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Published: August 17, 1990
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Instead, the despair is felt over quality-of-life issues. Respondents cited growing political intrigue and backbiting in the office, greater pressure to work longer hours and a concomitant decrease in personal time and time with families. Half of those surveyed in private practice reported working at least 200 hours a month, up from only 35 percent six years ago; 13 percent say they work more than 240 hours.
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The disaffection has spread to the upper reaches of the profession, where the lucrative salaries based largely on seniority, collegiality and security have waned in a newly competitive marketplace.
''The camaraderie and the loyalty have broken down,'' said Elaine P. Dine, a legal recruiter in New York. ''With everything bottom-line orientated, many partners feel as though they're employees of a corporation rather than members of a firm.''
Perhaps more than any lawyer in the land, Alan U. Schwartz of Los Angeles personifies the upheavals and unhappinesses of a newly peripatetic profession. (Among Mr. Schwartz's clients is Mel Brooks. In the movie ''Spaceballs,'' when Mr. Brooks declared, ''May the Schwartz be with you,'' it was to Alan Schwartz that he was referring.) For 21 years Mr. Schwartz worked in the gentlemanly world of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, where his clients included Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter. The firm disintegrated in 1982, and since then Mr. Schwartz has gathered little moss.
From Greenbaum he moved to Barovick, Konecky, Braun, Schwartz, Kay & Schiff, which merged with Fulop & Hardee, which then fell apart. He went to Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey, which closed in early 1988. From there he went to the Los Angeles office of Shea & Gould, which also disbanded, then to Meyerson & Kuhn, which recently filed for bankruptcy. He is now at Cooper, Epstein & Hurewitz in Beverly Hills.
''It was much more of a profession when I started,'' Mr. Schwartz said. ''People did not expect to make big bucks so much as they expected a kind of way of life and practice.''
Some younger lawyers have even decided to abandon law entirely in favor of something they enjoy doing. In April 1988, Lynn Armentrout, a 1981 graduate of New York University Law School, took a leave of absence from her post at the Legal Aid Society office in the Bronx to pursue a career as a dancer. She has since decided not to return to law.
''I went to law school to make a difference in the world and I wasn't,'' said Ms. Armentrout, a 35-year-old dancer with the Isadora Duncan International Institute. ''What was missing is the emotional and spiritual content - all the things that make life important.''
At WEGX-FM in Philadelphia, a lapsed lawyer named Sam Milkman is the host of a top-40 music show twice weekly. It is only one of the many tasks handled at the station by Mr. Milkman, a 27-year-old Cornell Law School graduate who until March was an associate at the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll.
''I always felt like a misfit as a lawyer,'' said Mr. Milkman. ''I found myself in the middle of depositions not really caring what the outcome was.''
In making his move, he said, he was the envy of his former law firm colleagues. ''One of the associates, who has since become a partner, said, 'When one of the prisoners breaks free all of the prisoners are happy,' '' Mr. Milkman recalled. Maura Carlin, 29, of Manhattan was a litigator at Sidley & Austin before deciding to take a long-postponed shot at broadcast journalism. ''I can't tell you I hated the law or practicing it because it's not exactly true, but there was something else I really wanted to do and this is the time to try it or I'd be too old,'' she said. ''I always had this vision of myself saving the world, and the practice of law as I knew it was very far from that.''
Ms. Carlin said she was prepared to take as much as an 80 percent cut in pay. Speaking of her new salary, she said, ''It's such a ridiculous number, it's comical.''
Drawing; survey of the satisfaction of lawyers with their jobs.(Source: Based on two recent surveys by the American Bar Association)


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Seventh-seeded Dominican might have swept No. 10 Mandeville at home Monday 25-18, 25-23, 25-23, but the Division I regional match was not decided until the 24-23 mark of the third set.
Dominican (27-15) advances to play No. 2 Mount Carmel in the quarterfinals of the state tournament, which begin Thursday at the Pontchartrain Center.
Mandeville (20-14) held the lead for much of the third and the Skippers' largest advantage was 18-6.
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Mandeville's Sam Gomez hit the ball past two Dominican defenders and that extended the Skippers' advantage to 20-15. Dominican then cut the deficit to 23-22. Following Dominican's Hannah McGowan making a kill that tied the match at 23-23, Dominican scored again for its first lead.
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"It took a lot of discipline. It took them digging deep and playing some defense. Defense was the key in that game."
McGowan led Dominican with 10 kills, while Abby Buchert had seven. Sara Bordelon had 12 digs and 10 assists, while Marli Baquet had eight. Laura Lorio had three blocks.
Gomez led the Skippers with nine kills, while Emily Boylan had seven. Sarah Rinaudo had 17 assists, while Reagan Rogers had 16 digs. LeCompte finished with 11 blocks and 11 digs.
"They were getting a lot of blocks against our hitters," Mandeville coach Jody Walker said. "We weren't able to transition and get some points off of that."
Relaxing after leads also hurt Mandeville.
"We jumped out on them in every one of the games," Walker said. "We were up four points in all three games. I said we just wanted to continue the same thing that we were doing and just push. We got those leads earlier and it's almost like we relaxed."
In the first set, Mandeville opened a 4-0 scoring run when a Kailynn Haley spike got the first point. While the Dominican offense cranked up, the Skippers still maintained the lead and increased it to 5-3 on a LeCompte hit.
Dominican later went on a 5-0 run and that ended when McGowan's hit tied the score at 11-11.
That's when Dominican took over and maintained the lead although Boylan scored twice, once at 24-17, the other at 24-18 to try and stymie Dominican's win.


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On 01/13/2012 06:26 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 12/22/2011 01:10 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:Enables exporting filesytem as a readonly mount for guest, by default read-write access is given (currently only works for QEMU/KVM driver) The support for the same in libvirt was added recently at ... https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00937.html Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty<deepakcs linux vnet ibm com> ---Thanks, added a test case and pushed. - Cole
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At the edge of the great forest outside of Elcrada, loud noises could be heard. Even though it was early in the morning, two people were furiously dueling in a small clearing in the otherwise incredibly dense forest.
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"That's the fourth battle I've won in a row, where is my prize?" She asked the defeated elf.
