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Walmart has too often found itself caught up in simplistic red versus blue state political debates. For many of these discussions, conservatives have held up the chain as a shining example of the American dream while liberals have vilified the company for its labor practices. The reality is undoubtedly much more complex than the stereotypes suggest as made clear by Walmart's recent 10-K filing. The document lists factors that affect its results including cuts to the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, as well as other forms of government assistance.
The company's 10-K filing is not a surprise. Back in January, the retailer said cuts to SNAP were a major factor in its negative same-store sales for the last quarter. Per the Los Angeles Times, Congress cut assistance to families of three participating in SNAP by $29 a month in November and in January it cut assistance to 850,000 families by an average of $90 a month.
Today, Walmart drives more than half its sales from groceries. It follows that cuts to public programs used by its customers have real consequences for the chain's top and bottom lines. The chain is not alone, however, as traditional grocery stores as well as dollar outlets and others face the same issue. So what are these companies to do? Should they increase lobbying efforts to get Congress to change its position on SNAP and other programs or accept the reality of the cuts and look to attract shoppers who don't have to rely on the government safety nets?
What would you do if you were running a retail operator whose results were hurt by cuts to government programs such as SNAP?
Make this simple. Take the politics out of this. If programs such as SNAP help my business, I am for it. Unfortunately, the business of America is lobbying. All businesses with any power are lobbying for benefits to their own organization. GE famously influenced federal tax policy to avoid over $4 Billion in taxes. Bravo for GE. Is this any different?
Would it be healthier, in the long run, to just move straight to crony capitalist socialism, where everyone in the middle class either moves up to become a direct beneficiary of crony capitalism government, or down to become a welfare client of the same government? That is exactly what has been going on for the last few years, with disparity skyrocketing, and the small businesses that largely support the middle being slaughtered.
So should Walmart abandon the basic principles of America and become a BIG slave to government, chasing the little slaves of government? Sam Walton must be turning in his grave.
Herb Sorensen, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor Kantar Retail; Adjunct Ehrenberg-Bass, Shopper Scientist LLC
This cut hurts all of our sales, not just Walmart, let me make that clear. The struggle is universal for retailers, and sales are down around 8-10% since the first of the year. Cutting SNAP is a start, and the government as a whole is so wasteful across the board, there is likely $500-$600 billion more they can cut, but forget about it.
It is easy to cut SNAP, as it stirs up the electorate so they can blame each other how cruel we are to the poor. How is this economy ever going to grow, if 1/4 of the population is receiving never ending entitlements? Instead of fighting for saving the cuts, we as business people should be fighting to get rid of waste, which would stimulate the entire economy, and grow jobs.
That, my friends is the crux of the matter, but change will not happen in D.C., as both parties fight for power and votes.
In all my years of business, I have never been more frustrated just trying to run my store, and not have to fear who is going to fine me for not having followed one of the the trillion mandates that have been forced upon us, by politicians who couldn't run a lemonade stand.
Go ahead and think of this as folly or frustration, but this is my life, and the life of thousands of small businesses across this great country, who shake their collective heads every day wondering how they can continue to serve their community, without going broke. I'm sure Walmart will survive this, and my concern is for the rest of us, who do not have the huge capital to comply with all of this crazy stuff, and you know what? Most of the new mandates do absolutely nothing to grow our business, as just the opposite is true.
For those reading this, I am not crazy (well maybe a little), and I would love to continue running my business for many more years. The reality is that many of us will not survive this onslaught, not because we aren't good at what we do, but rather we can not afford it anymore.
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This begs an even more basic question: How should the "haves" help the "have nots"? Should there be hungry people in our country? The question of food stamps needs to go hand in hand with the question of a living wage.
Walmart buried this announcement in their 10-K. The retailer needs people with food stamps to buy its groceries, yet Walmart, through its low wage structure, is responsible for many of its employees being on public assistance. The same can be said for many other retailers that pay minimum wage salaries.
Many people would not need programs like SNAP if they were paid a living wage.
It may be healthier in the short term to the bottom line, but is it healthier for the country? Companies need to stand by their values.
Tony once again "nails it." Here is a man in the thick of the battle trying to survive; but the focus is on Walmart, who will survive with or without government cuts. If you did not read what Tony has to say, you should.
Ed Rosenbaum, CEO, The Customer Service Rainmaker, Rainmaker Solutions
Quarterbacking Walmart's present playbook, focused as it is with being the largest retailer in the world, must appeal to every economic, social and politically-beneficial segment of population to retain its current position. Cuts in the SNAP and similar programs have to hurt WM just as does with competing retailers.
If I were running WM today, I would look into my crystal ball to see if its current "virtues" were tuned toward the company's future. WM may be trying to do that today as it tells the marketplace they are rolling back thousands of prices ... which they also claim are already the lowest in town. Is that conflict or confusion...or concern?
Is being the "biggest" in conflict with the "best." Did Kmart do that soul-searching 21 years ago when they were bigger than Bentonville's best?
As for lobbying against cuts in government assistance to solve its problems, it would seem greater intellects are skeptical.
Gene Hoffman, President/CEO, Corporate Strategies International
There is a broader aspect to this question that always marvels me. I constantly hear people complain about the growth of the "welfare state." I hear them describe the stereotype welfare recipient who is lazy and unwilling to support themselves. Then I ask who really benefits from welfare payments? Is the individual scratching out an existence on welfare payments building a personal empire? Most likely these individuals are spending every cent they get on rent, food, and clothing and it is the businesses and individuals who supply these services who are receiving the "aid." Seventy percent of the US economy depends on consumer spending. If 47% of the population is dependent on government payments, then there is a huge impact on all sorts of businesses if the government payments are reduced.
Government spending is an important part of the economy. That's why it is so much fun to watch congressman try to decide which post offices to close or where to cut back services. Whenever government mentions spending cutbacks you can be sure there is a lobby representing the businesses that supply those goods and services that will fight against the changes. The most obvious is the defense industry, so why shouldn't businesses that cater to welfare recipients also lobby?
I don't know how "politically correct" it might be, but it seems at least some back office activism would make sense for businesses that cater to welfare recipients. But we must also realized that in some ways, everyone benefits from government spending.
Bill Bittner, Principal, BWH Consulting
Is it really in Walmart's economic self interest, and the interests of their shareholders, for the government to increase SNAP? Sure it increases sales, but Walmart paid nearly $8B in Federal Income Tax. And since the government borrows about 40% of what it spends, there is another $5B plus interest that Walmart will eventually pay to support this year's Federal spending. Of course, SNAP was just part of Federal spending, but the fact remains that there is always a cost to whatever the government hands out.
