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Dark Star RisingMature
On a world filled with strife, a government has struck out against its metahuman heroes and villains alike. Only a year after ninety percent of all heroes and villains were killed, a new creature, a being responsible for the destruction of the mythic cities of Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu, rises from the ocean and is bent on the subjugation and consumption of the human species. Without the magic of the Ancients, humans are powerless to stop this Chthonic menace.
Dark Star Rising
He fell from the sky, aflame. A black energy coruscating and trailing from his unconscious form, limply, silently, helplessly. His explosive impact, drove shards of concrete into the air and an exploding crater released a tower of flaming gas as his powers ignited an underground fuel main. People retreated into whatever cover they could find as automobiles fell from the explosion and the searing heat melted plastic, rubber and other soft metals nearby. It was hell on Earth.
What followed him moved slowly at first. It was in no hurry. It savored the world into which it found itself thrust. The first two days here, there was no resistance and the creature were soft, edible, pliant with mild and crunchy centers. Then a few new ones came and they were armed with stinging tools. Primitive and only less effective than nothing. They and their tools were tasty with a slight iron flavoring. Some articles of their clothing were less than tasty, tough with a fibrous consistency. After eating six or eight of them, it decided to peel the rest of the blue guardians and eat only the flesh and bones.
Then they came. The special ones. Most looked like the main food of this world, small, delicate, crunchy and like the blue guardians, they were armed with tools. Their tools were fantastically more effective than the blue guardians. No matter. There is nothing of this world that can harm me. Nothing at all. Even the fire-star is too weak. I shall enjoy this one, and I shall not share it. Not a morsel will the others get.
"The Kid is down."
"He'll get up. He's just like his old man was. Stubborn."
"Any ideas of what we're dealing with?"
"With the rash of magical threats we have been seeing lately, I think someone has just upped the ante."
"Oswald, I think we are going to have to hold the line until the big guns get here."
Thornton Oswald the Third, stood looking over the city and realized, the Shrike was right. With The Kid down, Gunner on sabbatical, Kali was coming from Metro City, and Shango out doing whatever magical Protectors of the Crossroads do in their spare time, they would have to hold this thing until reinforcements arrived. But it took The Kid. After Kali and Shango, The Kid was as tough as they come. He lacked his father's fighting experience but his durability under fire was unquestioned.
"Shrike, I will need a minute, can you keep him entertained while I transform?"
"Sure thing, he'll never see me coming."
The Shrike, Walter Scott, depressed the studs in his gloves and his suit's jetpack came online. Extending his arms, large metallic wings with serrated edges extended from his arms increasing his wing span to twenty feet. "Don't be late." With a boom, the Shrike took to the air and dived to attack the creature who stood easily twenty feet tall.
Thornton proceeded to draw a circle of containment in the rooftop gravel. As his cane drew through the rocks, they lit with an eldritch glow. Hearing the boom of the rockets as they roared away, Thornton focused his mind on breaching the boundaries between worlds. To a particular world. A world of feral beasts used by dark magicians and ancient gods to the Fan-run-dhar-durak - Land of forgotten beasts. Once the realm became clear to him, he sought for a particular beast. A creature whose unmistakable might would be tested tonight. He sought the beast called Grimjack, mightiest of the Beast Lords.
The Shrike swooped fast and his onboard computer, linked directly into his brain had already plotted the course he needed to strike five times in two passes. His wings comprised of Promethium, a rare alien metal, allowed him to transfer and magnify his kinetic energy, so the longer he flew, the stronger and more dangerous the metal became.
But fly too long and the energy became uncontrollable without a release. So the longer he flew the more he was forced to fight. Only touching the ground would bleed that energy from him. It was always the delicate dance of fighting and being tougher but blowing out from not releasing enough energy or returning to his default state where he is weakest just before recharging.
Having flown here, he had already expended a good portion of his energy against the creature, he had damaged whatever this black material it called skin and even drew blood. But it seemed unaffected and knocked the Kid into next week. If he had been just a second slower, it would have been him. He doubted he would have survived that impact with the ground.
--gonna be fast, be loose, feel the air, float with it, snap the wing, strike, strike, beat the wing, turn, beat the wing turn, snap, snap, strike, strike, strike, away--
His blows were fast, blurs to the naked eye, and each tore into the nacreous flesh. But it must have skin made of diamond. His wings have sliced through bank vaults back in the days when he was a villain in Metro City.
--Come on Kid, we ain't friends or nothing but right now, I could use the sight of your overconfident face coming out of that fire. I hope Oswald is having more luck than I am.
* * *
Kali was streaking through the sky on her cloud heading to Paragon City where she received the distress call from The Shrike and the Sorcerer. She was making good time and would arrive in about ten minutes. From this height, the suburbs of Paragon city seemed peaceful. She could see the smoke from the burning buildings ahead, a path of sheer destruction. The old Kali would have liked that, the new Kali is repulsed by such mindless waste.
"Kali Yuga, I have need of you and your darkest aspect."
"I hate when you call me that, Shango. Where are you?" She really did hate that name, it invoked a violent and destructive past where she was a destroyer of all that she surveyed.
"I am at The Crossroads. There has been a breach and creatures are pouring through. I am attempting to seal it but I cannot as long as the creatures prevent me from reaching it. I need your help."
"Asking for help? That is not like you, Thunderer."
"Nor is needing help, warrior-goddess, but here we are."
"Can you make the gate or shall I follow you to the Crossroads by your whining."
"Suffice it to say, you are earning that spanking."
"Put it on my tab. I will be there shortly, husband."
Kali focused her will and her two arms became four. Each of them was armed with a knife of pure spirit. She began a sword dance designed to take her to the Crossword between Worlds, a magical nexus connecting nearby realms of existence. A particularly puissant sorcerer or other magical being could use it to reach across space and time to other worlds altogether.
As she whirled faster and faster, she began to weave open a doorway using her spirit blades and her connection to her husband's godforces. The Shrike would call it a paired quantum connection, but she preferred the magical concept of contagion; once two things are bound together, nothing can keep them apart. She was beginning to feel the connection strongly and could see into the nether dimensions the Crossroad inhabited.
She could sense Shango before she could see him. He was covered by a horde of dark skinned giants. The Crossroad was in the presence of three giant red suns shedding their ruddy light on the scene. Shango was, for a moment unable to be seen, but then lightning exploded from the ground and the creatures were thrown back and for a moment he was clear.
"Woman, what part of your Kali Yuga aspect did you not understand. I need you in your most terrible guise or we are doomed."
Once she transitioned into the Crossroad, she was behind Shango and he used his double-headed axe to create a barrier of lightning.
"Good to see you too. Before we invoke that bitch, do you think we could see what we can do here, first?"
"Do you see that portal. That is where we need to be."
The distance was only about the length of two football fields but it was filled with these creatures. Each the height of two men, with near human physical attributes. Their heads appeared to be more of an octopus where a human head might be and their hands were instead ending in a tentacled structure. There were hundreds of them before them.
"Make ready, husband."
Shango dropped his barrier and released a bolt of lightning driving a wedge between the creatures, incinerating two dozen of the creatures instantly. In the second it took his lightning to cross one hundred meters, Kali had already slain thirty of the monsters. She stepped through time and space and was everywhere and nowhere. Appearing and disappearing, each strike laid a creature low. Her face was serene and peaceful as her four blades struck once. Her superhuman strength made each blow cut deep into their flesh, severing meat and bone like a knife through butter.
Shango concentrated his powers and created a series of strikes before her, each of them she slew her way through to the next. When he was too busy to support her, he lent her his lightning and she kept the area around her cleared with her flashing blades and lightning. His double-headed axe flew around him with a cloud electricity arcing from it to every creature near him. But they were relentless and without fear. As soon as he would clear the area, more would appear.
He looked out and saw Kali was within a fifty feet of the portal. He called lightning once more and as it arced from him toward her, the creatures around him opened their mouths and sharp bones shot out and speared him in his chest and arms. He looked in disbelief, his flesh had the strength of steel. He laughed off high caliber weaponry like rain. What are these things they can do this?
A searing acid began to burn his flesh, pumped through their ceramic probosci. He howled as his mighty flesh began to burn. Without warning, the creatures blocking his line of sight were cut in half and two other blades slashed the demon's tongues. The blades whirled around him and returned to Kali, who had not stopped her dance of death and retrieved her weapons amid flight and continued killing.
Shango, now enraged, drew his power to him, focused his pain and rage and became a thing of pure lightning. The creatures strove to grab him and died instantly burned to death. As they cleared away, powerful arcs leapt from him to them and they continued to died. He moved forward slowly and Kali cut them down as they now pass through the portal. He reached her and caught her hand as she struck out at him.
"Enough, my wife. The portal is silent. Perhaps we have earned our invitation."
"Then let us not be rude to our hosts. They did set forth such a feast for such as us."
