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Qualcomm works out their ARMs and not their core?
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Processors, Mobile | August 3, 2013 - 07:21 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: qualcomm, Intel, mediatek, arm
MediaTek, do you even lift?
According to a Taiwan Media Roundtable transcript, discovered by IT World, Qualcomm has no interest, at least at the moment, in developing an octo-core processor. MediaTek, their competitor, recently unveiled an eight core ARM System on a Chip (SoC) which can be fully utilized. Most other mobile SoCs with eight cores function as a fast quad-core and a slower, but more efficient, quad-core processor with the most appropriate chosen for the task.
Anand Chandrasekher of Qualcomm believes it is desperation.
So, I go back to what I said: it's not about cores. When you can't engineer a product that meets the consumers' expectations, maybe that's when you resort to simply throwing cores together. That is the equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks. That's a dumb way to do it and I think our engineers aren't dumb.
The moderator, clearly amused by the reaction, requested a firm clarification that Qualcomm will not launch an octo-core product. A firm, but not clear, response was given, "We don't do dumb things". Of course they would not commit to swearing off eight cores for all eternity, at some point they may find core count to be their bottleneck, but that is not the case for the moment. They will also not discuss whether bumping the clock rate is the best option or whether they should focus on graphics performance. He is just assured that they are focused on the best experience for whatever scenario each product is designed to solve.
And he is assured that Intel, his former employer, still cannot catch them. As we have discussed in the past: Intel is a company that will spend tens of billions of dollars, year over year, to out-research you if they genuinely want to play in your market. Even with his experience at Intel, he continues to take them lightly.
We don't see any impact from any of Intel's claims on current or future products. I think the results from empirical testers on our products that are currently shipping in the marketplace is very clear, and across a range of reviewers from Anandtech to Engadget, Qualcomm Snapdragon devices are winning both on experience as well as battery life. What our competitors are claiming are empty promises and is not having an impact on us.
Qualcomm has a definite lead, at the moment, and may very well keep ahead through Bay Trail. AMD, too, kept a lead throughout the entire Athlon 64 generation and believed they could beat anything Intel could develop. They were complacent, much as Qualcomm sounds currently, and when Intel caught up AMD could not float above the sheer volume of money trying to drown them.
Then again, even if you are complacent, you may still be the best. Maybe Intel will never get a Conroe moment against ARM.
Your thoughts?
Intel must deliver something that is significantly faster, cheaper and more power efficient to stand a chance. They must deliver something clearly much better all around to justify the costs their prospective customers would incur for switching.
Until that happens, all talk of Intel in mobile it's just ridiculous and boring chest pounding.
AMD should get some pointers from "Qualcomm" in how to develop a processor because Intel is buy far in the lead in PC desktops!!!
Qualcomm must know what they are saying, We as consumers will have to see, but for now it is "Qualcomm"!!!
Carmack said that the x86 architecture does not carry that much bloat relative to other instruction sets, as some people believe. He also said intel's process tech is second to none and critical to the success of their chips. What I am saying is do not count intel out just yet.
Great CPU design will only take you so far. In the end, a better process (smaller linewidth, etc) trumps design. With that observation in mind, who leads the world in process technology? Intel. It remains to be seen whether Intel's 22nm cores can beat Qualcomm's 28nm cores. More interesting: Intel's 14nm process will begin sampling soon - what will it be capable of?
ARM has something that Intel doesn't want to have, and that is ARM's strength.
ARM will license out it's tech, and let you build what you want, the way you want, with that tech. Intel will hand you a piece of hardware, and you can take what they want to sell you, the way they want to sell it to you.
In the hyper-competitive mobile device market, the more restrictive solution is going to have it's lunch eaten by a less restrictive alternative.
Um, not sure this is valid but If I was a foreign government and was concerned about the NSA having all my data I might use AMD or other none Intel chips because Intel is an American company. That could be a big market.
AMD is also American.
Qualcomm, too.
The USA is definitely not the only country doing this stuff... China and others were known.
And, while possible, I doubt we have to worry -- at least much -- about exploits baked into the silicon of computer hardware. Now there has been some times where certain routers have been known to ping China for no reason... but yeah.
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Everyone, give a big round of applause for the new team members. Their wits are keen, hands steady and wrists as thick as chilled cheddar cheese.
First ^_^
So, what combo is that? Warrior, hunter, shaman and ?
Paladin & Brewmaster?
he good post rofl'd when heron came out, I got brewmaster achi to:D. First xD
Nice i am 3 i like your guy's work
Wait, if we have Trevor and Luke, doesn't it make 7vs5 :D?
5th =D and the other team is about to get pwnd, either by leeroy or veron's drunk math skills
i don't wanna meet em in arena! ;p
nice comic :)
awesome!! =D
keep up the good work!
That was nice ending :)and he got the new axe from TOC :P and btw veron is a shaman so the setup is warrior hunter shaman paladin&cat + unknow class cow who dont know his class till now :P
awww man... Veron ruined the 'whats with the retarded smirk on the hunters face?' moment.
oh trevor is back to team at least!
and nice combo!
11th! XD
LOLs all around for this page xD
i dare bet the unkown cow is a paladin, and the nerfstick is a spear :P
btw i also got brewmaster :3
(i got a total of 20 titles, ftw)
Uh oh! Time to tuck the ol' tail between the legs and run! Or LOL, not sure which. ^_^
Weird comic tbh. You always see the number of opponents in the arena, so I dont see how they could think they were only 3 (Since the brewmaster should count as person too)..
And yes, I do like to pay attention to details :>
I thought Veron dont like kittens?
And i think its orc warr, human hunter, tauren shaman, tauren brewmaster and pala/dk/demon/cat/dragon
As for the first comment :
"It's a palakitten!"
Gief more!!!!
O_o rotfflmfao atm, one of the best i've seen so far ^^ great job :D
Haha, Leeroy and Veron is back in great style ! cool :D but Veron is drunked xD
ahhhh its nice to get back to basics...
except this time teh gladiators are the roflpwners!
Epic Arena Team !
I feel sorry for those guys agaist them . All with relentless and other cool items but nothing can help them !
hmmm but is leroy the father of the hunter with the retarded smirk on his face or did i just made that up myself??
reason why I love monday : new comic
reason why I hate monday : one week to wait before next comic
ok, who's Vallant's pet now?
I wonder why the opposite team never heard of vallant eagle eye, the hunter who one shot Booty Bay
Wait... isnt that the same team as olden days? Wasnt it orc warr/tauren druid/and a priest/lock/mage belf belf UD in some order for the casters? Reroll?
you relly have to feel sorry for Leeroy. being stuck on that "bloody cat" all day. his nose must itch a storm.
has to be a new huntard spec, duel pets!
oh my god....i just realized something, with the way teh gladiators are going, and with all the uuber awesomeness of the team now, there can be only one outcome......it's not deathwing but THEM who will cause the cataclysm !
oh noes >.
I have a feeling that once cataclysm comes out, there will be a nice asorted pile of human hunters named valent.
Hmm.. it's monday... and no new episode.
So... this was the last one ? :(( NOOOO !
Common Guyz ! u only have 6 more until the big 100 !!!!
come on update guys
Wow,cool comic,im with you from the beginning,its nice to know we have this kind of people in serbia


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Discussion in 'Pro Match Results and Discussion' started by westside, May 25, 2007.
Hewitt won the opening game
1-0 on serve
Monfils just broke him. 2-1 Monfils
Monfils leading 4-2. Man he doing good, hope he wins....
Hewitt wins next game, 4-3 Monfils.
5-3 Monfils. Hewitt to serve
Monfils is amazing, why didn't I realize before?
Hewitt wins game 5-4 Monfils
Predictions for this match? I'm saying Monfils in 3.
Nah, Hewitt in 3.
Monfils take first set 6-4.
Set Monfils 6-4
Ahhh you beat me to it
Monfils breaks Hewitt to take first game of second set 1-0
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Monfils breaks Hewitt 2-1 Monfils
After this, I see Monfils taking it in 2 sets
Monfils takes game 3-1 Monfils
3-2 Monfils
Hi guys,
This doesnt look good for Hewitt... are you watching the game, how is he playing?
I'm watching scores, my TV is broken, and my other TVs are being used right now
Hewitt making a comeback, leads 5-4
5-5, it's intense
Monfils has 3 break points.
And he takes his opportunity with his third break
Monfils up 6-5
nos hold your serve and send hewitt to paris
I think this is the end, monfis serving for the match...
