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As an active volunteer in Ontario's not-for-profit sector for over two decades, Lucie Allard has a keen understanding of the growing importance of the community and health care sectors, as well as the need to expand and sustain services and support delivered to residents.
Lucie has held positions with United Way Centraide Ottawa, and at Ontario Trillium Foundation where she was chair and member of the Waterloo Wellington Dufferin grant review team. She currently serves on the Board of Community Support Connections – Meals on Wheels and More of Waterloo Region.
As a francophone residing in southwestern Ontario, Lucie is aware of the importance of respecting cultural challenges when services are delivered. Through her volunteer work as well as personal difficulties navigating the health system and accessing acute health resources and community support, Lucie has a perspective she hopes will help identify gaps and help shape a more equitable, flexible, and responsive health care experience across the province.
Cathy lives in St. Mary's Ontario, a community located in rural southwestern Ontario and is part of the Southwest Local Health Integration Network. For 28 years, she was a dedicated and passionate teacher and was a recipient of the Avon Maitland District School Board Engage, Inspire, Innovate…Always Learning Award.
Her teaching career came to an abrupt halt when she developed necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease resulting in a lengthy stay in an intensive care unit. That expanded into working with a complex web of health care professionals addressing her diverse medical needs for survival, recovery and continuing rehabilitation. Intensive physiotherapy helped her to relearn activities of daily living, striving to rebuild mobility. Cathy is motivated to extend the knowledge and observations from her health care journey to help build an increasingly effective health care system.
Cathy has volunteered with the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance and has collaborated with local and national initiatives, including the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. She has international experience presenting on the integration of patients and families into health care teams and the particular contributions they bring to the change process that positively impacts patient satisfaction, safety, engagement, and staff satisfaction.
Jean is a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who lives in the small community of Parry Sound, Ontario located in the North East Local Health Integration Network. She has disabilities of her own but also worked and volunteered across many different areas of the health care and social service systems for the last 50 years.
Jean is passionate about issues affecting underserved rural and remote communities. She also speaks about areas in need of improvement such as mental health, issues affecting older adults, survivors of sexual abuse and other childhood trauma. She is a feminist who believes in human rights for all, including the LGBTQ community and Indigenous-people.
Jean is an active advisor and patient advocate in her community at the regional, provincial and national levels, including the Resource Development Advisory Group at Health Quality Ontario, and its Health Equity Committee. She has experience as a patient, caregiver, health care worker and advocate.
Donna Brown-Bowers brings her personal experience as a cancer patient to the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Public and Family Advisors Council. During her nine-month journey at Juravinski Cancer Centre in Hamilton, she became aware of the need for mentorship and psychosocial support during and after treatment. She has been cancer free since 2011.
Retired for 10 years after a long career in the life insurance industry with a background in paediatric nursing, Donna now focusses her time and energy volunteering for many local organizations. At Hamilton Health Sciences, she is a member of the Patient and Family Advisor Team, and a Patient Advisor on the Clinical Planning and Advisory Council and the Patient Experience Steering Committee. She also volunteers in the chemotherapy suite at Juravinski Cancer Centre.
Donna strongly supports personal advocacy and empowered community relationships. Through her participation on the Advisors Council, she wants to help focus on patients' needs and ultimately make positive changes for people using the health system in the future.
Samira Chandani views the health care system through many lenses. She has been a patient and a caregiver. She is a visible minority and lives with a disability. Through her volunteer work focused on women's development, health and disability, poverty alleviation, elderly and aging and settlement, she has also witnessed the challenges faced by many communities.
Samira has been an advisor to a number of organizations, focusing on helping to improve cancer screening and related services for people with disabilities, and South Asian Women. She has been a volunteer with Health Canada, York Central Hospital, Willow Breast and Hereditary Cancer Support, and Centre for Independent Living in Toronto.
As part of the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council, Samira's diverse background and experience will help give a voice to the needs of many groups and help ensure they are represented in the pursuit to improve health quality in Ontario.
David Chilton was drawn to the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisor Council by his particular interest in psychology, psychoanalysis and mental health, and his own history of depression. His first major depressive episode occurred when he was 25 years old, and he has suffered from similar episodes each decade since.
After graduating from York University, David attended Ryerson University to study journalism, and has worked as a professional journalist for 30 years. In addition to writing for newspapers and magazines, he writes and edits crime and literary fiction, and sometimes mentors emerging writers.
David hopes his contribution to the Advisors Council will encourage others to seek professional help for their depression, particularly those who don't do so for reasons of misunderstanding, cultural bias or social stigma. He further hopes to emphasize how important social supports are to mental health.
With a combined personal and professional interest in public policy and health care, Adellah Chimbindi brings unique perspective to the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from York University and recently completed post-graduate studies in Public Administration at Humber College.
While at York University, Adellah was selected to attend the Emerging Global Leaders Program that helped promote students' leadership skills. She was also part of the National Public Policy Committee Member for the Boys and Girls Club of Canada. Currently, Adellah is a Patient Advisor with the System Quality Advisory Committee's Delivering Quality Working Group.
Adellah believes good public policy and health care delivery is integral to the success of any community and hopes the Advisors Council will help to promote effective and sustainable changes in the health system.
Lilac is a first-generation Chinese-Canadian currently living in Toronto, Ontario. A graduate of Centennial College, Lilac has held various leadership positions in retail operations and marketing before her 24-year career ended due to medical issues in 2012. In her fifteen-year journey as a patient living with renal disease, Lilac became aware of the importance for a newly diagnosed patient to learn how to be an empowered patient.
A strong advocate for patients, families and caregivers, Lilac is passionate about the challenges facing our health care system at the provincial level. Based on her own health care journey, Lilac also understands the unique challenges facing patients navigating a complex health care system and is an advocate on their behalf.
Beyond the Council, Lilac has been a patient advisor with Health Quality Ontario in various capacities and is a volunteer with the University Health Network's Partners in Care Program where her contributions help important hospital planning and decision-making activities. She also works with the Kidney Foundation as a Peer Support Volunteer. Through her participation in the Health Quality Ontario Patient Family and Public Advisors Council, Lilac hopes to help patients in their journey navigating through the health care system.
John Dabous was born, raised and currently resides in Sudbury, Ontario. He and his wife have two young children who have been the focus of most of his personal health care experience in his Northern community.
John is interested in the diverse and unique health care issues of Northern Ontario. He is currently employed at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. John is also currently pursuing graduate studies in the field of rural and Northern health.
Through his involvement with the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council, John's goal is to ensure the rural and northern perspective is always considered, and hopes to make contributions that will result in positive improvements for Ontario's health care system.
Sharon lives in London, Ontario. She has provided and received care within her Aboriginal community. Sharon has also helped to advance efforts to address fetal alcohol syndrome in the province.
Sharon's knowledge and understanding of issues facing Aboriginal communities in Ontario brings a unique perspective to the Council. By sharing, listening and learning, Sharon hopes that conversations can be had to bring an understanding to the issues faced by Aboriginal women in Ontario.
Renee lives in the rural Northern Ontario community of Dryden.
Renee brings a wealth of experience to the Council including about living with physical disabilities, palliative care and access for people living in rural and remote communities in northern Ontario.
As a caregiver to her son with muscular dystrophy and recently losing her sister to cancer, Renee shares her caregiver experiences as the Council works towards improving the quality of care in our health system. Specifically, Renee is an advocate for those navigating and accessing the health system who have physical disabilities.
Renee serves as co-chair of the Dryden Regional Health Centre Patient and Family Advisory Committee and has been a member of its accessibility committee. Renee brings insights from the lived experiences of dealing in many areas of the health system such as homecare, telemedicine, air ambulance transfers, living in hospital and being a full time caregiver.
Marisa Granieri brings a multifaceted perspective to the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council. She is the mother of two healthy children, the daughter of a woman diagnosed with cancer, and a patient living with fibromyalgia. Through her diverse personal experiences, she brings unique, multigenerational insights that she hopes can help improve the health system for others of all ages and stages of life.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Marisa is a Professional Engineer and has experience in manufacturing, project engineering, and marketing. She has held volunteer roles with York Region Catholic School Board, the Town of Richmond Hill, and the Regional Municipality of York.
