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Nov 1 09 11:25 PM
Using subsonic rounds (muzzle velocity around 800 feet per second ) and cross hatched wad cutters will ensure the same results you talked about and you
will achieve a better accuracy from a short barrel at distances under thirtyfive feet.
Risky, with all due respect, this is really in error. The last thing that you would want to use for self defense is wad cutter rounds, especially if you
are using either a small caliber or low grain rounds. And a round traveling at 800 feet per second or less had better be a really heavy caliber if it is to
have any effect at all. A small caliber round traveling at over twice that speed will have the same desired effect, and will be housed in a much more
controllable weapon, thus minimizing shooter error and stray rounds.
Wad cutters, no matter what you do to them are target rounds that have a tendency to tumble as soon as they leave the barrel, actually decreasing your
accuracy. There are many rounds available for all calibers that are, in general, designated "self defense" rounds, these are copper jacketed hollow
point rounds that are designed to mushroom upon impact and thus expend their energy into the target, rather than over penetrate and cause collateral damage.
Of course doing your own reloading or having a friend with the reloading equipment and the dies for your caliber to help out, although, wad cutters tend to
jam in most semi-autos but using talons or someother fractile round will give you the same results, a very nasty hit that breaks up on impact.
Talons are not a round that is designed to fragment upon impact, but instead are designed, as I said above, to mushroom and expend all velocity into the
target, not upon the target surface. Such a round would be blocked from doing any significant damage by an individual wearing a heavy leather coat.
Remember, you really do not want a round that will fragment upon impact, what the ideal that ammunition manufactures are striving for is a round that will
not over penetrate, yet is still capable of impacting and causing sufficient trauma to stop the threat.
Fiery Red
Nov 1 09 11:26 PM
Erasmus wrote:
Risky, you are making a fair bit of sense there. But you know it is just the argument of unlimited gun-toters that they are not there as a militia to support
their government but to protect themselves against it, as if they had no vote and no control. When they say A Republic not a Democracy they
don't mean it's fine for great plantation and business owners to re-introduce feudal serfdom. They mean that they imagine themselves in that dominant
position, and hell they don't want no danged dee-mo-cra-see acaws that would mean them backing down allow others rights and in their Republic, their
right is to be the ones with rights. Yee-haah!
Anybody who quotes the Second Amendment should be forced to abide by it in full. That is, they should form part of a State Militia liable to call-up and
training as the State requires like in Switzerland. That would be the last thing most of them want. There's no direct link between proliferation of
guns and crime. It is more to do with the mentality and attitude to government and other people. There is no reason either, that governments should not
keep track of legal gun ownership just as they do of legal car ownership, and every reason they should. You could of course interpret your constitution as
was understood at the time, so everybody has the right to own a muzzle-loading musket but nothing else since there was nothing else to put in the
constitution at the time. It is ridiculous bordering on religious to imbue a document more than 200 years old with predictive powers able to legislate in
detail on things far beyond its authors' imagination. It is the sort of interpretative sleight-of-hand than fundamentalists use to relate parts of the
bible and quran to their diktat on modern life and conditions.
Nov 1 09 11:41 PM
I'm sorry, Rommey, but the idea of Red falling for FOX crap is kinda bizarre. The debate about gun rights has been ongoing since long before FOX was even
a blip on the cables. Red has been here for years, and he's never given any indication of being a FOXhound.
Regardless of whatever history there is re: regulating weaponry, the point that many pro-gun people are trying to make is that it's a Constitutional
right. So far, that's not been successfully challenged in the SCOTUS. Until it is, that's the law...right or wrong.
The point that many gun-control people are trying to make is that gun ownership is not just a right; it's a responsibility and that guns are not
necessarily appropriate accessories for all people in all places and at all times.
Even rights are subject to regulation, especially if there's a compelling possibility for abuse. For example, we have the right of free speech, but we
don't have the right to libel, slander or endanger others with it. We have a right to freedom of religion, but that doesn't include the right to
sacrifice humans or burn them at the stake for heresy to a particular sect. We have the right to a speedy, public and impartial trial by a jury of peers, but
"speedy" is a relative term which depends on case loads and dockets, "peers" are not necessarily equal to the defendant in abilities,
qualifications, age, background, and social status, and there's no such thing as impartiality when it comes to humans. We have the right to vote, but
only if we're over 18...(it used to be 21)... and presumably capable of ideological discretion.
There's no workable black-and-white approach to life. As long as nobody is either forcing everyone to bear arms or taking them all away on the grounds
that accidents and abuses happen, there's room for such refinements as psychological and competency tests. Ideally, we would have the right to bear arms
if we demonstrate that we are also cognizant and accepting of the attendant responsibilities. IMO, that doesn't include the wholesale packing of guns to
political rallies, school assemblies, demonstrations, playgrounds or anyplace else where many emotionally charged or innocently milling people are gathered.
Not sure why it has to be so polarized.
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rommey "journeyer, there is no road, you make your road as you walk"
Nov 2 09 5:18 AM
Nov 2 09 1:34 PM
Red I have reloaded and shot a great deal. You maybe right about the caliber as I have always tended toward the .357 and .45 cals and can tell you that using
Winchester 231 ball with black talons will fire more accurately at subsonic velocities out of a short barrel.
