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Updated: 01/09/2014 - Experts say more than 100 green sea turtles have been rescued after this week's cold weather in South Texas left them paralyzed.
Updated: 01/09/2014 - Experts say more than 100 green sea turtles have been rescued after this week's cold weather in South Texas left them paralyzed.
Posted: 01/09/2014 - Experts say more than 100 green sea turtles have been rescued after this week's cold weather in South Texas left them paralyzed.
Posted: 01/09/2014 - Texas first lady Anita Perry has joined forces with state health officials to urge people to get flu shots.
Updated: 01/09/2014 - Atmos Energy is warning customers to be on the lookout for a suspicious email.
Posted: 01/09/2014 - Police in Central Texas say a man expecting a hotel tryst after responding to a Craigslist ad has been beaten and robbed of his money and sandwich.
Updated: 01/09/2014 - An off-duty Houston firefighter has used beer to extinguish a tire fire on a truck hauling a load of the brew.
Posted: 01/09/2014 - An Austin businessman wants the Texas Supreme Court to scrub from the Internet what he says are defamatory comments posted by an old boss.
Posted: 01/09/2014 - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is set to announce the education agenda that he wants Texas senators to pursue in 2014.
Updated: 07/17/2014 - The state's child protection agency says it missed warning signs that a 1-year-old who died after being beaten was in a dangerous environment.
Posted: 01/08/2014 - An East Texas woman arrested outside a hospital has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a failed plot to steal a baby.
Posted: 01/08/2014 - Plans have been unveiled for a renovated park with a playground and memorial in a Central Texas town where a fertilizer plant explosion claimed 15 lives.
Posted: 01/08/2014 - Investigators say a Dallas-area woman and her son have died in an apparent murder-suicide in the home they shared.
Posted: 01/08/2014 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is set to visit Texas and New Mexico.
Posted: 01/07/2014 - A former San Antonio-area teacher is being accused by police of sexually assaulting a student in his classroom.
Posted: 01/07/2014 - While the frigid weather in Houston did not result in snowfall, that didn't stop one suburban dad from making sure his front yard was covered in the white stuff.
Posted: 01/07/2014 - The operator of the electricity transmission grid for most of Texas says this week's freezing temperatures have pushed demand for power in the state to a new winter record.
Updated: 01/07/2014 - A North Texas police officer accused of sexually assaulting a prostitute, official oppression and theft has been fired.
Posted: 01/07/2014 - Transportation officials have earmarked more than $800 million to expand and improve roadways in the San Antonio area.
Posted: 01/06/2014 - The White House and Texas Democrats are touting the health care overhaul and calling on Republican leaders to expand coverage for the poor.
Posted: 01/06/2014 - Houston's Metropolitan Transit Agency estimates drivers who don't pay for using carpool and toll lanes managed by the agency have racked up some $740,000 in unpaid tolls but acknowledge there's no system in place to collect from the scofflaws.
Posted: 01/06/2014 - Critics are blasting the Texas Department of Insurance for proposing new rules for counselors who help people buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Updated: 01/06/2014 - The Supreme Court has thrown Utah's gay couples into legal limbo by halting same-sex marriages in the state while an appeals court considers the matter.
Posted: 01/06/2014 - - Police in Houston say a 27-year-old woman appears to have died from drinking too much alcohol.
Updated: 01/06/2014 - A federal appeals court is set to review a Texas law that led to the closing of many abortion clinics in the state.
Posted: 01/06/2014 - A Galveston County family given a house for free by the TV show "Extreme Makeover" is trying to sell the place because they say they no longer need such a big home.


text: How did a rare radioactive isotope get into South Korea? Asia Asia North Korea South Korea Daniel DeFraia on Dec 31, 1969 @ 7:33 PM A North Korean soldier watches from his quarters at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone on April 23, 2013. Traces of Xenon, a rare isotope linked to nuclear activities, was detected by the Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety three times in South Korea's atmosphere in June, Yohnap news agency reported on Tuesday. There were no signs of a North Korean nuclear bomb test, and no seismic activity had been observed, though it remains unclear where the Xenon originated. "Relevant agencies are conducting an analysis, and that's what we know," a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. Fear still lingers after North Korea detonated its third underground nuclear bomb in February — when various nations noticed suspicious seismic action — especially with the possible restart of its nuclear enrichment plant in Yongbyon. Reasonable speculation suggests the Xenon may have come from Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to Lee Ho-ryung, a nuclear specialist at the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses, who spoke with the Wall Street Journal. The mystery of the isotope comes as diplomatic relations between North and South Korea appear to be improving, as least compared to the high tensions that followed the North's nuclear bomb test, when militaries mobilized and heated rhetoric passed almost daily between the two nations. Indeed, the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a rare symbol of inter-Korean cooperation that closed in April, is on track to reopen. On Wednesday, South and North Korea reached a five-point agreement to reopen the shuttered complex. The Koreas agreed on safeguards to prevent another work stoppage at the joint factory park and will move to set up a joint committee to oversee future operations — though as South Korea's chief delegate Kim Ki-woong noted on Tuesday, much remains to be done. "The fact that the two sides have sat down for the seventh time shows the difficulties involved in the negotiations, but if both sides concur on the need for 'progressive development' of the Kaesong complex and work together, all problems and difficulties can be overcome," he said.

