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Her Master's Blood
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AN: I'm afraid that I've got too many real life things going on to update any of my regular fics right now. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about them, and the next chapter of Butterfly Effect should be coming out in two to three weeks. BUT, I have been assaulted by a couple of plot bunnies as of late, and I did have enough time for a short one-shot'. Hope you guys and gals enjoy. ;)
PS. Based on the Hellsing Anime. Possible prequel to "Something Different".
He walked over to her, slowly nearing his kneeling fledgling. His master had already left the building. Following the Paladin outside, she had left her servant to attend to his own servant however he saw fit. The two vampires were now all alone in the night*.
He was to her now, his gaze resting on her wounded body. And suddenly Alucard realized something. He'd been wrong, though his pride would've never let him admit it. The Police Girl had the force of will required to make an excellent creature of the night, and she was very determined to earn his approval. But she, unlike him, was not a monster; and Alucard very much doubted that she could ever become one.
She was too pure for the kind of work they had to do. She was strong, but that strength was better suited to an idealist who operated within the scope of humans' laws. She lacked the darkness... the perversion required for a vampiric servant of Hellsing. And, in a rare burst of empathy, Alucard realized that he'd been wrong to drag her into the life she was now bound to.
Yet, that mistake could still be fixed... or at least mitigated, to a point*. Dropping to one knee, the vampire master brought himself eye-level with his fledgling. He wrenched the blessed blade out of his forearm and let it fall to the floor with a metallic 'clink'. Then he held out his arm as a single drop of blood beaded and fell.
"Police Girl, you must drink my blood. Only then will you be free of your servitude to me."
Once she drank, she would be free, free to seek out another life. She would be free of her subordination to him. And he could, eventually, go to his final judgment with one less sin staining his soul.
"Y-you won't be my master anymore?"
Seras wondered if he was trying to get rid of her. Had she failed him? She'd tried her best. She always tried her best. And yet... and yet it never seemed to be quite enough. Was that it? Did he no longer want her around because she wasn't as strong as he'd expected her to be?
"No... I won't. But you will become a master of the undead. You will drink blood and walk the night by your own will."
The words confused Seras. She'd thought that her master had been displeased with her and wanted her gone. Indeed, she still wondered if that were true. Yet... "become a master of the undead(?)", "walk the night by your own will(?)", these did not sound like words of disapproval. No, if anything, they sounded more like he was offering her some kind of reward. But how? Why?
"Now drink my blood, Seras Victoria."
The words struck a cord in Seras. He'd called her by her name, no titles – no 'Police Girl', no 'fledgling'. He was elevating her to the same status as himself. And suddenly, Seras understood that her master was not offering her his blood in an effort to be rid of her. He was freeing her of her commitment to him. He was, indeed, freeing her of her servitude.
Another drop of blood fell, and Seras leaned in. She, almost instinctively, extended her tongue and then, somehow, it elongated on its own accord. By drinking her master's blood, she would be free – free to do whatever she wanted, go anywhere she wanted.
But then, Seras stopped as she realized something. There was no place for her to go. Her life, all that she'd had was already gone. True, she could start again. After all, she'd done so before. But... but, suddenly the girl realized, she didn't want to start again.
She wanted to stay where she was. She wanted to stay with him. However, were she to take him up on his offer, their relationship would change forever. No longer would they be master and fledgling. No longer could she rely on that bound, on that excuse. She would be free, and at that point, staying at Hellsing, would be a choice, rather than a duty.
And that was assuming that she'd even be permitted to stay. The girl wasn't quite sure how Sir Integra would feel about having an 'unbound' vampire living under her roof. Seras had made some progress with the lady knight, but she knew that her master's master still didn't trust her – not yet.
In gaining her freedom, Seras could very well lose her home. And if not, her relationship with the 'man' who was currently her master would certainly change. And as the girl's hand tightened into a fist, she realized that she wasn't ready for that to change.
She was still sorting out feelings and didn't know exactly what she was looking for from her relationship with her master. Was he a surrogate for her long lost father... or something very different? She didn't know. And without knowing, she couldn't change what they had. To do so would be to risk losing it entirely.
The fledgling pulled back, before her tongue reached her master's arm.
Alucard's expression shifted. This was... unexpected. It was rare for him to offer his blood to a fledgling, to offer them their freedom. In fact he'd only done so once before. And, he'd never imagined a fledgling actually turning down such an offer.
The vampire master rose, and stared at the girl before him. She was... different than he'd thought.
She believed that she'd chosen to become a vampire, but such was not the case. He'd manipulated her into it. She was strong and determined... as well as physically attractive. He wanted her; and, as always, he'd manipulated the situation to get what he wanted. She thought she'd made a choice, but in reality, he'd simply taken her.
But now... now everything had changed. He'd offered her her freedom, and she'd turned it down. This time she had made a choice. Coming with him hadn't been up to her, not really, but the decision to stay was.
Alucard inwardly smirked. He was free of his sin, one sin at least. He'd offered her a way out, offered it to her before the life he lived had had a chance to do irreparable harm to her innocence, her 'humanity'. And yet she, with all of her purity, had chosen to stay.
Now this would be interesting. Even with five hundred years under his belt, the Count could not remember this happening before. He and his current fledgling were going down an uncharted path, and he found himself eager to discover where this new path would lead and the course it would take to reach that destination.