Hewitt had a BP.
OMG double fault
Monfils Wins 6-4, 7-5. Great Win Monfils!
monfils wins , he choked but he won
Well, hope this is a comeback for Monfils... good for him.
Monfils is in the finals, if he wins (I'm pretty sure he will), then this will be a major booster for him at RG. And it will be his second title of his whole career.
He could have a good run at RG he's in a pretty good quarter of the draw so we'll s how it goes.
I seriously hope he does well the rest of the season
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Dinner, y'all?
There is not an ounce of southern blood in me, in my husband or even in my adopted boys. We live at 41 degrees and 14 minutes. My mother was born and raised at 41 degrees 19 minutes. Dad was born at 43 degrees 13 minutes and raised just north of the 40th parallel. Steve's parents were born and raised at 41 degrees.
But we enjoyed this dinner last night: BBQ country-style ribs, spoon bread, and spinach (greens).
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Lol :) I know you tried, but spinach is not greens. I'm sure its almost impossible to find good "real" greens there. Heck, its almost impossible here. It involves finding a farmer and convincing him you really NEED those greens, more so than the other people that are trying to separate him and his greens. Its probably easier to buy drugs!
Last year my Dad, who absolutely hates to waste produce, realized my mother was not going to "process" the entire bed of greens. He picked off the whole thing, and tooks big bags to the old people downtown who were too old for gardening. Little old people, both men and women, literally cried with joy. Some hugged him. No kidding.
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Such a sweet story about your father. No southerner would consider my "BBQ" ribs authentic either! OK, so only the spoon bread made the cut.


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Macedonia (Ohio) Nordonia defensive back Jordan Mabin had been thinking he would soon select a college. And while that may still happen, Mabin says it's also possible he could wait it out.
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I'm an extrovert. I think she was more correct about extroverts than introverts. Maybe the book should have been called "LOUD."
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Its your chance to impact the agenda of the Windows Server "Longhorn" software design review.
Well it was the T-3 weeks deadline yesterday for the Windows Server "Longhorn" SDR. We have the first draft agenda out of the door which should soon be published on the registration site www.longhornsdr.com . Lets hope it sticks :-). If you go to volker's blog you will see the full draft agenda plus other stuff we are doing.
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I came to Burghausen to visit the longest castle in Europe, I left feeling ready for Easter and thinking it's one of the prettiest Old Towns in all of Bavaria!
Burghausen is located in Upper Bavaria, just over 110km from Munich. Despite that I had never heard of it until two days ago. Back in the day it was a key player in the salt trade. Today its #1 attraction is the longest castle in Europe – which is incidentally how I found out about Burghausen in the first place. But more on that in an upcoming post.
Normally you would find me huffing and puffing away on a mountain somewhere in the Alps. Cursing with each passing step, yet at the same time masochistically enjoying it. But the trade-off for all my hiking is that it leaves me with little time to explore all the non-hiking places around me. The only reason I'm not out hiking today is because of a knee injury of which the result is wearing a full leg brace 24/7 for six weeks.
I'm not going to lie, it sucks! But the unexpected upside is that it leads me to places that I wouldn't normally explore – since I'd be too busy hiking. Ironically it always seems to occur around Easter. Two years ago I was recovering from knee surgery (the other knee) and itching to get out and do SOMETHING I discovered the Easter Egg Museum, the only one of its kind in Germany! I didn't come to Burghausen expecting to find an Easter, but it was all around me.
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If that wasn't enough to put the thought of Easter into my head, the pastel colored Old Town sure did. The entire medieval Old Town reminded me of a story book painted especially for Easter. Despite it being a cloudy, windy day, my spirits lifted as I took in the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo facades and gabled roofs.
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Warwick, NY current conditions?
Is there still snow on the ground at Warwick? Are the teepads clear? I might be driving 1.5 hrs out of the way to play it on Friday or Sunday.
Some snow still on course, tees are so so. I played there two Saturdays ago and they were not that clean. We had a few warm days so they are probably a little better. Some guys were trying to clear them last week.
I talked to some Warwick locals on Saturday at Rutgers, they said there was still snow on the ground.
P.S. - See you at the Philly Open!
any updates in the past few days?
I spoke with Dan, only small patches of leftover snow so I'm good for Friday.
fyi...Warwick is still 50% snow covered, 35 of the 36 blue and silver tees were great though. Up to 3-4" of wet snow, slush, ice, mud and wet grass all found today. Some dry grass did exist in places. Very playable bur rather sloppy.
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A second night of rioting in Belfast has left 15 Northern Irish police officers injured. Catholic and Protestant gangs have been throwing petrol bombs, bricks and bottles at police and each other in some of the worst sectarian violence seen this year, reports Bloomberg.
Fighting in Northern Ireland is common through the summer when parades held by Protestants, who want the country to remain part of the United Kingdom, are seen as provocative by the Catholic community, who want to be part of a united Ireland.
The fighting broke out Sunday after Catholic Irish nationalists held a parade in an area where Protestant groups were recently barred from marching, reports NBC News.
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A total of 62 police were injured in just over 24 hours with three officers hurt Monday being sent to the hospital.
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Miami Beach police beat up two French tourists, a father and son, for no reason, then threw the father in jail for six days, the men claim in Miami-Dade County Court. The tourists say the plainclothes officers never identified themselves as police until they had thoroughly beaten the bewildered Frenchmen. Guy Sabine Moulin and his son Mayeul Moulin sued the cities of Miami Beach and Hialeah and four police officers, alleging false arrest, battery and civil rights violations.
The father claims he was at South Beach and left his two sons to wait for him on a bench while he went to pay for parking. When he returned, he says, his eldest son was being strangled and beaten by four men. Moulin says he jumped in to protect his son, and the men beat him too. The father says he was treated for injuries to his face and was jailed for six days, and his son was held overnight at a juvenile detention center.
"On or about August 8, 2008, plaintiff Guy Sabine Moulin and his two sons Mayeul Moulin (17) and Joris Moulin (13) were in the City of Miami, Florida on a family vacation when they went to Miami Beach for dinner at a restaurant on South Beach," according to the complaint.
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Album Rating: 3.5My god. Im totally opposite with this album. Declare Guerre Nucleaire and Statecontrol are my favourite Hives songs! they fucking bang them out with such precision. They are perfect garage-punk-pop songs, WHAT THE HIVES ARE.
Album Rating: 4.0Hey..I never said i didnt like em...its just i dont think a 1:35 and a 1:54 are on the same level as some of the others. But hey. Thats your opinion and thats what this place is all about.
Album Rating: 3.0ha you beat me to this albums review. I agree sure why not. Maybe not a 4, but a 3 is good. I seem to think the songs all sound the same...relatively. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Album Rating: 4.0i hear ya loud and clear..i wanted to give this a 3.5-3.75...but i dont know i guess i rounded up..hah
I think Tyrannasaurus Hives is a lot better than this.
Decent enough review.
I always thought The Hives were an average band, I could sit and listen to their songs when it came on the radio and not mind. But when I saw them live I was hooked. They are without a doubt one of the greatest live bands not just to come out recently but of all time. Their show is so tight and so energetic, and it's just a hellofa fun time
this album get old
Album Rating: 4.5Hmmm....... I think 'State Control' and 'Supply And Demand' are the best songs on the album.
For pure Rock 'N Roll fun. (It's not trying to be innovative) I give it a 4.5/5
Album Rating: 4.0true...true
Album Rating: 4.0Excellent garage/punk'n'roll/whatever album! I find it so amazing how many really great scandinavian bands there are!
hmmm...the hives aren't a band that i like a lot, but the review was good
This is an ok album, I like the really upbeat songs and the singles. Doesn't really compare to Tyrannosarus Hives.
Album Rating: 3.0I think this albulm is worth buying. Im a big fan of "The Hives" but the song lengths are really annoying. Good reveiw
Album Rating: 4.0This is an excellent, energetic album and Tyrannosaurus Hives is even better!
Album Rating: 4.0God, these guys slay live
Album Rating: 5.0who cares how long the f**king tracks are this is the coolest album ever made.
I believe the Cartoon Network theme is actually what got these off the ground
Hate To Say I Told You So, man, what a killer track
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Tupac: The Legacy by Jamal Joseph
(Simon and Schuster) £22.99
A lavishly addition to the deluge of posthumous Tupac products. A collection of family pictures, handwritten lyrics and memorabilia that gives an intelligent snapshot of his life.
