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The Tower in the SkyMature
Amber was not happy. It had been two weeks and there was still no sign of Xeann, still no sign of Sheela waking from her coma and still no signs of the Queen! After she had fully recovered from the Zennalpha Plague, Amber often spent the day lying on top of the biggest scrap pile in the junkyard right next to Stiraia Village, staring up at the Nightmare Blanket, waiting for Xeann to come, waiting for Sheela to wake and waiting for the Queen to make an appearance. She basked in the sun, something she never liked doing but to be honest, it was a nice feeling to bathe in the sun. It wasn't as hot as the sun back at her home. Plus exploring the junkyard was fun. There were all sorts of weaker monsters to pick and train on and she found quite some interesting gizmos to play around with. But Amber was still very unhappy. Why? Her skin was getting tanned. She had screamed and threw a tantrum when she took her top off one day and saw the difference between the skin that was exposed and the skin that was underneath the material. She hated tanning! She loved her pale skin, she didn't want it to turn any more bronze than it was now! However, she hated staying inside Siegfried's house, he was just too damn creepy for her to handle. There were no rafters in the huts where she could just lie and watch what was going on beneath her, it was too small and too noisy with Siegfried scaring Sarah all the time, Saphira arguing with Siegfried about scaring Sarah and Vienna whining about their arguing. Amber hated it all. It was nothing like what life was back at home.
Amber glared at the sky as she lay in the sun, on top of the biggest scrap pile in the junkyard right next to Stiraia Village. She hummed a little tune as she closed her eyes and remembered a typical day at home. Her mother's cooking would catch her nose's attention from her bedroom and she would get up, get dressed and go out of her bedroom window to climb down the wall and go through the kitchen window. Her father would already be downstairs, drinking some whiskey and Jasper would wander down the stairs, disorientated. She would eat her breakfast and follow her father outside to do some training until lunchtime. She would have lunch, her father might or might not get a client but either way she would spend the afternoon humouring Jasper by taking him out to relax by the oasis or take him to the market if it was up and running or, most of the time, relax in his bedroom and play games. Her mother would call them downstairs for dinner, their father may or may not be there, depending if he got a client or not, perhaps he went out for a drink down at the pub, who knew? It was rare that he would come to dinner but there was a more likely chance of him coming in, six out of ten times with a bottle of liquor in his hand, grab their mother and take her upstairs to their bedroom. Amber and Jasper would spend the rest of the evening together, ignoring their father's antics, they would get ready to go to bed and perhaps, if it was a clear night, they would go star gazing. Amber often read Jasper to sleep, Jasper helping her out a lot because his level of reading was much better than hers and ask how his morning had been. Jasper was a very timid boy, Amber actually had to drag him out of the house each morning before she went to train with her father to a group of local children to get him to socialise at least an hour a day.
Amber smiled as she yawned and idly began falling asleep. Sarah had woke up screaming last night and a huge argument broke out, Amber hardly got enough sleep. The warmth of the sun encouraged her to fall into the world of slumber, even if she was on top of an uncomfortable scrap pile. Amber slept, she began to dream for the first time in six months. She dreamt that she was flying towards the Nightmare Blanket and going through it. She saw the real sky, the real sun and real clouds. It was beautiful, happy, just how the world should be. She was blown through the real currents of the real wind and saw lots of floating islands. Floating islands weren't uncommon but the Nightmare Blanket had blocked them out of view. Seeing the floating islands made Amber smile, wishing that she could never wake up from this rare dream and that she could live here, away from any troubles and away from the Nightmare Blanket. She turned her head and saw a large tower resting on one of the floating islands. Her breath hitched when she flew towards it and through one of the windows. She saw the Queen in the middle of the room with a large crystal orb, staring deeply into it. She was dressed rather differently since the last time Amber saw her. She was clad in a white nightgown, the baby bump slightly bigger than last time, with her forest green hair out of its ponytail and falling down to the middle of her back. She was barefoot as opposed to wearing high heels. Her magenta eyes lifted and spotted her.
'Welcome, Amber,' she said and Amber landed on the floor, fists raised 'I'm sorry but this is my realm now.' Chains shot out from the ground and snatched Amber's wrists and ankles. Amber struggled and the Queen tittered. Amber glared at her venomously.
'This is enough, Florence,' she snarled 'Let me go and tell me where my father is!'
'Oh, so we're on informal terms now,' Florence smiled widely and clasped her hands together happily 'That's good, I was so hoping we were that close.' Amber scowled and Florence laughed, running a finger over the top of the crystal orb lazily. 'I've brought you here to speak with you, Amber.'
'About what?' Amber narrowed her eyes warily.
'Oh this and that,' Florence shrugged as she circled her orb 'We're only teenagers, let's talk about boys or fashion!'
'No thanks…' Amber raised an eyebrow and leaned away from Florence when she arrived next to her, swallowing when Florence laughed boisterously. Florence grinned widely, rubbing her baby bump softly.
'I'm seven months into pregnancy now,' she sighed 'Nine months is too long, I want my baby now!'
'Who's the father?' Amber asked warily and Florence shrugged.
'Well, that's for me to know and you to find out,' Florence puffed her cheeks while leaning on the crystal orb.
'…It's not Cody is it?'
'Hell no!' Florence began laughing 'No, Cody's terrified of me! He's absolutely afraid of girls, he wouldn't even kiss one, let alone bed me!' Amber raised an eyebrow.
'What about that demon?' Florence cocked her head to the side questioningly.
'Sweetie, you have to be more specific than that, I'm afraid.'
'The demon I saw with you by Magia Town.' Florence opened her mouth and smirked.
'For a girl who struggles with riddles, you're smart,' she commented and Amber jerked at her chains.
'Excuse me, at least I'm not the teenager that's pregnant!' Amber snapped and Florence raised an eyebrow.
'I'm pregnant because I want a child,' she said sternly and continued circling her crystal orb 'I believe your vampire friend had her first child when she was sixteen.'
'Xeann was twenty when she had her first child,' Amber sneered and Florence smirked.
'That just shows how well you know her,' she sighed and ran a hand over the top of the crystal ball. Amber snarled and glared at the ground.
'Where's my father, Florence?' she finally asked 'What have you done to him?'
'Why would you care about your father?' Florence snarled as she spun her hand quicker over the top of the crystal ball 'He was a drunk, an assassin, untrustworthy…'
'He was a good man!' Amber protested 'Don't talk about him like you knew him!'
'I did know him!' Florence snapped 'My father was a very regular client of his until I released the Nightmare Blanket!' Amber froze as Florence pressed her hand on top of the crystal ball firmly. 'Our fathers were a duo of assassins. Your father would kill them in cold blood, my father would provide causes of deaths for the bodies, alibies for your father and so on. Sometimes, your father wouldn't even kill them properly. So when my father had some live bodies, he would keep them alive so he would dissect them painfully, make them suffer. They did it for fun mostly, even when they had enough money to spare a whole city, they would continue killing, murdering, torturing and massacring…'
'I don't believe you, my father killed for the good of society,' Amber snarled. Florence lifted her hand and the mist within the crystal orb cleared. Amber watched as it revealed a cold dark room with lots of medical instruments and a cold looking slab of metal with cuffs attached to it. Two men, one with forest green hair and another with silver, dragged in a struggling woman, fastening her to the slab.