Of course, it would not do to display such eagerness. He'd already slipped up once and betrayed surprise at her refusal to his offer. He would not run the risk of letting anything else shine through, not when he was in such unfamiliar territory. And so, the vampire master slowly faded away, with only a few parting words.
"So, this is what you choose, Police Girl?"
"I don't know. I'm not ready. Right now, I'm just..." Seras let the sentence hang, not knowing the words to complete it. And then she reflected on her master's parting words.
"Police Girl(?)" She was back to Police Girl? Seras assumed that meant that nothing had changed between them. But that assumption could not be further from the truth. From that moment on, their relationship would never be the same again.
* "all alone in the night" is a phrase borrowed from the Babylon 5 intro. I just always, really liked the sound of that. :P
* Line paraphrased from Beast Wars episode "Code of Hero".
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"Accidental academic" Dr Carole Ferch-Johnson has examined the way the early church represented Christ and His mission through the media of human hands and feet. In particular, she's studied the significance of hands and feet in two narratives from Acts: the healing by Peter and John of the lame beggar at the temple (Acts 3) and the conversion of Saul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9).
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~Sequel to Gang leader Vs. Gang leader~
(Honestly you can read it in any order you want it's your life, and it's not that hard to put the pieces together. :) )
Mature Content: Aria and Xander have finally escaped the gang leader life of killing, torture, and kidnappings. It's as if they're living in complete bliss... But life's a fucking bitch. It seems that once they left it threw all gangs into chaos, no one trusts anyone, alliances are held but by a thread. And to top it all off someone is trying to take control of both gangs. Aria and Xander are both doing their best to help but at the same time stay out of the life they both hated. But soon manipulation, heart break, and lies come in to play. It seems that no matter what, they will always be bound to their old lives and they have to come to terms that Once a Gang leader Always a Gang leader.
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Okay, a friend just linked me to a theory that had a very interesting connection. If you go here [1], you will see the '42 Negative Confessions' from the Book of the Dead, an artifact that dates to ancient Egypt.
To save your time, here are six of them:
- 4 - I have not slain men and women.
- 8 - I have not uttered lies.
- 15 - I have not attacked any man.
- 16 - I am not a man of deceit.
- 23 - I have terrorised none.
- 42 - I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.
If we line these up with the characters with those numbers; Locke (4) - Certainly has not slain men and women. Hurkey (8) - He may have told lies during his life, but he's not really a liar per se. Sawyer (15) - This one falls down a bit. Sayid (16) - This one too (The theory I read suggested switching Sayid and Sawyer, dunno) Jack (23) - Not intentionally :P Sun/Jin(42) - Apparantly cattle wa symbolic of fertility in ancient Egypt.
I don't normally buy into such extreme connections like this, but it intrigued me and I thought a few of you might like it.


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Assume that capital markets do not exist. Ryan has $70,000 today (t = 0) and will receive $90,000 in exactly one year (t = 1). The graph below illustrates point Y: having $70,000 now and receiving $90,000 next year. Here, if no capital or financial market exists, then Ryan must consume $70,000 now and $90,000 next year. Next consider this case when borrowing and lending at r = 10% are available in the financial markets; Ryan now has a real investment opportunity, or business project. If Ryan decides to accept this opportunity, it will cost $20,000 now (t = 0) and will offer a risk-free payoff of $25,000 next year. Now, revisit the point Y where Ryan has $70,000 now and will receive $90,000 next year, but this time the real asset project exists. Assume that he still wants to consume $70,000 now (t = 0), and answer the following.
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During Berlin Crisis in 1961. Scene of a street in East Berlin, Germany. A man stands on the West side of Berlin, clicks photo of East Berlin. A policeman disturbs and blocks him with a mirror. People of East Berlin go with their few possessions escaping to West Berlin. Military trucks parked on East Berlin side. People wave handkerchiefs. A young man loads his luggage in a truck. People on the East Berlin side with their possessions. An east German policeman reflects with a mirror to prevent cameras from recording the escape attempts. People on the West Berlin side watch a water hose sprayed at them to deter onlookers. A man sits on a truck and clicks photos as water is sprayed on him and the truck is forced to move on. Smoke or tear gas bomb comes from East Berlin side and men throw them back. Smoke seen everywhere. The escape of Frieda Schulz is seen from her apartment building at the border, on Bernauer Strasse. She is seen hanging from a window, still held on her arm from above by an east German official, until the receiving west German crowd from below pulls on her leg hard enough to free her, and she falls into a waiting net. Another woman is seen preparing to leap from a fifth floor window. She leaps (not seen) and is caught by firemen with a waiting net. Next, her husband is seen pushing some baggage through the window with valuables, and then he is seen leaping from the window into a waiting net held by firemen on the West Berlin side. Work goes on for building the Berlin Wall. Giant bulldozer drops dirt on ground as it razes home along the border of the Berlin Wall, and as a wide ditch is built to prevent escape by vehicle. People cut hole in barbed wire and are seen escaping to the West German side. Policemen and others help them as they get through. East Berlin police arrive and stop more people from escaping. A man and two young women are seen after they successfully escape through the barbed wire to West Berlin side.
