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Toxic subprime mortgages and sickly derivatives are one thing, but even amid the write-downs and bailouts, Wall Streeters have to be wondering if they are getting a pretty bad return on another investment–the money they contributed to the Presidential candidates.
Financiers have donated millions of dollars for Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, let alone the funds given to various House and Senate candidates. And sophisticated Wall Streeters surely know that when they make campaign contributions, they aren't paying for specific policies as much as access.
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i was woried about methadone but i broke in the process of being sick on wed, im on 20mls a day ive done it since thurs now i have exactly 4 more days before i have to be back at work should i stop the methedone now? and hope some of the suffering is gone by thursday when i have to be back at work? i really dont want to be stuck on methadone but im wondering if i should stop it now im going for my 3rd dose in about an hour and a half, it is bliss ill tell you that, i still crave like crazy and am very depressed suicide is always at the back of my mind wispering to me to accept its offer of peace.
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i am on 120 mil a day and doing well. been clean for 59 days and am loving this new found peace of mind. also helps with my pain that drove me to adiction in the first place
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So you were using something else up until 59 days ago? I am a little puzzled. What is your pain condition? How did you transition from what you were on to what you are on now. 120 mil is a extremely high dosage. What do you mean you are clean?
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Tinker it is obvious that you were in a really BAD clinic and because of that you have the views you do.
I on the other hand have seen friends who were addicts for 20 and 30 years shooting dope daily over and over each day get on the methadone maintenance program and get clean and get a LIFE like they never had.
I know many who are in fact HEP C infected who in fact have gotten through their addiction issues while on Methadone and gotten Off the drugs and methadone and have done wonderful and two have their numbers down after treatment one has had a transplant and doing great and another is waiting on the list for their transplant.
Yes it can be a Bytch to kick and yes Heroin is a easier kick But where is it that you can get heroin and do a slow detox off of it?
No where that I know except there is a study i think in Boston thinking of doing just that and possibly in Switzerland or somewhere they are ahead of US by a mile in addiction issues because the US well they have a warped belief on addiction still.
If a person gets on Methadone and is put on a proper blocking dose and does the foot work that should be done. Meaning they work on THEM and find the pieces to the puzzle and discover why they ever used to begin with and deal with those issues.
While doing that they put time into either going to school and getting career training or if they have training work to get a career. and learn to live life as a "normal" person
They can and do get off Methadone and go on to live a normal life.
Sadly many like you said and did go seeking that legal high
they never get the proper dose and never put in the time and energy to fixing themselves and so they stay on WAY too long and they are still getting high elsewhere in many cases and they are not taking care of THEM and then when it fails them they want to as you did Blame everything and everyone BUT the person at fault Themselves
As far as the loss of your friends i am sorry for you loss and i know all too well how it is to lose a friend and family member too., However you are laying the blame on their deaths on Methadone when in fact it was NOT the methadone that killed them
You said it yourself
the one died due to their hep C who can really say had she or he never been on methadone that his or her numbers would not have went up and the disease would not have sadly won the battle. Hep C is something we are still learning about and for many of us Myself included we hope they find a cure or something before we die.
Your second friend Knew as most addicts do know that you can not shoot drugs no matter if you are on methadone or not and be given ANY guarantee that you will not OD.
We addicts all do what we can to get the BEST high i can not tell you how many time we have heard that a friend OD'd and in the same breath ask where he got the dope cause we all want some. That is part of our addiction and the threat of an overdose is there every time we stick that tip into our vein with our without methadone in us.
Again Sorry for your lose but Methadone did not kill your friends and you obviously still have not totally dealt with their passing
I wish you all the luck in dealing with your addiction and finding true recovery and peace of mind.
By the way Methadone got me off and strangely enough after years of being off of it and being clean due to injuries suffered during a beating that left me for dead i was placed on the usual stair steps of pain meds over several years
Guess what i am taking now for pain
Oddly enough I got off all those years ago Only to end up back on for a totally different issue.
so it has helped me twice
oh and my hep C my numbers have stayed low and my biopsies all show the slow progression since 2000 when I was diagnosed neither being on or off has sped up my disease, of course i do eat a good diet now and take vitamins and supplements and take care of myself way better than i did back when I was getting high but than that is normal for us addicts heck i lived with a few illnesses that never showed themselves until i was clean the first time before ever going on methadone.
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Hi April
I started shooting dope at 17 , and have been through more than one clinic in more than one state. Not sure what your message of getting heroin in Switzerland and slowly detoxing is about. I have gotten off heroin with heroin after many cold turkeys. The problem was never getting off it was not starting again as I was still under the influence with Methadone, and never got the cravings and obsession removed., I am not going to try and try and convince you as until you can hear you will only hear what you want to hear.
All I can do is speak from experience and my schooling and degree's as a drug and alcohol council today. I was a straight A student on or off drugs. Until I got clean and sober I could not see why I had to self medicate. And I could not see that while still being medicated. I guess you have to have been there to understand these things before you can judge where I am.
As far as not dealing with the deaths, that is your opinion. I will never feel good about what happened to my family, but every week almost without fail I hear of another person going back out or dying, and I am thankful i have the tools today to understand that I am powerless over what others do.
I to have Hep C, I was a prostitute, a liar and a thief, and for 20 years was on the Methadone ban wagon also, so I understand your quest to be right.
As far as the people being at fault for not taking the right dose, or regulating, that is nonsense. It is just more finger pointing. When you still think like a addict you will stay on a high dosage, and its the clinics responsibility to regulate you not yourself. We had weekly meetings at most of the clinics I went to, and the patients were sucking their toes as they were so over medicated, yet they kept increasing the dose. And just outside the doors deals where being done selling take homes. I came up dirty for cocaine, downers, acid pot, and booze all the time, and was never detoxed or kicked off the program. The doctors they hire are pathetic losers who cannot hold a job elsewhere, there is not much lower other than maybe pain clinics or Social Security doctors than Methadone clinics. And the lies about what Methadone does to your body should be malpractice. One day there will be class action suits galore, there is just to many advocates out there today as its the easier softer way for the addict and a lot of money exploiting them.
I also went through in Atascadero California a class on Methadone for the patience there, and not once did they address getting them off it. It is all about money and what better audience than a dope fiend that is untreated in recovery.
I ran with junkies for 30 years and I know of what I speak. I sold drugs while on Methadone and many where the people I met at the clinic I had for customers. We were hooked on the needle and the block did not block other drugs.
You cannot BS an old BS'er.
The cure is simple. Its not easy and most junkies are mentally lazy but the cure is , don't use and get into recovery, find out why you had to use, don't use, get a clear head and stop finger pointing. We are the problem no one else. There is no quick fix, but we will do everything but what really works, until we get honest and really want to be clean and sober.