Maybe for clarity I should have specified that my experience with reloading and shooting proved that the S&W model 686 with a four inch barrel loaded
with .38 cal casings and 231 ball powder behind a wad cutter, throws consistent groupings at subsonic velocities at fairly close ranges. In competitive
shooting the requirement is for higher velocities closer to off the shelf loads.
Oh there is always the large caveat about solid lead rounds, if you fire very many of them they will load up the rifling and destroy any accuracy gained by
using them, hence brass jacketed rounds will absolutely maintain better accuracy at higher velocities and require less maintenance overall.
Nov 3 09 8:51 PM
Rommey wrote: Faux isn't Fox
FOX crap = bizarre lies. Only apt for mindless zombies.
Faux news = False news (Faux being a bit of French?), perverted concoctions designed to trap folks into believing something which isn't true. Usually
they appear very sensible and loaded with common sense... just a mirage to foster the delusions... Most of the internet seems to go that way...
Btw, for the trendy, FOX News is un-cool, and they wont get caught quoting it... Their cool way of handling it is to pretend ignoring it.
I wonder who really doesn't have a clue... I'm inclined to point towards the self-called experts...
If you would have studied history instead of doping yourself watching Faux News...
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Nov 5 09 3:51 AM
Shouldn't this be in the alley?
Nov 5 09 3:53 AM
... so at least when hitting the slippery shit, he won't fall on his arse in front of the neighbors...
Nov 7 09 1:33 PM
Nov 10 09 2:10 AM
Firey, interesting sources you frequent, three samples of NRA sponsored research sites, and I would guess paid for, with little credibility to any serious
social scholar...
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Nov 11 09 7:04 PM
Firey Red I wrote:
Have we all really become so PC?
Sometimes, standing for what you believe means standing alone
Mar 17 10 1:09 AM
Propaganster wrote:
Firey Red I wrote:
Have we all really become so PC?
When have we not been Perfectly Crazy?
Firey Red I wrote:
Have we all really become so PC?
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Mar 17 10 10:07 PM
Fuckwit Intolerant
Mar 20 10 1:32 PM
Rambo123UK wrote:Damn, how did I miss this thread? I like to weigh-in with gun/anti-gun discussions, as Mac will attest.
I don't suppose there's much point in re-opening old bullet wounds, but if you wish to discuss statistics, Red, I've done so on several other boards (BB, TRT, TYT, etc) and we could have a quiet chat over a virtual beer or three.
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Coach Balcomb: I was really proud of how we fought down the stretch. I think we did a good job-- I thought we played we played harder in the second half than we did in the first half. But also, everything I asked them to do defensively down the stretch, they did and executed on defense, so it took a lot of pressure off our offense. We turned the ball over, we missed free throws, but then we came down and got the stops that we needed, and that keeps you in the game, every game, on the road. I was really glad we were able to execute that.
The Press: Can you talk about how hard it is when you
have a team like this for other teams to guard them, when you've got
one who does things well and another who can come pick up the slack?
Coach Balcomb: Well, I think it's very hard because
they're both good at both spots on the floor. I think if they were both
low post players, it wouldn't be as good. I think that they both work
very hard at being able to play the high and the low and being
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drive. So I think it's because of their versatility inside and out and their
ability to face up from the high post and shoot from up there is very
difficult for people to guard.
The Press: How about the players? What about in terms
of the effort and passion seemed to be there both ways. It was a very
hotly contested game. Would you agree?
Coach Balcomb: Yes, for us, we really needed this win.
We've been on a 3-game losing streak and we have won here before, so we
did have confidence coming into the game, and what you saw was our
desire to get a W.
Carla: The intensity that coach said that we needed to
have coming into this game and that confidence was definitely something
that we had to bring to the court because you need that kind of effort
to win on the road in the SEC.
The Press: How key was it that your other players
stepped when Carla got that fourth foul? They really managed to contain
Elliott even thought Kentucky wanted to go inside to her a log.
Coach Balcomb: Yeah, I think we had two key
substitutions. Nicole stepped up when Carla got in foul trouble late in the
second half and played good minutes for us in the second half, and in the
first half, Erica Grimaldi came in for Dee Davis, who has been playing 40
minutes at the point, and she stepped up and kept us together, and I
thought she did a good job of executing the offenses and getting us so
that we continued to have the lead most of the first half and not lose
The Press: Talk about the 3 pointers that Ramsey hit
that gave you guys some more cushion?
Coach Balcomb: That's something we really really need
when you have these two, and that's what we've been talking about all
year. Abi's been really unselfish to the point where she just wants to
get the ball to these two, and she knows they're good and she knows
they're shooting a very high percentage from the floor, and she knows that
people are playing her tight and trying to take away her 3. So I've
been on her about being ready to shoot whenever she has that opportunity,
and especially in the second half, I benched her quickly and told her
that we need that 3. We have to have that 3, and if you're not going to
be ready to shoot it, I'm going to put somebody else out there can.
And she really responded to that well, came back out and down the stretch
she not only took the 3's, but she made the 3's that she needed to
make. I think she really needed that confidence to hit those big shots. It
made a huge difference.
The Press: Coach and maybe players too-- it's a little
different coming in here as far as atmosphere. It's a little different
than it used to be.
