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Act 1
The girls pulled into the Council parking lot, uniforms freshly pressed and Euryale's armor spotless and gleaming. They parked next to the building, finding an unarmored officer waiting for them impatiently, arms crossed and tapping her foot while she scowled at them. She had pale skin and light brown eyes, with dark hair bound into a loose, frizzy ponytail. But by far the most striking feature was the pair of metal rods crisscrossed at the back of her waist.
Euryale waved and said brightly, "Hello, Kali! Sorry to keep you waiting!"
"Apologize to the Chief," Kali said simply, turning to open the doors. This put a pep in Euryale's step, and the girls trotted after Kali.
Inside the town hall, the Council was gathered. The Fire Nation Councilwoman glared to her left, where an additional chair had been set up for Keter Aurora, wearing a dark dress that clung to her figure and stopped at mid-calves, as well as a blue shawl and matching, elbow-length evening gloves. For her part, Keter paid her no interest, sitting with her hands folded neatly over the top of the desk. Euryale made a loud squealing noise that was instantly silenced with a harsh glare from Chief Beifong, standing at attention behind Franz.
Euryale stood rigidly and saluted. When the Chief turned her attention back to the Council table, Euryale did the same, noticing additional chairs set up beside Franz and the Earth Councilman. At another desk sat a very androgynous-looking, rail-thin individual with chalk white hair. He or she wore circular, gold-wire glasses, a white dress shirt with black bow tie, dark gold-trimmed vest, and matching cap with upturned-brim. This person, the council page, was sitting bolt upright, clutching the body and earpiece of a candlestick phone and staring intently at it, sweating slightly, as though about to face off against it in an Agni Kai.
"Shouldn't the other delegates be here by now?" Aroma whispered, darting behind Euryale when Chief Beifong refocused her glare.
But Aroma would have her answer soon enough. The second the phone rang, the earpiece shot to the head of the council page, who squeakily announced that they were speaking for the Council. Seconds later, their eyes widened.
"The train is under attack by Purists, Sir!"
Act 2
The water tinkled softly as a crowd trudged through the high-vaulted sewer tunnels, only a few lantern beams cutting through the pitch darkness.
"This will be our last chance to stop," the Purist Leader's voice rang out, "Check your weapons for jammed firebows, wet ammunition, knotted bolas, or the like."
She squeezed down the line as the others went about their tasks. The Purists had grouped together into 3 distinct platoons, grouped around either Ivan, Amon, or the currently leaderless platoon that she now looped back towards. 25 Purists per platoon, for a total of 75.
"Do you remember your missions?" she asked, coming to an abrupt halt.
"Execute the Triad scum!" a roar came out from in front of her.
Simultaneously, Amon's platoon shouted in unison, "Free our comrades!"
"Retrieve our arms from the evidence locker!" answered Ivan's platoon.
"Correct. Then you are all to return to me so that we may prepare for the counterattack from the boars."
The Purists returned to checking their weapons, taking occasional gulps from canteens. When the Purist Leader saw some of them begin to fidget, casting their eyes around as though searching for a way out, she surged forward. Automatically, her platoon followed her as a wave, and Ivan's and Amon's followed suit.
"Remember, the brutes may seem powerful, but they crumble when you strike at their weak points," she spoke, more to keep their minds on fighting than anything else, "Fire tossing comes from the breath, so strike at their throats. Try to conserve the CO2 bombs. They are limited, and can impede your own vision and breathing as well. Use elevation against water savages, separate them from their weapons. Break a filth thrower's stance to bury them beneath their own dirt."
As she spoke, the tunnel became narrower. Lee and J'nani ran ahead to pack blasting jelly against the ceiling. Once it had been liberally coated and worked into the gaps in the brickwork, they ran back to their places by the Purist Leader's side.
"Fire," she said coolly. On cue, Ivan leveled his metallic firebow at the ceiling. Less than a second after he pulled the trigger, the stones blew apart in a furious blaze. Without missing a beat, Purists with and without shields ran forward. Those with the shields stayed close to their comrades, holding them up to defend their heads, but also waved their arms slightly to waft the cloud of smoke up into the halls above. Those without shields swung their bolas up, wrapping around the shadowy, hazy images of pipes above them.
As they began to climb, other Purists seized the fallen rocks and rushed forward, packing them into a ramp of debris to make the complex more accessible to invasion. The Purist Leader could hear panicked shouts as she climbed it. A burst of orange caught the corner of her left eye, firebending barely visible in the smoke-filled room.
Swinging the bola from her waist, she snared the man's arm and threw him into the wall to knock him out. Registering the outline of the Purist he was fighting rushing forward to finish the job, she turned her attention to her right. A man and a woman, both pale brunettes wearing simple gray jumpsuits were rushing to the door, brown eyes wide with panic as they tried to cover their mouths. Coughing, they frantically gestured behind them with their free hands, sending puddles on the floor shooting well over the invaders' heads, splashing uselessly against the wall. These were no highly trained fighters, just custodial workers.
Ivan dropped the man with a shot to the back of the head, but his weapon was too slow to reload for the other shot. This ceased to matter when the Purist who took out the firebender stepped in front of the woman, grabbing her wrists. She kicked out wildly, but he swept her remaining leg out from under her, forcing her to the ground. While she was dazed, he prevented her from screaming with a quick jab to the throat.
As the Purist Leader led the charge out of the boiler room and into the cramped concrete halls, Ivan could be heard withdrawing his bolt with a wet crunching sound. The Purists reached the stairwell without incident and stormed upward.
They slowed as they entered the cell blocks. Rows upon rows of cells stretched both before and above them, most accessible only via hanging ledges and staircases of steel, so that the guards could see the entire prison at all times. Splitting into 2 groups, they stayed under these ledges, slinking through shadows, ducking under the peep slots in the cell doors.
This cover would not last long, but it would be enough. Far above them, at the left-hand corner of the 3rd "floor," a guard turned towards them, but was dispatched by Ivan as he opened his mouth to raise the alarm, slumping backwards and sliding down the wall. Another guard was brought down just as he turned to see what had happened. Ivan next aimed for a guard running across the 5th "floor," but even a Yu Yan archer armed with their latest model of firebow would be hard-pressed to hit that target. After he pulled a switch and sirens began singing, he lifted his arms, trying to raise walls around the Purists.
Using their bolas, several rank-and-file Purists swung up to the 2nd "floor," then the 3rd. The officer swung a cable, knocking a large swath of them down, but soon he was being rushed at from both sides. He attempted to escape by jumping down, but this time, Ivan hit him in mid-jump, before he and his platoon rushed through the door to the office space. Those prisoners foolish enough to come watch saw a knife forced through their peepholes towards them.