My last run with Methadone ended me up in the ICU as with Hep C it almost killed me. Since then my Hep C is in control, and other than a week detox and some pretty strong drugs to keep me pretty much knocked out while detoxing, i have not had to put any mind altering drugs in me to be able to live. So contrary to your analogy of me, I feel I have a pretty great and my thinking pretty clear and healthy , even got back some of those fried brain cells..LOL
To thy own self be true.
I was once a hopeless dope fiend. Today I am a dopeless hope fiend.
God Speed. Tink
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That was a pretty great life... sorry have macular degeneration and cannot see so good anymore type by the keyboard.
I was a skid row junkie. Until I really wanted to stop no one could help me. There are millions of people like me that have put the chemistry sets away and do not need any substitutes. Methadone however will keep you coming back even after the buzz is gone, as it is 10 times harder to kick than heroin. So why on earth would you do that when its not necessary. I see people on antidepressants and all these new substitutes. When you get clean you are going to be depressed but its not clinical yet I hear it all the time, and in 19 years it has grown out of control. The best sobriety is one that is done without buffers, all the others never worked for me, or the thousands I have been blessed to meet along my road in recovery. But we had to learn that for ourselves.
I wasted so many years in detox's, rehabs, clinics when it was always right there in front of me. Now a old lady I missed many years and hurt many people, some that still will have nothing to do with me. All because I was not honest enough to say, I really loved to get high and was not ready to stop. Wish you the best really do, but I prefer to keep it simple and stop looking for someone else or something else to do it for me.
Thanks again.
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I can totally relate to a LOT of what you speak However you are speaking to me like I am Still on the program???
I got off the program 5 years ago Due to injuries that came on top of old injuries (my ex had beat and left me for dead Than when I went to work as a trainer at a horse farm after I got off the program I got trampled by a horse which caused my pain to escalate again. They had me on all sorts of things and finally offered me methadone. I was sick of the oxys having me as you said sucking my toes and still in pain Not to mention I feared dying of a OD with them as i always felt out of my head. When they offered a low controlled does of methadone for pain i took it and it has worked.
I do as i said know all about the outside door deals but than no matter where you go you will find a junky not yet ready that much we are sure of. i did all you did and am Grateful I made it out i still give some of the credit to my getting clean and learning to live a new life to Methadone. it helped me maintain and deal with my own issues get a place of my own and get inside my head and work out the crap i needed to.
We all get recovery in our own way I guess but as you said and said well Not one of us will Ever do it until we have it in our hearts to do so.
I admire you for going to school and becoming a counselor.
i wish I could gather my brain enough to do that After all that interferon I am left with Swiss cheese for a brain.
I want to one day write for a living Oh wait i am over the hill already
I do ask How did you get past the self resentment of a life wasted? or did you ever get that resentment?
I would Love to chat privately sometime if you care to.
As i said we share a great deal in common.
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Hi, sorry got that mixed up. I only have a minute have to tend to my hubby we both have the flu bad. I still get mad at myself for the wasted years...some times its still hard. Will write more in the morning. Your not over the hill and write very from the heart.
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Methadone as with other opiates did not work for my pain which is neurological it made it a little easier to handle but the consequences using opiates not worth the little relief opiates provided. Excedrin actually worked better than any of the RX drugs they have tried on me. But only after I got the opiates out of my system. I know Methadone is not a opiate but it also did not work for my pain and especially my break through pain. What did work was pot. The irony of that is I cannot stand pot...LOL it does not like me either.
I do a lot of meditation, and try to move my body as much as possible, niacin also seems to help my pain.
I don't know if you ever heard of a show on Dateline years ago called "Saving Carrick". She was a young heroin addict and they glorified Methadone almost as if it were a miracle cure for her. Well her father had a web site called "The Elephant" and we started talking. She got off the Methadone eventually and from what I heard went out shortly after as although she went to school, did all these interviews, got a job etc... she never treated the underlying conditions of addiction, or had tools or support in that direction.
I believe we are defenless against using until we treat the condition and go through that without any mind altering drugs. Learning to live life on lifes terms without drugs, even ones that were not our drug of choice, as we always go back to the drug of choice. I have seen people white knuckle sobriety for years and even some kill themselves without working on the why's and hows.
I credit my clean and sober life as a daily reprieve only contingent on the maintenance of my spiritual, emotional and physical condition,. Without the tools I have been given, my support line, even with all that the statistics show I have low chance of staying clean and sober for the long haul if I get complacient at all with my recovery. I do not do life well, people well and my low self esteem can raise its ugly head at any time or tragedy. For me even good times can be a trigger. As that is usually when I went out when it got to good. I could not stand to be to successful or to fail, never learned to live somewhere in the middle until I worked a lot on why I feel different than a normal person who can drink or do recreational drugs without going over the top.
I also believe that addiction is a curse, and would trade it in a heartbeat. But it is what it is. I see so much sadness and pain.
Today I am a lot better but never think I am bulletproof. People with far better sobriety than me and time have gone out again.
Methadone to me is just a can of worms I would not go to again if I had known there was another way. My husband has been on 10mg for 12 years for his restless leg syndrome which nothing works but opiates or benzo's He has tried to get off for 4 years and when he gets down to 4 mgs all hell breaks lose. He is 70 years old and just cannot get off and believe me he has tried and suffered for weeks then has to go back up to 10 mg or go crazy with the side affects and rebound symptoms this Methadone causes. The longer your on it, the older you get its a nightmare drug. My teeth, my bones are still affected. I cannot lay down flat since getting of Methadone, the doctor said it was because I sat up in a nod for so many years not laying in bed sleeping. And my spine is a mess, plus the calcium has been drained from the Methadone. Believe me 20 years off and on Methadone I know what I speak of.
Its good to talk about these things. I just pray no one has to find out that this so called good thing is really not what it appears to be, and there are other ways.
Hugs Tink
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Darn it seems the more you write the more you tell my story like you were there LOL
I can not tell you how many times I have said that until one deals with whatever issues that caused the person to use to begin with that once all the "numbing" effects of the drugs are gone that pain and those issues will come to the top again.
Now will the person have the tools to sit in that pain and face and deal with it properly,
or will they instead when it comes back do as they always have and grab a drug of some sort even if that drug is alcohol and they have never been a drinker.
I went that path once and ended up drunk one night and got some coke and well back out there I went took me 3 years to come up off that relapse that time.
I too have sat at the program in the past and watched the clients get younger and think to myself wow if only they knew what I know.
I honestly think in some situations it can be helpful to at least hold you to help you get steady for short periods but well the whole being on for many years well who knows what it does to you I can imagine the same thing that being on opiates for chronic pain does to those already facing pain who are on
Oxy and fentenyl (SP??). I do wish they would take time to study these things but in all honesty they do not care enough to invest in what they see as junkies.
