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Applicational Hiking: The True Weight of Dehydrated/Freeze-dried Meals
Greetings Hikers,
For me the weight of food while out on a long distance trail is typically 60-65 percent of the total weight of my backpack. This revelation has been causing me to evaluate the wisdom of some of the food I have been using the last few years.
As with all of my "Applicational Hiking" articles, what I do within these articles is purpose a few ideas, none of them any better or worse then another, and try to draw out thoughts and ideas from other hikers, so that we as a world-wide hiking community may be able to gain wisdom and insight into better methods of how to approach hiking.
Within this article I am going to take a very simple example of how dehydrated or freeze-dried food can potentially result in a heavier backpack, and a greater ounce-to-calories weight ratio than off-the-shelf food bought in just about any local trail-town.
What I have is a single serving pro-pak bag of Mountain House 'Chili Mac with Beef' – a freeze dried meal of chili, beef, macaroni and beans. By far not the best meal out there, but one that stays in my food back for one of those long hard wet trail days. On my scale it is 136 grams (4.797 ounces) for the entire package.
Now, here is where I want us all to stop and go "hmmm" for a moment.
Is 136 grams, or 4.8 ounces, really the true weight of that meal?
No, am not talking about the weight of the bag…
Rather, I am talking about the weight of the water and water container required for us to carry for potentially miles and miles, so that at the end of the day we can enjoy that hot cooked meal of chili mac and beef.
Stop and ponder on that a moment. It is not just the weight of the bag of food that we have to take into consideration, but we also have to take into consideration, as long distance hikers, that we typically do not have a nice creek, river, or water source sitting right next to our campsite every night out on the trail. We might have to carry the 14 or so ounces of water needed to hydrate the meal, for potentially miles and miles.
The weight of the water to cook your single meal, carried inside of a smart water bottle is around 500 grams, or 17 ounces.
This just took a single meal from around 136 grams to around 636 grams (4.8 oz to 22.5 ounces).
Seriously, think about that for a moment. Read the rest of this entry »
Applicational Hiking, Sleeping Bags or More Clothing?
This is my fourth blog in a series on applicational hiking, where I purpose a small number of different situations and ask my readers to consider what works best for them, to get them to ponder on different approaching and techniques to hiking, and to offer my readers the ability to provide their own thoughts on feedback on how they approach the situation.
I would like to start off this article by saying that this will mostly apply to those who are XUL hikers. Please review this article for how I define the different weight categories if you are unfamiliar with how I define XUL.
A couple of summers ago I was preparing for a summer three day hiking trip, the day time temperatures where expected to be in the high 60's(f) and the night temperatures where expected to be in the mid 50's(f).
At these temperatures I gave a great deal of consideration to leaving behind my lightweight quilt (279 grams / 9.841 ounces) and instead taking slightly heaver base layer tops and bottoms.
It was an idea that is far from new and rarely done for a whole lot of reasons. On this specific trip I knew I would be within five miles of a road at any given time so if there was a drastic weather change I knew I could quickly bail out and get back to my truck and get home.
After a whole lot of pondering on the wisdom of it all I decided to give it a go and see how it worked out.
I would say that the strangest aspect of doing this was that most of us are so use to having a blanket/bag/quilt over us at night, that not having that blanket/quilt to reach for on a psychological level was a bit odd to experience.
Thankfully I never found myself shivering, I never found myself wanting to start a fire to get warm, and throughout the night my core temperature was able to stay consistent thanks to thermoregulation and the slightly heavier clothing.
The weight of the heavier base layer clothing was 181 grams (6.4 ounces) so I was able to save myself 98 grams (3.45 ounces) by not taking my 279 gram quilt, which is a significant percentage of total base pack weight when my total base pack weight was 872.64 grams / 30.78 ounces / 1.923 pounds.
I have given a great deal of thought on this matter over the last few months and I think that it was a great option, knowing that the weather would be close to what it typically is inside of my house, and with the knowledge that I could easily and quickly get back to a safe location and warm myself up should my core temperature fall below a safe level – keeping it mind it would have needed to drop 15+ degrees below the expected night time temperature before my base layer clothing was no longer able to help keep my body thermoregulation under control.
This is something I would only do in the summer time, with a firm understanding of the stability of the weather that we have where I live, and the ability to be back at my truck (and thus a heat source) within thirty or so minutes.
There are, of course, a lot of risks in doing this. If I were to injury myself, and if the weather where to all of a sudden fall below that 15 degree threshold I set with my clothing, than I would have found myself in a situation that I would now be looking back on and saying "that was really stupid John".
Thankfully most XUL hikers have hundreds of nights spent on the trail and are at a point where they understand how to read the weather, have a very firm understanding of the limits of their gear, and hike in known areas. I am not sure I would attempt to go without a sleeping bag in any situation other then when those aspects are fully known and under as much control as is possible.
So that is my thoughts and experience on going out on a three day hike without a sleeping bag/quilt. If you have done it, I would love to hear about it, and what you have learned from doing it. Please be sure to list what the temperatures where at night, if the temperatures got colder then what you expected, and if you found you needed to do something to stay warm please share what you did to do so.
Applicational Hiking: Cold Weather Sleeping Ditty Bag
Greetings Hikers,
Recently I was working on putting together a new micro-list of items that I knew I would need to make sure is within a small ditty bag that ends up inside of my sleeping bag when I am hiking in sub-freezing conditions. While I have been known for developing some of the most in-depth research on ultralight shelters (solo / 2p) and even though I have some very detailed gear lists, I rarely find the need to build lists beyond those. I have never made it a secrete that I am not a cold weather hiker. While I truly love hiking in the rain, when the rain turns to that white powdery stuff, I tend to call the hiking season to a close and spend the rest of the winter planning my next seasons hikes. For two or three years I have been getting invitations from folks to go on winter hikes. One local hiker goes out hiking every full moon – regardless of whether it is summer or winter – and he sent me an email a couple weeks back asking if I would hike to go with him anytime this winter. I think he remembers from last year that I am a woosie when it comes to winter hiking. That is ok though, I accept the fact that I do not like being cold and have the utmost respect for those who love being out in that white stuff that shall not be named. It seems like almost all the bloggers out there right now are posting trip reports and they are all filled with pictures of sno… err, that stuff that shall not be named. For me, I am sitting at home planning next year trips and staying nice and warm.
Anyway, this is my third "Applicational Hiking" article and today I want to focus on what it is I am planning to put into my sleeping bag ditty bag. By that I mean a small bag that stays inside of my sleeping bag at night in order to make sure that things that should not freeze, do not freeze. Like my other two Applicational Hiking articles my goal is not to convert hikers to my methods, nor promote specific pieces of gear, but rather try to try to put my own thoughts into words and hopefully bring up subjects that I am personally facing, with the hopes that other hikers are willing to come forward and share their own thoughts and insights into the topic being discussed. Not being an experienced winter there is a whole lot to winter hiking that I have not learned yet. Yes, I have spent my time hiking in the snow, I do not want to make it sound as if I have never done so, but compared to many hikers I know, the hours spent in sub freezing conditions is nothing. It is my hope that with this Applicational Hiking article I will be able to share some of my own thoughts and experiences, and even more so, gain a lot of knowledge from other hikers with a lot of experience hiking in sub freezing conditions.
