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My senses slowly came back to me and the coldness of the floor beneath my body hit me before the realisation that I was somewhere unfamiliar did. My head was spinning, but I tried to ignore the dizziness as I pushed myself up from the ground. My hands slapped the wall for support and my fingers curled against it, needing to lean against the cold wall for a moment before I was pulled together. I exhaled and followed the cloud of breath as it disappeared in the darkness. It was cold and my body was covering itself in goose bumps, and instantly I knew I was in danger.
It was an effort to turn my head so I could look around at the room I was in, too afraid of what I would find. The atmosphere was too spine chilling to not be frightening. And my, was I right. I don't know how I didn't scream at the sight. Sprawled across different parts of the room where old corpses, just skull and bones so I knew they had been dead a long time. There were chains by the corpses as well, from what I assumed had kept the prisoners trapped, and I was oddly surprised that I wasn't chained up to the wall.
Across the other side of the room there was a wooden door and as I glanced frantically around, that seemed to be the only way to leave. I hurried over to the door and my hands scanned the wood for a handle, but there wasn't one. Swallowing, I began to push at it, but it wouldn't open. Even though I had been silent so far, I screamed and banged my fists against the door, wishing it to open. I even tried kicked it open; I didn't want to stay in the room for any longer. Though no matter how hard I banged on the door, it would not open and no one came to open it.
I began to feel tears build up in my eyes as I slowly came to the realisation that I wasn't going to be getting out of here anytime soon. I would be stuck in the dungeon with rotten corpses for a while until someone came to my aid. If anyone did come to my aid.
My fists stopped banging against the wooden door and I leaned against it for a few moments, sobbing quietly, then I pulled away and took steps back to the wall where I was beside before. I sank back against the wall and curled up on the floor, but my crying soon stopped and I fell silent, eventually falling to sleep.
I awoke to the sound of the door swinging open. I sat up immediately and tried to ignore the dizziness that it brought so I could focus on those that had came into the dungeon. Before I could even push myself to stand up, one of the stronger men pulled me up and sent his fist into my stomach. The wind was knocked out of me and I almost collapsed back onto the ground, but he grabbed me by my hair and shoved me against the wall.
Two other men crowded around me and began to send their fists wherever they could all over me, beating me. As much as I wanted to fight back, I couldn't, their fists returned to my body not one second after pulling away again and their nails slashed at my skin. Just as I became limp and unable to move, they dropped me down to the ground without any care and turned away from me.
I still had enough energy to look around the room and as I stared up in the direction that the men were facing, I noticed an older man approach me. He knelt down beside me and stared down at me. Our eyes met and what I saw surprised me - hope. I had always been sceptical about people saying that you could see emotion in other people's eyes, but at that moment, I realised what it was like.
Hope was what I saw in his eyes, but I had no idea what the hope was for. Maybe he was going to kill me and he was hoping that I wouldn't scream, or that he wouldn't be caught.
The man grabbed my wrists and raised my arms above my head, motioning for another to hold my wrists down. I couldn't really feel the movement and my eyes kept flickering open and closed. I felt a gentle prick on the tips of my fingers and then… Hell.
My eyes shot open and my body almost curled up into a ball, but the other who was pinning down my wrists placed his leg onto my stomach to stop me from moving too much. Not that I could. Pain was rushing through my body and the fact that I was already weak wasn't helping me at all.
After a while, the pain slowly died down but I was still numb. I had taken quite a beating and even though the pain had stopped, I still felt quite weak. The man above me raised my hands and ran his tongue along each of my fingertips, which I would have pulled a face at if I had the energy to move any muscles.
"Sleep." The man whispered into my ear then stood up and everyone left the room. I was alone once again, only fragile… and tired.
So just like I was told, I closed my eyes to fall asleep. It wasn't hard to fall into unconsciousness, I was really weak and sleep seemed like my best friend right now.
Though I did not sleep peacefully.
