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Keeping fully in mind that NOBODY knows what happens next as well as the Zurich Major Axiom 4: On Forecasts..Human behavior cannot be predicted. Distrust anyone who claims to know the future, however dimly. Nobody has the foggiest notion of what will happen in the future. Nobody. Never lose sight of the possibility you have made a bad bet….I do recommend that you take a look at ALL the Zurich Axioms at your leisure. They can be found here.
Or in the immortal words the great Yogi Berra: The future ain't what it used to be. That being said, making predictions is so much fun, I cannot resist doing it. I think predicting the future is hard wired into us as a specie. What we CAN do is take a look at probabilities about the future and attempt to come to some idea of what the higher and lower probabilities of what happens next to be. That is what I will attempt to do with this post. These are my views and observations.
The Immediate Market Landscape
First of all, what to make of the pre-election rally? The markets were pricing in the potential of a Romney victory. Right up to the election results, the polls were telling us that the election was about to be a squeaker with a small margin of victory for either candidate. This caused a knee jerk reaction to the upside. Once the results were known, the market then started to price in what the result would mean going forward and the market does not like what it sees.
The fiscal cliff: Now that the election is over, the market is focused on the much ballyhooed fiscal cliff, I would like to address that first. For those few who live under a rock, this what will happen on December 31, 2012 unless Congress takes action prior to that date (very low probability). 1) The Bush tax cuts are history. This would be the largest tax increase in one fell swoop in United States history. Also gone are the payroll tax cuts and 2) massive cuts (actual, real cuts!) in federal government spending. This was a "compromise" arrived at 3.5 long years ago as a "temporary" measure. For 3.5 years, it has not been re-visited.
We now have a lame duck Congress which will also be reluctant to act pushing any further real work on this into next year. Due to the election results, the Obama Administration has taken it as a mandate to raise taxes and raise them substantially. Now if you think that the Republican House is going to roll over and play dead on this issue, you had best think again. When you are as dead as the Republicans are right now, how do you fight back? You try to kill the other guy, now you are both dead. But then you can always say you were dead first so it is the other guy's fault. We are dealing with career politicians here so the result can be predicted with a fair amount of accuracy. Will there be a retroactive solution long after the first of the year? It could well be the case, but by then the damage will already have been done. What damage you ask? Let me ask you this. You are sitting on a large portfolio of stocks.
A lot of blue chips and dividend paying stocks. Your portfolio, over the course of the past 3.75 years (more on that later), has increased substantially. You are now faced with the very high probability that capital gains and dividends will be, after December 31, 2012, taxed at a substantially higher rate. What would you, the prudent "investor," do? Most of us do not have a huge portfolio of stocks we have held for long term capital gains except perhaps in our retirement accounts. Individuals do NOT move markets, institutions do. Broker-dealers are sell side market participants for the most part. Who are the buy side participants? They are the market participants who bring capital to the market.
Typically, they are the pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, institutional investors and hedge funds. These are the participants who move markets. What would you do right now if you were in charge of such funds? We have the high potential for a stampede towards the exits due to the virtual certainty of much higher tax rates including capital gain and dividend taxation. Then we have the debt ceiling. Not much is being said about this at the present moment but we are rapidly approaching that ceiling. Remember the last time this was "dealt" with? Congressional deadlock plunged the market. That deadlock is what created the fiscal cliff we now face! You can keep track of that debt clock right here.
In summation as to the current market landscape: I see nothing here, short of some kind of Congressional kick the can into next year scenario (low probability) that avoids heavy, very heavy selling into year end. I do not look for any kind of year end, Santa Claus rally this year. The Market Santa most likely will be delivering coal by the ton for the stockings hung by the chimney with care.
Longer Term Market Outlook
I am anticipating a very major economic downturn in 2013 both here in the United States as well as globally. Here I will just address the United States.
GDP: When year over year GDP falls below 2%, a recession follows 70% of the time within a year. 1st Qtr GDP was 1.9%. 2nd Qtr GDP was revised sharply downward to 1.25%. 3rd Qtr GDP was the same as the second quarter when removing government spending. Now, let's remove the other 30% probability of no recession. FACT: the GDP numbers coming out of Washington DC are gamed. Let me explain how that is done. There are five different federal agencies that come up with the inflation rate. Each uses different methodologies to arrive at that number.
When the GDP is calculated, the average number is not used. The mean number is not used. What is used is the lowest number! When GDP is calculated, one input is the inflation deflator. The lower that number, the higher will be GDP! John Williams over at Shadowstats does yeoman's work in debunking federal government statistics. According to his work, GDP is actually negative. The economy is shrinking.
The Philly Fed Survey: This survey measures U.S. manufacturing and has averaged +41 in the three months preceding each of the last five recessions. Last month, it dropped to +24!!!
Negative Earnings Outlooks: The ratio of negative outlooks on earnings vs. positive is currently at 4.3 to 1! This is the most bearish earnings outlook ratio since Q3 of 2001!
Effect of Taxation on P/E's: As the Obama Administration has made abundantly clear, taxes are about to go up and not by a small amount. If you are a dividend type investor, to maintain your yield after taxation you will demand a lower price when you buy a dividend stock. This will also combine with the negative earnings outlook to shrink PE's from their current, historically lofty heights for a secular bear market. Based on this, stock prices will head lower.
At this point, we should take a short and cursory look at the market technicals and market cycles. As many realize, market tops are very much different than market bottoms. Market bottoms tend to be events characterized by "V" type price action. Market tops tend to be a process. It is a very rare occurrence when you get a blow off spike top in over all markets. Not uncommon in individual equity issues but rare for the over all stock market.
Since the June low of this year, what does the chart tell us? It shows there have been three attempts to form a higher recovery high. Each attempt, the high was lower than the last attempt. It is basic technical analysis in identifying trend. In an up trend, you need to see a series of higher lows as then the highs will take care of themselves. In a down trend, you see a series of lower highs. The lows will also then, take care of themselves. This is now what we are seeing, a series of lower highs. That is the very definition of trend. And finally, a thought or two about market cycles.
When we speak of bull and bear markets often the term "cyclical" and "secular" are attached. One cyclical bear market and one cyclical bull market comprise the normal run of the mill market cycle and tends to last a total of five years. Historically and broadly speaking, the cyclical bull's duration is around 3.75 years with the cyclical bear lasting 1.25 years. The cyclical bull averages gains of approximately 150% from trough to peak. In the cyclical bear, the average decline is 30% from peak to trough. When you do the compounding, this means the cyclical bear wipes out more than half of the gains of the preceding cyclical bull market gains.
These "averages" hide another source of variation which is where are they in the context of what secular cycle? For more than a century now you will find that market valuations have moved in very broad advancing and declining phases with each phase or cycle lasting about 17 to 18 years. For example, stocks moved from extremely low valuations in 1947 to very high valuations by 1965. Within this secular bull cycle, each cyclical bull market produced higher and higher valuations after each cyclical bear market within it. Conversely, the period from 1965 to 1982, valuation multiples went through a long contraction.
