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A Nightmare Never Fading
Beware, Isa. Darkness lurks.
The spirit girl's words echoed through my head like a drumbeat. Spirits often gave warnings, and I knew it could be dangerous to ignore them. But first I had to decide what her words meant. I decided to ask Gabby,
Gabby could see spirits, or so she claimed, and therefore it was only logical to seek her advice. Besides, she said I could ask her if I needed anything.
Slowly I rose from my seat and tiptoed up the aisle to where she and that other man sat. "Gabby," I whispered, "Hey. Wake up."
She looked at me in surprise. "What do you want?"
I told her about what I had seen, and what the spirit girl had said.

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I read with interest the recent article in CHEST (January 2005) by Wilson et al1 on peak expiratory flow time (PEFT) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). They reported increasing PEFT with time, with the rate of increase in PEFT being greater than the rate of decline in either FVC or peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR).
The authors did not measure maximal expiratory pressure (Pemax). Since Pemax correlates with PEFR in patients with ALS,2the interpretation of the PEFT data in the absence of respiratory muscle strength measurements creates more questions than it gives answers. The PEFT reflects in large part the ability of the expiratory muscles to develop rapid (explosive) force and is related to the rate of pressure rise. It is also related to the Pemax because the capacity of skeletal muscles for rapid force development declines in proportion to the ability to generate maximal force.3 If this is not the case for ALS patients, the measurement of Pemax would establish the superiority of PEFT in monitoring respiratory function in these patients. If, on the other hand, changes in PEFT relate to Pemax, then the measurement of Pemax is preferable to that of PEFT. PEFT, as for all indexes of rapid force development, is less reliable and less reproducible than Pemax.5 In addition, the measurement of PEFT will require the standardization of the forced expiratory maneuver and, specifically, the speed of inspiration prior to exhalation, which was not controlled for in the study of Wilson et al.1 A fast inspiration to total lung capacity will prestretch (eccentric contraction) the expiratory muscles, which will then develop greater pressure (and a greater rate of pressure rise) during the subsequent forceful (concentric) contraction.6–7 The property of skeletal muscles to produce greater force when a concentric contraction is immediately preceded by an eccentric contraction is known as the stretch-shortening cycle. Therefore, standardizing the expiratory maneuver used for measuring PEFT will help to minimize the variability of the PEFT.
Finally, the authors state that the PEFR is determined by the force-velocity characteristics of the respiratory muscles rather than by the mechanical properties of the lung. The current notion is that PEFR is determined by a flow-limiting mechanism. Some studies8using the negative expiratory pressure technique,9calculating PEFR on the basis of wave speed theory10 or employing specific maneuvers to augment expiratory effort through the stretch-shortening cycle, have shown that PEFR is not limited by the velocity of muscle shortening.
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A Hole in Texasby Herman Wouk
With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture--politics, big science, and the media--spectacularly collide.
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A Hole in TexasA Novel
By Herman Wouk
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Chapter OneTHE PARTICLE PHYSICIST
We all have bad days, and Dr. Guy Carpenter awoke to rain drumming on gray windows, with a qualm in his gut about what this drab day might bring. Late at night an e-mail had come in, summoning him to an urgent morning meeting at the Jet Propulsion Lab with no reason given, an ill omen indeed to a survivor of the abort on the Texas plain. He was in pajamas at the desk in his den, gnawing at a slice of Swiss cheese on sourdough bread as he marked up a gloomy cost estimate of new space telescopes, when his wife burst in, her long black hair hanging in wet tangled ringlets, her soaked nightgown clinging transparently to her slim body. "Sweeney got out," she barked.
"No! How, this time?"
"I took out the trash, that's how. They collect it Wednesday at seven, or have you forgotten? It's raining buckets, I hurried, I left the screen door unlatched, and the bastard slipped out. I tried to catch him and got drenched."
"I'll find him."
"Don't you have that meeting at seven-thirty? I'm wet through and stark naked, as you see, or I'd look for him."
"No problem. Sorry about the trash."
Dr. Carpenter threw on a raincoat and plodded out barefoot on slippery grass. The downpour was helpful. Sweeney hated the wet, so he would be holed up in some dry spot of the backyard instead of hightailing it over the fence for a major chase, and if that failed, a general neighborhood alarm. Penny's obsession for keeping her cat indoors was a given of their marriage. Wonderful wife, Penny, with a human weakness or two such as a slight streak of jealousy and an unarguable dogma that outside cats were short-lived. Sweeney, a resourceful Siamese, ignored her for a doting fool, he knew he would never die, and he lay in wait for any chance to get out.
Poking here and there, Carpenter spied the bedraggled creature under a padded lounge chair. Okay, Sweeney! He crouched to grab the beast. Sweeney inched rearward just beyond his grasp, blinking at him. Standard cat maneuver, but this was no time for such foolery, so Carpenter kicked the chair aside and pounced on the cat. With an electric stab of pain, his back went out. Three weeks of slow healing, shot in an instant! He had pulled a muscle playing tennis, with an overhand smash at set point plunk into the net; and now this, no tennis for at least another three weeks. Standard Carpenter performance, he thought, clutching at his throbbing back. Guy's colleagues regarded him as a top man in high-energy physics, his wife Penny adored him when he remembered to take out the trash, but he had a downbeat opinion of Dr. Guy Carpenter, due to a perfectionist bent always nagging at his self-esteem.
