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Narcotic Nation
Book by: Scarlett Savage
Status: Finished
Genre: Action and Adventure
Chapter1 (v.1) - Narcotic Nation
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(a sex, death, drugs & rock n' roll novel)
An addict. A slut. A sexual sadist. A saboteur. A terrorist.
A band.
Scarlett Savage
Copyright ã2012
When the bomb went off, the explosion took out the first floor.
Huge angry waves of orange flame burst out of the windows, then sank back against the brick walls, which protested and blackened. Charred smoke choked the street, creating night where there had been day only moments before. People poured into the street from the neighboring buildings to see what was going on even as they were shoved out of the way by the fire fighters; the police were moving everybody back to create room for the workers.
And the Kingston Pharmaceutical Plastics Factory continued to burn.
For a few terrifying hours, it looked like the building would come down, just as the towers had come down on that horrible, terrible day back in 2001when two hijacked planes had flown into the Twin Towers.
When Detective Granger arrived on the scene, one of the first things he noticed was that the building's employees were all standing around in the street; someone had warned them this was coming, and they had bugged out. This was no accident.
The second thing he noticed was a girl dressed in coveralls, bone thin and ragged, holding a young man, maybe twenty-five, right in the middle of the fracas.
She wasn't running from the flames and he couldn't; the man's head had been crushed, by the looks of it. Blood was coming out of his ears and the corners of his eyes, and one side of his skull had been smashed in with such force his head looked misshapen--like a half-deflated basketball. A half-deflated basketball fouled with blood and brain matter. She just sat there, rocking him back and forth, back and forth, as though he were a drowsy infant. She was staring into his eyes, trying to see something that wasn't there. Something that very recently had been.
As Granger approached the girl, he glanced around--seeing some paramedics offering assistance to the crowd, he waved them over. From the looks of it, though, this guy was long past the point where assistance would do any good.
He watched the girl. She was in shock while everyone around her was in a state of gleeful panic.
Why do events like this bring out the joy in people, the people that have to come and see, and then tell, endlessly tell what they saw, enlarging the import of their role with each telling?
But he knew. Of course he knew. He'd been in two wars, four tours of duty in Afghanistan, and he had seen this before. They were thrilled, bursting with energy and adrenaline because they were alive, and because of what had happened, there had been a chance that if they were standing in the wrong spot, they might not have been. But they were.
Maybe I can blame them for coming out and watching like a bunch of ghouls, he thought, but I cannot blame them for the joy of being alive. Food would taste better tonight, wine would be sweeter tonight, and sex that had been rote yesterday would be incredible tonight.
We forget, because we get spoiled by the fact that we wake up every day, that existence isn't a given. When we get reminded of that, for a brief time, life is no longer dull and dreary and grey. It's fan-fucking-tastic.
He turned his mind back to the job.
To the girl.
"Are you injured?" he asked her gently. She didn't seem to hear him.
"Miss, I'm talking to you," he repeated loudly, but he hoped not harshly. She had her friend's blood and brains on her hands, after all; she was in enough pain. "Are you injured?"
She did seem to hear him then, but as if from a long distance. She turned to him, and he was taken aback. She was emaciated and she was bedraggled; her face was covered with soot and her eyes full of a howling pain.
And she was the most achingly beautiful girl he'd ever seen.
He shook his head, focusing again.
"Miss, can you hear me? Hello?" Is she concussed? he wondered. Or just in shock? He hoped the paramedics would hurry—it wouldn't matter to the dude in her arms, but it might matter for her. He couldn't see any lumps, but he was too far to make an examination. Plus, she had an awful lot of hair.
"Yes," she replied, her voice hoarse from the smoke and very likely from screaming, he guessed. "And no, I'm not hurt. I don't think."
Even as she spoke, one of her hands wandered into her coveralls, found a small green pillbox, and pulled it open. She deftly popped a couple of "Barneys"—a nickname for the popular purple codeine pills inspired by the huge goofy dinosaur--into her mouth. No wonder she wasn't feeling any pain. Nothing he could do about it—since the Freedman Bill passed, taking drugs was as legal as breathing the air. He'd been against it—as a cop, he saw what drugs did to people and (tax benefits and job creation aside), he didn't see how flooding corner store shelves, not to mention people's veins, with legalized drugs would help the people of this country.
But he'd been in the minority. Men in his own precinct would clock out and reach into their lockers, pulling out heroin kits or bottles of laudanum to use when they got home. They could easily afford it, as a hike in pay for teachers, cops, and firemen had been among the first "improvements" the Freedman Bill offered.
And there was nothing Granger could do about it but give them dirty looks.
"Who are you?" he asked the girl now. "Was your friend hurt in the explosion? Did you see what happened?"
Suddenly a tall, blond man wearing very expensive clothes and designer jewelry hurled his way through the crowd toward them.
"Jessie!!" He was screaming as he pushed and shoved. "Jessie!!"
Maybe this tarted-up dude could tell him who she was.
When Blondie got to them, his eyes widened in horror. He sank to the ground beside the dark-haired guy's crumpled body, reaching for his face despite the fact it was covered in gore.
"No," he whispered. "Oh, no, no, no. . ."
"He's dead, Ashe," the girl replied tonelessly, as though the obvious needed stating.
"No," repeated the blond man in the pricey duds. Then, "How? He wasn't supposed to be here—how did he even know?"
"Don't you see?" the soot-covered beauty asked, almost in a daze. "Don't you get it? I told you. I told you I was damned, and you didn't believe me. You should have, Ashe. You really should have."
Detective Granger heard every word of this, but stayed on the periphery, watching for the paramedics and keeping the crowd at bay. He could grill them later; he would listen now.
"But . . .how?" The blond man she'd called Ashe was asking, in anguish. "How did this even happen?"
"He must have followed." The girl responded. "He wanted to stop it."
What did she mean, Detective Granger wondered. Stop what? The explosion?
A patrolman appeared at his side, huffing and puffing from elbowing his way through the throng of people.
"Holy shit, it's true," he wheezed, leaning against Granger for support. Granger looked down at the hand the patrolman had placed on his shoulder and raised an eyebrow, but the patrolman didn't notice. "It's really them," he said in disbelief. "I saw it online and I thought it had to be a hoax, but . . .it's really them."
Christ, it had been. . .what, seven minutes . . .and already it was online? The magic of technology.
"You know them?" He asked the patrolman, physically taking the beat cop's hand off his person. "You know who they are?"
The patrolman gave Granger a look that made him feel twenty years older than he was.
"Everyone knows who they are," he responded. "They're bigger than Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber combined—this year, anyway. They're with Deus Ex Machina."
Granger arched an eyebrow.