They stepped through the portal.
* * *
Meanwhile, Thornton Oswald III completed his summoning ritual with the King of Netherbeasts. Grimmamon took the form of a great cat of immense size.
"Grimmamon, I invoke your service as in the pacts defined by my ancestors."
"Bah, mortal, why should I bother with your families ancient pacts? You have been notoriously lax in your relationship to us. Where are the rituals of blood and souls as in the past?"
"Spare me your pathetic bargaining hell-beast, without me and mine, you and yours would have past into your final existence decades ago. Our world stopped worshipping your kind for hundreds of years. Look around you, ask where Lord Arioch and his brethren have gone?"
"Provide your services and enjoy the benefits of our continued relationship."
"Show me why you summoned me."
"Look, oh Great One. Tell me what you see."
Grimjack looked over the edge of the roof and his demonic mien grew more stoic. "Our pact ends at the edge of this world, sorcerer. That beast is from beyond our world."
"And evidently frightening enough to remove most of your bluster. Tell me more, Great One. Who or what is that creature?"
"A Chaos god from before the time of Arioch, from before time as you measure it."
"You lie. There were no gods before that time."
"Silence pup. There are secrets even the gods keep. These creatures were imprisoned here in a age before yours. You are not the first masters of the Earth. Did you think you were? Ha."
"By the First People. They could not destroy them but they could lock them beneath the Earth, or the Sea, or in Fire. It is said even the very Air imprisons one. I will have no truck with that one, no matter what the price you offer. Its powers likely dwarf mine, the same way mine dwarf yours."
Oswald thinks about what Grimmamon told him and realizes they are out of their depth. Even if Shango and Kali were here, this was a threat greater than they could manage on their own. Since neither of them were here, it is likely they are working on this menace in their own way. So we will do what we can until they arrive.
"I know you can see the boy in that conflagration. Bring him here, deposit the flames on the creature. Then you can take your leave. We would not want you to be injured before I can make use of you again. Weakening with age, perhaps I shall call your rival Shunmaburan instead."
"As you request so shall it be. But if you seek to wound my pride, you will find no demon has pride when its survival is at stake. But by all means if you wish to call Shunmaburan today, and he were not to survive, I would be in your debt. Farewell."
The old daemon stood at the edge of the roof and the flames rose from the crater in the street. The flames swirled as if they were a fire vortex and flew from the crater to surround the otherworldly invader with the terrible fires. The Kid disappeared from the crater and appeared on the roof next to Oswald. Oswald saw the daemon link the fire to the creature and realized the fire would only last a few minutes before exhausting its fuel. Once surrounded, the creature stopped moving forward and this bought them some time.
Grimmamon turned away from the roof's edge. Looks at the boy and said, "Tough that little one is. A parting gift." And with that he nods and steps back into the gateway in the floor of the roof.
Oswald was not happy with Grimjack's parting words. No good comes from gifts from daemons. Looking down at the Kid, he saw the boy's amazing recuperative powers rebuilding him and in less than two minutes, he sat up, looking angry. "Wait. We need to talk. There are things you need to know."
* * *
Carolyn Van Putten was having dinner on the other side of Paragon City when she saw the news. She was finally having the date she had taken a vacation for and was determined to be able to enjoy. She was wearing a black Versace with less than modest pumps, showing off her well-muscled body.
She spent days hunting for this dress and wanted to stun Elliot Cole, investigative reporter right out of his socks. And the dress had the right effect, too. Cole was barely able to speak and the evening was going so well. And then this.
Cole looked at her. "Well?"
"Well, what?"
"I know you can see that television over there above the bar."
"And? It's on the other side of town. If those heroes can't handle it, we will just cut our dinner date a bit short."
Cole leaned forward and whispered, "What about Gunner? You do realize I know who you are?"
"Don't try to kid the kidder. I have known for some time. I am the ace investigative reporter in Paragon City. Now I know you should be going and they certainly look like they need you. I don't see Shango or Kali. Moving fire means the Occultist is there, and that flashing of silver probably means the Shrike and I have not seen the Kid yet, so I am guessing thirty foot tall monsters warrant your attention."
"Do you know how long I have waited for this date?"
"And I promise we will get another shot at it, pardon the pun. Now go. Besides I have a scoop to get."
"Need a lift? My car is on its way."
"Nah, you have an image to uphold. Guns blazing and all."
"See you in a bit." Carolyn grabs Cole and kisses him fiercely on the mouth. "Just in case, you're late to our next date." She turns and runs out the door. Turning the corner, a midsize SUV pulls alongside and opens the side door.
"Your suit's in the back. Nice dress." The grizzled man driving the car points his thumb backward. She hopped up into the back and starts stripping. "Get me there, fast, set up range for heavy weapons long range. Put me on the radio."
"Shrike, can you hear me?"
"Gunner, enjoying your vacation?"
"Can it, I need you to get some distance and come in hot. I will be there in less than five minutes. Move out and I will come in with explosive ordinance, you follow with a Cannonball."
"Roger that, fearless leader."
"Yes, Gunner."
"Where is the Kid?"
"I have him. He has been hurt. He found the creature first and alerted us. He held it until the Shrike and I could help."
"How is he doing?"
"Tough as nails, ready to go back."
"Any word from Shango or Kali?"
"None, but I can sense they are not in this world, or at the Crossroads. So they may be involved at another point in the battle. We will have to do what we can."
"Our goal is to stun and control. Keep it where it is. Can you get the rest of the people out of there?"
"Of course."
"Once the Kid is up, tell him to wait for my signal. Ten seconds after my signal, he should see a Cannonball. I will need him to grab the Shrike. I will work long range pushing the creature back. Is there anything else you can tell me?"
"My contacts tell me it's not like anything we have ever seen. We better hope Shango and Kali are having better luck than we are."
"My contacts said the last time these things ruled the world, they destroyed the previous inhabitants."
"That's not gonna happen."
"Hope you're right."
"Stand by for my signal. Get those people out of there."
* * *
Shango and Kali stepped through the portal and fell to their knees. The gravity was intense, eight times what they were used to on Earth. The air was thick and heavy. Even with their superior physiologies, they could barely see through the soup-like atmosphere.
They could hear a chittering sound, something the clicked, popped, sputtered at a variety of distances. Each set of sounds was distinct and otherworldly. Kali stood and began to move her hands in magical gestures.
"The flow here is weak."
"Draw the godforce from axe and complete your spell."
As Kali finished her spell, she looked exhausted but now the voices could be understood.
"What is it, why has it come here?"
"It has disease, it comes from elsewhere, nothing comes here."
"Make it leave."
The three voices had a chorus of others that answered it with similar statements.
"This does not bode well, Kali. I think I liked it better when I didn't know what they were saying."
"That can be arranged. What do we do now? I was hoping there would be something to hit over here."
"It wants to hit us. Why, what did we ever do to it.?"
"Kill it. It trespasses on our world. We would never allow that in the past. We have eaten all before now."
"No haste, visitors are rare, find what they want, first. What do you want germ invaders?"
"I am Shango the Thunderer and this is Kali Bhavatarini. On our world we are gods. I would see who I address.
"Gods you say."
"Such tiny little gods. You must come from a tiny world."
"Show yourselves braggart," Kali shouts out to the darkness.
"Pull back the darkness."
"Will rip your tiny minds apart."
"Shroud is for your protection"
Shango raises his axe and begins to emit lightning pushing back the darkness. Kali calls her spirit blades and touches them together increasing the light and dispelling the shroud around them.
"Evil germs want to see what we are?"
"Germ gods can't listen."
"So be it."
The shroud of darkness is peeled back slowly like a fog being dispelled. The scene is one of carnage as an alien landscape with what appears to be the remains of a city is all around them. Broken buildings toppled into the streets with all the great structures are damaged in one way or another.
In the sky there appears to be a great swirling mass, where the shroud appears to emanate from. Tendrils of both darkness and blackened flesh reach from it. They are immense and the creature fills the sky with its horror. The pressure on the minds of Kali and Shango increases as its spiritual monstrosity overwhelms them.
Both warrior gods, both having slain tens of thousands in battle, did not prepare them for the horror of a creature that had slain billions, entire worlds, holding their souls enslaved within its flesh, the spiritual screams overwhelming them.
Their shields diminished, pushed back to their very persons. They stood together to support each other and they held the horror at bay but it lapped at their shields, tongues of darkness, trying to lick them, taste them, just seconds from overwhelming them completely.
They had never seen anything like this.
"Now germ gods, you still do not see all there is to me. I dwell at the center of the Universe."
"I have lived before your world was even a swirling in the cosmic miasma."
"What would you know of godhood? You are only a little more evolved than the worms of your world?"
