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- "We fight like siblings, but we fuck like champions"
- ―Eric Northman[src]
Season 5Edit
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"Edit
Bill calls Jessica and lets her know he will be out of town and that she is free to use his home. Eric is seen in the background cleaning up Nan's bloody mess with vampire speed. Bill and Eric both sense Sookie is in danger but Eric says "Fuck Sookie" and reminds Bill that she has rejected them both. He knows that cleaning up Nan's mess is more important.
Eric and Bill are captured and stuffed inside the trunk of a car driven by Hayes and Nora Gainesborough.
In the trunk they work together to get an umbrella and puncture a hole in the gas tank with its metal tip. They then create a spark of fire to make the car explode. Before Hayes can kill Eric or Bill, Nora stakes him. Eric approaches her instantly and kisses her passionately. He tells Bill, she is his sister.Eric, Bill and Nora are walking along a pier. Nora explains the Guardian had Nan followed, and Nora took the opportunity to save Eric before the Authority got to them. They are unaware that Nora is Eric's sister. When Bill asked why she did this, she said she would do anything for Eric. Eric said, he'd do anything for her. She was going to have a car waiting to ambush their car and kill Hayes, but Eric and Bill's stunt beat her to it. She said not to apologize, and that it was "bad ass". They go to ground for the day inside a huge 18-wheeler bed. Nora calls Roman and lies to him about being ambushed. Bill tells Eric, he knew he had friends in high places, but is surprised to have a chancellor is on his side. Eric says not even Pam knows about his alliance with Nora. Nora explains to them that they cannot return to the lives they had. If they do, her life will end, as Roman thinks Eric and Bill are now dead.
In the bed of the 18 wheeler, Eric and Nora are having sex while Bill waits outside. Bill comments how New Orleans is only 60 miles away and that perhaps they should be more quiet. Eric's cell phone rings as he receives a call from Alcide. He learns that Russell is on the loose again.
Nora, Eric and Bill are walking along a pier when they meet with "Cat". She has their new papers. Bill is Marcelus Clark and Eric is Ike Applebaum. Cat says new papers are hard to come by and tells them it is time to say goodbye. Eric kisses Nora. Suddenly all the vampires are instantly killed, and a loud voice is heard from above. The Authority has trapped Eric, Bill and Nora. ("Turn! Turn! Turn!")
"Authority Always Wins"Edit
Nora, Bill and Eric are transported to an unknown facility. Salome meets them as they are unloaded from the armored truck used to transport them. She takes them down to private cells and locks them inside. They are questioned via a camera/monitor on the ceiling.
Eric asks Bill what they should do now that they are locked away. They then discover Nigel Beckford. An insane, baby-eating vampire who is also locked inside the cells. During interrogation Bill says that Nora and Eric are both innocent. With the Authority believing Bill is lying, they use a UV light machines to burn all of them. They all keel over in agony until the lights are shut off.
They are separated and tortured. Bill is taken before Dieter Braun. In the next room, Eric is undergoing the same interrogation by Salome. She claims that Nora is dead and asks Eric about Nan Flanagan's murder. He feigns ignorance and she injects silver into his veins, causing agonising pain. Salome tells Eric that Bill has been freed for his cooperation and that he'll be reinstated as King. Eric doesn't buy it, and simply says "Long live the King". He then gets more silver injected into him.
Eric and Bill are lead into a room with the Authority. Roman enters from a side door. Before speaking to them, he holds a type of communion with the blood of Roman, which he takes from his own wrist to symbolize that of Lilith's. One by one, he drops a blooddrop into the mouths of each member. After the ceremony, Roman turns to Bill and Eric, stating he hates to meet under these circumstances. Nora is pulled out of the room, and Eric shows he wants to help her, yet he is bound and cannot. Roman sits and starts to discuss the errors they have made. The launcher used on main street, the fight breaking out between vampires and humans during the Festival of Tolerance. He tells them that they are the Authority, just as Nan was. He then tells them they will see the True death. Roman also asks about the Sanguinista movement. Bill says he knows nothing about it, and Eric says he tries to stay out of politics.
The Authority has a meeting before them. They all believe they shouldmeet the True death. Roman says that mainstreaming is the only way to live. That they must co-exist with humans. Salome opens a briefcase and pulls out a stake for Roman. Bill speaks up when asked if they have any final words. He says he will offer up an exchange."Our lives in return for Russell Edgington." Roman was told by Nan that Russell was dead but Bill assured him that Eric and he put him in the ground and did not kill him. Eric ads that Russell has broken free. Whether they live or die, the Authority will find out soon enough. Bill says that Russell will obliterate the Authorities cause. Roman, in vampire speed stands behind Bill with a stake. Angry that he allowed the happenings with Russell. Eric yells out "quiet!", and that he was the one who did it. Roman is mad that Bill, a king, allowed it. Roman pulls back and says he cannot go on personal desires. Bill states that Russell will stop at nothing to kill Eric and Bill, and when he does, Roman will be there to put an end to him as they should have. ("Authority Always Wins")
"Whatever I Am, You Made Me"Edit
The Authority continues to debate what to do with Bill and Eric for leaving Russell Edgington alive. Roman assures them that he will take their opinions under advisement and sends them away, except Salome. Roman reveals to Eric and Bill that Russell has become a "poster boy" for Sanguinistas for what he did on public television. Roman makes it clear to them that he will not see mainstreaming ruined by one ancient, pissed off psychopath. Bill and Eric assure him that they understand and promise to bring Russell in or die trying. Roman dismisses them.
Molly, a bubbly vampire, requests for Bill and Eric to remove their shirts and places a device on them called the iStake. It is firmly strapped around their torsos and centered over their hearts. Molly tells them that the indestructible devices will pierce their heart faster than a bullet with the click of an application on her iPhone. She warns that attempting to remove the iStake will also trigger it.
In her coffin, Pam dreams of an encounter with Eric, Lorena Krasikiand a young Bill at her brothel just before she was turned. In one of the rooms, Lorena and Bill are shown feeding on one of Pam's girls. Eric walks in and stops them both. Bill attempts to stake Eric and Eric easily stops him. Amused, Eric introduces himself. Bill once again attempts to attack Eric, but Lorena stops him. Lorena pleads with Eric that Bill is still new and does not understand his vampire lifestyle yet. Eric notes Bill's bravery and loyalty to Lorena, as well as his surprising strength for a newborn. Eric also mentioned that killing a newborn that shows such promise would be a shame simply because his Maker did not teach him to respect elder vampires. Eric demands that Lorena apologize to Pam. Pam extorts 500 dollars for each girl they drained. Bill rushes out and Eric warns Lorena to control him. Lorena follows Bill and Pam pays her debt by sleeping with Eric. Pam is shown back in her coffin in the present day, still sleeping as bloody tears begin to fall.
In another flashback, Pam is shown in bed with Eric after she slept with him. She asks Eric what it is like to be a vampire. Eric says it would take several human lifetimes to answer that question. Pam asks Eric to make her a vampire, saying that they would have all the time in the world. Eric says that she doesn't know what she is asking for. She disagrees, asserting that she wants a life worth living. Pam tells Eric that women like her die alone when they get old, riddled with diseases. She says that if he knew what kind of life waited for her, he would turn her. Eric challenges that if she knew the responsibilities of being a Maker, she wouldn't dare ask. Pam asks him to make and then leave her, sure that she could take care of herself. Eric explains tossing a newborn baby into a gutter is no different to abandoning a newborn vampire. He adds that becoming a Maker is a bond deeper than any human can understand. Eric prepares to leave and Pam puts on her robes and walks to her table. She intentionally cuts both her forearms and begins to bleed profusely. She begs Eric to make her a vampire or watch her die of blood loss. Hesitant at first, Eric reveals his fangs and gives her what she wants. ("Whatever I Am, You Made Me")
"We'll Meet Again"Edit
Eric is brought to Salome's bedroom at her request. Salome reveals that she knows Nora is Eric's sister through Godric. She says that she found Godric to be a glorious vampire until he lost his way. Salome wonders why Eric left Nora to die. Eric answers that he had no choice. She tells Eric that they all have choices. Eric asks if this is how she makes friends. Salome says that friends she can trust are rare. She confides that she sponsored and mentored Nora. Eric wonders if she believes Nora's arrest reflects badly. Salome says Eric is cold at heart because he's been hurt. Eric asserts that it will heal. Salome says that she could quicken that process by being his friend, removing her robes and lying naked on her bed. Eric walks towards her.
