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- From Insul-Bright cut 2 pieces 22"x19-1/2".
- Handles: Fold each piece in half with right sides together lengthwise and sew. Turn right side out and press with seam in center of back. Measure along 17" top and bottom edges and mark in 4-1/2" from side edges of bag on both the front and back. Place ends of handles at the marks and edge stitch handles in place to within 1" of top edge.
- Sides and bottom: Measure down 14-1/2" on sides of 45"x6" piece and mark for corners, sew a reinforcing seam 1" on both sides of mark along seam line. Carefully clip at mark from edge to seam. Beginning 1/2" from top edge sew to sides and bottom of bag front and back, pivoting at clipped corners.
- Zipper: Place the two 3-1/2"x17" pieces with right sides together, using the zipper as guide, place a mark at the beginning and end of zipper. Stitch to first mark, then baste to end mark, stitch to end. Be sure to lock stitching before and after basting. Press seam open. Pin or hand baste zipper over center seam basting and sew in place using a zipper foot. Remove basting and open zipper. With right sides together, sew zipper top to bag, being careful not to catch handles. Press seam toward bag.
- Turn bag right side out and finish stitching handles to bag using an "X" stitch for extra strength.
- Lining: With right sides together, sew Insul-Bright lining together at sides (19-1/2" edges) and bottom (22" edge). To create bottom corners, fold bottom and side seams together forming a triangle and sew a 5" seam. The top has no seam allowance, so bring together top edges to side seam to form triangle and sew a 5" seam.
- Finishing: Turn bag inside out and slip lining over bag. Pin top edge of lining to zipper and stitch in place. Turn bag right side out.


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The Nebraska State Pedal Pull
for 2017 will be held
on August 27, 2017
Yes Sunday
West side of Nebraska Building
In Grand Island, NE at
the Nebraska State Fair
Participants enter free with voucher
All others will pay regular gate fees.
Continue to later pages for more
information on Nebraska Pedal Pulling.
The time of the pull is to be 10AM
Registration will start at 8:00 AM
If you have questions about the state, including voucher questions call your local puller, if this does not work then contact one of the officers on the Association Officers. The web master does not have all the answers. Thanks.
Please stop by the rules page to understand better the expectations.
Dear Pullers,
If you are interested in attending the NAFM convention in Kearney on Jan. 20-22, please contact Marvine Koliha at email@example.com before DECEMBER 31 or call her at 402-986-0817. There is a $15.00 membership fee that the organization will pay for the pullers.
I also need to know what meals you would be interested in and the number..
Here are the choices.
Fri evening--Early Bird Party FREE
Sat. breakfast $7.00
Sat. Banquet $12.00
Sun. Breakfast $7.00
If you have registered and cannot attend, you are responsible for the cost of the meals and registration after December 31.
Thank you,
Marvine Koliha Sec.-Treas.
The 2017 National Pedal Pull
will be September 23rd at the Corn Palace
601 N. Main, Mitchell SD 57301
Two Sessions are held:
4-7 year olds register 9-10:30 AM - pull at 10:30 AM
8-12 year olds register 11:30 to 1:00 PM - pull at 1:00 PM
To qualify you must finish in the top three of a Sanctioned State Pull.
The Quality Inn (605-996-1333) is the first know motel for 2013 National.
What is a Pedal Tractor Pull?
A Pedal Tractor Pull is an event that features Children pedaling a modified tractor pulling a weight transfer sled down a track. The child pulling this sled the farthest is the winner. This website is dedicated to the children of Nebraska and the Nebraska pedal pullers who spend so much of their available time trying to make children smile and maybe learn a little bit about how to compete and have fun.
A shot from the 2009 National Pedal Pull in the magnificent Corn Palace in Mitchell SD.
Proud members of the one true National Pedal Pull Association
National Pedal Pullers Board of Directors
Vice President......................Bill VanDeCreek, Abileen, KS
Sec.-Treas......................Chad Stevicks, Burke, SD Director.............................Dave Harner, Swea City IA Director..........................Ken Myers, Malvern, IA (MO)
Director........................John Vossler, Plymouth, NE
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@beepLocale: Land of 11, 842 lakes
Does anyone have suggestions for reliable retail sources for US buyers of Montane clothing?
@skopeoLocale: British Columbia
@stuart-allieLocale: Australia
I've had several good dealings with agoraphilia on ebay. Very fair prices and postage costs. They don't have the full montane range, but if they have what you are after they are worth a look..
@gustafsjLocale: Minneapolis
I'll second agoraphilia. I just bought a wind shirt from them and shipping was only about $5 from the UK. Very reasonable and very helpful customer service. I had questions about sizing and he helped me picked the exact size I needed for my height and weight for the featherlight velo.
In fact if you want to try mine on since you are in the Mpls area, you are more than welcome. If I remember right, you have some height to you like I do…
@seanmantellLocale: SoCal
I remember reading an article here a while ago mentioning that http://www.backcountry.com was going to start carrying Montane sometime this Spring.
