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Hello guys,
Back when I used to use kde I liked this theme:
It is the only screenshot I've got left. This came (iirc) with rh8.
I wondered wheter anybody uses it, or remembers it's name or where to
get it (or it's pixmaps which is what I'm after to). I've been for a
while looking for it on google and the kde website, but nothing has
come up.
I've just finished a small window manager proyect, and wanted to give
it that look, or a very similar one by default, if possible.
I've already downloaded the first two redhat8 isos, and am perusing
kde packages with rmp2cpio, though I haven't found it so far, so any
comments or pointers would be greatly appreciated.


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Juanita M. Kreps
|Juanita Kreps
|24th United States Secretary of Commerce
|In office
January 23, 1977 – October 31, 1979
|Jimmy Carter
|Preceded by
|Elliot Richardson
|Succeeded by
|Philip Klutznick
|Personal details
|Clara Juanita Morris
January 11, 1921
Lynch, Kentucky, U.S.
|July 5, 2010
(aged 89)
Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
|Political party
|Clifton Kreps
|Laura Anne
Clifton Holland
Sarah Blair
|Alma mater
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Duke University
Clara Juanita Morris Kreps (January 11, 1921 – July 5, 2010)[1] was an American government official and businesswoman. She served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from January 23, 1977 until October 31, 1979, under President Jimmy Carter and was the first woman to hold that position, and the fourth woman to hold any Cabinet position.[2]
Early life and career[edit]
Kreps was born Clara Juanita Morris[3] on January 11, 1921, in Lynch, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Cenia (née Blair) and Elmer M. Morris.[1] She graduated from Berea College in 1942, and earned her master's and Ph.D. in economics at Duke University in 1944 and 1948, respectively. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. A specialist in labor demographics, Kreps taught at Denison University, Hofstra College, Queens College, and Duke. She rose through the ranks there to become the university's first female vice president. In 1972 she was the first woman director of the New York Stock Exchange.[4]
On August 11, 1944, she married Clifton Holland Kreps, Jr., a former professor at the University of North Carolina. They had two daughters and one son.[5]
Kreps was awarded the 1976 North Carolina Award for public service and 20 honorary degrees.[6] She was sat on the board of 10 major corporations.[5] A collection of Kreps' papers is housed at the Rubenstein Library at the Duke University.[7]
Political advisor Anne Wexler, who was serving on the President Jimmy Carter's transition team after his victory in the 1976 presidential election, recommended Kreps for a post in the Carter administration. Kreps was appointed to serve as the Secretary of Commerce.[8] She resigned on October 31, 1979. She was replaced by Philip M. Klutznick.
Kreps died in Durham, North Carolina, on July 5, 2010. She was buried at the Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Churchyard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/07/kreps._print.ht
- ^ McFadden, Robert D. (7 July 2010). "Juanita M. Kreps, Commerce Secretary, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no:021541831
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/us/08kreps.html.
- ^ a b Juanita M. Kreps
- ^ NC SPIN Online
- ^ "Juanita Morris Kreps Papers, 1921-2001 and undated". Rubenstein Library, Duke University.
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Anne Wexler, an Influential Political Operative and Lobbyist, Is Dead at 79", The New York Times, August 8, 2009. Accessed August 8, 2009.
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Lycoming County's 2013 $97.1 million operating budget that keeps taxes steady for the ninth consecutive year formally was adopted by commissioners Thursday.
The budget, which is being balanced by using nearly $10.1 million of the county's available fund balance, includes about $4 million in Act 13 natural gas impact fees.
Beth A. Johnston, county director of fiscal services, said the budget routinely is balanced with established reserves, such as last year's that included a $15 million deficit. She said surpluses are created when projects are deferred for future use or don't come to fruition. They then are funneled into a reserve fund.
Commissioners also were presented with a $129,260 check from The Hartman Group, 420 William St., which represents a return on the county's workers' compensation insurance premiums.
Mark C. Sitler, company vice president, said this year also marks the ninth consecutive year that the county has received a return of premiums.
During that time, the county has received $2.16 million because of "favorable loss experience" on its workers' compensation insurance, according to Sitler.
"The bottom line is, we really strive to provide a safe working environment for our employees," Commissioner Jeff Wheeland said.
Commissioners also bid farewell to two county employees who, between them, accumulated about 70 years of service.
Connie Turner, county 911 center manager, and Tim Nelson, deputy sheriff, were recognized for their retirements this year.
John Yingling, county department of public safety director, said Turner, who previously served as the department's deputy director, has been "instrumental in the world of public safety" and has helped save lives through her work at the 911 center.
Sheriff Mark Lusk said that in addition to his duties as a deputy, Nelson played a key part in establishing the county's D.A.R.E. program and organizing the Camp Cadet program.
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It couldn't have come at worse time. January is the midpoint of what amounts to the candy high season, a Halloween-Christmas-Valentine's Day-Easter stretch of sweet indulgence.


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Whether it's wood or concrete construction, knowledge empowers all players to assess the moisture situation for optimum results.
MVER (Moisture Vapor Emissions Rate)
Commonly called the calcium chloride test, MVER is a traditional measure of concrete surface moisture conditions. Due to its longevity, building contractors still use it. However, installers had used calcium chloride to measure concrete moisture for decades without any real sense of the science (or lack thereof) behind it. MVER reads the pounds of water per thousand square feet per 24 hours of drying. Most manufacturers recommend readings of between "3" and "5."
Calcium chloride fails to address the moisture measurement technology that has developed in recent years. While MVER testing estimates concrete moisture conditions to a very limited depth, it is imprecise. Calcium chloride only measures surface concrete conditions. Building projects continue to be defined by time constraints and budget. Accordingly, installers utilize more curing, sealing and bond-breaking compounds to speed up the process. This is anathema to calcium chloride. An MVER reading depends on the absence of exactly those compounds that builders increasingly use. Therefore, calcium chloride assessment has become passe in construction and, in fact, has been disallowed for certain concrete applications.
Relative Humidity (RH)
Testing for relative humidity provides a statement of overall moisture conditions in concrete. Because the RH in-situ probes take their readings at a 40% depth, an equilibration relative humidity can be determined. Building contractors and building inspectors conduct RH tests to determine the proportional presence of moisture throughout a concrete slab. The RH test of moisture conditions via in-situ probes is a certified method of satisfying ASTM Standard F2170. An RH test is deployed to identify variations in moisture in a body of building material which needs to reach a specified moisture level. Industry uses the RH test method for continuous spots checks during a building process. Concrete builders deploy RH tests at multiple locations on a slab to determine its drying status.
Put simply, RH tests scrutinize the interactive relationship between moisture in building materials and the relative humidity of its surroundings. Building contractors apply RH tests by implanting in-situ probes in the slab. Done repeatedly, building contractors can build data libraries which indicate the eventual onset of equilibrated moisture content (EMC). This data would certainly interest building inspectors.
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We believe in a church hungry for the Word of God, fully dependent on the Holy Spirit, united in breakthrough prayer.
We believe in a church where every person is significant.
We believe in a church full of faith, hope and love; a church of grace and mercy where forgiveness and understanding are modeled.
We believe in a vibrant, progressive church whose praise and worship reaches heaven to bless God.
We believe in a church that identifies, develops and releases Spirit-filled leaders into the Kingdom of God.
We believe in a church of great influence; a church that does not focus merely on its own property but assumes responsibility for other people and nations around the world, fulfilling the Great Commission.
We believe in a church where the altars are consistently filled with believers and unbelievers alike seeking God.
We believe the Bible to be the divinely infallible, inerrant and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
We believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father's right hand, and His personal coming again at His second advent.
We believe that justification is a judicial act of God on the believer's behalf solely on the merits of Christ, and that regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation.
We believe in holy living, the present day reality of the baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Lord's supernatural healing of the human body.
We believe in the vital present day ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ according to Ephesians 4:11-16.
