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the IG novels represent yet another category of glut in the 'stories mostly featuring the Imperium', with the distinction that its not Space Marines (known to comprise over half the glut of BL novels featuring the Imperium. Once in awhile you get an eldar novel, or an Inquistior novel, or something different. But most of the time its SPACE MARINES.) Which is kinda depressing when you think about it - most of the non-Astartes stuff is Gaunt's Ghosts, Cain, and the IG novels, with an occasional other one. none of the other races get nearly as much representation, except as guest characters or adversaries. Admittedly writing a Tyranid centric novel would be difficult (but interesting to try), but you'd think there would be more tau and Eldar novels, becuase there are certainly plenty of those kinds of fans.
The IG series predated the Space Marine Battles novels (and generally wasn't as much of a blatant money sponge) but it follows much that same logic. Basically an IG regiment gets showcased. Overall its a very 'hit or miss' sort of thing, again much like SMB. I'm actually more tolerant of them than I am the Space Marines stuff, because, frankly, I'm biased towards the Guard and I dislike Space Marines. (and yet I read Space Marine onvels. Go figure lol.) The first few I didnt like the first time I read them, (esp 15 hours beacuse of its bleak tone) but I've kind of softened my view over time, as you'll see. The others.. well we'll see as we go along. But don't be surprised if the best is Cadian Blood (because its ADB and his first venture into BL fiction at that, although we get two Steve Parker novels and he is RIGHT up there in quality) because you don't come to this series expecting Abnett. Just keep that in mind and it will be fine.
So the first book in the series was Fifteen Hours, and featured generic IG stuff. The funny thing is there's a prequel short story of sorts featuring the 'main' regiment the Vardan rifles, which I covered in the Bringers of death short story anthology here. My previous coverage of Fifteen hours can also be found old thread for comparison. Fifteen hours is, as the starter of the series, basically a 'introduction' into guards stuff. You go from farm lad to military recruit... but unlike the dreams you might have (like STar Wars of being a hero) the reality is much harsher, bleaker, and generally prone to some sort of bad end. And yet.. with all the bleakness, I do find the story has some positive elements to it, and a redeeming sort of charm in the way its constructed. Tragic yes, but its not all bad. I think its just my general 'grimdark aversion' that makes it difficutl for me to sometimes appreciate a properly bleak story (although I am learning lol.) There is even a bit of absurdity to the whole situation and the story (if a bit grim and bleak), that is actually appealing. 40K does not do nearly enough 'bleak absurdity' like this, one can say.
There is also a short story that was printed in the first IG omnibus that covered that, which I will reprise here. Note that I acutally pulled my page numbers from the solo novel (which I do for most of my IG novels, only letting the short stories come from the omnibusses.) And like most of my 'current' 40k updates oyu get it in one lump sump, but with two separate posts.
Page 16
He had been hit at the base of the spine, the bullet leaving a fist-sized hole at the front of his stomach as it exited his body. Treating his wounds to the best of his medical knowledge had stuffed them with gauze to stem the bleeding and placed dressings over them. Though there were phials of morphia in his Guard-issue med-pack and he had learned the "Prayer of Relief from Torment" by heart, he had no need for them. There was no pain from his wounds — even when his probing fingers had slid past the knuckle into the ragged hole in his stomach he had felt no physical discomfort.
Fist sized hole from ork round through body, and goes as deep as a knuckle (10 cm at least?) Probalby not much differnet form the previous analysis i did.
Page 20-21
..the task of trying to repair the ancient rust-pitted irrigation pump in front of him. Before the sunset had distracted him he had removed the outer access panel to reveal the inner workings of the pump's motor. Now, in the fading light of twilight, he removed the motor's burnt-out starter and replaced it with a new one, mindful to say a prayer to the machine spirit inside it as he tightened and re-checked the connections.
Taking a spouted canister from beside the foot of the pump he dribbled a few drops of unguent from it into the workings. Then, satisfied everything was in order, he reached out for the large lever at the side and worked it slowly up and down a dozen times to prime the pump before pressing the ignition stud to start the motor. Abruptly, the pump shuddered into noisy life, the motor whining as it strained to pull water up from aquifers lying deep below the ground.
..Larn pressed the ignition stud again. This time though, the motor stayed sullenly silent. Leaning forward, he carefully inspected the parts of the mechanism once more — checking the connections for corrosion, making sure the moving parts were well-lubricated and free from grit, searching for broken wires or worn components — all the things the mechanician-acolyte in Ferrusville had warned them about the last time the pump was serviced.
The infamous 'pump repair scene'. This is mainly interesting because while there is certainly an element of rote learning to it, it also requires a certain degree of knowledge as well - the corrosion bit that Larn and his family had been 'told' about by the mechanician (not quite a techpriest or enginseer? one of the 'laity'?) I'd ultimately chalk it up as an example of the sort of 'practical knowledge' people pick up over the course of things simply because you can't always rely on the AdMech being around to hold your hand on everything. Like with the Necromundan underhive (except still acknowledign the dogma), or the way some Guard types can modify vehicles and equipment unoffiically (assuming they don't get caught.) there is a certain bit of 'unofficial' knowledge that can just creep in, which means there are limits to just how much you cna push the 'ignorant peasant' stereotype throughout the entire Imperium.
Page 21
..Without the irrigation system to fall back upon, a couple of dry weeks now could mean the difference between feast and famine for an entire year.
..Larn realised his reasons for wanting to see it repaired went far beyond such practical considerations. Like it or not, tomorrow he would be leaving the farm forever and saying farewell to the only land and life he had ever known, never to return. He understood now that he had felt the need to perform some last act of service to those he would be leaving behind. He had wanted to complete some final labour on their behalf. An act of penance almost, to give closure to his grief.
kind of a symbolic thing for Larn, as this is his last day before becoming a guardsman, sort of a way to 'leave his mark' and try to take care of them one last time. not being able to do it has grim implications (but in this book that is par for the course, and perhaps one of the least grim things to happen to the poor boy.)
Page 23
..find his parents sitting in the kitchen waiting for him, the black-edged parchment of the induction notice lying mutely on the table between them. From the first it had been obvious they had both been crying, their eyes red and raw from grief. He had not needed to ask them the reason for their tears. Their expressions, and the Imperial eagle embossed on the surface of the parchment, had said it all.
As i said, it's not the worst thing that can happen to him. But still it carries its own sort of weight. its natural and understandable that parents, even devoted, godly types - would still grieve for losing a child in this manner, and it is, for all intents and purposes, a death. they may not know he dies, but it is unlikely (at least per this book) he'd ever return home, so he's as good as dead (or at least, gone from their lives.) And that's a horrible thing for a parent.
what's more is its a simple and mundane type of 'grimdark' - which in my mind makes it effective because of the human element. Its a pain/horror you can relate to on some level.
Page 23
In accordance with Imperial Law and the powers of his Office, your Governor has decreed two new regiments of the Imperial Guard are to be raised from among his people. Furthermore, he has ordered those conscripted to these new regiments are to be assembled with all due haste, so that they may begin their training without delay...
As we learn later they have a PDF, so why are they recruiting from the populace? Is the military situation so dire they have to go through the effort of conscripting and training civilians? Are there no hive worlds where they can just snatch up a shitload of gangers? Or what?
Honestly this book is a bit like IA bokos in that respect - logic won't neccesarily prevail here, so you just kinda have to roll with it even if things don't make sense (and alot won't.)
Page 24
Facing her in uncomfortable silence, Larn realised how hard it was for her to speak at all now she knew she would be losing him tomorrow. It lent their every word a deeper meaning, making even the most simple of conversations difficult while with every instant there was the threat that a single ill-chosen word might release the painful tide of grief welling up inside her.
Again that whole 'losing a child' angle has a greater weight behind it for being what it is, at least as far as I view these things.
Page 27
"...when he came of age at seventeen. Then he heard the news he'd been conscripted into the Guard and everything changed."
Larn gets conscirpted in at 17 as well.