"You're supposed to be training me, so in terms of reaching your actual goal - training me, you're not doing so well".
Even though she was skilled with the blade, Robinia would most likely never be able to match Ash's skill with words. It was almost scary, listening to him completely deflate even the most inflated of egos with a simple sentence.
If Robinia's ego was her armor, then Ash's tongue represented the spear that could pierce her armor, whenever it's wielder pleased.
"Besides, you said I couldn't use any 'tricks', beside what I can do with a sword, which isn't much, as you may have noticed. Let's have a round where I won't have to abide by your petty rules" Ash continued.
The challenged party was astounded to see the otherwise depressed Ash being as fired up as he was. It was rare for him to show emotion at all, aside from annoyance.
"I accept. However, please do abide by one rule... No magic".
"Alright, that I can agree to. Loser pays dinner tonight".
"It'll be nice to be treated by you" Robinia said, before activating ⌈ Gap Closer ⌋. And so, the battle had begun.
The challenger was prepared for a sudden start to the battle, so he easily blocked the incoming ⌈ Cross Cut ⌋. Unfortunately for him, his opponent had more than one skill.
"Triple Slash!".
Even though the ability in itself could often be the deciding factor in battle, Ash knew that it was a factor to be considered, when fighting Robinia. After all, he had just fought her four times in a row. Because of that, he jumped back, avoiding both the sword and the bone-breaking bursts of wind that followed.
The defending elf had put so much strength into his jump that he was about to collide with a tree that had been around five meters away from his previous position. This however, was intentional. As soon as his leg made contact with the tree trunk, he jumped back with such force that it dented the tree.
Ash was practically flying back towards Robinia, but more speed was required, so he brought his hand toward the ground, grabbed onto it, almost throwing himself further and faster towards the other party.
This strategy was new to Robinia, who was used to fighting against relatively stationary enemies. But now, an elf was flying towards her at dangerous velocity. She took a defensive stance and prepared to receive the blow head on, since she couldn't exactly be sure whether or not the high-speed attack was a feint aimed at making her break her stance.
The sound of swords colliding resounded throughout the forest.
"Hah! I blocked it-" Robinia began, but quickly realized that she had been wrong in her choice to take the blow head on.
The attacker, who was both faster and stronger than the defender, used the momentum, he had gained from attacking, to grab Robinia by the shoulder, using it as a platform to throw himself further into the air. His attack was far from over.
Surprised, the female elf took a step back to look analyze the situation. Her shoulder hurt slightly from having been used as a launch-pad, but there was no time to cry over that, because the flying elf, Ash, was already on his way back.
Taking a defensive stance, the swordsman prepared for the incoming blow. She had taken one, and could do it again. At least, that was what she thought.
Mid-air, the attacking elf drew his knife and held it out, ready to knock Robinia's blade aside, allowing for his sword to reach her vitals. She could see that Ash truly was an artist when it came to battle. The amount of cunning and creativity it would take, to come up with a strategy like this, was beyond her.
Once again, the sound of blades caressing each other could be heard. Robinia had successfully blocked the knife, but as she had predicted, the sword came flying towards her, shortly after. It stopped millimeters from her throat, as Ash gracefully landed on both feet.
There could be no doubt about the victor of the duel.
Completely at her opponent's mercy, the before-so-confident elf fell to her knees, in utter disbelief. 'How could I have been defeated?', she thought over and over again. The real question might have been "How could I have been so utterly crushed", but Robinia wasn't interested in diminishing her self-esteem any further.
"You can remove the sword now" She said. For some reason, Ash was still pointing his sword at her neck, while staring at her in a way that greatly unsettled her.
Even though the victorious elf was showing signs of improvement, in the way he behaved, he still did strange things every now and then. Things like seeming too eager to get a kill, when he was hunting with the party, or like now, completely disregarding morals.
Finally, Ash removed his blade from the shaken elf's throat, who found herself gasping for air. She had been holding her breath, unsure of whether or not running had been the correct course of action.
"Let's get back to The Nest" Robinia suggested, and started walking in the direction of Elcrada.
However, her companion wasn't as inclined to go with her. He was standing in the glade, they had used as an arena, bathing himself in the light of the sun. The entranced elf was in a complete stasis, as he watched the light escape through the slight cracks between the green leaves.
It seemed like time had stopped for him.
"Are you seriously that happy about beating me?" The defeated elf asked, slightly annoyed.
"What?" Ash asked. It was clear to anyone that he had not been paying attention. In fact, he was still not looking at Robinia, who had stopped walking.
Nevertheless, the entranced elf started following the halted elf, who once again, had her concerns reignited.
An hours time later, the two entered Elcrada. Even though she was usually the last one to arrive at the gates, Robinia reached them first today. It was as if Ash was in a completely different place, mentally. He was walking several meters behind his companion, who, during their trip back to town, had had to stop several times, waiting for him.
Regardless, of her annoyance, Robinia put up with it all. After all, it had been her decision to accept Ash into the party in the first place. It was to be expected that she would have to carry a certain amount of his burden, regardless of whether or not she knew what was burdening him.
The two elves walked into the town square. When people were acting strange or rude, it was usually because they wanted something. That was one of the lessons Robinia had learned from being present when her father was dealing with nobles from abroad. Therefore, she decided to bring Ash to the arms dealer.
"What in fuck's name are we doing here?" Ash asked. His mind was completely present now.
Being with him, even if it had only been a short while, the swordsman had learned that Ash really hated being around people, he didn't know.
"We're here to buy you new equipment. You can't go around, using that ragged cape, and that sorry excuse for a weapon".
For some reason, Ash grabbed onto his knife. It seemed to hold a certain amount of sentimental value.
'Maybe it's from the time when he was enduring all sorts of things. It's probably a good idea to get rid of it' Robinia thought. To her it was nothing more than a simple knife, used to cut flowers. It was impressive how he had survived for as long as he had, using only that knife.
The two entered the nearest open shop. A small, circular tent with enough room for around ten people. It was completely empty, excluding the two newcomers. In the back of the shop, a bald man with light-brown skin was bashing a hammer at a newly-forged blade of some kind. He was wearing nothing on his upper body, and only a simple, brown pair of pants on his lower half.
He turned around, when Robinia used the bell, which was standing on the desk he was working behind.