Act 3
A pair of police cruisers sped down the avenue. Euryale could see the shimmering silver of Keter's head in the rear window of the front car. She and Franz had insisted in accompanying Chief Beifong and Kali, though the rest of the Council had stayed behind. This time, Lilith was sitting beside Euryale, the Healers behind them.
"Alright, let's go!" Euryale shouted briskly as she pulled into headquarters, the Chief speeding on ahead. The girls all scrambled to get out, Lilith and Euryale ushering the Healers towards the door. "We need to get you to safety as quickly as possible, so I can go back up the chief!"
But once inside, safety was the last thing they could expect to find; the walls and support beams of the lobby were faintly pockmarked, and they could hear crashes further inside. Beyond that, the building seemed to be deserted. Aroma, who had been leaning on Euryale for support, squeezed closer to her.
"Don't bother," Euryale said as she saw Thiera rush to the desk phone, "I can see that the line's been cut."
"We need to get Aroma and my sister out of here," Lilith said.
"No!" Thiera cried, "If the building is under attack, Healers will be needed now more than ever!"
Aroma nodded vigorously. Taking note of her out of the corner of her eye, Euryale closed her eyes and breathed deeply before snapping them back open, setting her jaw into a determined grimace.
"Okay," she said sidelong at Lilith, "They're right. We need to get them to the infirmary and round up a guard for them as quickly as possible."
And so, looking to avoid the Purists, they rushed through the archway to the right, Thiera supporting Aroma by her shoulders. After going about 20 feet, Euryale held up her hand, signaling to stop. Then she dug her fingers into the wall and quite literally opened it like a sliding door. She caught the amber eye of a Purist running on the other side. He turned toward her and took aim, but Euryale saw the glint of the firebow and jerked her hand, redirecting his shot to the ceiling just before he fired. Aroma yelped as the bolt ricocheted and landed with a clatter near Euryale's feet.
Lilith darted in ahead of her, partially unsheathing her weapon to strike him in the stomach with its pommel. The attacker doubled over and Lilith ducked aside so Euryale could grab him with a cable, bringing his face into the floor hard enough to knock him out. The cord snapped, coiling around him from head to toe, before fusing into a tube of solid steel.
"There are more coming!" Euryale shouted when they stepped through and saw that a crowd armed with firebows was indeed approaching at a gallop, "Let's go!"
And so, as they ran on, she raised her hands, hearing the arrows pelt the wall she raised just in the nick of time. She proceeded after her friends, and they encountered no more resistance en route to the infirmary, save for a locked door, which Euryale easily unsealed.
"Naakée and her sister should be here!" Thiera cried out in alarm, rushing into the room with Aroma frantically hopping to keep up. "Where is she?!" she added as they looked around.
Sure enough, a pale head with short, raven hair peeked out above the desk, trembling down to at least her shoulders. "Th—Thiera? Is that you...?" Moments later, her sister followed suit, looking rather similar to Naakée, but with dark skin.
"I appreciate that you're frightened," Euryale said, "But this is exactly the kind of thing you signed on for."
"She is right," Thiera said consolingly as she put a hand on Naakée's shoulder, Aroma patting her sister on the back, "You should be aware of the standard protocol. I won't force you to put yourselves in danger, but if you fail to fulfill your healing duties, I will have to ask for your resignations."
"N—no, I'll be fine," she answered, gazing up at Thiera with watery eyes. Her sister nodded, looking like she was biting back vomit.
Euryale closed the door and stomped on the ground, screwing her eyes up in concentration. "...I can't feel any officers nearby, and it's not safe to leave you to go look for them."
"Are the Purists coming?!" Aroma asked, a shudder running through her and the intern sisters.
"No, but they are in the nearby halls. I think they're transporting weapons from evidence." After a loud rattling and clanging reverberated through the halls, she added, "And they found the cell door controls."
"So they've just released all of the prisoners?" Lilith asked. "That might work out in our favor, the Agni Kais and Triple Threats still have every reason to hate them."
"Actually, we don't house benders and nonbenders together for safety reasons. If any of them have any experience with the prison layout, they could release anyone they want."
"Such as a former United Forces officer who could check in any time he wished?" Thiera asked rhetorically.
By this point, there were so many footsteps thundering through the halls around them that they didn't need Euryale to explain that the Purists were regrouping. "This is bad," she said, "This could be even bigger than the fight on North Silk Street, we have no way of contacting any reinforcements, and the Chief could be all the way across town by now."
"But we'll be safe in here, won't we?" Naakée asked, she and her sister still shaking from head to toe.
"Actually," Euryale explained slowly without looking back, "It makes more sense that the infirmary would be among the first locations they attack."
Sure enough, the door began to rattle on its hinges as something massive banged into it. Only Euryale and Lilith didn't jump, instead shifting to more rigid stances, the former pushing back against the door with both hands, the latter placing her hand on the hilt of her sword. Eventually, the door finally gave way, almost comically falling out of its frame. Euryale tried to push it back into place with a pair of stiff cables, but an enemy wrenched it out of her grasp with a pair of sickles and tossed it somewhere down the hall. Without skipping a beat, Euryale raised a fist and, with it, a stone wall to keep most of the attackers sealed off in the hall.
A trio of Purists managed to slip through just before the barrier was raised; there was Vyanna with her swords drawn, a tall and thin masked Purist with the pair of sickles, and a hulking wall of muscle of a man with a shield on each arm, cast on his left foot, and a missing chunk of stubble that Thiera recognized.
"So," she coldly spoke just above a whisper, "You were a spy the entire time. I believe this is the part where you say, 'revenge is a dish best served cold.'."
"What?" he asked, squinting. "Of course it isn't, that line is awful."
"It most certainly is not!" Thiera shouted, throwing her hands into the air, "You sold food, it is a witticism!"
"Thi, please stop arguing with the enormous thug and get down!" Lilith shouted.
"Oh?" he sneered down at her. "An 'enormous thug,' am I?" Abruptly, he swung an arm like a wrecking ball, still staring at Lilith but aiming at Euryale, who was standing at his side. By this point, she was able to take a boxing posture, and so she quickly raised her arms to defend. Plastic thumped against clanging metal, but the man was 2 heads taller than her and built like a gorilla goat, so even she stumbled slightly, at which point Vyanna darted to her other side.
"I brought you down once," she cried gleefully, "And I can do it again!"
