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Salutations! Welcome to the first joint fanfiction between Pennatus and Schizzar. This Infamous fanfic will be detailing life after the Evil Ending of Infamous 2. That means there will be rampant spoilers, and whatnot. There are also OCs. While sometimes OCs bug people, I urge you to keep reading, for there will be plenty of Cole and Kuo to make up for it.
Without further ado, please enjoy the first chapter!
"Any man can overcome adversity. If you truly want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln
The night was hot, humid. The fire crackled and popped as I stirred the stew in front of me. There wasn't much in it; potatoes, chunks of rabbit meat Connie had caught earlier that evening. It's a bland meal, but then nothing tastes good with the smell of burning flesh in your nose. We burned the dead. Those inflicted with the plague. Connie said burying them risks contaminating our only source of water out here, not that it matters, because at this point we're all sick; it's just a matter of who shows the symptoms next.
I heard the bigger cities still have access to clean water, that the electricity and water systems still work. Out here, in the middle of nowhere, there's no such luck. We catch our food, build fires from scratch, and hope that the well holds out, all while slowly wasting away into nothing.
"Kovi, hurry up in there," Connie yelled. "We're all hungry."
Connie's my sister. When the plague got really bad, she took control, kept people isolated. Funny. She was only 22 years old, and taking care of a town who's population now numbered 31. Sure, there are people around here older than her, but none of them are as smart, and they don't know how to be leaders like her.
Well, I didn't either. With Connie around to overshadow me, I never bothered to try. If she wanted to take the spotlight, more power to her. That's not to say I wasn't jealous; of course I was. I wanted to be the special one, the one who always knew what to do.
I finished the stew a few minutes later and carried it out to the table Connie had set up in front of our house. 29 people were lined up, armed with their bowls and spoons, ready for the small meal that would barely keep them sated. It was better than nothing though. Better than being dead.
Once everyone had been fed, Connie and I split the remainder. It wasn't much, but Connie wanted the others to have as much as possible. Sometimes she would give me her share too, and it always left me feeling guilty. Until my stomach roared from hunger.
I was just putting the meal away when a man came tearing down the street. Dirt and hunger made us all look the same and I couldn't be bothered to remember his name.
"There's a group moving through. Rose spotted them when she was out picking berries. They're moving slow, but she says they'll be here soon," the man said, the words spilling out in a rush.
"Thank you, Dean. Kovi, go get Kellen and Dad's gun. Meet me at the edge of the town by the woods," Connie ordered.
I nodded and darted back in the house. Connie kept our Dad's gun in her room, fully loaded with the safety off. It was only a pistol, but it was the only thing we really had to defend ourselves. Kellen lived two houses down from us, and helped Connie with the overall organization of the remaining citizens, so it was only natural that Connie wanted her to come. Even if I thought I was more than enough support.
Kellen was eager to help, blond ponytail bouncing as we ran to join Connie. I always liked Kellen; she was beautiful, all long legs and powerful muscle, the fittest of us all. Not that she ever looked twice at me.
We arrived at Connie's side just as the party Dean had spoke of stepped out of the woods. I swung the gun up, aiming like Connie had taught me, at the apparent leader of the group. When his eyes met mine, my limbs turned to jello. They were red, a feral gleam in them that made my blood pump hot with fear. His hair was shaved close to his head, and a ragged scar cut its way up through his right eye. Tattoos littered his arms, but he was too far away for me to really see what they were. Something was on his back, its rusted handle jutting out over his shoulder.
Standing next to him was a woman whose appearance chilled me as much as his burned. Misty ice crawled up her forearms, black hair sweeping over one of her bright blue eyes. We were dealing with Conduits, something people in my town spoke of often but had never seen. I fired.
The shot went wide, and the man didn't even flinch, instead breaking into a crooked grin.
"Kovi!" Connie shouted, jerking my arm down and wrenching the gun away.
"I-I'm sorry." My voice cracked. The man's grin widened and I felt my face heat.
"It's alright. We understand if you're scared," the man said. "I'm Cole. And this is Kuo."
"Why are you here?" Connie's voice was more firm, and her hand didn't shake as she leveled the gun at Cole.
"Let's talk in town," Cole said, his voice not open at all for argument.
"Just you," Connie said. "Forgive my suspicions."
I glanced past Cole to the group of ten or so people gathered behind them. My eyes met those of a tall boy, possibly my age. They were green, and impossibly large as he stared at me, almost through me. Then, just the smallest twitch. Shaking his head.
"Connie...maybe we should just send them on their way," I murmured.
"I insist," Cole said, already walking forward.
Connie just rolled her eyes at me and walked after Cole, keeping the gun pressed to the back of his head as we walked. He strode confidently, all strong grace and power, like a tiger in human form. Kellen and I trailed after them, and I shot a hurried glance behind me, looking for the boy who I had thought was warning me. He was gone.
As we entered the town, people began to emerge, staring at our odd procession with wide eyes; it had been awhile since Connie had allowed anyone to come inside. People began to gather, and Cole came to a halt, his body relaxed. Then, before anyone could move, he whirled, grabbing Connie's arm and kicking her in the stomach. The gun fell and Connie's body hit the ground. A sharp pain arched through my head and my vision spun away from me, screams echoing in my ears.
When I woke, Cole was standing above me. His eyes still glowed, and he still wore that smile. "I had a feeling you'd be one of them."
I jolted up. "Connie! Where is she?" My head exploded from pain but I ignored it, glancing this way and that, looking for a sign of...anything. But there was nothing. I was surrounded by charred bones, and yet the houses still stood, untouched by the fire that had burned the remains of...were they people I knew? Was that what I was seeing? "What did you-"
My question was cut off as I was kicked to the ground. "Stop squealing. You have a choice, right now." Cole ground his boot into the small of my back as I writhed, trying to break free of the unshakable grip. "You're a Conduit now. Either you come with me, or I kill you."
"Fuck! I'll go with you, Jesus Christ!" I shouted, the effort splitting my skull with pain. "Just...tell me what you did."
The pressure left my back and I rolled over, propping myself up on my elbows as I looked up at Cole. His expression was grim as he folded his arms across his chest, as if he was weighing the words in his mind. "I got rid of anyone who didn't carry the Conduit gene. Anyone who didn't deserve to live is now gone. It's survival of the fittest now. And you're one of the fittest."
