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England can complete the Six Nations Grand Slam on Saturday with victory over Wales.
However the hosts in Cardiff will be no pushover, with a victory for themselves potentially seeing them retain their title.
Here, we take a look at the key match facts...
* The countries have met on 123 occasions - England lead the series 56-55, with 12 draws.
* Wales' record win in the series was a 25-0 victory in 1905, while England boast a best of 62-5 in a 2007 World Cup warm-up game (pictured).
* The last drawn Test between Wales and England produced a 13-13 scoreline in 1983.
* Victory for England on Saturday would give them a first Six Nations Grand Slam since 2003, and their 13th championship clean sweep overall.
* Wales have lost their last five games at the Millennium Stadium, suffering defeats against Argentina, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.
* Wales have not conceded a try for the last 275 minutes of Six Nations action. The last player to touch down against them was Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll on February 2.
* England have scored at least one try in 11 of their 13 previous Six Nations meetings with Wales.
* Reigning champions Wales have not successfully defended a Five or Six Nations title since 1979.
* Wales need to beat England by seven points on Saturday - and stay ahead of them in tournament try-count - to win the title. Victory by eight points or more means try-count is irrelevant.
* Wales and England have each lost only one of their last nine Six Nations games.
- More about:
- Argentina
- Brian O'Driscoll
- Mark Tucker
- Millennium Stadium
- New Zealand
- Patagonia
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By Tony Jimenez
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Dustin Johnson sounded an ominous warning to grand slam-chasing Jordan Spieth by outmuscling the youngster to power his way to the top of the leaderboard in the British Open first round on Thursday.
The 31-year-old Johnson gave an object lesson in big hitting as he bulldozed his way to a pacesetting seven-under-par 65 in becalmed early weather conditions at the iconic Fife links.
Sharing second place on 66 are fellow Americans Zach Johnson and Robert Streb, South African Retief Goosen, 1999 champion Paul Lawrie of Scotland, England's Danny Willett and Jason Day of Australia.
Spieth, bidding to add golf's oldest major to his wins at this year's U.S. Masters and U.S. Open, tucked in two strokes behind countryman and playing partner Dustin Johnson but is all too well aware of the size of the task that could lie ahead.
"If DJ keeps driving it the way he is I'm going to have to play my best golf to have a chance," the 21-year-old Texan told reporters at St Andrews.
"It's hard to argue with somebody who is splitting bunkers at about 380 yards and two-putting for birdie on five or six of the holes when there are only two par-fives on the course.
"I don't have that in the bag so I've got to make up for it with ball-striking."
While Johnson and Spieth were showing off their dazzling skills, former world number one and twice St Andrews champion Tiger Woods looked a pale imitation of his old self as he slumped to a sad four-over 76. Continued...


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Christopher Plummer needs no introduction: he's one of Canada's national treasures as a star of both stage and screen. His many accolades include Tony and Genie Awards, as well as the Order of Canada. A few months ago, he became the oldest ever recipient of an Oscar at 82 (or possibly second-oldest: Plummer maintains that Charlie Chaplin was 83 when he received his Academy Award), for his role in the film Beginners. Despite his age, Plummer is busier than ever and his career is thriving. In celebration of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 60th anniversary this year, Plummer is performing an original one-man show, A Word or Two, which he wrote about the great literature that has inspired him throughout his life. Plummer spoke with Jian Ghomeshi in studio Q recently about the show and about -- what else -- his favourite books.
Plummer actually wrote the show a number of years ago for a charity performance (a literacy charity, naturally). "I mixed my own life with the various works of prose and poetry that I loved when I was young," he said. "And as I grew up, so did the literature with me and I kept reading and being inspired...every decade there was a new group of authors." So he created an autobiographical journey through literature.
Plummer jokes that he's reviving the piece now because he's only ever done it for charity and hasn't made any money from it yet. "What about my charity?" he laughed. In truth, however, the show is a joy for him to perform. "I have a lot of fun in it and I get a chance to play all these different creatures from literature, and recite my favourite poems," he said. "There's a huge variety of stuff in it, because I go all the way from youth right up to middle-aged love and death -- and back again."
It's quite a personal story. Plummer came from a well-read family, and was taken to the theatre by his mother from an early age. "I was quoting Shakespeare when I was 12," he said. "I loved the intoxication of words." Reading has always informed Plummer's life, including his work. "It's taught me the music of language," he said. "Getting to know great poets was enormously helpful [as an actor]."
So what are some of the great pieces of literature and poetry that Plummer includes in his show? Plenty of works that appear on his own bookshelves. "Christopher Marlowe, The Bible, and in contemporary terms, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin," he said. "And the Canadian stuff I put in because we're here in Canada and I am Canadian. I make fun of my country, and then I love it and I show that I love it by doing certain works that I hold in affection, [like] Stephen Leacock." There's also plenty of Shakespeare (naturally, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival), and -- for a whimsical touch -- Winnie-the-Pooh. "I jump all over the place," said Plummer.
Part of the reason behind the show is Plummer's concern that we're a culture more interested in distraction than in deep reading. "Getting young people to read things of value while they're young is terribly important," Plummer said. "I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to old books."


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Hero: Surprise. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me. Anyway, I promised a chapter due before my break was over and truth be told, this chapter was done for about a week, but my computer passed on, but thank you based Google+ and Google Docs for saving the day. Good news, is that my new computer should be here in a few days. Now, I'll give you this short, yet sweet chapter. With 60% More Laughter at Yosuke's expense! Because that's one long-running joke I just won't let die. Anyway, here's Ch. 22 of "Our Year Together!" Please Enjoy.