Coach Balcomb: Yes, it's very different. Like I've
said to everybody, I think it's great what they done with their marketing
and being able to put people in the stands and I think everybody in the
SEC is seeing the results and is excited. I think when you do that and
you start to win, then you see a big difference. They're winning their
games at home so everybody else is pushing for those things at the
their programs and their schools, and I think it's exciting for the
conference. Yeah, it's a lot tougher to play here with the environment, but
also I think that helps our conference.
The Press: Caroline Williams got a lot of minutes and
got the start tonight. Can you talk about the factors that went into
that decision?
Coach Balcomb: I just felt like she's been really
confident from 3, and what we've been talking about here, we've got two
post players that the people are really keying on and sagging on and
doubling down, and I really want to be able to spread the floor like we
were able to do last year with Hillary, and Caroline has been the most
confident from 3 as of late, in the games and in practice, she's done a
really good job, so we thought it would be important to start out that
way tonight and see how we looked, and we were able to spread the floor
and isolate these guys much more from the high and low post.
The Press: You talked about taking Abi out early in
the second half to talk to her about 3-pointers. Were there other times
tonight when you would pull players out to have a little instruction,
rather than letting them play through something?
Coach Balcomb: Yeah, you lose three in a row, you have
to make some changes, so one of the things I changed was the lineup,
and another thing I changed was when people don't do the things that
we're asking them to do, they're going to come out. And I think that's
gotta uplift the people on the bench because they know they're going to get
an opportunity, maybe not because they did well but because somebody
else did poorly or we're losing, so you've got to change the lineup,
maybe you didn't beat somebody out, it's an opportunity for you. And I
think that's going to keep everybody fresh in practice and competing hard
in practice, and I think we need that.
The Press: For the players, the way the schedule has
worked this year you've had a number of consecutive Thursday night
games, which means you're always missing your Thursday classes and you don't
have much preparation time from Thursday night to Sunday. Does seem
different to you than others years? What's it like having that kind of a
turnaround in SEC games?
Carla: I only have one year of SEC experience, but I
don't think it's that different. Your schedule's going to be hectic,
regardless, and especially come mid-season you have to be able to get done
what you need to get done in practice because you only have two
practices before the next game.
The Press: Coach, is it different for you having so
many Thursday nights in a row?
Coach Balcomb: It's not for me at all. I did express
my concerns to the SEC office as far as class with us at Vanderbilt. It
makes it difficult. Some of them have had trouble telling their
professors they're going to miss the first four classes and that puts us at an
academic disadvantage, and that's something she said that she would
look at in the future.
The two years I've been here it's been different because I like when
you're away Thursday-Sunday sometimes because then you have week to look
forward to when you don't travel. And this way, they've split it almost
consistently through the conference so next week it'll flip flop, but
that means every week you travel. I would rather travel two tames in one
week then have a whole week where you stay home. But that's just my
preference, and nobody really cares about that. But I do think that they
care about the class schedule, and that needs to be addressed. That
makes it tough for us at Vanderbilt.
The Press: You forced Kentucky into 23 turnovers,
which is really high for them this season. You talked a little bit about
your defensive intensity, but was there something in your game plan that
you thought maybe you could cause the miscues or a little difficulty
for them?
Coach Balcomb: No, we wanted to switch up defenses
like we've been and keep them off-balance and we probably threw more traps
at them than we've throw lately, and I just thought it was something
that we had done early on when we were winning. It was forcing a lot more
turnovers and I thought we needed to get a lot more aggressive and get
some easy possessions on offense. That's what we were doing early on -
creating offense off our defense, and we had stopped doing that.
The Press: How big was Caroline's block of Phillips' 3
right there at the top of the key with about a minutes left in the
Coach Balcomb: I Just think everybody in general - she
made a great play not fouling and blocking it, but I think she was
right there either way. I think we did a great job with that. Carla did
that on another play, where we were right there because we switched out on
all the screens and did not let them get any looks from 3 down the
stretch in that last minute.
The Press: You brought Erica back in in the second
half for Dee as well. Was that an instructional situation or were you just
wanting to give her a quick breather?
Coach Balcomb: It was instructional as well as
whatever else I was doing tonight, just to talk to Dee about a couple of
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It was nighttime when the Greil Mercenaries got back from their latest mission and they were all exhausted. The mission itself had been simple enough but the trek back to their base had been hard. It was spring time and the rains were right on time this year, making the roads muddy and slippery and just generally difficult to travel on. To add onto that, along with their normal payment in gold they had also recieved spare weapons which they desperatly needed. That added to things needing to get hauled back to base and this of course added more trouble when the spare weapons had to be hauled on the side pouches of Titania's, Oscar's, and Mist's horses. The footing was bad enough and the added weight to the horses was just making things worse.
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The next day Rhys was organizing his herbs and remedies when Soren came into his room, knocking lightly on the doorway to alert the redhead he was there. Rhys smiled at Soren acknowledging him before going back to organizing.
"Can I help you with something Soren?" Rhys asked placing a few brightly coloured jars on the top shelf of his remedies cabinet.
"Yes actually...I haven't been feeling well for this past week or so and I was wondering if you had something to help with it." Soren said, curiously watching the organizing of the jars.
"Hm? How haven't you been feeling well?" Rhys turned to face Soren, slightly shocked that Soren was even slightly ill. Soren hardly ever gets sick and when he does it's usually serious, so the fact the young sage had come to him for medical help was a major deal.