"That's...that's crazy! Kellen was way more athletic than me..." I was aware that I wasn't making much sense, it's not like he knew who Kellen was, but at that point I didn't care. All I wanted was for everything else to make sense. Cole didn't seem to be interested in enlightening me though. "Please...just. I don't know what's going on. I don't even know who you are!"
"I'm the Beast. The plague either kills you or I awaken the Conduit gene. The plague would kill you all, but my powers can save the Conduits. I'm saving mankind from its own destruction and creating a race that will survive."
"But I can't be a Conduit! I'm not special! Connie's the important one. Why am I alive when she's..." I trailed off, staring at one of the skeletons with their charred bones and fragmented bits.
"That's just it." At some point, Cole had leaned to crouch down over me, his face inches from my own. Up close, his red eyes are painful to look at. Emotions were at war within them: pain, excitement, agony, sorrow, glee. His veins arched through every line of his face; it was frightening and fascinating all at the same time, and I wanted to get closer. "Now, you are special. You're the one who's important. You're the one with...power."
He leaned back and stood up once more, extending his hand. Those words were all I needed to hear. Words I had always been denied. And now this man...this...superhuman, had told me that I meant something. That I was more than all of those people who had put me down and kicked me to the side, telling me I was insignificant and worthless. That I was the one meant to survive.
I took his hand. It was scalding hot but I kept my grip firm as I stood, unable to look away form his hypnotizing gaze.
"Can you feel the power, Kovi? Do you feel it?" He released my hand to grab my forearm, and I gasped, head bowing down as pain shot up my arm. "It's under there, deep within you. I've activated it, now you need to show me what you can do."
He shoved me back, and a bolt of electricity raced down his arm and stabbed at my chest. I cried out, body convulsing at the shock. It felt like my heart was stopping and starting all over again, but all at once, my feet planted themselves firmly on the ground. With a shout, I brought my arms up and then something happened. The shock stopped and when my mind finally started working again, vines were protruding from my arms, just beneath my elbow, and were wrapped tightly around Cole's wrists, locking them together. I stared in awe at the seamless blend of plant and skin, marveling at how I felt no pain, marveling at the sense of power that rushed through me.
When my eyes met Cole's, I could see my delight mirrored in his eyes. "Yes. You'll do. You have amazing instincts. Now retract them."
He flexed his hands and my vines snapped, falling limp to the ground. "How?"
"Just think about what you want to happen," he said, his voice surprisingly patient.
I did as he ordered, and just like that, the vines began to slither in, slipping beneath my skin and vanishing without a single flash of pain. "Is...is this what a Conduit is?"
"We all have control over something. It's what sets us apart from the others," Cole said, moving towards me. "Now tell me, Kovi. Can you leave your old life behind? We have work to do, and if you're going to get caught up in all of this-" He gestured around him at the barren wasteland "-you better tell me now."
My mind was still numb from the shock of everything, but when he asked me that question, I knew my answer. Life had been pointless and meaningless before. This man had restored my hope, my desire to be alive. I met his eyes. "I'll join you. And I won't look back."
He turned and began to walk, confident that I would follow. I glanced around quickly, and spotted what I wanted. Dad's pistol, shining in the setting sun. I checked to see that Cole wasn't looking, then snatched it off the ground, clicking the safety back on before following after him.
Cole pushed us hard. Kuo worked to train some of the other Conduits Cole had gathered. We numbered in the hundreds, and for an hour each morning and each night, we would work together at mastering our new found powers. I found that I didn't often talk with my comrades. They didn't interest me. I knew that in order to become worthy of Cole's attention, I would have to work harder than the rest to prove myself. For hree days, I didn't think about that boy I had seen just before Cole had been led into town.
And then I figured out what had happened to him without asking.
We were settling down for the night, unrolling our blankets and getting ready for sleep. The sound of hand smacking flesh echoed across the clearing, and all heads turned to see a girl slapping Cole across the face. He seized her wrist, nearly lifting her off the ground. She glared at him with defiant gray eyes, ice slithering off her free hand to stab at the man. It exploded and a bolt of lightning struck her side.
Her cry screeched through our ears, and while we all flinched, Cole remained unmoved.
"Do you mean to say you don't want to be a part of this?" Cole asked, voice soft. In the silence that her cry has created, we could all hear him crystal clear.
"If it means we're killing more innocent people, then no," she said. "Let me go. I'll leave, and I won't bother any of you. You can go on killing, but I refuse to be a part of it!"
With a shout of rage, Cole threw her away, hard enough to make her fly through the air like a rag doll, all flailing limbs. A moment later, a bolt of lightning struck her body to the ground. When the smoke drifted away, there was nothing left at all. As I looked around, I saw only fear in the gazes around me. Fear that they would be next. Didn't any of them see that they were just like him? They were strong, powerful, we all were. We deserved to live! The others would've died out anyways, so what did it matter? We were just...speeding up the process.
A ragged sob split the air and a girl beside me fell to her knees. "Why? Why my sister? She was just-"
Kuo shoved me aside and knelt beside the girl, a hand moving to silence her. "Cole. Leave it. I'll take care of this. Give her a chance."
She looked up at Cole, who had at some point moved closer, looming over them, hands clenched tight, sparking with lightning as he glowered down at them. Her blue eyes were full of something I couldn't identify, and for a moment, Cole's gaze seems to soften, a moment of stable emotion before the torrent took over once more.
"She has until morning. If she runs, I won't chase," he said, so quiet I think I was the only one that heard. The rest of them had distanced themselves from the trio.
Kuo nodded and helped the weeping girl to her feet before walking off into the woods. Cole turned once to look at all of us.
"Practice. No slacking. You all need to adjust to your powers. Those who are more experienced, help the newest." He glanced around again then moved to disappear into the woods opposite of Kuo.
"Come on, newbie. I wanna see what you can do," a voice said.
I turned to see a tall boy looking down at me. His eyes were a deep blue, skin pale, with near white blond hair. His face was all angles, his nose turned up a little, as if he spent so much time sniffing down at the people beneath him that it got stuck like that. He was the epitome of all my bullies from before.
"Yeah, alright," I agreed.