I wish someone would spend money and do a study on what a life of prostitution can do to a female too but well again we will likely never see that done either LOL I still
i have seen many get off from 25 and 30 year addictions to heroin and coke and never take the methadone route and get clean in jail and go one with their life and still end up facing the same health issues that you mentioned so who is to say it is methadone or just the heroin itself??
i have seen addicts who were strictly crack doers get clean and deal with the same back issues and health issues
i have to wonder is it possibly the stuff used to cut the drugs? Is it the fact that for 20 or 30 years they masked any health issues they had and therefore when they got clean the issues appear and are in fact serious crisis when they are reached?
Mind you I m NOT saying Methadone and opiates period do not play parts but i have to wonder if it does not have to do with a great deal of the crap used to cut the drugs we were doing as well as the life led.
Eithe way a life with NO medication would be a Great one but hell since i got clean I take more darn pills now than you can imagine
i swear i am falling apart piece y piece like a robot that as it walks it loses a bolts or nut here and there LOL
that is me
Oh and i also wonder if it also does not have to do with the fact I was running so hard and so strong that I was living like 3 days in every single day. If that makes sense.
i mean the staying up for days and weeks at a time until you fell asleep out of pure exhaustion because you had no where to go to sleep at. I have to wonder if that did not take its toll as well on me and my body and mind.
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i know alot of people that have failed trying to use methadone, but i do know a few that have succeeded greatly when taken as prescribed. coming off of it is going to hurt but you the time that you are on it to really get involved in aa/na (while you have the energy) so you will have something to fall back on.
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By Ben Pershing
The Washington Post
The day after news broke that a new super PAC will be aiding the Senate campaign of George Allen (R), Timothy M. Kaine (D) is proposing that the two foes strike an agreement to force outside groups spending money on their race to disclose their donors.
Allen and Kaine are their parties' likely nominees in the contest to succeed retiring Sen. James Webb (D), in what is widely predicted to be one of the closest — and most expensive — races in the country. With the Independence Virginia PAC gearing up to help Allen and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS already having weighed in for him, Kaine is hoping to strike a deal on disclosure.
During their debate in December, Kaine suggested that the two candidates call on super PACs and outside groups to stay out of the race, an idea Allen dismissed.


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Alone in Her Beauty
Maintaining my proficiency in Mandarin has been a constant challenge. Instead of taking structured classes I have been trying to find ways to at least maintain what I have already learned. I am grateful that Vancouver's great population of Mandarin speakers has given me opportunity to use the language in everyday life. One challenge I have experienced is that most of the Mandarin speakers I meet have a better English vocabulary than my Chinese vocabulary. It is only natural for people to default to the most descriptive of shared languages so that opinions and stories are more likely to convey their intended meaning. In these situations, English clearly remains the default language and highlights one of the benefits of learning in an immersion environment.
While looking for inspiration on ways to overcome such challenges, I found a Wikibook called "how to learn a language". One good piece of advice is to listen to audiobooks in your target language. So where does an English-speaker find Chinese audiobooks? A link to the free audiobooks at LibriVox of works in the public domain brought me to discover poems Tang Dynasty (618-907); specifically a work compiled in 1763 called Three Hundred Tang Poems (唐詩三百首).
To practice my pronunciation, I have been listening to a poem called 佳人 (Alone in Her Beauty) by 杜甫 (Du Fu). It helps to have a copy of the poem to read at the same time. So I have prepared a version in Simplified Chinese that I found online and added pinyin for anyone like me that would find it helpful.
佳人 (Alone in Her Beauty)
[Download MP3 | English Translation]
绝代有佳人, 幽居在空谷。
juédàiyŏujiārén, yōujūzàikōnggŭ
自云良家子, 零落依草木。
zìyúnliángjiāzĭ, língluòyīcăomù
关中昔丧乱, 兄弟遭杀戮。
guānzhōngxīsāngluàn, xiōngdizāoshālù
官高何足论, 不得收骨肉。
guāngāohézúlùn, bùdéshōugŭròu
世情恶衰歇, 万事随转烛。
shìqíngwùshuāixiē, wànshìsuízhuănzhú
夫婿轻薄儿, 新人美如玉。
fūxùqīngbó'ér, xīnrénměirúyù
合昏尚知时, 鸳鸯不独宿。
héhūnshàngzhīshí, yuānyāngbùdúsù
但见新人笑, 那闻旧人哭。
dànjiànxīrénxiào, nàwénjiùrénkū
在山泉水清, 出山泉水浊。
zàishānquánshuĭqīng, chūshānquánshuĭzhuó
侍婢卖珠回, 牵萝补茅屋。
shìbìmàizhūhuí, qiānluóbŭmáowū
摘花不插发, 采柏动盈掬。
zhāihuābùchāfā, căibăidòngyíngjū
天寒翠袖薄, 日暮倚修竹。
tiānháncuìxiùbáo, rìmùyŭxiūzhú


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On March 17, 2014, Bryan Fischer insisted that the only reason Bill Maher continues to live is because God allows it.
On Friday, Bill Maher responded to reports that as many as 60% of Americans may believe the Biblical flood of Noah actually happened by calling America a "stupid country" for believing in a God who is a "psychotic mass murderer."
Fischer, who apparently supports the theory that God is the personal flunky of the American Taliban (of which Fischer is a proud member), responded by insisting that the only reason Maher is not struck down on the spot for engaging in this sort of blasphemy is because God is giving him a chance to repent.
"Bill Maher might have thought he was being hip and kind of trendy and kind of cool and all of that," said Fischer, "but he is going to be judged for those careless words. God hopes it doesn't come to that. God could, by all rights, take him right now and Bill Maher would have to face judgment by the end of the day.
"Why doesn't He do that? Because He is patient with Bill Maher. He doesn't want to have to do that. He wants to give Bill Maher the time to come to his senses and to come to a place of repentance."
What American Family Radio's Truth Detector may have once again willed himself to forget is that Bill Maher has a been knocking religion for almost the entirety of his thirty-year career. If God were still (if ever) the "psychotic mass murderer" of Fischer's wet dreams, something would have happened by now.
Fischer might also be interested to learn two things about Maher:
- When he says "religion," he means "organized religion."
- Just because Maher frequently defends atheism does not mean he is an atheist.
"I'm not an atheist," Maher once said. "There's a really big difference between an atheist and someone who just doesn't believe in religion. Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. But I'm not an atheist, no."
The irony of it all is that Bill Maher isn't just not going to be smitten like Fischer wants. He's also (whether Maher likes it or not) a better Christian than Fischer could ever dream of being.


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Jan. 2, 2014
By DARREN MILLER
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University women's basketball team made 11 3-point field goals and held on to defeat the University of Iowa, 86-84, on Wednesday in Assembly Hall in a Big Ten Conference opener for both teams.