Shango laughs, loudly and contemptuously at the alien being. "Your living quarters looks foul oh great Universe dwelling deity. Where are your worshippers? Where are your spires of beauty, showing off your power to your enemies? A poor deity that fouls its nest?" Kali looks at Shango disapprovingly.
"Imprisoned by the creatures here. Unable to enter, unable to leave. I sensed an awakening and strove to find it at the Crossroads of all Realities. But before I could find it an leave here, the portal was closed.""
"Wretches bound me to this spot. Hate them I did. Killed all of them."
"They now serve me as my advanced guard. Now I seek my kind everywhere, only they can free me."
"What would you know of this creature? He roams my world, free." Kali presents a psychic image of the creature in Paragon City.
"I know him, he taught them here how to bind me to this spot."
"In exchange for his imprisonment somewhere else, away from me."
"Send me to him. I would have my revenge."
"We cannot send you to him, we cannot break the bindings that lock you here. But we could make it possible for you to bring him here." Shango looked at Kali disbelieving what she was proposing. "Trust me, my husband."
"Oh yes, I would have him here with me."
"How would you make this possible?"
"You are, after all, insignificant in power to even one as puny as he."
Kali said to the tendrils of the creature tearing away at her shields, seeking even a momentary doubt to penetrate and strike, "Open your portal, again. We will make a portal to our world. You reach through both and pull him back to you."
"How can I trust you? I trusted him and he deceived me."
"I trusted these creatures and they enslaved me."
"I cannot trust anyone now. Only one of you can go. The other stays here."
They look at each other disbelievingly. They are the last of their kind on their world. Without them, their respective pantheons will lose their last anchors to Earth. Shango readies himself to say something and Kali touches him on the lips.
"You go. Your powers on Earth make you the more suitable choice to create the gate and to drive him into it. I will stay here and play hostage."
"I will be back for you, my wife."
"You'd better."
* * *
The Kid, using his super-speed ran through the legs of the creature and launched an attack at its chest. His haymaker rocks its footing. Rebounding off of its chest, he flips and lands thirty feet away just to the right of Gunner.
Gunner in her red and black battle gear is holding an X-25 rocket rifle, firing a series of explosive grenades into the tentacled face of the beast. The Occultist rains fiery spheres down from the sky, each wrapping a limb in a flaming embrace.
Fire seemed to have the most effect on the creature, preventing its continued movement. But that was all they seemed to be able to do. Between the Kid and his speed and strength and the Shrike's promethium based attacks, they could keep it off balance. But whenever it moved or flailed about, buildings were destroyed.
Nothing they did seemed to cause any permanent damage, and they were beginning to tire.
Suddenly the sky darkened and the wind whipped up. Lightning began to swirl at the edges of the skyline.
"Now boys, I think the cavalry is here."
The Kid looking up slowed down the flow of time and could see lightning charges building up right above their heads. Grabbing Gunner, he speeds out of the line of the lightning discharge with seconds to spare. His big grin shows this is what he lives for, that last second save no one but he could pull off. "Got ya, boss lady."
Then the lightning strikes began. Each rained down as a driving wind directed them into the face of the creature.
"Occultist," booms the voice of Shango from the heavens, "we need a Gate to the Crossroads. Something big enough for our guest."
"Shrike, where are you?" Gunner extricated herself from the Kid's very tight and strangely arousing grip.
"Coming in at Mach two, tell me we have a target or I am going to explode right over you guys. Less than a minute."
"Come down West street, we are trying to push the Creature to the Crossroads."
"What good is that? He'll just come back."
"It's what Shango wants."
"Good enough for me. Fifty seconds."
The Occultist teleports himself to the ground behind the alien monstrosity and begins to form his gate. It is hard to concentrate over the barrage of lightning and has to erect a barrier to protect himself. Holding his cane above his head, he wards off the lightning and driving rain pushing the creature back toward him. His incantations steady, he can sense the gateway to the Crossroads opening. And then he senses it. A creature of the Outer Dark awaits on the other side!
He balks holding the spell before completion. Shango is impetuous, stubborn and sometimes downright irresponsible. But since I don't see Kali, I have to assume she is somehow involved in this. In the end, this is about trust. I have to trust they have a reason. He completes the spell.
The Shrike sees the gateway opening up and is covered in the kinetic energy of his Promethium armor. Diving down, he targets the creature and can see lightning striking it as well. Four, three, two, one...
The release of the promethium has to be done at point blank range. It has a release range of less than ten feet. He cannot turn at this speed, but activates his force field a second before the wind is knocked out of him. He feels the rough handling of the Kid as they bounce off a building, arc through the air and land on the ground nearly a hundred feet away. The Kid is laughing and puts the Shrike down on the ground, clapping him on the back.
"One day I might miss you."
"Don't remind me. Thanks for the save."
The combined explosions of the Promethium wave, Shango's lightning strikes and Gunner's mini-missiles pushes the creature into the edge of the gateway but not quite through it. Before anyone can make a further effort, a tendril of blackness reaches through the gate and as it touches our air, bursts into flame. It grabs the monster and pulls it back into the Crossroads. The last thing heard was, "I finally found you Nyarlethotep. Revenge is ours."
Without warning the gateway snaps shut.
Shango drops like a rock from the sky, attempting to cross back into the gateway before it closes. His landing cracks the concrete with his speed. He roars like a madman and begins to whirl his axe to create his own portal. The air is aflame with his lightning but no portal forms. The Occultist walks up behind him and places his hand on Shango's shoulder.
"Enough, old friend. The Creature from the Outer Dark has likely temporarily sealed our passage from our world to the Crossroads."
"It has Kali."
The gathered heroes fall silent.
* * *
Kali has summoned her spirit swords and is engaged in ritual dance of power. Tapping the energies unique to this plane, she binds its power to hers. She feels the lives of the People and their rage at the creature that destroyed them. She feels their need to lash out but also feels their impotence since they are deceased and can no longer affect the world. Her dance says they can. They listen.
The portal has been open for some time. She remains peripherally aware of it as the spirits of the dead come to her and follow her dance. Each lending their tiny essence to what she is. A goddess of destruction and creation, a goddess of Time and Space. They sense her kinship to all things in creation and are at peace.
The portal is rendered asunder as the Other suddenly arrives and the two power-mad creatures tap the energies of this plane and dozens of others nearby for their conflict. They ignore her and close the gateway while their battle continues.
"Our deal is done. Release me."
"Germ gods are in no position to make demands. We have our quarry and we will use you to get back to your world once we have had our revenge."
"You will stay with us."
"We will be free of this place. We taste your world on him. It is to our liking."
Their conflict is so terrible, nearby shard realms of existence are destroyed as they move their battle through dimensions. Kali now realizes this creature never had any intention of letting them go home. That is why she told Shango to leave. She has no intention of staying.
"You seek revenge. Only Kali Yuga can give you that. So I release her to you. Gain your revenge!"
Kali's dance moves faster, her four arms become eight and she directs the energy of her death magic through the souls of those damned to be in this place and they reflect her, her spirit blades appear in their hands. And this happens again and again until there are hundreds of her and the contagion continues, spreading until there are thousands. And then they turn their energy toward the Ancient Gods locked in battle. Each hurls itself at the Great Old Ones. Their fiery trail slashes through tentacles and Dark God alike and their screams of rage are palpable.
Kali Yuga smiles and continues her dance as the sky is alight in the fiery stars of souls enraged.
* * *
Five minutes later, Kali Yuga reappears in her final terrifying aspect, eight arms still holding their terrible blades, disheveled, battered, alive, but barely conscious. When she loses consciousness, her aspect is returned to just Kali. Shango picks her up and laughs. "They sent her home, after all."