He led me off deeper into the woods, and I could already tell that this wasn't going somewhere I wanted it to. I shook myself out of that fear of getting my ass kicked, reminding myself that I was better now, I was stronger. I wasn't going to let anyone tear me down, especially not some no-name shit head.
"So you're new, aren't you? Picked you up in that hick town," he said, cracking his knuckles. "I've been with Cole's group for awhile, so I have a lot of things I could teach you, if you're willing to listen."
He whirled, and the sound of a tree branch cracking rent the air. Moments later, the branch flew towards my head. I ducked, just barely managing to dodge as adrenaline kicked in and started pumping through me. The kid's expression grew angry, eyes narrowing before he pointed his hand towards a small tree, clenching his fist tight and then releasing it. I stared in awe as the tree uprooted itself, dirt shaking loose as he moved his hand up and down.
He grinned as he looked back at me. A flick of his wrist and the tree spun in the air, parts of it breaking off as it hit other, bigger trees. With a grunt he made a throwing motion. I was ready for it this time, planting my feet and holding my hands out in front of me, letting the power roar through me. Vines shot forward, springing from my arms like so much rope, wrapping tight around the trunk and holding it aloft. The effort made my arms shake but I just grit my teeth and bore down on the power and forced the vines to pull the heavy weight up higher. Once it was out of the way, I could see his eyes, see the glee turn to wonder, then fear.
That look was delicious. With a shout, I hurled the tree forward. The force brought me to my knees and my breath whooshed out in one big rush. My stomach rolled. The boy managed to escape the blow just barely, and he lay panting on the ground across from me and beyond him were four felled trees, the smaller tree resting on top of them. Their roots were twisted and gnarled, out of place out in the open as they were. I held my hand out, digging deep as I called them forward. They lengthened and stretched, trying to obey my command, but my concentration was sketchy at best. But it was enough.
The boy began to struggle as the roots wound around his limbs, sinking into the ground and holding him down. I pushed myself up onto my hands and knees, vomiting as my vision spun from the exertion of keeping him held down, but I knew I couldn't let him up. If I did, he'd take me out with another tree, and I knew I wouldn't be able to avoid him this time. Wiping my hands on the ground, I stood up, keenly aware of how much I wobbled and wavered.
A moment later, ice shot past me, cutting the ties I had worked so strenuously to create. Cold washed over me, and then Kuo was standing between us, her back to me.
"Are you insane, Davin? You know he's not strong enough to handle that sort of power yet!" she shouted.
"He seemed fine enough to me," Cole's voice said.
I tried to turn around but stumbled forward. Right before I face planted, he caught me, arm wrapped tight around my middle and pushing me back upright. The touch seared and I turned my head to look up at him only to see he was staring at Kuo, the twisted, crooked smile on his lips. I wished for a moment that he was grinning at me.
"What are you talking about?" Kuo asked.
"He managed to stop that tree from bashing his brains out. Pretty impressive, I'd say," Cole said.
"Cole, that isn't the point!"
"You're right. Davin, you're not allowed to use your powers this week. Think twice before trying to kill someone," Cole said.
"It's not like you do."
The air turned cold at Davin's words, but Cole didn't attack him as both Kuo and I expected him to. "Don't make me angry, Davin. Go back to camp and start getting the food rationed out appropriately. Kuo, you take over Kovi's training for the day."
"He seemed fine enough to me," Cole's voice said.
I tried to turn around but stumbled forward. Right before I face planted, he caught me, arm wrapped tight around my middle and pushing me back up right. The touch seared and I turned my head to look up at him only to see he was staring at Kuo, the twisted, crooked smile on his lips. I wished for a moment that he was grinning at me.
"What are you talking about?" Kuo asked.
"He managed to stop that tree from bashing his brains out. Pretty impressive, I'd say," Cole said.
"Cole, that isn't the point!"
"You're right. Davin, you're not allowed to use your powers this week. Think twice before trying to kill someone," Cole said.
"It's not like you do."
The air turned cold at Davin's words, but Cole didn't attack him as both Kuo and I expected him to. "Don't make me angry Davin. Go back to camp and start getting the food rationed out appropriately. Kuo, you take over Kovi's training for the day."
"Cole, look at him. Does he look like he's ready to fight?"
Cole looked down at me and I was unable to suppress my shudder at his harsh gaze. "Perhaps you're right. Can you walk?"
"Y-Yeah." I hated how weak my voice sounded, but it couldn't be helped.
I tried, only to end up leaning on Cole. From the way he shifted away as much as possible from my weight, I could tell he didn't want to help me, but I was thankful anyways. Perhaps I had pleased him enough for him to make for this small allowance.
If I had thought my display of power would win me any points, I was proven wrong. In the next week, my food was poisoned twice. The only reason I lived through it was one of the Conduits noticed the symptoms and was able to purge my system. Her name was Sedona. When I had stumbled on my way to my bedroll, she checked on me to see if I was alright. As soon as she touched me, she shoved me to the ground and shoved her hand under my shirt to touch my stomach.
It felt like small shocks of lightning were coursing through me and after awhile, she pulled away. "There was poison within you. A few more minutes and you would've slipped into a coma."
I had stared at her wide brown eyes, framed by thick locks of red hair, unsure of how to deal with what she was telling me, unsure of how she even knew. She didn't elaborate though, instead leaving for her own bedroll. The next day, she found an excuse to brush up against me after every meal, never saying a word. We seemed to be in a mutual agreement not to tell anyone, but the second time it happened, we had no choice.
I collapsed during training. I wasn't aware of what happened then, but afterwards, Sedona informed me that I had been convulsing on the ground and she had to once more cure my body of the poison within it. That time though, we couldn't avoid telling someone. That time, Cole had forced us to talk.
He dragged us away from the others. They were all bedding down after it had been determined that I would live, and I had a feeling Cole was going to rip us both apart for my being weak and her helping me. It was survival of the fittest after all.
"So, you have one chance to tell me what happened. If you walk away, and it happens again, I will get rid of you both. I do not want any disruptions," Cole said. His eyes let us know that he was not joking.
Sedona's hand reached over to lightly grab my wrist, her small, pale hand wrapping tightly around my tan one. "Nothing is wrong. We'll deal with it."
I wanted to tell her to shut up, wanted to tell Cole someone was out to get me, someone wanted me dead and it was probably Davin. But instead I just nodded my agreement. "We'll deal with the problem ourselves. I can't guarantee there won't be any disruptions though. I'll be more careful."
