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On the Codec, Otacon tells Snake:
Otacon: Hold it, Snake. Time to change the disc. I know, I know... It's a pain. But you need to swap Disc 1 for Disc 2. You see the disc labeled "2"?
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Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve of genus 3 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. How do I show that any curve like this is hyperelliptic or a plane curve of degree 4? Why is $K(X)$ isomorphic to $k(t)[y]$ for $y^{2}=f$ with $f \in k[t]$?
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The canonical divisor has degree $4 = 2g-2$ and $3$ (the genus) linearly independent global sections. If the canonical divisor is very ample, then the imbedding it defines must land on a plane quartic. If not, then the curve is hyperelliptic. (Recall that a curve is hyperelliptic if and only if the canonical bundle is not very ample.)
The second question is equivalent to asking whether the curve is a double cover of $\mathbb{P}^1$ (or equivalently, that the corresponding field is a degree two extension of $k(t)$), and that's the definition of hyperellipticity.


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The 23-year-old is expected to return for the visit of Manchester City on April 21, with Aaron Lennon and William Gallas also set to miss games against Everton and BaselTottenham have confirmed Gareth Bale will return to training within two weeks after the midfielder sprained his ankle ligaments during the club's Europa League clash against Basel on Thursday.
The Welshman left White Hart Lane on a stretcher on Thursday night after his right ankle buckled under an innocuous-looking challenge from David Degen, moments before the end of an enthralling Europa League quarter-final first leg.
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SEATTLE - The book closed on 91 years of history today as the final track and field meet was held at Husky Stadium this afternoon. With the Ken Shannon Invitational, the venerable track with the swirling winds but breathtaking setting was put to use for the final time after housing track meets since its construction in 1920. Washington will move ahead with plans for a track only facility that will live north of Husky Soccer Field while the track itself is headed for retirement when Husky Stadium is renovated starting this fall.
As each event came up during the afternoon, meet announcers recapped the stadium records, many of which were set by luminaries of track and field at the 1990 Goodwill Games, and still impress today. No final records were threatened today at the meet which assembled a collection of local colleges and clubs. Most of the top Huskies were not entered today, as the Pac-10 Championships are just one week away, but a few of UW's postseason qualifiers did use the meet to sharpen some skills, and there were a number of personal-bests to be had.
One of the last Huskies in action was junior Robby Fegles in the pole vault. Fegles went over 16-3 ½ on his first try, and then cleared a new PR on his very next attempt, going over 16-9 ½. The transfer from Lane CC couldn't quite make 17-feet for the first time, but clearly his first year with assistant coach Pat Licari has begun to pay dividends.
Two-time All-American senior Kyle Nielsen took a few throws in the javelin in his final home appearance, slightly upping his season-best on his first throw which traveled 239-11, which also gives him back the team lead by two inches over All-American Joe Zimmerman. Watching Nielsen was former Husky Tom Sinclair, the 1979 NCAA Champion in the javelin, who got to take one last throw in the stadium during warm-ups.
The top heat of the 800-meters was one of the day's highlights. Junior Charlie Williams showed he may be finally a factor once again after a long road to recovery following a freshman injury. The Gig Harbor native was second in a time of 1:50.13, nearly a two second PR. Junior Ryan Soberanis was third with a season-best 1:51.38, and freshman Kyle Blume also PR'd by more than a second with a fourth-place finish in 1:51.75.
The women's 800-meters turned into a time trial for former Husky All-American Katie Follett. Now running for Brooks, and leading the U.S. at 1,500-meters after her win last week at the Payton Jordan Invite, Follett went right to the lead and battled the wind for two laps to get the win in 2:07.36, impressive considering the conditions and her wire-to-wire run.
Senior Taylor Nichols had her best wind-legal triple jump, going 40-6 on her fifth attempt into a slight headwind to take the win. That officially moves her up one spot to seventh on the UW Top-10 list. Junior Lindsey Fleishman was second, setting a new wind-legal PR outdoors with a jump of 38-4 ¼ that was a foot farther than she had gone all season.
Freshman Maurice McNeal was back in action after his heavy workload last week in the dual meet. Today, however, it was just the 100-meter dash, his first of the season. McNeal showed his pure speed with a 10.68 second victory. Freshman Howard Lao got the win in the 110-meter hurdles, running a career-best 15.21 seconds though he had help from a fierce wind at his back. Sam Rucker eked out the win in the 400-meter dash in a season-best 49.88 seconds.
In the women's vault, sophomore Logan Miller got the victory with a 12-6 ¾ clearance. She passed up to what would have been a new PR at 13-2 ½ but could not get over today. Sophomore high jumper Caroline Soules competed for the first time since the first indoor meet, coming back from a foot injury, and she took second with a 5-foot, 3-inch clearance. That matched freshman Greta Zietz, who cleared 5-3 on her third attempt for a season's best.
Richard Anderson won the discus with a throw of 166-feet on his only legal toss, just off his PR. Senior Peter Follmer was fifth in his final time at Husky Stadium at 143-4. Another win came from sophomore Clayton Johnson, who went 46-4 ¾ to earn the triple jump victory.
Sophomore Laura Schmitt won her heat in the 400-meters and was second overall in a big PR of 57.20. At 1,500-meters, Courtney Lightfoot had a 12-second season-best in 4:44.57 to place second overall. Alison Ponce was second in a field of 23 in the 5,000-meters, running 18:04.66, and Skye Atchley was third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:04.65.
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Welcome to the new feature where I pick a TV horror flick and it's called Supernatural Saturday. So today's afternoon 'Supernatural Saturday' movie is "The House That Would Not Die." It's a 1970s TV film that was directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. The film starred Barbara Stanwyck, Kitty Winn, and Richard Egan.
The supernatural movie is about an aunt and her niece who inherit a house after a relative dies. Well the two ladies learn that the house is being haunted by two of the ghosts that were the original owners.
The TV movie is currently on Youtube, under the standard YouTube license. So if you didn't get to catch this movie in 1970, well you can have the chance to watch it this afternoon. On IMDb it currently holds a 6 out of 10.
The production company was Aaron Spelling Productions, and it was first released on Oct. 27 1970, which seemed to be perfect timing to air around Halloween.
So this Saturday's pick for 'Supernatural Saturday' is the TV horror flick, "The House That Would Not Die," an atmospheric haunted house film.
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The stock market surged Wednesday, September 1, and then it kept
rising through Friday. Though we gave back some of that yesterday,
the S&P rose a total of 5.25% in the first three days of
September - supposedly the "worst month" for historic market
returns. And it looks like we're trending upwards today in early
trading to continue that momentum.
