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Apparently, the Vikings are fascinating. In numerous timelines, they feature very prominently (for example Vikings in the New World). Even timelines with PoDs in the distant past keep the Vikings and feature some sort of Norse empire which continues into the present (e.g. Battle of Belusium).
But apart from our fascination with these heathen seaborne marauders, conquerors, explorers and traders: Is a Viking Age inevitable? In this timeline, there are no Vikings. In the following, you will some elaborations as to why this is so, and what happened in Scandinavia in the 8th-11th centuries instead.
Norse society was bound to undergo some sort of change in the last third of the first millennium CE. Unless a timeline removes the two important factors of population pressure and shipbuilding innovations in Scandinavia, the end of the splendid isolation of indigenous tribes living in susbsistent small-scale social units would have to come in some way or other. But the emergence of a Viking (and Varangian) society in OTL was also owed to other factors. The military, socioeconomic and political structures of Late Antiquity, the downfall of the Roman Empire, the Germanic migrations and the beginning Middle Ages with the emergence of a powerful Merowingian Empire all shaped Scandinavia indirectly, too. Military petty kings became dominant in the 5th-7th centuries; some petty kingdoms began to swallow and absorb others, attempting to imitate their Southern role models. Traditional socioeconomic structures were destabilised, and adequate new ones had not yet emerged.
In this timeline, Roman - or more precisely: Gallo-Roman - influence is both stronger, more direct and different in quality. The role models were not superficially Romanised Germanic empires based on warrior aristocracies who had taken over Roman latifundia. In this timeline, the dynamic and powerful role models of the Celtic and the Roman Republic are (more or less) democratic states with an ample bureaucratic administration, decent public infrastructure, well-equipped and large armed defensive forces, new technologies, strong urban guilds, rural cooperatives, countless competing religious cults, and high levels of classical education.
Developments begin to accelerate and take a different direction from OTL in the 5th century CE. The Imperium Romanum Galliarum conquers the Kimbrian Peninsula and becomes a close neighbour of the Scandinavians.
Although Anglia, as the IRG calls the Kimbrian Peninsula, is not exactly the empire's wealthiest province, and Gallo-Roman ships sailing the North Sea and the Kattegat do not carry the bulk of Gallo-Roman trade, both are attractive aims for Scandinavian marauders and pirates. The Gallo-Romans try to hunt them down, and in doing so, they find out more about Scandinavia`s landscape and population and their dwellings.
Gallo-Roman (later terminology: Celtic) attempts to conquer the Danish archipelago, where the Gallo-Romans have localised the majority of those who plague them, fail spectacularly due to their navy`s ineptitude in the difficult waters of the archipelago and the virtual impossibility of controlling the entire region against an enemy who adopts evasive guerrilla tactics. In the 5th and 6th century, two Danish polities emerge from the successful defense against the Celts: the Western islands are (sometimes more, sometimes less) united in an assembly named "Danething" and led by a king who resides in Gudme. In the East, Sjaelland has its Sjaellandsthing and a king in Lejre.
The only Scandinavian region with which the Gallo-Romans establish good trading relations is OTL Norway, or more specifically its Southern and South-Western coast, especially the region which is called Agder today. In the 5th-8th centuries, it was called Agðir, and its inhabitants Egðir. Their contacts with the Gallo-Romans lead to a double cross-fertilisation:
- Gallo-Romans and Norse learn from each other`s ship-building techniques. Half-free craftsmen in a village in Agðir learn to endow longboats with sails. The Classis Celtica orders hundreds of these small and fast, improved langobats to diversify its stock, which had up to that point consisted only of the large, bulky types of ships that the Romans used, too. Almost over night (i.e. over the course of a few years), half-free Egðir become rich.
- Gallo-Roman and Norse domestic animal breeds are exchanged, and improved varieties for the cold climate are bred, allowing a more productive agro-pastoralism in the Northern regions of both spheres.
Norsemen from Vestfold and Hordaland focus on intensifying agricultural and cattle production. Among the Egðir, secret societies form, where the ship-building knowledge is protected and proliferated only among their members. The secret societies of the Egðir soon begin to sail across the seas, raiding towns and villages - but sparing their Gallo-Roman partners, whose power they know too well -, and later also establishing their own trading outposts. The secret societies of the Egðir transform into a combination of trading syndicates and seaborne military hirds, who do not follow a sea king, instead they are led collectively by the aforementioned secret societies of which the hirdmen form a part which was subordinate to the "secret-bearers", but provided good career options for young boys from families of the half-free or from yeomen with small farms and many children.
The Egðir`s network of trading ports expanded quickly in the 6th century. It included colonies at the Baltic Sea Coast of OTL East Germany, Poland and Latvia and the North Sea Coast of OTL Norway well into the Arctic Sea. In the Baltic Sea, they came into bloody conflict with existing Norse trading groups based on Gotland island. This century, often called the Egðir Age, also brought increased coordination and defensive strategies across Eastern Denmark (Sjælland) and OTL Southern Sweden.