Cole's eyes were unreadable as he trained them on me. I was getting used to that gaze after all of this time, so I didn't feel like my knees were going to give out. "I appreciate that you are both willing to take care of yourselves. This should be an interesting string of events. Carry on then."
He walked away, back to camp, and when I moved to follow after him, Sedona stopped me with a light pressure on my wrist. I turned towards her, surprised to see the timid look from her eyes gone.
"We have to be careful, Kovi. Maybe you should get your own meals," she said.
"Why do you even care? I don't even really know you," I said. "I don't even know what your power is."
She shrugged. "I'm a Conduit for energy. Cole was angry when he found out I couldn't fight, but it turns out I'm able to tell when someone is sick, and I can cure...a lot of things. We don't know the actual limits yet, and to be honest, a part of me doesn't want to figure out what those limits are. Anyways...that's how I knew what was wrong with you."
"So I guess we should just stick close to each other," I said. "You think you could detect the poison in my food before I eat it? Do you think they'll try again?"
"Who knows? Just because we're a higher evolution doesn't mean we don't have our fair share of idiots too."
I laughed, for the first time in awhile, at her words. It had been lonely these past few days, not making any friends, and generally avoiding people. I had shoved all thoughts of my past life out of my mind, and it was really for the best. I had seen what Cole had done when someone protested, but in a strange, twisted way, I approved of what he was doing. In this world, he couldn't allow dissent to grow.
Part of me, the old part, protested. But during the week, I had already changed in ways I didn't think were possible, forgotten who had once mattered. Which begged the question of whether or not those people had ever truly been important at all. Which just led to more thoughts I didn't really care to think at this point.
"It's hard making friends like this," Sedona said quietly as we meandered our way back to camp. "There's so many of us, but we're pushing so hard that it's like we never have time to socialize with each other. Isn't that a little...strange?"
"I guess I haven't noticed. I've only been here a week." I didn't mentioned how nervous I was by how I had adapted to the change as if it were nothing. I couldn't admit I was scared, not to anyone.
"And isn't it odd that only teenagers and young adults are with us? You don't see anyone over 40 in the group," she added.
"Would you stop?" I asked. "You're just jumping at shadows."
She raised a slim red eyebrow at my words but just shrugged again. "Okay."
She headed back and I trailed after her, trying to ignore her observations. I didn't want to break the illusion I had managed to build for myself these past few days. Perhaps it was immature, but if ignorance was bliss, I wanted to stay ignorant.
My first experience with how deadly Cole's quest was came the next day. Kuo had mentioned that morning to me during training that we were leaving the backwater land I was born in and were approaching a major city, and where there were major cities, there was opposition to their mission. I don't know what it was that made me want to be on their side. Was it because Cole had saved me? Was it because I wanted to destroy anyone weaker than myself?
Those questions weren't relevant, so I learned later. The reason I fought with Cole and the others, is because when a fighter jet is trying to shoot you down, you fight with whoever isn't fighting you.
It started a few miles outside of Mayfield. The forest opened up to wide fields, split by a large interstate highway. My first instinct would be to go around the city, but Cole led us all right up onto the empty highway, his stride not faltering as he headed down the hot pavement, hand on the odd weapon he carried on his back. I found myself next to Kuo as we followed after him and couldn't help but ask what was going on. There hadn't been much time for questions, and really, it seemed like I was only following them because it was the only thing that was really offered to me at the time.
"What exactly are we doing?" I asked.
"The bigger cities know about us," Kuo said. "We've been moving west for months, and the army has been mobilized against us. In your town it was easy to just walk in because you didn't know anything. This city will be well prepared." As she spoke, the sound of planes taking off reached my ears, and I watched as they shot up into the air over the towering skyscrapers, their metal glinting in the sunlight as they streaked towards us. Cole drew his weapon, lightning sparking off its tips as he did so. The lightning stretched to the sky, blowing up one of the planes before it could fire off any shots. A moment later, a girl ran past me, streaking straight into the air towards the next one. She flipped once, blond hair flying about her. For a moment, I thought I was looking at Kellen, but I shoved that thought away, buried it deep. Her feet slammed into the next jet and it careened out of control, crashing into the ground, still a good ways off from us.
"That's Naomi. She can fly and has better than average strength, as you can see. She's one of the ones that's been with us since New Marias," Kuo said. "Just leave this fight to the experienced ones. You can join in later."
With that, she vanished in a spray of cold air, appearing next to Cole. Their arms brushed and then they vanished together, Naomi following soon after. They appeared once more further down the road. The other Conduits and I just stood by and watched as jet fighter after jet fighter fell to their power, crashing into a burning heap in the fields surrounding the highway. A hand brushed mine and I turned to see Sedona beside me, a curious expression on her face.
"Cole always travels to the center of the city before he unleashes his power. I don't know why. Maybe that's the way to affect the most people or something. I just...don't understand why all this killing has to happen," she said.
I didn't respond. The words were too close to what that other girl had said before Cole had destroyed her, and I didn't want to be overheard agreeing, or even talking about it. "So what do we do? Just sit here and wait?"
"You'll see."
Cryptic as it was, there wasn't much more I could do. I could follow after them but it probably wouldn't end very well; I'd probably end up pissing myself out of fear. I hadn't forgotten my incident with Davin, and a jet fighter was a hell of a lot heavier than a tree, that was for sure. So instead we waited, watching as Cole, Kuo, and Naomi disappeared within the city. We could hear the gunfire, the sirens, and the screech of metal. The occasional explosion would rock the earth beneath us, but no one seemed disturbed by it, as if this were all routine. Maybe that's because it was.
And that's when it happened. An explosion bigger than the rest, something that engulfed the whole of the city in it's flames, and yet at the same time, the buildings did not crumble, did not even waver. Everyone looked on with blank expressions as screams, thousands of screams rose up into the air, piercing my mind. Sedona's hand wrapped around my wrist as the screams went on and on, never ceasing, for what felt like hours. Eventually, the sphere of fire collapsed back inwards.
"How...what just happened?" I asked.
"That explosion was Cole sending out a whole bunch of energy. It stimulates the Conduits and kills everyone else. If they're close enough to the blast they'll...they'll be burned away. The rest...well, it just looks like they're sleeping," Sedona said, her hand slipping down to thread through my own.