Oh and Japanese Culture legend:
Sama = Lord/Lady
Shogi = A type of Japanese Chess. It's different from the Chess we know, but it looks interesting. Look it up to see the differences.
Chapter 22
The Festival was coming to a close, Souji and the rest of the group were enjoying what little of the festival they could together before the remaining food stalls and rooms would be forced to close. All was actually normal, if you could call it that, until one of the most sweet and recognizable voices called out to Souji.
"Oh, Big Bro!" It was Nanako who ran up to Souji and gave him a hug despite her small stature.
"Ah, good thing we found you." Dojima sighed in relief as he approached the gang. Dojima explained about his trip that would leave him gone for the rest of Sunday and Monday. "Sorry to dump this on you, but can you show Nanako around?"
Souji gave a clear nod, while Yukiko grabbed Nanako's hand and asked, "Would you like to walk around with us, Nanako-chan?"
"Can I?" Nanako asked with everyone nodding in affirmation.
"Thanks. Well, I'm gonna get going." Dojima nodded as he turned around to leave.
"Have a safe trip!"
"Yeah. You have a fun time, Nanako." Dojima walked off as everyone waved him goodbye.
"Hey Nanako-chan, how about you and your big brother stay at my place tonight?" Yukiko offered as she nudged towards her.
"Wait, hold on? Did I hear that right Yuki-chan?" Teddie interrupted as one would expect.
"Um, about me asking them about-"
"Party at the Inn!" Rise exclaimed.
"You cool with that?" Kanji added with his polite question.
"Uh, I was asking Souji and Nanako on-"
She was cut off by her friends celebrating, all high-fiving and planning what to do in the inn; Yukiko, try as she might, would not reach them. Her eyes would then glance towards Souji: "Souji-kun, think you can help?"
Souji smiled as he sighed, "Well Yukiko; even as leader, this is one of those times where they wouldn't even listen to me. We'll just have to go along and deal with it I suppose."
Nanako seemed to not mind, with thinking of it as a slumber party, her eyes only lit up more. It made her full of glee to just have more people accompanying her on this what looked to be already wonderful.
"Will it be a slumber party!?"
"Well, I guess it will be now. Are you up for it?" Yukiko asked as Nanako nodded in affirmation almost immediately after she heard the question.
The arrival at the Amagi Inn couldn't have come sooner than Souji had hoped. It promised to be an "interesting" night, but not entirely how he wanted. But it wasn't entirely bad. The festivities were tolerable; the food was great; and the night looked to be somewhat promising. Souji even got to see his friend Masato who helped prepare the meals for them and enjoyed a small conversation while the gang was returning to their rooms for a bit.
However, the sun had already set by then. The guys were in a spacious room, where things seemed quiet; just how Souji enjoyed it to be.
"Hey Yosuke! I wanna know about you and Chie-chan! Sensei said it was a beartiful and heart-wrenching story!"
"Hey Souji, why the hell did you tell him about that!? Yosuke agitatedly responded quickly.
"He wanted to know ever since it was made clear at the pageant, so I told him to get the info straight out of the horse's mouth." Souji responded with the old witty voice he enjoyed using on occasion.
Yosuke groaned in irritation and embarrassment. With a shaky sigh, he spoke, "Fine, alright I'll say it only once. So Chie and I were going to…"
In the changing room, the girls were sitting on the benches talking before they were to go in the hot springs. Chie was addressing the group and Nanako about her side of the story.
"...and then I guess you could say that settled that. So, can I stop talking now?" Chie quickly asked in embarrassment.
"Awww, that is soooo sweet!" Rise squealed in her emotions. "I can't believe you and Yosuke got together in such a romantic way!"
"Indeed. Yosuke really showed the depths of his character. I may have underestimated him." Naoto added on.
"Aw, come on guys, it was nothing special."
"Um… Chie, does this mean I can call you Auntie Chie now?" Nanako asked as the girls continued their gossiping.
"Aww, of course Nanako-chan, but why Aunt? I'm not related to Souji-kun or anything…?" Chie confusingly questioned.
"Well… You and Yukiko are kind of close like sisters! So I thought it would be alright to call you that. ...It's not bad is it?" Nanako's voice grew slightly sour after giving it some thought.
"N-n-n-no way Nanako-chan! I don't mind it at all! I just wanted to know why is all!" Chie quickly responded before Nanako would feel more guilty.
Rise whispered into Chie's ear, "It kinda makes you sound older, huh 'Auntie-Chie'?" Rise couldn't help but laugh aloud after that, leaving a confused Nanako to only wonder what she whispered.
"Um, can we just go into the springs already?" Yukiko brought up after the laughter died down.
Back in the guys' room, things seemed to get humorous with Teddie hearing the epic tale of "Yosuke scoring a hot stud" while Souji and Kanji pretended to give a first-time reaction so Teddie would enjoy himself more.
"So there, ya happy?" Yosuke snobbishly asked.
"Yup yup, Yosuke! Gosh, that tale feels like it inspires me to score even more! I can't wait to tell the cubs back home about this!"
"What cubs? You mean my little cousins visiting!? Nooo way dude! If you say a single word about this, ESPECIALLY, to my mom and dad, I'll see to it that topsicles are off shelves for a month!"
"Yosuuuukee! That's almost as bad as keeping all the lovely Junes workers away from me!" Teddie pouted.
"Yeah, well I'm glad at least the girls are far away to hear this."