'So, my dear,' the one with green hair smirked as he pulled out a scalpel 'Let's see what's in this delightful body of yours.' The woman shrieked as he bent down, scalpel by her eye.
'But, Ark,' she whimpered 'I trusted you…'
'As your husband trusted you before you sent me to kill him,' Amber's father shrugged. Amber closed her eyes and turned away as the woman's screams sounded through the room, both men laughing spitefully at her.
'Stop it,' she growled 'Stop it, enough! That's not my father!'
'To think he might have put your mother through the very same thing,' Florence murmured as she continued watching, the metal slab flowing plentifully with blood.
'Stop it! Stop it!' Amber cried as she shook her head, tears welling up in her eyes.
'Stop it! Stop it, I beg of you!' the woman pleaded.
'STOP!' Amber began shrieking.
'Amber?' Amber jolted awake, sweat trickling down her whole body. Sarah stood over her, head cocked to the side curiously. 'Whatcha dreaming about?' she asked with a goofy smile. Amber sat up slowly and looked around, breathing rather raggedly.
'It was just…a nightmare,' she breathed in relief, placing a hand over her heart which was beating rather unevenly.
'Whatcha nightmaring about then?' Sarah asked. Amber smiled softly and looked down.
'The Queen was in it,' she said 'She showed me illusions of my father…and her father torturing this woman.'
'Oh, that sounds gruesome,' Sarah pulled a face 'Don't tell me anymore.'
'But I think I know where the Queen may be,' Amber continued talking anyway 'How high can you fly?'
'About the height of this mountain,' Sarah nodded to the blue mountain that stood between them and the wasteland 'Why?' Amber grimaced when she saw that the Nightmare Blanket went over that mountain.
'You can't reach any floating islands?' she frowned at Sarah.
'Only the fully developed pegasi can,' Sarah shrugged 'Sheela and I are only growing up still. We can reach small mountain summits but that's about it.'
'Damn,' Amber sighed 'My nightmare revealed that there's a tower on one of the floating islands above the Nightmare Blanket.'
'Ah,' Sarah clicked her tongue and looked up 'Well that's a problem.' Amber nodded in agreement and they both stared at the Nightmare Blanket thoughtfully, watching it flash dark blue, red and purple when it dropped its illusion briefly. Amber didn't notice Sarah teetering, neither did Sarah, and soon the poor girl was rolling down the scrap pile. Amber watched with wide eyes as she landed on a bouncy mattress and sprung over another scrap pile nearby, her landing making a lot of cluttering noises.
'Ouch,' she muttered.
'I'm OK!' Amber rolled her eyes as she slid down her scrap pile to look for her. She eventually found the clumsy teenager sitting in an old plane wreck, or rather dangling out of it with her foot trapped in the doorway.
'For an unlucky soul, you have too much luck,' Amber raised an eyebrow. Sarah just grinned and stared at the plane wreck thoughtfully.
'Hey…I could fix this!' she said, her eyes lighting up gleefully 'Then we can see if there's really a tower in the sky!'
'How…?' Amber tilted her head as she took a good look at the plane wreck.
'Simple-woah!' Amber yelped as Sarah accidentally unhinged her foot from the doorway and landed on top of her. Amber grumbled softly while Sarah sat on her, staring at the plane. 'I'm sure a lot of junk in this yard can turn out to be useful,' she smirked and rubbed her nose 'I could just rummage around the scrap piles…' She stood up and began rummaging through the scrap pile nearby, yelping as a dustbin fell and landed on her, making her fall over so that the dustbin was the right side up and her legs were kicking in the air in protest. Amber bit her lip to prevent herself from laughing.
'How about, Vienna, Saphira and I find the junk that you need to do the fixing?' Amber offered as she went over to pull Sarah out of the dustbin 'It would be a lot quicker.'
'Of course, that's a great idea!' Sarah's muffled voice came through the dustbin. Amber pulled her out of the dustbin completely and Sarah went flying, landing on her rump.
'We just need to find a way to bring it down from up there,' Amber murmured as she stared up at the plane.
'I can do it!' Amber didn't even bother trying to stop her as Sarah scrambled up to the plane wreck and tried to dislodge it from the scrap pile. She succeeded and went rolling down the scrap pile with it, out of the junkyard, crashing into one of the huts in Stiraia Village. 'Sorry!' Sarah grimaced sheepishly as a couple of residents came out to see what the commotion was about. Amber ran after her and began helping wheeling the plane out into the open.
'Amber!' Saphira called as she and Vienna came over after hearing the collision 'What's going on and what are you doing to that plane?'
'Fixing it,' Amber said with a shrug 'Well, Sarah says she's going to anyway…'
'Fix it?' Vienna began laughing loudly 'Sarah? Being able to fix something?'
'Hey, I can so fix this!' Sarah smacked a hand onto the broken plane confidently and one of the wings fell off, nearly squashing the werewolves. Amber stepped away from the plane warily, hoping nothing would fall off and squash her.
'She needs all the help she can get,' she murmured to the werewolves.
'Agreed, but why on Ethylias are we repairing this plane?' Vienna asked.
'Well, I have a theory which involves us flying,' Amber shrugged 'It might lead us to the Queen.'
'What do you need help with, Sarah?' Saphira suddenly asked and Vienna suddenly bounced on her feet, ready to be useful.
'Just let me examine this, if you could find some tools that would be useful,' Sarah said as she began examining the plane's engine.
'Got it!' The werewolves ran off to the junkyard, Amber trailing behind. They all jumped when they heard a loud bang and turned around to see smoke rising from the wreck.
'I'm OK!' Sarah called and Amber grimaced.
'I'm not sure if this is such a good idea after all,' she muttered to herself.
When Sheela woke up, she had a massive headache. She couldn't make out what was in front of her and it took her a while to realise that she was lying down. She looked around and realised that she was in Siegfried's hut. She carefully sat up, memories blurring in her mind as she tried to remember what happened to her. She turned her head to the side and saw bright green snake-like eyes.
'Good morning.' Sheela gasped and edged away, her vision coming back to her as she saw Siegfried's face just inches away from hers.
'Don't do that!' she breathed, placing a hand on her heart and Siegfried chuckled.
'You're jusssssst like your sssssssssissssster only quieter,' he hissed with a smirk and Sheela glared at him.
'Speaking of which, where is Sarah?' Sheela asked as she looked around to see that it was only them in the hut. A loud boom sounded outside, followed by the sound of several debris falling onto the village, making them both flinch.
'I'm OK!' Sheela stared at the door in horror.
'What is she doing?' she asked.
'Fixing a plane with the othersssssss,' Siegfried replied 'I'm not entirely ssssssssure why. They've been at it for two weeksssss.' Sheela sighed as she pulled the blanket off her.
'I'll go and see if I can help,' she murmured and stared down at her body 'Eep!' She snatched the blanket back to cover herself up. 'Why am I naked?!' She gave Siegfried an accusing glare and Siegfried shrugged.
'Clothesssssss tend to burn off when your whole body isssssss sssssssset alight,' he said and Sheela then remembered about the Narwhine.
'Did it work, did I kill it?' she asked urgently.