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The IS-LM/AS-AD Model (part 2) I. The FE line: Equilibrium in the Labour Market A. In the discussion of the labour market, we showed how equilibrium in the labour market leads to employment at its full-employment level N and output at Y . B. If we plot output against the real interest rate, we get a vertical line at Y = Y , since labour market equilibrium is unaffected by changes in the real interest rate. C. Factors that shift the FE line 1. Y is determined by the full-employment level of employment and the current levels of capital and productivity; any change in these variables shifts the FE line. 2. Summary Table 11 lists the factors that shift the full-employment line to the right. a. a beneficial supply shock b. an increase in labour supply c. an increase in the capital stock 3. The full-employment line shifts left when the opposite happens to the three factors above Output, Y Real interest rate, r FE line Y II. The IS curve: Equilibrium in the Goods Market 1
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A. The goods market clears when desired investment equals desired national saving 1. Adjustments in the real interest rate bring about equilibrium 2. For any level of output Y, the IS curve shows the real interest rate r for which the goods market is in equilibrium Real interest rate, r S d , I d Output, Y S(Y1) S(Y2) Y1 Y2 r 1 r 2 I IS 3. Derivation of the IS curve from the saving-investment diagram a. Key features • The saving curve slopes upward because a higher real interest rate increases saving • An increase in output shifts the saving curve to the right, because people save more when their income is higher • The investment curve slopes downward because a higher real interest rate reduces the desired capital stock, thus reducing investment b. Consider two different levels of output • At the higher level of output, the saving curve is shifted to the right compared to the situation at the lower level of output • Since the investment curve is downward sloping, equilibrium at the higher level of output has a lower real interest rate • Thus a higher level of output must lead to a lower real interest rate, so the IS curve slopes downward • The IS curve shows the relationship between the real interest rate and output for which investment equals saving c. Alternative interpretation in terms of goods market equilibrium • Beginning at a point of equilibrium, suppose the real interest rate rises 2
• The increased real interest rate causes people to increase saving and thus reduce consumption, and causes firms to reduce investment • So the quantity of goods demanded declines • To restore equilibrium, the quantity of goods supplied would have to decline • So higher real interest rates are associated with lower output, that is, the IS curve slopes downward B. Factors that shift the IS curve 1. Any change that reduces desired national saving relative to desired investment shifts the IS curve up a. Intuitively, imagine constant output, so a reduction in saving means more
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Are you looking for the Presidents Day Best Sales? We have searched the internet and have found the best sales for you! Macy's is having a huge sale along with Urban Outfitters. Macy's department store has announced a President's Day Sale going on now through February 21, 2011. They have announced special extra discounts on many items for this weekend and you can get free shipping on orders totaling $99 or more at their website. To get the extra discounts online you enter "PRESIDENT" for the promotional coupon code during checkout.
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A dive team recovered the body of a 16-year-old boy from the Whitewater Recreation Park in Siloam Springs.Video Transcript
NEW INFORMATION IN A DROWNING INVESTIGATION. LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO, DIVERS RECOVERED THE BODY OF A TEENAGER WHO DROWNED AT THE SILOAM SPRINGS KAYAK PARK. 40/29'S JOSH TAYLOR IS LIVE ON THE SCENE WITH WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW. OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THE BENTON COUNTY DIVE TEAM RECOVERED THAT 16-YEAR-OLD'S BODY, AND EMERGENCY CREWS HAVE JUST CLEARED THE AREA. WE'RE BEING KEPT ABOUT A QUARTER MILE AWAY FROM THE PARK, WHICH IS JUST DOWN THIS ROAD. TONIGHT, INVESTIGATORS ARE CALLING THIS DEATH AN ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. THE SILOAM SPRINGS POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE WERE CALLED TO THE WHITEWATER RECREATION PARK AFTER SOMEONE REPORTED A POSSIBLE DROWNING. THE DIVE TEAM ARRIVED AT ABOUT 5:45, AND THE BODY WAS FOUND ABOUT 200 YARDS DOWNSTREAM FROM THE PARK. POLICE SAY THEY ARE NOT SURE HOW THE BOY WAS SEPARATED FROM THE GROUP HE WAS WITH, BUT THEY SAY SAFETY IS THE KEY CONCERN WHEN VISITING THIS PARK. VISITORS ARE ALL ENCOURAGED TO WEAR LIFE VESTS WHEN OUT ON THE WATER. A SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE CITY DOES NOT KNOW WHEN THE PARK WILL RE-OPEN. Holland Hayden, Communications Manger: "That's something that I think that the city board, city police and fire, the public safety director and the city administrator all have to carefully consider because obviously this is a travesty. This is very, very tragic and we don't want this happening to anybody, so we'll have to think about that." THE PARK HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE ABOUT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON, AND IT WILL REMAIN CLOSED UNTIL THE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE. REPORTING LIVE TONIGHT IN SILOAM SPRINGS, JOSH TAYLOR, 40/29 NEWS. ABOUT 100 PEOPLE WERE AT THE PARK WHEN THE CALL TO POLICE CAME IN.
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> I used IOCONFIG to reconfigure some network printer classes. What do I
> have to do, if anything, to ensure that these changes persist through
> subsequent reboots of the HP3000?
> Yes, I read the communicator and the manual and all I can figure out from
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I always check in sysgen, io configuration after any changes to make sure
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A Life Less Ordinary
This film is essentially little more than a continuing stunt. Though filledwith all kinds of crap that will seem interesting to the easily entertained, it's really just a cover for the fact that writer John Hodge and director Danny ("Trainspotting") Boyle woke up one morning and realized they were making a film that didn't contain a single original idea.
To compensate for this, they introduce the whole heaven element as a way to fool us into thinking they're creative. The film starts out in heaven as we're introduced to two angels, Jackson (Delroy Lindo) and O'Reilly (Holly Hunter). Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) is lamenting the failure of love, so Jackson and O'Reilly are given one last chance to make two people fall for each other: Robert (Ewan McGregor) and Celine (Cameron Diaz).
The chance for a decent movie is destroyed when this hokey, new-agey gunk is thrown into the works. Why I should care what happens to Robert and Celine when I know their guardian angels are running around tweaking circumstance? It doesn't help that heaven is apparently filled with a bunch of criminals: Robert is compelled to kidnap the rich Celine, who decides she wants to play the hostage to get back at her father (Ian Holm).
If Boyle knew what he was doing, he wouldn't have revealed that Jackson and O'Reilly were angels until the end of the film. At least that way, the audience would have been confused by the chaos instead of merely irritated by it. Boyle puts all his cards on the table at the beginning of this film and then tries to pretend he's playing a serious game of poker. That the film folds early is no coincidence.
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Why can't Washington compromise? They're too human
WASHINGTON -- Turns out politicians are people, too, only worse.
Just ask pros who make their living in the trenches of everyday human drama such as divorce, family feuds or schoolyard scraps. They recognize in Washington's bitter budget standoff a hint of human nature as they know it, but with the crazy pumped up to absurd levels.
"We're seeing middle school behavior here," said Barbara Coloroso, who crusades against childhood bullying. Psychologist Piers Steel, an expert on procrastination, said Congress has the worst case of it he's seen. Divorce attorney Sanford Ain's assessment is more blunt: "It's nuts!"
A sampling of conflict-savvy professionals and scholars interviewed by the Associated Press finds dismay that the nation is in political stalemate after two years of showdowns and near-misses for the economy. Not that they have any easy solutions, either.
Some dream of locking up President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. R-Ohio, together until the nation's tax and spending issues are settled.
"That's my fantasy: To go into a room and tell them what to do, right or wrong, and make them do it," said Marvin McIntyre, a prominent financial adviser in the District of Columbia who writes political novels on the side.
Coloroso, author of "The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander," sees too many politicians acting like the mean girl who taunts unpopular classmates in the cafeteria.
"Bullying is about contempt for the other person," Coloroso said. "Do you see how that fits with some of the people in Congress?


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Members of the city police department's narcotics unit arrested Robert Dorsey, 32, of Millville, in the area of Church and Powell streets after he exited the Powell Street apartment where his daughter lives on Friday, Millville Police Det. Sgt. Jody Farabella said.
Plain-clothes officers were able to get close to Dorsey by asking him for directions, according to Farabella.
Dorsey allegedly struck a Delaware state trooper with a vehicle. He was lodged in Cumberland County Jail without bail on a first-degree assault charge pending extradition to Delaware.


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A Study in Dots
Carl Bennett drummed his fingers on the coffee table, flipping through channels while he waited for the pizza he ordered nearly an hour ago. He lingered on the news channel, just long enough to see a picture of a pretty redhead and the word "missing" flash across the screen before turning the TV off– he dealt with enough crimes as it was. Sparing another glance at the clock to see that another five minutes had passed, Carl ran his fingers through his hair and reached for his phone, intending to tell the pizza parlor just what he thought of their promised swift deliveries.