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3051?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12527999 ] Øystein Grøvlen commented on DERBY-3051: ---------------------------------------- Patch looks good. I have only nits on my list: 1. LogToFile#inReplicationMasterMode: LogToFile also has a member inSlaveMode. Maybe that should be called inReplicationSlaveMode for uniformity? Also, I think the declaration of these two member fields should be placed together. 2. LogToFile#appendLogRecord: Any particular reason that MasterFactory#appendLogRecord has a different ordering of the parameters than LogToFile#appendLogRecord. I think the code would be easier to read if the methods had the same parameter ordering. 3. LogToFile#flush: What does the '?' behind INVALID_LOG_INSTANT mean? 4. LogToFile#startReplicationMasterRole, javadoc: I would say 'pass log records' instead of 'send ...' in order to make it clearer that the MasterFactory is on the same node, and that we here are not talking about sending it over the network to the MasterFactory. 5. LogToFile#stopReplicationMasterRole, javadoc: Seems not right to mention ReadOnly here since that is a different implementation of LogFactory. 6. LogFactory#(start|stop)ReplicationMasterRole, javadoc: The javadoc references to the corresponding ReadOnly methods does not seem necessary to me. > Replication: Modify logging subsystem to append log records to the replication buffer when in replication master mode > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-3051 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3051 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Services, Store > Affects Versions: 10.4.0.0 > Reporter: Jørgen Løland > Assignee: Jørgen Løland > Attachments: derby_3051_1.diff, derby_3051_1.stat > > > When Derby has the replication master role for a database 'x', it should ship all log records generated for this database to the Derby with the slave role. A replication buffer was added to Derby in DERBY-2926. This issue is for modifying the logging subsystem to append log records to this buffer every time a log records is appended to the disk buffer (LogAccessFile). This will, of course, only be done if it has the master role. > Currently, I have identified two modifications that will be required in LogToFile: > * LogToFile#appendLogRecord needs to append to the replication buffer after appending to the disk buffer > * LogToFile#flush (i.e., the method used to force buffered log records to disk) must notify the Master Controller (DERBY-2977) that a flush has taken place. The MasterController will decide if any action is required because of this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Mason City Globe-Gazette (Newspaper) - October 6, 1945, Mason City, Iowa coy NORTH IOWAS DAILY PAPER EDITED FOR THE HOME THE NEWSPAPER THAT VOL U Associated fna and United Prta fuU Leutd wires MAKES ALL NORTH 1OWANS NEIGHBORS Tigers Win 41 to Even Series SCORE BY INNINGS Z3456789 RHE Tigers EIQQEIEICDQC 13 El H Q Cubs tDQKOGlGlElQG 13 Q H D Cubs Trout Richards Tigers Prim Erickson Idvingston Wrigley Field Chicago The Detroit Tigers broke out of their hitting and scoring doldrums with a loud crash iir one big inning Saturday to whip the Chicago Cubs 4 to 1 in their fourth game of the world series and even the set at 2 victories apiece FIRST INNING TIGERS Webb bounced out Kve Cents a Copy webt bounced out Moundsmfin running catch not far behind 2nd WrUley Field Chicago base Cramer went out Prim to Righthander Hank Boroivy and Cavarretta No runs no hits no Lefty Hal Newhouser respective A t errors none left ttuu nger piicners in CUBS Hack went out Webb to the openingtame of the World York the Tiger first baseman Series will come back Sunday to picking the throw out of the dirt hurl the 5th game of the set the Johnson smashed a grounder to rival managers announced Satur York and was out York unas day sisted Lowrey lined out to Cul bits no errors none left SECOND INNING the count to2 and 2 and then struck out swinging hard as the crowd roared Cullenbine popped up to Cavarretta near first base York was an easy out Johnson to Cavarretta No runs no hits no errors none left CUBS Cavarretta was called out on strikes as he watched Trouts curve cut an outside cor ner York made a nice knock down of Pafkos smasti and recov ered the ball to toss to Trout for the out Nicholson struck out swinging No runs no hits no er rors none left THIRD INNING TIGERS Outlaw rapped to Hughes who threw him out at first Lowrey took Richards long fly in left field Trout hit a ter rific liner right into Hacks out stretched gloveNo runs no hits no errors hone left COBS Livingston made the first hit of the game a clean i single into left centerfield which was handled by Greenberg Hughes attempted to sacrifice and Webb Prim sacrificed 2nd The play going from York to Mayo Outlaw took Hacks grounder and threw him out at first No runs one hit no errors one left FOURTH INNING TIGERS Webb bounced out Hack to CaVarretta Mayo reached the full count and then walked the first Tiger to Teach first in the game Cramer drove a single into right field on the first pitch Mayo holding up at 2nd Green berg singled to left scoring Mayo and sending Cramer to 2nd Cul lenbine smashed a double down the left field line scoring Cramer and sending Greenberg to 3rd Prim was replaced on the Cubs mound by the Veteran Paul Der ringer York was purposely passed filling the bases Outlaw forced York at 2nd Johnson to Hughes Greenberg scoring on the play and Cullenbine taking 3rd Richards drove a single to cen ter scoring Cullenbine and send ing Outlaw to 2nd Trout forced Richards at 2nd Hughes to John son Four runs 4 hits no errors 2 left CUBS Johnson lined a single into center field Lowrey singled to right Johnson being held at 2nd by Cullenbines quick throw Cavarretta went to the full count and then went down swinging at a very low pitch Mayo took Paf kos roller and threw him out at first Johnson going to 3rd and Lowrey to 2nd For some reason Mayo made no attempt to get a double play Nicholson struck out swinging at a fast ball No runs 2 hits no errors 2 left FIFTH INNING TIGERS Webb was called out on strikes Mayo lofted to Lowrey in left Cramer drove a single to right center and Went to 2nd when Nicholson let the ball get through him for the first Chicago error of the series Greenberg worked Der ringer for a walk Cullenbine went out to Cavarretta unas sisted No runs one hit one error 2 left CUBS The sun finally was out strong as the Cubs came to bat Livingston flied out to Cramer in right center the Tiger veteran making a good onehanded catch after losing the ball in the sun Hughes walked on 6 pitches Frank Sec ory batted for Derrin ger Working slowly and careful ly Trout struck Secory out mak ing him swing at a bad 3rd strike Hack went out to York unas sisted No runs no hits no errors ne left SIXTH INNING TIGERS Hy Vandenberg went in to pitch for the Cubs York flied out to Lowrey deep in left field Outlaw popped up to Cavar retta Richards lined out to Hughes at short No runs no hits none left Johnson walloped a e fc ly the Cub and Tiger pitchers In back to 3rd but overthrew the bag and Johnson home It retta filed out to Greenberg Paf kolofted to Cramer The run was unearned One run one hit one error none left SEVENTH INNING TIGERS Trout popped a high one to Hughes who took it far back on the grass Cavarretta knocked down Webbs hard drive and tossed to Vandenberg for the putout Hughes threwput Mayo No runs no hits no errors none left CUBS Trout grabbed Nichol sons slow roller and threw him out at first Cramer ran far over into right field to take Living stons fly Heinz Becker batted for Hughes and singled into left field Len Merullo ran for Becker Paul Gillespie batted for Vandenberg and went out York to Trout who covered first No runs one hit no errors one left EIGHTH INNING TIGERS Paul Fjrickson went in to pitch for the Cubs and Merullo went to shortstop Cramer popped but to Merullo Greenberg fanned owM easy roller No runs no hits no errors one left CUBS Hackwent out Webb to York Webb also threw out John son Lowrey struck out No runs no hits no errors none left NINTH INNING TIGERS Outlaw drove a single into left field Richards struck out on 3 pitches Trout beat out a smash to 3rd base that Hack could not hold Outlaw went to 3rd on a passed ball Outlaw was caught in a rundown and thrown out from Livingston to Hack Webb flied out to Nicholson in right No runs Z hits no errors one left CUBS Cavarretta flied out to Cramer in deep center field Out law made a fine stop of Pafkos grounder and threw him out at first Nicholson fouled out to RichardsNo runs no hits no er rors none left CHINESE REDS CLAIM ATTACKS Chungking com munists reported Saturday with out confirmation that Generalissi mo Chiang KaiSheks troops sup ported by Japanese had launched full dress attacks against commu nist forces between Chungking and Shanghai The reports said a major Kuo mintang force was sweeping Into areas under control of the crack Yenancontrolled 8th ronle army Three armies of the central gov ernment the communists charged In southern Shansi province where the 8th claims control The communists said that in central China other Chinese forces supported by puppet and Japa nese troops attacked liberated areas in Anhwei and Kiangsi provinces and were mopping up communist troops in liberated areas claimed by the red new fourth army The reports coincided with a dispatch from Yenan in the news paper New China Daily News as serting that Chiangs commander in chief had ordered Japanese troops to recover territories oc cupied by communists The communist newspaper pub lished here asserted in a dispatch from Yenan that Gen Ho Ying Chin commander in chief of the Chinese army had ordered Japa nese forces to recapture tern tones occupied by bandits The order assertedly was given to Gen Yasun Okamura commander in chief of Japanese forces in China Insurance Man Dies Des Motnes J Mo riarty 62 former Des Moines in surance executive and president MASON CITY IOWA SATURDAY OCTOBEE 6 1945 au RUSSIA RECALLS DELEGATE Surplus GIs in US Get Army Release Washington army Saturday authorized release of surplus enlisted men on duty in the United States and President Truman signed legislation design ed to spur voluntary enlistments Jn the armed forces The army order applying to air ground and service forces permits commanders to discharge soldiers who are covered by all these conditions 1 Not currently eligible for dis charge by reason of points or age 2 Not qualified for foreign duty and have completed Z years of service since Sept 16 1940 3 Surplus to the requirements of the force to which they were assigned and not economically reJrainable to perform useful service 4 Not possessed