"What'll it be, lads. Oh! Lad and lady" He said, as soon as he noticed the two. His eyes widened slightly when he noticed the elven girl, who was quite well known around town.
"We'd like some equipment for this guy" Robinia said, giving Ash a slap on the back to indicate that he was the 'guy' in question.
"Anything you prefer, lad?" The arms dealer asked.
Maybe he was surprised at how unsociable he seemed, or maybe it was just the way he was, but the man simply turned around and pulled a wagon, filled to the brim with weapons, out from behind the desk.
The weapons appeared to be secondhand, seeing as they were chipped and rusty, in some cases.
"If you can't be more specific, this is all I have to offer you" The man said.
Ash pulled out his own knife, probably hoping that it could point the arms dealer in the direction of what he was looking for.
"This is hardly a weapon, is it now? Do you stab with it, or do you throw it?".
"Would you allow me to perform a quick check-up on your stats, so that I can pin-point a better weapon for you? Judging from your physique, this isn't the most suitable weapon for you".
The elf nodded in response, giving his consensus to having his stats estimated.
"Level Estimation!" The man bellowed with a voice that was used to shouting at people.
His eyes grew wider and wider, as he read through Ash's stats. Robinia knew how he was feeling. She could see that it was the first time he had seen someone so young, with such high stats.
The man was mumbling things like "unbelievable" and "at such a young age, wow". It was quite reassuring for the party leader, Robinia, to know that she was that good at scouting party members.
In the end, the blacksmith went behind his desk once again without saying a word. A few moments later, he came back with two things. A staff and a knife.
"Young miss, this man is surely one of the strongest men of his age. I can only think of a few adventurers, his age, that would match him in battle. Take these, free of charge".
The elven girl didn't know what to say. She had just been handed a staff, which looked incredibly expensive. The staff itself was made of magically enhanced rosewood, making it almost impossible to break. At the tip, a glass-like crystal was mounted. Lin had once told her that the crystal would change color, depending on what kind of elemental magic suited you most.
Robinia turned her gaze to the knife. It was incredibly light, so she guessed that it was probably also enhanced with some sort of magic. The blade was made of what looked like steel, but it had a slight blue shine to it, so she couldn't be sure of the material.
Still astounded by the generosity of the blacksmith, Robinia handed the weapons to Ash, who solemnly accepted them. She could see a light flickering in his eyes. He really wanted these weapons.
"Thank you for your generosity" Robinia said, and gave the man in front of her a respectful nod.
The other elf, who was still staring at the small treasure in his hands, followed suit, which greatly surprised the elven girl that had been leading the conversation up until that point.
Had she been worrying for no reason? The man by her side was clearly trying to better himself. Trying to function as a normal person.
The pair left the tent and headed back towards their rooms at the inn, spirits high. Robinia was talking to Ash about the small fortune, they had ended up acquiring, but the elf wasn't listening. He was busy talking to someone else. Someone, who's presence Robinia was oblivious to.


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Chapter 5
Ino was fairly sure she wasn't the worst teacher in Konoha.
Sure, she regularly skipped team practices for hangovers and spa days, and frequently allotted an almost shameful amount of the granted team budget to useless (?) amenities like room service and in-bathroom hair straighteners. She was rather fond of threatening one third of her squad to bodily harm on a regular basis, and… oh wait. Just today, she had managed to lose one of the Leaf's most precious heirs.
Not the worst teacher in Konoha, huh? Never mind.
"I can't believe this," she groaned aloud. "I can't believe I lost her."
Shikamaru wearily glanced at her outburst, massaging his forearm in a somewhat embittered way. In an attempt to wrench herself out of their double free-fall, Ino had managed to land him with an exceptionally brutal bloomer, already turning an ugly mottled colour beneath his fingers. Still, it was nothing in comparison to her previously dislocated shoulder and currently twisted ankle (which she had bound just shy of blocking circulation and deemed "walkable on". There was no resting while Hatsumi was missing, not for all the swollen ankles in the world.)
"Nobody's lost anyone yet. If the info we've got is correct, then nothing's going to happen to the Hyuuga kid for another week, at least."
"Her name's Hatsumi," Rikimaru interjected, scowling openly at Shikamaru. "Hatsumi."
Yuu, who up until now had been nervously fiddling with his chopsticks, finally woke from his pensive reverie. He looked between the two teachers seated at the table and frowned. "But I don't understand. Why did they want her? Does it have something to do with her family?"
Rikimaru rolled his eyes. "That's so stupid. Her family's all the way back in Konoha. What would they have to do with our mission?"
"Shut up, you little idiot," Ino snapped, rubbing at her temples. "Of course it might've had something to do with her family… the Hyuugas are, like, the poster family for Konoha. And I lost her. I can't believe this. Poor little Hatsumi's probably being tortured somewhere awful for some evil purpose the likes of which we can't even begin to figure out and it's totally my fault."
There really wasn't anything to say to this, so nobody tried.
Yuu looked a little disturbed at their teacher's violent image, imagining his teammate bound, gagged and weeping. He stifled a sympathetic shudder. Rikimaru, on the other hand, looked highly dubious, trying very hard to recall the last time he had ever seen tough-as-nails Hatsumi quiver in the face of any threat. In fact, he was fairly sure he once saw her cut a hole in her own leg, then suck out a wriggling parasite with her mouth. Yeah, Hatsumi was pretty hardcore.
The silence dragged on for another painful moment, interrupted by the distant pattering of heavy rain; the three remaining members of Team Four entertained very different thoughts on Hatsumi's fate while Shikamaru stared at the door blankly, obviously deep in unspoken thought.
Ino's eyes finally shifted tiredly across the table towards him, but she didn't move her hands away from her face. "Wait a second," she mumbled around her palm. "Remind me why you're here again?"
"Not that you're not grateful," he added without looking at her.
She growled around all ten fingers and narrowed her eyes. "Don't piss me off, Shikamaru."
He gave her a weary look then lowered his bruised arm, reaching deeply into wet pockets before extracting a piece of heavily lacquered parchment that had obviously seen far better days. He tossed it upon the table.
Ino gave it a wary glance. Both sides were covered in some kind of blocky, foreign script; the right margin ragged. She raised an eyebrow. "… Okay. And this is…?"