"Deus Ex Machina," interjected an onlooker helpfully; she was staring at the blond dude almost in awe. "It's a theatrical term. It's Latin--means, 'God from the Machine'. They explain it on the CD cover."
Granger rolled his eyes; overeager witnesses fleshing out pertinent information with useless details gave him heartburn.
If they were that famous, when word of their identities spread, Granger realized, the already amped-up crowd would be whipped into a frenzy. He was going to have to get them out of there, and soon.
"She's the drummer," the patrolman confided. "He's the bassist. . . and that's . . ." He pointed to the body, frowning. "I'm not sure which one he is. They're rock stars."
Rock stars? Granger thought incredulously. He looked back and forth between them. He would not call them rock stars; rock was the Beatles and the Doors and even Nirvana. Whatever they played on the radio today today, that was not rock.
None of this made sense. He looked at the pair on the sidewalk. "Are you two involved in this somehow?" he demanded.
The paramedics parted the crowd with a gurney and knelt beside the lifeless body to check vitals– too little, too late.
As the paramedics worked, Ashe cradled the dead man's head, stroking his gore-matted hair.
"We're not terrorists," Jessie called out, in answer to his question; maybe having her friend pulled from her hands brought her back to the here and now. "We're not."
Granger unholstered his gun in an instant.
"Then what are you?" Granger asked forcefully; she had spoken the t-word before anyone asked it of her. In the political climate of the past fifteen years, that would not slide. "I will not ask again."
They looked at each other, over the lifeless body, as if asking themselves that same question. Then the blond man spoke.
"Once upon a time," Ashe whispered, so softly that Granger had to strain to hear him,
"we were all just friends."
Mandatory posting on all Drug Stores, High School Guidance Counselor's offices, and police stations:
You must be eighteen years old to purchase governmentally packaged, stamped and sealed marijuana cigarettes.
You must be twenty-one to purchase anything with a morphine base, including heroin.
You must be twenty-one to purchase cocaine or methamphetamines.
You must be twenty-one to purchase all narcotics previously requiring a prescription by a physician.
All narcotics prescribed by physicians can be purchased through the buyer's insurance; everyone using the drugs recreationally must pay the full market value.
All high-school freshmen will be required to take and pass a nationally approved Narcotics Health class in order to complete their high school education.
Anyone under the age of eighteen apprehended with marijuana cigarettes and anyone under the age of twenty-one caught with any above the above-listed drugs will lose their driver's license for six months, and complete an intensive narcotics education program administered by their home state at the cost of five thousand dollars. They will be required to attend daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings for six months. They will be required to work eight hours of community service every other Saturday for six months. They will also be subject to random blood tests by their teachers, employers, or employees of the state who can and will show up at their school, their home, and their place of employment at random intervals, to be decided by the state, until the six-month period has expired.
Any second-time offender to under-age usage will lose their driver's license for one year. Their insurance companies will be informed which will likely result in a significant increase in their co-pay. They will complete a yearlong intensive narcotic education program at the cost of ten thousand dollars. They will be required to attend daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings for one year. They will be required to work eight hours of Community Service every Saturday and Sunday for one year. They will be subject to random blood tests by their teachers, employers and/or employees of the state who can and will show up at their school, their home, and their place of employment at random intervals, to be decided by the state, until the year-long period has expired.
Random drug-testing will be administered to anyone purchasing narcotics by employees of the store from which said narcotics are purchased. They can also be administered at random by policemen, doctors, employees of the state, employees of their insurance company, and the employer of the individual at their discretion. Anyone showing signs of addiction or showing signs of usage at work subjects themselves to such testing.
Anyone driving under the influence of narcotics automatically loses their license for one year. Repeat offenders will lose their license for five years. A third offense will cost the user their license permanently.
A legal limit will be set for each narcotic; records will be kept for what each individual buys. Anyone trying to purchase more will be denied. Anyone caught buying for a person who's at their monthly limit faces an automatic six-month jail sentence, a loss of their driver's license for one year, and four hundred hours of Community Service.
Anyone purchasing narcotics for minors receives a jail sentence of up to five years, without benefit of a trial by a jury of your peers.
It wasn't hard to pick out when it all began. In fact, if any of them were asked (had all of them been able to speak, that is), they'd all have gone back to the same exact moment in time.
They'd been slated for a rehearsal—having just gotten home from college for winter break—and the Brothers Brecken were late. Normally this would have been inexcusable—Raven ran a tight ship when it came to rehearsals, and Chase had booked a fair number of gigs for the holiday season. She and Jessie had driven down from UMaine at Orono last night; Ashe was getting his master's at the Gorham campus, where Bryce was studying his undergrad in education. Chase had opted out of college altogether, much to his parents' everlasting dismay, to focus solely on music. It was almost as if, Ashe thought in later years, he knew what was coming. Maybe he did, Raven would muse in response; she was a big believer in intuition of all kinds.
But today a Nor'easter was blowing outside, and they'd opted to walk, rather than dig Ashe's jeep out of two feet snow for a three hundred foot walk. But this also meant they had to carry their equipment, including their battered amps; that, combined with the news she had for them, put Raven in a forgiving sort of mood.
She sat on the ancient couch in the basement languidly, sipping her coffee, as the boys made their greetings to Jessie's parents. It had taken Raven a long while before she'd felt comfortable in the McAllister's upper-middle class home in Portland; she'd lived the first sixteen years of her life in a one-bedroom apartment on the East End with her single mother. Technically, she supposed, her mother wasn't single; her second marriage to Valium and Vodka was a full-time relationship. By the time she'd OD'd, and Raven had awakened to find the corpse that had once upon a time given birth to her in her wedding dress (which no longer even remotely zipped), with Raven's baby book and a small velvet box with a hock slip in it, Raven supposed she'd been dead for so long on the inside, maybe she thought Raven wouldn't notice. Jessie's parents had gotten there before the police had and without question packed up her things and brought her into their home—her home, too, now, they insisted. She and Jessie had been best friends for years at that point, and they had often told her she was just like a daughter to them; this was just making it official. She'd been numb with grief and gratitude, but it took a full year before she felt comfortable using the key if no one else was home, and until she was able to call the room she lived in "my room" instead of "the guestroom", as it had once been. They'd told her good grades and respect for the rules was all the repayment they'd ever want, and she believed them, but at parent-teacher meetings in high school and Parent's Weekend at college, was all she could do not to burst into tears when they proudly showed up, announcing themselves as "Raven Lashua's parents". Jessie adapted much more quickly, calling them from Day One "me and Raven's Mom and Dad"; she had informed her parents what Raven's home life was like, and it had led to her salvation. Despite the fact she'd sworn the younger girl to secrecy, she knew she owed Jessie's lack of discretion pretty much everything, and she would never forget it. Her loyalty to the young drummer bordered on feral. This was her family now. The McAllisters, and the noisy boys getting prepped to rehearse in the sound-proofed basement now.