of a scarce skill needed by the army This does not apply to regular army enlisted men who enlisted after Aug 16 or who have elected to remain in the service under other regulations The order stip ulated that this system must not interfere with discharge of high scoremen The measure approved by Mr Truman authorizes short term en listments optional army retire ment at half pay after 20 years of service which the navy al ready permits and extends bene fits the G I bill of rights to men reenlisting New recruits may enlist for 18 months Men already in the serv ice with at least 6 months train ing may reenlist for 12 months Byrnes Hopes for Peaceful Meeting Soon 6 Senary Byrnes ll had hopes Saturday for a truly representative European peace meeting before the end of the year He indicated Russias attitude will determine whether it mater ializes Soviet Foreign Commissar Mol otov has not rejected the United States proposal for such a con ference Byrnes said in a radio report to the nation Friday night He added he hopes the soviet un ion will agree that the nations that fought the world have a chance to make the peace Byrnes strongly emphasized his Belief that this means all allied nations directly involved not just Russia Britain and the United States At different points in his ad dress he put it in the following ways At Berlin it certainly was never intended that the 3 powers present or the 5 powers consti tuting the council of foreign min isters should take unto them selves the making of the final Peace At London the American dele gation took the position that In an interdependent democratic world peace cannot be the exclusive concern of a few presently pow erful states The United States is willing to dictate terms of peace to an en emy hut is not willing to dictate terms of peace to its allies Byrnes disclosed that one big difference at London was over recognition of the present Bulgar ian and Hungarian governments Because the United States and Britain have not yet recognized those regimes Russia apparently believes they object to the friend liness of the 2 Balkan govern ments for the soviet Union Byrnes said Byrnes made it plain too that another stumbling block was Rus sias insistence on excluding France and China from discus sions of peace treaties for coun tries with which they had not been at war Russian demands that France and China have no part in the Balkan discussions led Byrnes to formulate a compromise proposal including the suggestion for a general European peace confer Iowa GI Dies Storm Lake Vista county relatives have learned of the death of Clarence Ecker chief electricians mate killed July 29 off Okinawa during a Jap suicide plane attack on his destroyer He enlisted in the navy 13 years ago after graduating from Newell high school NIMITZ DAY HONORS ADMIRAL IN raere as thNirntz Day parade honoring Admiral Chester W Nimitz Pennsylvania AvemiT in Coal Strife Puts Black Spot on Hopeful Strike Situation By ASSOCIATED PRESS A flicker of light appeared over the nations gloomy labor scene Saturday but strife in the coal fields left a black tinge to the picture The bright side of the picture indicated strike ly pert wwk shrink to below the 400000 mark But there wereind immediate indicationsof a letup in the strife ing work stoppages in 6 states which already have closed more than 500 mines and removed some 155000 miners from their jobs The settlement of the dispute in the coal industry was the govern ments immediate top problem but there was no definite assurance that the navy in control of oil properties in 15 states was going to get full support from the 43000 striking CIO oil workers x The various locals met to dis cuss the governments seizure order and to vote on the backto work order of President O A Knight of the CIO oil workers in ternational union Early some of the strikers expressed dissatisfac tion but others voted to return to their jobs Knight predicted most of the 51 strikebound refineries seized would be delivering gasoline and oil early next week He said the union which struck for a 30 per cent wage rate increase was not capitulating to the oil companies but remained on strike against them The union has accepted the governments proposal of a tem porary 15 per cent wage Increase and appointment of an arbitrator for final settlement but the op erators rejected the truce The optimistic reports involved workers in the automotiveindus try in Detroit and longshoremen in New York The Ford Motor Co said auto truck and tractor production idle since Sept 14 after the layoff of nearly 50000 employes would be resumed next week following an expected Bend ing of the 6 weeks old strike of 4500 KelseyHayes Wheel Co workers The CIO United Automobile Workers said the strike xvould end Monday after unsuccessful efforts of the strikers to have 4 dis charged workers reinstated The walkout caused the Ford plants to close because of lack of parts Leslie Downie KelseyHayes treasurer however disagreed with the CIO announcement that the strike was over It wont be over until enough men report to start production Downie declared after the union reported a rebel picket line had been removed At the same time In Detroit the tlAW said a notice Intention to strike by some 145000 Ford com pany workers would be filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington The primary issue union officials said would be the 30 per cent wage increase demand which is belnsr sought for the automotive industry In New York longshoremen spokesmen expressed confidence other locals would follow the ac tion of the majorAFL local in voting to return to work on Mon day enabling some 60000 work ers to go back to their jobs and restore shipping conditions to nor mal The walkout has crippled movement of cargo in the port all week tying up 360 ships The ma jor union involved voted to re turn pending negotiation of a new contract with the New York Shipping association The National Federation of Te1 was to Petition the NLRB for a formal strike vote following up a 4hour cessation of telephone senice across the coun try Friday in a test of union otr2gthThe union estimated 200000 workers left their jobs in Fridays walkout All was quiet Saturday In the motion picture lots in California after an outbreak of violence Fri day in the 8 months old AFL union jurisdictional dispute in which more than 2 score men and women were injured and 3 autos overturned In the Pacific northwest the Sailors union backed the 61000 sinking AFL lumber workers in their attempt to shut down the in dustry Water movement oE lum ber slowed down as AFL seamen refused to accept what they termed hot lumber No change was reported in the strike of 2700 AFL bus drivers and station employes of the Paci fic Greyhound Lines impeding travel in 7 northwest states the walkout over a wage dispute af fected 147000 passengers daily the company said 6679 SOLDIERS RETURN TO U S New York UR Four troop ships carrying 6679 servicemen were due Saturday from Europe and Iceland The Lewiston Victoryarrives from Le Havre with 1954 troops including units of the 5th armored division 71st armored field artil lery battalion 127th armored ord nance maintenance battalion headquarters and headquarters trains and pthe 436th AAA battalion 95th in fantry replacement detachment The David C Shanks arrives from Marseilles with 2714 mis cellaneous troops The Bardstown Victory carried 1897 including two battalions of the 5th armored division and the Saturn arrived from Iceland with 24 troops and one civilian Iowa Ohio State Iowa Phone Workers 0 K Resolution Des Moines IF Iowa tele phone workers who attended lo cal union meetings throughout the state Friday during a 4 hour tibn empowering their parenl union the National Federation of Telephone Workers to call a strike vote If necessary R L Rogers president of the general board of directors of the Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers which has membership in 5 midwest stales said Friday night that more than 98 per cent of the union members checked at that time had approved the reso lution He said returns were In Fri day night from twothirds of the more than 9000 members There are locals in Iowa Nebraska Min nesota North and South Dakota The resolution approved Fri day by locals instructed the NFTW to demand a strike vote if deemed necessary or desirable John H Wilson district man ager for the Northwestern Bell Telephone company asserted that public cooperation was excel lent during the 4 hour period that the union members were off During that time telephone serv ice functioned only on an emer gency basis Rogers said the local meetings held throughout the area were welt attended and very order ly He said he thought it likely that another union meeting would have to be called later The meetings were held in pro test to a recommendation by a national labor relations board trial examiner which called for the dissolution of the Western Elec tric Employes Association Union at Kearny N J an affiliate also of the NFTW The examiner had upheld charges of a rival CIO union that the Western Electric union was company dominated Accept Limestone Bids in AAA Offices Oct 15 DCS Moines on lime stone to be spread under the 1946 agricultural adjustment agency program will be accepted in coun ty AAA offices beginning Oct 15 W L Hawks state AAA program specialist reported Saturday Each county will ask bids on the amount of limestone it believes will be needed during the year Hawks said it was hoped mc than 2000000 tons would be spread throughout the state in 1946 Figures are not yet available on the amount placed on Iowa fields this year The limestone program should forge ahead next year Hawks said There probably will be more producers more labor for the pro duction and more equipment for hauling and spreading it Laval Refuses to Appear in Treason Trial Paris Lavals trea son trial was resumed Saturday without the defendant or his law yers after the former Vichy pre mier stalked out of court scream ing liar at the judge and re fused to come back Judge Pierre Mongibeaux who had thrown Laval out of the courtroom only an hour earlier and then permitted him to re turn tried vainly to get the de fendant back before resuming the trial Sulking in his cell Laval stub bornly refused You can hand cuff me if you Want but I wont come he shouted defiantly The judge finally gave up and ordered the hearing to go on At that point Lavals lawyers de cided they too would refuse to appear My is not there why should I go in the chief defense counsel remarked to reporters Mongibeaux then ordered the proceedings to go on without the defense and he called in the pro secutions first witness former French President Alfred LeBrun LeBrun began testifying at p m and after 20 minutes of rou tine questioning the