Page 27
"He knew there was a heavy burden that goes with being a Guardsman — a burden worse than the threat of danger or the fear of dying alone and in pain under some cold and distant sun. A burden of loss. The kind of loss that comes when a man knows he is leaving his home forever. It's a burden every Guardsman carries. The burden of knowing that no matter how long he lives he will never see his friends, his family, or even his homeworld again. A Guardsman never returns, Arvie. The best he can hope for, if he survives long enough and serves his Emperor well, is to be allowed to retire and settle a new world somewhere, out among the stars. "
Again, the whole 'leave home and never return' angle to the IG. This is something that is more of a holdover from earlier fluff, as we know of lots of examples where this isn't quite true. Back in earlier fluff it was inferred that each world was more isolated and alone, and thus the idea of replenishment from home by recruits (or of returning home) was supposed tob e impossible/impractical. In the 'modern' scheme of things, where sectors have arisen as self-sufficient 'islands' of humanity scattered across the galaxy, the idea of returning home if you serve within the sector is alot more plausible, so 'never returning home' is no longer an absolute (EG the Sameter regiments in the short story where Eisenhorn loses his hand.)
As it is, for the purpose of this story, there's no going back for Larn.
Page 28
"....in his time as a Guardsman your great-grandfather saw more than his fair share of wonders and horrors. He saw worlds where billions of people lived right on top of each other like insects in giant towers, never able to breathe clean air or see the sun."
"Five years become ten. Ten became fifteen. Fifteen became twenty. And still your great-grandfather followed his orders without thought of complaint, never once asking when he would be released from service. Until at last, nearly thirty years after he'd first been conscripted...
"By then he'd seen dozens of different planets, and at first sight Jumael didn't seem to have anything much to recommend it more than most."
The time of service has varied too. In some places its only ten years (then you get to colonize) in others it might be a generation. Some may continue serving on, their children being raised and trained within the regiment (fraternization and families IIRC were enocuraged in such cases.) Again its one of those things that has grown into a 'case by case' basis, much like with regimental size, training and equipping, and so on.
Still it shows release IS possible and we learn of one way. Also he discusses the things he's seen, which also included mention of desert and ice worlds, titans, space marines, and so on.
Also dozens of different planets in a couple of decades implies one planet per year, which is quite a bit of trucking around for a Guard force when you think about it. It also stands in contrast to the Vardans Larn and we meet later...
Page 28-29
"His regiment had just finished a long campaign, and they had been sent to Jumael to rest up and recuperate for a month before being shipped out to war once more."
"Oh, he tried to put a brave face on it, never complaining. But he was getting old, and the wounds he'd sustained in thirty years of battles were starting to take their toll. Worst of all was his lungs.."
"Emperor's Day was coming, and with it the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of their regiment. As an act of celebration it was decreed that lots would be drawn from among all the men, and whichever man won would be released from service and allowed to remain behind when the regiment left Jumael."
They actually let the Guard have R&R between missions. AMAZING. Also one of the means of release is a lottery. As we know another way is being put into a conquest force and allowed to conquer and colonize a planet for the Imperium.
Page 29
"A man from the same squad as your great-grandfather, who'd fought by his side through thirty years of campaigning. Though that man could've just taken his ticket and walked away, he didn't. Instead, he looked at your greatgrandfather with his worn-out face and half-healed lungs and handed him the ticket."
"And that's how your great-grandfather came to settle on Jumael IV, through the kindness and self-sacrifice of a comrade. "
"He [Grandfather] would say sometimes the hand of the Emperor can be seen in the smallest of things, and that it was the Emperor who had decided to work through this man to save his life. In the end it was a miracle of sorts. A quiet miracle, perhaps, but a miracle all the same."
Nice and uplifting huh? Well don't expect that to last. This book has a way of twisting the upbeat in perverse ways, and this will be one of those things. Just wait.
Page 32
So far today, like each of the sixty days before it, Ferres had had them running training exercises since dawn. Marching, weapons drill, kit inspection, hand-to-hand training, basic survival skills: every day was a never-ending series of challenges and tests. Larn felt he had learnt more in the last two months than he had in his entire life.
Over the last two months the sergeant had repeatedly shown an inclination to hand out draconian punishments for even the most minor infractions. Having been on the receiving end of such punishments more than once already, Larn had learned to dread the sergeant and his idea of discipline.
IG training over two months. Since its grimdark IG training, that means its harsh and brutal and the sergeant is a tyrannical asshole. BEcause its the Guard and such.
Page 33-34
"And if, because he has failed in his duty to keep his lasgun clean, the Guardsman finds his weapon jams in the heat of battle and he cannot fix it?"
"He should fix his bayonet to the mounting lugs on his lasgun's flash suppressor, sergeant, and use it to defend himself,"
"In the heat of combat? With the enemy right on top of him? What if he doesn't have time to fix his bayonet, Leden?"
"Then, he should use his lasgun as a club, sergeant."
"He should hold his lasgun horizontally with his hands widely spaced as though it were a short-staff and strike the enemy with the butt."
Probably a good indiactor of how the IG train their troops for close quarters combat, unless they're using entrenching tools (later on.) I guess you can't always rely on a bayonet charge.
The interesting thing about the context was they implied that keeping your weapon clean and available for ranged combat was desired and preferred for the Guard, and close quarters was baiscally 'last choice.' Which makes sense, given how fragile the Guard can be against everything else they face. (Like ORks, Tyranids, CSM...)
Page 35
...he checked the safety before inspecting the rest of the gun in turn. Sights, barrel, stock, holding lugs....
Larns lasgun seems to have sights of some kind.
Page 35-36
"I will obey orders, sergeant. I will follow the chain of command. I will fight the Emperor's enemies. And I will die for my Emperor, if He so wills it."
"What are your rights as a member of the Imperial Guard?"
"I have no rights, sergeant. The Guardsman willingly forfeits his rights in return for the glory of fighting for the just cause of our Immortal Emperor."
"And why does the Guardsman willingly forfeit his rights?"
"He forfeits them to better serve the Emperor, sergeant. The Guardsman has no need of rights — not when he is guided by the infinite wisdom of the Emperor and, through Him, by the divinely ordained command structure of the Imperial Guard."
"And if you should meet a man who tells you this things are wrong, Larn? If you should meet a man who claims the Guard's command structure sometimes makes mistakes and needlessly wastes the lives of the men under its command?"
"Then I will kill him, sergeant. That is the only way to treat with traitors and dissenters."
"Hnn. And if you should hear a man spout heresy, Larn, how will you persuade him of the error of his ways?"
"I will kill him, sergeant. That is the only way to treat with the heretic."
"And if you should meet the xenos?"
"I will kill it, sergeant. That is the only way to treat with the xenos!"
Like in the uplifting Primer IIRC, the IG technically have no rights, which in a way means they're a form of slave labour (which is hardly unusual in the Imperium. Amazing they admit they MIGHT have any rights other than 'work and die for the Emperor, peon!' Its supposed to be grimdark, after all.)
And we get our introduction to another one of those absurd, grimdark running themes through this book: IG HIGH COMMAND IS NEVER WRONG, NO MATTER HOW STUPID THE DECISION SEEMS. Indeed, Broucherac is chock full of examples of this lunacy, which is supposed ot represent a contrast betwene 'theory' and 'reality' in the Guard (EG the high command acts/thinks one way, and the line troops think/act another.)
Oh and IG have no rights, niot even to think (another 'thoery/reality' thing )
Page 37
Two thousand green and unproven recruits, sent for basic training at this staging post before they left Jumael IV for good. Two thousand would-be Guardsmen..
Size of the Jumael regiment.
Page 37
"Unlike the rest of us, I hear he was regular PDF back before he got drafted. He's probably the only man in this entire regiment who knows anything about soldiering."
see Jumael has a PDF. So unless it was already depleted, why did they not tithe off them? At the very least hat would have saved them a great deal of time in the training department.
Page 38
..Hallan, the squad medic, from nearby as he busied himself putting a dressing on Leden's damaged nose.
There is a squad medic.
Page 38
Following the direction of Jenks' nod, Larn looked over to see Vorrans — the fifth member of their fireteam
Interesting, because fire teams appear thorughout the novel, but according to other novels (like Cain, whre fireteams show up) they're actually an unofficial thing. But here it seems to be an offical thing.. so.. go figure. Squads aren't the smallest unit
Page 39
"Though I was right enough about this slop. Back home we wouldn't have fed this to the grox. Still it fills a hole, I suppose."
"Fills a hole is right," Jenks said, pulling a spoon from his mess kit and using it to prod suspiciously at the sticky grey stew in his own mess tray. "You should keep back some of this and take it into battle with you, Hals.
"What amazes me," said Vorrans, "is here we are, surrounded by wheat fields on every side in one of the most productive farming regions on the entire planet. Yet, every day, instead of giving us real food they give us this reconstituted swill. If you ask me, it makes no sense."