The Hoosiers snapped a seven-game losing streak in the series to improve to 14-0 on the season; No. 22 Iowa is 12-3.
While Indiana shot 47.8-percent from 3-point land, the Hawkeyes were 3-of-17 from long range (17.6 percent).
Iowa dug itself out of a double-digit deficit in the second half and cut Indiana's lead to two points with two minutes to play (74-72) on a layup by Samantha Logic; she made a 3-point field goal with 29 seconds left to pull the Hawkeyes within 83-81.
Logic led all players with 25 points, making 9-of-15 field goals and 6-of-7 free throws. She added 12 rebounds. Bethany Doolittle made 10-of-15 field goals for 20 points and six blocked shots before fouling out with 4:41 remaining. Ally Disterhoft (13) and Kali Peschel (10) also scored in double figures for the Hawkeyes.
"(Sam) did a great job leading us again, but we need other people to step up," Bluder said. "There were a lot of blank looks out there, a lot of lack of emotion out there and that's not like us. We play with great emotion and we're good when we play with emotion. We didn't have it right from the start and I don't know why."
Iowa held a shooting advantage from the field (50.0-43.8) and the line (65.5-57.6), but the Hoosiers' production from outside proved to be the difference.
Indiana used a deep bench to its advantage. Eleven Hoosiers committed 19 fouls, whereas eight Hawkeyes were whistled 26 times. Doolittle and Peschel fouled out and Logic and Theairra Taylor had four fouls apiece. Taylor led Iowa with six assists.
"Indiana's depth hurt us, they had more fouls to give, we got in foul trouble," Bluder said. "I'm disappointed in the defensive effort of our basketball team."
The Hawkeyes host defending conference champion No. 15 Penn State (9-3) on Sunday, Jan. 5, on Mediacom Court in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. (CT).
"We're going to need a lot of crowd there," Bluder said. "Penn State is a tremendous team. We need a great performance against them. We have to get this (loss) back and the only way we can redeem ourselves is by coming out and playing well against Penn State. A great crowd would certainly help us with that."


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I am trying to configure
automysqlbackup to run via a cronjob to backup my dbs nightly.
When I execute
sudo automysqlbackup from a terminal, the process executes as expected and creates the backup archives.
I then executed
sudo crontab -e and added
0 2 * * * automysqlbackup
to the cron jobs.
This job does not run, and I can't find any error messages that might help. Any ideas why this job isn't executing?


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"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply
have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind."
Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley
U.S. hardcover edition: pages 581 - 604
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 505 - 525
U.K. paperback edition: pages 631 - 656
In which Harry, left alone in
Dumbledore's office,
sees some glimpses of the past in
Karkaroff giving evidence before a court of wizards,
Crouch's son being sentenced to Azkaban. Harry tells Dumbledore
about his dream, and the headmaster speculates on its meaning.
Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:
The Pensieve
is a brilliant plot device, allowing JKR to show rather than tell the reader
about various events for which Harry
was not a direct witness without sacrificing the use of
Harry as the viewpoint character.
Note that JKR has employed an interesting means of providing exposition
to the reader: Karkaroff, spilling his guts to the Ministry of Magic
in his desperation to avoid a life sentence in Azkaban. If Dementors don't
provide a plausible motivation for a character to tell everything he knows,
it's hard to say what does.
This chapter, thanks to Karkaroff's testimony, is one of the main sources
of information about the Death Eaters and their crimes during the first war
against Voldemort. Others include
GF27 and OP9.
He had been inside
Dumbledore's office
once before...
...it was a very beautiful, circular room, lined with
pictures of previous headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts,
all of whom were fast asleep, their chests rising and falling gently.
"Harry!" said Fudge jovially, moving forward.
"How are you?"
...looking at Dumbledore, who gave him a swift, searching look.
Fawkes, Professor Dumbledore's phoenix, was standing on his golden perch
beside the door. The size of a swan, with magnificent scarlet-and-gold
plumage, he swished his long tail and blinked benignly at Harry.
Harry sat down in a chair in front of Dumbledore's desk. For several minutes,
he sat and watched the old headmasters and headmistresses snoozing in their
Harry hesitated, glanced at Fawkes...
A shallow stone basin lay there, with odd carvings around the edge:
runes and symbols that Harry did not recognize.
The silvery light was coming from the basin's contents, which were like
nothing Harry had ever seen before. He could not tell whether the substance
was liquid or gas. It was a bright, whitish silver, and it was moving
ceaselessly; the surface of it became ruffled like water beneath wind, and
then, like clouds, separated and swirled smoothly. It looked like light made
liquid - or like wind made solid - Harry couldn't make up his mind.
He wanted to touch it, to find out what it felt like, but nearly four years'
experience of the magical world told him that sticking his hand into a bowl
full of some unknown substance was a very stupid thing to do. He therefore
pulled his wand out of the inside of his robes...
The surface of the silvery stuff inside the basin began to swirl very fast...
The silvery substance had become transparent; it looked like glass.
He looked down into it expecting to see the stone bottom of the basin - and
saw instead an enormous room below the surface of the mysterious substance,
a room into which he seemed to be looking through a circular window in the
An empty chair stood in the very center of the room. There was something about
the chair that gave Harry an ominous feeling.
Not one of the witches and wizards in the room (and there were at least two
hundred of them) was looking at him.
Once before, Harry had found himself somewhere that nobody could see or hear
him. That time, he had fallen through a page in an enchanted diary, right into
somebody else's memory . . . and unless he was very much mistaken, something of
the sort had happened again...
And that, in Harry's opinion, settled the matter. Dumbledore wouldn't ignore
him like that.
Harry looked around more carefully. The room, as he had suspected when
observing it from above, was almost certainly underground - more of a dungeon
than a room, he thought.
There was a bleak and forbidding air about the place; there were no pictures
on the walls...
The door in the corner of the dungeon opened and three people entered - or at
least one man, flanked by two Dementors.
Harry looked down at the man
now sitting in the chair and saw that it was
Karkaroff. Unlike
looked much younger; his hair and goatee were black.
He was not dressed in sleek furs, but in thin and ragged robes.
Even as Harry watched, the chains on the arms of the chair glowed suddenly gold
and snaked their way up Karkaroff's arms, binding him there.
Crouch's hair was dark, his face was much less lined, he looked fit and alert.
"You have been brought from Azkaban to present evidence to the Ministry of Magic.
You have given us to understand that you have important information for us."
He did not have his magical eye, but two normal ones.
[Crouch]'s done a deal with him.
Took me six months to track him down, and Crouch is going to let him go
if he's got enough new names.
"You must understand," said Karkaroff hurriedly, "that
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named operated always in the greatest secrecy...we
never knew the names of every one of our fellows - He alone knew exactly
who we all were -"
"Which was a wise move, wasn't it, as it prevented someone like you,
Karkaroff, from turning all of them in," muttered Moody.