I agree with Bill. Show me a company or industry, and I will show you how it benefits from government subsidies in some way, either directly or indirectly. Walmart is simply being upfront about it. Food is hardly the only area, either -- their pharmacies benefit from Medicare and Medicaid spending, for example.
Furthermore, having been in the grocery business myself, I can state that many grocers besides Walmart benefit from programs such as SNAP to varying degrees, and food companies get in on the action too (i.e. timing funding for promotional activity around the distribution of SNAP funds to take advantage of the sales dollars). They've just been the most transparent about the impact, as it obviously affects them to a greater degree than other grocers. It's not coincidental that they also support a minimum wage increase.
As far as their commitment to values goes, Walmart could very easily frame their support of the programs as simple empathy and advocacy for the needs of their customers. There are plenty of vulnerable populations that rely on things like SNAP -- hundreds of thousands of veterans use it, for example.
Arguing with politicians, religious and community leaders, or anyone for that matter, is a losing business proposition even before it begins. Walmart needs to find more and more A-B velocity profitable product and new customers to buy them. This little mix of objectives is plenty to do for everyone in the company.
I have a client that operates supermarkets with a similar pricing structure as Walmart. Their sales have increased with cuts in SNAP benefits. The way they view this is people on Food Stamps have previously not been very price conscious since their food bill was being subsidized by the taxpayer. Now with the cuts, they must be more concerned and responsible with regards to grocery purchases. Therefore SNAP users will gravitate to stores like my clients or to Walmart.
In my opinion, the real victims could be the higher-priced conventional stores. I believe Walmart has a tremendous opportunity to take a run at the conventional stores and make the cuts in SNAP work for them.
David Livingston, Principal, DJL Research


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Are states ready for the long lines and vote counting that will come along with an energized electorate this November?
Researchers at Common Cause, a non-partisan group advocating election reform and accountability, released a report today with mixed results.
The 108-page report looks at a variety of issues - such as voter registration, identification, voting machines, poll worker training and student voting rights - in 10 states: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia.
Wisconsin received the most positive assessment, with strong poll worker training standards and voting machine allocations. Florida, Georgia and Virginia received more worrisome evaluations, with weaknesses in several areas.
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Toni Bark, M.D.: "What we see today is frightening and it needs to wake everybody up. We've gone from looking at things scientifically to looking at what's best for the industry. We didn't used to see all these chronic debilitating diseases. It's time for a change."
Barbara Loe Fisher: "We've tripled the numbers of doses of vaccine we're giving our children. We have seen this increase in chronic immune and brain dysfunction. A mother must have the right to make a decision."
Gayle Delong, Ph.D.: "We need to have the vaccinated vs unvaccinated study. That study has never been done. They have so many conflicts of interest. My only interest is to get my two daughters well."
Sherri Tenpenny, D.O.: "By 2014, hospitals need to have a vaccination rate for flu shots of 95 percent or greater or they're going to have a reduction in their Medicare reimbursements. It's a business."
Mary Holland: "We have a pipeline of hundreds of vaccines. It's a $30 billion a year industry. The government has said, we want all children to be vaccinated. They're safe and effective for everybody. Now, the evidence doesn't suggest that."
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Gordon Schnell: "Our clients were directed to falsify the data. If one of the major vaccine manufacturers in this country is not being forthright with efficacy, then this is something that needs to come forward."
Allen Jones: "I encountered improper payments by the pharmaceutical industry to key state officials to implement a drug protocol at a state level. These drugs were not nearly as efficacious or safe as the drug companies were pretending they were. I was told, back off."
Schnell: "Part of the explanation was the words, 'business decision.'"
Dawn Loughborough: "Drugs that get approved through the FDA, fifty percent of them get pulled off the shelf because they do in fact fail. We have deep pockets marketing how things are going."
Bill Maher: "Obama said in 2007, we would label genetically modified food."
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Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D.: "Diabetes, obesity, kidney failure, Alzheimer's Disease, autism--all of these diseases are matched with the use of Roundup on GMO corn and soy. I would think Monsanto would be terrified for people to find out how bad their product is on our health."
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Reviews for March of the Eagles: French Unit Pack
Great dlc!drafek | Sept. 30, 2013 | See all drafek's reviews »
There are 2 dlc's like this, so if you prefer the British army get that one. The french army will get 16 new units. There are cuirassiers brigades, french line infantry brigades and Brigade tirailleurs corse and even more! Worth getting it's pretty cheap
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The rise of Merlin
(For children grades K-4)
The dark, cluttered laboratory was filled with old scientific equipment. Big machines with levers and gauges lined the back of the room and in the corner were dusty piles of incomprehensible failed experiments that stunk horribly. An operating table with chain restraints was stationed in the middle and bits of animals and people preserved in formaldehyde were in glass containers scattered on a shelf.
Dr. Bumbledorf reached for his tape recorder out of his white lab coat. "Date: Thirty-first of October. Experiment number: 742 … Mwuhahahahaha," he roared.
The doctor sat on a tall chair pulled up to the countertop. He slouched over the counter with an eyedropper in one of his hands.
"One … two … three," he said, ever so carefully squeezing the dropper. Tiny drops of blue-green liquid fell in to the test tube he had in his other hand. With every drop, a puff of smoked occurred.
He clumped over to the monster-making machine and swirled the blue-green substance around in the tube. "It's got to work this time," he said talking to himself. Doctor Bumbledorf then dumped the liquid from the test tube into the top of the machine. He pulled all of the levers to the left and then stared at the machine and scratched his head.
The machine started making a rattling sound and the gauges on the front started to move. "Mwuhahahahaha," the doctor chuckled. "It will be my scariest one yet."
All of a sudden it sounded like the something exploded in the apparatus. Smoke started bellowing out of it and a whistle blew from the top. Dr. Bumbledorf's eyes lit up with excitement. "Finished! Come to Papa," he said.
The smoke was so thick that the doctor could barely see an inch in front of his own face, although he proceeded to take his newest creation out of the machine. He opened the door and sparks shot every which way.
Dr. Bumbledordf carried his four-foot creature over to the operating table and chained his arms and legs to the table. He stood back and raised one eyebrow as he looked over his monster. "It's perfect!"
