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The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova (T)
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Them being together again. It was really heartwarming. <3
Excellent. If anything, heartwarmingness was needed after the recent troubles.
Chapter Forty-Five: The Ancient and Most Noble House of Equinox
Octa was looking cheerful for the first time in days. He had been gloomy and depressed ever since Boreas had left without saying whether he'd ever come back. Toxica had tried to cheer him up and make up for the leaving of his best friend by spending a lot of time with him and talking to him a lot, but it seemed she just wasn't a replacement for Boreas. Octa remained gloomy, though she could understand why: she missed Boreas too and hoped he'd come back soon.
But when Black had seen the road to Crimson breeders and told his pokémon he'd see if they could rest there for the night, Octa's mood had changed radically. The prospect of getting to meet his family again for the first time in a year clearly brightened his mood. He was chatting amicably with Toxica when a Servine jumped out of the bushes they'd passed by, Leaf Blade drawn.
Halt, miscreants! How dare you intrude upon land possessed by the most noble house of Equinox?!"
Toxica yelped in fear and surprise. Lucius growled threateningly, while Selene on his shoulder was clearly more interested in one of the moons in the sky. Black hadn't noticed the Servine, though, as he was a bit ahead. Octa drew his own Leaf Blade and crossed it with the other Servine's. "Ha, miscreants?!" he replied in grandiose voice, "you shall pay for that, you surreptitious serpent! You're naught but a petty bandit, attacking weary travellers like us!"
The attacker trusted forward, but Octa dodged the blade with an elegant twist that made Toxica's heart do little jumps in her chest. Octa, using his opponent's temporary disorientation, trusted his own blade to his enemy's abdomen, only to have it parried swiftly. "How dare you, sir," the opponent asked, "to insult a Servine of noble blood by referring to him as a bandit! Forsooth, I shall have you know I have cut men to pieces for insults less than that."
Octa parried his strike and immediately reposed with a swift flash of his own blade, giving the other Servine a shallow cut. On the arm. Octa grinned. "My little sister is quicker with the blade than you, sir."
The other Servine grinned too. "Of course she is, she's faster than anyone in the family." Both sheeted their swords and suddenly hugged each other. "Octa, it's jolly amazing to see you again!"
Toxica looked at their hug, dumbstruck with surprise. "Marcus, how I've missed you!" Octa laughed.
What the hell's going on?" Lucius asked with annoyance.
Octa disengaged from his hug with the other Servine. "Marcus, let me introduce you to my companions. These are Toxica, Selene, and Lucius. There's also Black, our trainer, who I believe hasn't noticed you holding us up yet, and Boreas, a Glaceon who is not with us at the moment. My friends and Lucius, this is my brother, Marcus Aurelius the second of the house of Equinox."
Good morrow," Marcus greeted each of them. Now that Toxica looked at him, he did look remarkably similar to Octa, but his face was broader, his voice higher in pitch, and he had light blue eyes rather than Octa's camel brown eyes. Though Toxica found him less handsome than Octa, he was still considerably attractive to her and she found herself worrying whether her flower still looked good after its recovery from the cuts it had received in battle against Ryoku.
Toxica extended her hand. "Hi. Fancy meeting Octa's brother."
To her surprise Marcus didn't just shake her hand, but he knelt and kissed it. "A pleasure to meet you, milady Toxica. I invite you, as well as your friends, to join us in our ancestral home."
Toxica felt like her brain was boiling and her heart trying to jump out of her mouth. She stammered incoherently for a bit as Octa's almost equally handsome brother got up and released her hand. "You only mentioned your friends' first names, Octa, what are their houses?"
I'm afraid they do not belong to any houses," Octa grinned apologetically.
Commoners? Oh dear. Great-aunt Galaxia shan't like that, you know."
I know, I was considering inventing some houses for them to silence her potential misgivings."
Heh, don't bother. The old hag knows every house, even of different species of pokémon, and shall see through your lies at once."
Octa's brow furrowed. "My dear brother, our great-aunt may not be the most pleasant creature on the planet, but that is no reason to talk about her like that."
My apologies. 'Tis easy to speak ill of another if said person thoroughly irritated one that very morning."
Octa nodded. "Fine, I accept your apology. Now let us go on, Black is probably quite a way ahead already and might start worrying about us."
Toxica had never before seen pokémon live in a home that was larger, richer, and more decorated than their human owners'. Crimson breeders' central house, where the owners lived, was a rather plain wooden building with a permanently dirty floor and few, and pastoral, decorations inside. It had a pleasant charm about it that made you think a pleasant little houses in the mountains, but Octa's ancestral house was by comparison a palace. It was much larger, made mostly of stone, even of marble and granite in places. Its high, arched entrance was supported by lavish columns and statues of various Snivies, Servines, and Serperiors. After welcoming them into their house, Octa reunited with various members of his family, all at least as graceful and elegant as him, with oddly ritualised yet affectionate greetings. Then Octa introduced them all to his family one by one, and soon Toxica was struggling to remember the loads and loads of different forms of courtesy and address Octa and Marcus had quickly run her though as they walked the final bit to their home...
Address everyone except my father and me as "sir" or "milady". Address my father as "Lord Publius Cornelius". As my friend, there is no need to address me as "sir"."
Unless Great-Aunt Galaxia is in the room."
Indeed. Don't speak unless spoken to to any of my family members. If you need to ask anything of them, ask me instead."
Unless Great-Aunt Galaxia is in the room, in which case, don't ask it at all."
Indeed. When encountering a member of my family, bow deferentially to them. Never touch anyone, nor make eye contact with them. Treat every member of the family, including myself, with the highest respect and as an utter superior."
Especially when Great-Aunt Galaxia is in the room."
Indeed. This also includes Marcus here. Though he is not currently standing on ceremony, I want you to treat him properly too when we are in my ancestral home, for he is of the house of Equinox as well."
Especially when Great-Aunt Galaxia is in the room."
Indeed. At dinner, use the cutlery provided to you properly; fork in your left hand, front paw, or wing; knife in your right. Only use a spoon for food it's specifically meant for, use a knife otherwise. Never speak with food or drink in your mouth, even when spoken to, and observe the proper ways to eat from me. Don't ask for a second plate or a refill unless asked. Don't spill food or drink, don't make digestive noises."
Especially when-"
Will you please stop saying that? I believe the message is quite clear. Now, my great-aunt Galaxia can be rather troublesome. Her beliefs with regard to class are rather outdated, therefore she shall look onto you as servants as best. Be extra deferential and proper around her, and obey her every command. When inside, you can still treat me as a friend, but be more deferential. You can use the nickname 'Octa' when addressing me, but not when Great-Aunt Galaxia is in the room; use my full name or call me "sir" if she is."
Toxica tried to remember the names of everyone she bowed to greet, but the long names featuring lots of c's, q's, and x'es quickly became one blur in her mind, especially since they were all the same species and had the same haughty bearing. She recognised many of Octa's features in his family, ranging from his face to his voice and mannerisms. After the introductions, Toxica found herself admitted into the house, and quite unsure of what to do. Almost two dozen Snivies, Servines, and Serperiors were home at the moment, and all of them wanted to speak to Octa and considered her and the others as if they were his pets at best. Since Lucius was a jerk and she didn't feel like dealing with Selene's particular brand of insanity right now, she pretty much sat on a chair clearly not meant for her species in a corner and just listened to Octa retell his adventures to his family. She really wished Boreas was here now, because though he could be quite annoying and she didn't get much time to talk to Octa with him around, he was also a pretty nice and funny person, and much more on her level than Lucius or Toxica, or even Octa, was. If Boreas was here, she thought, he'd probably be whispering some witty remarks now to make her giggle.