In OP35, for example, Lucius Malfoy
and his companions are arrogant enough to unmask in front of all six
DA members, on the assumption that no witnesses would survive.
"There was Antonin Dolohov," he said. "I - I saw him torture
countless Muggles and - and non-supporters of the Dark Lord."
"And helped him do it," murmured Moody.
"We have already apprehended Dolohov," said Crouch. "He was
caught shortly after yourself."
Regarding the matter of names, it is common knowledge that few witches
or wizards refer to Voldemort as "Voldemort", and fewer still
by his birth name. It is significant, however, which nickname
a witch or wizard uses to refer to Voldemort. Note that only here does
Karkaroff slip and refer to Voldemort as "the Dark Lord", a
term that seems to be used primarily by the Death Eaters (current and
former). He is trying very hard, as indicated by his stumbling speech
at this point, to try to use "politically correct" words,
knowing that his freedom hangs on the impression he is creating.
"Evan Rosier."
"Rosier is dead," said Crouch. "He was caught shortly after you
were too. He preferred to fight rather than come quietly and was killed in the
"Took a bit of me with him, though," whispered Moody to Harry's right.
Harry looked around at him once more, and saw him indicating the large chunk out
of his nose to Dumbledore.
There was Travers - he helped murder the McKinnons!
Mulciber - he specialized in the Imperius Curse, forced countless people
to do horrific things!
"Rookwood, who was a spy, and passed He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named useful
information from inside the Ministry itself!"
Light thickens, and the crow
makes wing to the rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Very apt quotation to provide a Death Eater's name, isn't it?
"Augustus Rookwood of the Department of Mysteries?"
"The very same," said Karkaroff eagerly. "I believe he
used a network of well-placed wizards, both inside the Ministry and out,
to collect information -"
"But Travers and Mulciber we have," said Mr. Crouch.
"Severus Snape was indeed a Death Eater. However, he rejoined our side
before Lord Voldemort's downfall and turned spy for us, at great
personal risk."
"He is now no more a Death Eater than I am."
Harry turned to look at Mad-Eye Moody. He was wearing a look of deep
skepticism behind Dumbledore's back.
His nose wasn't broken now; he was tall and lean and muscular.
"Ludo Bagman, you have been brought here in front of the Council of
Magical Law to answer charges relating to the activities of the
Death Eaters," said Mr. Crouch. "We have heard the evidence against
you, and are about to reach our verdict. Do you have anything to add to your
testimony before we pronounce judgment?"
Harry couldn't believe his ears. Ludo Bagman, a Death Eater?
"Only," said Bagman, smiling awkwardly, "well - I know I've
been a bit of an idiot -"
One or two wizards and witches in the surrounding seats smiled indulgently.
Mr. Crouch did not appear to share their feelings. He was staring down at
Ludo Bagman with an expression of the utmost severity and dislike.
"Ludovic Bagman, you were caught passing information to Lord Voldemort's
supporters," said Mr. Crouch. "For this, I suggest a term of
imprisonment in Azkaban lasting no less than -"
"Old Rookwood was a friend of my dad's . . . never crossed my mind
he was in with You-Know-Who!"
"I thought I was collecting information for our side!"
"And Rookwood kept talking about getting me a job in the Ministry
later on ... once my Quidditch days are over, you know ..."
"We'd just like to congratulate Mr. Bagman on his splendid performance for
England in the Quidditch match against Turkey last Saturday," the witch
said breathlessly.
Rookwood get him a job indeed...The day Ludo Bagman joins us will be a sad day
indeed for the Ministry...
There was a thickset man who stared blankly up at Crouch; a thinner and more
nervous-looking man, whose eyes were darting around the crowd...
...a woman with thick, shining dark hair and heavily hooded eyes, who was
sitting in the chained chair as though it were a throne...
...and a boy in his late teens, who looked nothing short of petrified.
He was shivering, his straw-colored hair all over his face, his
freckled skin milk-white.
"We have heard the evidence against you. The four of you stand accused
of capturing an Auror - Frank Longbottom - and subjecting him to the
Cruciatus Curse, believing him to have knowledge of the present whereabouts
of your exiled master, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named -"
"You are further accused," bellowed Mr. Crouch, "of using the
Cruciatus Curse on Frank Longbottom's wife, when he would not give you
"You planned to restore He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to power, and to resume
the lives of violence you presumably led while he was strong. I now ask the
jury -"
"I now ask the jury," shouted Mr. Crouch, "to raise their hands
if they believe, as I do, that these crimes deserve a life sentence in
In unison, the witches and wizards along the right-hand side of the dungeon
raised their hands. The crowd around the walls began to clap as it had for
Bagman, their faces full of savage triumph. The boy began to scream.
The boys' three companions rose quietly from their seats; the woman with the
heavy-lidded eyes looked up at Crouch and called, "The Dark Lord will rise
again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again
and will come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters!
We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!"
"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have
too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind...At these times,"
said Dumbledore, indicating the stone basin, "I use the Pensieve. One
simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin,
and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and
links, you understand, when they are in this form."
"D'you - d'you know why my scar's hurting me?"
Dumbledore looked very intently at Harry for a moment, and then said, "I
have a theory, no more than that. ... It is my belief that your scar hurts both
when Lord Voldemort is near you, and when he is feeling a particularly strong
surge of hatred."
"But. . . why?"
"Because you and he are connected by the curse that failed," said
Dumbledore. "That is no ordinary scar."
"So you think . . . that dream . . . did it really happen?"
"It is possible," said Dumbledore. "I would say - probable."
"Harry - did you see Voldemort?"
"No," said Harry. "Just the back of his chair. But - there
wouldn't have been anything to see, would there? I mean, he hasn't got a body,
has he? But. . . but then how could he have held the wand?"
Harry said slowly.
"Professor," Harry said at last, "do you think he's getting
"Voldemort?" said Dumbledore, looking at Harry over the Pensieve.
It was the characteristic, piercing look Dumbledore had given him on other
occasions, and always made Harry feel as though Dumbledore were seeing right
through him in a way that even Moody's magical eye could not.
"And there was a third disappearance, one which the Ministry, I regret to
say, do not consider of any importance, for it concerns a Muggle. His name
was Frank Bryce, he lived in the village where Voldemort's father grew up, and
he has not been seen since last August. You see, I read the Muggle newspapers,
unlike most of my Ministry friends."
"No," said Dumbledore, his voice full of a bitterness Harry had never
heard there before. "They are insane. They are both in St. Mungo's
Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. I believe Neville visits them,
with his grandmother, during the holidays. They do not recognize him."
Dumbledore was standing over the Pensieve, his face lit from beneath by its
silvery spots of light, looking older than ever. He stared at Harry for a
moment, and then said, "Good luck with the third task."
