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Risk Factions
AN: Yeah, I thought I was all done with this fic. Buuuut I've just been having so much fun playing Risk Factions with some of my online friends, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the Hellsing crew started up their own game of it. So, I guess this fic is going to get one more chapter after all. :p I hope you all like it as much as the previous ones. ;)
PS. Please forgive me for ignoring the four player control limitation the Xbox 360 places on couch multiplayer. Thanks. :)
It was a quiet night. It seemed that, for once, the dead were actually staying in their graves... well, most of them anyway. Alucard and Seras were up and about of course, but that wasn't anything Pip Bernnadotte had to worry about. On the contrary, he was rather pleased that at least one of these corpses refused to stay in her coffin. In fact, he was presently engaged in the process of seeking said vampire out. No undead to slay meant that Pip essentially had the night off, and he couldn't think of a better way to spend it than getting to know the cute, ridiculous strong vampire a little better.
There last meeting had not gone so well, with Pip getting finger flicked around the room. Upon consideration, the mercenary figured that trying to cop a feel on the young, well endowed vampire probably hadn't been the best way to introduce himself. But then no one had ever accused Pip Bernnadotte of making a good first impression, and he'd recovered from worse in the past. The task now was to locate the pretty girl, find a way to work… or charm off that negative first impression, and hopefully start to build a little something between the two of them.
It took Pip longer than he'd expected to find Seras. She was not in her room, the training area or any of the other places he'd guessed she'd be. No, he didn't find her until he decided to cut through the mansion's main living area – an odd place to find someone who was technically dead, no?
Seras, as well as, Alucard, Integra and Walter were all gathered together in front of the mansion's 42", HD, LCD television; and to the mercenary captain, that seemed downright strange. He hadn't been in Integra's employ for very long – just over a week – but even that was enough time for him to tell that his boss wasn't a woman given to socializing. She worked, trained, gave orders and occasionally spent time in the company of her red-clad killer or family butler. Once, Pip had seen her talking with Seras, though he had been too far away to overhear the content of their discussion. But, in each of these cases, Integra spent her time with one 'person' at a time, and from what Pip had observed Alucard was pretty much the same way. Seeing the two of them gathered together in a group setting was… 'novel' – to say the least. What were they all up to?
"Random or manual placement?" Seras asked.
"Random," Alucard replied, "makes the game more interesting."
"Alright, how about the map?"
"I like Limbo," Alucard responded.
"Not again," Integra countered.
"Big Ice then?" Walter suggested.
Integra paused for a moment and seemed to be considering it. "Alright," she finally replied.
"What are you all doing?" Pip asked as he entered the room.
"Risk Factions," Integra answered simply, as if that explanation alone should've been sufficient for the merc.
"Risk Factions?" Pip questioned with a raised eyebrow. He'd heard of the board game Risk before, even a couple of variations on it – like the Lord of the Rings one. But he wasn't familiar with this 'Factions' game, and he'd never seen one played on a TV instead of a board before.
"It's an updated, video game version of the classic board game… with a lot of new things added in, including five different races – 'factions – you can play as. Hence the name," Seras explained helpfully. Perhaps she wasn't as upset at the merc as he'd thought?
"Oh," Pip responded, getting the jest of what Seras had said, even if he still wasn't completely clear on all the details. "Well… anyone mind if I join in?"
Everyone exchanged uncertain glances, all eyes eventually coming to rest on Integra. "Well, there are five factions and only four of us. I suppose we have got room for one more."
"You're taking the yetis though," Alucard added in, making it clear that none of the 'regulars' were willing to part with their usual faction.
Pip didn't seem to mind as he squeezed himself in between Seras and the arm of the couch. In fact the corner of his lip unintentionally curled upwards, though that probably had little to do with the game.
The game started, and it was time for everyone to place their capitols. The Xbox 360 had determined that Alucard would go first, and thus the ancient vampire dropped his capitol in the Bone Yard territory of Skullshire. The continent was worth two additional troops if he could take control of all of it. That wasn't bad for Big Ice, but there were other continents worth as much and one worth more. However the number of troops it would yield was not the only reason Alucard had selected it. No, it was more valuable than that. Taking over all of Skullshire was one of the maps randomly generated objectives. Also, Skullshire was close to Von's Temple, and the long time strategist had his eyes on that powerful prize.
Integra went next, and she chose to place her capitol in Darkhill. She would've preferred a more tactically secure location. Next Gen Bay was the largest continent on the map, and Integra highly doubted that she could take – and hold – the whole thing. But Darkhill was the territory the game had placed the highest number of her troops in. She'd try to hold that territory and concentrate her assaults on Death's Door, across the sea. That continent was worth two additional troops, and it only had four territories – one of which Integra already possessed. Plus, once Death's Door was in her hands, she had a foot hold from which to challenge her pet for control of Von's Temple.
Walter was the next to place his capitol, and the butler selected Kattepus. It was out of the way and easily defendable, especially if he could complete the entire Silvestris continent – of which he only lacked one territory. And as an added bonus, Silvestris housed one of the dam controls.
Seras went next, and by now her prospects weren't looking too good. Most of the choice areas had already been selected… or were so far away from the bulk of her forces that she knew she couldn't hold them. In fact the only halfway decent continent where she had a formidable presence, that she thought she could hold onto until her turn came around, was Kotka. It was a valuable continent, being worth an objective plus two troops and housing the mineral deposits. But the presence of the dam up above made it a risky place to make one's home base. Even still, it was the best out of a bad set of options, so Seras chose the Rufus territory of the Kotka continent as her capitol.
Then it came time for the last player to place his capitol, and it seemed that the game had smiled on the new guy. Pip's 'beginner's luck' granted him Warpaw. It was the smallest continent, consisting of only two territories, but it was still worth two additional troops if he could hold it. Also, it was the easiest continent to defend, forming a one territory bottle neck in which one could marshal one's forces in preparation for attack or bunker them down to hold against the enemy. It was the 'England' of the Big Ice map, and it was all his… for the moment anyway. Pip dropped his capitol in Panthera, the northern most territory of Warpaw's two territories.
With the capitols placed it was now time for the game proper to begin. Alucard used his first turn to take over another territory in Skullshire, seven of his undead zombies massacring the two yetis defending the land. Then, being careful not to spread himself too thin, the No-Life King stopped his advance. He used his final movement to split his soldiers as evenly as possible between his territories and then collected his card.
"Playing it cautious, Alucard? That's not like you," Integra commented.
"If there's one thing I've learned in my five centuries of life, Master, it's to be patient. I'll strike hard when I'm ready," the red-clad killer replied.
Integra went all out on her first attack. She placed all her reinforcements in her capital and used it as a jumping off point to invade Death's Door. Five new human troops were added to the seven already present, and the lady knight used every last one she could in her assault. The two kitty-cat commandos guarding Wretchchell were the first to go. Then Integra's army moved on to decimate the single zombie holding the Bog Steps territory. And finally they took Guttum from the three robots stationed there. Integra had conquered Death's Door, but the victory had not come easily. She only had two spare troops left, which she used her final movement to bring back to her capital.
"And that is how you do it," the lady knight informed
"Careful, Master, keep waging war like that and you'll over extend yourself," Alucard warned.
"Will I?" Integra questioned in a coy tone.