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my name is André and this is my first posting to these foruns. I have a small garden, and I have a bell pepper plant infested with the insects you can see in the image. Besides the insects, it also seems to have "eggs" that look like this:
I couldn't find any similar insects when I look the internet for common bell pepper bugs. Can you recognize this bug? What can I do to get rid of it?


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about the money we spend on the nature we use. It flows torrentially yet invisibly, often submerged in the price of housing, food, fuel, and everything else. Flowing from the many to the few, natural rent distorts prices and rewards unjust and unsustainable choices. Redirected via dues and dividends to flow from each to all, "rent" payments would level the playing field and empower neighbors to shrink their workweek and expand their horizons. Modeled on nature's feedback loops, earlier proposals to redirect rent found favor with Paine, Tolstoy, and Einstein. Wherever tried, to the degree tried, redirecting rent worked. One of today's versions, the green tax shift, spreads out of Europe. Another, the Property Tax Shift, activists can win at the local level, building a world that works right for everyone.
a study of a phenomenon David Ricardo noted going on two centuries ago. When wine grapes rise to $10,000 a ton from the very best land (last year, cabernet sauvignon commanded an average of $4,021 a ton in the Napa Valley), then vineyard prices soar from $18,000 an acre in the 1980′s to $100,000 an acre five years ago and now for a top pedigree up to $300,000 an acre (The New York Times, April 9, via Wyn Achenbaum). Pricey land does not make wine pricey; spendy wine makes land spendy. While vintners make their wine tasty, nature and society in general – not any lone owner – make land desireable. Steve Kerch of CBS's MarketWatch (April 5) notes that much of what a home sells for on the open market is a reflection of intangible factors such as what school district the house sits in. The price the builder has to pay for the land also tends to be driven by the same intangibles. Because the value of land comes from society, and because one's use excludes the rest of society, each user owes all others compensation, and is owed compensation by everyone else. Sharing land's value, instead of taxing one's efforts, is the policy of geonomics.
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy's on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society's surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn't oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Doing so let's us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don't really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being "economan" and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for.
what you do when you see economies as part of the ecosystem, following feedback loops and storing up energy. Surplus energy – fat or profit – enables us to produce and reproduce. To recycle society's surplus, the commonwealth, geonomics would replace taxes with land dues (charged to users of sites and resources, including the EM spectrum, and extra to polluters), and replace subsidies with rent dividends to citizens (a la Alaska's oil dividend). Without taxes and subsidies to distort them, prices become precise, reflect accurately our costs and values; then, motivated by no more than the bottom line, both producers and consumers make sustainable choices. While no place uses geonomics in its entirety, some places use parts of it, most notably a shift of the property tax off buildings, onto locations. Shifting the property tax drives efficient use of land, in-fills cities, improves the housing stock, makes homes affordable, engenders jobs and investment opportunities, lowers crime, raises civic participation, etc – overall it makes cities more livable. Geonomics – a way to share the bounty of nature and society – is something we can work for locally, globally, and in between.
an answer for Jonathan of the Green Party (Nov 7): "What does 'share our surplus' mean?" Our surplus is the values that society generates synergistically. It's the money we spend on the nature we use: on land sites, natural resources, EM spectrum, ecosystem services (assimilating pollutants). It's also the money we pay to holders of government-granted privileges like corporate charters. We could share it by paying for the nature we use and privileges we hold to the public treasury then getting back a fair share of the recovered revenue. Used to be, owners did owe rent ("own" and "owe" used to be one word). And presently, some lucky residents do get back periodic dividends: Alaska's oil dividend and Aspen Colorado's housing assistance. Doing that, instead of subsidizing bads while taxing goods, is the essence of geonomics. Jonathan: "Is local currency what you mean?" Editor: It's not. Community currency is a good reform, but every good reform pushes up site values. That makes land an even more tempting object of speculation. Now, any good will eventually do bad by widening the income gap – until you share land values.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
in part the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out. Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent.
of interest to Dave Lakhani, President Bold Approach (Mar 8) and Matt Ozga (Jan 29): "I write for the Washington Square News, the student run newspaper out of New York University. Geonomics seems like it has great significance, especially in this area. When was geonomics developed, and by whom?" About 1982 I began. Two years later, Chilean Dr Manfred Max-Neef offered the term geonomics for Earth-friendly economics. In the mid-80s, a millionaire founded a Geonomics Institute on Middlebury College campus in Vermont re global trade. In the 1990s, CNBC cablecast a show, Geonomics, on world trade as it benefits world traders. My version of geonomics draws heavily from the American Henry George who wrote Progress & Poverty (1879) and won the mayoralty of New York but was denied his victory by Tammany Hall (1886). He in turn got lots from Brits David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and the French physiocrats of the 1700s. My version differs by focusing not on taxation but on the flow of rents for sites, resources, sinks, and government-granted privileges. Forgoing these trillions, we instead tax and subsidize, making waste cheap and sustainability expensive. To quit distorting price, replace taxes with "land dues" and replace subsidies with a Citizens Dividend. Matt: "This idea of sharing rents sounds, if not explicitly socialist, at least at odds with some capitalist values (only the strong survive & prosper, etc). Is it fair to say that geonomics has some basis in socialist theory?" A closer descriptor would be Christian. Beyond ethics into praxis, Alaska shares oil rent with residents, and they're more libertarian than socialist. While individuals provide labor and capital, no one provides land while society generates its value. Rent is not private property but public property. Sharing Rent is predistribution, sharing it before an elite or state has a chance to get and misspend it, like a public REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paying dividends to its stakeholders – a perfectly capitalist model. What we should leave untaxed are our sales, salaries, and structures, things we do produce.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
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Updated: 08/06/2014 - First Baptist Church, Meridian, marks it's 175th anniversary this weekend, making it the oldest church in Meridian.