In the 7th century, the Celtic Republic (successor to the Imperium Romanum Galliarum after the republican victory in the 550s) took its commercial interests increasingly into its own hands. The Celtic Navy had finally mastered the technology of fire syphons for ships (Greek fire), and the Celtic Republic`s Frisian citizens had revolutionised ship-building once again by inventing the cog, which was equally fit for transporting great quantities of goods economically across the high seas and for landing in shallow waters, which abounded not only in Frisia, but also along the Southern and South-Eastern Baltic coastlines. Frisian traders formed an association akin to the Egðir`s secret societies, but protected by Celtic law (and might): the Hansa. The Frisian Hansa`s cogs were fitted with Greek fire and were thus not only able to carry greater quantities than the longboats of the Egðir, but also more capable to fend off pirates, who abounded especially in the Kattegat. Thus, the 7th and the beginning 8th century are often called the Hanseatic Age. It saw the formation and consolidation of the Gautar Confederacy, the unification of Skånen and the establishment of relatively powerful kingdoms on Sjælland and along the Mälaren (Sviþjod).
To further ensure the safety of its trading missions, the Celtic Republic founded the emporia of Arcona (OTL Kap Arkona), Callamare (OTL Kalmar) and Sarema (Saaremaa). These Celtic emporia were exempt from customs payments and developed very quickly. They often harboured monasteries of the Celtic Church and always included Celtic naval bases. Two kinds of law applied here: the Celtic citizens sorted out their own affairs in an emporial Comitium, which elected magistrates who ran the vigils (policemen, firefighters and self-defensive militia), the public baths, the public hospitals, the Celtic courts of law etc. The Norse were free to look after their own business and apply their own laws. Only Celtic citizens were taxed according to Celtic law, but they were also the only ones entitled to the protection of the empire and to access the public utilities.
This model became influential, too: Egðir towns like Sørstad, petty kingdoms like Viken and Karmøy and other polities like Trøndelag and Hålogaland invited Celtic monks, too, both to attract educated people with important skills, to foster positive relations with the Celtic Republic and to enjoy additional protection against regional rivals.
Other Norse polities tried to copy some of the structures observed in the Celtic Republic: Here and there, new honorary offices emerged, with the duty to look after this or that aspect of public infrastructure. Literate Norse began to teach their children and those of their neighbours to read and write themselves.
Celtic (i.e. essentially Roman) influence was even greater on those Norsemen who followed the Celtic Empire`s invitation to settle Iceland. A few decades after its discovery, the island was divided into civitates, and although it was merely a margo, not a province, the Celtic constitution applied here. Norse settlers called the Comitium Civitatis they attended a "Thing", but evidently there was no servitude and slavery on the island, everyone was a citizen and thus entitled to attend the Comitium, and the Comitium did not sort out quarrels between clans and elect a warlord for its protection; instead, it elected a host of magistrates and decided upon their budgets and the taxes everyone had to pay, and these magistrates would then judge everyone according to Celtic law, regardless of whether one`s father still lived or whether one owned land or which language one spoke.
The Egðir and other more adventurous seafaring brotherhoods now focused more and more on the coastline of OTL Norway and trade with the Bjarmians along the Arctic Sea passage. Here, too, they catalysed quick developments in indigenous Finnic societies. By 650, after a few decades of Norse-Bjarmian interaction, the Bjarmians integrated themselves into the emerging Great Permian alliance. A few decades later, the Bjarmians began undertaking their own Westward missions, drawing on the opportunity provided by their linguistic similarity and mutual intelligibility with the Sami, who lived all along the icy passage between Bjarmaland and the Norse towns. Again, the mighty Celtic Republic was often invoked as an arbiter and peace-keeper between Bjarmians and Norse, as well as among warring petty kingdoms and confederacies of the Norse.
To sum up: Towards the end of the 8th century, when the first Varangians and Vikings began to ransack Northern Europe in OTL, Norse society in this timeline has already established a complex web of interdependencies with the developed empires of the Mediterranean and begun to emulate its civilization. It is much less militarised than in OTL, and military conquest or piracy are faced with few opportunities.
Were the Egðir Vikings?
They were a superior naval power in the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea for a whole century. They raided and plundered, but also traded and established large over-regional commercial networks. They founded new polities or altered the nature of existing ones, e.g. in Venedia or Courland. They brought their specific skills, their forms of social organisation and their language with them into lands formerly not inhabited by Norse. Insofar, they show some similarities with OTL Vikings.
On the other hand, the Egðir never became a continental power. The Imperium Romanum Galliarum, later named Celtic Republic, effectively contained them in Scandinavia and the Baltic space. Quickly rivals emerged, who pursued slightly different strategies (the Gutar, the Danes, the Svear).
But most of all, the Egðir were not a by-product of general militarisation, but of a locally limited increase in wealthy caused by preferential trade and a unique innovation. These two factors were the foundation of their power, and they aimed to preserve them.
