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Titans; Dusk: Sweet Dreams
"Yeah, what do you want?" inquired Darkitsu, lifting one eye open when Krystal cracked the door open. He was on his bed, sitting with his legs crossed, wearing plain clothing; a white T-shirt and brown shorts.
She slowly opened the door and came in. "Oh, I am sorry, Fujitsu. Or... is this Fujirai?"
"Darkitsu, yes," he said, a bit irritated by being called that name again. He slumped over and put his hands in his lap. "So, what did you want? You disturbed my training."
Krystal opened her mouth and started to say something, but then closed it, confused. "Training? What do you mean?" she asked curiously.
The Aspect replied, irritation showing in his voice, "I asked you a question first. Answer it, and I'll answer yours."
She pursed her lips, a bit mad at his reply, but nonetheless answered, "My brother held a conference a while ago and I found a newspaper clipping on it. I was going to leave it for you to read later."
Darkitsu held out his hand for the paper, and Krystal handed it to him. He read the article slowly, taking in what the contents said. When he got to the part where Stoenn offered a job for Fujitsu, he froze, then gave a sad grin. It was such a shame that while his body still was alive, Fujitsu wouldn't ever be able to experience the joy of having that job for him. Still, it wouldn't be that bad for himself to get that job, even if it did mean to have to fill in the blanks of the knowledge Fujitsu passed on to him. Maybe he could disappear and ask Daebii to help give him more time?
But he digressed.
Chortling, he set down the article to his side and gave off a real smile. "Oh, yeah, Fujitsu would love to work there. But he was just starting to travel the world, so you might not see him there for at least a year. But this is still great news."
"I am glad that you think so," said Krystal, "but what did you mean by 'training'?"
Darkitsu sighed, "Well, you see, back in that slum I had to save this one girl from either being mugged or raped, I dunno which one it was, and when I put her to sleep to take her to the hospital, I could sense that I didn't give her a nightmare in the process, which is mind-blowing."
"Did you send her mind into purgatory, then?" asked Krystal.
"Bingo," replied the Aspect. "When I found that out, I started thinking, 'so now I can send people into purgatory. What if I can give them sweet dreams?' And now I'm currently training my mind in order to do so, me and Fujitsu's Pokemon as the guinea pigs. Of their own free will, mind you."
Krystal was actually mildly excited by the news. "Ooo, how is the progress?"
Darkitsu laid down on the bed and put his arms behind his head, staring frustratingly at the ceiling. "Well, for starters, I found that the purgatory-thing was a fluke, and I've been giving nothing but nightmares to the poor things."
"Wait, you have been trying to do this with them still in their pokeballs?" asked Krystal confusedly.
Darkitsu nodded. "Yeah. I've been trying to do this with barrier-related difficulty. I've actually been making some progress with this; the dreams aren't as bad, but I've still got a damn ways to go." He scratched his head, looking uncertain. "You know, it's really weird."
Krystal tilted her head. "What do you mean? Me floating with Styx?"
The Aspect raised his head and stared at the girl.
".... Well, that, the zits, and the fact that I'm supposed to be a horrifying nightmare-based Aspect, and yet I'm searching for a way do make myself the opposite. It feels like I'm going against my nature."
"Well, you are," replied Krystal, "but in that you are also adding to what foundation you already had."
"Kinda like evolution?" Darkitsu asked, propping himself up.
She said, "Well, not quite. But you would not want me to explain it to you, would you?"
"Please, no," answered Darktisu immediately. He didn't want a collage professor-like lecture being aimed at him.
"Okay," said Krystal, actually sounding somewhat relieved. "By the way, what has Puuk been doing?"
"Fujitsu? He's been lying on a metal table, waiting for his turn for experimentation," Darkitsu came up with.
After a couple second's worth of thought, he grabbed his pokeballs and tossed them to Krystal, who used her psychic powers to levitate them around her head.
"They've been really pushing themselves for my training. They deserve a long break, so please let them out and have them play with the other Pokemon, alright?" Darkitsu requested sincerely.
"Alrighty, then. Good luck with your training!" Krystal and Styx left without saying anything else.
Darkitsu plopped himself down on his bed again and turned on a small fan that had been set down and closed his eyes. Letting them go was the least he could do for them. After all, he knew what it was like to go through experimentation.
His breathing slowly became rhythmic, and after a couple of minutes, he dozed off into blissful sleep.