It was Walter's turn now and the first thing his machines did was wrangle Chutcha out of the cold, dead hands of the three zombies who had it. Then, to everyone's surprise he stopped short of attacking the humans stationed at Chicata. Instead he took the five robots the game had randomly placed in Hissying and moved them first up to Korat and then down to take possession of Birman. Once that was finished, the elderly butler used his final movement to divide the machines remaining in Chutcha between that territory and Sire.
"Y-you… you're planning on opening the damn and drowning my kittens?" Seras exclaimed.
Walter said nothing in reply.
"Well… you're not going to get away with it," the fledgling asserted
"We'll see," the butler replied calmly.
Rather than strengthen her hold on Kotka, like she'd been planning on, Seras dumped her five reinforcements into Catling – adding them to the three she'd started with - and pushed northward. She couldn't let Walter keep control of both sides of the damn. She had to take Birman. But the opposition she faced was tougher than expected, and the dice rolls were against her. The fledgling vampire's cat army managed to take Dewclaw, but Walter's robots held at Birman.
"Grrrrr, that's not fair. I had you outnumbered nearly two-to-one!" Seras fumed.
"All's fair and love and war, Officer Victoria," Walter replied.
Now, it was Pip's turn to go. He cashed in his two starting stars and added seven reinforcements to the yetis in Papillae and headed south. His smiling, harry, white giants hit the robot holding Korat with a volley of snowballs. Then they continued on to freeze one of the machines in Birman and impale the other on an icicle. But though they could've continued, Pip's forces stopped short of attacking the single kitten commando Seras still had in Dewclaw. Instead, the mercenary captain used his final movement to pull the bulk of his yetis out of Birman and move them back into Korat.
Seras eyed the merc. "Why'd you stop?"
He shrugged. "I got what I wanted. And like your master said, it's best not to over extend yourself."
That didn't make any sense. If he wasn't going to continue, he should've stopped when he took Korat. He'd already secured his card; there was no tactical reason for him to go after Birman. He didn't have a single troop in the Kotka continent. It wouldn't have harmed him if the place was flooded. Was he… was he being chivalrous? Suddenly the vampire's lips pulled into a small smile. Perhaps the Frenchman wasn't as bad as she'd thought?
The game was winding down now, and Integra was not pleased. She knew allowing that French mercenary to join wasn't a good idea. Why hadn't she just said no? The Frenchman and Seras had entered into an unspoken alliance early on, with them occasionally attacking each other but never in any territory that was overly important to the other player. And while Integra and Alucard had been locked in a bloody war for control of the islands, the crypts, and Von's temple, Seras and her unofficial ally had squeezed Walter out of the game.
The fledgling now controlled both the butler's capitol and all of Kotka – netting her two of the three objectives she needed to win. And on her last turn Seras had used her final movement to redeploy what troops she could into Tigercat. The strawberry-blonde was mining minerals, and once she stockpiled twelve of them she'd have that third objective.
Pip might have had enough yetis in the area to block Seras's plan by taking the two mineral deposits on Kotka out of the kitten's claws. But Integra highly doubted the Frenchman would do that. He seemed more concerned with making nice with the bosomy vamp than actually winning the game – the fool! No, Integra could not count on the merc to make the smart move, and that meant she only had one option if she was to have a chance at winning the game. It would take Seras at least two full turns to mine the minerals she needed to win, so Integra had that long to add two more objectives to the one she currently possessed.
The lady knight cashed in the stars she'd been accumulating since the beginning of the game, bolstering her reinforcements by an additional thirty troops, and set about taking over all that remained of Next Gen Bay in a single turn. It was a dicey move, but if she could pull it off, her conquest would gain her one objective this turn. And if she could then hold eighteen, of the twenty total, territories she'd possess, that would gain her that third objective.
Integra attacked relentlessly, but she was careful to leave at least three troops in each new territory she took. After all, she could afford to lose two territories before her next turn – perhaps four since she could likely wrangle one or two back on her next turn – but no more. And the Master of Monster's strategy seemed to have paid off. When her turn was over she owned all of Next Gen Bay… as well as a rather smug smile.
But the game wasn't over yet. On Alucard's next turn, the monster did something quite unexpected. Having held the three alter territories around Von's Temple for a full turn, the ancient vampire used his 'convert ability' on the troop stationed in Integra's capitol.
"What are you doing?" the lady knight asked in a puzzled tone. She'd only left the one troop in her capital, having set up sufficient buffers to stop invading armies before they could've reached it. Even if her servant dumped all his reinforcements into her capitol, he wouldn't be able to hold it come her turn, not once her own reinforcements were added to the troops currently encircling the territory.
"You'll see," Alucard replied cryptically as he bolstered his forces in the Vile Forest territory and sailed them north to attack Integra's soldiers in Gutter's Corner. Despite the efforts of a rather incredible, shotgun wielding human, Alucard's larger, zombie army managed to wrestle the territory from Integra. Then with a grin, the wily general ended his turn and used his recently obtained third crypt to freeze Integra's converted capitol.
The lady knight was furious – more at herself for not anticipating her pet's strategy than him for exploiting her weakness, though he was the one who bore the consequences of her rage. "Cheating Bastard!" Integra roared as she pulled out the small pistol she carried with her at all times and blew the irritating grin off Alucard's face.
Seras and Pip both jumped at the unexpected sound of the gunshot. Alucard, merely laughed manically as the shadowy mass of his true form repaired the damage his master had done. He did so love to get under her skin and raise her ire.
Integra spent her next turn taking Gutter's Corner back from her 'pet' and breaking his hold over the Fire Alter territory, but even she recognized such actions were ultimately futile. She had nineteen territories again, one more than she needed for her third objective. But with her capitol frozen, she couldn't win this turn, and Seras only needed one more turn to mine enough minerals to gain her third objective.
Sure enough, as Seras's turn began, her hard working kitty-cats mined the remaining minerals she needed. Already having secured her third objective and still in possession of her capitol, Seras didn't bother attacking anyone on her turn. She simply placed her reinforcements and then skipped to the 'reward's phase'.
And that was how Seras won her first game of Risk Factions, and Pip 'worked off' that negative first impression he'd given her.
Well, I hope you enjoyed. Please drop me a review and let me know what you thought. Thanks. ;) Oh, and to anyone who's also reading Integra's Batty Vacation, I'm afraid I probably won't be able to update that next weekend as planned. I've recently ordered some new RAM chips, a new Hard Drive and the new Windows 7 operating system; and once all the parts come in, I'll probably be spending my next weekend overhauling and updating my laptop. Sorry about the delay. :( But I should make to following IBV update time. :)
Have a good day, and God bless.
Metropolis Kid.
To Pyradeath01: Thanks for the review and the compliment about my writing skills. :D I'm glad you had fun with this story and got such a kick out of it, the fifth chapter especially.
To Alucardistehvampire: Thanks! I'm glad I could make you laugh, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of the story as much as those first three chapters. ;)


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A military intelligence unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo freed opposition party leader Martin Fayulu after holding him for several hours ahead of a planned general strike, he said Monday.
Fayulu, a member of parliament who heads the small Engagement for Citizenship and Development movement (ECIDE), was arrested by soldiers on Sunday in front of party members and passers-by.