Bill and Eric are seen in an elevator. Eric attempts to gloat about sleeping with Salome to Bill. Bill smiles, hinting of his sexual encounter with Salome before Eric. Eric wonders what she wants from them. When the elevator doors open, a group of guards are seen waiting for them.
Bill and Eric climb out of the back of a jeep on a deserted back road. The guards that dropped them off throw them a set of car keys and drive off. Bill and Eric discuss who could have freed Russell Edgington. Eric says only four people knew where he was, him and Bill included. Bill hits the key's alarm to locate the car and tells Eric that he'll drive. They go to Fangtasia and close the bar early to wait for Pam. When she arrives Pam shakes with relief seeing her Maker back. She says that no apologies are necessary between them and asks if they can let bygones be bygones. Pam notices that Bill is also present and explains that Tara is her progeny. She tells Eric that he is a grandfather. Disinterested, Eric asks Bill a moment alone with Pam. Bill takes Tara with him to the offices.
Eric interrogates Pam, calling her a liar and demanding to know where Russell is. Pam assures him that she would die a thousand times before betraying him. Eric calls her a fool, saying he trusts no one and that she shouldn't either. Pam asks why he keeps her around if she means so little to him. Pam demands that Eric release her if he trusts Bill and Alcide over her.
Eric walks into his office, and Tara calmly leaves. He tells Bill that Pam is innocent. Bill asks if Eric told anyone else about Russell, including his sister, offending Eric. Bill tells him that Russell is a great martyr for the Sanguinistas and if Nora is behind this, then Russell would be very useful to her cause. Eric says if she was planning something he would've known about it and even then he wouldn't give her Russell. Eric then asks Bill if he told anyone, including Jessica. Bill says that if he did, he would have gone to her first. He then suggests they go to ground and keep searching the following night.
Pam wakes up in her coffin. Eric comes downstairs to talk with her. They sit on the stairs and he tells her that searching for Russell is a suicide mission. He says that even if they find Russell, he and Bill will still be facing treason charges. She asks about Eric's friends within the Authority and Eric tells her he had a friend, but she can't help him anymore. Eric warns her that either Russell or the Authority will end him and says that he doesn't want her there. When she says that she wants to fight beside him, he still denies her and says that he has to release her. He says that it not because he doesn't trust her but because she is his only progeny and he needs her to live after he dies to secure his legacy. Pam begins to cry but says that she understands and accepts. Eric hesitates, but releases her. Pam begins to cry and hugs Eric. Eric says that she is still his child and that she was born into greatness. He reminds her that she is also a Maker now and that their blood will continue to thrive. Eric kisses Pam's forehead and holds her as tears fall from his eyes.
Bill is watching Sookie making out with Alcide from outside her window. Eric arrives and says that they should be looking for Russell. Bill says that they are and believes Sookie can be useful in their search. Eric says Sookie might not want to help, but Bill says they won't give her the choice. ("We'll Meet Again")
"Let's Boot and Rally"Edit
Sookie and Alcide are making out on her couch. Alcide picks her up, takes her upstairs and both begin to undo their clothes. Once Sookie's shirt comes off, Alcide proclaims he's been waiting a long time to sleep with her. Sookie suddenly throws up on Alcide's shoes. Bill and Eric stand idly by Sookie's door with Eric teasing Alcide about knowing how to treat a lady.
Sookie is sitting at her table with Bill and Eric while Alcide is cleaning his boots in the back. Bill requests Sookie to try and read the mind of Doug, Alcide's employee who was glamoured after Russell was freed. Alcide says he doesn't want Doug mixed up in vampire business, saying fangers bring nothing but trouble and death. Eric retorts that they don't need his permission. As they argue about the current situation with Russell, a still drunken Sookie then begins to hear all three men bark like dogs and starts to laugh. When they stop and realize, Sookie apologizes and admits that she felt if she makes the right choices, her life would go back to normal. She then realizes that it's not going to change and accepts her life would always revolve around the supernatural. She grabs her jacket and goes with Bill and Eric to hunt Russell, Alcide also joining along.
Bill, Eric, Alcide and Sookie show up to meet Doug. Sookie asks if she could read his mind and he lets her. While he says he doesn't remember much, Sookie sees his thoughts and a woman approaches him but Sookie can't make out who it is. She then sees another of Doug's thoughts of this woman digging Russell out with her hands. A terribly weak and blood deprived Russell is seen being held and Sookie notices the woman wearing the same pendant the Authority wears. She tells this to Bill and Eric, and Bill accuses Eric of telling Nora about Russell, to which Eric promptly denies. Bill continues accusing Nora of freeing Russell and Eric deems it absurd, considering the great lengths Nora went through to free them both.
Eric and Bill argue in the back of the truck. Bill wonders if Nora orchestrated in saving them both to deliver them to Russell. Eric asks Bill why he thinks she would to that. Bill says Russell can be a powerful ally to her cause, though he would never do it for free and if Nora were to serve them both to Russell then she can negotiate with him. Eric continues to ensure that Nora's not behind this and tried to help them, but Bill refuses to believe that. Eric says he's being paranoid. Bill retorts in questioning why Nora's still alive. Eric says he doesn't know. Bill says Nora is a traitor and a liar just like her brother. In anger, Eric exposes his fangs and demands that Bill take back his words. Bill, also showing his fangs, suddenly gets a phone call. Molly tells them their iStakes have been activated to go off at dawn. As they approach an abandoned asylum, Bill attempts to have him and Eric split to try and find Russell and tells Sookie she can wait outside with Doug and Alcide . Sookie deems that a poor idea and says it's best they stick together, considering her powers are the only thing that seem to have a success rate against Russell.
Sookie continues reading Doug's mind to locate Russell's exact whereabouts. As they search, they find a rat feeding on a human hand. Nearby, they find more rats feeding on piles of drained corpses. Eric deems they are definitely in the right place. Eric and Bill approach Russell's room. Russell, now fully healed, wonders what took Eric and Bill so long. Eric approaches and asks Russell if he remembers him and says they've come to finish what they started. Russell says that, like his old lover Talbot used to tell him when they went buck hunting: "Give it your best shot." ("Let's Boot and Rally")
"Hopeless"EditAlcide is being dragged away by a wolf before he can transform and take it on. Wolves also attack Eric and Bill, leaving Sookie exposed. A still-weak but hungry Russell closes on Sookie, and is about to bite her when she suddenly manifests balls of faerie light from her hands, sending him flying against a wall. Before he can recover, Eric and Bill subdue their wolf attackers and Eric grabs Russell by the throat. Before he can end him, Bill comes up behind Eric, holding him at bay with a stake. He proposes that they take Russell alive, reasoning that if they succeed in bringing him in, the Authority might spare them. Eric doesn't believe him. Before Eric can answer, the Authority's strike team, lead by Councilman Kibwe, swarms the building and tells the group that they'll take over from that point.
Russell hurls curses at the Authority's team and Kibwe. He assures them they'll have to pay once he's fully restored. As Russell is being led away Kibwe asks Bill and Eric why Sookie and Alcide are there. They make up a story about finding them and Doug along the way. Kibwe says they know too much, but Bill assures them that they'll be glamoured. The councilman agrees, leaving one of the team behind to witness it. Bill goes to Sookie and tells her to look him in the eyes. Eric approaches Alcide, bares his fangs and bites his finger to heal him with his blood. He then glamours Alcide telling him that he'll remember nothing of the evening, but will always protect Sookie with his life. Alcide drowsily agrees. Eric adds that Alcide will keep his hands off of Sookie, romantically speaking and from this moment on he'll find Sookie a bit disgusting.
Councilman Kibwe puts Bill and Eric into the back of a truck and tells them the Authority will be pleased that they captured Russell. They ask if this means they'll be pardoned. The councilmember tells them it's in Lilith's hands.Bill and Eric return to the council, where their harnesses are removed and Roman toasts them with rare, 18th century Austrian hemophiliac blood. Salome tells Eric that Nora confessed to being a Sanguinista while they were gone, much to Eric's surprise. Roman tells Eric and Bill that by delivering Russell to the Authority, they have proven to be with him. Bill plays along, but Eric will only say he's a "pacifist." Roman laughs and tells Eric that he's too cool to admit he believes in anything but himself. Salome tries to excuse herself by saying that she wants to interrogate Russell. Roman tells her not to bother, that they're just going to execute him as soon as possible. Salome seems upset about this decision, but offers to give him an extra dose of intravenous silver and bring him forth. Eric asks to visit Nora in her cell, telling Roman that she's his sister. This is a surprise to the rest. Eric assures Roman that he'll be present for the execution.
