration with Rogers is that he isn't inconsistent from outing-to-outing, he is inconsistent from hitter-to-hitter.
Rogers immediately walked Yonder Alonso. After getting an out, Rogers then predictably gave up a triple to Orlando Hudson. Alonso nearly was thrown out, but Marco Scutaro fumbled the relay throw and there was no play at the plate.
Tracy had to go back to the mound and get newcomer (and after Tuesday's game newly departed) Adam Ottavino.
So, for review, Jim Tracy gave away one of the remaining nine offensive outs in a one-run game in order to allow Alex White to pitch another inning and save the tired bullpen. In that inning, White got one out while allowing two base runners. To get the additional two outs, Tracy had to use two relief pitchers, both of whom have been overworked.
Instead of trying to keep the club within one, Tracy chose to go back to Rogers in the bottom of the 8th. He predictably gave up another run, effectively putting the Rockies out of it.
Tracy has to decide what he wants to be. Does he want to be a guy who saves the tired bullpen? If so, he needs to forget about winning the game and give the bullpen much needed rest.
Or, does Tracy want to be a manager who wants to win the game in front of the team that day? Of course no manager can run pitchers out there over and over. That is simply irresponsible. However, the way Tracy managed on Tuesday night, he picked neither of those options and ended up with what he wished for. Not only did the team not win, but he wasn't able to save a tired bullpen, even when his starter gave him 6-1/3 beautiful innings.
Despite the ineptitude in the Rockies dugout, one thing must be mentioned. The Rockies got an excellent start from White. If there was one thing good that came from the game on Tuesday it was that the Rockies might have a few answers down on the farm. White looked great. He pounded the strike zone and did more than anyone could have expected. He certainly looked better than he did in September of 2011. That is a very positive development for the Rockies.
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International Model Boat Show on the 11th-13th November, at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, Fosse Way,
Nr Leamington Spa on the Junction of the A425/B4455.
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SteveUK wrote:Hi guys.
I will be there on Fri and Sunday. My model subs will be with the Bournville Model Yacht & Power boat stand.
I am taking my Nautilus, type VII, and 688 LA (working on this at the moment).
I used to be a Subcommittee UK member a while back. Met Alec at the NEC with Subtech this year and bought some guts to go in my U-boat. I said I must re-join, but haven't got around to it yet. I guess the membership runs from Jan-Dec am I right?
The old issues of the SCR are really proving usefull - loads of hints and tips for the LA 688 I am working on in there.
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Fayetteville, N.C., volunteers receive NWTF national award for youth event
Photos and interviews for media available upon request through Josh Fleming.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Volunteers from the NWTF's Sandhills Chapter received national acclaim for their role in nurturing youth interest and education about the outdoors and an active lifestyle through the NWTF's JAKES outreach program.
The Fayetteville, N.C.-based chapter was honored with the 2011 Best Xtreme JAKES Event Award Feb. 10 at the NWTF's National Convention and Sport Show at Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The award was presented at the NWTF's Federal Breakfast, which celebrated the theme: "Champions of Outeach." More than 1,000 JAKES events were held throughout the nation last year by NWTF volunteers.
At the Sandhills Chapter event, attended by more than 200 youth, including several from a local children's home, a wide variety of learning stations were offered. Children learned to make their own fishing lures, shoot airguns using the JAKES Take Aim trailer and learned to practice water safety skills in kayaks.
The NWTF's JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) program teaches the principles of wildlife management and the traditions of safe, ethical and responsible hunting for youth up to age 12.
At JAKES events, youth learn about the outdoors, participating in activities such as hunting and fishing while learning about wildlife and the importance of conservation.
"The Sandhills Chapter provided a shining example of how JAKES events teach our youth about the outdoors and conservation in a fun-filled, safe environment," JAKES program coordinator Mandy Harling said.
The NWTF's Xtreme JAKES program provides advanced outdoor opportunities and challenges for ages 13-17. More than 75,000 youth attended JAKES and Xtreme JAKES events in 2011. Any local chapter that holds a JAKES event can apply for 10 highly competitive JAKES national awards.
Founded in 1973, the NWTF is dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage.
Through dynamic partnerships with state, federal and provincial wildlife agencies, the NWTF and its members have achieved a great success in restoring wild turkey populations throughout the United States, spending more than $372 million to conserve 17 million acres of habitat for all types of wildlife.