However, September has fared especially well in mid-term
election years, when the market tends to start a major rally in
advance of the November elections. Last week, the market surged on
improving sentiment and favorable economic trends. On Wednesday, in
particular, we saw a better-than-expected rise in the ISM
manufacturing index - a clear sign that the U.S. economy is not
entering a "double-dip" recession. Then, on Friday, the stock
market rallied in the wake of better-than-expected private payroll
growth: The private sector created 67,000 jobs in August and a
revised 107,000 jobs in July. Overall, the private sector has added
jobs every month in 2010, while the government keeps shedding jobs
- a favorable trade-off.
My choice for "stat of the week" usually reflects the indicator
that has moved the market the most in the previous week. What
really got the stock market excited on Wednesday morning was the
Institute of Supply Management's (
) announcement that its manufacturing production index rose to 59.9
in August, up from to 57 in July. Eleven of 18 surveyed industries
reported improving factory activity. This surprisingly strong
report buoyed the market, since it indicates no double-dip evident
in manufacturing.
Friday's job news seemed dismal on the surface - with more net
job losses - but the revised increase in private sector job
creation in July was very positive. Another Friday indicator of
growing optimism for the U.S. economy was that August same-store
sales rose 3.3%, with two-thirds of 27 reporting retailers beating
analysts' sales expectations. The big discount chains and apparel
stores fared especially well, but luxury outlets (like
Tiffany & Co.
) also improved. The analyst community was expecting same-store
sales to rise 2.5%, so 3.3% was a pleasant surprise. This may boost
third-quarter GDP expectations to 2% or higher.
Auto sales were admittedly dismal in August, but
) is still on track to repay all its debt by the end of 2011, even
though its sales fell 11% in August. As bad as that figure sounds,
Ford's sales beat General Motors,
) and
), which reported August sales declines of 25%, 33%, 27% and 34%,
respectively. I should add that Ford's sales in China rose 24% in
August and Ford's Fiesta model is a major hit around the world, and
the Fiesta will soon be available in the U.S., for the 2011 model
Another piece of soft economic news was released on Friday: The
ISM service sector dipped to 51.5 in August, down from 54.3 in
July, but any ISM reading over 50 still signals growth. Offsetting
a slowing service sector growth, the Conference Board announced
last week that its consumer confidence index rose to 53.5 in
August, up from 51 in July, which bodes well for increased consumer
spending in September.
The U.S. economy is finally catching up with the rest of the
world. On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) revised its
2010 GDP forecast in the
up to 1.6% from its previous forecast of 1%. ECB President
Jean-Claude Trichet said the "very substantial" upward forecast
revision followed a recent growth spurt that was "better than
expected." The EU's biggest economy, Germany, is growing at a 9%
annual rate, thanks to soaring exports. Germany's success helped
offset weakness in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Elsewhere in Europe,
Sweden's Riksbank raised its key-lending rate a second time, to
Higher commodity prices and strong worldwide demand are
especially helping resource-rich economies. For instance,
Australia's second-quarter GDP grew at a 3.3% annual pace.
Australia is also benefitting from strong household consumption,
which is helping to boost GDP growth in the developing world,
especially in Asia, India and Latin America, which are all
benefitting from a growing middle class. India, for instance, just
announced an +8.8% annual GDP growth rate but that's only good for
sixth place in Asia!
Here are the Top Global Growth Rates -
according to
The Economist
, Sept. 4-10, based on Q2 year over year growth.
If you want to measure short-term growth, the fastest
one-quarter growth rates (annualized) are in Latin America, led by
Chile (+18.4%), Mexico (+13.5%), Argentina (+12.5%) and Brazil
(+11.4%). This high-growth trend - led by Asia and Latin America -
is now spreading to developed economies.
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Sinister Empire, the region formerly known as Pyeongchang
Woljeongsa Temple complex, on the eastern slopes of the mountain Odaesan
The snow crunched beneath Mias boot as she stepped into the temple courtyard. The heavy snow gear impeded movement, but the cold weather demanded it. The energy cell strapped to her right thigh hummed softly with energy, but didnt provide enough raw warmth to survive the ice and snow. Besides that, there was the issue of the large backpack she carried on her back. She had scraped together enough supplies to survive the winter, and they weighed her down. Sinisters had little patience for snowy mountains outside of landscape paintings, and so she thought she could hide from him in Pyeongchang, at least until the snow melted.
The nine-tier stone pagoda that stood in the center of the courtyard was covered with snow. Mia walked past it and to the door of the main temple, inwardly amazed that the complex was still so well preserved. It had been ten years since she was last here, but little seemed different, though it was hard for her to tell through the snow and ice. She slid the wooden door to the side and quickly entered, closing the entrance behind her. It was still cold inside, but the wind was blocked at least, and night was falling. She lowered the heavy hood of the jacket and removed the snow goggles from her head, stowing them in a pocket.
Mia approached the temples special statue, the Medicine Buddha. She remembered the last time she had seen it.
They say that this statue was found in a nearby pond
, her mother had said. Mia had scoffed at the idea -
You dont just find statues in ponds
, she had said. Her mother had just sighed, shook her head, and moved on. Mia smiled at the memory, one of the few times she and her mother had not been stressed about evading Sinisters Marauder Battalions.
She set down her pack, and laid out a sleeping bag. Mia dared not unpack entirely, in case she was forced to move at a moments notice. The Sinisters did not extend much courtesy to their enemies, and more than once she had made the mistake of making camp only to be forced to abandon equipment due to an unexpected guest dropping by. Mia got out her dinner, an old can of soup, and cautiously warmed it by taking energy from her energy cell. She ate slowly, savoring each spoonful. After that, she dressed down and climbed into her sleeping bag, her handgun at her side.
Mia woke to the sound of footsteps outside, early in the morning. She immediately grabbed her gun and left her sleeping bag. Silently, she crept along the walls, weapon at the ready. She listened to the footsteps, trying to ascertain what was making them and how many there were. Her questions were answered when a man spoke outside.
I cant tell if somebody was here, Woojin, the voice announced. At least, not last night. The snowfall would have covered up any tracks.
Ill take a look inside then, Kurtis. came the reply.
Be careful about that. A third voice, this one a womans.
Relax, ChoA. Itll be fine. The door to the temple slid open, and Mia pointed her gun straight at the mans face.
Who are you? Mia asked, her voice firm, not afraid.
Okay, calm down. He said, backing away and raising his arms into the air. Mia could only see the two others besides him. They reached for their own weapons, cautiously.
. She demanded.