Updated: 08/06/2014 - First Baptist Church, Meridian, marks it's 175th anniversary this weekend, making it the oldest church in Meridian.
Updated: 07/07/2014 - Reconciliation Week activities began in Dumont Plaza in downtown Meridian Monday.
Updated: 07/07/2014 - With numerous shootings and charges under his belt, Lyndell Pritchard is no stranger to police.
Updated: 07/05/2014 - Beautiful weather helped to bring in a large crowd for Earth's Bounty.
Updated: 07/05/2014 - Meridian Police have charged one person for the murder of a teenager on Independence Day.
Updated: 07/05/2014 - The Fourth of July turned deadly late Friday night after a shooting in a Meridian neighborhood.
Updated: 07/04/2014 - The Thomas Family has a reunion and cookout each year to celebrate the 4th of July.
Updated: 07/04/2014 - Chris McDaniel talks about his efforts to catch voter fraud in Mississippi
Updated: 07/05/2014 - A young Meridian boy has been upgraded to stable condition Friday in a Jackson hospital after nearly drowning Thursday evening.
Updated: 07/03/2014 - Neshoba County Sheriff's Investigator Kevin Basinger says a man taken into custody earlier Thursday in a stabbing death has now been released.
Updated: 07/03/2014 - Chris McDaniel is offering fifteen $1,000 rewards to catch voter fraud.
Updated: 07/03/2014 - People will be gathering with family and friends to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks.
Updated: 07/03/2014 - Law enforcement will be out observing the roadways this holiday weekend to make sure everyone is safely celebrating July 4th.
Updated: 07/02/2014 - Congressman Gregg Harper says Fielder's vote-buying allegations don't add up.
Updated: 07/01/2014 - An unusual robbery occurred in the early morning hours Tuesday.
Updated: 07/01/2014 - A WWII veteran spoke at a meeting of the Exchange Club.
Updated: 07/01/2014 - Meridian's mayor and City Council say they want to make people feel safe at Highland Park again.
Updated: 06/30/2014 - A lung cancer benefit barbecue will be taking place on Saturday, July 19th in one of the pavilions at Meridian's Highland Park.
Updated: 07/01/2014 - An attempted armed robbery occurred at the Shell Station in Russell.
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Updated: 06/28/2014 - Many Meridianites took to the red carpet in a way that made them feel like celebrities.
Updated: 06/28/2014 - A softball tournament will benefit a family trying to adopt a baby from the Philippines.
Updated: 06/28/2014 - Highland Park was the site of a huge picnic with thousands in attendance.
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Since his release on April 21, 2004 Mordechai Vanunu has been denied his inalienable human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 13-2: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."
Article 19: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Mordechai Vanunu served most all of his 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell in solitary confinement. He was convicted of treason for telling the truth and providing the photographic proof of Israel's WMD.
Frank Barnaby, the Nuclear Physicist who interviewed Vanunu before he was kidnapped by Mossad testified at his closed door trial, "I found Vanunu very straightforward about his motives for violating Israel's secrecy laws he explained to me that he believed that both the Israeli and the world public had the right to know about the information he passed on.
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Whereas ALL 58 Member States of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are obligated to hold ALL other Member States accountable;
We The People of The World call to The World Wide Media to report This Cause's Call
As we beseech ALL Member States of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to honor their commitments and HELP FREE Vanunu now!
TNT: Tell Nuclear Truths
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Because "Vanunu told the world that Israel had developed between one hundred and two hundred atomic bombs [in 1986!] and had gone on to develop neutron bombs and thermonuclear weapons. Enough to destroy the entire Middle East and nobody has done anything about it since."-Peter Hounam, 2003
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Laurakhoury's comment, March 10, 2013 9:24 PM
Note the connection between photography and sociology according to the prominent sociologist Howard Becker: "At first, some photographers used the camera to record far-off societies that their contemporaries would otherwise never see and, later, aspects of their own society their contemporaries had no wish to see. Sometimes they even conceived of what they were doing as sociology, especially around the turn of the century when sociologists and photographers agreed on the necessity of exposing the evils of society through words and pictures."
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"Both photographers and sociologists have described communities."
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It's a bit of an effort to digest all of this, but some useful information for digital curators.
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Check his website: http://davidschalliol.com/photography
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This article was a very interesting read. It shines a light that, with a moderate and humble pace, gentrification might not completely dismantle a community's cultural identity. Although this shop-keep is making an attempt at keeping up with the change he see's in the neighborhood, it might not be entirely necessary.