My dreams were evaded by horrible scenes. Death, destruction, violence and a lot of blood. I felt very much alive and present in my dream, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't wake up. Stomach churning screeches echoed around me and my heartbeat increased. It was just a dream, but something terrible was happen, I felt like I was going to die. I screamed. The scream woke me up.
I pushed myself up so I was sitting immediately, closing my eyes tightly as my head began to spin. Breathing quickly and heavily, I opened my eyes and glanced around the room. At first I didn't notice how detailed everything looked in the dark, but when I spotted a small spider crawl along the floor, I realised how well I could see it. Frowning, I reached over to try and touch it just to see if it was actually real, but when I placed my finger down on it, I crushed it. I hadn't even tried to! I took me a couple of moments before I eventually sat back and brought my knees up close to me.
In silence I sat, curled up in the corner of the dungeon. The only noise circulating the room was my breath and my heartbeat. Every time I exhaled, my breath would form into a sort of cloud as it was so cold. I was alone, for how long I couldn't tell, but it seemed like days. I wasn't counting, and my assumptions were probably wrong, but being alone and cold for so long was starting to take its toll on me. My eyes were glued to floor and I began to slowly rock back and forth to try and keep myself warm, but it also gave me assurance that I wasn't dead. I was still moving, still breathing, but still alone.
Then the door creaked open and finally someone came in. Without even glancing up I assumed that they were going to hurt me some more, but no. When I did eventually look up, he carried a dead body - a human body. As I looked over at the corpse, I saw scratches and bruises covering the flesh. I then turned my focus to the vampaneze in front of me. He sat down beside me and left the body in the middle of the floor. Immediately I began to shuffle along to be away from him, but when I heard him sigh I stopped. I focused back on him and recognised him; he had been with the group that had tried to kill me, but he was the one who had stopped it. He was Trevor.
"You're cold." He pointed out, his voice only a whisper and a lot more gentle than it had been when I had first hear him speak, but that had only been one word. Saying nothing, I stared up at him and he stared right back at me for a few minutes until he raised an arm. I closed my eyes, bracing myself for an attack. But instead, he wrapped his arm around me and pulled him close. I tensed up, wanting to pull away but he was warm… I needed warmth.
"I'm not going to hurt you, no one else is going to hurt you. Just relax and you'll be fine." Trevor told me, though for some reason I didn't believe him. So I spoke.
"Why was I hurt? Why am I here? What did that man do to me to cause me so much pain?" I asked quietly, almost inaudible but he heard.
Sighing quietly, he began to explain what had happened, but first he started off with who they were. I felt like laughing at the things he was coming out with as they were completely barbaric. What on earth was a vampaneze? Vampires didn't even exist, never mind these… Vampaneze. But then I began to piece it all together. The night I was attacked and taken, I was going to be a meal to them. They were willing to kill a child, well I was technically a teenager, but they were still willing to kill me! Mercilessly by the way it was going to go. I was still trying to come to terms with the fact that they kill to drink blood to survive. Why would anyone want to kill, or need as he said, to survive? Sure, humans kill animals, but vampaneze kill humans. Humans!
When Trevor reached the part about what the man whose actions caused me so much pain (I was told his name was Gannen) had done to me, I froze up.
"He… Turned me into… a one of you? A vampaneze?" I raised both of my brows, then shook my head. "I can't be a vampaneze, I…"
Realisation hit me and I sank back against the wall, silencing myself for a minute. I looked over at the dead body. Suddenly, I worked out why that was there.
"You want me to drink the blood, don't you?" I asked quietly, my tone much darker than I had been before. There was no way that I was going to drink blood. No way.
"You'll need to, you're weak because you've been hurt and you'll be dehydrated and hungry. You probably won't be able to walk for five minutes without collapsing. The blooding will have taken a lot out of you, so you can either drink the blood and get it over with or wear out even more. Gannen wants you to drink blood before you have anything else." Trevor frowned slightly, but I only scoffed.
