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Matthew Saldivar, Richard H. Blake & More Set for SAY, DARLING Reading, 3/21
UnsungMusicalsCo. (UMC) will present a developmental reading of the 1958 backstage comedy SAY, DARLING by Tony Award winner Richard Bissell (The Pajama Game), Tony Award winner Abe Burrows (Guys and Dolls) and Marian Bissell. The play with music features songs by the Tony Award-winning team of Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne (Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi).
The announcement was made today by UMC Artistic Director Ben West.
SAY, DARLING is a wild backstage comedy about the making of a Broadway musical in 1950s New York. Outrageous egos, hostile Hollywood stars and one naive playwright take the town in this off-the-wall behind-the-scenes look at an improbable new musical's journey to the Great White Way!
Ben West (The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad) will direct the reading, which features musical direction by Fran Minarik (At Home Abroad).
The cast of SAY, DARLING will feature Richard H. Blake (Legally Blonde, Wicked), Joe Cassidy (Working, Catch Me If You Can), Amy Hohn (November), Matthew Saldivar (All in the Timing, Peter and the Starcatcher), Brian Sears (The Book of Mormon) and Paul Slade Smith (Wicked). Additional casting to be announced soon.
The reading will be held on Thursday, March 21 at 3pm at the MTC Creative Center (311 West 43rd Street).
To attend the reading and receive invitations to future UMC readings, please visit www.UnsungMusicals.org.
UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. (Ben West, Artistic Director) is a not-for-profit Production Company dedicated to the preservation of musical theater through the restoration and presentation of obscure but artistically sound works. Focusing primarily on overlooked projects from the Golden Age, UMC treats each property as a new musical thereby providing a unique collaboration between the artists of today and those of the past. Past UMC projects include acclaimed productions of The Fig Leaves Are Falling and Make Mine Manhattan, a starry concert presentation of At Home Abroad, world premiere concerts of Gatsby: The Songs in Concert and Nothing is Forever and New York International Fringe Festival productions of Platinum and How Now, Dow Jones.
UMC is also devoted to researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows. To further the mission of preserving these historic works for future generations, UMC's material is receiving its own collection in the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. For more information visit www.UnsungMusicals.org.


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Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Review by ShapeQuest
"A great game to play while waiting for the next game"
If Square relabeled this as FFTA, you'd hardly know the difference. Yes, there are some improvements. Yes, it's a new story with a new character. And yes, because it's on the DS, there are graphical and musical improvements. But the story lacks substance and the graphics are pretty much borrowed from its predecessor.
The battle system is much the same. You can place up to six characters on a giant grid and spar against enemies. My first complaint? They majorly nerfed the classes. Now, I'm all for a little balance. But I think they went too extreme in this casethe Nu Mou race isn't even very useful until much later in the game when you get the item that halves the amount of MP needed. Why? Because at the start of each battle, every character begins with ZERO MP. They gain TEN MP per turn. The Nu Mou are the slowest race. See where I'm going with this? Also, certain powerful attacks have been given a percentage decrease chance of being successful.
And don't be fooled when they remind us that the game comes with brand new job classes. You'll never touch about 30% of them. Why would you ever make your Bangaa a Bishop?? Why would you ever use a Scholar, which is like an Illusionist except his attack hits BOTH your enemies and your own characters?? Or the Tinker class, which has abilities that hurt 50% of the time? Chances are you'll stick with the same classes you chose in the previous game. There are also a lot of duplicate classes too (white mage, black mage, illusionist, thief, archer, hunter, time mage). Because of the MP issues in this game, you'll be even more reluctant to use classes that rely on magic.
There's also something unbalanced about the amount of money you earn. I never had to stop and think about saving my gil at all. Always had plenty of it. Maybe it'd be harder to buy things if you only go through the story's missions, but then, few people do that.
The plot is pretty much the same as FFTA. A young boy finds a magic book and is taken to a new world. There are a few custom characters that join your cause as usual, and, also as usual, they can't go on dispatch missions. I never expected an award-winning story, but it would nice to mix it up a little more. Basically Luso must sign up for different missions under the pretext that he will only be able to go back home once he's taken in the sights and filled in his journal. Kind of a flimsy reason for the missions.
Let's talk about the Judges and laws. I think Square must've taken a lesson from their previous mistakes. The laws are still there, but the punishment for breaking it simply means your character will not be able to act if killed, you'll lose your clan privilege (more on that later), and you won't receive the bonus items after battle. There is only ONE law per battle and you can't wander around the map to see if it changes. Unfortunately, there's not much incentive to obey the lawthe bonus materials are almost always pitiful items, such as antidotes.
Clan privileges are the best incentive to stay on the right side of the law. It's a lasting effect throughout the battle, such as a certain stat being raised, etc. You gain access to more privileges by undertaking clan trials. These are different from missions in that you can choose the level of difficulty (the more difficult, the higher the reward). It also can raise and/or lower your clan's stats, something you need. Sometimes these clan privileges can be very helpful during battle.
Oh yeah, and auctions/controlling certain areas on behalf of your clan are back. I still have yet to see a real use for these things. Sometimes you'll come across a character that gives you an OKAY item for controlling that land. Sometimes you avoid fights (but you can usually avoid them anyway by taking an alternative route). On the other hand, winning the auction itself can net you some helpful items (such as Ribbon). But overall, I just skipped the auctions.
During a battle, one of your characters might encounter a chance to use an Opportunity Command. These are randomly given and vary in what they do. Sometimes it enables your character to attack twice, and sometimes you can cast a free Hastega on a select group of people. It's a pretty nice game element they added.
Within the shop there is a Bazaar option (similar to FFXII). You can gather loot and forge new weapons, armor, or accessories. This is mainly how the characters learn new abilities and gain access to new weapons. This is a nice little feature, although some of the loot materials are hard to come by and you can't tell how to make what unless you already have the three materials needed.