A Brief Look at What Happened Elsewhere
The 8th-10th centuries were a worldwide era of city republics, long-distance global trade via the Silk Road and the sea routes and international co-operation to keep these routes safe, the discovery of gunpowder, firearms and cannons, but also the magnetic compass and hydraulic innovations. New types of canals improved the infrastructure, while agriculture underwent another "green revolution" with fertilisers and new crops and breeds from new continents. Growing population levels caused recurring epidemics and increased social and political dynamics in societies which had previously been static and dominated by agriculture. Important resources like wood and easily accessible petroleum became scarce, causing both an improved management of them and an increased dependency of the developed economies of the Civilised Belt (Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Eran, India) and China on countries on their periphery which provided them with vital resources. In the Western half of this civilised world, democracy has taken deep roots. The boom of newspapers and other printed material as well as postal infrastructure facilitated a greater cohesion even of large territorial states. Education spreads farther and deeper among the population: in the Roman and Celtic Empires, four, six or eight years of schooling become compulsory, and more and more academies and universities are built from Lusitania to Borneo.
Instead of a Viking Age: The Norse Age of City Republics
The spread of seafaring brotherhoods is shorter in this timeline, with the "Egðir Age" lasting roughly one century. Since a plundering of the stable empires was out of the equation, the Egðir Age was an age of inner-Scandinavian cannibalisation of marine polities. Colonisation of North-Eastern Europe happens, in absolute time, earlier than in OTL, but it happens after the end of the Egðir Age, in an age of relative stability.
In OTL, the three factors of Christianisation, the formation of greater unified kingdoms, and the emergence of sizable port towns, whose long-distance sea merchants took provisions for their safety, together marked the end of the Viking Age. In OTL, they were undertaken by the same agents, and the third factor occurred relatively late: Conquering kings introduced the Christian faith and consolidated their realms through the establishment of a clerical administration with its episcopal sees. The inner peace in these kingdoms, which facilitated trade, and the centralised structure of the mono-episcopal church led to the growth of new towns. It was the kingdoms which guaranteed security and granted privileges to the towns and their trading associations.
In this timeline, the growth and consolidation of port towns sets in simultaneously with the other two trends already during the Hanseatic Age. The influence of the Celtic Church is weaker than that of the Roman Catholic Church in OTL. Consequently, a greater number of city republics, smaller unified kingdoms and loose confederacies emerged and, unimpeded by frequent conflicts among themselves, embarked on the journey of modern state-building
Thus, Abrittus CE 750-1000 is by no means a copy of OTL CE 1000-1250, when the three kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark emerged.
The one common feature of the Norse Age of City Republics (see the similar global trend), where the amount of divergence between various Scandinavian paths of modernisation is much greater than in OTL, is the economy - not the political or military domain - as the driving factor of social change.
Along the coast of what in OTL is Norway, a string of small states consolidates: Haligoland, Trøndelag, Hordaland, Agðir, Viken and Hadeland. Its dominant social group are sea merchants and related crafts. They dominate a trading network along the coast of Sapmi to Bjarmaland, where the rough climate conditions have kept the Frisian Hansa from establishing outposts themselves. Frequent quarrels with each other are sometimes mediated by the Celtic Empire, which exercises a great deal of control in this area. More and more syndicate leaders and yarls endow monasteries for the Celtic Church, among whose monks the Norwegian coast enjoys great popularity. The proto-Norwegian coast states become increasingly Christianised and even slightly Latinised through this influence. Social inequality is high: fishermen and farmers, the majority of the population, are much poorer than merchants and highly skilled craftsmen. Resulting tensions are mirrored in the Things, where political offices are often given to the representatives of guilds and syndicates, while the large rural majority sees itself marginalised: although they enjoy the same voting rights, they cannot afford to take over unpaid offices and thus lack the more sophisticated political experience. All of this foreshadows the Olavist revolution that would transform Norse society and build the modern state of Norway in the 11th century. Another trading nation are the Gutar, who reside on Gotland. Challenged by the Egðir early on, they consolidated their position through swinging alliances with Sviþjod, Wiskiauten and the Celts. Gutar establish and dominate the Eastbound trade with Finnic nations like the Vessi, the Voti and the Karelians as well as the Baltic Galinds and, from there, with the Potamian Koinon of the Borysthenes (where they encounter another successful seafaring nation, which also calls themselves "...Goths"). Gotland shows a much greater social cohesion because its small population is almost entirely occupied with trade, and wealth is distributed more evenly. The Gutar absorb manifold cultural influences, but none becomes dominant during this period - the precondition for the island`s secularisation and the early dominance of atheism from the 12th century on, when atheism was already popular in the Mediterranean, but the surrounding Scandinavians engaged in fierce confessional battles between Olavist Christians and adherents of the old polytheistic religion.