judge up and recessed the trial until p m Monday Laval appeared to have won the round and his attorneys insisted he would stand by his announced intention not to come back or speak in his own defense He went on his bizarre strike halfway through Saturdays ses sion after Mongibeaux had ejected him from the court at the height of a noisy exchange in which de fendant judge jurors and law yers tried to outshout each other PACKINGHOUSE lOJlSKRftlSE Omaha T Stephens of Des Moincs United Packinghouse Workers of America CIO leader for Nebraska Iowa and Colorado told some 2000 CIO packinghouse workers here Friday night that the union plans to ask a wage in crease ot 25 cents an hour in the near future Pay hikes are urgently needed he declared because the packing house Industry has had no gen eral salary increase since Patrick Ratigan local CIO field representative declared the union is strong enough to get the pay boost The workers represented nine Omaha packing plants The Omaha concerns where pay boosts will be sought officials said are the Armour Cudahy Swift and Wil son packing plants the Union Stockyards company the Ne braska Beef company South Omaha Packing company Kroeger packing plant and Glasers provis ions France Representative Named for War Trials Faris Falco mag istrate of the highest French court will represent France on the military tribunal which will hear the major war crimes trials at Nuernberg The United States has named Former Attorney General Francis Biddle Britain Lord Justice Law rence and the soviet union Johan Nikichenko The 4power high court is ex pected to meet in Berlin Monday to receive formal indictments against 24 top nazis accused as principal war criminals Wisconsin Purdue Final Michigan Nowestern Weather Report FORECAST Mason City Fair Saturday and Sunday Somewhat cooler Sat urday night Iowa Partly cloudy Saturday with a few showers southeast portion Saturday forenoon Fair Saturday night and Sunday Slowly clearing Saturday night Fair cooler extreme east portion Saturday Sunday increasing cloudiness Scattered light showers north portion A little warmer southeast portion IN MASON CITY GlobeGazette weather statistics Maximum Friday 70 Minimum Friday 48 At 8 a m Saturday 51 YEAR AGO Maximum 65 Minimum 44 Precipitation 21 3 4 Final SOVIET HEAD IN ALLIED JAPAN CONTROL QUITS No Reason Given for Recall Reported by Radio at Moscow BULLETIN London Moscow ra dio said Saturday that Lt Gen Kuzma N Derevyauko Russian military representative in Japan had returned to Moscow upon a summons by the soviet govern ment Derevyanko headed Rus sias 16man dejegatlon at the cer emonial surrender of Japan con ducted by Gen MacArthur aboard Ihe U S battleship Missouri Sept 8 He signed he surrender in strument on behalf of the soviet union A Russian demand for a 4 power ajency to govern Japan was reported by the Moscow radio Wednesday to have been pre sented Jlmes F Byrnes U S sec retary of state before the break up of the foreign ministers con ference in London Tokyo Japanese min istry ol justice Saturday night or dered the immediate release of all political prisoners from peniten tiaries shortly after Emperor Hi rohito called Baron Kijuro Shid ehara 73 year old liberal out of retirement to become Japans new premier Shidehara a former ambassador to Washington who resigned from the Japanese foreign ministry in 1931 as a protest against Japa nese aggression was named to succeed Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni In an interview with United Press he pledged unstinting co operalion with the allied occupa tion foices The new premier planned to be gin Sundayto select his cabinet expected to be the most liberal since Japanese troops drove into Manchuria 14 years ago The home offices directive re leasing some 3000 political pris oners throughout Japan came as allied authorities announced they concurred in Fridays order tem porarily retaining some police chiefs after Oct 10 Gen Douglas MacArthur had set that date for compliance with his directive abolishing restrictions on Japa nese freedom A home ministry announcement said dismissal of the police chiefs and all thought control police throughout the country would take place after Ihe new cabinet has been formed The government also directed lhat the political divisions ot the metropolitan police be abolished filong with the foreign affairs and censorship bureaus of the home ministry Shidehara told Miles W Vaughn United Press far eastern manager m an interview that he would co operate wholeheartedly with Gen Douglas MacArthur and all other allied occupation authorities He outlined a program of work sobriety and patience which he said his government would follow in an attempt to extricate Japan from her present difficulties and restore her prestige in the world Hirohito gave Shidehara the im perial command to form a new cabinet at a 15 minute audience shortly after p m 1030 p m Friday Immediately afterward the baron conferred with his protege Shigcru Yoshida foreign minister in the Higashi Kuni government The Japanese Domei agency said Shidehara would retain Yoshida as foreign minister Com pletion ot the cabinet may take 2 w 3 days Apart from Yoshida the only holdovers from the previ ous cabinet probably will be Tat suo Kawai another liberal called out of retirement several weeks ago to become information mtn Iser and education minister Tamon Macda It appeared uncertain whether separate army and navy ministers be appointed since these portfolios probably soon will be abolished in line with complete demilitarization of Japan Shide hara may take over the 2 posts himself concurrently with the premiership Shidehara Jong has advocated ChineseJapanese cooperation and it was expected that he would seek a rapprochement with Gener alissimo Chiang KaiShek in fur therance of this policy Shidcharas visit to Yoshidas residence immediately after his audience with the emperor indi cated that he would rely heavily on the foreign minister for advice in forming his cabinet and in his later conduct of the government Yoshida a liberal who was jailed earlier this year for par ticipation in a Japanese peace plot had been urged to take the pre miership but refused in favor of Shidehara ;
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Get Started: Kayaking can paddle cares away
Hitting the water a great way to get away
BEND, Ore. - There's no better way to beat the Central Oregon heat than taking a slow float down the Deschutes River. But I always wanted to try something a little more active, like kayaking.
So I met with Keoni Chung of Tumalo Creek Kayak and Canoe in Bend, to get started.
"There's just a lot of great paddling opportunities with the water resources we have here," said Chung.
As much as I wanted to head right for the water, we started inside, where Chung taught me about the different gear.
"The most important factor about choosing a boat is making sure that it's designed for the weight range of the actual paddler," Chung said.
Pretty simple: smaller boats for smaller people, bigger boats for bigger people.
"Every boat has a cockpit and a seat. These particular boats have hatches in them," Chung said. "They're semi-dry hatches, so you can store gear in it (and it) also offers an added floatation. So if you were to capsize, you know the boat's not going to sink -- it's going to stay afloat."
If you just want to try the sport, like me, rentals can cost you anywhere from $40 to around $70. But if you're planning on buying, you're looking at anywhere from about $400 to a couple thousand dollars.
But Chung said it's the paddle where you should really spend the dough.
"If you're going to spend a little extra money, it's always good to spend it in a paddle. It's just nice to have a nice light paddle, something that's easy to paddle with," said Chung. "We have paddles that are, you know, in the $50-$60 range, and go up to $475, made out of carbon fibers."
Now to safety: The law requires paddlers to have a fitting lifejacket and a working whistle.
"Once you have everything snugged up, you just want to tug on the jacket (to make sure it) is just not going to lift off you," said Chung.
With all my gear picked out, we finally got to take to the water -- almost.
Getting the feel for the boat on shore. Chung showed me how the knees should brace the side of the kayak, and your seat back should be vertical.
Chung also let me in on a trick to get my paddle grip just right.
"With the paddle centered on top of your head, you want to make sure you have a nice 90-degree bend in your elbow, so you can look out and just see -- and then that's ideally the position you want to keep your hands in," Chung said.
Finally, it was time to get in the water.
Immediately, it was clear why Chung loves paddling so much.
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There's always going to be the one kid in everyone's class that no one understands. The one who hides away behind a book, or barely ever says a word. The one too shy to get up in front of the class because of the fear that consumes their mind. Never think you know someone just from what you see. That shy girl in the back row? She may have been beaten by the one she loved most. That boy who you've never heard speak? He may have seen his parents murdered before his very eyes. Be careful who you a
"Open the damn door! I know you're in there, Sophie! I'm not playing games with you anymore, you have ten seconds to open this door or I will break it down."
She sat up against the wall next to the sink, hugging her knees and sobbing quietly. She knew what would happen if she did not open the door but she couldn't get herself to open the door. His foot slammed into the bottom of the door over and over as he began to count down. "...8....7..." she closed her eyes tighter and tighter as she heard the banging on the door in sync with his counting. "3....2...." she held her breath as his footsteps seemed to fade down the hall, and everything went silent.
Minutes had passed and there was no sign of him anywhere, she slowly rose to her feet and tiptoed to the door. She pressed her ear to the door and bite down on her lip, praying quietly to herself that he had given up. Just as her hand reached the doorknob, a loud crash came from the other side of the door and thudded against the other side of the door. She backed up, her heart pounding and her ears ringing.
"Okay, okay! You win! Just p-please stop this!"
Sophie stuttered and made her way back toward the door. The cold floor beneath her feet suddenly feeling like jelly as her entire body began to give way to fear. Her hand wrapped around the door handle and she slowly turned it, hearing the lock click as she hesitantly opened the door. She knew what was about to happen and she braced herself for the worst.