A knock echoed through the apartment, and Carl hurried to the door, not bothering to take his wallet along. Wrenching open the door, he prepared to see a bored teenage face, over an hour late, and Carl planned to tell the sorry excuse for a human being exactly why he should expect an angry call to the manager.
The only flaw with this plan was that the pizza man wasn't at the door. Instead, a sharply dressed man stood at the door, hand poised to knock again. A briefcase rested by his feet, the same black as the man's coat. The stranger lowered his hand and glanced critically over Carl and into the apartment, a frown growing on the man's face.
"Carl Bennett?" The stranger asked, folding his arms. Carl nodded, and the stranger looked briefly disappointed. "The police lackey Carl Bennett?"
"Computer forensic investigator," Carl corrected, annoyed. The man rolled his eyes and muttered 'same thing'. "Who's asking?"
"Addison Greene. I was interested in hiring you for a case." The stranger – Mr. Greene – emphasized the past tense, giving another disapproving glance over Carl's shoulder. Carl could already tell this would be a difficult client, one of those people that make you want to put your gun in your mouth. Still, he had bills and alimonies and child support to pay, and the police didn't pay much.
"Would you like to come in?"
"Oh, God no," Mr. Greene said, barely pausing to think over the words. "Your apartment looks worse than you do."
Carl glanced over his shoulder at his apartment – sure, it was a little messy, but he was newly single, and it wasn't like there were mounds of mold growing everywhere. Mr. Greene ran a hand over his face, looking like dealing with Carl was physically painful.
"If you're going to cry over the fact that I think you're dirty, maybe knowing I'm mysophobic will comfort you." Mr. Greene tapped his foot; acting like this encounter was taking up precious time.
"You're afraid of germs?" Working with computers lead to looking random things up. Carl remembered one Thursday night when he and his psychologist colleagues passed the time by researching strange phobias that popped in the case files. Mysophobia was one of the first ones Carl looked up.
"Oh good – you're not completely incompetent." Mr. Greene almost looked impressed, Almost. "Now, tell me why I should hire you?"
"You tell me," Carl deflected – how was he supposed to sell himself to the man if he didn't even know what the case was? The other man straightened his back, looking down at Carl; internally, the investigator damned ridiculously tall people. Mr. Greene pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket, unfolding it meticulously.
"Two ex–wives, two kids, and a lot of bills. You don't commit crimes, but you're willing to bend the rules and freelance on the side for the right amount," Mr. Greene paused to refold the paper.
"Highly recommended for dealing with rather… embarrassing situations in an affordable, professional manner." Carl ignored how Mr. Greene's voice hitched through the sentence. Putting the paper back into his packet, he looked over Carl once more, making the policeman uncomfortable under the analysis. "Plus, you're much cleaner than other individuals I have met."
Carl chose to view that comment as a compliment rather than an insult. "Well, there you have it." Leaning against the doorway, Carl shoved his hands in his pockets. "The next question is whether I will accept your case or not."
Mr. Greene clicked his tongue before reaching down and grabbing the briefcase. Carl caught a glimpse of several papers, covered in equations he never bothered to remember past his chemistry final in high school, while Mr. Greene pulled out a small, worn journal, which he handed over. A superhero adorned the cover, and the pages were scribbled with doodles and barely legible writings.
"The owner of this journal is Joseph Scarlett, though he responds to Joe or Joey." Mr. Greene paused for a moment, and worry flickered through his grey eyes. "He's missing."
"That's something you should take to the police, not a freelance computer geek." Carl tried to give the notebook back, but Mr. Greene shook his head and refused it, clicking the briefcase closed.
"I know where he is –"
"If you know where he is, then he's not missing", Carl interrupted. Mr. Greene huffed and glared at the policeman.
"He ran off. I know where he is, but I don't know what made him run away," He gave Carl an irritated look. "That is why I want to hire you. I need you to figure out what happened two days ago."
"With this?" Carl held up the journal, as if holding it higher would show Mr. Greene just how impossible this case seemed. "And what does it matter if you know where he is already? Why not just ask him?"
"That journal is all that I can give you right now, and I can't – I can't just talk to Joe." For a second Mr. Greene lost his composure, looking like a little kid trying to play grown up. "Do we have a deal, Mr. Bennett?"
Carl was ready to say no – he wanted to say no, he really did, but bills were beginning to pile up again, and there hadn't been any jealous wives willing to pay to have him crack their husbands' private emails in a while.
"We have a deal." Mr. Greene nodded his head, a small smile softening his features. He gave Carl his phone number and left, leaving Carl sorely tempted to either get drunk or hit something. Slamming the door shut, Carl stormed towards the couch, figuring he might as well spare a better look at the journal.
The pizza man never came.
* * *
This case was full of nothing but dead ends. For two days Carl analyzed Joe's journal. The boy – Carl assumed it was a boy; he'd yet to meet an adult who wrote in crayons – wanted to be a detective and documented everything he saw. Entries from two days ago had him going downtown, past a candy shop (with red gumballs that looked like bouncy balls), an apartment complex (where a bulldog lived. Joe really liked the bulldog), and past a park (apparently the left swing was the best, because it went the highest). After that point, the careful, childish observations stopped and the word ''dots' was scribbled over and over again on the last few pages.
Carl did his best to follow Joe's footsteps. The cashier at the candy shop remembered the journal, but according to her it didn't belong to a little boy. Rather, she described a young man with gray eyes and strawberry blond hair. After he left the candy shop – with a bag of truffles in tow – he visited the apartment building a few houses down. It took a while to convince the landlady that no he did not want to rent her spare apartment, no he was not there to deal with whatever died in there and was stinking up the place, and no he did not want to join her for tea. The park, just like the first two leads, proved to be a bust. He left when the parents started sending him suspicious stares.
Giving one more glance through the journal, Carl tossed it onto the couch and picked up the phone; if Addison wanted this case solved, he needed to give more information. By the fifth ring he was tempted to hang up and try again later, but then someone finally picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Machines hummed in the background – Carl recognized the sound from his own job; Mr. Greene probably worked in a lab.
"Addison Greene?" Carl heard a huff, and could picture the man rolling his eyes.
"No, it's Sally Field. Of course it's Addison Greene." The policeman was beginning to think Mr. Greene only had two emotions – annoyed and exasperated. "I'm assuming this is Mr. Bennett?" Carl didn't answer the question.
"I need more to go on than an overused notebook,"
"I already gave you all the information I –"
"Well, it's not enough," Carl interrupted, listening to Mr. Greene huff on the other end of the phone. "If you want to find out what happened to little Joey, You got to give me more."
For a while, the whining machines were the only sound Carl could hear on the other line. This case was giving Carl a headache, and Mr. Greene only amplified it with his secrets and silence. Carl wouldn't put it past him to have done something with the missing boy himself, but if he was going to prove that, he needed more evidence. Either way, cooperating with the strange man was the best course of action.
"Fine. I'll be over as soon as I can," Mr. Greene hung up. Burying his head in his hands, Carl realized he was right – he regretted taking this case already.
It took two hours for Mr. Greene to arrive at Carl's apartment.
"This is as soon as you can?" Carl asked as soon as he opened the door. He considered inviting Mr. Greene inside, but that had gone oh so well last time.
"I was at work."
"Work? It's Sunday night – what could you possibly be working on?" Carl wondered if Mr. Greene knew how suspicious he seemed – everything he did only made him look guilty.
"It's a personal project that I happened to conduct at work," Mr. Greene retorted, clenching his jaw.
"A personal project? Just what kind of project–"
"Is this some sort of interrogation?" Now it was Mr. Greene's turn to interrupt, glaring at the shorter man. "How is this relevant to your job?"
"Because my job is to find out what happened, and right now you are the best lead." Carl pushed himself off the wall and straightened his back. He may be shorter, but he worked for the police and knew how to carry himself. Mr. Greene flinched back, then crossed his arms. "What project were you working on?"
"I work as a lab tech at the hospital," Mr. Greene's eyes flickered down, his body tensing. "I was checking test results."
"Whose results?" Silence – Mr. Greene seemed to be awfully good at saying nothing. "Whose results were they?"
"Mine," Mr. Greene finally snarled. "I was testing myself for diseases."
"You're sick?" Carl sank back against the door, guilty about how he'd been treating Mr. Greene – the man's health was his own business. The taller man looked down the hallway, at the floor, at the hideous wallpaper – anywhere to avoid Carl's eyes.
"No, I'm not," Mr. Greene snapped, fiddling with his coat sleeve. "But it's important to keep on top of it, to make sure I don't contract some fatal illness. So I test myself."