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this beta is good for me, at least better than the two previous
still need to patch fglrx_drv.so to get rid of watermark and replace control file to enable aticonfig functionnalities
Yet again, AMD screws things up with regards to the graphics part and linux. I'm guessing we won't ever see a AMD driver that is really ON PAR with windows. Guess we just have to wait for gallium here.
That really makes me angry. I don't care, that Unigine Heaven runs pretty much equally fast on my Win7 with DX11 or my Kubuntu with OpenGL 4.
I want power for demaning games with high end game engines like OpenArena, not for dated crap like Unigine - or even the much worse Source Engine. Who on earth would play that now nowadays?
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Glad I switched to Nvidia. They really are gaming oriented.
If only optimus would be supported on Linux


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Seeds of Old Trees: 5. Good News, and Bad
Golden lamps swung among the canopy of undying leaves, picking out a carving here, there a fresco in bright paint - Mablung in the dragon's den; Elwing caught in flight, half woman and half mew, the sun bright on her white feathers. It was a strange, eclectic mix of architectures and styles. The unmistakable line of a Galadhrim flet was decorated with interlace which spoke of Lindon. A hall, such as the raft-elves had built in Laketown, glowed with woven tales of Avari heroes, unimaginably distant in time and understanding.
Only the king's house was of stone, and that they flew over twice, each time lower, before Celeborn beheld it for what it was. It seemed at first a round hill, where tangled blackthorn opened their pale sweet flowers to the night - the scent of them a thin freshness, as delightful as starlight to the fëa. Only when they alighted - the rush and sudden halt, the feeling of falling making Celeborn laugh out loud in delight - could the house beneath be seen: The pillars of crystal, and the walls of nimluingon, translucent and pale as cloud, shot through with veins of deep indigo, of purple midnight dark. It looked rather grown than built, as though the mind which shaped the glittering caverns of Aglarond had here wrought a king's palace, and some other kindly force, thinking its splendour too great for even elven eyes to bear, had cloaked it in the seeming of a growing knoll.
"And that is indeed the truth," Elladan must have picked the thought from his grandfather's mind. "Aulë and Yavanna made it for Melian, as a sign of their support."
"Support?" Celeborn paused before dismounting, fully appreciating the sleek warmth of feathers beneath his hands, the great eagle's breathing and heartbeat, which trembled through his bones, shaking him with borrowed ferocity. On eagle-back it was hard to feel anything but magnificent - Lord of the Skies. Aglarhir's arrogance was far more understandable once one had looked down at the scurrying world from a place of tearing speed and sunlight.
"The union of elf and Maia seemed less... problematic... to the Powers," Elladan's ironic tone was so similar to Elrond's that Celeborn could not help but imagine the raised eyebrow, the Peredhil's look of distant, welling humour and disapproval, "when it occurred many miles away - in the uncivilized fastnesses of Arda Marred."
Around the base of the palace-hill there lay a long swathe of grass, grey beneath the night sky, and there, on pale, slender stalks, nodded delicate white and pale green blossoms of niphredil. The tiny flowers brought back so much remembered pain that Celeborn's elation was swept away at once. Luthien he thought, for these flowers had burst into the world new born to celebrate the birth of that fairest maid - a sister to him as Galathil had never been brother. And Arwen - for she had laid herself down to die amid the niphredil in the withering grass of Lothlorien, and it had been as though winter came, without hope for spring.
"They fear the example? They fear to unleash great dooms and destinies? Or to encourage us to look at them with less awe than love?"
"I am not privy to the councils of the Valar," Elladan snorted at his grandfather's vehemence, "Only I know that they were better pleased with the example of a Melian bowed beneath her loss's grief than with her restored to happiness with her husband. Some argue that they should live apart - like you and Daeraneth - if only to make the point that such unions cannot be lastingly blessed."
Celeborn dropped his bag onto the turf, then slid from the eagle's shoulder to the ground, almost overwhelmed by the scent of the niphredil. There were good memories too, to be found in the perfume, both of Doriath and Lorien - dancing and laughter and love, amid the sorrow. "I am become a cautionary tale now? That will have to change."
"Eagles do not mate with lesser birds," Aglarhir mantled his wings, allowing the gentle breeze to ruffle his polished metallic feathers. "If we did, we should have chicks who were fit only to be thrown from the nest. They do right to doubt such crossbreeding."
"Splendid One!" Elladan silenced him, shocked, "What is right for eagles may not be right for elves. Let us talk of this later. For now, hush. They come!"