He told AFP that he was "kidnapped" outside ECIDE's headquarters in northern Kinshasa by agents of the Military Detection of Anti-National Activities service (DEMIAP).
The intelligence unit still had his car, a mobile telephone whose total contents they copied, some documents, a cheque book and almost 700 dollars (625 euros) in cash.
They also kept more than 1,000 leaflets calling for a general strike on Tuesday against the regime of President Joseph Kabila, who has been in office since 2001.
Under the constitution, Kabila is barred from standing in an election due to take place by the end of the year, but the opposition accuses him of seeking to delay the polls and cling to power after he made a call for "national dialogue" in November.
"They were trying to stifle the dead city (strike) day on Tuesday," Fayulu said when asked about the probable motive for his detention.
Instead "the government has given us some publicity," he added.
Fayulu said he was allowed to contact his lawyer while in custody, then he was taken home without charge after some eight hours in DEMIAP hands.
The ECIDE is part of an opposition coalition whose members signed a call for a nationwide general strike across the vast central African country on Tuesday.
Leaflets urging people to take part in the strike were circulating in several districts of Kinshasa, witnesses said.
Later Monday the provincial interior minister for Kinshasa, Emmanuel Akweti, told AFP that the government "has not authorised any demonstrations for tomorrow (Tuesday)."
That will disrupt the plans of the Congolese president's party for a "peace march" to commemorate the February 16 anniversary of the deadly crackdown on the "march of the Christians" in 1992, when Catholic churches in Kinshasa led a protest against dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
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Sebring – 4 Hour Update – No. 45 Seventh and No. 44 Ninth at Four-Hour Mark 11:30 am PT/2:30 pm ET
March 19, 2011 – Sebring, Florida – A third of the way through the twelve-hour race, the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche is in P7 and the No 44 is P9. Marc Lieb is currently in the No. 45 in his first stint, and Marco Holzer is in the No. 44.
It was a clean race start for the entire field. Joerg Bergmeister started sixth on the grid in the No. 45 and Darren Law in the No. 44 from the rear of the grid. In his 90-minute stint, Joerg focused on staying with the lead GT pack but avoiding the battle between the No. 62 Risi Ferrari, the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrrari (which started on the pole), both BMWs, and both Corvettes as they all fought for the lead, trading off through several caution periods and pit stops.
Nearing the 90-minute mark, Joerg was P5 with the No. 62 Risi Ferrari in the lead, the No. 04 Corvette in P2, the No. 55 BMW in P3 and the No. 51 Ferrari in P4. The GT field took advantage of the next caution (to remove the Larbre No. 50 Corvette which had stopped on course) for their driver changes. Joerg pitted for driver change to Patrick Long.
Patrick was out again quickly, gaining several positions in the pits to emerge in fourth, then passed the No. 04 Corvette on the restart to take P3. At the end of that lap, things took a downturn for the Lizards when the No. 45 connected with the No. 04 Corvette as the No. 04 made an attempt to pass, sending both cars spinning, and collecting the No. 01 Extreme Ferrari in the aftermath.
Patrick said, "That was a tough stint. At the start, I passed Jan Magnussen in the No. 04 Corvette going into Turn 1. Later in the lap, he had a run on me into Turn 17. We were side by side and giving each other plenty of room, when suddenly the front end of my car launched into the air. When I landed I went directly left into Jan's right-hand door. We both spun and the No. 01 (Extreme Ferrari) was collected. It was really unfortunate: I got caught out by a piece of the racetrack that I don't normally run on."
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Weekly Finds № 46
01 Acne Studios, Stockholm: Today we take a quick tour through the beautiful studio with Paul Barbera's photography. He takes us from the striking, old facade through the more formal areas of the building, and even into the more casual, production/workroom areas of the interior. And of all the areas, Mattias (the CEO of Acne Studios) reveals that his favorite corner is "our amazing showroom, which used to be the grand ballroom in the glory days of banking." An incredible studio, don't you agree?
02 Facebook news: Just today, there is a brand new Facebook page for Haute Design! If you are already following the previous Facebook page, be sure to stop over to the new one as the previous page is soon to be deleted. If you are new to Haute Design, feel free to follow along for updates, news and more inspiration…
{this is glamorous}, shared two lovely things: French tourmaline & gray diamonds
04 A bag as bright and cheerful as sunshine—perfect for summer days ahead
05 A lovely and striking, ladylike bag that is most ideal for the woman on the go
06 Discovered via 79 Ideas, pretty little keys & elegant bud vases
07 Found via Club Monaco, a charming little escape
Images: Paul Berbera | & discovered via Sanctuary
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These images are amazing, Sarah! I love every single one.ReplyDelete
I liked you new Facebook page.
Have a nice week.
Hi Sarah! Such richness in these images. I hope that you are well - I have been tardy on commenting lately - launching a new business takes up all my time. But it's always lovely to stop by and take in your lovely selections. Lou xReplyDelete
As always, I adore your weekly links, Sarah! xReplyDelete
Kate {Something Fabulous}
Acne just gets it right and seeing their workspace makes me appreciate them even more. What an amazing space. As for a three-way phone chat, I would love one!!! Let's make that happen soon. For real!xoReplyDeleteReplies
We definitely must :) xxDelete
What a great space to work, beautiful entry so much history in this building, one problemReplyDelete
while getting distracted by al this beauty think i won't be able to work, ha!Replies
So true, Audrey! xDelete
That studio is to die for. I wouldn't want to leave work to go home! oxReplyDelete


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The Jameleon Cousins, consisting of Jerry, Jay and Junior, are Langston Lickatoad's nefarious cousins and main antagonists of the Viva Piñata episode "Langston's Jameleon Cousins".
Langston's Jameleon Cousins
In the first scene, after Fergy is trying to get away from Langston, the Cousins possess Langston and Fergy to slap each other.
Finding it a joke, the Cousins reveal themselves and Langston introduces them to Fergy.
Having fun possessing Langston, they continue to do so for the rest of the day, including when he's meeting with his boss, going to Franklin's house, and talking to Fergy.
Lickatoad soon goes insane and hides in fear for the rest of the episode.
They are soon to go, but Fergy begs them to stay, so they oblige and possess Fergy instead.


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Gini Wijnaldum has talked in glowing terms of Newcastle United as a club and he points out we were already relegated on the very last day of the season, but the St. James' Park stadium was still packed chock-a-block and it looked glorious on a sunny May day when we took Tottenham apart 5-1.
And we had only 10 men for the last 20 minutes when we scored three unanswered goals, so that was a great way to end a season.
Gini Wijnaldum scores from penalty spot against Spurs
But it was also one of the worst seasons in Newcastle's Premier League history, if not the worst, and now we are in the 13th day of negotiations to get Rafa Benitez stay on at the second division club, after we were officially relegated way back on May 11th.
The 25-year-old midfielder was Newcastle's best player in the first half of the season and ended up as the top goalscorer with 11 good goals, but he fell off dramatically in the second half of the season as most players fought against relegation and he didn't.
But ultimately we were not successful and the club took the drop for the second time in seven years under our unsuccessful owner Mike Ashley.
Gini will probably be the first big player sold this summer, as the club tries to generate funds to give Rafa to bring in some new players to better balance the squad.