The beast had blue-green skin and didn't have hair anywhere on his scaly body. His yellow teeth were so long and sharp he couldn't close his mouth so drool started to fall down his chin. He stared back at his creator with his beady black eyes and started to make hissing noises. He smelled human flesh and he wanted a snack.
"I will call you … Merlin," the doctor said to his monster. The doctor moved carefully towards Merlin and jabbed a needle into his arm. This made the monster feel calm and he didn't seem to care that he was being hooked up to wires and monitors.
Dr. Bumbledorf pulled a little black remote out of his desk drawer and started to press one of the buttons. Immediately the beast jerks upward and then lets out a terrifying yelp.
The doctor reached for his recorder and said, "Subject seems to be experiencing discomfort … Mwuhahahahaha," he chuckled.
He flips the switch again and again giggling as the monster screeched. Finally he stopped and decided to go upstairs in case he had any trick-or-treaters at his door this year. "Sweet dreams my little monster," he said as he walked up the stairs.
The young monster knew he needed to escape the mad scientist's laboratory before morning if he didn't want to end up like the other failed experiments in the corner. Merlin concentrated really hard and then a laser beam shot from his black eyes and cut through the metal chain restraints.
He quickly escaped through the air conditioning vents. "Now it's time to taste human flesh," he sighed.
Merlin blended right in as he walked the streets on Halloween night. He trailed a small group of young children and even went up to the houses and got candy with them. But the hungry monster wanted a big feast and was hoping to stumble upon a bigger group of children.
As Merlin and the group of children were walking up to the next house, a little boy dressed as Freddie Krueger turned around and pointed to the scary looking beast.
"Oh dude, that is a killer costume. It looks so real," the boy said pulling up his mask. "Come with us and may be you can win the costume contest at my best friend's party later tonight …
'How to become a vampire'
(For Students grades 5-8)
Ivan smiled at his clever rendering on his notebook of a vampire preparing to bite his history teacher's neck.
He gently closed his eyes, thinking about the possibility of vampires coming to his town. "I wonder what would happen? What would I do? Would I be the hero and kill them? Or would I join up with them and become the leader of the pack?" Ivan drifted off into the center of the small Missouri town square facing off against at least 20 who were staring him down, unaware that his arm was ready to push his notebook and U.S. government history text book onto the floor.
"Ivan!" Mr. Barkley shrieked, as Ivan nearly fell off his desk chair to the sound of his history teacher's voice and the noise his books made hitting the concrete floor. "Would you like to come to the front of the class, please?" His seventh grade classmates snickered and giggled as he slowly walked to the chalkboard.
"Since you are so interested in our class discussion about U.S. presidents, I think you would be a great candidate for an impromptu political debate," Mr. Barkley said. Ivan's eyes widened, and he accidentally released a sigh, knowing this did not please his teacher.
"I will be your opponent, and you will be the incumbent president. We are both asked to talk about the issue of unemployment. Since you are the current president of the U.S., Mr. Riley, you have the floor," Mr. Barkley said, seeing the class also awaken to hear what Ivan was going to say.
Ivan knew he was going to embarrass himself, staring at his feet for a few seconds. "Unemployment … it is a big issue in our country," he said, hearing some kids already starting to giggle. "If I get voted in … I mean re-elected as president … I would … uh … would … create more jobs to … uh …" Then the classroom bell rang.
This time, Mr. Barkley emitted a sigh, and then reminded the class of their term paper on campaigning for U.S. president due the next day.
"Ivan? Stay for just a minute, please," he said, as Ivan gathered his stuff and stood by his desk.
"You are a smart kid. I have talked with all your teachers. You are getting high B's and A's in all your other classes. But you are barely passing mine," Mr. Barkley said. "I am willing to give you some extra credit to help bump you up to a high C or even B. However, this term paper of yours needs to be near perfect. I know you can do it and I am here to answer any questions you may have, OK?"
Ivan nodded his head and watched as Mr. Barkley mouthed, OK, getting ready to sit down at his desk. Ivan turned to walk out the door and his notebook slipped out of his hand landing right in front of Mr. Barkley. His teacher gazed at the vampire drawing, and then gave a half-cocked eyebrow raise to Ivan but with a hint of a smile. Ivan's embarrassment broke into amazement at his teacher's reaction.
"Creative and it's historically accurate," Mr. Barkley said, handing back the notebook. Ivan gave a half-smile back and walked out the door, surprised.
That night after dinner and a good two hours of video game action, Ivan knew he had to sit down at his computer and start researching his term paper. He decided he would try to impress Mr. Barkley by talking about unemployment in the paper, hoping to score back some of the "brownie points" he lost during class.
The Google search engine came up, and he thought, "Well let's start with the easiest search, 'How to become a U.S. president.'" Ivan began to type the words "How to become" into the computer and realized an interesting subject.
"Huh, the top hit is 'How to become a vampire,'" Ivan said. He paused for a moment, knowing he should just continue with his original research. He glanced at the clock, which read, "8:30 p.m." He stared at the words once more, his mouse pacing over "vampire." "Well, this won't take more than five minutes to look at, then I'll get back to it."
He clicked on the search, seeing a variety of websites pop up with instructions, Q & A blogs and listings of spells and incantations to become one of the blood thirsty undead. Ivan read a few of the blogs, then clicked "back" to see what else was on there. In doing so, a pop-up ad showed up on his desktop that said, "So you want to become a vampire? Click Here!" Ivan looked at the black box and red lettering, and decided to give it a shot.
After clicking on it, a video popped up and Ivan pressed play, putting on his headphones and turning up his computer speakers. After making the video full screen, Ivan gazed at the video with nothing showing for a few seconds. Then words faded in that said, "Become a vampire in one minute." Ivan smiled and watched as the words faded. Then the video looked like it went dead, with television "snow" flashing in the video box. Ivan frowned and hit his keyboard a few times … nothing.
Within seconds, the screen went to black again, but Ivan could hear what sounded like heavy breathing through the speaker. A picture popped up, and he saw himself sitting at his desk staring into his computer screen. He looked down at the video control panel and it was playing. He waved at the screen, seeming himself wave back. Then, he saw a dark figure standing in front of his bedroom door. He turned around, not seeing anything there. As he turned back, the figure in the video was standing close to his shoulder and he could not only hear the breathing through the speakers but also feel it on the top of his head. Ivan shuddered and went to hit the stop button on the video, but suddenly the room went pitch black …
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The Looming Smart Grid Security Crisis: Lessons learned from online banking provide the blueprint
In 2007, scientists at Idaho National Labs revealed the vulnerability of an electrical utility's control system by demonstrating the ability to instruct the control system to destroy itself. However, it wasn't until very recently that CBS aired a special on this discovery while the Wall Street Journal1,2,3 and the New York Times4 reported on the vulnerability of our energy grid.