Reaching over, Yuu picked it up and turned it over several times, scrutinizing the impeccably scrawled lines of images there. "Cool," Rikimaru commented over his shoulder. "It's like a code or something."
"Yeah," affirmed Shikamaru, returning his eyes to the door. "It's a cipher. Not a verified language, not that I know of, but some characters are partially based in the Tekeste Nomadic script. Semaphoric code, from the looks of it." Ino gave him a look of horrified admiration, because none of the strange pictures and squiggly lines even began to reek of anything remotely logical to her. She was thinking more along the lines of "drunken right-handed man's haiku with left hand" or something like that.
"I think," he added, shrugging.
Rikimaru was utterly enraptured, deserting his earlier worry for their lost comrade entirely. The dirty little scoundrel. "So? What does it say, Sensei?" He asked eagerly, turning towards Shikamaru. "Is it like a ransom or something? No… it's like a prophesy, right? That would be awesome."
Ino didn't even grace this comment with a look, just picked up her menu and swatted Rikimaru across the back of the head.
Right. So, weird cipher, missing heir. Um… What? Did this really make sense to anybody? Ino glanced surreptitiously at her old teammate one table-width away, where Shikamaru had resumed the previous slow massage of his battered forearm.
"Here," Ino offered, removing both hands from her face to reach into the pack behind her. She tugged out a (surprisingly) clean, dry length of cloth and motioned for him to extend his hand towards her. "Your arm. So, are you going to explain any of this to us? Like, right now?" Because the only other option was screaming and throwing things, but she had learned the hard way that the latter choice rarely made any leeway in any weighty matters whatsoever.
"What?" He asked distractedly, grimacing as she pulled brutally on the bandage.
She shot him an unamused look. "Oh, please, don't act stupid. Nobody believes you anyway. Knowing you, you've got this whole thing figured out already, so hit me with it. God knows it can't get any worse."
Ino wasn't lying. So far, the day possessed all the qualifying traits of being the worst in her life -- despite narrowly escaping certain incarceration and god knew what else (torture? Rape? Murder? Fine, she was getting carried away). Because this was supposed to be a calm, easy, two-week reprieve the village and all its associated woes -- mildly mud-logged at the absolute worst. And not involving kidnappings, missing heirs, ciphers, mapmakers and smart-ass classmates whose pants she currently (and unwantedly) had sudden dibs on.
Ino quickly withdrew both hands from Shikamaru's arm. He gave her a puzzled look. "All done," she amended hastily.
Ino returned her fingers to her face; once again her not-so-tiny lottery ball was doing a fabulous job of taking up a significant portion of thoughts much better relocated to matters of search-and-rescue, not to mention wreaking utter havoc with all her firing synapses. It figured, right?
"Well? Out with it."
He sighed, turning to her. "Right, right," he acquiesced, reaching above his head in a languid stretch. The desperate escape and missed night's sleep were beginning to take their toll. "What I know."
Yuu held up the cipher in his hands, assuming it would inevitably be part of their slightly belated briefing.
"Okay. My team had the privilege of learning that the nin that took the Hyuuga girl are unaffiliated with any known shinobi village at the moment, although that –" he pointed at the paper in Yuu's hands. "Says they're trying to change this."
"What? How?" Ino asked at the same time Rikimaru said: "Whoa… you managed to crack it?" She scowled and swatted the menu near him in a threatening motion.
"By offsetting the current state of the treaty with Takigakure, if I read it right."
Yuu blinked, confused. "But why would they take the word of an unaffiliated group over an ally like Konoha?"
Rikimaru scoffed, and in a surprisingly well-educated moment, said: ""Like this is some big surprise. You know what treaties are like."
"And where the hell did you learn that, exactly?" Ino asked, squinting at him suspiciously.
Rikimaru shrugged. "TV."
Anyway, dubious educators aside, it was still true. All Hidden Villages knew that most treaties were nothing more than glorified truces – transient and prone to decimation at the faintest hint of a crack. The Suna was reigning supreme as the current exception, but Ino would trust that about as far as she could throw it.
Yuu blinked, realization dawning on him. "No. Hatsumi and Itoigawa-san—"
"Right," Shikamaru answered, rolling his cramped shoulder. "Plant some undeniable proof that Konoha's broken the treaty and you've got the boat rocking."
"You're kidding," Ino cut in flatly, more and more horrified by the moment. "What exactly were they going to do?"
Shikamaru tapped the paper, which Yuu had placed in the centre of the table. "Says here they were looking to murder some higher-up and frame the Hyuuga girl. Short of putting out her eyes, there's no way they wouldn't track it back to Konoha."
A chair clattered as Rikimaru abruptly stood up. "Her eyes? No way! We can't let them –"
"Shut up!" Ino berated, grasping his wrist and yanking him down beside her. Shikamaru figured the younger boy could now expect a few similar bruises to his own. "So they need Itoigawa for the entry points and Hatsumi to place the blame. God, and we stuck them both in the exact same area at the exact same time. So stupid."
Shikamaru didn't answer, instead leaning back into his chair.
Ino took the appropriate five minutes for unending despair, then rounded up all the sad, half-assed remnants of fighting spirit within her. "Alright, then. Shikamaru, hit us with a plan. I've got to see about getting my fourth member back, or I can else I'll have to start planning for my funeral." At least once Tsunade got to her. Maybe Neji, too.
"And her safety?" Shikamaru reminded her dryly.
She scoffed, leaning back with a slightly proud smile. A missing child was still a missing child, especially if one possessed the much-wanted Konohan heir status, but Ino couldn't miss the bragging opportunity. "Oh, you don't know Hatsumi, then. I'd be more worried about the current arrangement of her kidnappers' internal organs. Or rearrangement, whatever you want to call it."
At this, Shikamaru shot her a sardonic and slightly relieved grin. He knew a lot of girls like that.
The fortress had looked like this: four wide walls of squat, grey stone arranged in what looked like a depressing prison, the ceiling lower than the level of the surrounding canopy in a feeble snatch at stealth. It was hard to hide a camp of this sort – the area beneath the building had been hastily cleared using what they all assumed was some technique, what with the lack of scorch marks and all, but the earth trembled with the feel of residual chakra.
