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For the third consecutive year, CeBIT Open Source invites projects to Hannover, Germany. The conference organizers and Linux Pro Magazine invite open source projects to apply for free exhibit space at CeBIT Open Source 2011.
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Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism depends on accurate preoperative imaging. Cervical ultrasound is commonly used to localize parathyroid adenomas, but can lead to discovery of concomitant thyroid gland pathology requiring modification of the operative approach. How the identification of incidental thyroid lesions affects patient management is unclear.A prospective database of patients undergoing parathyroidectomy was analyzed for thyroid pathology discovered by ultrasound. Lesions were biopsied if indicated, and operative management was adjusted accordingly. Clinical data were correlated with operative decision-making.Between July 2002 and November 2009, 310 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism underwent ultrasound. Concomitant thyroid pathology was noted in 89 (29%) patients. Thirty-seven patients (42% of pathology) underwent fine-needle aspiration of a thyroid nodule. Thirteen patients (4% of all patients) underwent a thyroid operation not related to parathyroid disease: 9 thyroid lobectomies for presumably benign nodules and 4 total thyroidectomies for malignancy. Two were for confirmed papillary thyroid cancer, and the other 2 were for an indeterminate biopsy that later proved to be papillary thyroid cancer. One lobectomy discovered microscopic papillary thyroid cancer independent of the biopsied nodule. In total, 5 (2% of all patients) malignancies were discovered.Twenty-nine percent of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism had concomitant thyroid pathology on ultrasound. Forty-two percent of these patients underwent biopsy, and 2% had malignant pathology. Routine use of ultrasound in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism leads to discovery of unrecognized thyroid pathology and cancer.


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So this is the second time I have tried to make a ct, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can't seam to get past the outline, I can't keep the lines that are close together from running together. I don't think my picture is too small,(it's spongebob) but maybe my tip is too big, The smallest I have is a # 2. I have also tried cutting a small hole in the bag. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried doing the outline and putting it in the refridgerator for a few minutes to harden up and then finishing it. That way the first lines would not be runny when you did the other lines. The only problem with this would be that you would have to keep reheating the icing in the bag. Hope this helps.
Unless you are doing a really large Ct, a tip 2 would be a large outline. Personally I find the best way to do CT's are with parchment triangles. Roll them really tight and if needed snip off the end. But I am talking a miniscule amount. YOu will have very fine lines and good control. Plus you can save the leftovers in there and reheat.
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I was going to recommend the parchment triangle, but I see that merissa beat me to it. I would give that a try and see what happens. Oh, and also what turtle recommended. Ocassionally put it in the refrigerator so it doesn't melt too much.
I don't use a tip at all. I just cut a small hole in a disposable piping bag. Start small & increase the size of the hole until you get the thickness that you need for the outline. I like the plastic bags better than parchment, but it's really a matter of preference.
I have a freezable insert to a vegetable/deviled egg tray that I use when I make things like this (It's the Pampered Chef Chillzanne tray, for anyone wondering). I just freeze the insert, put the flat end up, put the waxed paper and stuff on top, then pipe. The chocolate cools almost instantly while I'm piping, so no need to go back and forthe to the fridge. I'm sure there's something else you could use just as well, but since I have it, I use it... I suppose you could use any freezable cooler insert if it was flat enough... Or a gallon Ziplock filled with water that you froze on a baking pan... Or... So many ideas...
Good luck with future CT's!
Turtle you mentioned that you might have to keep re-heating the bags. I found if you keep a heating pad set on high it will help keep the chocolate a perfect tempeture for working with. I think I actually previously read that on here somewhere. Either way it is a great little tip.
I use a heating pad as well. If I have more than 1 image, I try to do the same colors for each image. I haven't had any issue with the colors running together, and I don't ever place the image in the fridge. This is 1 of the beauties of the choc. transfer. It only takes a min. for it to dry. Your choc. should not be scalding hot, if so, it will melt the other colors.


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I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton (As of right now).
Truth be told, I was an undecided voter nearly this entire Nomination Process-Up until late March. Hillary Clinton aligns with my views, is the most qualified, had experience INSIDE of the White House, and I'm not naive enough to NOT think Bill Clinton won't be running the presidency as well (He was an excellent president).
Bernie Sanders never did appeal to me. He has unrealistic ideas which would never pass in Congress-Not even a DEMOCRATIC Congress. It looks "awesome' on paper, but it would never be implemented. Also, where are his plans? He can say whatever he wants, but without a plan, it's useless.
Donald Trump is insane, and has no political experience. I don't care about his outrageous comments; It's the fact he's a business man, and not viable to run a country.
Ted Cruz is by far the worst candidate. His views are ultra-conservative-Too extreme for a Moderate like me. His views are even MORE bigoted than Donald Trump.