"I haven't been able to sleep well because I've been feeling ill to my stomach." The younger man explained.
"So it's just slight insomnia and nausea?"
"That's a little bit of what it is yes."
"What do you mean 'a little bit'?" Rhys was slightly confused by the phrasing of Soren's words.
"I mean there have been other things bothering me but I just want help with the insomnia and stomach pain." Soren explained.
"What other symptoms have you had? I might be able to figure out how to help you if I know the full extent of your symptoms..."
"The sleeplessness, nausea yet always being hungry...I've felt very lightheaded lately too..."
Rhys was quiet as he listened to what Soren said and from what he heard he thought he knew what it was so he took out on of the small herb jars and handed it to Soren.
"Here, put these leaves in your tea every morning and evening and see if it helps." Rhys said, "You probably just have a flu or something like it. The tea will help with your stomach and help your nausea."
Soren took the small jar and thanked Rhys and left, hoping he DID just have the flu.
For the next couple days as he drank his tea with the leaves he'd recieved from Rhys it worked, however, after those couple days his nausea and insomnia came back with avengance, stronger and lasting longer than before. He hid it very well though as he avoided everyone when he could feel the uneasiness of his stomach coming on. The only one who noticed how Soren was behaving strangely was his lover, Ike. The leader had become very worried over Soren's behaviour and intended to confront his lover on the matter.
As Soren skipped yet another meal in favor of retreating to his room, Ike seized the opportunity to speak to Soren one-on-one. He knocked on the door to the sages room and frowned slightly when he was told to go away.
"Soren, I'm not going away." Ike said to Soren through the door, "I need to talk to you about something so let me in please."
There was a long pause before the lock on Soren's door could be heard sliding out of place and the loud creak as the door opened, "What do you need to talk to me about?" Soren was slightly worried about the tone in Ike's voice as the blunt man never used this tone unless what he was speaking about was serious.
"Can I come in? It's some-what private..."
Soren's heart pounded in his chest as worst-case scenerios began playing out in his head as he stood to the side, letting Ike enter the room. He closed the door behind Ike and slid the lock back into place before turning to his blue-haired lover,
"So what is it you needed to talk about?" He kept his voice steady and void of the worry filling his heart and mind.
"It's about your behaviour lately...It's got me worried.." Ike said, "You're naturally a very anti-social person but... Not like this, you've been skipping meals, making obvious mistakes in your work and reports, you have dark circles under your eyes. What's wrong?"
"...Nothing's wrong." Soren said, his worries dissipating a little, "Why would you think those qualify as something being wrong? I'm just a little off lately, that's all. It's nothing you need be worried about."
"But it DOES worry me Soren, you're never this off. Something must be wrong with you...Did you go to Rhys and ask him for something to help?"
"...I did but it only helped for a couple days before the illness came back stronger than ever..." Soren looked away, not wanting to face Ike, "I've just been hoping that it goes away on it's own..."
"Has it gone away at all?"
"...No..." Soren said after a moment.
"Why haven't you told anyone then!" Ike said, his voice just slightly raised, "This obviously isn't gonna go away on it's own so you need to get some help!"
"I don't want to ask for help, this will go away on it's own if I just give it time!" Soren shot back, his voice raising slightly well.
"If it hasn't gone away by now then it probably won't anytime soon! So just suck up your pride or whatever it is and go ask Rhys for more help!"
"I. Don't. Want. To." Soren said, emphasizing each word to get his point across better.
"I. Don't. Care." Ike said, "You're getting help from Rhys whether I have to tie you down to the bed or knock you unconcious."
"You wouldn't do that and you know it."
Ike's eyes narrowed as he stared Soren straight in the eyes, "Try me."
The next day Soren sat in Rhys' room waiting for him to finish the check-up, just wanting the whole thing to be over. Rhys was doing more thourough testing this time to find out what exactly was wrong and it was taking longer than Soren would've liked. He would've left right then and there but Ike was blocking the door.
"Are you almost done?" Soren snapped at Rhys, as the bishop looked over the notes he'd written about Soren's symptoms and such.
Rhys looked rather confused and he sighed, "Almost Soren, calm down..." He said as he pulled out a small clear crystal from his cabinet, "I'm gonna do one last thing to be absolutly sure what I think you have is right..."
"And what is that?" Soren asked looking at the crystal in Rhys' hands.
"Don't worry about it just hold it okay?" Rhys told him, holding the crystal out to Soren, watching carefully as the sage took it, ignoring the rolling of the others eyes. The crystal remained blank for a moment before it filled with a pink-ish mist, shocking Soren and Ike alike.
"I thought so..." Rhys said as he took the orb from Soren, "This proves it..." He muttered to himself.
"I'm sorry, what? What does it prove?" Soren asked, getting a little irritated.
"Well...That...That you're pregnant...Somehow..." Rhys said, "The symptoms all point to it and the fact that the crystal filled with pink smoke proves it all to be true."
Soren stared at Rhys like he was crazy, mad, insane, and any other word that meant he was wrong in the head, "I'm a MAN. You realize this right?"
"Yes I realize this but I also know you're anatomical structure is slightly different because of your blood..."
Rhys was the only other person besides Ike and Stefan that knew about Soren's blood, that he was a Branded.