"Wait, are you telling me that you test yourself for diseases in your spare time? Just to make sure you're not dying?" Mr. Greene's silence was enough. Carl laughed in disbelief, pressing the palms of his hand against his eyes –his client was a hypochondriac as well as mysophobic. Fantastic. Carl's headache increased tenfold.
"There are many diseases that are quickly fatal if not caught and treated early, like Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or –"
"AIDS? You're worried about AIDS?" Carl cut him off; this was by far the strangest client he ever had. "If you don't want AIDS, then use a condom and avoid dirty needles. It's really not that hard!"
"Look, can we stop talking about me being cautious–"
"You're a goddamn nutcase"
"–And focus on the situation at hand?" Mr. Greene spoke through clenched teeth. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a few wrinkled papers along with a photograph and handed them to Carl. "There's your new evidence, Mr. Detective."
Carl ignored the sarcasm and glanced over the papers in his hands. They were wrinkled and obviously torn from some sort of notebook. A diary by the looks of it – the tops of the pages were dated. Doodles littered the paper, along with quotes Carl recognized from Shakespeare plays he read in high school.
"The pages belong to an… associate of mine, Gerald Blanc, who was also acquainted with Joe. I managed to take these pages before he destroyed the rest of the journal," Mr. Greene paused, biting his lip as Carl scrutinized the pages. "I don't know who the girl is."
Whoever she was, she was young and beautiful. Red hair framed her face in tight curls, and her skin was sun–kissed with freckles. Carl figured she was an actress of some sort, since she wore a medieval dress and stood in front of a stage.
"Is there anything else you need?" Mr. Greene took the time Carl was distracted to compose himself, standing as straight and tall as a tree, confident and sturdy.
"I want to meet this Gerald." Carl noticed the other man's jaw twitch, but other than that his expression didn't change.
"I'm sorry, but that's not possible." Mr. Greene fished a pen out of his pocket, and stole back the photo to scribble on it. "You can talk to him through his instant messenger, but that's it."
He gave the photo back to Carl and didn't even wait for his response before turning on his heels and storming down the stairs. The policeman thought about following him, but Carl decided this was enough for now. It was still early in the evening, so he went to contact Gerald. Besides, he was a computer forensic investigator – he could trace the IM address. It took a while for Gerald to come online. While waiting, Carl read through the pages; they were basic, day-to-day accounts and didn't say much. Gerald loved theater, and he spent his spare time painting set designs for the community acting company. He wanted to be an artist, but he didn't think he was good enough to be professional yet. Although going by the doodles, Carl would say he was pretty decent.
Portia Dots was the most important thing Carl learned from the journal pages. A budding actress, the girl was the center of Gerald's world- if he didn't write about her, he at least doodled her in the corner, affectionately calling her Polka Dots. The Internet offered even more about the girl; there were articles that ripped apart her performances, degrading her to something barely human. About six months ago she was arrested as an accessory for a drug bust, receiving a sentence of community service.
And Portia Dots had been missing for four days, just like Joe Scarlett.
Around nine o'clock, the computer beeped, indicating a message. Surprisingly Gerald had contacted Carl first.
romeoDorsett13: Y r u looking 4 me?
Carl winced at the bad grammar. It took him a moment to think of a proper answer, not wanting to scare Gerald right off the bat.
caBnenett: I just want to talk.
romeoDorsett3: Y????
Carl glanced over to the superhero journal, drumming his fingers against the desk, and Portia Dots' photo rested on top of it. There were some many places to start – he might as well begin where he began.
caBnenett: Do you know Joe Scarlett?
romeoDorsett13: hes not here.
caBennett: Do you know where he is?
romeoDorsett13: hiding.
Carl groaned, running his fingers through his hair – this guy was as difficult to talk to as Mr. Greene. Only it was worse, because he couldn't see Gerald, couldn't read his facial expressions.
caBennett: Where is he hiding?
romeoDorsett13: n/m. doesnt matter
romeoDorsett13: dont look 4 him. hes just hiding.
Carl tried to coax an answer of out him a couple of more times, but every time Gerald put up the same resistance. This wasn't going anywhere; picking up the picture of the missing girl, Carl decided to try a different tactic.
caBennett: What about Portia Dots?
caBennett: You called her Polka Dots in your journal. Is she a girlfriend?
romeoDorsett13: Y?
caBennett: She's missing. Has been for four days, just like Joe.
caBennett: Do you know what happened?
romeoDorsett13: fu
Gerald quickly signed off, marking himself as the prime suspect. Pinching his nose, Carl tried to will his headache away. It didn't work, of course, because that would just be too simple. The phone suddenly shrilling in the quiet apartment didn't help much either.
"Ubljudok vonjuchiy," Wincing, Carl yanked the phone away from his ear. The angry, foreign tirade continued for a few more minutes before it finally quieted, and even then Carl waited a few seconds before risking his hearing again.
"I'm sorry. I, uh, I no hablo what you speak." The policeman regretted not paying attention in language classes while in school. There was a huff on the other line before the heavily accented voice returned, struggling with the English words.
"I am Yuri Chornji" Carl's mind scrambled, trying to place the name or accent – it didn't sound Spanish or French, but he wasn't sure. Still, Yuri had an Asian ring to it, didn't it? Perhaps the caller was Japanese.
"Uh… Konnichiwa?" Scurrying around his apartment, Carl started to trace the call, hoping that this 'Yuri' would stay on long enough. He only needed a minute.
"Leave Gerald lone,"
"What will you do if I don't? Send ninjas after me?" Forty seconds left. Yuri growled before screaming into the phone again.
"I am Russian, Poshoil na tri bukvui!" Carl wrenched the phone away from his ear again. Thirty more seconds.
"Leave Gerald lone." The tone in Yuri's voice signaled the end of the conversation, and Carl swore – he needed only twenty seconds. Cornered, Carl decided he could afford to sink low for this case. "Oh, a commie – now I'm really scared," In all fairness, Carl felt guilty about playing the communism card, but the Russian screaming more profanities bought him the twenty seconds he needed. Ending the call, Carl sank into his chair to wrap his mind around the phone call and to catalogue it with the rest of the information about the case before scribbling the address down, prepared to face the angry caller.
If Carl had made a list of things that would absolutely, nearly-stop-his-heart shock him at the apartment, seeing Addison Greene like this would have been at the top. The taller man was relaxed, leaning against the door with his hip jutting out. Mr. Greene bit his lip and looked Carl up and down – not in the critical, 'you're covered in filth and if you touch me I'll sue you for everything you own' look that he'd had before. This look treated Carl as if he was on display – as if Mr. Greene was mentally undressing him.
It was the single most awkward moment of Carl's forty-three years.
"You really aren't that cute, are you?" Taken aback by Mr. Greene's comment, Carl struggled to find a way to respond.
"I, uh – "
"I don't like boys, but you're not even fun to look at!" Sighing dramatically, Mr. Greene sauntered into the apartment, settling onto a plush couch. Patting the cushion next to him, he urged Carl to come in. Still trying to figure out what the hell was going on, Carl wordlessly followed, choosing to sit in the chair beside the couch instead.
"Mr. Greene-"
"R-right. Missy… are you high or something?" Mr. Greene – well, Missy – just laughed, his entire body erupting in laughter while Carl sat there, wondering when he stumbled down a rabbit hole.
"I am completely sober, Gramps-"
"I'm not that old!"
"Oh, please! You're more gray than brown at this point," Missy rolled his eyes, leaning forward and running a pale hand through Carl's hair. Carl jerked back, triggering another laughing fit from Missy.
"You poor thing – old and idiotic. No wonder you're twice divorced." Missy reached forward, plucking a truffle off of the coffee table, plopping it into his mouth, and moaning around the sweet confection. "You're kind of annoying too. I don't know how Addison deals with you."
"Aren't you Addison?" Carl prided himself on being a bit of a puzzle master, able to figure out Internet codes and decipher hidden html messages. But, he couldn't follow Missy's thinking. The other man just shook his head, hopping to his feet and strolling to the kitchen.
"Nah, but I'll get him for you. And a beer – this is going be one long conversation," Missy called over his shoulder before disappearing into the kitchen, leaving Carl to wallow in his confusion.
While waiting for Missy to return with Addison, Carl tried to make sense of the situation. Perhaps Addison had a twin brother with a… questionable sexuality. Maybe it was an evil twin – which at this point would not be that crazy.
Carl really, really regretted taking this case.