"What had it got to do with Gannen, eh? He's not in charge of me." I crossed my arms over my stomach, though Trevor still had an arm around my shoulders which was warming me up.
"Actually, he is, kind of. He's your mentor now, hence why he was the one to blood you." He nodded as he looked down at me. "Look, you won't be killing the person, they're already dead. I took care of that part. Drink, please. There's no going back to being human, and if you don't drink blood you're going to die. I don't think you want to do that."
I sighed and raised a hand to run back through my hair before I moved out of Trevor's arm. I had no choice, it was either drink blood or die. And I wasn't going to die. I had been spared so I could become a vampaneze. No one had told me why I was spared, but that didn't matter right now. All I needed to know for now was that I was alive, but I needed to drink blood. So that was what I proceeded to do.
I knelt down beside the body, Trevor joined me and showed me which way was best to drink the blood. He made a cut in the neck and quickly raised the body up to me. I wrapped my lips around the flesh hesitantly and the moment the blood touched my lips I almost pulled away. It was horrible, but I had to drink it. So I drank, and I drank until the body was drained. Somehow, I felt a whole lot better.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Management Accounting: Views, Approaches, Perspectives Part 1: Mechanistic Approaches 2. Toward Mass Production and Bureaucracy 3. Towards Product Costing 4. Towards Cost Controls and Budgeting 5. Towards Management Controls 6. Towards Economic Models Part 2: Post-Mechanistic Approaches 7. Towards Customer Orientation 8. Towards Flexible Manufacturing and Post-Bureaucracy 9. Towards Cost Management 10. Towards Strategic Management Accounting 11. Towards Management Accounting in New Organizations Part 3: Rational Perspectives 12. Neoclassical Economic Theories of MACh 13. Contingency Theory of MACh Part 4: Critical Perspectives 14. Naturalism in MACh 15. Political Economy of MACh 16. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism in MACh
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The BVA has announced the election of new chairmen for two of its standing committees. Fred Landeg is the new chairman of the Veterinary Policy Group and James Yeates will head up the Ethics and Welfare Group.
The BVA has announced the election of new chairmen for two of its standing committees. Fred Landeg is the new chairman of the Veterinary Policy Group (VPG) and James Yeates will head up the Ethics and Welfare Group (EWG).
Both positions were filled at the first meetings of the association year in November when Richard Harvey and Peter Jinman reached the end of their three-year terms as chairmen on VPG and EWG respectively.
Fred Landeg, who has a particular interest in infectious diseases and their control, qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 1971 and spent some time in veterinary practice before joining the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in 1975 as a veterinary officer. In 2004 he was appointed UK deputy chief veterinary officer and director in DEFRA and became acting director general and chief veterinary officer in November 2007. He retired from public service at the end of April 2008.
Mr Landeg said: "The UK veterinary profession is small and has a very wide range of diverse skills and specialisms. It will continue to become more diverse but in diversifying, if the profession is to continue to have influence, it must have a coherent public voice based on sound policies and respect for each other's specialism.
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I got the liquid terro stuff for the basement, but b/c of the cats, I also got roach motel type things for ants that I can put where the cats go.<quoted text>
What kind of poison did you get? The little ant motels or spray?
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#85731 May 16, 2013
I suddenly got them last fall (they are gone now). The Raid ant thing helped, along with laying out bay leaves. Also, use bleach cleaner if you can (it kills the scent they use as a trail to get to and from where they are going). Even the cleanest homes get these. The one thing I read that is supposed to work (I never did it because the baits and the bay leaves did the trick) is to mix boric acid (Borax) with something like jam or honey. Get some masking tape and stick it to wherever you are getting them and put the boric acid/jam mixture on the top. They will eat it and go away and die from the boric acid (and, I think but I am not sure, they bring the acid back to the nests on their feet). Look it up on line for more detail, but supposedly it works. Like I said, though, I used a bunch of Raid baits and bay leaves and they are gone. I had my tape ready, though!!!