As Octa told his tale to his family, she looked around the room. It was lavishly, though not quite baroquely, decorated with loads of statues and paintings and beautiful marble. Most of the art depicted what clearly were members of the House of Equinox, recognisable by their pentafurcated tails and backleaves, curly collars, non-absent front legs, and faces similar to Octa's that seemed to be shared in the entire family, doing something heroic. A beautiful painting of Vigintus, Octa's ancestor who had belonged to Sir Edward Slateport, discovering Hoenn; the famous human sea captain himself only a minor detail in the painting's background, was especially drawing her attention. If Octa would look that amazing after evolving to a Serperior, she could barely wait.
It was a bit odd, now that she thought of it, that all Octa's family members seemed to have front legs even as Serperiors. She was pretty sure Serperiors normally had no legs at all, but Octa's family still had their front legs. Then again, she supposed it was quite useful as she looked at a painting of an ancestor wielding a Leaf Blade in one of them, duelling an evil-looking human wielding a metal blade. She remembered when she was an Oddish and had no front legs herself. While it never seemed that much of a problem at the time, having hands to do things with was a massive improvement and she couldn't even think how she would manage anything without them now.
She became aware of a piercing, withering stare fixated on her. An old Serperior, her tail and back-leaves curled and yellow with the autumn of age, was staring at her with a disgusted scowl that most people reserve for the insects you occasionally find instead of the nut when you open a pistachio. Though she had forgotten most of the names of Octa's family members, she did remember Great-Aunt Galaxia. She remembered what Octa and Marcus had said about her and resisted the urge to stare back or gesture to ask her what her problem was.
She tried to listen to Octa's stories or to marvel at the amazing room again, but Galaxia's stare was like two ice-cold daggers being stuck further and further into her flesh. Even cocking her head so that her flower covered her face didn't feel like it shielded her from that stare, perfected through dozens of generations. She knew Octa could stare like that too, but his stare was not nearly as piercing as Galaxia's. The house of Equinox had spent generations practising that stare to get fellow pokémon, and even their human trainers, to do whatever it was they needed, even at great personal risk, as long as it made them stop that stare. Even great men like Sir Edward Slateport had not been able to resist giving in to their companion's stare, and currently Toxica was having to fight her urge to listen to that stare and get out of the house to instead stay with the humans were Black was staying for the night. Her flower instinctively gave of pollen and a nasty smell and she sweated sap under that stare's pressure. She angrily decided to stare back, so she made eye-contact. It felt almost as if she was trying to win a staring contest against the Sun, except the discomfort was mental, not physical. Her eyes began watering and blinking within two seconds and she had to look away, completely unable to continue challenging Galaxia's stare.
She was about to give in and run away from the house when Octa, knowingly or not, saved her by talking specifically to Galaxia, forcing her attention away from Toxica. She breathed out, the stare's terrible pressure taking off her, and stooped a bit in the chair, delighted to be freed of it.
Toxica lay in the lavish bed she had been given for the night. The fact that this simple guest room was far more beautiful and richer than any other room she'd ever slept in was quite telling. The bed had a gilded frame with fake plants and even birds on it and the mattress was amazingly soft and warm. Several small artworks, mainly of family members as usual, were hung up on one wall, while the other three were covered in bookcases from floor to ceiling. It was amazing how many books were in this house; this was not at all the only room with walls fully covered in bookcases. Now at least she knew how Octa'd got his extensive knowledge of so many topics.
Things had actually gone surprisingly well. Though dinner began formal and Toxica had despaired thinking that no-one would say a word to her, her neighbours soon loosened up. She had got into a conversation with Octa's mother Claudia, his sister Livia, and their uncle Brittanicus. He was not technically Octa's uncle, he explained, but the husband of Octa's actual uncle, who had died several years earlier while exploring Mt. Silver's deep caverns with his trainer, and the family had since treated Brittanicus as their own son. His mother was a friendly, though slightly condescending Serperior named Claudia Marcella, and had come from a different family of Serperiors before being betrothed to Lord Publius Cornelius. Octa's sister Livia's wit was even sharper than her brother's, and she made several jokes that made Toxica giggle uncontrollably and Claudia frown and stare at her daughter.
Apparently, Team Plasma had even attacked Crimson breeders while Octa was gone, stating that their breeding of pokémon and selling them like inanimate objects was unethical. The entire family Equinox had helped their breeders defend against the attackers, fortunately without suffering any casualties. After some encouragement by Livia, Brittanicus had quite an amazing story to tell of his role in the battle, as he had led several pokémon in a flanking manoeuvre that had practically been the only reason they had won the battle at all, especially without casualties. Livia assured Toxica Brittanicus had still been very modest and downplayed the whole matter.
All in all, they made surprisingly good conversational partners, and Livia had even shown her around the mansion after dinner. The room that made the greatest impression on Toxica was a big room where an extensive family tree was beautifully painted on the walls. The intricate, green and purple tree wasn't oriented vertically as Toxica would've expected, but horizontally, from left to right; wrapping around two corners and making it almost halfway around the room before ending. It was a good thing it was drawn this way, as there would never have been enough room for the entire family if it had been a vertical tree. It was impressively detailed, showing all thirty-five generations of Octa's family, starting at the right of the door with Equinox I and his five children and running intricately through every generation before ending almost opposite the door with Octa, Livia, Marcus, and their brother Gaius, who wasn't at home, as well as a whole lot of cousins. Every generation except the current one had a small portrait of them painted by their name. Livia explained that this was because they hadn't evolved to Serperiors yet, so their portraits would be made later when they did. Toxica remembered quite a few of the names in the tree from Octa's stories, and Livia soon showed herself to be of the same stock as she began telling about various ancestors as well. Toxica had repaid her kindness by telling her about the adventures she'd had with Octa.
Now she lay in the bed comfortably, though it was clearly not meant for a Vileplume. It was far longer than wide, of course, to let a serpentine Serperior sleep on it comfortably, and even folded up her flower still made a bulge that the bed clearly wasn't designed to accommodate. But it could be much worse, she reflected, as the bed's softness didn't make it much of a problem. Before falling asleep, she shuddered again as she remembered Galaxia's powerful stare.
Since Black wasn't planning to leave until the afternoon, Toxica spent most of the morning with Livia, her new friend. Apparently breakfast was the only meal of the day not taken together, so Toxica just had a casual breakfast with Octa and his sister. They were soon cheerfully laughing about various stories the siblings had to tell about each other.
...And seeing all those Leppas hanging off the tree's lowest branches, Octa and I somehow got the idea of a Leppa fight, throwing them at each other from a distance. So then I took an amazing, bright-scarlet Leppa, tossed it right at Octa, who was distracted by a Butterfree flying over..."
Octa winced at the memory. "It hit me right in the side of the head; it was incredibly hard. Honestly, my dear sister, you must have fired that apple out of a cannon instead of throwing it, for I can distinctly remember the impact nearly cracking my six-week-old skull."
Livia and Toxica laughed, while Octa tried to hide his own laughter. "Well, you weren't quite so verbose in your reaction back then," Livia giggled. "It was more like an indistinct scream of rage and pain as you ran at me, wielding that same Leppa like an axe."
Octa blushed with embarrassment. "Well, I was only six weeks old, and my little harpy of a sister had just given me the worst pain I'd felt yet in my brief life..."
Anyway, he couldn't catch up to me as I ran off, still holding a few Leppas, so he soon turned around angrily and returned to the mansion, when I felt one of the apples I was holding to be very soft, and decided to throw it at him as a teasing gesture of good-will..."
Octa winced even more. "The horribly spoilt thing exploded as it hit the back of my head, showering me in liquid rotten Leppa gone softer than a Tamato."
Livia laughed. "Hey, at least that one didn't hurt you."
Not physically, no," Octa spoke. "I still have deep emotional scarring related to spoilt Leppa dripping down my neck."
After breakfast Toxica spent some time with Octa and Livia, before there mother Claudia surprised her by taking her apart. "You are attracted to my son," she stated, surprising Toxica.
Her first thought was to deny it, but she knew there was little point. It had not been a question, but a statement, so Claudia had clearly seen it, and lying would only insult her. "Um. Well, yes... A bit, milady..."