A loud crash from the kitchen shocked Carl out of his thoughts. A few curses fly through the air, and Missy stumbled back out, limbs stiff and eyes cold. He leveled a glare at Carl before storming over to the couch and sitting down with his back straight, avoiding the investigator's questioning glance. Silence encompassed the room until Carl worked up the courage to speak.
"There's no beer?"
"No." Missy's answer was short, curt, and left no room for discussion. The two men reached another standstill, and once again Carl was the first to yield.
"So, Missy -"
"Addison." His jaw clenched, tightening around the name. Missy's fingers weaved together, turning the pale skin chalk white. "My name is Addison."
"Okay, then." Missy (who was apparently Addison again) was still rigid, his tense muscles twitching tightly.
"Who's Missy?" Addison's eyes flickered to Carl's before returning to the floor. The investigator sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. His headache grew worse. "Addison – what is going on here?"
"Missy is a- she's a personality -"
"Stop interrupting!" Carl flinched at Addison's explosion. The other man stood up, wringing his hands and pacing in a desperate attempt to calm down. It wasn't working very well. Pausing in front of Carl, he folded his arms across his chest and took several deep breaths.
"I -I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Marissa is one of my identities." Addison whispered, afraid of sharing his secret too loudly. He began to fidget as he waited for Carl to answer, but this was not something Carl could wrap his head around so quickly.
"It's uh, it's when a person has more than one personality, and -"
"I know what DID is." He wasn't a psychologist, but Carl knew the basics; multiple personality disorder was one of those things Carl had assumed was 90% Hollywood rubbish, 9% public fascination, and 1% real. It was science fiction – different people all in the same body; it sounded like a bad Star Trek episode.
"Oh." Addison trailed off, looking like a little kid – lost and terrified. He began to wring his hands together again, the skin turning red from friction.
"How many are there?"
"Five. I'm, well, you'd call me the main personality. Then there's Yuri, who's Russian, Marissa, who's a lesbian -"
"You have a lesbian inside of you?" Now Missy made a lot more sense.
"Is that really important, Carl?" Addison shouted, his fists curled at his side. He clenched and unclenched his hands, taking quite a minute to collect himself. Carl ran his fingers through his hair before looking up at Addison.
"Joe- is he one of your personalities?"
"Yes, he is." At least Addison had the decency to look guilty. Carl laughed – he couldn't help it, this night was just too crazy. Standing up Carl gave Addison a bitter smile.
"I quit."
"No, no, no! You can't do that!" Addison eyes grew wide with panic.
"Yes I can. You want me to find you! Do you know how crazy that is?"
"I didn't want you to find me -I wanted you to find out what scared Joe off! There's a difference!" The man glared at Carl, trying to intimidate the investigator, but Carl snickered at his attempts to make himself seem powerful.
"You were there, you know what happened-"
"No, I don't!" he shrieked, shocking Carl into stumbling backwards. Addison glowered at him with red-rimmed red eyes. He seemed on the verge of tears, or a tirade.
"That's how DID works – someone else is in control of my body, and I'm not me anymore. The switch takes a second and then these eyes and hands and memories are someone else's. Two days ago Addison Greene didn't exist, because Joe Scarlett was in control." The explosive anger was gone, and Addison spoke in a soft, shaking voice, barely in control of his emotions.
"There are entire years of my life that I don't remember because I wasn't the one living through them. Do you understand, Mr. Bennett?"
Carl never heard his name spoken with such bitterness before – not even by his ex-wives. His first reaction was to snap back, answer Addison with all the frustration and confusion that had been building up since the beginning of this case. He didn't though, because he'd been through enough training to know it wasn't a good idea to taunt crazy people, especially not ones like Addison.
"If it's such a problem, why not see some therapist-"
"Tried that," Addison shook his head. "That's how we personalities got to know each other. The plan is to have a little meet-and-greet inside your head and then assimilate into one person."
"Then why are you still five people?"
"Because I stopped going to therapy. Because I couldn't…" Addison trailed off, his eyes losing focus. Carl could fill in the blanks- DID developed in mainly child abuse victims.
"You should go back, Addison. Five people in one body – that just can't work. It's not healthy." Addison snapped back to attention, eyes widening in panic before glaring at the policeman.
"I don't need too. I've managed the way I am for thirty two years and I can continue just fine."
"You are not fine-"
"I am perfectly fine!" Addison cut him off again, his body shaking with anger and voice quickly gaining volume. Carl's head was pounding, and he just couldn't deal with this anymore.
"One of your personalities may have killed a girl!" The effect was immediate – Addison shrank in on himself, his hands wrapping around his body like they could keep cold reality out.
"Remember the photo you gave me? That girl is Portia Dots, and she's been missing for four days- just like Joe." Addison stumbled backwards, sinking into the couch.
"No, that's not – I don't even know her-"
"Gerald certainly did. Called her the Juliet to his Romeo. You know what happened to them, right?" Carl watched as Addison broke – his eyes growing unfocused and his arms wrapping around his legs. He could hear the other man muttering 'no' over and over again under his breath.
It hurt to watch a grown man regress into a child, but it was nearly midnight and Carl had work in the morning. Sparing a quick glance at Addison -poor, crazy Addison- Carl turned and left the apartment. He had quit- it wasn't his problem anymore. The phone shrilled through the apartment, rousing Carl from his sleep. Fumbling for his cell, Carl cursed as he caught a glimpse of the clock: three am.
"Bennett," Carl murmured, his head flopping onto the pillow. There was no answer on the other end, only some dog barking in the distance. There was only one person who would call Carl in the middle of the night. Carl pinched the bridge of his nose; it was too early to play this game.
"Addison, I'm going back to bed now." Small whimpers carried over the phone, preventing Carl from just hitting end call and going back to sleep. Addison was a nutcase, but he didn't whimper, not like this.
"Addison?" Again, there was no verbal response – just more sad, pathetic sounds. Carl threw the covers off the bed, trying to wake. Maybe he wasn't talking to Addison at all; maybe he was talking to a scared little boy.
"Joe? Is this you?" The crying got louder, and the dog howled in the background. Stumbling over to his computer, Carl started to trace the call. "Joey, are you there?"
"'m scared." Addison was definitely speaking, but his voice was small and broken. Resting the phone in the crook of his shoulder, Carl's fingers flurried across the keyboard.
"It's okay, Joe. It's all going to be-"
"I don't want to die." Carl nearly dropped the phone, his fingers freezing and body tensing. There were fifty more seconds for the trace.
"Why do you think you're going to die?" For a while, Joe didn't answer, and it was harder to remain calm with each passing second of silence. "Where are you, Joey?
"Dead like Polka Dots." The crying grew into sobs, and Carl muttered the sweet niceties he used to tell his little girls when tucking them into bed. Somewhere during the one-sided conversation, Joe stopped crying. Twenty seconds left.
"L-l-leave me alone." The dial tone droned into Carl's ear, mocking him as Joe hung up the phone with ten seconds to spare. Except it wasn't Joe, at least not anymore. In the past few days Carl has talked to four personalities, and each one had a distinct way of speaking. This voice, this stutter was new – Carl hadn't spoken to this personality, at least not verbally. It didn't take long for Carl to realize who had been on the other line: Gerald Blanc.
Addison's body was running away, controlled by a maybe-murderer. Running his hands through his hair, Carl racked his mind for anything Joe had said that could help him find Gerald. The only piece of information Joe had been able to give was 'dead like Polka Dots', but Portia Dots was still missing – he didn't know where her body was.
Flipping through Joe's journal, Carl searched for anything that could tell him where Gerald was, something he could connect to the phone call. The only relevant information Carl could find was the final pages, detailing Joe's last footsteps before the words degraded into 'Dots' scribbled over and over on the pages. He mentioned the park, the candy, shop, the apartment building –
Carl suddenly knew where Gerald was. The landlady at the apartment complex had a noisy bulldog. It was obvious now that Carl thought about it – she had talked about a stench coming from the spare apartment, stating that she was waiting for her son to visit and get rid of the rodent that died in there. Only it wasn't a rodent – it was Portia Dots. Grabbing his coat and his gun, Carl raced out the door.
It only took ten minutes to run downtown, and the door to the apartment complex was cracked open. Carl paused, listening for any sound of Gerald, but he could only hear the bulldog's barking. Creaking upstairs, Carl headed to the spare apartment and drew his gun. Like the front door, this door was ajar, light spilling into the hallway. Nudging the door open, Carl entered the apartment – his eyes trained on Gerald and avoiding the bloody mess of the girl on the floor.