"Well, that's your mistake right there, Vors," Jenks said. "Asking questions. Don't you remember the big speech Colonel Stronhim gave us on the first day of induction?"
Since its a grimdark IG novel, that means that a agri world full of wheat and normal food is denied to the Guard, who get to eat gray slop. Because it sthe Guard and... GRIMDARK. And this is STILL no the worst it can get.
Page 39
"In the months and years to come you will find yourselves assailed by a thousand questions every time you are dispatched to a new theatre of operations. You will ask yourselves where you are going, how long will it take to get there, what will the conditions be like when you arrive. You must put such things from your mind. The Guard's divinely ordained command structure will tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it. Always remember, there is no place in a Guardsman's mind for questions. Only obedience!"
Speech given to recruits by the Colonel. It becomes a running theme through this book as I said - never question your superiors they're always right, etc. etc. You can literally run a drinking game to 'divinely ordained command structure'. It gets about as annoying as 'wet leopard growls' do for Space Wolves.
Page 41-42
"Though given the vagaries of warp travel and the relativity of time in the Empyrean, you should understand that giving anything even resembling a definite answer in this regard is entirely out of the question. Furthermore, there is always the possibility that what may seem like three weeks to us may prove to have been a somewhat longer period once we emerge from the warp. As I say, time is relative in the Empyrean."
The officer droned on, his sentences strewn with terms like "trans-temporal fluidity", "real-space eddies", and a dozen other similarly indecipherable phrases.
Two months had gone by since the day he had first passed muster on the parade ground, and for the last four weeks of that period Larn's regiment had been billeted on an Imperial troopship en route to what promised to be their first campaign. Four weeks, and today at last their superiors had finally decided to tell them where in hell it was they would be going.
2 more months I think, we're told about a total of four months, with close to 2 months (closer to 3) in transit. So four months of training and two months of travel (7 weeks as per the back of Fifteen hours the novel.) We dont know the distance though.
Also the whole time dilation thingy. '
Page 42-43
Even travelling through the depths of the void, Sergeant Ferres had not let up on them. If anything, Ferres' daily training regime since they had left their homeworld was harder than it had been back on Jumael IV, the only difference being they did their training now in one of the troopship's loading bays...
...Ferres had had them running training exercises from breakfast to lights out.
Training schedule onboard ship.
Page 42
They had been on the troopship nearly a month now, jumping in and out of the Immaterium for a few days' warp travel here, a few days there. Each time, during every night they spent in the warp, Larn had been troubled by terrible nightmares. In his dreams he saw alien landscapes populated with strange and horrific creatures...
Warp sickness, the ship apothecary had called it when half of the regiment had reported for sick duty after their first night in the warp. You will get used to it in time.
Larn knew that in order to acclimatise their body clocks to the thirty-hour day/night cycle of their destination world, the light-cycle in the parts of the ship inhabited by his regiment had been altered accordingly.
At least a month onboard ship at this point., and the whole warp sickness thing, and acclimistisation to a new planet's time cycles.
Oh and the pattenr of warp jumps.. few days at a time, making lots of small jumps. Assuming a few ays from system to system, assuming 10-20 LY apiece, we're talking 1200-1800c at least, maybe twice that, for 2-3 days.
Page 48
Resuming his task with a weary sigh, as he typed the new set of coordinates into the cogitator...
A world whose only industry of note resided in a single enormous Administratum complex the size of a city — one of many thousands of such complexes the Administratum maintained across the galaxy. Lacking other prospects, like his parents before him Erasmos Ng had entered Imperial service, becoming just another small cog in the vast bureaucratic machine responsible for the functioning — smooth or otherwise — of the entire Imperium. A selfless and noble calling, or so they told him. Though, as with so much else he had been told in his life, he no longer believed it.
An Administratum functionary, being ground down by bureaucratic drudgery. He crosses on larn's life by committing the error that commits him to the wrong warzone (told you things can get worse.)
"one of thousands" implies that this may be some sort of sector level thing, or there is at least one such place per sector (whether it serves a purpose or not is up for debate) although this is not certain.
Page 48
Now, at the age of forty-five and with thirty years of mind-numbing tedium behind him Ng knew he had risen as far in the Administratum hierarchy as he was likely to go.
His appointed task: to type into the cogitator the never-ending series of numbers spoken to him by the disembodied voice over his earpiece. A task he performed seven days a week, twelve hours a day, barring two permitted fifteen-minute rest-breaks, a full half-hour for his midday meal, and a single day's unpaid holiday every year on Emperor's Day.
Beaten down by the bleak dreariness of his existence, Erasmos Ng found he had long ago stopped caring what purpose his labours served.
He is (in his own words) a records clerk. An indication of his work schedule (84 hour work weeks) which is extreme, but amazing he gets any rest breaks, time for meals, or even a single day of vacation (what is anyone going to do given the usual grimdark crap, besides sleep ant eat.) At least they have the potential to get a full night's rest...
Also started work at 15. Apparently work laws are not very well enforced in the Imperium.
Page 51
Magnified by the enhancement devices cunningly hidden in the transparent surface of the forward viewing portal the planet looked huge and foreboding...
Troop transport has viewing port magnification stuff, not unlike the ones in the Rennie BFG novels aboard the Macharius.
Page 52
His ship, Inevitable Victory, had been en route with escorts and another thirty troopships to the Seltura system when they had received orders to break convoy and proceed here alone. It had been only a small detour requiring no more than a four hour jump through the warp, but the precise nature of the mission they had come here to perform was enough to have the Victory's captain grinding his teeth in frustration.
A single company, thought Strell. Why in the name of the Divine would Naval Operations Command divert an entire starship just to drop a single company of Imperial Guardsmen on some backwater, Emperor-forsaken world?
Troop transport convoy (note the escorts) with 31 troop ships. A 4 hour jump through the warp to make the detour to Broucheroc, due to the aformentioned administrative error. Assuming 4 hours between systems (call it 10 LY) we'd be talking ~22,000c
Also an indication that Broucherac is a 'backwater' and generally unimportant world, which is repeated throughout.
"Naval Operations command" semes to be tied to the Administrative facility where the error originates as well, which again hints at that 'sector' organization thing
Page 53
It is like they used to teach us in the scholarium.
"Ours is not to reason why."
"Ours is but to do and die."
More of that 'theme' crap. The Captain, like every other good soldier in this book, is told to never question the DIVINE MIILITARY STRUCTURE .
Page 54-55
"You shall know no reward other than the Emperor's satisfaction!" the vox-caster continued. "You shall know no truth other than that which the servants of your Emperor tell you!"
"The mind of the Guardsman has no place for questions," the vox-caster screamed unnervingly. "Doubt is a vile cancer whose symptoms are cowardice and fear, steel yourself against it. There is room for but three things in the mind of the Guardsman: obedience, duty, and love of the Emperor."
More of the 'DIVINELY ORDAINED MILITARY STRUCTURE' crap, because you know, freethinking is bad.
That said, and despite the silliness, with the whole nature of the warp thing, this sort of indoctrination can serve an important purpose - given that thoughts and emotions can influence the warp, the ability to shape and control emotions can become an asset. We've seen it with fanatical Imperial zealots of all stripes - REdemptionists like KEira from the Dark HEresy novels are a prime example, but so are the Sisters of Battle. Imparting even a measure of that to the Guard can have some benefits as well (psychic shit and such.) Which probably also explain sall the prayers and litanies as well.
All that enforced indoctrination has the cost of dehumanising your troops (EG Meat Droids of Krieg, who we meet in Dead Men Walking) and taking away from those human aspects (although the human aspects have their own drawbacks where the Warp is concerned - the cracks it can put in faith for example.) There's a real balancing act there. On top of that, humans being humans, they tend not to willingly fall into nice neat pigeonholes - which is another theme of this book (That whole 'theory vs reality' thing again.) It's hard to make people fearless without making them Space Marines.
Overall I can see a reason for it (even if most people never think that far ahead) much the same way you can rationalize the AdMech silliness, but I'm not sure if the benefits it might result in are worth the cost. I mean, what I just described is sorta like the idea behind the Hydra Plot from the Inquisition War novels. Or the Tau's Greater Good...
Page 55-56
As Larn rushed towards the lander with the others he found himself in awe to be approaching so enormous a vehicle. It looks like it could hold a couple of thousand men at least, he thought. Not to mention tanks and artillery besides. For the first time he truly appreciated the extraordinary scale of the troopship he had been travelling within for the last twenty-nine days. Sweet Emperor, he thought in amazement, to think they say this ship carries twenty such landers!