"Bad cat," Penny said as he brought Sweeney in, meowing in outrage. Muffled in a bathrobe, she was drying her hair. "Good Lord, you're drowned. I hope you didn't catch your death. The Project Scientist phoned in a huge tizzy -"
"Call her back, say I'm on my way."
Wincing at each move, he dressed, limped out to the garage, and eased himself into his car. When he pressed the garage-door opener, nothing happened. What now? Low battery? He lurched to Penny's car and tried her remote. It did not work, either. The wall button goosed the door to rattle upward a foot, then it halted. He had never before tried using the manual lift. How did it work, exactly? He grasped the thick rough cord in both hands and with excruciating pain hauled the screeching door halfway up, where it stuck. His lower back aflame, pulsating, he called the Project Scientist on his cell phone to beg off from the meeting.
She was unsympathetic. "Guy, take a couple of Aleves. Peter's on his way. Why don't I alert him to pick you up? You've got to be here."
"Why me, Ottoline? I'm crippled, I tell you -"
"You know more about the Superconducting Super Collider than anyone here."
"The Super Collider? So what? It was killed back in '93. It's dead and forgotten."
"Not anymore."
"How's that? For crying out loud, Ottoline, what's up?"
"Not over the phone. I'll page Peter and see you in a bit."
Penny said, "Aleve, my foot," and gave him two of her migraine capsules. "These will do the trick."
"Codeine? I'll be a zombie," he protested, downing them.
"All the better. Don't commit yourself to anything involving colliders."
"Not with a knife at my throat."
Soft soothing warmth gradually suffused his back as he waited for Peter Braunstein. Memories flooded him, memories long suppressed, released and made dreamily vivid by the opiate. Those years in alien Texas, years of working his heart out on that stupendous machine; years of the greatest fun and challenge in his life, and the worst frustration! He knew too much, that was the trouble. The monster might well have worked, but then again, every one of those ten thousand supermagnets had to function flawlessly, and they were his responsibility. He had fought in vain for more time, more careful designing, more testing. Hurry, hurry, national prestige at stake, get the thing going, then see! That was the word from on high, with unsubtle slurs about his foot-dragging -
"Guy?" Peter Braunstein on the cell phone. "I'm calling from my car. You okay?"
"I'll live. What the devil's going on, Peter?"
"I just asked Ottoline when she called me about you. She said, 'Budget,' and hung up. Be right there."
Budget ... The haunt of modern science ... The delayed-action bomb that had sunk the SSC! The NASA budget review in Congress happened every year around this time. NASA supported the Jet Propulsion Lab, JPL supported the Terrestrial Planet Finder, and that project was Ottoline's baby, so no doubt that was why she was on edge. Still, why the urgency? Their project had never yet run into a money problem. The Terrestrial Planet Finder was part of NASA's Origins Program, which was exploring two grand questions about human existence:
(1) Are we alone? (2) Where did we come from?
A tall order, a noble endeavor, and their part of it was to search for signs of life on planets circling remote stars. The new space telescopes, if they could get the budget for them, would go a long way toward solving these riddles ...
Honk, honk outside the garage. Stooping to pass under the half-raised door was pleasantly painless. Guy's burly bearded tennis partner, a Cornell classmate and now an eminent astrophysicist, helped him into the high front seat of a battered camper. It was Peter Braunstein who, after the Texas debacle, had recruited Guy for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He said as he drove, "Well, let's hope it's NASA that's getting the heat, not our project."
"Peter, we're small potatoes."
"We're NASA small potatoes, Guy. NASA's been in trouble ever since the last Americans flew off the moon, you know that. No one big mission, a grab bag of dicey missions like ours, the media just yawn at the marvelous leaps ahead in space science, and every now and then a disaster throws the whole nervous bureaucracy into shock -"
"Go ahead, cheer me up," said Carpenter. He was happy at JPL, proud of his work on the Planet Finder, and he tried not to think beyond his day-to-day work. For a high-energy physicist, relocating yet again at his age would be murder.
"Oh, Ottoline's the worrier. I think we'll be okay. It's just that Congress is muttering more and more every year about money for NASA. Martian landscapes and floating astronauts are getting to be old stuff, Guy. Where's the payoff?"
"A new more powerful bomb, you mean?" said Guy Carpenter. "Contact with aliens, maybe?"
"Something," said Braunstein, swinging the car into the JPL parking lot.
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A very nerdy novel that is also entertaining, A Hole in Texas is an intriguing book that has the science fiction feel without all the blasters, spaceships, and other undeveloped technology. There's a satirical feel to it, criticizing Hollywood and Congress for their poor jobs in trying to understand what the scientific community is really all about. The explanations for the Higgs boson and other theories are clear and interesting; the author knows when to stop, so not to bore the reader. Every event seems entirely plausible, the plot is smooth, and there are a variety of sub-plots. Carpenter, the main character, is portrayed in conflicting lights: a devoted husband and an unattached bachelor. Much of the book centers on dialogue, so it's sometimes hard to recall who is speaking, what their characteristics are, and how they might react. Overall, this book was a very excellent read.
I love the book
I had almost forgotten how much I enjoyed some of his earlier works and I just picked this up on a whim and enjoyed every page.
Mix Crichton's science, Chris Buckley's Washington satire, and Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything and you'd have A Hole in Texas. A fine read made even more enjoyable knowing it's author is 88 years old.