Characters introduced in this chapter:
Crouch, Bartemius (junior)
(in Pensieve, first appearance as himself rather than as Moody; also
appears in present time as Moody)
Crouch, Mrs.
(in Pensieve only)
Lestrange, Bellatrix
(in Pensieve only)
Lestrange, Rabastan
(in Pensieve only)
Lestrange, Rodolphus
(in Pensieve only)
Characters returning in this chapter:
Bagman, Ludo
(in Pensieve only)
Crouch, Bartemius (senior)
(in Pensieve only)
Dumbledore, Albus
Fudge, Cornelius
Jorkins, Bertha
(in Pensieve only)
Karkaroff, Igor
(in Pensieve only)
Moody, Alastor "Mad-Eye"
(in Pensieve only)
Potter, Harry
Skeeter, Rita
(in Pensieve only)
Snape, Severus
(in Pensieve only)
Characters mentioned in this chapter:
Bagman, Mr.
(Ludo's father)
Bryce, Frank
Dolohov, Antonin
Gryffindor, Godric
Longbottom, Alice
Longbottom, Frank
Longbottom, Mrs. "Gran"
Longbottom, Neville
Maxime, Olympe
the McKinnons
Pettigrew, Peter (as Wormtail)
Rookwood, Augustus
Rosier, Evan
(as 'the Dark Lord', 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named', 'You-Know-Who')
(name unknown) gushing witch at Bagman's trial
(name unknown) wizard(?) who hexed Bertha as a sixteen-year-old girl
for gossiping about him and Florence
Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:
Dumbledore's office
(entire action of chapter, technically)
courtroom 10, Ministry of Magic, London
(in Pensieve only)
St. Mungo's Hospital
for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Exceptional character moments:
Bellatrix Lestrange,
holding firm to her loyalty to Voldemort in the presence of Dementors,
knowing that she was about to be condemned to a life sentence in
The elder Bartemius Crouch,
showing only rage and rejection, without sorrow, when condemning his
only child to Azkaban.
The younger Bartemius Crouch,
crying out to his mother to save him from Azkaban, denying all connections
with the Death Eaters in a desperate attempt to escape the Dementors.
Neville Longbottom, who has
spent most of his life raised in the shadow of what happened to his
parents at the Lestranges' hands.
binding / fastening magic
Cruciatus Curse (mentioned)
using a Pensieve
Links and Resources:
Death Eaters
law, wizarding
medical magic (broken bones)
ministry regulations
nicknames (Voldemort's)
Sorting Hat
Memorable lines:
Dumbledore added this fresh thought to the basin, and Harry,
astonished, saw his own face swimming around the surface of
the bowl. Dumbledore placed his long hands on either side
of the Pensieve and swirled it, rather as a gold prospector
would pan for fragments of gold.... and Harry saw his own
face change smoothly into Snape's, who opened his mouth and
spoke to the ceiling, his voice echoing slightly.
"Curiosity is not a sin," he said. "But we
should exercise caution with our curiosity..."
"So, Harry," said Dumbledore quietly. "Before
you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me something."
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RISING DARKNESS (Game of Shadows #1) | RELEASE DATE: April 2013
PUBLISHER: Piatkus | GENRE: Paranormal Romance | ARTIST: Unknown
In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She feels disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she's had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself . . .
Thousands of years ago, eight creatures came to our world: the Deceiver to destroy it and seven to stop him. Reincarnated over and over, they carry on – and Mary finds herself drawn into the battle once again. And the more she learns, the more she realises that Michael will go to any lengths to destroy the Deceiver. Then she remembers who killed her during her last life, nine hundred years ago . . . Michael. (Amazon.co.uk)
I'm not too keen on this cover. I do like the turquoise colours combined with the model's auburn hair, but I don't like the look or the pose of the model. It goes against the genre for me (which is paranormal romance). It doesn't say anything to me, or give me an idea of what the story is about or what genre it is. The pose is something you would find in a fashion magazine, with the full on makeup and pouty pose. The colour of the title font is lovely but it really shouldn't be embossed – it makes it look so old-fashioned. Embossing fonts went out in the nineties, and really shouldn't have any place on my book covers. I know this book is going to be awesome, it's just a shame that it wasn't given a cover to match.
I really like this cover, and for the first in a series it definitely catches your eye. I love the colour contrasts of the blue at the top mixing with the ginger of the model's hair, as well as the merging of the model's jacket with the snowy trees. Combined with the text, it gives the impression of an icy, bitter environment, but I'm not sure how relevant this is to the plot.
I'm not 100% sure about the model on this cover though, as I don't really like her 'hands behind head and pout' pose. It gives the impression that she's lying down, and doesn't really seem like a kick-ass heroine that we'd all love to read about. I'm also not sure about the model's makeup, as the eyeshadow looks darker on one eye than it does on the other, and she also looks a bit too pale. I think in terms of colours and font choices I prefer the UK cover, but the choice and pose of model on the US cover is infinitely better chosen, as she looks far more capable and strong.
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PUBLISHER: Strange Chemistry | GENRE: Science Fiction | ARTIST: Unknown
Zenn Scarlett is a bright and occasionally a-little-too-smart-for-her-own-good 17-year-old girl training hard to become an exoveterinarian. She specializes in the treatment of exotic alien life forms, mostly large and generally dangerous. Her novice year of training at the Ciscan Cloister Exovet Clinic on Mars was going well – until there are a series of inexplicable animal escapes from the school that Zenn finds herself blamed for. As if this isn't enough to be dealing with, her father vanishes under strange circumstances, and Zenn is worried that she has started hearing the thoughts of the creatures around her…
With the help of Liam, a towner boy, and Hamish, an alien bug also training at the clinic, Zenn must try to find her father, rescue the animals and unravel the mystery of who is behind the attacks on the school. And all without failing her first year. (Publisher)
I do like the cover, it's simple yet striking. I'm not a huge fan of sci-fi, yet I love the way the background combines the stars with the volcanic magma, the colour is beautiful and quite eye catching. There is little separation between the sky and the planet, giving you the sensation of the wide expanse of space. The planet looks quite desolate and with the model sitting alone in the shadows, surveying her surroundings, I would think she is looking for a way to survive or escape the cruel harsh world.
I have to agree with Becs on this one. This is a really striking cover that is very different from other YA books out there. You really feel the model's loneliness, which is heightened by the line of figures walking along at the bottom of the cover. The fact it's all in silhouette is clever and I love the vastness of the world with the sky and the planet almost as one. Rather than looking to the stars for a way to the escape, I think she is looking for a sign of faith that her journey will be successful. Overall, I really like it. So much so, I have pre-ordered a copy.
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Best to assume it just isn't going to. That way you'll avoid any disappointment if you're right and be pleasantly surprised if you're wrong.