My name is Woojin. The man said, speaking in a low tone. He gestured to each person as he spoke. Thats Choa, and thats Kurtis.
What are you doing here? Are you bandits?
Were Resistance, actually. Woojin said. Mias posture relaxed a bit at the answer. We heard that somebody was hiking about up here and came to investigate. Who are you?
Call me Conduit. Mia answered. My real name is for me to know.
Well, I prefer real names, but if were doing codenames then you can call me Sky-Lord. Woojin said.
Im Perception. Choa said, an angry tone to her voice.
Im still Kurtis.
Mia considered things, for a moment. She wasnt part of the Resistance, but she was a fan. On the other hand, she had no way of known these three werent actually bandits, or worse, Sinisters in disguise. She gestured back, and Woojin backed up to join his companions. Mia kept the gun trained on them. Her powers were likely more than enough to deal with them, but they were unwieldy and she was loath to risk the temples safety.
Im going to have to ask you to leave. Mia said, at last.
Were not your enemies. Woojin responded.
Youre going to need to prove youre Resistance if you want me to trust you. Mia insisted.
How exactly are we supposed to do that? Choa snapped.
Thats for you to figure out and for me to judge. Mia replied. Now leave.
Mia watched them leave the temple grounds, her gun raised, before returning inside. Only then did she realize how cold she was. In her rush to confront her visitors she had neglected to put anything more on. Setting her gun down, she put on some warmer clothes. Mia took a seat then, having nothing more to do than wait.
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However, he adds, "when you look more closely at the dynamic processes, there appear to be segregated regions that respond at the same time. Many respond in a delayed fashion and strikingly some respond in a predictive fashion."
He says the study suggests that the stronger the neural coupling between people taking part in a conversation, the better the communication.
The study "also identifies a subset of brain regions in which the activity in the listener's brain precedes the activity in the speaker's brain," the authors write. "The listener's anticipatory responses were localized to areas known to be involved in predictions and value representation."
The researchers say these anticipatory responses may provide listeners more time to process what they hear and more time to comprehend involves an element of prediction.
Stephens tells WebMD that "this works because the speaker's brain is similar to the listener's brain. We are using the same architecture. It makes sense that we use our own brain to predict what another person is saying."
"For the most part, in neuroscience, neural systems and human brains are studied in isolation from each other," Stephens tells WebMD. "What we're showing, I think, is there is strong benefit to be gained when we relax the constraints. It matters a lot how we interact with others. We should look at this interaction closely and we're likely to learn a lot."
The study is published in the July 2010 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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Crossrail work begins at Maidenhead train station
Work to prepare Maidenhead train station for the arrival of Crossrail has already begun.
The new high-speed rail service is due to start running from 2018, with passenger numbers expected to rise from two million every year to three million.
A new site office and site compound is being built, which will be used as a headquarters for upcoming work and is expected to be completed within the next few weeks.
The construction of six new sidings is also underway, which will be used to house the increased number of trains expected to use the station.
But a spokesman from Network Rail, Chris Denham, said it will not be until late next year when real changes will be seen.
"There will be changes to the station, possibly a new platform, but at the moment we are not 100 per cent certain," he said.
"We do not expect any finalisation of the plans until next year."
The new rail service will enable Maidenhead passengers to reach Heathrow in 28 minutes.
UPDATE: Network Rail has announced further information on planned upgrades to Maidenhead train station ahead of the arrival of Crossrail in 2018.
The list of work carried out will be:
- Extensions for platforms two, three, four and five
- A new 'bay terminus' for Marlow and Bourne End trains
- Step free acess to all platforms
- New lifts for platforms one and six
- New CCTV and customer information screens
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Fracking, the process of blasting water, sand, and a cocktail of chemicals deep underground in order to get gas or oil or oil out of shale rock, has been a hotly debated subject for some time in Southern Africa. Groups such as Treasure the Karoo Action Group (TKAG) have been openly condemning the activity, while government teeters back and forth between decisions.
On the 19th February, Greenpeace Africa will host a colloquium "Fracking: A Civil Society Perspective" at the Cape Town Science Centre in Observatory. Greenpeace Africa has put together a panel of experts who will present perspectives of fracking from various angles; how it affects the communities near it, what it does to our water supplies, and the lessons from America, where fracking has already riddled the country with pipes, crevices and scars, altering not only the landscape, but damaging water supply.
The International Energy Agency warns that most of the gas that we have already found should stay in the ground. South Africa has an abundance of sun and wind resources, and so we should be transitioning away from dirty, outdated fossil fuels, and towards a renewable energy-powered future.
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Open Data: Information wants to be linked
By bblfish on Aug 17, 2007
With over 2 billion relations from the great web community data projects such as Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, Music Brainz, and many more... the Linking Open Data initiative is tying together a vast pool of quality machine readable information on which one can run any of the over 500 Semantic Web tools. As the value of linked information increases much faster than the networks described by Metcalf's Law, the value of this must be tremendous.
By creating data browsing interfaces such as Tabulator, one has a very simple RESTful, Resource Oriented Architecture API to work with. With various SPARQL endpoints available or to be built, one can treat that information like a hugely powerful database.
Forget Web APIs: long live linked data!
Some of the projects listed are:
- DBPedia: wikipedia as browseable relations. Excellent!
- DBTune: extracts data from Magnatune, Jamendo, Dogmazic, Mutopia, and to create links between them and other available semantic web repositories like DBPedia
- Freshmeat exports metadata about its 43 thousand projects
- CIA factbook
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Heading into the break, the Wildcats held a 7-3 shot advantage over the Eagles.
Going downwind in the second half, the Wildcats managed to outshoot the Eagles 18-5. Odaine Sinclair put the game out of reach in the 76th minute after he received a ball in the box off a throw-in from Sean McAlister.
Baker goalkeeper Matt Bickley made one save in the contest to record his eighth shutout of the season.
"It was a really exciting night," Houser added. "Now the guys get to put their talent up against some of the best in the country next week in Alabama.
The Wildcats will return to action on Nov. 28 when they face Huston-Tillotson (Texas) in the round of 16.
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The SAG Awards 2014 heat up another Saturday night in Hollywood, with celebrities from Kerry Washington to Jennifer Lawrence showing off their most stylish looks on a red carpet that has already been rolled out, according to a Jan. 17 CBS News report.
Lawrence is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her role as Rosalyn Rosenfeld in "American Hustle." She is up against one of the most talented and stylish actresses this season, "12 Years of Slave" actress Lupita Nyong'o, Julia Roberts, who is nominated for "August: Osage County," Oprah Winfrey for "The Butler," and June Squibb for "Nebraska." Lawrence and the rest of the "American Hustle" cast are up for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Tonight, the Christian Dior Haute Couture and Chopard devotee chose another stunning, sleek, sequined Dior gown, accessorized with minimal jewels and black heels.