Ethan slowly pushed the door all the way open with his hand, his face beat red like it always was when he was angry. Sophie looked down at her feet, refusing to make eye contact as he stepped closer and closer, she could already smell the alcohol on his breath. He stopped, his face just inches from hers as a sly smiled played across his face.
"You never learn, do you Soph?" his fingers glided through her hair, tucking it behind her ear. "I am the one who goes to work every day, I am the one who has always been there for you, and how do you repay me? By hiding from me?!" he hand left her hair and quickly slapped her across the face. Sophie's head reeled backwards as she held her burning cheek. Her eyes filled with tears and her lip trembled as she slowly was able to speak.
"I'm sorry, Ethan... I'm so sorry..." she whispered.
He stepped back away from her and smiled. She knew he loved it when she apologized for his wrong doing, and she hated giving him the satisfaction. But, if it meant he would not hit her again she was willing to do anything.


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Extraction of real modes and physical matrices from modal testing
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DOI: 10.1007/s11803-011-0060-6
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- Wang, T., Zhang, L. & Tee, K.F. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. (2011) 10: 219. doi:10.1007/s11803-011-0060-6
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A technique to extract real modes from the identified complex modes is presented in this paper, which enables the normalized real mode shapes, modal masses, and full or reduced mass and stiffness matrices to be obtained. The theoretical derivation of the method is provided in detail. An 11-DOF vibration system is used to validate the algorithm, and to analyze the effects of the number of modes utilized and measurement DOFs on the extraction results. Finally, the method is used to extract real modes from both experimental modal analysis and operational modal analysis.
Keywordsmodal analysis complex mode real mode normalized mode shape modal mass
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The Movies
By common consensus, Cannes 2009 is a cinephile's delight. The festival's competition is bulging with films from big-name, much-cherished auteurs. The question is whether they will all be on form. On a resolutely non-auteurial note, the festival will be hoping that its unlikely choice of opening film, Pixar's Up, will give Cannes the lift it needs. (The film is a 3D animated yarn about a cranky old man who ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies south toward Latin America.)
Before his ill-advised remake of Funny Games, Michael Haneke was cited by his peers as the most innovative and arresting European currently working. He has the chance to claw back some lost ground with The White Ribbon, a historical drama with a whiff of Heimat about it, which looks at the political convulsions in Germany at the start of the First World War.
Quentin Tarantino never disappoints. If his new film Inglourious Basterds (a Dirty Dozen-style story about Jewish-American soldiers taking on the Nazis) is lousy, that will be news. If it's good, that will be news too. When it screens next Wednesday, it's a fair bet that half of Cannes will acclaim Basterds as a masterpiece and the other half boos.
Controversy of a different sort will be attached to Lou Ye's Spring Fever. His previous feature, Summer Palace, scandalised the Chinese. The new film deals frankly with a gay relationship. It was made without government permission, so is unlikely to be screening officially in Beijing. any time soon.
Advance buzz suggests Ken Loach's Looking For Eric is one of his more cheery efforts. Eric Cantona features...as himself. A Man Utd-obsessed and very unhappy middle-aged postman speaks to a poster of Cantona. With a little help from the spliff he's been smoking, the picture comes to life and starts spouting homely gallic wisdom.
One project that has excited international buyers – and seems set to rekindle fond memories of Steve Reeves sword-and-sandal movies or of Victor Mature in his toga-wearing days – is Alejandro Amenabar's Agora, starring Rachel Weiz and Max Minghella
Meanwhile, Francis Coppola is seemingly determined to go back to his filmmaking roots. Rather than direct multi-million dollar studio films, he wants to work in freewheeling, improvisatory style. He reportedly turned down a slot in competition for his new feature, the intimate family story Tetro. Instead, it screens alongside low-budget and experimental work in the Directors' Fortnight, the section of Cannes set up in the late 1960s in reaction to the perceived red-carpet excesses and bourgeois indulgence of the official festival. GEOFFREY MACNAB
The Parties
To some, Cannes is a party festival rather than a film festival. But this year, for once, the films may be more exciting than the festivities. Hollywood's glitterati will descend on the Côte d'Azur as usual, but the budget for decadence has been severely credit-crunched.
To see and be seen by the right people is as important as ever but, in recessionary times, it is also important not to be seen to be flaunting one's wealth. Or so we are told.
The Vanity Fair party at the Hotel du Cap – estimated to have cost €2m last year – has been cancelled. Other partygoers may have to settle for onion tart and sparkling rosé instead of foie gras and champagne. Some insiders point out, however, that talk of belt-tightening and sobriety is not new. There has been a gentle decline in the extravagance of Cannes in recent years but this year's schedule is filled with afternoon cocktail receptions, after-film parties, exclusive beach soirées – and parties on yachts, in hotel penthouses and country villas.
The hottest ticket in town is the amfAR Cinema Against Aids dinner and auction next Thursday. Former US president Bill Clinton will be the guest of honour at this year's black-tie event, which features a cocktail reception, dinner, and live auction.
Highlights of previous Cinema against AIDS events have included Sharon Stone dancing to an impromptu performance by Sir Elton John and Ringo Starr, 25 of the world's top models strutting down the runway, and Paul Sorvino serenading Sean Penn and Johnny Depp with an Italian aria.
Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon, of America's US Weekly magazine, describes the party scene as an essential element of the festival. "A lot of people spend time at Cannes trying to get into the right places and be seen rubbing shoulders with the right people. A film company is judged on how outrageous their party is."
Behind the glitz and glamour of the social circuit is the serious business of networking. "Everyone in Cannes is looking for a movie, or to sell their movie, or just to sell themselves," says Ian Thompson. "The opportunity to bump into the right person or get access to five financiers at just one party saves an awful amount of work." THOMASIN PROCTER
The People
Last year it was all about Brangelina and the bump. One year and a double birth later, the biggest names on the red carpet at the Croisette will be...Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Well, we think so. Pitt's a cert – he'll be at the festival promoting his role as a Tennessee hillbilly in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti-western-cum-war epic Inglourious Basterds. And, despite fevered red-top rumours of a break-up, Jolie may yet stand by her man at Cannes – certainly, Tarantino's backers would welcome a repeat of last year's paparazzi storm.
Away from that celebrity sideshow, Pedro Almodovar will lead the Euro vanguard with his noir drama Broken Embraces. He's hoping to shake off the "eternal bridesmaid" tag. The Spanish director has won best director for All About My Mother (1999) and best screenplay for Volver (2006) but so far the Palme d'Or has remained out of reach. Almodovar will be supported on the red carpet by the film's star, the reliably photogenic Penelope Cruz. If the paps are lucky, she'll be there with actor boyfriend Javier Bardem, too.
Giving Pitt a run for his money in the heartthrob stakes will be Johnny Depp, who's in town for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, (expect more tearful tributes to the late Heath Ledger, whose role in the film had to be completed by Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law). Isabelle Huppert will add class to the proceedings. The French arthouse favourite and Piano Teacher star is this year's chair of the jury, becoming only the fourth woman to achieve the honour.
The Channel-straddling actress and singer-songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg will likely be the face of controversy, starring as she does alongside Willem Defoe in Lars von Trier's sexually-explicit horror flick, Antichrist.
Two all-American entertainers should be strutting the for the paparazzi this year. Lenny Kravitz and his trademark shades will bring cool to the stifling Côte d'Azur when he drops in to mark his acting debut (unless you count his 1998 voiceover The Rugrats Movie). He and Mariah Carey feature in the Sundance hit, Precious, which charts the troubled life of a Harlem teenager.
Representing the next generation of red-carpet regulars is Australian starlet Abbie Cornish (Somersault, Elizabeth: The Golden Age), who's in Bright Star.
Joining her are most of the cast of Ang Lee's latest awards sponge, Taking Woodstock, which stars Emile Hirsch as a Vietnam vet in the story behind the legendary 1969 music festival. SIMON USBORNE
The Brits
The red carpet might have been virtually bare of British talent last year, with no entries in the official competition, but this week sees a return to form for homegrown filmmakers with three British films vying for the coveted Palme D'Or.
Cannes veteran Ken Loach is set to make a trip along the Croisette early next week with his story of a football obsessive starring Eric Cantona, Looking for Eric, while the Australian filmmaker, Jane Campion, has collaborated with British producers and actors in her dramatisation of the love affair between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne in Bright Star, starring Bedfordshire-born Ben Whishaw. The actor is due to appear for the movie's premiere at the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Friday.
Michael Fassbender will make his second consecutive appearance at Cannes – last year (when he shed two stones for his art) he stole the hearts of film critics with an astounding performance in Steve McQueen's Camera D'Or winner, Hunger, about the life and death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. This time around, he is starring in Andrea Arnold's film about teen angst and single motherhood, Fish Tank, which has already created a buzz in the South of France; the British filmmaker already made a name for herself in Cannes three years ago with her debut movie, Red Road, which won a nomination and comparisons to the work of Michael Haneke and Lars Von Trier.