Aw, we're in different rooms!" Teddie groaned after realizing the truth about the Persona ladies.
"Well, duh." Yosuke commented.
"It's one thing if they were next door, but they're so far away…"
"Well Yukiko said they weren't that many rooms as she had thought, so they're up on another floor. And the first thing they're gonna do is take Nanako to the hot springs."
"Ooohh, i-is it one of those 'Girls and Guys' Springs?" The guys only shrugged at Teddie's question, dismissing any hopes of Teddie seeing anything. Especially when two of the guys in that very room had girlfriends that he might get a glance at.
"I don't wanna take more'n one bath if I don't have to. Why don't we take a dip before we hit the sack?" Kanji suggested as Yosuke just gave a nod in agreement. Kanji took a stare around the room, taking note of anything that looked 'extravagant' in his mind. "By the way… 'Sup with this room? It looks pretty expensive."
"Oh, you noticed too? Normally a room like this wouldn't be open during the holiday season. I wasn't trying to think about it, but…" Yosuke hesitated for what felt like a moment. "...You don't think something happened in here, do you?"
"Senpai…? What're you all… quiet about?"
"Now that you mention it-" The four jumped in shock after hearing a loud noise catch them off guard... It was only the phone.
"G-Geez, that freaked me the hell out! G-Go answer it, Kanji!"
"W-What the hell are you freaking out for?" Kanji simply got up afterwards and answered the phone, hands shaking in slight worry and fear. He answered a forced 'hello' and his composure returned. He only nodded as he listened. "Oh, okay cool! Thanks!" Kanji then hung up the phone with no issues. "That was the front desk." Yosuke and Teddie were relieved, yet disappointed with the surprise result. "'Said the Hot Springs are now open for the Guys."
"Wow, Amagi Inn, great service… I broke out in a cold sweat…" Yosuke sarcastically remarked.
"Well, c'mon then, let's go wash it off." Kanji suggested as he began to walk away.
The guys were downstairs and as Yosuke and Teddie entered the mens' changing room, Souji and Kanji were stopped by someone.
"Sou-chan, Kan-chan, it has been quite sometime!" A familiar mother had greeted Souji in surprise.
"Kaede-san, good evening." Souji greeted back.
"Uh, good evenin' Kaede-sama!" Kanji bowed and greeted her back so hard it was almost reminiscent of a child's meeting one of their parents' friends for the first time.
"Now now Kan-chan, there's no need to be so formal. You can talk to me just like how your mother does. Anyway, are you enjoying you two enjoying your stay? I hope it lives up to your stay from over the summer Sou-chan." Kaede asked.
"Well, I-"
"What!? You stayed here before, Senpai!?"
"Why yes Kanji, I won a free night here at the summer festival a while back. Did you think I just can come here and get a free night?"
"Uh nah Senpai, it's not that; I was just surprised that you stayed here before. It's not like Kaede-sama let Ma, Dad, and I stay here before so often."
"Oh those were the days Kan-chan. Sometimes I miss those days when your father and my husband would play those fun games of Shogi and Ping-pong. It even got you interested in learning them."
"You play Shogi Kanji?" Souji asked in a hint of surprise.
"Well not as much as I'd like, punks back in the day wouldn't be intimidated by me if they knew I played it, so I stopped. 'Sides, my dad is gone, so I never really knew anyone I could have a matchup against."
"I played Shogi and Chess with my father, so I'm up for a game anytime."
"Thanks Senpai, though I'm nowhere near as good as Yukiko-senpai's or my own dad."
"I'm not as good as my dad. I only beat him twice, because he 'let me' win."
"That's exactly what my dad said when I beat him too!" The two went back and forth, exchanging times with their families that they would otherwise, never be caught dead speaking of.
"It seems my time in the nostalgic world has spread to you two boys. I'm glad to see that everyone is having a good time." Kaede nodded with a pleased look.
"...Eeeeeeek! Get out of here!" A girl's scream could be faintly heard.
"Was that Rise? What the hell is she doing in there!? It's the guys' turn! The clerk said so!" Kanji was ready to run in and see what was going on.
"Kan-chan wait here! You two should see that you're other male friends are in the waiting room. I'll see what's going on."
"K-Kaede-sama, are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure; I'm the manager after all." Kaede smiled as she entered through the female's side."
"Let's get Yosuke-senpai and Teddie then, Senpai."
Entering the Mens' side, the two were spotted (still in their bath towels somehow) catching their breaths."
"Oh, there you are partner, the girls and Nanako-chan are in there. We tried to convince them, but we just got hit with buckets."
"Ha, you're all covered in lumps, man! Kanji commented while laughing.
"This isn't funny, Kanji!" Yosuke angrily pointed out.
"Well, what are gonna do now Yosuke? We're just gonna get hit again." Teddie weakendly asked.
"Oh don't worry, someone is on the way to fix this issue. We should have full control of the Hot Springs before long." Souji remarked in a war-torn voice.
"Sensei! You mean the battle for the Hot Springs was always ours!"
"Yes Teddie, my secret weapon has been unleashed on them."
"Oohhh, is it a new Persona!? Or a Sword!? A Tank?!"
"No Teddie, it's Yukiko's Mom; she's the Manager."
"Yuki-chan's Momma Bear!? That's some ferocious firepower you're working with Sensei! You sure don't hold any punches!"
"Souji, you really need to stop buttering Teddie up with these stories and jokes." Yosuke muttered. A flying bucket was thrown smack dab into his face. "Oww! What was that for!?"
"For probably looking at Yukiko in the Hot Springs."