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This is a great article that focuses on the effects of gentrification on a single restaurant. This personal narrative reveals the lack of control that these originally lower income neighborhoods now face.
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Gentrification deals with the forcing out of lower income residents and making space available for the more affluent. The re-naming of Fish in the 'Hood shows how gentrification forces the culture of entire communities to change. Although this restaurant was popular before, they were forced to re-brand so they can stay in business. Gentrification exiles the poor, with that their culture. This restaurant shows that, as more upscale business open up to service the needs of more affluent citizens, any business that has the perception of being the contrary will soon be out of business. This matters because it shows how gentrification destroys communities image, and culture for the sake of increasing revenue and real estate value. What is exhibit here is not only a socio-economic shift but also a racial shift as well. This neighborhood was predominately African American before it began to gentrify, "The 'Hood" is a saying that correlates with African American culture. This restaurant's re-branding shows that they no longer can continue to bring in customers with a name that is part of the African American vernacular. Furthermore, it shows the racial trends that go with gentrification where minority culture is pushed out as more money flows in.
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Here is a quote from the chapter titled Confronting Class in the Classroom from bell hook: "Bourgeois values in the classroom create a barrier, blocking the possibility of confrontation and conflict, warding off dissent. Students are often silenced by means of their acceptance of class values that teach them to maintain order at all costs. When the obsession with maintaining order is coupled with the fear of losing face, of not being thought well of by one's professor and peers, all possibility of constructive dialogue is undermined." Very powerful... Laura


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Neverwinter's set in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe, to which it provides new and supplemental narratives. For publisher Perfect World, it marks the first time venturing from the PC audience and into the console market.
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"…terrible tragedy in the southern country of Dreamland yesterday as the now universal threat called the Dark matter invaded the land and threatened the inhabitants of the island. Reports and witnesses say that the Dark matter made their way in through the land's castle, but our reporters have yet to speak with Dreamland's monarch, King Dedede. Unfortunately, there has been a victim from this invasion, the Star Warrior known as Sir Meta Knight. From the information we currently have in hand, Sir Meta Knight might have had a larger role in the fight against the Dark matter, presumably having defended the whole planet for as many as five years or more. Our reporters have spoken to many of the locals, and-"
Tokkori pressed a claw on the remote's mute button, silencing the news report from another country. The little bird looked behind from his perch on the edge of the bed, at Kirby who was laying on his side under the covers. Tokkori for once didn't talk and turned back to the images of the villagers talking about what had happened the day before. He wasn't usually good with words, he liked to say what he was thinking, but even now, he didn't know what to think. Kirby had destroyed hundreds of demon-beasts in the past, but now, this was a… a real death, a sentient person, Sir Meta Knight no less! Was this a murder? Or a simple accident? Of course it's an accident, he thought angrily. Tokkori didn't know much about Meta Knight, but he did knew that Kirby had looked up to him. After all, the bird thought, the guy was the only one from the same species as the pink puffball on this whole planet. It was no wonder they'd be friends eventually!
However now… The bird turned once more to look at him, opening his beak as if to say something, but stopped. He wanted so much to just peck him until he said something, until he moved, but he had never seen Kirby like this and, frankly, after seeing him covered in blood the day before, he didn't know what he would do to him. Finally, Tokkori decided to speak.
"Oy. Kirby."
Silence answered him, but he expected it.
"Are you really going to stay in bed?"
"You haven't even eaten anything today. You're gonna be sick, pal, unless you already are. Are you?"
"Maybe you're just dead and I'm talking to a corpse. That's a morbid thought."
"Shut up, Tokkori."
The bird flapped his wings and tapped his claws on the wooden end of the bed.
"The mute speaks!" he laughed for a short moment, even though he knew it wasn't even funny.
As Kirby groaned, as if having just woken up, the bird flew over his head and perched on the bed's other end, close enough to peck him if need be.
"Hey, listen Kirb… I'm sorry I've always been a, uh, jerk and all… I mean, yeah, you stole my nest, but you basically saved us a thousand times. I don't know why I'm like that, I've always been like that. Guess I wasn't used to living with somebody else. You listenin'?"
There was a silence, but Kirby nodded his head, surprising Tokkori. Was it the lack of sleep that made him honest, or was it some sort of guilt of seeing the guy he always called dumb and stupid sprawled on the bed in grief? Nevertheless, considering that this Arthur guy said Kirby would come with them to the Agency, he thought it was a good enough time to say these things.
"So… Yeah. Sorry 'bout everything."
"…Thanks, Tok… Really."
Tokkori couldn't help but smile, but it quickly vanished when someone knocked on the door. Squinting his eyes, he turned to the entrance.
"Who is it?" he called, annoyed.
"A friend of Kirby's! I was told he was here. You in there, Kirby?"
Kirby stirred, his eyes widening. This voice… He jumped out of bed, almost pushing the bird back with the covers, and ran over to the door to push it open. There stood his old friend, whom he had not seen in such a long time he barely recognized him.