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The resort is located just a 35-minute speedboat ride from Phuket's Chalong Bay. Phuket International Airport is around 56 km away.
All rooms are en suite with a heated shower, and offer dark wood furnishings and fine beddings with views of the beach. They also come with satellite/cable TV, a safe and tea and coffee making facilities. Further standard features of accommodation units include individually regulated air conditioning and a balcony and garden or swimming pool.
The hotel features an outdoor swimming pool. Guests can enjoy the world-class diving sites, nature hikes and horse-back riding, swimming, kayaking, fishing, walking and beach volleyball. Bicycles can be rented for guests who wish to explore the island.
The resort's restaurant serves the best Mediterranean and Thai cuisine accompanied with an unobstructed sea view. Guests can enjoy meals at the resort's beachfront restaurant or in-room dinning. The beach bar offers a varied wine menu.
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I am 50 years old and considering IPL treatment to my face for a few age spots and some surface scarring (white spots) left from removal of small basals. The goal is to have evenness again as I have given the white scarring a few years to fade but they haven't. The dermatologist recommended a whole face IPL but I don't want any other problems like fat disintegration. What can you tell me about this possible side effect? Thanks for your time.
Does IPL Cause Fat Disintegration Underneath Facial Skin?
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IPL for brown spots
IPL can fade brown spots. It will not bring back the pigment in white scars and will not affect fat.
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IPL and fat disintegration
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Crawling In My Skin
Chapter 26
Author's Note: Hey guys! Well I am sad to say that this will be the last chapter of Crawling In My Skin. I will leave all formalities at the bottom note so please read that note. I give you Chapter 26! :D
Also, all translations are by Google Translate.
Pairings: Hichigo x Ichigo, Unasaki x Urahara, and Byakuya x Renji
Warnings: yaoi, OOCness, cussing
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or the Linkin Park song, "Crawling In My Skin". I do in no way own the characters or make a profit from this fic.
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Ichigo's Thoughts and Flashback
Ichigo and Hichigo walked down the street to Urahara's hand in hand. Sure, it might look weird to the average person to see Ichigo's hand out stretched, but he didn't care. He was reunited with his lover and that was all that mattered. After so many hardships, they were happy to just see each other every day. Ichigo sighed happily as Hichigo ran his thumb over Ichigo's palm. They walked together in silence to Urahara's shop because talking would just ruin the moment. [1]
"C'mon, Renji. Just let me watch you and Byakuya."
Ichigo sighed as he heard Renji's yelling from outside the shop. Hichigo stood beside Ichigo snickering at Unasaki. He really was just a big pervert. Hichigo squeezed Ichigo's hand.
"You ready to face those pervs?" he asked.
"I suppose." Ichigo answered as they walked in.
Immediately, Ichigo regretted going in the little shop. There were four people in the shop. They were Urahara, Unasaki, Renji, and Byakuya. They all sat at a small tea table obviously drinking tea before the drama kicked in.
"Urahara, please control your lover." said Byakuya sounding annoyed.
Urahara chuckled and pulled out his fan.
"Not sure if I can."
Byakuya seemed to understand and they watched as Unasaki crawled over to Renji.
"C'mon, Pineapple. Why can't I watch?" asked Unasaki with a pout.
Renji's face was red with anger and he was probably about to start screaming again when he felt strong arms wrap around his waist. He gave a small yelp as Byakuya pulled Renji into his lap. Byakuya was always a little possessive. Hichigo broke the silence by going into the room with Ichigo standing next to him, Hichigo's arm around his waist.
"Unasaki, you're still as pervy as ever ne?"
"That he is, but I still love him." said Urahara as Unasaki moved to sit beside his lover.
After battling The Hollow King, Urahara and Unasaki had gotten together because they had realized they were more than just friends. And after encouraging Renji to just ask Byakuya out, they two had begun dating, but that had been three months ago. [2]
The couples sat around the small tea table drinking and idly chattering. Unasaki made his share of foul comments and Hichigo did too. After a bit though, Hichigo and Ichigo had to leave. They needed to check up on the new King to make sure he handled everything correctly. After Urahara opened the portal to Hueco Mundo, the couple went through and started their long trek to the castle.
Upon arriving, anyone would notice the castle had changed over the course of the last three months. No longer was there blood and other bile on the castle, the bricks had been replaced, and it appeared rather homely. The pair walked in through the door and made their way through the long hall before entering the throne room.