Eric stands outside Nora's cell, but Nora is to busy praying. She doesn't notice him until a harnessed, screaming Russell is dragged by. Salome leans towards the bars, telling her Russell is going to be executed that very night. Nora's eyes open and she suddenly looks ecstatic. "It's happening. It's finally happening," Nora says. "God's plan, made manifest by her. Thank you Lilith. Thank you, she who transcends death." Eric, suddenly dismayed, asks Nora if she released Russell. She says no, that it's a miracle, all part of "her plan." Eric rushes back to the execution. Eric is there as Russell's i-stake fails to work and Russell kills Roman. ("Hopeless")
"In the Beginning"Edit
Russell having just killed Roman, tackles Eric and tells him "Me and you together at last." Eric bares his fangs and so does Russell. Then the lights begin to blink on and off brightly. During the commotion AVL guards swarm into the room and catch Russell. They bring him down using a silver net and he is placed back into security. When everything settles down Bill looks around for Eric and finds him hung up on the wall by his neck. Eric says drying "The view from up here is spectacular."
Bill and Eric realize they were used to bring Russell to the Authority so he could kill Roman. They're trying to find out why Russell's restraints didn't work. If silver was injected into him there was no way he could've killed Roman so fast. They also wonder why the i-stake didn't work. Molly, who is in charge of the i-stakes, doesn't know either and is in the process of finding out. They are called to meet with Salome and Nora. While standing in Salome's room Nora tries to talk to Eric but feeling betrayed Eric tells her to shut up. Suddenly Russell appears and tells them he has been reborn. Nora tells Eric she tries to save him because she knew about Russell but again Eric ignores and shuts her up. Salome admits to digging up Russell because he was the only vampire powerful enough to get rid of Roman. She says they're interested in sharing their power with everyone and wants them to join them. Neither Eric or Bill are interested. Salome informs them of a ceremony taking place the following night, and gives them to option to attend.
Russell tells those at the ceremony he disavows himself of his previous statements and says he loves Lilith. Nora talks about vampires having evolved from humans and says that night at the ceremony everybody will drink from Lilith's blood. Chancellor Dieter speaks up saying that it is blasphemy. He says he has been part of the Authority since Roman first formed it and he will not go along with any of this. Before the chancellor can finish Russell decapitates him. Afterwards Russell apologizes to Lilith. Everyone is silent. Bill asks Eric if they're really going along with it and Eric agrees saying they'll go with the flow.
After drinking Lilith's blood Eric is amongst the vampires who drunkenly walk around town causing ruckus. Eric is also at the club where the vampires attack humans. While Eric is feeding on a human Godric's spirit appears to Eric. Godric tells Eric that he knows what he's doing is wrong, but his sister does not. Eric stops feeding and stares at Nora. ("In the Beginning")
"Somebody That I Used to Know"Edit
The vampires crazy night comes to an end. They return to the headquarters with the majority of them still high and reveling in drinking Lilith's blood. Eric, who has sobered up, turns to Bill and asks him what the hell just happened. Bill mentions seeing Lilith. Eric isn't so sure, attributing what they saw to being high.The vampires evaluate their evening. Russell says he feels "born again" and the rest of the group believes this is the beginning of a new way of life. Eric isn't completely on board saying that "I think I've had enough fun for one night" he asks Bill if he is coming. Bill shakes his head. Disappointed, Eric leaves the room.
Eric tries to convince Nora that her mind is clouded and mentions seeing Godric. She says negative things about Godric and Eric is furious, he attempts to kill her but stops himself. Utterly heartbroken, Eric leaves. Nora says that she thinks Lilith will be able to show Eric the way.
At a meeting of the new vampire hierarchy they decide how to start flexing their muscles. It is suggested they simply start killing mainstreaming vampires, but Bill thinks of a better move: destroying the Tru Blood factories. Eric completely shocked asks Bill what he's doing: Bill coldly replies "Evolving." ("Somebody That I Used to Know")
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"Edit
While the Authority proceeds with Lilith's plan by returning to the old ways, Eric plans his escape from headquarters together with Bill and Nora in order to save her as Godric requested. He turns to Molly for assistance who quickly agrees to help.
Just before dawn Eric tricks Nora into following him to the escape route. Once the cameras are turned off he disables her with a syringe, then prepares to escape after using her finger to access the elevator. The authority guards & Salome are waiting inside the elevator. Bill betrayed Eric and warned them of the escape route. The guards take Eric away, while he angrily stares at Bill. ("Everybody Wants to Rule the World")
"Gone, Gone, Gone"Edit
Bill fills a dropper with the blood of Lilith in the sanctum of authority's headquarters. He has Eric brought before him and warns him that he and Nora are the only thing keeping him from the true death. Eric defiantly welcomes death and asks why Bill cares. Bill says that he owes Eric for saving his life. Bill prepares the dropper but Eric refuses to imbibe. Nora holds his jaw open as Bill gives him the drop of Lilith's blood. Nora says that they will meet her together and opens her mouth for her own dose. Bill obliges before leaving the room. He watches them from a security station. They experience a vision of Godric. He warns them against following Lilith. Reminding them that he evolved beyond savagery. Lilith appears and Eric shouts for Godric to fight as Nora begs Lilith to have mercy on him. Lilith tears Godric's throat open as he tells his progeny, it is not him who must fight Lilith. Bill sees nothing on his monitor.
The other chancellors watch Steve's broadcast from the council chamber, Russell holding Emma and commentating on Steve's performance. Bill enters with Eric and says that he has managed to convert him to the Sanguinista cause. Eric tells the others about his vision and claims that he is now a believer in Lilith. He apologizes and kneels before Russell, forgiving him for his misdeeds and welcoming a new era of co-operation. Russell reluctantly offers his hand for a kiss.
The authority meet to discuss spreading their message. Russell brings up the possibility of day walking using the blood of faeries. He believes they should attempt to synthesize faerie blood just as they have done with human blood. Salome calls the suggestion blasphemy. Russell attacks her and announces his superiority over all of them. His native accent returning as he loses control of his emotions. He declares that they will not constrain him and speeds out of the room. ("Gone, Gone, Gone")
Eric paces back and forth in his room as Nora enters. They share a passionate moment. Eric tells her that he's going to get them out of there.
General Cavanaugh of the U.S. Army pays a visit to the Authority. He demands that they tell him where Roman is and why he hasn't be answering calls. He informs them that he knows they bombed the Tru Blood factories and that he has video footage of Russell and Steve eviscerating 22 fraternity members. He threatens to make the video public if they don't watch themselves. Triggering a war between humans and vampires. As he leaves, Eric stops him and breaks his neck, killing him.
The Authority members crowd around Cavanaugh's dead body, cursing Eric. Eric and Nora calm them down by telling them that if they act quickly with a glamouring campaign, they can contain the situation. Nora explains that she knows the Chief of Staff and Salome orders them to go and report back quickly.
Eric and Nora are driven away from the Authority headquarters by two guards. Eric asks if he can change the radio station and then stakes both guards. Eric and Nora exit the car and smile, flying off into the sky. ("Sunset")
"Save Yourself"Edit
Eric locates Russell just as he is about to enter a fae hideout where Sookie is taking refuge. The faeries are using their photokinesis to keep Russell at bay. Eric takes advantage of the situation and manages to stake Russell bringing him the True Death, satisfying a long held lust for revenge. Steve Newlin looks on in horror as his boyfriend is staked and then runs off into the woods.
Sookie rushes to help Jason, who was knocked out in the battle and Nora finds herself drawn to Sookie's blood. Eric stops Nora and makes her swear not to touch Sookie. Jason is groggy from a head injury, but alive
Eric arrives with Tara and Nora asking for Sookie's help to save Bill. Eric says that she is the only one that can get through to Bill. Sookie agrees to help them infiltrate the Authority. They arm themselves with weapons from the Stake House.
Eric arrives at the Authority and kills every vampire that approaches him. Jason revels in the violence against vampires, killing many himself. Nora and Eric disarms the building's security system and release the prisoners. Eric is amused to realize that Pam and Tara have developed feelings for one another.
