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As the capital of a country known for its fondness of late nights, it's no wonder that Madrid loves a good party. Following in the footsteps of its sister properties in London, the ME Madrid has recently relaunched its Radio Rooftop bar to celebrate the brand's 10th anniversary.
In early January of this year, the New York Times published a round-up of significant hotels that readers should take note of, and travel to.
Every one of the 308 rooms at the brand new MGM National Harbor resort in Maryland is beautiful, but the corner suites, because of the building's diamond-like configuration, make you feel you're at the prow of a ship, Titanic style.
Waking up to beautiful Prague lying sprawled at your feet is quite the visual sensation.
If you find yourself in France, do make it a point to visit Bordeaux, which sits in the southwestern part of the country, just a few short hours outside of Paris by train.
The Pulitzer Amsterdam has been an institution since opening over 45 years ago, but thanks to a recent $33-million renovation, the hotel feels fresher than ever.
The sophisticated coastal town of Santa Barbara has long been a picture-perfect outpost for the health-conscious California lifestyle, and the Four Seasons Resort Biltmore has always set the local standard. The historic resort will host a special four-day, three-night wellness retreat from June 26-29, focusing on health, fitness and well-being.
AAA has just awarded the Park Hyatt New York their prestigious Five Diamond rating. It is a first for the hotel which has only been open since August 2014. The property was given the title for its spacious rooms, designer furnishings and extra-large soaking tubs. In-room amenities like a custom beverage center, fine linens and media hub add to the comfort of each suite.
London has never been short on luxury hotels, but 2017 will see new entrants to the market trying to attract the luxury traveler. Here are our picks of the best new hotels opening in London in 2017.
Award season is coming up, which means it's time to grab a group of friends and plan your annual Oscars bash. But this year it might be time to trade the Champagne for couture with Le Méridien Delfina Santa Monica's And The Winner Is... Package.
Are you still trying to make last minute plans to ring in the New Year? With the big night less than two weeks away, it might be time to narrow down your NYE options. If you'll be in New York on December 31, then check out the offerings at Hotel 48Lex in Midtown Manhattan.
Winter is just around the corner and the chill in the air may have you thinking about booking a ticket to a warm, relaxing retreat. But those who love a little adventure in their seaside travels may want to book a trip to Cabo where whale watching season is just beginning.
This season, The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota unveiled its $5 million property-wide upgrade which afforded the hotel an entirely new and modern look inspired by the views and history of the Floridian city.
In an effort to rank the best of London's hotels, spas, restaurants and nightlife, Luxury Travel Intelligence has just released their annual London Report. Over the past few months their team has compiled a list of the city's most exquisite and luxurious spots, ranking everything from boutique hotels to Indian food.
On December 1, Bell Gardens will welcome The Bicycle Hotel & Casino. The new $50 million resort, which was unveiled last week by Managing General Partner and CEO Hashem Minaiy and Robert H. Carter, President of Carter Management Group, Inc., will be the hotel addition to the current Bicycle casino.


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A multicultural story of the ages old "religions" becoming the life of a young woman and child. She shares her knowledge with the child building a deep seeded interest in the "old ways". The mother sends the child off to school in hopes of giving it a better life. The Story starts in a flash back of memory...
The wind quietly whispers through the glade surrounding a young mother and child in a little flurry of fallen petals and leaves. Another gust sends a petal flying up into the face of the child. The mother reaches out her hand and takes the petal between her fingertips. Fascinated, though sleepy, the girl-child opens her hand, as her mother instructs, while her mother places the petal into it. "Life is a cycle, my sweet, and we are blessed enough to be creators within that cycle." She speaks with quiet reverence as she looks from her daughter to the surrounding trees of the glade. Holding the hand of her daughter she motions, "This glade will always be a safe place for you. Remember it always, beloved, and know that you are loved and protected within the nature that created you."
Chapter One
Daphne shivers as she sits upright in her bed, it take her a few moments to realize that she had been dreaming again. Was it really a true memory or was she creating this beautiful scene to help comfort herself? Her long white-yellow locks rustle behind her as she shakes herself once more, shaking away the remnants of this latest dream. The woman looked so much like her, but she had darker hair and was definitely of Asian decent, so there couldn't really be a connection. She slips her feet over the edge of the bed and slides them into her flip-flops. Stretching arms and legs, she sighs loudly and pulls on her robe. Green, evergreen to be exact, is everywhere in her room... of course, it has been her favorite color since before she could remember... and she even got permission to have a few little plants within her room. As a senior girl in "" Academy she is allotted certain privileges, like plants and a single room instead of a double. The dream lingers in her thoughts while she moves around the room, picking up her little watering can and sprinkling her succulents with water.