The website
Totally Radio is a neat way to check what's fuelling the ears of the musical cognoscenti. An on-demand radio site, its list of discerning contributors includes Coldcut, Mr Scruff , and regular OMM reviewer Garry Mulholland . It has a brilliantly eclectic range, featuring everything from indie to world music. Better still, it eschews cliquishness by including playlists for each show.
The DVD
High Tech Soul
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With techno gurning away in relative obscurity, it's unclear if Gary Bredow's film is burying as well as praising the genre, but it's compellingly thorough. A five-year labour of love, it interviews all the key decks personnel, including Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and the gregarious Derrick May.
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Vito Roccoforte, drummer with The Rapture
I was really moved by An Inconvenient Truth. It's a documentary with Al Gore about the state of the environment. It really made me want to do something to make a difference, so I immediately changed all my light bulbs to energy saving ones. On the bus we watch Phoenix Nights, which is incredible. There are jokes that I don't get, but it still really cracks me up. And while I mostly read magazines, right now I am reading a bunch of short stories by Philip K Dick. They are very weird and paranoid.


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I am a free expression of an energetic force of love, living with integrity to create the world I want to see. I feel my time here on earth is important. I am part of a sustainable community project in Portugal with the goal of recognizing our role as creators of earth and taking the initiative to change ourselves. I enjoy adventures of all kinds as well as most things creative, like making music, fixing school buses, or building chicken houses. I like to find out what people are all about and love conversation on the big picture of life. I will probably wash your dishes while you aren't looking.
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GREENSBORO, NC— One of the winningest coaches in the NCAA walked off the court in 2013 to face the biggest fight of her life.
She was diagnosed with leukemia, and now Coach Hatchell says she's cancer free.
It came as a shock for many fans. It even came as a shock for players.
In mid-October, Sylvia Hatchell announced that she was diagnosed with leukemia and was temporarily stepping down. Associate head coach Andrew Calder led the team in the 2013-2014 season.
RELATED LINK:UNC Women's Player Works Through Injury, Relies On Coach Hatchell
Since then, Hatchell has been through chemotherapy and now her illness is in remission.
WFMY News 2's Liz Crawford got the chance to talk to Coach one on one at the Tar Heel Tour in Greensboro Tuesday night.
"I'm great and it's over. I just got to keep working hard and get my strength built back up," said Hatchell.
Hatchell said she relied on her faith and mental strength to fight the disease.
"It was like a tsunami hitting me and it is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. The last 7 months have been absolutely incredible."


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Archive for the 'Czech Secese History' Category
Karel Hlavacek – Posters
Original Lithograph, from "Le Pater" printed by F. Champenois and published by Henri Piazza in Paris, 1899.
Le Pater, consisted of a series of seven drawings. The seven verses of the Lord's prayer are presented with illustrations by Mucha.
"Mucha felt that 'Le Pater' was his supreme achievement as an illustrator.
The following picture are digitized from my personal book collection.
As a follow up to the post dedicated to the work of Osvald Polivka I would like to present two decorative elements on the façade of the Topič building, work due to the Czech sculptor Ladislav Jan Šaloun.
Ladislav Jan Šaloun (b Prague, 1 Aug 1870; d Prague, 18 Oct 1946). was student of the sculptors Thomas Seidan (1830-90) and Bohuslav Schnirch. As many artists and sculptures at the turn-of-the-century, Šaloun too was influenced by the work and style of Auguste Rodin, whose Prague exhibition he saw in 1902. The vagueness of the shapes, the formation of figures from the raw marble, the pathos of the composition, the dramatic expressions of the characters, were elements which Šaloun admired in the works of Rodin.
In Hradecko, in the Secession building due to the architect Osvald Polívka 1912 other works of Ladislav Šaloun are characterized by an evident sensual and melancholic mood. Abandoned the vagueness of the unformed marble material, shapesd in a more classicist or neo-renaissance style, these statues are notwithstanding characterized by an introspective attitude, a typical "humor noir", a melancholic expression of the faces which recalls the title of a philosophical work of Theophrastus, the Melancholy of the Genius. This feeling is typical symbolist and decadent attitude:
Symbolism. The symbolic element, remarked by the beauty of the Art Nouveau line, engraved by typical Secese female figures. The smooth gesture and the dreaming attitude of the sculptured women on the Topič building façade are somewhat similar to a magazine vignette rather than a plastic sculpture, completely different from the style of the previous Šaloun works.
By a pure aesthetic point of view, some noticeable similarities between one of the sculpture and a woman depicted for a poster of Alphonse Mucha: position of the head, dreaming and ecstatic sight, spatial position of bodies and shoulders. A typical fin-de-siécle Czech sensibility toward arts ?
Osvald Polívka born 24. 5. 1859 was one of the most influencing Czech Architect. He studied architecture as well as building engineering. Polívka began the career under the guide of prof. J. Zítka, and finally began his first project in 1890. His style was definitively influenced by Art Nouveau. Serpentine lines as well as phytomorphic motifs are present on his facades.
Combination of naturalistic and phytomorphic elements are well noticeable in this apartment house build in 1901-2:
Even if the facade is clearly Secese styled however it has still some neoclassic and eclectic elements and the curves of the decor´s lines are contrasting the classicist elements of the building (in the detail, the female face and the phytomorphic element seem struggle in a battle with the conservative static container of the neo-greek frieze).
Fully Secessionist, on the contrary, the building for the U Novaků Department Store, which also include a mosaic sketched by the famous Czech painter Jan Preisler.
Really outstanding are the zoomorphological decorations:
And the mosaic of Jan Preisler, also, characterized this building, one of the most interesting of the Czech Secese:
And, finally, the internal galleria, with decorated glasses and mirrors:
Topič building, 1903-6, another great work, with a façade which mixes Viennese elements with the outstanding decorative taste of Osvald Polívka:
An outstanding document as second article of Secese – Czech Secession. Thanks to the Bibliotheque National Française and their Digital Library (named Gallica, and available following this link: http://gallica.bnf.fr/) I was able to find out and to prepare the PDF of the art magazine "La Plume", special number completely (COMPLETELY) dedicated to Alphonse Mucha. It was published the 15th of June 1897.
Here you can find the cover and the full reproduction of all the 110 pages in PDF format. Enjoy 🙂


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"EVEN IF YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, YOU'LL GET RUN OVER IF YOU JUST SIT THERE" ~ Will Rogers
Category: Inspiration
Art-spiration has hit the 2 month milestone!!! It seems such an eon ago but here we are, 8 posts later and 8 different artists later! Now enough of patting myself on the back and back to business. The eighth artist of the week is quite into sketching hyperrealism, beautiful, vivid characters from his project 'Swordplay" … Continue reading Art-spiration #8
Back at it with the watercolour, which truthfully I can't get enough of - ever and with something a little different as the focus subject of the piece - landscapes! So this week's artist is another watercolour enthusiast almost on par talent and favourite wise, with the earlier mentioned Jongkie, who you can find again … Continue reading Art-spiration #7
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Here's When The Gifted, The Orville and Other Fox Shows Premiere
Jun 22, 2017 2:00 PM EDT
You've barely put half a tube of zinc oxide on your nose and put the hot doggies on the grill, but all you can think about is, "When does The Gifted premiere?" Well Fox has your back. The network announced its fall premiere dates today, and it's givi… Read more


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First, a disclaimer: We do not wish injuries upon anyone.
That clarified, it is undeniable that lining up opposite the 49ers defense can be hazardous to your health. While none of the resulting injuries will be celebrated, the physical, punishing, will-imposing style of Vic Fangio's defensive unit can, and should, be lauded.In the first seven games of the season, only three opposing starting backs completed their contest in good health.Felix Jones was the first victim, suffering a separated shoulder in Week 2. Fortunately, he did not miss any time.
LeGarrette Blount was taken down by DaShon Goldson and sprained his MCL in Week 5. He missed the Buccaneers' next two games.Former Cal Bear Jahvid Best might have got it the worst. He quietly left the game in the fourth quarter, and, only afterward, reports surfaced that he suffered a concussion that would end his promising sophomore season.