Rikimaru brushed a hand against the cold stone, gazing upward at the low wall before them. "Stone manipulation jutsu? Whoa…"
"Oh, how fucking perfect," Ino-sensei cursed in a brash whisper. Yuu hadn't seen her bad fall, but her hobbling limp was becoming fairly apparent as the night wore on, and it was starting to make her pissy. Ino-sensei, despite her tendency to bitch and gripe about creature comforts, was always worryingly mum about things that really mattered, instead becoming progressively more stubborn and testy as time passed – a trait that made diagnosing her injuries incredibly frustrating.
Shikamaru-sensei had glanced at her pained shuffle once or twice before rolling his eyes, giving Yuu the distinct feeling that he was fairly well acquainted with this attribute already. "Okay, shhh…" Yuu hushed in a rare moment of impatience. "I'm almost there." He shifted his stethoscope against the stone. Truthfully, he had been and still was mighty suspicious that standard lock-picking would serve to get them anywhere at all; most of these element-type jutsu constructions had entries triggered by chakra-recognition techniques, impervious to manual jimmying. And Hatsumi, their resident chakra manipulator extraordinaire, was currently on the wrong side of said wall.
"Nah," Shikamaru-sensei had answered, looking somewhat impressed. "This was hastily erected, look at the way they cleared the area: the energy stamp is way too strong. Probably manual chakra key at the most. This would be a problem, but Ino tells me you guys are good at this kind of thing. My team gave it a shot already, but we couldn't get through."
Ino-sensei gave a nasal scoff. "Right. Your incredibly capable team." Yuu gave an internal wince at her blatant lack of tact, seeing as the abovementioned team was probably dead or severely injured from what they had heard. But Shikamaru-sensei had opted to ignore this, like he did most of her underhanded comments, bringing to light rumors that the two had been on the same genin/chuunin training team years prior. Growing up with Ino-sensei, huh? This was enough to impress anyone.
In any case, the lock was giving now; four tumblers down and about six more to go. Yes, it was a ten pin tumbler, accessed by a chakra molded key in a vibration signature that would usually be impossible to manually mimic. That had been where Rikimaru came in.
"What? Scores! I haven't seen one of these since I broke into the Academy vault –" he exclaimed, sounding like a kid in a candy store. At this, Shikamaru-sensei raised an appreciative eyebrow while Ino-sensei rolled her eyes. The younger boy reached into his pack with his left arm, the dislocated shoulder on his right having been reset moments before by Ino-sensei, and hefted what looked like a broad-toothed comb. "Hey... Yuu, can you hook me up? Um… lessee… Right here."
"Er… Riki, that's a vibration detonation, right? I don't think I've got a strong enough adhesive." Hours prior, Yuu's customary pack had been abandoned in the lam, a few necessary objects hastily shoved into the tool belt around his waist.
"It'll hold," Shikamaru-sensei cut in. "The vibration signature was still within the visible range, so you won't get that much motion." He turned to Yuu. "But you've got about three minutes. Go."
Rikimaru grinned happily, then hit the detonate button.
The silent detonator worked to mimic the vibration signature a chakra key would generally emit while Yuu plied at the internal pins that composed the physical part of the lock. Four down… Five… He listened for the final click as the two pins parted and turned cleanly and held his breath, counting the moments in his head. Three minutes, three minutes. He was nine seconds shy. Would it work while the adhesive held?
Then the detonator gave a final breathy wheeze and the stone began to flake violently away from behind the device, jostling it towards the ground.
Ino-sensei, had been nervously tapping her foot behind them the entire while, had been straining to keep her mouth shut. "Well?"
Then the stone beside the jimmied lock became a little clearer, the molecules parting in response to their nail-biting efforts. One second, two, then the grey matter gave way to empty space and the darkness of the internal building as a door materialized in the centre of the blank rock. Open. They had access!
Ino-sensei breathed a heavy sigh of relief and, in a twilight-zone-esque moment, scooped up her two remaining charges and hugged them gratefully. "Finally, thank god. You little bums come in handy every once in a while!"
It only lasted a moment; she let go of them before Rikimaru could begin his squirming protestations. "Alright, you two know where you need to go, right? Rikimaru, I swear to god: if you mess this up, when I see you again – "
Yuu carefully went over their earlier instructions in his head: infiltrate the camp through one of the alternative entrances – another chakra keyed access located on the south side of the premises. From there, chart out the internal area through any overhead system, official or not ("If there isn't one," Ino had explained hurriedly. "Then walk the ceilings. You're ninja, for god's sake."), find as many exits as possible and crack them. Secure multiple escape routes for the entire team. It would be hard, but doable.
Beside him, Rikimaru gave her departing back a scowl. "Whatever, Sensei!" He yelled after her. "Just make sure you've got Hatsumi with you!"
Ino gave her makeshift tensure bandage a hard tug for good measure, or what she thought was the bandage – it was hard to tell in the godforsaken dark. Denial, it had now been empirically discovered, was the worst pain coping mechanism ever; her ankle was throbbing roughly enough to register a five on the Richter scale. Beside her, Shikamaru watched skeptically.
"You know, tying that thing tighter isn't going to make the sprain go away." He mock-considered. "Might make the foot go away, though."
"Shut up," Ino retorted witheringly. The moment they had entered the compound, the two had been plunged into an evil and bitter darkness – which was saying much, seeing as dark had fallen throughout the forest prior to their infiltration. She could only hope the boys would be slightly better at seeing where they had to go.
"We can sit for a moment," Shikamaru offered in a rare moment of consideration.
"Nuh-uh," Ino eyed him like he had sprouted a second head. "Not until we've got Hatsumi. But if it weren't for this stupid dark—ARGH!"
"Watch the burlap sack."
"Late, Shikamaru! Just a bit." Gritting her teeth at the not-so-distant throbbing in her ankle, Ino squinted at the sack in question and moved to open it. What she found inside was truly puzzling. "What? Potatoes?"
Shikamaru glanced over her shoulder. "Huh. Potatoes." She heard him move away from her to fumble at a few other things around the room.
Ugh. Infiltrations without blueprints were always destined to be shitty, true, but they could've factored the impenetrable darkness somewhere into their plans. Ino reached back into her pack to grope for a light.