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@beepLocale: Land of 11, 842 lakes
I emailed and asked about US dealers. Here's the answer.
"Unfortunately as this present time we do not have a distributor in the US so the only way to get our products is online though a UK dealer.
I can suggest http://www.outdoorgb.com
I can confirm that we are working with a distributor in the US for the Summer season coming up."
@dillonrLocale: Colorado
I would also recommend Jackson Sport as a source. I just bought a pair of Buffalo Mitts from them and the price was reasonable and the mailing cost was about the same as buying from a US dealer.
@kyler55Locale: Greater Yellowstone
I used to carry Montane with Prolite, I know backcountry should have their products this spring though.
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Total firm-wide turnover reached £241.2m last year while its UK-only PEP hit £657,000, compared to £228m and £544,000 the year before (29 May 2013). The firm's UK turnover saw a 7.4 per cent increase to £112m.
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Taylor Wessing has separate profit pools in different jurisdictions, so the 21 per cent increase in PEP, from £544,000 to £657,000, refers to the UK only.
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Both DR & AJU and HPRP have become members of Taylor Wessing's Asia regional network, which was launched last July (29 July 2013) as part of the UK firm's strategy to grow its practice throughout the ASEAN region and beyond.
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|James C. Stoffel, Roger G. Markham
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|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (81), Classifications (18), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to color spatial filtering for ink jet printers or the like and more specifically, to an enhanced print mode and associated circuitry for a thermal ink jet printer which corrects black pixel coloring to increase black picture quality and reduce intercolor bleeding.
2. Description of Related Art
There is a need for high quality black text and graphics and color text graphics and pictorials on plain paper. Current state of the art thermal ink jet printers have fast drying CYMK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black) ink for color and low intercolor bleed, but the black picture quality needs to be improved (e.g., line edge sharpness).
Various methods of modifying color data prior to printing are known. U.S. Pat. No. 4,959,790 to Morgan discloses an apparatus and method for producing color corrected reproduction of colored original images. This particular apparatus was designed for the purpose of correcting for the effects of linearity failures of various coloring agents. A scanner provides input signals representing primary color readings. A memory stores increments of primary color readings and correlation factors. The apparatus determines final coloring agents based on contribution amounts from the respective coloring agents read from the scanner. This method has a black enhancement mode which merely adds a black color if criteria for a particular pixel indicate a high density at that pixel location. This enhancement is for the purpose of enhancing representation of shadows in the image.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,724,477 to Ellis et al. discloses an image enhancement apparatus wherein an image is represented by color picture components. Fringe signal generators derive a plurality of sharp and unsharp signals in a predetermined manner, and a correction circuit connected in parallel with the fringe generators modifies the signals to provide modified output signals. A black definition signal is also derived from the original pixel signals and summed with the original signal to derive a black output signal. Preferably, the black fringe signal is only summed when the black value is above a predetermined threshold.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,070,413 to Sullivan et al. discloses a halftoning method for creating a continuous tone color image which improves perceived visual color by including a visual color blur function such that a perceived color vector rather than binary color error is propagated. Input color vectors are transferred to a preferred color space to give new color vectors. An output vector is then selected for each new vector color. A neighborhood of previously selected output vectors weighed by a human visual system blur filter produces a blurred output vector. This method is used to correct a continuous tone color image, reducing noise and worms.
Numerous problems are associated with present enhancement methods and apparatus. In particular, no known apparatus addresses a problem inherent with current ink jet printers relating to high quality color image production while reducing or eliminating intercolor bleed. This intercolor bleed is due to the use of a slow drying black ink for four color ink jets. While the slow drying ink commonly used provides high quality reproduction of black images, it also can easily bleed into adjacent areas which may contain other colors. If a fast drying black ink is used for the printer, the intercolor bleed is reduced or eliminated, but accompanying that is a reduced quality of black reproduction since current fast drying black inks have lower picture quality than their slow drying counterparts. Additionally, black could be reproduced by a combination of the other colors, i.e., Cyan, Yellow and Magenta (CYM). This too reduces intercolor bleed, but also results in a reduced quality of black reproduction since current colored inks CYM do not provide the high quality picture associated with printing with a good black ink.
Accordingly, there is a need for an ink jet printer which is capable of reproducing black on a pixel- by-pixel need based on characteristics of surrounding pixels such that the prior compromise between intercolor bleed and high quality need not be sacrificed.
Future ink formulations and papers may improve drying time and reduce spread, and even black picture quality, but present printers need to resolve these problems without unduly increasing printer costs.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple, low cost method and apparatus for improving overall print appearance of an image produced by an ink jet printer.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for selecting a specific representation of black on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a spatial color filter which selects an appropriate representation of black which reduces intercolor bleeding, yet improves overall black picture quality.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a selectable enhancement mode for enhancing a color image using a four color CYMK system which optimizes printing of black pixels by examining a neighborhood of adjacent pixels and selecting an appropriate modified pixel value based on a predetermined set of rules by comparing the neighborhood with a lookup table and selecting an appropriate modified value.