"We had a hard time getting the run game going," Lions coach Jim Schwartz observed after the loss.After a bye week, it was malady for the Browns' Montario Hardesty, who tore a calf muscle and missed four games.At this point in the season, going into a Week 9 matchup with the Redskins, we took the time to ask, is it a bad week to be a Washington ball carrier?Since their statement stretch to open the year, the 49ers have mellowed out, allowing all but one of the remaining regular season opposing backs good health. Steven Jackson left the Week 13 game with a injured biceps muscle.But playoffs are playoffs.In his NFC Championship press conference, safety Donte Whitner said that a big hit early in the game "sets the tone, and lets the offense know they're in for a long day." The first seven games the 49ers defense put together let every offensive player in the league know they were in for a long season. And on the opening drive of the 49ers' Divisional-round matchup with the Saints, Whitner delivered that hit, laying into Pierre Thomas with a gruesome tackle that knocked Thomas unconscious, the football falling from his locked-up arms.Thomas would not return to the game, finishing with just one rush for six yards, a fumble and a concussion.Just as the 49ers set the tone for the season in their first seven games, they set the tone for their playoff run in the first series.Offensive players "dont want a physical game," Whitner said. "They want an easy day, they want to run out of bounds, they dont want guys hitting them."With Whitner, Goldson, Ahmad Brooks, NaVorro Bowman, and Patrick Willis among the 49ers tacklers, New York's offensive players won't get that wish.
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It's gaming console season this November with new technology hitting stores in the form of the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. While the consoles certainly top our holiday wish list, the excitement has us ready to get back into the gaming spirit in its many forms. From an indie console gone big to a racing game built on robotic intelligence to new hits on a classic dance title, these are the POPSUGAR Tech must haves for a November that'll have us glued to gaming.
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The blunt metal tip on this handy compass is safe for use even by children, yet it works well on all papers. A lockable graduation arm helps create perfect circles up to a 12" diameter.
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This is a great beginners compass. I used them with my elementery art class. The kids loved them!
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I am a math teacher and upon delivery of the 40 compasses we purchased over half were unusable and the remaining broke or became useless within a few uses. DO NOT buy this compass! It is CHEAP plastic and nothing holds in place. The pencil or the actual compass itself! What a pain now to return it and buy something else.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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After ordering these, they held up well for a few classes....but quickly started falling apart. Students would come up with little pieces in their hand and there was a quick pile developing in the box they were stored in. I would not order these again.
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"Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband."
"I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out."
"[His family, his friends, Bridgette, they all want him to play one more Grand Slam event.] I want it to be up to him, but, just personally, I'm going to miss watching him play, ... And I'd love for Christian to be there once, even if he'd never remember."


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Has there ever been a better time to be a Brigham Young University basketball fan? Currently BYU stands at No. 3 in the polls and looks poised for a rare run into the NCAA Tournament's second week.
You can't turn on ESPN these days without seeing a clip of BYU All-American Jimmer Fredette launching a 30-foot 3-pointer, or a live interview with "The Jimmer" or a hoops guru breaking down game film. Even more likely, you've seen all of the above. If Jimmer were a stock, he'd be Google at $610 a share with room to grow.
Indeed, it's been quite a season. I only wish I'd seen more of it. Living in the East has not afforded me as many opportunities to watch games as my friends in the West. Just imagine how thrilled I was that BYU's game with then-No. 6 ranked San Diego State University last Saturday would be televised coast-to-coast on CBS. It was only the second game all year I watched from tip-off to final buzzer.
Thankfully, the game was nearly everything we'd been promised. It featured physical play from both teams, timely offense and good coaching from two of the best. It was entertaining and competitive until roughly the 10-minute mark of the second half. For the rest of the matchup, BYU answered every SDSU mini-run with huge shots from plenty of players not named Jimmer.
As the clock ticked down, the only real suspense was whether or not SDSU fans, desperate for a win over their much-hated league rival, would stay classy or repeat their embarrassing behavior from previous meetings.
SDSU coach Steve Fisher sent an e-mail earlier in the week asking all fans, especially those in SDSU's famed student section dubbed "The Show," to behave appropriately.
Among other things, Fisher wrote, "We cannot cross the line into topics that are out of bounds and distasteful, particularly making fun of one's religion."
Maybe some SDSU fans have junk filters blocking Coach Fisher's e-mails.
It's obvious that if you're watching premium cable and your children walk in the room, you better be prepared to explain the profanity, innuendo, etc. To a slightly lesser degree, the same is true if your little ones wander in while watching any number of prime-time sitcoms on NBC, CBS, ABC or FOX. But should that be the case if you're watching a college basketball game on national television?
During the final minutes of the SDSU-BYU game, my daughter popped in to check on the score and enjoy a quick one-on-one chat with Dad. I was explaining a foul against SDSU when the crowd, obviously disagreeing with the call, began to chant a popular two-word phrase connoting disbelief. "Dad, are they chanting what I think they're chanting"
"Yes, dear, they are."
"Can't they get in trouble for that?" she asked.
"Apparently not."
Basketball is a sport that encourages fan involvement. We sit close to the court and have easy access to players. We're often referred to as the "sixth-man" and, perhaps more than in any sport, we can feed a team's momentum.
Everyone wants to win the big game, right? That's why we buy tickets, and that's why we scramble around on a busy Saturday morning to be in a position to devote two hours to a basketball game. It's not a crime to want your team to perform well and to beat your rival. But when is too much, too much?
Perhaps it was poor taste that hundreds of SDSU students dressed as missionaries in white shirts, ties and fake name tags, but most would argue it was harmless. I thought the efforts to distract BYU players at the free-throw line with giant heads of pop culture figures was quite clever. I saw Woody from "Toy Story," Marilyn Monroe and Donald Trump. Nothing offensive there.
But what about the sign that read, "Wives-for-Rent"? Or the signs that carried vile slurs aimed at Jimmer's girlfriend? What about the fans who threw candy on the court? I'd call it elementary school stuff, but that's not fair to little kids who actually know better.
If you were the athletic director at BYU or any other school that endures religious taunts, dangerous playing conditions or any other behavior that crosses the line of good sportsmanship, wouldn't you find other places to play? After all, there are 344 other Division I basketball teams in the country.
It's certainly acceptable and encouraged to cheer and chant and to hope with all your heart your team wins. In the proper spirit, sports can bring people together and bridge differences in cultures, wealth and religion. What's happening at "The Show" at SDSU shouldn't be encouraged and is completely unacceptable.Comment on this story
To be certain, this inappropriate, childish behavior happens on other college campuses around the country, and BYU has its own share of fans that have probably crossed the line. If BYU treats Notre Dame or anyone else this way during a visit to Provo, I'll gladly reboot this column and let the Cougars have it.
Rivalries are wonderful and good-natured ribbing and passionate competition are part of sports. Chanting obscenities, mocking religion and denigrating players and their families is not. No one should ever have to apologize to a child for a sport's broadcast.
I anticipate many SDSU fans will call me prudish, self-righteous and other derogatory names. I just wish they could follow Ron Burgundy's advice to "Stay classy, San Diego."


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Man accused of murdering ex-girlfriend's partner set fire to blood-stained hoodie, court hears
A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend's partner set fire to a blood-stained hoodie he had been wearing on the night of the fatal fight, the Central Criminal Court heard today.
James Connors (29), of Rosemount, Drinagh, Co Wexford, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 27-year-old Jason Ryan at Hollyville Heights in Wexford Town on January 25, 2012.
Prosecution Counsel Mr Gerard Clarke SC today called Detective Garda Alan Byrne of Wexford Garda Station. Det Gda Byrne agreed with Mr Clarke that he interviewed Mr Connors at Wexford Garda Station on the afternoon of January 28, 2012.
Det Gda Byrne agreed that during the course of that interview Mr Connors said he had forgotten to wash the hoodie when he washed the rest of his clothes, following the fatal stabbing shortly after mid-night on January 25. Later on that night at Rosemount in Drinagh, outside Wexford Town, he took the hoodie off. He added: "I burned it. There was blood on it from wiping my face. I burned it to cinders." He said he used a lighter and a stick to set it on fire.
Det Gda Byrne also agreed that Mr Connors told him that he called Mr Ryan's girlfriend Samantha Hore at 2.12am, about two hours after the stabbing. Ms Hore had been Mr Connors's girlfriend for ten years before she started dating Mr Ryan. He said he called her to find out about Mr Ryan's condition. "She just hung up on me," he told the garda.
Det Gda Byrne asked Mr Connors if he had "lured" Mr Ryan away from security cameras in Hollyville Heights so he could kill him. He answered: "No I did not."
He then asked him if he set out to kill Mr Ryan and he replied "no I did not".