Blade sighed silently as he looked through Sir Meta Knight's things. Sword wouldn't do it; his brother took it harder, with more anger than sadness. Blade was better to hold himself back, especially when he needed to look here. He found many documents and papers on the desk where he used to work. He had spent so many nights here when they were building the Halberd, designing and thinking. Blade never found the blueprints he knew his lord had kept, but he didn't care much about it now. Among these documents were many unsent letters, each to many people… both dead and alive. Some of these names Blade didn't recognize, others he knew had been friends of his lord in the war, and the rest were either here or away, he and his brother, Sir Arthur, Fumu, Kirby, so many letters… On top of the pile of envelops, there was a note written in neat curved lines.
Memories of times past, messages for the future, for all those who cared. Let these words reach their destinations when I return to the stars.
Blade rubbed his tired eyes before taking the pile of letters and bringing them out of the room and into the main apartment. These had probably been written during the last weeks or even days. Sir Meta Knight had seen his death… This simple thought brought shivers up his spine but still he walked up to the table and set them so all the names could be seen. Some of the envelops definitely contained small objects, giving them larger sizes, but it was hard to say what some of these were. Even the one adressed to him and his brother contained something. Even if he wanted to see for himself, he decided against it and waited for Sword to come back from wherever he had gone to. As the words from the note repeated themselves in his mind, Sir Arthur walked into the apartment. He had been to have a nice talk with King Dedede, and Blade didn't doubt that his words had been harsh. He stood up from his chair and saluted him, Arthur nodding back before noticing all the envelops on the table.
"What is all this?" he asked as he walked up to look at them himself.
"I found those letters on his desk, Sir. There was this note with them," he answered, handing him the piece of paper. "He must've written them some time ago, or maybe over the years. It's the first time I see them."
Sir Arthur looked through them all, freezing on some names he remembered and nodding his head.
"I see. Knuckle Joe has arrived, at least. He has a letter as well."
Sword was sitting by the sea, in complete silence. He looked out and listened to the calm waves, trying to relax. But alas, it was in vain, for he could only think of the day before. Azure was laying on the grass next to him, head in his lap. Sword was scratching his neck near his collar in an almost mechanical manner; the Wolfwrath had howled at the sea all night, calling out to its lost master in vain. If Sword had not been convinced at first that a demon-beast could be… loving like this, toward someone else, now he was. Maybe that Wolfwrath had been like he and Blade; maybe it had seen Meta Knight as a father, as someone it could rely on and someone that would care when others were gone. As far as Sword knew, the wolf was an orphan. Neither its mother or anything like it had been seen around the village or even in the forest. But if Sir Meta Knight didn't bother with the questions, neither would he. And that was why Sword wasn't against keeping the pup with them. After all, it was one living thing that his lord had held dear, even for a short time.
The Wolfwrath lifted its head a bit when someone approached and Sword recognized those steps as Blade's. His brother sat down next to him, sighing deeply.
Sword turned his head when his little brother put something in his hand; an envelop.
"What is that?" he asked, letting Azure sniff the letter curiously.
"It's from Sir Meta Knight. It's for both of us it seems. I figured you should open it, considering I found it," Blade answered as his elder brother eyed their names written in that familiar writing. "There were a whole bunch of letters, Sir Arthur said he would bring the rest to the others."
And thus, in a common agreement, Blade watched as Sword carefully opened the envelop. Before the papers containing the message could be taken out, a small object fell out of it into his hand; a key. Handing it to Blade who looked at it closer, Sword went back to the letter and unfolded it, clearing his throat to read it outloud.
My fellow companions, Sword and Blade,
I have been thinking too much lately, and thoughts of my possible death have occurred to me more than once. As I taught you, a man should trust his instincts, and thus here I am, writing this letter which I did not think I would be writing so soon. I will not say that I hope you never read this, for if you do, it means that I have fulfilled my destiny as a Star Warrior. These times are hard. Even as I write, the Dark matter are chanting in my mind, the same tune I never want you to hear. Whatever happens, there is one thing I must ask of you both. Remain together.
Sword paused here, feeling his throat blocking with a burning lump. Swallowing it down with a grimace, he continued reading, under Blade's silent gaze and open ears.
It is together that you two have survived in the past, and it is together that you will survive the future. There is simply so much you can do as a team, and I have seen firsthand what you already did. You two have grown from hungry robbers into honorable warriors skilled in the arts of chivalry. I will not lie; suddenly finding myself with two growing teens like you was at first the weirdest experience in my life. Even Jecra's demon soup with mashed mushrooms was less weird than that.
Blade chuckled, and Sword saw him rub his eyes with his sleeve. Himself could not help that smile from sticking to his face. Even Azure's bright eyes were fixed on him, as if understanding the words he was reading.
But, I came to see it as the happiest days of my existence. After I had lost all of my friends and family to this war that took so much from me, your arrival into my life that I had thought to be meaningless had brought a spark of light that shines even brighter today. Words are not enough to thank you properly. I will place a key with this letter. There is a box in the nightstand next to my bed. What you will find inside, you may do with as you please. You may accept it or refuse it, but they are yours. To see you two come this far, I am not ashamed to say I feel like a father looking at his two maturing sons. Sir Sword Knight… and Sir Blade Knight…
The two brothers stared at each other for the longest time, their glances going back and forth from the key to the letter.
"S… Sir? Does that mean…?"