Gerald whirled around, a gun in his shaking hands. Dried tears stained his face, and blood soaked into his shirt. He had a panicked, wild look – his eyes darting from Carl to search the room, looking for an escape.
"I-I-I told you to l-l-leave me alone!"
"I can't do that, Gerald." Unlike the man in front of him, Carl's hands were steady, wrapped naturally around the handle. "Put the gun down, Gerald."
"I didn't k-kill her," Gerald pressed the gun against his own head, his entire body shaking. "She's my J-Juliet! And they were going to send her a-a-a-way!"
Sparing a glance to Portia, Carl noticed that she wore the same medieval dress she did in her photo. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and flies buzzed around her body, swarming over on her slit wrists.
"Send her where, Gerald?" It was best to keep him talking and keep the bullet out of his head.
"S-some hospital, like a c-crazy person. Her parents just d-d-didn't understand her, not like I-I-I did." Gerald took a step back, pressing the gun closer to his head.
"So you decided to commit suicide together? That doesn't exactly scream sanity." Gerald glared at Carl, bringing the gun away from his head to point it at the investigator. Carl's body tensed, but he remained steady.
"Y-you just think I'm c-c-crazy too! You don't understand w-what its like!"
"Why don't you tell me what its like?" Just keep him talking – have to just keep his mouth moving until Carl could come up with some miracle plan. Gerald lowered the gun a bit, contemplating Carl's request.
"Sometimes, I-I don't even know if I exist. There are just b-b-black spots in my mind, filled with someone else." Fresh tears began to trail down Gerald's face; he pressed the gun back against his head. Carl was losing him; if he didn't act fast there would be two corpses in front of him.
"Someone else like Addison? I bet he's screaming in your mind right now, isn't he?" This was a stupid, far-fetched plan, but it was the only one Carl had. Gerald's face twisted in confusion before Carl explained himself.
"I did some research – Portia Dots was a sweet girl, but she had some bad habits. Shooting up, getting high – you've seen her do it before, haven't you? Fill a syringe up with some short time happiness and inject herself-"
"S-s-stop it! Shut up!" Gerald snarled, eyes flickering down towards Portia. His hands were shaking even harder now.
"How many dirty needles has she used? For all you know she could have AIDS-"
"S-s-she doesn't!" Gerald didn't sound very sure of himself, and there was a panicked glimpse in his eye. Maybe this would work after all.
"Do you know that without a doubt? Do you know that her blood is clean? If I were you I'd be worried, because she's all over you."
The reaction was nearly instantaneous – Gerald's eyes hazed over for a split second before clearing again; his body stiffened and Addison was in control again. It took him a moment to look around and assess the situation. He paled when he saw Portia Dots, and Carl darted forward to grab the gun from Addison's hands and catch him before his knees gave out.
"Carl-Carl! There's a dead girl on the floor!" Addison gripped Carl's coat, nearly in hysterics. The policeman awkwardly patted his back as he fished his phone out of his pocket, dialing 911.
Carl gave his statement, watching as the coroner examined the body and reached the same conclusion that he had – suicide. Since he was off-duty (and, as a computer forensics investigator, typically not needed at crime scenes,), he went outside, eager for some fresh air. Addison was still at the scene, talking to one of the new detectives about what happened, a shock blanket draped over his shoulders. The poor man looked miserable as he sat on the back of the ambulance. Terrified too, probably thinking they were going to ship him off to some mental hospital.
"You all right?" Addison jumped, not having seen Carl walk up. He glanced up at the investigator before wrapping the blanket tighter around his shoulders.
"No," he choked, glancing every so often at the apartment building. "The detectives won't tell me the details."
Carl leaned over to pat Addison on the back -to offer some sort of comfort- but the other man flinched away. They sat in silence for a little while, watching the police scurry around, nosey neighbors poke their heads out, and the coroner bring Portia Dots' body down.
"Carl…tell me I didn't…" Addison's eyes lingered on the body bag, his eyes burning with fresh tears. He only whispered, as if speaking any louder would kill him. "Tell me I'm not a murderer."
"You really don't remember?" Carl tried to imagine what it must be like to share your body, to live through life one second and then have no memory of it the next. He tried to picture what kind of abuse would cause someone to break like that. He couldn't fathom it.
"Suicide. It was supposed to be a double, but Gerald didn't get that far." Addison started laughing hysterically, hiding his face in his knees. After a few moments he calmed down, wiping tears away from his face.
"And here I thought I had enough control to beat that symptom." Addison started laughing again, Carl awkwardly standing next to him. It took him longer to stop this time.
"I think…I think maybe I should start going back to therapy." He starting wringing his hands, and Carl was happy to see him start to revert back to his anal retentive, Addison self.
"Not entirely sure you have a choice now." Addison laughed again, softer and more in control. Biting his lip, he stared off for a while before looking up at Carl.
"Thank you, for…you know." Addison waved his arm towards the building, and Carl put together what he was saying: thank you for saving my life. Carl smiled at Addison before the paramedic finally shooed him away. With Addison taken care of, he headed home. Carl buzzed with adrenaline, but he knew that as soon as he hit the mattress he'd be out – he decided to take a sick day tomorrow – he deserved a break, damn it. Entering his apartment, Carl realized he had been wrong.
He didn't regret taking the case.


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Richard West
How pleasant as a new resident to find this is one of the world's great pub towns, here called 'brown bars' from the hundreds of years of tobacco-smoke wall/ceiling stains, now, gratefully, no longer allowed. I've staked out ten or so around town that meet my requirements: no TV, no loud music, no games, no quiz night. Essentials: coziness, good gab from regulars deep into their anecdotage, murmuring old jazz or classical tunes, serious European beers, especially Belgian.
An early favorite is the Cafe de Sluyswacht, a canal lock keeper's home (est. 1695), now a starboard-leaning tiny pub with tile floors, green walls, and wooden benches. In mild weather one sits and sips out back looking down the canal. Preferred beer: Belgian's coriander-laced, on tap golden ale, La Chouffe.
The perfect resting-the-feet spot after visiting the Rijkmuseum or Van Gogh Museum is the wonderfully-funky Cafe Brecht, a one-room, wooden-floored bar filled with garage sale-esque sofas and chairs to remind the owner of his West German Bohemian childhood home. Music here, mostly soft French or German crooners. Preferred beer: the German Weihenstephaner Hefe Weisse from Europe's oldest brewery near Munich.
My local, closest to the apartment, is the lovely Cafe 't Smalle, the 'Narrow'cafe, 20 feet off the Prinsengracht canal. Candle-lit tables, leaded-glass windows, genever barrels behind the counter, an intimate mezzanine with wooden walls, and in warm weather, tables alongside the canal. Site of a distillery in 1780, the perfect pub since 1978. Preferred beer: Belgium's Gouden Carolus Tripel, a well-rounded strong blond ale.
Thanks to Tim Skelton's essential 'Around Amsterdam In 80 Beers' for beer suggestions.
…Cafe de Sluyswacht, Jodenbreestracht 1
…Cafe Brecht, Weteringschans 157
…Cafe 't Smalle, Egelantiersgracht 12
Richard West spent nine years as a writer and senior editor at Texas Monthly before moving to New York to write for New York and Newsweek. Since then, he's had a distinguished career as a freelance writer. West was awarded the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 1980 and is a member of Texas Arts & Letters. He lives in Amsterdam.


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Roster Moves: Carlos Santana has been placed on the 7-day disabled list after suffering a mild concussion caused by a foul ball taken to the mask. Catcher Luke Carlin has been called up as his replacement. To make room for Carlin on the 40-man roster, the Indians transferred reliever Rafael Perez to the 60-day DL, able to be activated as early as June 25th.
Other recent injuries include Travis Hafner, who is listed as day-to-day with a sore knee, and Asdrubal Cabrera, who is also day-to-day with a sore hamstring. Jack Hannahan returned to the line up today after missing 11 games with a sore back.
Player of the Game
Jason Kipnis ran away with today's Player of the Game. Kipnis went 2-4 today, with 2 home runs, giving him 4 RBI and 2 runs scored. Kipnis was the main reason the Indians remained competitive in the game, keeping the score much closer than it could have been. His score of 8.78 gives him his 4th Player of the Game this season.