Marisa is also a trained English Second Language instructor and has always been passionate about learning and teaching others. She believes her lifelong enthusiasm for improvement can help improve the health system in Ontario.
Micheline has lived in the small Northern Ontario town of Wawa for 46 years with her husband and four children. Micheline volunteered with several community organizations connected with her children's interests and her church's activities. She has also volunteered with her local WaWa Town Council in various roles and committees. Micheline is also a Personal Support Worker for The March of Dimes.
Micheline was a caregiver for her husband with end-stage emphysema while he waited for a double lung transplant. During this time, she faced many different challenges, including coordinating his care in southern Ontario.
Micheline has a passion for volunteerism and brings a strong voice to the Council. She hopes to bring to light concerns facing northern communities in Ontario and the difficulties many face coordinating their care.
Kira currently lives in Toronto and is an advocate for issues around equitable health care access. As a member of the Council, Kira hopes to get a closer look at patient participation in health system change.
As part of her ongoing work in food security initiatives, Kira has spent several years as front line staff in a supportive housing provider in Toronto. Her focus there is on food security education for adults living with mental health and addictions. Kira also chairs the Board of Directors at the West End Food Co-op in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. There she focuses on reducing barriers to food security for marginalized residents in the area. Both roles have widened her lens on the strengths in Ontario's health system as well as the opportunities for improvement.
Kira's passion stems not only from her professional work but from extensive personal interaction with the health system in Ontario. Watching her mother navigate the cancer care system as a child coupled with Kira's efforts to manage her own physical and mental health concerns has impressed upon her the need for more effective patient advocacy at the clinical level.
Brenda Laurin lives in the community of Tiny, Ontario, located on the shores of Georgian Bay. She is passionate about her Métis culture, community and a strong advocate of Aboriginal health issues including access and participation in care.
Brenda is a caregiver for her members of her family with a history of cancer, heart, addiction and mental health issues. In dealing with some of these issues, she has turned to her culture to help guide her and her family through some challenging health experiences. She hopes to share her culture and learn from others on the Council to help build an understanding and awareness of the issues that face remote and Aboriginal communicates across the province.
Outside of the Council, Brenda continues to attend and participate as a member of the Family Connects Program at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care.
The majority of Micheal Low's experience in Ontario's health care system is from his role as a caregiver. At Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto he has served as a Family Leader, and has been a member of the Quality Steering Committee. He recently joined the measurement and evaluation working group with Change Foundation.
A graduate of University of Toronto, Michael holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and currently works as a process develop engineer in the high-tech and automotive industries. His primary focus is to improve processes and uncover efficiencies to help organizations become more cost-effective and sustainable.
As part of the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council, Michael is committed to sharing his personal and professional experiences to help ensure that as health care demands increase, the system will grow in a sustainable way and patients will remain unique individuals with health needs that will be fulfilled.
Claude Lurette is an experienced, bilingual leader in patient engagement. He first became a volunteer in mental health and addiction services when he formed the first patient advisory committee at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre following his own treatment for a life-altering illness.
Claude went on to engage patients and clients in the community while sitting on a number of policy and planning committees with the Champlain Local Health Integrated Network and the City of Ottawa. Claude currently sits on the Board of the Canadian Mental Health Association – Ottawa Branch; is Co-Chair of the Central Canada Depression Hub; and is a Lived Experience Team Leader for the Canadian Depression Research and Innovation Network.
Claude passionately shares his personal experiences at conferences, symposiums and in the media. He is supported by his life partner, two step-children, his siblings and his community to continue his work as both an advisor and advocate in Ottawa and across the country.
Charles is a community development and engagement enthusiast who moved to Ontario in 2010 and currently lives in Etobicoke, Ontario.
Inspired by his own health journey, Charles strives to support improvements in the coordination of health care services in Ontario. To that end, Charles took an opportunity to give back and help inspire change in his own community by becoming an active patient and family advisor with St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
Charles is also a Board Member at LAMP, a Community Health Centre that provides a variety of integrated programs and services to meet the health needs of the East Mississauga and Etobicoke community.
A parent of a child with a disability, Gideon Sheps joined the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Family Advisory Committee, where he has participated in a wide range of projects and committees at the hospital over the last decade. In 2013, he became a founding member and co-chair of the Bloorview Research Institute's Family Engagement Committee. Gideon helped develop the framework for family engagement in research that is now being implemented. He has also presented at conferences about family engagement in medicine and research.
Gideon has worked in Information Technology for over 25 years in North America, Europe, and Asia. He hold a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and post-graduate credentials from the University of Surrey Business School and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
As a member of the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council, Gideon aims to make sure the challenges faced by people with disabilities, and their families, are considered.
Toby lives with his wife in Newboro, Ontario, a small rural town located in southeastern Ontario.
Toby's interaction with the health system has mainly been through primary care, as well supporting and advocating for his wife through two recent knee replacement surgeries.
As a retired public servant working with Aboriginal groups, Toby has professional experience in program evaluation and risk management along with an interest in the diverse needs of people from across the province.
Toby is an active member for the Perth & Smith Falls Patient and Family Advisory Council and shares his insights on the rural communities of southeastern Ontario. He also volunteers as a driver for the Westport Lions' Medical Van – which takes rural neighbours (without their own transportation) to medical appointments. While Toby is new to the role of a patient and family advisor, he has a keen interest in how health care is administered at a provincial level and where quality improvements can be made.
Gene Szabo's life and career was refocussed over 30 years ago when he suffered a heart attack and committed himself to making a difference in the health system. Gene joined Health Canada's then Medical Services Branch in the Northwest Territories as Head of Accounting Operations, and later as a research consultant in Community Health in Indian and Northern Health. Years later, Gene had bypass surgery and was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2012.
Over the past forty-five years, Gene has held volunteer leadership roles in organizations including Kiwanis Club, Scouts Canada, Ontario Lacrosse, Kanata Youth Centre, 872 Kiwanis Air Cadet Squadron, and the local Legion. Gene was a member and Vice President of the Ottawa Heart Institute Alumni, member of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Human Research Ethics Board, and member of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Board of Directors. He is currently Co-Chair of the Hospital's Patient and Family Advisory Council. In 2003, Gene received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for community service.
Through the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council, Gene hopes to help patients and families become full partners in their health care and create better options for seniors.
A recent caregiver for her father who struggled with Alzheimer's for over 10 years, Kowsiya Vijayaratnam brings her personal experience and perspective to the Health Quality Ontario Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council. As members of an ethno-cultural and linguistic minority group, Kowsiya and her family faced challenges in their journey to provide her father with the best support possible throughout his health care.
Kowsiya is a Professional Engineer with over 10 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. She holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business, where she specialized in organizational behavior and strategic management. She has held various technical and leadership roles in which she managed staff, and successfully developed and executed various projects. She is currently supporting integration on one of the largest projects in the company's history.
As part of the Advisors Council, Kowsiya aims to share insights and perspectives based on her family's experiences as well as fresh ideas to help improve health care experience for all Ontarians.
Calvin Young has been actively involved in the Thunder Bay health community as a result of his own lung disabilities. After attending a local rehab program, Calvin saw opportunities for improvement and formed Every Breath Counts – a monthly peer group for people living with and affected by lung disease. The group educates patients, caregivers and family members and provides guidance for navigating the health system.
For 25 years Calvin worked in broadcasting, directing, and producing award-winning news and public affairs programs. During this time, he was one of the producers and directors of an annual telethon, which raised over $2 million for local cystic fibrosis research. Since retirement, Calvin has been a volunteer at Cystic Fibrosis Canada, The Canadian Red Cross, Catholic Family Development Centre, St. Joseph's Foundation, Canadian Mental Health Association, Persons United For Self Help, and many more. In 2007, Calvin was named Thunder Bay's Volunteer of the Year and was honoured by The Council of Canadians with Disabilities in 2005.
Patients, families and the public are central to improving health quality.
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Ex-Panthers offensive lineman Travelle Wharton opts to retire
Former Carolina Panthers and Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman Travelle Wharton is retiring after 10 NFL seasons.
There will be a retirement news conference Tuesday at Wofford College, where the Panthers are training. He is the fourth Panthers offensive lineman to retire this offseason, joining Jordan Gross, Geoff Hangartner and Jeff Byers.
The 33-year-old Wharton played in 115 games and started 111.