In my old life, my heart would be thudding that such a beautiful girl was holding my hand, but right now, I needed all the reassurance I could get that this was real, that what I was living was real, so I just clutched her hand.
"Come on, they're going to need help in the aftermath," she said as the other Conduits began to walk down the road.
"What aftermath?"
"They say every 1 in 1000 people is a Conduit. In all honesty, Cole didn't expect to see a single Conduit come out of your town. And then you did. Well in a city this big, there's going to be quite a few new ones, and they'll need help adjusting. Not everyone just accepts their fate like you did," Sedona said. "And those that protest too much...you'll see."
When we entered the city, the group split up like a well oiled machine, sweeping out into the surrounding buildings to begin the search for surviving Conduits. Sedona dragged me straight through, past the abandoned cars, the wreckage, until finally we reached Cole and Kuo, standing in the middle of the street. A few people were staggering to their feet around them, clutching their heads and gazing around with confused expressions.
"Cole," Sedona said, waving her hand as she released mine. "What are we to do with Kovi?"
Cole held up his hand for silence, turning towards the people approaching him. There were four in all. One was a young girl, around 11 or 12 I would say. Tears streaked her face as she looked up at him, expression almost like that of a puppy in it's naivety. Cole's gaze softened for a moment and he reached out to place a soot streaked hand on her head. She stiffened and then fell to the ground, dirty blond hair spreading out like a fan around her head. Her eyes were wide, staring into nothing.
"What did you do!" a woman cried. Her hair was the same shade of blond, dirt and soot matting it into tangled locks as she fell to her knees beside the small girl. "Why would you...kill anyone, let alone a child?"
Cole brought his amp down from where it had been resting across his shoulder. "The young are weak. They'll only drag humanity down in the end. She wouldn't survive these harsh conditions we now live in. It is a mercy to her."
Sedona's hand found mine once more as a shiny tear made it's way down Cole's cheek. He didn't pay it any mind, and his eyes were still the torrent of mixed emotions. He licked his lips, then raised the amp high above his head, bringing it down over the woman's head. Bright light flared, and when I could finally see again, the four conduits were dead, limp on the ground. He turned his back to us, and Kuo stepped forward, an icy hand touching his shoulder. I started forward, but Sedona's hand stopped me.
"I can't...can't let them know I killed her. I don't want them to see what I've-" His voice grew too quiet for us to hear. "Zeke wouldn't...I just..."
"We're doing the right thing," Kuo murmured, arm looping around his waist as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Sedona coughed, and the pair turned to look at us. Cole's expression hardened at once.
"Take him to the outskirts. Check the houses around there, then wait at the edge of the city," Cole said. "We'll meet there with the new Conduits in two hours."
"Cole," I began, stepping forward. "I...I don't understand. Could you-"
"Now is not the time," Kuo cut in, blue eyes flashing.
I wanted to be angry at her, but when I met her eyes, I could see a deep pain reflected in them, and thought better of it. So I nodded instead and let Sedona drag me away. It was difficult, seeing all that destruction, seeing all the corpses that littered the street. The further out we went, the worse it became. People were slumped against the wall, eyes wide but seeing nothing at all. It was better just seeing the skeletons; skeletons didn't have a face.
Near the outer edge of the city, Sedona began to lead me through alleyways. There we found people hunkered over, hands laced over their heads, but from the smell we could tell they were dead. Near the end of an alleyway, we paused at an odd sight. There was a girl, and a young boy. The girl was clutching the boy, but the boy didn't appear to have died from Cole's blast. His leg was broken and held at an awkward angle, his head bloody and bruised in such a manner that I couldn't look for longer than a moment. Tears streaked the girl's face and on closer examination, we could tell that she was still breathing.
Her brown hair was cropped short, just barely covering the tips of her ears, and her face was streaked with dirt, but so was everyone else's at this point, so it wasn't that odd to see. She had an odd face, neither ugly nor pretty, a strange mix of feminine and masculine. Androgynous almost.
"Is she a Conduit?" I asked. "The others are already awake at this point, so shouldn't she?"
"Not everyone awakens immediately," Sedona said, kneeling beside her. She pressed her hands to the girl's arm, eyes closing. A soft green glow came from her finger tips before slipping away from my vision. "She's a Conduit alright. I can feel it."
"So do we wake her up?" I asked.
Sedona bit her lip, tucking a lock of red hair behind her ear. "Can't we just leave her Kovi? Just...let her make her own choice, without the threat of death looming over her head. I don't...I don't want to wake her only to have another incident like before happen. I can't...I can't watch Cole kill anyone else like he did that girl."
Her brown eyes overflowed with tears and she covered her face, shoulders shaking. "She shouldn't have slapped him, I get that, okay? It's just...why can't he just let us go if we want to go!"
I glanced around, hoping there weren't any Conduits nearby to hear what she was saying. I'd never had to deal with a crying girl in my life. To be honest, I never had to deal with girls ever. I patted her on the shoulder, unsure of what she wanted me to do. A few moments later she pulled herself together.
"Okay. Let's go. We'll leave her here, alright?" I grabbed her elbow and began tugging her out of the alleyway. "Just...remember not to say anything to Cole."
She nodded, moving in to lean on me. I fought the urge to kiss her forehead. Trust me, it wasn't something romantic at all. Kind've like...that brotherly love. I had to stop that thought because it made me think of the girl we had just left behind. The two had looked like siblings. And he was dead now. What would she do when she awoke?


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I have just received my new Cricut cake and like many others was just about to use it as a paper weight when I finally found a system that worked. so I thought I would share it for all of you who are still at the "throw it out the window" stage.
I used Room 4 cake Gumpaste.
I used my pasta roller to roll it very even to mark 5 so paper thin.
I then dusted it with a 50/50 mix of powdered sugar and cornflour on both sides.
I greased my mat so it was slippery but not too thick.
I laid the gumpaste on it and smoothed it well with my rolling pin.
I carefully trimmed the edges into the cutable area.
I then put it in the freezer for 30mins so the shortening got hard and stuck the gumpaste firmly to the mat.
after the time I immediately put the mat into the machine and made the selections and cut.
this works great. perfectly smooth shapes.
I used the pressure and speed on medium.