Feathers Up
Tribe batters rallied in the top of the 3rd inning when Michael Brantley hit a bases-loaded double scoring Juan Diaz (walk), Lou Marson (single), and Shin-Soo Choo (hit by pitch). Jason Kipnis continued the rally when he hit a 2-run homer, scoring Brantley. The Indians scored 5 runs in the inning, at that time giving them a 5-4 lead.
The Indians offense scored 7 runs today, which is usually more than enough to win a ballgame.
Feathers Down
Derek Lowe gave up a lot of hits early, allowing Chicago to take an early 4-0 advantage. After the Indians came back to take the lead in the top of the 3rd, Lowe was quick to give it away in the bottom of the 3rd. After just 2.1 innings pitched, Lowe gave up 8 runs on 10 hits.
The Indians kept fighting back and remained within a run until the bottom of the 7th inning when Joe Smith came on in relief. Smith had problems getting batters out, giving up 4 more runs (3 were earned) and giving the White Sox a 12-7 lead.
After Joe Smith fell apart in the 7th inning, Tony Sipp allowed 2 more White Sox runs in the 8th, giving up a double to Paul Konerko and a home run to Alex Rios.
The injury bug hit the Indians hard, removing the 3-4-5 hitters from the line up. The Indians will play short-handed again tomorrow as they avoid the sweep.
Play of the Game
Michael Brantley steals a home run from Alex Rios in the 1st inning.
Final Score: Cleveland Indians 7 – Chicago White Sox 14


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At the time, I thought it was in bad taste, and I felt it embarrassed PSU as well.
What goes around comes around.
FightOnState is reporting that ALE has left the team. This follows a comment by Paterno at the opening of spring practice to the effect that ALE had to decide if he wanted to play football or not.
And it was somehow fitting that the statement was made on his Penn State facebook page, considering the amount of unfounded Internet chatter that went along with this story the past two months.
"Yes, it is true, I am done playing football at Penn State," he said. "There is a chance that I [may] go somewhere else to [play] ball because I am a football player and I love the game. Things just didn't go the way me and my family wanted."
In fact, though he did meet with Paterno shortly before the start of spring practice, Logan-El never returned to the team after leaving last winter.
Logan-El was a Scout.com five-star prospect out of Forestville (Md.) High and signed with PSU in 2006. He picked the Nittany Lions over Maryland, a school to which he had made a previous verbal commitment.
From the time he set foot on campus last summer, reports surfaced that Logan-El was struggling with Penn State's intense conditioning program.
It sounds like a similar situation to Joel Holler a few years ago. Highly recruited. Never got past the practice field at Penn State.
I don't have a Facebook login, but PSU Legal Lion on the BWI board notes this:
He just posted this on facebook:
Yes, it is true I am done playing football at Penn State. There is a chance that i go somewhere else to ball because I am a football player and I love the game things just didnt go the way me and my family wanted. There were alot of things going on with the coaches and things like that. There is a chance that I just stay here and go to school because were I want to go and play football i would have to sit out a year and things like that so i have to see if that is what i want to do. Anyway I am keeping my head up and not letting no one break me so leave a comment if you like or just hit me up with a message. And for the people who made it hard and stuff i forgive you and i will make it
I guess if you have trouble keeping verbal commitments, it could be a sign of a deeper pattern in some cases.


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"This case involves a shakedown and extortion of the internationally known actor and celebrity Charlie Sheen … by an opportunist pornographic film star and publicity-hungry scam artist," says the lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Anderson, an adult film actress whose real name is Christina Walsh, "fabricated a sensational tale about being assaulted, battered and held against will" and then threatened to go to the media with "her false tale" if the Two and a Half Men star didn't pay up, the lawsuit says.
When Sheen "refused to succumb to Walsh's extortionate and illegal demands," her representatives contacted the Aspen authorities who prosecuted Sheen in a domestic violence case and gave an interview that aired Monday to ABC News.
Walsh told ABC that she had been hired to escort Sheen to dinner last month but the night ended with Sheen turning violent and Walsh locked in the bathroom in fear for her life.
Sheen's lawsuit alleges that Walsh told somebody else that the assault never occurred and told New York police that the actor acted "like a total gentleman."
Denies ExtortionKeith M Davidson, an attorney for Walsh, says the extortion attempt "never happened."
"It's a blatant attempt by them to muddy the waters and confuse the situation," he tells PEOPLE. "They are throwing a bunch of mud at the wall and hoping something will stick."
As for whether Walsh called Sheen a "gentlemen" to police, Davidson says, "At the beginning of the night he was acting as a gentleman, but not at the end when he was threatening to kill her."
Reporting by ELIZABETH LEONARD
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Atu027, a liposomally formulated siRNA that targets protein kinase N3 (PKN3) expression in the vascular endothelium, is another RNAi therapeutic that will be discussed at the conference.
"Atu027 targets the vasculature in the tumor; if the tumor gets no nutrition, it will not grow. It's a novel approach to cancer research," says Klaus Giese, Ph.D., CSO at Silence Therapeutics.
"The PKN3 protein acts in the tumor vasculature and that made it an addressable target. Systemic administration of Atu027 by repeated bolus injections or infusions in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates resulted in specific, RNAi-mediated silencing of PKN3 expression.
"We have shown the therapeutic efficacy of Atu027 in orthotopic mouse models for prostate and pancreatic cancers with significant inhibition of tumor growth and lymph-node metastasis formation. The tumor vasculature of Atu027-treated animals showed a specific reduction in lymph vessel density but no significant changes in microvascular density."
Creating a delivery method had its challenges, notes Dr. Giese. "We faced a typical dilemma in that the siRNA oligonucleotide itself was not an ideal drug molecule for intravenous administration. It is large, and highly charged and rapidly cleared from the body. But our liposomal formulation of the siRNAs enabled us to trigger RNAi in the endothelium in a safe and effective manner.
"We have obtained new insight from Atu027 testing in additional tumor models supporting Atu027s antimetastatic activity." Atu027 is currently being tested in a Phase I trial on subjects with advanced solid cancers.
Much attention has been paid to double-stranded RNAs in the last few years, and there is a growing consensus about the challenges in the field, namely delivery and off-target effects, notes Henrik Ørum, Ph.D., vp and CSO at Santaris Pharma. "As with new technologies, those issues are not easily solved. We've had significant interest in our locked nucleic acid (LNA) single-stranded format, as there are no issues with delivery and off-target effects as those seen with double-stranded RNAs."
The LNA drug platform creates synthetically modified chemical versions of the normal nucleic acid building blocks of RNA. These modified chemical versions improve the drug-like qualities of resulting oligonucleotides by improving affinity to their target RNA, boosting resistance to metabolism, and improving tissue uptake. On systemic administration of these "naked" molecules, LNA-based therapeutics are delivered to their targets where they show efficacy as well as safety.
The company's work with drug candidate SPC3649 will be presented at the conference, it was also published in Science in December. Dr. Ørum notes that SPC3649 targets and inhibits the liver-specific microRNA-122, which is required for hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication.
"Unlike many other therapies for HCV, SPC3649 works by targeting a host factor in the liver that the virus needs to replicate," adds Dr. Ørum. "Targeting a host factor rather than attacking the virus directly has significant implications as it may reduce the risk of the virus becoming resistant to therapy, which remains a major concern for current therapies."
According to Dr. Ørum, SPC3649 provided continued efficacy in animals up to several months after the treatment period with no adverse events and no evidence of viral rebound or resistance. "The preclinical data show changes in the expression of key genes that may help patients who do not respond to interferon treatment to become responsive. This could be a real game-changer for the treatment of patients infected with HCV."