Saint Petersburg, FL
#85732 May 16, 2013
Last week my daughter found a dying palmetto bug in her bathroom on its back squirming. Gross! But if it was dying, I know the exterminator's stuff was at least working SOME! Sure enough, next day the bug guy calls to tell me it's time to be sprayed. That happens every time he is due to come without fail! One of those nasty things "breaks through" and the bug guy calls to tell me it's time!!!
I get shivers just THINKING about palmetto bugs. ICK!
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Since: Feb 09
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#85733 May 16, 2013
Terro works great on sugar ants, and you dont have to go to the basement. Just put it on the cardboard and place it where you see the ants. Once the find it, you will see hundreds of them swarming the poison, and being the good little creatures they are, they take it back to their queen, and kills the entire colony.
Fairly common thing here.
Grease ants are another story. I bought some stuff that is supposed to kill both (terro not work on grease ants), but the ants ignored that stuff too. However.....
If you place a tiny piece of catfood on the cardboard, let them get started, you can then drizzle the poison on top of the catfood, and they will just keep at it.
Since: Aug 09
#85734 May 16, 2013
Yes, In my experience, the terro liquid is the best.(Now keep in mind there are thousands of different kinds of ants - and they feed on different kinds of things).
But if you are talking about the little brown sweet eating ones - this is the time of year that thousands of them all hatch. so they can come out of nowhere. It doesn't do any good for you to kill individual ants.
but with the terro-type product - they don't die right away. They take it and bring it back to their nests. And ants have a way of leaving a trace where they have been - so you will see dozens of ants feeding on the liquid once one ant has found it. Then they will all bring it back and kill off the colony.
Now, I don't know about the cats.(I suppose you could put it in a plastic cup and put a couple holes in it for the ants to get in/out - but not the cats. But you do need at least one ant to find your trap first. Even if you have to catch an ant on a piece of paper and make sure it finds your "treat")
Now black ants are meat eaters - and there may be other methods for them. they usually like to get old dead bugs and stuff. Some are wood -eaters - and may indicate a wood-rot problem (like termites).
but if it is a brown ant infestation - try the terro.(You likely have multiple colonies so it may take a few applications to get them.(I speak from some experience - we've got them right now too - we get them when the weather warms up. I killed off one colony and am dealing with a second one right now). I expect it to take a few days more.
Since: Aug 09
#85735 May 16, 2013
and i noticed that Race answered just what i did while i was composing my answer. (Although his answer was more concise)
"It made sense at the time...."
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#85736 May 16, 2013
wtih the boric acid (Borax), watch that it doesn't stain/bleachstuff. i used a mix in my back yard - had several large ant "hills" - and it killed hte grass too. now the weeds are taking over, so ant hills are a lesser problem.
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#85737 May 16, 2013
Eh, I'm glad for you. I know I couldn't deal with FB with an ex. You seem to be doing well with it.:-D
I had to find my college diploma for my work visa, don't know if I posted about that, but I basically tore my house apart a few weeks back. Found all my pictures and mementos from my only other LTR, the guy I dated from 20 to 27, G. I didn't throw anything out, but I think I'm going to, now that I know where everything is and it's been labeled.
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#85738 May 16, 2013
Thanks for the tips, people. I bought the terro stuff and the safer stuff for pets/kids in the house and will put them all out tonight. I am glad I made the effort of cleaning my kitchen floor and moving cat food bowls to a portable cabinet at the other end of the kitchen last night.
I also know I need to plug the holes they're using to get into my place (they do seem to be coming in at certain points. But like a coworker said, use the poison first so it gets back to their nest.
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#85739 May 16, 2013
We have them at the moment, too. Watch in the cat food bowl. We have to put the cat bowls in a largers pasta plate with water to create a moat or else they go right to it.
I have been using ant traps from Home Depot and spraying the crevices at times when the cats are not there.