In the Hot Springs, Kaede finished giving the girls a lecture.
"Well ladies, you shouldn't have mixed up the times; there are nearly thirty minutes left for the guys and these boys want to go in, we musn't keep them waiting."
"Yes mother..." Yukiko sighed as she agreed.
"...Is it my fault, Amagi-san? I wanted to go in first, so you should get mad at me, not everyone else."
"Not at all Nana-chan. Yukiko and the girls misread the times, so you don't need to take it out on yourself." Nanako only nodded in response. "Tell you what, when the boys finish their time here, the Springs will be all yours for one hour! It'll be the all girls hour here, so you can relax here to your heart's content!"
"Okay! Thank you Amagi-san!" Nanako nodded again, happily this time. The girls went into the changing room to dry up and head back into their rooms for a bit.
"How did we lose that fight? I thought we were going to get out of this 'cause we were all girls?" Chie questioned with a disdained look.
"I'm surprised myself, Chie-senpai." Naoto agreed.
"Yukiko-senpai, how the heck did she just scoot us off like that despite all we said.
"It was because I mixed up the times and Mother seems to have high regard in Souji-kun."
"Well no wonder." The other girls remarked at the same time.
"Souji's charms are too amazing for his own good." Rise said with a shrugged look.
"You know I can hear you young ladies, right?" Kaede interrupted with a disappointed face.
"M-Mother!?" Yukiko jumped in surprise while the girls gave similar reactions.
Teddie and Yosuke were still impatient as always, while Kanji and Souji awaited for the "all clear" from Kaede.
"Alright boys, you can enter now! You have about 30 minutes to enjoy yourself though!" Kaede's voice can be heard from the entrance.
"Sweet! Let's go guys!" Yosuke said as he already went to the springs with no hesitation.
The springs were just as great as they were hoping for. All four of the men of the investigation team were enjoying the springs that they too had rightfully deserved.
"This makes all those buckets to the head worth it." Yosuke sighed in relief.
"Man, how long has it been since I was here…" Kanji said as he enjoyed the lukewarm waters.
"Aww, I forgot to bring the eggs to boil here." Teddie pouted with disappointment.
"Forget about them Teddie, just enjoy yourself while you can. We got about till 8 PM to enjoy ourselves here, so just be thankful Yukiko's mom bailed us out."
"Let him be Yosuke." Souji ordered.
"Yeah whatever. So, what do you wanna do after this?"
"I say we play some ping-pong!" Kanji suggested. "There's a couple of tables in the recreation room here. I'll ask for the paddles and some balls when we get out."
"Nobody asked you Kanji." Yosuke smugly responded
"You game Yosuke? Or are you scared Kanji will knock a ball right in your face?" Souji said with intention to damage Yosuke's pride.
"No, I'll totally beat him at Ping-pong! I bet he's never played a game in his life. I'll play you too!"
"We'll see Yosuke." Souji said as he waved his hand back and waved it across Yosuke in the face at point-blank range. "And before you ask why, that was for just being an idiot."
"You serious?" Yosuke said in minor pain.
"Kanji, be sure not to show Yosuke any mercy with that game. He needs to be put in his place for putting us through that hell of a contest." Souji calmly demanded. "These are strict orders from your leader."
"Yes sir!" Kanji complied as he lifted his arm in pride when he beats a shadow.
"Oohh, Yosuke is gonna get his butt whooped!" Teddie cooed in amusement.
Hero: Okay, I thought this was a good spot to end it off and you can figure out the rest. So there's one filler chapter before shit hits the fan and that's where Angst kicks in for Souji and Yukiko. But as one avid smut reader pointed out, I removed the sex scene and lowered the rating to T since I removed it. I didn't like it and I couldn't find a way to improve it to my liking, so I just removed it. However, should you still wanna read it, just check my DeviantArt account to find it. I'll always leave it there at least(URL in my main page here). So to make up for things, I'm gonna get started right away on this filler chapter. Note that it may be short or shorter than my usual chapter loads, but it will be super-sweet since it will have about 80% more fluff and Nanako feels. Also, I'm glad to see a lot more SouYuki/YuYuki fics out there on here, it makes me happy that more followed suit after I started(One was inspired by mine in fact :D).
Another thing to note is that you can feel free to send me questions on here via review or just a PM. I don't sharing a few details on the future of this fic.
But we're closer to November, where things hit home for Souji, Yukiko, and the rest of the gang, so stay tuned for that! Until next time, take care and stay (P4)Golden.


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Devin's eyes opened wide as another wave of excruciating agony swept over him. The freezing pain of electricity coursing straight into his nervous system from the pins lodged in his spine, forearms and ankles. This was soon followed by the burning of muscles popping and flesh tearing, of a change forced too soon.
He bit down hard on the leather strap in his mouth and strained against the silver chains that bound him to the apparatus that had he had been locked into for so long now it felt like a part of him. He knew all too well what was coming next. Tiny needles extended from his manacles, punching through toughened skin into his veins. He could see a container filling with his blood. They would take until he was so weak he could barely move. He would be left to change back to his human form and allowed to rest before the cycle started all over again. The collected blood was then pumped away via a series of tubes extending from one of the walls.
His cell was nothing but a stone room with a single door and one tiny window. He had no idea how long he had been here. All he had come to know was this horrifying routine. One camera wired into the ceiling of the dungeon monitored the torture. He didn't even know who his captors where.
Through the blurry heat of the agony he was in he was certain he could hear sirens coming from somewhere, loud and persistent. This was followed by the sound of footsteps on cold stone and that of people shouting. It was all happening in slow motion, like some bizarre, delirious dream.