Each cyclical bear market bottomed out at lower and lower valuations. The effect of these longer valuation waves is that in the secular bull market, the cyclical bull tends to be longer and more rewarding and the cyclical bear markets tend to be shorter and less damaging. Conversely, in the secular bear market (which we are in now), the cyclical bear markets tend to be longer and more violent where as the cyclical bull markets tend to be shorter and less rewarding. Based on this, this cyclical bull market is very long in the tooth. A further word about short term cycles within the cyclical bull/bear. These are circles on a calendar based on confluence of short term cycles. When calling for a cycle low, you must be able to distinguish two types of lows. A price point in the market that you can go up from or a price point that you drop down into.
The same distinction should be made for a cycle high. It can be a price point you go up into or a price point you drop down from. This type of short term cycle work cannot give you those price points! They are merely time point on the calendar for heightened awareness pn upir part which perhaps can be measured with other tools you use. A good example of this could be Tom McClellan's (of the McClellan Market Report, an excellent publication) call for some kind of cycle top in the spring of 2013. Does this mean an ES reading of 1500? Or does it mean that after seeing 1050, we then see 1200 prior to a further drop? Again, he does not know, I do not know nor does anyone else know the answer to that. Be careful attempting to apply cycle work to price points. It is a trap. I would suggest you use other technical tools to attempt to devine the answers to that question.
In conclusion: For the Chinese, 2013 will be the year of the Snake. For us, it appears it will be THE Year of the Bear. I will be trading it accordingly. Again, these are merely my thoughts and observations. Always use stops because being wrong is not an option. Staying wrong is! Hope this helps.
Yours in the never ending search for the trading edge.-The Market Sniper


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Friday, September 30, 2016
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via this auction
"Selling a fully loaded Simmons SDS-V vintage, analog drum synth. This unit is in excellent condition both cosmetically (more so than any unit I've come across on ebay) and functionally.
Comes with Kick, Snare, and 5 Tom modules.
Does not include with drum pads (price reflects this).
Everything on the front face plate looks immaculate
There is some normal light wear on the chasis and rack ears (but even this can be replaced if you want)
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This is the biggest and baddest sounding Simmons (I've owned several) and has excellent sounding Curtis filters (same ones on SP-1200 and many classic synths)"
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Today new EOW blogger Ginny Braud wrote about funky-smelling asparagus pee. Commenter Trisch shared her thoughts on the subject:
Haha, the special at the company cafeteria today is asparagus and goat cheese pizza. How appropriate. Artichokes have a similar effect, although not nearly as pungent. Interestingly enough, I have a relative who didn't eat asparagus for 30 years because he thought the stinky pee indicated he was allergic to it. Now that he knows better, asparagus is one of his favorite foods.
That reminds me of a relative of mine, who shall remain unnamed. He once went to the doctor for extensive testing after eating a plate of beets...
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re: st: comparing trends
"Ariel Linden. DrPH" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
re: st: comparing trends
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:58:31 -0400
This is one of the most obscure queries I have seen on this list so far.
There is such little information that I don't know where to start.
Have you generated a specific modeling approach to test this? If so, what
does that model look like? Is it a regression with a multiple category
treatment variable? Are there different regressions, each with a different
set of treatment variables? What trend are you looking at? Is it the
coefficient on the time variable? Is the time variable interacted with the
treatment variable or does it stand alone?
I am not sure anyone can provide a meaningful response with the limited
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:32:19 -0400
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Subject: st: comparing trends
We have run an experiment where we have subjects search for a target item
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in the trends in the amount of time it takes the participant to find the
target as a function of the number of distractors (also called set size).
Some times, the target is present and sometimes it is not. How do we do a
comparison of the trends for target-present versus target-absent?
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SO... Yeah. Look at that. I wrote a second half. It was fine as it was but I wrote more anyway.
My History of China class inspired the first half and when I had it again this week... Oh, look at that, more inspiration. I really hope this doesn't become a weekly thing because I am truly satisfied with this the way it is now.
Well, Narroch was banging on at me that I should have added more sexy tiems but really what I wanted to explore further was Japan and China's relationship and plant the seeds of Japan's later imperialistic pursuits. Harsh as it sounds, in reality nobody – not even the British Empire – fucked over China quite as hard as Japan did.
To: LolliDictator, randomlvr1, Lady Emzebel, Sexykill69, Narroch, Star Jinin and Bistre Melancholia! Thankyou for your reviews for the first part! :)
A BTW Warning: The rating went up from T to M for a reason. Not a huge hulking horndog reason, but a reason nonetheless. Perhaps for unconventional use of tea. XD
To Imperialism: II
Japan watched Hong Kong sleep for a while; too long a while, really, because China might be out of his mind with opium and practically crawling on the floor and quasi-fighting with idiotic America over who got to kiss that bastard British Empire on the mouth where'd he'd kiss back and who had to make do with elsewhere, but China himself was still very much governed by his adherence to honour and politeness and he'd taught Japan to be the same.
He didn't want to go back to the chamber in which China was entertaining his guests, almost afraid of what he'd see, but he knew it would be rude not to, to just vanish and shut himself in his room and stew in his own disgust instead (even if China himself had screeched at him to get out). He despised England and America, but he would not stand for having them think ill of him, for them to look down on him and on China and Asia any more than they already did.
Because they acted in a polite and friendly manner, but Japan knew that they were mocking them – all of Europe, France and Spain and Germany and Austria, thought of Asia as some backwards nesting-ground for poor pathetic China and all his equally-uncivilised siblings.
(Poor pathetic China indeed.)
Japan clenched his fists. It made him sick. He didn't want to see England's smug face again tonight – he didn't think he could stomach having to merely smile politely when the empire addressed him.
He didn't like America much better, able to put up with him only marginally more because he didn't come across as quite as sly and devious as England. Oh, Japan still wouldn't trust him as far as he could throw him – and would implore China to do the same – and of course America was loud and forward in his behaviour, his method of conduct clashing horribly with Asian sensibilities (and even England's, somehow).
As an aside, Japan also felt that America was somewhat rather hypocritical in his actions towards England. Hadn't he fought some huge war with him to gain his independence from him fairly recently? By their standards, fifty-odd years really wasn't a very long time, and yet here was America, all cosy with England as though nothing had happened.
(Japan thought this very odd – but maybe Westerners didn't hold grudges?)
More than cosy, actually – America all over England half the time with his hands and his mouth as though he hadn't eaten for a week despite the fact China had ensured that the both of them were well-fed during their stay. To China, food was of utmost importance and he'd gone all-out for his guests; America had gorged himself in a fashion that had made Japan feel slightly ill to watch and even England had seemed annoyed by his table manners, so delicate in his own way that Japan felt that he might actually be able to get on with him if only he wasn't such an arrogant, greedy kleptomaniac.
England. Japan loathed him but in a strange, bitter way, he also sort of... admired him. What was it like to be England – to be an empire? What was it like to be that strong and rich and powerful? What was it like to command the kind of respect that England did from other nations? It must feel good, Japan reasoned, because England didn't come across as someone who did anything that didn't please him. England was the way he was presumably because he wanted to be and he didn't seem to care who hated him for it as long as he got his own way.
Perhaps it was no wonder that America had decided it was within his interest to stroke England's ego and fawn over him like some palace concubine. Or maybe he liked being an empire's fuck-toy. Or maybe he even just had some kind of weird daddy-complex that made him chase after England compulsively despite having fought tooth and nail to get away from him.
Japan didn't know or understand and he didn't really want to.