Celeborn, less outraged than his grandson - for he had heard the same thing said about his own marriage, and lived to see the children of my line rule all Ennor in majesty - turned and smiled as the doors of the king's house opened and Elu and Melian came out. Like the rest of Doreden they had clearly been asleep. But, warned perhaps by her prescience, perhaps by his stationed guards, they had arisen and paused only to throw on the most informal robes ere they came running to greet him in person.
Seeing them thus dishevelled, abandoning dignity for this act of utter welcome, Celeborn felt the first sensation of true homecoming he had yet felt in Valinor. Touched, he looked aside, covering an embarrassed smile. It was one thing for Thingol to come to meet him in Alqualondë, where they were neither of them kings - equal in being out of place - quite another for him to do it here, in the centre of his power.
"Aranadar," said Elladan, and went down on one knee, formal and beautiful as a medieval knight in a church window. Celeborn bowed, and even the eagle, after glaring at the royal couple with a wide, sunbright eye, inclined his head at last.
But Elu laughed. "Come, Palanion, are either of us dressed for such courtesy? Up with you and let us go inside ere the whole city awakens to stare."
There was some truth in his jest. Aside from the focussed attention of guards, their minds taut as their bowstrings, there was now a stirring among the nearer buildings as drowsy, curious folk leaned over the edge of telain, out of house windows, to see the great eagle, and their king, in midnight conference on the grass of the new world. There was no alarm, but there was a wariness, as though not all those there had learned to trust in Aman's promise that there would be no more pain. They had not put down their vigilance, hard learned by the lessons of Arda Marred.
Celeborn was both comforted and challenged by the thought that there were many other Sindar who had not yet fully accepted that they were no longer in Ennor. But seeing it - the suspicion, the readiness to suspect threat, he understood too how unsettling such an attitude might seem to the true Amanyar. As though the Ennorim were constantly on the look out for violence. We bring our 'taint', from the realm Morgoth polluted in its very atoms, to trouble them here, where he only sojourned for a while. It is no wonder they cannot whole-heartedly welcome us.
"I greet you, King of the Lindar," said Aglarhir, "And you, Melian, lady of the Maia. But I will not come into your stone house. I have no desire to burrow in the ground like a rabbit, and I grow tired of elves." He shifted delicately from foot to foot, the sword-like talons gentle in their grip on the flower-strewn turf. "I will hunt and sleep, and once I am done, I will depart. If Elladan wishes to come with me, he will be waiting for me here at dawn. If not, he must seek me elsewhere, for I will be gone."
Elladan leapt to his feet and gave Elu an apologetic smile before turning to his friend. "I will be waiting. Forgive me, Aglarhir. You have been very patient with me and my family. Now I will go where you will - into the mountains and the waste places. At dawn then."
"Farewell, O Eagle," said Celeborn, grateful for the experience of flight, though not entirely sure he liked the creature, "May the wind bear you high and far, into good fortune."
"You are a seed floating on the air," the eagle replied with unexpected insight. He saw the flash of that strange, wild generosity once more in its fierce gaze, "May you come to earth and take root." And he departed, leaving the elf-lord chastened, a little ashamed of being so quick to condemn one whom his grandson found worthy.
Elladan was now walking arm in arm with Thingol into the sleek, mother-of-pearl glory of the palace. Snatches of their conversation drifted back - words from Elrond concerning the character and interests of many of the Mirdain; obscure pieces of gem lore which meant nothing to Celeborn but made him feel a huge and weary nausea of spirit. They were not still pursuing their foolish craft, surely?
"Welcome home, Telpë." Turning, he found Melian by his side. Her soft grey robe swept down to bare feet and her small white hands were twisted together in what would have seemed - had she not been a Queen, an immortal Power - a gesture of vulnerability. Her face was radiant as always, and a light somewhere between star and sunlight shone in her mist-grey eyes, but her long ebony hair floated unbound in the night air with a movement both tender and restless.
"My lady," he said, and waited to find out what he felt. No longer adoration at any rate. Long he had been furious with her, unable to forget the bloodstains in Menegroth's corridors, the small, accusing graves of children, cut down by dwarven axes. The friends murdered, the mourning emptiness and disbelief of those who remained to rebuild. Where was Melian?! Where was she? How could she let this happen? Oh yes, for many years he had brooded on the bitterness of that betrayal, cursing her in his heart because she was our protector, our mother, our Queen - and she left us to die!