"Apparently," Rhys started to explain "The Branded carry a special gene that is only active in few males, allowing them to carry offspring to keep their line going. This was a gift from the Goddess apparently and for many it was a blessing as the Branded were finally reaching enough numbers to start requesting their own nation from Begnion. The numbers were still small though because the pregnancies that the men had only have a 50% and under success rate. It's unfortunate but true... I began looking things like this up after you first came to me with your illness."
Soren's face had paled considerably and he looked like he was about to be sick. Seeing this, Ike moved from his place by the door over to Soren's side, rubbing his back gently.
"Soren, are you okay?" Ike asked worriedly.
"I...I...This.." Soren wasn't able to make sense of it and couldn't form coherent sentences from the shock.
He was carrying another child, IKE'S child... He knew it was Ike because he was the only one he'd ever had sex with. The last time they made love was at the end of the war a little over two months ago which would make sense considering how the symptoms showed up a little after that. He loved Ike, he really did but this was a whole other life he was now responsible for and he wasn't sure he could take care of it. More importantly what if Ike didn't want it, what if-
"Soren!" Ike's voice brought Soren out of his thoughts, "Soren, are you okay?" He asked again.
"I...I don't know..." He replied honestly, "This...This is rather sudden and unexpected...I..."
"Do you want it?" Rhys spoke up this time, "A child is a lot of responsibility and it'll mean a lot of changes on your part Soren."
Ike looked to Soren as Rhys voiced the question he wanted to ask. The sage's head was lowered and his body was trembling.
"I...Do YOU want it...?" Soren asked Ike who simply smiled and said yes. Soren looked up at Ike and stared at him, his eyes wide, "R-Really...?"
"Of course, why wouldn't I want it? It's OURS Soren..." Ike said placing a hand gently on Soren's stomach, "That alone is reason enough to keep it, right?"
Soren lowered his head again and Ike looked to Rhys, silently asking for some kind of help.
Rhys sighed, "Okay look...Soren, no matter what you choose to do with this child you'll always have our support. You're not alone in this..."
Soren just nodded but didn't raise his head at all, which caused Ike to sigh.
"Soren look...There's something I need to tell you..." He said, glancing at Rhys who took the look to mean he wanted a little privacy with Soren, which he happily gave them.
Soren didn't look up, "...What is it...?"
"...I plan to leave here..."
This caused Soren to look up, his eyes wide, "What!" He shouted standing up staring at Ike, "You're telling me NOW of all times?"
"Look Soren I-"
"NO! How could you do this! Right when we figure this out you tell me you're leaving! What sense does that make!"
"Soren there's a reason I'm telling you now..." Ike tried to explain but Soren interrupted again.
"And what is that hm? That you're leaving me here and planning to go out and have great adventures on your own while I sit around with this THING in me an-"
Now it was Ike's turn to interrupt. He stepped forward and slapped Soren across his cheek then grabbed his shoulders and pressed him tightly against the nearest wall, "Shut up and let me explain Soren." He said in a firm voice and waited to see if the sage would talk back, but he didn't, there was silence from the other man who just stared wide eyed at the one pinning him.
"You hit me..." He said in a voice barely above a whisper.
"And I regret it like nothing else, but you weren't listening to me..." Ike said, "Look... I'm telling you I'm leaving because I want you to come with me."
There was silence again as Soren stared at Ike and Ike stared at Soren, each studying the other's expressions.
"...Well?" Ike asked after a long silence, "What do you say?"
Another pause of silence, "...Yes..."
A smile grew on Ike's face, "I knew you'd say that..."
"Of course I'd go with you Ike! You're my everything and..." Soren looked down to his stomach, "Now... What are we going to do about it? I mean if were going to travel then..."
"Hush" Ike said, placing a finger to Soren's lips, "We'll ask Rhys what's the safest way to travel and we'll head off to the Grann Desert. I'm sure someone there will be able to help better than the people here, right?"
Soren nodded, "Right."
"Alright, it's decided then." Ike smiled more, "We'll take the week to rest and prepare for the journey before leaving. Does that sound alright?"
Soren nodded again and smiled, "Anything is alright with me. I'll go anywhere with you Ike..."
A week later...
Ike and Soren had left for their journey, leaving all their old friends and memories behind them and setting out for a whole new life and adventure. They had recieved congratulations on the conception of their child and had received many prayers for a safe journey. After the farewells and such they set off, again, leaving everything they had ever known behind, but starting off anew with only a few possessions and the person they loved most in the world by their side...
In the days to come the two lovers will see many new things: places no one else had ever seen, people no one else has ever met, adventures no one else has ever had. And they would have beautiful baby girl whom they would name Elena in memory of Ike's mother. Their love would never be matched by anyone else and with the time spent together with their daughter, their love would grow even more...