By the time everyone had stomped all the snow off their boots, hung their coats by the radiator, and given each other hugs and nods hello, everyone was dying to know what had put the Cheshire cat grin on the petite brunette's face.
Satisfied they were all paying attention, Raven held up a piece of paper. Holding it high, she announced, "I've got it."
"Then stay away from me—I'm allergic to penicillin." Bryce piped up, and Jessie giggled before she could stop herself. Raven attempted to sear her with the glare of her eyes, and nearly succeeded; chastised, the pretty redhead fell silent.
"As I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted," she began again, "this in my hand holds the promise of our future."
"And it's so little, too," Ashe breathed in mock-awe. Raven ignored him, handing the paper to Chase. He unfolded it, his face turning from curiosity to incredulity. Jessie could stand it no longer.
"What? What what?"
"Jesus wept, is there an echo in your head?" Ashe asked, annoyed. Jessie flushed scarlet, and Raven gritted her teeth. The way Ashe picked at Jessie was the one thing they ever fought about.
"Where did you get this?" Chase demanded.
Raven grinned. "A girl who was in Hair with me has a brother at BU who's entering." Raven didn't add that she'd had to sweet-talk the faxed copy over the phone from the brother, who was in the firm grip of a morphine high; she didn't want to give Ashe a chance to start off on his anti-legalization convictions. She usually admired how deeply he stood by his beliefs, but this was not the time.
"I swear I'm going to brain the person who doesn't clue me in, little brother," Ashe's tone left little to the imagination. The sooner this rehearsal was over, the sooner he could be along with Raven; she'd been all but married to that play for the last two moments.
"American Rock Band—New England," Chase was saying. He was having trouble breathing. "Aerosmith came out of Boston, buddy."
"So did New Kids On the Block." Ashe remarked, studying the flyer.
Bryce was beginning to drool. The winners of those kinds of TV-frenzies won a fat check, of that he was sure. That was worth getting excited about. Thrilled, even.
"But Chap Heiller?" Ashe asked thoughtfully. "Why would a famous producer produce a totally unknown group?"
"He hasn't done anything since the lead singer for Stress Flex had that hit five years ago, then the singer quit to have a kid." Chase offered.
"And then they faded into oblivion," Ashe interjected.
"And he's probably looking for a new sound. Look what both Pop Idol and American Idol have done for finding musicians." Chase plunked down on the couch next to Raven and grinned conspiratorially. Raven didn't grin back. She wasn't about to share credit for the plan just yet.
"You guys can't be serious about this." It was not a question. Ashe found himself playing the voice of reason often with the group over the years. It was a position he usually shared with the lusciously brilliant Raven. But at this minute, Raven's rationality
seemed to have pissed its pants and split the scene. "Come on, Chase, this isn't for us, this is for bands who are planning to go pro. We make spending money and get free food at bar mitzvah's. That's a whole different ball game."
"Says who?" Chase wanted to know. "Take a look at the requirements. Have to have been performing for a year or more on a paying basis. Have to have performed original music during said time. Must have never recorded professionally before. Have to have ambitions toward a full time music career. We fit every category they specify."
"Some of us do," Bryce added, still thinking of how he'd spend the money if they won; Chase ignored him.
"We're good, and you know it—we're always the first ones called for choice dates for The Zone and The Old Port Tavern, and we're a great draw. Ask anyone."
Ashe would have objected again, but his eyes caught a line at the bottom of the page. he read the short line, and looked up at his brother, chagrined. Well, I won the battle, but its gonna suck for you, so sorry, little brother.
"Moot point, anyway; the application for this thing had to be postmarked two weeks ago."
Chase snatched the paper away from Ashe to scan the page for the damning words himself. Bryce felt sympathy rise in his chest. Whatever else this thing was, he could already feel the hopes dancing in Chase's heart. Chase had never been one of the "I am an artists because I don't want to have a real job and because society sucks" that littered the streets of Portland, Maine. He didn't look the part, for one thing; he didn't have any tattoos or anything pierced, his clothes were always clean and seldom (if ever) purchased at a thrift store, he rarely drank and never touched the drugs that seemed to go hand in hand with the arts, even before the Legalization. Bryce himself began playing when he realized it was an outlet for his angst, the hurt inside for being short and not-quite-handsome, to being invisible to girls unless he made them laugh. Party on, brother, there's always an excuse to need to feel bottle-better. Bryce had always prided himself on knowing the score
But Chase wasn't like that. For Chase, music was a story and he its teller, and it had never been more complicated than that. And because he believed in the tales he wended, he pushed as hard as he could in as many directions to keep telling them. A lot of people who visited the Hotel Pine Street (the name of their college apartment so dubbed because all the boys lived there at one point or another) scoffed at the notion that Chase would ever be a "real" artist. He was too organized, too driven, and in all ways, too clean. Real success in rock had always been people who seemed to be born of pure indifference.
Bryce, being of the torn jeans and not giving a shit crowd himself, blew their opinions off, but every now and then he felt the urge to tell his best friend to dim the intensity. It wasn't. . .well, cool. The urge, thankfully, had always been transient.
All in all, being that Portland was a little city with a big attitude, and that Bryce knew that Chase considered many of these people little more than the future welfare recipients of Maine, Bryce didn't bother taking sides. Way too much work.
Before Chase's face completely fell off, Raven spoke, "Well, my sweet Chase-chase, I guess the day has finally come." She lit a cigarette, as Chase looked at her sharply.
"What day?" he asked cautiously.
"The day," she exhaled her lungful of smoke, "when you fall to your knees and thank God for my existence."
He suddenly knew what she'd done, the same way he knew he was right-handed.
"You did?" he managed, trying not to let his hopes skyrocket, but hoping anyway.
"I did." She didn't look over at Ashe, who was glowering in the corner nearby. He was her boyfriend, not her mother; she didn't have to consult with him on everything—or anything, for that matter. "Had the application in with our demo with three days to spare. I also forked over the fifty dollar application fee—you can all thank me by means of repayment."
Chase leaped to his feet and seized her up with such a tight old she lost her breath. "Put me down, you butt-monkey," she laughed, hugging him back. Bryce picked up the cigarette she'd dropped, reasoning he wasn't so much stealing a butt as preventing a house fire, and inhaled deeply.
Jessie, who'd been completely silent during this exchange, was too stunned to think, to speak, even. Some things you want so badly, you didn't dare play, because that would be tipping your selfish hand.
So sad there's disease and hunger and abuse in this world, but if you could swing it, I'd like to be a rock star. . .see what you can do, Big Fella, k?