The graphics have some good and some bad. Yes, many things are recycled (as expected!) from FFTA. Even the pub is exactly the same. But the spells have some upgraded special effects. They're very crisp, and the animation smoothly runs across the screen. There are NO FMV sequences howeverif Revenant Wings did it, why can't we have a nice Tactics Advance movie sequence for once? Oh well. The maps themselves are very nice to look at. They have diagonal squares that make the map look a little less cube-ish. Great graphics for what the DS has to offer.
The music is great. No complaints there (although usually I set the sound on silent for one reason or another). Here we can clearly see the difference between the DS and the GBA. And the battle actions do have great sound effects as well.
The replay value is way up there because most likely you won't finish all the missions on your first play through. You can spend as much or as little time gathering loot as you want. There are lots of side missions you can have fun with. You can also spend time collecting the items that enable your character to summon Scions, which make appearances in this game. Although for some of the Scions you may need a guide to figure out how to obtain them.
Other miscellaneous things include the fact that different stuff might happen, depending on the month. There's a luck stick event where you can get some items. Unlike the last game, you can't move your locations to wherever you want. Random encounters don't happen unless you basically choose to walk right in front of them.
So there you have it. FFTA2 is a great game to play while on a trip or something to do while waiting for the next console role playing game. The plot isn't the most stellar and some of the classes are a bit pointless, but Square wised up enough to some of their mistakes in the first game. A lot of the missions present an adequate challenge. There's even a hard mode you can play on. If you've never tried a strategy RPG before, this game is a nice introduction into the genre.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 07/15/09, Updated 07/15/09
Game Release: Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (US, 06/24/08)
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Christopher Sardelli
Two Lancaster homes were hit with bullets within a week of each other and investigators are still searching for suspects.
The first shooting happened shortly after 1 a.m. July 29 at a home in the 100 block of Willowlake Road. Lancaster police officers were already in the area, patrolling the Palmetto Place Apartments, when they heard several gunshots near the Willowlake Road area, according to a police department incident report.
Christopher Sardelli
A search of a church parking lot led to the arrests of two Indian Land teens in connection with a string of recent burglaries.
Devyn Martin, 19, 10382 Silver Mine Road, Indian Land, and Kevin Smet, 18, 7372 Henry Harris Road, Indian Land, were arrested by Lancaster County sheriff's deputies Aug. 7. Both were charged with multiple counts of burglary and larceny, according to a sheriff's office press release.
Gary Phillips
Landmark News Service
PAGELAND – After nearly five months of questions and controversy, the Chesterfield County Animal Shelter is undergoing a makeover.
Chesterfield Sheriff Sam Parker dismissed all personnel at the shelter Aug. 1 as part of what he calls "a new start at the shelter."
"I feel that we owe it to the animals and citizens of this county that we begin to set standards and be held accountable for our pets," Parker said in a press release.
Reece Murphy
A deal between a Charlotte development company and the Lancaster County Forfeited Land Commission (FLC) for the purchase of the Edenmoor subdivision has collapsed less than two weeks before its set closing date.
In its wake, a competitor appears to be stepping in to take over the purchase.
Attorneys for the development company Eden Ventures announced the decision to pull out of the $8,335,718 deal in a letter to the FLC, effective Tuesday, Aug. 9.
As the 2011 high school football preseason makes forward progress, the focus is jamboree play.
All four county teams face jamboree action this weekend, with three playing tonight.
The Dirt Diamonds U-12 softball team capped its season with a solid finish in the USSSA World Series.
The NDRA Crate Late Models Division headlines the program at Lancaster Motor Speedway this week.
Last week, LMS saw a new winner, with "Big A" Anthony Sanders capturing his first win on the 2011 season.
"How often should I water?" is perhaps the most frequently asked question by those who enjoy indoor potted plants.
But there is no pat answer to the question. "Water it as much as it needs to grow" isn't the right reply.
Variables such as plant type, plant age, growth stage, season, location, type and size of pot, soil mix characteristics, weather and placement have to be considered.
According to the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service, the main cause of death of potted plants is over-watering.
Walking with a group of her coworkers across Main Street on Wednesday morning, Jennifer Bryan took a quick look over her shoulder.
Behind her, streams of people were filing away from Lancaster's courthouse block, which features the newly refurbished historic courthouse and the recently completed new courthouse.
As she moved away from the buildings, a gust of wind kicked up the smell that had caused all the commotion.
A gas leak forced the evacuation of both buildings.
The lazy, hazy days of summer are winding down.
No, fall isn't in the air yet, but the sound of school bells are about to be.
On Friday, rising sixth-graders and ninth-graders in Lancaster County will return to their respective schools for a half-day of orientation. About 11,400 county students will be up bright and early Monday to start a new school year.
That means a big change for parents who must be more regimented to get them out the door in the mornings and more structured in the evenings.
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A Tribble's Guide to Space:
Chapter 1
Space. The Final Frontier.
When Buzz Lightyear heads for space, he sets a course to infinity and beyond. Fortunately for you and me, space is not that far away, and our travel plans don't have to be quite as ambitious to get us there.
Planet Earth has a radius of about 4000 miles. Let's imagine a sphere that encircles the Earth at a height of 50 miles above sea level. We'll call the region between the ground and the 50-mile altitude the Earth's atmosphere. Everything beyond 50 miles we'll call space. This means that space is closer than you think. If you're sitting in Chicago, you are actually closer to space than to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and New York City is closer to space than to Philadelphia. There is really nothing magical about a 50-mile altitude. The transition from the Earth's atmosphere to space is not abrupt, so a rocket ship that travels through it would notice little difference as it passed from 49 miles to 51 miles. In the end, though, we need a reference point. Fifty miles is well above the altitude of Mount Everest, which is 5.5 miles high, or above cruising airliners that are 6 or 7 miles high. But it is also below the altitude of most orbiting spacecraft, so this artificial boundary is good enough.