During mounting Berlin Crisis, view of map of Germany with separated East and West Germany. East Berlin refugees gathered and on streets with their luggage at Marienfeld Refugee Reception Center in West Berlin. They are among the last to escape East Berlin before the Soviets close the border. Refugees in queue to be processed entering West Berlin. Old woman refugee smiles as she helps a young boy drink from a cup. Refugees at airport with their children to be flown to other cities in West Germany. They board plane and it takes off. People at railway station to see off their relatives as they flee East Germany. East German soldiers digging emplacements in roadway near Brandenburg Gate to erect blockade (the beginning of what became the Berlin Wall). They unload a truck filled with poles. Soldiers wire the border. People watch soldiers running barbed wire enclosing East Berlin territory; the beginning of the Berlin Wall. Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, with others on street. Communist soldiers on the closed border. A Russian soldier on the East side of the road divided with barbed wire fence. Tanks and people on road.
A film titled 'The Big Picture'. Ruined buildings of Nazi Germany. Eagle of Third Reich pulled down. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population line sidewalks and watch them. Sign on a shop reads 'Gaststatte Schosser'. American soldiers give candy to German children. Nazi leaders,Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children. Russian troops occupying East Berlin. Russians removing a lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. American General Joseph T. McNarney. French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig). Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. Spandau prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. The Berlin Airlift operations. U.S. Air Force C-54 in flight bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. Unloading relief supplies from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being loaded on airplanes. German children watch American airlift planes land at Tempelhof Aerodrome, Berlin. Tiny parachute with candy drops from American airplane. Children run to retrieve it. blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. Trains cross between East and West Berlin. German people cast votes,establishing Federated German Republic, U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer,President of the new German Republic. in the West.Workers seen working on construction sites. Soviet oppressed East Germany faces riots. Refugees from East Germany in West Germany.
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The merit of visiting tIrtha and kShetra has been a well-documented and well-discussed topic. This practice has been often encouraged in our Mandali as well. However, one can never permit such pastimes to interfere with one's nitya karma and japAdyanuShThAna. Unfortunately, trips of such a nature have lately turned to be mere means of mental and physical stress and hindrance to nitya karma. It is said that Paramaguru H H Sri Sri vidyAbhinava vAlukeshvara bhAratI mahAsvAmigal (mahAmahopAdhyAya hAnagal virUpAkSha shAstrigal in pUrvAshrama) never missed his sandhyAvandanam and never even offered prAyashcittArghya. He rarely traveled, and when he did, it was to shR^i~Ngeri to visit his Guru H H shrI sacchidAnanda shivAbhinava nR^isiMha bhAratI or to participate in a vidvat sadas. He took a train and adjusted his travel schedule such that he would arrive at a particular station by the time of sAyaM sandhyA. The station master, whose daughter had been cured of epilepsy from the nR^isiMha bhasma that shastrigal had given him, would wait for shastrigal at the station. As soon as the train stopped, shastrigal would follow the station master, who would have pAtras etc. placed beside a well. shastrigal would take a bath, perform sandhyA and get into the train again before it left for the next station. This incident has been recounted by several great men who were blessed to come in contact with Shastrigal. Like his own Guru, our Guru Brahmasri KPS had a similar view in this regard and attributed the highest priority to japa and saparyA over any other practices associated with shrIvidyA. This strict adherence to svadharmAnuShThAna has been visible in the lives of some great men that we have interacted with, such as Brahmasri Kamakoti Shastrigal, Brahmasri Goda Venkateshwara Shastrigal, Brahmasri Vasudev Mishraji etc.
Moreover, one should never forget to ponder over the following wise counsel that comes from bAdarAyaNa:
mAnasAni hi tIrthAni phaladAni visheShataH |
While the physical tIrthas are indeed meritorious, puNya of a much greater magnitude is attained by association with the following mAnasa tIrthas.
mano nirmalatA tIrthaM rAgAdibhiranAkulam |
satyaM tIrthaM dayA tIrthaM tIrthamindriyanigrahaH ||
gurushushrUShaNaM tIrthaM mAtR^ishushrUShaNaM tathA |
svadharmAcharaNaM tIrthaM tIrthamagnerupAsanam ||
1. A pure mind free of rAga and dveSha
2. Truth
3. Compassion
4. Control over the senses
5. Serving the Guru
6. Serving the parents
7. anuShThAna of svadharma, as dictated by ones varNa and Ashrama
8. Worship of the sacred Fire
tIrtha yAtra done without chyuti to the above aspects, especially to anuShThAna of svadharma, is beneficial. The bottom line is: Don't neglect your Japa. This would be our message to all members of Kamakoti Mandali for the New Year.
We pray to the lotus feet of bhagavatI kAmAkshI mahAbhaTTarikA and Lord mahAkAla kAmeshvara to grant us all renewed strength and enhanced determination in pursuing our upAsanA in the year ahead and bless us all with nishchalA bhakti in gurupAdukA.


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Skype now accounts for a third of international calls
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The latest stats from TeleGeography show that Microsoft owned-Skype now controls an impressive 33% of international telephone traffic and while international call volume expanded 5% last year, Skype expanded its international calls by 44%; Skype-to-Skype voice and video traffic grew 44 percent in 2012 to 167 billion minutes...
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I thought Skype was heading to the gutters when MS bought it, but I was wrong. Well done MS.
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In fact this was one asset which M$ never wanted it to go to Google. So the high price tag.
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TWO years of frustration and fickle fortunes have finally ended for trainer David Hayes.
And if history is a guide, he will have a big say in Saturday's Group 1 Australian Cup at Flemington.
Hayes will line up Niconoise, the half brother to his 2009 Australian Cup winner Niconero. Hayes is an owner in both, as he was with Group 1 winner Nicconi, along with owner/breeder Peter Devitt.