'Yesssssss but with itsssssssss price.' Siegfried held up a broken mirror so Sheela could see the black burnt skin that started from the top of the left side of her forehead and stopped next to her left eye. 'I ussssed the Narwhine blubber to heal your burnsssss but alassss, I ran out. By the time I left to go and get more blubber, the sssscavengerssss of the village had taken it all. I apologissssse.' Sheela sighed as she gently touched her burn.
'Don't be, you can't always save everything,' she murmured 'But what am I going to wear now? I can't wander around naked.'
'I wouldn't mind.' Sheela glared at Siegfried and Siegfried smirked. 'Jusssst give me a moment.' He stood up and went over to the wardrobe that was in disrepair. He searched through the tattered and torn clothes, pulling a dusty white gown, dragging it over to put it against Sheela. 'It could fit,' he shrugged.
'A wedding dress?' Sheela raised an eyebrow 'You expect me to wear a wedding dress?'
'It'ssssss the besssst I can do I'm afraid,' Siegfried shrugged 'I had to usssse the other clothesssssss for bandagesssss and I didn't want to ruin my mother'sssssss preciousssssss wedding dressssss…'
'It's your mother's?' Sheela widened her eyes 'Oh no, I couldn't possibly wear this.'
'It'sssssss all I got, or would you like to walk around naked?' Siegfried smirked as Sheela blushed and snatched the wedding gown out of his hands.
'Fine, I'll wear it!' she snapped 'But turn around, don't be a pervert.' Siegfried shrugged as he turned around while Sheela got up and began getting into the dress. She reluctantly asked Siegfried to help her with zipping the dress up. Siegfried pushed her in front of a dusty body mirror.
'Why, don't you look pretty?' he hissed and Sheela huffed, folding her arms in a strop.
'Flattery gets you nowhere, snake,' she scowled and Siegfried chuckled as he took a good look at her.
'It sssssseemsssss to fit,' he nodded and stepped away 'My mother would have been happy to sssssssee it on a younger woman.'
'If she was getting married to you,' Sheela raised an eyebrow 'Which I'm not!' She stormed out of the hut immediately before Siegfried could tease her any further.
'Wait a moment!' Sheela turned to Siegfried as he stopped by his door. 'You forgot thisssssss.' He held up a veil with a wide smirk and Sheela threw an ice spell at him irritably.
'Jerk!' she shouted before marching off to the plane wreck. She circled it curiously before finding Sarah's legs sticking out of the engine. 'Sarah?' Sarah fell out when she heard Sheela, covered in oil, and gasped when she saw her.
'Sheela, you're alive!' she cheered as she got up to her feet 'But I can't hug you right now…' She chuckled, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly and Sheela sighed, smiling warmly.
'Look at you, how are you going to get that smelly oil out of your hair?' she asked, placing her hands on her hips. Sarah shrugged.
'I don't know, perhaps when we go back home, mum can help me,' she said and looked Sheela up and down curiously 'And what's with the dress, are you getting married?'
'It's the only clothes that Siegfried had apparently,' Sheela resisted the urge to use a thunder spell on her sister 'Anyway, why are you fixing this plane? The Queen will only catch and arrest us.'
'Well, that would be Plan B if Plan A doesn't work,' Sarah shrugged as she picked up her spanner and continued fixing the engine 'Amber's restless, ever since she had a nightmare with the Queen in it, she's been pushing me to fixing this every day and eagerly bringing me the parts that I need from the junkyard.'
'You want to reach the Queen?' Sheela blinked 'I see, but what's Plan A?'
'Oh, Amber has a hunch that the Queen has a tower on one of the floating islands and because we personally can't reach the floating islands, we need to go by plane.'
'Sarah, have you actually fixed a plane before?'
'I've fixed a model plane before,' Sarah looked up at her with a sheepish grin 'But I've done some theory in engineering classes. Besides, how hard can it be?' She tweaked something with the spanner and a plume of flames whooshed out of the engine, setting her hair alight. 'EEP!!!' Sarah cried as she dropped everything and began running around in circles in a panic, Sheela staring with wide eyes 'I'm not OK! I'm so not OK! Help!'
'Hold still!' she said as she readied her hands. Water spurted out of her palms and soaked Sarah, dousing the small flames that were burning her light pink hair. The sisters breathed a sigh of relief as Sarah held a thumbs-up to her sister.
'I'm OK,' she breathed and sat down for a breather. Sheela breathed a sigh of relief, dusting her hands off.
'How about I help?' she offered 'I could be able to use a few spells to speed up the fixing process.'
'That would be such a great help!' Sarah perked up 'Thanks, sis!'
'Sarah!' Saphira shouted as she, Vienna and eventually Amber came over 'We heard you shout help.' Seeing Sarah steaming like a roast chicken and Sheela in a wedding dress, Saphira gasped. 'Oh Sheela, you're awake!' she cried and hugged her tightly.
'That dress is so pretty!' Vienna cooed as she dumped the junk in her arms onto Amber's pile of junk 'Who are you getting married to?'
'For my wedding dress, I would prefer a nice ice blue colour instead of the traditional white,' Saphira hummed as she bent down to feel the material. Sheela growled in annoyance and a thunderbolt landed in the middle of the three girls, making all three yelp, Amber falling over and dropping the junk in her arms.
'Anyone else who asks about the dress will get hurt!' she snarled and folded her arms grumpily.
'But I didn't say anything!' Amber whined.
'Anyway, it's all Siegfried had to offer because my clothes got burned away and he was using the other clothes for bandages,' Sheela mumbled moodily 'Now let's get this plane fixed so we can find this Queen.'

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BeschreibungThis book is based on the modern conceptual understanding of crystal fields. It provides readers with clear instructions and a set of computer programs for the phenomenological analysis of energy spectra of magnetic ions in solids. The text clarifies several issues that have historically produced confusion in this area, particularly the effects of covalency and ligand polarization on the energy spectra of magnetic ions. Readers are shown how to employ a hierarchy of parametrized models to extract as much information as possible from observed lanthanide and actinide spectra. This is the first book in the area of crystal field theory which describes all of the available phenomenological models, together with the conceptual and computational tools necessary for their use. It will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers working in the development of opto-electronic systems and magnetic materials.
InhaltsverzeichnisIntroduction; 1. Crystal field splitting mechanisms; 2. Empirical crystal fields; 3. Fitting crystal field parameters; 4. Parametrization of lanthanide and actinide optical spectra; 5. Superposition model; 6. Effects of electron correlation on crystal field splitting; 7. Ground state splittings in S–state ions; 8. Invariants and moments; 9. Semiclassical model; 10. Transition intensities; A1. Point symmetry; A2. QBASIC programs; A3. Accessible programs; A4. Computer package CST: conversions, standardization and transformations; Bibliography; Index.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2008
Seitenanzahl: 304 Seiten
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Nice. You better stay on her good side.
This is a discussion on Wife's BG target from BPS course!! within the Defensive Carry & Tactical Training forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; My wife just completed her NRA Basic Pistol Safety course. After the range session(in which she fires a Ruger MkII, G19, G22, and a G27) ...