He leaned back from Hong Kong's bed, straightened his obi even though it didn't need adjusting and turned away, slowly making his way across the bed chamber and out into the hall, sliding the door shut behind him. He made his way down the corridor back to the room he'd left China at the mercy of England and America in, his wooden geta a steady drumbeat to the soft song of the nightingale floor.
He didn't know if it was worse than he'd been expecting or simply just... what he'd been expecting.
All three of them had moved; England was sprawled like a king across the throne of red silk pillows China had previously been lounging upon, his jacket off and his cravat loose about his crisp collar. China was curled up next to him, his hair splayed like ink over the paper-white breadth of England's chest in its perfectly-neat shirt with all those tiny, fancy, fiddly buttons (which looked infuriating and impractical to Japan). He had his hand on England's stomach, drawing patterns on it, fingers dancing around those same ridiculous fastenings; his other hand still covetously held his opium pipe.
It took Japan a second longer to locate America; and he looked away fiercely, disgust washing over him once more, when he did so. America was kneeling between England's parted thighs hell-bent on his not-having-eaten-for-a-week routine once again, positively devouring him, and Japan didn't know what to do with himself.
He was furious that they'd... that they'd dare to do something so lewd and undisputedly private out in the open in someone else's house with their host sitting right there watching it, all snug and sleepy against England (who moaned or shifted every now and then but mostly just gazed down at America somewhat impassively as though assessing his efforts).
Frozen and silent with shock and rage, Japan's presence went unnoticed; England leaned forwards and gave a small tug on America's hair to get his attention, still holding on even when the other blonde met his gaze.
"Try not to let it get too cold," England said boredly before leaning back again.
China shifted closer to him and was ignored; England had closed his green eyes, shifting himself on the pillows and giving a slight lift of his hips – and if America hadn't heeded him before, he certainly did now, raising his head completely.
He had a mouthful of something and Japan didn't want to know what (although he thought he knew and also thought, therefore, that he didn't particularly want to see America swallow it). As it happened, America didn't swallow anything; he leaned aside and spat what had been in his mouth onto the floor.
It hit the marble like liquid amber. It was tea.
"It was cold?" he asked, looking up at England again, wiping his mouth on his sleeve.
"Mm." Not opening his eyes, England gave a small sigh. "China took the trouble of brewing more, however. Pray use that."
"Very well."
America's tone was cheerful as he leaned across to the table to refill his cup. He was so tall, Japan noted, that he could do this without moving from between England's legs, even if it was a little awkward.
China sat up.
"Allow me," he said, beginning to move.
"America can do it himself," England snapped, stopping China in his tracks.
Japan felt a sudden pang of pity as he watched China blink at England, taken aback; only a small pang, however, and it was soon overtaken by anger once again. England wasn't even putting up the pretence of being nice anymore, more or less openly declaring that he thought of America – Western, like himself – as better, more capable even in the art of pouring Chinese tea, than China.
After all, they'd gotten the tea – what they'd come for. Everything else was just a bonus and didn't warrant either of them to be on their best behaviour.
The spell broken, Japan stepped forwards angrily, geta clacking decisively on the floor. Before he could open his mouth, however, China started like a spooked squirrel and twisted around to look at him.
"Japan?" he asked softly, seemingly having forgotten that he'd shouted at his brother to leave and – probably – not come back.
"Nihon," Japan insisted, stressing the sound of his real name. "Or Rìběn, even. Do not call me 'Japan'. That is their name for me, Zhōngguó." He spoke in quiet, urgent Chinese, before switching back to Japanese to say his name for his brother. "Chūgoku."
England opened his jade eyes the moment he heard Japan change from the English he had been using earlier. In all truth, Japan's English wasn't fantastic – competent, really, at best. China understood and spoke it much better than he did, presumably due to his prolonged contact with England himself; Japan had found himself unable to understand half of what they'd been discussing earlier, finding America particularly difficult to translate for.
Still, his halting attempts had appeared to please England enough to not look at Japan the way he was looking at him right now – with an immense amount of contempt.
China rose and got off the nest of pillows to come level with Japan; England didn't seem remotely bothered by his departure, narrowing his eyes briefly at Japan before turning his attention back to America, who had refilled his cup with fresh tea, watching him as he tipped it to his mouth and drained it; but apparently the taste was too much and he swallowed it, too.
"America, do not waste my time," England said icily.
"Sorry." America simply grinned at him. "It is very good tea, though. Well worth the trade."
"China, America likes your tea very much," England hummed, nestling deeper into the cushions.
"Yīngguó likes your tea very much too, it would seem," Japan said in a low voice, determined to stick to his hybrid of Chinese-Japanese-Chinese, if only to anger England. "I rather think Igirisu likes your tea altogether too much, you stupid fool."
"Japan—" England began icily before China could even open his mouth; but England himself got no further, suddenly gasping and twisting as America went back down on him forcefully and fast with a new unswallowed mouthful of hot tea.
"Why are you letting them do this?!" Japan asked angrily in Chinese, grabbing China by his small shoulders and shaking him. "Why are you allowing them to ridicule us? They traded you that awful drug for your tea and look what they are doing with it! They are laughing at us, Zhōngguó! This whole thing, this entire disgusting spectacle... It is all for the purpose of mocking us, of mocking Asia!"
China blinked at him confusedly for a moment; his ebony hair was all over his face, wild and tangled. Japan wanted to brush it back, to tie it neatly over his shoulder the way China usually did.
Why are you letting them see you like this? Why are you letting them think you are so weak, so vulnerable? Even if it is true, you should not give them the pleasure of knowing that it is.
"Japan," China said finally, frowning a little, "please speak in English. It is disrespectful to our guests to use our languages so that they might not understand us."
"It is not I who is being disrespectful!" Japan pressed, switching not to English but to Japanese.
"China, please tell Japan that I am getting impatient with his insistence in speaking in a tongue that neither America nor I can decipher," England said coldly.
He spoke on behalf of America (hadn't that been America's problem in the first place?) even though America didn't seem to be anywhere near as offended, perhaps because he was preoccupied. He didn't even have his eyes open, his expression appearing somewhat content – at least until England put his hand on his head and pushed him further forwards.
"More," England commanded, as though he felt that he needed to give a verbal order to justify his action.
With his head clamped in place, America didn't seem to have much of a choice other than to nod and do what he was told; Japan didn't feel sorry for him at all, but he wondered vaguely if England really did think much better of even America than he did of them. Of course, America had once rebelled against him, but that probably only meant that England saw him an upstart, a pest, as opposed to an equal.
Was America simply just stupid? Japan didn't allow China to treat him like that.
"Chūgoku," Japan began again insistently, taking hold of China's arm and trying to pull at him, to lead him away. "Please, let us just—"
"Japan!" China tore his arm away angrily. "Do not dishonour me by disobeying my orders! Speak in English!"
Japan looked at him, shocked, not quite sure where to begin defending himself; China drew himself up straighter than he had done all day, his dark eyes hot with misplaced fury.
"I think you should apologise to our guests," he hissed. "You have greatly offended England and I will not stand for your behaviour ruining our trading relationship."
"Oh, of course not," Japan replied bitterly, going back to Chinese so that China would understand him perfectly clearly. "Because where would you acquire your precious opium then?"
China slapped him across the face; it hurt and took Japan very much by surprise. China was getting weaker day by day, it was true, but he was still strong enough to make Japan's slender frame reel from the impact of his hand.