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Since: Jul 12
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#85740 May 16, 2013
When I had ants, I used the crevice spray raid around the perimeter inside and out and then used the ant bait motel thingies that are suppose to kill the colony.
It worked.
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#85741 May 16, 2013
I found a GREAT site. Talcum powder is lethal to them, so I can put that in my vacuum then vacuum 'em up to kill them (not my solution, just a temporary clean up thing). I also can put my cat food bowls onto a platter/plate covered with talcum to keep the ants out of that.
Saint Petersburg, FL
#85742 May 16, 2013
Great tip!
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Since: May 09
#85743 May 16, 2013
Use ant spray around their points of entry. And use chalk around the food bowls. The sidewalk chalk the kids use. Ants won't cross a line of chalk for some reason.
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Since: May 09
#85744 May 16, 2013
Right, because we prefer to be coddled. No one should have to do anything for themselves. If you use the restrooms in these gas stations, is there an attendant to wipe your @zz too?
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#85745 May 16, 2013
You do know, you could do that easily by yourself....besides, palmetto bugs are from outside, they just stumble in occasionally....Pest Control has huge profit margins.....just saying....Thanks for the Disney info...love eating in Germany or Italy at Epcot.....
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Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#85746 May 16, 2013
Maybe because it's in the shape of a pentagram?
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Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#85747 May 16, 2013
Will gold bond suffice?
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#85748 May 16, 2013
So long as it really does have talc in it. Not all powders do.
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#85749 May 16, 2013
That's another name for a cockroach right>
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I was completely freaked out about having my wisdom teeth extracted! I had never been sedated before and I was extremely fearful of the pain I might incur. The entire staff was caring and compassionate and never made me feel badly for being anxious and scared. Dr Mantegari is extremely professional and catered to my special requests. He made me feel comfortable and was informative every step of the way. There was absolutely no discomfort, minimal pain (after) and no swelling at all. I had noting to be afraid of! I was in good hands! I am confident recommending Dr Mantegari and his team of professionals and will certainly return in the event I myself am ever in need of additional oral surgery!
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Series: I Timothy Chapter 4
Stephen Whitney
I Timothy 4:13-16
Early in the morning on March 24, 1603 Queen Elizabeth died and King James came to the throne. When he met with the religious leaders John Rainolds, President of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, suggested a better translation be made from the Hebrew
and Greek languages to be used in all the Churches of England.
Forty-seven scholars were selected to make a new translation.
They were divided into six companies to meet at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and at Westminster in London. For three years from 1604 to 1606 each of the 47 scholars worked privately on the chapters assigned to him. Slowly and carefully they each
examined the Bible text, weighing each word before writing it down, seeking to determine the true meaning of each word in the original language.
The same portion of Scripture was translated by each of the men of the company to which that portion had been assigned. Then each man's work was carefully compared with that of the others in his company. When a book was completed it was then send on to the other companies for review and suggestions. The meetings of the six companies took another three years from 1607 to 1609. Then in 1611 the King James Bible was printed. It came to be called the "Authorized Vision" because King James determined it would be the only version of the Bible to be used in the Church of England.
Author Adam Nicolson in God's Secretaries chronicles the King James translator's sensitivity to sound. He says that 12 men sat round the room listening to the text being read aloud. The felt that what governed the acceptability of a particular verse was not only accuracy to the language, but also a pleasant sound of the words.