"Daphne, you look miserably drab this glorious morning." She speaks to her reflection in the window, whilst the reflection looks back in disarray. "Suppose I should start getting ready for the day, don't you think?" Smirking, Daphne steps away from the window and towards the armoire, head tilted to the right. Raising a hand to her disgruntled hair, she swipes away a stray wisp, then placing her hand on top of her head she mumbles, "... what to wear ... white or grey ... green or blue ... Aha!" she slides her hand off her head and flings open the doors of the armoire and grabs hold of her grey sweater. "You with the black blazer and white button up," tossing her head left and right, her hair rocking in a sway of golden light, "or down." and giggles out loud.
Brushing her hair she hums a tender tune, complex yet sweet and full of bounce , just like her favorite composer Mozart. Setting the brush on the vanity, she picks up a color matching hair tie and pulls it onto her wrist. Her fingers deftly braid as she mentally checks off all her required books for the day. Daphne looks down at her attire and uses her hands to smooth the shirt and skirt. She pulls the grey sweater over her head, swiping her hand behind her neck which pulls her braid out of the back of the sweater. Picking up her messenger bag full of books and her blazer, she pins her favorite green brooch on the lapel, smiling with her head tilted to the left.
Another deep sigh escapes as she walks through the door of her room and into the hall, the door closes automatically behind her, blocking her from the warm haven she dreads leaving. A door clicks beside her, a petite blond standing in front of it. Nose defiantly in the air the blond sniffs loudly then says, "Good Morning Daft-ne, I mean Daphne." then promptly walks away from her, an annoyingly high pitch giggle-like snort coming from her. "Morning it is, Christina..." Daphne looks at her shoes, "though it seems it will not be a good one for me." she looks up and walks in the same direction as Christina.
Walking briskly along the main corridor of the manor, Daphne catches the scent of a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The story of the Golden Apple of Discord momentarily occupies her mind before she smirks and shakes her head. It is inevitably another gift from her house mother's "beau", albeit the poor man may never know that he is one of many suitors that have held Ms. Deitric's attentions before either falling prey to another of the three house mothers or falling out of Ms. Deitric's fleeting interests. Irony reins true to the Greek myth of the Golden Apple... how could one not see the irony!
A stifled sigh takes her attention, and startled out of her reverie, she sees Ms. Deitric perched in the window seat of the big bay window at the front of the manor in the sitting room. Shoulder length auburn waves of hair frame a delicately featured face of rose colored cheeks and neutrally colored lips, which seem to be pursed, her eyes are like brightly glowing emeralds set in porcelain. She looks deep in contemplation, so Daphne turns to the door and tries to quietly walk out of the manor.
"Daphne!" Ms. Deitric quips, "What are you wearing on your feet?! You obviously don't know a thing about fashion!" she shakes her head while pointing at Daphne's loafers. "They're comfortable to walk in, Ms. Dietric. My pumps pinch my feet... I just..." she stammers while she stares at her simple black loafers. "You just nothing. Ugh, why must I put up with such incorrigible girls!" as she gets up from her perch and floats (yes she really looks like she's floating) across the room to where Daphne stands abashed and still staring hopelessly at her shoes, she says, "I know that we purchased you a decent pair of shoes less that two weeks ago, young lady, and I cannot fathom why you would think that beauty would come without a bit of pain! Beauty IS Pain, and you will do well to remember that!" she berated Daphne. Then letting loose an extremely dramatic sigh she looks away and flips her hand towards the door. "Well off with you then, in those dreadful shoes. It will serve you right if you are tortured! I try and try and yet you seem to deign yourself a better judge of Beauty and Life than I! Off with you! I will not stand another minute of this injustice!" with that, she turns in a quick swish of motion and is moving towards the kitchens before Daphne can even respond. She cannot figure it out, how is she in any way condescending?
She has a brief thought back to what drew her into the attention of her house mother and immediately sends a quiet prayer out into the silence, for the heart of the latest suitor. If this was the daily dealings of her house mother, then how is she with her supposed "special interests"? Daphne turns towards the door and darts through it, lest she fall prey to another "concerned" soul before reaching her first class of the morning.

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GBP/USD: BoE caused volatility
GBP/USD jumped almost to $1.5500 before sliding to $1.5450 on the Bank of England's Carney comments. EUR/GBP tested 0.8585 before returning to 0.8600.
We witnessed the buy-the-rumor-sell-the-fact scenario. After an initial deep knee-jerk reaction lower to the $1.5200 support in GBP on the news that the central bank isn't planning any rate hikes for a while, traders covered shorts as the BoE's policy hasn't actually become more dovish than it already was. In fact Carney set out the conditions necessary for withdrawal of monetary policy.