My wife just completed her NRA Basic Pistol Safety course. After the range session(in which she fires a Ruger MkII, G19, G22, and a G27) She brought home her target to show me how she did. Man was i impressed. This is pretty much her first time with a pistol. The instructor gave me a call a couple of days later to tell me how good of a job she did(and that she'd taken one of his mags home on accident) Here's the pic:
That's all the calibers. 70 rnds of 9mm plus a few of .22 and .40.
The distance was 21'.
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In God we trust, everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.
Rights are like muscles: If you don't excersise them they slowly disappear.
Nice. You better stay on her good side.
Glock 27
that's some really good perforation there
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--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
"Ouch! That's gotta' hurt!"--Bob Costas
Good shooting on your wife's part!
WOW I suck compared to ur wife at shooting then again I tend to shoot too low or too high.
I'd be happy with that group and I've been shooting since I could walk! Nice job.
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Nice shooting!
I bet that instructor is very polite when he 'pleasantly' asks for his mag back...
Stay armed...get your wife a gun...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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In God we trust, everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.
Rights are like muscles: If you don't excersise them they slowly disappear.
Looks like she sure did stop the Bad Guy and she even put a dimple on his chin.
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I heard someone once call a woman with a gun "the most dangerous creature on God's green earth."
Stay on her good side, bro....
Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia,(D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]
If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand
sorry i don't know if anyone else was thinking of your limp wristing comment... perhaps it was you that needs a limp wristing correction? Give the wife a break?
and yes... i'd be damn proud of my wife bringing home a grouping like that!
I always tried to get my Ex, when married, to shoot with me. She just kept saying she 'hated guns". She had been in the Army and could handle about any gun. She would shoot "once in a while" but rarely.
One day at the range, I couldn't hit well .... and made a smart-ass comment about the sites. She just says..... "oh let me see it". She goes up and puts 10 shots, 25 yds, dead center within the size of a nickel.
I never ask her to shoot with me again, I didn't need that kind of humiliation. But I sure practiced a lot more.


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Chapra, Mar 25: Maoists continued to wreck havoc in Bihar as the rebels blew up an under-construction police building at Bhelbi in Bihar's Saran district, police said on Thursday, Mar 25.
Police said that Over 50 armed Maoists surrounded the building at around 11.45 pm on Wednesday, Mar 25, night and fired indiscriminately.
The rebels also triggered dynamite, which tore down the under construction building, around 2.5 km away from Bhelbi police station, they added.
Police said that no casualty has been reported so far.
A handbill demanding the immediate halt of 'Operation Green Hunt' by the state government was left behind by the Maoists.
Raids are being conducted to arrest the Naxals involved in the attack.
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Take a look at this quilt, make sure you look at some of the pic's of the individual pieces. 25,000 DIAMONDS!!! I am in awe of whomever pieced this quilt!!!! This is just incredible.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Take a look at this quilt, make sure you look at some of the pic's of the individual pieces. 25,000 DIAMONDS!!! I am in awe of whomever pieced this quilt!!!! This is just incredible.
May your stitches always be straight, your seams always lie flat, and your grain never be biased against you.
Oh my goodness, can you imagine the time that went into that? Maybe it was a quilting bee quilt?
....and did you notice it is lovingly put up with what looks like......PUSH PINS! Good grief I hope someone rescues it but at price, I don't think so.
That is an amazing quilt. It will be interesting to see if it sells at that price.
I cringe at those push pins...can't believe anyone would do that especially to such an old and fragile quilt! Looks like they may have this quilt awhile, the listing says Jan 14th.
Someone with tons of dollars can afford to rescue it. It is beautiful!!!
Treat people the way you want to be treated!!
Quite the quilt ... imagine the stories it could tell
Now here's your "chuckle" for the night ... when I read diamonds, yes I thought diamonds!
After all, they do add crystals to quilts now ... so why not diamonds?
Sew many ideas ... just sew little time!!
I think it's from Ca. They mention it often enough. LOL
You can get older, but you never have to grow up! Tomorrow's just a future yesterday!-Greg Fergerson
Lots of work but I doubt it will sell. It's priced about ten time more than it's actually worth.
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A thought on Music Fandom
posted by Tom on October 11, 2012 at 5:06 pm
in Muse, Music Fanatics, Alex May
There's nothing like being a fan of a band, and anticipating what the new music will be like....or is there?
This entry on Hypebot caught my eye the other day. It gets at another facet of music engagement that has been changed by digital culture. The oldheads love to say "It was better way back when..." but this fan is not an oldhead, and what he's sensing is part of a more fundamental shift, I think, or at least a shift on a higher order of magnitude than simply the "fan experience." Thoughts? I'm pretty sure I'll have more on this by and by....
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So close and yet...
Catherine had been leading the group up the side of the volcano, worried about what exactly Victoria was doing, when it all disappeared. They had been so close to the top too. Oh well, such was the nature of Daydreams.
Now she stood looking up at the sad ruin of a once grand colosseum. The stones were hidden by ivy and moss and it was rather foreboding.The air was still and close around them and echoing around the ancient walls were the alarming sounds of the various monsters inside the maze.
Alright kids, suit up, this could get nasty. Catherine admitted.
At once, everyone who hadn't done so already changed into fighting gear of various styles. Within moments they were ready. Catherine had poofed herself up onto one of the walls to try and get a better look at what was waiting for them. She couldn't see much, but she did see Shard and a young woman (whom she guessed was Victoria) jump down into the maze. She smiled and turned back to her companions.
Let's try and stay together, or if we have to split up, no one goes by themselves, understand?
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Nelson DeMille is a former U.S. Army lieutenant who served in Vietnam and is the author of nineteen acclaimed novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Night Fall, Plum Island, The Gate House, The Lion, The Panther and Radiant Angel. His other New York Times bestsellers include The Charm School, Word of Honor, The Gold Coast, Spencerville, The Lion's Game, Up Country, Wild Fire, and The General's Daughter, the last of which was a major motion picture. For more information, you can visit NelsonDeMille.net.
The Talbot Odysseyby Nelson DeMille
At the end of WWII, an ex-cop/trainee lawyer soon finds himself embroiled in a world of violence and double-crossing enemy agents. |
At the end of WWII, an ex-cop/trainee lawyer soon finds himself embroiled in a world of violence and double-crossing enemy agents. |
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Wow....just think what might have happened if the terrorist of 9/11 had read this book. Would they have used planes or gone for the technological approach? Riveting, fast-paced, and twisted, DeMille keeps you guessing right up to the last 3 pages. Couldn't put this one down. He is in the same class as Jeffrey Deaver.
Some other reviewers have stated that, unlike other Demille books, the Talbot Odyssey is a little harder to follow. I found also that it was not the page-turner at times, but this is such a great story if you can stick with it for 150 pages; then things pick up from there and you will constantly ask yourself "who is the bad guy?" because Demille weaves such a plot together that you are not sure who should watch who's back -- JUST like in a real-life spying. This is a Cold War spy fiction classic! There is a LOT of shooting in this book.
I had read most of DeMille's books, so wanted to read 'Talbot Odyssey' as I was sure that it would be just as good as his others. I wasn't disappointed, and enjoyed this fast paced adventure from start to finish.
The Talbot Odyssey is another DeMille Masterpiece and an example of DeMille's brilliant plot development and powerful denouements. Kate Mayfield and Tony Abrams help solidify Talbot Odyssey as a Cold War thriller you simply cannot put down.