I've lived in Ohio my entire life, and John Kasich has been terrible since he's been our governor. He has completely de-funded education, actually supports COMMON CORE, and he's anti-gay, and probably more vile than Trump as well. He has ruined Ohio's economy, and is also solely for the super wealthy. Trust me-He may not get much media attention, but Kasich is a disaster.
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I can't vote, but my family (only my mother can vote) actually descides as a whole who to vote for. We're voting Bernie, as my mom, dad, and I agreed he's the best candidate.
Honestly, the republican candidates make my skin crawl, especially Cruz and Trump. Just looking at them, all I see are two slimy men who want nothing more than to run the government. Trump is insane, and money hungry, and honestly he's smart enough he could take complete control of the government. Plus, he's married to a trophy wife who only wants him for his money, and he only wants for sex, and he flaunts his daughter, because she's pleasing on the eyes (not gonna lie it's true) Cruz is too ultra-religious for my views, and he reminds me of Grandpa from the Munsters. Kasich, as someone mentioned before, is anti-gay, and I cannot, in good conscience, stand behind a candidate who would try and restrict the rights of the LGBTQA community, as well as supporting what the education community views as the worst educational curriculum ever.
The democrats I can stomach, and if it comes down to it, my mom will vote for Hilary over any republican. She has experience, as her husband was in office, and Bill Clinton made a wonderful president and got us out of debt (and then Bush fucked it up.) Personally, I think Bernie is a lot more progressive and talks about taking the country in the direction I want to see it going in. His economic plan has been reviewed by economists and they've said it would work, plus he's not taking super-packs. And honestly, he's fun to watch speak. He gives zero fucks about what anyone wants to hear and says what he wants to say.11|00|0
Bernie Sanders has no economic plan. He has no plans at all, which is the biggest problem with him. He has IDEAS-But he has no plans. An IDEA is not the same as a plan. Sure, he has these unrealistic ideas-Free college, and income equality, but no PLAN to how he is going to implement it.
It's like if I were to say I'm going to take a trip to Brazil over the Summer. Sure, my idea sounds great-A trip to Brazil. But where is my PLAN? HOW am I going to do this?
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@cavmanier I agree they're different, and if I could vote, I would be on the fence about who to elect. I feel at this point, we just need to get the US out of debt as fast as possible, and I think taxing big companies and the wealthy is the way to do that, not increasing taxes for the rest of the US
@FallOutBoy2001 As I explained, it's unrealistic because it would NEVER pass through Congress-Even a Democratic Congress. And like I said, he has NO plan on how he's going to do this. And if @cavmanier is correct, I don't want to pay an extremely high tax rate for free college. In that case, it COMPLETELY defeats the purpose of free college.
Hillary Clinton has the most realistic PLANS for our country-Oh, and she actually HAS plans.


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GAO-11-207: Published: Dec 3, 2010. Publicly Released: Dec 3, 2010.
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Ferries are a vital component of the U.S. transportation system and 2008 data show that U.S. ferries carried more than 82 million passengers and over 25 million vehicles. Ferries are also potential targets for terrorism in the United States and have been terrorist targets overseas. GAO was asked to review ferry security, and this report addresses the extent to which (1) the Coast Guard, the lead federal agency for maritime security, assessed risk in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) guidance and what risks it identified; and (2) federal agencies, ferry and facility operators, and law enforcement entities have taken actions to protect ferries and their facilities. GAO reviewed relevant requirements, analyzed 2006 through 2009 security operations data, interviewed federal and industry officials, and made observations at five domestic and one international locations with varying passenger volumes and relative risk profiles. Site visits provided information on security, but were not projectable to all ports. This is the public version of a sensitive report that GAO issued in October 2010. Information that DHS deemed sensitive has been redacted.