"I will also not stand for you speaking to me like that," China informed him icily, reaching towards him and grabbing him by the back of his kimono; he shoved him forwards a few paces towards England (who really didn't appear all that interested in him at this exact moment, writhing on the silk under the ministrations of America's mouth).
Japan rubbed at his stinging face. China had never hit him before, even when he was very angry. Japan wasn't sure whether to blame the suddenness, the newness, of China's action on the opium or on the influence of England and America or on both. He admitted that he had not seen England hit America or vice versa, but it was a given that imperialism was a vicious business. It seemed only fitting that China would have copied such violent behaviour from someone who had gotten to be the world's largest empire or who had gained their freedom through nothing but aggression.
"Apologise," China ordered.
Japan didn't – couldn't – speak. His cheek still smarting, he was transfixed by England, hating him, hating him so much that it made his skin crawl to look at him; but also fascinated by him as he watched him moving on the pillows with America so obediently between his legs. The way he rocked his hips, the way he held America's hair, the way he breathed (calm) and groaned (soft) and cursed (English)...
Even at the mercy of America's actions, owing the other blonde the entirety of his pleasure, he was still the one in control. It was obvious, no matter how much Japan wished it wasn't true – that England was capable of showing weakness like China.
What was it like to be that powerful?
England dug his fingers deeper, harder, into America's gold hair as he came, barely making a sound but throwing his head back against the pillows; America apparently hadn't been expecting either, or maybe it was just that he already had a mouthful of tea, but he almost choked and pulled back and spat onto the marble again, coughing.
Japan stepped back in revulsion, looking down at what America had coughed up, at the concoction of China's tea and England's seed and America's spit, all mixed and merged irreversibly.
"Sorry." America looked up; but he was speaking to England, not to China or Japan, and probably because he hadn't swallowed it as opposed to where he had spat it out.
"Do not concern yourself," England sighed, reaching his arm out towards him.
America didn't need to be invited twice and clambered up on top of him, making the pillows dip further beneath their combined weight, and settled very happily, all too content to let England lick his face clean.
Japan felt China nudge him insistently in the back.
"Japan, you dishonour me," China pressed, altogether very unaffected by the fact that his guests were making a mess of his floor and ignoring him completely in favour of indulging in an inappropriate display. "Apologise for forgetting to speak in English."
Forget? Japan almost laughed; but instead bit at his bottom lip, still not speaking but looking at England and America making themselves comfortable. America tucked his head against England's throat and met Japan's gaze and shot him a sickly smile. He looked very pleased with himself.
Idiot, Japan thought, though he found himself sarcastically returning the smile.
America blinked at him, then laughed and leaned up to whisper something in England's ear. Japan expected England to laugh too, thinking that America was sharing some feeble joke at Asia's expense with him, and was surprised when England suddenly pushed America away.
"No," the empire said firmly.
America gave a whining sound in reply as he pulled himself back into his previous position and Japan heard him muttering about something not being fair.
"Later," England replied lazily.
"But—" America began, pouting.
"America, give me a chance to get my breath back," England cut in, even though he notably didn't sound out of breath at all. "If you must be so impatient, go to China."
America didn't seem to be very satisfied with this set of options, visibly sulking. He pressed a few kisses to England's throat and began pawing at him, perhaps trying to entice him into changing his mind; England lay still for a long moment, letting him do it, and then countered by pressing his thigh up between America's legs.
America faltered and hissed, arching his back.
"Please," he breathed, looking at England desperately over his slipping glasses.
"While I like your tone a lot better now, I am still going to decline until later," England said, smiling in satisfaction. "I have something of a business matter to attend to. However, I am sure that China will indulge your needs for now."
He lowered his knee and America wilted somewhat, nodding in defeat.
To Japan, this was simply another testament of England's power; America was a lot bigger and was already on top of him, practically pinning him down. If America truly wanted him that badly, there was nothing much stopping him. Japan supposed that he didn't really expect America to rape England – he didn't seem to have that kind of temperament – but the way the taller man was conquered with only a few words on England's part was fairly impressive.
Well, the British Empire was nothing if not exceedingly manipulative.
America got off the pillows, leaving England to finally make himself decent again, and approached China. Japan had no idea why he did it, but he found himself suddenly stepping between them, his arms outspread.
"I must protest—" he started, finally reverting to English.
America, who wasn't smiling anymore, effortlessly pushed Japan out of the way and took hold of China by his upper arm.
"Chūgoku!" Japan tried to grab at his brother as China was steered away rather firmly by America.
"My name is China!" China spat at him over his shoulder in English, making Japan shrink back. "And stay out of this, won't you? It really is none of your business!"
This is alright with you? Japan couldn't speak, only watch once more as China shot a smile at America that wasn't returned; he could only watch, near tears, as America instead pushed China down across the low table that they had drank their tea at earlier and began to impatiently unbutton himself. China didn't seem to care much, still high on opium, his jet hair flared all across the table's ornate surface, over wide-winged phoenixes and long coiling dragons and tall sweeping trees. This is alright with you, China? Chūgoku. Zhōngguó. Grand Imperial China. You really do not protest this as I do?
He looked at England; his heart thudding unpleasantly when he found that England was already looking at him.
Smiling that smile again.
"Come here, Japan," England said softly.
Japan's heart-rate sped up, fear suddenly spiking within him; still, he gathered the courage to mutely shake his head.
England sighed and laughed in the same breath.
"I have no sexual designs upon you, that much I promise," he said. "And you can take my word on it – I am not France. Come here, if you please. I mean you no ill."
The way you mean China no ill? Japan's dark eyes slid towards China; his fists were clenched on the surface of the table but his face was hidden by his hair. America was not being particularly gentle with him, his hips moving with an impatient urgency; and every now and then, Japan noticed, his sky-blue eyes flickered hopefully upwards toward England, as though to see if he was watching, paying him any kind of attention at all.
He was disappointed every time, England's awareness focused solely on Japan.
Perhaps just to piss America off – revenge for what he was doing to China – Japan raised his chin and closed the gap between himself and England, kneeling in his favoured position before the mound of red pillows. England sat up and leaned forwards, his elbows on his knees and his chin on his hands. It was maybe because it was a somewhat-childish position, but he suddenly looked a lot younger, taking the edges off his imposing countenance.
"I do not think it would be a great leap of intuition to conclude that you do not like America or I very much," he mused – and his body-language might be less dangerous but his voice certainly wasn't. "Now why is that, I wonder? Certainly we have done you no harm."
You intend to, however.
Japan had not said it aloud but the glint in England's green eyes still somehow seemed to say 'I agree'.
"We..." Japan forced himself to speak. "We do not need your trade!"
England laughed again. It was pretty, decorative, insincere.
"I rather think China might counter you on that," he said. "He is always eager to trade with us."
Because you got him addicted to opium.
Again, Japan did not need to speak; all he did was glance briefly over his shoulder at China once more, still taking an irritated pounding from America, and when he returned his gaze to England he found that the empire's smile had widened. It was impossibly friendly and fiendish all at once.
"I cannot help it if your dear brother is a fool," he said in a low voice.
Japan could say nothing to that because it was the truth. He felt the tears sting at his eyes again and looked down, fiercely wiping at his cheeks on the sleeve of his kimono. Why was he crying over China? He deserved to be treated like this for being so stupid, surely? Idiocy did not merit being rewarded – that was why he didn't pity America either. America couldn't expect England to respect him if he let him walk all over him and bent to his every whim. Japan couldn't understand why America himself didn't seem to see that.