"Damn it. Shikamaru, do you have a lamp on you?"
In a colossal example of bad judgment, Ino had made Rikimaru carry her portable lamp hours prior because there simply hadn't been any room in hers, what with the battery-operated hair straightener and all.
There was probably a moral in here somewhere. But she was damned if she could find it.
"Oh shit," she swore as her weathered village guide slid over her shoulder into the darkness. She heard a dull thud as it hit the floor and reached out to feel for it.
"Here," came Shikamaru's voice, suddenly incredibly near to the back of her neck. "Try not to lose all our supplies yet." He pressed the book into her upper arm.
Ino jumped. "Um…yeah," she affirmed hastily, her current thoughts vacillating frantically between her appalling lack of sense-presence skills and exactly how he had managed to get so close so suddenly. She coughed, inexplicably embarrassed. "So… um, light?"
"Nope," he answered wearily. "No pack, remember?
"Ugh, fabulous. This stupid ankle. This stupid dark."
"Here," he tugged her arm and pressed it against the cool wall for direction and balance. It was a nice gesture. Ino squinted at him, but the darkness obscured everything.
Then a light flickered on in some distant corner of the room.
"Night-access floodlights," Shikamaru noted, almost solely to himself. Ino, half-blinded and disoriented, scowled and squinted at the source of the illumination: a sole floor-lamp had been built right into the stone corner there, revealing the room as fairly massive, empty of all furnishings except for a few haphazardly left bags of wheat and grain. And the now-infamous sack of potatoes.
"Supplies?" Ino murmured, not liking where her thoughts were currently straying. Supplies meant a supply closet. Food supplies meant a – Shit.
A low noise hissed from some hidden grate, followed by a rush of cool air.
The refrigeration had been turned on.
"Uh-oh," said Yuu, shifting his stethoscope against the cold stone. "What is that?"
Rikimaru, nursing a newly-sore shoulder from an injury suffered on his last bathroom break ("I… er, have torch," Yuu offered, just a little late), scowled over at Yuu through the infernal darkness. Overhead, the clouds greedily obscured the moon and any light it had to offer. He hated this stupid season. "Huh? What now?"
"I don't know," stammered Yuu, seeming utterly perplexed by the new occurrence. "I don't think it's my stethoscope…"
"Here, lemme listen." Rikimaru sidled closer and pressed his ear against the listening piece. A low hum droned there, whirring and obviously interfering with the kind of quiet necessary for lock-picking. "Whoa."
Yuu frowned, gesturing at the comb-shaped object beneath the lock. "The vibration detonation, maybe?"
Rikimaru shook his head distractedly. No way. Vibration detonators were specifically designed to not emit sounds that would likely interfere with the lock breaking process. And Rikimaru would know: he had made this one himself. "I can take it off, but I'm pretty sure that isn't it." Yuu offered him a chisel from his toolbelt and Rikimaru wedged it between the device and the wall. It came free with a few hard tugs and a grunt, flaked stone tumbling to the ground silently.
Yuu pressed his stethoscope back against the stone.
"Still there?"
He nodded slowly. "Seems like a … refrigeration system, maybe? But Shikamaru-sensei said –" Yuu glanced up at Rikimaru.
Who had stopped paying attention after Yuu's refrigeration diagnosis, instead spending an (extremely) rare moment in deep thought. The source of the noise made no difference, of course, be it a refrigerator or anything else. What mattered was the noise. And the noise meant an unlockable door, which meant a certain ass-kicking with his name on it the moment Ino-sensei and Hatsumi got out of there. If Ino-sensei and Hatsumi got out of there.
Once upon a time (more accurately: right before this mission), Riki had entertained some grand plans of integrating a sound damper into the detonation, but this plan fell flat when he ended up falling asleep the afternoon before their departure on this dumb mission. (Bright and early the next morning, Hatsumi had kindly woken him up with a rock to the window.
Most people did this regularly. Only Hatsumi did it when the window was open.)
Ayway, going back to the detonator. It wouldn't be too hard, Rikimaru considered, rubbing the above-mentioned bump on his head distractedly. He had already worked out a kinda-sorta-maybe plan in his head and the necessary tools weren't too exotic, but he couldn't do anything without some light. He turned to his remaining teammate. "Hey, what have you got on you? Pliers? Adhesive? Anything else? Here, toss me your light."
"Yeah," answered Yuu, removing the toolbelt and handing it over obligingly. Riki looked sufficiently engrossed in whatever plan he had in store, which was entirely fine with him. You maybe wouldn't want Riki in charge of more delicate matters like grocery shopping or babysitting your pet goldfish, but he was ace when it came to gadgetry and the like. Ino-sensei used to say it was the only reason she put up with him as she did (if you could call the frequent abuse tolerance in the first place). Sitting back, Yuu chewed his lip thoughtfully and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible, praying his teammate would finish with godspeed.
A setback meant time, Yuu knew, and time was absolutely of the essence right now.
"Huh. Guess I must've overlooked this."
Ino rolled her eyes with gusto. If she had both ankles at her behest right now, she would have stomped right over and strangled his stupid, refrigerator-overlooking neck. Seriously. "And now?"
He shrugged in a way that distinctly infuriated her and said: "I don't know. Wait?"
"Exactly." Shikamaru fingered his pockets for a loose smoke, but without much success. Concluding that he must've left all supplies behind in his wild escape from the tent, he breathed a tired sigh. And with Ino in a bad mood too.
"No!" Said Ino viciously, standing up with surprising ease for someone whose ankle was starting to resemble some sort of flotation device, and grabbed the lapels on his vest. "This is your fault in the first place! Your stupid, incredibly flawed plan. Way to be a super-genius, asshole."
Shikamaru sighed apathetically, considering what a really bad time it was to run out of cigarettes. But his characteristic lack of zeal served only to anger his livid comrade more. "Hello?!" She stage-whispered, giving him a few brutal shakes for good measure. "Are you even listening to me?!"
It turned out he wasn't, instead suddenly going very still in her grasp. Ino gave a furious huff, sick of not knowing what the hell was going on, and squeezed tighter. "Shikamaru! I can't believe you! Will you just—"
Then a hand shot up in the darkness; Shikamaru wrapped it tightly around her wrist. "Be quiet," he urged her, watching the far wall. "Listen."