These and other objects are achieved by the present invention in which a color pixel spatial filter mode is added to a color ink jet printer. The filter examines each pixel to be printed, along with a neighborhood of surrounding pixels and selects an appropriate method to produce black pixels and/or enhance adjacent pixels to either 1) avoid bleeding pathologies or 2) optimize black text quality. Overall, the image to be printed contains a high quality representation of black portions, while minimizing intercolor bleeding near boundaries between black and colored portions of the image.
There are numerous advantages to the present invention. The filter is simple and uses a low cost gate array and logic. The filter is application and operating system independent. The filter allows for future ink improvements and allows user selection of modes. The filter is compatible with Mac and DOS worlds using a "dumb printer". Good picture quality is enabled using a four color printer on plain paper without encountering the intercolor bleeding of prior printers.
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a personal computer system including a printer according to the present invention having an enhanced mode switch and buffers;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the various steps necessary to output and print enhanced color images from input data values from a source such as a computer;
FIG. 3 is a diagram of how data is converted from RGB through a transformation filter to form CYMK values, oriented in pixel planes and output to a color swath buffer;
FIGS. 4a-c are examples of the logic used to determine representation of black pixels according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 5a-c are examples of the logic used to determine representation of black pixels according to variations of the first embodiment; and
FIGS. 6a-c are examples of the logic used to determine representation of black pixels according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
With reference to FIG. 1, there is shown a printing system comprising a color image generating section 10 and a printing section 12. The color image generating section 10 may comprise a computer 14 connected to a monitor 16 and a keyboard 18 or may comprise a scanner 20 which is capable of scanning a color image and representing the image in a predetermined color space. The printing section 12 comprises a color ink jet printer 22 and is connected to the color image generating portion 10 through an appropriate interface 24 such as a RS232C, 422 or similar interface. The computer 14 further comprises a microprocessor 26 which runs an applications program 28 and a graphics driver 30 which form and present picture signals representing an image to the printer 22 via the interface 24. The picture signals may be in any commonly used color space scheme such as RGB, CIELAB, CIELUV, YIQ, CMYK, OR CYM.
The ink jet printer 22 may be of any standard type having at least one printhead 32 for printing color inks and a color swath buffer 34 for storing signals representing the image prior to printing.
A color spatial filter 36 according to the present invention receives data signals representing an image from the color generating portion 10 in CYMK color space. If the color generating portion 10 sends signals in a color space other than CYMK, a transformation filter 38 may be utilized to convert the data signals to CYMK color space having four color pixel planes 40, one for each color Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (CYMK). These signals are scrolled or rastered through the color spatial filter 36 to enhance the values, reducing intercolor bleeding and improving black picture quality. The color spatial filter 36 preferably comprises a gate array, such as a 5�5 matrix gate array which contains simple boolean logic. The filter may also consist of a processor which evaluates the logic rules. A lookup table may be provided which stores comparative matrix values used to determine an enhanced value for each examined pixel.
Preferably, the color spatial filter 36 further includes a color spatial filter mode switch 42 located on the printer 22 and movable between an ON and an OFF position. The switch 42 can be used to activate or deactivate the filter 36. The present invention when used with any standard thermal ink jet printer is compatible with both Mac and DOS worlds.
With reference to FIG. 2, printer 22 including the color spatial filter 36 and associated hardware performs the following steps. An image is created through a graphics application program 28 or scanned in by scanner 20 associated with the computer 14. The computer 14 sends picture color signals in a color space such as RGB to the printer 22 through the interface 24 (step 210). These signals are transformed into CYMK space by appropriate hardware into four pixel planes 40, one for each color Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (CYMK) (step 220). Next (step 230), if the enhanced print mode is OFF, i.e., the switch 42 is OFF, the transformed signals are output to the color swath buffer 34 (step 240). This allows for future ink upgrades that do not need enhancement, the use of a compatible low-bleed black and printing on coated or selected paper stock.