He sends most of the group back up in the elevator, warning them to expect more guards, then takes Sookie to find Bill. They find Bill about to drink Lilith's blood. Sookie urges Bill to come back to his old self.
Having grown tired of his old life and always apologizing for being a vampire, Bill refuses. He claims to have no real feelings for Sookie and drinks the blood of Lilith. He begins to bleed from the eyes and mouth and then appears to be destroyed, leaving a puddle of blood behind. Sookie is devastated and Eric comforts her. As she breaks down Bill rises again from the pool of his remains, coated in blood like Lilith and baring sharper, longer fangs. Eric yells at Sookie to run. As they flee Bill growls demonically. ("Save Yourself")


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True to its word, Microsoft has publicly released a beta of the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The 1.2GB download has been available to members of the Windows Customer Connection Team since last month, but the door is now open to anyone interested in test-driving W7 SP1 not that there's much to see.
In fact, Microsoft blatantly says the beta doesn't provide any new features for end users and if you identify yourself as a consumer, student or even a tech enthusiast, you won't be given access to the download. Only industry professionals are permitted but there's nothing to stop you from claiming you're an IT worker if you're dying to take SP1 for a spin.
Windows 7's first service pack is mostly just a collection of hotfixes already available through Windows Update. Meanwhile, Server 2008 R2 receives new features such as RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory, the first of which provides a virtualized 3D graphical experience for remote users, while the second gives on-the-fly control of a virtual machine's memory.

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When a country's citizens buy more adult nappies than kids' nappies, it's time to ask questions.
In particular – what does it mean for house prices?
Let me explain…
Statistics in Japan now reveal that because of its ageing population, the country's seniors create more demand for nappies than the country's infant population.
Japan is an extreme example of what happens when a country ages. It has the oldest population of any country in the world, with a median age of 44.6 years.
That's unless you include the tiny Principality of Monaco, inhabited by its ageing billionaire playboys (who bring the median age up to 48.9).
Australia is a sprightly 37.5 years in comparison.
The changing demographics of a country's population are one of the biggest drivers of long-term economic trends, particularly house prices.
When an army of baby-boomers spend a generation working productively, and investing in property, prices tend to steadily rise over those decades.
But when that generation ages and it comes time to sell and downsize – what happens then?
The results were shocking when this process began in Japan.
To start with, the Japanese property market peaked when its retirees begun to outnumber its workforce.
And since then property prices have HALVED.
Is Australia Turning Japanese?
Now it looks like Australian house prices are about to go through the same process.
You can see what happened in Japan clearly in a recent chart from Citi. It shows how closely real estate prices (light blue, LHS) have followed the 'dependency ratio' (dark blue, RHS, inverted)…
Japan – Property Pulled Down by Retirees Selling for Twenty Years
The dependency ratio calculates the ratio of those outside the workforce (mostly retirees, but also children) against those of working age.
In Japan, the dependency ratio clearly turned around at the same time as property prices, and has followed the 20-year long downtrend ever since.
If you look at this data for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain, they all tell a similar same story.
The only difference is the story has only been going for the last five years, not twenty like in Japan.
But in demographics, it's possible to accurately forecast where population trends will run over the coming decades. That means, assuming no war or plague in that period, you get a pretty good idea of where the dependency ratio will be, all the way to 2030.
The bad news for Aussie property owners is that in Australia, our dependency ratio turned a few years ago.
And it's no coincidence that this happened exactly the same time that Australian property prices peaked.
It gets worse. The demographics project that over the next two decades at least, the growing army of Australian retirees will increasingly outnumber Aussie workers.
In other words, for the next twenty years, there will be more baby boomers every year looking to sell property as they rationalise their assets for retirement.
If Japan, the US, UK, Spain and Ireland are any kind of precedent, could the weakness in Australian house prices over the last eighteen months just be the start of a long, drawn out retreat in the great Australian property market?
Aussie Property to Slowly Retreat as the Country Ages?
Demographics aren't the only thing driving house prices of course. Any number of factors, from interest rates, to employment rates, and good old-fashioned supply and demand, are critical in the short or medium-term.
But this shift in balance from workers to retirees is a slow tectonic force. It will gradually increase supply of housing over years and decades, gradually taking the edge off Australian house prices unless a greater force emerges.
As an extreme illustration of the relationship between demographics and property, Detroit in the US is hard to ignore.
The Detroit population halved as the city's main employment, the motor industry dried up. This has left an unmanageable oversupply of property, from homes to schools, to hospitals.
This huge overhang has brought Detroit property prices down from around $100,000 to less than $13,000 today. To see just what Detroit looks like as the city's buildings decay, click here.
This is a drastic example of course, but it shows what can happen to a housing market in the face of powerful demographic changes.
Dr Alex Cowie
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Post yours Nice try wrong guy MTO y'all might need to check the owner of y'all site tho he look sick 😷 #GetTested http://t.co/FLbIhuUeoE— IG:HOGGLIFE101 (@slimthugga) October 2, 2013
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geometry again again again again
If angle AFB= 8x-6 and angle BFC= 14x +8, find the value of x so that angle AFC is a right angle.
Hello. Please help me with a few questions. 1) Which is the correct position of "again" in the sentence: "They have (again)gathered (again)at the square (again)"? 2)Does the phrase "the allegations doubt his integrity" have the same meaning as "the allegations question his ...
Summer School Calculus
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geometry again again again
Two angles are supplementary. one angle measures 12 degrees more than the other. Find the measures of the angles.
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French for Anonymous to Sra
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Hi, again. I need help with this word decorum. the def is ADJ proper; seemly correct how do i use this in a sentence?
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algebra 2..again
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I snap my fingers once. I wait one second and snap them again. I wait two seconds and snap them a third time. I wait four seconds and snap them again. I wait 8 seconds and snap them again. If this pattern continues, how many times will I snap my fingers in a year? Thanks!
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Algebra 2
Two days ago "Steve" helped me with this problem. I am grateful to him. I didn't get it and asked for him to help me again. He showed it to me again, but I needed more steps shown. Then I think he was finished for tutoring for the day before I could see it again with more ...
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Biology....someone who can explain something to me
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If I want to say: "...but now all is well again" do I use "encore" or "de nouveau" for "again"? Mais maintenant tout est bien encore(de nouveau) Merci beaucoup!!
Pre-Algebra ... again :-(
How do i go about finding the integers of a product and quotient ... like, product of -20 whose quotient is -5 ..... thanks again
11. From which of the following lines can readers infer that Marge Piercy, the poet who wrote "To Be of Use," views hard work as an activity that is worthwhile? A. "the black sleek heads if seals" B. "bouncing like half-submerged balls" C. "who do what has to be done, again ...
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1. Identify the choice that best describes the sentence: The dog always barks with pleasure when she sees us. A. declarative****** B. exclamatory C. imperative D. interrogative 2. Identify the correctly punctuated sentence. A.I'd love to see that movie again [maybe next Friday...
The smaller of 2 numbers is 10 less than 4 times the greater number. The bigger number is 19 more than the smaller one. If x is the smaller number one equation is: a)x+y=19 b)x=19-y c)y=x+19 d)x=y+19 I'm almost positive it is d I just want to check. A second equation is: a)x=...
science again again
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In French, what does agreement mean again? Cause for example I put down this: Ils ont marches sur l'Avenue Champs-Elysees. But there shouldnt be an S after marche because theres no agreement with avoir. Could I please know what agreement means again?
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1. Eleven Cities Tour finally takes place again! 2. Eleven Cities Tour finally is held again! 3. Eleven Cities Tour is finally held again! ---------------- Between #2 and #3, which one is grammatical?
Dr Bob, Thanks for your help. Ihad googled for 3 hours before asking you. For future reference, if anyone asks this question again, 10th grade chemistry, I found a video on You Tube that makes it easy to understand. It is, The Sci Guys, Ph indicator, acid-base indicator. ...
Thx again for another year of success
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Math(Please Check Again)
25-x^2 6x^2 ------ * ------ 12 2x *I got: 5-x/2 No. Try again. Can you tell me what I did wrong please.? You have to factor the numerator, you should have two factors for the first, and one for the second. In the denominator, you will have 24 x. I think the x divides out, and ...
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4th Grade Math
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MsSue- re
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Suppose you toss a coin and it you win a dollar if it comes up heads. If it comes up tails you toss the coin again. This time you get two dollars if it is heads. If it is tails you toss it again. This time you win four dollars if it is heads, but if it is tails you toss it ...