He said that he called to Mr Ryan's home in Hollyville Heights that night to tell him to forget about their ongoing feud, which had begun when Mr Ryan started going out with Samantha Hore. He said he wanted to tell Mr Ryan that he had started going with someone else and "to leave it off and forget about it".
Mr Clarke also called Garda Brian Cummins of Wexford Garda Station. Garda Cummins agreed that he had interviewed Mr Connors earlier on January 28, 2012.
In that interview Gda Cummins agreed that he had put it to Mr Connors that he could have left the scene before an altercation began but made no attempt to do so.
He said that camera footage showed that Mr Connors called to the door of Mr Ryan's home and that Mr Ryan at first did not come to the door but spoke to him from the first floor of the building.
Mr Connors told gardai that at this point he saw Mr Ryan holding a bat and that he had a knife in his trousers so he "tutted and walked away". Garda Cummins put it to him that there was a 51 second gap between Mr Ryan standing at the first floor and then exiting his apartment. During that time he said Mr Connors walked slowly up the ramp and finished a small bottle of vodka he had been drinking. "You did not choose to leave the area," he said.
The fight that followed was not captured by CCTV but Mr Connors told Garda Cummins that Mr Ryan hit him on the head with the baton and that he pulled the knife from Mr Ryan's trousers and stabbed him with it. During the interview, he said his memory of what followed the fight was hazy due to the blows he received to the head.
Garda Cummins put it to him that he escaped through his cousin's apartment in Hollyville Heights, jumped a wall onto John's Road where he called his then girlfriend to collect him. He washed himself and his clothes and got someone to collect his dole card and money. "All this doesn't point to someone who was dazed," said Gda Cummins.
The trial continues before Justice Margaret Heneghan tomorrow.
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Richard Lee "Ricky" Woods, 54, of Elyria, died Wednesday, January 23, 2013 after a lengthy illness at the home of his mother and sister in Elyria. He was born May 15, 1958, in Orange Park, Florida and has lived most of his life in Elyria.
He was formerly employed as an assembler at Riddell All American in Elyria, and had also been employed at Ridge Tool Company and Luxaire in Elyria. Ricky enjoyed watching sports, NASCAR and fishing.
He is survived by his mother, Ruby Woods; sister, Patty Woods; brothers, Daryl and Larry Woods, all of Elyria; nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews.
A service for his family was held Friday, January 25, 2013 at Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, with burial in Ridge Hill Memorial Park, Amherst Township.
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Lodestar cracked open the heavy wooden door and paused to calm her nerves. Working directly for Princess Luna was a big promotion. Lodestar took a moment to dispel idle thoughts of hobnobbing with the rich and famous at the princess's side, squared her shoulders, then pushed the door wide open. A wave of hot air flowed out, catching her loose mane and brushing the pure white strands back against her dark gray coat.
She entered the workshop beyond, carefully stepping over the unfamiliar tools strewn about. "Hello, Your Highness?" she called. "Radiance directed me here. My name is Lodestar. I'm to be your new attendant." In the center of the workshop sat a furnace which bathed the room in a fiery glare. The light made Lodestar's cutie mark, a tiny four-pointed star, appear a pale red-orange rather than its usual white.
In front of the furnace, Her Royal Highness Princess Luna of Equestria stood facing away from Lodestar. The princess's horn glowed faintly with power as she concentrated upon some spell. If she had noticed Lodestar's arrival, she gave no sign of it.
Lodestar approached close enough to see that the princess was holding a long blowpipe in one hoof and examining a red-hot bubble of glass on its end. Her pale blue mane shone with beads of sweat that reflected the hot glare of the furnace and the softer shine of her horn's magic.
She tried again. "Excuse me, Your Highness. My name is Lodestar. I'm−"
"Indeed. We heard thee the first time," said the princess without looking up. "Well met." She returned the glass to the heat of the furnace.
Lodestar stood quietly in the workshop's stuffy heat. When it became apparent that Princess Luna had nothing else to say, Lodestar asked, "Is there anything I can do for you, Your Highness? Stoke the fire, maybe?"
"This is no fire," said Princess Luna.
Lodestar looked closely at the furnace. No smoke rose from within, she saw, and the glow that poured forth was too steady to be any natural flame. "But then… what?"
"A simple spell," said the princess. She still had not so much as glanced at Lodestar. "Our magic heats the furnace itself, without combustion or any such crude methods. The barest change in temperature can affect the work, and no mere fire is so reliable. And as thou wilt surely ask, yes, we could simply heat the glass itself. Yet, altering the glass so grossly would be too easy. Such a thing would not truly be art."
Lodestar's eyes darted back and forth between the princess and the furnace. "You mean all the heat in here is from you? You're keeping that hot enough to melt glass?" The princesses were supposed to be powerful, but this went well beyond that. A talented unicorn could maybe create that much heat for a minute or two before collapsing from exhaustion, but the princess barely seemed to be exerting herself.
"Yes." The princess peered carefully at her glass bubble inside the furnace, then hissed in displeasure. "Yet still the heat is too irregular! It must be this blasted atmosphere. There is naught else that could interfere. Very well, there is only one thing for it." Her eyes half-closed in concentration, and the light from her horn flared up, nearly rivaling the furnace for brilliance.
Lodestar reflexively took a step back. "What could you possibly−"
Lodestar couldn't breathe. In the span of a heartbeat, what air remained rushed out of her lungs, leaving her feeling much like she had sucked down a breath of water. Lodestar was vaguely aware that her whole body hurt, but it paled in comparison to her burning need for oxygen. She tried to inhale, but her heaving chest drew in no air. She tried to scream, but there was no sound−in fact, she couldn't hear anything at all.
Princess Luna continued to putter about the furnace as though nothing were amiss, completely oblivious to Lodestar's plight. Whatever was happening to Lodestar, it didn't seem to affect the princess.
Lodestar felt herself hit the ground. She hadn't noticed herself falling, but now she was lying flat on her side. Her vision was beginning to blur. In her panic, Lodestar's only thought was to reach out to somepony−anypony. Desperately, she flailed in Princess Luna's direction. The princess was slightly out of reach, but although her limbs felt like clumsy sacks of flour, Lodestar managed to drag herself across the floor until she was close enough to grab onto Princess Luna's back leg.
Princess Luna tensed, then turned to look at Lodestar for the first time. She wore an expression of annoyance that quickly turned to surprise, then just as quickly to horror. The light from her horn vanished, there was a brief but tremendous noise, and Lodestar could breathe again. She sucked in deep, shuddering breaths as she clung to the princess's leg like a drowning sailor.
"Our sincerest apologies," said Princess Luna. "It is difficult to remember that other ponies require air."
With an effort of will, Lodestar tried to speak. "Hhhhhh," she wheezed.
"Have no fear." Princess Luna gently tried to pull her leg away, but Lodestar only tightened her grip. "All is well, now." She tugged her leg again, harder, to no avail. "Thou canst release us."
As oxygen returned and adrenaline faded, Lodestar began to remember where she was and whose leg she was clamped onto. The pain in the rest of her body, which had seemed trivial compared to her need for air, was starting to become serious. "Of course," she said between gasps. "Only I'm not certain I can move my hooves."
"Ah, yes," said Princess Luna. "The damage from the lack of pressure. No matter, that is simple enough to fix." Lodestar flinched as a wave of bluish-white light sprang from the princess's horn and spread outwards. It washed over Lodestar, erasing the pain and fatigue in her muscles as it passed, before it faded into nothingness.
Lodestar quickly peeled herself off of the princess and stood up with a polite grin plastered on her face. "Eheheh, yes, that's much better. Thank you, Your Highness. Well, I suppose I'll leave you to your art now that that's all settled." Lodestar broke for the door before she even finished talking.
"There is no need," said Princess Luna. "Thou art most welcome to−" Lodestar didn't wait around to hear the end of that thought. Instead she slipped out of the workshop and hurried away. Royalty or no, Princess Luna was dangerous. As soon as she thought herself far enough away that Princess Luna wouldn't hear her hoofbeats, Lodestar broke into a gallop.
"Radiance! Miss Radiance!" Lodestar called when she spotted the palace steward's distincive chess castle cutie mark in one of the palace's crowded hallways. "Can I talk to you for a moment?"
The cream-colored earth pony looked over with a frown that stretched her face as tight as the bun that confined her dark green mane. She didn't slow her swift pace down the hallway. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be attending to Princess Luna. After everything you told me about how thrilled you were to move out of the palace kitchens, I must say I'm surprised to see you."