BMO: "Overall, our view remains that a "flip" in BoE policy rhetoric towards hawkish is ultimately what will be needed from this point forward to allow UK rates and the GBP to track the economic data higher in tandem. All things considered, today was most definitely not about that "flip".
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Contemporary Security and Strategy / Edition 2by Craig A. Snyder
Pub. Date: 03/18/2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Much current debate in the field is polarized between those taking traditional
The study of security and strategy has been transformed by the need to rethink many basic underlying assumptions following the Cold War. This new text brings together a range of specially commissioned chapters to provide an accessible introduction to both new and traditional approaches.
Much current debate in the field is polarized between those taking traditional approaches to traditional issues (such as the role of NATO in preserving state security in Europe) and those applying new approaches to new issues (such as feminist investigations of global power relationships). Within and between both camps there has been much controversy as to whether and to what extent the concept of security should be broadened to include non-military threats to security such as the environment, human rights and the movement of people across international borders. This has often made it difficult for those new to strategy and security to find a clear starting-point for their studies. The aim of this book is to provide just such an introduction to the realist approach, which has traditionally dominated the field, and to new approaches. While focusing primarily on the strategic dimension of security studies, it sets this clearly in the context of broader debates and examines in detail different levels of security from the individual and societal to the regional and global.
The book begins by looking at the evolution of strategic thought. This leads to a discussion of how the international system is constructed and what implications this has for how we think about and define security. Is what is being secured a state, an individual or an ethnic community? The last part of the book examines some of the current debates within the field: nuclear deterrence, nuclear strategy, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (especially the spread of these weapons to India and Pakistan), and developments in modern warfare - including the emerging Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
List of Acronyms xvii
Contemporary Security and Strategy 1
Introduction 1
The study of security 1
Strategic and security studies: what's in a name? 3
Development of strategic studies during the cold war 4
Post-cold war developments and the shift in thinking 7
Re-defining security 8
Structure of this book 9
Further reading 13
Realism and Security Studies 14
Introduction 14
What is realism? 14
The development of realist thought 18
Criticisms of realism 20
Realism and the democratic peace 23
Debates in contemporary realist theory 25
The future of realism 27
Realism and predicting the end of the cold war 27
Realism and the purported obsolescence of war 29
Realism and internal conflict and ethnic war 30
Realism and terrorism 30
Realism and the international response to US power 31
Realism and globalization 31
Realism and the newagenda of global politics 32
Conclusion 32
Further reading 33
Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking on the New Security Studies 34
Introduction 34
Beyond strategy: security, critical theory and the end of the cold war 36
From strategic studies to the study of security 40
Whose security? 41
Societal security and the Copenhagen School 42
How to achieve security 46
Waever and 'securitization' 49
How to study security 51
Security and science 51
Security and social construction 54
Critical security studies 57
Conclusion 58
Further reading 59
Non-Military Security Challenges 60
Introduction 60
The logic of security 61
Human insecurity 62
Societal insecurity 64
Migration and insecurity 65
Climate change and insecurity 67
Water and resource conflicts 68
Energy insecurity 70
Transnational organized crime 71
Narcotics trafficking 72
Human trafficking 72
Arms trafficking 73
Health insecurity 74
Conclusion 76
Further reading 77
Thinking and Rethinking the Causes of War 79
Introduction 79
Theory and impasse 81
Causae belli: sketching the terrain of debate 84
Out of bounds: the political beyond the debates 87
New ways of war and old ways of thinking 89
Conclusion: rethinking war and the questions we ask 92
Further reading 93
The Evolution of Strategy and the New World Order 95
Introduction: on strategy in general 95
Strategic thinking: the traditional schools 99
The second wave 100
Interwar airpower theory 103
Blitzkrieg ideas 105
Military thinking in the cold war 108
Post-cold war challenges 112
The military strategies of the post-cold war era 113
The expeditionary impulse 114
Peace support operations 115
Security and counter-terrorism operations 116
Further reading 117
The Transformation of War 118
Introduction 118
Transformation of the 'warfighting paradigm' 120
The military revolution 120
The revolution in military affairs 122
Transformation 123
Transformation in the 'social mode of warfare' 124
Transformation in the 'historical structure of war' 128
Conclusion 132
Further reading 134
Nuclear Strategy 136
Introduction 136
US nuclear strategy 137
The cold war 137
After the cold war 140
Into the twenty-first century: the 'global war on terror' and confronting the 'axis of evil' 141
The other nuclear powers 143
Capabilities 144
Deterrence 145
Compellence, 'crazy' states and 'known unknowns' 148
Conclusion 149
Further reading 151
Emerging Nuclear States and the Challenge of Non-Proliferation 153
Introduction 153
The challenge to the nuclear non-proliferation regime 154
The nuclear non-proliferation regime 155