1. If I miss so much school again, how can I become a teacher? 2. If I miss so many schools again, how can I become a teacher? -------------------------- Which one is correct? Is #2 grammatical?
Chem drawing
how would I draw this compound? 2-bromo-6-chloro-4,4-dimethylheptane I've tried it again and again but I can't seem to get the Cl on the 6th carbon while still having a 6 carbon chain of heptane I drew it so that it was CH3 CBr CH2 CCH3CH3 CH2 Cl I just can't figure it out.....
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You are traeling back and forth on a 10m straight lane. You go forth in 10 sec and back in 4 seconds,forwards again in 5 s and back again in 1 seconds. what is ur displacement. and what is your average speed
A man comes up to play a game. you flip a coin, if heads you win $1 and keep playing if heads again you get $2, if you get heads again, $4 and so on. If you flip tails you take your money and the game is over. How much should he be willing to pay?
Hi it's me again I need help with this too and I promise to never use this site again! I feel so ashamed for asking :( Use the Fundamental Theorem to evaluate the integral from 0 to 3 of the quantity x cubed minus 6 times x, dx.The answer has to have the antiderivative too. ...
Guru Blue superstar
Hey Guru, Once again you shine that light. Thank you so so much for the links. Anybody else reading this should know I wish I had had Guru Blue as my teacher when I was a kid. A practical, patient and ever helpfull human being. Thank you again.
General Studies
Someone on here gave me some sites that helped to unscramble words. I don't recall what the site was and I am in need help again. Could someone please give me some unscramble sites again? Thanks, Kimberly
What will be the pH of an aqueous solution containing 0.040 mol/L sodium hydroxide?? I got 1.40 or 1.398 I rounded the numbers is my answer right??? If not what's the right answer?? I know I wrote the question again, because on the previous answer I did not understand what u ...
An inductor used in a dc power supply has an inductance of 12 H and a resistance of 180 ohms and carries a current of .300 A. (a) How much energy is stored in the magnetic field? (b) At what rate is thermal energy developed in the inductor? ok once again I got part (a) .540 J...
An inductor used in a dc power supply has an inductance of 12 H and a resistance of 180 ohms and carries a current of .300 A. (a) How much energy is stored in the magnetic field? (b) At what rate is thermal energy developed in the inductor? ok once again I got part (a) .540 J...
I asked about this earlier and got an answer that caused me to rethink my process. Is this a good way to measure iron corrosion: weigh a nail, put it in water and let it rust, remove the rust (in my experiment the rust has come off easily, with just a wipe), and weigh it again...
art - again!
im sorry to be a pain and ask for help again ive nearly finished my art homework but i aim struggling to write a story about the Michaelangelo,creation of Adam painting any ideas what i can write or a start off question. sorry to be a pain. thankyou so much
re -same question again
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Math again
Thanks Ms Sue .. another question built on the last ... i figured 143 miles per year .. then next question, .4 miles per day ... now i have to figure out how many feet per day .. how do i calculate this? thank you again ...
A pair of complimentary angles have measure x* (star equals degree) and x*(again star equals degree) + 8*. What is the measure of the smaller angle? the problems looks like x* and x*+8* AGAIN THE stars stand for degree. I think the answer is 6, but not sure how.
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what is the rhyme scheme for the poem: Come, the wind may never again Blow as now it blows for us; And the stars may never again shine as now they shine; Long before October returns, Seas of blood will have parted us; And you must crush the love in your heart, and I the love ...
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Two trucks, 300 km apart, are on a head-on collision course with one another. The first truck is moving at 100 m/s and the other is moving at 50 m/s in the opposite direction. A confused (but swift) fly starts from the front bumper of the faster truck and flies at 200 m/s ...
Physical Science
An object travels 6m in the first second of travel, 6m again durning the second second of travel, and 6m again druning the third second. It acceleration in meters per second per second(M/S2) is
english macbeth act 3
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how many 5-digit palindromes exist? i get 9*10*10*10*9=81000 is this correct? my thinking being that the first and last digit must be 1-9 and the other 3 0-9. thanks again for the time and effort. oh, and if any of you fine folks have the time could you browse down to my other...
1. As I have seen the movie twice, I don't want to see the movie again. 2. As I saw the movie twice, I don't want to see the movie again. -------------------- Which sentence is grammatical?
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Hello again. Dear Ms.Sue, thank you for your answers. I would be very grateful if you helped me again. 1) Do you think it's possible to say "You are a perfect match" (about a married couple,i.e. about two people)? 2) Do you think it's possible to say "I wish you many active ...
religious education - again
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Carlos has the slow to go hiccups. When they started, he hiccuped after 1 minute had elpased, then again after 2 minutes, again after 4 minutes, next after 8 minutes, and so on. How many total hiccups did he hiccup in the month of April if they began 12 midnight, april 1st?
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An object travels 8 m in the 1st second of travel, 8 m again in the 2nd second of travel, and 8 m again during the 3rd second of travel. its acceleration in meters per second per second is? Would the answer to this question be 0? I'm not positive, but wouldn't the acceleration...
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writeacher- religious education again!
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You are lying on the beach on a tropical island on the equator, watching the Sun set - what a beautiful scene! Immediately after the top of the Sun disappears, you stand up to watch the Sun set again. After the amount of time t=10 s the top of the Sun disappears again. Given ...
Hi it's me again. I realize that my last question didn't make much sense, so I will try to explain it again. Her it goes..... A long time ago the Mayans predicted that it took so many days( years even) for the sun to orbit the jupiter. This was without any sort of technology ...
Please check my maths?
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early childhood
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math (please help steve)
Circles Γ1 and Γ2 have centers X and Y respectively. They intersect at points A and B, such that angle XAY is obtuse. The line AX intersects Γ2 again at P, and the line AY intersects Γ1 again at Q. Lines PQ and XY intersect at G, such that Q lies on line ...
Math (please help steve)
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Algebra again
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Snap to It... I snap my fingers now, in one second, I smap them again. I wait two seconds and snap them a third time. I wait 4 seconds before snapping them again. Then I wait eight, then sixteen, and the pattern continues. The interval between each snap doubles each time. How ...
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The voltage generated by the zinc concentration cell described by, Zn(s)|Zn2+ (aq, 0.100 M)||Zn2+ (aq, ____ M)|Zn(s) is 24.0 mV at 25 °C. Calculate the concentration of the Zn2 (aq) ion at the cathode. Hi, I posted this question awhile back but I think it got drowned out so I...
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Math (correct answer?)
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Social Studies 9
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Herd of cows mooing. Recorded on 28th January 2011 opposite the East Cape Camp Ground in New Zealand. http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/show/1389-east-cape-to-thornton-beach-first-sun-worlds-biggest-pohutukawa-boy-movie-locations/ Credit ...
Ambience recording of the 2nd floor in the shopping mall "The Mall" in Vienna, Austria. Recorded with the Zoom H4n.
This is a stereo recording of large shopping mall ambience with lots of people and activity.
Recorded in a busy mall inside Peel Metro. Enjoy!
Shopping mall car parking, recorded in MS stereo
A duck quacking in the water by the sea in Eastern Sweden. Recorded in April 2013.
A duck quacking in the water by the sea in Eastern Sweden. Recorded in April 2013.
This is a recording taken by a Tascam DR-40 interal mics mixed with external Sennhesier ME-66. Tascam recorded rear exhaust ...
Extracted from two videos ( ,) by the US Navy, thus public domain.
The distinctive sound of a DB-601 powered Bf-109E-3 Emil flying by at a local aviation event.
noise from a remote control model airplane. Shure WL183 mics > Fel preamp > Edirol R09 recorder. Normalized in Audition
a pair of radio control warbirds taking off together
Orchestrion (mechanical street organ) recorded in Den Haag city-center. PCM-D50
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The sound of a toothbrush recorded in a small bathroom.


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What's that? It's my narwhal. It's probably my favourite animal in the whole wide world because it's like the unicorn of the ocean, and they're rare. So, yeah, they're my favourite. [I got it] from a museum in the States when I was visiting on holiday and I just had to have him on my desk. He doesn't have a name, actually… but he's pretty cute.
This is a paperweight but it's amazing 'cause it's got a beautiful dandelion inside resin. Whenever I need a break, I look at it and just wonder how that that dandelion, intact, can sit in a resin block.