Here we have the basic reasons why Wouk will never be treated as a serious writer. While he can keep you from falling asleep, he doesn't have the tools to accomplish much more than that. The plot is predictable, the science is straightforward, and the characters stock and typecast. In his better books (like The Winds of War and War and Remembrance) his storytelling skills--and they can be genuinely awesome--are sharp as can be. But here they lag, and so does the book. Forgettable.
Herman Wouk is among the all-time great American novelists. His best books are the historical war-time fictions, which are long and potentially daunting to an unfamiliar reader. What I love about this book is Wouk's classic character development, diaglogue and story-telling in less than 300 pages. This is a fast-moving and action-packed book, and it's exciting how the author manages all of the subplots and brings them to a crescendo at the end before bringing everything to an adequate close. I highly recommend this as a starter novel for anyone who has never read Herman Wouk or as a gift, and if you're already a Wouk fan you won't be disappointed.
Having worked 5 years at the Super Collider, I was very interested in reading this book. However, after the first 100 pages, I simply could not continue reading--just skimmed the rest. I found it utterly boring and unrelated to the SSC I knew. This is not even a good novel.


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Ethanol: Laws, regulations and public policies always have unintended consequences. Sometimes they create shortages, even of food. Other times they bring on housing bubbles. And then, on occasion, they wreck our cars.
Such is the case of E15 — an automobile fuel blend of 85% gasoline, 15% ethanol.
E15 has not been mandated for use by the federal government. But it has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for cars made after 2000, which implies that Washington strongly suggests motorists switch to the blend and hints that a mandate could one day follow.
It would be consistent with Washington's obsession with going green and its coercive actions sold as essential environmental policies.
E10, a blend of 90% gasoline, 10% ethanol — again, touted as an environmentally friendly alternative that helps the U.S. cut its dependence on foreign oil — is already in wide use across the U.S., and the world.
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"Additional E15 testing, completed this month, has identified an elevated incidence of fuel pump failures, fuel system component swelling, and impairment of fuel measurement systems in some of the vehicles tested," says the Coordinating Research Council.
"E15 could cause erratic and misleading fuel gauge readings or cause faulty check engine light illuminations. It also could cause critical components to break and stop fuel flow to the engine."
The CRC is, by it's own admission, a group created by the oil and auto industries. But that doesn't mean its findings should be dismissed. They are, in fact, consistent with independent sources.
"Research to date raises serious concerns that E15," American Automobile Association president and CEO Robert L. Darbelnet wrote in The Hill in December, "could cause accelerated engine wear and failure, fuel system damage and other problems such as false 'check engine' lights."
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The magazine believes that "the problems will only get worse if government policy to increase the proportion of ethanol to gasoline is implemented."
Similarly, Road & Track magazine has reported that "at high levels, ethanol is corrosive to many traditional automotive materials, seals ... and the like."
Another shortcoming of ethanol: Its energy content is low. A gallon of gasoline, for instance, will take a car farther than a gallon of fuel cut with E10.
Further diluting the blend with E15 will result in even poorer mileage. Edmunds, the automobile resource group, ran a comparative test and found that an E85 blend (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) got 20% to 25% fewer miles per gallon than pure gasoline.
If all this isn't enough to get ethanol out of our tanks, consider that it also disrupts our domestic food supply and skews food prices because we are taking a portion of our food stock — as much as 40% of all corn grown in the country — and burning it in our cars.
Washington didn't intend to wreck our car motors, decrease our fuel mileage or cause problems in global and U.S. food markets when it decided to push ethanol on the public.
But that is what has happened. If ever there was a lesson in poor public policy, ethanol is it.


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Magical Sword
No idea where this dream came from. But it seems to have many elements from many things. I was up in my Grandparents house in Montana (Bitterroot area) when I had this dream a few days ago.
I was a magical sword that could turn into a human at will. I must say, I was a beautifully crafted weapon of awesome destruction. My hilt was straight and bound with gold wire, and the accessory to help protect the hand (the guard) was gold with jewels decorating it stylishly, and curved gracefully. I think my metal was something like Damascus steel, but of course, magical. Sadly, only one person could wield me, and she was a pacifist. Thankfully though, I could fight for myself for the most part, but I couldn't unleash my true potential without her. Kinda weird, watching a sword fight for itself, floating up in the air. No, I'm serious, that's what it was like.
From what I remember, I was searching for this girl so that we could defeat the evil in the world together; i.e, a dragon. I was very desperate to not wake up this dragon, because he would wreck havoc on the plane I was trying very hard to protect. I don't know how long I spent looking for the girl, but it certainly felt like eternity. I might have been immortal because I was a sword. A magical sword!
Eventually, I found her and she refused any kind of fighting whatsoever. I pestered her and pestered her, but she never gave in. She was a very strong willed woman, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I actually ended up tricking her to come with me, can't remember how, but in the end I got her to wield me.
How we accidentally woke up the dragon, was kinda weird really. I was practically dragging her behind me to the dragon's lair/portal to the lair. There were other people there, observing the very large purple portal (sounds like Minecraft right?) and blocking it off to "civilians". Maybe the girl was someone of importance, or I fibbed my way in, I have no idea, but we got near the portal anyhow.
My magical aura, or whatever, resonated with the doorway and let out a shock wave. Knocking people over, cracking stone and concrete, you name it. A big claw came out of the portal and struck me down. Then the whole dragon crawled it's way out of it's realm of darkness.
He was terrifying. More scary than any dragon I've encountered (and that's a lot by the by).