A very different approach develops among the Svear. Sviþjod develops as a centralised state, with all the power concentrated in Uppsala. The backbone of its development is its mining and steelworking industry, which is undertaken in a very hierarchical manner, employing slaves for the hardest labour. Sviþjod has the largest amount of people with no civil rights in all of Scandinavia. The assertion of Svear and royal dominance requires a legitimacy, which is sought in the old Odinist religion. Its importance is so great that the Kings of the Svear and their governments generously sponsor theological schools at Helgö and Mora. In the brewing conflicts between the Norse AEsir cult, the Suebian Lausai cult and various Christian churches, the Svear priests become highly influential as the leaders of the Norse polytheistic religion. After failed attempts to conquer Järmtland, Hedaland or Gautaland, Sviþjod expands along both the Western and Eastern coast of the Bottnic Sea. The establishment of Svear towns in Umeå, Luleå, Åbo and Hälsingfors corroborates Svear dominance of trade with and slave raids against the Suomalaizet, Kven and Hämalaizet (Tavastians), Increasingly, wood is imported from these towns` hinterlands, dams are built to use the waterpower of the land`s rivers, and ore is extracted from new mines in the Northern regions, too
Under the most intense Celtic pressure lived and developed the Danes. The Celtic Empire undertook two campaigns to conquer Denmark, both of which failed. Because of Danish piracy, which damaged Celtic trade interests, Danish ships were not allowed to enter Celtic harbours until 779, and Frisian cogs were endowed with fire syphons, which they freely used against suspicious Danish longboats. Due to their strained relations, the Celts did not invite Danish settlers to help with the colonisation of Glaciana, although population pressure in Denmark was high. With the advent of firearms, the Celtic Republic undertook further concerted efforts to smoke out Danish piracy. Towards the end of the 8th century, the Western island of Fyn and its kings, who resided in Gudme, began to pursue more amicable relations with the Celts. Gudme immediately profited from this cooperation and was strengthened to such an extent that it was able to offer its protection to Saxon and Obodritic towns on the Baltic Sea, first Traveborg, then Reric and a handful of smaller towns. The towns required this protection - not so much against pirates, who had become rarer in the Age of City States, but primarily against Saxon and Obodritic nobles, for many inhabitants of these towns were considered indentured servants by these nobles (ethelinga and voivods). In exchange, they granted taxation rights and unlimited staple rights to Danish merchants from Fyn.
Thus strengthened, Kings of Gudme conducted several wars against the Eastern Danish Kings of Lejre, at the heart of which were mostly trade disputes. In 861, Lejre decided the last of these wars in their advantage, owed to the use of a military innovation: powerful, mobile and precisely maneuverable cannons, obtained by the Celts, with which Lejre now also had forged an agreement. King Ragnvald of Lejre was able to unite all Danish isles as well as Skåne in the South of OTL Sweden under his leadership. The three Things of Fyn, Sjælland and Skåne remained and kept their different laws, though. In 911, the towns on the Southern coast of the Baltic Sea (OTL Mecklenburg) and their hinterland, which had become known as "Jom", successfully struggled for and achieved their own legal autonomy and self-administration in the Jomting. The United Kingdom of Denmark began to use its cannons also to oversee the Øresund and collected customs for the king from all ships who passed the sund. This enormous source of income triggered a fast process of modernisation in Denmark, which brought modern manufacturing, banking and other recent innovations to the Danish lands. Further territorial expansions were attempted at the cost of the Gautar, whose confederacy was able to repel them, though.
The Norwegian, Danish, Gotlandish and Svear polities thus all aimed for - and achieved - expansion. They were driven towards expansion by the dynamics of inner tensions in their societies, which were caused by the advent of early capitalist practices and the spreading of Celtic Christianity and culture, which both undermined the economic and the cultural base of the traditional foundational unit of Norse societies: a farm owned and run by a large family, who lived together with their servants in a longhouse from the fruit of their labour, resolved most of its inner conflicts among itself and most of its conflicts with other clans without referring to a superior statel institution, and whose heads of family could afford to take over civic responsibilities for the whole tribe. Capital investments by corporations, wage labour opportunities, the availability of interest-laden loans, and the idea that all men - father and son, nobleman, freeman and servant - should rather be equal in the face of God(s) and the law - began to break these structures apart. This trend did not occur everywhere in Scandinavia, though. It was facilitated in many places by preceding centuries of warfare and a concentration of land ownership into relatively large farms, with a majority of the rural population being dependent on the owners of these sizable farms. In Järmtland, Hadeland and Gautaland, though, there had not been such a militarisation during the Migration Period, ownership was spread more equally, farms were smaller, and most farms had either no servants, or merely one or two. Here, structures remained much more traditional - and the polities remained stable, small-sized and not bent on expansion. Järmtland and Hadeland remained entirely independent, the former successfully fending off an invasion by Sviþjod in the 10th century. The many small lands of the Gautar (a telling OTL name of the region is Småland) were compelled to form a confederacy, though, in order to repel military campaigns by Sviþjod and Denmark aimed at conquering them. The Gautar Confederacy quickly disintegrated into a Western and an Eastern union, though, after its successful defense.
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Today's top gainers include the company Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) which is in the industry Biotechnology, gaining 0.28% today. In the last week its performance is -1.59%, and 25.44% for the past quarter. Currently, Medivation, Inc., MDVN has a target price of 64.65, so today's gain of 0.28% is a significant step towards its target price. The GAP today is therefore 0.55%.
Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN), has a market cap of 10268.6, and is based in USA. Insider ownership is at 1.20%, and institutional ownership is 92.70%.
At the current price of 61.74, it has a dividend yield of *TBA, and its target price is 64.65. This is with a profit margin of 25.40%, and total debt/equity of 0. Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) has a P/E of 43.17, as well as a forward P/E of 27.67.
With a current EPS of 1.43, and a forecasted EPS growth for next year at 71.22%,Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) has had a EPS growth for the past five years at 50.90%. For the next five years EPS growth is projected to be 35.15%.
Performance for the year is 10.65%. Since its IPO date on 1/13/1997, the total performance to date is 27.72%.
Volume today for Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN), is 976300, while its average volume is 2994.16. Whilst the total gain today was 0.28%, it did have a day high of -1.97%.
Volatility for this week has been at 1.23%, and 2.01% for the month. The 52-week low for Medivation, Inc., MDVN has been 133.78%, while the 52-week-high has reached -1.97%.
Looking at its return of investments, which is 27.10%, and its return on assets is 21.50%. Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) has an operating margin of 40.20%. With a sales growth of 41.30% quarter over quarter. Bearing in mind that Medivation, Inc., MDVN is in the sector Healthcare, its long-term debt/equity is 0, and has a current ratio of 4.2 and 4.2 for quick ratio.
So what is the value of Medivation, Inc.? Well its PEG is 1.23, and the P/S is 10.3, along with a P/B of 11.27. Meanwhile it has a p/cash of *TBA.


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Starring Andrew Paterson, Harriet Beattie, Jay Collins, Michael Dorman, and Georgia McNeil, and directed by Stewart Main, the film is set in the long hot summer of 1975.
"50 Ways of Saying Fabulous" is the story of 12-year-old Billy, who is about to discover that growing up is a lot more confusing than he could have ever imagined. He is a farmer's only son who is out of step with the other boys at his school. Billy feels he was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player. Instead, he would rather dream about an imaginary life in outer space, where a turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape and a cow's tail a head of beautiful blonde hair which transforms him into Lana, the heroine of his favorite TV show. As he learns about his sexuality, everything he knows is called into question, including his lifelong friendship with tomboy Louise, whose world is changing alongside his.
Biofilmography: Stewart Main makes feature films, TV drama, documentaries and short films in New Zealand, often on themes of sexual identity in both contemporary and historical settings. His first feature film, Desperate Remedies, premiered in the Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and was bought by Miramax for release in the US after having won numerous awards throughout the world. He and producer Michele Fanti have worked together on a wide variety of projects since their first short film Twilight of the Gods in 1995 and the Montana drama One of Them in 1998.


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(Ed. Note: Our series "Puck Daddy's Guilty Pleasures" features puckheads from all walks of life answering questions about their own hockey-related guilty pleasures. It will run daily during the month of August. Have a suggestion for a "Guilty Pleasures" guest blogger? Hit us on email. Enjoy!)
Today's Special Guest: Chris Smith of the hockey jersey blog Icethetics.
1. The Player You Most Love To Hate
Zdeno Chara. Getting the easy questions out of the way first, I see. I make no bones about my bias for the Tampa Bay Lightning. And I hate playing the Bruins. I especially hate it during home games because the St. Pete Times Forum inevitably fills with Boston fans, who are one rung below Philly fans. (What? I said it.) Anyway, I see Chara as a talentless bully and someone who has a job with the Bs strictly for his size. (Boy am I going to catch some [Gretzky] for that, I'm sure.) Whenever I see him, he's going after a guy like Marty St. Louis. I get the biggest laugh at what amounts to watching a cartoon where Marty basically skates away between Chara's legs or something. He's the one guy I can't bring myself to root for.
2. Other Than Your Own, The Team You Can't Help Rooting For
None of my readers will be surprised by this, but it's the Vancouver Canucks. In terms of geography, they're now my closest team and there's just something about watching them and they're fans. I've been to Rogers Arena twice during the regulars season and the atmosphere is unlike anything I'd ever experienced. And I went to all four 2004 Stanley Cup Final games in Tampa — including Game 7 where Dave Andreychuk lifted his first Cup. That building was crazy but Vancouver's on another level. That probably goes for all of Canada.
3. Favorite Fight or Brawl of All-Time
Lecavalier vs. Iginla. 2004. That is all.
4. The Hideous-Looking Hockey Jersey You Secretly Love The Most
I have to go with the Lightning's late-90s third jersey with the rain, waves and lightning bolts down the sleeves. That's what spurred my interest in hockey uniforms as a kid. It's one of the few jerseys I actually own. If we're not including the Lightning — and I'm probably going to get in trouble for this — I liked the original Phoenix Coyotes uniforms from the 90s. The color scheme, the Native American-type artwork in the logos, all of it. It was definitely hideous, but it's one of those sets that I've always secretly loved.