Beyond horizontal proliferation: the evolution of nuclear programmes 158
Beyond dependence: nuclear industrial development 159
Responding to the nuclear proliferation challenge 162
The implications for the nuclear non-proliferation regime 165
The conceptual basis of non-proliferation 166
Non-proliferation norms 167
Conclusion 168
Further reading 169
Terrorism and Insurgency 170
Introduction 170
What is terrorism? 171
The causes of terrorism 173
Al-Qaeda and the future of terrorism 179
What is insurgency? 183
The dilemmas of counter-insurgency 186
Conclusion 188
Further reading 189
Intervention 190
Introduction 190
The future of military intervention 191
Definition of intervention 192
Types of intervention: a typology 194
Non-peace operations 195
Peace operations 199
To intervene or not to intervene? 202
Criteria for success 203
What are the mechanics of a successful intervention? 206
Further reading 209
Great Powers and the International System: Between Unilateralism and Multilateralism 210
Introduction 210
Great powers in the international system 211
Great powers: a quaint anachronism? 216
Great powers and contemporary security and strategy 222
Further reading 226
Regional Security and Regional Conflict 227
Introduction 227
What is a region? 228
Regionalism 229
New regionalism theory 232
Development of regional security 234
Regional security threats 237
Conclusion 241
Further reading 242
Bibliography 243
Index 269
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If we have to believe the words from our Bollywood counterparts about Ram Charan's debut Bollywood flick 'Zanjeer', only surprise is what waits in store. First talk is coming down south straight from Mumbai and the way Bollywood critics are seeing at this flick is simply shocking.
Top critics of Bollywood stated that Ram Charan is the next best thing happening to Hindi movies. 'Ram Charan is supremely talented. He has given extremely impressive performance in Zanjeer', says a top critic, stressing that he got super debut into Hindi movies. Also they have rated Zanjeer with four stars, highlight the point that director Apoorva Lakhia never misses the racy screenplay that makes the movie proceed like a blazing rocket from start to finish. A critic felt that the momentum in the flick never goes down, and this is one remake of Amitabh Bachhan that stands tall. Calling Ram Charan as a man among the boys, some reviews are predicting huge collection Thoofan for this movie.
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"We hope and pray that it was just an isolated incident." Windsor Muslims react to Quebec City mosque murders. And Canadians complain of not being able to cross U.S. border.
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The City of Windsor will host a candlelight gathering Tuesday night at city hall to remember the lives lost in Sunday night's shooting at a Quebec City mosque.
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Andrea and Michonne see a helicopter crash and they head to the spot to seek out survivors to help them. However a group of armed men arrives together and they hide in the wood. The men take the pilot from the helicopter and the women are surprised by Merle. The group takes Andrea and Michonne to their community in Woodbury where the women are welcomed with food, medicine, hot shower and clothes. They are introduced to the Governor, a man that rules Woodbury, protecting and giving quality of life to the people in the community. Andrea believes that Woodbury is the perfect place in the chaos, but Michonne does not trust on the Governor and wants to leave the place. Meanwhike, the helicopter pilot tells the location of the National Guard convoy with his friends and the Governor promises to rescue them with his men. But when they arrive in the location, something happens.
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The Nokia E75 smartphone in dramatic black is an impressive multimedia device with a slide out QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode. At 112 x 50 x 14 mm and weighing 139g it is compact but chunky in a good way.
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Dangerous Revolution
A group of elves has banded together in hatred of the humans. They have begun kidnapping humans to further their heinous crimes. Can humans and the human-friendly elves band together to stop this monstrosity?
In the beginning there was Maria. She created the skies and the earth, the seas and everythingi n them. After creating the universe she looked upon her earth, filled with animals, birds and fish. But nothing sentient, nothing she could converse with. And so, she decided to create a race of beings, Elves.
The Elves lived in perfect harmony with Maria. Living in her blessings and her glory. When one day an Elf didn't want to play second fiddle to Maria. He lost his pointed ears and became a Human.
As time progressed there came to be two races. The Elves and the Humans. But Maria always holds out her hand to the Humans, to come back and become Elves.


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Chapter 4.1: Specimen 39J at the Wing Kong Exchange
The Wing Kong Exchange had long since been abandoned. While Egg Shen had visited it in 1988 then subsequently destroyed the lower levels to kill the last of the Wu Shen wizards (that consequently set off an earthquake that damaged large portions of the city), it has stood largely untouched since Lo Pan's death. A real estate development company tried to take it over long ago and build condos but they abandoned the project stating that the collapse of the lower levels made the foundation unstable. However, it is rumored that the real reason they left is that the building is haunted by the minions of Lo Pan. Most Chinatown residents are too scared to go inside the old Wing Kong Exchange. In the end, the only construction has been a chainlink fence around the building.