"Peter started with Dad (the late Colin) with King's High in 1987 and has been our biggest domestic owner ever since," Hayes said.
The partnership has blossomed. Niconero won five Group 1 races and $3,442,944, while Nicconi picked up two Group 1s and $1,027,388.
Now Hayes and Devitt have Niconoise on track for a Group 1.
Hayes said the impeccably bred entire, by Redoute's Choice out of Nicola Lass, had taken time to mature.
"He is just late maturing, but he is showing signs now, running a track record at Flemington at his last start," he said.
"That convinced us to have a throw at the stumps in the Australian Cup. He loves Flemington and the 2000m suits."
Though TAB has Niconoise as a $61 roughie, Hayes said his charge had all the attributes to run a big race.
Hayes has amassed 78 Group 1 wins, a tally that would have been considerably more had Hong Kong run as many elite races as Australia while he dominated there for a decade.
When he returned home, he had pretty much done it all, with wins including the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup, Golden Slipper, Blue Diamond, Australian Cup and Newmarket Handicap.
However, he took a huge risk when he sold Lindsay Park in South Australia and spent $15 million on a new training establishment at Euroa, where he has 80 horses in work and another 40 in pre-training.
He only re-established his grass track in December, a year after it was washed away in a flood. But his fortunes have since changed.
The trainer of more than 2800 winners almost clinched his sixth Blue Diamond last month when Fast 'N' Rocking was denied only by Miracles Of Life .
He has trained more city winners than any other trainer in the past three months, lifting him to equal third on the metropolitan premiership, one behind Mick Price and 13 off Peter Moody.
"I was winning a lot of provincial races six months ago, but now I'm winning city races," Hayes said.
The next step for the youngest inductee (2008) to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame is to add to his Group 1 tally.
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I just got done making a hogwarts cake (kinda like a castle) That was made out of foam board. It could easily have had landscape and made that cake.
I have also made a castle cake made with sheet cakes. You could just stack them. How many people are going to be at the graduation?
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Less than half the class completed all four races in Spinnaker Racing C. That meant it was really a race between two of the five boats, with Global Yacht Racing taking the lead.
In Spinnaker Racing D, St. Croix's Carlos Skov says his boat, the J/100 Bad Girl, did 'real bad. We changed to Dacron sails before the first race and missed that start. Then on the second race, even with the Dacron, our head foil separated, so we just bailed out and went in. You could call it a real gear busting day.'
Their class is called Spinnaker Racing E, but of the eight boats that dared put up a spinnaker today in the heavy breezes, St. Thomas' Chris Thompson on his J/27, J-Walker took the lead. St. Thomas' Paul Davis was pretty pleased with his boat's showing, finishing third. Davis, celebrating his third season skippering his J/27, Magnificent 7, a vessel fellow islander, John Foster, drove to a boatload of victories, says, 'We've come a long way as a team. Today, we accomplished our goal. That is, we finished every race. Sure, we had some breakdowns like everyone else. But, we finished ahead of most of the boats that beat us on time.'
Rick Wesslund's J/120, El Ocaso, scored four bullets to lead Spinnaker Racing F. Unfortunately, his biggest competitor barely made it out of the gate. Antigua's Jamie Dobb's, Lost Horizons II, back racing in the Caribbean after a year's hiatus, lost the a furling swivel and had to call it a day before even getting to the start line. 'Repairs are underway and we're looking forward to getting back out sailing tomorrow,' says foredeck, Nicola Pears. Dobb's has been dubbed the 'most winning Caribbean skipper' for his many years of both class and C.O.R.T. (Caribbean Ocean Racing Triangle Series) wins, so today's setback isn't likely to put a big dent in his 2008 season's performance.
In the Beach Cat class, only two brave soles even attempted to race. St. Croix's Chris Schreiber, on his Hobie 16, AutoWorld Express, says, 'Paul (Stoeken, Islandsol.net) and I want to be out racing this weekend. Let's just say we're being conservative and staying in today.'
Pat Nolan, owner/operator of Sistership, sailed her Beneteau 445 in the Jib and Main class. 'We had originally planned to take the J33 Boormerang but with the conditions the way they were and the wind so high, and our crew a little bit on the rusty side, we decided it would be a real gear breaker for us. So we decided to take Sea Biscuit, a Beneteau 445, which is very well suited for these conditions.'
When asked what was it like out there Pat replied, 'One thing that we all talked about today was how well Sea Biscuit did in these BVI conditions compared to when we have raced her in both Antigua and St. Maartin. We all decided together that we love these BVI conditions. We had St. Maartin/Antigua winds but we had beautiful BVI seas in our channel and it made the for the best combination of racing conditions Sea Biscuit has ever had. I had more fun on the boat today than ever because the conditions were perfect.' Leading the Jib and Main class after just one race today is Mary Jane, the Beneteau 50 sailed by David C. Heuter.
Winning today's race In Performance Cruising A was Bad Wine, a Beneteau 40.7. Also sailing in Performance Cruising is Pi Squared, a First 47.7 that is being skippered by Fin McGurren and sailed by a crew of four women, including one who has never sailed before. According to Penny Pariso, first mate, even short-handed, they plan to set a spinnaker and/or their Code 0 if the winds lighten a little.