Flight enthusiasts use terms such as the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and so forth to describe the various layers of the Earth's atmosphere. Likewise, we give different areas of space different names. The region between about 50 and 500-miles altitude is called Low Earth Orbit, or simply LEO. The upper boundary to LEO, like the 50-mile boundary to space, is rather artificial, but easy to remember because it is ten times the height of the lower boundary. Today, LEO is about as far as most of the spacecraft launched from Earth ever get. It is here where we find the largest payloads, like the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
Of course, a few spacecraft need to go higher and make it into what we call High Earth Orbit (HEO), the region between 500 miles and about 50,000 miles (which is about 12.5 Earth radii). Within this region lies a very special altitude at about 22,370 miles. Spacecraft placed here circle the Earth with the same speed at which the Earth rotates, making them appear to remain stationary above the Earth's surface. This is called the synchronous orbit, or more specifically geosynchronous or simply GEO. GEO is a very popular orbit for many spacecraft, especially for communications spacecraft that send and receive signals from specific points on the Earth's surface, and for spy satellites whose mission is to record what's going on at some specific location.
Above HEO, physicists have noticed some significant changes in the local environment. Most notably, above this point the Sun's magnetic field is stronger than the Earth's, causing the Sun, and not the Earth, to control what little atmosphere can be detected. Furthermore, once spacecraft get this far away from Earth, they rarely stay in orbit but move on to other parts of the solar system. Consequently, above HEO lies interplanetary space. Unless we choose to go into orbit around another planet, we would remain in interplanetary space until we are well past the orbit of Pluto. Relative to the size of our Earth, interplanetary space is vast. The distance to Pluto, the outermost planet, is over 3.6 billion miles, a distance so great that it takes light from the Sun over five hours to reach it.
The ancient Greeks were the first to try to determine the size of the solar system using simple geometry. Aristarchus, Eratothenes, and Hipparchus all made various estimates of the Earth-Sun distance. Although their original measurements were too small, they showed clearly that the solar system was hundreds of times larger than the Earth itself. The great distances between planets had been appreciated for centuries, but Galileo Galilei, over three hundred years ago, was the first to see firsthand just how large interplanetary space is. With his new invention, the telescope, he even saw that Jupiter had its own moons circling it. As the years passed and observations of the moons of Jupiter continued, observers developed the ability to predict when the moons would emerge from behind the great planet.
These early astronomers noticed, however, that sometimes their predictions were off. The moons of Jupiter would appear several minutes early, or they would appear several minutes late. They finally deduced that the appearance of the moons occurred later than expected whenever the Earth and Jupiter were on opposite sides of the Sun (fig. 1). The predictions were accurate, but the early astronomers did not realize that it takes light several minutes to travel the great distances involved. When the Earth and Jupiter were on the same side of the Sun, the light would arrive early; when they were on opposite sides of the Sun, the light would arrive late. Olaus Roemer, a Danish astronomer, was the first to realize that this delay was due to the finite amount of time it takes light to cross these great interplanetary distances. He used this insight in 1675 to make the first crude measurement of the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.
As we start to explore beyond our own solar system, somewhere past Pluto we will expect to find a point where the Sun's magnetic field has weakened so much that the small magnetic field in the interstellar medium becomes stronger. This point will mark the beginning of interstellar space. As big as interplanetary space is, it is still dwarfed by the distances to the stars. The first estimates of these distances were made using parallax measurements. Parallax is an easy concept to understand. Hold your thumb up in front of your face. Close your left eye and look at your thumb relative to the background with your right eye. Now close your right eye, open the left, and note how your thumb "appears" to have moved relative to the background. That shift is called a parallax. Parallax measurements of the stars are made by allowing the Earth to take the place of your eyes, and a close-by star to take the place of your thumb. We simply take a picture of the star in question from the Earth, then wait six months and take another picture when the Earth is on the opposite side of the Sun (fig. 2). By comparing pictures taken when the Earth is in two different locations, we can determine the parallax to some of the stars closest to the Earth. F. W. Bessel, a German astronomer, first succeeded doing this in 1838 and found that the stars were over a million million miles away, a distance so great that it takes light from other stars years, or centuries, to reach us. This realization opened up the size of the Universe immensely.
As we continue our outward exploration, we will pass other star systems with planets of their own, but we will eventually come to the edge of our own Milky Way galaxy and move into intergalactic space. Even if we make it this far, we still have a long way to go. The Andromeda galaxy, for example, is over 10 billion billion miles away, and it takes light over 2 million years to reach us from this great distance. Because of these huge distances and our limited history of sending machines into space, the Universe is still too large for us to explore in person (fig. 3).
Humans have dreamed of exploring space for countless centuries. According to Greek mythology, the first two men to become airborne were Daedalus and his son, Icarus, two prisoners on the island of Crete. Impatient while waiting for King Minos to pardon them, Daedalus fabricated two pairs of wings by gluing feathers to a wooden frame with wax. With their wings attached, father and son were soon airborne. Daedalus warned his teenage son not to fly too near the Sun lest its heat melt the wax, but the young Icarus became so absorbed in his new ability to fly that he did not heed his father's words. He flew too near the Sun, the wax melted, his feathers fell off, and he dropped into the sea, to his untimely death.
For the next several centuries, wings preoccupied the imaginations of those who wished to fly like the birds. Then, in 1766, Henry Cavendish discovered what he called "inflammable air"hydrogenand showed that it was much lighter than the surrounding atmosphere. Knowledge of this new discovery inspired French paper manufacturer Joseph Montgolfier to begin experimenting with lighter-than-air machines. In 1782, with his brother Etienne, he succeeded in flying small unmanned paper and cloth balloons filled with hot air. By November 21, 1783, they were ready to try a manned flight in a large balloon made of cotton and paper, coated with alum as a means of fireproofing. Cords sewn into the fabric carried a wicker gallery at the base. In between was a large brazier that contained a fire that could be fed with straw. Unsurprisingly, the Montgolfier brothers were reluctant to fly in a paper balloon with a roaring fire inside of it, so they arranged for others to serve as pilots: the Marquis D'Arlandes and Pilatre de Rozier. Although the balloon burned in a few places, it survived long enough to give the men a twenty-five-minute flight over the rooftops of Paris. They reached a height of 3000 feet before landing in a park outside the city. Over two hundred years later, on March 20, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first aviators to circle the globe nonstop in a hot-air balloon. Their trip lasted 19 days, 1 hour, and 49 minutes.