Terry Gilliam will take his brand of Britishness to the film festival on the final Friday of the fortnight with The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Its screening has arguably become one of the unmissable events of the festival, not least because it features the last performance given by the late Heath Ledger. Model-turned-actress Lily Cole, set to walk the red carpet along with Jude Law, who also features in the film alongside Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp.
Hanif Kureishi will return to Cannes 12 years after his screenplay for the Stephen Frears film My Beautiful Laundrette set the festival alight, this time as a member of the jury. His longtime friend Frears will himself appear as part of the British contingent at the festival, while the actress Sally Hawkins, from Mike Leigh's comedy, Happy-Go-Lucky, will be promoting We Want Sex, in which she plays the role of Rita, a feisty factory worker. ARIFA AKBAR
The Critics
The best in show at Cannes is not any of the movies in competition. It is the daily press conference given by the stars of the film of the day. These starry, heady occasions demonstrate that the bulk of the world's film critics are a gaggle of drooling sycophants, who put the most hardcore fans to shame.
I will never forget the press conference given by Charlton Heston a few years ago, when the late actor was still performing. This was the first "question" from a Lebanese film critic: "Mr Heston, you are a god in my country. You are my father, my mother, my sister and my brother."
There's no answer to that. Well, actually there almost is, and it was given on another occasion, when a journalist also from the Lebanon (clearly a breeding ground for sycophants) made a similar speech to Emma Thompson. "Where is it you come from, and how easy is it to move there?" Ms Thompson replied.
Happily, the Brits do it differently and inject some moments of sanity and objectivity into these occasions. But we do so at our peril. For those on the platform are all too easily infected by the Cannes approach to rigorous questioning. One year, when I put it to the then member of the Cannes jury, Jeremy Irons, that it was a pity there were so few British films in competition, he ended the debate before it had really started by responding: "You must be incredibly stupid." That psychoanalytical approach to questioning was equalled by the demand for patriotism made by Harvey Weinstein, who yelled at me and a couple of British colleagues who had dared to ask critical questions about one of the British films: "You guys are meant to be here defending your industry." Give or take an expletive or two.
That's why British journalists feel out of place in Cannes. They do things differently there. Or perhaps it is because the British contingent has never recovered from the shame of 15 years ago when our own VIPs mounted their own press conference. The then Conservative arts minister Stephen Dorrell attended the festival, which happened that year to be paying tribute to the divine actress Jeanne Moreau. "I am happy," said Mr Dorrell, "to pay tribute to Jeanne Moreau, a great Frenchman." DAVID LISTER
The Deals
According to Michael J. Werner, chairman of film sales agent Fortissimo Films, early indications are that Cannes will see a return to deal-making after the gloom of the American Film Market and Berlin Film Festivals. This would be a major turnaround – before Cannes, the trade press was packed with stories of studios cutting costs. Now Fortissimo say they are fielding offers for films screening at the festival.
While American studios may have slashed costs, the big money announcements are likely to come from Imagenation Abu Dhabi and India's Reliance Big Entertainment. Abu Dhabi CEO Ed Borgerding has been charged with investing in gritty social films. Last year, Rajesh Sawhney and Amit Khanna of Reliance left Cannes with smiles as wide as a billionaire's yacht after announcing creative partnerships with stars including George Clooney, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks. One year on, the expectation is that the company will announce the projects which resulted from those deals. The day we see Clooney on screen in a shawal kameez is a little closer.
American producers, including the Weinstein brothers, will be holding court on their yachts. Last year, the Terminator franchise owners Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, (pictured below) CEOs of The Halcyon Company, were quick off the mark. Owners of a 'first look' deal with the Philip K. Dick estate, they announced that the first book that they will adapt is Dick's award-winning 1974 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Cast and crew announcements are expected during Cannes.
Charles Roven, producer of the Dark Knight and Get Smart is also expected to announce new projects this week.
Yet Cannes is also a place for movie-making dreams to be made. Author Richard Hains, who wrote the financial thriller Chameleon, is arriving with an adaptation of his novel, and is hoping to secure finance so the film can shoot in Australia later in the year.
And there will be many more like him in Cannes, all hoping to fulfill their celluloid dreams. KALEEM AFTAB
The Fashion
Just as Paris is the catwalk capital of the world, so Cannes is the jewel in the crown of red-carpet dressing – for all those interested in fashion, at least.
True, the requisite LA superstar in attendance can always be relied upon to dress entirely obviously to impress (Sharon Stone in liquid gold satin, anyone?), but for the European contingent this is a chance to flaunt any fashion credentials in a more elevated manner.
Recent history has seen Charlotte Rampling head-to-toe in vintage black Yohji Yamamoto (douze points – and spring/summer 1997 for any fashion trainspotters out there), Tilda Swinton practically drowning in an oversized bow of a dress courtesy of Viktor & Rolf, and Charlotte Gainsbourg in feathered leather Balenciaga.
This time, heading to the Croisette to promote Lars Von Trier's AntiChrist, it would be no great risk to predict Ms Gainsbourg will be wearing this most prestigious of labels again – and so, too, may jury chair Isabelle Huppert, spotted front row at the spring/summer 2009 Balenciaga show.
Whatever, none of the above are names broadly associated with such high-octane occasions. If the big brands flex their considerable muscle in Hollywood, at Cannes any cachet lies in the obscurity (and with that, credibility) of what an actress chooses to wear.
Only last year, Natalie Portman opted for Lanvin, the fashion editor's cocktail-wear of choice, but with no big-budget advertising campaign to ensure that is the case. Julianne Moore chose a typically idiosyncratic design by southern-French born designer Christian Lacroix. How apt. Catherine Deneuve said it with flowers – flowers courtesy of Balenciaga again. There was barely a tiresomely retro floor-sweeping train in sight.
That is not to say that the household names are ever likely to be conspicuous in their absence, and this applies especially to the French household names. Cannes 2009 looks set to be a big year for Chanel in particular. With Jan Kouren's Coco & Igor holding the prestigious closing slot, one can only assume that the film's star, Anna Mouglalis, will be this label's most high-profile poster girl. Chanel couturier Karl Lagerfeld has dutifully created at least part of her wardrobe for the film, and entirely lovely it looks, too. Monsieur Lagerfeld will also certainly be dressing long-time Chanel-ophile Vanessa Paradis, whose appearance alongside partner Johnny Depp is always a high point. Quintessentially Cannes: witty, pretty and Gallic in the extreme. SUSANNAH FRANKEL
The Sideshow
Whether it's Pamela Anderson in a tight leather top, or Jerry Seinfeld in a bee costume climbing to the top of a building, one thing's for sure – Cannes doesn't do understatement. With thousands of studios, independent filmmakers and hangers-on all scrabbling for publicity, you really have to push the yacht out to get noticed.
"A film festival would not be a proper festival without a plethora of grandiose, delightful, ludicrous and attention-grabbing stunts," says PR consultant Mark Borkowski, author of The Fame Formula, a history of Hollywood publicists. "They help the films leap from the screen into the collective consciousness of the public."
The media circus is fuelled, in part, by the Hot d'Or, an alternative film festival held a mile down the road. This is to pornography what Cannes is to art-house cinema. In 1995, it first brought Lola Ferrari to public attention. She turned up at the festival with just two claims to fame: her 51in breasts and a pending lawsuit from the Italian sportscar manufacturer for infringement of its brand name (the press pack did the rest). The same year, when Miramax tried to publicise a Hugh Grant movie, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, the studio built a 20ft mountain, which Grant was supposed to climb, on Canne's Majestic Beach. As Grant was about to begin his ascent for his photocall, a Russian porn star appeared from nowhere, climbed to the top and began disrobing.
"Our efforts to remove her achieved far wider coverage than the movie might otherwise have expected," says Graham Smith, of the film's publicists DDA.
The studios are guilty of the odd dirty trick themselves. In 1992, muscle-bound combat heroes Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme were walking down the red carpet to promote their film Universal Soldier when they became embroiled in a slanging match. It almost descended into violence before they were pulled apart.
In recent times, the publicity-seeking has become much more overt. In 2007, Jerry Seinfeld climbed to the top of the Carlton Hotel, dressed in a bee costume, to promote Bee Movie. Thirty minutes after checking his gear, Seinfeld slid down eight storeys, across the Croisette, to the beach below, before repeating the stunt again. Last year, Jack Black arrived by speedboat with 40 people dressed as giant pandas for the release of Kung Fu Panda, while Pamela Anderson arrived by the same method, dressed as Barb Wire, for her forgettable 1996 action film of the same name. And who can forget Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat in his mankini in 2006?
So what of this year? Potential comes in the form of Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, which will have its party in a local football stadium. Hopefully it'll yield a kung-fu kick or two. ROB SHARPReuse content


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