'It was not too bad out there even though we didn't have much weight on the rail. We hadn't been down to that part of the island before (West End and Little Thatch) and the girls were like, 'I like that house and oh, I like that house.' When asked how Fin was dealing with all the women, Pariso replied, 'He's doing okay. He often refers to dealing with us like trying to herd cats. One of us wanders off to the shop and one to the loo. I think he's having fun.' When that same question was posed to Fin, jokingly he replied, 'Ask me on Sunday afternoon.'
In fourth place in Performance Cruising B is one of the most enthusiastic crews out there, the Bitter End Team on Cosmic Warlord, an Express 37. Skippered by Geoff Werner, the oldest member of the crew is 29 and the youngest 18. This crew can't wait to go back out there and do it again tomorrow. 'We're really excited to be back in the racing. The team is really pumped. We broke a couple things but it was some 'knarley' racing.' He went on to say, 'We were pretty powered up upwind but screaming downwind. Gile Starley stepped in to hold out the sail for us; he was our human pole. He was a powerhouse.' Bowman Sebastian Perry added, 'It was wicked'. (For those of us that are over 30, that means he loved it.)
Winning today's race in Performance Cruising B, Augustine is currently in first place.
Neil Harvey, sailing with Bert Keenan on Arcadia Southern Comfort is currently in second place in the Bareboat B division. In his Australian brogue, Neil told me this morning that the wind was strong enough to 'blow the dogs off the chains'. This afternoon he said, 'It was forecast to be a bit breezy and a bit breezy it was. It's what we come here for. It was nice to see such a big fleet of Bareboat A and Bareboat B. It was a perfect day for our course that took us down around Thatch. We had a very close race with Chess; we both had a great race. I didn't see a third boat in our class when we finished.' When asked if the had fun, Harvey answered, 'That we did; even though the average age on the boat is approaching 70. Four, out of the eight crew, did the 1978 Fastnet race together on Acadia.'
Pending protest against Chess, Acadia Southern Comfort is in second place in Bareboat B.
Eddie Proctor, sailing with his family of three young men as a team for the first time, has come from the UK and is enjoying their sailing BVI vacation. The family has chartered an IC24 and is racing in one of the regatta's most competitive classes. Currently eighth in class, Eddie says that 'Tomorrow we'll do better and on Sunday we'll be unstoppable. ' He went on to explain that their starts were fine but upwind, the fleet moved away from him. He continued, 'I'll get some pointers from some of the others in the class. They're a great group and we'll get the long haired general (referring to his wife) out on the race course tomorrow. She'll whip us into shape.'
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If there are two American figures one would least expect to be connected, they may well be Woody Guthrie and Donald Trump. Guthrie, one of the most revered political songwriters ever to put pen to paper, has next to nothing in common with Republican presidential nominee Trump, a man who represents everything against which Guthrie fought as a folk singer and activist. But the two do have one connection: Trump's father, the late New York real estate mogul Fred C. Trump.
In the early 1950s, Guthrie was briefly a tenant of Trump's Beach Haven apartment complex, a Brooklyn property the elder Trump developed using an FHA subsidy specifically designated for affordable public housing. Years after Guthrie moved out of Beach Haven, in 1964, Trump would be investigated for profiteering, having, as Will Kaufman wrote in a story on Guthrie and Trump for The Conversation earlier this year, "overestimat[ed] his Beach Haven building charges to the tune of $3.7 million." And in 1973, six years after Guthrie's death from Huntington's disease at the age of 55, Trump was sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against Black people, eventually settling outside of court.
"In 1950, Woody and his family rented an apartment in the complex called Beach Haven that was owned by Fred Trump," Deana McCloud, Executive Director of Tulsa's Woody Guthrie Center, says. "After they moved in, it came to [Guthrie's] attention that the elder Mr. Trump would not lease apartments to African-Americans, which did not sit very well with Woody, as an advocate for civil rights."
It was the racism of "Old Man Trump" that stoked the most intense anger in Guthrie, inspiring him to write two sets of writing -- the first being the better known "Beach Haven Ain't My Home," a re-working of an existing Guthrie song called "Ain't Got No Home" and one that is often referred to as "Old Man Trump," and the second, "Racial Hate at Beach Haven." Both writings are available on view at the Guthrie Center and, since Kaufman's piece was published, have been fodder for outlets as large as NPR and the New York Times, once again relevant in light of the 2016 election. As seen in the images provided by Kaufman, Guthrie punctuated his lyrics with exclamation points, a seemingly small detail that McCloud finds very telling.
"What's really interesting for me is, I looked at the lyrics for 'Beach Haven Ain't My Home' and -- of course, we have thousands of examples of Woody's handwriting and very seldom does he use exclamation points -- in this particular lyric, every line is followed by an exclamation point," she says with a slight laugh. "His emotions are very apparent in the lyrics. It was just an issue with him, the idea that people should be separated and kept apart in anything, but especially when it comes to allowing them to live together and learn together and cooperate with each other."