The Coast Guard assessed the risk--including threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences--to ferries in accordance with DHS guidance on risk assessment and, along with other maritime stakeholders, identified risks associated with explosive devices, among other things. Although in April 2010, Coast Guard intelligence officials stated that there have been no credible terrorist threats identified against ferries and their facilities in at least the last 12 months, maritime intelligence officials have identified the presence of terrorist groups with the capability of attacking a ferry. Many of the Coast Guard, ferry system and law enforcement officials GAO spoke with generally believe ferries are vulnerable to passenger- or vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, although not all ferry systems transport vehicles. The Coast Guard has also identified the potential consequences of an attack, which could include possible loss of life and negative economic effects. In April 2010, Coast Guard officials stated that the relative risk to ferries is increasing, as evidenced by attacks against land-based mass transit and other targets overseas. Federal agencies--including the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)--ferry operators, and law enforcement entities report that they have taken various actions to enhance the security of ferries and facilities and have implemented related laws, regulations, and guidance, but the Coast Guard may be missing opportunities to enhance ferry security. Security measures taken by the Coast Guard have included providing a security presence on ferries during transit. Coast Guard officials also reported that they are revising regulations to improve ferry operator training and developing guidance on screening. Ferry operators' security actions have included developing and implementing security plans and screening vehicles and passengers, among other things. However, the Coast Guard had not evaluated and, if determined warranted, acted on all findings and recommendations resulting from five agency-contracted studies on ferry security completed in 2005 and 2006. Reports from these studies included several recommendations for standardizing and enhancing screening across ferry operators. Standards for internal control in the federal government state that agencies should ensure that findings of audits and other reviews are promptly resolved, and that managers take action to evaluate and resolve matters identified in these audits and reviews. As a result of our work on ferry security, in August 2010, Coast Guard officials stated they planned to review the reports. Taking action to address the recommendations in these reports, if determined warranted by the Coast Guard's evaluation, could enhance ferry security. Furthermore, Coast Guard documents from 2004 state that the agency should reassess vehicle screening requirements pending the completion of the ferry security reports or if the threat changes. However, no specific plans were in place to reassess these requirements. By taking action to reassess its screening requirements, the agency would be better positioned to determine if changes are warranted. GAO recommends that the Commandant of the Coast Guard, after evaluating the completed studies on ferry security, reassess vehicle screening requirements and take further actions to enhance security, if determined warranted. DHS concurred with our recommendations.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: Based on our review of the Coast Guard's efforts to prevent terrorist attacks on large passenger ferries we recommended that the Coast Guard review the findings of its 2005 and 2006 ferry security reports and take appropriate actions to address the findings and recommendations identified in these reports. To demonstrate the actions taken to implement this recommendation the Coast Guard provided documents that summarized their overall response, along with a charter for the Ferry Security Working Group, a revised Breach of Security process guide, a 2011 guidance message regarding Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team coordination efforts, and an update to the Washington State Ferries Alternative Security Program. These documents demonstrated that the Coast Guard established a government/industry working group in Spring 2011 to obtain input on the results of the ferry security studies and their recommendations, assessed current domestic and international security measures being carried out by the ferry industry, and evaluated any recommendations for policy or regulatory changes to address perceived gaps in ferry security. The Coast Guard also developed additional guidance with ferry security partners. Based on the working group's review, current standards were determined to be sufficient and no changes to the standards were recommended or undertaken. Because the Coast Guard reviewed the studies as we recommended and determined whether additional action was needed or not based on the findings of these reports, we are closing this recommendation as implemented.
Recommendation: To ensure that the Coast Guard considers all known options for securing the ferry transportation system and is not missing opportunities to enhance ferry security, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, after fully evaluating the findings and recommendations from the Coast Guard's 2005 and 2006 ferry security reports, should take appropriate actions to address the findings and recommendations identified in these reports.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: United States Coast Guard
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: Additionally, we recommended that after the Coast Guard reviews the findings of the 2005 and 2006 ferry security reports it set vehicle screening requirements at an appropriate level that considers both the risks to and operating requirements of ferry systems. According to the its written response to our follow up and the charter of the Ferry Security Working Group, the Coast Guard worked with the working group and considered the need for screening rate percentage changes. The group determined that current percentages were sufficient and hence no changes were made to current standards. Further, the Coast Guard responded to us that screening guidance and screening percentages will be regularly reviewed and reconsidered as part of the ongoing work of the working group to assure that changes in risk to ferries bring about appropriate adjustments. Because the Coast Guard, in conjunction with industry partners reviewed vehicle screening standards and considered the need for screening rate changes based on identified risks we are closing this recommendation as implemented.
Recommendation: To ensure that the Coast Guard considers all known options for securing the ferry transportation system and is not missing opportunities to enhance ferry security, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, upon review of the reports, should ensure that vehicle screening requirements are set at an appropriate level that considers both the risks to and operating requirements of ferry systems, and when warranted, reassess screening requirements for ferries and make changes as appropriate.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: United States Coast Guard
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Outfielder Greg Zebrack has been named to the California Collegiate League's All-Star Game while outfielder Ryan Deitrich and second baseman Brandon Engelhardt were chosen as Cal Ripken League All-Stars. Right-handed pitcher Vince Voiro was chosen as a Valley League All-Star.
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Ryan Deitrich, who appeared in 17 games for the Quakers in his sophomore season and started to come on as the season concluded, has continued his success with the Herndon Braves of the Ripken League. He was named a starter for the CRBL in the Mid-Atlantic Classic after hitting .312 with 24 hits and 14 RBI.
Brandon Engelhardt, who started 38 games at second base in his freshman season in 2011 and reached base safely in his first 24 collegiate games, leads the Alexandria Aces with a .370 average on 17 hits in 16 games with 10 runs scored.