The New York Times summed the issue up best:
"The accelerating deployment of tens of millions of advanced electric meters and other smart grid devices.increases the targets of attack and could make the nation's power network potentially more vulnerable as the threat of penetration grows."
Historically, this looming crisis has been too abstract for consumers to take notice. By the very nature of its ubiquity as a utility service, the public does not care how the electrical system works, as long as it works. That includes security. If some sort of threat creeps in it's expected to be rectified before the lights go out. If an outage happens, once the lights come back on, all is forgotten.
As an example, the massive blackout in 2003 left approximately 50 million people across Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Ontario without power and with an overwhelming fear by some that it was a result of a potential terrorist attack. When the public learned that the blackout was caused by a downed power pole, the fear of a national catastrophe turned into a mere inconvenience.
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Changes the Game
The move towards smart meters is analogous to the revolution the banking industry saw with ATMs, debit cards and online banking. According to Pike Research, approximately 45 million smart meters exist today worldwide and, by 2015, this number is expected to grow to approximately 250 million. 250 million homes and commercial and industrial establishments will be connected to the grid and benefit from information such as itemized energy bills and peak pricing periods to help them modify energy usage patterns.
The revolution in the way consumers conduct day-to-day banking brought incredible efficiencies and conveniences. Yet, it also brought heightened public unrest - and action from financial companies - regarding security. Now, users have become accustomed to the many required security features such as site keys, multiple passwords, and pin numbers in exchange for assurance that their account will be protected. Without these security measures, online banking would not exist.
But average consumers tend to care about cyber crime only as it relates to their own pocket and own financial security. In his CBS interview, Admiral McConnell said that people's first question about cyber crime in the banking industry is if their money could be stolen from their account. These same questions are now being asked about smart meters and the utility industry.
Tackling Smart Grid Security?
How do we address new security concerns amid utility system overhaul and paradigm shift in process by which electricity and information flows from generation to end-user and back? With advanced planning, as in banking, it must be addressed by building security into every level of technology throughout the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) "stack." Anything less will result in weak links that, ultimately, will be exposed and exploited.
AMI Stack
CIS: Customer Information System; OMS: Outage Management System; DRS: Demand Response System; GIS: Geographic Information System; AMS: Asset Management System; DCU: Data Concentration unit
"Built In" versus "Bolted On"
According to IOActive, a security consultancy, "Studies show that overall project costs are 60 times higher when gaps in information security controls are addressed late in the development cycle, as opposed to projects where security is implemented in the design phase."
Once it is understood and accepted that security controls must be built in from the design phase, the next question is: Where should they reside? The answer is everywhere. When you break down the AMI Stack into its different layers, the problem becomes much more manageable. With the AMI Stack diagram, you can begin to dissect the different components of AMI, from the meter itself, to the communications network, to the meter data management system (MDMS), and to the mission-critical billings applications. Security controls need to be approached holistically and be designed within and across these layers one by one.
As your journey into the world of AMI security begins, here are several questions for you to consider:
- Do you manage encryption from an enterprise-wide perspective?
These questions, among others, are already being asked by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The more the public is sensitive to and understands these issues, the more they'll begin to demand that action be taken.
"What I'm worried about is, because of so many competing priorities, and so many issues that we have to deal with, we will not get focused on this problem until we have some catastrophic event," Admiral McConnell said.
Now is the time to act.
When I visited Washington DC one could walk into the Capitol as easily as walking into a Walmart.today.
Airplane tickets were almost as negotiable (with no identification) as greenbacks during many years I traveled on business. (When I worked a thousand miles up the Amazon (about1955) Brazilian inflation was so bad that Brazilians would buy American airplane tickets to hold in lieu of depreciating cruzero.) One didn't even have to give one's name to a policeman or airline without cause.
All this time it was possible to make bombs about as well as we can be them today.
Now our lives are designed to cope with the will of the criminals. We all have to dance to their tune.
A security system that is 99.99% effective is not very effective. But criminals with a probability of success of 0.01% are effective.
Briefly, and locally, as the US was being settled men were hanged for stealing horses. Horse "security" was not possible under most conditions of that time and horse thieft was intolerable, as society could not function.
As a judge explained, questioned for sentencing a killer to 5 years and a horse thief to be hanged: I've known men who needed shooting but I never knew a horse that needed stealing.
The price in time and money and lost economic productivity for security today makes Cyber criminals our horse thieves.


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COMSOL Multiphysics® Software and PV: A Unified Platform for Numerical Simulation of Solar Cells and Modules
M. Nardone [1],
[1] Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Introduction: Existing solar cell (photovoltaic, PV) device simulation software is either open source with limited capabilities (1D only) [1,2] or extremely expensive with obscure functionality [3]. PV researchers need an accessible and versatile simulation tool to optimize existing technologies and to reduce the time from concept to prototype for new technologies. This work demonstrates how ...
Load Cell Design Using COMSOL Multiphysics
A. Marchidan[1], T. Sullivan[1], J. Palladino[1]
[1]Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA
COMSOL Multiphysics was used to design a binocular load cell. A three-dimensional linear solid model of the load cell spring element was studied to quantify the high-strain regions under loading conditions. The load cell was fabricated from 6061 aluminum, and general purpose Constantin alloy strain gages were installed at the four high-strain regions of the spring element. The four gages were ...
Simulation of Droplet Impingement on a Solid Surface by the Level Set Method - new
J. Hu[1], R. Jia[1], K. Wan[2], X. Xiong[3]
[1]Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
[2]Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
[3]Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
The dynamic behavior of droplet impingement on a solid surface is important to many engineering applications. This paper studied the dynamic behavior of a droplet impinging onto solid dry surfaces with different surface wettability using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. The simulation results were validated against experimental results. It was found that the Level Set method can predict the ...
Simulation of Current Density for Electroplating on Silicon Using a Hull Cell
F. Lima[1], U. Mescheder[1], H. Reinecke[3]
[1]Hochschule Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
[3]Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Electrodeposition has a major advantage over other methods of thin film deposition. It allows deposition at atmospheric pressure and room temperature, requiring inexpensive equipment. However, there are several parameters which can influence an electroplated metal layer quality. The current density distribution is taken into consideration. The Hull cell is an electrodeposition tank with a ...