As the Examiner previously reported, the actress blew fans away in a Christian Dior haute couture gown and Chopard jewelry on the 2013 SAG Awards red carpet, where she accessorized with the hair trend of the night; the side part, and deep red lips. At the SAG 2012 Awards, Lawrence opted for a bright pink Oscar de la Renta gown, which she accessorized with a Judith Leiber clutch and Roger Vivier heels.
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Yeah, chop off those people's legs. Trees are more important here.
You noticed that. I chopped them off to minimize the figures. In shots like this a person or numbers of people quickly pull the eye to them. By converting them to the same level of atmospheric importance as the other elements of the picture, it does become more about the march of those trees instead of the movement of people. And, of course, with my well publicized palm tree fetish, they are the core attraction.


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R. B. Hunt Elementary School art teacher, Melissa Watson's students are gaining notice in national art competitions.
Kobe Rosenberg, a fourth grader in Janette Stone's class, won an honorable mention in the SchoolArts Magazine 3rd Annual Artist Trading Card Contest.
His artist card, "Accelerator," was chosen from hundreds of entries.
It will be published in the April issue of SchoolArts magazine and be on display at the National Art Education Association conference in Minneapolis, Minn.
He follows in the footsteps of two schoolmates, Kenzie Tustin and Katie Lynn, who won honors last year.
Gabriella Bellavista, a third grader in Sandra Oja-Dunaway's class, has placed as a finalist in the 2009 Cray-Pas Wonderful Colorful World Art Contest sponsored by Sakura of America, a global manufacturers of artist supplies.
Her oil pastel, "The Wise Owl," was chosen as one of 150 finalists out of 4,000 entries from all over the U.S. Her artwork will be on exhibit at the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, Calif., until March 15.
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I am running ubuntu 10.10 as my host with Windows 7 as the guest. About a couple weeks ago I started getting error pop-ups from vmware reporting inability to read or write to a particular file.
On futher investigation, I've noticed that I cannot copy that particular file from the linux command line even as root. I get the same input/output error.
The SMART utility tells me I have 69 bad sectors on the disk (it is 1 TB)
So my question is 1) How do I tell if that HD is going bad? 2) How can I move the VM files to a different part of the disk if I get read/write errors when I try to copy?


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Ever wondered what a polish hippo would look like? Feast your eyes. For me this is best described as maelstrom of sensory overload, but made for fun and with love. Afraid? So you should be.
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The Playtype concept store was launched in conjunction with the revamp and redesign of Playtype.com. Located in Copenhagen's Vesterbro, the store is the physical manifestation of the online shop.
Even at a fairly early stage of his career Naji El Mir has already been involved in many cross-cultural projects, solving Arabic and Latin combinations in branding, logo design, broadcast design and corporate identity, his work can be coined as mixture of both Arabic and Western visual cultures.
Alison Haigh was nominated winner of the Best Newcomer Award at the Grafik Design Awards 2010 by none other than Peter Saville. She has an intriguing (and somewhat slightly bewildering in parts) selection of work in her portfolio. It's certainly worth checking out when time permits. Details »
The Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography is a cultural foundation dedicated to advancing design research and typography in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora, and to building cross-cultural creative networks. As an online creative network they connect designers and visual artists, provide information about various resources, projects, news and events.
John Boilard is a senior in the Graphic Design Department at MassArt. With a few months left before graduation, he undertook a huge personal project: to whittle down his collection of 945 favorite letter forms to make an eclectic screen-printed alphabet. The original letters are pulled from old books and photographs, wood type, antique shops, and the occasional existing typeface (pictured above). Many had to be redrawn to be printed in their two-color finery.
Updates to the always solid design studio of DixonBaxi / Formula 1 Brand Sting / Sony Max Channel Branding to name a few.
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Hinterland is a New York-based multidisciplinary design studio. We create books, magazines, brochures, identities, packaging, illustrations, and more. We believe that the best work comes from a close collaboration between client and studio. We have a passion for solving design problems and for integrating all project elements—from overall concept to specific detail—to present a unified message.
Young graphic designer, who resides in LA. Keep your eyes on this fella. Solid work Mr. Snow / hug1.
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The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this, his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s.


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Sony's announcement of its new Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 has digital camera and gadget enthusiasts extremely interested. Sporting the company's brand-new high-speed 9.1-megapixel Exmor CMOS sensor, this super-zoom compact is set to show off all the best that Sony cameras have to offer. As if the impressive photo specs were not noteworthy enough, the Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 also comes complete with 1080p video and HQ sound, making this a particularly robust item. Before you start running for your savings, early reports have this camera priced at a somewhat reasonable $400 to $500, making this a fairly realistic high-end gadget purchase.
At first examination, it would be easy to confuse the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 for just another standard digital camera, but after taking a more in-depth look at the included features, what you find is a complex hybrid device that brings in the best of camera and video without much sacrifice at either end of the spectrum. The sensational new Sweep Panorama allows you to hold the camera in your hand and pan from side to side, creating a 7152 x 1080 panoramic image that is automatically stitched together and captured within the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1. While this may appear to be a bit unnecessary at first, the key term here is innovation, and the DSC-HX1 is a camera that is shooting pictures in a whole different way from how its predecessors did. This great ability is backboned by full-size 9.1-megapixel images that can grab frames at a blazing speed of 10 per second using a unique mechanical shutter. This tangible upgrade is like night and day from the electronic ones found on most point-and-shoot devices.
While certainly not as compact as your typical digital camera, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 strikes a balance in size somewhere between the former and a DSLR. You will not be traveling with this item in your pocket, but a small and light camera bag should do the trick just fine. In addition to its killer photo features, like 20x zoom range, the Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 can also capture 1080p HD video at a solid 30 frames per second. You can conveniently use the camera's 3-inch LCD rear display for filming, and the 230,400 pixels is more than enough to get a feel for what the lens is seeing. Should you not be able to wait to get your clips off the camera to view, there is an HDMI output for instant high-definition watching. For those looking to make a purchase in the super-zoom, top-quality digital camera market, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 should definitely receive some serious consideration.


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A Step In The Right Direction!
By jsolof on Sep 30, 2004
I know, I know -- I owe you a full accounting of last week's adventures. I'll get there! But in the mean time, there's been some good news. One of the Senators whose offices we visited last week, Majority Leader Bill Frist, has written a letter to SEC Chairman William Donaldson, in response to Donaldson's letter of August 19.