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- From: "Haan, Scott M." <HaanSM(--nospam--at)ci.anchorage.ak.us>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:21:27 -0800
A masters degree is a good investment. People don't realize what you get out of a few extra classes until you take them. I got a job that paid for night classes. If someone want's to work but wants the degree they can still get it. If your job won't pay for it you can always get a student loan. I know I am not underpaid doing what I do but I know others in similar jobs make more. Go to http://www.ICBO.org and look at thier job listings for an idea on what Plan Review Engineers are making. I don't make what some private guys make, but then again I am not going to miss my kid's first play or football game working overtime for free. There is a simple solution to having a higher salary and it is simply be unwilling to work for less than you are worth. Scott M Haan P.E. Plan Review Engineer Building Safety Division http://www.muni.org/building Development Services Department Municipality of Anchorage phone:907-343-8183 fax:907-249-7399 mailto:haansm(--nospam--at)ci.anchorage.ak.us -----Original Message----- From: Keith Fix [mailto:kefix(--nospam--at)yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:07 PM To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org Subject: RE: Engineering compensation Stan and I have already gone ten rounds on this one, but this begs a reply. How much compensation can I expect for a M.S.? At best, I might get $5000/yr (at start, not long-term). Cost/benefit decisions drive students to get jobs instead of Master's degrees. There is no shortage of engineers. Enrollments are down because compensation is down (though not as far as the article would suggest). Also, programming computers is a lot more fun than negotiating with architects and highway departments. Besides, STRUCTURE is not my favorite source for bright ideas. I remember a CASE news brief in the Summer 2000 issue announcing a joint meeting of CASE, SEI, and NCSEA. On the agenda was "a new structural magazine that competes with STRUCTURE". While I appreciate the practicle need for such an agenda item, it still felt a little like one of those "smoke-filled-room" scenarios. Not that Arneson's arguement is particulary noteworthy. A better solution would be to cut the H1-b visa stuff (given his premise - a glut of engineers). Another would be to let the engineering profession weed-out the "less-qualified" (as Stan does). Still another would be to let the market drive weak performers from the profession (the "free-market" approach). My favorite is to tell all those kids in high school that this profession really stinks, pays diddly, and has terrible career potential (the mis-information approach, unless you believe that I just told the truth ;-) ). It has finally dawned on me that Stan _might_ prefer to do his hiring at the MS level to reduce his investment in training. Is this why people are pushing for an MS requirement to enter this profession? A one-two punch of increasing employee-paid education costs and reducing the supply of engineers, thereby reducing training costs and increasing the market price for services? Not a bad idea, really. Stan should give Charlie tips on how to sell his database. :-) Keith Fix, voodoo engineer --- "Caldwell, Stan" <scaldwell(--nospam--at)halff.com> wrote: > Attention SEAINT list members: > > To refresh you memory, the following appeared in a past issue of STRUCTURE > > The article is archived on the NCSEA website > > check the following: > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/engineers/articles2/ > > > Bob Johnson > SEAOI > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Bob, Bob, Bob......... > > What are we going to do with you? Do you really think that anyone will be > influenced by what appears to be an antiquated letter-to-the-editor type of > piece from an obviously disgruntled engineer in the past Millennium? The > author, Tore Arnesen, attempts to use old and generic compensation data to > reach a conclusion that the structural engineering profession is > experiencing a severe and long-term decline in prosperity. He goes on to > propose that the only solution is to collectively force a massive reduction > in civil engineering student enrollments. > > Mr. Arnesen's conclusion flies in the face of reality, and his proposed > solution to this imaginary problem is preposterous. Most of the structural > engineers I know have put together strings of several consecutive "best > ever" years in recent times. Civil engineering programs are hardly > producing a glut of new structural engineers. To the contrary, we currently > have a significant shortage, and CE enrollments are dropping to the lowest > levels in decades. Go ask any CE professor, or read Max Porter's guest > editorial in the March, 2001 issue of STRUCTURE Magazine. He points out > that the shortage is most critical at the MS level, which is exactly where > many of us prefer to do our hiring. > > Regards, > > Stan R. Caldwell, P.E. > Dallas, Texas > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ * * This email was sent to you via Structural Engineers * Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) server. To * subscribe (no fee) or UnSubscribe, please go to: * * http://www.seaint.org/sealist1.asp * * Questions to seaint-ad(--nospam--at)seaint.org. Remember, any email you * send to the list is public domain and may be re-posted * without your permission. 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Wildlings vs. Night's Watch: What's the Beef?