COMSOL Implementation of a Multiphase Fluid Flow Model in Porous Media
M. Diaz-Viera, D. Lopez-Falcon, A. Moctezuma-Berthier, and A. Ortiz-Tapia
Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo, México D.F., Mexico
The aim of the present work is to implement in COMSOL Multiphysics a multiphase fluid flow model in porous media, also known in the oil reservoir engineering literature as a black oil model, using a standard finite element approach. In particular, we are interested to apply this model coupled with a multiphase, multicomponent transport model to study Enhanced Oil Recovery processes at laboratory ...
Analysis of Burning Candle
J.S. Crompton, L.T. Gritter, S.Y. Yushanov, and K.C. Koppenhoefer
AltaSim Technologies LLC, Columbus, OH, USA
Analysis of burning candles is extremely complex; combustion produces a highly non-linear temperature profile through the flame in which local temperatures may exceed 1400 °C. Heat transfer includes radiation, conduction and convection components and the low melting point of the candle wax leads to a phase change that allows mass transport via capillary flow prior to combustion in the flame. ...
Simulation of the Temperature Profile During Welding with COMSOL Multiphysics® Software Using Rosenthal's Approach - new
A. Lecoanet[1], D. G. Ivey[1], H. Henein[1]
[1]Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
A 3D finite element analysis is carried out, using COMSOL® software, to reproduce the thermal profile obtained with Rosenthal's equation. The implemented heat transfer equation has been modified as a means to approximate Rosenthal's solution. An analysis of the differences between the simulation and Rosenthal's solution, when the geometry of the domain and the source are changed, has been ...
Simulation of Spiral-Tube Heat Exchangers in COMSOL Multiphysics® Software
K. O. Lund [1], S. M. Lord [2],
[1] Kurt Lund Consulting (COMSOL Certified Consultant), Del Mar, CA, USA
[2] SML Associates, Encinitas, CA, USA
A frequently occurring geometry for heat exchangers is that of a long tube wound into a helix or spiral around a core volume. There is to be heat exchange between the tube and the gases (or solids) in the core. However, the length scales of these two parts of the geometry are very different, thus complicating the interface between the tube and the core processes. Usually, the tube is too ...
Application of COMSOL Multiphysics® Software in Transport Phenomena Educational Processes
P. L. Mills [1], M. Vasilev [1], P. Sharma [1],
[1] Department of Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA
Introduction Use of simulation software for solving realistic engineering problems has grown significantly in recent years due to the availability of less expensive but more powerful computers and development of user-friendly yet robust codes. From an educational perspective, students in STEM disciplines can now solve complex problems in a relatively short period of time, which provides new ...
Design Optimization of Printed Circuit Board Embedded Inductors through Genetic Algorithms with Verification by COMSOL Multiphysics®
M. Madsen[1], J. Mønster[1], A. Knott[1], M. Andersen[1]
[1]Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
This paper describes the implementation of a complete design tool for design, analysis, optimization and production of PCB embedded inductors. The paper shows how LiveLink™ for MATLAB® and COMSOL Multiphysics® make it possible to combine the scripting and calculation power of MATLAB with the simulation power of COMSOL Multiphysics in order to get an extremely efficient tool for inductor design. ...


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KDL Remembers September 11
As we remember the tragic events that took place on September 11, 2001, we honor those who risked their lives, pay tribute to those who lost their lives, and mourn with those who lost a loved one. We encourage you to join the 9/11 Tribute Movement and share what you will do to honor the 9/11 victims, survivors and those that rose in service in response to the attacks. If you are looking for other ways to get involved, check out this WOOD TV8 article about September 11 Events in West Michigan.
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As expected, the NFL announced Tuesday it will conduct its draft in May, rather than April, starting in 2014.
In recent weeks, some in the football media fretted that a May draft could lead to sticky complications.
As it turns out, the NFL's annual scouting combine in February and the start of the league's business year, set for March, remain unchanged.
The 2014 draft will run from May 8-10, or 13 days later than the '13 draft. The NFL has yet to decide on dates for drafts in 2015 and beyond.
Depending on how coaches schedule spring workouts, rookies may lose practice time between the draft and training camp.
Then again, prospects will have two weeks extra between the end of their college season and the draft, either to train or recover from injuries.
The NFL, meantime, stands to make money from the move. Draft-related news will command headlines two weeks longer.
The draft is wildly popular, and May is "sweeps" month for telecasts.
For football addicts, May becomes a less desperate month with the draft serving as methadone.
The draft is being held at Radio City Music Hall, which is hosting an Easter show next year that conflicts with the NFL's typical window for the draft.
The last time the entire draft took place in May was 1984.
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Memory Alpha:User projects/Timeline project
< Memory Alpha:User projects
this wiki
There have been some changes to timeline articles in the 2370s range, and corresponding discussion on Forum:2370s date changes, recently. The idea of this project is to review all Trek episodes to find out which ones really contain specific dates (of the Julian/Gregorian calendar variety), or can otherwise be tied to a specific date without having to resort to any speculation, like the assumed correspondence of 1000 stardate units to one earth year, or the unconfirmed idea that stardate XX000.0 corresponds to January 1.
Fact list
- Each entry in the following list needs to state which episode that fact is from (preferably with an approximate timecode).
- Relevant dialog should be quoted exactly.
- Only enter facts (that is, things explicitly stated in dialog), not speculation.
- No discussion in the list - for discussion, use the sections below this one. Facts without discussion can be removed from the sections below after being transferred to this list.
- Columns of the following list are supposed to contain:
- Season code = First two digits of stardate typically used during that season
- Full stardate = If given in dialog
- Full date = If given in dialog - Format "YYYY-MM-DD", use appropriate number of '0' for unknown values.
|Season code
|Full stardate
|Full date
|Relative date
|Dialog quote
|TNG: "The Neutral Zone"
|Ralph Offenhouse: "What year is this?" Data: "By your calendar two thousand three hundred sixty four."
|TNG: "All Good Things..."
|Picard: "Counselor, what's today's date...the date?"
Worf: "Stardate 47988."
|VOY: "Eye of the Needle"
|Voyager's present, twenty years into the future for Telek R'Mor
|Tuvok: "Captain, what Year is it?"