As nice as balloons were for getting an aerial view of things, they left you completely at the mercy of the local winds. Balloonists learned to control their altitude, but they could travel only in the direction in which the wind was blowing. Birds, on the other hand, could fly hither and yon as they pleased. Consequently, it was only a matter of time before interest in flying shifted back to winged machines. By the end of the twentieth century, many people had successfully piloted winged gliders, but, lacking a power source, they too were at the whim of the winds.
Two brothers from Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, decided to become serious "students of the flying problem," as they liked to call themselves. Approaching the problem in a scientific manner, the brothers realized that in order to develop a functioning airplane they would have to solve three problems: (1) lift, provided by the wings; (2) power, provided by an engine; and (3) control. After experimenting with wing shapes (to generate lift), propeller shapes (to power the airplane), and different ways of twisting the wings (to control the direction of flight), the brothers were ready for a test. On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they succeeded in proving the concept of powered flight with a 200-foot sprint lasting a mere fifteen seconds. But by 1910, they were flying for more than 20 miles at a time and remained airborne for over an hour and a half. In 1947, less than forty years later, Chuck Yeager was already able to fly his Bell X-1 aircraft faster than the speed of sound. Try as they might, however, airplanes could not fly more than a few miles high because the air at those altitudes is too thin, essentially leaving nothing for the plane to fly through. To get to space, it was clear what was needed: a means of generating lift without relying on wings or the air pushing up underneath them.
In 1865, Jules Verne had proposed that we get to the Moon by shooting people out of a large cannon. George Melies, the writer, director, and actor of the earliest science fiction film of all time, Le voyage dans la lune (1902), chose this method of travel as well. However, it was rockets, which could carry their own fuel and burn it continuously along their journey, that were destined to carry men into space. The Chinese had already been using rockets as early as the second century B.C., primarily for entertainment in the form of fireworks (fig. 4). Over the next two thousand years or so, rockets eventually worked their way into use as a means of warfare as well. "The rockets' red glare" was already noted by Sir Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 and was immortalized in his poem, "The Star Spangled Banner."
As with most technological developments, the greatest advances have occurred in the past one hundred years. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, a Russian schoolteacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, showed that a rocketpowered by liquid fuelwas the only practical way to get out of the atmosphere and into space. In 1919, an American student named Robert Goddard proposed that a rocket could be flown to the Moon. The public rapidly dubbed him an eccentric. But their reaction did not stop him from building and launching the first liquid-fueled rocket from his aunt's farm in March 1926. It reached the amazing height of 150 feet.
Because of the reaction to his 1919 paper, Goddard religiously avoided publicity for the rest of his life. He even refused to aid the American Interplanetary Society's attempts to publicize his work. Members of the society visited Germany in 1931 and made contact with the German Rocket Society, whose membership included Hermann Oberth, the author of The Rocket into Interplanetary Space (1923). A German teenager named Wernher von Braun had read the book in 1925, and he was so intrigued by it that he had strapped some rockets onto his little red wagon and propelled it through the streets of his hometown before the fireworks exploded and the annoyed villagers summoned his parents. Von Braun had joined Oberth by 1930 in trying to develop functioning rockets, and the visiting Americans were very impressed with what they saw. Still, they were unable to stir up sufficient interest at home to get a research program up and running. The Germans did not have this problem and were flying liquid-propellant rockets by 1934. By 1942, yon Braun was leading the German rocket program and stayed at its helm during the remaining war years.
The most famous of the German rocket designs was the vengeance weapon number two, or V-2 (fig. 5), the first long-range ballistic missile, capable of flying from Germany to England. Germany was so protective of this secret that Hitler ordered the execution of von Braun and his team in the closing days of the war. However, von Braun's brother managed to contact the American forces, who quickly took custody of the team just before the German SS could enforce Hitler's orders. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, aware of the rocket's potential for warfare, allowed the German team to continue with a final series of tests after the war. A Russian colonel, Sergei Korolev, was allowed to observe the last few tests flights. Ten years later, Korolev would be head of the Soviets' rocket program.
In 1946 von Braun's team was transported to White Sands, New Mexico, in the American desert, where it continued its experimentation in rocket design. In 1950 the team moved to Huntsville, Alabama, and eventually became part of NASA. Finally, in 1957, a rocket was developed that could carry a payload into space. Unfortunately for von Braun and his colleagues, this feat was accomplished by the Soviet Union, which launched the first satellite, Sputnik, on October 4, 1957.
By 1958, only a year later, von Braun and his team were ready to launch the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1. The group also played an integral part in launching America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space in 1961. Unlike the shy Goddard, von Braun was able to survive the world war and continue his research largely due to his outgoing nature. On his desk, von Braun kept a plaque that advised: "Late to bed. Early to rise. Work like hell, and advertise!" Homer Hickam's recent novel, Rocket Boys, and the screen adaptation, October Sky, clearly indicate how popular von Braun was in the United States in the late 1950s.
Besides the glamour associated with the "rocket scientists" who were busy developing rockets, there was the challenge of keeping a crew member alive once the rocket was out in space. The balloonists had known about this problem for many years. When researchers suffocated or froze to death in the bitter cold during the early balloon flights, it quickly became obvious that some means of protecting the crew must be found. This had been achieved by November 1935, when the altitude record of 73,395 feet was set by two U.S. Army "aeronauts" in a balloon made of rubberized fabric.