Sensing the direction of his thoughts, she looked away, and her smile was rather a gesture of defiance than an expression of her heart. "You are angry with me. I knew it would be so." Moving away, she began to walk towards the crystal doors, and he fell into step beside her, marvelling at how much forgiveness was required to come and live well in Aman. First Galadhon, then she. Where will it stop?
"Did you know?" he said, unkind perhaps, but she knew him well enough not to expect kindness. "Did you know the Dwarves were coming? Did you know you left us utterly vulnerable - with Oropher in Brethil and Amdir in Nargothrond, myself in the very vaults of the enemy, and no one to lead the warriors or rally a defence? You had thought enough to send poor Mablung alone to the treasury. You had thought for the damn Silmaril! What about us? What about your people?"
She stopped, and gasped - the smallest sound of pain - and he found his wrath slipping from his fingers. It was harder to sustain the grudge now that she was before him and he could see how much hurt it caused.
Looking aside, she reached out and took his elbow, steering him into a small chamber where a tall harp stood, and instruments, swaddled in sheepskin and silk, sat in muffled watchfulness about the walls. "Let us not quarrel in public," she said, "Nor before Thingol - he is so glad that you have returned. So many children we have lost - Luthien, my most precious jewel. And Turin, poor Turin, for whom even the greatest kindness could not soothe the canker in his heart... And you, our dutiful one, whom perhaps we forgot sometimes, because you were always there, solid and dependable. No less love did we have for you, if at times we were overcome by the tragedy and striving of the others. Do not begrudge us our joy at having at least one son restored to us."
Celeborn laid his hand gently on the harp, which had gone slightly out of tune and whispered a dissonance beneath his fingers. It was pleasant to hear that he was so valued, for - long ago - he had grieved that they made Turin their son, but would not do the same for him. Much pondering on the subject had made him see that to do so would have been a slight to the memory of his grandfather, the loyal Elmo, who shepherded Elu's people when Thingol disappeared, but never took the name of King. And having come to understand it the grief had left him. He looked forward to greeting his grandfather in person in the morning, for he had little doubt the king's favourite brother would be here in Doreden, a power behind the throne as he was of old.
But Melian was distracting him with this talk of fondness. If she had thought him her son, like Turin, did it not make her deed even more inexcusable?
"Elu has always my love and reverence," he said, "And I begrudge him nothing. But you have not answered my question. Did you know?"
"Ah!" she spun and faced a wall at random. He could not see her face, but her back was rigid and her fists closed. The fall of gleaming jet hair lay like a mourning veil over slender shoulders, and he wondered for the first time if she had chosen a body of such delicacy to reflect the fragility of her spirit. It was a strange thought, he was accustomed to believing her so strong. "Truly it is said that the men of the Sindar are harsh."
Circling, he found that her gaze was fixed on a swirl of purple crystal in the wall. She had opposed Morgoth with her will, and held his people safe for many long years by her power, and yet at his word tears stood in her eyes. It astounded him. "I do not wish to be harsh," he said, and knelt in front of her, so that she could see he spoke true, "Only to understand. How can I forgive, if I do not understand?
Kneeling too, silk settling around her in ripples like twilit water, she smiled the kind of smile that hovers above a lake of tears. "Did I know? No. I knew nothing. Nothing but that my husband was dead and my life over and my soul torn asunder. Nothing, but that to take another breath was more labour than I could bear, and that all was emptiness, meaningless, worthless without him." She laced her fingers together and taking a deep breath met his eye, some dignity restored. "For Elu I became as one of the Eldar. It did not occur to me that there could be a reason to remain, when he was gone."
And after all, perhaps he had been unfair to judge her as though she was an elf. Perhaps she had never known that in marrying Thingol she had taken on not only earthly love, not only children, but a whole nation. That immovable sense of responsibility which was normally instilled in any noble child, she would never have known - never having been a child. Looking at the bowed, humble posture, he wondered if it was blasphemy to pity a Maia. Perhaps it was this realization that - however powerful - the Maia had their own flaws of character, and were no more to be worshiped than accepted as fellow creatures, which made Elu and Melian's relationship so much of a embarrassment to distant Valimar.
She did not know. The news was like the lightening of a shadow cast across his life for six Ages of the world. She did not know - perhaps her prescience failed because her heart was breaking, who could blame her for that? But she had not known that she let death follow in her departing footsteps, she had not deliberately betrayed them. For a long moment he sat motionless in blessed relief. And then he said "Rinaneth," and reached out to take her flawless hands in his.
"Oh, my kinsman," the tears that all this time had welled in her eyes now fell, colourless and abject as elven tears, and he thought of Oropher suddenly, and Beleg, of Amdir and Saeros and Eol, none of whom were known for their tact.