The shouting turned into cries, then screams, then everything went silent. There was a pause that seemed to last forever. Thick, gelatinous red liquid began seeping under the door of Devin's cell. There were several loud bangs as welts began appearing in the steel. The sound of twisted metal followed, then the door exploded inward. It was followed by the mangled, decapitated body of a man in a lab coat.
Devin could make out three figures standing in the shadow of the doorway. The central figure motioned to the other two who split off in different directions outside, then stepped into the cell.
It was a girl of maybe only nineteen years old. She was dressed in prison fatigues and looked grubby and unkempt. To Devin she looked angelic, she was the first soul he had seen in as long as he could remember. She smiled sweetly revealing a pefectly formed little set of fangs and licked the dead scientist's blood off her fingers.
"Wow, those bastards have done a right number on you haven't they?"
Considering that she had obviously been in the same position he was in, Devin thought she seemed strangely happy, like she was taking part in some sort of game.It crossed his pain addled mind that he was probably hallucinating. It was only the smell of the blood pooling on the floor that was making him think otherwise.
The sounds of fighting could be heard from the corridor outside the cell and the girl ran up to the machine and started pressing buttons on a panel at his feet. He could feel the needles on his wrists retracting and the other wires and tubes attached to his body disconnecting. Finally the clasps of his chains sprung open. He dropped to his knees breathing heavily as the pain slowly began to subside.
The girl grabbed his arm, lifting it over her shoulder. She helped him unsteadily to his feet and out to the door. Considering her diminutive size it struck Devin that she must be increadibly strong. He dwarfed her by a good couple of feet, yet she still lifted him as if there was no size difference at all.
"Now don't you go changing back just yet big guy, we're going to need muscle if we're going to get out of here in one piece. I'm Elleta by the way."
"Devin." He said gruffly still trying to make sense of what was occuring around him. "Where are we?"
Elleta hauled him into the corridor and leaned him against a wall while he got his bearings.
"No time to explain now. The guards will be here soon and believe me we don't want to be here when they arrive."
Devin could see a tall thin man fighting with another scientist to his left. The man in the lab coat threw a fairly solid looking punch at the mans chest but before it could connect he dematerialised. The scientist punched thin air as the man reappeared behind him and planted his head sqarely into a wall. The scientist crumpled to the ground and the man ran over to Devin and Elleta. He spoke in a thickly accented Eastern European voice.
"The way to the next level is clear. I've found some stairs at the end of the corridor. Felix should be finished breaking out the other prisoners soon, then we can get out of here."
A commotion and the sounds of battle could be heard echoing from the other end of the corridor. Elleta shook her head.
"How does Felix always manage to find the people we're desparately trying to avoid. C'mon we'd better go and help him."
The three ran towards the sounds. Devin was happy to follow the others. Whether or not he could trust them was something he would decide later, they had helped him escape from his hell and now he would aid them in escaping from theirs.


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so it looks as if spiceworks scan is creating a profile on each box in the scan range? can you confirm this is the case?
is there a way to scan without this happening?
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Oct 6, 2008 at 9:00 UTC
how do you mean profile? Do you mean a user profile on each device or an asset profile in Spiceworks related to each device?
SW should not be creating anything on the target devices - it merely performs queries - any profile associated with SW is the one used to login and perform those queries.
If you mean the profile that is created as an asset profile for the inventory - that is sort of the purpose of the software.
Oct 8, 2008 at 10:09 UTC
yes, a user profile, i noticed the account i have for scanning in spiceworks is now a user profile on all windows pc's that have been scanned. not a big deal, but just confirming whether or not SW is creating the profile, or if i should be looking at other software/services.
Jan 28, 2009 at 8:05 UTC
I've noticed the same thing ... and I was actually accused of doing something in someone's office -- because my user account was the last to login / last profile created / used.
Jan 29, 2009 at 7:05 UTC
It's a normal Windows thing. A local user profile is created the first time you log on to a computer and is stored on a computer's local hard disk. So, if the account you are using to log SW into the machine for scanning purposes does now already have an account on that device, then is automatically created.
In answer to the second part of the OP, no there isn't through Spiceworks. The creation of the account profile is an automatic feature of Windows.
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Is there any way to prevent that from happening? I, too, have been accused of logging into machines that I did not log into and it could cost me my job. Because of it, I have had to stop using SpiceWorks and go to each machine individually for information, which is difficult in the current environment.


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I have an old wooden tub, cracked at the bottom. I now have lined it with plastic. Can someone suggest any probable way to use it?
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With the liner it would work as a small bog garden. After you have the soil in place you could trim back the liner to make it more attractive and show off more of the wood.
Or you could use just the tub to house treasures such as interesting stones and seed pods and cones found on trips to play soccer or family outings...
Thanks Zany for your ideas. Another friend in the meantime suggested that I grow some bulrush in a couple of sides and a few little water plants with some fish, mainly to control the mosquito larvae. I have the bulrush growing in another plastic container at present.
That sounds great also! Please be sure to post a picture of it when it is done. Your wooden tub is really a very nice and interesting piece that will bring you much enjoyment in its second life in the garden.
I must add here that that wooden tub was once used to feed fodder to the cattle that was kept at home much before I was born. It must be at least 60 years old, chopped from a single block of wood. It has cracked near the brim and the slit has gone to the bottom making it unusable to store any liquid as it is. Hence the liner. Yes, will surely post a picture once I begin this project of filling it.