A third-round pick out of South Carolina in 2004, Wharton played with the Panthers until 2011 before signing as a free agent with the Bengals. He returned to Carolina last season following a slew of injuries.
Wharton tells The Associated Press that "it's time. He adds: "I thought it might have been time last year. It's just hard to just say it."
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FOXBORO, Mass. -- Maryland has heard the murmurs. The dreaded 'S' word has been uttered.
"We've been picked on the last few weeks about being a stall team," Maryland coach John Tillman said. "We've never used that terminology."
The unseeded Terrapins displayed a proficient, efficient offense to knock off ACC rival No. 3-ranked Duke, 16-10, Saturday in the second NCAA men's lacrosse semifinal at Gillette Stadium before a crowd of 31,774. Maryland will face No. 1 Loyola (Md.) at 1 p.m. Monday for the national championship.
"The season is a journey," Tillman said. "I've said all year that I have no problem with anybody going to the goal. But you have to be responsible to your teammates. If you shoot and turn it over quickly, you're hurting your defense."
That wasn't the case against Duke (15-5). Drew Snider matched his career high with four goals, Owen Blye had three and Billy Gribbin and Kevin Forster chipped in two each. Mike Chanenchuk (St. Anthony's) scored in the second quarter as the Terrapins tallied 16 goals on 29 shots, an amazing percentage.
"The Maryland kids were sharp. They shot very well," said Duke coach John Danowski, the former Hofstra coach. "They're rugged kids and they were much more confident than we were. I thought our guys backed down a little. I don't think we played as well as we're capable, but that may be due to the way the University of Maryland played."
Maryland built a 9-4 lead early in the third quarter but two goals by Justin Turri (West Islip) helped the Blue Devils rally to within 10-7 at the end of three. But the offense was still out of synch. "We didn't hit some of the shots we usually hit," Turri said.
It was 11-8 when the Terrapins put the hammer down for good. Goals by Blye, Joe Cummings, Blye again, Kevin Forster and Sean McGuire made it 16-8.
Duke inserted Kyle Turri (West Islip) in goal for a few minutes because the freshman is a former midfielder with stick skills and the Devils wanted their goalie to double-team. It was a desperate gambit and Maryland scored two empty-net goals during that five-goal burst.
"At that point, I didn't care if they scored 20 goals, we were going to try to win," Danowski said.
Maryland also got solid defense from a young unit that included sophomore starter Michael Ehrhardt (Chaminade) and good goaltending from Niko Amato who made 10 saves after delivering an inspirational pregame speech. "We feed off our defense," Snider said. "And Niko got us going with that speech."
Amato said he reminded his teammates, "We are talented, but we were an unseeded team and we wanted to play with a chip on our shoulders. The Terrapins did that and more, showing off an offense some in the lacrosse cognoscenti would not have imagined. "This is not a one-man show," said Cummings, who scored a goal and added three assists. "We've been getting better all year. We have good chemistry on offense now."
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Shortage of affordable homes could worsen in 2017, economist saysJanuary 6, 2017 Updated: January 7, 2017 12:07am
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Homes priced under $150,000 were common in San Antonio as recently as 2012, but last year they were almost nonexistent. Those costing less than $200,000 can still be found, but are becoming an "endangered species," a Texas economist said Friday.
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First Team News
On this day: 23 January
Looking back through the events and memorable matches that happened on this day in City's history...
23 January has not been a popular day for City games in time gone by with just five games being played on this day.
Two of them defeats so the less said about them the better, so without further ado...
This was the first ever City game to be played on the 23 January and it resulted in three points for the Blues. Don Revie (pictured), Harry Anders and Royston James Clarke were all on target as City beat Cardiff 3-0 at Ninian Park.
The one and only FA Cup tie to be played on this date, City enjoyed a 2-1 win against QPR in the Fourth Round on this day 23 years ago. Ian Holloway was the goal scorer for QPR that day, but it was City who came out on top thanks to goals from Michel Vonk (pictured) and David White. City would go on to reach the Quarter Final of the 1992/93 FA Cup, where they lost 4-2 to Spurs at Maine Road.
City last played on the 23 January 17 years ago when they visited Walsall in what is now known as League One. Andy Watson had opened the scoring for Walsall in the 67th minute as the Bescot Stadium before City fought back and got a equaliser through Jamie Pollock with 16 minutes to go.


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Unanswered: installing SQL server, no features to be selected
Hello everybody,
I would like to learn creating C# applications for SQL Server but first of all, I have three different errors while installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe).
First of all, there was error connected with Windows registry. I had some difficulties with copying the register entry (from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009 to 015), so I have decided to ignore this error by launching (by: SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe /ACTION=install /SKIPRULES=PerfMonCounterNotCorruptedCheck).
Unfortunately, then I have the other problem. I do not have these check-boxes (http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC505104.png), I only have (http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg513...png&res=medium) so I cannot proceed with installation.
I have tried again launching SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe without "/ACTION=install /SKIPRULES=PerfMonCounterNotCorruptedCheck" and then I see the third kind of error "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created". I may also mention that installing dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe does not help because it is already installed.
The same installer SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe works fine on the other computer. What should I do in order to proceed with installation?
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what may be the reason I do not have any options to be chosen? Nothing like double click on any of those three categories works. There are no checkboxes or subcategories.
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Are you installing the server on a supported o/s?


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Site Information
2601 East Sunset Road, Las Vegas, NV 89120 Park Hours
Parks Offices
Monday – Saturday: 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday: Closed
(702) 455-8200
Park Hours
6am-11pm daily
Camping and RV Parking
There is no camping anywhere in the park.
Pet must be on a leash at all time unless contained within a kennel or other contained location.
Sunset Park has two enclosed dog runs located on the south side of the park, bordering Warm Springs Rd. There is a run for large dogs and one for small dogs. There is also a shaded picnic area.
Disc Golf Course
The park has a 27 hole disc (Frisbee) golf course. It is located next to Eastern Ave, along the western edge of the park. The size of the course is 7,608 ft (2,319 m) by 8,775 ft (2,675 m). There are 24 mixed tees (concrete holes). The course is suitable for leagues, tournaments and public use.
Discovery Areas for Kids of All Ages
Native Discovery Area
Located in the recently added eastern section of the park.
Dunes Discovery Area
Located just south of the pond & Area G
Recreation Equipment Rental
Recreation equipment may be rented at the Sunset Park Reservations building. Single speed beach cruiser bicycles, tot trailers, outdoor volleyball systems, fishing poles & tackle, slacklines, basketballs, deluxe arm chairs, disc golf discs, footballs, soccer balls, tennis racquets & balls and tug of war ropes.
Cold Pits and Trailer Parking
Cold Pits and Trailer Parking
Add NO stakes may be used to hold down canopies. Only sandbags or weights will be allowed.
Parking for trailers and canopies will be by assignment only starting at 6:45am on Friday October 20th. Sponsors and vendors will be first. All vehicles must be removed from the grass and walkways immediately after dropping off your trailers. There is a ZERO TOLLERANCE for violations for this policy. Your vehicle may be ticketed and/or towed and you may be subject to ejection from the remainder of the event.
The event will be providing on-site overnight security for the protection of your equipment. Security is complimentary, NAMBA and the park do not assume any responsibility of liability of any kind.


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We're going to Vegas in November and will be celebrating my partner's 30th birthday while there. Of all the notable restaurants I've read about é by José Andrés sounds the most fun, but it's also one of the more pricey outings. I think we'd be willing to fork over the money if we thought it would surpass our experience at NYC's WD-50 earlier this year—or was very different. We did the tasting menu at WD-50, sat at the bar and had a great time, but I wonder if because both José and Wylie are both molecular gastronomy chefs, the experiences would be similar.
Has anyone dined at both of these restaurants. Would you recommend é if we had recently been to WD-50?
Also, what's the beverage program like? We enjoy drinking, but tend not to get wine pairings so we can chose the wines/cockails we'd like.
Thanks, looking forward to your feedback!