"Ah! Hichigo! Ichigo! It's a pleasure to see you both again!" came a deep voice.
"Hello. It's nice to see you two again." said a very soft voice.
"Hello Hoshi and Asashin." answered Ichigo. [3]
"Ya, ya. Nice to see you too." said Hichigo with a dismissive wave of his hand.
Ichigo smiled at the happy couple. They were happy to be together again and to have your husband to be King? Even better. Ichigo remembered when he had asked them to take to the throne.
Ichigo searched far and wide for The Assassin's reiatsu in Rukongai. He had to be here. He hadn't committed any major sins and when he died the gates of Hell hadn't opened. Ichigo had been looking for The Assassin for days, to ask him to be the new King. He was just perfect for the job.
Trapped in his thoughts, he didn't notice the spike in reiatsu near him and was blown back a bit. Shaking it off, he shunpoed off to the reiatsu which he recognized as The Assassin. When he made it over to the reiatsu, he saw none other than The Assassin himself, still in all his get up. He was fighting off some hollow that had gotten into Rukongai's outer vicinities. After disposing of the hollow, he shunpoed off, but Ichigo quickly followed The Assassin to a small shack. Ichigo watched as he approached the shack, that a lady ran out and hugged The Assassin.
She was almost the same height as The Assassin and had waist lengthen purple hair. She looked much like an arrancarr and wore an outfit similar to what Orihime was forced to wear. [4] Ichigo proceeded to approach them after the woman finished hugging The Assassin.
"Assassin?" Ichigo asked.
At hearing his name, The Assassin turned around and a smile appeared on his face.
"Ichigo, it's nice to you, but I go by Asashin now."
"Sorry, Asashin. I came here today to ask if you would like to be the new Hollow King."
Asashin had quickly accepted saying something about bringing good to Hueco Mundo, but Ichigo was just glad Hichigo wasn't being taken away from him.
Ichigo and Hichigo walked up to the happy pair and Ichigo looked over Asashin's new features. His clothes and physical attributes were the same, but being King he now had what the lower hollows deemed as his crown. Really, it was nothing like a crown, but in reality was a simple hollow mask. Although the simplicity of the design, it was in a rather awkward position.
Instead, of being attached to Asashin's face, it was on his neck. The white mask covered his whole neck and stopped on Asashin's chin. Near his collarbone, the mask began with sharp edges that stretched out. The edges continued all along his collar and even stretched out to cover his shoulders. the rest of the mask covered his neck and three edges came up to his chin. The design was simply black and red tangled stripes that flowed over his neck.
It fascinated Ichigo to no end as he had never seen such a unique mask. Apparently he had been too fascinated by it because he felt a pair of familiar lips on his. Hichigo gave him a soft kiss before he pulled back.
"You okay, Ichigo. You spaced out on me there." said a concerned Hichigo.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking." Ichigo said.
"You're too pretty to be thinking that hard." said Hichigo with a laugh that was cut short by Ichigo's elbow in his side.
"What brings you two here anyways?" asked Asashin as he wrapped an arm around Hoshi's waist.
"Just checking up on you, Asashin. You doing okay as King?"
"Sure am, Ichigo. It's a lot easy than I thought."
His bark of a laugh echoed through the castle as the four babbled on about everything and anything.
[1] I agree. Talking is a total turn off. XD
[2] I couldn't resist having Renji date Byakuya. Renji needed a man! ;)
[3] Asashin means Assassin in Japanese.
[4] I know I never gave a specific time for this fic, but I did hint at it a bit. If you have no clue this takes place after The Winter War. If I didn't get any details right, I apologize since I am currently only on episode 135.
Author's Note: That ending sounds a bit lame to me, but alas I couldn't think of anything else. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:
Okay, guys about the lemons that were in this fic. I could not figure out AFF for the life of me and it just didn't real right to post my story there. I never really did like AFF. So, instead I have complied with FF's policy and have implied that the two had sex.
Now I know you're all wondering what's next? Well after checking the poll, I will be writing a sequel and be putting up a note as to when my new Bleach story will be out. So when I do put the new Bleach story out, I will temporarily add a chapter 27 with a note saying I have made a new Bleach story and a glimpse at it. My next story will be a Deathnote story so, look for that sometime this week or the next. I will most likely take a while to upload the sequel to Crawling In My Skin. I still need to think more of the idea and I will probably write a few chapters before posting it. So, be excepting that in maybe two or three weeks. Check my profile for my schedule.