Ino slackened her hold, a little taken aback at his strength, and held her breath carefully. There was the dull thud of harsh footsteps in what sounded like an outer hall beyond the stone wall. A door? She mouthed at Shikamaru, who shook his head distractedly. Great. A door might have meant a possible breakaway, but without it they were out of luck. Shikamaru had never been an entry/evacuation specialist and without her team, there was no way Ino could make the break-out alone.
More echoes; the low rumble of voices. They waited in the dark, uncomfortably close; Ino's hand hurt and she distantly wished he would let go, despite the fact that she'd never stoop so low as saying so. From this distance, she could see the dark fan of his lashes against the upper curve of his cheeks, the crinkled fabric of his vest along the collar. Her ankle gave a brutal throb beneath her and she forced her focus back on the commotion outside.
"Combat boots," Ino said softly, realization dawning upon her.
"Sounds like two of them. Non-shinobi," was Shikamaru's whispered diagnosis. "Guards, possibly. But this is the first time we've heard them, so they're not stationed outside of here."
Ino looked at him quizzically. "Why wouldn't they post someone outside of an entry point? Why would they post civilians at all? That doesn't –"
Shikamaru glanced at her, finally letting go of her arm. She rubbed it sullenly. "What time is it?" He asked her.
"I don't know," Ino answered, feeling a little bitter. "It was around nine-thirty when we last saw the boys."
Shikamaru sighed. "They're turning on the refrigeration. They're hoping we'll fall asleep."
"They've turned on the refrigeration, Shikamaru. Seriously, is the cold getting to your head? Anyway. They don't know we're here yet, so there must be some way out. We are shinobi, after all." She got up and hobbled to the nearest wall.
"—Who are both trapped in a sealed room with refrigeration, and no guards -- or if so, only lightly trained civilians. Meaning that nothing's ever survived long enough to break out of here before, or even pose a threat." He raised a hand to test the temperature. "It's going to get mighty freaking cold in here. Shinobi or not, it doesn't matter. Well, not mostly." Shikamaru moved over to a corner and parked himself there.
Ino shook her head disbelievingly. "You're mighty optimistic. There's got to be something we can– " She traced both hands against the length of the walls (albeit in a very slow, hobbling way) and inspected the ceiling, looking for any indentations that would hint at a hidden grate or air duct.
Shikamaru watched her with express disinterest. "Lower," he answered for her. He pointed to the opposing wall, where tiny rectangular ducts lay side by side. Each contained three open slats, a minimum of two centimeters wide. Looking around, Ino could see they lined all four walls. "I've already checked. The refrigeration comes from those ducts there, so unless you can hack off your pinky finger, fit it through the grate and then reanimate it to get us some help, we're stuck here 'til tomorrow."
Ino limped towards the said ducts; predictably, Shikamaru was right. She was hoping for the presence of some vermin to use the Shinten, but there would be none crawling through the frigid vents. Great. "This is brilliant," she huffed, whirling on him. "So what's the plan now, oh Supreme Strategist? Say my prayers and hope I wake up tomorrow?"
Shikamaru was rifling through her pack in an appalling lack of proprietal respect. "I said 'mostly', didn't I?" Withdrawing two wide blankets, he tossed her one. "They just erected this place, remember? So they're getting pretty comfy in assuming no one could get out of here." He gestured at the blanket. "And, you know – fail to prepare… and stuff."
They were two standard grade-issue thermal blankets usually brought on outdoor missions, so customary Ino had forgotten that she had even packed them in the first place. Shikamaru looked at her, nestling in a far corner from the vents. "It's still going to suck, though," he warned, ever the optimist. "Just don't fall asleep. I can't believe I just said that."
Ino sighed deeply, wrapping the blanket around her shoulders, and hobbled over to sit down beside him. It was going to be a long, long night.


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I have a domain that used to be zen-cart that I am changing to a WordPress site.
There are 40,000 URLS indexed in Google.
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Redirecting them all to the home page should be fine since there are very few deep links the majority of links are to the home page anyway. As this was an online store the indexed URLS are for old products so there aren't many matches pages on the new site.
They are mostly this format:
Most important is just to keep all the link juice and have the urls neatly redirect to the home page?
If can specify for some urls or batches of urls to go to specific pages that would be a bonus
I would think adding 40,000 urls to .hataccess etc would slow things down badly though
Any advice will 301 redirecting all the old product pages like this lose any PR or link juice? As mentioned there aren't many deep links, but deep pages are google indexed and do get google traffic
I saw Simple 301 Redirects Plugin, can this redirect all parameters on a url to a base url? Anyone know what do I put in, something like index.php?* I need something like that for the index.php page but not to apply to other WordPress posts which may have parameters with my shopping ads.
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- Written by: Paulaelia
- Edited by: FMF100 and Tina Bean
This fanfic also contains Human-Digimon relationships that go beyond being friends and partners. If you take offense at such lifestyle choices, please do not read this. You won't like it. That said, the content is kept to a PG/PG-13 level, and there isn't anything they wouldn't put in an anime. The chapters will be released as I finish the chapter following it (Chapter 1 will be released when I finished Chapter 2). I will try to keep a somewhat regular/speedy release (I don't want people waiting months for new chapters) however I do have other work I need to do, and I can't always work on it. As the chapters come out, I will add upon the list of characters below. However, for more information (including spoilers) character pages will be created. Any help readers can give on these pages will be much appreciated.
Chapter List
Two generations of DigiDestined must work together to save the Digital World from a rise of destructive Digimon. A major population imbalance caused the number of evil Digimon to vastly outnumber the good, and neutral. Transported to the Digital World, the team of experienced and fresh DigiDestined have to learn to work together, and get along. Follow along as the events of two different times cross and effect the outcomes of a battle spanning time and space.
This fanfic is more about the characters interactions and relations than it is about saving the Digital World. Obviously that is an important part, however this wont be as action packed as the TV shows. The main focus is on character interaction, relationships, and maintaining a healthy mental state.
The character list will expand and update as characters are introduced.