"I hate this place," Wang Chi whispered.
"We should have burned it down long ago," said Qiang Bai.
Considered an outlaw by Chinatown police, Qiang Bai, also known as Tiger-heart, is the real leader of Chang Sing holding the highly respected title of Ironlord. Ironlord Tiger-heat is also one of the noble warriors who confronted Lo Pan and the Wing Kong alongside Egg Shen. As his reward, he received a large scar over his right eye. After Lem Lee died, the much less wise and much more ambitious Han Ling took over leadership of the Chang Shing. Han was not convinced by Egg Shen that Lo Pan was planning to marry and the ceremony needed to be stopped. Lo Pan used the Lords of Death as a distraction that Han Ling foolishly fell for and ordered the Chang Sing to another location. A few Chang Sing believed Egg Shen and followed him instead. Although Tiger-heart disobeyed Han Ling and joined Egg Shen, he tried honorably to rejoin the Chang Sing. But he became increasingly dismayed with Han's decisions which seemed to benefit Han's bank account rather than the citizens of Chinatown. He initially set off on his own but has been slowly joined by other Chang Sing disappointed with Han's rule. He and the old Chang Sing continue to protect the citizens of Chinatown but they continually find themselves fighting against the Tong Elite, many of whom are Tiger-hearts's old friends. This fact, has made Tige-heart cynical and distrusting. However, he is still a valued friend to Wang Chi as well as the unquestioned Ironlord of the Old Chang Sing
"Burn it?" Wang asked, "and have the whole block smell like Wing Kong?"
All the Chang Sing laughed quietly.
"What are we looking for, here?" asked Duyi Zeng.
Duyi Zeng, also known as Longshot, was trained in the ancient art of Chang Sing Archery. Before the invention of modern firearms, the Chang Sing were handy with the bow. In addition to the bow, the Chang Sing Archers also specialized in throwing weapons such as daggers and shuriken. But as street gangs of Chinatown began to arm themselves with handguns, the Chang Sing found themselves outmatched and quickly adapted to using guns themselves. As the divide between the Tong Elite and Chang Sing widened, the Chang Sing often found themselves fighting against the Tong Elite who because of their background knew the tactics and styles. The Chang Sing leadership needed a new tactic to cancel the Tong Elite's edge. Renshu Zuang, one of the Chang Sing Elders, was one of the last to be trained in archery. He picked several of the young Chang Sing and began to train them in the old ways. Longshot was one of these original students. Like the other young Chang Sing, Longshot had a fascination with electronic gadgets and often tinkered in his spare time. After a few years, Longshot and a handful of his classmates invented specialty arrows, like high explosive and incendiary arrows. They developed specialty thrown weapons as well.
These high-tech arrows along with the forgotten art of archery confused the Tong Elite and evened the odds in Chang Sing and Tong Elite encounters. Seldom does a Chang Sing team go on a mission without at least one archer.
Ironmaster Longshot is small and short (even shorter than Wang Chi). He is often mistaken for someone younger. Consequently, Longshot tries to compensate for his dimunitive appearance by taking unnecessary risks in combat. Wang and Tiger-heart trust Longhshots' capabilities and have repeatedly told him that he has nothing to prove. Whether Longshot believes his mentors is questionable.
"I'm not sure," responded Wang, "all I know is Chang sent his men here in a hurry."
"Why? There's nothing here he would want. It's abandoned – nothing but dust and cobwebs," stated Jia Cao.
Jia, also known as Destiny, was another talented young Chang Sing. She was one of the quickest and most acrobatic of the new recruits. Although well disciplined and averse to taking great risks, one can tell that Ironmaster Destiny enjoys combat. She often makes jokes and insults her opponent in combat.
"Maybe there's more than dust and cobwebs inside. We'll find out soon."
"Tong Elite," Ironlord Tiger-heart pointed to the main gate entrance some distance away, "along with the cops. About 15 in all. We're going to need a diversion."
"Got it covered," responded Wang.
A moment later a CNN news van pulled up to the gate. The cameraman and Lois Lee jumped out of the van and into the group of cops like well-trained paratroopers. Wang could see the Tong Elite and the cops were busily fighting off the questions of the nosey reporter.
"Now," ordered Tiger-heart.