"I… I don't know…"
Sir Sword Knight and Sir Blade Knight. By this letter, let it be known that you both are, officially, Knights in your own rights. You are not bound to any leader unless you choose one, and you will have full responsibility of the apprentices you take, such as Bun. I have no doubt that you have been waiting for this to happen, and I apologize if this comes at such a time. I should have given them to you sooner. Please accept the contents of the box as tokens of my appreciation for all that you did. I owe you my life, in more ways than you imagine.
I will watch over you from my place among the stars.
Sir Meta Knight
Sword felt his arms go numb as they plumped back down with the letter, blinking those silent tears out of his eyes. Next to him, Blade looked at the key.
"Knights…," he whispered. "We're knights… We're not apprentices anymore…"
"L… Let's go open that box."
They both stood up, but as Sword was folding the letter and putting it back in the envelop, Blade spoke.
The knight only had to look at him to know. They pulled each other in a brotherly hug that they both needed, and Sword felt once again his eyes water as he patted his brother on the back. Letting go, they gathered their wits and left toward the castle, to find what Sir Meta Knight had left for them.
Kirby stared blankly at the letter Sir Arthur had just given him. There was his name, in cursive writing. The emerald-skinned knight stood in front of him, with a rather taller Knuckle Joe next to him, both waiting for him to open it. Swallowing the lump in his mouth, he carefully tore it open. His eyes weren't used to the curved alphabet, but after a few words the sentences flew past like a stream's flow.
My dear friend Kirby,
There are many things that I have never said, and some things will surely be left unsaid, for a single letter is not enough to say all that needs to be said. I know I do not have long to live anymore. No matter the way I leave, I want to make sure you are ready to face what the world will put in your way.
When I was young, I was already called the universe's last hope. Because people thought I was the last Star Warrior to have been born with Copy abilities, much like yours, the very same in fact. I once had the same abilities you have today. This is why I decided to train you, because I knew just what each ability needed to activate. I once had the burden to carry these abilities until I was ready to face Nightmare. But, it seems fate had something else in store for me, and my abilities were taken from me in a most gruesome manner I will not bother to describe to you. I thought I had wasted this one chance. I thought I had failed as a Star Warrior. And then, you arrived. When I first saw you, in this stinky hut near the sheep's pens, I thought I was having hallucinations. I watched you grow, I tested you, I tried to protect you. There are so many things I would like to apologize about. Some would say that I often acted cold-hearted with you or the villagers whenever something happened. I know I did, and I would like to first apologize about this. I tried to be like this so I wouldn't get attached to either you or anyone else. That was foolish on my part, and I realize it more and more as you grow.
Despite all my efforts, you came to me by yourself, and I found how much you reminded me of myself when I was your age, of what I used to be. And I thank you for it all. Remember, Kirby, that there are things or persons in life that will make you believe you are not worth anything. It is up to you to step above it all, to do what I couldn't. I know for a fact that you have this strength in you. Of course, if you are reading this, then it means that I am gone. Like I said before, it doesn't matter the way I leave. I am happy with the life I lived, and most of all, I am happy that I was able to see you grow into the young man you have already become. There was no greater honor than to be your teacher and friend, Kirby. I have no doubt that you will prevail against all the events and trials that fate will place in your path.
There is only so much I can do to help you. All I can do is name you the new wielder of Galaxia. With the natural skills you have with the sword, she will be of great use to you. I would also like you to have something that is most precious for me. I have hidden it, a very long time ago, inside Kabu. Search for a hidden space near the pedestal where your Warp Star rests. Take good care of it for me, and it will accept you. Consider this my heritage.
Do not stay alone, Kirby. Whatever you may think, no matter the number of enemies you may face, your allies will be your best defence in these times. I am certain that one day, we will meet again, Kirby of the Stars.
Live happily, my friend.
Sir Meta Knight
It took him a long time to look away from the letter, and he only realized he had been crying when he saw Arthur hand him a handkerchief. The chief wasn't wearing the bottom half of his helmet, and Kirby could see a sympathetic smile on his face. He took it, muttering a thank you, and he dried his tears tiredly before folding the letter. He looked up at his friend and saw that Joe was holding an envelop too, but it was still closed. He gestured toward it.
"You're… not reading yours?"
Knuckle Joe shook his head, fingers playing with the paper.
"Nah, I'll read it later. It's the kind of stuff I want to read by myself, if you know what I mean. Did he tell you anything particularly incomprehensible? He's pretty good at that."
"Well, not really incomprehensible, but…" He looked up at Sir Arthur with a confused look. "He said that I'm Galaxia's new owner, but…"
Arthur blinked and nodded his head slowly, placing a hand on his hip.
"Ah, I see… I am afraid there isn't much we can do about that. Unless we find his body, we may not find Galaxia ever again."
Kirby dropped his head for a few seconds, breathing in to keep a calm attitude even though his heart was aching like hell.
"There's also…," he started, before looking up. "He said something about a thing for me that was hidden inside Kabu… I don't know what it was."
"Inside Kabu?" the leader repeated. "Is this where your Warp Star is?"
Kirby nodded, but turned his head when he heard knuckles cracking.
"What are we waiting for, then?" Knuckle Joe said, already turning to go on the road. "Let's go see what it is!"