(Still, England was pretty frightening. His smile made Japan feel sick with fear and maybe that was China's and America's problem too. Perhaps they were afraid of him.)
"America has a point, however," England went on lightly. "You really should consider trading with us too."
"I have no desire for your drugs!" Japan spat.
England didn't seem much perturbed by Japan's tone, shrugging.
"I know you trade with Holland sometimes," he replied. "What does he have that we do not? Even if you only want to trade with one of us, that would be fine. It does not have to be for opium, naturally."
Of course, because if I only trade with you, you do better from it; and if I only trade with America, you will no doubt persuade him to give you a cut of it anyway. You win either way, you bastard empire.
"I would rather not," Japan said firmly, looking away. "You rightly called my brother a fool. I am sure you will understand if I refuse to mimic his folly."
"I suppose I can respect that." That was what England's mouth said. What his eyes said was "But I will make you regret refusing me".
There was a moment's silence and stillness between them, broken only by China's high-pitched whines and wails and America's panting. Japan closed his eyes, wishing he could block out the sound of it as easily; and in the short moment following his shutting them, he suddenly heard England shift again and his eyes flew open again in alarm just in time to find the blonde man kneeling opposite him, copying – mocking, maybe – his position.
Japan resisted the urge to recoil, but he couldn't hold England's gaze for long. His eyes really did look far too much like jade and all it did was serve to remind Japan of the empire's obsession with collecting treasures that didn't belong to him. He was Greed Incarnate and he knew it, revelling in it instead of being ashamed.
"You are very strong," England said finally, looking at Japan critically – as though observing him in a sudden new light. "Stronger than China. I might not have believed it if I had not seen it for myself, but I think you might be very powerful yourself one day." He suddenly smirked. "It will not happen if you hide away in your safe little shell as you are doing now, however. The world is only yours for the taking if you are willing to reach out and take it."
Japan had nothing to say to that either; shocked, to say the least. In a roundabout way, the great British Empire had sort of... complimented him. Sort of.
"Oh," England went on, his voice deceptively gentle, "and do not worry about our relationship with China. If anyone destroys him, it will probably be you."
He stood up and stepped past Japan, walking away and leaving the teenager on his knees, stunned.
"America, I am retiring," England said dismissively, heading towards the door. "Join me whenever you are done here."
He left without waiting for a reply. Japan turned his gaze on America and saw the resentment in his blue eyes as he watched England go.
For the first time tonight, Japan understood how America felt.
(He looked at quiet, unresisting China and knew exactly how America felt.)
America's bad mood towards England apparently hadn't lasted very long. The walls were thin – wood and paper – and Japan could hear him singing England's praises even two rooms away as he tried to sleep.
He could hardly hear England but he got the impression that America was being loud on purpose. That didn't surprise him, although whether it even crossed America's mind that he was being inconsiderate was a different matter entirely – as before, he did not like America, but he did not seem as openly, deliberately malicious as England. Still, it didn't appear as if England himself was making any effort to quieten him, and Japan could just see the bastard's smirk every time he heard America's cries of "England!" or "British Empire!" or "Oh god yes!".
America's shrieks weren't the only thing keeping him awake, however.
England's words were bouncing around inside his skull somehow louder.
If anyone destroys him, it will probably be you.
Japan sat up, pushing back his sheets and reaching for his kimono. He pulled it on, leaving it loose, and stood up. He could still hear America babbling happily, although he couldn't understand what he was saying. Probably something obscene.
He went to the door in his bare feet and slipped out of his room, padding silently down the hall, away from England and America and their filthy charade.
He hesitated outside China's door for a long time, the sudden silence almost alien. China slept right at the end of the house with his wide window overlooking the rice fields; Japan saw them silver in the moonlight as he quietly winched open the door, noting that China's curtains were drawn back and his window was barely closed. The gentle breeze made the strings of wind chimes whisper – a different serenade entirely to America's.
Japan ghosted across the floor towards China's bed. China didn't sleep on the floor like him; he preferred to be elevated whilst Japan was happier close to the ground. It was one of their many differences.
China had his back to him, curled up small facing the wall with his ebony hair all over the pillow. He was very still, as though asleep, although Japan didn't think that he was.
He wondered if he ached; if America had hurt him.
He shrugged off his kimono, the silk sliding off his shoulders, and slipped under the sheets behind China, cuddling up close to him. He didn't say anything.
"You hate me," China breathed in Chinese. "Don't you, Rìběn?"
"No," Japan said. He didn't know if he was lying or not.
China turned over to face him, at long last brushing his hair back from his pale face. Pretty, feminine, ancient. Older than Japan, than America, than England. Poor, pathetic—
Weak, foolish China.
His smile made Japan cry.
Yīngguó/Igirisu – Chinese/Japanese (of course) for 'Britain' or 'United Kingdom'
Rìběn/Nihon – Chinese/Japanese for 'Japan'
Zhōngguó/Chūgoku – Chinese/Japanese for 'China'
Just for kicks (because nobody mentioned it here): Meiguó/Amerika – Chinese/Japanese for 'America'
Geta: Those wooden sandals Japanese people wear with the two narrow little platforms underneath them.
Nightingale Floor: Japanese flooring designed to make some kind of chirping sound when walked on to protect from ninjas or whatever, I guess. Idk.
Excuse Me, I Am Sorry (c whut I did thar, lolololol): Random note, but for all the mean things going on in here and despite China's insistence that Japan should apologise for not speaking English, America was the only character who actually said "Sorry", and it was for kind of... negligible reason. Japan didn't obey China and say it and both China himself (who should have apologised for slapping Japan) and England (who should have apologised for being a manipulative evil bastard) had no intention of saying it.
On the subject of the latter: Har de har har, I am not apologising for writing him the way I did. Why? Because the British Empire did some pretty awful things and was massively jerkish to other countries (yes, even to America – or, at least, they tried to screw the US over a few times regarding trade). And not that I'm proud necessarily of all the horrible things my country did during its imperial reign, but I am British and maybe I'm just sick of seeing my country's "representative" being all blushing-irritable-tsundere-uke ALL THE FREAKING TIME.
Even if that's totally how he actually is. XD
To my darling Narroch: STILL NO THREESOME. Because it didn't actually happen. Because I said. Nyah nyah.
England and America: Worst. Houseguests. EVER.
Maybe it makes sense. We, the British (as a generalisation/stereotype), hate American tourists and everyone else hates British tourists.
(We also hate German tourists because they steal all the free towels in Majorca.)


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(Reuters) - World number two Jordan Spieth shook off the rust that cost him in the opening round as he fired a sparkling seven-under-par 64 on Friday to surge into contention at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois.
The Masters and U.S. Open champion, playing his first PGA Tour event in three weeks, mixed an eagle at the par-five second with six birdies and a lone bogey to finish the second round at seven-under 135, five strokes off the pace.
Long-hitting Justin Thomas, co-leader overnight, fired a five-birdie 67 at the TPC Deere Run to take over on his own at the top, with fellow Americans Johnson Wagner (63) and Tom Gillis (65) a further stroke back at 11 under.
Spieth, who took time off after his U.S. Open win at Chambers Bay last month, was delighted to rebound from an opening 71 where his short game was especially rusty.