Lastly I would like to thank everyone who read, favorite, followed, and reviewed my story. Honestly, I thought I would get to 2 reviews tops. To know that I have 70 reviews strikes me as awesome. You guys really don't know how much that means to me. I also want to thank you guys for putting up with the late updates because of my parent's divorce. THANK YOU! ;D
*Starts sobbing*
Note: The sequel to Crawling In My Skin is my story Numb.


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@ Cal 5 – Washington 4 @ UCLA 8 – Stanford 2 @ ASU 15 – OSU 12 @ Arizona 4 – WSU 2 @ UCSB 6 – USC 0 Media Releases
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Battle of Dog Recaps on Monday
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES Gonzaga 18 Washington 3 SPOKANE, Wash. (http://www.gozags.com April 14, 2008) Seven Gonzaga University batters recorded multiple hits as the Bulldogs exploded for 18 hits to down visiting University of Washington 15-3 Monday night at Patterson Baseball Complex and Washington Trust Field in Spokane. Jason Chatwood and Mark Castellitto led the brigade, […]
FROM NCBWA RELEASE DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released the Pro-Line Athletic National Player of the Week awards for the period ending April 8, today. NC State senior first baseman/outfielder Ryan Pond was named National Hitter of the Week, while Washington junior left-handed pitcher Nick Haughian was named National Pitcher of […]
Sunday in the West
@ Washington 5 – Arizona 1 Oregon State 9 – @ Cal 2 @ UCLA 4 – USC 2 UC Davis 13 – @ Washington State 11 Media Releases
Saturday in the West
Arizona 5 – @ Washington 0 @ Cal 9 – Oregon State 3 USC 7 – @ UCLA 4 @ Washington State 6 – UC Davis 4 (Game 1) @ Washington State 7 – UC Davis 5 (Game 2) Media Releases
Friday in the West
@ Washington (Safeco Field) 1 – Arizona 0 @ Cal 5 – Oregon State 2 USC 6 – @ UCLA 1 UC Davis 12 – @ Washington State 5 Media Release
Washington versus Oregon State delayed
(Corvallis, OR) – Inclement weather postponed the Pac-10 opener for Washington and Oregon State on Friday evening. The two time defending national champion Beavers and Huskies are now scheduled to start conference play with a double header on Saturday. First pitch for game one is scheduled for 1:00 pm (PDT), with the second game getting […]
Washington completes sweep of Holy Cross
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES SEATTLE – The Washington baseball team held Holy Cross scoreless over both ends of a doubleheader Sunday, winning 14-0 and 8-0 to sweep a four-game series at Husky Ballpark. In the opener, starter Jorden Merry (2-0) combined with two relievers on a three-hit shutout. Merry went six innings, allowing the three […]
Fall Ball Update for October 24th
Here is the CBB Fall Ball update for October 24th. Click on the links below for the full articles. Utah: Wrapping up Fall workoutsWright State: Fall World Series Update Vanderbilt: Feinberg InterviewUNLV: Beuerlein Right in LineWashington: Fall World Series UpdateOregon State: Fall World Series Update from Daily BarometerLSU: Gold takes Game 2 of Intersquad Series […]
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Illinois Bond Cost Lowest Since '09 Shows Stability: Muni CreditBrian Chappatta
Illinois obtained the lowest borrowing cost since 2009 in its latest general-obligation deal, a sign that investors expect the state's credit rating to stabilize after seven downgrades in four years.
The state sold $250 million of tax-free bonds yesterday, with a 10-year portion yielding 3.42 percent, or 0.93 percentage point more than benchmark municipal debt, data compiled by Bloomberg show. That's the lowest yield spread since Illinois borrowed in September 2009 with a Standard & Poor's grade three steps above the current A-.
Illinois faces a "critical juncture" in the next 50 days that will determine the direction of the lowest-rated U.S. state's fiscal health and credit standing, S&P said this week. Investors have gained confidence after Democratic Governor Pat Quinn endorsed extending an income-tax increase and as lawmakers moved to address Chicago's pension burden, said Duane McAllister, a money manager at BMO Asset Management Corp.
"If this tax increase becomes permanent and they make the tough decisions here in the next few weeks, most likely they'll go to a stable outlook," said McAllister, who helps oversee $4 billion of munis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Then maybe the spreads we're seeing on Illinois will be justified."