Another fantastic DeMille book that I just couldn't put down. Action packed from beginning to end. I've read all of Demille's boks and this was my second favorite (Charm School was my favorite).
Somewhat predictable & dated, this is a "classic" DeMille Cold War thriller. aj west
I have read this book numerous times and it never gets old just one of the many reasons nelson demille is my favorite authors
I discovered Mr. DeMille several years ago and have read all his books. In fact, I have his latest on pre-order now. I'm so glad I didn't read "The Talbot Odyssey" first, as I would have missed some great reading. I found this book to be too violent and missed the humorous main character he has in his other books.


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The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radicalby Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis (Foreword by)
Living as an Ordinary Radical
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we've made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic
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Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we've made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane's faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 in coins and bills on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighborhood, an impoverished community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids with homework, and "practicing resurrection" in the forgotten places of our world.
Shane's message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable . . . but will also invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love.
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Chapter OneWHEN CHRISTIANITY WAS STILL SAFE
It's what always happens to the saints and prophets who are dangerous: we bronze them, we drain them of their passion and life and trap them in stained-glass windows and icons, confining them safely in memories of the past. St. Francis becomes a birdbath, Malcolm X is put on a stamp, and Martin Luther King gets a holiday. And Jesus gets commercialized, whether it's the plastic night-lights or the golden crucifixes. (And now there is a bobbing-head "Buddy Jesus" for your car and the "Jesus is my homeboy" T-shirt.) It becomes hard to know who Jesus really is, much less to imagine that Jesus ever laughed, cried, or had poop that smelled.
I can remember when Christianity was still safe, comfortable, trendy. I grew up in the Bible Belt, in East Tennessee, where there's a church building on nearly every corner. I can't remember meeting anyone Jewish or Muslim, and I distinctly remember being dissuaded from dating a Catholic girl because she "prayed to Mary." I attended two or three different youth groups, whichever had the best entertainment and drew the largest crowd. Church was a place where there were cute girls, free junk food, and cheap snowboarding trips. I discovered a Christianity that entertained me with quirky songs and velcro walls.
In middle school, I had a sincere "conversion" experience. We took a trip to a large Christian festival with bands, speakers, and late-night pranks. One night a short, bald preacherman named Duffy Robbins gave an invitation to "accept Jesus," and nearly our whole youth group went forward (a new concept for most of us), crying and snotting, hugging people we didn't know. I was born again. The next year, we went to that same festival, and most of us went forward again (it was so good the first time) and got born again, again. In fact, we looked forward to it every year. I must have gotten born again six or eight times, and it was great every time. (I highly recommend it.)
But then you start to think there must be more to Christianity, more than just laying your life and sins at the foot of the cross. I came to realize that preachers were telling me to lay my life at the foot of the cross and weren't giving me anything to pick up. A lot of us were hearing "don't smoke, don't drink, don't sleep around" and naturally started asking, "Okay, well, that was pretty much my life, so what do I do now?" Where were the do's? And nobody seemed to have much to offer us. Handing out tracts at the mall just didn't seem like the fullness of Christian discipleship, not to mention it just wasn't as fun as making out at the movies.
I was just another believer. I believed all the right stuff-that Jesus is the Son of God, died and rose again. I had become a "believer," but I had no idea what it means to be a follower. People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
So as we do in our culture, I thought perhaps I needed to buy more stuff, Christian stuff. Luckily, I found an entire Christian industrial complex ready to help with Christian music, bumper stickers, T-shirts, books, and even candy ("Testa-mints" ... dead serious ... mints with a Bible verse attached, candy with a Christian aftertaste). They had lists of bands and the Christian alternatives to them, so I got rid of all my old CDs. (And I must confess, I was a bit disappointed by the Christian counterfeit. Who could compare to Guns N' Roses and Vanilla Ice?) And I bought books, devotionals, T-shirts. I developed a common illness that haunts Western Christianity. I call it spiritual bulimia. Bulimia, of course, is a tragic eating disorder, largely linked to identity and image, where folks consume large amounts of food but vomit it up before it has a chance to digest. I developed the spiritual form of it where I did my devotions, read all the new Christian books and saw the Christian movies, and then vomited information up to friends, small groups, and pastors. But it had never had the chance to digest. I had gorged myself on all the products of the Christian industrial complex but was spiritually starving to death. I was marked by an overconsumptive but malnourished spirituality, suffocated by Christianity but thirsty for God.
It was Mark Twain who said, "It's not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that scare me, but the parts I do understand." I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale. Maybe this is why Jesus says to the religious folks, "the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you" (Matt. 21:31). For me, it became hard to read the Bible and walk away as if I had just watched a nice movie. Jesus never seemed to do anything normal. How about the fact that his first miracle was the old turning-water-into-wine thing to keep a party going? (Not a miracle that would go over well in some Christian circles.) And there's that time Jesus' friends leave him on the shore. If we had been in Jesus' shoes, some of us might have yelled for them to come back. Others might have jumped in the water and swum out to the boat. But Jesus just steps on the blessed water (Matt. 14:22-26). That's nuts. It scares his friends to death. Or take healing a blind person, for instance. I've seen people gather around and lay hands on the sick. Others anoint people with oil. But when Jesus wants to heal a blind guy, he picks up some dirt off the ground, spits in it, and then wipes it on the dude's eyes (John 9:6). That's weird. No one else did that. Can you imagine the other religious leaders? "Rabbi, could you hack me up a holy loogie?" Not a chance. No one else did stuff like that. Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to love just your friends. I began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said. I thought if we just stopped and asked, What if he really meant it? it could turn the world upside-down. It was a shame Christians had become so normal.
I know there are people out there who say, "My life was such a mess. I was drinking, partying, sleeping around ... and then I met Jesus and my whole life came together." God bless those people. But me, I had it together. I used to be cool. And then I met Jesus and he wrecked my life. The more I read the gospel, the more it messed me up, turning everything I believed in, valued, and hoped for upside-down. I am still recovering from my conversion. I know it's hard to imagine, but in high school, I was elected prom king. I was in the in-crowd, popular, ready to make lots of money and buy lots of stuff, on the upward track to success. I had been planning to go to med school. Like a lot of folks, I wanted to find a job where I could do as little work as possible for as much money as possible. I figured anesthesiology would work, just put folks to sleep with a little happy gas and let others do the dirty work. Then I could buy lots of stuff I didn't need. Mmm ... the American dream.
But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first. And I couldn't help but hope that there was something more to life than pop Christianity. I had no idea what I should do. I thought about leaving everything to follow Jesus, like the apostles, and hitting the road with nothing but my sandals and a staff, but I wasn't sure where to pick up a staff.
There were plenty of folks talking about the gospel and writing books about it, but as far as I could tell, living out the gospel had yet to be tried in recent days. So youth group got a little old-the songs got boring, the games grew stale, and I found other places to meet fine women. I wasn't sure the church had much to offer. Of course, I didn't dare stop going to church, convinced that "going to church" is what good people do, and I didn't want to become like "those people" who don't "go to church." Heathens. Ha. So I sucked it up and went every week, often cynical, usually bored, but always smiling.