Would make one heck of a fruit bowl; sanded, refinished and sealer on it. Only thing is, once finished, who could afford to buy enough fruit to fill it?LOL
Sounds like a pretty neat idea there you have Dinu. Go for it and will be looking forward into seeing ppictures
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There often comes a moment, talking to staff at Transform, when they feel the need to point out - because you didn't ask - that they have been Transformed themselves. It happens with Lindsay Mullins, the 43-year-old who handles Transform's PR and tackles complaints from patients, when we are talking about the why of cosmetic surgery: why increasing numbers of whole, healthy people in Britain are submitting themselves to surgery to alter their appearance.
"I've had surgery," she says. "There comes a point when something bothers people enough that it affects the way they live their lives every day, and that's the time they have cosmetic surgery. Most don't have it to be ultra-glamorous. The average person has it to feel normal. To have what society perceives as a normal-sized nose or bust."
I look at Mullins sitting behind her desk, a neat, bright woman in a black top, with pale blond hair. There is nothing about her nose or bust which screams either abnormal, or fixed. I want to ask, but there are dangers in guessing the wrong operation. Later in the day in Transform's sprawling national empire of alteration it will seem natural to ask a question such as "What is it you had done?" but it is still early.
A few minutes later she gives me the answer anyway, while I'm puzzling over one of a pile of testimonials to the wonder of rhinoplasty - a nose job. "I always hated my nose, too long and crooked, very self-conscious in profile," wrote the patient. "Now it's great - don't mind sitting at traffic lights/junctions in the car." "I know exactly how she felt," says Mullins. She, too, had loathed moments when her car sat at the lights and, she believed, her nose in profile became an object of fascination and mockery to the people in the car next to her. She'd turned her head away. Then she had her nose done. The price for a rhinoplasty at Transform is £3,000, but staff get a discount.
"It would be lovely if we lived in a utopia where everybody accepted everyone, but we don't," says Mullins. "Whether we like it or not, we live in a society where survey after survey has proven that if you're better looking you'll get on better in your job."
Business is humming along nicely at Transform, despite the storm of hostile media coverage in August when the General Medical Council struck off a former Transform doctor, Thomas Norton, for serious professional misconduct. A former morphine addict with a conviction for glassing a man in a pub, Norton's misdemeanours included failing to anaesthetise a woman properly during an operation to transfer fat from her waist and hips to her breast and thighs. She woke to hear Norton crying: "Christ, get her back under!"
The barrage of criticism of Transform, led by surgeons from professional bodies who mix NHS work and private practice, doesn't seem to have hurt the company much, and not just because Norton stopped working there in the early 1990s. The demand is too great, and the seekers after transformation from too diverse a social background. Britons now spend £180m a year on cosmetic surgery, 400% more than a decade ago.
Amid the furore over the Norton case, few asked the question why his patients, of their own volition, had chosen to submit themselves to expensive, medically unnecessary ordeals which can involve weeks in bandages and follow-up surgery. "It's really strange that in the last two weeks of the Norton thing, certainly during and immediately after his case, there was absolutely no effect on business," says John Pickering, Transform's clinical director, eating a biscuit in one of the firm's set of tiny, boxy offices in Hale Barns outside Manchester.
Transform is owned by John Ryan, who started out as salesman in the firm in the 70s and gradually bought up the shares. Among his other business interests, he owns Doncaster football club. Transform has three operating centres, in Newcastle, London and Bowdon in Cheshire, plus clinics - or salesrooms, as its critics would call them - in Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Southampton and Brighton. Transform has brought cosmetic surgery to the masses. "In terms of our patients, the majority are people from the estates," says Pickering. "Very occasionally you'll get the rich and famous. You'd be amazed how many people pay in cash."
Anna Cartwright, the marketing manager, shows how Transform's ads have moved away from "before" and "after" shots to what she argues is a subtle, more open-ended approach. It isn't that subtle, though. "We've been creating beautiful bodies for over 25 years," runs one ad. "Breast enlargement from £62 per month, fat removal from £50 per month, nose reshaping from £53 per month, wrinkle treatments from £25 per month. Dial 4 A Loan."
Dial 4 A Loan is the finance company which Transform suggests patients apply to if they can't afford the thousands of pounds needed for surgical procedures. "All this credit message is doing is making people realise that this is affordable," explains Cartwright. Unprompted, in mid-spiel, she points out her own Transformation. "I had liposuction and it changed my figure drastically. All my life I've been hiding my bottom half and now I'm in proportion. I'm not going to have skinny legs, I'm not going to have fantastic legs, but I'm in proportion, and I fit in. So what we're trying to say through the advertising is you can fit in. If you're uncomfortable, we can help. I was born with that typical pear shape, so it wasn't to do with exercise, and with the lipo it managed to get me in proportion, so now I don't feel that everyone's looking at me, I don't feel like I'm sticking out of the crowd."
Last year Transform carried out 5,570 operations and about 7,000 non-surgical procedures such as anti-wrinkle injections. This year, it has had about 150 complaints. Mullins showed me a few. "I've been very displeased with my surgery, because I feel it's not made much difference to my appearance," wrote one rhinoplasty patient.
Somehow the complaints were reassuring; it was the testimonials which were unsettling. "My nose didn't bother me until I separated from a long-standing partner. I looked in the mirror one day and decided that it was time to make inquiries. I contacted Transform," wrote one recipient of surgery, apparently delighted with the result. "Being self-conscious in public is a frustrating and annoying condition, the chance to be normal did not need a lot of thought," said another. A third, writing in block capitals: "I felt I was always 2nd class to everybody else, and that everybody made fun of how I looked... now I have genuine confidence."