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Homer Martin ILL.PFC CO. B 307 Mg. Bn.WWI April27,1894-July13,1967
Charles Gilbert Martin PVTUS Army WWI Feb.23,1896-May17,1985
Alta Martin Aug.20,1903-June18,1987
Lewis Martin
Lizzie Martin
William J. Degenhardt Sept. 25, 1906- July 20, 1976
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William J. Degenhardt M3 US Navy World War II Sep 25, 1906- Jul 20, 1976
Shaw John 1893-1970 Lula 1893-1924
Martin John R. Aug.24, 1885-Dec. 16, 1922
Martin J. Ellison Sept. 25, 1883- Feb. 24, 1930
Valerius She was the light of Jesus Matt 5:16 Ruby Valerius Busby Aug. 29, 1930- Jan. 14, 1991
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Charles Dorsey Burroughs b 1890 d June 19 1981 WW1. son of Harmon Peleg Burroughs, Elkville Ill. Originally
buried in Kimmell but moved to Arlington National. HP Burroughs was a Major in the Civil War, NY 8th Cavalry.
Harmon Lester Burroughs (Carls brother) b August 14 1921, brother of Carl Maxwell Burroughs, son of Charles D. Burroughs, Grandson of Harmon Paleg Burroughs died October 10, 1986.
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This geography quiz features ten satellite images each showing an anthropogenic activity. Can you figure out what the human activity shown on each image is?
World Bank and Coal
The World Bank invests through its International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is currently funding at least 41 coal projects and 50 other environmentally harmful projects across the world.
Mountaintop Removal Mining and Flash Floods in West Virginia
Mountaintop removal mining is when explosives are used to blast through the peak of a mountain and expose coal that is buried below. The practice has destructive consequences on the trees of the mountain, as well as the streams.


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MORROW, Ga. - Morrow Police are asking the public to help them identify three men wanted for a violent home invasion.
The crime happened Wednesday, September 21, around 4:30 p.m. at a home on John Robert Drive.
Police Chief James Callaway said the male victim was targeted due to the nature of his job. He said the home invaders were specifically after a cash deposit, but the victim had already taken the money to the bank. The robbers then pistol whipped the victim. Police said he was treated at a hospital and is expected to be ok.
A $2,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrests and indictment of the suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477).


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Thank you for your interest in DSS skeleton equipment. I am no longer building sleds and am currently building runners only. This will allow me enough time to build runners for any athlete, not just those using a DSS sled. All runners are sold fully polished and come with runner guards, a wooden polishing block and a groove polishing tool.
In 2010, the FIBT released a new version of their runner steel, keeping the original chemical composition but increasing the strength and hardness. All DSS runners will be made from this stronger steel unless the customer specifically requests the older FIBT steel. I do still have some of this older steel in inventory. Of course, it is always possible that some sliders might think that the older steel is faster for them.
I have removed all limitations on runner sales. It is no longer required for the customer to be using a DSS sled. Also, there is no longer a limit on the number of pairs which may be ordered. If you are using a different type of sled and you require non-standard DSS dimensions on your runners to fit them correctly to your sled (for example, runner block width, runner post length, etc.), you MUST inform me prior to the start of runner construction. Please see the "Runners" page for more dimensional information. There are no fixed order deadline dates - the lists are kept open as long as possible and will close only when it's no longer possible to add any more work before the scheduled completion dates.
Note that I do not build extra runners for inventory purposes. I don't begin building the runners until after the orders have been placed. This makes it difficult to complete work when I receive late orders - too many orders are coming in at the last minute, and it is limiting the amount of work I can finish. Therefore, I am changing the pricing of the runners. Early orders have been reduced in price, and late orders have been increased in price. This should allow me to get more work done early in the year and it should allow me to make better plans for the remainder of the construction season. To be eligible for this reduced pricing, orders must contain all the info I will need to build the runners - groove decisions and any dimensional requirements must be finalized. The deadlines for receiving orders for reduced pricing are June 1 for completion by Sept. 10 and November 15 for completion by Dec. 10 (deadline time is 23:59 in Calgary). Later orders are still accepted, assuming there is room on the order list and I have runner steel in stock, but the prices are higher for those late orders. Note that the June deadline has been moved ahead by 2 weeks - this is to avoid conflicting with the dates of the Calgary Stampede, during which time it has been almost impossible to handle the steel importation without delay.
Following are the current order lists for DSS runners. Runners are sold on a first come, first served basis according to the date on which the deposit payment is received. The main batch of runners will be completed by Sept. 10, in time for the start of the season. If I have steel remaining in inventory, another smaller batch will be completed by Dec. 10, allowing customers to get runners before the second half of the season.
|DSS Skeleton Race Runners, 1 pair - FIBT stainless steel, fully polished
$ 750 / $ 950
|with polishing block, groove polishing tool, runner guards - any groove design
|Price is dependent upon date of order placement (see above)
|DSS Skeleton Training Runners, 1 pair - chrome moly (non-FIBT steel), fully polished
$ 450 / $ 600
|with polishing block, groove polishing tool, runner guards - any groove design except Top Cut
|Price is dependent upon date of order placement (see above)
|Replace complete saddle on customer's DSS sled (parts and labour)
|$ 350
|Replace saddle sides and handles on customer's DSS sled (parts and labour)
$ 250
|General sled repair work
$ 50 / hr
All runner orders must be confirmed by a deposit of CAN $200 per pair. The balance is to be paid upon completion and before delivery. Taxes and customs duties are charged according to the regulations of the recipient country's government, and are the responsibility of the customer. If you see me in person, payments may be made in cash in Canadian or US dollars. 5% GST is added to all orders shipped to or picked up within Canada. Canadian and American customers may pay by cheque or money order in Canadian or US dollars. Canadian customers with online banking access may pay by Interac e_Transfer. All customers may pay in Canadian dollars by PayPal - please contact me to request a PayPal invoice. Foreign customers may transfer funds electronically through their bank. Postal money orders may also be used, although they're very slow, typically taking over a month for me to receive (if you're an American, make sure you get a pink international postal money order, not the green type which can only be cashed in the U.S.). Western Union money transfers are another possible choice. Please make all payments payable to Davenport Skeleton Sleds. Shipping is extra - check the UPS Canada web site for exact shipping costs. I recently saw a National Geographic clip on Icelandic puffins. I learned three things. 1) - a baby puffin is called a puffling. 2) - a puffling does not have the fancy paint job on his beak that the adult puffins have. 3) - you can throw a puffling like a baseball. Amazing.
Ryan Davenport
Davenport Skeleton Sleds
256018 32nd St. E.
Foothills, AB
tel: +1 (403) 938-6200
fax: +1 (403) 938-9660
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The hardcore racetrack touts have been ready for weeks, and later today the amateurs will tune in to the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby.
Just because it's all over in a few minutes doesn't limit the foodies on the scene. Jo-Jo Doyle, the top chef at Churchill Downs, where the race is run, has been slaving over a pot of black-eyed peas for some time now. A quarter of a million people come to the race festivities, and all that fresh air makes 'em hungry.
Doyle's got more than 40 chefs helping him, and something like 3,000 workers. Reporter Adam Watson got the stats: 32,400 jumbo shrimp; 142,000 hot dogs and 300,000 strawberries. Oh, and 14,000 pounds of turkey will get et by the time race week is over.
The most famous of Derby refreshments, of course, is the mint julip, a drink that even the least talented bartender can make. (Bourbon, sugar, mint, crushed ice.) A ton of mint–literally–gets used by the toasting crowd at Churchill Downs.
There's a school of thought that favors betting horses with names that have something to do with eating and drinking. (A school in which all the pupils are broke, probably.) That means Stay Thirsty is this year's fave. (The three-year-old's pedigree is Bernardini-Marozia by Storm Bird, if you've been following this sport for a bit.)
Finding out what Stay Thirsty and the other contenders eat is tough. The Pentagon could take lessons from the horseracing crowd when it comes to keeping things secret. One thing is certain: the experts factor in all the things humans consider (or should) when dieting: Level of activity, age, quality of food, amount of protein, fat, grain.
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Unanswered: Sending an attachment in a Perl Script
I'm trying to set up a script that will allow me to send an attachment using sendmail. I think I'm close with using uuencode, but wondering if anyone else has made it work.
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If all else fails you can always try the Perl Cookbook ...