The primary purpose of this, my first winter time hiking related article, is going to be on the contents of my sleeping ditty bag. This is one of those things that is probably a "duh" issue for a lot of sub-freezing hikers. Over the years I have, honestly, given this issue very little thought. Thinking back on the times when I have been out hiking in sub-freeing conditions, I often times ended up forgetting a thing or two to bring into my sleeping bag when me at night. This got me pondering a few days ago that I should probably try to build a micro-list of items that I can burn into my brain in hopes of not having this happen this winter hiking season, should I get the opportunity to go hiking in sub-freezing conditions.
Items I Already Have In My Sleeping Ditty Bag:
Perhaps most important to me is my Sawyer Squeeze water filter. Because it is a hollow fiber membrane filter it absolutely cannot ever freeze. Should the Squeeze filter freeze up inside it will cause the 1.0 Micron Absolute it will become totally worthless as the pores will become larger then 1 Micron due to the water freezing expanding the micron sizing. Read up more on Absolute vs Nominal Microns and you will understand why I am always trying to get hikers to understand that just because a water filter says "1 micron" does not mean it is actually safe – the CDC states it requires a 1.0 Absolute Micron filter in order to properly filter water. So without a doubt making sure that my Squeeze is inside of my sleeping ditty bag goes without thinking.
I also try to make sure that I remember to put the next days socks inside of my sleeping bag. Hopefully they are clean and not all dirty and stinky, eh! Putting on frozen socks, first thing in the morning, is something I have had to do a few times, but it is never fun.
My PossumDown gloves, if I am not wearing them, also make it inside of my sleeping ditty bag. It makes them easy to retrieve should I need to put them on, and they take up very little space.
While it might break the "all things that smell like food go in the food bag" rule, I tend to like to put my toothbrush and toothpaste dots inside of my sleeping ditty bag as well. Unless you feel like boiling water in the morning to unfreeze your toothbrush, having a frozen toothbrush to use when you can finished eating breakfast is no fun.
I also include my potty bag inside of my sleeping ditty bag. Main reason is to help make sure that my liquid based AME hand sanitizer does not freeze. It also makes it easier to find if I do have to go poopoo in the middle of the night for some odd reason.
Also near the top of my list to make sure I always get into my sleeping ditty bag is my Suunto MC-2G Global compass. I really have no idea at what temperature the liquid inside of a compass will freeze at (anybody know) but if for some reason you have to get up in the middle of the next and relocate or hike out, think about how much it would suck to have your compass frozen.
Electronics are also inside of the bag. This includes my ACR ResQLink 406 PLB, and my GPS device if I happen to have one with me, and either my iPhone or my Iridium Extreme depending on how deep into the woods I am going. I also make sure that I include my flashlights/torches so that the batteries to not freeze up.
Speaking of batteries, they also have to make it inside. I have started to buy the Energizer Ultimate Lithium (not to be confused with Lithium-ion, which are the rechargeable ones) which are suppose to handle -40 degrees F temps, but why risk it, and not all of them are Lithium yet.
And lastly, of course, is a bottle of water. I like to use a Hunnersdorf bottle that I bought years ago and just before I go to bed I can fill it up with boiling hot water and then shove it into a sock toss it down at the bottom of my sleeping bag and it helps me stay warm for awhile and gives me some non-frozen water to use first thing in the morning.
Items I Am Considering Adding: Any Feedback?
I have been thinking about putting my small med kit inside of my sleeping ditty bag. For the main reason that it contains a few liquid medications. Hydropel, Hydrocortisone cream, a little Neosporin, and a very small bottle of clear eyes. I am not sure what continual sub freezing temperatures will do to some of these liquids.
I also carry a heavy duty one gallon ziplock with me on my hikes, which has inside of it a micro-bottle filled with bleach. I use this ziplock and bleach to wash my cloths – mostly my socks and briefs. If you are able to find and carry 12% Sodium Hypochlorite then expect it to start freezing at around 5(f) and if you are using regular household bleach (3-8% Sodium Hypochlorite) expect it to freeze somewhere around the 19 or 20 fahrenheit mark. What I am wondering is whether or not bleach becomes in effective once it freezes. This is something I have not been able to determine, so if anybody knows that would be interesting to know myself. If Sodium Hypochlorite can freeze and not become in effective than it could stay in your backpack and who cares of it freezes.
Going Overboard or Just Being Extra Cautious?
This being an Applicational Hiking article it goes without saying that this article is designed to get you to ponder on your own system, to analyze my system, and to share with each other our thoughts. So it also goes without thinking that I have to ask myself (and all of you as I am sharing all of these thoughts with the world) of whether or not I have gone overboard with all of this. Does it really make sense to put all of this stuff into a bag that then goes into my sleeping bag, thereby taking up precious space inside of my sleeping bag, and adding items into my sleeping bag which will likely not help my down insulation do its job, and potentially disrupting me at night because some foreign object is inside of my sleeping bag flopping all around each time I toss and turn all night. Obviously some of these items have to be kept as warm as possible (water filter, compass, phone) but just how much effort should we put into making sure all of these items are stored inside of our sleeping bag when it is time to crawl into it and call it a day.
Applicational Hiking: When bulk matters more than weight
Greetings Hikers,
Here recently as I prepare my gear for the 2012 winter season, and starting to plan for the 2013 hiking season, one of the issues that I have been facing is that of the overall bulk of my gear. A few years back when I broke the 10 pound BPW and I sold off my three beloved ULA backpacks because they were all too big for my needs at the time, I took myself down a path that lead to me buying gear that was less bulky. As somebody who has always been an advocate that you buy your backpack based on the bulk (cubic inches) of your gear, this is one of those many decisions I made that helped me down the quest to go lighter and lighter, but also resulted in the (at the time) unforeseeable consequence of some day needing to carry more gear for longer hikes in a myriad of conditions.