Here's the final battle before I woke up:
The dragon had awakened, but I was present with the girl in tow. I turned into a sword and blocked all his attacks, which only got stronger and stronger as I got weaker. Fire and stone was flying everywhere. She was behind me screaming herself hoarse, me yelling at her to just hold my handle (that sounded weird) and I'll take care of the rest. This went on and on, until I was almost done for. I can't remember what I said, but it was inspiring enough for her to stand up and grip my hilt. To which, I totally just vanquished this dragon in a few blows.
It was like a burst of light when she wrapped her hand around the grip, closed her eyes and swung down. I was already awesome without her, but when we joined, it was amazing! I distinctly remember me, the blade, burst into pieces, but acted like they were still one, and moved as one, creating gashes and cuts everywhere my shards were. Then when finished, it all came back to me and was a whole blade again.
Exciting right?


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Fallen: Chapter SevenMature
I was already partially drunk by the time the party was in full swing.
I chose to dance for a while with a couple of people in the main room, just letting my body move to the music. I knew I looked good. I had chosen to wear a simple black dress cut off way above the knees with tight material, showing off my figure. Several guys had already flirted with me although my eyes kept searching for one guy in particular who hadn't actually shown up yet.
Mia showed around 8ish, looking stunning in a tight blue dress. She had straightened her hair and given it a serious amount of volume. Her normally smoky blue eyes looked even more so with the black kohl and dark eyeshadow she had lined them with.
'You look gorgeous Mia, get in here!'
'Are you drunk already?! It's only 8 o clock!'
'Only a tad,' I giggled. 'Lighten up! It's a party!'
I dragged her into the front room and started dancing again. She just looked uncomfortable though and I couldn't concentrate on having a good time when she was stood there with a face like a wet flannel.
'Hey Elliot,' I grabbed the hand of the nearest guy.
'My name's Tom!'
'Yeah cool. Can you please dance with Mia? She's feeling a little moody and to be quite frank is being a bit of a buzzkill.'
'Sure,' he replied eagerly. He started dancing with her and eventually she had to relent. At last I could properly enjoy myself.
Several shots of alcohol later and even Mia was enjoying herself. Her and Elliot/Tom had begun dancing a lot more provocatively, their bodies grinding against one another.
The guy I was dancing with said he had to 'go take a leak' for a few moments so it was just myself until someone else joined me. They placed their hands on my hips and began dancing along with me. It wasn't until I turned round that I saw who it was.
'Well, aren't you feeling brave,' I winked at him.
'Maybe I am. Maybe I've decided to have fun and to not care.'
'That's the spirit,' I snaked my arms around his neck, swaying along to the music. 'You know, I barely know you but right now I'm just too drunk to care.'
'That's the spirit,' he mimicked my previous words and I grinned. He had completely come out of his shell, no longer was he the introverted, quiet boy I had been introduced to this morning but instead just like the other guys. Confident. Gorgeous. Arrogant.
'Hailey, what's this?' the guy from earlier appeared out of nowhere.
'I'm dancing with Gabriel.'
'What the fuck? Kid's barely here five minutes and already stolen my girl!' He fumed.
'I'm not your girl,' I scoffed. 'I'm no one's girl.'
He stormed off and I burst into a fit of sniggers, losing myself in the pulsating, throbbing music, alcohol and Gabriel.
My head was pounding.
The light, far too bright for my satisfaction, streamed in through the open curtains, causing me to wince in pain.
'Argh,' I groaned, stirring. Peering down the side of the sofa I was collapsed on, I found Mia and Tom/Elliot sleeping, their legs entwined together. She had black smudges under her eyes and he had the top two buttons of his shirt undone, his hair tousled.
Stumbling to the window to pull the curtains shut, I kicked Mia lightly in the side. She moaned and blinked up at me.
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'Who?' She rolled her head to the side, spotted the guy who was still fast asleep and widened her eyes. 'Jeez, what happened last night? Did I...?'
'Not as far as I know. You did get a little sleazy with him but you didn't do anything.'
'Oh thank God, I don't even know the guy's name.'
I helped her up, with great effort on my part and we both shook the guy awake. After kicking everyone out, I sent Mia up to the bathroom to shower and get ready for her shift at work. It wasn't until I was sat alone in the living room that I remembered Gabriel.
What had happened with him last night? It was like he was a completely different person... I didn't know he was like that.
I stifled a giggle.
But I wondered where he had disappeared to. I had no recollection of him leaving...
Oh well, I shrugged my shoulders. At least I danced with him.
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I was having trouble with Goalie, not enough shots and usually the chances they get are high scoring chances and the power just blows it past my 50 ovr or whatever it starts out at.
EDIT: also, can someone fill me in on an easy way to get 200 hits? I adjusted the sliders and everything and the CPU just rolls off them and they dont register... or I hit them with my defensive d man 99 checking 96 strength and I AM THE ONE WHO FALLS?
Firstly in regards to your goalie - if you are playing offline, consider a few things: a) adjust the difficulty to superstar; b) adjust the sliders to give you/your team a chance. Superstar will ensure that you get the shots you need, and for whatever reason the game plays far more naturally in superstar mode (no silly snipes like in All-star). Adjust the sliders accordingly. If you feel like the other team is all over you, consider giving your team more acceleration and better fatigue recovery etc. Also consider adjusting the opposition's shot power/accuracy to give yourself a chance.