Use the MIME::Lite module from CPAN. First, create a MIME::Lite object representing the multipart message:
use MIME::Lite; $msg=MIME::Lite->new(From => 'email@example.com', To => 'email@example.com', Subject => 'Photo', Type => 'multipart/mixed');
$msg->attach(Type => 'image/jpeg', Path => '/Users/gnat/gnat.jpg', Filename => 'gnat-face.jpg'); $msg->attach(Type => 'TEXT', Path => 'Hopefully this is what you want.');
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Perl Libraries and Modules
Thanks for the feedback. Doesn't look too complicated, but I've never used the libraries and modules. My friend who helped me get into Perl programming called me a hacker not a programmer. I have the Learning Perl book, but I don't have the Perl Cookbook. I guess I'm going to have to break down and buy the cookbook. I'm going to try and take your code and make it work. I don't see a MIME or Lite library on my 5.00503 version of Perl or in the CPAN directory or in the CPAN.pm library. Anyway maybe it will all work, but I would like to understand what it is doing. I've created my own libraries all of the time using the require fuction and that has worked wonderful, but that is just my own subroutines and I can understand my own code. Anyway thanks for your help and pointing me in the right direction.
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You can find the MIME::Lite-module at CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~yves/MIME-Lite-3.01/
I think using a module like MIME::Liste is the best way of sending a mail. This module takes a lot of work from you.board.perl-community.de - The German Perl-Community


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New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A.B. Bardhan was in critical condition after suffering a paralytic stroke here on Monday, hospital authorities said.
The 93-year-old leader was found unconscious around 8 a.m. at the CPI headquarters Ajoy Bhavan where he lived. He was rushed to the G.B. Pant Hospital by CPI colleagues.
"Bardhanji has suffered a paralytic stroke. His condition is critical and he is under close observation," a hospital official told IANS.
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Halfway Trailer (2009)
28 February 2009 Drama, Romance, Foreign 85 mins
In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.
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New for 2017
Bloor-Yonge Station transformed into a "Celebrity Station" with canvassing support from the acting community during our annual Tokens4Change event on Feb 3. An initiative led by our friend, actor and comedienne Ennis Esmer who teamed up with pals actress Bryn McAuley, actor/director/producer David Reale, actress Natalie Brown, actor/director Damon Runyan, actor/producer/writer Kristian Bruun, producer/actor/writer George Stromboulopoulos, host of You Gotta Eat Here John Catucci, actor/producer Rainbow Sun Francks to raise funds for transportation costs and empowerment programs at Youth Without Shelter. Their eagerness to engage with transit riders through informative chants and humor brought on smiles but most importantly raised awareness on the issues of Youth homelessness in our city.
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Unanswered: how to add a column value
in my table i have a column Qty ,I want to do Qty +1 each time query is executed then i want to update it to the same column.
select max(Qty)+1 from hd_spare_detail where reg_no='998'
update hd_spare_details set Qty=....
I dnt know how to update it
Please help me out its urgent
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UPDATE hd_spare_details SET Qty= Qty+1 WHERE reg_no='998'
Can you explain - like you would explain to a total stranger who doesn't know what you are doing or why you are doing it - again what you want to do and why. Also provide some example data. If you have two tables, one to read from the other to update. Give their definitions (DDL) and some example data for both. Also give the data you want to have in all those tables at the end.With kind regards . . . . . SQL Server 2000/2005/2012
Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for very large values of 2.
Pat Phelan's Law: 2 very definitely CAN equal 3 -- in at least two programming languages
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actually its hd_spare_details, there is only 1 table
it worked ,thank you
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i have 2 tables, hd_Spare and hd_Spare_Detail
hd_spare contain Total_Qty and hd_Spare_Detail contains Qty
i want to select Qty from hd_spare_detail where reg_no='2'
den add Qty into Total_Qty which is in table hd_Spare
how to do this?
please help me out ASAP
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first you confuse hd_Spare_Detail and hd_Spare_Details
but you say "actually its hd_spare_details, there is only 1 table"
then suddenly you say "i have 2 tables, hd_Spare and hd_Spare_Detail"
and all of a sudden hd_Spare_Details has dropped the s again
please make up your mind
oh, and you might also describe how these two tables are relatedrudy.ca | @rudydotca
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my last post was the other question
i've resolved it
thanx for concern


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If you were hesitant about getting ombré hair, we've found the perfect alternative -- ombré jewelry. That's right, the omnipresent trend has extended to accessories, which means even the most non-committal can join in on the fun. Here are three necklaces to complement your delicate décolletage. ♥ Ombré Venetian Chain Necklace, Forever 21 ($9, pictured). A multi-chained number featuring a Nicki Minaj-ish hot pink hue.
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Just got a new STP frame. What's the BB size on this? 73 or 68?
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Thanks, man! Now I could put the BB on. It looked strange to me at first 'cause I wasn't sure if I need to put the spacer on or not (i'm using a race face splined FR bb).
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Trixie's special talent was magic in general, but her chosen specialty was illusion spells – spells that created ghost sounds or false sensations, or which manipulated light and shadow to create fake images or impressions. Of the numerous tricks she had both learned and developed herself, her favorite was, by far, the light-bending glamor that allowed her to turn invisible, followed closely by its companion spell that negated the sound of her hoof-steps. It was just so useful to not be seen or heard by anypony, and therefore become privy to things she probably shouldn't of been. Trixie used her invisibility glamor more often than any other spell she knew by far, and so had been sure that she knew just about everything about being invisible.
As it turned out, she was wrong, as she had overlooked something significant, yet obvious in hindsight: while invisible, her eyelids were transparent. This was not particularly conducive to achieving sleep, especially during Corona's perpetual midday. Ordinarily, if it was too bright out, she would have simply pulled her hat down over her eyes, but she was beginning to understand why (if not how) the poison joke had rendered that and her cape invisible as well. Thus, no matter how exhausted she was, sleep was simply not coming.
"Stupid poison joke!" Trixie proclaimed loudly. Nopony could hear her anyway, so she didn't feel a need to keep quiet. She turned her attention to Carrot Top. "And stupid you! Raindrops had wings, you idiot! This is your fault! And mine! Because I followed you! Because I'm an idiot too! A bigger one! And Lyra! If you hadn't overchanneled I wouldn't be in the situation either! And none of you should have followed me in here! Corona shouldn't of escaped! Luna should have been able to kick her flank! She was useless! Morons! Idiots! Foals! All of us! We're all idiots!" Trixie paused, breathing in and out deeply a few times. "…wow that was cathartic."
Carrot Top let out a slight sigh. She had managed to fall asleep, somehow, possibly because she had an excellent blanket in the form of a mane and tail that had finally stopped growing at around twenty feet in length, give or take a yard. Trixie had considered burying herself under the other pony's hair, but several things stopped her. Firstly, the thought of sleeping wrapped in a blanket made from another pony's hair was more than a little creepy, especially one she barely knew. Secondly, Trixie was fairly certain covering her eyes in a hair-blanket would be uncomfortable.
But the third, and probably the overriding reason, was that doing so would require getting out from underneath Ditzy Doo's wing. Despite the pegasus' comment about being used to long hours, she had fallen asleep while sitting next to Trixie. Raindrops had noticed, but hadn't done or said anything about it. Trixie had almost moved, when Ditzy had muttered a name in her sleep – Dinky Doo's.
Trixie could be a terrifically cruel pony at times, but even she couldn't bring herself to wake Ditzy Doo from whatever dream she was in with her daughter. It was good to escape from reality sometimes, even if only for a little while. "Of course, that's basically what I've done," Trixie observed. "Escaped from reality. I am a reality expatriate. Good on me. Or really, it's more like I was shoved from reality by the poison joke. Which is a stupid flower. Hate it. Hate, hate, hate, hate…"
Ditzy Doo shifted a little, her wing's grip tightening on Trixie for a moment. Trixie did her best not to flinch as she sighed, laying her head down on her hooves, eyes looking around the plaza as she examined it out of mind-numbing boredom. Ordinarily, if forced to sit in one place for a time, she would have been practicing her illusions, amusing herself in one way or another with them, but the poison joke had rendered even her magic invisible. All she could do was sit and wait for sheer exhaustion to force her asleep. Sit and wait…sit and wait…sit…wait…sit…wait…
...yeah, this isn't happening, Trixie thought.