Speculation is all useless IMO, though. We've already got two great games with memorable characters, and it's obvious how KotOR III would end anyway (good triumphing over evil). I kind of enjoy having the true Sith kept in the dark, too - we all fear the unknown, and the reason I think the true Sith seem so fearsome is that they are unknown. That and we've not run into the inevitable troubles involved in integrating Revan/Exile into the story, or have had to witness *another* PC come out of nowhere and go from zero to hero. (Oh gods, if they did that again...)
So anyway, whether KotOR III comes out or not I'll be a happy camper. But either it will or it won't, and me speculating over it isn't going to change that.
I agree with most of what you said. Except for the speculation is useless part. Speculation is fun, and while it won't affect the outcome of Kotor III, it is a wonderful way to use your imagination. I hope that they make a Kotor III (and they can still make the True Sith mysterious, by the way.) if they don't there are always other ways to know the story.
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I have been told it is possible to construct a continuous function $f\colon [0,1]\to \mathbb{R}$ such that $f^{-1}(x)$ is either empty or has cardinality $\aleph_0$ for every $x\in \mathbb{R}$. I've thought about this for a while but can't seem to cook up an example. Does anyone know such a construction?
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This appears to be a special case of the result in the paper:
The indicatrix of a function $F$ is $f(y) := |F^{-1}(y)|$, where $f$ takes values in the set $\{0, 1, 2, \dots, \omega, \mathfrak{c}\}$ (where $\omega$ is your $\aleph_0$). Kwiatkowska's paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a function $f$ to be the indicatrix of some continuous function $F : [0,1] \to [0,1]$. It appears that $f \equiv \omega$ satisfies those conditions.
I skimmed the proof and it seems to be constructive, so it should be possible to use it to explicitly produce the corresponding function $F$, but I didn't take the time to do this. It would be interesting to see what it looks like.
Begin with the Cantor function. Each horizontal segment in its graph has length $3^{-n}$. The endpoints of this segment are $(a,y_0)$ and $(b,y_0)$ where $b-a=3^{-n}$ and $y_0$ is a dyadic rational. Replace this segment with a zigzag that reaches $2^{-n}$ above and below: e.g., $y_0+2^{-n}\sin (2\pi \frac{x-a}{b-a})$ will work.
This new function $f$ attains each value in $[0,1]$ countably many times. Indeed, each $y\in [0,1]$ belongs to countably many dyadic intervals $[k/2^n,(k+1)/2^n]$, $n=0,1,2\dots$. Each dyadic interval is precisely the image under $f$ of an interval of length $3^{-n-1}$ (i.e., of a gap in the Cantor set).
This is a more or less explicit example of a function satisfying a similar condition, where $\aleph_0$ is substituted by $\mathfrak{c}$.
Let $\gamma\colon[0,1]\to[0,1]\times[0,1]$ be a space filing curve, that is, a continuous function such that $\gamma([0,1])=[0,1]\times[0,1]$, and let $\gamma(t)=(\alpha(t),\beta(t))$. Then $\alpha\colon[0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ is continuous and the cardinality of $\alpha^{-1}(x)$ is $\mathfrak{c}$ for all $x\in[0,1]$.
I'll define a convergent sequence of functions $f_n: [0,1] \to [0,1]$, which will be piecewise linear, starting with $f_0(x)=x$. For each $k \in \{0, 1, \ldots, 2^n - 1\}$ a particular segment of the graph of $f_n$, call it $L_k$, will go from $y = k/2^n$ to $y = (k+1)/2^n$. For $f_{n+1}$ we replace each $L_k$ by a "zigzag" with the same starting and ending points, first going from $y=k/2^n$ to $(k+1/2)/2^n$, then back down to $k/2^n$, up to $(k+1/2)/2^n$ and then $(k+1)/2^n$, down to $(k+1/2)/2^n$ and up to $(k+1)/2^n$. The distinguished segments of the graph of $f_{n+1}$ corresponding to the intervals $[k/2^n, (k+1/2)/2^n]$ and $[(k+1/2)/2^n, (k+1)/2^n]$ are the rightmost segments of this zigzag with $y$ in those intervals. For example, here is the graph of $f_2$, with the four distinguished segments in red:
Then $f_n$ converges uniformly to a continuous function $f$ which has the desired properties.


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Aberdovey Hillside Village is sited on the East side of Aberdyfi. It stands above the village within the 30 acre Aberdovey Hillside Park which the guests will enjoy walking through into the wild of the Snowdonia National Park above.
It is reached by car from the centre of Aberdyfi by a short drive up a narrow and steep hill. As the name Hillside suggests it is set into the steep and rugged terrain. The main road though the site is sloping from reception just inside the gates to the main car park. Other paths and drives lead off from this and are generally steep and narrow.
The surface of the road and paths are gravel with steps up to the apartments either paved or slate.
Trees, shrubs and flowerbeds divide the apartments giving privacy and blending the village into its natural environment.
Reception is situated in a court yard just inside the main gates. A parking space is provided for arriving guests. The courtyard is covered in gravel and access to reception is gained over a small step. Inside is a multi gender toilet and a Public telephone. All tourist information and site maps can be found here.
Directly across from reception is the Games Room this contains seating areas, Pool and Ping Pong tables and the toddler play area.
The Laundry Room is available to our guests, this is situated by the car park and can be accessed by a standard door over a small step. Inside is a standard size sink unit with drainer, four domestic washers and three domestic driers. These are all coin operated.
The children's Play Park is located just twenty metres away up a steep gravel path and overlooks the car park. It has standard play equipment with a bark surface.
The village is in an idyllic spot and there are numerous stopping places to admire the view as you walk though, these include benches and low stone walls topped with slate.
There are two bin stores, one is situated just outside the main gate and is a small stone built building with a sturdy door. The other one is central off the main road and consists of two green metal bins with hinged lids. A recycling point is right next to it and glass and paper and tins can be left here.
There is a local bus service from the Square in Aberdyfi this is about two hundred metres away down the steep hill.
Trains run from Aberdyfi station about half a mile away the other side of the village.
Timetables and taxi numbers are available in reception.
Due to the nature of the site not all of our apartments are suitable for people of limited mobility. Seal, Otter, Porpoise, Walrus, Kittiwake and Southward have the best access. Please look at our brochure for layout plan and more information.
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I did a online check of my ip, and those maps and locations are way - way off. They do pick up the service we are using, but most of the information is false. Depending on which online site you use, it shows my ip coming for four different locations. Two locations are in one state, and the other two are scattered around the US.
It doesn't mater if you believe me or not. What is important is that the company I work for is doing their job. I'm still safe from you.
One of my vocations in life, is as an IT technition, and the above ignores the following as I understand it... Though matt-- and Stoffe are far more familiar with such things than me.