"How many times have you borne this accusation?" he said, "Too many, I wager."
"They look at me differently," she said, and wiped the tears with trembling fingers, "All of the Sindar, all of Elu's folk. I have lost their love."
And none of them had learned - as he had learned from Galadriel - that great power did not protect the heart from pain, that one could reshape the world at will and still be vulnerable, still need the strength of others to carry on. He loosed her hands, and at her look of sorrow for that drawing away, he dared to lean forward and hug her, letting go, himself, of ten thousand years of resentment. "But not mine," he said, lighter and more free for this reconciliation. "Not mine."
At dawn, he arose to bid farewell to Elladan. As seemed typical - for he had observed it well in Men - his grandson's ability to travel at speed had resulted in him having less, rather than more time to spend. Celeborn found that, though the soar into cloudless sky was something he would miss, he could not envy the fretful novelty of one new place after another.
"If you see her before I do," he said, in parting, "Bear my love to your grandmother and tell her that my heart is not changed from when I first beheld her in Doriath." For all her talk about neither seeing nor speaking to him, this strange conversation by eagle-messenger had been the closest communication he had had with her for millennia. It was a small thrill of joy to know that finally they stood on the same world and breathed the same air as each other; that if he spoke, his words would reach her, eventually. It had not been so, for a very long time.
Returning to his room, he found it cluttered with esquires and fine clothing. A tall figure, struggling with the tangled layers of an opal-coloured cloak, turned at his footfall. His dark hair - braided in a thousand small plaits, each wound with silver cord and tipped with a jewelled clip - swung at the movement, giving forth a pleasant, metallic tinkle. Delighted, Celeborn wondered if the ornaments had become so habitual that his fëa could not now be re-embodied without them. "Calandil!" he cried, and laughing, strode forward to embrace a friend long missed. "Why did I grieve? Why did I ever grieve - and so much!"
"Perhaps because your life was utterly barren without me, and each day was as an eternal wilderness once I was gone?"
"That must have been it, indeed." Celeborn turned to survey the wreckage of his room. "And I am in bliss now that I see you. But why have you brought the entire contents of the King's wardrobe with you?"
Calandil grinned as he so often did, and a light was rekindled in Celeborn's life. Not the brightest, perhaps, but one of the most uncomplicated. He felt like a night sky when heavy cloud withdraws and stars are unveiled one by one, until all is ablaze once more. Yet it was some perversity in him, perhaps, to wonder why this healing should be available only to those in Aman. Why should the lands of Middle-earth, which needed it more, not benefit from some of Elvenhome's renewing strength?
"I am to make you fit to be presented to the people of Doreden," said Calandil, and held up the most appalling diamond-woven rose-pink tunic, whose fringes were weighted with beads of amber and peridot, and whose sleeves would trail upon the ground even were they wrapped twice about the wrist. "How about this?"
It was the sort of thing one of the Noldor might have worn in the First Age, before they came under the influence of Sindar tastefulness, and he was oddly reminded of Maedhros Feanorion, who could wear such monstrosities and still look dangerous. Giving his friend a glare of disgust, he watched the reborn warrior double over in laughter and tried not to snort in sympathy. "I am capable of dressing myself, thank you, and need not three pages and a Captain of the Knights of Lorien to advise me. Tell me, rather, more of what has passed here in Aman since I saw you last, and about the Troubles, and why Elu should need reports from Elrond about the Gwaith-i-Mirdain. If I am to take some sort of office here, I need to know everything."
"Alas," said Calandil, and tugged a fir green velvet tunic and grey trousers out of the sumptuous sprawl, "'Everything' I cannot cover in the half hour I have been given to get you - spruced and ready - down to the Great Hall. Yet so little is known of the Mirdain's arts that I can answer that at once. It is rumoured they are constructing some strange weapon, up there in Tirion. There is much talk of harnessing the inner power of jewels, but no one knows aught in truth. They do not speak of it to us."
After so much suffering came of the Rings, Celeborn thought, his heart falling, still they go on. And he struggled into his finery with a better will. The sooner he settled into his place here, the sooner he could begin to act.