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I just pulled a 9 ft hp longboard out of a trash pile in my neighbors front yard. It has got its share of battle damage... busted up tail along the rail line and a fist size hole in the rail... but nothing some wax and duct tape cant fix (not worth a permanent fix since materials have been had to come by lately and PU boards die here anyway). I had just been thinking about how I wanted one so I could do the LB division too at the local contest. Not that I have any chance of winning at LB or shortboard but a $20 entry fee is a small price to surf HH to DOH barreling waves with 3 other people out, a tee shirt, and a post contest throw down. I have also scored in the past from trash piles a 6 ft BZ foamie, a 70s 5"5 Frierson winged round tail twin (looks like what a lot of companies are putting out now in the shorter is better revolution), and a boxy railed Jim Fuller WRV 6 ft Roundtail (My personal garbage picker favorite that I rode through college).Who else has scored boards from the trash pile?
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Garbage Score!!!!!!
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way to go man, i know where you're coming from. i moved to nj from brazil when i was 16 and didnt have money for a board and went a year and half without surfing it was torture. one day i went to the park and saw some kids throwing a surfboard around in the mud that they had pulled out of a dumpster. i told them i wanted the board and took it home. it was a 6'0" epoxy "flyboard" that had been custom made in manasquan for someone name katherine or katie my uncle helped me fix the busted tail and noise and i used that board for a year and a half after that
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it wasnt from the trash but i got a wrv fish from a yardsale for 15 bucks. tail was in bad shape,had multiple small rail dings and the nose had been broken,repaired badly and broken again. some leftover cloth and rez from my brothers shaping shed, a couple hours work and its one of my go to boards.aint much to look at but thats the last thing im worried about
I don't know but if you go to the dumpster behind dunkin at the end of the night you can get free donuts.
Oct 10, 2011, 04:22 PM #6
my first board was a trash picker special...i was all of 8, i think. nose busted off, tail split open, numerous deck & rail dings. the thing was FUGLY. i took it home to my dad & said, "hey, can you fix this?" he just laughed at me & got his ding repair toolbox out. i stood up on my first wave (on a real surfboard!) 2 days later...i don't remember what kind it was, just that it was some POS late 70's/early 80's single fin...dark green rails & pale green deck, super rockered out nose, thick boxy rails. super floaty, though, so easy to paddle & impossible for my skinny-@$$ 8 year old self to carry. i must've dropped it every other session.
i bought a gary linden 6' swallow tail of some guy for $20 bucks. it was "unfixable" after a weeks of work i had it water tight. i absolutly LOVE that board. shes not pretty but that board is magic. i think the fact that i spent so much time repairing it is what gives me such a connection with the board.
one mans junk is another mans treasure
it's my dream to drive around and just pull boards out of the trash...never seem to see any though
Oct 10, 2011, 07:45 PM #10
Never plucked a board from the garbage. However, I have found an old McCoy 6'8" single fin under a house I was working on years back. It's on someone's wall now.
I also found a 1979 Yamaha TT 175 trials bike in the shed of an abandoned house that was about to be demolished...... It's all complete, haven't tried to get it to run yet though


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Huntin' Season Begins: A Collection of Old-Time Hunting and Boozing Ads
Right now in the state of Texas, thousands of virile Texan fathers, uncles, brothers and grandpas are heading to leases all over this great part of the union to track, shoot, skin and mount furry things.
Yes, it's hunting season again in the Lone Star State.
Whether you are wielding the family deer rifle, a newfangled AR-15 or something else cool and possibly quasi-illegal, hunting season is a big part of the Texas experience. Like voting for Rick Perry, your money and your daughter going to College Station and getting a DWI.
Hair Balls found some great vintage hunting ads, some that comically add booze to the hunting experience. Let's be honest, though, drinking and hunting go hand in hand. It's not a pretty thought, as dumb and dangerous as it is.
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I will say this: You haven't lived until you have taken a good long swig from a bottle of Jameson before taking aim at a feral hog with a locked and loaded AR. The post-coital feeling of slamming a round or two into charging hog is only intensified with the introduction of some of the best whiskey known to man into your system.
Or so I have been told.
It's all fun and games until one of these kids locks himself in his closet with a head full of LSD in a few years after he gets drafted.
"So I says to the bear, I says to the bear....I fought bigger Germans than you at Normandy. Then I shit my pants and ran."
"Put your rifle down, sir. I mean you no harm. I am only trying to sing you the native songs of my proud bear clan."
"My husband left me on this boat with just our dog, this empty rifle and a bunch of beer. Happy anniversary to me, I guess. I'm pregnant, by the way."
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This was the last time that Harry and the fellas ever stole beer from a family of deer.
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Americans like me, who allegedly need "re-education",,are a *very* breed than a Jew living in a densely populated 1940 Europe, They had a right to their innocence, and to believe they lived in a civilized land. In a civilized land, you simply shouldnt have to worry about governmental homicide.
They thought they were honestly safe from homicide in Holland, France, Warsaw, Prague, Berlin,,,etc,,,. The genocides in western nations, was a one trick pony,,,like 9/11 with airliners.