By the late 1950s, high-altitude balloon flights were conducted under program names such as the air force's 'Man-High" or the navy's "Strato-Lab." When Joe Kittenger bailed out of his open gondola as part of the Man-High project at an altitude of over 100,000 feet, his first reaction was to think that something had gone terribly wrong. In normal parachute jumps, you feel the force of the wind buffeting you relentlessly, but he felt nothing. He described the feeling as "like being suspended in space." For a fraction of a second, he wondered if the scientists had made a mistake in their calculations and he had actually flown high enough to be above the Earth's gravitational pull. However, when he rolled onto his back he saw the balloon rapidly disappearing above him as he fell toward Earth. After only a few seconds, the atmospheric density increased enough so that he could feel the wind rush by him. In May 1961, the Strato-Lab V balloon conducted a test of the Mercury space suits by carrying two men to an altitude of 115,000 feet in an open gondola. That altitude is above 99 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. Balloon tests such as these, and aircraft test programs such as the X-15, sometimes lay claim to having sent the first astronauts into "space" by flying high enough to see the curvature of the Earth.
As valid as those claims may be, the glory went to an entirely different group of people. The United States selected its first astronauts in 1959. At about the same time, the Soviet Union selected its first cosmonauts. The selection process was classified at the time, so little was known about the candidates until the "winners" were announced to the public. The original Mercury astronauts were chosen from a pool of five hundred candidates, all of whom were military pilots. The original selection criteria were quite brief: experience in flying jet aircraft, preferably as a test pilot; an engineering background; and a height of less than 5 feet 11 inches. The height requirement was an acknowledgment of the fact that real estate on a spacecraft is very expensive, and smaller astronauts, who can fit into smaller spacecraft, help reduce the cost. As shown in the movie The Right Stuff, a rather sophisticated series of tests eventually reduced the pool down to the final seven (fig. 6). Half a world away, the original cosmonauts were military test pilots as well.
The Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin won the honors as the first man in space after a one-orbit flight in April 1961. Unknown to the public at the time, Gagarin actually bailed out of his capsule before it landed, parachuting the last two miles back down. His arrival on Earth was witnessed by an old woman who asked, "Have you come from outer space?" He replied, "Yes. Would you believe it, I certainly have." Then, to calm her fears, he quickly added, "But don't be alarmed, I'm a Soviet." Ironically, Gagarin was killed in a plane crash in 1968.
In order to keep up with the Soviets, several Americans flew into space in quick succession. Alan Shepard became the first American in space after a brief fifteen-minute suborbital flight in May 1961. John Glenn (fig. 7) became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. His great popularity with the public may have made it difficult for NASA to consider sending him back into space again. He left NASA in 1965 to pursue a business career and then was elected to the Senate from his home state of Ohio in 1974. Thirty-six years after his first mission, he returned to space in 1998, the oldest person ever to do so, on the Shuttle. In 1999, NASA renamed its research facility in Ohio, formerly the Lewis Research Center, the Glenn Research Center.
After President Kennedy challenged the nation to "put a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth," it was obvious that more than seven astronauts would be needed. The second group of nine astronauts, referred to as the "new nine," was selected in September 1962 and included Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell.
Jim Lovell (fig. 8) began his space-flight career with a record-setting fourteen-day trip in Gemini 7. (That's fourteen days confined to one chair, with another astronaut, Frank Borman, sitting only 2 feet away.) He flew again on Gemini 12, then was part of the first crew to visit the Moon on Apollo 8. While he and his colleagues Borman and Bill Anders orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968, television viewers across the United States watched as the astronauts read from the Bible's Book of Genesis. Later, Lovell was the commander of Apollo 13 on a return flight to the Moon, but an explosion turned the "routine" flight into one of the most heroic rescue missions ever recorded. Twenty-five years later, director Ron Howard immortalized the event in one of the most detailed movies of the Apollo program ever made, entitled simply Apollo 13.
Another famous astronaut, Nell Armstrong (fig. 9), flew on Gemini 8 in 1966 and was the first man to walk on the Moon as part of Apollo 11 in July 1969. As he did so, he uttered the memorable, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
The third group of fourteen pilot astronauts, selected in October 1963, included Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin and Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins. Aldrin seemed destined for spaceflight from the beginning. His mother's name was Marion Moon, and his father was a student of rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. He earned a doctorate in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he devised rendezvous techniques used on virtually all NASA missions. After walking in space on Gemini 12, he and Neil Armstrong drew the largest worldwide television audience ever during the historic Apollo 11 event. Interestingly, all of the Apollo 11 photographs of an astronaut on the Moon are of Aldrin. Armstrong carried the only camera and never got in the picture himself, except as a reflection in Aldrin's helmet (plate 1).
As the Gemini program neared completion, a group of six scientist-astronauts was chosen in 1965, including Harrison Schmitt, the only scientist to walk on the Moon. This was followed by nineteen additional pilot-astronauts in 1966 and eleven more scientist-astronauts in 1967. With the Apollo program's days clearly numbered, the final selection of the decade was a group of seven astronauts selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Among these was Major Robert Lawrence, Jr., the first black man selected for astronaut training. He was killed on December 7, 1967, in the crash of his F-104 fighter during a training exercise. Although he never flew the magical 50 miles up to earn his astronaut wings, his name was added to the astronauts' memorial at Kennedy Space Center thirty years after his death in official recognition of his astronaut status. After the air force canceled the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in 1969, the remaining men in the program joined the NASA astronaut corps.
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And on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…a dapperly dressed gentleman just in time for the holidays! Now that we've all overdosed on turkey and pumpkin pie, it's time to welcome the final month of the year with a plethora of textured sweaters and warm winter accessories. While I'm a fan of practically every men's fashion trend this season, I have to say my personal favorite is the sleek, yuppie look Fashionistos are sporting these days. Maybe it's because it takes me back to high school when I had a major crush on my stylish history teacher, or maybe it's because I keep waiting for Mr. Fitz to walk past me in the communication building—whatever the reason, the laidback-teacher styles college guys are currently rocking definitely get a winning vote in my book! This Fashionisto shows his fellow trendsetters how to exude some sophisticated swagger while still staying true to casual roots.
Name: Payton Martin
Major: Psychology
Year: Senior
CollegeFashionista: What is your style philosophy?
Payton Martin: My style philosophy is to wear clothes that won't fade out. Make a look for yourself so that people can pick you out of a crowd, but make sure it's a look that doesn't compromise being gentlemanly.
CF: What is your signature winter look?