The second she aimed at a gap in Euryale's armor, the metalbender shifted her left foot, the plates rearranging themselves so the sword deflected against solid steel. Vyanna swung her other sword at Euryale's neck and the hulking man aimed another punch at her, but Euryale grabbed Vyanna's wrist and spun so that the lieutenant took the punch to the base of the spine. Euryale then did a backflip, flinging a chunk of concrete up at the bigger Purist's chin, which he narrowly deflected with the arm he wasn't using to hold on to the dazed Vyanna.
Meanwhile, the remaining man had rushed towards Lilith. She drew her blade and slashed in a single motion, but he hooked her sword with the sickles. Shifting them both to his left hand, he drew a bola from his belt and spun it twice before swinging the weights at the side of Lilith's head. She ducked, but the cord caught her braid, and she was pulled down to the floor, barely able to grab the man's foot as he tried to stomp her head. He brought the sickles down to her back, but a burst of water knocked him off-balance, forcing him to roll across the floor.
Behind the desk, Thiera swiped her hand, sending her water zooming across the room to slice the tap off of the sink. Soon enough, water was spraying all over the infirmary.
"I need the both of you to follow my example!" Thiera shouted. She and the intern sisters reared back, sweeping their hands as though drawing a curtain. Stepping forward, they thrust their palms out and, with them, a wall of water, frosting over as it crashed along the ground. Lilith ducked aside and the man jumped on a counter to avoid it.
Quickly tying each end of his bola to the base of a sickle, he threw the left toward Thiera at an angle, only for her to raise a wall of ice to deflect it. He swung the other at Lilith, at which point she ducked and cut the line. Aroma shrieked as the sickle embedded itself into the wall right where her head was a second ago.
Meanwhile, Euryale kept ducking around to the side of the man that was occupied holding his superior. "You may be stronger than me," she taunted, kicking him in the back of the knee, ducking around his counterattack, and aiming a pair of quick jabs into his other side, "But I'm the better fighter. You're too slow, in several ways."
Grunting, nose wrinkled, he made the mistake of trying to charge her, at which point she used her cables to vault over him while he slipped across the slick floor, careening headfirst into the wall. For added measure, Euryale landed with a heavy stomp on his wounded leg, shattering the cast. He went down, clutching his leg with an agonized howl that seemed to revitalize Vyanna, still under his arm.
Rising, she thrust out with both swords, and the second Euryale leaned away, quickly spun her right blade and stabbed downwards into the earthbender's foot. Now it was her turn to grunt. Vyanna once again tried to smack her in the temple with the pommel of her sword, at which point Euryale thrust out with both hands, causing the ground beneath her to lurch and throw Vyanna into the wall.
Pulling the Purist's discarded sword out of her foot, she swung at her, the pair clashing swords. Vyanna gripped her weapon with both hands, angling Euryale's sword down before stabbing upward at her neck. Euryale ducked aside, sustaining a small nick that oozed like a pomegranate, and snared Vyanna's own neck with a cable, tossing her aside. She then fell, her bleeding foot trembling so bad it rolled, dropping her to her knees.
The sickle-armed Purist proved quite flexible, leaping through the air and twisting at odd angles to avoid the ice spikes the waterbenders shot at him, as they moved in front of the desk to get better shots. When he reached them, he quickly wrapped his cord taut around the trio, binding their arms and hips, raising his sickle for a finishing strike. They cried out, struggling against their bonds. Lilith cried out, charging forward. Aroma cried out, and struck him in the arm, which went limp.
He stared at her in shock, but not too much shock to remember to bend over backwards so Lilith's slash went over him, and kick the sword out of her hand. With Aroma busy staring at her fists in awe, Lilith was on her own to twist around the man's slashes, before he snaked behind her back, grabbing her fists and forcing her arms behind her. She decided to head-butt his chin and, snarling with the exertion, duck down to throw him over her head. Traveling through the air like a snowflake, he landed, spider-rat-like, on the desk.
Ever level-headed, Thiera used her breath to freeze the water under Vyanna. As she slid forward, Euryale punched a rock pillar up into her path. She fell over, slipping as she scrabbled to get up.
By this point, a muffled boom and a series of crackling noises signaled that the Purists had managed to pack bombs against the stone wall and collapse it. Waving her hand, Euryale gathered the rock fragments into a wave and slammed as many of the Purists she could against the outside wall, but more poured in. She ducked a hammer swing and punched out, her fist meeting a shield. She was quickly surrounded and jabbed at with stiletto knives.
"Aroma!" Lilith shouted, grabbing the bola cord to pull her opponent off of the desk. "Sword!"
"Oh—right!" Aroma answered, using the desk for support as she hobbled to grab the discarded weapon, which she now saw bore silvery-white etchings of flowering vines running from the gilded guard and up the gentle curvature of the rose-tinged blade. Why would she commission something so beautiful just to jab it into someone's organs? She wondered vaguely as she snatched it and hobbled back the way she came.
Lilith brought a sharp heel kick down on the man's spine, jumping back when he twisted his good arm around and tried to jab her ankle. The waterbending trio blew, freezing the growing amount of water to bind him in a thick layer of ice. When Aroma came back, Lilith took the sword and quickly swiped it across the trio's bindings, freeing them.
The interns made room for Thiera to sway her body at her hips, making sweeping, circular motions with her outstretched arms. The film of water covering the ground spun in concert, gathering up the Purists in a rapidly growing waterspout. Euryale reached up, debris from the battlefield clustering over the mob's heads, before she clasped her fists together, bringing them and the rubble down with a crash.
Vyanna finally found her footing, charging at Euryale's back. Lilith intercepted her, holding her saber by the blade, as if it were a mace. When Vyanna slashed, Lilith snatched her dao in the handguard and twisted, flinging the weapon away before twisting back to swing at Vyanna's chin. The Purist ducked, but found the blade's point at her throat, supported by Lilith's other hand.
"I highly suggest surrender," she said coldly.
Slowly, Vyanna raised her hands, glaring at Lilith, but abruptly she grabbed at the soldier's wrist and jabbed at her side. Seeing this coming, Lilith stepped back and swung the sword like a lever, bringing the guard down hard on Vyanna's head with a surprising, almost humorous ping. She swayed slightly before falling forward with a soft splash. Reluctantly, Lilith flipped her with her foot, and watched her cough into the increasingly pink-tinged water.
"I'll heal Euryale," Thiera said as she walked briskly forward, "The rest of you ensure that there is no risk of the Purists drowning, then we can administer sedation."
"This is bad," Aroma said tremulously, leaning against the desk as the interns cleared Spider-Purist's airway, "That was the Purist Leader's second-in-command... she'll be sure to come looking for Vyanna if she doesn't report back soon!"