Majority Leader Frist writes:
I was particularly interested in the discussion at the conclusion of your letter about the possible need for the SEC to issue guidance, safe harbors, or a delay in the implementation date. I would hope that the SEC would use these tools, and take the appropriate time necessary, to fully flesh out the many critical issues surrounding the implementation of a [stock option] valuation standard.
Devising an accurate valuation model is critical to our economy, the investing public, and the more than 14 million American workers who hold stock options. I feel strongly that options are vital to preserving American innovation and enterpreneurship, but I also recognize that we must ensure that investors receive accurate, reliable, and transparent financial information. Given your ultimate authority over financial reporting and accounting standards, the SEC is best suited to conduct appropriate testing and determine the best method or methods to value employee stock options."
I'd like to express my thanks and appreciation to Rohit Kumar and Libby Jarvis, from Majority Leader Frist's staff, for taking the time not only to listen to us last week, but to really hear what we were saying. And obviously, to share it with their boss.


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Am I missing something people? Around a day after DDRZONE writes their piece on AMD's problems, what exactly do they do? According to Cnet, AMD has now delayed the hammer for desktops... :figures:
The delay on Clawhammer, which was originally slated to come out in the first quarter of 2002, should heat up the competitive atmosphere of the microprocessor market in 2003. AMD has stated that Clawhammer will outperform Intel's best chips and pave the way for AMD to get its processors into the corporate environment. The holdup, though, could erode any performance advantages to Clawhammer, especially as Intel has encountered few problems in ratcheting up the speed of its chips in the past year.More info @ Cnet


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DEKALB, Ill. - The rosters are set for the second annual Huskie Bowl, as the Northern Illinois University football team drafted units for next week's spring game. The Huskie Bowl - which marks the end of the 2014 spring practices - will take place Saturday, April 19, at 3 p.m. in Huskie Stadium. Admission is free and fans are encouraged to stop by "The Yard" prior to the game to experience NIU Athletics' new official pregame tailgate. After leading the Black team to victory in 2013, offensive line coach Joe Tripodi returns to lead that unit, while cornerbacks coach Kelvin Sigler guides the Cardinal squad. The 2014 edition of the Huskie Bowl will feature some slight changes to the format. This year, each team will have seven possessions starting from their own 25-yardline. However, like in 2013, only field goals and PATs will be allowed on special teams. With the rosters set, both coaches feel good about how their respective units look. "I feel good about it," Tripodi said. "I like my team. I like my staff. The players did a great job in helping us pick the right guys and we're looking forward to it." "We just wanted to make sure we got the best players to fit our team," Sigler said. "I think we did a good job drafting guys for our team." Shane Wimann was Black's first pick, while Cardinal chose Paris Logan with its top selection. Drew Hare will lead the Black team at quarterback, while Matt McIntosh and Anthony Maddie quarterback the Cardinal squad.
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Editorial by Elizabeth Durack
Starwars.com's new Fan Homepages offer sounds good on the surface, but it may be a dangerous bid to wrest intellectual property rights on "derivative works" away from fans.
I was stunned and shocked to learn that Starwars.com will now be offering fans web space under the subdomain fan.starwars.com. It's stunning because for perhaps the first time a major creative media company is offering its fans space on the web (a LOT of space -- 16 megabytes per account, and unlimited accounts per user are allowed) and an official URL (fan.starwars.com) plus dynamic content from their own official site. It's shocking because once you accept their enticing offer they can tell you exactly what you can and cannot do on your website. Furthermore they own your content -- they'd rather you didn't create Star Wars-related graphics, wallpapers, fan art, fan fiction and so forth, but if you do, it belongs to them in perpetuity, under the terms of service. "To encourage the on-going excitement, creativity and interaction of our dedicated fans in the online Star Wars community, Lucas Online is pleased to offer for the first time an official home for fans to celebrate their love of Star Wars on the world wide web," enthuses the Official Site's main page. The service is being managed by Homestead, a company that offers free homepages directly and also enables sites like Starwars.com to offer such services. But the real story is a lot uglier, and has much less to do with the encouragement of creativity than its discouragement -- there's nothing innocent about Lucasfilm's offer of web space to fans.
I think sometimes that in some ways media companies like Lucasfilm wish their fans wouldn't care so much. The outpouring of love and fierce devotion from online fans threatens to corrode their trademarks and infringe their copyrights. There is a threat, which exists primarily in their lawyers' heads, that the thousands of websites that refer to those trademarks will dilute them. In reality, most (including most at Lucasfilm) agree that the proliferation of fan activity enhances the popularity and marketability of the Star Wars franchise -- especially because the sort of true, deeply-engaged fans who create and visit fan websites are prime consumers of Star Wars merchandise. But there is a more real threat that if Lucasfilm does not defend their ownership of their trademarks, they stand to lose them to the public domain.
That's where this new web space thing starts making a lot of sense. If they can get a sizeable number of online fans to sign on (lured by what is, on the surface, one of the most attractive offers of free web space I've ever seen), they can ensure that those people all more or less follow Lucasfilm's rules for how they would like fans to use their trademarked and copyrighted properties. Makes their task of policing the web that much easier.
The web has been a heck of a hassle for them, as fans cheerfully (and for the most part, innocently) trample all over their precious copyrights and trademarks, and it's bad PR every time they send nasty-grams to webmasters, as they do with some frequency. How much easier would life be for Lucasfilm's licensing folks if all they had to do to shut down an infringing website was pull the plug, without even having to explain? Lots. That's the genius of Lucasfilm's offering fans web space -- it lets them both look amazingly generous and be even more controlling than before (Free house in prestigious neighborhood! But after you move in, they tell you what you can and can't do in it and they own all your stuff -- and can kick you out without notice). Except that most fans are going to see through their fairly transparent ploy, as I did.
Lucasfilm doesn't hate fans, and they don't hate fan websites. They can indeed see how they benefit from the free publicity they represent -- and who doesn't like being adored? This move underscores that as much as anything. But they're also scared, and that makes them hurt the people who love them.
The trouble is that perhaps the fans have a moral right to use Star Wars-related names and creative concepts at will because Star Wars is such a deeply ingrained part of our culture. The very success and ubiquity of the franchise is what makes it hover (dangerously?) close to the border of being something no longer privately-owned, but public cultural property. It has been observed by many writers that Star Wars (based purposely on the recurring themes of mythology by creator George Lucas) and other popular media creations take the place in modern America that culture myths like those of the Greeks or Native Americans did for earlier peoples. Holding modern myths hostage by way of corporate legal wrangling seems somehow contrary to nature.