In that area, the trust is gone forever. You won't get ME or MINE on the train. Ditto with todays Jewish people,, go ahead,,try to tell them to form up outside with a suitcase to be relocated by train. Todays SS or NKVD man would meet a Remington 870 with some OO buckshot right at the door.
So try your Hitler or Pol Pot act.
I'm a police sergeant, in a large city. The day this starts, is the day I resign, watch red dawn and join the wolverines. I wouldnt ever be a party to this,, AND even *if i was* so inclined, I absolutely know i wouldnt survive the day. Thats just a fact.
The totalitarians will reap a grim price for being on the wrong side of the ""gun culture" for all those decades. We know what we are doing,,, you don't.
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Students, obviously oblivious to the severity of what Paterno had done, or not done, decided to rally to Paterno's defense.
His pre-termination statement was revealing:
I am absolutely devastated by the developments in this case. I grieve for the children and their families, and I pray for their comfort and relief.
I have come to work every day for the last 61 years with one clear goal in mind: To serve the best interests of this university and the young men who have been entrusted to my care. I have the same goal today.
That's why I have decided to announce my retirement effective at the end of this season. At this moment the Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my status. They have far more important matters to address. I want to make this as easy for them as I possibly can.
This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.
My goals now are to keep my commitments to my players and staff and finish the season with dignity and determination. And then I will spend the rest of my life doing everything I can to help this University.
That's quite an opening sentence. "I am absolutely devastated by the developments in this case." He wants us to know that he has suffered. He's devastated. It's almost too much to bear. He is a participant in the alleged devastation, albeit an unindicted one.
What about "I am ashamed"? What about "I was grievously wrong"? Well, that would require Paterno to accounting for his own actions, a recognition that he is not another victim of Jerry Sandusky's alleged crimes but, by his sins of omission, a facilitator .
The next paragraph is pure rationalization and self-justification. He's been a good coach for 60 years, damn it! And don't say he didn't care about the university! Got that?
Moving on, his self-imposed retirement was intended, oh so generously, to spare the trustees the trouble of firing him. But not until the end of the season. Because the important thing here was to play the game well, you see. Finish with "dignity and determination." I've got news for him: It's way too late to preserve his dignity. The university decided he wouldn't be finishing anything other than his career.
Next he reminds us once more of his own "sorrows." And then, as if he had run a stop light, tosses out: "With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more." Not "regret" he hadn't done more. Just hope, as in "It would have been better if . . ." And what a curiously incomplete sentence that is. I wish I had done more . . . so boys weren't preyed upon? . . . so an alleged predator didn't go undetected? He can't bring himself to say any of that. He's an innocent bystander, a witness, you see.
The last sentence is the doozy. He's going to spend his last days helping the university. Because really, it's the university that's suffered such a blow here. But what about the . . . oh, never mind.
In my first post on this subject, I suggested that the Penn State football program be retired as a fitting symbol of the need to reorient the university's priorities. If anything, Paterno's self-indulgent letter, his attempt at a leisurely retirement schedule and the students' upset over his dismissal only dramatize my point: Something big and symbolic, unprecedented even, is needed because after all of this, many still don't get it.
The university, the football program and the "legendary" coach and his legacy are not the victims; they are the enablers of the alleged crimes. Football is not the top priority in life. Forgetting that and the identity of real victims (or, in one alleged instance, not bothering even to find out his name) are precisely how this all came about.


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I think I need to add I DO NOT HIKE (I feel like its a prerequisite for online dating)! So please if you are an avid hiker I am NOT your match. I think hiking is just walking up and down a dirt hill, basically overrated, (my opinion). I'm now going to add; please stop sending me messages saying you "like my tattoos", I do not have any tattoos, it is a Halloween picture, I thought that was obvious! As for all the couples and lesbians sending me messages, no judgment here, I am flattered but not interested, thank you.
Okay... I am looking for a REAL gentleman, a nice guy, someone who is kind and caring but has a back bone. A man who knows the difference between being gentle/mysterious, refined/reserved, preppy/conservative. A TRUE gentleman! A man that realizes kissing a women's palm can be as sensual as any other act. A man who knows to open doors and pull out chairs. A man who doesn't do the "modern day honk" pulling up to a women's house and calling her on your cell phone saying your outside, A proper man parks his car and walks up to the door and knocks. Someone who appreciates romance but isn't cheesy about it. A person who takes pride in their looks, such as a clean shaven face (I cannot stress this enough, if you have facial hair please don't send me a message), good hygiene and keeps a healthy weight. I feel that attraction is A must because to me intimacy is very important in a good healthy relationship. I would like someone to have a sense of humor but not as far as a comedian because I also think serious can be very sexy. Intelligent of course. Basically the perfect man, I know there's no such thing, but maybe just someone perfectly suited for me.