A reimagined "Old Man Trump," recorded by Santa Barbara band U.S. Elevator, made its way into current headlines just a few days ago as part of the "30 Days, 30 Songs" project, an initiative spearheaded by acclaimed author Dave Eggers (famous for works like 2000's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the more recent novel A Hologram for the King; he also documented his time at a Sacramento Trump rally for the Guardian) and Zeitgeist Artist Management's Jordan Kurland, who is known for his integral role in the careers of artists like Death Cab for Cutie and Bob Mould. The project, which kicked off October 10, is a playlist of anti-Trump songs, proceeds from which will benefit the Center for Popular Democracy, written and/or performed by a diverse roster of artists that includes Aimee Mann, Jim James, R.E.M., and Adia Victoria. At press time, the initiative has grown to become "30 Days, 40 Songs," and could continue to grow larger as Election Day draws nearer. "30 Days" follows the pair's 2012 effort "90 Days, 90 Reasons," a series of essays by figures like Roxane Gay and George Saunders that argued for the re-election of President Barack Obama.
"One of the things that really struck [Eggers] about the rally was the music that was being played," Kurland says. "It was so off-base from Trump's message, you know? It was Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer' or Bruce Springsteen or the Who -- clearly just songs that didn't make sense contextually, but also songs that there's no way the artists would have approved. So Dave came back with the idea to get artists to write songs that should be played at Trump rallies, with that meaning they could be songs either directly about Donald Trump or songs that celebrate all the things that Donald Trump is against, like diversity and freedom of speech, etcetera, etcetera."
Nashville artist Adia Victoria -- who speaks powerfully on race, class, and Southern culture in both her music and in interviews -- contributed the sparse, sobering "Backwards Blues" to the playlist. When sharing the song on Facebook, she wrote, "Perhaps the greatest irony is how a campaign fueled by outright lies reveals a deep-seated kernel of truth of what far too many Americans hold up as sacred: massive wealth, the sway of celebrity, branding, power, and greed. I don't want to say that he's the president we deserve, yet here we are."
Many other musicians outside of the "30 Days" project have found themselves getting political in recent months, too. Ani DiFranco recently released the song "Play God" which, while not overtly anti-Trump, champions women's reproductive rights, a message that flies in the face of Trump's endlessly mysognistic rhetoric and behavior. "As we prepare for our first woman president, isn't this the perfect time for all of us to put women's civil rights into law?" DiFranco asks. "Make reproductive freedom a Constitutional amendment. With the Supreme Court in flux, we cannot afford to leave our rights in the balance."
Revered Nashville/Austin songwriter Radney Foster contributed to the conversation with "All That I Require" -- what he describes as an "anti-fascism history lesson" that, to name only one example, feels especially chilling in light of Trump's third debate comments about his reluctance to concede the election were Clinton to win the presidency.
"The voices of extremism and fascism are ringing more loudly in our national debate than ever before in my lifetime," Foster says. "Questioning the free press and the peaceful transition of power never ends well. All of the sloganeering in the song are taken from Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco -- demagogues from the right and the left. I hope the song is something that will make us all, Democrat or Republican, do some soul-searching about what kind of country we want to be."
One of the most powerful, acclaimed albums of 2016, the Drive-By Truckers' latest release American Band, was described by Slate's Carl Wilson as "the perfect album for the year of Trump." DBT songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley address a number of difficult topics, including racism, immigration, and police brutality, on the LP, with songs like "Ramon Casiano" and "What It Means" two standouts (among a consistently stellar batch of songs) whose narratives have chilling parallels: The first describes the death of Mexican teenager Ramon Casiano at the hands of Harlon B. Carter; the second refers to the murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, as well as cases like the police killing of Michael Brown. The album grapples with many of the very issues for which Trump stands, providing alternative viewpoints from, as Wilson describes, a group of men "embodying the stereotypical demographics of a Trump voter (white, male, middle-age, non–college-educated)."
Akron, Ohio, songwriter Joseph Arthur released his anti-Trump number, "The Campaign Song," which juxtaposes audio and video of clips of Trump shouting catchphrases like "Build That Wall" with lyrics like "Trump is a chump," earlier this month and invoked Guthrie's legacy as a political songwriter, as well as his unfortunate connection to the Trump family. "Woody Guthrie wrote a protest song about Donald Trump's grandfather," Arthur wrote on his website. "So this is like carrying the torch for Woody. I used the lingo of a by-gone era to accentuate that aspect like 'America really should boot bums like this out' and 'Old scratch'. I wanted to use the lingo of Trump's elders as subtle form of linguistic manipulation designed to send him under his bed shivering like the whimpering maggot that he is."
A particularly biting critique of Trump, his policies and his deeply flawed Trump University comes from folk singer/songwriter Anthony D'Amato, who released the song "If You're Gonna Build a Wall" and its accompanying video via MoveOn's Facebook page last week. D'Amato was inspired to write the song, which references Trump's desire to build a wall between Mexico and the United States and includes lines like "Oh if you're gonna build a wall / You better be ready the day it falls," after covertly attending a Trump Rally in Long Island.
"I wrote this song last Summer during the primaries," D'Amato says. "I was home from tour with a broken finger and bombarded by election news every day. The rhetoric was dark and divisive and ran counter to a lot of the ideals I always felt like this country was built on. Trump's campaign was the initial spark, but the song touches on race and class and privilege, too. History doesn't look kindly on those who build themselves up by excluding and demonizing the less powerful. If you're going to do that, you'd better be prepared for the consequences."
Pioneer Valley band Parsonsfield also felt compelled to write about Trump's hypothetical wall, expressing their frustration in the song "Barbed Wire," a stirring track off their recently released album Blooming through the Black. "It's funny how the loudest voices championing freedom are the ones who want to erect the clearest symbol of restrictiveness," the band's Chris Freeman says. "It will never happen, but the rhetoric is frightening enough. The song references the wall in the sense that they are often built as a mechanism to keep others out. The builder usually fails to see that they are also the ones being kept in."