The squad was far too lop-sided last season with not enough defensive cover and not enough players who could score goals for us – the facts of the previous two season had identified those were the problems, but nothing was done by the Brains Trust – also known as the Newcastle Board – to fix those rather obvious problems.
Gini was asked if Rafa can take us back up at the first time of asking:
"Yes, of course. Everything is possible." "You see that Leicester are Champions of the league, and who expected that at the beginning of the season."
"Everything can happen." "Of course the club has huge potential – you see the stadium and the fans." "Even after we were relegated, the stadium was still full."
"I think this is a club that has to play for the first six, seven or eight places in the Premier League." "This was way below the standard that the club must have."
"Yes, of course – Benitez made a big impact on the team and made us perform better." "I don't know if it was only the new manager."
"I really don't know – it's difficult to say why we improved so dramatically." "In my opinion, we learned too late from the things that happened before."
"That is why in the last couple of games we did better than before." "It was too late but we had good results." "He didn't let us lose six times in a row."
"It's been better, and I think that's a normal reaction from the crowd to sing for Benitez to stay."
It's really strange that it should take this long to negotiate a deal even if Rafa wants everything written down because he doesn't trust Mike Ashley one little bit.
Rafa was the difference and why in those final six games we even looked more like a top six side than a bottom three side.
But the dame had been done by Steve McClaren when he was allowed to stay in charge for far too long when he would have been fired at any other Premier League.
It's good to have management stability at the club, but not when the manager isn't good enough and Lee Charnley put his faith in the wrong man and Newcastle are now paying for that massive error of judgement.
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Perhaps not as vintage as some, these are dated on the verso in 1973, they are nonetheless great images. And that water that's scintillating like a David Hockney pool is not, in fact, in a swimming pool, that's the sea! and the nearly featureless surface over which they are swimming is simply the clean sand at the bottom of the sea. Who, in the early 1970s had an underwater camera to take their holiday snaps with...?!
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What we learned from the BITC 'Mental Health First Aid' conference
Despite government interventions, mental health is still the leading cause of sickness absence in the UK, with 70 million days of work lost each year due to workers suffering from stress, depression, and other mental health conditions. On #Timetotalk day, a panel of leadership experts gathered at an event hosted by Business in the Community (BITC) and Royal Mail Group, to discuss what more needs to be done to encourage better support and handling of mental health in the workplace.
Here are five things we learned from the session:
There's still a culture of silence around mental health at work According to a new report from BITC, 'Leading on mental wellbeing: transforming the role of line managers', only 39 per cent of employees said they would be honest with their line manager when calling in sick, if they were suffering from stress and anxiety or depression. Line managers themselves are increasingly suffering from stress-related illness and poor mental health, with the average manager working 46 extra days in the course of a year, and three in five managers reporting concerns about the impact of longer working hours on their mental wellbeing.
"It's important to remember that one in four people a year will suffer from a mental health issue at some point, and one in twelve will suffer from depression." Luciana Berger, the shadow health minister for mental health said, which will ultimately impact staff performance at work. "Employers must be prepared to recognise the scale of this challenge, and to play a role in addressing it," she added.
Mental health is costlyAs well as impacting on employee productivity and wellbeing, poor mental health is costing the economy an estimated £26bn a year – or £1,000 per employee. "If you're a big company like ours, you'll probably find that 30-35 per cent of your drug bill is related to stress alleviators or even more serious mental health problems," said Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail Group.
Managers lack the skills and tools to resolve the issue"Line managers must be trained to recognise the early signs of stress and poor mental health among their employees – and must learn to ask quality questions," said Poppy Jaman, the chief executive of Mental Health First Aid England. Managers can help to normalise mental health by being prepared to ask questions, such as 'you don't seem yourself, is there anything you would like to talk about?', and having honest conversations about depression and self–harm; but there must be dedicated training for this function, which only 50 per cent of managers are currently receiving.
HR has a fundamental role to play in encouraging the dialogueAs working culture becomes increasingly intense, with rising presenteeism and overtime, HR has a profound role to play in furthering the conversation about mental health.
"HR professionals must know who to turn to and who to recommend to colleagues where mental health is concerned," said Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD. "Having a resource within an organisation is fundamental to resolving this."
"Mental health and wellbeing is a fundamental aspect of any business, and HR must be better at calling it out and equipping line managers with the tools to deal with it," he added.
Work could be the solutionWhile work can be a cause of mental stress, it can also provide a solution, if company culture is able to deal with mental health in a positive and effective way.
"We have spent about 30 years medicalising work, and this has to stop," Greene said. "If we are going to be part of the solution to mental health in work, front line managers must be competent with talking to their employees, and help them to understand that their professional community is also a support community."
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Defending bad or worse positions is very important in the royal game, probably forming one of the most essential aspects of chess strategy altogether. And it is an art one can learn! The purpose of this DVD is to explain the viewer all main methods of defence: exchanging pieces, creating a fortress, eliminating dangerous enemy pieces, escaping the danger zone with the king, improving the position of the pieces. Special attention is paid to counterattack and prophylactic play.
The Art of Defence - Sergei Tiviakov
In the second volume of the Chess Player's Mating Guide, the host pays particular attention to the castled king and in particular on ways of exploiting the weakened kingside. Several well-known themes, pawn formations and other attacking weapons are covered in 8 chapters with the goal to challenge the viewer determining and exploiting the weaknesses. IM Robert Ris has made an interesting selection of famous games as well as games from his own practice to demonstrate the typical ideas exploiting the weaknesses in the pawn formation in front of the castled king. The selected material is a good warm-up for the exercises which are presented at the end to test your knowledge on this topic. By then you at least will have the confidence to claim you have become a dangerous attacking player as Tal, Alekhine, Fischer or any of your other favorites. Watch, learn & enjoy!
The Chess Player's Mating Guide - Weakened Kingside - Robert Ris - Vol. 2
On this DVD, experts including Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller, Oliver Reeh and Niclas Huschenbeth examine the games of the 16th World Champion. Let them show you how Carlsen tailored his openings to be able to outplay his opponents strategically in the middlegame or to obtain an enduring advantage into the endgame, and bear witness to how the Norwegian always managed to find a way to pose his opponents serious problems, even in apparently level endings.
MASTER CLASS - Magnus Carlsen - VOL. 8
A Modern Look at Chess Strategy
In this instructive and entertaining book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald studies in depth the key components of successful rule-breaking in chess. Drawing upon his own experience and using examples from modern grandmaster chess, McDonald examines how to avoid stereotypical thinking, how to exploit typical thinking patterns, and how to confuse and beat opponents with surprising ideas.
EBOOK - Break the Rules!
In chess, like in real life, one frequently faces temptations: to grab a pawn, to occupy an open file, to start a kingside attack and so on. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with all these ideas, but before undertaking such concrete actions, one should be sure the position is ripe for it. The second DVD deals with the middlegame positions where static factors play a determining part, permanently taking into account the inseparable dynamic and tactical elements. The videos are interactive, featuring training questions in the critical moments. You can further sharpen your skills with the included database, which contains games covering themes that correspond to the ideas presented on the DVD.