A/N: And that is that. This is by far the longest thing I have ever written so I hope you like it for the amount of time and effort I put into it. I'm thinking if I get enough reviews on it I'll write a little extra chapter or something to show what happens with them after Elena is born. But only if I get enough reviews (hint hint) XD
But yeah, review please, really even if it's to tell me this is a piece of crap I'll take whatever I can get. Critisism would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you, I love you all my dears~ Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did~


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Monday, December 29, 2008
Teaching A Lesson (Appendix)
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Teaching A Lesson
Actually, we see what you see at times like this, images transformed into (momentary) icons, the continuous loop of 24-hour news: Gazan teens, shocked and fascinated, milling around smoking buildings; Gazan men, mobilized, pulling an unconscious man from the back seat of a car, too many frantic hands loading him onto a stretcher; grimy bodies in the rubble, a mourner kissing something. Then, the other side, our side, an apartment block where ambulances, lights flashing, had carried away a victim of a missile; the hole in the wall of a living room, the pictures above it strangely undisturbed.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
What Every Child Knows
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
No Preconditions, Redux
Monday, December 22, 2008
Hebron Agonistes: Too Much For Israel
Perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that first patriarch of Hebron, Abraham, never turned promised land holy. When faced with contention, as his herdsmen quarreled with Lot, he said something unforgettable but forgotten: "Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left."
Thursday, December 18, 2008
A Season's Greetings
It was only a matter of time—was it not?—that we would start finding ways to be absorbed into the spirit of the moment. So we exchange presents, greet the "season," tease out of the ancient Chanukah story our own celebration of light and grace—God bless, eight days, not just one! And we leave behind, in mildly embarrassed obscurity, the tale of Maccabean guerrilla war against Greek occupiers around 165 BC—a mythical victory that had been so much solace for medieval rabbis, forced into ghettos, and more recently, for outnumbered Zionists.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Connect the Dots #8: Imagine
Friday, December 5, 2008
Congress to J-Street: "Where Have You Been!"
"Where have you been!" California's Rep. Bob Filner asked us, not entirely rhetorically. His challenge was repeated again and again by members of Congress from across the country. As Filner put it, progressive forces in this country used to count on Jewish groups, and nobody doubted the persistence of progressive sentiments among the vast majority of American Jews; a great number of representatives have seen advocacy of a Middle East peace along the lines of, say, the Clinton Parameters as the touchstone of their friendship for Israel, and their absorption by Israel's tragic conflict with, and in, Palestine.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Terrorist Circles
Sunday, November 30, 2008
"Plowing In Tears, Reaping In Joy"
Afternoon, November 29.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Hard Rains
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Obama's Middle East Team
The real question is how to press the deal on two peoples, each so divided that there are really (at least) four peoples--about which more in future posts from Jerusalem. By the way, an elaborated version of last week's post on the auto industry can be read in today's Washington Post's Outlook section.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Unpacking Liberalism
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Rubber Hits The Road
THE KEY TO making all manufacturing profitable these days is lowering transaction costs for any particular product development program. Look at Sony or Samsung or Apple or Honda. You want to have the capacity to experiment often, design for many niche customers, and hold on for the grand-slam. You don't want that much riding on each try: you want (if you'll pardon another sports metaphor) to transform your manufacturing processes from football into basketball, that is, create the capacity to go the basket many times a game, not work your way to the end-zone only a few times a game.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Next Week In Jerusalem
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Content Of His Character
Racism, it is true, did not confound the choice, as some predicted it would. But racism has not confounded mainstream admiration for The Cosby Show or Orprah or Tiger Woods--and hasn't for some time. Most of the 46% who voted for John McCain feel deeply anxious about a world in transition, where erudition, open-mindedness and intellectual discipline matter more and more, and their own sheer willingness to labor hard matters less and less. I bet they are more skittish about Obama's supremely elegant mind, his worldliness, than his dark skin; more drawn to the repudiation of "elitism" than to the rejection of "welfare."
Hillary (of all people) tried to unleash anti-intellectual, etc., demons and failed. It was she, remember, who tried to tell us that Obama's sincere compassion for people who, with their world collapsing, cling to God and guns, was a form of betrayal. Anyway, that McCain and his "strategists" failed, too, in spite of economic collapse, a failing war, and a sensational press, is a testament to Obama's steadiness and America's common sense.
Under similar circumstances, not so long ago, some European democracies turned to fascism--something Sarah Palin embodies, but doesn't begin to understand (though she can no doubt see the Wasilla library from her home). Her crypto-fascism is about all that's left to the Republican Party just now. It is also a relief that our kids--who get it, and get Obama, by a 2 to 1 margin--will slowly take command.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Closer
Even people in their 90s greeted us with the moral equivalent of a high-five. Nobody asked for help to the polls, or needed to know where they were voting. The last time I sensed anything like this level of enthusiasm for an election was when Pierre Trudeau swept into office in Canada in 1968.
There are some obvious reasons for this. Bush. The economy, or at least the television version of it, since the worst effects have not yet been felt. The war. The pundits (who shouldn't be the only ones to have some fun). But I think there is something else. The candidate.
John Kenneth Galbraith once said that political revolutions come when someone kicks through a rotting door. It has been a year since we've started hearing that Obama lacked kick, that he was "O'bambi," too likely to be swift-boated in a non-bean-bag world, too much Kumbaya. Who would have thought that so many people in New Hampshire, for God's sake, could get such a kick out of tact and integrity.