"Today was a big step forward," said the 21-year-old, who is using the tournament to tune up for next week's British Open where he will aim to add the third leg of a grand slam of the majors.
"I was not feeling great after Wednesday (the pro-am), and then after yesterday ... but to come out today and shoot a solid round when I know I needed to and to have my putter working when I knew I needed it to gives me a lot of confidence.
"I putted about as well today as I have the past couple months," said Spieth, who totaled just 25 putts in the second round. "Ultimately this was a big day for me in my preparation for next week."
Some have questioned the plan by Spieth to arrive at St. Andrews just three days before the start of the British Open but the American is happy with his preparations for the year's third major.
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Squeegie McNeese a Tattaglia family associate and racket boss.
Squeegie McNeese ran the Verona Warehouse in Little Italy, and maintained control of this district for the Tattaglias. He was known to take his orders from Tony Bianchi. However, in 1946, his warehouse was raided by Aldo Trapani, who bought McNeese out, regaining Corleone family control over Little Italy.
However, trouble began when the former Tattaglia employees went on strike in order to get their jobs back, and McNeese called upon Vito Corleone for assistance. Vito called Aldo Trapani, who broke up the strike swiftly, yet violently, and brought the police down on the Corleones, who managed to prevent damage through several well placed bribes.
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Don Pardo, the booming voice of NBC's famed TV sketch show Saturday Night Live for over 40 years, has died.
The veteran broadcaster passed away at his home in Tucson, Arizona, where he pre-recorded his weekly introductions for the New York-based comedy programme during the last few years.
His daughter, Dona Pardo, confirmed the news to the New York Times yesterday (18 August).
Pardo, who began his six-decade-plus broadcasting career in the radio age of the 1930s, was with Saturday Night Live for its debut in 1975 and was the show's announcer every year since then, except during its 1981-1982 season.
Viewers heard him at the beginning of the show announcing the cast and guest stars in his grand, distinctive style, stretching out words for effect. He also closed each show by reading the guests slated to appear for the following week, and sometimes performed voice-overs in skits.
In doing so, he literally introduced TV audiences to some of the era's biggest names in show business, including such comedy power houses as John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Adam Sandler, and Maya Rudolph.
"There is nothing like the moment when Don Pardo says your name at the beginning of the show," Jimmy Fallon, a former SNL cast member said on his own NBC late-night show. "Nothing like that thrill. You almost want to cry."
Pardo made rare on-screen appearances on SNL, including the time he donned a white tuxedo for a sketch with avant garde rock guitarist Frank Zappa. The show's writers also used him in bits such as Don Pardo's Holiday in an Elevator, Waiting for Pardo and The Don Pardo Digital Gift Catalogue.
He also was brought on stage at the end of a 2008 show to celebrate his 90th birthday.
Pardo started his broadcasting career at a radio station in Providence, Rhode Island in 1938 and joined NBC in 1944. He announced the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to NBC listeners in 1963.
Before Saturday Night Live, game shows provided steady work. He was the announcer for early incarnations of The Price Is Right, Three on a Match, Winning Streak, Jackpot and the original Jeopardy!
Pardo, who was born Dominick George Pardo on 22 February 1918, in Westfield, Massachusetts, and his wife, Kay, had five children. Kay Pardo died in 1995.
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Joel J. Kupperman (born May 18, 1936) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, author of Six Myths about the Good Life, a popular philosophical volume centering on those values most worth engaging in human life. Kupperman is best known to the general public as the "math Quiz Kid" who, during the 1940s astounded audiences with his ability to do complex mathematics rapidly and seemingly "in his head". He also had strong general knowledge, and was often the winner of the weekly Quiz Kid competitions featured on the show. In a movie at the time "Chip off the Old Block" (1944), starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan and Ann Blyth, Kupperman alone was featured as the "Quiz Kid", representative of the group.[1]
During his initial Quiz Kids shows, Kupperman, 7, lisped, which emphasized his youth and endeared him to the listening audience.[2] During one particular broadcast of the Quiz Kids Joel would show his ability to multiply any number times 99 "in his head". When asked how he was able to do this he replied "It's a theequit twick". When asked what the "secret trick" was he explained that the number he was given he merely multiplied by one hundred then subtracted the same number from the previous total to get the correct answer.
He is married to noted historian/author Karen Ordahl Kupperman, who teaches at New York University. The couple have two children: Michael Joel Kupperman, a noted illustrator; and Charlie Anders Kupperman,[3][4] a medical journalist [5] and editor for Eli Healthcare,[6] formerly residing in North Carolina.[7]
- ^ Kupperman, Joel J. Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about what has Value. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006
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- ^ [2] Gilbert, Margaret and Hiskes, Anne, eds. 'Cogitamus' (March 2, 1999).
- ^ [3] Scanlon, Jennifer and Cosner, Shaaron. American women historians, 1700s-1990s: a biographical dictionary, p. 138. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996
- ^ [4] Part B Insider Staff and Bios
- ^ [5] EliHealthcare.com Editorial Staff
- ^ [6] Gilbert, Margaret and Hiskes, Anne, eds. 'Cogitamus' (March 2, 1999).
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What should have been a perfect day for Manchester United en route to a 20th League title became an unexpectedly anxious one as Reading, who have twice pushed them hard already this season, did so once more.
After Manchester City's defeat at Everton offered them the chance to move 15 points clear with only nine games remaining, United looked tired and unconvincing – despite having made eight team changes – before accepting the invitation.
From the start the Old Trafford crowd were mostly as subdued as their team, whose tempo was below the required level almost throughout. It took Wayne Rooney's 16th goal of the season to rouse them, and even then the level dropped off again.
Reading, under the temporary management of Eamonn Dolan, a former product of the West Ham academy, performed with spirit but did not quite have the confidence or quality to take advantage of United's lassitude. After a fifth successive League defeat they seem destined to return whence they came last May. Although losing by only one goal kept them off the bottom, they are now seven points from safety.
"It was what you expect from a team fighting for their lives," said United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson. "But they didn't really make chances and we defended quite well."
It was his team's fifth successive clean sheet in the League, one in which Rio Ferdinand, who will join up with England tomorrow, was outstanding.
For Dolan the whole experience was in contrast to his previous match as a manager, which was in charge of Exeter City for a Conference game nine years ago. Yesterday there were 25 times as many people watching –plus a live television audience – who saw his team hold out for 20 minutes before United finally stepped up a gear and took the lead.
If the opening half was quieter than the teams' previous League meeting, that was to be expected, since at the Madejski Stadium last December seven goals were scored in an extraordinary first 35 minutes – four of them to United, which was how the scoreline remained.
In contrast, Reading did better in holding Ferguson's side at bay for more than an hour when they visited Old Trafford for an FA Cup tie last month before submitting 2-1. So three times now United have pipped them by a single goal.
Dolan, whose twin brother, Pat, is Brian McDermott's agent, had spoken to the deposed manager before the game and made three changes, which involved strengthening the midfield with an extra man and ditching the team's previous 4-4-2 formation. Noel Hunt, who was left on his own in attack, unexpectedly found himself facing Ferdinand as well as Nemanja Vidic, the former starting for a third successive game for United.