Chase dropped Raven unceremoniously onto the couch. "Okay, you knew I'd thank God for your existence, but did you ever think I'd, you know, mean it?"
She took an affectionate swat at him, reclaiming her cigarette from Bryce.
"What I don't get," Ashe said, each word a stone of ice, "is how you could put everyone's name on it, and not at least consult the people involved."
Now Raven did look at Ashe, and her smile faded. He was right on that score, and she'd known it even as she did it. But filling out the application had been so exciting, she frankly didn't give it much thought. Well, Scarlett, she thought, tomorrow's here.
"It's not that much different than what we do anyway. . .just that we'll be playing for America via cameras instead of drunk family members at parties or the twenty-somethings down at the Zone . . .and we stand to make a LOT more money," she finished lamely. It did sound quite an awful lot different, now that she really thought about it. But Ashe, thankfully, let that part go.
"That's a huge IF, and you know it. And this is going to take a lot more than any of those things. Time that some of us spend on silly frivolities, like getting our dissertations done. But you knew that, before you sent in the app."
Jessie felt her euphoria draining away, leaving only dismay.
Ashe was a Serious Student, for sure; he was always talking sociology, and economical statistics, most particularly those connected to the Freedman Bill. He'd talked about going into politics the way Chase talked about being a rock star, and with the same determined intensity, since the day she'd met him.
But looking at him now, his long blond hair flowing to his shoulders, his thrown-back shoulders, his bottled fury, his tall slouched posture . . .he looks more like what we all want to be than any of us, and he doesn't even want it.
"So, don't do it. Go after that degree, no one will blame you." She butted out her Marly. "No hard feelings. As for the rest of you . . .vote."
"Oh, Christ." Bryce sat up.
"Vote," Raven insisted. "Those in favor of asking advantage of this opportunity . . .raise 'em." She put her own hand up in the air; Jessie mirrored her (Big fucking surprise, thought Ashe; the young drummer had never had much of a mind of her own, which is why he had little or no use for her), and then Chase added his own hand. After a moment or two, Bryce followed suit. He'd already mentally spent his share of the wind fall. Chase looked expectantly at Ashe.
"In or out, Blondie?" His words were flat, and their eyes met as they wordlessly battled.
Do you have any idea what you're asking of me?
Yes, I do.
You could get another bass player with a fucking phone call, for Christ's sweet sake!
I don't want another bass player. I want you.
I have my own thing to do!!
I know. I still need you. But I won't beg.
Ashe finally looked away, and cleared his throat. "You idiots look like you're waiting to be called on for a spelling bee."
They dropped their hands back into their laps, and continued to stare at hopefully at him. Everyone but Raven. Her eyes were firmly in her lap, at fingers that wouldn't stop twisting, even as she desperately tried to look casual. That she couldn't even look at him spoke volumes about how much she wanted this. It tipped the scales considerably.
"I must have holes in my head . . .holes," he repeated, "the size of fucking baseballs."
"He's in," noted Bryce casually, and began setting up his keyboards.
"Wait!" Raven called, favoring Ashe with a brilliant smile that promised repayment in delicious ways later in the day, "we have to get a few things straight first." She clasped her hands together like a school teacher, and addressed her band of students. "This calls for organization, for planning for strategy. This means we rehearse every day, no matter who's PMS'ing or who's futilely chasing the newest blond on campus--"
"Jeez, keep you guys waiting just once while I try to fulfill my deepest needs--" Bryce began, but Raven cut him off.
"It's going to mean getting well rested and in shape," here she groaned, she hated working out like other people hated getting water boarded. "It's going to mean checking egos at the door and using our best original stuff, no matter who wrote it. We're working solely for the product now. Understood?"
"We're a product, even." Ashe shook his head. His mind's eye conjured up an image of his political ambitions as it took a suicidal flight through a plane glass window, while
Chase and Raven tatooed "Wannabe Musician" across his chest and placed him on the shelf of a grocery store right next to the chicken parts some people fed their animals.
"Yes," Raven slapped her hand down the table for emphasis. "For the next few months, that's exactly what we are."
"Wait," Jessie held up her hand haltingly; only Raven knew how hard it was for her to speak in front of even a handful of people, so crippling was her shyness (but put her onstage behind her drum kit and she was a goddess, Raven thought fondly; it was a startlingly beautiful contradiction). "I just . . .I had an idea for our name."
They had used Smoke & Shadows when they played professionally, but it was only a keepsake name, a place filler until something better came along. It had occurred to her two months ago, as she was assistant stage managing the USM production of Hair that Raven had played the lead role in. It was an old theatre term, in Latin, and as soon as she heard it, she knew it would be the final brick in the wall, so to speak.
"Well, baby?" Chase probed gently, and she looked at him, smiling in that soft radiant way of hers.
"Deux es Machina," she said softly. "It's Latin."
"What does it mean?" asked Bryce.
She smiled again, more proudly this time.
"God from the Machine," she answered.
There was the tiniest of pauses, and then Raven stood, addressing the group as a whole.
Apparently, there were none.
From the Portland Press Herald:
Amidst a crowd of onlookers, Father Patrick Muldoon doused his body with gasoline and set fire to himself on Congress Street at approximately three-fifteen Thursday afternoon. Suffering third degree burns over ninety percent of his body, he was pronounced dead en route to Mercy Hospital.
Father Muldoon had gained statewide recognition in recent years insisting
that Rowe v. Wade and the Freedman Bill were in violation to god's wishes and
a direct threat to all humanity. In his organized protests he preached that the legislature of mankind was increasingly invalidating each human being's worth in a gross attempt at population control and "the almighty tax dollar".
At the time of his self-sacrifice, Congress Street was filled with members of his congregation who supported, but did not join in with, his fiery statement. Police have determined that none of the group made any effort to assist or hinder the
Man of God.
In a remarkably similar case in 2009, were a family of three died in Gassaway, West Virginia. After writing a note stating that "the loss of our lives is in direct protest to the government's decision to rape its once great nation by disposing so casually of human lie and its morality." The Hartley family—Thirty-six-year-old Theodore, twenty-nine-year-old Sarah, and eight-year-old Curtis—sat praying around the kitchen table until they were overcome by noxious fumes expelled by their gas stove. The family and their two dogs were buried later that week in a private service.
Father Muldoon's many supporters have been charged with conspiracy as he made his intentions well known in previous sermons.
From the Arizona Sun:
Classes were called to a halt today at Arizona State University when a large contingent of students, led by Harvard Law alumni Maeghan Maloney, staged a sit-in on the campus' center quad. Police found the students peaceful and non-aggressive, but adamant in maintaining their legal right to protest.