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War and blood have spread across the world again as nations seek to overpower one another. The Avatar is meant to bring balance to the world. But she is enclosed within the great city of Omashu while the Black Dragon plots. Avatar Tala must master the elements and seek a path to continue her journey as the Avatar.
Chapter 1: The Prisoner
The harsh sound of a large muzzle could be heard in the room. Every time the wolf slept, his heavy breathing woke up the floor. Fortunately, he rarely slept. Only as necessary when he couldn't stay awake to watch over his master anymore.
His master was another story. She did nothing but sleep. The She-Wolf, a deadly waterbending mercenary named Ralyn, had taken the most perplexing action and attacked her benefactors, clients who no doubt paid very well for her services in the war on Omashu. And yet she sabotaged most of their mysterious tankers, turning them into fireballs and smoke. She nearly escaped were it not for Grand Marshal Rishu, the Black Dragon. His lightning put her out, she has been that way for the month and a half since.
Three Down, One To Go
Tala weaved through the spinning gates with ease. Making it look like the gates were still and she were merely walking through them. The Elders looked on with pride, she had recovered well from her broken ribs, enough to twist and spin as was required to navigate the spinning gates.
Tala lightly stepped down as she exited the gates, never touching a single one. She waited silently. Hava clapped, "Excellent work, Avatar Tala."
Monk Yilo agreed, "Indeed Avatar. In three years, you have mastered an element that is your natural opposite. A truly remarkable feat. We have agreed with Master Hava that you have learned not only how to bend the element of air but to understand our ways."
Tala smiled slightly, but otherwise gave no sign of the pride she held inside. She brought her hands together and bowed slightly to them. Hava and the council returned the gesture, Hava smiled with pride as his student has achieved such a great thing.
"Congratulations, my pupil, for we are now both masters of air."
As the fashion of Omashu, a feast was held for the Avatar for mastering the element of air. It was a high point that the people needed in the wake of war and more recently the battle on the full moon two months ago. Many were captured by bloodbenders that night. And though a smaller group, those who were lost forever still wounded the city. Amongst them were the twin sons of King Urri, Esas & Kilidi.
Urri was still reeling from the loss compounded with the capture of his brother, Suun. The entire city felt for their leader and his terrible loss.
Several of the kids that Kulek was now training in Simi's absence performed some techniques for entertainment, including air scooters as the kids circled each other. In the midst of the jubilation, a White Lotus sentinel approached Liman, the highest ranking Lotus after Kuel's capture. His eyes narrowed upon the sentinel whispering in his ear. He left and followed the sentinel. She looked to Hava and motioned to Liman, both left as quietly as they could so not to attract attention.
Liman headed to the hospital and made it to a room they all knew too well, Ralyn's. Tala and Hava entered, surprising Liman. But not nearly as much as they were surprised when they saw Ralyn was sitting up, her massive wolf on her lap.
"I figured someone would want to talk to me when I woke up."
"To say the least."
"I'm surprised the King is not here. Unless he is otherwise unable to convene?"
"He is being informed of the situation. But we have more important questions for you, mercenary."
"Why, dear Master Lotus, important questions are the only ones that have any interest." She smiled deviously.
Ralyn's waking from her lightning induced sleep soon spread amongst the elite of Omashu. While a mercenary, she was close to Rishu by all accounts and trusted to protect his wife from the Avatar; yet she betrayed him and fled to the city he was sieging.
Ralyn seemed only slightly hurt from her wound as if she had been healing for months when it was less than two. Liman and Hava began questioning her.
"Lets start with why you turned on your benefactor?"
"Yes," she adjusted how she sat, difficult with a hundred and fifty pound wolf on her lap, "you see, I was given a task to complete. One that would make capture of the Avatar easy for the Fire Nation. If you noticed, I destroyed a set of special containers."
"Yes, what of them?"
"Those containers had a very dangerous substance, called Morpheus. It was a liquid that when turned into gas could induce comas. There was enough of it to make the entire city vegetables."
Hava inquired, "Then what use is it if its in liquid form and not gas?"
"The task was for my Wolves and I to bend the liquid into a gas after it was dropped into the city. Once it had its effect, the army would march in, take the targets they want and give them the serum to wake them up, only they'd be prisoners."
Ralyn continued, "The only problem is that there was a limited supply of the serum, so they wouldn't bother reviving the entire city. This entire city doesn't deserve the fate fit for only its defiant leader."
Liman pressed, "Why did you come to us afterwards, why not flee for somewhere else?"
"Are you kidding? The Fire Nation controls the seas and the Earth Kingdom has control of all the roads between here and anywhere else. There is nowhere to run."
Hava and Liman were silent for a moment, thinking on this.
Tala asked the next question, "What are you expecting for coming to us and what are you willing to give in return?"
"I expect that I will be a prisoner, and likely locked away by your king. I offer my services and knowledge. I am a master waterbender, and I know much in the way of Fire Nation military operations."