"Perhaps she will fall in battle before she has the opportunity," Thiera suggested, sweeping bloody water from Euryale's foot with her right hand while using her left to drag sterile, now-glowing water from her water skin over the wound.
Euryale's grimace relaxed, but she still spat, "Not likely."
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For those of you who have been looking for the monologues from the show all in one place, here they are. I'm a huge fan, an "X-Phile" if you will, and discovered that there isn't one place you can go to see all of the monologues. So, since I have them all written down, I figured why not share them with all the other X-Philes out there. Here they are in chronological order.
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"We wanted to believe. We wanted to call out. On August 20th and September 5th 1977, two spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida; they were called Voyager. Each one carries a message. A gold-plated record depicting images, music, and sounds of our planet, arranged so that it may be understood if ever intercepted by a technologically mature extraterrestrial civilization. Thirteen years after its launch, Voyager I passed the orbital plane of Neptune, and essentially left our solar system. Within that time, there were no further messages sent, nor are any planned. We wanted to listen. On October 12th 1992, NASA initiated the high resolution microwave survey - a decade long search by radio telescopes scanning 10 million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence. Less than one year later, first term Nevada senator Richard Bryan successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project. I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away. The X-Files had been shut down. They closed our eyes, our voices have been silenced, our ears now deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities."
~Mulder, Season 2, Episode 1, "Little Green Men"~
"The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance and understanding that what scares us most is that which is most familiar, most common place. That boy next door, Donnie Pfaster, the unremarkable young brother of four older sisters, could grow up to be the devil in a buttoned-down shirt. It's been said that the fear of the unknown is an irrational response to the excesses of the imagination, but our fear of the everyday, of the lurking stranger and the sound of foot-falls on the stairs. The fear of violent death and the primitive impulse to survive, are as frightening as any X-File. As real as the acceptance that it could happen to you."
~Fox Mulder,(TXF: Season 2), Episode 13, "Irresistible"~
"I have lived with a fragile faith built on the ether of vague memories from an experience that I could neither prove nor explain. When I was 12, my sister was taken from me, taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial. This belief sustained me, fueling a quest for truths that were as elusive as the memory itself. To believe as passionately as I did was not without sacrifice, but I always accepted the risks - to my career, my reputation, my relationships, life itself. What happened to me out on the ice has justified every belief. If I should die now it would be with a certainty that my faith has been righteous, and if through death larger mysteries are revealed, I will have already learned the answer to the question that has driven me here - That there is intelligent life in the universe other than our own, that they are here among us, and that they have begun to colonize."
~Mulder, Season 2, Episode 16, "Colony"~
"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable, while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who would douse the flames of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men, for they are dangerous themselves, and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those that might remember, and of those who seek the truth."
~Albert Hosteen, (TXF: Season 3'''), Episode 1, "The Blessing Way'"~
"I was first struck by the absence of time, having depended on it so completely as a measure of my self and my life; moving backwards into the perpetual night it consumes purpose, indeed, all passion and will. I come to you, old friend, with the dull clarity of the dead not to beckon you, but to feel the fire and intensity that still live in you; and the heavy weight of your burdens which I had once borne. There is truth you know, friend, if that's all you seek, but there's no justice or judgment without which truth is a vast...dead...hollow. Go back. Do not look into the abyss or let the abyss look into you; awaken the sleep of reason and fight the monsters within and without."
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"Hello, son, I did not dare hope to see you so soon nor ever again hope to broker fate with a life to which I gave life. The lies I told you were a pox and poison to my soul and now you are here because of them. Lies I thought might bury forever a truth I could not live with. I stand here, ashamed of the choices I made so long ago, when you were just a boy. You are the memory, Fox. It lives in you. If you were to die now, the truth will die. And only the lies survive us."
~William Mulder, (TXF: Season 3, Episode 1, "The Blessing Way")~
"The development of our cerebral cortex has been the greatest achievement of the evolutionary processes. Big deal. While allowing us the thrills of intellect and the pangs of self-consciousness, it is all too often overruled by our inner, instinctive brain - the one that tells us to react, not reflect, to run rather than ruminate. Maybe we have gone as far as we can go, and the next advance whatever that may be, will be made by beings we create ourselves, using our own tech... tech... technology. Life forms we can design and program not to be ultimately governed by the strict rules of survival. Or perhaps that step forward has already been achieved on another planet, by organisms that had a billion years head start on us. And if these beings ever visited us would we recognize what we were seeing? And upon catching sight of us would they react in anything but horror at seeing such mindless, primitive, hideous creatures?"
~Mulder, Season 3, Episode 12, "War of the Corprophages"~
"Life...is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee, but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you're left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts, which if you are desperate enough to eat leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper wrappers."
~Cigarette Smoking Man, (TXF: Season 4), Episode 7, "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"~
"For the first time I feel time like a heartbeat. The seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning. The numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant' and unreal threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertained not in youth, but only in it's passage.' I feel these words as if their meaning were weight being lifted from me, knowing that you will read them and share my burden as I have come to trust no other. That you should know my heart, look into it, finding there the memory and experience 'that belong to you, that are you, is a comfort to me now as I feel the tethers loose and the prospects darken for a continuance of a journey that began not so long ago, and which began again with a faith shaken and strengthened by your convictions. If not for which I might never have been so strong now as I cross to face you and look at you incomplete, hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you."
~Scully, (TXF: Season 4), Episode 14, "Memento Mori"~
"I think you appreciate that there are extraordinary men, and women, and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That which can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream but that there is no substitute for perseverance and hard work and team work, because no one gets there alone. And while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who made these achievements and leaps possible."
~Scully, (TXF: Season 4), Episode 18, "Max"~
"It begins where it ends, in nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears coming to me unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound touched by others but never held, on a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me, until at last I reach the end, facing a truth I could no longer deny. Alone, as ever."
~Scully, (TXF:Season 5), Episode 7, "Emily"~
"Before the exploration of space, of the moon and planets, men held that the heavens were the home and province of powerful gods who controlled not just the vast firmament but the earthly fate of man himself. And that the pantheon of powerful, warring deities were the cause and reason for the human condition, for the past and the future, and for which great monuments would be erected, on earth as in heaven. But in time man replaced these gods with new gods and new religions that provided no more certain or greater answers than those worshiped by his Greek, or Roman, or Egyptian ancestors. And we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods and found our certainties in science. Believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation, our eyes turned skyward ready to accept the truly incredible, to find out destiny written in the stars. But how do we best look to see? With new eyes or old?"