IP address allocation is performed by IANA (The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). IANA then gives authority to RIRs (Regional Internet Registries). Then RIRs will also pass on responsibility, depending on their own particular regional policies, and tend to set blocks of IP addresses to their customers, which include Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Each of the RIRs handles a specific geographic area:
The most used are; ARIN (North America)
and RIPE (Europe, Middle East, Central Asia).
So if you lookup an IP address; the different regional authorities allow lookups to be to that data. The varying ISP's generally block their blocks of IP addresses by region. The lookup will give the name and address of the organization the block of IP addresses are given too. The ISP's can re-name these blocks if they wish to do so. The naming will often be after a particular geographic place, for example, Lon-UK, aka London, United Kingdom.
As such while IP checks can be off, I have never found them to ever vary so much as giving lots of different locations, they definatly don't get the wrong country or state, More-over I don't see how an ISP check could reveal a 'false' result.
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In a speech today, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation, and Inspector General Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz expressed sorrow and grief over King Fahd's death, saying: "We have lost a leader who dedicated his time to the service of his religion and his nation. The world has lost a leader who worked to enhance the pillars of justice and peace."
Crown Prince Sultan went on to express appreciation for the sincere feelings extended by the Saudi people towards King Fahd, who, he said, was a father to the young and a brother to the older generation. Referring to him as "a farsighted leader and a man of vision, reason, wisdom and bravery", the Crown Prince declared that "King Fahd worked to build his country and develop his people, and exerted intensive efforts in the service of Arab and Muslim causes." He pointed out that King Fahd, who adopted the title 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques', carried out the greatest expansion project in the history of the holy sites.
Crown Prince Sultan then gave thanks to God for Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, calling him King Fahd's honest assistant and a man who has devoted his time to the Muslim community as well as to his religion and his country. Saudi Arabia, he declared, will progress under his leadership and in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah [traditions of the Prophet].


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According to the New York Daily News on Saturday, Sherri Shepherd has changed her mind about the unborn baby that is being carried by a surrogate. When she filed for divorce from Lamar Sally on May 2, she initially asked for full legal and physical custody of her yet-to-be-born baby in the proceedings. Now it has been reported that the co-host of "The View" does not want any ties to the baby that is due on July 28.
The reason the 47-year-old wants a judge to rule that she "has no parental rights or responsibilities," including not to be granted custody or named as his parent, is because she believes Sally wanted the baby in order to defraud her to have a surrogate baby in order to eventually divorce her and get her to pay child support.
A surrogate was used because Shepherd can have no more children. She already has a nine-year-old son named Jeffrey that she talks about a lot on "The View." The unborn child is a boy that has already been named Lamar Sally, Jr. Technically, Shepherd has no genetic connection to the infant because the baby was conceived with Sally's sperm but not with Shepherd's egg.
According to TMZ, at first Shepherd was excited about having a baby, but after she and Sally filed for divorce, reports have emerged that she no longer wants any ties to the unborn child. A judge will have to decide on the parental rights and responsibilities concerning the baby. This might be a sticky situation because Shepherd filed for divorce in New Jersey while Sally filed in California. According to state laws, New Jersey courts do not generally recognize surrogacy agreements whereas California courts do.
Two weeks ago, Sally tried to get their whole divorce case sealed in court to prevent his wife of three years talking publicly about the marriage breakdown. However, a judge said Shepherd can chat about her divorce as much as she wants, but she can't reveal the name and whereabouts of the woman carrying the couple's child.
It will be interesting to find out how this situation turns out. Hopefully, the unborn baby and the surrogate will not be hurt while Shepherd and Sally sort this situation out with the help of a judge.


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We fired up the grill again last night. (Even though the wind blew the ENTIRE time we were cooking.) We had planned to eat outside, but WHATEVER.
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Uh...hello, no wonder why you are so skinny. That plate looks like you are starving yourself.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:14 PM
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I don't think I'll be wasting away anytime soon! What you didn't see, was me going back for seconds. Well, okay, thirds....but only with a few items!
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After landing a spot on Saturday Night Live in 2005, Kristen Wiig has established herself as the go-to gal for smarmy, neurotic but oddly familiar characters that include chronic one-upper Penelope and the gabby Target cashier. With a slew of scene-stealing roles in films like Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall in the bag, and many more on the way, Wiig is well on her way to household name status. Tina Fey, watch your back.
Kristen Wiig BiographyThroughout Kristen Wiig's humble upbringing in rural Pennsylvania and upstate New York, she showed no signs of wanting to be an actress. But after taking a required performance class as an art major at the University of Arizona, Wiig caught that pesky acting bug and hightailed it to Los Angeles without so much as a note to her parents. With very little formal training and while struggling to land roles in L.A., Wiig tried her hand at a traditional acting class, and was quick to discover that it wasn't quite her scene. "It was one of those very Method classes where you have to sit for an hour with your eyes closed and pretend you're drinking, like, hot soup," she says.
After slumming it with the requisite struggling actress odd jobs -- at one point she was serving lunch to executives on the Universal Studios lot -- Wiig went with a friend to see the legendary L.A. improv group, The Groundlings, former stomping grounds of Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy Fallon, and a little-known actor named Will Ferrell. It was there that Wiig found her true calling. She began taking classes with the company's school and, after a few years, she had joined the main cast. She spent years perfecting her craft and developing characters that would become her trademark on SNL. Sure enough, SNL honcho Lorne Michaels -- who's been known to boost a career or two -- got his hands on a tape featuring all of Wiig's original characters. Within a week the actress was on her way to New York with a one-way ticket to stardom.


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American Homecomings: Tim Kenney
Posted by mleyba on 05/01/2012 1:52am MDT tags: Video
Tim Kenney, now 45, first tried to join the army on September 12, 2001, the day after 9/11, but was turned away because he was a few weeks too old. Years later the army raised the cutoff age to 42 and Kenney signed up just shy of the cut off date.
He volunteered for a combat tour with the National Guard and served 10 months as a gunner outside of Bagram, in Afghanistan in 2010. "I thought and prayed on it, I didn't want to make a rash decision," says Kenney. "This was something I felt I needed to do for my country. To honor the people that have died, that I could live this great life selfishly for my family."
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Tim's truck was hit several times by RPG's during his tour resulting in a blown-out disc, a torn shoulder, shrapnel wounds on his face and Traumatic Brain Injury. He is finishing the remainder of his active duty at home in Montrose, CO through the Community-based Warrior Transition Unit program, a program that sends soldiers home to heal rather than keeping them far from family on military bases.
For Kenney, who has a wife and four kids as well as his own fly-fishing and guide business, the transition has not been easy. But he feels his time serving was well worth the sacrifices he and his family have made.
"My kids were a big factor of me going to the war. On the one hand, how can you leave your kids, if something happens to you who takes care of them?" Tim said. "That was a real important decision for me to make. I don't just want to tell my kids what's important, I want to show them," he said.
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