I was having to work quickly because it is over 30 degrees C here at the moment and the shortening was melting really fast.
but it did work well when cool.
hope this helps.
Thanks for the tips! I have one just sitting around mostly because I haven't needed it/figured it out, i'll have to do some more experimenting.
Could you please tell me what room 4 gumpaste is?
I have also had really good success using the edible image papers its slightly more expensive but no rolling, freezing or stressing. I will keep your tips handy though for when I need to work with gumpaste.

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Tokyo, May 26 (Reuters): A powerful earthquake hit a broad swathe of northeastern Japan today, tangling communications and rocking buildings as far away as Tokyo about 450 km to the south, but there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries.
The Meteorological Agency said the quake measured seven on the open-ended Richter scale, about the same strength as a devastating quake in the Japanese city of Kobe eight years ago.
It was centred around 20 km off the east coast but damage was limited and there was no danger of a tsunami, or giant wave, due to the quakes 60-km deep epicentre.
Based on information gathered as of 1100 GMT, it is absolutely inconceivable that there could be damage similar to that after the Hanshin Awaji earthquake which devastated Kobe in western Japan in 1995 and left 6,430 dead, Yoshitada Konoike, minister of disaster management, told a news conference.
Kyodo news agency said 28 people were injured in the quake, which hit an area that has several large cities and some high-tech factories but is largely agricultural.
The earthquake, the largest to hit Japan in three years, shattered windows in Sendai and knocked objects from shelves. Three fires were reported and trains were halted for checks.
I was at the university when it happened and we all rushed outside, said Richard Halberstadt, an English teacher at a university in Ishinomaki on the Miyagi prefecture coast.
It was unsettling but not to the extent where we couldn't stand.
In Tokyo, buildings shook strongly and lamps swayed from side to side, sending workers scurrying to the doors.
Japan sits atop the junction of at least three tectonic plates, immense slabs of the earth's crust whose movements cause earthquakes.
Another government official told a news conference that there had been two fires in Iwate Prefecture and one in the city of Sendai, 302 km (189 miles) north of Tokyo, but he added that all three had been put out.
About 35,000 homes temporarily lost power supplies but electricity was restored for most within a few hours.
The yen fell in European markets on news of the quake, which came after Tokyo markets closed.
The Cabinet Office in Tokyo said the government, criticised for a slow response to the 1995 Kobe earthquake, had set up an emergency task force.
The strength of the quake was about the same as the one that hit Kobe. But the epicentre of that quake was much shallower, a characteristic that usually results in more violent shaking.
East Japan Railway stopped operations of bullet trains in the area for inspections and service on one line was halted for the rest of the day. Public broadcaster NHK said one highway in northeastern Japan was totally closed. Phones were snarled.
Ever since the quake hit, I've been trying to call my family, said Satoshi Aoyagi, whose hometown is Sendai.
But none of the calls go through, and my parents don't have mobile phones.
Telecoms firms said they were checking phone networks. Mobile firm DoCoMo said it had curbed voice traffic to northern Japan to prevent its system from being overwhelmed.
Japan's Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc said a 825,000 kilowatt (kW) nuclear reactor, the Onagawa No.3 unit in northern Japan, automatically shut down due to the quake.
Japan's largest oil refiner, Nippon Oil Corp, said it had started shutting down its 145,000 barrels per day Sendai refinery, although its facilities appeared to be fine.
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I finally found a great recipe for a Carrot Cake - people can't stop raving about it - but I have one problem with it. As it is cooking it looks wonderful and has a nice rounded top. When I take it out of the oven and let it cool, the center sinks about 2 inches. I have made it several times with the same result. I am following the recipe I was given exactly - no deviation.
Anyone have any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong or how I should alter the recipe to make the center, at least level?
Usually a sinking center means that the middle is not done. You could try baking at a lower temp, using a heating core or using a flower nail.
Usually a sinking center means that the middle is not done. You could try baking at a lower temp, using a heating core or using a flower nail.
What is the recipe and how long are you baking and what oven temp?
Here's the recipe and directions - I used 9" pans with flower nails in the center. The odd thing is that the center was indeed done but just sunk... I was going to post this recipe for others to try out but want to figure out the problem first... Thanks for the help.
Spiced Carrot Cake
2 cup flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger, ground
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cloves, ground
1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar, dark
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup carrots, grated
3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 325. Prepare pans.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cloves.
Beat the oil and eggs in large bowl with mixer on moderate speed for 3 minutes. Add sugar and brown sugar - beat for 3 minutes longer.
Blend in the vanilla.
Scrape down sides of bowl to keep batter evenly textured.
On low speed, add the sifted mixture and beat just until the particles of flour are absorbed.
Beat in the carrots. The batter will be moderately thin.
Stir in walnuts
Pour batter into pans.
Bake for approximately 55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Baked cake will pull away slightly from the sides of the pan.
Sorry, one more thing to ask.
The cake domes, but the sinks 2" somewhat top of the cake is flat? Or is it concave after it sinks?
If it sinks so the cake top is flat, this is a good thing. You want a flat top and you do not want to have to trim anything off. A scratch cake made and baked properly will come out flat. That is one that is formulated correctly.
If it is sinking til it is concave after baking, it is a sign of underbaking, even if the toothpick is coming out clean.
But my guess is it is sinking out to flat, especially if everybody is raving about it.
It is actually concave - it domes nicely while cooking though. The outside of the cake was definitely done - it was actually a bit overdone. The center of the cake was cooked all the way as well - it was not at all doughy. The toothpick was clean, as you stated and since the outer edges were beginning to show signs of being overcooked, I pulled it out of the oven. The first time I did this cake the center was definitely under cooked and I did not use flower nails. This time, I made sure it was cooked completely, but it ended up still concave. I am already cooking it at a low temperature - 325 - but should I lower it still? Should I try increasing an ingredient and if so, which one do you think would help and how much? Other cakes I cook dome and then flatten out the way they are supposed to. This seems to be the only recipe that I have the concaving issue with...
The only other thing I notice is the weight of the sugar and the flour. The sugar is roughly 14 ounces and the flour is 9 ounces. This is 155% of the weight of the sugar to flour. You could reduce the sugar to bring it to about 125% of the weight of the flour.