Following California
The general-obligation sale was Illinois's third since lawmakers passed a bill in December to repair the worst-funded U.S. state pension system.
The lower borrowing cost will save taxpayers $10 million over the life of the bonds as Illinois builds roads, schools and bridges, Abdon Pallasch, assistant budget director, said in a statement yesterday. It suggests that Illinois may follow the path of California, which resorted to IOUs in 2009 and is now poised for its best S&P rating in five years.
Yesterday's offer coincided with Greece ending a four-year exile from international markets to issue more bonds than the government anticipated.
Illinois, which had S&P's third-highest rating before the recession began in December 2007, is now graded four steps above speculative grade. Moody's and Fitch give it negative outlooks. S&P calls it developing, meaning fiscal conditions could either improve or deteriorate depending on lawmaker actions. It hasn't had a stable outlook since January 2013.
Pension Savings
Decades of pension shortchanging and political inaction pummeled Illinois's standing among investors. Its pensions were 40.4 percent funded as of 2012, the weakest among states, Bloomberg data show. Lawmakers in December broke the gridlock by approving retirement-system changes designed to save $145 billion over 30 years.
The passage didn't bolster the fifth-most-populous state's rating, as the credit companies cited legal challenges to the pension overhaul and the expiration at year-end of a temporary personal-income tax increase. The boost in 2011 to 5 percent from 3 percent was the largest in Illinois history.
The state's Democratic-led legislature passed the increase in January 2011 to help close a $13 billion budget deficit. A roll-back would create a shortfall of about $2 billion in fiscal 2015. Quinn last month proposed keeping the higher rate.
The governor's plan, combined with December's pension bill, "provides a floor to the ratings and at least for now keeps them out of BBB," the lowest investment-grade category, said Eric Friedland, head of muni credit research in New York at Schroder Investment Management North America. The firm oversees about $4 billion in local debt.
Market Speaks
The legislature proved its willingness to act on pension legislation this week. Lawmakers approved Chicago's effort to stabilize two of its four pension systems about a month after Moody's cut the city to Baa1, three steps above junk.
The state's yield spread was too narrow to attract BMO and Schroder, McAllister and Friedland said. The rate was the third-lowest since Quinn took office in 2009, Pallasch said.
Illinois sold as benchmark yields approached the lowest since June. While that decline helped, "much of the improvement also is owed to the market's approval" of Quinn's latest budget plan, John Sinsheimer, the state's director of capital markets, said in yesterday's release.
The sale follows general-obligation borrowings of about $1 billion in February and $350 million in December. Yield spreads on those deals fell 26 percent and 29 percent, respectively, from similar offers in 2013, Bloomberg data show.
Illinois bonds are beating this year's muni rally, gaining 4.5 percent through April 9, to the market's 4 percent gain, S&P Dow Jones Indices data show. The extra yield on Illinois debt remains higher than any of the 17 U.S. states tracked by Bloomberg, even though it has narrowed 36 percent from October.
"The tightening has been swift," Friedland said. While political debate over taxes could spark volatility, "if you look a year from now, I expect them to be tighter," he said of the state's yield spreads.


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A room full of TV execs heard what they wanted to hear this morning at the 2011 TV Summit; Cheryl Idell, EVP of Media Product Leadership at Nielsen, presented numbers that suggest the cord-cutting phenomenon is not for real.
According to Idell, over the last four years, the number of households signing up for cable or cable-like services have shown consistent growth. While, in Idell's words, "the pie is getting larger," any subscriber loss is due not to cord cutting but "cord swapping," where consumers trade their cable subscriptions for satellite or telco options like AT&T's U-verse. (s T) Meanwhile, the increase in broadband-only households from 2010 to 2011 has only grown from 3.6 percent to 4.4 percent of Americans with televisions.
That's an average, though; when the numbers are broken down across different age demographics, Nielsen found that in households with people 25 years old or younger, 8.5 percent are cable-free, which is almost twice the national average. Idell characterized this statistic as attributable to the fact that younger people consider cable a "luxury item:" one that might be out of their budget right now, but would become an option once they grew older and could afford that extra $100 a month.