More than a bit. You quite obviously very smitten by him; 'tis hard to miss."
Oh. Am I that transparent, milady?"
Quite, yes. Has Octa ever talked to you about this matter?"
Well... No. I've never really admitted it to him..."
That's strange. This should be as easy to recognise to him as 'tis to me, so he should have told you to avoid damaging your feelings over the long run."
Tell me what?" Toxica asked with a growing sense of dread.
That it is impossible for him to reciprocate your feelings, even if he did feel the same way for you. Our family is kept pure-blooded and noble, so that our descendants can claim the same birth that we can. He shan't choose a Vileplume without a house as his mate, for he shall choose the mate his family, ergo us, choose for him."
Toxica felt crushed.
I understand this sounds harsh and cruel to you now, but 'tis far more cruel to rob his descendants of their nobility. Octa knows this and shall never allow himself to fraternise with anyone we do not pick as his mate. It has been our way for thirty-five generations, and so it shall be for hundreds more. I am surprised he never told you this to spare your feelings..."
B-but..." Toxica stammered. "What about your husband's brother, milady? I mean, surely the family can't have chosen Brittanicus as his mate, 'cause they can't have kids together for obvious reasons..."
Ah, but my husband made a big exception in the case of his brother Tiberius. You see, first of all, Tiberius had done his duty to the family already, choosing the mate chosen for him and procreating with her, despite not being attracted to females. When she and my husband's father died shortly after each other, the family, after much insistence of my husband, it's new leader, decided to choose Brittanicus, whom my brother had always loved, as my brother's second mate as a service to him. However, Tiberius' duty to the family had already been done, and there was no risk of contaminating the bloodline from the union with Brittanicus. Aside from the most obvious reason, Brittanicus is also a Serperior of noble blood himself. I'm afraid that even if you were to wait for Octa's mate to die, you could never be chosen as his second mate, for a union with you would risk contaminating the bloodline with your lower-class and Vileplume blood. I apologise, but 'tis our way. And I also apologise for my son's behaviour, not telling you this sooner, when you would not have wasted so much emotion on him."
Toxica's eyes filled with tears. Claudia was right: the arranged mating of Octa's family might be cruel, but for him not to tell her anything about it was even worse. She had spent a whole year fawning over him, thinking she had a chance. Claudia talked on, trying to give her some solace, but Toxica didn't listen and could only think about Octa. He was a cold-hearted, haughty, overly arrogant bastard, she thought. A miserable upper-class twit, and if he'd told her about this she wouldn't have wasted so many emotions for such a long time on him.
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MacGregor Tagliaferro
Dyin' In Your Arms - Poem by MacGregor Tagliaferro
On this day; happy birthday to
Gabriel García Márquez
Who said; 'What matters in life
Is not what happens to you
But what you remember
And how you remember it.'
And born on this day in Paris
Cyrano de Bergerac,
Who Edmond Rostand decided
Would make a fine heroic and
Romantic subject for a play
Bergerac, soldier and poet,
A man to be admired indeed
At least the fictional version
Secretly writin' love letters
To Roxanne, the woman he loves,
For Christian, a fellow soldier
Alas, poor Cyrano, Roxanne
Realizes, as he's dyin',
Who wrote her the letters
And who she really loves
At least Rostand permits
Poor Cyrano to have the fate
That any soldier and poet,
That any man dearly longs for
To die in the arms of his love
Also on this day, the birth of
Poet Elizabeth Barrett
Fellow poet Robert Browning
Was so moved by her poetry
That he wrote her a fan letter
Which led to a passionate
Correspondence, secret courtship
Then elopement to Italy
Where they lived and loved happily
Where she composed beloved poems
Where she died in Florence
In the arms of her love
And on this day, the sixth of March,
(Still without you, still missin' you)
As I look back and reflect, I
Remember all of the good times,
The very best times of my life,
With you, when we were together
I remember we were happy
And I make this wish, this prayer:
Would it were that I were allowed
To die in the arms of your love
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Why I'm having problems believing in God Part2
(This author believes America is Ephraim one of the lost tribes. See part one)
Ephraim is written about in many parts of the bible. Hosea1:10--Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the Living God. In Hosea chpt 4:17-19--Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom repeatedly: her rulers with shame do love: Give ye.
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Hosea 5:5--And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;Judah shall also fall with them.
Hosea 5:9--Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. (when God states something , it always happens.)
Hosea 7:8--Ephraim he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
O.K. This would mean burnt on one side and raw on the other, right? I wouldn't want to eat a cake like that. But you can bet your whatever that I have been made to eat just that!
America is either blind as bats or corrupted beyond hell. If you are not, and speak out, you WILL be eating it from both sides. I feel compelled to say "Don't speak out alone. EVER" when I see someone doing just that. "Shut-up shut-up! You won't help a soul and get royally cremated. Which is not fun. alive. If you have something they want you'll do best just to let them have it.
My mother is like that. A few years back someone puts a fence 18" onto her property. I remember my stepdad not quite complaining, but mentioning what's being done. My mother did not want to make waves. You can't get behind the shed to fix it or mow, but no waves. The neighbor has sprayed weed killer all these years of free rent on their property so I guess that makes this owner of several rental properties a nice guy. Two days after my step-dad died, he was over asking about buying the property. His huge air conditioner unit is on the property. He would have to move it some place else for his 4 units on his property.
Since I've been here they were over speaking of my dogs who they said were barking. This was the second week I was here and they had not been barking much at all. They cannot be heard as the lots here are very large, but my Jack does bark when someone walks by.
I let the neighbors know that I know the property line is off. My mother did not remember or care to. She "doesn't want any trouble" as she puts it
Why does the government want me to be like my mother?
Why does God allow the governments and those with money to play God? If I was God, I'd be like Elisha and fry their butts. (They worship those golden calves!)
Hosea 10:12--Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit:but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful unto the saints. Hosea 12:1--Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with Assyrians , and oil is carried into Egypt. Hosea 13:12-- The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. Hosea 13:14--I will ransome them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Oh death I will be thy plagues; O grave I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes.
I read somewhere that the Samarians were some of the first people to accept Jesus's teachings. When Judah and Israel were taken by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians the Samaritans were also taken.
I'll tell you another thing I'm having problems with in the churches of God here in America and ?? There are several who are making money at the churches selling their songs, books, ert...
I went to church recently in hopes of feeling good about God again. This church is in a building in a shopping center. What drew me to it, and several others I'm sure, was the christian rock music. It's great! The place is packed on both Saturday nights and Sunday. They don't use the majority of their time for the music and their music is very consistent with the bible. I have only been there twice. The reason I stopped going? They had a table set up in the back with their music and books. I don't believe they were giving these away.(maybe i better go again and find out) Well, while the one dude was up there speaking about "Big Daddy" as he called him, and love, The ministers wife walked back to the table. I thought maybe she was trying to hurry him up. Instead, he picks up a book and reads out of it about love. I'm thinking "O.K. i know that is not in the bible" and didn't feel it was right to use the pulpit for other readings. Then they called people to the front of the church "so they can be healed by this love" or the time prior "these folks can heal you" and they spent another 10 minutes up there before I left. I realised as i walked past the table that the book he was reading from was on the table. After the guy up on stage speaking of "Big Daddy" read from the book, the wife went and sat down.
Don't get me wrong. I am sure there are plenty of good reasons to go to that church, but the bible states that until you know that what you are doing is a sin, it is not held against you. (Bug off phycopaths. I know where you're headed with that statement)
That church rarely used the bible at all the two times I went. So, I don't feel it's right to ever go back. It's great for beginners I guess.
St John 2:13-16--And the Jews passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves,and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the changers money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves; take these things hence; make not my fathers house a house of merchandise.
