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Beck's Beginning
Paige was present during the takeover of Argon City, and when the young program Beck decided to go renegade by blowing up a new statue of Clu, she gave pursuit that ended in a fierce duel atop a Light Copter. Beck leaped to safety after the machine's engines were damaged, leaving Paige to land the craft alone and return empty-handed.
Paige later went down to Argon City to tell the programs about the "renegade" and to announce that Tesler was bringing the games to Argon. She told the programs that they were being volunteered for the games and would be rounded up in a few cycles' time. Tesler, however, launched his plan prematurely and began taking programs immediately. Paige was worried for the programs' sake, but Tesler told her that if she hadn't failed to subdue Beck in the first place, he wouldn't have had to do it.
She got her own back after Tesler himself had suffered a defeat at the hands of Beck. "Told you he wasn't that easy to catch," she chided.
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When two programs escaped on the way to their second match, Paige went out to track them down and bring them back. She discovered that the escapees were Beck and Cutler, who had defeated a team of Black Guards earlier in the Coliseum. She brought them back, cuffed them together, and put them back in the games against three Black Guards on light cycles. The two programs again defeated their enemies, and later Beck was set free while Cutler was to be derezzed. After Beck returned in the guise of Tron and rescued Cutler, Paige went to recapture them. They had a long fight with that ended only when one of Beck's friends, Zed, led a criminal gang on light cycles straight toward her. Paige was knocked off her feet and Beck and Cutler escaped. When she got back up she led the criminals away.
Paige was tasked with overseeing a plan to drill energy, but showing her compassionate side she shut off the drill to stop the resulting blackouts from causing casualties in Argon City. Tesler removed her from her post, not caring if a few programs were being derezzed.
Once alone she discovered one of the Black Guard waking up after an altercation with the renegade. Searching through the tunnels, she found Beck informing racers in the Argon race to evacuate because of a bomb he had planted on Tesler's drill. Paige raced back to the drill on her light cycle, and although Beck tried to stop her, she arrived too late to do anything about the bomb. Both of them were then forced to escape from its blast through the tunnels again. Paige's bike wasn't fast enough, so Beck pulled her onto his instead, and she escaped the blast only as a reluctant passenger.
Once Paige returned to Tesler, she suggested blaming the blackouts on the renegade, gaining public trust and alienating him from the programs of Argon. Then she assembled a task force to catch the renegade, one member of which was Zed.
Paige was only shown once to see the weapon Zed had created. When the weapon failed she said Zed was a joke.
Paige went after The Renegade when he stole a data cube, but crashed and was stranded on an island with him. Initially they fought, but when she learned that the island was disintegrating she reluctantly began to co-operate.
After repairing Beck's arm, she began to reflect on her past association with Quorra and Ada, refugees from the ISO War. Back when Paige was a medic, she had once healed Ada, believing her to be a Basic; Quorra, Ada's friend, had complimented Paige's music and taught her a self-defense move, but Paige's friendship with them had changed to bitterness when both women had turned out to be ISOs. Angry at the deceit, Paige had later believed Tesler when he told her that they were the ones who murdered her fellow medics, an experience that had galvanised Paige into joining Tesler's forces.
While Paige was helping Beck make a boat to get the off of the island, the destabilized ground disintegrated under her, causing her to fall into the sea. Beck ran to get the boat ready so he could save her, leaving Paige to believe that he had abandoned her there to die. He did return for her, but too late; Tesler and Pavel reached her first, airlifting her out, and he was forced to hide from them.
Paige, believing that the Renegade had left her deliberately, told Tesler that she had made a mistake in trusting her enemy, and should have killed him instead. She also said him that when she was on the island she had thought about how she met Tesler, and gathered strength from the knowledge that he would never betray her. Tesler agreed, keeping to himself the fact that when Paige's friends had approached him to turn the ISOs in, it was he who had ordered their deaths, both to cement Paige's loyalty and to perpetuate the myth of the ISO threat.
The Price of Power
When the Renegade stole a powerful upgrade weapon that had been on route to Argon City, Paige took the lead in the recovery efforts, setting a trap with an apparently disabled rescue vehicle that turned out to be full of guards. Beck used the weapon to defeat them all, and though Paige chased him in a Light Copter, he easily escaped.
The Reward
Paige disliked Tesler's plan to root out the Renegade by offering a reward for his capture, but went along with it until Pavel had Hopper arrested on the evidence of a program named Link. Approached by Mara and Zed, who had been with Hopper at the garage while the Renegade was fighting Pavel there, she confronted Pavel herself, angrily accusing him of arresting the wrong program to make Tesler look bad in front of Clu so that Pavel could take his place. Pavel sneeringly denied it, but Tesler refused to let Paige state her case, and even when Hopper turned out to be innocent, Tesler ordered them never to speak of the incident again.