In this article I want to do yet another article on "Application Hiking", with my first being my article on "Pocketless hiking" – which was an article to get people to think about their backpacks and the importance of the gear that they carry – and by no means an article to try to convert hikers to going pocketless. It has been my desire to write more about the day to day life of a long distance hiker, rather than just writing gear reviews. In this second article on application hiking I want to address the issue of when I have personally made decisions to carry larger and heavier gear, over lighter weight and smaller gear. This might not make sense to those who know me as a sul/xul hiker, but as much as I enjoy helping others learn about what there is to learn as a sul/xul hiker, I enjoy just as much talking about heavier weight gear when it serves a greater purpose. There has been a lot of discussion on the internet as of late about weight classifications and I have stay quite about it. Reason being, the vast majority of it I fully agree with. As I hopefully make clear (or try to at least) on my "how I define base pack weight" article, the focus and goal needs to be about self-education and experience, not about grams and ounces. The quest to have a lighter backpack is always a good thing – doing so without the necessary levels of experience and education is something I absolutely do not believe in. That is, and will hopefully continue to be, why I write about application hiking and why I will continue to stress that experience on the trail leads to education, and education is what will hopefully keep you from getting yourself into a situation that no hiker should have to face. This self-education includes learning when carrying something that is so small, and so light, that it potentially puts you at risk when you need that piece of gear to actually perform.
I want to use the following three pieces of gear as an example:
The compass
The cup
The whistle
Applicational Hiking: Pocketless Hiking
Greetings Hikers,
This article has been inspired by "Jeremy" who contacted me a short while back to let me know how much the HikeLighter website has been a tremendous help to him in his quest to become a lighter weight hiker. He indicated that over the last year my articles had helped him loose over 30 pounds from his TPW. How awesome is that – and huge congrats Jeremy!
One of the topics he mentioned within our correspondence was how I go about being a pocketless hiker.
I responded to him with a quick three or four paragraph initial-though on the matter and promised him I would post an article going into more detail on it. I have also made promises to others that I would stop talking about gear reviews and focus more on what I am going to call "Applicational Hiking", which will be where I talk about issues that all of us face as hikers… a "where the rubber meets the road" type of articles where I just share from my experience and personal thoughts on issues. They will be very loose in nature and writing style – very little about in-depth details but a whole lot about actual hiking knowledge and experience – at least my style.
What is a pocketless hiker?
For some long distance hikers I suppose it can mean they are a hiker that does have not have any money to make it to the next town so they have to keep stopping at every trail and getting a temp-job in order to get money to make it to the next town. Sounds like a pocketless hiker, eh!
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AR-10 vs AR-15
So I have caught the bug. In the last 6 months I have acquired AR-15, Mini-14, SKS, and AK.
I am looking to start a build, well sort of, I am going to piece one together.
I love my AR but would like one with a little more knock down power and also like the price of the 7.62. What parts will I need different besides the obvious barrel?
http://www.rockriverarms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id= 558
I still want one of these, 7.62x39.
Upper receiver, lower receiver, bolt, bolt carrier, buffer tube, buffer spring, buffer, lower parts kit, magazines. That covers the major differences. It's a different gun. Nothing is interchangeable that I am aware of.
90% of the parts are going to be different.
Find yourself a receiver in stock somewhere, then plan your build around it.......
Gas blocks, triggers, forward assist, for the most part are the same.
I think the receiver extensions, castle nuts and end plates are interchangeable too, for some styles at least.
You say you like the price of 7.62. Are you talking about 7.62x39 which can be built on an AR 15 or are you talking about 7.62 NATO (7.62x51, or .308 Winchester), which would require using AR 10 sized receivers?
Two pretty different animals when it comes to parts compatibility and cost of parts and ammo.
Very good point.......I mean even milsurp 308 prices have gone up...but the title of the thread is ar10 vs ar15, so I assumed the op was refering to the 308 winchester platform.
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What is it you like about the price of .7.62x51? Or where are you finding good prices on it. Most I've seen has been around $20 per 20 rounds.
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Williams, D.J. and Critchley, C. and Pun, S. and Chaliha, M. and O'Hare, T.J. (2009) Differing mechanisms of simple nitrile formation on glucosinolate degradation in Lepidium sativum and Nasturtium officinale seeds. Phytochemistry, 70 (11-12). pp. 1401-1409.
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Glucosinolates are sulphur-containing glycosides found in brassicaceous plants that can be hydrolysed enzymatically by plant myrosinase or non-enzymatically to form primarily isothiocyanates and/or simple nitriles. From a human health perspective, isothiocyanates are quite important because they are major inducers of carcinogen-detoxifying enzymes. Two of the most potent inducers are benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) present in garden cress (Lepidium sativum), and phenylethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) present in watercress (Nasturtium officinale). Previous studies on these salad crops have indicated that significant amounts of simple nitriles are produced at the expense of the isothiocyanates. These studies also suggested that nitrile formation may occur by different pathways: (1) under the control of specifier protein in garden cress and (2) by an unspecified, non-enzymatic path in watercress. In an effort to understand more about the mechanisms involved in simple nitrile formation in these species, we analysed their seeds for specifier protein and myrosinase activities, endogenous iron content and glucosinolate degradation products after addition of different iron species, specific chelators and various heat treatments. We confirmed that simple nitrile formation was predominantly under specifier protein control (thiocyanate-forming protein) in garden cress seeds. Limited thermal degradation of the major glucosinolate, glucotropaeolin (benzyl glucosinolate), occurred when seed material was heated to >120 degrees C. In the watercress seeds, however, we show for the first time that gluconasturtiin (phenylethyl glucosinolate) undergoes a non-enzymatic, iron-dependent degradation to a simple nitrile. On heating the seeds to 120 degrees C or greater, thermal degradation of this heat-labile glucosinolate increased simple nitrile levels many fold.
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- James has now booked tables for the adults at Creelers; On Monday evening 2 tables, for 4 & 5 people, and on Wednesday 1 table 6. The Monday tables are booked for 6.00pm and the Thursday one for 8.00pm.
- Sally, Joris and family will cook on Thursday night - it'll be potatoes with seasonal vegetables and baked-fish/-sausages/-beans followed by local fruit dessert à la Belgique, and cheese and biscuits
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- garlic & ginger
- marmalade, marmite, honey, mustard, chutney
- tinned tuna & anchovies - (we have a surplus)
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- rice
- dried fruit + raisins
- tea towels + washing up liquid + cloths
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A Path To Take - Poem by Cody Christiansen
A path can lead you in many directions like love or death.
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so he trys to drink the pain away even his daughter stands in the back trying to save the one that gave her life.
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In 1988 trumpeter, composer, poet, visual artist and educator Dennis Gonzalez convened an all-star studio gathering of musicians hailing from Dallas, Texas (where he resides), New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi. He called his group the tongue-twisting, New Dallasorleanssippi . The resulting recording, Debenge-Debenge has become regarded as one of the trumpeter's finest and features the all too-rarely heard saxophonist Charles Brackeen.
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Khang Ta
This is my 4-year old daughter Kalina examining the eyes of Stanley, her classroom dog who she took home for the week. This is my little part of the world.
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Gary Brinkman
Where once there was light, now I see only darkness. As I stare into the vast blackness, the light behind the eye is nothing but a visual memory of the optical abundance I once enjoyed. My ageing eyesight and stepson's vision problems has brought a heightened appreciation of the gift of sight that so many take for granted.