What American christians need to know is this: When you are acting upon things that are completely contrary to the bible, many people do NOT want to know your God. I have been very poor most of my life thanks to getting knocked down by all walks of scumbags. The churches have never treated me good. Many people that would like to hear about God from those they feel have more knowledge, are not wanted at the local churches. They give up teaching themselves the word of God. If the churches don't want you, who needs God? (Just remember guys, what you don't know won't hurt you!) Knowing God, is knowing his word..
Why does God allow his people to judge at all? They have no knowledge of what your life was like, or who you are. Yet here in America they sure feel superior to those less fortunate.
The above mentioned church always mentions that if you are with God, he will give you what you ask for. You will become wealthier. (JOB once again enters my mind)
Now, that is the thing that really burns my butt. I guess all the poor of the earth are just not getting God like the superior ones do.
Don't you want to be jus' like us? Are you there God? Are you going to let them keep their wealth, God?
St John 15:24--If I had not done among them the word that no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father.
Well, maybe I just need a little faith. And maybe not.


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Carolina Herrera Unapologetically Glam as Usual
Carolina Herrera knows her clients. And she has made it her life's mission not to confuse them by muddling her brand's glamorous message. Famous for her elaborate ball gowns and luxurious sportswear–a little beading here, a bit of fox fur there–the designer declares in the show notes, "There is an alluring confidence in the women who inspired the Fall 2010 collection."
"Not every woman is edgy," said Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman's fashion director, who admired the level of detail in the collection from her seat at the end of the runway. "This is for the elegant, sophisticated woman who wants a gorgeous trouser and a double faced cashmere cape in beautiful colors that will flatter your skin."
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Caracas-born Ms. Herrera admitted that if she wasn't a designer, she would have liked to have been an opera singer, such is her flair for the dramatic.
Indeed, Ms. Herrera's clients are women who will go to the opera's opening night in an organza gown with. . .


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Angelina Jolie's baby pics will rake in a buttload
Angelina Jolie's babies are fresh out of the womb and already their pictures have become the holy grail of tabloid journalism. While Jamie Lynn Spears and Jessica Alba netted $1 million for their spawn, Angelina's twins are about to wreck some shit. Somehow, this proves my point that babies should be allowed to fight in UFC matches. E! Online reports:
Insiders are speculating the pics will go for between $15 million to $20 million. In fact, one photo-agency owner guesses that the only other thing that could possibly demand that much money is "Britney Spears giving birth to an alien."
Okay, it's only fair that I mention Brad and Angelina donate all the proceeds to charity, so you know they're not money hungry assholes. In the meantime, whatever that guy said about Britney birthing an alien, I'll take some of those. I don't really have money to pay for them, but I do have these nifty coupons I hand out to my co-workers. Check it out: This one's good for a "Free coffee run." And this one gets you a "Great job!" I used to have some that were good for a massage, but I'm not allowed to hand those out anymore. Something about a lawsuit and sexual harassment, I dunno. I was too busy making coupons for "A photocopy of my wiener."


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The breakfast was good, the live music and bar were very nice, the staff was very attentive. Check in time of 2:00 PM is very late. Check out time of 12:00 PM is very early. Wireless internet access should be free like most hotels in the US.
Great location, nice staff and good price Small rooms and not cleaned thoroughly; beds not very comfortable, shower not consistent, and thin walls
Su ubicacion es excelente
la atencion es excelente, muy amables y sumamente educados, atentos y eficientes a todas las necesidades y consultas. el desayuno es insuperable. me permitieron realizar el check in antes, y el check out despues del horario sin poner obstaculos. una piña colada que consumi en el bar, mal preparada
La elegancia y tranquilidad del hotel y la profesional del servicio. El desayuno es excelente.
Personal muy amable y servicial; muy buen gusto en la decoracion; cuarto amplio y muy confortable; detalle de dejar unos dulces esquisitos por la tarde y chocolates por la noche - con una tarjeta de tiempo para el dia siguiente!! Todo lo que se prometia y mas!
El trato del personal, su diseño, que no es un hotel masivo, su comodidad. Solo le faltaba tener el canal de TVE Internacional.
El calor humado y la excelente atencion de sus empleados, ya que siempre estan dispuestor a servirte.
La calidad del servicio y de la atención del personal Muy ruidoso; poca insonorización entre habitaciones
que me cobraron medio día de estancia por dejar la maleta
Se trata de un hotel con gran calidad, con decoracion y servicios muy buenos. Para mi uno de los mejores de la ciudad. Me alegra que sus nuevos propietarios hayan continuado con la calidad de su servicio.
Location Room service ........soup.......terrible..........no salt, no spices, no taste.
room and bathroom were nice and clean. Close to subway. breakfast expensive and not included
The location is great (taxi, subway, bus stop, shopping centers, restaurants, etc, at walking distance and the service is good. I had an odd experience at the check out desk. I was presented a bill with the total amount of expenses but no details. All hotels I have stayed in usually give you a detailed list of expenses for your review and approval before billing your credit card. The clerk wanted to convince me to wait the detailed electronic invoice I should receive by email 2 days later!!!! I had to insist, even talked to another clerk to get an expenses details. And guess what? There was a little mistake and they were kind enough as to remove it from my bill. But I had to sign a paper informing that I was notified that the withdraw of the amount was subject to later approval. This is ridiculous! I believe Accord should be told about this strange procedure
Convenient location. Functional facilities, if minimal. Polite staff. They overcharge for everything, adding taxes that were pre-paid. Outrages fees for interente use if you don't have a laptop. High prices for food and drinks.
Staff was very helpful. Close to shops and amenities. Close to subway. Decent size bathroom. Not many restaurants close by.
Staff service Rooms are not confort for the rate you are paying
Rooms are modern and clean. Not much by way of services in the hotel, just a place to sleep. Expensive
Friendly staff, good location. More like a 3 star hotel, not 4. Rooms rather small.
Staff was very helpful, especially Ms. Julia, location near to almost every thing. The breakfast was very good The rooms are small, hotel can be considered as a 3 start not 4 (American standard).A little bit expensive for facilities.


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Growing Fruit in a Health Orchard Ecosystem with Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips, author of The Apple Grower discussed fruit growing at NOFA Organic Land Care's most recent advanced workshop. The audience was partially AOLCPs looking to add edibles to their landscape, commercial orchardists, fruit-growing enthusiasts, and community gardeners. Phillips discussed creating healthy soil and making soil fungi and organisms work for you. He also emphasized the importance of growing a diverse variety of fruits together citing especially the benefits of growing blueberries near apple trees. Phillips focused on the value of soil fungi in a cultivated fruit growing system.
Phillips explained that a hand-full of soil from a forest floor is full of mycorrhizae (strands of fungal fibers that can fix nutrients in the soil and transfer them to roots). If you lined up all these strands of mycorrhizae found in a single handful of soil, they would extend for 26 miles. This natural system is far superior to anything we can create with the aid (or impediment) of pesticides and fertilizers. These growing choices don't just affect the environment, they affect the quality of your food! Apple trees treated with fungicide produce apples with as little as one-third of the healthy properties of an organic apple.
In the afternoon we all went to High Hill Orchard in Meriden, CT where Wayne Young showed us his grounds and co-taught with Michael Phillips.
Photos: Wayne Young showing all 55 attendees his orchard (you can see one of his older apple trees behind him), a photo of about half our group, and finally Michael Phillips demonstrating how to direct the growth of fruit tree limbs.
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We're getting ready to print the 2012-2013 NOFA Guide to Organic Land Care!
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Transitioning 12 Acres of Western Mass Parks to Organic: Bernadette Giblin Shares Vision for Being Part of the Solution
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Longtime community activist Bernadette Giblin has returned to her native Northampton with a vision in mind: to raise awareness among people from all walks of life about how important it is to change how we care for our lawns.
"I'm grateful whenever I have the opportunity to wake someone up to the reality of how hazardous traditional lawn chemicals are," said the Smith College graduate. "I'm even more grateful when I have the opportunity to provide solutions and support to homeowners and grounds manager to get them on the path to change, and stay on it!"