"Here me now, O thou bleak and unbearable world!" Trixie sang idly, trying to keep herself amused somehow. "Thou art base and debauched as can be…and a knight with his banner so bravely unfurled, now hurls down his gauntlet to thee! I am Don Rocinante, hero of Equestria, destroyer of evil and I…I am an awful singer." Trixie laughed at her own interruption, looking to Lyra. "Right? Gah, stars, that's right, you can't hear me…"
Lyra, like Trixie, had not been able to find sleep. She was sitting in a back-breaking position again, leaning against a wall with her harp (lyre, whatever) in hoof and gently plucking out a slow, sad melody. Lyra's eyes were closed, and she looked like she had totally lost herself in whatever she was playing, some tears in her eyes. It was obvious that she was thinking about BonBon.
"Ugh," Trixie objected, looking to Cheerilee's sleeping form. "Well, it was a good idea while it lasted, Cheerilee." The magenta pony had been doing a good job of keeping all their minds on anything other than Corona, but the admittedly necessary sleep was giving Ditzy Doo and Lyra all the time they needed to focus on their losses.
Trixie looked down, tapping her hooves on the plaza beneath her. Not that it made any sound. The slush had been cleared away, too, to give them someplace to sleep; Trixie's telekinesis was still unable to affect it. Trixie tried to come up with a plausible explanation for why she couldn't touch or affect slush but could touch and affect other ponies and the Elements of Harmony, but the best she could conjure up was "because magic."
"Bored," Trixie stated. "Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored…"
From somewhere in the Everfree, there was a roar.
"What was that?" Carrot Top asked, even as she struggled to get out from under her own hair. It was not an easy task
"I don't know," Raindrops whispered, as she cautiously stood, careful not to step on anypony. The roar came a second time, this time followed by a crashing sound in the far distance, like trees being shoved out of the way. A sound which was getting louder – or closer.
"Um," Raindrops said, not bothering to keep her voice down as she got up on her hind legs, affording her a better view of the direction the sound was coming from, roughly in the direction of the castle's tower. Her eyes widened when she saw whatever it was. "Hide. Hide now."
The other five ponies – well, four, certainly, but Raindrops assumed that Trixie was smart enough to follow suit – did so by running back into the former Court, Cheerilee and an invisible Trixie helping Carrot Top with her mane and tail, Lyra grabbing the Elements with telekinesis and dragging them as far back as they would go, and Ditzy Doo instead taking to the air, looking in the same direction Raindrops was as soon as she was a good fifty feet up or so.
"Is…is that Spike – " Ditzy began, when the crashing sound stopped as the sound of displaced air reached their ears. Whatever was coming had leapt into the air, and moments later it came crashing down inside of the courtyard, hunched over at first, but quickly rearing to a full forty-foot height and letting out a roar that was felt more than it was heard.
A dragon, mostly purple, with a pale underbelly and a long series of green, wickedly sharp spines running from the top of its head down along its spine, and across the top of a long, whip-like tail that ensured that the dragon was at least twice as long as it was tall. It also, further, sported a pair of large, bat-like wings, covered in purple scales and with a translucent green membrane between its fingers.
"Spike?" Ditzy Doo asked. The dragon turned its gaze to her and let loose another bellow, then charged forward, at Raindrops. The giant pegasus reared up and lashed out with her hooves. Neither hoof connected, but the dragon did stop its assault and creep backwards, affording the giant pegasus new respect even as it growled in anger.
"How are you looking at that and thinking 'Spike?'" Raindrops demanded as she felt back onto all fours, beating her wings a few times as she adopted a fighting stance – wings out, three hooves on the ground, but her right front hoof raised and ready to strike.
"Ssspike?" The dragon hissed, as it too adopted a four-legged posture and began drawing in a deep breath. Both Ditzy Doo and Raindrops started at the sibilant, deep, yet somehow familiar tone to its voice even as the back of the dragon's throat began to glow a sickly green, licks of flame escaping from between the its tightly clenched teeth. "Ssspike…hungry! Ssspike mad!"
The dragon exhaled a gout of green fire. Raindrops leapt upwards instinctively, spreading her wings and beating them frantically, sending gusts of air downwards. Apparently, cruel though poison joke could be, it hadn't robbed her of her ability to fly. Unfortunately, it hadn't done much for her speed or agility, either, and a portion of Spike's flames caught the tip of her tail, singing it. The dragon leapt into the air as soon as it had finished exhaling, grasping Raindrops by a back leg and throwing her down to the plaza below. The pegasus landed on her shoulder without breaking anything, getting up just as her foe landed nearby, mouth once more glowing green.
"Ssspike burn, and sssmash, and eat!" The dragon proclaimed.
That didn't work out quite as well as it had the first time, however. Raindrops leapt right at it, bringing her right hoof down on the top of its muzzle. The dragon's jaw snapped shut – making it bite off maybe six inches of its long tongue as it did so – and it staggered under the blow, then began coughing and belching green-tinted smoke as the fire it had been preparing was forcefully quenched. It was too preoccupied to notice Raindrops raise her hoof a second time, this time striking the dragon's back, where its two shoulders met. It collapsed to the plaza floor with a loud roar of rage, claws scrabbling in the slush and tiled stone as it scurried backwards from Raindrops, or tried to – Raindrops followed its every step, hooves coming down as she tried to step on the beast, which suddenly seemed considerably less eager to dine upon pony flambé. Its back was quickly against a wall, however, and on realizing this, its expression changed from concerned to terrified.
"Wait!" Ditzy Doo called, as she flew near Raindrops. "That is Spike!
Raindrops stopped her stomping advance, resuming the pose she had struck earlier. "And he was trying to eat us," she noted, eyes never leaving the dragon, though they did narrow as she regarded it. "Which, by the way: why?"
The dragon didn't answer as it remained pressed against the wall, wings held high in defense, eyes darting between Raindrops and Ditzy Doo, looking at the latter hungrily but the former with a considerable amount of fear.
"He's not in his right mind," Ditzy Doo noted. "Maybe…maybe that poison joke stuff? We need to find Zecora."
"Ten bits says he ate her," Raindrops said, as she noticed movement from the corner of her eye. The others were coming out from where they had taken cover, slowly, making sure to stay close to the wall and well out of the way of Spike an Raindrops. "How can you even tell that's Spike?"
"I just can," Ditzy explained, though not helpfully, as she alighted atop Raindrops' head and stared at Spike. "Spike. What happened?"
The dragon was breathing heavily. "Hungry…mad…" it hissed, teeth still clenched. Its head whipped around to Raindrops. "Hung – !" it shouted as it lunged at Raindrops again. Once more, it received a hoof square to its jaw, sending it reeling backwards and into the courtyard's wall. The stress proved too much for the ancient structure, and it crumbled under his impact, sending the dragon sprawling under collapsing stone and mortar.
"You're good at that," Lyra noted from the back wall.
"Iron hoof martial arts," Raindrops explained. "The discipline helps when I get really angry. Which is sort of happening right now."
Ditzy Doo took to the air once more, staring down at the dragon as it lay in the rubble, breathing heavily and blinking rapidly, before its eyes rolled back and it began to glow with the same sickly green glow its fire had possessed. The glow obscured its features, but began to shrink and compress, and after several moments there was no longer a massive, winged, hungry-looking purple wyrm, but instead a tiny green-and-purple baby dragon, groaning in pain.
"Okay, what?" Cheerilee asked, as the ponies, sans Raindrops, picked their way over the debris – Carrot Top having a harder time than most thanks to her hair getting caught in just about everything, but she seemed determined to not be left behind – and towards Spike just as the baby dragon slipped into unconsciousness. A few tentative pokes from Ditzy Doo got no real response from him.
"Somepony please explain to me what the hay just happened!" Raindrops exclaimed, almost stomping her hoof in frustration before she managed to stop herself, as it might have brought the entire Palace ruins crashing down. "Is this normal for dragons or what?"
"I don't think – " Carrot Top began.
There was an explosion in the sky, a blast of heat and light that shoved the ponies who were standing to the ground, covering their ears with their forelegs and shouting in fright at the sudden sound. Even Raindrops was forced to the ground.
Then – wings. The sound of large wings beating steadily.
Then all was black.
Consciousness was a thing that had to be grabbed with teeth and telekinesis and dragged, kicking and screaming, back to Trixie. She awoke only slowly, to the too-bright sight of fire and a glaring sun overhead that penetrated her invisible eyelids with impunity, not to mention a white aura wrapped firmly around her being that glowed of its own accord, keeping her pressed to the now-dry ground and outlined for all to see.