Again a month in transit, and the size of the lander/dropship - carries a whole regiment, plus vehicles. And the transport can carry at least 40,000 troops (20x 2000 transports), depending on whether or not it has enough landers to deploy its whole force with the transports it has or not.
Still with 31 transports and at least 40K troops apiece thats over 1.2 million troops.
Page 56
Running up the ramp into the cavernous and dimly lit interior of the lander itself, Larn and the others found a grim-faced member of the lander's crew waiting to point them in the direction of a nearby stairwell. Then, following the stairwell to its summit, they came to the vast rows and aisles of seats of the lander's upper troop-deck.
"Find a seat and fasten your restraints."
"I want you seated together in fireteam, section, and platoon order."
Inside the troop ship. It has no AG.
Also fireteam,s ection, platoon. I believe section is another word for squad, or a variation of squad anyhow.
Page 57
Despite the fact that the lander was built to house a minimum of two thousand men, there was at most a single company of men inside it.
Why would they only put only two hundred men on board, when this lander can hold ten times that?
Again lander can house a 'minimum of 2000'
Page 59
"Atmospheric entry in T minus five seconds. Two. One. Atmospheric entry achieved."
5 seconds from atmosphere.
Page 60
"It makes you thank the Emperor for whoever first made heat shields."
"Heat shields reading normal," said the servitor, gears whirring inside it as it mistook the comment for a question. "Exterior temperature within permitted operational thresholds. All systems reading normal."
Lander uses heat shields to permit atmospheric entry and exit.
Page 60-61
"Beacon signal reading strong and clear," Zil replied. "No air traffic, friendly or hostile. Looks like we've got the sky to ourselves. Wait! Auspex is reading some—"
"Registering hostile missile launch from ground-based battery. Recommend evasive manoeuvres. Missile trajectory eight seven degrees zero three minutes, airspeed six hundred knots. Warning! Registering second missile launch. Missile trajectory—"
"Evasive manoeuvres confirmed!" the pilot said, pressing his control stick forward as he pushed the lander into a dive. "Servitor: belay hostile trajectories and airspeeds until further orders. Zil, deploy chaff!"
"Chaff activated. Instruments reading chaff successfully deployed,"
"The chaff, it's not done any good. It's as though… Holy Emperor! None of the hostile missiles have guidance systems!"
"I'm reading a thousand hostile missiles as airborne already. And hundreds more are being launched every second."
Ork anti-air defenses. Naturally it makes up for lack of accuracy and guidance by sheer volume. Airspeed works out to 308 m/s. Odd that they think they can reach up that high into the atmmosphere (this happens shortly after entering the atmosphere, so we're talking tens of km), but maybe more time passed than I figured.
Anyhow, the lander has chaff dispensors.
Page 64
"You need to pull the emergency release lever — like this."
Pulling the lever, Sergeant Ferres shrieked in sudden agony as one of the ramp's explosive release bolts misfired, a bright tongue of yellow fire bursting from the side of ramp to engulf his face. Screaming, a halo of flame dancing around his head, he stumbled blindly against the assault ramp as the other bolts fired and the ramp fell open behind him.
The theme of this book - nothing ever goes completely right, every Imperial is fucked sooner or later. Anyhow, its the manual release for the lander's hatch.
Page 65-66
...a bleak and barren landscape — a flat treeless vista of frozen grey-black mud...
"They said Seltura-VII was covered in forests. And it's cold. They said it would be summer."
A fusillade that seemed to ominously increase in volume with every instant, as the noise of bullets and shells striking the hull on the other side of the lander grew so loud...
It's winter here. and its not where they should be. Also the Orks are firing on the transport from however far they are away.
Page 67
"There's a tenmetre tall Imperial eagle painted on each side of the hull of the lander."
The lander is at least 10 m tall, which means its at least 40-50 m long (Asusming a height to length ratio of 1:4 or 1:5)
Page 67
"It's our own lines, all right. If you look closely you can see the outlines of camouflaged bunkers and firing emplacements. That's where we should be headed."
"But it's got to be seven or eight hundred metres away at least, Hals,"
Range they are from friendly lines. Given they imply a km or so away (and the Bringers of Death short story implied more like 1.2 km) it could be that the orks are around 200-500 meters away. OF course they also imply its a mere 800 m later, so it could only be 100 m or less. I kinda doubt the Orks are that close, else they'd be charging long before they acutally did if Larn's company had come down right on the edge of their side.
Page 68
He saw Hallan fall first, his right eye exploding from its socket to make way for the bullet passing though it..
Ork gunfire.
Page 68
Until at last, with most of his comrades dead already and the flag still a hundred metres away, Larn realised he would never make it.
Changing direction to head for them, he saw they had emerged from a firing trench and raced towards it with enemy bullets chewing up the ground around him.
Larn reaches a trench about a hundred metres or so away. subtracting that we might figure that LArn covered only 600-700 meters of the aforementioned 700-800 m distance, which might mean that the 800 metres range from trench to trench is 100-200m.
Page 68
the Guardsmen said, pressing a stud at his collar as Larn realised he was speaking down a comm-link..
The VArdans have comm beads. Remember that this is an unimportant, dead end backwater for all intents and purposes in this story. But they have comm beads. Whereas if this were a Graham MCNeill novel they'd be lucky if they could carry the comms in a bakcpack.
Page 73
There were no forests. It was winter rather than summer. The war here was against orks, not PDF rebels.
They reached the wrong locale. Again its winter. Things just got much worse.
Page 73
"You are on the wrong planet. You are in the wrong system. Not to mention probably the wrong war. Get used to it, new fish. If that is the worst thing that happens to you today, you will have been lucky."
This is an understatement. And again it underscores the whole 'theme' in this story. I have to admit despite the fact the constant heaping of bad experience and bad experience on the poor guardsmen in this story (which brings back memories of a good chunk of the IA books), there is a sort of perverse absurdity to it that is sort of appealing. The bad shit is just.. so over the top. Like things couldn't get worse, and then they do.
The problem with this book though is that there is this constant feeling that it can't decide whether it wants to be silly/absurd or dramatic/grim, and it seems to flip flop between the two, which sort of detracts from it and pushes it more to the (bad) IA territory. This is not a book that should be taken too seriously, in all honesty, and to 'seriousify' it would require alot of over the top handwaving (for the purposes of my analysis I blame politics, like I always do.)
Page 73
"We are surrounded by ten million orks. And right now some of those orks — maybe only a few thousand or so, if we are lucky — are getting ready to attack us."
Approximate number of orks on planet which wont include gretchin and snotlings and squigs and such (many times that number of the lesser orkoids almost certainly). Sufficed to say the Guard is probably outnumbred given that a single company faces thousands of Ork and Gretchin.
Page 74
Behind him, hidden from his sight when he had first landed by a gentle sloping of the ground, was a series of firing trenches and foxholes. All of them led down towards sandbag emplacements that covered the entrances to a number of underground dugouts set among the shattered husks of buildings at the outskirts of the city.
Larn could see other firing trenches around and to the side of their trench — their parapets cunningly camouflaged to look no different from the countless chunks of crumbling half-buried plascrete and other detritus that lay scattered across this wasteland. From time to time a Guardsman would suddenly emerge from one of the trenches to run half-crouched, zigzagging from one piece of cover to the next until he reached the safety of either another trench or the entrance to one of the dugouts.
Page 74
Then, suddenly, at ground level, perhaps a kilometre away, he saw a brief glimpse of green flesh as its owner stood upright for a split second before abruptly disappearing once more.
One indication of the approximate distances between the trench lines. As noted here the range might be a few hundred metres greater, but later implies it might be a few hundred metres shorter. It could be they're constantly changing trenches, since there are diffrent trenches at different distances.
Page 75
Each of them perhaps a metre tall at most, their stunted green bodies appearing curiously hunched and misshapen inside their rough grey garments.
Until, before he even knew what he was doing, his finger was on the trigger of las-gun at his shoulder as he sighted in on the Xenos.
"Don't bother, new fish," Repzik said, laying a hand across his barrel. "Even if you did manage to hit one of the gretch at this range, you would be wasting your ammo. Save it "til later. Save it for the orks."