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Helen Dugdale
Her Aunty, Uncle and Great Grandmother have all suffered and are suffering from this disease, she is their eyes and they have never seen her beautiful, deep and meaningful brown eyes.
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Georgina Flanagan
My photograph has inspired me to appreciate the gift of vision because it shows the light dancing in my younger brothers eyes. This light is something to appreciate as it can quickly diminish, as seen firsthand. My 79 year old grandmother has Macular Degeneration which has left her with significantly diminished sight in both eyes.
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Lisa Sayers
My photograph shows the vision I appreciate most – my son's face – and a beautiful sunset. It also illustrates with the dark light what could be lost if I had Macular Degeneration – the features of my son's face. I appreciate my sight for the smiles I see.
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Courtney McCarthy
The simplest things in life are the most beautiful. Being blessed with sight allows you to see all the beauty that we have in this magnificent world that we call home! I would give anything for someone to see what I see every day!
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Jessica Thaddeus
After being with my grandfather as he slowly lost his sight due to Macular Degeneration, and now my Grandmother also losing her vision, I have come to truly appreciate the gift of sight but no more so when seeing such beauty in nature that many of us take for granted. Beauty is everywhere and my gift and inspiration every day.
Sean Eiffe
This picture is of a homeless man. It really opened my eyes as to how lucky we are. I have a roof over my head, food on my plate, loving parents, and I can see and appreciate everything around me.
Healthcare Professional
Gail Hoole
This little boy lives in Sumba, his grandmother had just had a cataract operation by the team of ophthalmic surgeons / optometrists / nurses / volunteers that go to Sumba each year to offer their services to the Sumba Eye Project. Hopefully his beautiful bright eyes will not be damaged by the sun.
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Hong Hua
One of the reasons we have two eyes? In case something like this happens to the other one. An asymptomatic 48 year old female patient decides to have an eye examination for the first time. She has no idea when / why / how or what happened to the left eye. Fortunately she has 6/6 vision in her right eye!
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Julie Craigie
Photography for me is about really seeing things, not just looking. What better way to appreciate my sight than through this amazing, colourful photo. Without my sight, I would not be able to see all the beauty the world has on offer. Sight is truly a gift we are all guilty of taking for granted at times.
Macular Disease Community
Heidi Pultar
My passion is photography, my mother suffers from Macular Degeneration, this image represents one of the moments I would be devastated to miss. I feel your eyes are connected directly to your heart. This image is part of a series called 'Forest Fantasy' the little fairies playing in the sunlight, then disappearing into the setting sun. Without light there's no photography!
Alexandra Robb
The gift of vision allows you to see the ones you love. I took this one of my dad, it captures him in a pensive mood. Vision allows you to read people's faces and to connect with how they're feeling, vision brings you closer to people, that's why it's so precious.
Macular Disease Community
Alana Wilkinson
I love this photo as it captures each little water droplet and the joy on his face to experience the fun of water puddles. I couldnt imagine not being able to see my babies faces every day and the way they light up.
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Andy Herbig
As a keen photographer I appreciate my gift of vision most when exploring the miniature world of macro photography. I love the detail we can venture into with our gift of vision; looking at the breathtaking beauty of the unknown.
Macular Disease Community
Colin McCloud
This photograph of a young Osprey took over 5 days to capture, from its attempts to fly, to the actual "thank you God" photographic moment when it took its very first flight and landed back on its nest. Watching and waiting for all this to happen, made me appreciate in the hours that passed how lucky I am to see!
Healthcare Professional
David Curtis
While you can hear, touch and smell the natural world only vision gives you the opportunity to fully appreciate how small we are compared to the structures and forces of nature.
Macular Disease Community
Jodie McCallum
The best part of my day is watching my fur kids play at the beach. I was enjoying the sun one afternoon when the clouds rolled in, looking like a giant tidal wave. We stood staring at the sky in awe. I am constantly amazed at the world around us and the beautiful sights be seen.
Mikki Finn
This is Squirtle the Ninja Turtle, he showed up on our door one morning and we kept him for the day. I was so happy to see a turtle, so happy in his natural environment. I was so thankful to be able to see such an amazing creature return to his very own home.It was priceless, I wont forget him.
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Robert Owens
The last two of my Rosellas. The other three have flown the coup,I know not where,but I thank the Lord for giving me the eyes to see this wondrous spectacle of life and colour!
Macular Disease Community
Ryan Cable
As I sat and looked through this amazing old Illawarra flame tree at the beautifully mirrored sunset, I understand how truly valuable my sight is and how devastating it would be to lose ability to view the beauty that our wonderful world holds.
Sean Eiffe
There is nothing better than spending time eating fish and chips with mum and dad and feeding the birds. So many great memories that we would not have without our sight.
Healthcare Professional
Stephanie Bahler
Vision is one of the 5 senses used to admire beauty in the things that surround us- such as what I saw when I drove out into the NT outback; and vision is also used to survey our surrounds to protect ourselves and our loved ones from threat- such as what the cow saw when she looked back at me.
Healthcare Professional
Vijay Mistry
The warm glow of our sun is essential for life on our planet and yet it also has the ability cause devastation both to our fragile environment and our eyes. Such a beautiful view of such a powerful entity.
Healthcare Professional
Wai Tak
Sometimes, we enjoy watching fallen tree. However, we do not want to see it with fallen vision. Come on in for an eye exam to prevent losing sight. The optometrist may show you a beautiful tree on the chart!
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The Graduate Seminars offer a sustained and systematic introduction to specific cutting-edge areas of research, led by leading experts in those areas.
Aims and Methods of Histories of the Sciences
Nick Jardine, Hasok Chang and Cristina Chimisso; Mondays 11am–12.30pm, weekly from 24 October (6 sessions)
These six graduate seminars will consider aspects of the history, aims, methods and current problems of the history of science.
Science in Print I: Book Production in the Hand Press Period
Roger Gaskell and Anna Jones; Wednesdays 11am–12.30pm, weekly from 9 November (4 sessions), Whipple Old Library, except session 3
Using examples from the Whipple Library's rare book collections, these sessions will explore some bibliographical techniques to identify and describe the structure and production of printed material from the hand press period (16th–18th centuries).
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Lauren Kassell; Tuesday 22 November, 10am–12noon
Between 1596 and 1634 Simon Forman and Richard Napier recorded 80,000 astrological consultations. This is one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. While the majority of the cases are about medical questions, matters of health and well-being, personal affairs, romantic interests, worldly affairs, and the occult sciences are also represented. This is a rich resource for the history of dynamics between patients and practitioners and experiences of illness and healing. The Casebooks Project presents a digital edition of Forman's and Napier's records, an image archive of the original manuscripts, and innovative facilities for searching and sorting the corpus. This class introduces these 400-year-old manuscripts and tutors students in using digital humanities to understand them.