R'Mor: "By your Calandar the year is 2351"
Chakotay: "but... this is 2371"
(Stardate from Janeway's voiceover log)
|VOY: "The 37's"
|Voyager's present, over four hundred years after the 1930s
|Janeway: "It's not the 1930s anymore. The year is 2371 over 400 years from the time you were abducted"
(Stardate from Janeway's voiceover log)
|DS9: "Call to Arms"
|Five years after Sisko took command of DS9
|Sisko: "When I first took command of this post all I wanted was to be somewhere else anywhere but here. But now, five years later this has become my home, and you have become my family."
(Stardate from Sisko's voiceover log)
|DS9: "Favor the Bold"
|five years after Sisko met Morn
|Ross: "Are you sure this is reliable?"
Sisko: "I've known the courier for five years, I trust him."
|VOY: "Homestead"
|the "315th" anniversary of First Contact
|statement by Neelix (citation needed • edit)
|VOY: "Endgame"
|"3 Months" after events of VOY: "Human Error"
|according to Seven of Nine (citation needed • edit)
23rd century or earlier
- VOY: "Q2" states that Kirk's five-year mission ended in 2270, strongly implying that the events of TOS and TAS take place between 2265 and 2270.
- TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever"'s scenes in the past include February 23, 1930, per Spock's comment that February 23, 1936 is, "Six years from now."
TOS/TAS relative dates
- TOS: "The Deadly Years" takes place between March 22, 2267 and March 21, 2268 given James T. Kirk's age of 34 provided in the episode. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly" provides his birthdate on a historical screen)
- TOS: "Charlie X" occurs on Thanksgiving, per James T. Kirk's statement.
24th century
- Episodes: TNG Season 1
Dates Given in Dialog
- "The Neutral Zone" - 2364 - Ralph Offenhouse: "What year is this?" Data: "By your calendar two thousand three hundred sixty four."
- "The Royale" The Charybdis is Launched on July 23rd 2037; Colonel Stephen Richey lived there for 38 Years. There were 52 Stars on his patch, which would put in between 2033 & 2079
Dates derived from other facts
- Episodes: TNG Season 2
- Episodes: TNG Season 3
- Episodes: TNG Season 4
- Episodes: TNG Season 5
- Episodes: TNG Season 6, DS9 Season 1
- Episodes: TNG Season 7, DS9 Season 2
- "Descent, Part II" - 47025.4
- "Gambit, Part I" - 47135.2
- "Gambit, Part II" - 47160.1
- "Interface" - 47215.5
- "Phantasms" - 47225.7
- "Dark Page" - 47254.1
- "Attached" - 47304.2
- "Force of Nature" - 47310.2
- "Parallels" - 47391.2
- "Inheritance" - 47410.2
- "Homeward" - 47423.9
- "Sub Rosa" takes place in 2370 according to Felisa Howard's tombstone.
- "The Pegasus" - 47457.1
- "Lower Decks" - 47566.7
- "Thine Own Self" - 47611.2
- "Masks" - 47615.2
- "Eye of the Beholder" - 47622.1
- "Genesis" - 47653.2
- "Journey's End" - 47751.2
- "Firstborn" - 47779.4
- "Bloodlines" - 47829.1
- "Emergence" - 47869.2
- "Preemptive Strike" - 47941.7
- "All Good Things..." - 47988
Dates Given in Dialog
- DS9: "Second Sight" begins the day after the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Wolf 359 (according to Benjamin Sisko's log entry at the beginning of the episode).
- Episodes: DS9 Season 3, VOY Season 1, VOY Season 2 (Four episodes held over from season 1):
- "Caretaker" - 48315.6
- "Parallax" - 48439.7
- "Phage" - 48532.4
- "The Cloud" - 48546.2
- "Eye of the Needle" - 48579.4
- "Emanations" - 48623.5
- "Prime Factors" - 48642.5
- "State of Flux" - 48658.2
- "Heroes and Demons" - 48693.2
- "Cathexis" - 48734.2
- "Faces" - 48784.2
- "Jetrel" - 48832.1
- "Learning Curve" - 48846.5
- "Projections" - 48892.1
- "Elogium" - 48921.3
- "The 37's" - 48975.1
Dates Given in Dialog
- VOY: "Eye of the Needle" - 2371 Tuvok: "Captain, what year is it?" Telek R'Mor: "By your Calendar the year is 2351" Chakotay: "but... this is 2371"
- VOY: "The 37's" - 2371 (statement by Janeway) Janeway: "It's not the 1930s anymore. The year is 2371 over 400 years from the time you were abducted"
- I didn't watch them yet, but with "The 37's" being the first episode of season two, how is this confirmation the other 'hold overs' also take place in 2371?--Terran Officer 23:58, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
- Episodes: DS9 Season 4, VOY Season 2
- Episodes: DS9 Season 5, VOY Season 3
- Episodes: DS9 Season 6, VOY Season 4
Dates Given in Dialog
- VOY: "The Gift" - Statement by Kes in VOY: "Fury" that she will leave Voyager in 3 years from 2371. 2371 + 3 = 2374. A statement by The Doctor indicates that The Gift takes place "a few days" after VOY: "Scorpion". (citation needed • edit)
- VOY: "Hope and Fear" takes place nine months after VOY: "Scorpion, Part II" and VOY: "The Gift", according to Kathryn Janeway. "Hope and Fear" also takes place five months after VOY: "Hunters" according to Janeway.
- Episodes: DS9 Season 7, VOY Season 5
Dates Given in Dialog
- VOY: "Timeless" - Four years, two months, 11 days from VOY: "Caretaker", gives us 2375. (citation needed • edit)
- VOY: "11:59" - April 22 (statement by Neelix at the end of the episode). No year or stardate given, however since this episode takes place very late in the season and taking into account the pattern seen in Voyager's 7th season, it is reasonable to assume that the year is 2376 for 11:59 - Equinox. (citation needed • edit)
- It is not reasonable to assume and needs facts and not speculation.
- In VOY: "Timeless" Janeway states that Voyager had been in the Delta Quadrant for four years, two months, 11 days, giving us a date sometime in early 2375. We know Voyager was stranded in 2371 (and that doesn't come from a stardate, see VOY: "Future's End", starling specifically gives the year). Taking the timeframe given in Timeless, is it really possible that everything from Timeless - 11:59 take place in only three months at the most, and then suddenly skip ahead to December for Equinox?