In the bringers of Death short story, we're told that the Ork lines would be a low probability of hit for lasguns, which would fit approximatley with what is stated here ('even if you did manage to hit') although the prbabilities are unknown, and Larn has a fairly baisc lasgun. For all we know he's using iron sights and he's not a veteran (or noted for accuracy.)
There's also the cold issue, which as we know from Rebel Winter can reduce range (as can target type.)
It is worth noting that it probably can inflict injury at a km (give or take a few hundred m either way), its just an accuracy issue, so its not an absolute range limit.
Page 75
"Sector Command says auspex is reading a lot of movement in the ork lines,"
Again thy have auspex to track Ork movements.
Page 76-77
...still the ranks of gretchin stood exposed and out in the open on the other side of no-man's land.
Not for the first time, Larn found himself fighting the urge to take his lasgun and fire at them. To shoot over and over again until every one of the ugly inhuman faces he could see before him had been obliterated.
"It's an old trick, new fish," Repzik said. "They're waiting for us to shoot at them and give away our positions."
Again it implies that even if the chance to hit is low, they can still potentially hit (and definitely hurt) them at the km (or so) range. And newbie as he is, they are bound to have given him some training in the limits of the lasgun, so he at least evidently belives they're within potential weapons range.
Of course, we know from the BRingers of Death short story that they use suppressive fire on the Ork lines, so it could be that its the range issue is a 'point target vs area target' sort of thing, I mean if theres a horde of orks rushing at you accuracy becomes less important than lethal range.
Page 78
"We hold our fire until they're three hundred metres away," Repzik said to Larn. "See that flat grey-black rock over there? That's your mark. We wait "til the first rank of gretch reach that before we fire."
Again implying that lasguns have a potential range (for accurate fire) greater than 300 metres against Orks. The fun thing is that again with Rebel Winter, weather (cold) and target nature (orks) can reduce range, and we know from that one that rnage against orks in winter was half what it was normally, so we could infer normal (accurate?) lasgun range is at least 600+ metres for the lasguns involved.
Page 78
Just behind the onrushing gretchin he saw countless numbers of much larger green-skins rise up to join the charge. Each one of them a grotesquely muscled broad-shouldered monster more than two metres tall...
The Greenskins.
Page 79
"Eight hundred metres." Vidmir said, sighting in on the enemy with the targeter clipped to the side of his lasgun, his calm voice barely audible above the sound of approaching thunder as the greenskins charged ever closer. "Keep yourselves cold and sharp. No firing until they reach the kill zone."
"Don't fire until you see the reds of their eyes."
"Six hundred metres."
"It's the orks you want to hit. We open up with single shots at first — continuous volley fire."
"Four hundred metres," Vidmir said. "Prepare to fire."
The range countdown again, implying that they could have hit much further from 300 m away, probably up to 800 or so metres. Again its that 'accuracy vs lethaltiy' thing, again keeping in mind the other qualifiers (like, again, Rebel Winter. It could suggest at least a km to a mile or so potential range for injury, although possibly not killing.)
Page 79-80
"Three hundred and fifty metres!" Vidmir shouted, while Larn could hear the distant popping sound of mortars being fired behind them. "Three hundred metres! On my mark! Fire!"
In the same instant every Guardsman on the line opened fire...
With it came a sudden flurry of airbursts as dozens of falling mortar and grenade launcher rounds exploded in mid-air in a deadly hail of shrapnel. Then came the blinding flash of lascannon beams, the rat-a-tat crack of autocannons, the flare of frag missiles streaking towards their targets.
lasguns and lots of other weapons open up at 300 or so metres. The mortars seem a bit silly, but the grenade launchers and missile launchers (Frag) having that range is nice to know.
Page 80-81
"One hundred and twenty metres!" he heard Vidmir yell through the din. "Change cells and switch to rapid fire!"
"Shouldn't we fix bayonets — just in case?"
"If this battle gets to bayonet range we've as good as lost it. Now, shut up and start shooting!"
Rapid ifre (full auto?) at 120 metres. Also comment on the fact that letting Orks into melee range is a 'bad idea' for the Guard. Which really puts a sort of amusing spin on the whole trench warfare thing, because for the most part the Guard are purely defensive. Its the Orks who initiate all the attacks, and from Ork perspective, this sort of suicide appraoch is not neccesarily bad (although it would be insane for humans as real life tells us.) But for the human side, given the nature and unimportance of broucherac and its backwater nature (and the apparent absence of vehicle support, air support, naval support..) it probably makes more sense to stay in trenches and massacre the greenskins as they approach.
Page 82
He saw an ork shot point-blank in the face, its feral inhuman features burned away in the blink of an eye by a lasgun on full burst.
Ork face 'burnd away' by lasgun burst. We dont know if it means isngle shot or barrage of shots (probably not more than a second's worth of fire, or possibly the lasgun equivalent of a 3 round burst - although by uplifting primer standards thats basically the same thing.) Assuming 3rd degree burns (50 j per sq cm) and a 20-25cm diameter face we're probably talking approximately 20-30 kj for the 'burst' which might acocunt for any mechanical damage 'headsplosion' 'burning away features' might imply in the head destruction (single double digit KJ could upll that off per shot) Assuming flaying flash burns (400 j per sq cm) we're talking between 160-250 kj. So call it double or triple digit kj for the 'burst'.
Page 82-83
Amazed, Larn saw a battle-scarred sergeant in a grey-black greatcoat stride past him leading a ragtag band of Vardans in a counter-charge against the orks.
While before them orks screamed and died, the sergeant led his men forward...
Larn found himself wondering if one of the long-dead saints of the Imperium had somehow regained human form and now walked among them. The sergeant seemed immortal. Unkillable. Like a hero from the tales they told in the scholarium.
A legend, leading his men to victory.
Chelkar, about the only consistently positive thing about the story, at least from the view of people not Chelkar. Not that it really helps anyone else either, save for being a point of inspriation. He is also, as far as the story goes, the antithesis of DIVINELY ORDAINED CHAIN OF COMMAND.
Guard 'theory' vs Guard 'reality' again.
Page 94
Pulling the slim oblong wooden case of the med-pack he had been issued with on Jumael from his belt, Larn handed it over. Breaking the seals on the box lid the medic slid it open and checked the contents.
"Morphia. Vein clamps. Sterilising fluid. Synth-skin canister. Wherever you're from they obviously don't believe in sending their sons under equipped to war."
Contents of Guardsmen's personal medikit. Which seems to be 'well equippd' by Guard (or Broucherac) standards. But Larn has no comm bead.
Page 94
"The regulations say—"
"The regulations say a lot of things, new fish."
"Though you can be sure whichever genius wrote them never troubled himself actually finding out if they worked in practice."
Another one of those themes, the 'theory vs practice' I've spoken of so often. The troopers - hardened, experienced veteran troopers (and poorly abused by the high command) don't give a shit about what the upper echelons think or want. The divorce between 'high command' and the guys at the sharp end is a constant bit of absurdity in this book. And its also one of the annoying 'take seriously rather than silly' aspects that can be frustrating in the IA vein.
Page 95-96
"Sadly, we have to make do with a ground-up concoction of local roots and tubers rather than the real thing. Even the Emperor himself would be hard pressed to find any real recaf in this hellhole, and we all know he can work miracles. To give it a bit more kick I mix in a tenth of a dose of powdered stimms which, incidentally, works wonders for the flavour."
Broucherac coffee.
Page 96
"It is not as though this equipment is likely to be of help to its previous owners anymore. While it could mean the difference between life and death for someone still living on the line. It is a simple matter of the fair and logical distribution of resources, new fish. Which, in this case, means that the living get to keep the things the dead no longer have any use for."
A commentary on the relative scarcity of supplies. Again Broucherac is not exactly a well supported conflict.
Page 97
"Along with everything else bionics are in short supply hereabouts. This is a Mark 3 Non-Motive Prosthetic, Left Leg Model. I had to barter the salvaged parts from a knocked-out sentinel for it, never mind what it cost me to get the damned apothecary to fit it."
Even augmetics are rare.
Page 98
"A new greatcoat in urban camouflage pattern would seem as good a place to start as any. It will help you blend in and make you less of a target, not to mention keeping you warm. This time of year it's cold enough to have a man passing ice cubes every time he voids his bladder."
Again its winter, and its damn cold.
Page 99
Larn found himself the new owner of a greatcoat, a pair of woollen gloves, two frag grenades, a fur-covered helmet, a small lump of whetstone, and a comm-bead tuned to the local comm-link frequencies used by the Vardans.