Power Strategy 2 - The Middlegame - Static Positions - Mihail Marin
Understanding how to use pawns and how to handle different pawn structures are important topics for young or improving players to consider. On this new ChessBase DVD, IM and FIDE Senior Trainer Andrew Martin investigates the notion that 'pawns are the soul of chess' and tries to explain exactly what this means. The effective use of pawns in the opening leads to the correct development of the pieces and a good game springs naturally from there. The pawn structure must be considered throughout the game and this is something that Martin also touches upon. The viewer will be treated to a tour of excellent games, both old and new, many from the period 2012-2014, which highlight key ideas about the correct use of pawns and from which one cannot fail to improve one's technique. Thus this DVD is ideal for players below 1800 or indeed ambitious players of any level.
First Steps in Pawn Structures - Andrew Martin
Studies prove: the more patterns you know, the better you play. On this DVD GM Adrian Mikhalchishin presents games of the World Champions of the past to explain typical patterns and strategic concepts of these games and to show how grandmasters apply these ideas today. Mikhalchishin offers a wealth of material that helps you to improve your games and teaches you the art of pattern recognition and analogical thinking – a key to success that helped the author to win many games and that will help you to win more games and play better.
Pattern Recognition and Typical Plans - Adrian Mikhalchishin
This course features about 400 exercises with large number of pieces in play. All exercises are taken from actual games. Find the only way to avoid checkmate! This course is for beginners and club players.
DOWNLOAD - Advanced Defense
In this first volume of the new Mating Guide series, the emphasis will be on how to exploit a vulnerably placed king in the centre. With 10 chapters, 20 illustrative games and key themes including a lead in development, preventing castling, the open e-file and different kinds of sacrifices, this DVD will show you everything you need to know to master mid-board showdowns. The level of the content means it is relevant to both beginners as well as master level players - as both elementary examples (also from my own practice) as well as classical attacking games by elite grandmasters are analysed in detail.
The Chess Player's Mating Guide - The King in the Centre - VOL. 1 - IM Robert Ris
with Grandmaster Danny Gormally
Aimed at club, congress and county players, this DVD provides a vital insight into how a grandmaster thinks and the reasoning behind his choice of moves. In this DVD, Danny provides useful guidance to players who are looking to improve their thinking during a game by analysing the typical strategic plans from the opening until late in the middlegame. Are you ready to go beyond the basics? If the answer is a resounding 'yes' then follow Danny as he explains the fundamental ideas and principles behind some of the most complex and challenging positions.
Improve Your Practical Play
How should systematic chess coaching be structured so that students are able to use their freshly acquired knowledge in their own games? Author Stefan Becker came to an astonishingly simple answer. The solution to every chess problem lies on the board.
Ask the Pieces - Stefan Becker & Karsten Muller
Which pieces to keep and which to exchange is one of the most important questions in chess. This is true in the opening, the middlegame and the endgame. Less experienced players often think exchanging means to swap pieces of equal value and fail to take strategic factors into account. The "feeling" for the right exchange is something a chessplayer has to develop over time. This DVD wants to help to develop this "feeling".
How to Exchange Pieces - Elisabeth Pahtz
Mating patterns are the essence of attacking chess. By mastering the typical set-ups, a player can begin to sense when a mating idea is present and to finish off games beautifully and effectively. On this DVD, Grandmaster and world renowned commentator Maurice Ashley reviews some of the more interesting patterns with examples meant to educate and entertain.
Mating Patterns - Maurice Ashley
GM Nicholas Pert about his DVD: "After the success of my previous DVD Typical mistakes by 1600-1900 players I decided to produce a follow up DVD aimed at players of a slightly higher level. The examples all come from games played by players with a rating between 1800 and 2100. This DVD offers slightly more complex material than the previous DVD, and will hopefully provide an insight into what I believe are the main errors which stop players of this level to be more successful."
Typical Mistakes by 1800-2000 Players - Nicholas Pert
Open games are well known to lead to sharp positions. Whenever there is a sharp position, we have many tactical opportunities as well! In this 4th Volume of his Tactics series, FM Valeri Lilov focuses on tactics found in the open games.
TACTICS - From Basics to Brilliance - Valeri Lilov - VOLUME 4
"Players die, tournaments are forgotten, but the works of great artists are left behind them to live on forever." - Mikhail Tal's amazing moves have the power to enlighten both the heart and soul of any chess player. Like the paintings of a master or the timbre of a symphony, amazing chess moves can appeal to players in a wholly aesthetic way. This interactive DVD guides the viewer through some of the most beautiful and amazing chess moves in early to modern chess. The interactive format encourages the viewer to study and find the brilliancy, following the footsteps of some of the greatest players of the game. Moves taken from openings, middlegames and endgames are looked at. They contain tactical brilliancies alongside heuristic violations, material sacrifice and positional shockers. Can you think like one of the old legends of chess or indeed like one of the new geniuses?
Most Amazing Moves - Simon Williams
The positional exchange sacrifice is one of the most powerful and fascinating strategic weapons in chess. On this DVD Sergey Tiviakov explains why the positional exchange sacrifice is such a strong weapon and how to use it. This DVD is based on 35 games or positions from the practice of the World Champions such as Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Botvinnik, Garry Kasparov and other strong players who used the positional exchange sacrifice to initiate brilliant attacks or defend difficult positions.
The Art of the Positional Exchange Sacrifice - Sergei Tiviakov
My first chess DVD focused on various strategic middlegame themes and concepts, but in this second installment, the focus is on tactics – for after all, strategy and tactics go hand in hand, and playing strategically often leads to a resounding combinative finish. But for that to happen, you have to be able to build up positions through which tactics can flow – and this is exactly what I have illustrated on the DVD with a number of examples. The aim of this course is to help you understand how you to make tactical opportunities arise as w ell as to sharpen your tactical vision - these selected lectures will help to foster your overall tactical understanding. You can never spend too little time solving combinations and studies to improve your calculating abilities!"
Improve Your Chess Tactics with Tania Sachdev
Finally a new and improved version of the legendary CT-ART has been released! CT-ART is an indispensable training tool for chess players of all skill levels!
Chess Tactics - CT-ART 6.0
Attacking Techniques and Transformations
Similar to the first MOCT-DVD it' s all about tactical explosive stuff. In lively opening-, middlegame- and endgame discussions Bremen chess trainer and analyst FM Claus Dieter Meyer again has put under the microscope a comprehensive fund of topical and timeless games/fragments, a great deal taken from German Bundesliga praxis, and in doing so has filtered out many motifs/themes and brought attacking techniques and transformations in focus.
The Magics of Chess Tactics - Meyer & Muller - VOL. 2
As the National Head Coach for the English Chess Federation I train many improving players, and see some typical mistakes that repeat themselves. In this DVD I have taken a large collection of games played by players, predominantly in the rating range 1600-1900, and I have looked for typical mistakes. Each theme has several examples to demonstrate typical mistakes, and there are various test throughout the DVD so that the viewer can try and find the best move in certain positions. This should be a great tool for players to use in order to improve their middlegame and endgame play. It will hopefully also highlight any areas that you need to work on in order to improve quickly. Enjoy the DVD!
Typical Mistakes by 1600-1900 Players - Nicholas Pert
IM Nisha Mohota: "On this DVD I show and explain elements of chess strategy and tactics every player should know. I offer guidelines to steer you through the opening, show basic endgames, help you to understand fundamental pawn structures, and explain principles and patterns of attack and defense.