Don't get me wrong, I respect George Lucas and his creation, and his legal right to all he produces, despite the dilemma. As some fan is always bound to point out whenever there's kvetching about Lucas and his deeds, without George there would be no Star Wars. He personally built this remarkable empire and has remained the central creative and administrative figure. He funds his own movies. What other movie franchise revolves so pivotally around one man's influence? He is the myth-builder.
But it's bigger than George, and too-strong loyalties to him may be misplaced. My first loyalty as a fan is to other fans.
Lucas has a legal monopoly on the commodity that Star Wars has unwittingly become, and there is inevitable tension with all those who wish to not only consume his product but to create and offer their own via fan websites, fanfic, fan art -- you name it. This is not, in their minds, primarily a financial matter (few fans have any contention with Lucasfilm's exclusive right to say who may create Star Wars materials and profit therefrom). It's a creative one. George Lucas will always have sole financial rights to profit from his Star Wars. But what of others' Star Wars-es? What of the tens of thousands of pieces of Star Wars fanfic which constitute auxilliary myths to complement George's central one? I believe that in all fairness, they should have the right to share their "product" with the world -- yes, even if it competes with George's (which fanfic does only marginally, if at all).
The Star Wars Fan Homepages terms of service explicitly deny fans these rights. "The creation of derivative works based on or derived from the Star Wars Properties, including, but not limited to, products, services, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes, on-line postcards and greeting cards and unlicensed merchandise (whether sold, bartered or given away) is expressly prohibited. If despite these Terms of Service you do create any derivative works based on or derived from the Star Wars Properties, such derivative works shall be deemed and shall remain the property of Lucasfilm Ltd. in perpetuity." They don't specify fan fiction (they would be fools to; every fanfic enthusiast on the web would see red) but it clearly falls under the category of "derivative works based on or derived from the Star Wars Properties." And users of the service "hereby grant to us the right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to any content you place on your Homestead-powered Web site."
To be fair, this last clause is present in Homestead's generic terms of service as well (and, if you read the fine print, those of many web hosts, for better or worse). The important (and insidious) distinction is that in this case Lucasfilm, which has a stake in the specific ways in which its properties are used, also shares that right to users' intellectual property. And also to be fair, Lucasfilm probably has little inclination at this time to regulate the creation of fanfic or fan art, whether or not it is within their legal rights to do so (whether fan fiction is copyright infringment or protected speech under the First Amendment is an unresolved gray area). But we probably shouldn't be willing to sacrifice our rights to less-venerable forms of creative expression, like those named in the above-quoted portion of the terms of service, either. And in any case, if you publish your fiction or art or Star Wars-themed link buttons on a fan.starwars.com website, they explicitly and legally belong to Lucasfilm. As an author and artist, and as a fanfic and art archivist and webmistress, I have a problem with that.
Consider the ethical implications of moving one's fan fiction or art archive to fan.starwars.com. I have little doubt that someone (probably multiple someones) will do this. An offer of quality, unlimited web space is enough to make most archivists salivate -- a fanfic archivists' support mailing list I'm on proves this time and again. But if I moved my fan fiction archive onto their server, I'd be giving Lucasfilm legal rights to the work of all the authors who had entrusted their stories to me. I want to beg archivists not to move their archives to fan.starwars.com without explicit permission from each and every author or artist represented on their site. You owe it to them to protect their rights if they wish to reserve them.
True fandom is rarely passive -- it can be intensely participatory. Far from being mere consumers of media, fans themselves can gain fame and respect for their activities. They too can be builders. They can possess that which they worship, and alter it to suit their concept of what it should be. In participatory fandom, there are no golden calves, only live ones -- trainable, dynamic, mortal. Fans critique media mercilessly, write their own stories, create their own art, play their own games, build their own communities. They excise that which they dislike (see the Qui-Gon Jinn Council of Denial, which refuses to acknowledge that character's death), they insert new major characters (see any of dozens or hundreds of stories with a "Qui-Gon's first Padawan" character, almost always female), they add character traits (see the Master_Apprentice fanfic archive, with well over a thousand stories about Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan as gay lovers), they cast themselves in the story (see "Mary Sue" fanfic), and they play with the basic rules in novel ways to create "alternate universe" works (see the Sith Academy). Fanfic authors are infinitely creative in finding new ways to twist and change the worlds they work in. They become the authors of new yet very familiar worlds.
And they must fight to preserve that right, or at the very least not cave in to the seductions of those who would regulate it. Because there's really no saying when the seduction could turn into rape.
My own site, The Qui-Gon Jinn Discussion List, will not link to any fan site hosted on fan.starwars.com, and I invite other fan sites to embrace a similar policy. This is not to punish fans who chose to host their sites there, but because I believe the fact of being there would inevitably limit the content of such sites, and because I believe allowing outside forces to control content injures fandom in general. I will continue to link to the Official Site, Starwars.com. I invite Lucas Online to, in the spirit of fairness and goodwill, revoke all legal and moral claims to the intellectual property of fans whose sites are or will be hosted on fan.starwars.com, including so-called "derivative works."
www.miscellanies.net - Elizabeth's new site which houses all of the latest news and information on this topic.
Starwars.com - Official Site. Copyright page
Star Wars Fan Homepages terms of service - The legal "fine print" which applies to all sites hosted under the fan.starwars.com subdomain. FAQ
Homepages contest - Everyone who creates a site at fan.starwars.com is entered to win a variety of Star Wars prizes.
Homestead - The company providing Starwars.com with "free homepage" services. Their generic terms of service
It's not wise to upset a Wookiee - Echostation.com's fabulous, well-researched article on Lucasfilm vs. fan sites. A must-read.
Trademark Wars on the Web - "Meant to be an extensive, if not comprehensive, list of sites that have gotten slammed in one way or another for trademark concerns."
The Force is With Them - IP Magazine article about Lucasfilm's efforts to protect its properties online. A revealing look at their side of the story.
The Poachers and the Stormtroopers - A wonderful 1988 article on Lucasfilm and other media companies vs. fanfic authors.
Fan Fiction on the Line - An older (undated, probably circa 1995) Janelle Brown HotWired article summarizing the dispute over whether fanfic, "Lucasfilm is one particularly reasonable outfit when it comes to fan fiction."
"Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers!" - A 1997 Wired Online article about fan fiction vs trademark law... "By allowing free-speech principles to dominate the Neutral Zone that links pop culture and commerce, media titans will still make plenty of money, and our universe will be a more hospitable place for creative exploration."
The Law of Cyberspace for Non-Lawyers - A summary of the major issues involved in Internet law.