PM: For winter months, I always tend to rock a thick-hooded pea coat. If it's warm enough, I wear a dark jean jacket with a zip-up hoodie underneath. As for shoes, I always wear my Palladium boots.
CF: How do you make your look more interesting for the holidays?
PM: For the holidays I always wear a red and white toboggan that I've had for years. It's extremely warm and violently festive.
CF: Where do you get your style inspiration?
PM: My dad dresses and lives like a true gentleman. Although we don't wear the same clothes, I'd like to think that we share a similar style and mindset.
How To: Snag a look similar to Payton's by piling on the basics. Start with a crisp pair of dark-wash jeans—a true staple in any Fashionisto's closet. Add a preppy oxford and some distressed leather lace-up boots for a defined, simple vibe. Layer a neutral, cowl-collared sweater on top for some added warmth and flair, then take your look to the next level by rocking some quirky, retro frames. Add a statement watch, just like this Fashionisto's, and you're on your way to a perfect winter getup a la Robert Redford at Sundance. Don't be afraid to channel your inner teacher's pet this winter as you sport some seriously sophisticated pieces. After all, one can never be overdressed or overeducated!


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SOME of the borough's dedicated volunteers are set to be recognised at an awards ceremony on Saturday.
The High Sheriff of Hampshire Community Awards are taking place in the Great Hall, Winchester on March 1, with two local figures and one organisation set to be rewarded.
Living Paintings, a charity based in Kingsclere, is one organisation that is to be given an award. The charity designs, creates and publishes tactile and audio books for blind and partially-sighted people and their range is designed to provide education and life-long learning, enhance lifestyle and support leisure interests. Their 'Touch to See' books are distributed to readers through the charity's free postal library.
Two volunteers to be honoured are Barrie Hiscock, from Headley, a long-standing football referee and president of Headley FC, and Paul Temple, the director of Basingstoke Gymnastic Club. Paul has been involved with the gymnastic club for over 30 years and was key in relocating the club to the Active Life Centre. The club now has 1,700 members and 60 staff.
The decision to make these awards follows an extensive selection process over the last year led by the High Sheriff, Rupert Younger, and supported by a panel of regional awards chairs.
Councillor Keith Chapman, Hampshire High Sheriff Community Award panel chair for the Basingstoke area, said: "I am delighted that my nominations are going to be recognised for the service to the community."
Rupert Younger, High Sheriff of Hampshire said: "I am inspired and humbled by the dedication, commitment and sheer dogged determination."


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Anyone been to NZ or Fiji and have any recommendations of places to go things to see and all that jazz? I'm not looking to work there but go there after a year in Auz so hopefully with enough savings to do whatever I feel like
Thankyouuu (:
Anyone been to NZ or Fiji and have any recommendations of places to go things to see and all that jazz? I'm not looking to work there but go there after a year in Auz so hopefully with enough savings to do whatever I feel like
Thankyouuu (:
New Zealand is two islands each about the size of England in area.
Many go to just south of the South Island for the scenery though Norway is just as good. I quite like the North Island and Rotorua amongst other places is worth a visit.
I rent a car when in NZ which makes getting around easy and even in high season I had no trouble finding B&B or Guest Houses.
Travelling between the islands you drop your car off one side, go across as a foot passenger, and pick up another the other side at no extra cost though dropping it off at a different place to where you picked it up can be expensive. Beware of radar traps.
Australia is expensive so I would not count on having to much left after a year there. Possibly miss out Fiji if funds are low.
I visited both countries on a trip a few years back—NZ in a motorhome with two friends and Fiji on my own.
We travelled the South Island from Wellington and finished at the airport in Auckland. Highly recommend taking in Napier, a beautiful Art Deco town, and all the amazing wineries in the area. Can't remember the name of the company we used for the wine tour but there are quite a few to choose from. We were doing it on a budget but managed to go with an all day tour that included lunch and a chocolate factory! The Waitomo Caves are also amazing but we just saw the glowworms not the all-out black water rafting extravaganza. There are combo tickets which are a bit cheaper but still stretch a traveller budget IMO.
I recommend the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands of Fiji. I booked a package with Awesome Adventures that included accommodation, meals, island transfers, etc but you can book individual activities or island dorms too. Staying on South Sea Island is one of my favourite travel experiences—it is so incredible!
Good luck with the plannning!
Duh. We obviously travelled the North Island of NZ...
There's a lot of places that you can go to New Zealand. If you are looking for an adventure, then you can go to the beautiful beach of Abel Tasman National Park, experience the Polynesian Spa, Fox Glacier, Bay of Islands and many more.
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As Cyberia says, Australia is very expensive! When I went there on my working visa I was lucky enough to find a job where I could save around $600 a month, however I was 29 and had quite a bit of experience in my field. Don't count on saving too much!
I love New Zealand. Depends how long you have, but highlights for me would be:
• Getting out into the suburbs in Auckland
• White water rafting near Rotorua
• Doing the Tongariro Crossing
• Going to Abel Tasman National Park
• Wanaka
• Queenstown
• Cycling round the wineries in Renwick
Fiji is beautiful. I only went to the Yasawa's and they were very much tropical island paradises.


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Going to the eye section of the pharmacy can be a daunting task. With dozens of different drops, brands and ointments to choose from, how can you confidently select the best relief for your dry eyes?
Don't let the wide variety of dry eye drops overwhelm you. Before heading to the pharmacy, read this article to save yourself time; and from a potential meltdown in aisle seven.
OTC lubricating drops: For less severe cases of dry eye disease, over the counter drops are available. OTC drops are often much cheaper and more convenient than Rx drops. However, remember not to confuse lubricating drops for 'get the red out' formulas. Such drops are ineffective at replenishing the ocular surface. In fact, drops like Visine and other 'get the red out' products can make dry eye symptoms worse because they constrict blood vessels in the eye. Not only is it important to make sure the drops you choose are lubricating, it's imperative to avoid drops with harsh preservatives. One of the most common preservatives found in OTC drops is called benzalkonium chloride (BAK). In low concentrations, BAK inhibits bacteria from multiplying. Nevertheless, BAK can be quite harmful to sensitive ocular tissues. As a rule of thumb, always check the label of your drops to be sure they are not preserved with BAK.