Dates Derived From Other Facts
DS9: "The Dogs of War" - Given that this episode takes place at the same time as VOY: "Relativity" (which in turn takes place after VOY: "11:59"), it is reasonable to assume that this episode and DS9: "What You Leave Behind" take place in 2376. (citation needed • edit)
- How is it 'reasonable' to assume as such, and where has it been mentioned or cited that "The Dogs of War" takes place at the same time as "Relativity"?
- Look at the stardates and see above.
- Episodes: VOY Season 6
Dates Given in Dialog
VOY: "Unimatrix Zero" - 2377 (from VOY: "Endgame") (citation needed • edit)
Dates Derived From Other Facts
VOY: "Life Line" - Possibly 2377. Statement from Janeway that the Doctor had been transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant "three years" previously. Backed up by a statement from Lewis Zimmerman that he had not left Jupiter Station in "OVER four years" (Assuming he's referring to his visit to DS9 in that shows fifth season, 2373 + 4 = 2377). (citation needed • edit)
- This still fails to show the episode takes place in 2377. Regardless of the statement "over four years ago" and assuming that the episode in question takes place in 2373. Still needs more facts
- I disagree, add four to 2373 (it is the communities current understanding that the DS9 episode in which Zimmerman appears takes place in that year) and you get 2377. Back it up that the Doctor had been sent to the Alpha Quadrant three years previously (from 2374 + 3 = 2377). If the episode took place in 2376 wouldn't it make more sense for Zimmerman to something like ALMOST four years or over THREE years? If that's not good enough there are no stardates to suggest otherwise. Think about it.
- Episodes: VOY Season 7
Dates Given in Dialog
VOY: "Homestead" - April 5, 2378 (the "315th" anniversary of First Contact)
Dates derived from other facts
VOY: "Human Error" - "3 Months" prior to VOY: "Endgame" according to Seven of Nine (Jan-Feb. 2378?)
VOY: "Friendship One" Official Star Trek.com website give year as 2378, statement by Tom Paris says B'Ellana's baby is due in "a couple of months"
- Non canon/non production note and invalid for source
Year Specific
Taking into account Seven of Nine's statement from VOY: "Endgame" (takes place sometime after April 5, 2378) regarding the events of VOY: "Human Error" taking place 3 months previous, there is enough hard evidence to conclude the following episodes in 2378.
- "Human Error"
- "Author, Author"
- "Friendship One"
- "Natural Law"
- "Homestead"
- "Renaissance Man"
- "Endgame"
Taking the statement made by Henry Starling in VOY: "Future's End" (giving the year of Voyager's launch), and considering that with Janeway giving the year as 2371 in VOY: "The 37's", we can conclude that the whole of Voyager's first season takes place in 2371 (including the four-holdover episodes broadcast in season 2).
- "Caretaker"
- "Parallax"
- "Time and Again"
- "Phage"
- "The Cloud"
- "Eye of the Needle"
- "Ex Post Facto"
- "Emanations"
- "Prime Factors"
- "State of Flux"
- "Heroes and Demons"
- "Cathexis"
- "Faces"
- "Jetrel"
- "Learning Curve"
- "Projections"
- "Elogium"
- "Twisted"
- "The 37's"


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yeah we're not very good but you might still love it
and in the face
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Friday, April 11, 2014
"well..." Watch Officer Grande stood and wiped the spatter from his face with a cloth, "isnt that how they always seem to go," he walked toward the exit as his accompaniment checked Cage's body, "leave him, the clean up crew will be here in a few moments. We have the information we need." The tips of latent magical aura lapped about him with dying tinges. "fucking cowboys."
The street was empty outside the pub, the usual onlookers had disappeared with the gunshots, but at the ends of the dark corners of tenement buildings, Grande made out shadowy orphan ghosts leering from within the gloom. Grande zoomed in with his optical nerve; no imminent threat.
"sir," said one of the guardsmen rounding his left side, "was that wise?" Grande choked out a laugh.
"I suppose not," he said, coughing and spitting out a chunk of phlegm, "but he was trying to kill me."
"Well, I may or may not have known that was the inexcusable outcome of meeting such a dangerous suspect upon what you may call his home turf, but," he gave the escort a wicked smile, "I achieved my overall goal. I know what I need to know." He strode out into the empty anvenue and the guardsmen followed.
"Brecken?" said one of the guards.
"Brecken," Grande said.
Two hours later he was still sitting in the lobby waiting area of the Inspector General. Two bloody hours. The Inspector was known for making a big to-do about using magical attacks on civilians inside the dock, but this was a bit much. One of his escort was sleeping on the wooden bench, the other flipping through a tablet magazine. Grande crossed his arms and tried to look as visibly irritated as possible, as if that would speed the old gizzard up. Another forty minutes passed when the server at the desk, all glistening metal and woven gears, spoke in that tinny, empty voice.
"Im sorry gentlemen," it said, "but the Inspector General has left for the day." Grande pulled the tablet from the guards hand and tossed it at the wall as he stormed out the door, the guards frantically accompanying him.
"that bastard," he swore under his breath, "that absolute ruddy bastard..."
"where we going?"
They were speeding up the Genoshinka highway in his patrol car, the two guardsmen in the back, his server, whom they had picked up in route, carefully guiding them from the helm, Grande rifling through records and data and photographs and time sheets on his mobile tablet device. He didnt answer for a moment.
"Brecken," he said finally.
"what about him?" said the other guard.
"we know why the Triad wanted him dead, right?" there was silence. He glanced back and the two men shook their heads no.
"Other than he was a low level scumbag and a dealer," said one.
"and a snitch," said the other.
"Look, you were there, you saw his expression when I asked him if he was gonna cause trouble...Cage was hiding something for them, cept he didnt even know what it was..."
"it dont matter anyway, hes dead..."
"where are we going?"
"just shut up back there, Server, put on some tunes will you?" the sound of classical 20th century music filled the patrol car. Gilbert and O'Sullivan. One of the guards snickered, but Grande ignored him. They were simple, ignorant, bomb rats who were only ever recruited to fill body bags. Low class and ignorable. He made a mental note to send the snickering guard into harms way as soon as humanly possible.
"take the next exit to China town," he noted to the server, and the patrol car swerved, completely in control, toward the off ramp.
"we going to bust some heads?" asked one of the guards.
"we are."