Like his father's before him, Donald Trump's policies seek to exclude rather than unite. And like Guthrie before them, today's musicians are using their platforms to voice progressive platforms, the latest entrants into the long, continually evolving songbook of American protest music. Protest music is most commonly attributed to the 1960s -- just look at this year's somewhat unusual, certainly polarizing winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature -- but it's a tradition that's been around in America for centuries. To name just two, non-'60s American milestones that birthed political music, the Civil War inspired a number of tunes, including "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Song of the Abolitionist"; and the gay rights movement of the '80s and '90s brought us "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill and "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper.
Trump is, of course, not the first politician to inspire musicians' ire (and he certainly won't be the last), although he has accomplished the not-so-desirable feat of doing so before the election results have even been tabulated. Bright Eyes, Radiohead, and, perhaps most famously, the Dixie Chicks were among the many artists who called out 43rd President George W. Bush through song. Ronald Reagan had the Ramones and Prince as detractors. And, in case you thought musicians only targeted Republicans, Democratic President Bill Clinton's indiscretions have been documented by artists as high-profile as Beyoncé -- though it's important to note that Monica Lewinsky is often, problematically, the target, instead of Clinton himself.
"The way that music makes a difference in society is still apparent today," McCloud says. "You still have those people who are raging against injustice and we know that Woody's work is as relevant today as it was whenever he was writing it. The specific names might have changed a little, some specific details may have changed. But when you look at the lyrics that Woody wrote, and that Pete Seeger wrote, and Phil Ochs wrote, we're still struggling with this huge divide between the people who have so much and those who struggle just to get by every day."
And while many artists choose to express political views through song, others take stances by withholding their music from candidates with whom they disagree. Just this year, the Trump campaign has received cease and desist letters (or, some cases, some very angry rhetoric) from the Rolling Stones, Adele, R.E.M. (who, along with Sleater-Kinney, just released their own "30 Days" tune), and several other artists regarding the usage of their songs at Trump rallies and events.
"Music and protest, for a very long time, have gone hand in hand," Kurland says. "For this particular project, it's to get people inspired about the election or voting that have maybe been somewhat apathetic to it. Certainly Bernie Sanders captured a lot of people's attention and imagination amongst younger voters and it just felt like, in May or June, there were people who were disappointed and people who weren't really seeming like they were very engaged. So the idea of doing this is a way of getting people motivated by hearing a well-written song about an important topic. The goal with this project, and the other projects we've worked on in the past, is to appeal to younger voters who maybe don't fully grasp the importance of this election or understand how different the two candidates really are. I get so sick of hearing, 'Hillary is the lesser of two evils.' That couldn't be further from the truth."
While Guthrie isn't alive to sing us through these last few weeks leading up to election day, many of the issues for which he fought are, unfortunately, still issues today. McCloud believes he would have been just as disappointed by Donald's political rhetoric as he was by Fred's housing practices. "I certainly don't want to put my thoughts into Woody's voice by any means, but based on my knowledge of what he wrote and his perspective of things, I think, like many of us, it would be deeply troubling to him to see the lack of civility and the divisive nature of today's political climate," she says. "This idea of getting together, walking together, talking together, solving problems is almost nonexistent in what we see today, and I think that would be deeply troubling to him."
Though it appears as though Hillary Clinton has all but clinched the election, the work to heal from and evolve past the divisive, racist, bigoted rhetoric in which the United States became ensnarled throughout this election is only just beginning. It's another chapter in a long, bloody story that is centuries long -- one that Guthrie, like his modern counterparts, immortalized in song, offering small glimpses of hope, wisdom, and catharsis for all of us hoping for a better world.
McCloud sums up Guthrie's feelings -- which were messy, uncomfortable, unresolved, but ultimately hopeful -- when she recounts his writing "Racial Hate at Beach Haven." "What I really love is the way he ends it," she says. "The last paragraph -- it's so lyrical. It's, 'Let's you and me shake hands together and get together and walk together and talk together and sing together and dance together and work together and play together and hold together and let's get together and fight together and march together until we lick this goddamned racist hate together, what do you say?' That's Woody. He was upset. He was angry. But he still understood that this is a problem, and let's sit down and talk about it and solve the problem instead of just being separate and having our own opinions. Let's solve the problem."
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The world seems immeasurable. Strange fungi burst through the soil overnight, miniature landscapes of lichen grow on the steps up to my front door, alien seed pods fall from otherwise normal-looking trees, and gooey, gelatinous masses are left behind an outgoing tide.
Though these phenomena may be scientifically documented and understood, to me they are new discoveries that activate my sense of wonder and prompt me to engage in personal scientific observation and imaginative speculation.
What strange things might thrive in the depths of the ocean, in the outer reaches of our solar system, or within the human gut?
Paddling a sea kayak, I am a new animal. My legs disappear, and my lower body is composed of a sleek, 17-foot hull. My boat-body responds to the wind and waves as assuredly as my legs do to changing terrain on land.I pay homage to the kayak, which gives me intimate access to the ocean. The kayak, in turn, pays homage to the seal. Mimicking the form of a marine mammal, and originally made from bone, sinew and sealskins, the kayak takes shape from the body.
In these sculptures I use canoe and kayak forms as literal and figurative vessels to navigate the interplay of human, animal, and landscape.