Giblin, a NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional since 2005, is presently working with four municipal parks departments in Western Massachusetts, helping them transition a total of 12 acres of parks to organic management plans. She is partnering with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, with financial assistance from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
In 2010, Giblin wrote and received a community grant from TURI to transition the Pines Theater, an outdoor ampitheater at Look Park in Northampton, to an organic land care program. Last summer, TURI awarded her a second grant to replicate the Look Park demonstration project at four other parks in Agawam, Holyoke, Longmeadow and Ludlow. She recently held a mid-year grant organic training and community outreach workshop with the five participating DPW and parks crews. Read more>
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If you want to have our logo shown on your company's vehicle, but don't want to spend all the time and money getting it painted on, you can purchase an Accredited Professional Car Magnet from our online store! Magnets measure 7.75x4.75" and cost $5.00 each. Order yours today to give your business an extra boost!
Don't forget, our Introduction to Organic Lawns and Yards booklet and Organic Land Care brochure are both easy and inexpensive tools to promote organic and your services. Add your business information to the back cover of the IOLY booklet, or to the blank space provided on the brochure. Purchase OLC brochures here and IOLY booklets here. View a PDF version of the IOLY booklet here. Market organic and market yourself, all at the same time!
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Healthy Communities: Green solutions for safe environments
The 30th National Pesticide ForumYale University -- New Haven, CT -- March 30-31, 2012With acclaimed ecologist and Living Downstream author
Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Register online. Beyond Pesticides members can receive a reduced registration rate of $25 ($15 for students), which includes all sessions, conference materials, and organic food, beer and wine.
Hamden Earth Day - Saturday, April 21, 2012, 9-3:30, Hamden, CT. To volunteer, please email Melissa Gabso, or call 203-888-5146
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Learn more about the conference here.
Attention Arborists, Landscapers, and Green Industry Professionals in Westchester County: FREE morning compliance training about operating within the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) Quarantine in NYC, in late March/Early April in central Westchester County. Featured speakers/trainers include NYS Department of Ag & Markets staff. Program offers continuing educational credits for ISA Certified arborists and potentially NYS Pesticide Applicators as well. This training would also facilitate bidding on NYC and NYS contracts and is strongly recommended by NYS regulation authorities if you are operating in the NYC Quarantined area. Please respond to Rick Harper here indicating that you are interested.
Thursday October 25, 2012
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New national, one-page article can be used as a marketing tool
Iowa-based magazine, Buildings, which caters to large property management firms, recently interviewed NOFA OLC Director Jenna Messier and Landscape Architect Ruth Fox. "5 Approaches to Sustainable Landscaping" suggests using native plants, getting a soil test, upgrading and maintaining irrigation systems, hiring organic land care professionals and reducing pavement if possible. This article is a great way to support your organic landscaping advice to your clients. Read the full article here.
AOLCP in the News - From the Ground Up: Showing off the Beauty of Spring
Two local horticulturists, Crystal Brinson and Jessica Duphily Cook, talk about what they have planned for their exhibits at the 2012 New England Flower Show, opening Wednesday March 14 at the Boston Seaport World Trade Center. More>
New Tree List for Planting Near Utility WiresIn response to the tremendous damage to utility infrastructure caused by trees near overhead wires during last year's major storms, the Connecticut College Arboretum and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have released a new list of trees with relatively low mature heights suitable for planting near street-side utility lines. Read the list here.
New Best Management Practices Released for Boxwood Blight
The CT Agricultural Experiment Station recently published two versions of Best Management Practices for nurseries, dealers, and garden centers advising how to handle the new fungus that harms much of the boxwood grown and sold in the state. The first gives general advice for companies that have not yet seen the fungus, the second is for those who have encountered infected plants. Learn more here.
Bamboo Bill, Born In Seymour, Draws Wide Response
An Ansonia woman said bamboo made her next door neighbor's house look like "a Vietnam jungle." A member of the Mad Gardeners Inc. said the plant can ruin driveways, septic systems and other structures. A New Haven county landscaper said it took his company months to remove bamboo from a Woodbridge home - but not before it destroyed an asphalt tennis court. Their stories were among about 20 told in written testimony on a proposed bill that would regulate Golden Bamboo plants in Connecticut. Read more here.
New App Provides Access to Soil Survey Information
A new smartphone app to access soil survey information is now available as a free download for both iPhone and Android users. Called SoilWeb, the app combines online soil survey information with the GPS capabilities of smartphones. SoilWeb is a portable version of the UC Davis California Soil Resource Lab's Web-based interface to digital soil survey data from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Because the app provides soil survey information in a mobile form, it is particularly useful for those working in the field.
The Toxics Information Project Unveils its new Less Toxic Landscaping Resource Directory
This booklet has basic, important points about healthy landscaping and gardening, the dangers of pesticides, effectiveness considerations, and more. It also includes a simple contact list of nearby resources for info, services and supplies. Download and learn more here.
The following classes and events have been approved for OLC credits. In order to see a complete description of an event and the number of credits that will be awarded for attendance, please go to the credit opportunities page of our website. When you click on an event title, a complete description, including time, place, registration information, and number of credits will open.
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It's almost planting season, and so we've decided to devote this month's Standards Review to the topic of planting. The following excerpt on soil as it relates to planting can be found on page 42 of the NOFA Standards for Organic Land Care.


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Saint Anselm College
According to Franklin and Tversky's classic study (1990), readers construct a mental model representing the spatial relations explicitly given in a text or narrative. Their theory known as the spatial framework model states that the accessibility of objects depends on their position along three differentially accessible axes defined with respect to your body. Therefore, readers will be fastest at making up/down decisions followed by right/left decisions, and lastly up/down decisions. The purpose of this study was to replicate Franklin and Tverksy's classic study using a new narrative describing an office and determine whether their model would predict performance in a virtual environment. It was hypothesized that the mental models derived from indirect sources such as text would be similar to those derived from direct visual experience using a virtual environment. A total of 20 participants ranging in age from 18-22 were recruited from their Introductory Psychology classes to take part in this study. Half of the participants were tested in the narrative condition and half of the participants were tested in the virtual environment condition. Reaction times and error rates were recorded for all participantsÕ responses to factual statements regarding the location of objects within each condition (i.e., up/down; right/left; front/back). The results showed that participants in the virtual reality condition were faster to respond to these statements compared to participants in the narrative condition. Participants responded fasted to up/down statements, followed by front/back statements and finally right/left statements. The results suggest that both indirect and direct experience produce similar mental models supporting the spatial frameworks theory originally proposed by Franklin and Tversky (1990).
First, I would like to thank the Psychology Department as a whole for their understanding and support. I could not have accomplished this without you all, for everyone has assisted me in some way. You have all realized that this has been the most difficult time that I have ever had to experience for various reasons, and your understanding has helped get me through it. Thank you Prof. Krachunas for your understanding and flexibility, and you, Prof. Flannery for your guidance, both with the study and with everything else. I would also like to thank you, Dad, for your unconditional love and support throughout my life, in good times and in bad. You have stood by me like no other, and I hope you are proud of this accomplishment. Finally, I would like to thank you Christalle, for being so brave through your ordeals. Your strength has given me the motivation to take action in my own life, and to do what needs to be done at any cost. Even in your darkest hour, you were selfless in the sense that you knew what I needed to do for my own future, and you stood patiently, waiting for the support that you so desperately needed. This is for you.
The knowledge of space that an individual acquires throughout his/her lifetime is attained by both direct and indirect experience of the world. In everyday life, we hear or read about a particular event or situation through a number of sources. And from them, we form concepts of space from language. By hearing or reading language describing a place, object, or event, the recipient of the information can only indirectly experience it through anothers interpretation. Experience through language is an indirect source of spatial information, while visual, first hand experience is considered to be direct. Through direct experience, an individual constructs his/her own concepts and beliefs according to stimuli that is seen, rather than depicted. Because of this, memory of spatial information is believed to be encoded in memory through dissimilar cognitive processes, depending upon if the information was obtained through direct or indirect experience .