That came from the exhibition when it was here at Melbourne Museum earlier this year and I loved the exhibition and I loved the boarding pass so I kept it. I worked a lot with the social media side of [the exhibition] with Frontier Events which was good fun – managing the Facebook page, tweeting, taking photos, it was really fun. So that's another little reminder of that project.
If a stranger asks me what I do, I say… I help Phar Lap manage his Facebook page, and I Facebook and tweet and take photos and talk to people. That's kinda it in a nutshell, that people can understand.
The first thing I do when I get to work is… check my email, check Facebook, check Twitter, see what people are saying about us. Sometimes I have to resolve a few issues or talk to a few people. That's kinda what I do first thing and then I get my cup of coffee or a cup of tea.
The good, the bad and the ugly… The good - when people say how much they love the museum, but in particular what they love, like maybe it's the little Polar Bear at Melbourne Museum or my personal favourite out at Scienceworks, the Noughts and Crosses Machine. I love it when people say they love specific exhibitions or exhibits or objects. The bad and ugly – would probably be just loving Facebook and Twitter maybe a little bit too much, where, you know, sometimes I enjoy it so much that I'm often talking during lunchtime, I don't really get much of a break because I'm enjoying having the conversations with people. Or there's so much that I want to share, like there could be a really good project or a really good exhibit on, that I just want to keep telling people about it. [I'm] one of the many online voices of the museum. There's a whole team of us – including you, Andi.
Later this week... we're doing an advent calendar online where we're revealing objects on Twitter and Facebook every day and giving away little prizes and treats, but also I'll be planning working on the Tutankhamun exhibition as well, which is exciting. Already, I know, it's December, and it doesn't open until April.
I first got into this area... probably working in customer service at Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks. I was a Customer Service Officer and then became, kinda working in admin here in the marketing team, and now online social media.
In my job it's important… to have a thick skin. Be prepared for hear people say how they don't like you or don't like your workplace and be open to that, and that's OK. I am [a really happy person]. It's probably because I love my job.
In my job I never thought I'd… actually see a narwhal tooth, or a tusk, in my life, before. Just down the hallway, I was able to have a tour (which is part of my job) and I saw one in real life, a real one. And they're beautiful, they've got a beautiful natural spiral toothed tusk, if you imagine like a unicorn... it's amazing. It's amazing.
If I had a magic wand… and this might be a bit cheesy, I would love to hear what the exhibits have got to say. I would love for them to tell me what their life has been like in the museum so I can share it with everybody. Often I try and imagine, if it's working with a curator or exhibition developer, what the exhibition's about. But I actually want to hear what the exhibit's got to say! I want to hear what the Noughts and Crosses Machine feels like to be back at the old museum and being moved to Scienceworks, or, Phar Lap and how he feels, how he really feels. Does he really like carrot juice, you know?
If I had a crystal ball… I can see my job would evolve into something pretty big. And I think it wouldn't just be me, I think it would probably be the way how we all work. I'd love to see our scientists, our curators, our customer service people, talking to our customers online.
Outside the office… at the moment I'm enjoying Christmas decorations. I'm loving decorating my tree, and it's not one day of decorating the tree, it's a whole month of decorating the tree. 'Cause as soon as I find a decoration or I want to make a new decoration, I just make it and put it up, so the tree probably ends up falling over. I'm proud of that. I'll share it online!
"I would love to hear what the exhibits have to say..."
The harmonic telegraph receiver and centennial phone used to be on display at the Melbourne Museum, but I haven't seen them in years. Where are they now?
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@willis1989 ill let someone else tell you how to change the style or whatever but id say move your letters closer together the L and E are like seperated from the W and D
@willis1989 ill let someone else tell you how to change the style or whatever but id say move your letters closer together the L and E are like seperated from the W and D
Okay I'll go simpler guys, and the "U" is a "V" but thanks for the feedback anyway.
@Cred, I really like that second one man. I like the colours and I like how the R flows into the E.
@Spectral I like the 3D but your letters are all outta porportion. Like the A's fat then the S and K are anorexic if you get me.
@Willis1989, same as Skiz, you gotta get rid of the big spaces between the letters
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CRED - you should try out some bars
spectral - i like that style. the 3d makes it pop
lewd - that skyline is cool. i straight letter would have looked nice tho
ROW - your improving
HIPE - i like your o man
skiz - your getting clean
i fucked it up with the purple, but crits would be interesting.. if you're wondering the i is the arabic A or alef...........
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this relik is pretty crazy
check out FTC pittsburgh
that one you made for humor looks dirty with the white highlight thing
thanks for crits dank I will start going bigger... Im trying to avoid filling in my letters with color so you all can get a better look at my shit ...crits on this please. Seems alot of you cats are skipping steps you have to start out simple as hell you cant just dive into style. Im no pro but i've have learned that just from doing throwies it all develops very slow with minor tweaks.
lyfe -nice simps really dig your style
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@Kopr watch that baseline, it's a little off. The top left of the P looks wack. Also make sure the pieces coming off the bottom of your letters are the same size, the one on the P is bigger. Getting better every time, good work.
@Mike I'm almost fully colorblind and i still love your color schemes. Good shit always coming from you.
@Physh maybe try to keep your bar ends consistent, (lose the arrows) and use the tops like on the top left of the K.
Tried something more complex, probably going back to what i was sketching before this. Trying to quit smoking lung cookies right now and can't seem to relax enough to make my lines clean what-so-ever.
Cred my man your stuff is coming along well......as well.
@ Cred, top ones good apart from the E. From looking back a few pages you've progressed a lot, props.
cred thanks man its like my 5th or 6th time trying a simp so Im satisfied thus far... that top one is solid put that on a wall asap
Only Fuck Fat Bitches Crew !!
KOPR thx man just seen you said that. keep your stuff going man.
quick one i just did.. i took a little of advice that each of you gave me and this is what i got... the Z is not meant to look good in this one.. i was just messing with the symmetry to show what it would look like.. idk how to get it to look good and have nice symmetry with the S yet. still workin on that.. but hows the rest look? thanks
Its simple but i dont know i like the Z always because of the sharp edges and on this it is a soft pussy Z for me. But hey its your decision
yea looks like ski2
yeah thats what i was sayin. lol. maybe i should make the S look more like the z??
kinda like this one


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Varghese J Kuttikat
Children - Poem by Varghese J Kuttikat
i.Set the child on the throne
Decked with choicest laurel crown
Sing dawn-fresh hymns ethereal
Dance frenziedly to their tune awful
This sort of exaltation of the little ones
The celebrant shall find not easily endurable
As he or she should willingly abdicate the throne
This is a saga reminiscent of coronation
Only, there is a disturbing shift of roles
Which shift spells at once surrender and conquest
Take heart, there rises the stellar, hearty laugh of humanity.
ii.The soaring kites and speeding boats
Excite little ones beyond limits
And we, the big ones brought them on the site,
Rather capriciously: yes, an act of seduction
We too were seduced in our turn
So we forgive our forebears, in hope of getting ourselves forgiven
Why this talk of forgiveness? - I shall tell you:
The kites and boats might crash into bloody floods.
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Ce Estus Adam Sharp, known as C. A. Sharp, accountant, businessman, and farmer, was born in 1868. He grew up in Texas and worked all of his life in the Waxahachie area. Sharp graduated from college in 1892 and married Mary Lou Sharp soon after. He and his wife had five children, three boys and two girls, in their fifty-five years of marriage. Sharp worked industriously to improve his fortunes by buying land in Electra and Dimmitt counties. In addition, he purchased stock in a variety of companies. His primary means of income early in his life seems to have been his cotton farm in Ellis County. After graduating from college, he worked as an accountant and farmer, and was president of the Farmers Gin Company of Waxahachie; he was also a stockholder of the Boyce State Bank. Sharp also worked as a businessman owning stock and land titles in Texas. He also was an accountant with the Anchor Insurance Corporation and New Amsterdam Company in Waxahachie. Throughout his adult life, Sharp and his sons grew cotton on their farm in Waxahachie. He was a respected member of his community, and a guiding figure in the Sharp family, serving as executor of both his brother and sister's wills. When he died in December of 1954, he left behind a large family whose roots were spread from Kentucky to Texas.