These works are a result of my fascination with the repetition of polygonal patterns throughout the natural world. From hexagonal patterned ground in the arctic that forms as a result of freeze-thaw cycles, to the geometric expression of some types of cancer cells, structural mathematics is a common thread connecting disparate life forms. This consistency of patterning on such a broad scale is logically satisfying, yet still delightfully mysterious.
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Flat Tire Because of Corroded Nut
Well yesterday I was driving down the road and my truck started leaning to the left, like in a big hurry. Got it off the road to the shoulder right away before I wrecked the rim. When I got out and checked it out I found the nut that holds the valve stem to the rim was split in three therefore allowing the valve stem to move around thus a flat tire. Could of put the spare on myself but called the Dodge Roadside assistance number and they sent a local guy out to change the tire. He told me this is a reoccuring problem on the Dodge Pickups with these 20inch Chrome Clad Rims. It looks like the nut corroded then just split. Now, I'm going to the dealer tomorrow to do battle, tire isnt wrecked but has a white scrape all the way around the sidewall where the rim rubbed it and took the black off the tire. The tire does have a couple signs of indentation on it also but I got it stopped before the tire was totally wrecked. What can I expect ??????? I am in Canada, truck is a year and a half old with 30,000km (18,600 miles).
It's most definately a common problem but not just with Dodge. These things are made from aluminum and corrode very easily. The sensor should be covered under warranty. Have them inspect the rest of them for a similar problem. the good news is that this design is falling by the wayside and a design with rubber stems is being phased in but I don't know when they will be incorporated into the ram line.
I'm wondering what they are going to do about the tire. I believe its not good enough to go back on but even if I swindle a new tire out of them I can't put 1 new tire on with with 3 others that have 18,000 miles on them. The way I see it it's not my problem so if they can't match a tire to the 3 good ones I have they are gonna have to put 2 new ones on to match.
just my 2 cents
they could put a new tire on your right rear, it shouldn't cause any problems
they shouldn't put it on the front, until it gets a little wear
Well I will post tomorrow afternoon what the outcome is. I know its hard for you guys to guess what they will do without seeing the tire.
I think....................they are either going to try to put my tire back on with the white stripe around the sidewall or find a used one with the same amount of tread to match my other 3. It will be a fight if they try to put my old tire back on with that ugly white "flat made whitewall".
Glad to see you got over to the side before things got bad.
I don't think they will get a new tire. They may try to clean this one up or find a used equivalent.
Good luck!
I highly recommend going in calm and calmly explain what happened to the service advisor and see what they want to do.
I can guaranty if you go in looking for a fight, you'll get one.
I'm back from the dealership and have good news. The dealer relayed the news to me that Dodge gave them the ok to put a brand new tire on to replace the one that has sidewall markings. They told me that they have not seen any problems with the TPMS sensor or the nut that corroded on mine but whatever. I assume there has been issues or Dodge would not as freely give up a new tire. Anyways, I'm greatful to the dealership and their people for pushing it through for me. This dealer isn't my local dealer but I drive farther to get to this dealer because they always treat me right.
Congrats, I'm glad it worked out for you.
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Student attendance is something that we record each day for two very important reasons: 1) to report to parents regarding the amount of instructional time that each student loses during the school year and; 2) for funding purposes.
Common sense tells us there is a positive relationship between the time students spend in class to their academic success. Because of the high absentee rate in our district, I would like to stress the need for your help as families in increasing student attendance.
Our goal is to ensure that every student attends school regularly and on time. Showing up for school has a huge impact on a student's academic success, starting in kindergarten and continuing through high school. Even as our high school students grow older and more independent, families still play a key role in making sure students get to school safely every day and understand why attendance is so important for success in school and in life.
We realize some absences are unavoidable due to health problems or other circumstances. But, we also know that when students miss too much school—excused or unexcused—they can fall behind academically. Your child is less likely to succeed if he or she is chronically absent—which means missing 10 or more days in a school year.
Excused absences are when school-aged students are absent from school with a valid excuse and parental approval. Examples of excused absences include:
-Student illness (a doctor's note is required if a student is absent for more than five days);
-Death in the student's immediate family;
-Necessity for a student to attend a legal proceeding as a plaintiff, defendant, witness or juror;
Observance of a religious holiday;
-Temporary school closings due to weather, unsafe conditions or other emergencies;
-Medical reasons such as a doctor's appointment (a doctor's note is required); and
-Emergency circumstances approved by the school.
Unexcused absences are when school-aged students are absent from school without a valid excuse, with or without parental approval. Examples of unexcused absences include:
-Doing Errands
-Cutting Classes
-Extended Travel (domestic or international)
As I outlined in my newspaper column, absenteeism is clearly a huge obstacle to student achievement.
But while student achievement is our primary focus, so is the revenue necessary to provide quality instruction. Schools such as ours rely heavily on funding that is generated by DAILY student attendance. We staff our schools, purchase goods and services, and cook meals based on the number of students who are enrolled. We receive funding only for those that actually attend. If a student misses school, the school is still paying for these resources even though the student is absent. However, the school does not receive the funding due to the absence.
As a community, we all can play a role to ensure good daily attendance. As I said before, families play a key role in making sure students get to school safely every day and understand why attendance is so important for success in school and in life. Please talk with your children and reinforce that you expect them to attend regularly and on time.
Dr. Michael Kuzniewski
J. Sterling Morton District 201


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