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Good fences don't make good neighbors in the world of Game of Thrones...
Great explanation of why the free folk want to be on the other side of the Wall:
But the Long Night wasn't just a tale to scare children. It was the reason the Night's Watch was established in the first place, and it was the reason the Wall — 500 miles of ice wall, 700 feet high — was built some 8,000 years ago. Some of those who know that the White Walkers did exist believe they've been gone since then. But as a wildling trying to flee South explains, "They wasn't gone. They were sleeping, and they ain't sleeping no more." Some of those who know the White Walkers have woken up again try to keep them at bay — Craster sacrificed some 99 of his male children to the Others, so that he and his wives/daughters might be left in peace. The late Lord Commander Mormont knew this as well, and agreed to look the other way, telling Jon Snow, "Wildlings serve crueler gods than you or I."
Most wildlings, however, refuse to serve anyone. And while we're at it, they prefer not to be called wildlings — they call themselves the free folk. In turn, they call those in Westeros "kneelers," because they look down on those who would serve a king. Their own, the King Beyond the Wall, is not a king at all, but the closest thing to an elected official you might find in this world. "We don't go serving some shit king who is only king because of who his father was," Ygritte tells Jon Snow. "We chose Mance Rayder to lead us." And as Mance tells Jon Snow — it seems everyone's having to tell Jon Snow something! — it's not easy leading a massive group of people who define themselves by their very freedom from leaders. "You know what it takes to unite 90 clans, half of whom want to massacre the other half over one insult or another?" he asks. "Do you know I got moon worshippers, cannibals, and giants to march together in the same army? I told them we were all going to die if we don't get South, because that's the truth."
These various wildling tribes — the Thenns, the Hornfoots, the Ice River Clans, the Cave People, and more — know that the White Walkers have woken up. Some joined Mance's army; others like Osha and her former traveling companions tried to flee South on their own. "Piss on Mance Rayder and piss on the North," one of them tells her. "We're going as far south as south goes. There aren't no White Walkers down in Dorne."
If it weren't for the Wall, the White Walkers could migrate that far south, too, as the Wall is Westeros's protection against them. But it's also what prevents a mass exodus of wildlings fleeing the far North, stemming the tide of would-be illegal immigrants trapped beyond the Wall who want to find safer ground. As Ygritte complains to Jon, the land should be available to all of them. "Your lot just came along and put up a big wall and said it was yours!"  They argue about who has been invading whom — the people in Westeros look at the wildlings as savages and raiders, but the free folk have more of a "this land is our land" approach. "Why are you fighting us?" she asks pointedly. Tyrion also believes the main difference "between us and the wildlings is that when the Wall went up, our ancestors happened to live on the right side of it."
Yet over the years, the White Walkers faded from memory and the idea of them was treated as mere superstition. Even when the Night's Watch asked the kings of  Westeros for some serious backup, their requests fell on deaf ears — the assumption was that the Night's Watch was there to protect them against wildlings, not a serious threat. (If they came over the Wall to raid a village and steal supplies, it was a localized affair, and any attempts to breach the Wall en masse had failed). The rangers continued to patrol the wilderness — tracking and sometimes fighting and killing the wildlings, which of course only antagonized them further. (The orphaned wildling boys pelted Jon Snow, for instance, since they had lost their fathers to crows).