Lodestar hurried over to Radiance and fell into step half a pace behind the steward. "I was with the princess, but then−" Lodestar tried to think of a polite way to explain. "Well, she− that is, she nearly suffocated me!"
Radiance frowned. "Mm, yes, the princess does have her little mishaps from time to time. It's why she goes through attendants so quickly. You should be grateful for that. It's why you got promoted to your current position."
"To be blunt, Miss Radiance, I'm no longer certain I want this position. I could have died!"
"Don't be absurd," said Radiance. "Princess Luna has never seriously hurt an attendant. Well, except for that time with Dawn Darling, but even princesses slip up now and again. In any case, the thought of you leaving the princess so soon is out of the question. I am responsible for overseeing the entire palace, and I spend far too much of my limited time finding new attendants for Princess Luna as it is. My other duties suffered when I tracked down you to replace the previous attendant, and it will take me some time to catch up before I'll even consider finding another pony to replace you."
"I appreciate your difficulty," said Lodestar, "but I'm afraid I really wouldn't be comfortable in the princess's presence anymore."
"Let me be plain." Radiance stopped walking, and Lodestar followed suit, forcing everypony else in the hall to squeeze around them. "It is less than a week until the first Grand Galloping Gala since Princess Luna's return. The event must be perfect, and as such I cannot spare the time to replace you until afterwards. I can't force you to stay, but if you don't last at least that long in this position, I'll see to it that you never work in Canterlot Palace again. I have no need for ponies who completely lack dedication."
Lodestar's face fell. "A week? But I could never−"
"On the other hoof," Radiance continued as though Lodestar hadn't spoken, "should you last at least a month, you will have proven yourself very valuable indeed. In that case, I would be happy to transfer you to a more appropriate position−say, in Princess Cadence's personal staff."
Lodestar swallowed. A position with Cadence would be perfect, but a whole month... "I'll try," she said.
"Princess Luna? Are you in here?" Lodestar stepped tentatively across the threshold into the princess's chambers. The glass furnace had been deserted when Lodestar returned, and this had seemed like the best place to try next. The first room was a richly furnished lounge decorated in dark blues and violets. There were several plush pillows arranged around a pair of fine mahogany tables, a tall bookshelf filled with cracked leather tomes, and a number of abstract sculptures spun from delicate glass. A hallway led deeper into the princess's suite, but there was no sign of Princess Luna herself.
"This way." The soft voice came from a half-open door within the hallway. Lodestar hurried over.
The room beyond was dominated by an enormous canopied bed hung with satin curtains. Atop the plush mattress, Princess Luna was sprawled on her back with her head hanging off the edge of the bed. Her pale blue mane cascaded to the floor as she stared upside-down at Lodestar. One of the princess's back legs kicked idly at the air.
"Ah! Our new attendant!" Princess Luna's eyes lit up. "We had not expected to see thee again. Few come back, after once fleeing." She chewed her lip. "We would apologize for asphyxiating thee." The princess's face was sober and contrite, although the effect was somewhat spoiled by the fact that she was still upside-down.
"Think nothing of it," said Lodestar. "It was an accident." In truth, she wasn't feeling nearly as forgiving as she acted, but Lodestar saw no reason to antagonize the princess if she was going to be stuck here for a whole week. Princess Luna had nearly killed her out of sheer carelessness, and Lodestar had no desire to see what she would do if she were actually angry. She seemed harmless enough, lying there in a decidedly unprincesslike position, but she had seemed harmless at the furnace, too.
Princess Luna gazed at her wordlessly. When the silence became uncomfortable, Lodestar asked, "Is there anything I can do for you, Your Highness?"
"Not now. Stay close, please."
Lodestar stood in the doorway, trying not to stare too much. Princess Luna continued lying upside down on her bed. After a few minutes, she stopped kicking. Lodestar kept waiting. The only sounds she heard were the noise of her own breathing and the ticking of the grandfather clock that stood against the far wall. Time passed. Occasionally Princess Luna fidgeted.
When the clock said forty minutes had passed, Princess Luna stood up. Lodestar tensed. The princess stretched, then crawled back onto the bed, on her side this time.
Lodestar kept waiting. This was driving her mad, but she kept an impassive face. A princess wasn't supposed to do… whatever this was.
After an hour and a half had passed, she couldn't take it any longer. "Um, excuse me, Your Highness?"
Luna rolled onto her front. "Yes?"
"I'm sorry, Your Highnes, but… what are you doing?"
"Doing? We are doing nothing. Why must ponies here always be doing things?"
Lodestar didn't know what to say to that, but she had to respond somehow. "Can I get you anything? You've been here a while."
"No. Thou just asked me that."
"That was over an hour ago, princess."
Silence reigned. It was half an hour later that Princess Luna spoke up.
"Is that a long time?"
"Er, what, Your Highness?"
"An hour. Is that a long time for a pony to do nothing?"
"I suppose so, Princess."
"Oh!" The princess sat bolt upright. Lodestar managed to stop herself flinching away before it became too apparent. "Thou art bored, then! We apologize, we forgot about boredom!"
"I… it's quite alright, Princess. This is my job."
"Never mind that nonsense! We were rude." Princess Luna slipped off the bed and began pacing. "We hate being rude! There are simply too many things to remember and every time we get nine things right there is always a tenth thing that remains forgotten and argh 'tis insufferable!" Princess Luna's voice rose to a shout, and Lodestar took several hasty steps away, fearing the worst. "All these stupid rules about what a pony can say and what a pony must do until we cannot decide anything at all!" She stopped abruptly and glanced sheepishly at Lodestar. "We fear we are being rude again."
"Not at all, Your Highness," Lodestar said automatically. "I suppose that..." She trailed off as she realized she had no soothing lie available.
"Bah. It would appear we cannot even complain properly." Princess Luna flopped back onto the bed. "We would be alone for a time. Leave us."
"Hey sis! I heard the big news. A promotion! Congrats!"
Lodestar looked up from her copy of Cantertainment Weekly as a pale yellow unicorn with a cutie mark of a spotlight's beam strode into their house's living room. Moonlight caught in his shaggy orange mane as it streamed through the room's oversized windows.
Lodestar was curled up on a small green sofa in front of a hardwood coffee table on which rested a half-finished glass of caberneigh. "Thank you, Sunspot," she said.
"You look pretty beat." Sunspot sat down on the far side of the table. "Luna running you ragged?"
Lodestar bit her lip. "I suppose you could say that. Radiance has made it clear that I'm stuck with her for now, though."
"Well, that's good, right? I figured you'd be all over this. I mean, she's a princess! It's basically like living in one of your Fluttershy magazines, yeah?"
Lodestar sniffed. "I'll have you know Fluttershy's been old news for months."
"Yeah? Let's see." Sunspot snatched Lodestar's magazine from her hoof and began to read. "'Blossom Orange's Fashion Fiasco: What She's Wearing To The Gala And Why She Shouldn't.' I swear, these ponies. Somepony should show up to their Gala naked. It'd be worth it to see their faces."
"Even Princess Celestia couldn't get away with that."
"Too bad, that'd be priceless." Sunspot put down the magazine. "Hey, think you'll get into the Gala, now that you're working for a princess?"
Lodestar scooped up the magazine and flipped to a different story. "I'm sure I will. Princess Celestia's attendants always get in. Even if I'll be stuck with Princess Luna at the time, getting to see the actual Grand Galloping Gala… it'd be pretty great."
"Well, I'll miss going to High Noon's post-Gala review party thing with you. It'll be a shame to give up on tradition, but there's no reason for you to miss the actual after-party for that."
Lodestar raised an eyebrow. "I thought you hated the Gala-watching scene."
"Yeah, but I like doing stuff with you. Anyway, what's the problem with Princess Fancy?"
"I'm not entirely sure, to be honest," said Lodestar. "She's not at all like anypony else I've met. Actually, I think you can help me figure it out."
"Can you talk to Starlight Song for me? You told me she used to be Princess Luna's attendant a while ago, and I'd like to find out more about the job. I'm especially curious as to why she quit."
"Aw, by the Sisters, that's bad timing." Sunspot rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, I can't help you there."
"Why on Equestria not? You are dating her, after all. You ought to be able to ask her a few questions."
"Correction: I was dating her."
Lodestar winced. "Ooh. I'm sorry. What happened?"
"I guess it just stopped being fun. She was getting kinda clingy, like how she wouldn't stop trying to get me to go to that hoofball match together. I figured I'd cut it off before it went too far." He shrugged. "Oh, well. I'll find somepony else."