If the enhanced print mode is ON, i.e., when switch 42 is ON, color spatial filter 36 is activated which incrementally scrolls through the pixel planes 40 as they flow to the color swath buffer 34 and sums the pixel planes in an "OR" fashion to form a temporary combined pixel plane 44 (step 215). Each pixel in the combined pixel plane 44 is incrementally examined along with a neighborhood of pixels (step 225). The neighborhood may encompass any particular size of matrix best suited for the application or intended use optimizing quality and efficiency. A 5�5 matrix is preferred. For this case, the filter scrolls through five rows of the pixel planes and examines a center pixel and the 24 surrounding pixels adjacent thereto in the 5�5 matrix after the pixel planes have been summed. Each pixel and surrounding neighborhood of pixels are analyzed by simple logic to best find an enhancement value for the pixel which best represents that particular pixel without compromising intercolor bleed of the black ink into any adjacent color areas (step 235). After an enhancement value is determined based on a predetermined set of rules, the pixel planes 40 are updated with the enhanced value for that particular pixel prior to storing the values in the color swath buffer (step 245). The predetermined set of rules may be a simple threshold technique which distinguishes between adjacent blank areas, adjacent color areas and adjacent black areas, or may be more sophisticated and include one or more lookup tables having data representing a plurality of matrix values, against which the pixel in question and its surrounding neighboring pixel are compared. Generally, the filter 36 will enhance the image data such that a particular black pixel will be printed using the colors CYM if surrounding areas contain a predetermined amount of color values representative of a color border center pixel. If the surrounding area contains a certain predetermined amount of black pixels, the black pixel is printed with K since any intercolor bleeding in this case would have minimal effect on adjacent pixels and printing of this pixel with K will increase the Dmax, i.e., increase picture quality. This examining and replacement continues for each pixel in the pixel planes. Step 255 checks if all pixels have been examined. If not, step 265 advances back to step 225. If all the pixel planes 40 have been updated, the color swath buffer 34 contains updated pixel plane data (step 240). This is followed by printing of the image representing the data in the color swath buffer 34 by the printhead 32 of printer 22 (step 250).
Generally, a preferred filter 36 converts all three color (CYM) blacks to black. If a black pixel is judged not to be part of a substantial black area, then the pixel is replaced with a three color black. If a black pixel is judged to be part of a substantial black area, then all color pixels within a three pixel radius are erased.
In a first example of the filter, the incoming image having all three color black converted to black as a raster is added to the filter's stack of rasters. As the raster of black is scanned (from left to right), a black pixel is judged to be connected to a black area if one of the following criteria is true: 1) the pixel has a connected black pixel above or to the left; or 2) the pixel has a black neighbor to the right and a black neighbor directly below and these neighbors have black neighbors that have black neighbors. Only the quadrant to the right and below are searched for these neighbors. In this example, black pixels can be used twice to meet this criteria.
This particular filter has less than maximal complexity because condition 1 takes care of four rotations of condition 2 about the pixel in question and excludes conditions that are symmetric about the point in question. In this example, "neighbors" is meant to exclude diagonally adjacent pixels. The smallest area that can be judged connected contains five pixels in a very compact configuration.
A second example of filter 36 is generally the same as the first, except the conditions used to judge a black pixel to be connected to a substantial area are fully symmetric. Thus, a black pixel is judged to be connected if one of the following is true: 1) the black pixel has a black neighbor to the left and a black neighbor above, and these pixels have black neighbors who have black neighbors; 2) the same as 1) except the first two neighbors are to the left and below; 3) the same as 1) except the first two neighbors are to the right and below; 4) the same as 1) except the first two neighbors are to the right and above; 5) the same as 1) except the first two neighbors are to the right and left; and 6) the same as 1) except the first two neighbors are above and below.
Once again, "neighbors" is meant to exclude diagonally adjacent pixels. However, it may be useful to have the filter analyze the diagonally adjacent pixels. In this example, the smallest area that can be judged connected contains five pixels in a very compact configuration. All multiple 90� rotations and reflections of this shape will be judged the same. In many ways, this second algorithm gives more uniform response to the incoming bit patterns.
According to a first embodiment, the printer 22 utilizes a slower drying high quality black ink (K) which bleeds into adjacent pixels and fast dry, low bleed Cyan, Yellow and Magenta (C,Y,M). Simple logic examines each pixel and a neighborhood of pixels, for example a 5�5 matrix, and prints black and white text, graphics and pictorials with K. Color areas are printed with C,Y,M. Black pictorial pixels surrounded by black pixels are printed with K to enrich the pictorial Dmax. Adjacent regions, i.e., regions with black and other colors in the neighborhood, are printed according to simple logic as shown in FIGS. 4a-c. If surrounding pixels in the neighborhood include colors other than black, the black pixel is printed with low bleed CYM for color edge detail transition (FIG. 4a). If the surrounding pixels in the neighborhood are primarily black, the black pixel is printed with more dense, higher quality black (FIG. 4b). If the black pixel is isolated, i.e., has surrounding pixels with no color, the black pixel is printed with K (FIG. 4c). The logic may be a gate array which implements boolean logic to map pixels which are either 1 or 0 to corrected values. Preferably, the gate array is a 5�5 matrix having 25 inputs and one output and works on the binary pixel planes as the pixel planes 40 are flowing to the color swath print buffer 34. A lookup table may be used to provide more gradation steps for printing the black pixels using various combinations of the CYM and K inks and gray scale techniques to best print the pixel with improved print quality and low intercolor bleed.