Second - On the hits. Make sure that again, the sliders are in your favor. In order to get around the ice and hit people, you will need to be a) quicker than them; adjust player acceleration and speed. You will need to be stronger than them b) adjust aggression). You will need to be c) hitting them hard; adjust hitting power. And of course you'll just need some good old fashioned assistance so d) adjust the hitting assistance to the very max.
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On 3/22/06, Leo Simons <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi gang, > > Just some soul-searching on a sunny wednesday morning (over here > anyways)... > > much of the traffic I see these days on harmony-dev (I'm through the > back-log. Yay!) to me looks like lots of people in "violent agreement" > and it prompts me to write messages like this, eg trying to help the > people doing the actual work to reach consensus. I keep wondering whether > I should actually send them (and try and fill this whole "mentor" (I > *hate* that word. It reminds me of mr. Myagi from the movie "The Karate > Kid". I identify more with the karate kid :-)) role, since this > consensus thing in an online community is probably new to some of the > harmony crew) or just let people sort it out on their own (and let > meritocracy rule). > > If you have an opinion on this, please do let me know, and I might > adjust behaviour accordingly (realistically, I learn slowly, but I do > try! :-)).....its not like the incubator has any kind of "how to do > mentoring" guide, nor is harmony a whole lot like the other projects > in the incubator, so we're often just winging it.....thanks! There hasn't been a karate kid movie in which a wizened and old Ralph Macchio trains up some new upstart for the 2050 Virtual Karate bout? Once the new Rocky movie is out, I bet we'll see it. In the much simpler Roller, I've tended to split it such that for foundational issues (legal/infra/board-report) I hop in pretty quickly and for development issues I stay quite out of the way. Being a mentor kind of pulled me away from the little development I was doing, so I'm looking forward to it going TLP. The downside of this is that it's not getting people used to how to get those things done - so probably a better answer is to hop in pretty quickly for foundational issues - but don't actually do anything. Merely provide the information for someone else to get it dealt with. Rotating build reports is one such example. I think we mentors should be encouraging members of the community to do them rather than taking care of them (unsure if the Harmony mentors take care of the reports or not). For developmental issues and general community banging - hand out the rope and then when everybody is hung you can be wise Mr Miyagi and explain why they should have been waxing on and off? :) Hen
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Tree branches parted before the lone figure who trudged through the darkness. No clothes, unarmed, and little remaining of his dying torch. Thankfully morning had arrived, although it was dim as the pine trees filtered what little sun there was.
Vulf felt the top of his of his head. The hair had grown back. In two hours his hair had grown longer than it ever had in his lifetime. A large number of Gaen's contracted a disease that resulted in no hair growth on one side of the head, but even where there shouldn't have been, black stumbles had popped up.
Accelerated healing wasn't new. Ever since the visions had started, cuts went away with a single night of rest. Sickness never stayed more than a week.
Don't ruin my day!
Vulf bolted at the sudden voice. He eyed the grounds around him, wondering if maybe it had just been another of his hallucinations. It was so hard to tell anymore.
But the hair on his arms stood upright.
I'm not afraid. And the only other time it would do this-
There was another warped somewhere in this forsaken forest. He was hearing him. That was new, it never did that before. The hair had happened once in the past, and that had resulted in the first person he ever murdered.
This was a sign if there ever was one. The experiment, the one that had been mentioned in every back alley that Vulf had stumbled into. Venrich Guard had found something so taboo, that they hid it deep within the woodland. This secret was a way to make a warped even closer to the Forlorn.
Vulfs visions had been getting more frequent. No other warped he had met was having these things. Not even the twisted experienced these effects, though it took a long time to find one sane enough to convey this fact.
Was he a byproduct? Maybe even a failure? He needed to know what had happened to him. Did they do something to him? Twelve years, and not so much as a cup levitating, why did these powers begin to appear?
They would answer him, or understand his wrath. It mattered little which.
Thankfully it seemed those answers were approaching.
It was a blunt sound. Like stone striking a bed of wet leaves. It was loud enough to draw Vulf's attention.
One look reminded him that it was alive, and looking at him. Vulf stared back for a moment before the thing stood like a man.
It was shorter than him, though Gaens generally were a couple feet taller than any other species. Especially humans, which this one seemed to be. Covered in blood also. Promising.
"This has been a fun day." The man said, suddenly chuckling.
His deranged grin could have reached ear to ear. And that murderous look in his eyes. This was a warped undoubtedly.
Vulf's jaw snapped open, and a monster-like growl crossed out. The man seemed to accept this as a challenge; suddenly lunging. Vulf couldn't follow him in time, taking the first blow to his barely healed left cheek.
He spun off into the ground, rolling twice before stopping in a mangled heap. Sickly pops could be heard as his already broken bones relocated. Even though his limbs should have buckled instantly, Vulf threw his bulk forward and landed back onto his feet.
The warp tilted his head, frowned, then smiled wildly again. Chaotic thoughts were conveyed by the dancing light in his eyes. His mind had long since been liberated from sanity. Vulf could feel this freedom burning into him.
Where this madness came from was apparent. The man was radiating it. Either this was an effect of his power, or this actually was his power. Either way, it inhibited Vulf to have these thoughts banging around in his head.
Willpower alone gave him the strength to open a link between the two worlds. The air grew cold and dense. Vulf's chest pounded, and twisted. A deep, black crack began to form over his heart, reaching down to the bottom of his stomach. The man's powers began to falter slightly as he took an interest in the shifting body.