Audience familiarity with devices that enable cord cutting is growing, Nielsen has found. While in 2010 there was a two percent decrease in the number of hours of live TV watched, there was a 20 percent increase in console usage. That increase was greatest with women, primarily for the purpose of streaming content. Netflix (s nflx) usage was pinpointed at about 11 hours of viewing a week, with Hulu half that.
Nielsen has been saying for over six months that cord cutting is a myth, but that's only by assuming that younger audiences will drop their broadband-only ways down the line — which is a big assumption, especially given how cable bills continue to rise.
Strategy Analytics research from last fall found that cord cutters are young, educated and employed — a phenomenon that our own Janko feels will only continue to grow in 2011.
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Mission Impossible
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It was fabulous to be back in Ireland preparing for David's Roadshow on 11th September. The home of the creamy dark stuff and sense of humour that no one can beat. A long 3.5hrs on the ferry could have been very boring for David, Matt and I, but later, with a cinema screen above us we watched 'Mission Impossible', and it was. You know the score, the ship arrives so we miss the last 5 minutes of the story. I have no idea what happened, quite possibly something around the big bang theory!
We did not know until we arrived in Portlaoise that the High security prison was just down the road providing employment for the locals here. We arrived late the day before the show to a very warm welcome from the Midlands Camera Group. I am made very much aware that I come from the south of England and on arrival discover that although we speak the same language I do not always understand and quite possibly I sound like the Queen and no one understands me either!
The next day after a hearty breakfast with black and white pudding I have to get to an Irish bank for our change pool for any book or DVD sales. I enter the bank and queue for 8 minutes, once at the cashier's desk I am told I need euro's to pay for the pool. It cannot be done with a credit card. The amounts per bags of change are set so I end up having to pay for more than I really need. I walk outside to the cashpoint where I queue to obtain the euro's. I press the 2 security buttons on the double door system to enter the bank again where I queue for another 10 minutes In the meantime David and Matt are waiting in the car aware that I was headed for a 10 minute trip to the bank!! Luckily I see the same cashier she says there is a fee for the change, that is ok I expected that… of €24.50! When I asked why it was so much she said it was because they had to order the change from their central bank. I looked shocked and said so... I only needed €150 in change and the person ahead of me had just paid that in!!! She quietly suggested trying the bank opposite might be cheaper. I queued for 7 minutes. At last I meet another cashier 'If you need change we cannot process it here, see that door last on the right at the end of the (dark) corridor, press the button on the left of it and someone will process it for you.'
At this point the signature tune of 'Mission Impossible' is playing happily in my head lalala….. lalala……lalala…baba. This is getting silly now.I press the button , the door opens slowly. I enter a tiny windowless room, the door locks behind me, there is a fierce light bearing down on me from above…in front, a heavy perspex security hatch. I spy a man beyond, his back towards me, no one is waiting on the 3 chairs left for customers, he is busy , I will have to wait lalala…..lalala……lalala….baba…this is like 'Monty Python' it has become apparent that I started this mission in a bank, I am now in Portlaoise prison, I am going to be strip searched, hosed down and imprisoned. Oh God beam me up Scottie!
Eventually I get eye contact from the very pleasant cashier 'How can I help?' I explain the situation and ask him how much the change would cost, he takes a minute or too, I become anxious…€2.40. That's more like it. When I told him what they charged opposite he suggested this was paying for bail for certain prisoners! He puts the change in a green cotton bag, by this time I have been almost 45 minutes, David and Matt should be sending out the back-up team from the reinforced land rover by now, I may have to bust my way out, I am hidden behind a locked door after all. The cashier smiles at me 'Will that be all?' A false sense of having fulfilled my mission prevails, I risk 'Well we will be leaving at 6am in the morning so I will not be able to bring this green bag back, will I be stopped at Rosslare and dragged back here? 'Well this is Ireland, anything could happen…would you like an orange one instead?' We both laugh. I leave after a final scanning from the bright round light above and walk the long dark corridor towards daylight… phew.
David and Matt look fed up when I appear, 'What took you so long?' Never mind Hollywood, I feel I have just achieved my very own 'Mission Impossible!' 'Anyone for a Guiness?'


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Bubba Gets Hauled Off to the Vet
Bubba got sent off in a large medal crate from the spot he was in at the mall to the basement where a shabby Vet office was.
"What a huge Dragon!!!! Ok well here is your shot that will make you big and strong!! Not that you need to be any taller or stronger though" The doctor said pulling out a 10-foot shiny sharp needle out from behind the small red counter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Six years after the September 11 attacks in the United States, the "war on terror" is failing and instead fuelling an increase in support for extremist Islamist movements, a British think-tank said on Monday.