~Mulder, (TXF: 'Season 5), Episode 13, "Patient X"~
"I'm the key figure in an ongoing government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. So, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky, Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling, and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time."
~Mulder, "The X-Files: Fight the Future"~
"Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are, who we forgive, who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line, to play the middle, to straddle the fence between what is and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which can't hold. So death chose for me."
~Skinner, (TXF:' Season 6), Episode 9, "S.R. 819"~
This next one is one I like to call "The War of the Proverbs". It's a conversation between Mulder and Scully in which they're just going back and forth throwing proverbs at each other.
Mulder: "Preparation is the father of inspiration."
Scully: "Necessity is the mother of invention."
Mulder: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Scully: "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die."
~ (TXF:' Season 6), Episode 19, "The Unnatural"~
Part 1
"From space it seems an abstraction, a magician's trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the sea almost 4 billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning millions of years, nature's first multi-cellular organisms began to multiply, and then it stopped. 440 million years ago a great mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty. Slowly plants began to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again, reptiles emerging independent of the sea, only to be killed off. Then dinosaurs struggling to life along with the first birds, fish and flowering plants, their decimation Earth's fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only a hundred-thousand years ago homo sapiens appear, man. From cave paintings to the Bible, to Columbus and Apollo 11 we have been a tireless force upon the Earth, and off. Cataloging the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a world population of over 5 billion people, all descended from that single cell, that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain, is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there a plan, a purpose, or reason to our existence? Will we pass as those before us into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress? Or will the mystery be revealed through a sign, a symbol... a revelation.
Part 2
"It began with an act of supreme violence, a big bang expanding ever outward. Cosmos born of matter and gas, matter and gas, 10 billion years ago. Whose idea was this? Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason? Were we part of that plan, 10 billion years ago? Are we born only to die? To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth before giving way to our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end? We burn like fires in out time only to be extinguished, to surrender to the elements eternal reclaim. Matter and gas. Will this all end one day? Life no longer passing to life. The Earth left barren like the stars above, like the cosmos. Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down, let it burn out? Could we too become extinct? Or if this fire of life living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames? Can he reignite the spark even as it grows cold and weak?"
~Scully, (TXF:' Season 6), Episode 22, "Biogenesis"~
"They said the birds refused to sing and the thermometer fell suddenly, as if God himself had his breath stolen away. No one there dared speak aloud, as much in shame as in sorrow. They uncovered the bodies one by one. The eyes of the dead were closed, as if waiting for permission to open. Were they still dreaming of ice cream and monkey bars, of birthday cake, and no future but the afternoon? Or had their innocence been taken along with their lives, buried in the cold earth so long ago? These fates seemed too cruel even for God to allow. Or are the tragic young born again when the world's not looking? I wanna believe so badly in a truth beyond our own, hidden and obscured 'from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless procession of souls, in what cannot and will not be destroyed'. I want to believe we are unaware of God's eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see his truth. That that which is born still lives and cannot be buried in the cold earth, but only waits to be born again at God's behest, where in ancient starlight we lay in repose."
~Mulder, (TXF:' Season 7), Episode 11, Closure"~
"Time passes in moments. Moments, which rushing past, define the path of a life, just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop the examine that path? To see the reason why all things happen. To consider whether the path we take in life is our own making, or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed. But what if we could stop? Pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes. Might we then see the endless forks in the road that have shaped a life, and seeing those choices choose another path?"
~Scully, (TXF:' Season 7), Episode 17, "All things"~
"We live in a darkness of our own making, blind to a habitant world all but unseen by us. A world of beings traveling through time and space, imaginable to us only as flights of fancy. Who are these beings we dare to imagine but fear to accept? What dark work goes on inside their impossible machines, cloaked from us by invisible forces? If they know our secrets, why can't we know theirs?"
~Scully, (TXF:' Season 8), Episode 2, "Without"~
"The passage of time imprisons us not in a cell of brick and mortar, but in one of hopes dashed and tragedies unaverted. How precious then, the chance to go back, only to discover that in facing the past you must face up to yourself. And exiting the prison of time doesn't free you from the prison of your own character, one from which there is no escape."
~Martin Wells, (TXF:' Season 8), Episode 6, "Redrum"~
"We call it the miracle of life, conception. A union of perfect opposites, essence transforming into existence. An act without which mankind would not exist, and humanity cease to exist. Or is this just nostalgia now? An act of biology commandeered by modern science and technology. Godlike, we extract, implant, inseminate, and we clone. But has our ingenuity rendered the miracle into a simple trick? In the artifice of replicating life can we become the creator? Then what of the soul? Can it too be replicated? Does it live in this matter we call DNA? Or is its placement the opposite of artifice, capable only by God? How did this child come to be? What set its heart beating? Is it the product of a union? Or the work of a divine hand, an unanswered prayer, a true miracle? Or is it a wonder of technology, the intervention of other hands? What do I tell this child about to be born? What do I tell Scully? What do I tell myself?"
~Mulder, (TXF:' Season 8), Episode 20, "Essence"~
"One day, you'll ask me to speak of a truth,' of the miracle of your birth. To explain what is unexplained. And if I falter or fail on this day, know there is an answer my child, a sacred and imperishable truth, but one you may never hope to find alone. Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite, your protector, and endangerer. Chance embarking with this other on the greatest of journeys, a search for truths fugitive and imponderable. If one day this chance may befall you my son, do not fail or falter to seize it. The truths are out there. And if one day you should behold a miracle as I have in you, you will learn the truth is not found in science or on some unseen plane, but by looking into your own heart, and in that moment you will be blessed, and stricken. For the truest truths are what hold us together, or what keep us painfully, desperately, apart."
~Scully, (TXF:' Season 9), Episode 6, "Trust No 1"~
"The bible says God appeared to Moses in the burning bush; he came to Jesus upon a mountain top; for Buddha, God came while he sat under a tree. God came to me in a vision in the desert, February 26th, 1991. My recon squad had engaged Saddam's army in a small Bedouin encampment. We'd been ambushed, taken on by surprise, and there were casualties. We were holding our perimeter and we might've held up, but on that day I had a terrible foreboding. I saw the future of those brave men, and they were about to die. Death came to take my men, but not me. I was left as a witness to a vision, angels from heaven. Behold, a whirlwind came out of the north and a brightness was about it. And out of the mist came the likeness of 4 living creatures, and they had the likeness of a man. I knew why my life had been spared - that I was to deliver the message of these angels, of these sons of God. To deliver the message of their God who came before all other gods."