The incision burst open with a hollow roar, ripping open and unleashing a hoard of glowing black birds. Some were rotting carcasses with snapped bones, animated by a forlorn force visible only in their pupil-less red eyes. The whole flock totaled nearly a hundred. They flew rings around their summoner, moving with what seemed to be the coordination of a single creature. A large raven(big enough to rival a hawk)landed on Vulf's shoulder. It's head had an unnatural red crest, giving it an even closer appearance to a bird of prey.
Vulf waved his hand and every bird dispersed into the sky. There they flew in a black halo, watching their master.
From out of no-where, a group of birds descended, carrying with them a long, feathery cloak. Vulf was surprised, never before had either this many birds, or this cloak come before.
Then again, he had only made this link twice before. It was rare to find something that justified using this power.
Perhaps more Justification was here, as something else had stepped into the battle ground.
"Subject Thirteen. You will stand down. And you foreigner, will come with me."
The man's face had drained of colour. Out of the shadows strode a boy, or at least in appearance. His fine manner of dress suited his expression, one of smug superiority.
From the air, several birds struck down like darts. They charged in at the new target by their own will. Almost instantly upon touch, the birds' flesh vaporized. The skeletons still squirmed on the ground. The boy crushed one underfoot with amusement.
"Cheap parlor tricks are not a part of my game. Surrender, both of you." He ordered.
The man stepped back slightly, grimacing. With one hand, he attempted to strike, casting an all too physical projection of his fist at the enemy.
The boy dodged just barely in time, a bit of his hair rustling from the strike.
"I don't need my answers to come willingly!" Vulf roared, raising his hand and bringing it down as if it ordering a barrage of arrows to be let loose.
Birds swarmed down, forming a tempest of feathers and glowing red. The boy struck down many of those that approached him with a unseen blast of thermal energy, but the swarm sliced him open, bit by bit. Eventually he had lost most of the flesh on his left ear and all the skin on his left forearm.
The other Warped spun and kicked, his specter-like image appearing and hitting Hecter dead on in the gut. The boy stumbled backward, obviously having damage to the already split stomach.
"I won't let you get the better of me again. You two can no longer submit," Hecter stood and brushed himself off,"you will both come back as bags of entrails!"
Two flaming bolts blasted out from each hand, skewering many birds and then spinning off towards "Subject 13" and Vulf.
Both narrowly avoided the projectiles. Vulf realized that those had been launched from two long crossbows on the boy's wirsts, hidden just under what remained of his nice clothes.
Hecter reloaded each and ignited them with his powers. Each bolt flew out, striking a tree and turned it into a blistering inferno. The brittle wood splintered, creating a barrier of fire around the battle zone. This forest fire wasn't contained, as Vulf and his currently allied warped acquaintance dodged a hail of metal bolts, they frequently were forced to extinguish their clothes.
"Ready to burn Jim? Ready to sit in a dungeon for the rest of your pitiful life?" Hecter mocked, jumping to dodge another low kick.
"Get away from me Hecter, or whatever you'll get called with a pat on the head by the guard!" Subject 13 hollered back.
The little boy donned a look only the enraged veteran soldier should've been able to make. He reached into his tattered suit and drew a pair of long, curved knives. Each had tons of serrated teeth on the leading edge.
"Took these from the doctor. They always looked liked something fun to use."
Hecter bounded forth, swiping at Vulf and then spat a flaming dart at Jim. Vulf backed off and rolled left, jumping right over the burning tree stumps and landing on a plane of grass.
Ravens soared down, scattering around Hecter and keeping him occupied while Jim came around with a non-projected fist and struck him hard in the back of the head. The boy swiped back, and tore at Jim's afterimage.
"That actually worked a second time!" Jim laughed.
"Yeah." Vulf said with an apparent surprise.
Hecter looked stunned, and a bit bewildered. Suddenly he began to take in all his own wounds. He bit his lip in absaloute anger. With that he dropped two arrows into the vicinity of Jim and fled back into the burning forest. A tree collapsed, sealing his escape.
"Get back here!" Vulf yelled.
"The Zenrich guard will arrive soon! We must leave!"


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One of the absolute best ways to get kids involved in sports during the most formative stages of life is to check out the classes that are offered at local, municipal recreation centers. These programs require only a nominal commitment of time and they're available at a very reasonable cost. This allows kids to cheaply test out different activities until they find one they absolutely love.
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A lot of parents eschew sports participation for their kids simply because they don't have the time to shuttle their youngsters to and from practices and games. Carpooling makes the entire effort far easier. Rather than driving to and from each and every event, pair up with local families and take turns. This will cut your driving time down to a mere fraction of what it was while helping you and your child forge stronger social bonds with various members of your community.
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Hire a handyman to help you install a few essentials such as an outside basketball hoop or a regulation-size balance beam. These spaces are ideal for kids who are whole-hog about the activities that they've chosen and who want to practice as often as they possibly can. Having professionals oversee the installation process will ensure that all safety precautions are taken and that your youngster can safely build his or her athletic skills independently.
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Week three: Lake (2-0) @ Canton McKinley (2-0)
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Storyline: The Blue Streaks and Bulldogs meet in a Federal League matchup of undefeated teams that love to rush the football.
McKinley has compiled a 4-2 record against Lake since joining the Federal League in 2004. Ironically, the winner of this game in each of the past four years has scored 24 points.
The host Bulldogs are coming off of a 26-0 win in Week 2 over Huber Heights and a 32-14 victory in Week 1 over Gallatin (Tenn.).