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Shane Claiborne is a prominent activist and soughtafter speaker. He is one of the founding members of The Simple Way, a community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. Shane serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and in his down-time is quite a dynamic circus performer.
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I don't want pablum that tells me I'm great or how to self-fix. I want a book that challenges my faith to become more. I don't object to having every belief I have challenged because that makes me stronger, and sometimes it makes me change. This book challenged some of my beliefs and made me evaluate them on the basis of scripture, and some of them I had to change. It also challenged me to get active in doing the work of the kingdom of Christ.
You won't be able to put it down in the first half of the book. You'll want to in the second half, but you'll keep coming back because you need to. Don't read it if you want God to leave you alone.
I think every believer NEEDS to read this book! Every time I pick up this book I am instantly motivated and inspired but the stories and insights Shane shares with his readers. This book has changed the way I look at my faith and even more so what I am going to DO with my faith.
If you're ready to roll up your sleeves, and march in God's army, pick up a copy of The Irresistible Revolution and get ready to load up on some serious ammunition. And for good measure, you'll also get a fresh compass and a friend to help you dig out of the trenches and be counted as a radical who is courageous and foolish enough to stand out as a true follower of Christ. From the streets of Calcutta, to war-zones of Iraq, to neighbourhood slums, to money-multiplying Wall Street, Shane Claiborne transports the face of Christ into a suffering and lonely world. In Irresistible Revolution, he converts his stories into a compelling case for the 'ordinary radical' . His down to earth style will engage you, much like a conversation with an old friend. But be prepared, much of what he has to say is far from comfortable. In these pages you will be dared to take up your cross, and tear down some walls. You will hear first hand of the miracle of community, of working together, being one body in Christ. You will be asked to drop the rock of unforgiveness and embrace the poor, the needy and the 'ugly'. And kiss complacency good-bye. Watch out for the gut-wrenching and heart-breaking moments laced in pain...and some joyful, triumphant ones. Watch how you never lose the distinct feeling that Jesus is right there walking through every page as you read along. You will sense his presence watching over you, holding out His hand, insisting, 'Come follow me...come and see.' Watch yourself capture a fresh and renewed understanding of who Jesus was and what He asks of you...and behold the absolute ironic beauty of a revolution 'a heart revolv-ing around Him' that is truly irresistible.
I was intrigued by Shane Claiborne's story, but truly compelled by his writing, and the things that stir his heart -- the needs of God's people -- and his desire to reach out to them in sacrifical ways thoroughly washed in the cleansing waters of a deep humility. The things Shane has to say are difficult -- difficult to take in, and penetrating to one's spirit. But oh, so important! Weep when you read this book, let it change the way you think about things. Ponder and pray about what you should do that you're not already doing. And then buy a copy for a half-dozen of your friends and give them the same challenge.
This book has helped me grow in faith in so many ways! It has made me think very differently about the world! If you are looking for inspiration, encouragment, or just want to know that other people care, than this is the book for you!
I have seen the church from the inside out (Pastor's son). My heart beats with Shane's. Christians from varieties of churches have the tendency to close themselves within the walls of the church for security and comfort. All too often it creates a disconnect in two ways. 1) we become disconnected from the needs of others and 2)We become disconnected from the call of Christ in our own lives. Surely we can change our ways. And as words can never change a world...only the actions carried forth from the words will make a difference
For a white, upper-middle class Christian living in the burbs, this is a very unsettling book. What is unquestionable, however, is that Shane loves Jesus Christ and is seeking the best way to live out the Great Commission. His quest shakes yuppie Christendom to the core. That is exactly what he desires and, I believe, what I needed to help jump start my beliefs so they translated into actions. You don't have to agree with all of Claiborne's politics to find inspiration in his calling.
I enjoyed this book, which provided an excellent look at the work of Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way. I really liked the informal, witty, direct style. If I have any criticisms, they would only concern opinions expressed by the author, with which I can agree to disagree. If you are a self-identified evangelical Christian, or are discontent with "ordinary" church, this would be a good read for you.
Pretty much what inspired me to do two years of volunteer work
Don't read this if you aren't willing to take an honest look at yourself and the way you live in our world. A wonderful, radical book!
I keep buying another copy, because I give mine away before I get it finished. Two of us are sharing the current copy. Important possibilities for peace and very entertaining.


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Wealth is a crown and those who wear it, must be recognised as the kings of the society and be accorded the deserving respect that comes with the crown. But beyond that, it is not easy to get the crown. You would have to jump through hurdles, overcome quite a number of very unflattering obstacles and have a story to tell. But when you eventually get the crown, you can be sure that the world will be waiting to help you tell your story and there are very many ways to do that. Whats more, more South African billionaires and millionaires are springing up with each passing year.
So, it's that time of the year again when you regale us with lists of the richest people around us, how they get their money and how much they are truly worth. It would surprise you to know that to make this list is not something that happens overnight, it takes the struggle of decades by the hardest working entrepreneurs and business people to appear in the list. Over the years, several people who used to be on the list of the richest people in south Africa are no longer as lucky to be on it whereas others are climbing higher and higher each year. Then of course there are those others who have longed for quite a while to be mentioned in the list and this time, some of them were quite lucky to be remembered. In this article, we've taken a look at Forbes list and have combined that with information from other sources such as Bloomberg and Ventures Africa to come up with a more comprehensive list of the richest men in South Africa, these are multi billionaires and multi millionaires, all figures are in US dollars
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20. Irene Charnley
Net Worth: $150 Million
Industry: Telecoms
Irene Charnley is a 55-year-old South African and a former trade unionist with a net worth of $150 million. She spent 13 years as a negotiator for the South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers and later became the Executive Director at MTN, Africa's largest telecom company. Currently, Irene Charnley is the CEO of Smile Telecoms, a telecommunications products company working out of Mauritius. She spearheaded MTN's expansion across Africa and beyond, and played a major role in acquiring Nigerian and Iranian operating licences for the company however, in 2007, she the company under controversial circumstances. In addition to working with MTN, she was also a director of FirstRand Bank and Johnnic and Johnnic Communications. Her estimated net worth of $150 million makes her one of the wealthiest women in Africa
19. Paul Harris
Net Worth: $250 Million
Industry: Banking
Paul Harris is one-third of the banking and finance triumvirate known as the three musketeers or the RMB rat pack. He joined Rand Consolidated Investments soon after it was cofounded by GT Ferreira and Laurie Dippenaar in 1977; it merged with Rand Merchant Bank (then run by Johann Rupert) in 1985. He became CEO of RMB in 1992, and in 1998 after the merger of RMB with First National Bank to form FirstRand, he was made CEO of FirstRand Bank, with Dippenaar as group CEO and Ferreira group chairman. Harris was the chief executive of the FirstRand group from 2005 to 2009. He was charged with setting up the Australian subsidiary Australian Gilt Securities in 1997, now RMB Australia. He is a director of Cricket SA and collects art extensively. He has turned Ellerman House in Cape Town's Atlantic suburbs into one of South Africa's most luxurious boutique hotels. He has recently begun lecturing on business at Stellenbosch University.