A 2 Condition (Virtual Reality; Narrative) by 3 Question Type (Up/Down; Right/Left; Front/Back) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was computed for reaction time scores. A significant main effect for condition was observed, F(1, 18)=4.84, p<.05. Reaction times were faster for participants in the virtual reality group (M=5852.67, SE=703.63 compared to the control group (M=3661.79, SE=703.63), irrespective of question type. There was also a significant main effect for question type, F(2, 36)=9.05, p<.001. Planned comparisons (dependent t tests) showed that reaction times were significantly faster (p<.05) for up/down (M=3449.00, SE=489.71) versus right/left (M=6240.52, SE=809.62). In addition, reaction times were significantly faster (p<.05) for front/back (M=4582.17, SE=655.03) versus right/left (M=6240.52, SE=809.62). There was no significant difference between up/down and front/back reaction times. Finally, there was not a significant interaction between condition and question type for reaction times. Note, the same pattern of results for reaction time was observed when restricting the data analysis to correct responses.
The results of this experiment suggest that both indirect and direct experience produce similar mental models, supporting the spatial framework theory originally proposed by Franklin and Tversky (1990). However, the absence of correlation between response times in both conditions does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the effect of language versus visuo-spatial learning in spatial memory.


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A common investment for do-it-yourself super funds is Australian shares, with the average DIY fund allocating 35 per cent to 40 per cent of its assets to these investments.
Of greatest appeal to most DIY fund trustees who consider themselves investors rather than speculators are shares that pay dividend income enhanced by dividend imputation franking credits.
While about one in four – or just over 500 – companies listed on the Australian sharemarket pays its investors a dividend, this selection reduces to one in five that also frank their dividends with tax credits.
Of these, around 380 companies that pay franked dividends, headed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (which over the past 12 months has paid $3.34 per share in dividends), all but about 50 offer fully franked shares where the tax credit is 30 per cent.
A 30 per cent credit offers DIY funds excess credits that can be used during the DIY fund savings or accumulation phase to offset the 15 per cent superannuation income tax on unfranked dividends, on non-share investment income as well as the 15 per cent tax on super contributions.
Such credits have even greater appeal when a DIY fund swings into pension-paying mode. While pension payments from an account-based pension are tax free where the recipient has reached the age of 60, not only are the investment earnings from the super account that is paying the pension tax free but the imputation credits can provide a fund with an extra source of income in the form of a tax refund.
While it is unlikely there will be tax refunds during the superannuation accumulation stage unless the entire fund is invested in shares and because of taxable contributions, where a DIY fund is paying an account-based pension all the franking credits should be refunded. This entitlement to receive unused dividend imputation tax credits in cash has been available since July 2001.
The potential benefit of receiving an imputation tax credit refund is highlighted by a retiree reader who describes himself as a 67-year-old sole member of a DIY fund in the pension phase.
He notes that the software used by his fund accountant calculated his 2011 return at 8.75 per cent. But if he then includes the Australian Taxation Office franking credit cheque refund he subsequently received as income, his fund's return is 11.52 per cent. While he performed the additional calculation that involved adding the refund himself subsequently, he asks why this wasn't just done as part of the pension calculation process.
He is particularly puzzled why his imputation refund entitlement is not treated as income or revenue – something he thinks it clearly is – in the fund's return where it is described as an income tax expense in the operating statement and then as an "income tax refundable" amount in the fund's statement of financial position under an "other assets" sub-heading.
While he says he can understand the franking credits being dealt with in this way if the fund were still in the accumulation stage where tax is payable, he can't understand this treatment where, in his opinion, it is clearly a revenue item.
According to accountant and super adviser Mark Wilkinson of DIY super administrator Heffron Consulting, the response to the reader's query is that for accounting purposes, a tax credit is not regarded as income because it is primarily a tax offset. Like a number of other offsets in the tax system, like foreign tax credits, its major function is to allow an offset against tax that has already been paid.
In the case of imputation credits, they are available as offsets against tax paid by the company on profits distributed as dividends.
Another consideration with imputation credits is that a refund is not automatic. It only occurs if there is an excess credit amount. There are a number of situations where imputation credits can result in no refund because the credits offset a tax liability.
While the reader's major concern, says Wilkinson, is that his accountant uses a software package that does not take excess credits into account as a revenue item, from an accounting perspective, the only way to deal with imputation credits consistently is to show them as credits against a tax liability.
Although the reality is that where a fund is in pension mode and pays no income tax then any imputation credits will effectively become an additional return in the form of a tax refund, it is not correct to assume that all imputation credits will be treated this way.
Imputation credits are not income in the normal sense.
Wilkinson says there are possibly financial planning software tools that can add excess franking credits to fund income but they would go beyond the standard accounting procedures that are there for the purpose of preparing fund records.
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Thanks for the fast reply .. This is in fact just what I thought was the
case .. However we can not get it to work on this side .. Works with only
one shared secret passwd .. We will keep testing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Kasper [mailto:mk at neon1 dot net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:31 AM
To: brwatters at abs dash internet dot com
Cc: 'M0N0Wall firewall'
Subject: Re: Number of shared secrets?
On 21.01.2004, at 17:43, Brian R. Watters wrote:
> Just wanted to confirm that with the mobile Ipsec users that there can
> only be one shared secret? ..
Noooo! That's (almost) the whole point of mobile clients (and unlike some
other commercial firewalls I know of where this is not the case):
you can have as many different pre-shared keys as you want, and the e-mail
address (or just any string that looks like an e-mail address ;) can act as
the identifier.
Read this:
- Manuel
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Fumbling Fingers Lead to Discovery of New Alaska
Marine Habitat
INTRO: Scientific discoveries often come as a result of detailed planning and thoughtful experiments. But sometimes they happen by accident. That was the case this past summer when scuba-diving scientists dropped in on an entirely new marine habitat in waters off Alaska. Doug Schneider has more in this week's Arctic Science Journeys Radio.
STORY: If not for a slippery strainer, marine scientists Katrin Iken and Brenda Konar would have missed making what has turned out to be an important discovery.
Konar and Iken had stumbled upon a bed of rhodoliths—a type of coralline red algae that deposits calcium carbonate within their cell walls to form hard structures that closely resemble beds of colorful coral.
KONAR: "Most of them were about the size of a ping-pong ball. They have lots of branches that come out from a centerpiece. They are almost like jacks sitting on the bottom, except that they are pink."
Globally, rhodoliths fill an important niche in the marine ecosystem, serving as a transition habitat between rocky and sandy areas. They've been found throughout the world's oceans, including in the Arctic near Greenland and in waters off British Columbia.
But in her more than 15 years of diving in Alaska, Konar says she had
never come across them.
This is Arctic Science Journeys Radio, a production of the Alaska Sea Grant Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
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Thanks to the following individuals for help preparing this script:
Dr. Brenda Konar, Associate Professor
Arctic Science Journeys is a radio service highlighting science, culture, and the environment of the circumpolar north. Produced by the Alaska Sea Grant College Program and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The shortcut to our ASJ news home page is www.asjnews.org.
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Rhodoliths: Between Rocks and Soft Places [PDF; 816KB]


text: Hey guys I started a fan fiction wiki for True Blood, then I noticed that a bunch of people here were posting fan fiction on the blogs here. I wanted to know if anyone here would be interested in a fan fiction wiki...if you'd like one let me know and I can set it up. Just leave a blog comment and let me know what you think. If you want to check out what we're doing for the True Blood one, to see if it would suit you guys...go here http://truebloodfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/True_Blood_Fan_Fic_Wiki


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What, exactly, did Howard Kurtz expect?