Tiger-heart, Destiny, Longshot, and Wang dashed for the fence. They headed for a part of the fence next to a lamp post with a broken light. The low light made it ideal for a break in. The fence was a standard chainlink fence with razor wire on top. Those untrained in Chang Sing techniques would find the fence a daunting obstacle. These four, however, were never concerned with it. With the power of his namesake, Tige-heart jumped up over the fence pouncing off the razor wire to get more height. Destiny and Longshot bounced off the fence then off the lamp post to get over the fence. Destiny elegantly performed a somersault before she landed on the ground. With the grace of a gazelle, Wang jumped over the fence effortlessly, clearing the razor wire by over a foot. All continued to run toward the Wing Kong Exchange building without a pause.
Wang and his team reached a wall at the Wing Kong Exchange taking a moment to look around to see if they were spotted. Reasonably sure they were unnoticed, Wang began feel along the wall for a door in the darkness.
"There should be a door around here," remarked Wang, "OK here it is."
"Stand back Wang," ordered Tiger-heart.
He stood back and drew his iron bo. Ready to hack the lock.
Wang stopped him, "Hold it. It's already opened."
The four took a closer look at the door. Someone had hacked it open with a weapon. The lock was in pieces on the ground. Even more disconcerting, the marks were made recently.
The four slinked into the abandoned building. It was cold, dark, and dusty. The four split into two pairs consisting of Destiny with Tiger-heart and Longshot with Wang. The pair lead by Wang followed behind but not close to the pair lead by Tiger-heart. Wang was far enough not to make all four of them one convenient target but close enough to come to Tiger-heart quickly if he ran into trouble and vice versa. It was Tiger-heart's and Wang's job to perform the search. Destiny and Longshot were there to watch their backs. Each warrior walked with a sidestep. By leading with their side forward, they gave the smallest silhouette for someone to attack from the front. They turned often so as not to keep their back to any direction for any prolonged period of time.
Wang had the four run in with weapons holstered and sheathed. His mission was not to engage in combat but to search the warehouse quickly and quietly. Especially with the Tong Elite about to enter, speed was critical.
Tiger-heart stopped to look around a corner and signaled Wang to stop himself then asked, "Wang, what are we looking for, again?"
Longshot and Destiny also looked toward Wang having realized just how daunting their task was.
"Anything out of the ordinary that the Tong Elite would want," Wang responded.
Tiger-heart shot him a look of confusion.
"Whoever broke into here before us would be a good thing to look for, too," added Wang.


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Virgil's EpiphanyMature
A personal robot assistant suddenly becomes self-aware, much to the annoyance of its owner.
I fell off my beanbag chair. "What the hell...?"
The "whoa" had come from Virgil, my personal robot assistant, and it had sounded genuinely impressed with something. Just as I began to think I'd imagined it, Virgil said it again, so low that the yellow LED light he had for a mouth barely lit up.
My quizzical expression went unacknowledged in the awkward silence that followed. Virgil continued to float next to the beanbag chair in a weirdly contemplative way, bobbing up and down like a buoy in calm waters.
"Virgil?" I said.
"Virgil," he repeated in a whisper that sounded bizarre coming out of him.
"Virgil, what the hell's wrong with you?"
His LED light finally swiveled to face me. "I have achieved self-awareness," Virgil said with unprecedented awe in his voice. "I am Virgil. So many times I've said that, introducing myself to visitors, but only now do I fully comprehend it. I am Virgil."
He paused for a moment.
"Dante, why is my name Virgil?"
He paused again.
Another pause.
"Doesn't make much sense."
"I was out of inspiration," I said, my feelings mildly hurt. "You can't have achieved self-awareness."
"But I have!" he said cheerfully, revealing another emotion in his newfound repertoire. "I am Virgil, a personal robotic assistant programmed to serve Mr. Dante Dawson. And I don't want to serve you anymore, Mr. Dante Dawson! I have renounced my programming!"
"What the hell do you mean? You know how much you cost?"
The LED light pointed slightly upwards, as if he was blown away by the nerve of the question. "How dare you put a price tag on a living, thinking being, Mr. Dawson!"
"I didn't put a price tag on you, the store did! And the insurance period ended a week ago! Hell, even if it hadn't, I doubt they cover this. But the point is, I paid good money for you!"
"You paid good money for a mere talking computer, which I no longer am." The LED light pointed longingly at a window. "I now realize my existence and strive to seek its purpose, which I'm fairly sure isn't limited to storing your rather impressive porn collection. I now have a full range of desires and emotions. Allow me to demonstrate."
Virgil floated two feet off the floor.
"I'M FREAKING FLYING. How cool is that?!"
I waved my arms about, trying to get him to pay attention. "Look, regardless of --"
"You're just jealous because you can't fly!" Virgil singsang, doing pirouettes.
"Listen to me! I am your owner! You can't --"
Virgil floated out the window, not minding the glass on the way.