Various other alternative logic arrangements can be utilized depending on the results desired and specific inks used. For example, as shown with reference to FIGS. 5a-c, if a black pixel has black pixels surrounding it on one side and colored pixels on the other, i.e., a border situation, one or more of the border black pixels can be printed with fast dry Cyan, Magenta or Yellow ink "below" the slow dry black (FIG. 5a). Another option with border black pixels, as previously discussed, would be to create a white pixel border in one or more color pixels adjacent a black border area by deleting the background color (FIG. 5b). This would eliminate intercolor bleed and in some instances provide a better defined image than other approaches. Another alternative would be a combination of the previous two alternatives whereby a white pixel border is created in one or more color pixels adjacent a black border area and the black border area is first printed with the fast drying background color "below" the slow drying black (FIG. 5c).
In a second embodiment, a printer 22 having two black print inks is used. One of the black inks (K1) is fast drying, but leaves blurred edges and has a somewhat low Dmax and limited bleeding. The other black ink (K2) has sharper edges, a higher Dmax and bleeds.
According to this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 6a-c, black and white text, graphics and pictorials are printed with K2. Color areas are printed with CYM. Black pixels having surrounding color pixels are printed with low bleed K1 (FIG. 6a). Black pixels having primarily black surrounding pixels in the neighborhood are printed with high quality, more dense black ink (FIG. 6b). Black pixels which are isolated, i.e., having surrounding areas with no color, are printed with K2 (FIG. 6c) since bleeding is not an issue. A lookup table may be provided for intermediate values to provide more accurate, high quality color reproduction with minimal bleeding.
The present inventive filter and printer containing such is preferably constructed using hardwired logic such as gate arrays or EPLD since these would stream through the images in short order because all logic paths are explored in parallel in a single clock cycle. However, the filter algorithm may comprise a computer program in a computer having a high speed processor which can cycle through the image in a step by step fashion. A suitable filter of this type could include a program written in a high level language such as C and run on a processor such as a 80486, which has processing speeds of 25MHz and higher. This however would require longer processing time than hardwiring and the time would be dependent on the complexity of the filter logic.
The invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, which are meant to be illustrative and not limiting. Various changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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Newmarket's Future Champions Day has had its share of critics since the fixture was created to complement Ascot's Champions Day in the restructured autumn programme. But few have gone so far as to declare the event redundant, as connections of the unbeaten Toormore did in the build-up to Saturday's renewal.
They affirmed that the winner of Ireland's Group One National Stakes was likely to run in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster a fortnight tomorrow only if he needs to reaffirm his position as the leading juvenile after rival claimants have run at Newmarket, in either the Middle Park Stakes or Dewhurst Stakes, the Group One prizes for two-year-old colts.
Among the fields declared are Sudirman, runner-up in the National Stakes, and Aidan O'Brien's unbeaten Great White Eagle, who contest the Middle Park over six furlongs. In the seven-furlong Dewhurst Stakes, the traditional juvenile championship decider, Ballydoyle fields the Coventry Stakes winner War Command against Godolphin's Outstrip, who was second to Toormore in Goodwood's Vintage Stakes before winning the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster last month.
Tim Palin, of Toormore's owners Middleham Park Racing, appeared unimpressed. "We had no plans to run him again as we think he's heading to be crowned champion two-year-old," he said. "Unless War Command was very impressive or Great White Eagle did something spectacular, we think Toormore is top of the pile as it looks like [the O'Brien-trained] Australia isn't going to run again. We'd only be tempted to run him if we needed to go out and prove that.
"Realistically, though, we view him as a Classic winner, not a champion juvenile. It's more than likely he'll reappear in the Greenham next year as he'll have no penalties in that. However, Doncaster is a possible, he's absolutely bouncing and it's a case of if we need to run."
Australia was a wide-margin winner of a Group Three contest at Leopardstown last month, after which O'Brien praised him as the best he has handled. He, too, perhaps has little to prove this season, as he is absent from the acceptors for the Racing Post Trophy, the race Ballydoyle has used to anoint its putative champions in recent years.Reuse content


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My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
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BeschreibungOn the night of his arrest for public intoxication, James Patrick Lyons was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. In his quest to uncover the details of his grandfather's life, the author re-creates the flavor of mid-twentieth-century Kansas City.
PortraitRichard A. Serrano, former reporter for the Kansas City Times and former Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is author of One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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The Toyohashi Tengu are a Quidditch team based in Toyohashi, Japan. They are the most successful Japanese team, and narrowly missed a win in 1994 against the Gorodok Gargoyles. Their practise of burning their broomsticks after a defeat was frowned upon by the International Confederation of Wizards' Quidditch Committee as a waste of good wood.
The Tengu are the current Champion's League winners, and every member attributes their prowess to the gruelling training they were given at Mahoutokoro, where they practise over a sometimes turbulent sea in stormy conditions, forced to keep an eye out not only for the Bludgers but also for planes from the Muggle airbase on a neighbouring island.