5. Your Favorite Hockey Cliché (terminology, traditions, announcer-speak, etc.)
I don't know if this really counts, but I liked how Gretzky used to tuck in one side of his jersey. I know it had a practical purpose for him, but it always made him easy to spot on the ice. I don't know if that's my favorite thing but I'm known as a jersey guy so there you go.
6. The Injury You Couldn't Stop Staring At (Non-Skate Lacerations Only)
As horrible as they can be sometimes, I guess staring at an injury, like a train wreck, is human nature. What first comes to mind was Zdeno Chara's hit on Max Pacioretty. (Perhaps my bias from Q1 coming in to play a little here.) But seriously, you see someone collide violently into a solid object at that kind of speed and you have to marvel at the human body. I was thrilled to see he's all right.
7. Your Favorite Cheesy Hockey Reference in Popular Culture
Phil Esposito in Mystery Alaska. Does that count?
8. Finally, What's The Thing You Secretly Respect Gary Bettman For The Most?
It's not a popular opinion, but I've never hated him as much as most people seem to. He's a smart guy in a hard job. He's got to grow the league to keep the owners happy while trying not to alienate its current fans. I don't envy him and those that think they can do a better job are fooling themselves.
The complaints I hear the most from Icethetics readers are the Reebok Edge jerseys and the lack of variety in Winter Classic opponents. He has to make decisions that are both profitable and appeal to the masses rather than a niche audience. At the end of the day, he's running a business and, let's be honest, doing it pretty well.
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- extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)
extemporize (third-person singular simple present extemporizes, present participle extemporizing, simple past and past participle extemporized)
- (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
1881, George MacDonald, chapter 35, in Mary Marston:
- "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .
- "It's nobody's, miss."
- "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
- 2009 March 5, Peter Baker, "The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.
- (transitive) To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Marble Faun:
- As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
1879, Samuel Butler, chapter 5, in Evolution, Old & New:
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
- 1906, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part Second, Act Third:
- The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
- 2003 Aug. 25, Emily Eakin, "How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized.
- (intransitive): improvise, think on one's feet
- (transitive): devise, improvise
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Terms etymologically related to extemporize
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Well about 13hrs in and only still in the first town Whiterun. Have been gallivanting around for the Companions and the Jarl. Good times, good times.
Created a Dunmar "spell blade" (melee/caster hybrid) it's great fun. Just need to get to the stage so I can summon weapons IMO. heh. But really, it's pretty hilarious to duelwield spells.
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Ok... I see now what Keroko ment...
5h left and I can play!
EDIT: Ok, I followed some advice, deleted the local content and retried the installation. This time he startet to install it from the disc.
Very strange... i got a "Steam server is too busy" message before he startet to download it all, so I guess this had to do with it somehow.
Now 5 hours turned into 10 minutes.
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Gotta say I'm glad I got my SSD drive in time for Skyrim. Can't say about installation when Steam does it for you when downloading but in game .. Loading screens? Not for me. They just briefly flash there, you don't even get to see the '' smoke '' on the left corner.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 28
Eh, Synaesthetic say's he looks pretty boss. thats all that matters :P , note its very easy to make a pretty woman.... Not so easy in Oblivion I'm gonna make my female character today until TOR beta opens.
|2011-11-11, 11:51
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On another note, I'm playing an Orc, enjoying it so far - wish the quest pointers were a little more clear with side quests though, been wasting a lot of time with that....
I'm also finding the difficulty a bit of a step up - just went into the shimmering cave thingy and got annihilated. Does this one not scale to level like Oblivion did? If not, that's good in the long run!
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Location: Snake Way
Age: 28
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Still on expert difficulty:
Spent almost 30 minutes trying to kill a troll (they are pretty strong and self regenerate but are weak vs fire) as a melee character. End up having to give up .
I still feel that the game difficulty toning is "a little bit off" - a lot of the elites I have killed pretty much died to being "dumb" (allowing me to run away, heal up, recharge stamina, then re-engage and perform my power attack, rinse and repeat). Another case is this bandit leader at the top of a cave: I am able to easily outheal+outshoot him using a bow: but if I am to ever engage him in a melee fight where he takes out his lightsabre 2 handed axe he will turn me into a meat pie in 3 swings.
My friend is playing an assassin type character: dual wielding daggers and sneaking around. he found the game to be almost impossible since a lot of mob packs watch each other's backs, and he just cannot survive any "boss" fights.
Is the game easier for you mages out there? (esp after getting a follower)
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Haven't met a troll yet but dunno about it being easy .. Spriggans owned my ass within seconds . Sabre Tiger clawed me to death with one blow . Giant blew me like 100m up in the air
Those damn undead things in the caves where Shouts can be found from are damn hard too (the ones with the greatsword). I could have a follower but I don't want one. I like to be and play on my own. Besides i like to kill everything and everyone... I'd end up killing my companions sooner or later :x
I've been mostly roaming about and doing quests around the second city so I haven't even managed to go to the magic school way up north. I should head there soon.. It's obvious that my basic shock/frost/fire spells are almost useless against tougher enemies.