Since November he has normally appeared in alternate matches due to concerns about his back problems. But Ferdinand it was who set up the only goal. In the 21st minute he carried the ball upfield, beat Mikele Leigertwood with a deft flick and supplied Rooney, whose shot from 25 yards deflected up off Alex Pearce and into the net.
Dolan was a permanent fixture in the technical area even as the driving rain increased his discomfort, although until that point there had been little to worry him.
By half-time, the home side had not threatened again and Reading's one chance was an admittedly good effort by Hal Robson-Kanu, taking Garath McCleary's pass and shooting a fraction wide from outside the penalty area.
That should have been a warning, likewise Reading's bright start to the second half, during which Vidic was fortunate not to concede a penalty for a push on Adrian Mariappa when defending a corner. "It was a clear penalty," Dolan said. "But I think the referee thought I was on work experience and a little 1-0 loss for Reading would be OK."
Even then there was a scramble before United got the ball away and Mike Phelan, their assistant manager, was quickly sent to the touchline to inject some urgency. It came at last around the hour mark as Ashley Young's clever turn put Alex Buttner in, Jem Karacan sliding in painfully to concede a corner. Next, Robin van Persie, out of sorts and seeking a first goal in five games, had his powerful free-kick beaten away by Stuart Taylor, the former Manchester City goalkeeper who was standing in for the injured Adam Federici.
Javier Hernandez must have felt he should be on, but when a change was made it was Michael Carrick replacing Young, who limped away but should also be fit for England. Five minutes of injury time added to the anxiety around the ground, but United held on.
If their day was less than perfect, the table this morning looks good enough.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Hans Bergsten [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 00:34 > > Regarding the proposed changes, I'm +0. I'd like to see 3.3 (or ideally it > should be called 3.2.x if you decide to start from scratch with the 3.2 > base) as the continuation of 3.2, with focus on bug fixes and minor > improvements (e.g. performance, admin, etc.) in support of the > 2.2/1.1 APIs > as opposed to refactoring to a completely new architecture. From the mails > on this list, it seems like the majority wants a stable 3.2.x code base > that's good enough to be used in production. Another important reason > to keep the basic architecture intact is to give people a chance to learn > how it works and be able to contribute to the 3.2.x code base. If it keeps > changing, there will be very few that has the time to keep up. I am one of the guys that wants a stable production solution. BUT most (all?) of the changes that Costin lists: 1. Simplify code; 2. Improve modularity; 3. Fix functionality. 3 has to be done in order to have a production product that behaves has expected according to the Servlet standard version it implements. 1 and 2 always pay-off quite fast in terms of maintenance and code reuse. And this is important because: - Tomcat will always have some maintenance work to be done while it is a production product. So, it would be better to freeze it at a more maintainable form; - Tomcat is a product that tends to be reused quite often in other products. Examples I know better: Borland's JBuilder 4 and Oracle's JDeveloper 3. And let's consider this factors: a) It is still not clear when will Catalina be production ready - one can never be 100% sure about such things before they are done. HOWEVER most of the work on 3.3 and most of the 3.2 bug fixes are done. This makes merging them and getting 3.3 production ready a much more predictable task than getting Catalina/4.0 there; b) And then, Costin wants to do most of the work! So, why not taking advantage of b) to reach the advantages of the better and easier to maintain 3.3 that, according to a), is "more sure" to be there soon than 4.0? Conclusion: - Costin is doing most of the work; - His changes really look to be an improvement; - And if he is wrong (which I doubt) everybody can stick with 3.2 until 4.0, even if having to make minor (3.3.x?) fixes... - ...since no one else looks to be willing to do all the stuff that Costin wants to take care of, anyway. (BOTTOM LINE: let's take advantage of Costin! (o;= He is also having his fun!) > > - consolidation/refactoring of all tomcat-independent and > general-purpose/ > > reusable code into org.apache.tomcat.util.[log, etc ] > > > > - new utils > > If they are truly reusable (e.g. used in both Tomcat and Jasper), wouldn't > org.apache.util be a better package name? Wouldn't that be a bit intrusive and demand for agreement with other Apache projects? Have fun, Paulo
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Case 1 Part 4 Felix
Something was going on between Amethyst and Poppy. Felix knew it, but he didn't have any proof and he didn't know what it was.
'Felix what's wrong?' Teina asked from the bed in Felix's room, one that he was going to share with Tom.
'The Cosmo Twins,' Felix said
'What's wrong with them?' Teina asked she was pissed. Felix was talking about her family and he was saying something was wrong with them. Maybe it was the fact that they talked together.
'No… I think there's something they're not telling us.'
'You haven't told us your life story, so why should they?' Teina pointed out, the only one who knew anything about Felix is Lovell and he wouldn't tell her anything, because it would abuse Felix's trust. Her husband wouldn't do that to him… no matter how much of a brat he was.
'I'm going to the bathroom,' Felix said. He was getting sick and tired of that fox looking at him… even if it was glaring at him. He wanted answers and he was sure that he was going to get them. 'Okay, who are you?' He asked as soon as the door was locked.
'So you can see me?' The fox asked 'only the mistress and her sister can normally see me.'
'Yes,' Felix said while thinking over what the fox had told him 'mistress' who was that 'I can see you, but what are you.'
'You don't know,' the fox asked as if the answer was the most obvious thing in the world.
'I wouldn't have asked if I had known,'
'Hilaria?' Felix repeated
'Yes… that is my name,'
'So you answered my first question,' Felix sighed 'can you answer my second one?'
'Shiki,' Hilaria said
'That was the word,' Felix said 'isn't Shiki a Chinese custom?'
'Yes it was,' Hilaria said looking at him like he grow another head 'are you okay?'
'I'm fine,' Felix said his slightly tanned face going red for acting weirdly in front… of well anyone. 'Who's your "mistress" anyway?'
'Amethyst Cosmo.'
'Why are you following me?' Felix asked leaning against the sink, he was right. Those two were hiding something… and that something had to do with the case.
'Mistress told me to,'
'I'm guessing it's the same with Tom?'
'Yes before Nero and I had to watch Tom, Nero stayed with Tom,' Hilaria told him floating above the tub 'In fact Nero and Prumus are still with Lovell and Tom.'
'Who's with Teina?'
'Isolde's with Teina,' Hilaria said
'How do you know our names?'
'We have ears you know?'
'Oh right,' Felix said rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment.