Strengthen Your Chess Foundation - Nisha Mohota
On this DVD, Mihail Marin presents the major tactical themes and options available for both sides in the Benoni. Based on an interactive format, which prompts users to solve a range of training questions by inputting moves, the well-known theoretician and Grandmaster invites you to take part and challenge yourself with a training course aimed at delivering a structured, intensive and systematic approach to learning the key positions in the Benoni as well as knowledge of a number of the defence's tactical finesses.
Tactic Toolbox Benoni - Mihail Marin
Finally a new and improved version of the legendary CT-ART has been released! CT-ART is an indispensable training tool for chess players of all skill levels!
DOWNLOAD - Chess Tactics - CT-ART 6.0
Improve your Imagination and Calculation
Grandmaster and renowned chess trainer Michal Krasenkow presents a treasure chest of puzzles designed to stretch the minds of all players. Imagination and calculation are two of the most important qualities of a chess player, and they are qualities which, with purposeful practice, can be developed significantly. As you analyse and solve more and more positions, your brain functions more efficiently, you are able to recognize and master additional tactical methods and patterns, and it becomes increasingly easier to solve similar types of positions.
EBOOK - Finding Chess Jewels
On this DVD Garry Kasparov deals with the first phase. He recounts how he made it to the top in the years 1973 to 1985 and shows the key games which helped him become the world's best player.
Mr. Kasparov - How I Became World Champion - Volume 1
In this collection of his best games, Grandmaster Alexei Shirov shows why he is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive and inventive players of the modern era. It contains a delightful selection of his favourite games, each of which is explained in detail, together with sections on tactical highlights and endgames.
EBOOK - Fire on Board - Shirov's Best Games
Tigran Petrosian was a World Chess Champion and a true legend of the game. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" because of his incredible defensive skills that made him a formidable opponent who was virtually impossible to defeat. Petrosian was the master of restraint, prophylaxis and prevention. He could spot and defuse threats well before they were created, suck the life out an opponent's position and then seize a vice-like grip on the game. In this book, International Master Thomas Engqvist selects and examines his favourite Petrosian games, and shows us how we can all learn and improve our chess by studying Petrosian's masterpieces.
E-BOOK Petrosian - Move by Move
This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge.
EBOOK - The French Winawer - Move by Move
Wise and successful players of the game have always told us to study the classics – games by the great masters of the past. But in this age of cutting-edge opening theory, preparation and engines, is studying the classics really that helpful? Absolutely! On this DVD, IM Shah shows you classical games of great legends such as Petrosian, Botvinnik, Fischer, Korchnoi and Kasparov, looking at typical patterns and ideas from the middlegame. The author then goes on to explain how you can use these ideas in your own battles – by showing you examples of applied classical knowledge from his own games!
Learn from the Classics - Sagar Shah
In the fifth volume of our openings tutorials we will be dealing with the Flank Openings. We make a start with the English Opening 1.c4. If Black replies in traditional fashion with 1...e5, this is a Reversed Sicilian. We have devoted four videos to the various systems, Lars Schandorff will take you through the Reversed Dragon, the English Four Knights, the Botvinnik System and alternatives.
CHESSBASE TUTORIALS - The Flank Openings - VOLUME 5
The Slovenian GM Vasja Pirc was a five time Yugoslavian champion. This speaks volumes for his playing strength but there is a more important contribution which he has made to the chess world. The defense which he explored in detail after the moves 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 is named after him. There were ups and downs in the appearance of the Pirc in tournament practice.
Attacking with the Pirc - Dejan Bojkov
If you are looking to improve your chess, tactical training is a sure-fire path to success. However, there are tactics…and then there are tactics! In the endgame, and often even right after the exchange of queens, most of the standard combinations known from the middlegame no longer work. On this DVD, Valeri Lilov deals with realizing tactical opportunities in such quiet positions as well as the concepts that you need to know in order to discover these at the board. What's more, he also shows you tricks and techniques that you can use to punish the most common endgame mistakes. Take a fascinating journey through a world of wonderful combinations and deep ideas with IM Lilov.
TACTICS - Tactics in the Endgame - VOL. 5
Volume 1: Chess opening Principles. Demonstrates that you don't need to try to memorize hundreds of openings variations as long as you play the opening by following common basic ideas. You'll learn all about fast development, centralization, mobility, and defense, all of which will help you get a good position which will lead directly into a playable middle game. 20 chapters, 90 minutes.Volume 2: Basic Tactics and Strategy. You'll discover a variety of tactical weapons that you could use over and over to win material and gain an advantage over your opponents. You'll also learn all about chess strategy, plans and formations that will provide you with a lasting edge. 27 chapters, 100 minutes.Volume 3: Endgames. When few pieces are left on the board, knowing the proper procedures can spell the difference between victory and defeat. 22 chapters, 45 minutes + bonus material.
Chess King's Complete Chess Course - ALL 3 VOLUMES
Double rook endings occur frequently and are different from single rook endings in several respects. However, there is much less literature on them. This DVD shall help filling the gap. Many guidelines remain valid of course like activity is the order of the day, the king wants to blockade passed pawns, the rooks does not and the rook belongs behind passed pawns be they friendly or enemy.
CHESS ENDGAMES - Double Rook Endings - Karsten Muller - VOLUME 13
The Four Knights Game is a strong opening system that White can employ to crush his or her opponent with its ostensible simplicity. In the present DVD, FM Valeri Lilov takes on the task of acquainting you with the quirks of one of his favorite openings.
Secret Weapon Four Knights Game - Valeri Lilov


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NHTSA in February opened a defect probe into 2009 and 2010 Corolla and Matrix models, following 168 reports that the electric power steering in the vehicles was prone to drifting or locking up, especially at highway speeds. In response to NHTSA, Toyota said (in documents obtained by Hyde and the Free Press) that it had 437 reports of steering problems covering 395 vehicles, including 11 injuries in 18 crashes.
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The telecoms industry has reached a turning point and is shifting from a period of exponential growth towards optimisation. While many operators have implemented some form of value management, they have focused too closely on short-term results to capture the full benefits of these programs. Operators now need to implement new techniques and transform their business models around customer value. By doing so, they can generate two to five points of incremental margin and create long-term competitive advantage.
The Gold Rush began in 1848, after James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, California. News spread like wild fire and half a million people from around the world migrated to California in search of instant wealth.
By 1855, the big rush was over, yet it had generated substantial changes. San Francisco became a boom town, and other towns and infrastructures were built in California. The Gold Rush also stimulated economies around the world as the gold influx drove value creation, encouraged new investment and accelerated job creation.
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To some extent we believe that the telecoms industry is in the same situation today. Telecoms is rapidly becoming a mature industry with mobile reaching saturation, broadband hardly compensating for wireline decline and adjacent services generating real but limited gains to operators' overall cash flows.
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Discussion in 'Vagabond' started by Enoch the Fierce, May 11, 2015.
I've been switching between each weapon every few rooms, should I just stick to my favorite?