The Great Hall was a startling evocation of vanished Doriath, for here the pale, beribboned stone was shaped into sparkling trees; a milk white grove, glistening. The ceiling was of beaten gold and cast a light like sunshine over all, but carven birds sat in the fossilized branches, and carven vines swirled in patterns of silver and green gems over the slender trunks of the pillars. Water moved and sang throughout, for a small stream ran in many lattice-covered channels beneath the floor. Its reflected light lapped gently at the walls and floated over the robed splendour of the crowd, making embroideries glimmer, softening the sheen of silks, catching in bright gleams from weapons - carried unneeded, except for memory.
Many familiar faces, Celeborn saw, as he made his way to the dais. With a bliss almost as intense as pain, he thought truly Dor-eden is Doriath renewed. Nothing is lost! But then, guilt jolting him, he remembered, except to Ennor. Every Fëa restored here in Aman is a loss to Middle-earth. All is loss to my homeland, the land where Iluvatar placed us, entrusted to our care.
Thingol and Melian sat together in state upon the dais, and bore no jewels. They were simply clad in white, adorned only by their own beauty. Their faces shone, and their eyes were radiant with the light of the Two Trees, captured as if in a Silmaril. Both smiled as he approached, and he could not forebear smiling in return.
Yet the dais seemed very bare without Luthien, and the canopied chair at Elu's right hand stood empty. He guessed that when Dior came to Doreden he sat there. Perhaps the little princes, Elurin and Elured, who must by now - surely - have been reborn, remained with their father, or had grown into lands of their own. But why did the seat on Melian's left remain unfilled? That was the place reserved for the King's brother, his chief advisor. In Doriath, after Elmo had died, Celeborn had come to occupy that place, but he had been sure that in this new world where all ills were mended, he would find his grandfather there, as was right.
His bliss faltered further at the sight, and when he stepped out onto the bare floor before the thrones, kneeling before the crowd, he was solemn, the instincts of Ennor filling him with foreboding.
Elu rose and looked down on Celeborn's humbled, kneeling form, then out, to his people. "Behold," he said, "Celeborn, Prince of Doriath, whom you knew of old. He has my love and trust, and I would have you accept him once more into the office of a prince of this realm, with all its duties and privileges." He took a breath, frowning. "Let anyone who objects speak now."
The silence burned, looming huge, and the stream's song sounded loud beside the small whispering of garments as the people breathed and fidgeted, but there was no outcry against him. Whether that was because they truly trusted him, or did not care, or had been specially invited, leaving the nay-sayers outside, he did not know. He wondered - in the infinite pause between challenge and satisfaction - if Oropher might not have spoken out, had he been here. But since Oropher now ruled his own country it was just that he should have no say in the decisions of this.
Descending from the throne, Thingol leaned down to place a square, strong hand on his head. "Then rise, Prince of Doreden". Raising his nephew to his feet he gave him a little nudge, turning him to face the crowd. "And I say this. Dior is my heir, but I name Celeborn of my brother's line to be Lord Steward of Ardh-in-Eledhil from now until the end of time."
It was a moment like that of being chosen to bear an Elven Ring - there was a rush of marvel and joy, followed by realization. Shocked, he mounted the dais and sat down in Elmo's place, with Elmo's mantle settling on him heavily, and did not know whether to feel like a beloved kinsman or a usurper. Beneath the crowd's cheering he leaned over and whispered to Melian. "This honour belongs to my grandfather, surely? Where is he? I would not take what was his."
"Oh, Telpë," she said, with a gentle sternness, as of one who requires the injured to take bitter medicine. "I know you have always tried to tell yourself he died, but surely you remember it was not so. He was taken. Taken by Morgoth." She laid her hand on his arm, where it rested upon a throne which should not be his. "Elmo's fëa has never entered Mandos, and he was not among the captives released when Thangorodrim was broken." Her face was gentle and sad, infinite in compassion, and it frightened him a little to be the subject of such pity. "I would that it were not so, kinsman, but either he remains as a houseless spirit in Ennor, or," she paused, and her mouth twisted with the taste of the words, for being a hungry ghost was not the worst fate imaginable. "Or - forgive me, I do not want to say this."
In a voice barely to be heard over the joyful murmuring of the people, with the unmerciful truthfulness of her Maia spirit, she finished. "We must now all face the knowledge that your grandfather has been tormented beyond his endurance. That he returns not because... Oh, I am sorry. Because he has become an orc."
Aranadar = 'Father-King' - an honourific Elladan is using to indicate that Elu is one of his royal ancestors.
Palanion = 'Afar-son' - a slightly nicer way of saying 'my descendant'
Rinaneth = 'Crowned-mother' - a bit more formal than 'mum', but more affectionate than 'my Queen' :)
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