Kirby and the elder Star Warrior followed close behind, and it was only a matter of time before they arrived into the canyon. As they approached the giant stone, they saw the familiar shape of Fumu, sitting on one of the producing blocks scattered around the place. With her elbows on her knees, chin in her palms, she was staring ahead at practically nothing. Kirby walked ahead of the others and came up to her, still holding the envelop close. The young woman looked up and smiled at him, straightening up.
"Hey Fumu," he greeted. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, nothing, really. Just thinking, is all," she answered softly, looking up at Knuckle Joe and Sir Arthur in surprise. "Joe! So you're heard then…"
Kirby immediately detached himself from the conversation and turned to the silent stone guardian. He walked up the steps that led beyond the fiery altar and didn't hesitate to slide in through the opening. The moment he set his eyes on the Warp Star, resting on its pedestal, he somehow felt better, warmer. As he walked down the stairs, the closer he came to his star, the warmer he felt, and when he put his hand on it, it felt like he was touching his own heart. For a moment, he stayed there, thinking that if he kept the star with him, he may go through his grief better. He was brought back to the present when the others came inside the chamber.
"Aah, your Warp Star," Arthur sighed as he walked up to it to look at it with a soft smile. "It has been so long since I have seen one in such good shape."
"Are there many Warp Stars out there?" he asked curiously.
"No, not at all. Only Star Warriors with your powers are born with them."
Before Kirby could think this through, Knuckle Joe spoke up, his voice echoing in the chamber loudly:
"Oy, did Meta Knight say where he hid the thing? There isn't much space to look around, it's just one room."
Kirby had to agree to that…
"No, he didn't… He just said he hid it here a long time ago, near the pedestal, but…."
It was at this moment that Kabu's booming voice echoed much louder than the fighter's own voice, taking them by surprise.
"Kabu remembers. Kabu allowed Sir Meta Knight to hide an object here. It was the day he arrived on this star."
"Do you know where he hid it?" Fumu asked to the omnipresent entity, who took a moment to answer.
"Sir Meta Knight hid it under the altar of the Warp Star. He asked me to keep it here, and Kabu has protected it."
"Under the altar…?"
Fumu looked down at the others, and both Sir Arthur and Knuckle Joe went to work. There was one stone between the supporting blocks, and by tearing away some vines and moss that had grown there, they were able to find a small space on both sides of the stone, as if to squeeze a finger through. By doing that, they each pulled their own side, and with some force, were able to pull off the stone slab that was surprisingly thinner than expected. As they set it aside, Kirby and Fumu leaned in to take a look inside. In the center of a small space filled with dust and old cobwebs was a small, blue box that seemed so familiar it hurt.
"Is that…?" Fumu started, unable to finish.
Kirby stepped closer and whisked at the cobwebs, scaring away whatever insects might have been crawling in there, and leaned in to take the box from its socket. He held in his hand so all could see and Arthur smiled brightly.
"Ah, I knew that was what he wanted to give you."
Without more questions, Kirby opened it. He thought he was hallucinating at first, but it really was it. It was a Warp Star, blue in color, soft in shade and bright in light. Mouth open in shock, Kirby took it out to look at it from other angles, his eyes reflecting the blue star's light.
"Holy-! A Warp Star! Now that's fancy!" Knuckle Joe exclaimed, bringing back the smile on Kirby's face. "Two Warp Stars for one Star Warrior? Imagine all the power!"
"B-but I can't use it, can I? I mean, it's not mine…"
He looked up at Sir Arthur, hoping he had the answer, but the knight shook his head.
"I only know so much about Warp Stars, Kirby. If Meta Knight really cared about you, his Warp Star might listen to you, like yours listens to Miss Fumu."
Kirby looked down again at the blue star in his hand; it was warm, like his was, and had so much energy flowing through its surface it tingled his hands. Maybe, just maybe, it was true…
That night, Kirby sat on the balcony of the Parm family's apartment. Bun was sitting not far from him, lost in his mind. Their things were already packed and ready; all they needed to do now was wait. Kirby was holding the blue star in his hands, but he was staring at the sky. Since the Dark matter clouds had dispersed, the stars were visible once again, thousands of tiny dots of light on a beautiful deep blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. Out here, on the balcony, they both could hear a tune coming from another open balcony, from the Knights' tower. It was a music they both knew well, some classic orchestra with opera singing in an unknown tongue. Kirby had heard it a few times in his life when he had walked into their apartment to see the blue knight. He remembered the old gramophone, sitting in a corner, with enchanting songs coming out of it from time to time. It was the same for Bun, who had got to spend a lot of time in that apartment of theirs as well. They knew that the two knights now living alone there were playing these songs as a tribute; wherever the dead went, the concerned would certainly enjoy his favorite songs.
As they rested and mentally prepared themselves for the long journey ahead, the doors of the balcony behind them opened and the tingling sound of glass tapping filled the air. They both turned to Galacta Knight, who walked up to them with three glasses of wine in his hands. He handed one to Bun, then one to Kirby, who hesitated.
"Nah, for you Fumu gave me grape juice. You don't stand alcohol too well, apparently?" he said nonchalantly as Kirby took the glass.