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Cage slid the neck of his bolt pistol from its mooring, discreetly under the table, as the watch officer sat. He was thick and puffy like most officers in the dock, sweating under the heat light, mopping his brow with a cloth. Easy prey. The bar was emptying, there were two guardsmen with him, carrying rifles. The watch officer ordered a drink and his men took their places behind him. Great globs of sweat went racing down his fat face. Cage took a drink.
"what," the officer asked, sort of asked.
"excuse me?"
"what?" definitely a question this time. The two guards both stared at Cage with vacant eyes.
"what the hell do you mean by "what?" You just come walking up here and sit down at my table and say "what," like you aint got no sense?"
"Its juss the way you been looking at me is all," he said.
"oh, zat right?"
"yeah. you been sitting there with yer wiskey casting me an evil eye," he said.
"youre fucked," Cage laughed, "and is that somehow against the law officer," he read the name off the tag, "Lewinson? what kind of a damn name is that?"
"why dont you shut your mouth," one of the guards started, but the officer put up his hand.
"listen," he began.
"you got identification?"
"oh really? how'm I supposed to believe you is who you say you is then?"
"listen, Cage, you're in a whole shitload of trouble, so why don't you just listen for one goddamn minute afore I have to get violent with you all," he stood up, and for all his largess, he looked strong as a bull, and was a terrifying sight to behold, "and we wouldnt want any undue violence now would we?"
"I guess not," said Cage.
"thats good," said the officer, "youre being a real help with all this you know." Cage spat in the dirt of the floor.
"what do you mean by that?"
"you juss been kind is all," he said
"most folks aint all that kind, you see, when you come and get em. Most folks is libel so fly off the handle with their pistols, if you catch my meaning."
"I do," Cage said, his hand sliding onto the handle of his own pistol.
"most folks is damn foolish about it, why, even in a place, not THIS place, mind you, but a place very much like it; even in a place like this some damn foolish idiot of a man could make the choice to put his mettle to the test against some fine, upstanding, and law abiding, headhunters? But hell naw, you wouldnt go and do a damn idiotic thing like that? Would you?"
"Why, is there some other way you're thinking it could possibly go down?" Cage said. The officer was quiet for a moment, then he smiled.
"No, I suppose there isnt," he said, "good luck to you sir"
It was then Cage fired off his pistol under the table.
a band from japan
and their
album PINK
are my favorites
this album came out a few years ago and it changed my life
I'm an otaku (see, complete nerd) by design, and have what one may call a passing
unhealthy obsession
with the nation of japan
I mean
I've seen every episode of Detective Conan
and Dragon Ball
and Dragon Ball Z
Im not bragging this is a serious issue for me
I also have an unhealthy obsession with metal and experimental heavy music
Burning Witch
that sort of sound
these two worlds ultimately collided in Boris.
Japanese Stoner/doom/metal/shoegaze trio
the guitar player is a woman.
oh and she shreds
and their music is fucking amazing and awesome
almost too perfect.
nope just perfect enough
fuck you vegeta you asshole
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
From "Noms Tourism Guide"
"This is a place like any other, friend. A city on the brink of survival, struggling needlessly through the apogee of the echo-cromomatic age. Barely breathing above the surface of a lake of fire molten running down your throat so you cant even scream or nothing; trapped under the bedrock never to be found again. The street here is paved in sorrow, just like everywhere else friend. Broken silhouettes slide shiftlessly through blank corridors; never quite pushing up to the sun. Dead eyes sit in rotted sockets, but yet still live lingers on tediously within. Stench rises up like from the graves of the dismembered and shit-ridden, lines upon lines, upon lines of tenement house buildings, packed full of starving, indolent, shit ridden children, uneducated, snipped of spontaneous reproduction as a service to the state, they scream like folding pigs in glass abattoirs, burning, pushing, churning up from the fires of the Glakkisemesh Pit, sent aimless into the world, starved for an angry birth; slit eyed and stinking they course the pavemented, aligned avenues like winter ghosts; friend, this is a place where your dream already went, long before, and deigned to die.
That of course is what you might call, a poetic description of the city of Noms; sat deep south on the Valosian coast against the warm waters of the Nomarian Sea, with its ancient palisade walls, winding streets, stone and mudbrick bulidngs, and even a sort of (half collapsed) tunnel system, all from a long lost era of man. Such records have long been forgotten, lost, or simply destroyed. And I wouldn't be bringing it up too much to your local Security Bearuea, unless you're ready for abrupt awakenings in the dead of night by trained militia men in black masks with rifles telling you to "stop asking so many damn questions." I know all about that; masqurade balls and polotical shills for favors and status ranking. All to get the cold barrel steel of a muzzle against your temple and a kind "back the fuck off. We have your mother in custody," before disapearing back into the night from when they came. Its what you might call one of the risks of the job." - Walter Pennick
first post in months and months
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December 13, 2011
Marc Givler
Since becoming one of the first prospects to receive an offer from Urban Meyer, the Ohio State coaching staff has continued to turn up the heat on Durham (N.C.) Hillside product Jamal Marcus. Now, the 6-foot-2, 219-pound linebacker is planning to make an official visit to Columbus to see what the Buckeyes have to offer. "I haven't scheduled my visit yet," said Marcus. "I'm hoping to take one sometime towards the end of January. Once I get down there, they're going to specify (which linebacker position) they need me at." Marcus met with assistant coach Luke Fickell last week at his high school. The visit was all positive according to Marcus. "It was good," Marcus said. "I got a chance to get to know him and see what he's all about. He talked about the things that they are trying to bring into the program next year and he said they lost like seven linebackers (over the last year) so they are trying to bring some more in." While everything went well with Fickell, Marcus is hoping to speak with Meyer at some point. As of early Monday evening, the two had not yet spoken but that is certain to change sooner rather than later. "I'm supposed to talk to Urban Meyer soon," he said. "Hopefully I'll get to see how he is and everything and what he's trying to do with the program." With the recent offer and subsequent attention the Ohio State staff has shown Marcus, it comes as no surprise that the Buckeyes now sit among his top group of schools. "Right now they sit very high," he said. "Florida, North Carolina, Auburn, and East Carolina (are also high on the list)." Marcus said he doesn't have any visits coming up in the near future as he is taking part in the Shrine Bowl, an all-star game featuring the best players from North Carolina against the best players from South Carolina. "I'm at the Shrine Bowl right now so I don't really have anything else coming up (in the immediate future)," he said. "We just had our first practice today so it's going pretty good, we looked good out there."
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