The game is really fun though as a mage, unlike Oblivion where mages were like.. the most useless thing ever without some balancing mods. And now spells actually look different.. gotta love dual wielding spells or wielding a blade and spell in another hand.
|2011-11-11, 15:44
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Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 28
on a side note, LOVING THE GAME! 9.9/10 the 0.1 will be included once some issues get patched, like undead surrendering, mammoths flying up into the sky and falling, Menu is a bit loose like when I try to click on a type of items i want to buy it will exit the merchant screen @_@
#1 Troll in the game, Undead that laugh at you if you take to long to kill them. They had my eye twitchin in annoyance
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Finally getting used to the favorites button, but I still wish there was a shortcut keys like in oblivion. on my num pad mouse, all my middle buttons were Sword,bow,2hander and the outter buttons were spells.
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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-639?page=all ] David Jencks closed GERONIMO-639: --------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version: 1.0-M4 fixed in geronimo rev 165344 and in openejb using the "lots of little linked gbeans" solution. > GenericSecurityRealm doesn't express its gbean dependencies > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GERONIMO-639 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-639 > Project: Geronimo > Type: Bug > Components: security > Versions: 1.0-M3 > Reporter: David Jencks > Assignee: David Jencks > Fix For: 1.0-M4 > > A GenericSecurityRealm depends on a bunch of LoginModuleGBeans to express the login modules that must be logged into to log into the realm. Currently these are listed by gbean name + other info in a properties file format. This does nothing to assure that the login modules are in fact started before the GSR is started, although the LMs are used in the GSR constructor. > Sometimes the GSR will start, but the same configuration sometimes will not start due to system variations in gbean start order. > One solution is to make a LoginModule holder gbean that forms a linked list of gbeans, similar to the JettyFilterMapping. This can be implemented easily with no core changes, but it results in a profusion of gbeans that do almost nothing. > Another possible solution is to introduce a core gbean feature that lets you have something like an ordered list of explicit references, all of which must be started for the gbean to start. This would be of more general use but would require some thought to figure out the best functionality. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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JDS Guest House is a well-maintained property situated at ATS Green Village. Offering a choice of single and double occupancy rooms, the guest house is ideal for budget conscious tarvellers. Hotel facilities include: front desk, internet access, breakfast services, laundry, business center, medical help, parking, room service and many more comforts are offered here.
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CRACKING a longstanding mystery about human cells' defense against tumors, scientists at Johns Hopkins University have discovered the probable means by which most cells, when genetically damaged, will kill themselves rather than grow into a tumor that threatens the whole organism.
The suicide mechanism is genetically disabled in many cancer cells, particularly those resistant to chemotherapy and radiation. These treatments are thought in many cases not to kill cancer cells directly but to cause damage that prompts the cell to kill itself. Understanding the nature of a cell's suicide procedure may lead to improvements in the use of chemotherapy and radiation.
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The new research is reported in the current issue of Nature from the laboratory of Dr. Bert Vogelstein and Dr. Kenneth W. Kinzler, leading experts in the genetics of colon cancer. Dr. Kornelia Polyak is the first author of the report.
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Biologists have known for several years that the integrity of a cell's genetic instructions is watched over by a remarkable piece of biological machinery, a patrolling abort mechanism known as p53. When the p53 protein detects that the cell's DNA is damaged, it will either prevent the cell from dividing or cause it to disintegrate into a lifeless blob.
P53 and cell death are two of the most active areas of cancer research, yet no one until now has figured out just how p53 pulls the trigger on an aberrant cell.
The answer turns out to be that p53 invokes an ancient enemy of living cells: the intense toxicity of ionized or hyperactive oxygen.
The p53 protein is known to work as a genetic switch, binding to various sites along the DNA of cells and switching on nearby genes, a process called transactivation. ''We have always felt that the ability of p53 to transactivate genes was going to be the key to all of its functions because that ability is abrogated in almost all the mutations of p53 seen in tumors,'' Dr. Vogelstein said.
Dr. Polyak set out to identify all the genes that are activated by p53. She found that a large number produce proteins that increase the amount of free radicals in the cell. These are ionized small molecules, mostly the byproducts of oxygen, that are extremely damaging because they attack DNA and structural components of cells. A particular target is the mitochondria, structures within the cell that produce its energy. The collapse of the mitochondria then sets off the death of the cell.
Dr. Vogelstein said the proposed mechanism made sense because it was familiar in other contexts. Cells of the immune system generate free radicals, safely manufactured inside little packets for the cell's protection, which are used as the first line of defense against bacteria. Plants hollow out the tubes in which they conduct sap and nutrients by killing the cells in the middle, and do so with a gene that is related to one of those found to be activated by p53.
The discovery of the suicide mechanism was made by identifying all 7,000 genes that are switched on in cells in which p53 is active, and comparing the roster of genes with that from identical cells that lack p53. Just 14 genes were found to be unusually productive in cells with active p53. The 14 genes were then identified.