Blog ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
Parroting GOP talking points about how rapturous the media coverage was of Obama inauguration, the WaPo's Kurtz wrote:
Well, the coverage has been so positive in the past week that you almost got the impression Obama would solve all of America's problems while fixing the college football playoff system and discovering a cure for cancer.
Kurtz didn't offer up any specific examples of coverage that was somehow offensively "positive." But more importantly, what was Kurtz comparing the coverage to, all that nasty, negative coverage George Bush got when he was first sworn in? Give us a break.
Inauguration coverage is what it is. The press, and especially television, loves tradition and pomp and circumstance and pretty pictures. And whenever a new president is sworn in the press produces wall-to-wall, feel-good coverage built around those pretty inaugural pictures. This week was no different than what Bush received for his first inaugural in 2001.
So where's Kurtz's actual proof that somehow this year's inauguration coverage was unusually positive?


text: CCC Receives Gift of Rare Unpublished Hemingway Letter Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4:05 PM The Clackamas Community College Foundation has received a donation of a rare, unpublished letter written by author Ernest Hemingway while in Havana in 1933. Attorney Larry Peterson of Lake Oswego donated the letter jointly to the CCC Foundation and the Alden E. Miller Law Library of Clackamas County. The eight-page letter is handwritten in pencil on four sheets of Inglaterra Restaurant-Café-Bar stationary. The letter is written to Hemingway's friend and hunting and fishing partner Charles Thompson. He writes of deep-sea fishing off Cuba, his car he left in Key West, Fla., and of postponing an upcoming trip to Africa. It is believed to be one of four unpublished Hemingway letters. Peterson, a Hemingway enthusiast who has collected memorabilia and artifacts over the years, purchased the letter at a Christie's auction in New York in December 1993. The unpublished Hemingway letter by the Nobel Prize-winning author has been stored in a cool, dry place for the past 20 years. Along with the letter are several newspaper articles about Hemingway from the 1930s and a large, vintage book on sport fishing in America that includes a chapter written by the author known for his spare, unadorned writing style. "I'm a great fan of the community college," said Peterson. "I'm pleased the letter will be a part of the college where so many people go to get a start in life." The CCC Foundation is drawing up a memorandum of understanding with the Law Library of Clackamas County that will detail how the two entities will share in the ownership of the letter. "The learning opportunities with such a gift are enormous," said Greg Fitzgerald, executive director of the CCC Foundation. "We are working with our English Department faculty, as well as Hemingway experts in the state, to plan activities to unveil the letter. There may be tremendous research opportunities. We're looking at all possibilities." The letter is now in a safe and will remain locked away until arrangements are made for proper handling and archiving. For more information, please contact Greg Fitzgerald at 503-594-3132 or email email@example.com. Press ReleasesEvents CalendarVideo ChannelPress ReleasesCCC in the NewsCollege Relations and Marketing Contact the College Relations and Marketing DepartmentOregon City - 19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Email us: email@example.com Call us: 503-594-3017


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US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09) voted today to save millions in taxpayer dollars by ending public financing of presidential campaigns.
HR 3463 would terminate the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Act, and the Election Assistance Commission, saving taxpayers $480 million and returning $199 million back to the Treasury.
"The federal government shouldn't be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on elections," Rep. Myrick said. "By and large, taxpayers have rejected the idea of public funding for presidential campaigns, as have candidates, and the Election Assistance Commission was supposed to end back in 2005. We're supposed to be cutting government spending, not continuing to spend millions of dollars on programs that serve no purpose".
HR 3463, introduced by Rep. Gregg Harper (MS-03), passed in the House by a vote of 235-190.
Source: http://myrick.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&parentid=21§iontree=21,22&itemid=953


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Mass Layoffs at Wells Fargo and Disney-ABC
Wells Fargo is cutting thousands of jobs from its mortgage-production unit as high interest rates lead to a lower rate of requests for refinancing.
The San Francisco-based banking giant will look to eliminate 2,300 jobs from the unit, roughly 20 percent of the mortgage loan officers workforce. Wells Fargo officials say they expect to see mortgage lending slow down significantly through 2013 as higher interest rates make it less attractive for folks to refinance.
The "Mouse House" is feeling the crunch of corporate restructuring. The Disney-ABC Television Group is cutting 175 jobs. Citing technological advances and changing viewer habits, the company said in a statement Wednesday that it was realigning certain areas to better position themselves for future growth.
Layoffs are expected to affect operations and eight ABC-owned TV stations in major markets including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Disney's ESPN unit also took a hit in job cuts earlier this year.


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Arguably the longest private eye novel ever written, Roderick Thorp's The Detective was a 1966 bestseller. Comfortably middle-class P.I. JOE LELAND, a former big city cop, and insurance company investigator, has set up a detective agency with partner Mike Petrakis, counting on Joe's reputation for integrity and professionalism, and a lot of work from the insurance company they both used to work for. They operate out of an office over a furniture store in Port Smith, a town in some unnamed northeastern state, but business is at least good enough that Joe can afford his own plane, not to mention the cigarettes and booze that seem to keep him going.
When The Detective kicks off, Joe's going through a rough spot in his marriage (his wife, Karen, and their daughter Stephanie, no longer live with him). And then he becomes involved in a particularly nasty case that threatens to "lay bare a town's most intimate secrets," as the blurb goes. "To uncover the truth, (Joe) must expose the sexual and emotional links" and plunge deep into the psychological complexities of a myriad of characters, including himself.
Sure, it's a big, trashy novel, but it's also quite entertaining. Perhaps tellingly (or maybe just a promise to readers who found the first book too long), the much shorter sequel was encouragingly titled Nothing Lasts Forever.
As that one kicks off, twenty years have passed, Joe and Karen have divorced, and she's since passed away. Joe's dissolved the agency and is now a security consultant, lecturing on SWAT team tactics, anti-terrorism measures, aircraft security, etc., etc. He's very much in demand, travelling all over the world, and rarely returning to his New York apartment. He no longer flies his own plane, or even drinks. He's lonely, and only rarely speaks to his daughter, Stephanie, who's also divorced, with two children of her own. She has an excellent job at a petroleum company in Los Angeles, but Joe feels he's failed her. So he decides to pay her a visit one Christmas... this is the literary equivalent of an action thriller, with a scorch-and-burn ending that could have come from Hammett himself.
Both Leland books were made into very successful films, although both took major liberties with Thorp's originals. 1968's The Detective had Leland back on the force as a New York City cop, played with considerable skill by Frank Sinatra, looking into the mutilation murder of a homosexual. With its frank (sorry) and "enlightened" attitudes towards gays, this was considered quite edgy and even daring stuff for its time. Aided by a great cast, the film did boffo box office, and still stands up as a rather engrossing, if extremely dated, police drama.
Faring even better when it comes down to the bottom line, though straying even further from the original source material was 1988's Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis, fresh off his success with TV's Moonlighting. Once again, Joe was cast as a cop, not a private eye, and this time he's not even a Joe -- he's a John. John Maclain, a tough New York City cop on his way to a possible reconciliation with his wife over the Christmas holidays. Masterfully directed by John McTiernan, and featuring a then surprisingly buffed-up Willis in all his smug, smartass glory, this one set new standards for rock'em-sock'em action and special effects, and there's no denying Willis and crew delivered one hell of a action thriller here, setting new standards for every film in the genre since.
But if you read the original novel, you realize just how ultimately facile and spineless and, yes, conservative and safe, the ending of the film actually is.
Not that it matters much, I guess. Die Hard has since spawned four filmed disappointing sequels so far and a ton of mostly lame imitations and rip-offs, sometimes starring Willis himself.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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Starring Edward Furlong, Ellen Furey, Andrea Lui, Dylan Taylor, Andrew Hachey, Krystin Pellerin, Trina Brink
Directed by Robert Wilson
I've always said that a boring film is the worst kind of bad movie there is and Warriors of Terra may very well be the worst direct-to-DVD horror movie I've seen thus far this year. Unlike the countless no budget, do-if-yourself, shot-on-digital flicks that pop up on DVD racks on a regular basis, Warriors of Terra clearly had some money behind, and unlike the makers of most of those other flicks, the director of Warriors of Terra is technically efficient. So what went wrong?