My daughter (who is 25) came home with me moved. "You can't imagine what this means to me," she said, "after thinking my generation was utterly without political passion." I answered: "You can't imagine what this means to me, someone who wept all night when Martin Luther King was shot, and then stayed up numb when Bobby Kennedy was shot." "You win," she said.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Hebrew Republic: A Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Spreading The Wealth
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Things That We Know We Know
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Fast Forward
We know there are uncanny similarities to the onset of the Great Depression: as in the late 1920s, credit has locked up, for all the reasons we pretty much understand. We know that a pyramid scheme ran out of bottom, only homes, not stocks, were the bubbled assets. We know that some people made fortunes from the scheme, and inequalities in income are now a disgrace and macro-economic problem: in the short term, not enough buying power is stored up in the middle-class, whose incomes have eroded; whose net worth has taken a hit with the stock market plunge. In the long run, if unemployment rises, there will be a further spiraling down of the consumption that prompts growth.
BUT WE KNOW other things, too. Why forget them, of all times, now?
We know that the speed of moving information and capital today is unimaginably faster than in the early 1930s.
We know that the barriers to entering new business are unimaginably lower: that about 60,000 new business were created every year in the 1950s, and a million a year are created these days.
We know that product development cycles, once a decade long, are now, in an age of shared networks for prototyping and component sourcing, months.
We know (as former HBR editor Joel Kurtzman notes) US productivity--constant dollars per worker--has grown from about $71,000 in 1998 to about $85,000 today; so the "all-in-price" for manufacturing in the US is, given the weakened dollar, starting to look like China's in many cases. (IKEA, for example, recently announced it would manufacture for the US market in the US, not China.)
We know that trillions in capital has been accumulated by Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, and that they have no ways to earn acceptable rates of return unless they invest here.
We know that, if we can keep up more or less current levels of employment, we can retard a new cycle of mortgage defaults, and thus allow the government, and the financial institutions it will own, to eventually redeem much of the paper it is acquiring at fire-sale prices.
We know that, since governments have studied the Great Depression, they will act to shore up banks and new lending. We know that most Western governments will be prepared to provide stimulus and new levels of coordination.
We know, then, that growth will not be hampered by an absence of capital, skill, or will; that the key is quickly coordinating the match of capital to the enterprises that can use capital productively; that we can quickly prompt the next cycle of growth.
We know that an Obama administration would have broad support for investments in health care, energy infrastructure, education, and roads, trains and bridges--thus stimulating the economy, and sustaining reasonably high levels of employment.
We know, in short, that even if we have another "depression," its half-life can be months, not years; that the same (astonishing) information networks that allowed not-sufficiently-regulated financial services corporations to get us into this mess over months, not years, will allow new investments to fund innovations in months, not years; but that we urgently need the US government to signal that it will not only be the partner-insurer of last resort, but the partner-investor of first resort.
OH, THERE IS something we don't know. It is, as George Packer reminds us, how many people plausibly terrified by this crisis, barely educated people, and thus anxious not only about unemployment, but unemployability--people fattened by fast-food, narcotized by junk television, incited against talking heads, hungry for a loyal father, unsettled by sexual teasing, consoled by healthy-minded religion, inspired by do-or-die sacrifice, suspicious of retaliating others, raging at "New York": people who think like 1930s mobs, but who also think "history" is for elitists--will be bringing their panicked prejudices, not their cool-headed interests, into the polling booth.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
The Faith Of Sick Souls
Mostly, today, we stipulate our faults and plead for forgiveness. I want to revisit this morning some things we seem to know in our bones but don't really discuss very much. Yom Kippur's liturgical parts—I don't just mean the Torah and Avodah services, but the prayers and piyutim themselves—are fascinating for many reasons, but most of all perhaps for their often morbid overtones, which produce, ironically, a kind of crescendo of meaning by the end of the day. How does this work?
It is obvious, I suppose, why the contemplation of death, and inevitably one's own death, is so gripping. But why should the poetics of death—not afterlife, but oblivion–seem so consonant with, of all things, relief? Let me ask this another way—still in keeping with the metaphoric of the day. Why, if we are merely clay in the hands of a potter—and an apparently indifferent potter at that—do we feel more, not less, substantial? Why, if we are matter, do we matter?
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bookslut: The Interview
Friday, October 3, 2008
Big-Digging Ourselves Out
On the surface, this seems a responsible, if unfortunate, plan. Jim Lehrer's relentless, smug debate question--"What are you prepared to give up?"--implicitly pointed to McCain's answer. But the question was simple-minded. And McCain's response shows that he understands how we got here about as well as he understands how Iraqis get to democracy.
MCCAIN, LIKE BUSH, thinks a surge of "shopping" will follow the bail-out--and it might. Obama's middle class tax cuts may, indeed, make sense if we want to mitigate an immediate recession. The problem is that, like Anbar warlords, American consumers will continue to be subsidized by more of the money we borrow from overseas lenders. We consume about two billion more a day than we produce. What can we do about that?
Put this another way. What would a competent bond-rating agency say about U.S. debt denominated in a steadily devalued currency? Would an auditor endorse a corporate strategy that shows no way of getting past a pattern of spending more than it earns? Worse, will sane venture capitalists invest in college graduates like, well, Sarah Palin?
Palin told Katie Couric--she was talking about climate change--that it doesn't matter how we got here, it matters that we act. But, no, if we don't know how we got here, we won't know how to act. So let's assume, with the House acting today, that our current crisis of short-term credit can be overcome. What will happen to long-term investment when it becomes clear how the worsening structural imbalances producing the current crisis persist. How did we get here?