~Josepho, (TXF:' Season 9), Episode 10, "Providence"~
"I'd like to congratulate you. On succeeding where so many before you have failed. A bullet between the eyes would've been preferable to this charade. I've learned to pretend over the past 9 years. Pretend that my victories mattered only to realize that no one was keeping score'. To realize that liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars. That the devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil is a collaboration of men which is what we have here today. If I am a guilty man, my crime is in daring to believe, that the truth will out and that no one lie can live forever. I believe it still. Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there. Greater than your lies the truth wants to be known. You will know it. It'll come to you, as it's come to me, faster than the speed of light. You may believe yourselves rid of your headache now, and maybe you are, but you've only done it by cutting off your own heads."
~Mulder, (TXF:' Season 9), Episode 19, "The Truth"~


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I have no problem with it being merged with the existing example. I'm not saying that I'll be able to actively maintain it, but I do have some motivation to (I may someday get an undergrad to help with my project and that sample app will get them mostly configured on their own machine). And if you want to incorporate the docs into the main site, that's fine too. I've re-uploaded the site and the project's .tar.gz. Sorry about that. Trying to fix a spelling error :). I've also attached the .tar.gz to the new Jira issue: JCR-319. Mark On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:58 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/15/06, Mark Slater <email@example.com> wrote: >> Based on my experiences over the past few days, I've created a small >> webapp (based on the FirstHops tutorial) to demonstrate and document >> the process of configuring both a Model 1 Embedded repository >> deployment and a Model 2 Shared repository deployment. >> [...] >> I'd like to offer it for inclusion in the contrib/ section. > > Very nice, thanks! I'd be happy to integrate that with Jackrabbit. How > about if we merged your example webapp with the existing, but not > actively maintained examples contrib? I'd also like to put your docs > directly on the main Jackrabbit web site. Would that be OK for you? > >> If anyone out there has a little more time and wants to try building, >> configuring, and running the webapps on their own system, that would >> also be really nice. The entire project can be found at: >> >> http://whisper.cse.ucsc.edu/jackrabbit_deployment_test/ >> jackrabbit_deployment_test.tar.gz > > I couldn't download it, the server gives me a 404 Not Found. Can you > post a Jira issue and upload the project as an attachment? That would > also take care of the license grant issue. > > PS. Do we need a CLA for this or is the Jira license grant option good > enough? The contribution seems to contain one source file, a couple of > documentation pages, and the related project and appliction > configuration files. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > -- > Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - firstname.lastname@example.com > Software craftmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development
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Seven Great Dishes and Drinks on 17th Avenue
The BSide opened last Wednesday at 17th and Humboldt.
Kevin Galaba
The BSide opened just last Wednesday at 17th and Humboldt, a corner that is quickly becoming a restaurant destination quarter. Justin Lloyd, the owner of Star Bar on Larimer Street, is also behind the debut. The new restaurant is serving craft beers and cocktails and food that ranges from down-home to downright unique. This little stretch of 17th Avenue is becoming quite the family of restaurants, with the recent births of The District (next door to BSide) and Humboldt, which isn't even a year old yet. And there's older company, too: Limon and P17. These restaurants together make up a walkable district with an eclectic palette of dining and drinking options.
See Also: Justin Lloyd Creates a Local Gathering Spot at Star Bar.
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The Paloma at Bside
BSide's Paloma is a version of a classic cocktail that's perfect for summer, featuring two tequilas: Cabeza blanco and Patron silver, combined with fresh-squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice and Squirt grapefruit soda. The ingredients are mixed in five-gallon batches, and loaded into a beer keg so that the lightly carbonated Palomas are available on draft from the bar. You'll want several of them, while enjoying yourself on one of BSides two outdoor patios -- one in front, one out back. The back patio is blessed with it's own bar, to make things easier. You'll feel blessed, too, at happy hour (3 - 6 pm Monday through Friday) when the cocktail is a dollar cheaper. ($6)
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Purple Mountain from The District
One of the newer restaurants in this area, The District is entering its fifth week in business, in what was previously a jewelry store. The District's street side patio is where you want to drink the fruity and refreshing Purple Mountain cocktail -- currently the bar's most popular cocktail. It starts with crushed blueberries, to which lemon juice and simple syrup are added. For booze, you get your choice of vodka (Svedka) or bourbon (Old Forester). All that is poured over ice, and the drink is topped with Pyramid Apricot Ale and served in a pint glass for $9. If you're doing some drinking, get a pitcher to share ($23 for 48-ounce pitcher). If you're doing some dining, get the blue cheese fries, the Reuben fries, or the chicken fried steak sliders -- the hottest dishes coming out of the kitchen.
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Cafe Cortado at the Denver Bicycle Cafe
Got a flat tire? Walk your bike over to the Denver Bicycle Cafe, a unique blend of bike shop, bar and barista heaven. A cortado is the drink to get here, made by your bow-tied barista Jake Hammerle, who's been making coffee drinks for ten years. A cortado is like a mini-latte: a double shot of espresso with two and a half ounces of steamed milk, which will most likely be topped with a delicate floral design in the foam. Bottles of vanilla and simple syrup are on hand to sweeten the cup. But there's more than cycles and coffee here. Bar guru Beki Gibney curates and carefully prunes a list of 12 tap beers and 60-plus cans -- every one of them from Colorado. The six taps on the East side of the shop, where the bike repair station is located, pour unique and unusual beers, while the West side's taps offer more common, easy-drinking beers such as pilsners and Kolsches. Get your cortado ($3) before they stop serving coffee at 5 p.m., when it's beers-only until closing time.
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On his fourth try, Scherzer (10-4) finally got his 10th win, allowing one run on six hits over 6 2/3 innings.
"I didn't walk anybody," Scherzer said. "I didn't put myself in dangerous positions. I was able to keep the ball on the ground and was able to have a good outing."
Don Kelly ripped a home run in the ninth for the Tigers, who have won two straight.
Mike Moustakas drove in the lone run for the Royals, who had a two-game winning streak snapped.
Danny Duffy (1-4) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on four hits over six innings. He struck out six and walked one.
"It's what's best for the team," said Duffy, who was set to minor leagues after the game. "We've got another arm in the bullpen. I don't fret over that. I'll go down to Omaha and do what I've got to do. Get a start and work on getting back here on the (July) 18th and do it against the White Sox on 19th."
Raburn blasted a two-run homer over the fence in left to break open the scoring during the second inning.
Kansas City got a run back in the fifth, which was started by Eric Hosmer's double. He moved to third on a Jeff Francoeur fly out in foul territory and scored on Moustakas' groundout to second.