Given the recipe uses AP flour, it can't take that weight of sugar and all the moisture too. It will collapse like you describe. You can see an example of this in the book How Baking Works if you want.
If you don't want to reduce the sugar, you can raise the flour too so that it is about 125% difference between the two.
Where did you get the recipe? I'm just curious.
Thanks LindaF144a. How much would you suggest I reduce the sugar by? If I reduce the sugar should I increase the flour as well?
I was given the recipe when I attended a one hour cake decorating/baking class a couple years ago from a local cake supply store that does classes. I fell in love with how it tastes so I really want to use it but I need to get it to stop sinking.
Another thing I forgot to mention is the recipe calls for dark brown sugar, but I used light brown. Could that have been the problem? One of the substitutions I was given at the class was if I used light brown sugar then I should add molasses, but I forgot to add it in.
Thanks for all the help.
Either increase the flour by 1/2 cup OR decrease the granulated sugar by 1/2 cup. They are different weights, but coincidentally work out to the same measurement.
I personally would decrease the sugar. Given there is no liquid except what you get from the carrots and the eggs, this would be the best thing to do.
Let me know how it works for you. The kind of sugar should not make a difference. You might get a slightly, ever so slightly richer flavor. But I doubt 1/4 cup will make a difference.
Sorry, I just rechecked my math. You should lower the granulated sugar by 1/4 cup to 1 1/2 cups sugar. The amount in my last message was wrong.
Ok - so increase the flour by 1/2 cup OR decrease the granulated sugar by 1/4 cup? Do I have that correct? Also, do you think it makes a difference on light or dark brown sugar?
Yes that is correct. Do not do both. Do one or the other. Your brown sugar choice should not make any difference.
Thanks so much LindaF144a. I will give it a shot and see what happens.


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Weird velocities in multiphase flow
Hi, hope someone can explain this... I'm trying to model water waves and have so far got a good free surface profile. Unfortunately the velocity vector field looks very strange, with vectors emanating from the surface at hundreds of metres per second, and fluid apparently going straight down through the floor. This is with the default setting of superficial velocity turned on under "porous formulation".
When I run the solver using physical velocity instead, the resulting vector field looks great, but now the free surface profile is wrong - it shows the wave amplitude decaying with distance.
Can anyone shed some light on this phenomenon? I haven't specified a porous medium anywhere in my model, so surely superficial and physical velocities should give the same results? Any ideas appreciated.
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Sterling Energy plc announced Wednesday that Executive Chairman Alastair Beardsall will be retiring with immediate effect after six years of service for personal reasons. Beardsall will also retire from the board of directors.
Nicholas Clayton, who joined the Sterling Energy board as a non-executive director in October 2009, has been appointed by the board to succeed Beardsall in the position of non-executive chairman with immediate effect.
Clayton has provided strategic and corporate finance advice to a number of public and private oil and gas companies since January 2007. Prior to that, he held a number of senior oil and gas advisory, finance and banking roles, including global co-head of oil and gas corporate finance for Canaccord Adams and global head of oil and gas corporate finance for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He serves as a non-executive director of Alpha Petroleum Resources Limited and Circle Oil plc, where he is chairman of the remuneration committee.
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Study to Evaluate Safety and Immunogenicity of VPM1002 in Comparison With BCG in Newborn Infants in South Africa
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Hi All,
We are having elements in /main/bug1/Latest branch and we have to merge these elements to /main/emr/sol8_emr/locmkt/loct_sol10 branch .
Please let me know the command to merge in clearcase unix .
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Pinned topic how to merge the another branch new elements to parent dir .
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Re: how to merge the another branch new elements to parent dir .2013-01-30T15:52:30ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.The findmerge man page is probably the best place to start. The process to perform the merge would be:
1) Set into a view that selects the DESTINATION branch (which looks to be "/main/emr/sol8_emr/locmkt/loct_sol10")
2) CD to the desired directory and run a findmerge command similar to the following:
cleartool findmerge . -fversion /main/bug1/LATEST -merge
This should give you a start to do the merges. This will merge the current directory (which will bring over directory entries for files added on the other branch) and then merge the files themselves.
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What is done with the money from gifts and donations?
From Nikonians Wiki - FAQs, Photo Glossary, Good Photo Locations, Help
So far we've run two fundraising campaigns, 2014 and 2015 and in September 26th, 2016 we've started our third campaign, where we are asking members and readers to support the community financially in addition to any other support already provided, such as volunteering for writing, moderation and by paying for memberships.
The money we raised in 2014 and 2015 has been used to improve Nikonians; We have been introducing a new look and feel to the forums, we added multiple new functions, removed old stuff that was hardly being used and we ensured that the main sections of the site, including the forums, were working well on mobile devices. We further integrated the various areas some more, such as the galleries and articles within the forums. We further improved some of our apps. We have moved to faster servers, changed the infrastructure of the system including using a Content Delivery Network (CDN), serving all pages securely using TLS (SSL) and improved usability in general. 2014 and 2015 came with major overhauls and it has over all received very positive feedback from the members.
Further, we've worked on improving our content, expanding it.
There is still a lot of work to do for sure and at a place like Nikonians, there are always a lot of ideas and limited resources for actual execution of these ideas.
You can find out more about us and the team behind Nikonians on our team pages :-)
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Preity Zinta and Gene Goodenough's wedding is the most talked about topic in Bollywood. While the actress is mum about everything, several sources are revealing all the inside details about the wedding.
She may have lashed out at media on Twitter but in none of those tweets, did she deny the marriage. So this means, the wedding rumours may well be true.
Contrary to the ongoing speculations of a wedding in 10 days, sources have revealed the marriage will take place in April.
The couple are going to get married in two styles, one church wedding and one Rajput style.
A source close to the actress revealed to a newspaper, "Preity and Gene are both extremely private people and will get married sometime in April this year. The church wedding will be a private affair, with Preity and Gene's close friends and family, flying down to LA for the ceremony.
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Post the big fat wedding Preity will be hosting a huge reception for her Bollywood buddies in Mumbai where who's who will be present.
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I liked the side-story about Harriet and her old beau, but it made me sad to think she married Nels on the rebound. He was a good husband but they made it seem the torch was never really put out. Maybe that is how memories are sometimes, not real, but real to us. To see her so emotional made you remember she was human.