Bulldogs senior running back Elijah Farrakhan rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries last week. Senior quarterback Kyle Ohradzansky threw a touchdown pass to junior Tyler Carney last week, and junior Tyler Foster rushed for the final touchdown.
Lake enters this game following victories over Hudson (34-27) in Week 2 and Green (44-14) in Week 1. Senior Jim Luther scored five touchdowns last week, four rushing and one on a 97-yard kickoff return. Luther has 10 touchdowns (eight rushing, one kickoff and one fumble return) this season and rushed for 332 yards.
McKinley's defense features a quartet of strong linemen -- juniors Steve Miller and Se'Von Pittman, and seniors Eric Snow and Terris Daniels. Miller is an Ohio State University recruit. The Bulldogs defense should be up to the challenge facing Luther, after limiting their first two opponents to 52 rushing yards on 48 carries.
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—Waelyngar Penitentiary, beneath the City of Waelyngar—
Seoc MacInnes scarcely felt the sting of the whip across his naked back. He heard it though, the sound cutting through the feverish fog that had descended behind his eyes to bring him back from the edge of unconsciousness.
He gasped once, briefly, and vomited.
Jeering. Laughter. The real world flooded back to him, a chaotic mess of sensory input. The manacles cutting his wrists. His meager supper, running down his chin, burning on his chapped, split lips. The cage. The stage. The audience.
It was a full house tonight, mostly young men, mostly drunk, by the sound of it. Wealthy bachelors, out for a bit of late-night entertainment at the penitentiary sideshow. Ten knamick a person—a fair bargain, if you thought about it. Half the cost of a good prostitute, and much more socially acceptable as a form of diversion amongst the upper classes. Just head on down the hill for a good old midnight fairy-flogging, pay at the door, and go on in for a chance to fulfill your moral duty to shout insults and obscenities at the scum and watch him suffer. Maybe they'll lash him till he pukes. Maybe till he faints. Maybe till he's dead.
Seoc wanted to die.
He squeezed his eyes shut, suddenly aware of the tears streaming down his grimy cheeks, running as fast as the blood was running down his back.
This time he felt it, like a white-hot knife across his shoulder blades. He cried out pitifully, wordlessly, and his whimper was greeted with hisses and catcalls.
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He grasped the bars above where his chains attached, his breath ragged in his throat, his teeth bared and forced together with such pressure that he felt they might shatter. He was sobbing openly now, audibly, nearly screaming in agony.
And they were laughing at him.
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As if he weren't human.
Seoc MacInnes couldn't take that.
"How d' you think it feels, eh?!" he shouted. "How would you lot like ta be up here in my place?"
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The Necromancer (ネクロマンサー, Nekuromansā?) is a job in the Game Boy Advance, mobile and Steam versions of Final Fantasy V, found in the Sealed Temple after beating Enuo.
The Necromancer has the potential to be a highly powerful class due to its inherent equipment options and abilities. Necromancers have Magic Power equal to that of a Black Mage, and Stamina equal to that of a Knight.
Dark Arts is more powerful than the Black Magic and Summon skillsets, and can be further boosted due to the equipment choices the Necromancer has (rods for Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Poison, and Air Knife for Wind). The Necromancer is similar to the Blue Mage, in that to learn any Dark Arts the Necromancer has to learn it from opponents; the Necromancer must deal the finishing blow to a specific enemy to learn a Dark Art spell.
The downside to the Necromancer is their inherent undead status, making healing them a chore. Various methods can be used to bypass this, such as White Wind or the Necromancer's Drain Touch skill. Unlike the inherent undead status of the Bone Mail, Necromancers can be revived once they are KO'd.
Mastering Necromancer for all four characters in the mobile and Steam versions earns the player the achievement "Undead Freak".
AppearanceEditBartz, Faris and Krile dress in pinkish violet robes, whereas Lenna dons a black battlekini with a cape. All costumes incorporate a skull design; Bartz wears a skull mask, while Lenna and Krile's headdresses have it. Faris's headdress resembles The Emperor's hair from Final Fantasy II. In the mobile and Steam version, Bartz no longer wears a skull mask and has a skull placed the same way as Lenna and Krile have theirs.
- Job command - Dark Arts
- Innate abilities - Undead
- Equipment - Knives, Rods, Hats, Robes, Armlets, Chaos Orb
The Undead innate ability means that a Necromancer will be hurt by healing spells and items in battle, but spells like Death will heal their HP fully. Outside of battle they can be healed normally. Like the Berserker's Berserk ability, the Freelancer and Mime class are not affected by it once this class has been mastered. Undead inverts all draining spells except Drain Touch, and most healing spells and items will deal damage instead. Any item or spell that would revive sets the Undead user's HP to single digits. Characters with the Undead ability set that are KO'd may be revived normally, as opposed to the Bone Mail's innate Undead ability.
Dark Arts Level 1 will give the character base Freelancer Magic +13. For each Dark Arts level gained, up to level 5, the Magic bonus is increased by 4 per level, for a maximum of +29 Magic at Dark Arts Level 5.
The stat modifiers for Necromancers are:
- Strength: +4
- Agility: +1
- Stamina: +21
- Magic: +29
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Necromancer appears on a trading card, depicting Krile. It is earth-elemental.
Triple TriadEdit
Necromancer from Final Fantasy V has a Triple Triad card in the version available via Final Fantasy Portal App.
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Times Are Tough For The Chargers, But How Bad Can It Get?