I'm not sure if you mean the actual weapon or the Qigong buff. For Qigong buff, Light Saber is the way to go in terms of damage. It has really good X-string damage due to the shock, so really great filler stuff. The rest of Qigong is really situational for the most part (e.g. perma stunning a boss with Bludgeon x-string to death). For actual weapon, Zanbato is the most desired weapon type due to it being so strong in Physical Attack. Bludgeon is second strongest, but it's really slow to use. Lightsaber is really weak in physical attack, but you get 20% Cool-down from it due to Lightsaber mastery and the weapon itself (also really fast to use in terms of skill rotations). Short Sword is the weakest (magic weapon basically) and kinda slow to use. Katana is kinda in the same tier as SS, but better in terms of speed and Physical attack (some epics are an exception to the rule here, but I'm excluding them for this answer specifically). In the end, unless it's harder content (Anton Normal and Raid), play what you're comfortable with.
Hi I'm relatively new to vagabond, what are the swap gears or other things that you guys have to achieve max quint str?
+2/3 title
+1 avatar top
+1 pet
+2 plats (+3 if you have unique motion aura)
+1 Legendary olympus bead
+1 sea god's pants/bleak wind suede greaves
+1 high tech slayer ring
+1 King's Secret Book - Dualist
+1 ancient ruins lightsabre
Also, you get 10% extra crit damage (additive) from 6pc Ascension chrons, and 15% extra crit damage (multiplicative) from ancient ruins lightsabre after the vagabond revamps
15% multiplicative crit damage? That doesn't seem right. In the infinite Difficulty patch, Jay translated it as:
This means that you get 2% crit damage per stack of Quint Str. It goes up to 10%, and says it's additive as well. Unless somehow they changed it again recently, I wouldn't know about it.
Hello, so i have some doubts i have a Yin sword Dropped from Epic Road and a Mysteltainm dropped today from Hells, i wonder what would be better to use?
I believe Mysteltain is better if you just soloing stuff and Yin would be better if you party with a yang user. I never had a mysteltainm, nor I have I used a yin... but that is my assumption.
Yins not that great since it has low phys att. Maybe its okay if its with a yang but myst. would be better in most situations
So, this is new for me since i started to play DFO again. I am 90, got gracia's set ray decrease shoulder + light auto top. I got this morning the cursed blade: Muramasa but i don't know where i should go for the next steps. Also, does Sacred sword: Excalibur is better than Muramasa? Cus alot of people are debating about it and it seems to be depending on your gear and sets.
For your setup, byeoll is way better since you don't have smash. Excalibur is the best weapon apart from savior zanbato, the patk on non-zan weapons is too low to be worth using.
Actually I've been hearing that Excalibur is better than 85 savior and only gets topped by and upgraded level 90 savior. Basically all of the level 90 slayer weapons are amazing except the lightsabre, that one seems situational.
i got mura, pendulum and excalibur all for my vaga. Excalibur is super strong, only against tog and such is mura better. Pendulum is meh but looks cool
I got the 90 lightsaber. How much water do I need for it to beat balmug.
The issue with the 90 LS for it to be viable, you're going to need Cold Princess set for it. That's really the only way.
You could just do the math yourself, it's not really that crazy.
Balmung is 60% smash. Birnicle is 15% water elenore but you can also probably get say, 10%smash at least from another source. So you need about 50%dmg from Birnicle(less cause smash is multiplicative but simplifying). Birnicle also has higher patk and str, so let's simplify more and say 45%. That means you need 3times as much as the base elenore. 22ele is +10% dmg, so 300% is 440water ele. Aka it's not happening.
If you get a large smash modifier though, say 18%, it becomes closer to a real number, but you'd still need CP AND some water on your armor(all ele epic set for example). I simplified a bunch of numbers, the water reduction aura is multiplicative with your other water dmg instead of additive so it's slightly better and if you have some more sources it might be semi ok, but overall it's just not a very good weapon without the perfect setup, compared to other 90 or top tier 85s. On the other hand, you don't have to manual shit, so that's something.
My Vaga now has full Nature Guardian and Wesley's Strategy but I'm kind of unsure which one Vaga performs better with currently and in the future. I have gear I can use to compliment either set as well but I just wanted to hear some opinions on which set I should focus on.
use NG it's superior. also how the heck are you all finishing ng and tact when i'm still 4/5 on them aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It's ok man, I'm still 3/5 on both of thoses sets...
Anybody ever think of how odd Vagabond's design is? All of her skills (except for some low level ones) are designed to be big AoE nukes with high cooldowns that accomplish the same thing, but with different sized AoE's and damage values. You can look at other classes and see skills that serve different purposes but using her skills is just a matter of "what skill will hit every enemy in this room while doing enough damage?" or just using them all against a boss because you can't really go wrong as long as you use the big nukes first. She lacks skills meant for DPS (her low level ones aren't good enough) or ones designed for single target damage.
I never though about how odd it was... The only problems I had with my character was the long cool downs and how the f ranger in my raid party out damaged me with similar gear or he kills the boss while I'm still awakening... You are right, I can't think of any skill that would be used for single target, I like to use fluttering blade if I have to kill one mob though since the range is deceiving for me if i try to use it as an aoe or I would just basic attack since it does so much.
Do you have a examples of other classes having skills that serve different purposes?
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Darius couldn't figure out how he got to Convercorp. It all felt like a rush, like the kind of dreams one has where they feel like they're falling, slipping away into a void. Regardless of arrival, Darius awoke to find himself... in the dark. Not sure if he was alive or dead, Darius found himself to be sitting... sitting in the darkness, embracing it. All was quiet... Darius began to contemplate his situation. 'Am I dead?' he asked himself. He concluded that he wasn't alive or dead, but in some sort of metaphysical suspended animation in an alternate universe. It seemed to make sense or as much sense as it could make in a dark space of unknown-ness.
In an instant, bright white lamps switched on, nearly blinding Darius. He found himself lying on a psychiatrist's chair and a young woman was seen sitting in a gray chair next to him. The woman had long, dark brown hair and ruby red lips forced out into a smile; she appeared to be some sort of nurse-like figure. She began to reassure him in a sweet voice. "Welcome into our special care. No need to run... You will be fine... Convercorp will make you fine. They will take care of you, just like they have cared for me... They have called me the Advisor."
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"Condition? What condition?" Darius stammered.
"We simply must begin your first treatment immediately!" the strange woman commanded. Darius didn't understand. Treatment? "It is best that you receive treatment to remove your problems..." the woman replied from a corner in the room.
Darius followed her and soon found her opening a red door in the corner of the room that had almost suddenly appeared. They stepped through the door and into a long, dimly-lit hallway. A nearby speaker blared in an automated voice, "Will all patients in Sector 4 please report to Surgery for their scheduled cranial manipulation procedure. Thank you." Men in white lab coats darted furiously around Darius, pushing a gurney down the hall into an unknown room. It was all too busy... Darius, with nothing else to do or understand, followed the Advisor around the hallway to another room. The room was a sterile white with a strange collection of surgical equipment and a dentist's chair in the middle.
"Now we will begin your Mindscrubbing. Your Protectors will change you into the proper garments and will sit you in the washing chair," The Advisor instructed Darius.
Four of Darius's Protectors led him into a booth where they stripped him of his clothes and gently slipped him into a white hospital gown. They rubbed a special numbing soap onto his temples so as to provide "easy access" to his cranial "sector". Darius was led back into the room and was seated in the chair where his Protectors began his treatment.