Although I was glad things worked out well in the end, it would have been nice to show the Reverend and his wife in subsequent shows. I never really saw them together again which was a shame. Since he didn't have restrictions from marrying, I wondered why he wasn't scooped up before this. : )


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Macworld and Rich Stevens of Diesel Sweeties present Multitouch Theater, a weekly cartoon about Macs, iOS, and everything in-between. This week: Not everyone is singing the praises of the Yosemite Beta.
Previously on Multitouch Theater: I'm worried about the Mac mini.
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Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has structured a payment method to reimburse its former CEO Rex Tillerson in such a manner that could save him an immediate tax charge of roughly $72 million. The Irving, Texas-based oil giant intends to hold onto the payment of nearly $180 million for the 64-year old executive as deferred compensation. However, tax experts think that the plan devised by Exxon Mobil could come under serious scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The plan has been formulated to break any relations between Mr. Tillerson and Exxon Mobil and meet the requirements of the federal ethics law prior to his confirmation as Secretary of State. He was the CEO and chairman of the company for the past ten years and has been an employee for over four decades.
Exxon Mobil intends to put the cash payment of roughly $180 million into an independent trust, which would be managed by Northern Trust Corp. on behalf of Mr. Tillerson. On the other hand, Mr. Tillerson would forfeit his right to nearly two million shares, which he has not been allowed to sell yet.
In normal circumstances, when shares are substituted with cash payments, a tax charge is immediately due for the recipient of the cash payment. However, in this case, the cash payment from Exxon Mobil will be transferred into an independent trust that will transfer funds to Mr. Tillerson slowly. On the transfer of funds, ordinary taxes would be applicable, which would be significantly lower than a tax charge on lump-sum charge. Presently, the top bracket of individual income tax stands at 39.6%. The independent trust would hold on to some part of the payment for as much as ten years.
Although there is nothing illegal or unethical about this plan, the IRS can still raise queries on how deferred compensation is converted into property using an independent trust. Deferred compensation is taxed under stricter regulations as compared to property.
Queries regarding the proposed plan may be raised by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet heavily comprises several high-ranking executives from top corporations. This has caused an increased focus on how they would be dealing with their assets so that they comply with federal ethics laws.
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Should be able to run power tongs at the beginning with the supervision of senior Technician or Crew Leader. Know how to use power units (6 Cylinder Diesel Power Unit spring start or electric battery start) and know how to run handling equipment (Elevator, Spider, Single JNT Elevator, Hand Slips, Stabbing Guide, Safety Clamp, Inflatable Thread protector, Fill - Up and Circulating Tool (Internal and External) and other TRS equipment when and where required.
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Elmvale was a town in central Ontario, Canada near Barrie. The town yielded various teams in the Ontario Hockey Association including the 1927-28 OHA Intermediate Groups, 1929-30 OHA Intermediate Groups, and the 1969-70 OHA Intermediate B Playoffs.
It is now part of the township of Springwater.
- Lloyd Turner (Sports promoter)
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Bushnell 2x28MM Equinox Digital Night Vision Monocular
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Bushnell Equinox
2 x 28mm Gen 1 Night-Vision Monocular
Delivering image clarity, illumination and field of view unrivaled-even with zero ambient light-our new Equinox⢠series raises the bar industry-wide in digital and Generation 1 night vision. The two digital models pierce the night with utmost efficiency, offering the option of a traditional green view for dusk and dawn while some ambient light is available, and white imaging for use in almost-dark to completely dark conditions. Where increased depth perception is critical, our super-bright Gen 1 model packs more intensity than any Gen 1 optic before it. Its marked by a lightweight, compact housing, extremely long battery life and true 2x magnification. All models have rugged, water-resistant housings and integrated accessory rails.
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Hi MillanN,
as i known we need to use wp_head(); on top to load css and scripts from wordpress. But i never use wp_head function because it loads all the scripts in all pages and not in the pages we need it.
For example, for frontpage, home, and other static pages i dont use GD Star Rating. For that I placed the scripts manually in <head></head> depending the page.
Using Firebug PageSpeed(Network) I see GdStar Rating takes over 6-8seconds on render a simple starts,.. if we have about 10 stars rating, the page will take easily about 20 seconds to finish the render. This bad for SEO!
¿¿What files are needed to correct use GDStarRating in specific pages???
<head> ... <!-- css--> <link rel='stylesheet' id='gdsr_style_main-css' href='http://localhost/xxx.me/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/css/gdsr.css.php?t=1385967294xxxxxxxxxx;ver=1.9.22' type='text/css' media='all' /> <link rel='stylesheet' id='gdsr_style_xtra-css' href='http://localhost/xxx.me/wp-content/gd-star-rating/css/rating.css?ver=1.9.22' type='text/css' media='all' /> <!-- scrips --> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://localhost/xxx.me/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/js/gdsr.js?ver=1.9.22'></script> ... </head>
¿ is there any problem using this method??
¿can I place gdsr.js in bottom before </body>???
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The Supreme Court has ordered that undertrials who have completed half their sentences should be released. This raises the question, "Why are the undertrials in prison?" As per our declared principles of justice, "Everyone is to be considered innocent until they are proved guilty." If they are truly being considered innocent till proved guilty, they shouldn't have been in prison in the first place.
The order stating that only undertrials who have completed half their sentences are to be released gives the impression that the principle actually being followed is that they are all guilty until proved innocent, and releasing them after they have been confined for half their term is a magnanimous gesture – some sort of a favour. This is the opposite of the declared principles of Justice.
The next Chief Justice of India, Justice Dattu had declared in his judgement in the 2G case, "The courts owe more than verbal respect to the principle that punishment begins after conviction, and that every man is deemed to be innocent until duly tried and found guilty."
Going by that reasoning, which has been repeated time and again proudly as the cornerstone of the Indian system of Justice, it follows that undertrials have all been wrongly confined by the State. They are probably entitled to be compensated for what they have undergone, regardless of the outcome of the case.
There could be certain cases where it is feared that the accused may tamper with the evidence, or intimidate witnesses. In such cases, maybe externment could be a solution, or, in extreme cases, where there is no other choice, the accused could be confined. For all such actions, the reasons would have to be clearly specified, so that the option of appealing against this would always be there to the accused.
At present, all we do is pay lip service to the judicial philosophy of developed countries, while maintaining our own primitive mindset.
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