I drive with Pickering to Bowdon. The operating centre, two semi-detached houses knocked together, stands in a prosperous area of Cheshire favoured by wealthy footballers. "Just a few years ago they were doing four breast augmentations a fortnight here," says Pickering. "Now we're operating seven days a week, 10 hours a day, so you can see the demand is growing. People have accused Transform of creating a demand. You can't create a demand like that. The demand is already there."
Roy Saleh, a doctor who carries out non-surgical cosmetic procedures, sits in a grey padded chair, like a dentist's chair, in the middle of the large, strangely bare room where he works, and talks of the battle to lower patient expectations. "Very often you'll have them sitting in the chair and they'll say, 'Well, I thought of waiting a couple of years and then I'm going to have the big job.' And what they imagine is that they'll be put to sleep and a magic wand will be wafted over them and the big job will get rid of everything. When you ask them what they mean by 'the big job', they say, 'I'll have a facelift, and everything else will be all right.' And you say, 'Well, it won't affect your nose, it won't affect your eyes, it won't affect your forehead...' There's a lack of knowledge, a lack of understanding, and it's up to us to educate them."
At around lunchtime, an 18-year-old leaves the clinic with her boyfriend. She is slim and very pretty, in a blue tracksuit; she's from Liverpool, she's just done her A-levels, and she's taking a year out before applying to university. She's clever and quite clear about what she's doing. In August, she had bags of silicone gel surgically inserted into her breasts at Bowdon. It cost £3,500, from her savings from her job, and with help from her parents.
"None of my friends and family wanted me to have it done," she says. "I wasn't pressured at all. I've never been bullied or teased or anything. It was just a decision I made on my own. I haven't even gone big; just gone to a comfortable size for myself. It was just for me. It was just for my own confidence." A few years ago Transform set 18 as the minimum age for patients. She first contacted them in July. "They did say maybe I should go away and think about it more. They said I should talk about it with my parents. They weren't trying to sell me something."
Transform was happy to do the operation, though. "I liked the surgeon. He was very sensitive and understanding," she says. "When I'd had it done, they shoved me out a bit. It was very much in and out. I was a bit worried a couple of days afterwards. They were understanding about that." And the couple walked off across the drizzly car park. Because she is so young, she will probably have to have the implants renewed in later life, which means a fresh operation. She knows it, yet she went ahead.
We drive south towards Nottingham. Pickering, a forthright Geordie who worked as an NHS nurse before joining Transform, lays into what he sees as the snobbish southern world of establishment cosmetic surgeons - NHS consultants who do private work on the side and who seldom miss an opportunity to criticise the mass market approach of their northern rivals.
"They don't do it all the time. They dabble in it at weekends. It's the way they pay for their extras in life. Breast augmentation is boring, there's no doubt about it," he says. "We've got one guy, all he does is liposuction. That's all he's done for 10 years. Sorry, but he's got more experience than an NHS guy who only does two cases a month. I've seen professors of surgery you wouldn't let operate on your dog."
Transform Nottingham is in a cluster of handsome old red-brick buildings in Tollerton, outside the city. Christine Davies, the clinic manager, has a set of three breast implants of different sizes sitting on her desk. They look like large pastilles, translucent grey humps with a dull finish. I pick one up. Davies comes in and sees I've been fidgeting with the implants. "They're very natural, by the way," she says. "I have them myself. My other half couldn't tell the difference. He didn't know me before. I was a patient at Transform before I worked with them."
Davies argues that the cosmetic surgery boom is the result of the sheer amount of money swilling around in the economy and a desire on the part of women (it is still predominantly women, although male cosmetic surgery is also on the increase) to draw a line beyond which they are no longer prepared to make sacrifices for home and family. "Years ago it was a case of wanting to get a new kitchen, or TV, or video. The attitude of a lot of the new generation is, 'I've done my bit, I've got a house, I've had the children, this is for me now.'"
I ask whether she thinks the enthusiasm for body-piercing and tattooing is part of the same change in the national mood which has led to the increase in cosmetic surgery. She is appalled at the comparison. "Cosmetic surgery is an improvement or refinement of what you've got. I get women in who've had their tummy buttons pierced, their nipples pierced - I just cringe. To me, that's like mutilation."
Many cosmetic surgery patients only want to conform to their idea of an average person, but some want more. Everybody in Transform repeats, in some form, what Davies says about what cosmetic surgery cannot do: "It doesn't change your life. It doesn't take problems away." Yet they all know that this is exactly what patients hope it can do, and that is the hope they are encouraging. Hope is what it is partly about; a feeling that even if cosmetic surgery doesn't offer the certainty of ordinariness turned to beauty, old age turned to youth, or loneliness turned to love, it loads fate's dice a bit in your favour.
In the evening Azhar Aslam, a cosmetic surgeon who divides his time between Transform and his own private practice, gives me a lift back to London. "The basic belief system in the west at the moment is that you've got this life once, and you want to live it to the full," he says.
He reels off the three main reasons women have breast augmentation, the commonest type of cosmetic surgery. "The first group is young girls in their late teens and early 20s who say their breasts never developed. They waited, and waited, and they're under peer pressure and magazine pressure, and they are really under-confident. The second group is women in their 30s who have had children who they breast fed; they had nice breasts before but they have changed. Finally there are women in their 40s and 50s who have always wanted breast augmentation but haven't had enough money. Now everything's completed, their children have grown up, and they want to look good for themselves."