Ms. Maloney spoke for the masses in a prepared statement, "the motivating factor behind our actions is the sheer outrage that our government, the democracy of the United States of America, has chosen such Big Brother-esque tactics to regulate what is supposed to be a legal right. If the government found it acceptable to exploit this weakness and charge exorbitant taxed sums on said legal substances, why the binding methods? Our question is: what's next? What other monkeys will be placed on the collective back of society in an attempt to gain submissive control of its citizen's body, mind and deed? We feel the government
is exerting force well beyond what is chronicled in our legislature, and we wish to see the freedoms and respect this nation was built on restored."
In a CBS special report Senator Charles Freedman (Massachusetts, R) addressed Ms. Maloney's statement.
"By regulating control over the sale of legalized narcotics, we are trying to minimumize the negative repercussions. For years, we've imposed strong mandates on the sale of alcohol and tobacco—the laws surrounding the use of narcotics are no more threatening to our country's freedom than the laws we use to dictate proper vehicular conduct. As Ms. Maloney and others expand their research, they will undoubtedly realize the safety for our citizens is our highest priority. Perhaps at that time more support of this government's laws will ensue."
Ms. Maloney and her followers scoffed at this "apples and oranges" comparison, but grudgingly agreed to end their protest pending further speculation.
From the New York Times:
A record number of fatalities marked the month of May among junior
nationwide as the use of illegally obtained narcotics increased. Marcus Taylor,
Harvard Alumni, and founder of Stay Straight, the national anti-legalization and
narcotic education program, had this to say:
"These untimely deaths are the direct result of the blind eye this society is
turning to its children. Last year, this country spent sixty billion dollars on weight-loss miracles, one hundred thirty billion on alcohol and tobacco, and other lethal drugs. Less than one percent of those combined totals were spent
educating as to the effects of these poisons on the mind and the body. In the bigger cities we used to use our alleys for trash; now every day of the week, the
found bodies of death-by-drugs corpses are some times stacked chest-high. And you all are too busy counting profit margins."
Marcus Taylor abandoned his law practice to wage a full-time war against the bill seven years ago, and has long since beseeched his countrymen to join him in his battle.
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In the Beginning
Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina, a harmonious quintet from the shores of Portland, ME,
exudes the same sort of pure gut-punching rock and roll we first heard fifty years ago, with the arrival of the British Import Led Zeppelin, or some of the grunge bands from our own soil in the nineties. Like these groups, Deus Ex Machina (Latin for "God From the Machine") approaches the songs on this major-label debut as if each were the first blood drawn in a war waged against complacency.
Such powerful infernoesque singles as "Real" and "The Beast is All Red" will rip emotion from even the most jaded of listeners. Raven Lashua's voice is what may have happened if Mariah Carey had been born with Aretha Franklin's soul.
Ballads such as "At the Back of the Room" and "Run For Your Life"
grate and hypnotize. Chase, the younger of the Brecken brothers, and Bryce Thomas provide the melodic guitar and keyboard acrobatics while older sib Ashe Brecken and drummer Jessica Leigh McAllister lend the solid rhythm chains to
bind it all together.
This mismatched yet expensively attired mélange have yet to prove if they can stay afloat on the steam generated by this introductory effect. But their mock dignified and eclectically snotty attitudes are just the thing to restore your faith
in the new generation of rock and rollers. Dues Ex Machina just might bring faith to a whole new generation.
For Father Patrick Muldoon and his congregation, for Maeghan Maloney and her band of peaceful followers, for Senator Charles Freedman, for Marcus Taylor, and for Dues Ex Machina, a new day had begun.
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Royals top Dodgers, end four-game losing skid
The Kansas City Royals won the opening game of their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 at Kauffman Stadium on Monday night.
The Kansas City Royals won the opening game of their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 at Kauffman Stadium on Monday night.
Washburn staff, coaches, and players remember the life of head baseball coach Steve Anson after he passed away on Sunday.
Nearly 50 jobs remain open at the Shawnee County Sheriff's office after budget cuts over the past few years.
Kate Kelly accused of apostasy.
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Topeka native Chris Okruhlik competes in NBC's American Ninja Warrior for the fourth time.
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The icons does show up on my minimap when i get close to them.
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I am using HandyNotes to get them to show in Silver Dragon.
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Fired by Maggie Panko
"Aye, see here, Private! You're getting your weapon all wet!"
He was right. I was crying all over my rifle. A corporal with a brash Scottish accent took a cotton rag from his pocket and dragged it over the hold. Jerking up, the corporal put his hands on my shoulders and pushed me aside. "For god's sake, don't come any closer!"
He leaned toward the chamber full of rounds. Extracting a metal instrument that looked like massive pincers, he moved the tool into the rifle. "Lookit this!" Between the pincers was a round, a bullet, red. Ignited but not fired. "Stuck in the hold! Another shot and you would've blown all the others up! Blown your face off! This is your lucky day, Private! Your tears saved your life!"
While he hollered joyfully, rifles rattled on either side. Blades of smoke cut through the clean sky. The others went on firing, couched semi-prone in the grass. Like them I had not broken position.
Though I'd had no trouble holding the rifle back at the Hamilton Armoury where Reservists did most of our training, shooting belonged to another world. One bullet crack and I was gone. We fired at paper targets pinned to hay bales. But there was the unbearable strangeness of having mechanized control over another person's lifespan. Put one's finger gently on a trigger and pull, then a machine murdered your enemy. Tears fell until vision was impossible and kept falling. I heard the corporal but couldn't receive his meaning. Again he roared that I might've died.
"You hate this, eh?" the corporal yelled. "Look here! Flick it onto Automatic and spend all your shots. They won't let you finish until all the rounds are out." Bullets were lost in a choppy metallic spray. "Good then! They're going to do more firing drills this afternoon. I've got to patrol the base though. You can ride in my Jeep."
As we were headed away from the unit, my good friend Emily ran up, flushed with happiness. "Incredible! What a rush!" She saw my face and hers dropped. Emily always helped us out when we struggled. She squeezed my hand while speaking tenderly and slowly. Then she stepped away and rejoined our section in the distance.
The corporal's Jeep was roofless and green-grey. We were silent as the Jeep jounced over lumpy ground. The Niagara sky was bright, blue decked with white waves. The corporal pulled to a stop far from the shooting range and the trees. A warm wind wrapped around us.
"Private, if you don't mind me asking, what the hell are you doing in the military?"
"I got fired from McDonald's. Nobody would hire me for a full-time summer job. I've got to save for university."
He laughed gently, resting a hand on my shoulder then moving it back to the wheel, turning the ignition key. "Aw, damn. Well then."
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The Fast Lane Truck pits an all-American sports truck against an all-American work truck in the quarter-mile.