Experienced DigiDestined
- Paul- Paul is your typical nerd: He works on the computer, and comes up with crazy ideas and theories about the universe. He loves books, and learning, and has a fascination with Human-Digimon relationships. He is partnered with Renamon.
- Patrick- Much more open and wild, Patrick is not afraid to say what he thinks. He's also one of the first to act, sometimes getting him in trouble. Despite his vastly different personality, he gets along with Paul and can keep up with his level of nerd and science discussions. Patrick is partnered with Lopmon.
Fresh DigiDesitined
- Renamon- Born in the Digital World, Renamon contracted a deadly Virus which left her strength much diminished. When she Digivolved into Renamon (much to the surprise of everyone in her village), she used so much energy she became unable to preform any sort of strenuous activity without passing out afterwards.


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Saviola eyes Boro scalp
By Graeme Bailey
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Sevilla star Javier Saviola is desperate for Uefa Cup glory against Middlesbrough.
Sevilla star Javier Saviola is desperate for Uefa Cup glory against Middlesbrough.
Saviola is not underestimating the threat of the English side, but he is looking to seal victory for his homeland Argentina.
"For an Argentinian, victory over an English club is always sensational," he said.
"Many people in my country are now fans of Sevilla for this reason alone.
"I want to bring joy to my friends. Boro are a challenging team to play, as the last two rounds have shown.
"They have demonstrated that they are dangerous until the 90th minute and they have experienced players like Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Mark Viduka, Fabio Rochemback, Yakubu and Ray Parlour, so although it is their first final, they are not rookies in the world of football."
Former West Brom star Enzo Maresca is also likely to feature and is looking forward to facing English opposition again.
"English football is physically stronger, and in Spain it is technically superior," said the 26-year-old.
"We'll see a clash of styles in the final. We'll be the technical side and they'll be the physical one.
"One of the things I really loved about English football is the never-say-die spirit. That explains those Middlesbrough comebacks (against Basel and Steaua Bucharest)."


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Im 21 black male never had a girlfriend never had sex never been on a date never had anything from women at all. I feel like im ugly and unattractive to girls and that's why they don't want me. Im not fat im slim average shaped body and kinda lightskin. When im out and im around girls they never check me out and I feel like im a ghost to women. I used to approach women but I stopped because of the constant rejections and also im a bit too nervous to approach girls cause I always feel awkward and tongue tied and don't know what to say. When I go out I see couples everyday and it makes me feel sad and depressed cause I feel like I will never be able to get a girlfriend ever and im just not good enough. Sometimes I feel like I was born for girls not to like me and im just a nobody to women. I barely have any friends male or female. I haven't spoken to any girls for a very long time I feel like I will be single for the rest of my life with no one. I wish I could just go to a stripclub or an escort not just for sex but at least for companionship cause I feel like that's the only way I will be able to get accepted by women is if I payed a woman to give me time of day. I don't want to have to resort to this but I feel like its the only way. Women just don't want anything to do with me and I feel like im nothing but a piece of shit to women. When im at work or wherever I am girls never seem to notice me at all and im too nervous and shy to approach them cause I already know they gonna reject me like every other girl has done. I feel like there is no hope out there for me and I will most likely die a virgin. My life is full of shit
Most Helpful Girl
You'll find her. You're probably one of a kind. So chances are you'll rarely find a woman right for you, because the woman that is right for you is one of kind as well. And you need someone different than most girls. Just like how you seem like you'd be different from most guys.00|00|0
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Don't go to strip clubs for this purpose. Strip clubs are total fantasy land, the women are not going to be into you at all. They're only going to be into any green you flash.
Escort/hooker might be a legit desperate move if you absolutely can't get laid anywhere else. Losing the virginity will definitely kind of get you out of that mental rut.
Night clubs and bars are probably the best place to hone your skills. Night clubs tend to be easier if you're socially awkward initially since you can dance and join in.
Mostly I think you need some liquid courage just as training wheels initially to get over this whole kind of ultra-negative image you've developed as a result of not having successfully lost your virginity yet. Alcohol can work wonders.00|00|1
This is a desperate strategy, mind you. Bars and clubs tend to be a good place to kind of hone your social skills since they let you kind of bounce from stranger to stranger to stranger.
It's good to graduate from that though as soon as possible and proceed to work the networking angle with people you repeatedly see. Remember that your ability to catch women is often somewhat proportional to your ability to befriend a large number of people.
Last but not least, the people who are so deathly afraid of rejection usually haven't been rejected very often in their life, and they're approaching girls *after* they develop feelings for them which makes it more embarrassing/stingy if they say "no".
Try being rejected by 500 girls. Get the thick skin. Learn to laugh it off. Building those qualities will help you get a "yes".


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Neighborhood Revitalization
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With the Love Your Block blueprint, the mayor's office in Kettering combined their ongoing participation in national Make a Difference Day with Cities of Service in order to develop an ongoing neighborhood revitalization initiative. Kettering Cares encourages community pride in one low-income neighborhood each year by assisting resident volunteers in improving their neighborhoods through general cleanup, home repair, landscaping, energy conservation, weatherization, education, and participation.
For more information, check out Kettering's 2014 Make a Difference Day results.
"It is because of our volunteer tradition, and the fact that our volunteers always help when asked, that I didn't hesitate to pledge to find creative ways to utilize the time and talent of volunteers to address our City's greatest need, neighborhood revitalization. I was excited to join my fellow mayors from around our nation to become an active member of the Cities of Service initiative."Mayor Don Patterson


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Bihar Kshetriya Gramin Bank Officers Exam, April 2012
1. Which of the following countries recently signed a 'Ceasefire agreement' with 'Karens'?
a) China
b) Liya
c) Myanmar
d) Nepal
e) Egypt
2. Which of the following countries has recently decided to fix the term of the President of the country for 7 year?
a) Iraq
b) Myanmar
c) Mepal
d) Libya
e) Turkey
3. India recently decided to purchase fighter planes from France. Which of the following is the name of these planes?
a) Rafale
b) Boeing
c) MiG-35
d) Lockhead Martin
e) Cassadion
4. India now declared free from which of the diseases after a long battle against it?
a) AIDS
b) TB
c) Cancer
d) Polio
e) All of the these
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