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The Protectors hooked a heavy black plastic "headband" onto Darius's head, and fit its two specialized nozzles in his ears. The boy was so frightened that he only appeared to quiver slightly, like a defenseless animal in a science lab. Here Darius sat strapped to a chair with a strange device attached to his head under harsh surgical lamps. Everything around him looked like a giant metallic arm waiting to operate on him, waiting to tear him apart. His Protectors showed no regard to his fear. Instead, they strapped on Darius's piece de resistance, a sedation mask, which began to work immediately. His head began to spin madly. Though he couldn't hear much in his dizzying state of mind, the boy was able to perceive that his Protectors and the Advisor were talking about him. He could only pick out a few clear words like "complete social disconnection" and "psychological reconstruction purposes"... He could see them holding a white shampoo bottle marked "S-XCIN" in big, black letters but wasn't sure what it meant. It was then that everything went black.
Darius's Protectors drilled into his temples to allow access for the procedure's intricate hardware. They carefully clotted the oozing blood, then carefully inserted two large pump nozzles attached to the "headband" and secured them with surgical tape. His Protectors wet his hair, and poured in a thick, pink shampoo. The men tickled his hair with the lather, working it deep into his scalp. Darius mumbled a bit at the washing, but soon quieted down. At once, the headband's nozzles began pulsing waves of sound deep into Darius's head and injecting a powerful mind cleansing shampoo through his temples. His head's inner cavities resonated with the sound... throbbed with the painful sound. As Darius's brain was getting a forcefully perfect wash, the surgery team noticed that his hands began to twitch in a most unnerving manner. The Protectors gently caressed his soapy hair, churning up the creamy lather in an attempt to lull the disturbed patient. The fidgeting ceased and the Protectors increased lather flow to the patient's brain. The brain shampoo was pre-lathered so that it could scrub out all the unnecessary thoughts of Darius's cranial cavity and leave it handsomely spotless without a trace of free will. Darius winced in pain from under his sedated state, thrashing about in the chair like a severe electrocution. He screamed in pain, trying to get up from the chair, but found himself strapped in. The brain-lathering had reached its most intensive stage... The Advisor delightedly watched her patient's mind fall apart with each cleansing pump into his brain. The men pumped more shampoo into his head, squirting a sedating conditioner into the solution. As both shampoo and conditioner pumped into Darius's brain, his thrashing ceased and he settled down again, developing a slight smile on his face. The Advisor grinned; his treatment was working.
Darius's brain was being lathered into complete submission to Convercorp. His hair would feel shiny and clean, but his brain would be completely spotless. At one moment in his operation, the surgical tape came slightly loose around one of the nozzles. The lather emerging from the cavity was pink, normally white but stained with the escaping blood from Darius's violently scrubbed skull. Strangely enough, he did not react... The young patient simply remained in a hypnotic state of mind with the same creepy smile growing on his face. The Protectors quickly secured the leaking nozzle and washed the blood off the boy's face. When the pumps exhausted their cleansing supply, Darius was left with a sickening smile on his face, almost as if it had been the product of a horrible disfigurement. The nozzles were removed from his head and the incisions were stitched up. The Protectors carefully rinsed the shampoo from his hair and removed the Mindscrubbing headgear. The torturing was over. It was all over...
The Advisor tested her patient's correction status by placing her hands on his face. Nothing, except a faint coldness of the skin. "Darius..." she called. No results. She snapped her fingers to wake him up, but to no avail. The patient had no pulse, nor did he have any signs of breathing. Darius could've easily died in surgery. He was gone; he was certainly gone, or the closest living equivalent to a vegetable. "Hello, Patient 59," she whispered. Darius's eyes shot open. His heart began racing and he began breathing deeply and heavily. He had been activated... The patient would no longer be known as "Darius"; he belonged to Convercorp now...


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But as the man neared his 85th birthday, his wife noticed subtle problems with his memory. She told Morris her husband had started forgetting appointments. And, for the first time, he had handed over the family tax return to an accountant.
"That struck me," says Morris, who is director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis. For people who routinely get an accountant, he says, that might seem like no big deal. But it represented a huge change for this senior.
Four months later, the man died suddenly and the St. Louis team got a chance to look at his brain.
What they saw surprised them, given this man's relatively mild problems with forgetfulness. Abnormal gummy deposits, the telltale signs of Alzheimer's, already had riddled the memory regions of his brain.
At the time of his death, the man had developed mild cognitive impairment, slight problems with memory that might be written off as signs of old age. But Morris says this man, and others like him, are experiencing the very first signs of Alzheimer's, the progressive brain-destroying disease that felled former President Ronald Reagan last month.
At least 4 ½ million people in the USA may suffer from mild cognitive impairment, a condition that puts them at risk for Alzheimer's. The same number have developed the full-blown disease; experts say those numbers will explode in the future.
To hold the line at mild cognitive impairment, many doctors now give patients drugs like donepezil, a memory-booster. New findings from a large study of donepezil to be reported next week at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Philadelphia are expected to support that strategy. These findings and others may help usher in a new era in treating patients when memory problems are still mild.
"We hope to stop or delay the disease process," says Neil Buckholtz, director of the National Institute on Aging's dementia branch.
Unusual forgetfulness
Mild cognitive impairment is a subtle but usually measurable change in memory.
"It's not just incidental forgetfulness," says Ronald Petersen, a neurologist the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. People with mild cognitive impairment suffer from frequent memory lapses that others may notice. They'll forget a name or a key detail or an important appointment.
Such lapses happen to everyone, but experts advise getting help if forgetfulness becomes more frequent. An evaluation is important because mild memory loss can be caused by a medical condition like depression, says Morris, who is also a board member of the Alzheimer's Association. Treat the underlying condition and the memory problems often go away, he says.
In some cases of mild cognitive impairment, the memory problems clear up. "There are people that don't go on to develop Alzheimer's and we don't know why," Buckholtz says. In other cases, the forgetfulness gets worse and ultimately is accompanied by other signs of Alzheimer's.
Some studies suggest that 15% of people with mild cognitive impairment develop Alzheimer's each year.
21 of the 25 had abnormal deposits that signal full-fledged Alzheimer's.
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Researchers believe that these abnormal deposits, called plaque, build up for a long time without causing any symptoms. "Alzheimer's is a gradual process, one that evolves over years, even over decades," Petersen says.
Studies suggest that a toxic protein called beta amyloid starts to clump together in the brain very early in the disease process, well before the first memory problems surface. Once the deposits start to damage the brain, mild memory loss appears, followed by more damage and symptoms that get worse, says brain researcher Maciek Bobinski.
"Mild cognitive impairment is like a ticking time bomb," he says. "We suspect most people with (the condition) will progress to Alzheimer's."
Bobinski's team at the New York University Medical Center studied 20 people with mild cognitive impairment and found that half developed Alzheimer's within four years.
But the study suggested the other 10 would eventually succumb as well: They showed ongoing brain damage during the study, damage that Bobinski believes will soon surface as clear symptoms of dementia. He presented his findings in June at the American Society of Neuroradiology meeting held in Seattle.
Such research holds out hope of finding the mildest stage of this disease, says researcher Gary Small of the University of California-Los Angeles.
Small and others will present new findings next week in Philadelphia that might one day identify people with early signs of the disease. If so, drugs in the pipeline now might offer something very close to a cure. "Hopefully, we can intervene before the damage is done," Petersen says.


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