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Fiat Chrysler's Ram truck brand takes a stab at toppling the Ford F-Series.
Philippine company Shogun Conversions is close to being certified to convert and import the Ford Super Duty for the Land Down Under.
The next-place contestant — the Chevy Silverado — sold over 20,000 units less.
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A pretty shaky start to the month, as the HLHB Trend-Catcher System caught a lot of forex fakeouts instead of trends. Here's what's up!
Read all about my HLHB Trend Catcher System if this is your first time hearing about it!
The NFP week was a bust for EUR/USD, as it traded on tight ranges for most of the week. It saw action when Yellen gave out not-so-hawkish remarks but soon returned to its tight trading conditions and stayed there for the rest of the week. Unfortunately, the HLHB System only validated three signals, two of which turned out to be fakeouts. By the end of the week the tug-o-pips resulted to a net gain of 1 pip. 1 PIP!!! 🙂
GBP/USD also saw tons of fakeouts especially in the first half of the week. There were more valid signals during the second half though most of them turned out to be fakeouts, too. By the end of the week Cable yielded a net loss of 23 pips. Not too bad, I guess.
Overall the results are what you can expect from using a trend-catcher on a ranging week. Crossing my fingers for stronger trends though! Do you think there's a dance or ritual I'm missing to get one of those trend-y weeks?
P.S.: Remember to never risk more than 1% of a trading account on any single trade and to adjust position sizes accordingly. Create your own ideas and don't follow what I do. Better yet, read the Risk Disclosure!
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Cute little guy. I like the graphics. I included it in part 1 of my Pet Jam compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/JpgV-u0f4CQ
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Matt Antonellis · 1 year ago
Ending reminds me of The Maw.
Great job!
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With Nikita coming to an end, series leading man Shane West is set as the male lead of another drama, WGN America's first scripted series Salem, starring Janet Montgomery. Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, it explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and centers on Mary Sibley (Montgomery), the beautiful, ruthless but vulnerable wife of the ancient, ailing but very wealthy George Sibley, one of the Salem town Selectmen. West, repped by UTA and Luber Roklin plays John Alden, a hardened veteran of 10 years of war and captivity at the hands of the Indians who returns to his native Salem to find it consumed in Witch Hunt frenzy, led by Cotton Mather (Seth Gabel). Also cast in the Fox 21-produced series is Tamzin Merchant (The Tudors) as the beautiful Anne Hale, a talented artist who is attracted to the newly arrived John Alden, unaware of his history with Mary Sibley. She is with ICM Partners, Authentic and Curtis Brown.
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This show will undoubtably sweep the Emmy's! Lol
Shane West? Someone hates money.
Always happy to see Shane West on tv. He was a star on Once and Again. Nikita was a really quality show, on the wrong network. Hoping WGN goes more the route of FX or AMC with this one. Sounds like it has a lot of potential.
No they plan on making money.. but I do hate you. Keep your jealousy to yourself. Go play in traffic.
Congrats to Shane West.
This show is casting stars from Nikita, Revenge (Ashley Madekwe) and Fringe, so as fan of the three of them, I'll be definitely watching.
this is getting interesting!
This looks interesting. I will definitely check it out. I can never get enough of Shane
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text: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, today announced that the company donated $50,000 to The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, go to: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/esurance/48128/ (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090826/ESURANCELOGO) Esurance recently launched the charitable giving campaign on its Facebook page. For each new "Like," the company donated $10 to The Trevor Project to help support the Trevor Lifeline, a 24/7 crisis intervention phone hotline offering free and confidential suicide prevention counseling to youth nationwide. With Twitter and Facebook support from The Trevor Project itself, and the mentions from celebrities such as Perez Hilton, Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block, and others spreading the word, Esurance quickly reached its stated goal of $50,000. To thank fans who generously supported the campaign, Esurance created a video tribute that features individual employees from the company's Dallas, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sioux Falls, and Tampa offices. The employees thank the Facebook community for their help in reaching their donation goal, and discuss the company's commitment to The Trevor Project. To view the video, please go to http://blog.esurance.com/trevor-project-thank-you/ Esurance was one of the first companies to offer car insurance discounts to domestic partners who list on the same policy, and has earned a 100% rating on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index four years in a row. The company also promotes and sponsors Pride events around the country. For more information on Esurance's diversity and inclusion initiatives and community involvement, visit its Diversity and Inclusion page. About Esurance® Esurance, a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (NYSE: WTM), provides personal auto insurance direct to consumers online and through select agents, including sister company, Answer Financial. Esurance is dedicated to constantly improving the way people shop for, buy, and manage their auto insurance. By combining the best of technology with industry know-how, Esurance is able to offer hassle-free coverage with 24/7 customer service and claims handling at competitive prices.


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ROR is not happening. He would cost too much and he is not much better than Stepan, if he is at all...considering the majority here are on the stepan hate bandwagon because he isn't lighting it up. It shows the character of ROR trying to cash in on one good season because his totals certainly not great. His team
is banged up and he is holding out. I'm not overpaying for potential.
Our team is not that far off. There are defensive lapses, but the chemistry is getting there and they are right in the thick of things. Let them gel, stop trying to alter the team after every loss; its why this team got off to a slow start, a lot of new faces.
I do disagree with the kreider demotion. I don't think he was bad at all, his defense needs work but then again Rick Nash hasn't exactly been stellar in his own end. Too loose on the point men, slow reactions...but I don't hear the criticism on him...
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Facing demands from Mayor Rob Ford to slash a further 4.3 per cent from her budget, Toronto's chief librarian is proposing new fines and a slate of service cuts that would terminate literacy and school outreach programs.
Jane Pyper's new recommendations would carve $7.3-million from the library budget and avoid a heavy reduction in branch hours currently being debated at city hall.
The Toronto Library Board has already made it clear that it wants to avoid branch closures and reductions in hours at all costs as it navigates the mayor's cutback requests and public demand to maintain service levels.
At a meeting in November, the board approved a 5.7-per-cent budget cut, well short of the 10-per-cent trim Mr. Ford has imposed, and asked Ms. Pyper to come back with suggestions for cutting the remainder without branch closings.
Even before the board meets to discuss Ms. Pyper's new cuts next week, some members are vowing to vote them down.
"The city librarian has put on the table another menu of very objectionable program cuts," Councillor Janet Davis said. "They make sure that the library doors will be open, but very little will be happening inside."
The bulk of the savings from Ms. Pyper's recommendations come from $2.8-million in program cuts, a $3-million shaving of the collections budget and $500,000 over two years by replacing staff members with automated sorters in some branches. She is also recommending branches impose $1 fines for holds not picked up. Taken together, the suggestions would terminate 37 jobs.