"And if those services include fighting for us?"
"So long as I am not fighting the wolves, who will follow their contract with the Grand Marshal, perhaps."
"And teach?"
Hava walked to her, "Tala, a word."
The three left Ralyn in the room with the sentries. Hava closed the door and immediately began questioning, "What are you thinking? Fighting? Teaching?"
"She is the best waterbender in the continent, if not the world. We need that skill and expertise on our side."
"If this is about learning waterbending, we have plenty of waterbenders and Liman is the best of them."
"But she's better, no offense." She quickly looked to Liman.
"None taken. Yes, she is more skilled and more powerful, she is also a mercenary for hire. Can we trust her to fight with us?"
"I don't know, but I do know that we need that power, I need that power, if we are to end that army of invaders outside our doorstep." She paused to breathe, "For too long, I was hidden in here and given sub-par training so that Urri could keep me in the city. I need the best to teach me, just like you did. Maybe things would be different if I had learned from Rishu and then you. Perhaps I would have been in a position to broker a peace?"
"You can't know that. Its a stretch of a possibility and a highly unlikely one." Hava did not buy into the reasoning of that.
"But one that was possible nonetheless. The fact is, I need to learn from the best, and she is the best."
Hava looked to Liman, "She can learn just as well from you. We don't need some mercenary to tell her how to waterbend."
Liman was quiet for a moment in serious thought, he sighed and answered, "Yes, I could teach the Avatar to waterbend, and I could teach her well. I could teacher her Northern Style and how to defend against bloodbending. But Ralyn is clearly my superior. She knows much more than I do, is more powerful, and can teach much more to Avatar Tala than I can."
Hava did not like this, why would he at all agree with the idea? In what crazed world did it make sense? "Tala, training with her is not something you can do. She'll be in a cell forever while Urri is King."
"Not if you help me convince him that we need the best waterbender in the city to teach me my final element."
"Convince him? You haven't convinced me."
"Look, I don't trust her either, but I can use an experienced and skilled waterbender of her caliber."
Trouble For Teachers
Tala spent a long time arguing with Hava and then King Urri about having their recently awoken prisoner as a teacher. They remained unconvinced but she was determined, the kind of determined that would persist if they refused, the kind of determined that would do it on her own.
Urri was most opposed of them to her training with Ralyn. She was the one who directly captured Suun, Urri's brother, on the same night both his sons died. Urri was not in the mood to be generous to his prisoner.
But despite Hava's continued resistance, he was willing to let up if it could be guaranteed that she would cooperate and give all the intel she had on the siege.
Standing before her, Ralyn agreed, "I guess if I'm going to be called a traitor that I might as well be one who gets the honors too."
She stood up and stretched, testing how her body reacted and if there was any permanent damage from the lightning. She seemed to make most of the motions without straining or pain.
"First question: what do the invaders want?"
"Depends on who you ask."
"Don't dodge the question."
"Not dodging, it does depend. For what they want: if The Snowbold, then its you he wants, that way he can take the city. If Rishu, its the Avatar, he's wanted his claws on her since this all started."
She shrugged her shoulders implying she didn't know, "Probably cause it would legitimize the war if she stood with them."
Hava despite opposing it spoke up, "Lets be clear, you are to teach the Avatar how to bend the element of water, that is it. You will train her in the palace and only the palace."
"If that is what you wish, so be it." She looked to Tala, "We'll begin training the day after tomorrow, be there at sunrise."
"Very well, Sifu Ralyn."
Hava and Urri grimaced at her calling the mercenary that. But left it alone as they walked out.
While the city at large was unaware of who Tala would train from in waterbending, it was known amongst the military and other defending troops. Most displeased of all was the Order of the White Lotus, feeling betrayed that they were looked over in favor of a mercenary. Many thought Master Lotus Liman should teach her, given his skill and now recent responsibilities as leader with Kuel's capture.
It was a change that Kulek also disagreed with. He couldn't understand why Tala wanted to learn from her. He asked her. Her response were rhetoric, "She is the best waterbender in the city, if not the world. I would be a fool not to learn from her."
"Liman can teach you everything she can."
"No, actually, he can't."
A creeping fear set in to Kulek, "Are suggesting you want to learn to-"
"No! But there are plenty of moves I have seen her use that put even Liman to shame. The fact is that she is the best available and I need to learn as much as I can."
"But why her?"
She sighed, "The last time I wasn't trained by the absolute best was for firebending and it would have been Rishu. I didn't know, but still; what could have changed if I have learned from him? Would relations between the Fire Nation and this city be better? Could this whole war have been averted?"
"Rishu is a monster. He murdered Esas and Kilidi, he is responsible for this whole war."
"Exactly, a man like that is more than powerful. Imagined if I learned from him. Teachers need to be more than just a trainer, I needed and need more teachers like Hava who will challenge me."