But no body armour? Or is the greatcoat in this case body armour. But he does get a comm bead.
Page 99
"You will need to come back here and see me again in fifteen hours' time. Then I can issue you with some of the more valuable and sought-after pieces of equipment: hotshot power packs for your lasgun, extra frag grenades, a laspistol, smoke grenades, and so on."
So comm beads, according to this, are more plentiful than a laspistol or hotshot packs. And LArn was 'well equipped' with a good medkit, but he had no commbead... thats Munitorum logic for you
still its kinda nice they seem to have targeters, hotshot packs and shit on what is an ass-end planet, and plentiful comm beads. Go figure.
Page 99
"I was issued with my copy of the Primer on my first day of basic training back on Jumael."
"You will find this little book to be a vital tool when it comes to the nitty-gritty of day-to-day living here in Broucheroc. The paper it is printed on is mostabsorbent."
The uplifting primer is toilet paper. Again what the high command/upper echelons proclaim is not neccesarily taken as fact or truth - unless they are in a position to enforce it. As we learn though, this causes.. problems.
Page 101
Chelkar's expression was grave. "But remember, part of that duty is for you to keep yourself alive so you can fight again tomorrow. To that end, you will do the following things. You will follow orders. You will keep your eyes and ears open. You will watch your comrades' backs, just as they will watch yours. But most of all, there will be no heroics. No fool-hardiness. No unnecessary risks."
Rather different perspective than what the DIVINELY ORDAINED tell a Guardsman his duty is, wouldn't you say? Again even the officers on the line won't neccesarily do what the Rear echelon types insist. Again Chelkar is probably the best thing about this novel, aside from the banter between Davir and his comrades.
Page 106-108
..when they brought him to the dingy basement print room to tell him it would be his task to produce a twice-daily newsletter and propaganda sheet for the edification of the city's defenders...
A single lander bearing a company's worth of battlefield replacements had crashed in no-man's land. Reading it, Delias realised it was exactly what he had been looking for. Granted, the course of events would need a little rewriting. To keep Commissar Valk happy what had been an entirely futile waste of human life would need to become a resounding victory.
The propoganda papers being put out by the rear echelon types which are 'enforced' to tell only good news despite what the reality is. Because apparently the Commissars and higher ups consider telling the truth to be defeatism.


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Thu., Jan. 12, 2012, 7:21 a.m.
Nothing surprising today … well, yes there is
Some days you guys surprise me. Other days you don't. Yesterday was of the latter variety – and the former as well, actually. Read on.
• When I put up the poll on the BCS yesterday, I was sure you folks would overwhelmingly lean toward a playoff (cue loud, over-used Jim Mora quote here). And you did, with all but 17 of the almost 550 votes wanting a change. But it was the change you overwhelmingly favored – an eight-team playoff – that shocked me a bit. More than 40 percent of you said you wanted what really is a true single-elimination tournament. But I don't think you're going to get your wish this go-round. It looks as if the plus-one model (basically a four-team playoff), with No. 1 vs. 4 and No. 2 vs. 3 prior to a title game, will be the next step in the on-going evolution toward a playoff. ... We have another poll that kicks off today – by the way, I left the BCS poll open, so you can still vote if you like – and it is really timely since Gonzaga plays it's first real West Coast Conference road test tonight in Moraga. I'm wondering how many WCC games the Zags will lose this year. I know it has kind of a negative bent, asking about losses, but it's a lot easier than trying to count up all the wins they'll get in conference play – I, for one, don't have that many fingers. So we ask about the losses.
• Gonzaga: The Bulldogs' first big WCC showdown of the season is tonight in Moraga at St. Mary's (8 on ESPN2). Our Jim Meehan has this advance in this morning's S-R and a short blog post from last night. He also looks ahead to the weekend on the road for the Zags (13-2 overall, 3-0 in WCC play). ... Gary Bell faces his first rivalry game in college, a rivalry that Bud Withers sees as one of the best in college basketball right now. ... The Gaels (15-2, 4-0) feel they are better able to match up with GU down low this season). ... We'll be planted in front of our television tonight at 8, with our trusty Mac all fired up. We'll pass along Jim's tweets (SRJimm) and add a few of our own, based on the broadcast. Come join us at vinceg55.
• Washington State: No Cougar game tonight, as they are off until Sunday's showdown with UW in HecEd. But that doesn't mean there isn't a lot to pass along, like Christian Caple's story in today's S-R about the number of West Side recruits on the WSU squad, a number Ken Bone has grown considerably since taking over. Christian also has a note on Reggie Moore and his need to score more along with a look at the weekend. Throw in yesterday's blog post (which also includes a poll) and this morning's (which he did late last night) and Christian has you covered. ... His morning post has a lot of links related to the Pac-12, so we won't repeat those here. We did, however, find a few more in our morning rounds. ... The WSU athletic site has this interview with Mike Leach that I don't believe we've passed along before. If we did, sorry for wasting your time. ... The final hire for the football staff was confirmed by a Boise State source. ... The conference isn't getting much respect, though it's not like it's earned a lot this season. ... Utah is off on its first two-game Pac-12 road trip. ... Cal's Harper Kamp is having his usual solid season. ... A former UW defensive-minded coach has a few thoughts about the current, and future, UW defense. ... The conference made another hire yesterday – it has created more jobs than the stimulus bill – and this one is expected to kick start even more revenue. ... The bowl season was pretty tough on the Pac-12. ... And, saving the best for last, there is this column in the News Tribune about the inequities in college football.
• Eastern Washington: The Eagles head off on a road trip that includes two Big Sky games and a non-conference battle in Seattle. Jim Allen has it covered with this short and a blog post.
• Idaho: The Vandals' road trip this weekend is the longest, in miles, of the season. Any trip to Louisiana is a long one, of course.
• Preps: Being it's Thursday, that means it's Prep Page day, with Greg Lee featuring one of the nicer turn-around stories in the area, that of Newport's Jake Wiley. I got to know Wiley a bit early last summer and it's nice to learn his back story. ... U-Hi hired one of its own to coach football, Robert Bartlett III. ... The Titans are still undefeated in wrestling. ... The CV girls are also undefeated in basketball. We'll see them this Saturday, when they travel to Lewis and Clark. ... The Washington AP polls are available.
• Chiefs: Spokane earned coach Don Nachbaur his 500th Western Hockey League win last night, 6-1 over Everett. Jess Brown has her game story and this blog post.
• Mariners: The team's winter caravan hit Spokane yesterday and John Blanchette talked with the most interesting player on the team, relief pitcher Tom Wilhelmsen, for this column. ... I could have put this link in the Washington State section, but because it's about Trey Griffey, it seemed applicable here.
• That's our report for this morning. Once again, we'll be on the radio with 700 ESPN again today, so listen to us here from 3 to 6 p.m. Until later ...
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Chewbacca Wants You To Read
Austin Public Library releases Peter Mayhew poster
By Monica Riese,
2:50PM, Wed. Apr. 17, 2013
For a wookiee whose first language closer resembles that of a bear or a walrus, Chewbacca is certainly serious about reading. Or at least Peter Mayhew is.
In celebration of National Library Week and to kick off its 2013 READ campaign, Austin Public Library today released this poster featuring actor Peter Mayhew, who portrayed Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, reading to a young group of kids from charity cosplay group the 501st Legion.
Both of Mayhew's books, My Favorite Giant and Growing Up Giant (he's 7-feet-2-inches tall, after all), are available for checkout at APL. Dive in to that or any of the other thousands of books during this literacy campaign.
For more on the READ campaign, visit the Austin Public Library website.
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While the injury-plagued Chicago Bulls are enduring a rough stretch, they're hoping a thrilling win will propel them going forward.
The new-look Toronto Raptors also found a way to get it done their last time out.
The Bulls try to make it two in a row for the first time in nearly a month Saturday night against the visiting Raptors.
Chicago (9-12) had been limited to an average of 75.7 points during a three-game skid before winning 91-90 at Milwaukee on Friday. Joakim Noah led the way with season highs of 21 points and 18 rebounds and Mike Dunleavy banked in a go-ahead 3-pointer with 5.8 seconds left.
"You could see his rhythm coming offensively," coach Tom Thibodeau said of Noah. "Defensively, he's been terrific from the start of the season but offensively, you can see his timing is back."