Hearing was the next thing to return. She heard the cackling of flames, yes, but over that, she heard the whimpers and sobs of frightened foals, and the hushed assurances of other ponies, trying to keep them calm. Trixie couldn't move her head thanks to the aura, but her eyes were her own still. Glancing around, she saw – beyond the flames that surrounded her in a wide circle – a second fiery prison, far larger than her own and holding dozens of ponies in place.
Above even those sounds, however, Trixie heard a voice.
"I do not understand this foreign mindset that grips you," Corona said. Looking around with just her eyes, Trixie saw her five companions, each trapped in circles of flame and held in place by a white aura of their own, though they at least were standing. Even Raindrops was held in place with no additional effort on Corona's part, while Carrot Top's mane and tail had been wrapped around her in a way that might have been funny, were they in any other situation. The Tyrant Sun was facing them, wings spread wide, with the obsidian statue and the five orbs that contained the Elements of Harmony behind her.
"Were my intentions not clear?" Corona asked, as she folded her wings against her body and began to pace back and forth in front of the ponies. "Was I not precise? Did I not tell you the exact consequence for actions such as this?" She swept a hoof at the Elements. "Do you not care for your friends and loved ones?
"You admit to having no true plan," Corona continued, "yet you would defy me anyway! And I tell you now, the Elements would not have worked for creatures as you. You are mere ponies. It takes alicorn magic to direct the Elements, even in the inert, corrupted state that Luna left them in."
Corona looked between the five of them like they were children being scolded. Raindrops was managing to meet her glare head-on, while Cheerilee and Carrot Top were trying desperately to look away, though all they could move were their eyes. Lyra and Ditzy Doo, meanwhile, were alternating between watching Corona, and looking into the crowd of captured ponies. Trixie couldn't see BonBon or Dinky Doo, but she knew they were in there – somewhere.
"And thou," Corona intoned, looking to Trixie, apparently perfectly aware of Trixie being awake and, more to the point, having no apparent difficulty seeing her. Trixie was lifted up and stood like a doll or figurine, her muscles straining against the aura that gripped her and yet unable to move. "Thou, whom I entrusted with the governance of that settlement. Yet you waited not a moment before turning against thy Queen. I revise my opinion of thee yet again. Thou art not brave. Thou art not even a coward, nor an opportunist. Thou art simply stupid." She leaned in close to Trixie. "Stupidity has a price. A very, very dear price."
Trixie blinked a few times. "It…" she began, surprised Corona was letting her speak, surprised even more when the alicorn's head turned slightly, indicating that the Tyrant Sun heard her. "It was my idea. It was all my idea. Don't – "
"Silence!" Corona commanded, making a sweeping gesture with one wing as her horn flared. "I will believe no more of thy lies. Even if thou were telling the truth it would matter not. Thy idea it may have been, but they endorsed it. It is fortunate indeed that I yet have allies in Equestria or I might have been unaware of thy treachery."
"Allies?" Trixie echoed, eyes wide, before narrowing. "Zecora."
"Indeed," Corona observed with a smile as she drew back, looking to the side and turning Trixie's head as she did. Sitting – no, kneeling, in obeisance – to the Tyrant Sun was the zebra, cloak still removed. Somehow, Trixie was able to take note of the fact that on her flank was a stylized sun cutie mark. She had lied about not having one, it seemed, though that hardly came as much of a surprise.
But why? That was still the question. What pony – what anything – would be insane enough to support Corona?
Corona continued to glare at them all like they were children who had been caught with their hooves in the cookie jar. At length, she shook her head. "I have much to do," she said. "I can waste no more time on traitors whilst Canterlot yet defies me." She turned her back on the six ponies, instead facing her captives. "Yet behold that I am merciful! Far from here, Ponyville sits peaceful and orderly, as I commanded. 'Tis only these six who defy my orders. And so my wrath shall fall solely upon them!"
The captive ponies seemed anything but grateful for Corona's 'mercy,' but the white alicorn didn't take any notice of it as she turned back around. "First," she proclaimed, looking to the obsidian statue and the Elements. "I shall deal with far older traitors than you." She raised one hoof, and slammed it into the ground, even as her horn glowed. The impact sent a reverberation through the ground as strong as any earthquake, as well as a cracking sound like thunder. In front of the ponies' eyes, the obsidian statue – and the stone that were the Elements of Harmony – shattered. There was a brief flare of magic from each, but then nothing.
Trixie felt another thing shatter, as well – hope. All of it, everywhere, but most especially inside of her.
"Whatever dark magic my sister used on the Elements," Corona proclaimed as she used a hoof to brush them aside, "rendered them corrupt and base. They were gone long ago, only these black echoes had remained. But I do not need them, for I am Celestia! I am the Sun!"
Corona chuckled slightly as she looked up, eyes focusing on Trixie. The blue unicorn was aware of the white aura that had surrounded her leaving her body, and the flames around her dying down. In fact, the same had happened for all of her companions. After all…
…what could they do?
Run? What was the point? Corona didn't even seem to notice that Trixie was invisible.
Beg? For what reason would Corona be convinced to spare them?
Fight? Against a being that had tossed Luna aside like she was a rag doll?
Trixie stared at the plaza beneath her, tears in her eyes, real tears, the first she had cried in stars knew how long. She had failed. She had failed in everything, and she'd managed to take these five ponies with her in the process. This was it. Everything was over. Luna was gone. Canterlot would fall to Corona's flames. The Elements were destroyed. The Tyrant Sun would reign forever over all of Equestria.
Trixie looked to the five ponies she'd doomed. Three of them – Cheerilee, Carrot Top, even Raindrops – had looks on their faces that had to mirror Trixie's own, maybe even surpass hers. Ditzy Doo and Lyra, meanwhile, were both focused on the ponies that Corona held captive – on Dinky Doo and BonBon, most likely, seeing them where Trixie couldn't, trying to ensure that the last sight they held was that of their loved ones.
Corona wouldn't even give them that as she approached, spreading her wings wide, blocking their view, as her blank eyes looked to each of them. Her eyes settled on Cheerilee. "Thou shalt go first – "
"It's you shall, you throwback."
For a few moments, silence, rather than Corona, reigned over Equestria. Corona's eyes were surprisingly wide, and everypony – even Cheerilee herself – seemed to need a moment to comprehend what the magenta pony, the schoolteacher, had just said.
"I beg thy miniscule pardon?" Corona demanded.
"You!" Cheerilee shouted, eyes wide as she stepped forward. "It's you! Nopony has used thou or thee or thy for hundreds of years! And it's shall, no matter the subject! I don't care – "
"Cheerilee," Lyra interrupted the earth pony's tirade, or tried to. It didn't work.
" – if you've been locked up in the sun for a thousand years, you said Luna will be able to watch Equestria so I only assume that you could too, how could you not know how to speak Equestrian?"
Corona's eyes narrowed as she seemed to take a surprising amount of offence from a being that she considered so far beneath her. "My command of the tongue far surpasses thy own mangled – "
Cheerilee laughed. After a moment – after realizing what Cheerilee was laughing at – Raindrops and Carrot Top both joined in. Corona only stared uncomprehendingly. "You are hysterical," she noted of the three of them.
"Command of the tongue…" Cheerilee echoed, leaning forward towards Corona. She licked her lips. "Well, Lyra says I'm out of practice, maybe you could show me some of your command…"
Corona's eyes fluttered rapidly at that for a moment as realization of how Cheerilee and the other two were interpreting her words hit her, and she recoiled. It was a very interesting sight, seeing the Tyrant Sun blushing in embarrassment and utterly flabbergasted. "I – thou – thou dare?"
"Yeah, I do!" Cheerilee proclaimed. She set her hooves as though prepared to take the brunt of a charge. Tears still stained her eyes, but they were narrowed and challenging. "I'm dead anyway. So why not? I'm going to die laughing and I'm going to die making everypony else laugh at how ridiculous you are – "
For the second time in far too recent memory, there was an explosion, though this one far smaller than whatever one had occurred on Corona's arrival, centered on a number of the shards that Corona had shattered the Elements into. They took on a light blue glow and shot off of the ground, arcing towards and beginning to orbit around Cheerilee's neck.