Prescription artificial tears: Prescription strength artificial tears like Restasis or Systane are typically recommended for those with chronic dry eye disease. Only available via prescription, Rx artificial tears have the ability to help patients increase their eyes' ability to produce tears. Tip: Since there are so many different prescription drops, try asking your doctor for samples of each of them before purchasing. Costs can add up quickly, but remember, the most effective drop is whichever one works best for you.
Antihistamine Eye Drops: Since histamine is one of the substances released during an allergic reaction, antihistamines inhibit the effects of the released histamine. Note: deciphering the underlying cause of your dry eyes is absolutely imperative when determining appropriate treatment. For example, many people confuse seasonal allergies for dry eye disease. If an allergy to dust, pet hair or dander is what's causing itchy eyes and excessive tearing, decongestant or antihistamine eye drops can provide relief, while artificial tears may not be helpful. Tip: Use this chart to help you decide whether your sore eyes are due to dry eye disease or allergies.
Ointments: Generally reserved for more severe conditions, ointments are best used for overnight dry eye relief. It's best to avoid using ointments during the day because they can be thicker than regular drops. Their thick consistency can cause blurry vision for some. (Ointments help reduce tear evaporation by heavily coating the cornea)
Once you've successfully determined the best eye drops for your condition, it's important to know how to use them effectively! (Yes, seriously- you could be doing it wrong!) Here's how to correctly apply eye drops:
- Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water
- Shake the eye drops container gently
- Tilt your head back slightly
- Gently pull out the lower eyelid near your nose to form a well or pocket.
- Open both eyes and look towards the ceiling. Hold the dropper far enough away so that it never makes contact with your eye or eyelids.
- Carefully squeeze one drop into the pocket.
- Shut your eyes for a few minutes (without squeezing them shut) to allow the drop to distribute over your ocular surface.
- With your eyes still closed, you can lightly press the inner part of your eye (tear duct) for a few seconds. This helps keep the medication in contact with your eye longer.
- Place the cap tightly on the dropper bottle. Do not clean or rinse the dropper tip.
- You can follow the same steps for applying eye ointments.
Other helpful tips:
- Wait at least 5 minutes between administering drops
- Check the bottles' expiry date. Always throw it away if it's outdated.
- Be sure to remove contacts before applying drops- unless advised otherwise.
- Never leave eye drops in direct sunlight.
- For an added refreshing effect, place drops in the fridge after use.
Does it feel like you've tried nearly every drop on the market, yet symptoms persist? Be sure to visit a doctor for another treatment method and to rule out other potential diseases or infections.


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Across Mexico this week, medical students are receiving their diplomas, and entering a required one-year social service assignment. These new physicians typically work in ministry of health clinics in rural or underserved areas.
Building on PIH's tradition of investing in health care provider training, this month PIH's sister organization in Mexico, Compañeros En Salud (CES), will debut a groundbreaking curriculum geared towards physicians in their social service year.
"This year is crucial to young doctors' development," said Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, CES Clinical Director. "But they often lack the mentorship and support to be successful. CES will make those elements a centerpiece of our program, to help build a new generation of social medicine physicians."
To do this, CES teamed up with Dr. Andrew Ellner of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. In addition, Brigham and Women's Hospital residents Dr. Andrew Van Wieren and Dr. Carlos Gonzalez Quesada were awarded a Martin P. Solomon Primary Care Scholarship that allows them to collaborate in the curriculum's develop and implementation on the ground. The team envisions that the curriculum will reinforce clinical skills, while also fostering analysis of how to improve global health delivery.
Speaking of the new project, Dr. Van Wieren said, "This is a wonderful opportunity to help new physicians understand how the community, health system, and they themselves each play a role in high quality primary care."
Through CES the social service physicians will take part in monthly seminars, as well as receive on-site mentorship, logistical support and access to needed supplies.
"In order to attract clinicians to rural areas, it has to be a rewarding experience, in which they can develop professionally, and have tools they need to do their jobs well," said Dr. Hugo Flores, CES On Site Director.
The team hopes this curriculum will serve as a model that can be replicated at other rural sites in Mexico.
Learn more about PIH's newest project, Compañeros En Salud.


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DETROIT - Two suspected carjackers are on the run after an off-duty officer caught them in the act.
According to Detroit police, the off-duty officer stopped at the Citgo gas station near Livernois and McGraw in Detroit Wednesday night when he saw two men pistol whipping another man outside of his truck. The officer identified himself, the men fired a shot and the officer fired back.
From there, the men took off in the victim's vehicle and another vehicle. A short time later, the men ditched the victim's car and got away in a white car.
No one was hurt in the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit police.
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How old are you?
You know I am not really sure, I will go on the basis that you are with her for asking the question.
Where is her arm the sorest?
Does it change colors like get purple or bluish?
Is it swollen?
My other post must not have went thru. Sorry I think we had a computer"Bump"
I have 2 more questions:
Is her pain on the outsides of her elbow or front and back of her arm?
Does her fingers get numb or tingly?
ok the pain is both outsides of her elbow and front and back on her arm. Yesterday it was it was only before and after her elbow. The Ice does not help the pain. her fingers only got numb the first day it happend and then nothing.
It sounds like she has epicondylitis. THis is where the tendons get inflammed and the surrounding nerves. Can be very painful. I would continue the Ibuprofen three times a day. If the pain is not resolving sometimes steroids can help to decrease the swelling faster but truely continue the ibuprofen whether or not she thinks it is helping.
It can take up to 2 weeks to resolve, it is OK to wear the arm sling but take your arm out several times a day and gently move around.


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A 'STUNNING' trailer for York's Mystery Plays has been launched by organisers of the spectacular production in the Museum Gardens.
The cinema-style video features dramatic key scenes from the plays, from Noah's Ark to the Crucifixion, set against the backdrop of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey.