Jimmy Butler added 16 points in his first game back since missing 11 with a toe injury. The Bulls, who went 2-9 during Butler's absence, have won six straight when he takes the court.
"I felt all right," said Butler, averaging a team-leading 1.9 steals. "Rusty. Out of shape. Terrible. But I'm glad my guys pulled this win out."
While the Bulls are glad to have Butler back, leading scorer Luol Deng (19.4 points per game) missed his fourth consecutive contest due to a sore left Achilles and is uncertain to be available Saturday. Chicago also continues to play without Derrick Rose, who is out for the year with a torn meniscus.
The Bulls, who haven't posted back-to-back victories since a five-game winning streak Nov. 8-18, have taken nine of 12 from the Raptors. Deng and Noah combined for 37 points and 18 rebounds in a 96-80 win at Toronto on Nov. 15.
The Raptors (8-13), though, are seeking a third win in four games after beating Philadelphia 108-100 on Friday. DeMar DeRozan had 27 points and Terrence Ross scored 24 - two shy of his career high - while making his second consecutive start.
"Talk about bouncy athletes," 76ers coach Brett Brown said of Ross and DeRozan. "They're hard guards, they're really difficult people to defend."
Kyle Lowry dished out 11 of the team's season high-tying 24 assists while Amir Johnson and Jonas Valanciunas combined for 29 points and 25 boards.
Greivis Vasquez, acquired from Sacramento this week as part of the Rudy Gay trade, scored 12 in 17 minutes off the bench in his Raptors debut.
"It's always good when you come to a new place and you get a win," Vasquez said. "We still have a long way to go. I still have to get the timing and get to know my guys' tendencies and all that stuff, but I'm exited.
"If we keep doing what we did tonight, we're going to be really hard to guard and we're going to win a lot of games."
Fellow newcomers John Salmons and Patrick Patterson also debuted, finishing with a combined eight points on 2-of-8 shooting.
"I like what I saw, and going forward they're going to mix in quite well," coach Dwane Casey said.
DeRozan, who matched a career high with 37 points against the Bulls last month, is averaging 22.8 and shooting 50.7 percent in his last eight games in the series.
The Raptors are 8-4 when holding opponents to 100 points or fewer. Chicago ranks 28th in the league with 92.3 points per game.


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My guest blogger today is Rosalyn Kahn. Her insight into the positive aspects of community and the Random Acts of Kindness they perform is astounding. Often, in our busy lives of full schedules we forget the importance of community. In her article Rosalyn reminds us. I recently made some connections with local public libraries as [Read More…]
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Your Gateway to the incredible Far-west...
Making Moments into Memories !
Welcome to the Rubus Hotel. Your gateway to the Far-West ! situated at shivamarga, baiyabehadi, Dhangadhi-2, of Kailali District. Rubus Hotel is the address of choice for any traveller visiting the far-west region of Nepal and comes complete with an arroy of hospitality services by putting your comfort and needs at the center of our operations.
The Word 'Rubus' means 'beautiful' in the local doteli dialect, The decoration and outer view fullfiled the meaning of the Rubus, in effect, seeks to provide you with the taste of beauty of the far-western nepal. be it in the hospitality of its people of the natural beauty and riches that this region is endowed with.


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NFRC Seeks Input on Verification Program
The National Fenestration Rating Council is seeking input for its Independent Verification Program, which has been under development for nearly two years in order to meet Environmental Protection Agency requirements as a certification body for the Energy Star program. The program is scheduled to go in effect in January 2013.
Under the program, NFRC-rated and Energy Star-qualified fenestration products sold in the market will be tested to verify that they are consistent with the products listed in the NFRC certified products directory. All NFRC participants are required to participate in the verification program, whether or not the company is an Energy Star partner.
NFRC launched a pilot verification program in late 2011 to evaluate the testing processes. In order to provide the funding for the new program, the NFRC board of directors also approved major changes to NFRC program fees and membership dues schedule. The 2012 fee schedule uses a flat dues structure for membership and a sliding scale for program participation fees, creating a more fair and equitable system for NFRC participants, according to organization officials.
NFRC anticipates that the addition of the new program will allow it to remove the requirement to validate products lines when recertified. This will decrease costs for program participants by reducing recertification expenses, it is noted.
NFRC is encouraging participants in its programs to download IVP Program Document NFRC 713 (Draft), IVP Compliance Flowchart and IVP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from its verification program web page. Feedback and comments on the program documents can be sent to NFRC staff at email@example.com.
A summary of the comments and a question-and-answer session about the new program will be part of an open forum during NFRC's upcoming spring committee week meeting, scheduled for March 26 to 28 in Austin, Texas.


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CoreTrace Acquired By Lumension
Austin-based security software developer CoreTrace has been acquired in an asset deal, according to buyer Lumension. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. CoreTrace provides security software used to secure systems at the application level, by allowing administrators to "whitelist" apps. Lumension is a provider of endpoint management and security tools which is based in (More info...)
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Central Texas Angel Network Among Top Angel Groups Again
The Central Texas Angel Network is among the top angel investing groups in the country, according to the latest HALO Report from the Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank, and CB Insights. According to the report, in the first half of 2012, CTAN was the second most active angel group in the nation. The group revealed Mo (More info...)
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Eltek Sues Chinese Firm
Eltek, a manufacturer of DC power supplies for the telecom and industrial market, and which also develops inverters for the photovoltaic market, said today that it has filed suit in China against a firm, for infringement on its intellectual property. The firm said it has retunred to court against East UPS, which it says directly copied and scanned its documentation and specifications for its own products. Eltek said the return to court comes after the tw (More info...)
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Asure Software Names CFO
Austin-based Asure Software announced today that it has named Jennifer Crow as its Chief Financial Officer. Crow was previously Director of Finance at Active Power, and also served as an independent consultant, as well as serving at Broadwing Communications, Bellsouth, Southwestern Bell, and one of the major public accounting firms. Asure Softwaer is a developer of workplace management software. The appointment is the second company to pull a fin (More info...)
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TECH Fort Worth, the nonprofit technology incubator, said today thta it has named Jorge Varela as Assistant Director at the group. The incubator, which has two offices in Fort Worth, said that Varela was previously at Global Now and Artes de la Rosa, and also owned Varela Construction and JMA Communications, among other experience. TECH Fort Worth focuses on commercialization of technology.
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The RCMP have arrested a third person in Ottawa with conspiring to commit terrorist attacks on the country's capital. The acts were supposed to duplicate the bombings of Iraq and Afghanastan.
A local reporter, while researching the story discovered that this suspect once did an audition for Canadian Idol (Canadian version of American Idol)
If you ask me, they should have arrested him back then! Check it out and have a barf bag ready.
That is actually worse than the music videos I have made with my Apple computer.
Maybe he thinks he is Barry White.
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Quebec City-based Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. has reported net income attributed to common shareholders of $4.2 million for the fourth quarter of last year, ending Dec. 31, 2015.
Industrial Alliance (iA) offers auto and home insurance, as well as life and health insurance products, mutual and segregated funds, savings and retirement plans, RRSPs, securities, mortgages and car loans and other financial products and services for both individuals and groups. Net premiums for Q4 2015 were up to $1.670 billion from $1.346 billion in Q4 2014. For the full-year 2015, net premiums were $6.041 billion, compared to $5.426 billion for full-year 2014.
iA's 2015 Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) for the year ending Dec. 31, 2015 noted that a record winter resulted in very high auto insurance claims in the first quarter of 2015. On the home insurance front, there was an exceptionally high number of serious fires in the fall. These events pushed the claims ratio up and brought the combined ratio for 2015 to 101.2%.
The MD&A said that the "highlight of 2015" was creating an auto and home insurance subsidiary under iA Auto and Home Insurance (iAAH) called Prysm General Insurance Inc, with the first policies underwritten in November. But given the startup costs for the new subsidiary and, to a lesser extent, the increase in claims, iAAH ended the year with a loss of $1.6 million – the first negative result for iAAH in more than 10 years.
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The Irish brought Saint Patrick's Day to our shores in 1737. By 1809 we were celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans, where we promptly put our own spin on it. Erin go Big Easy!
According to a number of sources, the first record of a Saint Patrick's Day parade ever being held is 1762 in, not Ireland or even Boston but New York city – and it was held by Irish soldiers serving in the British army. How's that for a head shaker?
Things have changed a bit since then. There aren't a lot of British soldiers of Irish extraction holding parades in New York these days but Saint Patrick's Day parades are here to stay and no one puts them on like we do in New Orleans.