Kulek didn't understand it and didn't think it was worth the trouble to try and find out. She was set on learning in waterbending from the She-Wolf.
Changed Pace
Tala walked up the steps slowly, the training grounds had been changed to maximize its use for waterbending. Ralyn had stressed to take advantage of winter before it left. She finished climbing the steps to see new grounds. Fountains dominated the floor as one flanked each side and a massive one centered with tons of water now pumped in.
Ralyn stood in the middle just in front of the central fountain. She wore most of the same armor that she used to fight Tala on both Black Sun and the full moon, minus the wolf-helm.
Along the edges were other waterbenders eyeing the mercenary coldly. Among them was Liman, some Southern Tribe waterbenders and plenty of White Lotus sentries.
Ralyn raised a hand, a good number of sentries readied to strike, "Welcome, Avatar Tala, to your first lesson in waterbending."
Tala bowed respectfully.
"Now to begin. Water is an element of adaptation. While most fail to use that facet, it is inherent, with every wave and tide, with every drop of rain, there is change. This change gives waterbenders great versatility."
She turned to the fountain behind her and reached out her arm. Five pillars stood up, they curved in towards Ralyn, then began circling the mercenary. The circled as steep angles, crossing into each other. Then Tala realized that the water was leaving one stream into the next effortlessly without affecting the whole.
Ralyn next demonstration became clear when she used a new form of movement. The movements of her arms were stiffer and icicles emerged in the small wave before her. Ralyn blew on the form and it turned into a sphere of ice with the icicles still attached.
Tala watched in wonder at the impressive display, and so did the onlookers, most of whom were waterbenders themselves.
"You will, however have one weakness in this element; availability." She sent the water away and back into the fountain, "If you have no water to bend, you have no power. But there are things that can be taught to help you here." She twirled her hand in a circle and water appeared in the palm.
"Now lets begin."
- Ralyn will have a growing role in the story as the Avatar's new mentor. She will also contrast the advice she receives from others in the city.
- Ralyn is not only the most powerful waterbender in the city but in the world, though she is not a prodigy.
- Ralyn may have betrayed her contract, but her mercenary company, the Wolves, have stilled remained fixed to their record of never betraying a contract, and still work for the Fire Nation, despite their commander's breach.
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|Revival - The Council - Impasee - The Blockade - Invasion - Holdouts - Resistance - Foundations - Myths and Omens - History Repeats - The Order and the Coast - Queries - Agni Kai - The Night of Puppets - Exile
|Book 2 - Blood and Swamps
|The Prisoner - Heritage - Kin - The Edge - Siege of the North - Into the Mists - Supremacy of Wolves - A Dark Art - The Black Dragon - A Dark Path - The Way Out - Lord and King - The Ties that Break - Avatar Tala - All Nations
|Book 3 - Pyres and Storms
|The Other Front - The Witch - Ancient Dangers - The Spirits - Ambush - Nomad - The Exiles - The Airfield - Roots of the Past - The Storm Grave - Spirit of a Dragon - Night of Steel - Things in the Night - Falling Seasons - Black River - So Ends The Journey
|Fates and Vows
|An Untimely End - Disrespect and Disregard - Birth in Fire, Death in Water - Conflict - Hold - Collisions of the Mind - Ilera - Solace Fade - Scions - Sovereign
|The Rise of Lirin
|Prologue: A Special Day - In the Morrow - The White Dragon - Faith in Blood - The Great Gates - Lord Avatar - A Red Sun - Faceless - Faction - Tempest - Rally of Crows - Rally of Eagles - Dragons and Serpents - Kings and Men - Storms of a Spirit - Princes - A Battered Land - Seas of Ichor - Arbiter - Return to a Grave - Declination - Disaffection - Epilogue
|Myths of the Empire
|Pacification - Assassins - Empire - Red Sun Under The Empire - White Snow - Heirs
|The Reclamation of Arein
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|Refugee - Rogue - Ghosts - Dark Roses - Doyen - Divulgence - The Plan - Abscond - Mists of Illusion - Madonna - Syndicate - Playing the Stakes - Purge - Brothers
|Book 2 - War
|Alliance - Temple - Tensions - The Fall - Hunters and Prey - Lussuria - Shades of Relevance - Broken Star - Defiler - Strikeforce - Secrets of the Lair - Eminence - Swarm - Wanderer
|Dreams of Melasa
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| Proactive Survival - A New Master - The Great Forest - Different Worlds - Prowess and Priority - Waves of Stone - Sons of the Earth - Brethren - Arbalest - Convalesce - War Flower - Keepsakes - Iseran - Dosh Rak
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|Faint but Clear - Ghost in the Steel - Kurotama - Loyalties - Servants of Shadow - Game of Fate - Shadows and Reflections - Tomb of Blood - Broken Blades - Hill of Shadow - Souls and Swords - Home
|One Hand
|Running Numbers - Fragile