It obvious that the San Diego Chargers have not lived up to expectations thus far. The first three games have been filled with sloppy play, penalties, lack of depth and good 'ole fashion drama. But how much worse can it get?
There seems to be certain years where injuries hit teams especially hard. And, if the first month of the season has been any indication, this may be one of those years for the Chargers.
After losing rookie linebacker Donald Butler in the preseason, Stephen Cooper, Shawne Merriman, Larry English and Jyles Tucker (did not miss time with an injury, but still missed time) have all missed time on the defense. To make matters worse, the offense has already had its starting running back miss a game, and the starting right guard will likely be out for a few weeks.
The most obvious trickle down of these players being unavailable has been on special teams – I feel like that's been examined enough this week so I'll spare the readership - but it also can be seen with the lack of depth on offense and defense. Players are being forced to play more downs which causes even more injuries and more sloppy play.
Included in this sloppy play has been the severe case of fumblitis that the team seems unable to shake. As a team in 2009 the Chargers fumbled the ball just seven times, this year they have a combined five fumbles in three games. This has led to a total Giveaway/Takeaway figure of -1, good for 10th in the AFC. Last year the Chargers were second in the league with a +8 differential.
Without their two holdout Pro Bowlers, the offense has not been as squeaky clean as the number one league ranking may say. While the statistics look impressive at first, they are far from what they will likely end up.
Philip Rivers is currently averaging 362 yards per game through the air. Even the record-setting 2007 Patriots offense averaged just a little over 300 per game. Also, the Chargers yards per reception are almost a full two yards ahead of the second best passing attack in the AFC. Include the fact that Rivers is getting sacked at a higher rate than ever before in his career – 2.33 per game – and you get a recipe for letdown.
Possibly the most shocking aspect so far has been that the opening game of the season was blacked out locally. Add in that it looks like the second game may be also unavailable in local markets and this quickly becomes a tough situation. While it is easy to blame rough financial times for many San Diegans, it cannot be discounted that a large portion of the 48 consecutive sellouts that the team had accrued prior to the start of this season had also come during the current national recession.
Say for a second that the Chargers are 3-3 when the New England Patriots come into town on October 24 in Week 7. With the way that fan support has been a roller-coaster ride this season based on wins and losses, if they lose that game it could mean a few more blackouts this season.
All for a franchise that has won the division four out of the last five years.
While there is still a good chance that San Diego will come back and possibly win this division, the percentages and the momentum are certainly against them. The return of Marcus McNeill and restoration of former special teamers like Eric Weddle to kick coverages will certainly help those odds, but it doesn't seem like this team has another magical 11-game win streak up their sleeve so the winning has to start now.
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I would not jump the gun just yet and count the Chargers out. Our team is way too good to quit or be beaten on a continual basis. Our turnovers have been a nightmare along with ST. although I feel by not getting to watch the game on TV due to blackout is a disappointment. Economics says supply is based on demand which reflects price of product. In order to fix this issue prices must be dropped in order to compensate for demand to attract more revenue. Plan and simple, cutting ticket prices equates to a more attractive product.
I would much rather be in the comfort of my home than to pay $200 on some tickets plus 40 bucks on parking for my wife and I to watch the game. Oh, and those are just decent seats. NFL Package... Or stream the games online for free. I love the atm of the games but I just don't know anymore. The business must adapt to consumers. It's not like were SB bound or that we've won a title or anything. I do feel that most fans are sick to their stomachs do to the quick losses in the playoffs and until that starts to change then same with ticket purchases.
Again, I'm a die hard Bolt fan but I feel like I'm driving a car with only a gallon of gas in it and I have to get across country. It just isn't going to happen.
I'm a die hard Charger fan from way back. After getting married, I moved away from San Diego in 1984. My brother still lives there and we just discussed this "black out" situation. He told me that up until recently, the town of San Diego had been buying up some of the seats so that the games wouldn't be blacked out. (I don't know how long this has been going on, but for a long while it seems) Something apparently had to give (I don't know if the taxpayers demanded a change or what) and the practice of SD buying up enough seats to prevent a black out has come to a halt. Hence you have the first "black out" of the game(s) this year that this town hasn't seen in a long time. I don't know if it's so much of the current recession, as it is the idiot politicians who came up with this idea in the first place. Either way, ticket prices do need to come down to attract more fans... period.
As my brother said, it's no wonder the town of San Diego is broke (and all of California for that matter).
BoltFan in NY... you should definately enter the ultimate displaced fan contest. Check it out at http://www.ultimatedisplacedfan.com/. The winner gets a VIP trip for 2 to the Super Bowl!
Hey... thanks for the tip!... I'll check it out.
Been here almost 9 years now after leaving SoCal. It's not easy sometimes rooting for the Chargers around all these Jets & Giants fans. Last year after we basically handed the Jets playoff spot to them on a silver platter, I had to endure all of the Jets fans bloviating and carrying on for over a week... like they earned that win... crap, we gave it to them! Hadn't seen the Bolts implode like that in a long time... looks like they picked up this year where they left off. Lets hope Norv gets the ST fixed, as well as all the ball-dropping... and get these guys back on track! Go Bolts!!!
As a life long Bolt fan you get used to the disappointment. I will be shocked if we are any better than 8 / 8.
AJ Smith, Novr Turner and the complete Spanos family have no soul. The leadership does not have the fortitude to be a championship team.
Great players need great leadership, and it saddens me to say we lack that. There is no excuse for us to be 1-2, by the numbers we should be 3-0! But hey if the leadership is ok with it .......
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