Chinese Medical Traditions: Historical Perspectives
Mary Brazelton; Thursdays 10–11am, weekly from 19 January (4 sessions)
These sessions give an introduction to the historical study of Chinese medicine, a field that has recently undergone significant change and increasing engagement with the history of medicine in the West. The sessions begin with an overview of basic concepts and traditions, exploring canonical foundations and Daoist and Buddhist influences in the premodern era. In the later two sessions, we will discuss important transformations in the making of modern Chinese medicine, including imperial institutionalizations, the introduction of Western biomedicine to China, and the modern globalization of Chinese medicine. Each meeting will include discussions of important archaeological findings, texts, and other primary sources; optional sessions will include trips to the University Library and Needham Research Institute to investigate texts and objects of particular interest. Students need not have a language background in Chinese in order to attend, although optional readings in Chinese will be suggested; all are welcome.
Programming for Busy Academics
Shahar Avin; Mondays 3–4pm, weekly from 30 January (4 sessions), Seminar Room 2
Programming offers a remarkable toolbox for performing academic-related tasks, and advances in online learning and community support have made it easier than ever to pick it up. The sessions in Lent will introduce the various potential uses of programming in an academic context, key stepping stones required on the way to mastery, and the available resources you could use to build up this skill. Easter Term sessions would be focused on specific advanced technologies and problem-shooting tutorials to enable you to complete your own programming projects, be they a data-driven website, a computer model, a web-scraping tool or a text analysis script.
Science in Print II: Book Production in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
James Poskett and Sarah Bull; Wednesdays 11am–12.30pm, weekly from 1 March (3 sessions), Whipple Old Library
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ALE, operating under the brand Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, together with technology partners Altitude, technology experts and TeleSys will present the very latest developments in contact center solutions at Call Center World (CCW) 2016 in Berlin. The Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch™ Customer Service Suite (OTCS) will demonstrate how it integrates the full range of inbound and outbound multimedia communications that customers expect – email, instant messaging, social media and video - to provide a 360 degree view of the customer journey.
CCW 2016 is Europe's biggest event in the field of customer service, focusing on the digital transformation of the customer journey, while providing an opportunity for visitors to get hands-on with industry leading technology.
Attendees will be able to see the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise end-to-end customer service solution, designed to solve and close all customer issues across multiple departments. Its workflow module introduces automated multi-step communication, that manages these processes in a holistic way and provides appropriate tools to manage them across all departments of the company.
Altitude is a technology partner and will be highlighting Altitude uCI (Unified Customer Interaction). Altitude uCI is a modular software platform that can handle all customer interactions for contact centers as well as for all other organizational areas. More than 1,100 customers worldwide use Altitude uCI for customer service, telemarketing, help desk and public administrations.
technology experts is an integration partner that offers extensive planning, integration and maintenance of a business's entire communications needs with a focus contact center solutions. At the event it will be demonstrating the power of social media integration for joining the customer conversation and reacting to social media storms.
TeleSys is an application partner and will be showcasing the TS Agent panel, based on the Alcatel-Lucent Contact Center Distribution (CCD) platform. This puts relevant information (eg CTI, presence) and statistics at agents fingertips and integrates additional features, such as call-back service, to ensure that no interactions are missed.
Alexandra Biebel, Director, Marketing & Communications, ALE DACH: "As well as the latest technology, this year we really wanted to focus on the strength of the Alcatel -Lucent Enterprise partner network in delivering tailored solutions and real business outcomes. We are joined at this year's event by some of our key partners in the field to demonstrate how we work together to deliver the right end-to-end solution - from design, to deployment, to service management. At this year's event, alongside our partners, we bring together four leading experts to demonstrate the best solutions for better customer service - for any business."


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Sora's Crest of Love is the twenty-sixth episode of Digimon Adventure. In the episode, with most of the group, the question of Sora's whereabouts is brought up and soon enough, Sora shows up, but turns out she's been having trouble of her own.
The English version is written by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, based on the Story Idea by Jeff Nimoy, Bob Buchholz, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.
(OPENING SCENE: Joe and the Mask peddling the Boat, with Groucho, Tai and Mimi sitting on top of the Boat.)
Groucho: Gee, it's good to be free. You know, i'm beginning to wonder if my brothers are free?
Agumon: I agree.
Gomamon: Count me in.
Grovermon: Absolutely.
Groucho: I'm very sure that i'm gonna tell my brothers about me freedom.
Joe: Attention, everyone! We're here!
(The Boat reaches the Shore.)
Tai: Here, Mimi. Let me carry you down.
Mimi: Anything you say, Tai.
(Tai carrys Mimi down the Boat. Groucho magically makes some stair for Tai while he's carrying Mimi in his arms. Tai then puts her down on her feet and they take a bow to each other.)
Matt: Guys, over here!
The Mask: Look!
Joe: Hey, it's Matt!
Groucho: You would not believe it, but Mimi used her last wish to set me free!
Company: You must be joking!
Groucho: No I'm not.
Tai: Where's Sora?
Harpo: We thought you might know.
Chico: Sora flown off by herself while we flew to different directions.
Gummo: Which means, Sora is still missing.
Mimi: Actually, I think I saw Sora.
All: Huh?
Groucho: Where did you see her?
Mimi: At the Gekmon's castle. But i might have been...dreaming.
(Enter Flashback)
Sora: Atta girl. I knew you'd find yourself again.
(End Flashback)
Joe: You're right, it must have been a dream.
Mimi: And also Matt, i saw you as the Phantom of the Opera.
Matt: Huh?
(Enter Flashback)
The Phantom of the Opera: Sing my Angel of Music!
(End Flashback)
Matt: I was the Phantom of the Opera?
Groucho: Not exactly. That makes it a dream too.
Harpo: None of us know where Sora is since we got seperated from the explosion.
Chico: All we know is, we've got to find her and quick!
Izzy: We have no time to lose.
Gummo: We've got to find Sora before anything else happens.
(They run off to find Sora. In the forest, Sora is sitting behind the tree, feeling dejected and lonely.)
Sora: (Thinking) Tai is the only the one for me. He's the only one who cares about me. I wish you were here to see what i've done.
(Enter Flashbacks)
(Song: Someone to Watch over me from Oh, Kay!)
(End Flashbacks)
Sora: (Thinking) This is for the best. I guess.
(Her head is covered around her arms and started to cry. Suddenly, she began hearing something.)
Tai: Sora!
Izzy: Sora!
Chico: Where are you?
(She sees them in the distance and runs off.)
Joe: She's gotta be around here somewhere.
Harpo: I don't see her anywhere.
Gummo: You can say that again.
Groucho: I hope she doesn't run into more danger and everything.
Mimi: Oh...i can't go another inch!
The Mask: Tell us about it.
Groucho: Do not worry. We'll find Sora. I think it's better if we rest for a bit. Just to catch our breath and rest our feet.