"You always do." Lodestar rolled her eyes. "I don't suppose you parted ways on good terms? I really would like to talk to her."
"Not so much. I think she had the wrong idea about where our relationship was going, and, uh, certain things were said."
"Certain things?"
"Yeah, she said I had no idea what love really was. I may have said some unkind words about her parents, after that."
"Wonderful," Lodestar sighed. "That was remarkably fast, even for you. How long were you together? A week and a half?"
"Hey, come on. It's no worse than the ponies in your magazines. We'd fit right in with Fleur and what's-his-face."
"Fleur de Lis and Hoity Toity divorced after three weeks, and now everypony makes fun of them. You and Starlight Song lasted half that long."
"What can I say?" Sunspot shrugged. "It was time to move on."
Lodestar stood stiffly in Princess Luna's lounge. The princess was staring intently at one of her sculptures, a sinewy cord several feet tall formed from dozens of strands of blue and green glass, as she had been for the past two hours. Lodestar's second shift was proving to be much like the first. The only excitement had come when she had fetched the princess a glass of grape juice.
Lodestar cleared her throat. "Excuse me, Your Highness. Your meeting with the Minister of Trade starts in ten minutes."
Princess Luna looked up, startled. "That is tonight? Then we must depart."
Lodestar held the door open for the princess. The two of them left Princess Luna's chambers and started off down the corridor.
"Thou never callst me by mine name," said the princess.
"Should I have?" Lodestar fought down the urge to panic. She couldn't have screwed up by her second day! In front of the princess, no less! Not only was this the last pony she ever wanted to see angry, but being rude to one of Equestria's rulers was simply not done.
"Thou shouldst call me whatever thou thinkst best. I forgot so much about etiquette when I was on the moon. I'm sure thou knowst what thou shouldst call me better than I. I merely wonder why thou speakst as thou dost."
Lodestar wondered why the princess had stopped using plural pronouns to refer to herself, but decided it was an issue to tackle later, when she wasn't busy justifying her own diction. "Using your title is a way of showing respect, Your Highness," she said.
Princess Luna let out a sigh of frustration. "Alas, this is all more complicated than I remember. A thousand years is a long time."
"I suppose I never gave that much thought. It must have been very hard, being away so long."
"Not especially. Or rather, it was difficult at first, as thou canst likely imagine. The beginning was… it was…" The princess's voice grew smaller and trailed off, and she slowly stopped walking. She stood still, staring at the floor, while Lodestar waited. Abruptly, Princess Luna raised her head and set off again. "That is not the story I meant to tell thee," she said evenly. "It took perhaps seven score years, but I grew accustomed to solitude. I enjoyed it. To have all the time there was to do whatever I wished…" She smiled distantly. "It is difficult to describe how peaceful it was, or how liberating. I am most glad it happened. Do not misunderstand, I am pleased to be back in the world once more. There are so many things I missed, and so many new things that did not exist before."
"There must be a lot to adjust to."
"Indeed. But that is enough about me. Tell me about thyself, Lodestar."
"I suppose there isn't much to tell, Princess. I'm just a common pony."
"Perfect. Our sister says it will do us good to learn more about the common ponies."
Lodestar suppressed her disappointment. That was supposed to be the part where the princess told her she wasn't common at all. "Well, I grew up here in Canterlot. I've worked in the palace ever since I finished school. Um, I live with my brother, Sunspot. He's an actor."
"Interesting, but that is not what we wished to know. It would please us to hear about thy sesguin, not thy circumstances."
"Sesguin, Princess? I'm not familiar with that word."
"Discord's teeth, not again! We thought we had done away with that infernal problem!" Princess Luna kicked the wall in frustration. Hoof-sized chunks of marble broke off and skittered down the hallway. Lodestar shied away, but Luna continued on as if nothing had happened. Lodestar had no choice but to keep following her.
The princess heaved a sigh. "When I was on the moon, I would create words. There are ideas I needed there that I had never encountered on Equestria. Since my return, it has been most difficult to remember which words are part of the lexicon and which are my own inventions. A thousand years is a long time."
"Sesguin is one of your words?"
"It must be, if thou hast not heard it. I was certain I had overcome this curse!"
"As long as you're making progress, you shouldn't worry too much, Your Highness. My brother likes to say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step."
"He sounds like a most clever pony. Now, let us go to the library. I wish to be sure of whether sesguin is a word. There are yet other words I need to look up, as well."
"Have you forgotten your meeting with the Minister of Trade, Princess?"
"I shall meet him some other time. As thou sayst, I must needs continue making progress with my vocabulary. Is 'velleity' a word?"
"It's not one I'm familiar with, Princess…"
Lodestar closed the ancient copy of Mareiam-Webster's dictionary and set it neatly in a stack with the other books. She paused to wipe away the dust left behind on her reading desk. When she accepted this job, Lodestar had had no idea that it would involve looking through a dozen different dictionaries and cross-referencing to account for spelling variations over the past thousand years. Apparently this was what Radiance had meant by "other duties as required."
"Okay, Your Highness," said Lodestar. "I think I've got it."
"Hmm?" Princess Luna looked up from her own dictionary. The princess had insisted on helping in the search, then promptly begun to read through a dictionary from the very beginning. At least, she acted as though she were reading. The two of them had been in the library for somewhere north of three hours, and Princess Luna was still only as far as "adept."
"It appears that 'inamorato,''velleity,' 'unked,' 'goniolatry,' 'mamelon,' and 'ravelin' are all words," said Lodestar, "but I'm reasonably sure that 'sesguin' and 'parsenar' are not."
"Oh! My thanks. That is good to know, and yet it is a shame that I shall have to do without 'sesguin' and 'parsenar'."
"To be blunt, Princess, I think you can safely do without all of them. When would you possibly need a specific word for the worship of angels?"
"Thou shouldst read more carefully," said the princess. "It refers to angles, not angels."
"Are you sure?" Lodestar reopened the dictionary to the entry for goniolatry. Sure enough, Princess Luna was right. "But that makes even less sense! Nopony would ever need to use that word!"
"I am immortal, am I not?" Princess Luna returned her attention to her dictionary. "I am sure I shall use it at least once," she added without looking up.
Lodestar was trying to come up with some way to respond to that when she caught sight of Princess Celestia approaching through the shelves of books, wearing a disapproving frown. Lodestar's mind froze up at the sight of the pony who had ruled Equestria for longer than anypony could remember. Being in Princess Luna's presence was one thing, but this… it was all she could do to remember to bow.
"Luna," said Princess Celestia, "the Minister of Trade just asked to reschedule your meeting, since you didn't show up."
"Oh, yes," said Princess Luna. "Tell him the same time tomorrow night."
"Luna… why didn't you go to the meeting?"
"We were researching vocabulary with Lodestar."
Princess Celestia sighed. "We've talked about the importance of keeping schedules, Luna. When other ponies are expecting you to do something, you have to follow through."
"And follow through we shall. Did we not say we will meet him tomorrow?"
"It's still not okay that you made him wait this evening and never showed up. How would you feel if somepony did that to you?"
Luna shrugged. "We would feel little enough. 'Tis merely a day."
"Most ponies here don't think a day is a trivial length of time, Luna. I know the minister well. He'd never say it, but he was hurt when you weren't there." Celestia turned to Lodestar as though noticing her for the first time. "What's your name, my little pony?"
"Lodestar, Your Highness."
"Lodestar, please go to Minister Subtle Gloaming in the Luminous Tower. Tell him that my sister will see him at the same time tomorrow, and that I am quite sure she will be there on time."
"Yes, Your Highness." Lodestar was glad of any excuse to leave. The two princesses were supposed to rule Equestria in harmony. It was more than a little disturbing to watch the two of them disagreeing. She all but galloped out of the library.
When Lodestar returned to Princess Luna's chambers after delivering the message, she found Her Highness stomping back and forth, fluttering her wings in agitation. The princess glanced at Lodestar as she came in, but did not interrupt her pacing.
Lodestar cleared her throat. She waited for the princess to acknowledge her, but soon it became clear that nothing of the sort was going to happen. Lodestar pressed ahead regardless. "Are you quite alright, Your Highness?"
"I cannot stand this!" Princess Luna's voice was just below a shout. "I cannot and will not do all that she wishes, and yet when I fail to meet her standards, it hurts nevertheless. I had forgotten how much it hurts." She stopped pacing and faced her attendant. "Tell me, Lodestar. Thou art accustomed to this world. How doth a pony deal with all these, these expectations?"