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Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - January 4, 1989, Aiken, South Carolina Sports Prep Cage Teams Back At Work Page 7 A A Quick Read Daughter's Dreams Lead To Body PLYMOUTH, Mich. (AP) - A daughter haunted by nightmares about her mother's 1985 disappearance pried open a locked basement freezer and found the woman's battered body, prompting her father's confession to the slaying, police say. Leonard Tyburski, who told police he kept the body in the freezer for 34 years because he loved his wife and didn't want to part with her, has been charged with murder, authorities said. "It has some indications of Edgar Allan Poe and even some Alfred Hitchcock,'' said 35th District Judge James Garner, who arraigned Tyburski on Tuesday and ordered him held without bond in the Wayne County Jail. Tyburski, dean of students at Detroit's Mackenzie High School, had cooperated with police investigating his wife's disappearance. Dorothy Tyburski was 37 when he reported her missing on Oct. 2,1985. Tyburski passed a lie-detector test and hadn't been considered a suspect, police said. The case, treated as a missing person report, had been closed for two years. Weather It'll Be Cold Tonight Today will be mostly sunny with a high near 50. Tonight will be fair, but temperatures will drop into the 20s before morning. Frost should disappear from exposed surfaces by 9 a.m. Thursday. Thursday will be sunny with a high in the 50s and a low in the 30s. Please see Page 12A for details.Deaths Annie L. Hall, Edgefield Beauford McDaniel, Andrews Edna Sellers, Bath Alice M. Walker, Trenton Marion L. Williams III, Beech Island Please see Page 8A for details.Inside Today Bridge.......... Calendar....... Classifieds.... Comics......... Crossword.... 7B 2B 5B 4B 8B Cryptoquote., ............ 6B Dear Abby ................... ..4B Local Front ..... 1B Obituaries..................... 8A Opinions .............. ....4A Sports.,,............................... «9A Television ...... ,,.,4B Weather.............. 12A The Year onWall Street Today: Annual AMEX Report, Please See Page 2B Aiken County Public Library Page 2A Debate Predicted On Media Ban Page IB SUken blanda rh Wednesday, January 4,1989 25C Aiken, South Carolina Vol. 122 No. 4 U.S. Shoots Down Libyan Fighters MiGs Triggered Clash, Pentagon Reports By NORMAN BLACK AP Military Writer WASHINGTON - U.S. Navy planes today shot down two libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea, according to White House officials who said the American aircraft were "threatened while conducting routine operations in internation al airspace." Deputy White House Press Secretary Roman Popadiuk, in Los Angeles with vacationing President Reagan, said two F-14 aircraft from the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy "were threatened while conducting routine operations in international airspace north of Tobruk," a Libyan port. Pentagon sources, who demanded anonymity, told The Associated Press the Libyan planes turned on the American jets at high speed and with their targeting radars activated. The F-14s then turned on the Libyans and opened fire after concluding they were about to be attacked, the sources added. Popadiuk said he had no information on how far off the coast the U.S. planes were or the nature of the operations they were conducting when they were threatened. Sen. Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "Indications are that Libya violated what we call the rules of engagement... They maneuvered themselves into a position to be able to shoot down American planes. The rules of engagement permit self-defense in those circumstances." "Under those circumstances,... clearly it was libya that took the provocative action," Sen. Nunn, D-Ga., told Atlanta radio station WGST. The air battle was the first fighting between the United States and Libya since American jets bombed Tripoli in 1986 and came amid rising tension between the two countries over Libya's construction of a plant the United States says is intended to produce chemical weapons. Today's incident came amid rising tensions and concern over what the United States says is a newly constructed plant to make chemical weapons. Gadhafi has claimed that the United States is using the allegations as a pretext to attack his North African country. Raise Is Issue For Congress By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Leaders of the newly-convened 101st Congress are speaking kindly of president-elect Bush, and they're talking about cleaning up Capitol Hill's image of corruption — especially if they can get a pay raise, too. The ceremonial start of the new session on Tuesday gushed with optimism about what could be accomplished in the next two years, with the Congress more firmly in Democratic control and with a new Republican in the White House. "By v irking together, we can help our new president fulfill his beautiful promise of a kinder, gentler America," said Rep. Jim Wright, D-Texas, upon his re-election Tuesday as Speaker of the House. Wright pledged "the earnest and unstinting cooperation of the leadership of this House" in helping Bush with his foreign policy goals, and the speaker even thanked his outgoing adversary, President Reagan, for his international successes and "encouraging the growth and sustenance of politial freedom in countries throughout the world." The speaker listed the federal budget and trade deficits and a myriad of social needs as requiring bipartisan cooperation. (Please See RAISE, Page 12A) Old Ceremony Certifies Bush Triumph ; By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — George Bush, picked for the presidency in November and confirmed by an Electoral College landslide in December, is presiding over a quaint, Constitutional ceremony that certifies his triumph. In a carefully choreographed bit of stagecraft as old as the Republic, Congress arranged to meet today in a joint session of the House and Senate to count the results of the Electoral College election. Aides to Bush said he would preside at the early afternoon session in his role as vice president, as the Constitution directs. It is an event utterly lacking in suspense, yet also one that has not occurred in precisely these circumstances since the days of Martin Van Buren. As Bush occasionally points tnt. Van Buren was the last vice president to win election directly to the White House. Thus he was the last man (Please See OLD, Page 12A) AP Laserphoto 101 ST CONGRESS: Reelected House Speaker Jim Wright (left) is handed the gavel by House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois at the opening day of the 101st Congress on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Starostecki: Transition 'Aggravating' SRP Delays Aiken's Rainfall In 1988 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Month S.C. Measures Indies Below " " For 1988 By NINA J. NIDIFFER Staff Writer South Carolina is emerging from an unusually dry year, and 1989 does not look as though it is going to be much wetter, according to State Climatologist John C. Purvis. Aiken County fared better than other drier regions, coming up only a few inches short of normal rainfall. An overall state average was not available, but Purvis said that every region of the state experienced below average rainfall in 1988. The Greenville/Spartanburg district was very dry with a yearly rainfall of 38.27 inches, 12.3 inches less rain than usual. On the other end of the scale, Columbia was relatively well off, with an estimated 9.73 inches below normal. Aiken County is better off than many. Several good rains that came down in the fall gave Aiken a yearly estimate of 44.15 inches of rain, only 3.5 inches below normal. "You can see that everyone is below normal," he said, "a few places along the (Please See S.C., Page 12 A) By BRAD SWOPE Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A top Department of Energy official, frustrated at how long it's taking to restart the nuclear reactors at the Savannah River Plant, says the transition to a new SRP contractor is "aggravating" the delay. "The engineering continuity is being lost" as the Du Pont Co., departing contractor, prepares to cede the SRP reins next April I to Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Richard W. Starostecki said Tuesday, "There's a lot of turmoil that is natural when you have a change in management," said Starostecki, the DOE's deputy assistant secretary for safety, health and quality assurance. Starostecki, who previously helped oversee commercial nuclear power for some 12 years as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said in in interview that only aggressive, clearly-defined management can deal with equipment problems that inevitably develop with all nuclear reactors. While praising Westinghouse^ qualifications, he said he is "frustrated" with how long ifs taking to complete earth-quake-resistance improvements and other work at SRP's reactors. SRP's three operable production reactors — P, K and L — have been shut down since last summer for a DOE-ordered program of hardware and management upgrades. The 1950s-era reactors are the nation's only source of perishable tritium gas, an "There's a lot of turmoil that is natural when you have a change in management," said Starostecki, the DOE's deputy assistant secretary for safety, health and quality assurance. —■ Richard W. Starostecki essential component of nuclear weapons. The lingering shutdowns have provoked concern in the defense community. "Part of it is aggravated by the transition," Starostecki said, as Du Pont reassigns engineers at its Wilmington, Del., headquarters from SRP work to other duties. As Westinghouse staffs up its own SRP engineering organization, "the engineering continuity is being lost," he said. The official, who has criticized SRP management repeatedly in recent weeks, expressed particular impatience with seismic, or earthquake, work. A seismic "walkdown," an inspection that led to mechanical improvements, was completed in three months at P-Re-actor, but similar work is still pending at the other two reactors, he said. Starostecki said SRP needs a management team with clear lines of responsibility, and authority to promptly "find and (Please See STAROSTECKI, Page 12A) ;
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