"Not really," he answered, watching him go sit on the balcony's edge. "The taste isn't my cup of tea either anyway. Too bitter."
"You probably got some cheap wine, then. If you could taste the wine from my home, ha! Now that is some good stuff! The wine's not bad here too, that Samo guy knows his stuff. What do you think Bun?"
"M-well, I think Samo is better in cocktails. He knows a whole bunch of awesome recipes. I admit the wine Kirby drank wasn't all that good, it did have a weird taste. You hear that, Kirby?"
"Meh, maybe I'll try again some other time. Grape juice's just fine right now."
"Your call, kiddo," Galacta said to conclude this conversation.
There was a moment of comfortable silence between the three men, which was filled with the distant music from the tower next to them. Eventually, Galacta shifted his wings and chuckled.
"I didn't know he liked this stuff," he commented, referring to the music. "Although I'm not surprised."
"Why?" Bun asked.
"When we were kids, Meta was always the silent kid in the corner lost in his thoughts, floating on his own little cloud. I don't picture him listening to another kind of music. Fits him."
"You two really grew up together?" Kirby asked this time, simply curious to hear more.
"Yup," the knight answered nodding his head. "Knew him since he was just a wee lad. His mother is my aunt, and our family was kinda important because of its size and its not-dead members of a rather young age. It goes without saying that Meta was important by himself, what with his Copy abilities and all."
"How did he lose them?"
Galacta paused here, before rubbing his nose.
"Go on, Galacta," said a new voice from above, making them all raise their head.
On the tower next to theirs, Knuckle Joe was leaning over the railing, his own glass of alcohol in hand. The music was still playing from behind him, and Azure's head was poking out of the railing to look at them, but the fighter had good enough ears to hear what they were talking about. The winged knight grunted, looking away.
"Come on," the fighter said. "It'll make you feel better."
"I don't think so, but it seems you're not going to let go of me about it."
"Does it have anything to do with Meta Knight holding a grudge against you?" Bun brought up, making the knight turn with a questioning look.
"Was it really that obvious that he hated me…?"
"Well, from what I've heard from Sword and Blade, it was weird. But yeah, he wasn't hiding it apparently."
Galacta Knight sighed deeply.
"Ain't that just swell. Good thing I made up for it in the end…"
"So, what happened?" came Knuckle Joe's voice from above.
"Oh, for stars' sakes, just shut it! I'm thinking 'bout where to start!"
Kirby couldn't stop that chuckle as his friend up there raised his arms in an innocent way. Finally, Galacta sighed.
"It happened during a particularly heated battle on a shitty planet that for some reason that doesn't concern me was important for the GSA to take back. I was doing my job, killing one demon-beast after another, but the bastards just kept coming. I saw a group of particularly large demons out the corner of my eye, and I decided to be smart and throw a grenade at them. Thing is, I'm just a stupid asshole that didn't take the time to look properly and thus didn't see that my only cousin that I held so dear was just standing there, about to inhale a special ability that I'm sure would've gotten rid of all of them. You know how inhaling works. Everything that comes in front gets sucked in, and a grenade is light. And then, uh…"
He paused here, taking a deep breath. Kirby saw his hands shake as he took a few gulps from his glass.
"The grenade exploded before it got inhaled. In his face. Or even in his mouth I think."
He paused again, letting it all sink in, more for him than the others, and he sighed again.
"It was an accident, but I still held myself responsible for all its consequences. I had watched him bleeding in the mud, his face torn in impossible ways. Even when he was brought at the hospital at the HQ, the medics were saying he was beyond saving his wounds were so great. He was blinded, he couldn't eat, couldn't talk, couldn't move, and I'm not talking about all the blood he lost. All thanks to this asshole here. And what did I do, thinking I was the cause of the death of the universe's last hope to defeat Nightmare? I ran away like a stupid coward and thus started my happy mercenary days of flying across space in hopes of finding food and money for weird jobs. Hurray."
Without waiting for any sort of answer, the knight stood up on the railing, and Kirby feared he would fall off, for he didn't seem to be balanced on his feet. He didn't know how many cups of wine he had drank before coming to them after all… Galacta Knight turned to him and pointed to the star in his hands.
"That thing, I remember him holding onto it like it was his life. You'd better do the same, you hear me?"
Kirby nodded, assuring that he would. He knew he would, without anyone having to tell him that.
"You two are coming to the Agency, right?" Knuckle Joe asked from up there, directing his question to Bun and Kirby.
"Yeah," Bun answered, "our things are packed and ready. We're leaving tomorrow with you guys."
"Well then," Galacta said, holding up his glass. "One last toast! To my cousin! To our freedom!"
"To our freedom!"
All raised their glasses, and drank.
Kirby looked down at the blue star in hand. Words appeared in his mind when he looked at it, as if it spoke to him in complete silence.
"To this new age."


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Do not forget where you came from,
But is it somewhere you wish to remain?
Are those shoes you have grown out of
Or shoes you want to fill again?
If you feel better than where you came from,
There is no shame in advancing yourself to grow further.
Once your wings have been spread to the horizon,
There is little need for a closed world again.
Dream big, soar free,
But do not get lost in fantasy
For the only real purpose for a dream
Is to become a reality.
Egbemawei D. Sammy


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