18. Wendy Appelbaum
Net Worth: $259.3 Million
Industry: Insurance/Real Esatate
Wendy Appelbaum is the only daughter of South African tycoon Donald Gordon. She previously served as a director at Liberty Investors, an insurance and real estate firm her father founded, and was one of the company's largest individual shareholders. She sold her shares to rake in her fortune. Upon selling her shares she made her own personal fortune. She was once the Deputy Chairman of Women's Investment Portfolio Limited (Wiphold), the first women dominated company to list on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) with then assets in excess of R1 billion.
She invested in DeMorgenzon, a wine estate in the famous wine region of Stellenbosch. In her philantropic nature, she has donated more than US$23 million to pursuing the cause of Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Donald Gordon Medical Centre, in memory of her father. Wendy Appelbaum's net worth as of early 2012 is estimated at $259.3 million making her one of the richest women in Africa.


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A French state prosecutor recommended yesterday that former President Nicolas Sarkozy should be cleared of abusing the mental weakness of France's wealthiest woman.
The final decision on whether Mr Sarkozy should stand trial rests, however, with the three investigating magistrates who formally accused him in March of de-frauding the octogenarian L'Oréal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.
The state prosecutor in Bordeaux, where the case is being handled, announced yesterday that there was insufficient evidence against Mr Sarkozy or against the former French budget minister, Eric Woerth. He recommended that six other men should go for trial, including Ms Bettencourt's friend, the society photographer, François-Marie Banier, and her former financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre.
The prosecutors' doubts about the strength of the case against Mr Sarkozy have been known for several weeks. The investigating magistrates must decide late next month whether they accept the prosecutor's ruling.
In another scandal in which Mr Sarkozy's name has appeared, another team of investigating magistrates in Paris yesterday formally accused the business tycoon Bernard Tapie, 70, of taking part in a conspiracy to defraud the French state in 2008. A supposedly independent arbitration panel paid Mr Tapie €405m to settle a 15-year-old dispute over the sale of the sports company Adidas by a state-owned bank.
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Was sitting thinking how the UFC will be In a few years time with so much talent coming through the ranks, but my question is who do you see going into 2014 as the champions? That's over a year and a halfs time so do you think much will have changed ?
My guesse!
Banterweight champion,
Featherweight champion
Chad Mendes
Lightweight champion
Jose Aldo
Johnny Hendricks
Chris Weidman
Lightheavy Champion
Jon Jones
Junior Dos Santos
My crystal ball is nearby.. let me consult it:
FW - Benavidez
BW - Barao.. check the sig ;)
FW - Frankie Edgar
LW - Nate Diaz
WW - Erick Silva
MW - Chris Weidman
LHW - Bones (if still at LHW) if not then Gustafsson.
HW - Cain
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Apart from the LW belt, I can't see any of the others changing hands any time soon.
I also change my LW choice to Aldo because he has spoken of moving up to LW many times and has struggled with the cut to 145 in the past.
HW - Conrad
LHW - Jones
MW - Lombard
WW - Macdonald
LW - Aldo
FW - Edgar
BW - Mcdonald
FW - Benevidez
Heavyweight - Stipe Miocic
Light Heavy - Jon Jones
Middleweight - Chris Weidman
Welterweight - Carlos Condit
LightWeight - Jose Aldo
Featherweight - Frankie Edgar
Bantamweight - Renan Barao
Flyweight - Benavidez
Only ones am certain of atm is Rory Macdonald(the guy is the Jon Jones of the WW division imo), Benavidez and Barao.
Starting out 2014 like this:
HWCain velasquez
LHWJones or shogun
MWSilva or Belfort
WWGSP by F*cking ownage
LWDiaz or Aldo
FWaldo if he's gonna stay otherwise Zombie
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Discussion in 'History Zone' started by dguinta1, Sep 13, 2005.
God bless you Toni...and thanks for the memories...
During his first training camp...they were teaching him how to kick off. He had a translator...BOOM...into the back of the end zone! Always...(most of the time)... : So, he learned it...next?
Tony would show up drunk to practice, and everyone knew it, but, he was so good! "Keeker..." The now tried to show him how to do an onside kick. They line up, and BOOM...through the uprights! They tell him no...not that way...do this? "OK....", snap...BOOM through the uprights, again! :laugh2:
They try it again, and....BOOM...through the uprights...100yrds away! :bang2:
Coach Landry called off practice.... :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
I bag on kickers, but not on life.
R.I.P Toni and thank you.
Drive to Win, by Steve Perkins
Really good book about the Boys and the 71 championship season, with a review of the few years previous to that. Several stories about Toni in it- he was quite a guy, quite a charactor. RIP Toni. Coach, you just got a new kicker.
RIP Toni. :cry:
Does anyone have that picture? I would like to see the picture of him on the sidelines smoking a cigarette. If you do have it please post it here. Thanks, Curly
I can't find the picture of Smoking Toni anywhere on the web...however, I just found something I didn't know...Toni led the USFL in Scoring in 1984. Beat out Herschel Walker...
he was quite a looker when he played for the Houston Gamblers too...
Here is a cleaned up version of Toni's career that I found on the web...I can't take credit for this...
Talk about a career change.
Toni Fritsch was a star soccer player in Austria who signed his first pro contract at age 18 and played in a World Cup qualification game before his 21st birthday.
Then Tom Landry came to Austria.
Landry, who at the time was the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, was searching Europe for a soccer-style kicker to join his team. Fritsch, then 26, was in the seventh year of his professional soccer career.
"I was the only one who could do the job, and signed up," said Fritsch, who is now 59. "I never saw a game before; I never saw a football. And I signed a contract with him a couple days later, a contract that I couldn't read, but it was maybe the best contract I ever signed in my life and my career."
It was the best contract, he said, because it was the beginning of a new life for him.
"Once in a while to be successful takes more guts than brains to succeed," Fritsch said. "No risk, no rewards, and I took the chance to start a new career with the Dallas Cowboys."
Born in Vienna, Austria, on July 10, 1945, Fritsch started playing soccer around age 5 and started receiving professional coaching at age 11. After turning pro, he made All-Star for the Austrian national team 17 times.
When Landry enticed him away from the soccer world, Fritsch played for Dallas from 1971 to 1975, and then changed to the San Diego Chargers for a season. He returned to Texas and in 1977 began a five-year career with the Houston Oilers, during which he was named to the 1980 Pro Bowl. Fritsch moved with Oilers coach Bum Phillips to the New Orleans Saints in 1982, and finished his career with the Houston Gamblers, in the United States Football League, in 1984 and 1985.
Two weeks after arriving in the United States, Fritsch went to training camp virtually a blank slate on the subject of football. He knew nothing about the game, he said, except for what he gleaned from a video Landry had shown him in Austria.
"I had a translator with me on the sidelines to learn the basics about football," Fritsch said. "But that wasn't important. Important with me is the soccer style, the kick. Important was … to put three points on the scoreboard. That was the most important thing, not the language, not the rules. And later I always said, if I have to learn it, I'm never going to have a career."
"Because I got it. You got it or you don't."
That instinct, honed by practice, is what Fritsch believes made him so successful at starting to play, in his mid-twenties and with no experience, a foreign game in a foreign country.
"You have to start real early and practice, practice," Fritsch said. "There is no overnight success. I always make fun and say my overnight success cost me forty years of practice, practice, practice."