The program cuts would also eliminate the following:
- high school and kindergarten outreach activities;
- library publications, such as What's On and What's More
- Keep Toronto Reading festival
- adult literacy programs
- preschool Ready For Reading program
- childhood Leading to Reading program
- bookmobile service
The $3-million collections reduction would be followed by another $785,000 cut in 2013, bringing the total budget cut for new materials to 22 per cent.
"That means you'll never get a new bestseller," Ms. Davis said. "You'll wait forever."
Other board members were more receptive to Ms. Pyper's list. Vice-chair Michael Foderick said that the automated sorters alone would be enough to save Sunday service at all branches. But he's not so sure about other suggestions.
"It's a pretty significant cut to collections being contemplated," he said. "It's a deep cut. I would be uncomfortable with that unless I saw more information on it."
Ms. Davis is urging fellow board members to hold the line at 5.7 per cent and force city hall to live with it.
"If there will be cuts to service, let this council do it, not the board," she said. "This board was appointed to uphold the interests of the library. I think the library board has already done its job. We've gone as far as we can without cutting services."Report Typo/Error
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Solicitors have called for a no confidence vote in the Law Society's senior team, accusing Chancery Lane of "appeasement and abject surrender" over government proposals to slash legal aid rates.
A senior Liverpool-based criminal law specialist is to submit a petition on Monday calling for an extraordinary general meeting of the society at which there will be a vote of no confidence in the representative body's president and chief executive.
In an open letter to chief executive Des Hudson last week, James Parry of Parry Welch Lacey said the confidence motion aimed "to bring the executive of the Law Society to account. It's not right in a democratic society that a representative body should enter into agreements without a mandate from its members and such behaviour must cease".
The EGM petition – which also targets society president Nick Fluck – coincides with the end of the government's second consultation on proposals for reducing the legal aid budget. The issue has united in outright opposition various bodies such as the Bar Council, the Legal Aid Practitioners, the Criminal Bar Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors Association.
But critics of Chancery Lane have claimed the society is out of step and has tip-toed around the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) by essentially backing what the society described as a negotiated deal with Secretary of State Chris Grayling over the cuts.
At the beginning of September, Grayling announced a concession following discussions with the Law Society meaning that the proposed 17.5 per cent cut in legal aid rates would be phased over two stages – 8.75 per cent coming next February and the remainder hitting when new contracts are doled out in May 2015. The government had earlier ditched plans to introduce price-competitive tendering for legal aid contracts.
But legal aid practitioners have dismissed the concession as window dressing. "The Law Society has cloaked Grayling with a veneer of respectability," Parry told The Lawyer. He pointed out that the government was under no obligation to do anything more than consult with Chancery Lane and that the society had nothing to lose by adopting a more robust stance in opposition.
"The Law Society claims this is the best deal we can get," said Parry. "And that they have supported it to prevent the government imposing something worse. But I can't imagine anything worse than what is being proposed, either for the profession or for the country."
He estimated that even under the revised deal, up to two-thirds of legal aid law firms would go out of business.
In his open letter to Hudson, Parry says the confidence vote is designed "to encourage the Law Society to engage in a hearts and minds campaign to make the political and economic case against what is proposed. If the current incumbents are unable or unwilling to do that, they should step aside in favour of those who are prepared to do so …"
Under its constitution, the Law Society will have a fortnight from the day it receives the petition on Monday to set and advertise an EGM date. The meeting must be held within 72 days of announcement.
If the no confidence motion is passed at the EGM, the vote would then go to a postal ballot of the entire profession. The Law Society said neither Nick Fluck nor Des Hudson was available for comment today and that it would respond once the EGM petition was filed on Monday.


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I'd like to preface this by saying that the customer service I received upon my initial visit to Lenscrafters, in Chico, CA, was absolutely superb. From the sales associates, to the technicians, to the optomitrist, I was treated well above what is expected.
Now, to my story: I went to Lenscrafters a bit over a month ago to get an eye exam and a new pair of glasses. Everything went wonderfully smooth, and I had no complaints at that time.
Unfortunately, that changed last week. I noticed very small, numerous cracks appear at the top of the right lens of my glasses. There were about 6. I never leave my glasses lying around where they may be damaged or stepped upon. Worse, by that same evening, the cracks had moved downward along the lens, and finally split the lens nearly in half. The only thing I had done with my glasses that day was wear them. So, I took them to Lenscrafters on April 9 to have the lens replaced. I stated my case, and the sales rep told me he had never heard of anything like that happening, and so concluded it was my fault, somehow, and I would have to be charged to replace the lens. I conceded, since there was no way to prove it in my favor at that time, and agreed to pay. About an hour later, I received the glasses with the new lens, and went on my way.
Not but a few hours later, I took my glasses off to clean them, and noticed, again, very small cracks forming in the exact same place - the top of the right lens. Again, I had not even taken my glasses off from the store onward that day, so this was most assuredly not my fault. I immediately called the store, and was asked to come down to the store again.
I went the next day, as the drive from my Step-Father's house, whom I was visiting, to the Chico store is an hour round trip.
Despite the fact that after I noticed the cracks, I had put my glasses in their case and not touched them, the next day, the cracks had grown larger, just as they had before, though not quite as dramatic. When I presented them to the sales rep, he again expressed incredulity at the possibility that this could have been anything but my fault. I politely stood my case, and he conceded it may have been specs of dust left in there during the replacement process.
To sum up this complaint, I was not given my replacement fee back, even though I feel having a faulty lens replaced and then seeing it act the same way was proof it was not my fault in the first place. A faulty lens was replaced with a faulty lens, that now must be replaced again. As well, I have to wait, to have a replacement put in, and then wait for them to mail the glasses to me, as I had to return home from my visit today, and I live in Reno.
I will not return to Lenscrafters in the future.
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Besides making my report here, I also contacted the BBB of Sacramento. The Sacramento office forwarded my complaint to Ohio, where Lenscrafters is headquartered, and exceptionally quickly after they received it, I received a call from Lenscrafters asking me to call them so they might refund my money.
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Whose DNA was sequenced in the human project? Surely some fitting representative of the human species, some Homo sapientissimus, someone chosen for special qualities of health or intellect, some screen or sports star, maybe technoplutocrat-in-chief Bill Gates. Or why not Dr. James D. Watson or Dr. Francis Crick, the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA?
Scientists and federal officials do not think in such terms. Both the public consortium and Celera have chosen to do their decoding at celebrity's opposite pole, with the DNA of anonymous individuals.
Celera has sequenced the DNA of five individuals from different ethnic groups -- two Caucasian men and three women, one black, one Hispanic and one of Chinese descent -- though the principal sequence has been done on a single anonymous male. Call him Celer.