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Jose Valverde came into the ninth and got two quick outs before walking Hosmer. Later on, Francoeur singled and stole second to put runners on third and second. Moustakas, who represented the winning run flied out, though, to end the game and give Valverde his 22nd save of the season.
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Today I had to put down my precious at Baby Bear. It was a quality of life decision and so terribly hard to make. I thought about it for a week and last night cried my eyes out holding and telling him how very much I love him and letting him know I couldn't let him suffer anymore with his ear infection, upper respiratory virus and third eyelid condition. Plus he had hyperthyroid disease and alleriges that required a shot every month. He lost weight from a 11 pounds to 7 pounds.
We moved into our townhome thanksgivng 1999 and upn walking around saw a patch where 5 young cats were hanging out. My husband and I captured them, had them fixed and released them back in the complex. They would all come to our door for food. WE already had one kitty but she died on New years day in 2001. We waited 3 years and then I brought in the calico kitty and named her Callie of course. then as I walked her on leash, the black & whote kitty and the grey one followed us around and the black and white one would always look uo to me like he was in love. I would reach down and touch them and gained their trust. about 2 years later I brought in the Black and white one and shorty the grey one came looking for her brother and in she came. I named the black and white one Baby Bear and the grey one Tigger. And we lived happily with them as my comforts and me as their servant. Baby Bear would always sit on my husbands lap and he loved him. My husband became ill and could no longer tolerate Baby Bear sitting on his lap so he then began to sit on my lap and when my husband passed away he took over my lap completely any time I sat down. I love the comfort he gave and loved comforting him. He was there on me always. Two weeks ago he somehow got the third eyelid problem . That's when the eye is half covered over and he kept shaking his head and he had a cough from time to time with congestion. He was diagnosed with allergies about three months before and had to have shots once a month because he wouldn't eat the science diet. The Doc did blood work and fournd him to have hyperthyroidism and had to be put on Tapazole (transdermal) twice a day. Plus the eye drops 3 times a day and the antibiotic given twice a day orally. He became so weak and I looked for signs of weight gain and energy but he went and hid under the bed and I'd have to disturb him to give him meds. I noticed when I picked him up he felt as light as a feather. HE would lick at the food but turn away.The Doctor xrayed him to day and said he had a serious infection and could not smell the food to eat it and he agreed with my decision to let him go be with his daddy in heaven. It breaks my heart and I know I did evry hting I could . I'll so miss him on my lap and will always remember him looking so lovelingly at me . I'll miss being his mommy. He was such a love.
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beingblackatschool.org + therespectinstitute.org
after the Women's March
You, a concerned U.S. resident or citizen.
Quality education can be the largest social justice program in the U.S.—and it's a right. Many of our most vulnerable residents are enrolled in K-12 public schools.
RISING HARRASSMENT, BIGOTRY and VIOLENCE
has been the #1 place where hate incidents have occured nationwide
Since Nov. 8, 2016:
Black 3.5X
Latino 2X
suspension rate compared to white students
they are 3x more likely to enter the justice system
PBS.org OJJDP.gov www2.ed.gov/ocr
7 million+ boys and girls are suspended from school each year
Black and Latino students are pipelined into
beingblackatschool.org analysis of data from the Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection
51% of U.S. public school students are minorities
# of school sites where 90% of students are White vs. Black/Latino
just 6.6% of the nations's publicly funded school sites
which are also under-resourced
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16 to 19% lower than whites
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Use our template (below) to provide resources and drive equity via policies, practices and programs. This is about showing them that you're a concerned community member—and watchdog. If you're not sure how to respond to their reply, email us: firstname.lastname@example.com
5 mins.
Email your school district superintendent and local school principal
Provide a Respect 360™ Toolkit + Training for a school
2 mins.
Like our pages on Facebook to stay updated on new actions
Post on your social media accounts
U.S. schools are segregated and bigotry is on the rise. Take action: therespectinstitute.org/school-equity-action-list #respect4students @BeingBlackAS @therespectinst
Request an Equity Report for your school
Find out how your school is doing in regards to equity, including special education.
Send directly to your school of choice, or email firstname.lastname@example.com to be matched with a school.
Fund the next phase of the work
Now more than ever, frontline educators will have to create safe classrooms. Ri is developing an app to help them combat burnout, use restorative practices to repair harm, reduce school suspensions, and access social-emotional learning tools to cultivate empathy among students.
Complete the online training, receive your toolkit, connect with a local school, offer to lead the program under their adult volunteer guidelines, and reach out to us for extra support. Use "Be of Service" cards in the toolkit to guide students through a 7-step process to create a social change project on campus.
Lead a Respect 360 program for students or faculty
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Empower students, parents and educators to make the school system a safe place for Black children.
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Set up news alerts regarding the Department of Education, your state department of education, and your local school district. Use keywords like "school suspension" and "school funding" and "school equity."
Sometimes they're dull! But you will learn about the priorities and funding decisions. You can make public comments. And one day, we hope it's you who will run—with an equity agenda.
Go to School Board Meetings
If you have kids, or mentees, use the Zinn Education Project to teach them about those who fought for equity and respect before us—they'll get a better history lesson than they might be getting in school.
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Provide resources to local teachers
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Dear XX, I live within the XX school district and I'm passionate about our public schools. I wanted to connect to provide you with several resources that I feel would be of great value to your school(s) to ensure equity for all students (i.e. getting what they need, when they need it). I also have a few questions I was hoping you could answer: EQUITY Do you have an equity policy? Can you forward it to me? Or if you need support with your policy and practices, there is a great organization, https://beingblackatschool.org, that can help. SUSPENSION DATA Do you post online the number of students suspended or expelled? And reasons for expulsion? If students of color are being suspended at disproportionate rates, what are you doing about it? For example, have you explored research- and evidence-based methods such as positive discipline, restorative practices and educator empathy building? To learn more about improving school climate and educator practices to end the school-to-prison pipeline, contact: http://therespectinstitute.org/ GIRLS OF COLOR Girls are the largest growing juvenile justice population--and this is directly linked to school suspensions (OJJDP). According to National Women's Law Center: In general, schools suspend Black, Latina and American Indian/Alaskan Native girls at higher rates than white girls. Black girls are 5.5 times more likely to be suspended from school as white girls (USDOE Office for Civil Rights). "They suspend girls for minor stuff—like going against strict dress codes or 'talking back," writes NWLC. Have you reviewed the following toolkit by the center? It details how to take inventory of your policies to make sure girls of color aren't being unfairly pushed out of school. For more resources, go to: http://nwlc.org/issue/sexual-harassment-assault-in-schools/ CIVICS and U.S. HISTORY CURRICULUM I'd encourage you to take inventory of your curriculum. Expand your pedagogy to teach the *actual* history of our country. For example, do you teach about the deep, long-lasting effects of slavery, which founding fathers were slave owners, and who resisted abolition and later the Civil Rights Movement? Are you exposing the other "hidden figures" who shaped our nation: scholars, inventors, authors or leaders who are not white men? Do you cover the historically marginalized, those who are: African American, Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, LGBTQ, of color, immigrants or disabled Americans—for starters? To lesson plan, your team could read: "Race and Education: A Primer of Issues and Dilemmas." And this is a rich, yet free curriculum resource: https://zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/ I appreciate the time you've taken to consider my thoughts on how to improve school equity, and hope you reply. And I'd love to support any changes that are needed to improve equity in our [school or district]. Please add me to the distribution list for public meetings and I'll be there. Sincerely, XX Address Phone Email
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A storm is raging in the New World, and in the middle is the Kuja Pirates ship, Aphelandra is steering as the other crewmates are doing their needed jobs to keep the ship from capsizing.