The Freedom Forum Online - First Amendment group/zine.
Echo Station Outposts - build your own free webpages, courtesy of Echo Station...with none of the nonsense you're reading about here.
(Elizabeth has an AV tech job which enables her to websurf all day. Her life really revolves around her fan activities, her online friends, and her pet mynock. She is about a semester away from an English degree but can't think of any reason to finish, and suspects she might like to be a writer, web designer, and/or hermit-naturalist some day, or else cultivate her fantasy life to such an extent that she can live entirely in her head.)
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ELKHORN — "Shane McKinley is a predator," Judge John Race said before sending the former Williams Bay JV basketball coach to prison for 10 years.
After serving 10 years in prison, the 28-year-old will spend another five years on extended supervision. McKinley also must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
During an emotional hearing, two girls talked about having a sexual relationship with McKinley when they were underage.
The girls said McKinley was verbally abusive and manipulative during the relationship and would threaten to commit suicide when he didn't get his way. Race said McKinley used his good looks and his position of authority to take advantage of the young girls.
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"He groomed these girls," Race said. "He groomed them knowing full well what his intentions were."
The case against McKinley began in December 2011, and the Delavan police department has been investigating McKinley's relationships with underage girls ever since.
"This is a 26-year-old man in a position of trust exploiting a 15-year-old girl," Race said. Race said it was necessary to send McKinley to prison to protect the public. "I believe he would go on to continue to groom 15-year-old girls," Race said.
In March, McKinley pleaded guilty to a felony charge of repeated sexual assault of a child. As part of the plea agreement, five charged counts of possession of child pornography were dismissed, and 18 charges of possession of child pornography and three counts of sexual assault of a child were never filed. Two girls who McKinley had a relationship with spoke during the hearing.
Victim 1 was a 15-year-old girl when the assaults began and played on the JV basketball squad that McKinley coached.
Victim 2 is now 19 and a college student, but the assaults allegedly occurred when she was underage. Police discovered Victim 2 after finding nude images of her on McKinley's cell phone. After months of investigating, the Delavan police were able to locate and identify the second victim.
"Detectives (Joaquin) Alonzo and (Tim) Bilskey did a very nice job in working on this, they put a lot of time into it," Deputy District Attorney Joshua Grube said.
Asking for a maximum sentence
"I wish I had an inkling," Victim 1's mother said during the hearing. "I always thought you were odd and I never really liked you."
Victim 1's mother called McKinley a self-centered, manipulating psychopath.
"Men don't have sex with children," she said.
Both of Victim 1's parents said the case, including the media coverage, has caused emotional turmoil in their lives.
"Her life shattered like a greenhouse in a hurricane," Victim 1's mother said.
"If there is something I could offer to God to erase this event I would," Victim 1's father said.
Victim 1's father asked the judge for the maximum sentence of 25 years initial confinement. This way he would be released from prison when he is in his 50s.
"A man in his 50s approaching teenage girls will be immediately seen for what he is — a pervert," Victim 1's father said.
He said a lengthy sentence was also necessary to protect other children from McKinley.
"I ask that you sentence him not only to punish him, I ask that you sentence him to protect the other 15-year-old girls he wishes to molest," Victim 1's father said.
Grube asked for a lengthy prison sentence, but didn't make a specific recommendation to the judge.
How he groomed his victims
McKinley met Victim 1 when she was a freshman in high school.
He took a special interest in Victim 1, and sent her text messages and messages on Facebook. However, he also showed a temper and when he didn't get his way he would threaten to commit suicide.
One night McKinley made suicidal threats and the next day he came to basketball practice with bandages on his wrist, Victim 1 said.
McKinley also took a photograph of an engagement ring, and he emailed the picture to the girl with a promise that they would get married when she turned 18.
"In its simplest form, he became her coach and he groomed her," Grube said. "This case is all about manipulation."
When the court proceedings with Victim 1 were occurring, McKinley was sending Facebook messages to Victim 2 urging her to visit him in Texas. At that point, the girl was over 18, but his relationship with her began when she was a child.
"I convinced myself that it was OK because he convinced me that it was OK," she said.
Victim 2 said McKinley had tied her down and taken nude photographs of her when she was underage.
He also would send her repeated text messages and when she didn't respond he started text messaging her sister asking why she wasn't responding.
One night, McKinley and Victim 2 spent the night in the same home and Victim 2 slept by a fireplace. When she woke up, she saw McKinley sent her a text message that stated she looked beautiful sleeping.
In the text message McKinley also wrote that he couldn't help but touch the girl's hair and skin while she was asleep.
"No girl his age would like him," Victim 2 said.
The third girl
During the hearing, Grube said McKinley was in the process of grooming a third 15-year-old girl.
When police checked McKinley's Facebook page, McKinley posted that he was considering moving to Texas. A 15-year-old responded that she didn't want to see her boyfriend leave.
Police investigated the relationship that McKinley had with that girl, and discovered sexual messages in which McKinley talked to the child about sex and asked her to send pictures of her naked.
The defense
Dr. Melissa Westndorf, a clinical and forensic psychologist, evaluated McKinley in February and found that he had a "low to a low-moderate risk to reoffend."
She said McKinely suffers from depression and has some characteristics of borderline personality disorder.
However, she was careful not to say he has borderline personality disorder.
Westndorf said McKinley also isn't considered "sexually deviant by actuarial purposes."
During a cross-examination, Grube asked Westndorf how much she was paid to perform her evaluation. She responded $3,500, but said her payment didn't influence her diagnoses.
McKinley's attorney Jeff Koepke asked Race to place McKinley on a period of probation. He asked that a prison sentence be imposed and stayed, which means McKinley would only serve the sentence if he violated the terms of his probation.
Koepke said that McKinley, according to Westndorf's diagnoses, is not sexually deviant nor a pedophile.
"He is immature and has bad judgement," Koepke said.
Koepke said McKinley has a good work history, and volunteers with numerous charitable organizations. He also read a letter of apology that McKinley had written to his family and Victim 1.
McKinley cried several times throughout the hearing and also shed tears as his attorney read his statement. When given a chance to speak, McKinley's voice was shaky, and he again apologized.
"I'm deeply sorry for everyone who is involved, and I hope to be able to find the treatment to help me move on and deal with everything that has happened," McKinley said.
After Race announced the sentence, McKinley was placed in handcuffs and escorted out of the courtroom.
He will likely spend four to six weeks in the Walworth County jail before he is transported to the Dodge Correctional Institution, Waupun.
All male inmates are first sent to the Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison, where they are processed. After about a month, McKinley will likely be transported to another state prison.