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Paige is very fierce. She is an excellent fighter and rarely loses her cool. She can be vicious at times but she does have a conscience, as shown when she persuaded Tesler not to derez Beck and Cutler.
She appears to have a flirtatious attitude towards "Tron", half-complimenting him while they fight. However, due to her lack of knowledge of his true identity, she holds Beck in disregard as he is simply a mechanic, even becoming annoyed that she has to deal with him repeatedly.
Though Paige was written as a medical program, she enjoys music, and plays songs on a Mononome player even though her former colleagues had told her to stick to what she was programmed for. Quorra, hearing her play, encouraged her, saying she could probably be good at whatever she wanted to try. Though she has no cause to remember Quorra with friendship, she never gave up her music.
- The name Paige is of English origin and means a young servant.
- Paige was an early name for the character that later became Quorra. A few examples of this name can be seen on early concept art for TRON: Legacy.


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(a) Prohibition.— Except as authorized by this chapter or the Secretary of Transportation, a person may not manufacture, sell, possess, or display a decoration or medal provided for in this chapter.
Source(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b),Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1585; Pub. L. 109–364, div. C, title XXXV, § 3510(b),Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2520; Pub. L. 110–181, div. C, title XXXV, § 3526(e), (g),Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 602.)
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I feel like I repeatly have hot and cold seasons when it comes to women and I can sense it. Before making it official with my last girlfriend, I was dating another girl while having another girl confess to me. During the relationship, you can just tell who's looking my way. The best part was being at a waterpark with new girlfriend with some friends including my exgirlfriend with guy she broke up with previously, MADE MY DAY.
That was the hot season but after the relationship, it's cold season. All those girls were no longer single, no longer trying to get my attention. Even on days when I do get lucky, that luck was so short and random unforseen things will C-block me.
Now the hot season is just about to start and I can sense it also. I thought maybe it was the confidence levels improve when you're with someone but right now girls can't see that because I'm in Minnesota right now. An EX texted me about hanging out, a girl that I worked with found me on facebook and is now texting me, a girl I took to watch the Avengers wants me to come back, and so forth.
Can't they all schedule this together so it's consistently a warm year? It's like a big conspiracy where I play a dating game every year forcing me to pick "one".
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It takes a while and perhaps a bit of patience to actually figure out what separates the 'music' from the 'poetry' and if there is an element of artistic monologue or innovative speech making to escape censors for unregistered political activity, all sewn up together in performances of Mrisho Mpoto.
The cultural globe trotter seems to represent something unique, which is likely to be everything to everyone – as to whether people follow what he says for its content, its rhythm, or even for its music, as he also runs a music band; it always does drumming in the background as he conducts a poetic monologue. Does the music ever start?
It is hard to find equivalences of Mpoto in recent or decades long African music, as there are similarities and dissimilarities, since he comes up as eloquently in a political sense like Fela Anikulapo Kuti, but the latter was talking while doing throbbing music, not 'distant drums.'
On the local scene there was the late Ramadhani Mtoro Ongala or famously Dr Remmy Ongala, who talked more or less without hindrance, but again the musical part was vivid, and one could say this or that song was performed. There aren't quite songs performed by Mpoto but rather poems sung, in a monologue style of presentation, which breaks some old rules here.
Since Mpoto comes across as a keeper of tradition rather than a musical campaigner or political poet in that sense, interest in a dialogue would have featured in how he performs, was it a matter of keeping to the tradition, here of 'ngonjera,' platform exchanges, dialogues of a mildly competitive sort.
It is as if there is an ethical debate about something where two forms of the matter are presented, but as they come from the same community it becomes a sharing of feelings and exploration of shades of similar sentiments. What one says is complemented by the other, as each is only a witness of broader, shared social experience.
It is unlikely that the 'ngonjera' tradition, which is close to praise singing in a traditional ceremony context, actually animates Mpoto, but rather comes close to the Dr Remmy version of things, where it is his viewpoint that is being aired. The 'band' becomes something of an instrumental back up rather than a community of artists who are actually doing singing, or even mutually shared poetry.
It is clear who has the stage and what he seeks to say is the purpose of that stage – that it is this expression, the poetry which is intended to be put across, not the potential music that could otherwise be produced by the band.
As a portion of local audiences have not seem images of Mpoto performing to foreign audiences, it becomes a bit interesting to hear from write ups about the poet, that his main interest in foreign appearances is to promote Kiswahili poetry through music.
Unless there is another set of activities which he would embark on for those audiences, locally it wouldn't add up, to take up punchy political commenting through poetic rhythms, deliver it to audiences who know little of that subject, and in Kiswahili. Unless perhaps it was Kenya or Burundi, and a bit of Uganda, Rwanda and much of the Congo DR, who would grasp the issue?