Gummo: Good idea.
Groucho: Chico, Harpo, do you know H.M.S. Pinafore?
Chico and Harpo: No, we don't think we've ever heard of H.M.S. Pinafore.
Groucho: Well how about this, if we sing a song, maybe that will make us feel better.
Chico: Okay, Groucho.
Harpo: We'll do our best.
(Song: A British Tar from H.M.S. Pinafore)
Biyomon: Guys?
Harpo: Look! It's Biyomon!
Biyomon: Where have you been?
Chico: Let us ask you the same thing!
Tai: If Biyomon is here, then so is Sora! Sora! Wait up!
(Tai runs after Sora. The others follow him.)
Gummo: Here we go again!
(Sora runs away deeper into the Forest. Tai stops her.)
Tai: Sora.....it's you!
(Sora turns to go in the other direction, but is stopped by Groucho and Chico.)
Groucho: Halt! No more running! You're not going anywhere!
Chico: Enough running! Tell us what's going on!
Sora: Hm...
Chico: She's not responding, Groucho. She has to have a specific answer.
Groucho: She will answer, Chico. Just wait and see.
Chico: I do hope you're right.
(Matt, T.K., Kari, Genie, Agumon, Gabumon, Tailmon, Patamon and Gonzomon follow them to catch their breath.)
Genie: You shouldn't run away like that, Sora. You had us worried to the neck.
T.K.: Sora, does this mean you don't like us anymore?
Sora: No. Of course not.
Groucho: Then what's wrong?
Chico: Why won't you answer, Sora?
(Sora's Good Conscience pops out on Sora's right shoulder.)
Sora's Good Conscience: You oughta be ashamed of yourself, running away from your Friends like that. Why would you do such a thing?
(Sora's Bad Conscience pops out on the left.)
Sora's Bad Conscience: Don't be a sap, Sora. This is your one way ticket out of the Digital World.
Sora's Good Conscience: Keep out of this.
Sora's Bad Conscience: Says who?
Sora's Good Conscience: Says me, that's who. How come Sora does the right thing, if you encouraged her to do something that is wrong?
Sora's Bad Conscience: Don't listen to him, Sora. He's only trying to bribe you to be good. You run away, you deserved to be alone.
Sora's Good Conscience: Get those thoughts out of your mind, that's Poverty. Sora, what your family say if you do something like that?
Sora's Bad Conscience: It's even better if you don't think about them. And don't tell your friends either, they'll be very disappointed in you.
(Biyomon comes flying in.)
Biyomon: Sora, why don't you tell them?
(Sora gives up.)
Sora: Okay. I'll tell them. Tai won't betray me.
Sora's Bad Conscience: Don't do it!
Sora: I have to.
Sora's Bad Conscience: Do what you want, but don't tell them. They'll never know.
Sora's Good Conscience: But I will know, you're wrong!
Sora's Bad Conscience: And what are you gonna do about it?
Sora's Good Conscience: This.
(Sora's Good Conscience zaps his Magic Wand at Sora's Bad Conscience and he dodges.)
Sora's Bad Conscience: Oooooh! Fine! Tell them, Sora! (To Sora's Good Conscience) You won't get that far!
Sora's Good Conscience: Oh yes i will. (To Sora) Go on, Sora. Tell them. I'm sure Tai will love you more.
(They soon disappeared and Sora talks to them.)
Sora: It happened the night after the explosion at Crocodile Pyramid.
(As Sora tells her Story, there is a flashback.)
Sora: I heard a strange noise. It sounded like if someone was crying.
Tai: Who was crying?
Sora: I wasn't sure. But I think it was a Pirate Captain.
Genie: So could you hear what he was crying about?
Sora: Yeah, I heard him singing something about our Crests.
Tai: What about them?
Sora: He was singing that each of our Crests has its own special meaning. For example, Tai, yours is the Crest of Courage.
Tai: That's right and then the Crest started to glow.
Sora: And the Crest Matt has, is the Crest of Friendship.
Harpo: And T.K.?
Sora: His is special, Harpo. It's the Crest of Hope.
Harpo: And as for Kari, hers is the Crest of Light.
Chico: Of course.
Groucho: Go on, Sora. Tell us more.
Sora: Izzy's Crest is the Crest of Knowledge. Joe's is the Crest of Reliability. The Mask's is the Crest of Laughter.
(Izzy and Gummo hop over the stones in the River. The Mask and Joe fall into the River.)
Sora: Mimi's is the Crest of Sincerity. And Genie's is the Crest of Magic. And finally, mine...mine is the Crest of Love.
Chico: I had no idea that the person would be singing about the Crests.
Groucho: Let me get this straight, Sora. If that person that you've just mentioned was singing while he was crying, how does it go?
Sora: I think his song sounded like this.
(Song: Captain Hook's Crest Song.)
Sora: So that Pirate Captain was singing about all the Crest in the Digital World.
Genie: I see what you mean, Sora.
Chico: They're very elegant.
Sora: And that's not all. He also sang a lament about how his hand got cut off by a boy and thrown to the crocodile. I think it went something like this.
(Song: Captain Hook's Lament.)
Groucho: Boy, what familiar lament. I might know the music to that song, but I quite put my finger on it that somehow that song reminds us of someone very specific.
Tai: Gee, the Crest of Love! That's just perfect for you, Sora!
Sora: (Yelling) No, it's not! Don't say that, Tai! It's not like me at all!
Tai: But Sora, it is like you! You're always thinking of everyone else!
Sora: No way! I don't care what happens to everyone else! The truth is, you don't know the first thing about me! So back off!
(Tai is surprised by Sora's anger.)
Sora: Oh! I'm sorry, Tai.
Tai: Sora, what's the matter?
Sora: It's just that...my Crest...it won't glow!
Tai: Huh?
Sora: It's because i don't have any Love.
Groucho: I've got a bad feeling about this.
(Sora's now sitting behind a tree, looking very depressed. Groucho, Chico, T.K. and Kari are looking
T.K.: You love us, don't you, Sora?
Tai: I think that person who was crying was Captain Hook.
Groucho: That Codfish, he must've escaped with the others.
Sora: Captain Hook was very upset.
Sora: Stay where you are, Hook!
Captain Hook: Please, go right ahead. Run me through. You'd be doing me a favor!
Sora: All right, i give up. What's your problem?
Captain Hook: All i ever wanted was to get away from this dreadful place. And home to my dear sweet father. But blast it out!! You and your friends have ruined everything, and my men, Dr. Frankenstein and Jafar would mutiny if i so much as tried to leave without it. And so here i am. (Blows his nose with his hankerchef.) Stuck in this absurd place! Oh, oh, oh, oh. My...sources... tell me that you're one of those Kids, the DigiDestined?
Sora: Huh, you got that right. I guess we're in the same Boat.
Captain Hook: The same Boat! THAT'S IT!!!