The collection is composed of papers, records and photos collected and/or created primarily by C. A. Sharp. Included is correspondence relating to his work as an accountant for Anchor Insurance Company and Sharp and McWhorter, business documents from the Boyce State Bank and Farmers Gin Company, and estate documents for various members of the Sharp family. Photos are included dating from the late nineteenth century. The papers include documents from the Boyce State Bank and its operations. These include correspondence as cashier for the bank and documents relating to its purchase in 1930. In addition, Sharp served as president of the Farmers Gin Company until 1941 when this company was sold. Sharp was also at times in his life a businessman owning stock and land titles in Texas as well as an accountant with the Anchor Insurance Corporation and New Amsterdam Company. Throughout his adult life, Sharp and his sons grew cotton on their farm in Waxahachie.
The collection is organized in five series. The first series is correspondence, which includes both personal and business correspondence. The second series is business documents from Sharp and includes documents from Boyce State Bank, various insurance agencies and farm records. The third series is estate information for James Perry Sharp, C. A. Sharp, Mattie Smith, and H.L. Williamson. The fourth series includes photos of the Sharp family in the 1870's. The fifth series is an oversize series.
Open for research.
Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.
Marcelle Hull received the materials from Sharp's grandson, Don Lauderdale.
Accessioned as number 93-55.
Ce Estus Adam Sharp Papers, AR428, Box Number, Folder Number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library.
The C. A. Sharp Papers are organized in five series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1896-1975, undated. 0.10 linear ft. (5 folders)
Series II. Business Documents, 1891-1952. 0.13 linear ft. (7 folders)
Series III. Sharp Estates, 1925-1976. 0.10 linear ft. (5 folders)
Series IV. Photos, undated. 0.02 linear ft. (1 folder)
Series V. Oversize, 1871-1935, undated
These materials are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Arranged alphabetically by subject of the folder and thereunder chronologically within each folder. Folders include business, farm and personal correspondence. Business correspondence to and from C. A. Sharp as an accountant with several insurance agencies and his role as bank cashier. Personal correspondence from Sharp and family.
Letters written to and from C. A. Sharp regarding bank business.
Letters written to and from C. A. Sharp dealing with farm business. This includes his farm in Waxahachie, as well as his niece's and sister's, W. L. Williamson's and Mattie Smith's, farm of which Sharp was the manager.
Letters written by and to C. A. Sharp regarding land sales and purchases, stock options, taxes and leases on land owned.
Personal letters written by the Sharp family to other members of the family, as well as church and the L. C. McLain Orthopedic Sanitarium correspondence.
Letters announcing that C. A. Sharp and McWhorter have sold their insurance company. Additional financial document showing statements for April/May 1936.
Arranged alphabetically. Includes documents of land holdings in Dimmitt and Electra counties, Boyce State Bank documents, stocks held by the Sharp family, and audit reports from Boyce Gin Company.
Sale of Farmers Gin Company to Boyce Co-operative Gin Company. Letter to shareholders with audit report and receipt of dividends paid to stockholders.
Final financial statement of bank, outstanding debts owed to bank at sale, copy of sale to Republic Bank and Trust, tax statements, and stockholders stocks of Boyce State Bank.
January and May stockholders meeting Boyce State Bank 1923 notes in ledger.
Land and oil contracts of Sharp family members, diagram of C. A. Sharp farm. Map of the original town of Dimmitt with additions.
Stocks and land/oil contracts owned by Sharp family members.
Oil and gas stocks owned by Sharp family.
Arranged alphabetically according to family member. Included are wills and final financial statement of Mattie Smith, James Perry Sharp, C. A. Sharp, and H. L. Williamson. Also includes a genealogy of the Sharp family.
C. A. Sharp's will and final financial statements at the time of his death in 1954.
C. A. Sharp's niece Mrs. H. L. Williamson's will and ledger, documents relating to her final disbursement of property.
James Perry Sharp will and letters to and from his brother C. A. Sharp, executor of will.
C. A. Sharp's sister, Mattie Smith's will, with newspaper clipping about her death.
Sharp genealogy.
Sharp family photos of C. A. Sharp, John Ewing Sharp, Mary Slavin Sharp, and Willie Blackmon Sharp.
Includes Masonic apron, certificates of graduation of Sharp's son John Ewing Sharp. Check from Sharp's father, John Ewing Sharp.
[leather apron with cotton ties].
lists graduate Cecile Sharp
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run "Dub Feral" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) through a bunch of effects. Sounds ensue
Attribution means you should probably credit Kevin MacLeod for the original track, I don't care about being credited
Great track just what I needed to update the soundtrack for this 1940's "exotic" dancer. http://youtu.be/UezCa1RE5Ew
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Building off previous collaborative projects, Nikon and Porter continue their relationship with this new Gore-Tex camera bag. Equipped with waterproof materials, the bag takes on a simple shape, featuring three fully-padded interior compartments to store your camera, accessories, and lenses. The bag comes in a brown colorway with black accents and the traditional Porter brand patch.
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Voter turnout in Wisconsin, the big prize in today's three presidential primaries, is expected to be strong.
The Journal Sentinel reports turnout among registered voters is projected to be 35%, according to the state's Government Accountability Board. That would be about the same as the 2008 presidential primary turnout in Wisconsin, a key swing state in the general election.
STORY: Primary day in Wis., Md., DC
STORY: How Romney, Santorum fare vs. Obama
Maryland and District of Columbia voters are also going to the polls today.
Wisconsin turnout is expected to be higher in Milwaukee and could be closer to 40%, the Journal says. There are local government and judicial elections in Milwaukee that could bring more voters to the polls.
Mitt Romney, the GOP front-runner, has been leading Rick Santorum in pre-primary Wisconsin polls. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich have been well behind the leaders.
Wisconsin has an open primary, meaning voters can participate regardless of their party registration.
There are 42 delegates at stake in Wisconsin, the most in the three primary contests being held today. Romney is poised to win 50 delegates in the Maryland and District of Columbia contests, according to the 538 blog in The New York Times.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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Open source is about more than code: it's about unlocking all possibilities. Here are four unusual projects made possible by open source.
Years ago I hung out with a friend who had a prosthetic hand. It was a stiff plastic hand, like a store mannequin hand, that could open and close in a simple grip. It didn't have much functionality, but it had a bit of fun factor -- my friend liked to remove it to scratch his back. In public, of course, with a freaked-out audience. Americans seem to have a hard time looking at these sorts of things.
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Prosthetics have advanced since those days, especially in cost. It's amazing how labeling an item as medical equipment makes it cost 10 to 100 times more, even ordinary parts like nuts, bolts, batteries, and power supplies. A prosthetic limb starts at five figures, and in these here kindly times good luck getting insurance to pay, because it's become a one-way flow -- we're supposed to pay our premiums without desiring to collect any benefits.
And so, once again, open source has made it possible for one person to step up and try to change an unsatisfactory state of affairs, and that person is Jon Kuniholm. Mr. Kuniholm is a war veteran who lost part of his right arm in Iraq. He was given an assortment of prosthetic arms to use, from an old-fashioned hook to a shiny new myoelectric arm. None of them were completely satisfactory. The fancy myoelectric arm was fragile and heavy, and had to be protected from moisture and dirt. The most popular upper-body prosthesis is the oldest, the body-powered hook. This is fastened to your torso with a harness that transfers movements, such as a shrug, to control the elbow, hook, or hand. Hook-type prostheses have been around for decades, and are rugged and relatively inexpensive, which is not to say they're cheap, just less costly than newer technologies.
Mr. Kuniholm is a biomedical engineer, and after leaving the Marines he returned to his job at Tackle Design, Inc., an industrial design and research company. He and his co-workers took the arms apart and studied them, and looked for ways to improve them. Then they founded The Open Prosthetics Project (OPP). The Open Prosthetics Project focuses on helping people with missing limbs. (If you have an interest in bringing open source to ears and eyes, the field is wide open.) OPP collects information and data, does design research, and freely shares plans, specifications, and information.
Building a good prosthetic foot or leg is moderately difficult. Building a hand that works anything like a human hand is incredibly difficult. But remember playing with Legos as a little kid? Legos are not just kid toys -- they are also articulated hand prototypes. (It looks like a Terminator hand.) Motors and batteries keep getting smaller and better, so someday this will be a reality.
You can learn more about Mr. Kuniholm in this interview and book excerpt on National Public Radio.