Race said McKinley had a good life as a child.
"He lived in one of the best communities in Walworth County," Race said.
McKinley graduated from Badger High School in 2003 and was on the prom court. He also was on the golf team.
He grew up in a gated community with private golf courses, Race said.
Now, for the next 10 years, McKinley will live in a different kind of gated community.
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The communiqué expressed support for the Palestinian people in regaining their usurped rights, condemned the repressive Zionist policy against them, and stressed the need for the return of exiled Palestinians to the country of their fathers and grandfathers. The two sides also expressed support for Lebanon, and solidarity with Syria. They strongly condemned the recent Zionist attacks in the Baka'a area of southern Lebanon, stressing the right of the Lebanese to resist occupation, and voiced full support of Syria in its right for the return of its occupied lands.The two sides also expressed sympathy with the Iraqi people, declaring that the current situation in Iraq is unacceptable, and needs to be addressed at the level of the United Nations. The sanctions against Iraq, they said, should be reviewed, in order to relieve the sufferings of the Iraqi people. They stressed the need, however, to observe the integrity of Iraq's territory and non-interference in its internal affairs.
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Deaths keep adding up due to the anger over the accidental burning of the Korans. The U.S. president and the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, apologized!
Ironically, there has been NO apology from the U.S.-trained-and-funded Afghan military for the murders.
In 2009 Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
Military Burns Holy Bible
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Burn Korans on accident at U.S. base in Afghanistan –> U.S. troops killed by riots
Burn Bibles on purpose at U.S. base in Afghanistan –> Protects U.S. troops from being killed by riots
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Max and Brittany discover more about one another when Robby, a werewolf of a different breed, imprints upon Max. Unable to resist the alluring temptation he provides, Brittany joins Max and Robby for an unforgettable romp.
While the trio enjoys a tryst in the upper mountain cabin, an old friend and new enemy shows up at Safe Mountain with a warning. There's a new agenda in place and armies are gathering in nearby Gatlinburg with one lone mission—locate Safe Mountain and execute those living there.
The Sins of Wolves are out of time and the clock is still ticking. As the bikers scatter with their mates, some remain behind to protect their home while others move forward, determined to start a new life of their own.
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Max hadn't expected Robby to tell anyone about his imprint, but nothing could've prepared him for the thoughtful gesture he gave Brittany. Robby was a hard ass. Where Somers was concerned? He was a deadly son-of-a-bitch. In spite of it all, he had the decency to recognize Brittany's need to know more.
"Everybody is here," Mama said, sticking her head in the kitchen. "And they're restless. Anyone want to tell me what this is about?"
Robby frowned. "Ah hell, let's go." He pointed at Somers. "Not you."
"Fuck, Robby," Chuck said. "He's the reason we know what's headed our way. For once, lay down the swords and embrace an old friend."
"Our old friend damn near cost us our lives."
"Daisy was responsible there," Brittany said, keeping her voice low. "But her reasons for wearing a tracker were justified. She was trying to save our parents."
"Do we have time to run over this?" Robby asked.
"Not really," Chuck said. "If you want to sit down and talk it out over coffee, we can do that. But it could mean the difference in getting everyone out safe."
The room fell silent. Max took a deep breath as everyone there seemingly processed what Chuck's words meant. The moment they'd all dreaded had finally come to pass.
The Sins of Wolves would vacate the premises. The road to Safe Mountain would soon be exposed and anyone left behind would face unfathomable danger.
Doomsday for the club had arrived with a vengeance. How they survived it was yet to be seen.
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Max grunted from the impact and pushed his face between the juncture of Brittany's thighs, loving the way his woman smelled, admiring the way her pussy lips glistened with her excitement. He raked his tongue through her folds, sliding the texture through her intimate lips and enjoying the soft contour of her pussy as much as the way her thigh muscles clenched as he settled between her legs.
Situated now, he tucked his hands under her bottom and threw his hips back and rubbed against Robby, expecting another spanking, another swat on the ass. Instead, Robby pried his cheeks apart and speared his tongue right inside his puckered rim.
"Ah fuck me!" Max screamed, thrusting his tongue deep inside Brittany's pussy.
"Oh God, Max, this isn't going to work." She grabbed hold of his head and guided him up and down, forcing him to move faster.
Not working? Max grinned to himself before pushing against Robby's giving mouth, indulging in the exquisite sensations scattering over his body, bathing his nerve endings and stimulating him in a way he'd never quite expected. He glanced up at his gorgeous woman and stuffed his fingers inside her warm pussy. "Tell me what doesn't work about this."
"Oh Sir!" she screamed, guiding his head between her legs again and crying out his name.
Max ate her out and enjoyed the same from Robby. Their bodies gyrated and the squeaky bed made the bedsprings sing.
Brittany jackknifed, rising halfway up and pulling his face closer to her cunt. Max devoured her until he felt her body's vibrations, the explosive ripples pulsing around his tongue as she rode out her orgasm.
Pressing against the tongue behind him, Max grabbed hold of his cock with one hand while flattening his palm against Brittany's bare mound. The slap to her pussy rang out and she hummed again, balling the quilt in her fists as she pumped her hips off the bed and yelped like crazy.
Her last orgasm left her. Max's explosive release was mere moments away. Right when he tugged his cock with a faster rhythm, he enjoyed the surprise of his life.
"Thrust your ass up in the air." Robby's demand was unmistakable and filled with lust.
Max held on to Brittany's open thighs, watching her closely as Robby spread his cheeks and entered him. "Um, yeah."
"Fuck...me," Max's strangled words were as tight as he felt.
"Good damn, man, you were ready for me."
"I'm definitely getting there," Max rasped, nuzzling Brittany's pussy as he slipped his cock in and out of his loose fist.
Robby's dick traveled over Max's tender tissues and tightened muscles. He stroked Max's sensitive skin and teased his tender rim, wetting his fingers with saliva and withdrawing enough to moisten his hole again.
"I'm not waiting," Robby said, all raw and masculine as he towered over Max's back once more. His hot breath was at his ear.
"Ride her."
Max stilled. Brittany moved.
With arms and legs wide open, Brittany welcomed him. Her cunt slick and warm, wrapped around Max's cock like an order of protection. She sheathed Max with her fluids as Robby fucked his ass with thumping strokes. In a matter of seconds, they were rocking together and moving at a tempo they couldn't have managed any better if they'd practiced several times for one grand performance.
Bodies were slapping. Voices were cracking as the pleas for more filled the cabin and the illicit discoveries left them all in a heap, making the kind of promises every partner wants the other to keep.


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