"Expectations?" Lodestar repeated. That was somewhat more than she had been prepared for.
"Yes! Expectations! All ponies expect certain things of their Princess of the Night. Some wish me to be well-spoken, some wish me to be learned, some wish for things I can only guess at. None say as much, some even attempt to hide it, yet I can tell from the way they look at me when I do not act as they wish. I can ignore them, but it is difficult, and doubly so when she does it."
Before Lodestar could formulate an answer, the princess had started pacing across the room once again. "Thou art the first pony I have met who does not judge me in this manner," continued Princess Luna. "Why is this? Why art thou different?"
Lodestar thought furiously. I'm better at hiding it when I disapprove was clearly not what Her Highness wanted to hear. "You're the princess," Lodestar said carefully. "It's not my place to judge you."
"I would that other ponies felt as much," said Princess Luna. "This constant judging is inescapable, here in the world."
Lodestar was thoroughly exhausted by the time she returned home. She shoved open the door and took a step towards her favorite sofa, then stopped when she realized it was already occupied. Her brother was curled up next to an unfamiliar sky blue earth pony. The unknown mare looked up, although Sunspot continued toying with her deep violet mane. "Hey, sis," said Sunspot. "I'd like you to meet Morning Glory. Morning Glory, Lodestar."
Lodestar sighed. Even for Sunspot, this was a remarkably fast rebound. She resisted the urge to say something unkind; there was no need to do that in front of the mare. Besides, she was too tired to get into it now. Lodestar spared a glance at the new girl's cutie mark and saw a blooming flower in the same shade of violet as her mane. That probably meant another empty-headed ditz, although this one was older than Sunspot's usual companions. "A pleasure," Lodestar said. "I'm sorry, but I need to get some rest. I'm still not used to these night shifts. I'll leave you two alone." She changed course to her bedroom.
"Oh, do you have to go?" called Morning Glory. "It's still early."
"Yeah, stick around," said Sunspot. "You'll like her. She writes for one of your Fluttershy magazines."
Morning Glory rolled her eyes. "I keep telling you, the National Equestrian hasn't run a Fluttershy story in months."
Lodestar stopped. She could certainly make time for one of the National Equestrian's reporters. "I suppose I can wait a minute," she said as she turned back towards Sunspot and Morning Glory. "I don't need to be back attending to Princess Luna again for some time."
Morning Glory untangled herself from Sunspot and pushed herself more or less upright. "You're close to Princess Luna?"
Lodestar considered the question. "I suppose I am," she said. "I don't think there are many ponies closer, anyway." Lodestar swelled up with pride at the realization and the respect she saw in Morning Glory's eyes. Still, it seemed sad that Luna had so few ponies closer than her servant of two days.
"You know," said Morning Glory, "we've been trying to do a feature on Princess Luna, but we can't get any good sources. All we've got are the usual horrible rumors. If you could confirm those, though, we might have enough to publish."
"I don't know about any horrible rumors," said Lodestar. "Princess Luna is an upstanding member of the royal family." Well, maybe she wasn't exactly upstanding, but Lodestar didn't like Morning Glory's angle. Whatever she thought of the princess, Lodestar's job was to look after her. If that meant defending her from the press, that was fine.
"Really?" Morning Glory frowned dubiously. "I mean, these are persistent rumors, here. I've been around long enough to know when there's at least some truth to these things, and this is one of those times. If you could tell me what the real story behind the rumors is, I'd be grateful."
"Hm?" said Sunspot. "What rumors?" Lodestar noticed that her brother was gazing up at Morning Glory with a decidedly un-Sunspotlike expression of peaceful contentment that verged on adoration.
Morning Glory shrugged. "Oh, you know. Princess Luna is still secretly Nightmare Moon. Princess Luna doesn't know anything about us common ponies. Princess Luna once set fire to a servant."
"None of that's true!" said Lodestar. "The princess isn't evil, she's just… she has trouble interacting with ponies sometimes. Or rather, all the time, I suppose."
"Well, if you ever want to set the record straight, I'd be happy to hear it. An article about Princess Luna's side of things would almost certainly get published."
"I'd love to!" Lodestar almost burst at the thought of seeing her name in the Equestrian.
"Great. Let's do that sometime after the Gala. I'll be working my tail off until then, and your article would get lost in all the Gala gossip anyway."
Lodestar nodded. "I look forward to it," she said.
"If I can ask, Your Highness, what are you planning on wearing to the Gala?"
Princess Luna looked up from the glass paperweight she was studying. It was a heavy piece of blue and white, blown in the shape of a seashell, and it had held the princess's attention for well over an hour. "Thou art referring to the Grand Galloping Gala?"
"Yes, Your Highness. I'm sorry to interrupt, but you haven't mentioned it at all, and, well, it's less than a week away."
"Is it indeed?" The princess shrugged. "No matter. I will not attend."
"But it's the biggest event of the year! Everypony who's anypony will be there!"
"Precisely. It is difficult enough learning to interact with one pony at a time. I do not wish to manage an entire crowd of my subjects. Perhaps next year I will be prepared, or perhaps the year after that, but not now."
"So we'll be staying here, then? Like any other night?" Lodestar did her best to keep the disappointment out of her voice.
"Indeed." The princess peered closely at Lodestar. "Doth this trouble thee?"
"Of course not, Your Highness."
"You alright in there, sis?" The door to Lodestar's bedroom muffled Sunspot's voice. "Breakfast's getting cold."
"I am not alright!" she called from atop her bed. "I finally get a job personally attending one of the two ponies in Equestria who doesn't need so much as an invitation to get into the Grand Galloping Gala, and she's not even going! This was supposed to be my chance to finally see it!"
Sunspot cracked open the door, spilling light into the room. It was a fastidiously clean space that would have been bright if the heavy drapes weren't pulled closed against the rising sun. Shelves and end tables displayed countless keepsakes, knickknacks, and mementos, leaving barely enough room for the canopied bed on which Lodestar had thrown herself.
"That's rough," said Sunspot. "You can't get in without her, can you?"
"I can't even get away from her. She's still the princess and she still needs an attendant. The only bright side is that now I can go to the review party with you, afterwards."
"Aw, horsefeathers. I actually told Morning Glory I'd go with her to the Equestrian's party thing, since you were busy. Sorry, sis."
"It figures." Lodestar rolled onto her back and cast her eyes at the ceiling.
"Look, I know how much the Gala means to you. If you want, I can tell Morning Glory that I have something else I have to do."
Lodestar sighed. "Thank you, but no. If past experience is any guide, the two of you don't have long together. Best if you enjoy it while it lasts." She paused. "Hey, wait. Since when do you go to actual events with your girlfriends? Didn't you break up with Starlight Song because she wanted to do something more than hang out at the bar with you?"
"Yeah, it's weird! I've never felt like this before." Sunspot hopped up on the edge of the bed. "She's just such a fascinating pony, you know? She loves what she does so much, I can't help but get interested too."
"You mean now you're actually following the Fluttershy magazines?"
"Hey, Fluttershy is old news, remember? But no, not really, it doesn't work when she's not around. When I'm with her, though, it's just… if she's talking, then in has to be important, right? It's not just the Fluttershy stuff, it's also when she talks about her carpentry stuff or her garden. I swear I spent two hours last night listening to her talk about weeding, and it was the most fun I've had since I don't even know."
Lodestar smirked. "Oh, my. I think you're actually starting to care for somepony. If I didn't know better, I might actually think she could be more than another one of your three-week inamoratos."
"Hey! What's wrong with my three-week whatsits?"
"Well, have they ever made you feel like this before?"
Sunspot sighed. "I guess not."


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Lot 4 Liuna Way, Deforest WI 53532 $693,475
Features of Lot 4 Liuna Way Deforest WI 53532
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- Status: Active
- County: Dane
- Acreage: 1.99
- Elementary School: Call School District
- Middle School: Deforest
- High School: Deforest
- Property Taxes: $4,916
- Property Tax Year: 2013
- Listing Company: First Weber Inc
Property Description for Lot 4 Liuna Way Deforest WI 53532
Lot 4 Liuna Way Deforest WI 53532 - Retail, Clinic etc. High Traffic Count. Located along STH 19 at the Interchange with I90/39.
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- Topography: Level
- Zoning: Commercial/Industrial
- Waterfront/Access: N
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