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- Tengu are mythical Japanese creatures, traditionally portrayed as having a humanoid shape, but the wings and beak of a bird of prey.
- Toyohashi is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
- "Tengu" (天狗) means "heavenly dog", and can be broken into two characters:
- 天, "ten" or "ama" means "heaven".
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I absolutely must write this. This very second. I was working on ExBoyfriend chapter 18 but I stopped to get the mail. I was reading the TIME magazine article about the Red Lake shooting when all of a sudden, I felt this driving force telling me to write a fic for this. And so I am. This is heavier then I've probably ever written and heavier then I'll probably ever write again, but I feel that I have to do this. I don't know why, but I just do.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans.
Dedication: To all the innocent souls who died in the Red Lake shooting, but especially to Chase Lussier, who was shot in the process of protecting his friend Ashley Lajeunesse, the most noble thing, in my opinion, one could do for another in that situation. May he rest in peace.
Red haired, green eyed Kori Andrews bit her lip as she examined the problem set before her. Stupid geometry. As her brain continued to process the fifteenth question on the two hundred and fifty fourth page of her Geometry book, she couldn't resist letting the tip of her mechanical pencil rise and fall against the hard wooden desk at which she sat, producing a satisfying yet slightly annoying tapping noise. While one part of her head was trained on math, another wandered; wandered to topics of little concern, such as what she would eat for dinner that night, and perhaps what she would wear to school tomorrow. Typical study hall.
Kori's gaze shifted to the right where her best friend, Dick Grayson, sat, leaned over his English textbook, most likely over-analyzing a simple question about the literature he had recently read. His blue eyes scanned what seemed to be the same paragraph too many times for Kori to count, and he unintentionally raised a hand to his spiky ebony hair every few minutes to subconsciously check it's condition. Typical Dick.
Not really in the mood to fry her brain, Kori sat back in her chair, adjusting her purple mini-skirt and blouse as she went over her day. The morning had gone rather well, if you didn't count the little incident in Mr. Connor's second period Biology class. Raven Roth, another friend of Kori's, had lost her temper with some snotty classmate who had refused to stop calling the dark girl a "gothic freak". With all the yelling Raven had done before she was calmed down, Kori was surprised that the kid hadn't gone deaf. Lunch was smooth sailing as well. The cafeteria food was only half edible, but the students of Jump City High had come to expect nothing more than that. It had been as such since the moment they arrived on campus as freshmen and would most likely remain the same right up till the day they graduated. And now Kori sat in study hall, bored to death as usual. Typical day. The carefree sophomore student had expected nothing more from it and certainly nothing less.
Then the shooting began.
It started with a single blast from a shotgun outside of the classroom. A few students looked up, puzzled, but did not suspect anything out of the ordinary. Kori, in particular, took the noise to simply be a student dropping a stack of textbooks in the hall, not exactly an uncommon occurrence. But soon there was another bang, then another still. Suddenly, all the teens in Jump City High's Room 13 seventh period study hall were throwing quick, anxious glances at one another, eyes wide with a knowing fear.
Who would have thought that on such an ordinary day, something so terrible could happen?
Ms. Lannin, the teacher in charge of the study hall, immediately took action, also sensing what was going on. Trying to remain calm, she swiftly rose from her seat and went to the door, shutting off the lights in her classroom and twisting the lock on the door. She then ordered all the students to the back of the room, instructing them to keep quiet and hide as best they could in the room sparsely populated by assorted desks and chairs.
Kori, terrified yet managing to keep from losing her head, crouched beside Dick near a bookcase that was adjacent to the wall farthest from the locked door from which the blasts could still be heard. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her back, shoving her down and further into the wall that lay behind.
"Ow! Dick why are you-"
"Shh. Stay behind me. Don't move."
"But what if-"
A death-like silence blanketed the room as the shots drew nearer, each student prospecting not the next day, but how many minutes they might have to live. Kori sure wasn't thinking about dinner any more. Her breath come short as a result of getting squashed between Dick's back and the wall, and as she struggled for air a heart-stopping sight caught her eye. The handle on the door was moving. Slowly, at first, but the movement got more forceful with each passing moment.
A bullet shattered the window pane beside the door of Room 13 and a gloved hand reached in ever so carefully to untwist the lock. Each passing second felt like an eternity. A hulking figure over six feet in height wearing all black and carrying a 12 gauge shotgun in his arms strolled in, the glass under his combat boots producing a sickening crunch. Kori couldn't help but take a peek over Dick's shoulders to look at her prospective killer. His eyes swam with emotions, but the ones the frightened teen could pick out best were hate and fear. Suddenly the fear was dominated by the hate as the two locked gazes. The gunman rose his weapon and shot without a second thought.