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text: Jed at Webstart wrote: > I think I see where my confusion is. I think I misunderstood what > you meant by "mutually non-reliant machines" plugged into the > Internet - though in retrospect I think your wording is clear. I was > focusing on the network as the "non reliant" hardware that I was > trying to extend over, but assuming that the machines at both ends > (what I refer to as the CCSs) can be depended on. Yes. In general, participants in security discussion make many unstated reliance assumptions -- assumptions about what entities may rely on what other entities. A distressing number of difficulties communicating about security are based on such diverging unstated assumptions. These can be hard to uncover. But until these reliance relationships are made adequately explicit, it can be hard to figure out what we're actually disagreeing about. I feel like our field has still only just scratched the surface on developing terminology and distinctions for being more explicit about reliance relationships. But we are making progress! > However, tying this back to the source, this is the quote from your > thesis that I was concerned with: > _______________________________________________________________ > "11.5 The Limits of Decentralized Access Control > > This dissertation mentions three forms of capability system: > operating systems like DVH, > programming languages like the non-distributed subset of E, and > cryptographic capability > protocols like Pluribus. The object-capability model we have > presented applies only to the > first two: operating systems and programming languages. Our model > implicitly assumes a > mutually relied upon platform, which is therefore a central point of > failure. In the absence > of this assumption, we are left only with cryptographic enforcement > mechanisms. Cryptog- > raphy by itself can only enforce weaker access control properties. In > exchange, cryptography > enables us to build systems with no central points of failure." > _________________________________________________________________ > > Perhaps you can see where my confusion came from. You say "Our model > implicitly assumes a mutually relied upon platform [e.g. as you seem > to suggest above the two CCS systems that mutually rely on each > other], which is therefore a central point of failure." Why is it > that a "mutually relied upon platform" implies a single point of > failure? It follows from the meanings of "relied upon", "central point of failure", and "platform". First, I should double check that you find my usage of "central point of failure" acceptable: From section 5.2: # Given a set of objects, anything within the reliance sets of all of them is # a central point of failure for that set. A platform is a central point of # failure for the set of all possible programs running on that platform. In other words, if Alice and Bob both rely on Carol, than Carol is a central point of failure for the set {Alice, Bob}. Everything in the set is vulnerable to Carol's misbehavior. Even if Alice and Bob are correct, if Carol misbehaves, then they may too. Let's say that Alice and Albert are objects hosted on CCS platform A, and that Bob and Betty are objects hosted on CCS platform B. Alice and Albert necessarily rely on platform A and Bob and Betty necessarily rely on platform B. If A relies on B, then B is a central point of failure for the set of everything we're here talking about. OTOH, if A and B are mutually non reliant, but Alice relies on Bob, then Alice also relies on B, but Albert does not. Mutual reliance among *platforms* creates central points of failures and should be avoided. However, among object running on mutually defensive platforms, it is normal for application-level decisions of some of these objects to rely on some of these other object, and thereby to rely on their platforms. This is the necessary price for many patterns of cooperation. The distributed confinement examples of 11.5.1 and http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/dist-confine.html both involve application-level choices to rely on other platforms. These scenarios are non-transparently different from simple object-capability confinement since the need for these choices must be visible. > Remember our discussion about distributed hardware (no > single point of failure) that can reliably process network addresses > and how something like a DCCS can be build on such an infrastructure. > > I wonder if I'm not somehow also misunderstanding the above. The > specific issue that I don't understand is how cryptographic systems > can achieve any more fault tolerance than non cryptographic systems - > or visa versa, how non-cryptographic system are necessarily less > fault tolerant. How does a non-crypto system assure the authenticity of network addresses? In a DCCS system, how do we know that other machines haven't been plugged in to the wires in question? If the answer is "we guard physical entry into the building which houses all the wires and machines", then the building and its guards are a central point of failure. If the answer is instead "we assume that no one will build a NIC card that will lie about its MAC address," then each NIC card is a central point of failure for the entire system. Decentralized crypto scenarios also make implicit assumptions regarding physical access. But these assumptions are free of central points of failure. Those relying on platform A rely on everyone with physical access (and ability to tamper with) platform A. And similarly with platform B. But there doesn't need to be anyone with physical access to both. From my perspective (e.g. consider a "cryptographic > system" like Amoeba or NLTSS vs. a non-cryptographic system like the > DCCS) the fault tolerances issues are the same. A failure in a > component CCS takes down that part of the system and anything that > depends on it, but not the whole distributed system. Depending on whether the faulty component can allow an attacker to impersonate arbitrary other network addresses. > Similarly a > failure in a component of a cryptographic distributed capability > system takes down anything that depends on that component and not the > whole distributed system. Assuming the standard public key scenario for crypto caps, e.g., as used by your later work or by YURLs, then a single faulty component will still find it infeasible to impersonate arbitrary other platforms -- because it doesn't know their private key. If a possible fault could give the faulty component arbitrarily strong guessing powers, then each component would indeed be a central point of failure for the system as a whole. The crypto algorithms and protocols themselves are often truly central points of failure for crypto systems. If a fault in one of these is discovered by future cryptanalysis, this does make everyone vulnerable. My statements about crypto caps lacking central points of failures depends on my assuming away these possibilities, as in section 7.1: # Pluribus relies on the standard cryptographic assumptions that large random # numbers are not feasibly guessable, and that well-accepted algorithms are # immune to feasible cryptanalysis. > Can you clarify (perhaps only for me - > apologies if so) what you mean in the above? Does this issue come > back to our discussion of an "open" (can't depend on network > addresses) network vs. a network where network addresses can be > trusted - but still with no central point of failure? Yes. Specifically, the issue comes down to my assuming away the possibility of both "a network where network addresses can be trusted [by means other than crypto]" and simultaneously "but still with no central point of failure". What arrangement do you have in mind that could provide both together? Here's one I can imagine: The room housing platform A is guarded by A's owner, and likewise with B and C. The wire between A and B runs through corridor AB and is guarded by both A's owner and B's owner. Likewise with AC and BC. The building as a whole has no guards -- we only have guards on these individual rooms and corridors. If A is bad, B and C can still authenticate and communicate securely. This scenario does not use crypto and has no central points of failure. People have talked about using quantum entanglement to make wires tamper evident, much as with our guarded corridors above. Whether this is actually feasible is well beyond my expertise. So I think I agree that you can have both in theory. However, I don't think such possibilities are very practical. If you want a decentralized system of virtual secure wires, just use crypto. Once you do, these can be multiplexed, tunneled, and made to span great distances. Without crypto, they can't. > From my perspective a transparent network extension of a CCS such as > the DCCS could be implemented without cryptography (as was done in > the DCCS paper) or with cryptography (e.g. as described in the > Managing Domains paper - though in a strictly network context) and > the fault tolerance would be the same. You seem to suggest that such > implementations must necessarily be different regarding single points > of failure. For the above reason. But having walked through the above "guarded corridors" scenario, I drop the "necessarily" claim. -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM


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Sin() and Cos() equivalent
I am using sin() and cos() built in functions in my C++ code. However after profiling it I realized that the 2 functions consume a lot of time. So I decided to eliminate sin() and cos() functions and replace it with an equivalent code that generates the same values for me, using either trigonometric identities or something else (Please suggest!). I tried an approach, which is shown below, but I am not getting the required results due to errors in it (The problem I assume is because of the large number of loops it goes through -- 35000*35000 which marginally moves it away from the desired result). Can somebody help me with this or another approach which might be more precise and correct. I have not shown the entire code because its big and unwanted. I just want a replacement for sin() and cos().
Below is the replacement/equivalent code I wrote to replace sin and cos functions.
//This is the equivalent code that does not work correctly
Re: Sin() and Cos() equivalent
One approach is to determine the maximum error you're prepared to live with, then replace the sin() function with a series of straight line segments; specify fixed values at fixed points then for intermediate points use linear interpolation. You can eliminate three quarters of the data you would otherwise need for a full sinewave by using symmetry; define values for 0-90 degrees then e.g. sin(180+x)=-sin(x); sin(-x)=-sin(x) etc.
e.g.1: a simple straight line from (0,0) to (90,1). sin(45)=0.7071, but our approximation is 0.5, which is a huge error of .2071. But this will be really fast and could in certain circumstances be acceptable (for example if we're generating a 10kHz sound wave and will be chucking the output through a 20kHz low pass filter such as a human ear).
e.g.2: two straight lines from (0,0) to (.5,.7071) to (90,1). sin(22.5)=0.3827 but our approximation is 0.3536 (off by .0291). This is considerably better for a lookup table of only 2 values (because we can include the endpoints in the code)
e.g.3: three straight lines from (0,0) to (30,.5) to (60,.8660) to (90,1). sin(15)=0.2588 and our approximation is 0.25 (off by 0.0088 which is less than 5%).
You can use the same lookup table for cos because cos(x)=sin(x+90).
The symmetry of cos around x=0 (cos(-x)=cos(x)) might make it better to define the values for cos then sin(x)=cos(x-90).
Also you can avoid compounding errors by leaving the calculation until as late as possible. If you have, say, a 20-step calculation where sin() is called at step 1 and each step adds a possible x% error, then the error present in the sin replacement is compounded by (20^(1+)x)% (I think, anyway, it's x% compounded 20 times; use same calculation as compound interest). However if the sin function can be left until later, say until step 10, then the error is only compounded (10^(1+)x)%.
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