The Plays, starring Ferdinand Kingsley as God and Jesus, and Graeme Hawley as the Devil, with about 250 amateur actors from across the York community, are being staged nightly throughout August.


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lobster rolls and four-leafed clovers
I've been so busy this week! There are five paintings in different stages of completion around my studio... two small experimental pieces that I hope to share this weekend.
We celebrated the first few days of warm, dry weather with an inaugural Lobster Roll and Plane Watching picnic this week at the beach down the street from our apartment. Jets and cargo planes fly super low over Castle Island before landing at Logan airport across the harbor... it's pretty cool to watch.
There are few things better than relaxing with a Summer Ale and a locally-caught lobster roll the size of my foot.
Our picnic spot is under a tree by the shore, in a Super Secret Four Leafed Clover Patch... Mike found the first one of the year. Winter feels like it lasted forever this year... I'm happy that Spring is right around the corner.
(both photos taken with Instagram)
new york in the spring
Happy (belated) Easter! I hope you had a good weekend. We usually spend Easter stuffing our faces with delicious homemade food and drinks with both sides of Mike's family, but this year we spent the day in New York City.
We were invited down to catch a basketball game at Madison Square Garden in the luxury suite where one of my commissioned paintings hangs. (This spring visit was surprisingly identical to my fall visit and our winter visit - chilly and overcast, with threatening raindrops and enough wind to undo my feeble attempts to look sophisticated and newyorky. Maybe I'll try again in the summer.) We hopped a Greyhound bus and were quickly wandering the streets of Manhattan together, my brain once again in awe of the insane amount of architectural eye candy and street art.
I don't know what it is about graffitti. I know people hate it. I love it. I can't help it, really. Someone talk some sense into me. Next year.
Before heading to Madison Square Garden, we walked the High Line and got lunch at a restaurant called Park, which looked like the Jumanji-esque factory-turned-home of my dreams. There were plants, factory windows, tiny birds flitting about and a mean glass of sangria (okay two). Seriously... I could live here. If in some future life I am born a bird, that will be my little bird goal.
It was so awesome to meet the couple who sought me out and gave me almost entirely free range on this painting, despite my habit of updating them via mostly disjointed, typo-strewn stream-of-consciousness brainstorming emails at 2am throughout the project. Seeing my painting again, hung and doing its big painting thing during an actual event with actual lights, was wonderful. (When we delivered it in December, the suite had no lights on because The Rolling Stones and Adam Sandler were doing their sound-check for 12/12/12. No complaints here.) It's still exactly how I pictured it when I sat down to three huge blank canvases in October.
My goal for the next few years is to mature my style into one that is at home in commercial settings as well as residential ones, to see my work on album covers, snowboards, event posters, local restaurants and other transformations that are relevant to my life. So it felt great to get positive feedback on this piece, which was a (big) baby step towards expanding my range. With wine in hand we chatted, watched Boston's Celtics lose pretty pitifully to the Knicks (sad), booed Chris Brown on the jumbotron (deserved), and grabbed the bus back home... a most excellent Easter :)
on letting go of paintings
Last week the largest painting in my shop, "Live, Travel, Adventure, Bless", found a new home... as always happens when an original painting sells, I was both happy and a little sad to pack it up. I'm maybe overly emotional about my artwork - making it, selling it, seeing it copied - but there are good reasons why.
"Live, Travel, Adventure, Bless" was the first painting I ever started with the end product already crystal clear in my head from the moment I unwrapped the 24"x48" canvas, knowing exactly what layers to put down in what order and how the whole painting would flow from early on. This was when I was still working full time as a hospital research coordinator, when I would spend my workdays thinking about it, sketching out lettering ideas while on the phone with patients, and being so excited to get home at 7pm and work on it even for just a few hours. (If you guessed that this was around the time I started realizing that painting couldn't remain a part time thing always in the back of my mind while I did other things... you are right.)
It took about three or four weeks of nonstop work before I thought the painting was finished and paid to have it scanned, but something didn't feel right... something felt very eh. So I just kept her on the wall and stared frustrated for three months until it clicked and I completely recreated the bottom half and loved it. With this painting I realized how important it was to listen to intuition when working... if it looks wrong or feels wrong even a little bit, it probably is. We can have what we want, on canvas and in life, so there's no reason to settle for eh. There's always more paint to layer, another color to be mixed, another direction to go... whenever there's an eh in a painting it just means a wow is hiding, waiting to be revealed by trying something new.
I get connected to paintings in a way I'm not really attached to many other physical objects in life, perhaps just my well-travelled car and camera (and I'm guessing all for similar reasons.) Every finished painting represents so much experience and growth. Some experiences that occurred to inspire the painting (in this case, travelling alone with nobody to answer to but myself) and some that occurred during the process of painting it (I was feeling lonely after college, isolated by friends, trapped by my job, torn between choices of security or freedom, but so blessed and intrigued by the excitement of finding my artistic flow.) Finishing "Live, Travel, Adventure, Bless" was a huge step for me as a painter and as a 24 year-old girl trying to balance post-college challenges and fears... trying to do things "right" but also right for me, and to not have to be sorry. Sometimes the process of painting felt like one of the few things I could be sure of.
So I'm convinced an original painting is more than just color and paper and coffee splatters and fabric on canvas and wood. The good ones always seem to have souls of their own: the effort that went into them, the experiences that inspired them, the thoughts and emotions present while making them, all layered with materials that years or even decades ago had their own stories. The time it spent on the wall or in storage waiting to convince someone of its perfection for them. That's the sad part of letting go, and the reason original art is priced the way it is... it's a one-of-a-kind object, but also a unique entity with an unreplicable energy, it's own story. But on the other hand, it feels good to send a painting on its way to fulfill the rest of its story in the hands of the buyer; in this case, there was no question that it was headed to a good home that had been waiting for it a long time!
I packed it up in about a hundred layers of bubble wrap and put it in a box taller than me, putting it into the hands of my (hopefully) capable shippers and feeling like it was a chapter closed in my studio.
But luckily... there are always more chapters to write, yes? :)


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