Kori dove behind Dick once again, yet she could feel a warm, liquid sensation against her leg. She'd been shot. Her mind raced. She was going to die. And to think that her only concern a mere ten minutes ago was her geometry homework. Even with the knowledge of her end in mind, Kori didn't cry. In fact, she couldn't even feel pain. Was this what dying was like? She held her head in her hands, trying to sort out her last, muddled thoughts. As she did, she heard people in the classroom communicating with their soon to be killer. The voices that swam through her mind were nothing more than a buzz as she contemplated her last moments on Earth. Gunshots. Those were more like cannons.
"...Kori..." She looked up, startled. Dick was still in front of her, but his stance was slightly bent. A sudden, horrifying realization washed over Kori, a trauma inducing sensation like ice water being poured down her back. She wasn't dying. It wasn't her blood that coated her jeans. It was Dick's.
Dick Grayson, her best friend, had sacrificed his life for hers by placing himself in the path of the bullet, and now he lay perishing before her.
Shaking, Kori lay an unstable hand on Dick's shoulder and positioned him so his head rested on her lap. Finally, the tears were starting to flow.
"Kori...please..." The teenaged boy's eyes were only half open now as he lost touch with the world. Slowly, with slight hesitation, he reached up and touched Kori's tanned cheek. "Please don't...blame yourself...I'm not afraid...I'm just glad I could protect you..." With the last of his strength and uncertainty laced in his expression, he pulled himself up and bestowed a kiss upon his best friend's lips. He fell limp mere moments later, Kori's tears, not his own, sliding down face, just as another gunshot roared from the shooter's weapon. The gunman fell dead, having taken his own life, after a rapid exchange of fire with the police force that had apparently arrived and were stationed in the hallway. Six other dead bodies were strewn about the room, including that of the teacher's. Silent throughout the ordeal, the surviving students finally let all hell break loose. Their screams could be heard for miles.
Hold onto me love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say
Was I love you and I'm not afraid
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?
Holding my last breath
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Are all my thoughts of you?
Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight
I'll miss the winter
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Wow...that was heavy. Short, yeah, but heavy nonetheless. I don't think that Chase, played in my fic by Dick, kissed Ashley, played by Kori, as he died, but I couldn't resist...
I want all of you who read this to carefully consider this question:
If you were in that position, would you do for your friend what Chase/Dick did for Ashley/Kori?
I know I would've. Without my friends, I'm nothing. This is an example of just how far someone would go to protect a friend. I hope I captured everything in the correct mood. I think that's the least amount of dialogue that I've ever had in a fic...hmmm...it seems to fit though...
With Love as Always,
Special thanks to StarryRavenFire and Queen-of-Azarath for the much needed assistance in posting this one shot.
Note: Yes, I found a way to beat the virus. The next chapter of ExBoyfriend will be up very soon. Next week prolly. I've been so busy with the school play lately...we just had our first show tonight, and we did great. Great job to all those guyz, my awesome castmates. I luv u guyz!


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I can not deny that getting called to the principal's office because of this stupid rumor freaked me out a little bit. It did. It had all of the potential to ruin my entire future, my entire life. And all because of a stupid hug that was caused by my idiot ex boyfriend.
"Mr. Baker, Miss Williamson, please come in and take a seat." Mr. Ferraro said, opening the door to his office and then walking back behind his desk to his leather chair.
"Mr. Ferraro, there's only one seat, and two of us." James objected, almost immediately after I told him to let me do the talking. Comments like that were just what might cost us both of our reputations.
"According to what I have been hearing around the school this morning, the two of you wouldn't mind that. But, also for gossip's sake, Miss Williamson, please take a seat. You need your rest." Mr. Ferraro said, a slight smirk on his face.
That was so not legal. I'd have to have Penny take a look at how to deal with that kind of thing.
"Thank you, but for my own sake, I think I'll let have James have the chair. Now, why did you call us down to your office, Ferraro? You are cutting in to valuable learning time that we need to get some where in the world, sir." I said, keeping my voice reasonable, but making sure my words were still wise ass.
"Miss Williamson, Mister Baker, you both know our school's policy on, ahem, negative influences, correct?"
"Yes, sir, we do. What does that have to do with us, though?" I replied, keeping cool and not giving any thing away.
"Have neither of you heard what is being said about you this morning? That's… almost appalling." Mr. Ferraro said with minor distaste, but otherwise complete indifference.
"No, we have not. Care to tell us, Mr. Ferraro?" I said, still playing dumb.
I glared at James when he started to open his mouth – I knew he was going to say that both of us knew exactly what he was talking about, but I knew admitting that would not work in our favor.
"I'll cut straight to the chase, then. One of our school's journalism students runs a blog called Cane You Believe It? as part of her credit for News Paper class. This morning, a picture of the two of you was posted with a caption alluding to your being pregnant, Miss Williamson. And from what I have heard in the hallways today, most of the student body seems to think it's true."
"Oh, yes, that lovely Kris Snyder." I said in the sweetest, most innocent tone I could manage. I could normally get my voice to drip sweet and low like honey, but today it was more straight up cane sugar. "Yes, we are familiar with Cane You Believe It?. But both James and I were unaware that there had been a post about the two of us on there recently. I haven't had the chance to check recently, and I'm sure James hasn't, either."