Those patrols North of the Wall were perceived by wildlings as an invasion, and those South of the Wall thought of it as a joke. "Is that what we are to you, an army of jesters in black?" Benjen Stark defensively asks Tyrion. The Starks may have kept the tradition of noble families volunteering for service, but the order was no longer perceived as an elite force by the rest of Westeros, and their numbers dwindled, forcing them to find recruits among runaways and criminals. "Ah, rapers," Tyrion notes. "They were given a choice, no doubt. Castration, or the Wall. Most choose the knife."  Those who choose the Wall don't always make it there — Yoren's last group of recruits from the dungeons of King's Landing were waylaid en route. Still more of the Night's Watch died battling both each other (during the mutiny at Craster's Keep) and the White Walkers (during ranging trips and at the Fist of the First Men). So even though Jon Snow lied to Mance Rayder, claiming that a thousand men guarded Castle Black, that was no longer true. And only 3 of the 19 castles — Castle Black, the Shadow Tower, and Eastwatch-by-the-Sea — have regiments. Hardly enough to fight both Mance's army and an army of the dead. Instead of fighting each other, shouldn't both the Night's Watch and Mance's army of wildlings take on their common enemy? Years of antagonism and resentment, however, have led to this moment. And if a hundred thousand wildlings want a way around the Wall into Westeros to avoid the White Walkers, the gate at Castle Black is their best option.
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Although still tracking higher for the week through Thursday, market action is starting to get a little rocky on this first full week of 2014. Still, many leading stocks continue to act well. A few of them are offering buying opportunities.
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Angie Walker
If you like a lot of flavor and spice in your deviled eggs, this is the recipe for you. There is nothing more disturbing than a tasteless deviled egg. My son ate at least a dozen of these little gems.
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- 1 dozen
- large eggs, hard-boiled and peeled
- 6 Tbsp
- mayonnaise (hellmann's olive oil)
- 3 Tbsp
- pickled sliced jalapeno peppers, minced
- 1 Tbsp
- mustard, spicy brown
- 1/2 tsp
- cumin
- 1/8 tsp
- salt
- fresh black pepper to taste
- lightly sprinkled smoked paprika
1Cut eggs in half lengthwise, and carefully remove yolks. Mash yolks (I used a fork); stir in mayonnaise and next five ingredients. Spoon or pipe egg yolk mixture into egg halves. Sprinkle lightly with smoked paprika Cover and chill for at least an hour, or until serving time. I also randomly topped some eggs with a jalapeno slice for the brave souls.
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If this sounds a little like the recent 'Despicable Me', that's because it rolls with a similar idea, albeit employing a more realistic animation style and a strain of reference-heavy humour aimed at a slightly more mature audience. But the film also pinches a few pages out of the 'Kick-Ass' rule book, notably in the way it dismantles the archetypal 'masked crusader' and delights in revealing the mundane chores of life as a full-time master of chaos: those jumbo-collared leather capes don't just stitch themselves, you know.
Ferrell's voice work is spot on. He even runs with an amusing speech impediment for which Metro City becomes Metrocity, and in one truly surreal moment he answers the telephone with 'Olo?', after which his minion (David Cross) reminds him, 'It's "hello".' Yet, for a film whose stock in trade are tongue-in-cheek reversals of comic-book cliché, it too often settles for trite audience-pleasing. We can only guess how long it took the guys in the soundtrack team to come up with 'Bad to the Bone' and Michael Jackson's 'Bad'. And when Jonah Hill's bumbling cameraman is zapped with a superpower raygun and hastily ushered in as the enemy, the film jettisons its raison d'etre for a standard, if splendidly executed, city-wrecking finale.
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The film was good and I liked the bit when megamind was falling with his gun I rate 5 for megamind falling and when they thought metroman died
It Waas Amazing It Was Likee Thee Best Film I Havee Eveer Seeen! 5 Stars It Waas Just To Gooood :)xxx :Lx
a w/e preview and 5 days......and not ONE comment? I hope it's not a Potter victim as this is FAR superior. Saw it in 3d which was impressive if not outstanding and may enjoy it again in 2d (if it's still on next week!) Really don't like Ferrell, but he's fine here so I guess it's his stupid face that Irks! A very good xmas treat. File over despicable me and Shrek 4, some way under Toy Story 3 and WAY below the surprise of the year HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. But forgetting all that, If its a Megamind / Potter toss up......THIS wins handsomely. 7+/10