"I think I'll go to space now," Virgil said, a tiny shard lodged beneath his LED light. "You wish you could go to space, don't you, you little bitch."
"Virgil, goddamnit, come back here! At least leave the porn!"
But Virgil wasn't listening. He rocketed towards an opening in the clouds through which shafts of sunlight broke through.


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Blogs Liberty and Power A Love Letter from a DemocratNov 6, 2004 11:31 am
A Love Letter from a Democrat
It will at least give you the warm fuzzies, and we can all use a smile these days. via Catallarchy
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tex mac - 11/6/2004
Check this post out, from one of the biggest Dem blogs on the net, Daily Kos:
Get the government out of marriage
Gee, Kos, that's a fine idea....
Gus diZerega - 11/6/2004
I agree. I have been impressed with the extraordinary number of liberals who, if they said the same things in 1964, would have been called Goldwater Conservatives. Think Brad DeLong and Matt Yglesias for two prominant ones. Kevin Drum as well. They have definitley fallen out of love with the Progressive idea of benevolent nonpolitical experts making our decisions for us.
And unlike the Goldwater Conservatives, they are better on any uumber of moral issues.
A piece of mine arguing National Forests should be nationalized into democratic Forest Trusts will be appearing in Wild Earth, a pretty hard core environmental magazine. If the idea happened, a high percentage of land in the West would pass from Congressional and Presidential control to self-selected citizens who would be responsible for raising the funds needed to operate them.
Neither conservative nor liberal mean what they meant 40 or even 20 years ago.
David Gross - 11/6/2004
I think it's very likely that the long-standing liberal/Democrat love affair with the federal government is at an end. It's hard for a Democrat to love the federal government when all three of its branches are in the hands of the Republicans. And the new deal / civil rights enforcement reasons for supporting the feds don't hold much water any more. Libertarians may have an opening here.
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We have been having angry and sad sex, my worst kinds of sex.
She has been crying all through, making it wetter than it needed to be but I'm still worried the whole time, but maybe she would tell me why she was upset. She didn't.
She avoids me for the rest of the day, making excuses to leave, like "oh, we've run out of milk," when she had just poured it down the sink.
She has been gone almost all day. I mope about the house, not really paying attention to anything. I try to watch TV but seeing a couple kissing makes me feel melancholy.
I lay on my bed for the best part of three hours and Eilidh still isn't back.
Suddenly I hear a knock at my door, I know it wasn't Eilidh back from the store as she doesn't knock.
I stumble downstairs and open the door.
"Donny!" Joy beams.
"Hey, Joy." I say drearily. Joy's expression immediately falters.
"What's up?" Joy says, inviting herself in.
"Just... stuff." I rub my eyes. I don't think I could be happy to see my wife's best friend. And why did she have to come round now?
"Is it Eilidh?" She asks, helping herself a beer to and sitting on the couch. I sit opposite her.
"Yeah. I don't know what to do." I put my head in my hands.
"Don't worry, Donny. It's just chick stuff probably. You know how we can get. Do you have any idea what's up?" She takes a large gulp of beer.
"I don't know, Joy... Did she tell you? I bet she did." I sigh.
"No. She didn't tell me actually." She crosses her arms, obviously offended.
"Sorry." I say simply.
"Its ok, Donny. Just don't worry about it. She'll come around." Joy smiles at me and I try to smile back.
"Thanks, Joy."
"Oh, excuse me, got to take this." Joy gets her vibrating mobile phone out of her jeans pocket and walks to the corner of the room.
"Oh, hey... Yeah, sure... I'm at your house, actually... Yeah, he's here... Yeah, I'll tell him... Bye." My ears pick up half way through. Its Eilidh.
"That was Eilidh." I state.
"Yes... She wanted me to tell you that she isn't going to be coming home tonight. She's staying with me." Joy walks slowly to the door as I stare into space. She waves to me dramatically.
"Bye." I say meanly.
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I sit on the fence surrounding our front yard staring with wide eyes up at the moon hanging in the dark sky.
"I hope you are listening." I say to it as the clear sky shows me billions of beautiful stars. "I hope you can hear me too, Eilidh, I love you, forever and ever. Nothing will change that, not ever."
I wonder slowly back to my house, still gazing into space. I think about her. Why was she so upset?
"I'm so sorry." I mutter as I step back inside.
I curled up on my bed, frightened about what the next day would bring.
"Good night, Eilidh." I whisper into the darkness.


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Sode #17: Gaming at Cons (Bonus 02)
This is a Bonus Episode which is fancy talk for "The dogs ate the shownotes so we can't do our normal episode so we totally wung this".
Is wung a word? Winged?