One. Chinese companies, banks and funds have accumulated about one and a half trillion dollars in recent years, largely by manufacturing (though not mostly designing) our stuff, and they've invested much of this back in Western capital markets. The sovereign wealth funds of the petroGulf, with as much a three trillion in accumulated capital, have also pumped about sixty percent of their assets back into Western capital markets.
Here's the deal: by linking their currencies to the falling U.S. dollar they have deliberately kept their currencies undervalued (in effect, a subsidy by their emerging entrepreneurs of our consumption) in the forlorn hope of keeping our growing number of stagnant-wage-workers--people who cannot move from closing factories to knowledge businesses--buying at Walmart and putting gas in Chevy (or increasingly, Toyota) trucks.
Two. Since money was so plentiful, what financial services company would not try to cash in by collecting fees lending it in all kinds of new-fangled ways? With easy credit, easy mortgages, etc., housing prices rose--and looked like they'd never come down. Families took on more and more debt, that is, to buy what they needed and make up for the money they were not earning in wages.
Three. The debtors' bubble predictably burst.
Four. This also became the creditors' bubble.
THERE IS ONE way out: invest now, and heavily, in people and infrastructure.
"Wall Street's success in generating wealth beyond their expectations led to an overconfidence in their abilities to properly judge the riskiness of their own investments," says Steve Cucchiaro, the President and Chief Investment Officer of Boston's Windward Investment Management, "so they finally over-leveraged themselves, not just the struggling people they sold debt to.
"Bailing-out financial services companies is for now; we have to do it. But the long term problem remains. Who works, who earns what, what do we make, and what do we buy?" The picture, he suggests, has not been pretty: too few of our people making the things the world needs, too many of people borrowing to buy oil and junk. But there is another way to think about this:
"Boston has just seen the Big Dig," Steve continues, "nearly $15 billion invested in opening up Boston's harbor to ten times that sum in new investment. The Big Dig was ridiculed for marginal cost over-runs. But it created more efficient roads and tunnels, taught engineers, inspired architects, and created great jobs for a generation of logistics experts, builders and contractors, whose children had more stable homes.
"Would it have been better if the $15 billion had come into the economy as a stimulus program ultimately financed by borrowing from foreign sources, money that sent the very rich to buy yet more luxury goods and the middle class to the malls to buy things, and often frivolous things, made in China?"
NONE OF THIS is new, perhaps. But I'm flogging it because we have to keep the big picture in mind and not get distracted with purely psychological game theories. Labor productivity (that is, the ratio of smart machines to people) is rising in American companies that are surviving global markets. But if as Warren Buffet says, we get to 11% unemployment, that is a different crisis than 6%. And if the 89% that is working is earning (in real terms) 20% less than workers did a generation ago, what eventually becomes of demand at the malls?
There is obviously a crisis of confidence. But flocking behavior does not explain everything. If lenders are going to have confidence in our future, they will not be counting on old ways of getting us into stores: borrowed tax cuts, borrowed government give-backs, borrowed equity loans, etc. They want to see not just Main Street with the confidence to consume. They need to have confidence that Main Street has the education and infrastructure to produce.


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Throw away your yellow memos and free your mind from several weak passwords associated with different on-line accounts in few steps. You can pick a One Time Password (OTP) from your mobile device or hardware token and check patients confidential records, such lab results or radiographs, without worrying that anybody could steal personal or financial details. Every account comes with the extra layer of protection with SecureFactor, our exclusive feature born to enhance the security of your account. SecurePass will allow your staff to access confidential data from any location and with any device, including shared workstations.
Streamline protection for the future
Secure access to data plays an important part in healthcare compliance to regulations and it's highly recommended by best practices.
Investing today in a SecurePass means stop worrying about security issues from now on: our cloud-based service could be quickly integrated in your existing IT environment and you will be automatically upgraded to future technologies.
At GARL we keep on researching in new security techniques to guarantee that your identities are protected in the future.
Share securely
Healthcare organisations face the challenge of share confidential data among different units while coping with an high turnover of employees, contractors and students. Give SecurePass the task to identify who, when, where and for what purpose a user is granted access to data and focus on the most valuable service you can give to your community.
Identity theft prevention is the first cure
Fraudsters use people identity details to impersonate them and make illegal operations. What if a private detective impersonate a doctor to steal your patient's data?
Our identity management service will help you to keep your organisation under control: SecurePass and minimize patients' risks associated to account vulnerabilities.
Seamless integration guaranteed by a bank
A simple login for many applications: through our "Single Sign-On" portal you will benefit our protection and your users will have more time for your most valuable activities.
Switch to SecurePass and enjoy the peace of mind that only the first bank-grade infrastructure can provide.
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RELIABLE Always, Anywhere, Anytime.
- Designed from the ground up to be fully fault tolerant
- Several multi-datacenter facilities across Europe
- Multiple redundant connections to the Internet
AFFORDABLE Pay-as-you-go
- Subscription-based service
- Unlimited applications
- No hidden costs, no license fees, no services to manage
Swiss tradition
- Protection of everyone's privacy
- Quality banking
- Exclusive network protection & isolation technology
EASY Integration and administration
- Nothing to install or configure
- It works in a matter of minutes
- Simple and intuitive web control panel
- Comply with Internet Standards
- Works on mobile devices


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