One turned out to produce a well-known protein called p21, which is the agent used by p53 to halt cell division. The others were a collection of genes whose protein products raised the number of free radicals in the cell.Continue reading the main story


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The Department is housed in the McNair Science Building and the Leatherman Science Facility. The department enjoys excellent facilities for an undergraduate institution, with a major addition being completed in 1994.
Two laboratories joined by a balance room serve General Chemistry. The Organic laboratory is regarded as state of the art. It has three separate instrument rooms associated with it. There are also separate laboratories for Analytical, Physical and Instrumental Chemistry. Research also has a large lab and separate prep room devoted to it.
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Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer: Anasazi EFT60 60MHz
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'Stay different' is the brand promise of the Dubai-based luxury hotel group Jumeirah. Its Culturally Connected programme is a commitment to the arts involving direct sponsorship of events such as Art Dubai and the collections showcased in Jumeirah hotels around the world.
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George R.R. Martin is, hopefully, writing as fast as he can but that hasn't stopped fans from worrying about what will happen if the show catches up with the books, or if he doesn't finish the series. Everyone can just relax because showrunners David Benioff and David Weiss know the ending even though it hasn't been written. They shared the news in a recent interview for Vanity Fair's April issue saying:
Last year we went out to Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be. If you know the ending, then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat down with him and literally went through every character.
They didn't share any information about exactly how all the various characters' storylines would finish of course, but they did say they see the series ending in seven or eight seasons—which feels about right.
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Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, Albuquerque
- Free WiFi in lobby and free parking
Main amenities
- 294 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Front desk safe
- ATM/banking services
- Laundry service
- Free WiFi in lobby and free parking
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
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- In Uptown
- Coronado Center (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- ABQ Uptown (0.4 mi / 0.7 km)
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- Desert Rose Playhouse (1.5 mi / 2.4 km)
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- This hotel has 294 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 8 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-1:30 AM
- Check-out time is noon
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- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 21
Travelling with others
- Up to 3 children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed (dogs only) *
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
- 2 per room (up to 40 lb)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms *
- Free self parking
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- Conference space size (meters) - 1579
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
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Deposit: USD 40.00 per stay
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Rollaway beds are available for USD 25.00 per night
Breakfast costs between USD 10 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 50 per pet, per stay
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 9.99 per night (rates may vary)
Wired Internet access is available in guestrooms for USD 9.99 per night (rates may vary)
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Quadramics is a student theatre company at the glorious University of Pennsylvan-i-a. Students are our directors, producers, actors, singers, band members and board.
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An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories of their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.
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Hugo Hotel furniture stays put for now
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The abandoned Hugo Hotel may not be long for this world, but the sofa, bed and other furniture that adorn its facade will be around as long as it is.
The city's Redevelopment Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow artist Brian Goggin's sculptural mural to remain intact until the former tenement building at Sixth and Howard streets is demolished to make way for affordable housing.
The move was made as "a courtesy to the artist," an agency staff memo said. Goggin's "Defenestration" - which means to throw out of a window - had provided a quirky landmark along the busy city thoroughfare since 1997.
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The Hugo has sat empty since 1988. A judge earlier this year ruled the Redevelopment Agency could seize the building at 200 Sixth St. through eminent domain after paying the owner $4.6 million.
The agency intends to finalize that property transfer this week. No official word on how long the Hugo will remain standing, but the agreement with Goggin is good for 18 months.
On-time decline: Just a few months ago, Mayor Gavin Newsomand Municipal Transportation Agency officials crowed about setting an all-time record - 73.3 percent - for on-time service during the fiscal year that ended in June.
But Muni will have to step up its game if it wants to keep moving toward the voter-mandated goal of maintaining an 85 percent on-time record for the year.
On-time performance is reported quarterly - and Muni logged a record 74.5 percent rate in January through March. But it's been slipping for the past two quarters. In April through June, on-time performance dipped ever so slightly to 74.4 percent. And in July through September, it slid a little more to 73.3 percent.
It's just the first quarter, so Muni has time to catch up, and some officials at the transit agency think the service changes that take effect Saturday could help. Others fear budget cuts could lead to a further drop in service.
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Talking points: San Francisco may be on the cusp of bringing in a key tenant to anchor the proposed green tech campus at a redeveloped Candlestick Point and Hunters Point shipyard.
Then again, it might not.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and networking heavyweight Cisco signed an agreement Tuesday to try and work out a deal for green development projects in San Francisco.
"It's a first step," Michael Cohen, head of the mayor's economic development office, said after the signing at Cisco's environmentally sustainable campus in Bangalore, India. "It's a commitment to explore something. It isn't a commitment to do something."
Still, the Newsom administration is thinking big.
City officials plan to negotiate with Cisco on bringing in its networking technology - like smart buildings with interconnected heating, power and other systems - for development at Hunters Point, Treasure Island and elsewhere. But they also want the company to establish a lasting presence at the shipyard as part of the planned U.N. Global Compact Center to address global warming.
"Our hope and expectation is we'll accomplish both," Cohen said. "We see them as a major anchor for this center."
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