Celera will make public a reference DNA sequence based on the genomes of all these individuals. Where their DNA sequence differs, one nucleotide will be shown, selected by being the commonest or some other criteria, said Dr. Sam Broder, Celera's vice president for medical affairs. Subscribers to Celera's database, however, will be able to see the separate genomes for all these individuals.Continue reading the main story
The consortium's object of analysis is not an individual, but a patchwork composite of DNA sections drawn from a number of men and women it will not identify. Call him Mosaic Man.
One reason for the anonymity is the revealing nature of DNA. In terms of public exposure, being stripped naked in Times Square would be only mildly revealing compared with having one's genome accessible on an open database.
That is because probably all people carry some gene variants that could predispose them or their children to disease. By the time all such genetic flaws are cataloged, it will be apparent that quite a few are present in the decoded human genome. To preserve the privacy of the donors -- and their family and descendants -- anonymity is the best course.
But anonymity is an anomalous kind of mask, because DNA is the ultimate identifier. It is always possible that Celer and maybe even the components of Mosaic Man could be recognized if their DNA were to show up in any forensic database.
Most of the consortium's DNA comes from a single man, but 12 men and women of different ethnic backgrounds have also contributed DNA. Mosaic Man is truly a nobody.
Biologists are just as happy with an anonymous genome as with a celebrity's, because with one genome in hand to serve as a reference sequence, it should be quite easy to catalog all the common variants found in most human populations.
Most of these variants are sites on the DNA where one unit is changed to another. These single unit changes are called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNP's, and account for a large proportion of human genetic variation. A variant SNP may change a gene's coding for its protein product, leading to a protein with different properties.
Everyone, as far as is known, has the same set of genes, but because of SNP's (pronounced ''snips'') many of these genes come in several different flavors. And because everyone has a different combination of flavors, no individuals are completely alike, save for identical twins.
A catalog of the most common human SNP's should be valuable in tracking down genetic dispositions to disease, particularly those caused by multiple variant genes, each of which makes a small and elusive contribution. By tracking the patterns of SNP's inherited in families where a disease is prevalent, biologists hope to identify the gene variants that contribute to the disease.
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Updated:None - A Catholic priest entered a not-guilty plea on Friday and will go to trial after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he possessed thousands of images of child pornography that county detectives said they found when searching his office and residence last month.
Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, will be on home detention with electronic monitoring. He will not be allowed to use a computer or any cellphone with an Internet connection.
The priest of 35 years has been suspended by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, which is cooperating in the investigation.
Allegheny County detectives arrested Sorensen on Dec. 10, after a parish employee called a church child abuse hotline after allegedly seeing Sorensen viewing child pornography on his computer the previous day.
An arrest affidavit at the time said the female employee saw the image of a boy who appeared to be 5 to 10 years old, and naked from the waist down, under the caption "Hottie Boys," on the priest's computer in his residence. The employee told investigators that Sorensen, who has been transferred to St. John Fisher Church in Churchill just three weeks earlier, spent "hours upon hours" on his computer, alone in his office, according to the affidavit.
County investigators filed additional charges against Sorensen on Dec. 13, the day after a second search of his church office turned up additional images and videos. Investigators said they found 5,000 pictures on three CDs taken from his church office during the initial search.
The indictment contends Sorensen received or possessed the images since June. The charge of receiving child pornography on his computer carries a prison sentence of five to 20 years upon conviction, while the possession charge has no minimum and carries a maximum 10-year term.
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Can I access the spiceworks database to feed other systems? Where is the data stored, and how would I access it?
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The data is stored in an SQLite flat file database that is accessible to other programs/databases using an ODBC
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The link below contains a suitable connector and there are several posts on how to set this up, if you have problems.


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Master in International Business Management
Master in International Business Management
The International Business Management education focuses on managing and leading international businesses. The topics are combined from different fields of managing business, which makes IBM a truly multidisciplinary programme. The education includes four core learning themes: theories and concepts of international business management, organizational applications, leadership execution, and own insights to international business management.
A close connection between theory and practice is maintained in research, teaching and company projects. During the studies, the students are involved in and actively participating in assignments for both small and large companies. The education aims to give students the tools needed in managing, creating, and developing various kinds of international organizations, including new ventures.
The IBM graduates will be awarded a Master of Science degree, majoring in International Business Management with the possibility to continue their studies at doctoral level. The graduates are capable of working in a variety of different professions from international sales and marketing, product / service or business management, international sourcing and logistics, manufacturing or service delivery to consultancy, entrepreneurial or governmental professions.
International Business Management student profile
Each year a growing number of students apply to join the International Business programme with background education in business studies, social sciences, or engineering.
IBM student will be a person who is looking for a successful career in business with deep global outlook, someone who desires intellectual growth and personal development through high quality education in an international environment.
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Connected with the renewal of university strategy, the increased importance of internationalization and the introduction of tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens, the University of Oulu has assigned a significant amount of money for tuition scholarships for 2017 entry. The scholarships will be granted in the form of a tuition fee waiver. The tuition fee waiver awarded covers 100 % of the full tuition fee. Applicants can apply for the tuition scholarship as part of the admissions process.
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The University of Oulu International Master's Scholarship Scheme (IM Scholarship) provides scholarships to academically talented international students. The scholarship is aimed at students studying for a Master's degree in the University of Oulu two-year International Master's programmes. The scholarship covers the full international tuition fee. University of Oulu IM Scholarships do not cover living costs.
In order to retain the scholarship in the following year of study, a student must have completed 55 ECTS by the end of the previous academic year. If a student does not achieve this requirement during the first year of studies, they will be liable to pay the full international tuition fee for the second year if they wish to complete their Master's degree programme. An exception to this rule can be made if a student has been granted approved leave from studies (e.g. due to serious illness).
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- Eligible to apply for a Master's degree programme at the University of Oulu for academic year 2017 – 18.
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There is no separate application system for the International Master's Scholarship. All applicants for University of Oulu Master's degree programmes need to complete the Student Application Form. Those applicants who are applying for the University of Oulu International Master's Scholarship have to additionally complete the "Application for Scholarship," section which can be found at the end of the Student Application Form. The International Master's Scholarship application section cannot be completed and/or submitted without the Student Application Form.
The application period for the University of Oulu Master's degree programmes and International Master's Scholarships is 15.12.2016-25.1.2017
Selection criteria for University of Oulu IM Scholarship 2017-2018
Admissions and scholarships decisions will be taken at the same time. Those students successful in obtaining an International Master's Scholarship will be notified at the same time as their offer of admission to their International Master's programme is confirmed. The selection criteria for the University of Oulu IM Scholarship are based on previous academic performance and academic potential.
For questions concerning the University of Oulu IM Scholarship, please contact admissions.officer(a)oulu.fi
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