Sora: What's it?
Captain Hook: I'll give you passage home on my Ship. And you can help me recover the other Crests. Don't you see? The Crest of Courage is useless to Tai. He's not sensible like you and i, he's just a boy who never listens. All he ever thinks about is his Courage.
Sora: Hm, tell me about it.
Captain Hook: And really, what other choice do you have? It's not as though you could fly home. Tell me something, did you hear about the Crests?
Sora: Yes, in fact, i did.
Captain Hook: Ah yes, you're that kid Sora. (Laughs) And i see you have the Crest of Love.
Sora: And what's so funny about that?
Captain Hook: Enough to know why i'm laughing about that. I'll admit i have despised you, among the others. But you just think you're *so* esteemed, i very much doubt that. I can understand you have a serious issue inside your heart.
Sora: Hmm, well, i suppose. If it is rightfully yours. And if the Crest of Courage is no use to Tai...
Captain Hook: Splendid, splendid! I wouldn't let you down.
Sora: Wait!
Captain Hook: Huh?
Sora: You must swear not to harm my Friends.
Captain Hook: What, me? Actually harm your Friends? Brimstone and Goar! Perish the thought. It's all a game, you see. I shan't harm them, you have our word. "I, Captain James Hook, do hearby swear, in the name of Jafar and Dr. Frankenstein, not to harm a single Digimon or DigiDestined." You see? Iornclad, unbreakable. Leave the lights on, Daddy. Your Baby Boy's coming home! Now when you've finally located the other Crests, just give this Whistle a wee toot. But until then, you'll never be able to make the Crest glow. Never until you find the real True Love. You're doing the right thing, my dear. I'm your only way home.
(Laughs evily.)
Sora: Oh...oh!
(End Flashback)
Tai: Gee, that is serious. Captain Hook is a liar.
Sora: It's true. It started back when i was part of a Theatrical Organization. My family owned a Flower Shop. I was my mom's whole life.
(Enter Flashback)
Sora: Mom, i have to go to the Opera Competition! The people are counting on me!
Mrs. Takenouchi: Don't yell so loud, dear. The Flowers are very sensitive!
Sora: But this Competition is to win the title!
Mrs. Takenouchi: Sora, you can't go with your knee injured like that!
Sora: But Momo! My leg's fine.
Mrs. Takenouchi: I'm sorry. You can't go! Sit down, we need to talk.
(Sora sits down with some difficulty.)
Mrs. Takenouchi: I want you to stop performing and come to work at the Flower Shop with me.
Sora: What? I won't stop performing with Flowers! I have Dreams of my own!
Mrs. Takenouchi: I can't believe a Daughter of mine would act this way! My decision is final.
Sora: (Crying) Why can't you understand me?
(Sora runs out of the Flower Shop.)
Sora: I danced around for hours. I found myself at the Majestic Theater. The Competition just ended.
TaiL What happened?
Sora: We won the Competition. Our Production of "Cats" recieved the highest points. I was gonna play Victoria for the Solo. Unfortunately, i was replaced. They didn't notice me, they walked the other way.
(End Flashback)
Sora: I felt that i had l let them down. Like it was all my fault. My mom said i had to a part of the Family Business, no questions. That how she is. It's like that's the only thing that is important to her. She doesn't understand me. That's why i knew Captain Hook wasn't lying when he said i grew up not knowing what Love is.
(Sora stands up and tries to three her Crest away.)
Sora: Ah!
(Tai stops her.)
Tai: Sora, stop it!
Sora: Let go!
Tai: Even what you said is true, you shouldn't believe a word from that Scurvy Captain Hook! He's just a Codfish who's trying to make you walk the plank!
(Sora pulls away and begins to cry.)
Tai: Wait, wait! Don't cry, Sora! Don't cry, Sora! Matt, Genie, help me out! I don't know what to do with her when she starts blubbering!
(Matt just leans against the tree carelessly while the Genie sits.)
Matt: Just let her go, Tai. She'll be okay.
Genie: Just give her some time alone and she'll calm down before you know it.
Agumon: Boy, Matt's just like a real grown-up.
Gabumon: I feel the same for the Genie.
T.K.: Sora? We forgot to thank you.
(Sora stops crying and looks at T.K., Kari, Chico and Harpo.)
Sora: Huh?
Kari: You told us not to go near Jafar's Spells.
T.K.: We want to thank you for saving us.
Biyomon: Right, T.K.! After the explosion, i got seperated and flew off the other direction. I also thought that Captain Hook and Dr. Frankenstein were up to no good, so i kept out of sight and made sure you stayed out of trouble. I was even there when you were having a bad cold, Matt. I even saw you thrown into the Dungeons at Gekomon castle, Groucho.
Groucho and Matt: Huh?
Groucho: We had no idea.
Tai: You didn't have to hide from us. We were all worried!
Biyomon: Sora just needed to alone for a while. But she really didn't want to be seperated from you guys when Captain Hook blew up Crocodile Pyramid, please understand.
Kari and T.K.: Hm.
Kari: Sora, we like you.
Sora: Huh?
T.K.: So, please, don't go away again. We don't like being away from you.
(Sora looks sadly at T.K., Kari, Chico and Harpo.)
T.K.: (Laughing) When you're aroudn, i don't miss my Parents as much!
Chico: You must admit that parting is such sweet sorrow.
Harpo: You must promise that you must never do that again.
Sora: T.K., Kari, Genies! I'm so, so...sorry.
Groucho: You are quite forgiven, Sora. (To Matt) I don't think the Matchmaking is working according to plan. When will she be alone with Tai?
Matt: Soon, Groucho.
Joe: Hey!
Groucho: Hey, what took you guys so long?
Mimi: Well, we would have been sooner, but Joe and the Mask fell in the river.
Joe: Hey, Mimi, you were the one who was hungry and tired all the time.
The Mask: Now that we've found Sora, i suggest that a rest will be great.
Groucho: Wonderful.
(Later that night, the Kids and the Digimon are all sleeping by the Fire. Sora wakes up and looks up at the Stars.)
Sora: Hm.
(She slowly crawls to Tai, who was sleeping.)
Sora: Tai, i know you're trying so hard to be heoric and loving. But, i'm just not in for it. This is for you, Tai.
(Sora kisses Tai while he was sleeping. Then gets up and walks off.)
Sora: (Thinking) You are someone who will watch over me.
(Matt pops out behind the bushes to see Sora leaving the group, crying.)
Matt: Hm, not quite what i expected. But i think it's time for plan b. And this time, Tai will really find her on his own. I just hope this will really work, for sure.
(He rushes to Groucho, who is sleeping.)
Matt: Psst, Groucho. Wake up.
Groucho: Yes, what do you want?
(Matt shuts Groucho's mouth with his palm.)
Matt: Shhhhh. Look.
Groucho: What the? Sora's missing.
Matt: Exactly.