Fritsch said he still works out two hours a day to keep himself competitive and mentally sharp.
"Working out is like a therapy for me," he said.
It also allows him to maintain concentration and discipline, faculties he acquired as a professional athletes that now help him off the field.
"If you really want to be competitive in the professional world, whether it's in private industry or in the sports world, you cannot spread yourself too thin," Fritsch said. "It takes so much time and effort to go on top in your career, and then it takes a lot more effort and more practice to stay on top, so you don't have time for everything else."
During his athletic career, he never accepted invitations to play tennis or golf in order to save his energy for what he saw as his top priority: football.
"Football was a job for me. I took it very serious; I loved it; I know I was good," Fritsch said. "It takes a lot of confidence to kick a football, especially when the pressure's on. … The more pressure, the more I loved it."
Since retiring from football with two Super Bowl rings adorning his fingers, Fritsch has done some sports broadcasting in Europe, including as an NFL analyst for a television station that was the first to broadcast the Super Bowl in German. He also has dabbled in business and helped businesspeople from Austria get established in the United States
Although leaving a successful soccer career and going to Texas was, Fritsch said, "against the odds," he feels fighting the odds is in his nature and that he's won.
"I learned one thing in my life: The faster you adjust and adapt yourself, the faster you will have success," he said.
Fritsch is still recognized as a soccer star in Austria, where he lives for six months of every year. Even though he no longer has a football career to hold him here, he spends the other half of each year in Texas.
"After all, I started really a new life," Fritsch said, "and if I had a chance I would do it over again."
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More Toni...from DMN 1971...
By BOB ST. JOHN / The Dallas Morning News
ST LOUIS — Late here Sunday afternoon temperatures had dipped to 30 degrees and shadows had crept across the playing surface of Busch Stadium. Shadows seemed to be creeping across the Dallas Cowboys chances of remaining in the NFC Eastern race. Once again, as in two previous losses, the Cowboys were faced with the Choke Factor.
Toni Fritsch, the little soccer kicker from Vienna who was playing in his first regular season American football game, teed up a 26-yard field goal with the score tied, 13-13.
"Hey!" yelled Cardinal linebacker Larry Stallings, "You're gonna choke, man! You're gonna choke!"
"Shut up, said Cowboy linebacker Dave Edwards, "He can't understand you anyway!"
"I no choka," said Toni. He didn't. Fritsch kicked true on the field goal with just 1:53 remaining to play and this furnished the margin in the Cowboys 16-13 victory over St. Louis, their old nemesis.
Just after the ball left his foot, Toni raced toward Tom Landry on the sidelines, raising his arm in victory. "Oh yes," said Toni, "I know good. No have to wait for official signal. I know this good."
"There will," said Cowboy owner Clint Murchison, "be dancing in the streets of Vienna tonight."
he was before my time, but he sounded like a character...
i was just thinking, this thread just shows the true loyalty of all cowboys fans...we got a 2 page thread going about a kicker who played for us 30 years ago.and on redskins week at that....
R.I.P Toni Fritsch
i knew somewhere in the back of my mind there was a wierd play with
Toni involved.
Tonight the Dallas CBS affiliate ran it and it was as cool as i semi-remembered it.
so i fired up google and found the story about it. it was the 1972 NFC Division
Playoff game against the 49'ers. The article is long so i wont post it all here
but heres a link.
this is what charlie waters had to say about it:
"We had this foreign kicker from Australia, Toni Fritsch," said Waters. "He used to try all these tricky ways of kicking the ball. And he used to do this thing where he'd run up to the ball and run past it. And he'd kick it behind his back."
Sure enough, Fritsch fooled the 49ers. He lined up to kick to the left, but Fritsch instead squibbed the ball to the right, bouncing it off the 49ers' Preston Riley. Mel Renfro recovered the ball for the Cowboys.
Ive looked everywhere trying to find the video of it so you guys could see it
to believe it.
The article is primarily how Staubach led the Boys back from a 28-13 4th
quarter deficit to win 30-28.
Thank you Toni Fritsch....RIP


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BeschreibungEconomic growth and structural change - the future of the world economy - is analysed in this book. Conditional forecasts are given for the economic development of the most important world market countries till the year 2000. The driving forces of economic growth are identified and forecasted, in connection with collaborating scholars in most of these countries and with international organizations. This information is used in solving a coherent world model. The model consists of linked growth models for each country (or groups of countries). The solutions show that the inequality in international income distribution will further increase and that the CMEA and OECD countries will approximately keep their relative positions, with some changes within these groups. Structural change is also analysed. Additionally separate forecasts prepared by each collaborating country group are given and may be compared with the forecasts by the world model. The book closes with chapters on special features of the future economic development: on the international debt problem, on long waves, on structural change in the world trade, on the emergence of service economics and on the comparison of GDP and NMP national accounting.
Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Growth, Decay and Structural Change.- 2. Main Results of the Bonn-IIASA Research Project.- 3. Economic Growth and Structural Change of OECD Countries.- 4. Economic Growth and Structural Change of CMEA Countries.- 5. The Macroeconomic Models of the European CMEA Countries.- 6. Economic Growth and Structural Change in Developing Countries.- 7. Growth in an Interdependent World Economy: Linking the National Models through International Trade.- 8. Modeling Exchange Rates and Foreign Trade of Developed Market Economies.- 9. Structural Change in Foreign Trade of the CMEA Countries.- 10. US Economic Growth in Retrospect and Prospect.- 11. Sectoral Output, Employment and Real Wages: Long-Run Trends for the US Economy.- 12. Long-Range Modeling of the USSR Economy.- 13. Driving Forces of Economic Structural Change: The Case of Japan in the Last Decade.- 14. A Long-Term Simulation of the French Economy.- 15. Implications of a Modernization Strategy for the United Kingdom.- 16. Prospective Structural Changes in the West German Economy.- 17. Growth of the West German Economy: Forecast by the Bonn Model 11.- 18. Strategic Planning and Economic Growth in Bulgaria.- 19. The Growth of the Polish Economy and Prospects for Structural Change.- 20. Structural Change in the Czechoslovak Economy to the Year 2000.- 21. Economic Development of the CSSR: Analysis and Conditional Forecasts.- 22. Analysis and Forecasts of Growth of the Hungarian Economy.- 23. Structural Adjustment, Productivity and Capital Accumulation in Austria.- 24. Structural Change in World Trade: Analyses and Forecasts of the FIND Model.- 25. Foreign Debt and the Structure of World Trade.- 26. The Debt Situation of the Developing Countries: A Medium-Term Scenario Analysis.- 27. Structural Change and the Long Wave.- 28. The Emergence of Service Economics.- 29. Economic Structural Changes: The Problems of Forecasting.- 30. Comparison of Gross Domestic Product and Net Material Product.- Annexes.- 1. Coding for Countries and Country Groups.- 2. Outline of the Bonn-IIASA World Model.- 3. Basic Data from Other Sources.- 4. Main Results of the Bonn-IIASA Research Project.- The Authors.
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The BBC have a new radio sitcom in development called Pauline Pepys' Dowry, with the pilot episode set to be recorded this week.
There doesn't seem to be much information around. The BBC's site for getting tickets to recordings says this:
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