Instead of one parade, we do six. Instead of one day, we do ten. That's N'awlins!
As you likely know, Mardi Gras float riders toss strings of beads, coins, and other trinkets. During the biggest St. Patty's Day parade, however, float riders throw these things, too, along with cabbages, carrots, potatoes, onions, and seasoning packets: ingredients for Irish stew! No boiling water or cast iron posts, though. Phew.
Block parties on Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans are some of the biggest outdoor celebrations of the year. The best of these are held in the Irish Channel outside Tracey's and Parasol's. Both of these parties are free and open to the public. Come and celebrate!
Below is a list of the celebrations for Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans, March 13-23, 2014:
Parasol's Block Party – Sat, March 15 and Mon, March 17 – 10am – 8pm
Tracy's Block Party – Sat, March 15 & Mon, March 17, 2014 – 11am – 'til
Molly's at the Market Irish Parade – Friday, March 14, 2014 – 6pm
Irish Channel Parade – Sat, March 15, 2014 – 1pm
Italian-American St. Joseph's Parade – Sat, March 15, 2014 – 6pm
St. Patrick's Day Parade on Metairie Rd – Sun, March 16, 2014 – Noon
Downtown Irish Club Parade – Mon, March 17, 2014 – 6pm
Louisiana Irish-Italian Parade (Metairie) – Sun, March 23, 2014 – Noon
St.Bernard Irish-Italian Islenos Parade – Sun, April 6, 2014 – 11am
Lodging for Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans
You couldn't find a nicer bunch of folks to host your stay for St. Patty's Day than the innkeepers who operate New Orleans' bed and breakfast inns. Want to know where the best places are to eat? Ask your innkeeper. Want to know the best vantage point for a parade? Ask your innkeeper. Advice for what to do while in the Big Easy? Ask your innkeeper. Ask your innkeeper anything about New Orleans and they'll know or know someone who knows. Now go try that at a motel or hotel …
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iv never managed to make an SFC, hopefully get to this one
iv never managed to make an SFC, hopefully get to this one
SFC will be on at Kelvinhall.
An excellent main event is in the process of being confirmed....
No GI Grappling comp yes Some other cool stuff...
SFC - www.fightchallenge.net
This card is shit hot, can't wait to get everything confirmed and released.
I'm shit at keeping secrets.
Rob McCrum, Pro BW. www.bjjscotland.co.uk
if you need to get anything of your chest text me
Gonna be the best SFC to date.
Looking forward to hearing the full card, sounds like it's going to be a great one
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We know from the Bible; we know from Sitichin's work, and we know from my own papers, that a lot of genetic experimentation and manipulation was taking place here on Earth. Around 500,000 years ago, this planet was taken over by Sirian forces, who later on replaced the slave workers of their own kind with a new species that they created in laboratories by mixing their own DNA with existing species already living here on Earth. That eventually turned into Homo sapiens, or Homo sapiens sapiens, which is us.
But there was another genetic line that was created here as well, which resulted in beings who, according to Lord ENLIL, contaminated the whole Experiment. At one time, Pleiadian Giants, so-called 'Fallen Angels', descended to Earth and mated with human females, whom they considered irresistible. So, in laboratories they mixed their own Giant genes with that of humans, Sirians, and even Aryans (from Orion), and the offspring became Giants, the infamous 'Nephilim'. They could reach from 6.5 ft to nearly 300 ft in height, and were the ones who built many of the incredible stone formations all over the world; including some of the pyramids.
According to the Bible, they all drowned in the Flood, but my own research is showing that some of these Giants survived the Deluge and continued to spread over the world, and once again became 'Men of Renown'. We also know that Lord ENLIL was furious when he found out that species whom he thought were extinct due to the Flood had been saved by his stepbrother, ENKI. One of these species was the Pleiadian Experiment, the Nephilim!
However, there was allegedly a compromise made -- perhaps we could call it a treaty -- where it was decided that if the Nephilim should be allowed to survive, their DNA needed to be altered to lower their stature. So, in that sense, over generations most of the Giants actually became extinct, as these beings now had more human-like offspring. Indeed, with time, it became nearly impossible to tell who was of the Nephilim and who was a 'normal' Homo sapiens. Although, I should add, there are still a few Giants alive on this planet, but they are currently residing underground. The Nephilim I am talking about are walking around among us, and no one can tell by just looking at them.
Interestingly enough, the spokesman for the secret society, 'The Priory of Sion', Nicolas Haywood, has started to come out in public, revealing some of their inner secrets. The Priory of Sion was mentioned in the book, 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' in relation to the Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline. Michael Lee Hill has had the opportunity to talk to him as well, and Haywood indeed confirmed to Michael that the Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline is the Nephilim hybrid bloodline, that goes all the way back to the Anunnaki, as he put it. Michael found it interesting that Haywood mentioned the Anunnaki in this regard. In relation to my own research, I can both confirm and dismiss this, depending on what we mean by the Anunnaki. Most people who use this term for the ancient visitors are taking it from Sitchin's work. Sitchin says that it means 'those whom to Earth from Heaven came', and that includes more than one species. I also know from an impeccable source that the man we've come to know as 'Jesus' married a Sirian woman, Mary Magdalene. It's beyond the scope of my knowledge whether Mary Magdalene had both Sirian and Pleiadian blood in her, which would make her a Nephilim, so I will leave it with that. I know, however, that Jesus was Aryan (Orion).
Now, there is supposedly one way to tell whether a person is of the Nephilim hybrid bloodline or not, and that is to draw their blood and check the CK level. The Nephilim have a sky high level of Creatine Kenase in their blood!
Sound familiar? In these papers, we are thus far aware of two people with a sky high amount of CK! I don't know if anyone has been in contact with Terrell since the blood test, but Michael has had it verified by a number of 'people in the know' that he indeed is of the Nephilim bloodline, and he is quite sure himself that this is the case, because it seems to explain a lot of things for him.
Now, let's see why Ohio is such a hot spot for UFOs.
The author and researcher, Fritz Zimmerman, recently released a book called, 'The Nephilim Chronicles; Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley'[20]. An introduction to this book, about which Zimmerman has held quite a few lectures, can be found on YouTube. This particular one is a promotion to a lecture he actually held at the Pythagoras Conference in 2011:
This is a part of the YouTube text that is posted beneath the video (the emphasis is mine):
"Discover a giant race called the Dinaric whose remains have been found in Jerusalem, in burial mounds at Stonehenge and the Ohio Valley. Discover the ancient Amorite Babylonian symbols that are evident at Stonehenge and the many henges in the Ohio Valley. Discover the evidence of advanced mathematics discovered by the Amorites and how it is evident at Stonehenge and within the earthworks in the Ohio Valley. This is a must read for anyone who wants an affirmation of one of the most mysterious chapters in the Bible."[21]
In other words, what Zimmerman exposes in his book and talks about in his lectures, built on his own vast and assuring research on the Nephilim subject, is that they migrated to America and to the Ohio Valley area from all parts of the world, and settled down there. Due to this migration, we can assume that there are a lot of Nephilim hybrids in the Ohio Valley area.
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Exceptional creators to the world of children : investigating children's authors
Diezmann, Carmel M. (2008) Exceptional creators to the world of children : investigating children's authors. Journal of Creative Behavior, 42(1), pp. 1-12.
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Exceptional creators develop existing domains or create new domains through their contribution of products that are highly valued by society in a particular domain. Typically, adults make these value judgments. This study explored whether Gardner's (1997) model of an Exceptional Creator [EC], which was developed from a cross-domain analysis and adult judgments of quality, would also hold true in a domain in which children made value judgments. The analyses confirmed that outstanding children's authors also demonstrated the key traits of an EC, namely, their use of childhood experiences and their tendencies to question assumptions and strike out on their own, and to explore their domains exhaustively. Additionally, four unique traits of outstanding children's authors were identified. These were extended links to childhood; the creation of "new worlds" for children that differed from their everyday world; a reliance on pictures and conversation; and demonstrations of strong visual-spatial intelligence through illustrations and descriptions.
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Agak lama tidak menjenguk ke laman ini. To all family members hoping so much all of you are well...May Allah bless U always
Apa khabar, Shamsul Azman.
You probably meant this to be read by your own family [only]. Because you made this a public discussion, then anybody can see it, and your own family is LESS likely to see it. So you might want to delete our comment and start over with a Family discussion.