Groucho: Well, should i wake the others, Matt?
Matt: Shhh. No you mustn't. They shouldn't know about this. Only Tai should know.
Groucho: Tai, but why?
Matt: I'll explain tomorrow. You do the job okay?
Groucho: Okay then. If you say so.
(He tip toes to Tai and pokes him with his umbrella.)
Groucho: Tai, Tai wake up. Wake up.
Tai: Huh?
Groucho: Tai, you're not gonna like this, but look.
(Groucho points his umbrella to a spot where Sora was lying, completely empty.)
Tai: What? Sora's missing! We have to find her before....
(Groucho puts his palm on Tai's mouth to shut it.)
Groucho: Shhhh. No, no one must know about Sora's absence. We're not gonna find her. Only you will find Sora.
Tai: Me? But didn't you remember the Crocodile Pyramid Explosion? That was very harsh of her.
Groucho: I know it is, Tai. But that doesn't mean that she'll never love you anymore. You gotta think about her more often.
Tai: What do you mean?
Groucho: (as John Wayne) Listen Pilgrim, here's the deal. If you want to find Sora, you have to be a Randy. Do you got it?
Tai: What?
Groucho: Show her you CARE!!
Tai: No way! I couldn't even forgive myself for not saving Sora at Crocodile Pyramid!
Groucho: A Girl appreciates a Boy who never forgave himself. (He then disappears into Tai's shirt and comes out of Tai's pocket looking serious.) Tai, all joking aside, you oughta be yourself.
Tai: Alright, so i must find Sora. I'd gotta be cool, smooth and confident. How do i look?
Groucho: Like yourself. Just follow Sora's tracks and you'll find her.
Tai: Right.
(Tai walks off and follows the Tracks.)
Groucho: (Sigh) That's the problem with Matchmaking, sometimes you do it by yourself.
(Sora is gazing up at the Stars and a full Moon in the Night sky. Her eyes get welled up with tears and started to cry.)
Sora: Oh Tai, i wish you knew how worried i was about you. If i wish very, very hard, perhaps you'll appreciate how i feel about you when i look at the Stars.
(Song: On My Own from Les Miserables.)
Tai: Sora?
(Sora turned around to see Tai behind her, she stands up.)
Sora: Tai, what are you doing here?
Tai: I was looking all over for you. Then i followed your trail. Why did you run away?
Sora: I only did this for myself, Tai.
Tai: Well you shouldn't. Otherwise, you'll get us worried again.
Sora: That was the only way to do it! I only wanted to get away from my mother, that's all. She never understands anything, all she understands is owning a flower shop. She wanted me to follow in her footsteps, but i ran away after that. I never came back home again.
Tai: That must've been a dreadful time for you, Sora. I'm sorry to hear about what you've done with your mother.
Sora: You don't know what it was like to live with a family that doesn't always appreciate you for what you are. You wouldn't wanna hang out with a girl like me.
Tai: Why wouldn't i? You are beautiful.
(He then lifts Sora's head.)
Tai: You shouldn't believe in lies. That Captain Hook is a liar. He wanted you to find the Crests so he can chop our heads.
Sora: You still don't get it, do you!?! You don't know anything about Love! All i know is that Captain Hook is right! I don't have any Love!
(Sora angrily walks away from Tai and stops.)
Tai: I'm sorry, Sora.
(Tai slowly follows her as she was silently crying.)
Tai: Sora, i understand how you feel. But you didn't have to run away from us, just because you said you don't have any love. All you had to do is show how sorry you are about yourself.
(He puts his hand on her shoulder and she turns around. Sora looks sadly at Tai.)
Tai: Running away doesn't solve anything at all, it just makes things worse. When people run away from home, they could wind up as a cripple, a criminal and even die. You would never end up with those kind of dangers.
(Sora embraces Tai and began to cry. Tai softly wraps his arms around her.)
Tai: Wha..What's wrong with you?
Sora: (Crying) I was so worried when we got seperated by the explosion. I could never find you when i landed in the jungles. I searched and searched and searched, but i couldn't find you anywhere. I didn't mean to make you think that i've been kidnapped, i just...i just wanted to...to run away from Captain Hook. I'm so sorry i made so upset. I'm so sorry! I'm so...
Tai: It's okay, Sora. I understand. You didn't do anything bad.
Sora: (Crying) I never thought that the explosion would seperate us.
Tai: That would've been very harsh.
(Tai gently pulls Sora and puts his left hand on her head close to his head, rubbing it softly.)
Tai: Don't cry, Sora, it's okay. You are brave. I think nobody else would doubt about your loving heart. You would never give up on your friends, you would never do that. I'm sure that i'm very proud of you for what you've done. You are like the sun rising from the heavens. Wanting to shine on the things that you love the most. Then you are the moon that lights the dark in a peaceful night sky.
(Song: Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific.)
- Preceeded by: Princess Karaoke
- Followed by: The Music of the Night


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By Frank Eltman, Associated Press Writer
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. The family of an employee trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts "created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety" that led to "crowd craze."
The lawsuit claims that besides failing to provide adequate security for a pre-dawn crowd estimated at 2,000, Wal-Mart "engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent."
Wal-Mart, the adjacent Green Acres Mall, a realty company that manages the property and a security company hired to patrol the property were all named as defendants. None immediately responded to phone and e-mail inquiries seeking comment.
Jdimytai Damour, 34, had been hired by an employment agency as a temporary worker at the Wal-Mart store in Valley Stream and had been on the job about a week when he died, said his family's lawyer, Jordan Hecht.
The 6-foot-5, 270-pound man died of asphyxiation after being crushed early Friday morning by the crowd, which broke down the electronic doors in pursuit of bargains. At least four other people were treated at hospitals, including a woman who was eight months pregnant.
Authorities suspect that because he was as big as an NFL linebacker, Damour was placed at the entrance of the store to assist with crowd control.
"Those hundreds of people who did make their way into the store, literally had to step over or around him or unfortunately on him to get into the Wal-Mart store," Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said this week.
Police are reviewing store video to identify suspects in Damour's death, but Mulvey conceded that criminal charges are unlikely.
Mulvey said it was apparent to him that the Wal-Mart store about 20 miles east of Manhattan lacked adequate security to handle the crowd. He said police representatives met with retailers throughout the county two weeks before Thanksgiving and made it clear that security and crowd control for the sales was the merchants' responsibility.
The lawsuit against Wal-Mart and the other companies was filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in the Bronx, the home of one of the victim's sisters, Elsie Damour Phillipe, the court-appointed administrator of his estate. It does not seek specific damages.
Shoppers around the country line up early the day after Thanksgiving in the annual bargain-hunting ritual known as Black Friday. It got that name because it has historically been the day stores broke into profitability — into the black — for the year.
The National Retail Federation says it believes Damour is the first store worker to die on the job in the post-Thanksgiving rush.
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