Rindo: Daisy! Close the back sail, this strong forward wind should drive us out of the storm.
Marguerite: Is the empress allright?
Cosmos: Shes doing fine, marigold and Sadersonia are taking care of her. These new World storms really scare her.
The ship soons passes through the storm, and comes into clear waters.
Marguerite: Watch out, this New World can be dangerous, keep your guard up.
An island comes into view, there seems to be a blizard raging on the snow coverd land.
In the ships quarters, Boa Hanock realises the storm is over, her and her sisters go on deck and lead their crew to the island.
Hanock: We're finally here, the famous island of Sniega. Its famous for its wonderfull spas!
Wanting to take a vacation, the kuja Pirates come to the island if Sniega, the dock their ship and walk into the main building, Sniega Spa.
the see another group, mostly large men standing around one lone figure.
???: What do you mean I have to pay?!? I have a huge bounty!! Do you know who I am?!?
She turns around to see the Kuja pirates, starring at her lack of manners and vulgar speech.
Bonney: What are you starrin' at broad?
Hanock: Women should not be so rude....
Bonney: Oh yeah *She reaches in her pocket and starts muching on a piece of meat* , What're you guna' do about it?
Hancock: A proper lady dose not eat and talk! Mero Mero Mellow!
Bonney looks confused as the beam passes through her, Hanock is even more shocked when she realises Bonney is not stone.
Hanock: You feel no love for me!? You do not think I am beautiful!? Your body might not be stone, but your heart must be.....
Bonney: Stupid woman...
Bonneys arms seem to grow slightly in muscular capasity, she takes a swing and hits Hanock in the face, she then takes another blow to the stomach.
Hanock: Vial woman.....
Hanock uses Bososhoku haki to kick bonney through the door. Bonney gets up and finishes her meat.
Bonney: You dont realise it lady, but you just made a big mistake. Im Jewelry Bonney. I have a bounty of 140,000,000 Beli.
Hanock dosent care and runs quickly towards her. Hanock does a spinning kick and sends some blows to Bonneys head and arm. Bonneys legs then seem to grow in stregth, as her arms change back. Bonney then jumps up on top of a nearby tree.
Hancock: Your muscles, how are they increasing and decreasing...?
Bonney: Let me explain, I ate the Gene-Gene no mi. I can change my genes, but only slightly or else it would be too much for my body to take. I can also change others genes. Observe. Age Increase, 40 years.
Hancock then starts to wrinkle, and her hair gets streaks of grey and white.
Hanock: My beauty!! You will pay for this Jewelry Bonney!!!!!
The crew of the Bonney Pirates and Kuja Pirates are too scared to intervene, in fear their captain will hurt them out of rage. Instead, the silently watch.
Hancock: Pistol Kiss!
Bonney is hit with the heart shaped busoshoku bullet, it damages her some, but dosent turn her into stone.
Hancock: Even with age a warriors heart is still the heart of a warrior! Perfume Femur!
Hancock sends a series of kicks at Bonney, which Bonney tries to block, but fails. She is kicked rapidly in the face.
Bonney: You can still fight as an old woman huh? Then how about a little kid? Age Decrease, 57 years.
Hancock then gets her hair color and flawless skin back, as the cost of loosing her height, and figure. She then turns into a two year old child.
Hanock: Bwut! Iwa getchu lil gerrrl. Pewfume Fewmer!
Allthough the spped is still the same, the kicks from Hancocks Perfume Femur are weakened due to her loss of stregth.
Bonney: So, you were allways pretty strong? Then mabey I should slow you down. Weight Increase, 300 Kg.
Hancock then gains 300 extra kilograms of extra fat. Hancock then uses a bunsoshoku punch to Bonneys face.
Bonney: Ow ow ow! Those cubby hands can hit hard...
Bonney kicks the young chubby Hancock away and into the snow. Bonney then adds muscle to her legs and starts rapidly kicking hancock.
Bonney: It dosent feel right hurting a small child. Age Increase, 27 years.
Hanock transforms back to her orginal age, but she still has an excess 300 kilograms.
Bonney: But now your too fast...Weight Increase, 300 Kg.
Hanocks is added another 300 kilograms, making her extremely obese and unable to move.
Hancock: My....beauty.....
Bonney: Sorry, about that, this was just too fun.
Bonney then removes the muscle in the left leg, and makes her right one twice as strong. She holds her leg up, then axe kicks is down on Hancocks head
Bonney: Muscular Axe!
Hanock is knocked out. Bonney then removes all the changes she made to Hancock and walks over to gather her crew.
Bonney: I know how much beauty means to the Kuja Pirates. I changed her back as mercy. C'mon I dont even feel like a spa day anymore.
The Kuja Pirates go to aid their fallen Empress, and the Bonney Pirates walk back to their ship, a good battle won by their captain.


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MS-Windows Troubleshooting
Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable.
When trying to add a printer (via "Add Printer" in Control Panel > Printers, or Start > Settings > Printers) a dialog box appears containing the following error:
Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable.
This error indicates a problem with the Print Spooler service - typically it is not running.
Possible Remedies:
- Check that the Print Spooler service is running:
- Start > Settings > Control Panel
- Administrative Tools > Services
- Find the service "Print Spooler".
- Check that it is set to "Automatic" start-up.
- If it is not running then start it (right click it and select "Start")
- The following link has also been recommended: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm
These notes have been tested with Windows 2000.
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