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I held back a scoff and tried to make my voice not shake. "Yet you still allow the druggies and the sex and rock and rollers attend school. Do you only kick the pregnant girls and gay boys out, Mr. Ferraro? Because I do believe that is illegal, and if that is what you are suggesting, there is no way you will be able to scare me out of taking legal action. I am related by blood to one of the top attorneys in the state. Don't even begin to think that I won't use my power, there."
"Delilah, I'm giving you the option to confirm or deny these rumors. If you do not deny that you are pregnant right now, you will be expelled!" Ferraro practically roared at me, but kept his voice down at the same time.
I felt my eyes go steely with a determination much stronger than his. "Read my lips. I. Am. Not. Pregnant. Do you want me to sign a document? Get a damned test and show it to you? Or will my word be enough?"
James was frozen in his chair. I was staring at Ferraro over the top of his curly mess of hair, trying to channel my inner FBI interrogator. My hands were on James' shoulders, subconsciously trying to calm him and myself at the same time. My thumb rubbed the back of his neck where Ferraro couldn't see.
But James was not the only one who was frozen where he was. Ferraro had a similar stance to me behind his desk; back leant forward and arched, arms outstretched and open, staring at me through the top of his eyes through his silver-gold eyelashes. It was different, though. He looked unsure, like he was having an internal battle.
"If you expel me or James or punish us in any way, I will take legal action. Don't doubt me. So, Mr. Ferraro. What is it going to be? Let us out of here, or get a law suit against the school and possibly lose your job?" I whispered calmly, trying to make sure no one out side of his office could hear me making threats if they walked by his door.
Mr. Ferraro stared at me for a minute longer and then averted his eyes and cleared his throat. His gaze moved to the corner of his desk, where they glared unblinkingly at the fake wood. "Miss Williamson, Mister Baker, you are free to go. I will let you off with just a warning, this time. But if I hear of any thing like this about either of you ever again, you better be sure you will be back in this office and you will be given the consequences that you deserve."
"Yes, sir." I drawled out, making the two words in to an insult. I raised an eyebrow when he didn't even look up or make a comment about needing to "respect my elders."
"Just go. NOW."
"Thank you, Mr. Ferraro." James quickly said and rushed out of the room.
I took my time and ambled out of the office, making Ferraro as uncomfortable as I could. I couldn't help but to roll my eyes at James' rushed and eager exit. Very suave. If that would have been at the beginning of that lovely chat, it would have cost us every thing.
I didn't expect him to be waiting just out of sight of Mr. Ferraro's office door for me, though. He stood there with his hands in his pockets, one foot on the brick wall and an easy smile on his face. I couldn't not give him a little smirk back.
"Delilah…. Thanks. If I had talked at all in there, we probably both would have been expelled. I don't know how you did it, but you managed to save both of our asses." He pushed off of the wall and offered another hug.
I reluctantly allowed him to hug me, and wrapped my arms around him as well. Half of my brain was saying "awwww! This is good. This is a really good sign!" while the other half was going "he already got you in trouble. Why are you setting yourself up for a fall again?"
"No problem, James." I struggled to keep my voice clear and lacking most emotion. Why was that harder to do now than it was in the self proclaimed Duke of Discipline's office? "Just so you know, you owe me big time now."
"I'll make sure to come up with some thing good, Delilah. Do you have a pen or marker or some thing?" He asked randomly.
"Yeah." I said, taking my lucky pen out of the pocket of my jeans and offering it to him. "Why?"
"Because. Just in case you can come up with a favor that will make me owe you a little less, you will probably need my cell phone number." He said, smoothly taking the pen and holding the palm of my hand spread in front of him to write out his number.
"To each their own." I said vaguely.
"Really, LiLi. Thanks. I have to get to class." He took off running down the hall way, my pen still in his hand.
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At Sri Bachchulal Ramdulari Mahavidyalaya the students are endowed with all convenient amenities that make their life 'go easy' in college hours, alongside make learning more interesting. Some of the facilities include well ventilated classrooms, recreational areas, indoor and outdoor games, stocked library, seamless internet connectivity, medical facilities etc.
Nearby popular spots within 5 KM from the campus
|KISAN DIESELS AND ELECTRICALS (Food)
|Gaya Prasad Samudayik Swasthya Kendra (Hospital)
|Zia Medicines (Hospital)
|Sabir Shoe Center (Shopping Mall)
|Mahendra Hosiery Readymate Shop Biswan Sitapur (Shopping Mall)
|ICICI Bank ATM (Atm)
|State Bank Of India (Bank)
|Axis Bank ATM (Atm)
|ICICI Bank Branch & ATM. - Biswan (Bank)
|ICICI Bank (Bank)
|Allahabad UP Gramin Bank (Bank)
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