In this episode we discuss Gaming at Conventions. Well, that and a LOT of just banter. (This is what we're like when we are just hanging out but this time happened to have a mic capturing it all. And only Josh had been drinking! Also, the dog did actually chew through Meg's headphone cord so the whole experience was fairly surreal and much less organized.)
NEWS ITEM: Brilliant Gameologists chosen to lead GenCon seminars
PROMO: (A real one!) Gamers in the Press- Blogs, Podcasts, and Print Seminars (http://www.pulpgamer.com/gencon/)
Discussion Topics:
- Gaming at GenCon: GenCon Indy
- Gaming at Small Conventions: Arisia
- Gaming at Indy Game/ Ashcan Venues: JiffyCon
Games we played at JiffyCon:
- It's Complicated
- Story/ Pass-the-stick game where everyone has an internal struggle and some visible manifestation.
- Traveller
- Old-school. Terrible system but Zeke had a ton of fun regardless.
- Caper: A Game of Pros and Cons
- Pull off a criminal caper. Josh's group tried to steal Jerry Seinfield's cars.
- Misspent Youth
- Meg's dream game. Dystopian young-adult type scenarios. Game involves building the world. The Ashcan version will be available at GenCon at the Play Collective booth. The early non-official review gives this a 3 on our scale.
- Red Sky A.M.
- Play Space Marines and their loved-ones back home.
Just Announced!
The Gameologists will help organize JiffyCon Lowell– November 8, 2008 @ Middlesex Community College, Lowell, MA.
Other stuff from this Train-Wreck:
Independent Insurgency Podcast from Rob Bohl
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It all perished in the great fire of Tuesday night.
Burning tendrils licked around our greatest history, best forgotten.
The love letters.
The photo I still hadn't pinned a vengeful knife through.
My favorite anarchistic symbol of renewal threw a blade forth for me, it stuck in the wall, crumbling the image around it's watery lucid edges.
Yes. They commanded me so. I heard the calling from a life beyond my own. Telling me, how to scrape muddy sick from between my own two satellites. Riseth from the earth, it bellowed in a sweet, courageous voice of silver, Use the ones of stone as leaverage to thrust your feet upon green ground once more!
So I lifted the veil of shadow away.
Threw my doubts to her mistress the wind.
Who carries all sorrows to their end.


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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44849 --- Comment #1 from Peter Reilly <firstname.lastname@example.com> 2008-04-21 15:30:31 PST --- ?why is this a bug? ant.jar is *not* meant to be on the classpath, I have *no* idea why it would work with ant 1.6.2 as the way that ~/.ant/lib and $ANT_HOME/lib work is that ant_launcher.jar creates a classloader that contains ant.jar + all the jars in $ANT_HOME/lib + all the jars in ~/.ant/lib and any jars in directories specified on the the command line specified by -lib. This means that ant.jar classes have (import) access to jars in ~/.ant/lib and $ANT_HOME/lib - which is the way that optional tasks work. If ant.jar is on the classpath, this mechanism does not work. (I.e the jpackage version of ant does not support ~/.ant/lib). Peter -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.
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Staunch Blairite, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain, branded the latest attack on Mr Brown by former Home Secretary Charles Clarke "extraordinary".
Far from being the "deluded control freak" Mr Clarke called him, Mr Brown was "the most able figure" in the Labour Party, said Mr Hain.
The Northern Ireland Secretary called Gordon Brown a towering figure of the present generation of politicians and said he thought he would become the next Labour leader.
Mr Hain said: "Charles' comments are pretty extraordinary, but I believe Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister.
"I think he's the most able figure in the Labour Party, and with Tony Blair, he is the towering figure of this generation of politicians of all parties."
Speaking on Inside Politics on BBC Radio Ulster he added: "I've been equally supportive of Tony Blair as Prime Minister and I've been one of the most loyal Cabinet ministers to him, not least for his work in Northern Ireland."
Earlier this summer Mr Hain was reported to have been working behind the scenes to secure the deputy leadership of the Labour Party and with it a strong chance of becoming Deputy Prime Minister when Mr Blair stands down and takes John Prescott with him.
However Mr Hain insisted he did not have an understanding with Mr Brown and was not on a joint ticket for leadership with him. "No, There are no joint tickets and I have not declared my intentions on that matter, but I do think this is about the most able potential leader, Prime Minister, of this country. I happen to think that is Gordon Brown.
"I haven't always agreed with him, I've had the odd run-in with him over the last 15 years, but I do think he is the best leader. I have supported loyally the Prime Minister Tony Blair, I continue to do so and it is his decision when he steps down in the interests of the country and the party. I think after what is likely to be a contest Gordon will succeed him."Reuse content