A report by the Oxford Research Group (ORG) said a "fundamental re-think is required" if the global terrorist network is to be rendered ineffective.
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Finally do we begin to realize that Peace is not made with a Sword?
It took the French and British some 300 years of WAR to figure that out, but in the days of Instant History, as recorded in the World of Knowledge on the net, the only excuse for ignorance is ignoring the knowledge itself and Not wanting its fruit... tempting the native in each of us.
Even before I knew 911 was an inside job of neocon creation, I had this idea that if we could spend 50 billion dollars on Military incursions against our "enemies" as a reaction to it, we could more productively dispatch 5 million American Tourists flooding an area with 10 thousand dollars each in their pocket to SPEND...(I called it "Tourists For Terrorists") sort of a mass Insodus (from: exodus) that buys Afghan rugs, or Mesopotamian pottery while befriending the accused culture, keeping OUR airports busy, and inculcating State Department-level integration and REPORTS, whilst the discovery of the originating "criminals" was conducted. Most people laughed me off and after I discovered 911 was an Inside Job, they simply cut off contact.
Well, not so far in the distant future there will be this remnant of truth that no one denies, and that is the unalienable Right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, endowed by our creator and not subject to border, religion, coercion, or wealth, and which guides the nations. Not even the Chinese deny it. The Chinese are spending their "political capital" of communist history/authoritarianism on Slowing the Revolution... They do not deny that they are in a Revolution of unalienable proportion.
I am believing and hoping, praying and inciting the Potential of Human Ideal in an era plagued with monsters of tremendous powers of fire, wealth beyond any reasonable accountancy, religions far past their Duties to Serve, and all seem inimical to Evolution. I no longer care that I offend the self-righteous, self-appointed, self-anointed, self-appropriated powers that be or their offspring. It is time to acknowledge the drudgery of man-to-man compatibility laying before us:
We will get along or die a warrior.
I know there are wars and guns and bombs and tyranny, but they're all going the way of the dinosaur with the millions of those who died in their wake and the cause of their day...
Warriors or Creators, We choose our own.
This article from Reuters is a good report of the reckoning of the harvest sown by the deeds of the warriors who chose for the rest of us what deed was fulfilled in our name, but let them so reap their own harvest, and the rest of us depart their evil genius.
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In the minds of most enthusiasts the newly arrived Skylake architecture processors replaced the previous generation Haswell and Devil's Canyon architecture chips. This due to the fact that its true predecessor, the Broadwell architecture, basically failed to turn up as a desktop PC option. For most us, Skylake replaced Haswell, just as Z170 replaced Z97.
The Intel Z170 platform officially landed on August 5th 2015, sporting a new CPU socket and a new line of CPUs. Aimed the mainstream PC market, Z170 was eventually joined by several other PCH variants that include the Intel H110, B150, Q150, H170 and Q170. The Z170, as with all Z-series PCH models, was aimed at the enthusiasts and was the only one (at launch) to support CPU multiplier and BCLK overclocking.
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First a recap. The Intel X-series of High End Desktop (HEDT) platform chipsets began with the X38 chipset in 2007 which was codenamed Bearlake. This was followed up by the Bearlake refresh X48 platform in early 2008. By the end of 2008 we had Tylersberg and the iconic X58 platform that dominated the HEDT space for years to come. In late 2011 we finally received Patsburg and the X79 platform. This was replaced by the X99 platform in 2014 which was codenamed Wellsburg.
It's that time of the week once again when we take a nostalgic look back at an Intel platform of note. This week we wind back the clock just a few years to revisit the Intel Z97 platform that arrived around the middle of 2014. Paired with the Haswell refresh that was Devil's Canyon, it remains an important time in motherboard history and one that many will associate with the rise of the MSI Gaming brand. Let's focus on the new features that the Z97 platform heralded, the boards that were popular at that time, plus a few of the record scores that were made by overclockers here on HWBOT.
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The Intel HEDT platform became wholly refreshed with the arrival of the X79 platform. HEDT describes a high-end, high-priced offering for enthusiasts that simply want the most powerful system that money can buy. The platform included the promise of hexa-core computing with enough PCIe lanes to support maxed out multi-GPU configurations, plus quad-channel memory.
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