Aslam recalls patients who wanted more than general confidence and a new look for the mirror. "I have a patient who said to me, 'These are hard times. Everybody is fearful of redundancy, and I'm the oldest in my group. Every time they talk about redundancy, they look at me. I don't want to look so old."
He's seen drastic changes for the better in some of his patients after surgery, he says, from withdrawn gloom to shining warmth. Yet there are times when he is called upon to work on a place which his scalpel cannot reach. "I saw a lady last week, she was only 43, very decent, very nice, who's desperately in love with this man who's told her she doesn't look good any more. He's had a relationship with her, he's slept with her, and now he's told her that she's ugly. So she's come looking for some kind of 'improvement', but I can't do anything, because she hasn't got anything wrong with the structure of her face. So I spent 45 minutes with her, trying to say life was much more than being in love with this man, who was probably a worthless bastard anyway."


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- Overtones: Orange, lemon and blossoms with a modern fruity, green twist
- Undertones: White floral jasmine with a hint of woody amber
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Even though Facebook lost a massive 9% in social sharing, it still dominates the pie.
That's expected, and it should continue like that at least for a while, but Twitter and Pinterest are starting to get dangerously close.
Facebook is also the king of social sharing in segments like Media/Publishing, Consumer Brands, Travel/Hospitality and Education.
But when it comes to eCommerce…
Pinterest takes 44% of social sharing, it's the only segment that is not dominated by Facebook (37%), and Twitter is able to grab a 12%.
Not only that, but as Gigya mentions in this infographic, Pinterest's popularity is expected to keep growing after its recent release of the API. Soon you'll see eCommerce websites displaying most popular Pins about their products.
Inforgraphic courtesy of Gigya.


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Call +44(0)1738 624348 or email us.
The 2016 Trellis Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday, September 16th at
Grove Nursery, Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen AB15 3BJ
Start 12:30pm
For details of our Articles of Association relating to AGM, election and nomination of board members, see the articles page.
Please note that our good practice sharing event at the same venue starts at 10.00am For more information click here Booking essential, please use our Booking Form
The Trellis AGM 2016 agenda:
- Apologies
- Minutes of the 2015 AGM (acceptance)
- Minutes of the 2015 AGM (matters arising)
- Chairman's Report
- Treasurer's Report
- Election of directors
Profiles of existing and proposed directors can be viewed on the board page.
Existing directors standing for re-election are: Alan Bell, Iain Mackintosh, Gordon Croll, John Davidson, Colin Stirling, Mike Buckley-Jones, David Knott, Aida Grier and John Smith. New directors proposed for election - please note that proposed and seconded nominations should reach the Trellis office no later than September 9th 2016.
- Membership Fees
- Development Manager's Report/Presentation


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Share house
Share house
3 Bedrooms
3 Beds
2 Bathrooms
2 Baths
1 Flatmates
1 Flatmates
|Room Type
|Private room
|Own bathroom
|Flexible with furnishings
|Length of Stay
|Weekly rent
|4 weeks rent
|Not included in rent
|Available but not included in rent
|Off street parking
Spacious, clean, airy and well furnished. Small backyard with deck. Off street parking. Two min walk to bus stop. Close to parklands. Centrally heated. Great neighbourhood.
You will be sharing a 3 bedroom townhouse with one other professional female who works in the health industry. Happy to share a meal/drink and chat when home. I am easy going, sociable and active.
|Canopus Cr before Hirst Pl
|Close by
|Canopus Cr Giralang PS
|Close by
|Canopus Cr after 2nd Tucana St
|~ 3 min walk
|Canopus Cr opp Giralang PS
|~ 3 min walk
|Canopus Cr after Tucana St
|~ 6 min walk
|Chuculba Cr before Fornax St
|~ 6 min walk
|Chuculba Cr after Buriga St
|~ 7 min walk
|Chuculba Cr after Fornax St
|~ 7 min walk
|Chuculba Cr after 2nd Mirrabucca Cr
|~ 7 min walk
|Chuculba Cr after Canopus Cr
|~ 7 min walk
|Chuculba Cr before Lenehan St
|~ 8 min walk
|Canopus Cr before Balamara St
|~ 8 min walk
|7-Eleven Giralang
|Close by
|Canberra go carting
|~ 7 min walk
|Family Fast Food
|~ 17 min walk
|Eat me drink me
|~ 17 min walk
|Blue Sky Bistro
|~ 17 min walk
|Nibblez Catering
|~ 18 min walk
|The Sports Club Kaleen
|~ 18 min walk
|Kaleen Family Bakery
|~ 18 min walk
|Coffee Guru
|~ 26 min walk
|The District - Crace
|~ 27 min walk
|The Drawing Room
|~ 27 min walk
|~ 17 min walk
|~ 26 min walk


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Home >> 2.8" Inlet Silencer Tail Muffler Tip for Bayerische Motoren Werke BWM X1 X3 5
|Producte Name
|Muffler Tip
|Fit for
|Inlet Inside Diameter
|7.1cm/ 2.8"
|Total Size (Approx.)
|14.9 x 7.1cm/ 5.9" x 2.8"(L*Max.D)
|Silver Tone
|Net Weight
|Package Content
|1 x Muffler Tip
- Exhaust Tip is a great way to customize the appearance of any vehicle.
- Easy to install the end of existing exhaust system.
- Notice: While assembling after the vehicles run for a first 500-1000 km, wind again closely for bolts and counter-loose nuts, any time be care for any loosing matters.
- This is a non-OEM generic product.
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