For starters, it's boring. Warriors of Terra is one of the most boring DTV movies I've seen all year. It's an uninteresting story with uninteresting characters in an uninteresting setting being stalked and killed in an uninteresting manner by an uninteresting menace. The movie starts with characters wandering about the place exploring, then they wander about the place looking for a way out, and then they wander around trying to stay alive and find a way out. Outside of the first ten minutes, the plot is pretty much on autopilot for most of the next hour. This is a prime example of a premise that has been stretched so thin for a feature length film as to reach its breaking point.
The other big problem is the direction. I said the director was competent with the camera. True. But first-time director Robert Wilson makes the mistake that many first-time directors – too much empty technique. Wilson relies on an onslaught of fancy edits, flashes, fades, trick lighting, quick cuts, and a variety of loud noises and what not to try and generate suspense whenever the film's fiend goes on the attack. It doesn't work at all; it actually succeeded in accomplishing the opposite. It doesn't generate tension; it detracts from it by becoming an irritating distraction. The only emotion I felt more than boredom while watching Warriors of Terra was annoyance with the overused camera-editing tricks. And none of this stylized nonsense changes the fact that the pacing is so slow to the point of non-existence.
The plot … Oh, yeah; the plot. The young members of an animal rights group break into some corporation's underground research facility with the help of the rebellious daughter of one of the facility's researchers and a security guard that is actually a member of their group undercover (Edward Furlong, not looking well at all). Their plan to free the research animals proves a bust when they find the cages empty. Their getaway is thwarted due to heavily armed security being called in to deal with the break-in, as well as that one girl's scientist father who has shown up concerned about the well being of one of his experiments. The eco-terrorist's topside computer geek tries to get them out by unlocking everything in the facility, unwittingly releasing a dangerous mutant in the process.
The mutant in question is a girl named Maya. She looks like Jena Malone with big, unkempt hair and one constant facial expression that makes it looks like the actress is trying to imitate the icy facial expressions of Robert Patrick's T-1000 from Terminator 2. Mostly she looks as bored as I felt watching her. Maya's sort of like Mathilda May's space vampire from Lifeforce in the way that she just walks around the place, approaching unsuspecting people, and then robbing them of their life by merely clutching them, but doing so wearing a worn Sunday dress and with the physical appearance, strange neck twitching, perpetual staring and never blinking personality of a ghostly mute from a Japanese style horror flick like The Ring. Whatever they were going for with Maya doesn't work – at all.
It seems that one girl's scientist daddy had been trying to find a cure for cancer. Note to all scientists out there: don't try curing cancer with the Ebola virus. Although he technically succeeded in curing her cancer, the cure ended up mutating this poor girl into a killing machine that's nearly impossible to kill due to her regenerative powers and who kills people by injecting victims with a virus that instantly liquefies their internal organs. I think she did this in order to feed but I don't quite remember and, frankly, the movie doesn't even let you see the attack scenes most of the time, so why she does it really doesn't even matter. This again harkens back to the director's failed attempts to be stylish. A bunch of flashes, fades, fancy editing … Oh, and always a loud crunch that signifies that the person has fallen victim. We occasionally see the victim begin oozing a black liquid but that's about it. Personally, I have no problem with the lack of gore, but the confusing manner in which the majority of these scenes are staged, combined with the complete lack of tension, renders the very thing the film's horror element hinges on ineffective.
And that's what Warriors of Terra is – that's all that Warriors of Terra is: a bunch of boring characters wandering about a facility and getting picked off one-by-one by an even more uninteresting mutant girl with little backstory and even less motivation. Other than the scientist daddy going down below to try and save both his daughter and his "experiment" while a corporate crony atop makes plans to deal with the escaped mutation by filling the whole place with lethal nerve gas, the proceedings are as predictably clichéd as you could possibly imagine for a film of this type.
There is one inexplicable thing. For no particular reason whatsoever, Maya undergoes a physical transformation just in time for the third act. All of sudden she pops up on the screen looking like a scalier version of Regan from The Exorcist. No logical reason why. She just does.
Warriors of Terra is a film that's too competently made and its production values too slick to find any schlock value to it. Even the acting, which is often not so hot, isn't even bad enough to elicit any unintentional humor. This is the sort of serious horror movie that either had to work or would be a complete failure, and unfortunately, Warriors of Terra is a complete failure. And it's so boring that if I had not committed myself to watching this thing to then end I'd have shut if off after about the first 25 minutes and never looked back. In retrospect, I wouldn't have missed anything if I had.
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It comes as no surprise that Beltrá has been honored by many for his work-including His Royal Highness Prince Charles, ABC News Network and Sony. In fact, Beltrá's work so impressed Prince Charles that he selected Beltrá as the photographer for his own conservation publications. "Photographic images can tell a compelling story about the truth," says Prince Charles.
Who has not seen and been affected by Beltrá's award-winning images? The polar bear leaping from one small ice floe to another, smoke thick as storm clouds rising through rainforest canopy from the slash-and-burning below, or British Petroleum oil unfurling into the jade-colored water in the Gulf of Mexico. "Prevention is more important than cleaning up," says Beltrá.
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is honored to bring this renowned and in-much-demand photographer to present his images and story during a symposium on Saturday, June 11th. This event is sponsored by National Camera Exchange and Tamron USA.
In addition to Daniel Beltrá, participants will hear from award-winning photographer, ecologist, and interdisciplinary educator Molly Steinwald. Associate director of science education at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Steinwald uses the camera to connect youth and adults to nature and heighten its important role in our lives.
Adding insight and moderating the question-and-answer session will be Jane Kirtley of the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Photographers will gain an understanding of how to frame and consider a subject for the greatest impact and story, and have the opportunity to try out the latest in cameras and equipment from Tamron Lenses and National Camera. Teachers and parents will learn how to use the camera as a tool with children to help them gain skills and a deeper, more caring understanding of their natural environment.
Environmental and conservation advocates will learn how to better present a message that is compelling and motivating. Everyone will have a rare opportunity to interact with internationally renowned, award-winning photographers.
Coffee, lunch and full-day admission to the Arboretum are included in the ticket price. Bring your camera!
Registration: 952-443-1422 or www.arboretum.umn.edu/photosymposium2011.aspx $40 member / $50 non-member. Lunch included.
More information: http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/photosymposium2011.aspx.
--Treat the kids to free (with admission) fun with Storytime at the Andersen Horticultural Library, Thursdays at 10:30; and Weekend Family Fun, Saturdays and Sundays, at the Learning Center. In June, it's Root Roast, noon to 4 p.m. at the Learning Center. Bake a delicious roasted root snack in the Harvest Kitchen. View roots up close through our Scope-on-a-Rope and peek through root viewers.
--There's still time to sign up the kids for Peapods for Preschoolers, Summer Day Camps and more: http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/kidclasses.aspx
--Take time for tea: Wednesday, June 8. http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/Teatime.aspx
--Take in artwork, indoors and out: "Steelroots: Touch Earth & Sky" (http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/Steelroots.aspx); the Society of Minnesota Sculptors "The Nature of Art" Exhibit (http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/natureofart.aspx); and "Here Comes the Sun" in the Reedy Gallery (http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/herecomesthesun.aspx).
--Sign up for popular Minnesota garden writer Bonnie Blodgett's presentation, "Remembering Smell: Fragrance in the Garden," Thursday, June 23, 6 to 9 p.m., MacMillan Auditorium. Enjoy a wine reception, buffet dinner, presentation and book signing: $ 25, Friends of AHL members; $35, others. Register at http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/library.aspx or make check payable to Friends of Andersen Horticultural Library. Call the Library at (952) 443-1405 for details.
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