Affordable, practical small-scale manufacturing
Way back in the last millennium, in the 1970s, there was a brief "back to the land" movement. Idealistic city folk threw off their corporate shackles, bought land, and had this idea they could be self-sufficient. Of course there is a whole lot more to living off the land than bib overalls and good intentions. It's a lot of work, requires a lot of tools and machines, and a lot of skills and knowledge. Practical manual skills are in short supply in these modern times and tools are expensive, so the learning curve, costs, and hard physical labor defeated a lot of wannabe hardy pioneers. The concept was sound: to take control of the production of life's essentials such as food, energy, and shelter, to live more harmoniously and leave a less-destructive footprint on the planet, to live in a healthier way, and to control technology for the benefit of the people using it. It all sounds good, but making it work was the beastly part.
Fast-forward to now, and open source and the Internet have changed everything. Marcin Jakubowski is a physicist who tried farming, and quickly learned that he had no practical skills or knowledge. So he began his education anew, and came up with the concept of affordable, practical small-scale manufacturing to build and maintain a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. He figured that it would take a set of 50 different industrial machines to do this, and this is the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
The GVCS includes a tractor and implements, brick press, sawmill, well-drilling rig, induction furnace for melting scrap metals, 3D scanner, 3D printer, welder, solar concentrator, and a CNC circuit mill for printing circuit boards. The idea isn't to scrape out a marginal existence, but to build high-quality essential tools for a fraction of the cost of their commercial cousins, use them to help build a good life, and possibly some income-producing surplus.
The stakes are considerably higher for people in poor countries. GVCS offers the potential to put the means of essential production directly into the hands of the people who need it.
The specifications for the GVCS machines are the opposite of mass-produced commercial technology: low-cost, user-serviceable, high performance, durable (no planned obsolescence), and open source. The open source aspect covers designs, instructions, schematics, budgets-- everything anyone needs to know to build their own machines, and it is all freely available and free to share. A single dvd is a civilization starter kit.
The GVCS is in its infancy, and is already attracting a lot of attention and support. Check out this two minute video to see some of the machines in action.


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When Chinese immigrants came to India—specifically Calcutta—centuries ago, they brought with them culinary traditions that slowly merged with local flavors over time. The chef at Bordoloi's Asian Fusion showcases the unique style of Indian-Chinese cuisine that developed from this blending of cultures as he serves up dishes such as chili chicken, Tangra-style mutton, and spicy red manchurian noodles. To accommodate vegetarian diets, the menu boasts a wide variety of herbivore-friendly options, including meatless momo dumplings, okra with chili, and vegetables with cashews.


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But his grandest project so far has little to do with infrastructure.
Oh, what you could tell us, enthused Elizabeth, as we walked into the grandest of parties.
Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Rock Hudson all stayed at El Paisano, still the grandest hotel in town.
The State of the Union is American political theater at its grandest.
Still, Horowitz faces stiff competition when it comes to becoming a man in the grandest fashion.
To them it opens a traditional perspective, the grandest in all history.
This island appeared to him to be one of the grandest in the world.
The grandest hours of a gambling saloon are not the opening ones.
The grandest men in the world have all come from the middle empire.
It seemed to me, in my young days, that it was the grandest thing in the world to be a Challis.
late 14c., grant "large, big" (early 12c. in surnames), from Anglo-French graunt and directly from Old French grant, grand (10c.) "large, tall; grown-up; great, powerful, important; strict, severe; extensive; numerous," from Latin grandis "big, great; full, abundant," also "full-grown;" figuratively "strong, powerful, weighty, severe" (perhaps cognate with Greek brenthyomai "to swagger, be haughty"). It supplanted magnus in Romanic languages; in English with a special sense of "imposing." The connotations of "noble, sublime, lofty, dignified," etc., were in Latin. As a general term of admiration, "magnificent, splendid," from 1816. Related: Grander; grandest.
The use of grand- in compounds, with the sense of "a generation older than, or younger than," is first attested c.1200, in Anglo-French graund dame "grandmother." Latin and Greek had similar usages.
Grand jury is late 15c. Grand piano from 1797. The grand tour of the principal sites of continental Europe, as part of a gentleman's education, is attested by that name from 1660s. The Grand Canyon was so called 1871 by Maj. John Wesley Powell, scientific adventurer, who explored it; earlier it had been known as Big Canyon.
"thousand dollars," 1915, American English underworld slang, from grand (adj.).
A thousand dollars; gee: A banker would scarcely call one thousand dollars ''one grand''
[1920+ Underworld & sports; said to have originated with Peaches Van Camp, a criminal who flashed such grand notes for ostentation]


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Ms Dwyer warned that a successful domestic racing industry could not be taken for granted, despite its significant contribution to the economy and "cultural fabric" of the country.
As Tabcorp prepares for next week's Melbourne Cup – a day it expects to take more than $180 million in bets – Ms Dwyer said the company wants to work with governments, regulators and racing to "ensure a fairer and harmonised" approach is put in place.
Speaking at the company's annual meeting in Melbourne on Thursday, Ms Dwyer said the $292 million that Tabcorp paid in state taxes in NSW and Victoria in the 2012 financial year, on turnover of $10.8 billion, was 77 times greater than the proportion of tax paid by Northern Territory bookmakers – just over $2 million from $5.7 billion of turnover. "Given one of the primary aims of licensing gambling products is to return a fair share of the proceeds to the community, the Northern Territory is grossly undertaxing its corporate bookmakers," she said.
Tabcorp is the exclusive operator of retail wagering outlets in Victoria and NSW. It also operates Luxbet, an online-only bookmaker registered in the NT. Tabcorp's update for the first three months of 2013-14 showed Luxbet had the fastest revenue growth of the company's wagering channels.
Ms Dwyer told The Australian Financial Review that even if a regulatory overhaul led to higher taxes for NT bookmakers, Tabcorp would keep Luxbet. "Luxbet fills a niche in the market and services a particular customer grouping," she said. Despite taking advantage of the lower taxes paid in the NT, Ms Dwyer said Tabcorp felt the effects of the licensing differences in its core TAB business. "We're calling them out as the market leader," she said.
The Australian Wagering Council, which represents the corporate bookmakers such as Sportsbet and Sportingbet, has said Tabcorp's greater tax bill is a result of its monopoly retail operations in NSW and Victoria.
But Tabcorp boss
Ms Dwyer also said the offering of odds by the corporate bookmakers based on the best totalisator dividends distributed by operators like Tabcorp, and its rival Tatts Group, which takes into account funding commitments to racing bodies, was unsustainable. "The low level of racing product fees and taxes paid by the Northern Territory-licensed corporate bookmakers, combined with the fact that they don't have obligations to share revenue derived on tote-odds betting products with the industry, enables them to offer enhanced tote dividends to punters," she said. "Over the medium to long term this regulatory difference will undermine racing industry funding."
But speaking after the
Mr Cooke said Tatts' after tax profit for the first quarter of 2013-14 was up 23 per cent, but he cautioned investors against expecting a similar result in the second quarter.
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On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:01 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: > My compiler doesn't. Strange. Maybe it requires -O2? > Would it make sense to elog here, rather than > Assert? I'm not clear on the rules for that. elog looks fine there to me, assuming we have the default case. I'm not 100% clear on the rules, either. I think invalid input/corruption are usually elog (so they can be caught in non-assert builds); but other switch statements have them as well ("unrecognized node..."). > A small push dealing with all the above issues and adding a little > to comments: > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/kgrittn/postgres.git;a=commitdiff;h=538ff57691256de0341e22513f59e9dc4dfd998f > > Let me know if any of that still needs work to avoid confusion and > comply with PostgreSQL coding conventions. Like I said, I'm not > totally clear whether elog is right here, but it seems to me a > conceptually similar case to some I found elsewhere that elog was > used. Looks good. It also looks like it contains a bugfix for subtransactions, right? Regards, Jeff Davis
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Patrick Jane will play game by using his mentalist skill to investigate a murder case and also to win on the cards table on 'The Mentalist' 1.06.
The clip entitled "Card Tables" features one of the scenes in the next episode of "The Mentalist". As apparent through its title, the episode "Red Handed" will have something to do with casino.
Patrick Jane's mentalist skill will be tested one more time to investigate a murder case. The murder happens to the manager of operations for a resort casino named James Meier. The victim's right hand is found straddling in the borderline between California and Nevada.
CBI team and Patrick investigate the case. Patrick sees a different motive and suspect behind the murder after the discovery of other dead bodies. The bodies are identified as the states' witness in a narcotics matter along with his girlfriend.
"Red Handed" will be aired on CBS on November 11 at 9/8c.