"What?" The white alicorn demanded as she retreated several more steps at the sight. "What black sorcery is this?"
Cheerilee stared at the stones orbiting her neck, seemingly unsure herself and blinking away her tears. "I think…" she said, then giggled slightly in amazement. "I think I'm the Element of Laughter now…"
"What?" Trixie demanded. She ignored the fact that nopony could hear her – it still had to be said. "Why?"
Lyra wiped her own tears away from her eyes as she looked at her second-oldest friend. "The Elements made the world," the unicorn noted as she stood, and cautiously approached her friend. "They're not a bunch of rocks, you can't destroy them!"
"But why Cheerilee?" Carrot Top asked. "Because she said she was the Element of Laughter?"
Cheerilee shook her head. "Not because of that," she said. "Because I made ponies laugh. I made Raindrops and Carrot Top laugh right when it mattered most, when everything looked doomed."
"Or earlier in the forest," Ditzy Doo said. Both her eyes were focused on Cheerilee. "That school activity you made us do. You made us laugh to forget our troubles."
"It matters not!" Corona proclaimed, stomping her hoof as her horn glowed. A bolt of hot, white light lashed towards Cheerilee, or tried to. Lyra saw it and leapt in the way, closing her eyes and preparing for the end...and finding herself pleasantly disappointed when instead, she landed evenly on her hooves, neck now orbited by another collection of shattered stones, Corona's beam of death having been harmlessly deflected away into the sky. The shards were glowing red.
"What – " Trixie began.
Lyra interrupted her, albeit without realizing she was doing so. "Loyalty," she stated, as though it were both obvious fact and a great revelation. "The Element of Loyalty. Because…because of the forest. Because I wouldn't let the sirens get any of you, no matter what. Even if it killed me."
One by one, the remaining shards of the shattered elements picked themselves off of the ground, levitating and glowing and forming a barrier between Corona and the six ponies, but not moving further. Corona's head was whipping around as she looked between each of them, eyes wide as she tried desperately to understand what was going on.
She wasn't the only one. Trixie stomped a hoof. "But why?" she asked, even if nopony could hear her. "Why now?"
Lyra and Cheerilee looked to Raindrops, who looked down at them. "I don't get it," she stated.
"Like I said," Lyra explained, "the Elements can't be destroyed. They made the world. Not even Corona can destroy them."
"That is not my name!" Corona shouted from behind the barrier the Elements' shards had created, as she glared upwards. The sun flared brightly, and a jet of flame and plasma shot down from it, towards the ponies. The shards glowed, however, and the flare splashed against a multi-hued shield without effect, hundreds of feet before reaching them. All that reached them was a wind, although it was admittedly a strong one – strong enough to blow Trixie's hat from her head.
"The Elements aren't something physical," Cheerilee said, "but they do need containers. Those containers were always those rocks…but I guess they don't have to be. They can be ponies, too."
"That's ridiculous!" Trixie shouted, not caring that nopony could hear her. "There's more magic in one Element than in Corona and Luna combined! They'd kill any normal pony!" Trixie blinked a few times even as she said that, looking between Cheerilee and Lyra and how they seemed very much alive and unharmed. "…right?"
A series of shards separated from the wall they had created, and began orbiting around Carrot Top, taking up a purple glow, which spread throughout Carrot Top's body. Her hair changed color, back to its normal orange, and both her mane and tail began to shrink back down to their normal length. Her eyes widened at the sight. "Generosity!" she exclaimed. "I…how do I know that?"
"Because what else would you get?" Lyra asked. "You walked through poison joke for me!"
"Anypony else notice a pattern here?" Cheerilee said with a smile, looking to the ponies. "I think the Elements want us as the new containers. Us. We've all earned them. Trying to get here, trying to get them to get rid of Corona, we want to protect the world they created."
"The Elements aren't alive," Trixie objected. To her own ears, though, she sounded far from sure.
"In that case," Raindrops observed, even as shards took up an orbit around her neck and began shrinking her down to normal size, glowing yellow-orange as they did, "Honesty. That's the one I want. That's the one I am." She had reached her normal size, and she offered something of a smile as she checked her hooves and looked over her normal-size body again. "But I think I earned it before the Everfree, when we were in Carrot Top's house. When I convinced all of us to go on this. Stay honest with ourselves, what we knew we had to do, whether or not we wanted to."
"Sounds about right," Carrot Top said.
Ditzy Doo blinked a few times, even as the last series of shards – green – began to twirl around her throat. "Oh, no," she said, shaking her head. "No, no, no. Not Kindness. I don't deserve – "
"Shut up, yes you do," Raindrops said as she came up to her fellow pegasus, rubbing a hoof on her head. "And don't try to call me wrong. Apparently I'm a reliable source." She jerked a hoof at her shard satellites.
"But – "
"You stopped Raindrops from pounding in Spike's face," Carrot Top noted. "You had no reason to do that."
"He…he wasn't himself, it wouldn't of been right – "
"And," Lyra said, "let's be honest, you're the only one who's been able to consistantly put up with Trixie despite her being a gigantic jerk."
"Hey!" Trixie objected.
"She's not a jerk," Ditzy Doo pointed out. "She was just stressed. And she hasn't been a jerk at all since we came into the Everfree!"
"See?" Cheerilee said, smiling. "And I happen to have it on good authority from a student of mine that you are the hardest-working, best mother in the world."
Ditzy Doo blinked, looking down at the shards. "I…yeah. Kindness. Okay. I can get behind that, I guess…"
Trixie looked between the five other ponies standing beside her, all of whom were glowing slightly, surrounded by an effervescent aura of energy. It occurred to Trixie, idly, that Corona had been lashing out at them the whole time, with fire, with lightning, with tremendous magical power. None of it got through, or even came close to getting through, the multicolored barrier that the Elements had created between the six of them and the Tyrant Sun. But…
"But…but it doesn't matter!" Trixie objected, even as Corona stopped throwing magic, glaring and breathing heavily – actually winded. Trixie looked to Corona, who stared back at her. "It doesn't matter…we still don't have the sixth Element."
Corona paused at that – then began chuckling. "Thou art correct…" she intoned, then laughed aloud. "She is right! I have nothing to fear from this light show! I know not what dark magics you have worked over the former Elements, but you don't have them all! The Element of Magic isn't here! I have but to wait for this parlor trick to run its course, and then – then I shall have you all at my mercy!"
Trixie paused.
She stared.
Her mouth hung open for several moments before words made their way out. "The…Element of Magic?" she asked.
Corona glared at her. "Yes, foal. Know thee not the list of the Elements?"
"Who are you talking to?" Ditzy Doo asked, then realized. "Oh! Trixie! We forgot her!" Her eyes swept over the courtyard. "Where is she?"
"Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty…and Magic?" Trixie asked incredulously.
"Of course," Corona proclaimed, leaning towards Trixie. "All the other Elements are useless without Magic. It is power. Who but the powerful can afford to be caring or giving? Who but the powerful can expect sincerity or faithfulness from those they surround themselves by? Who but the powerful can waste their days in comfort and joy?"
Trixie felt a hoof hit her head, a little harder than its owner, Cheerilee, probably intended. "Ah, found her," she said. The rest of the ponies, who had been reaching out blindly, stopped and stared at Cheerilee as she wrapped her left hoof around what must have, to them, looked like nothing. "Trixie, like I said…there seems to be a kind of pattern here."
"By which she means," Lyra said, coming up along Trixie's right, "that we're pretty sure we're all supposed to have an Element. Maybe it's our destiny or something."
"Or maybe it's just random chance," Ditzy Doo said with a shrug, as she placed herself in front of Trixie for a moment, staring into where she must have guessed Trixie's eyes were. "Doesn't really matter." With that, she went and stood to Lyra's right.
"What does matter is that you pony up," Raindrops said as she tapped Trixie on the head a few times, then sitting down on Cheerilee's right side. "Come on. Corona just figured everything out for you. It's the Element of Magic."
"Oh!" Carrot Top said after a moment. She also got in front of Trixie, looking her in where she supposed her eyes were, a broad grin on her features. "And I just noticed something. Remember Princess Luna's 'stupid' riddle?" With that, she trotted over and stood to Ditzy Doo's right, though she kept her eyes focused on the empty space that Trixie occupied. "Take a look beside you."
Trixie blinked a few times at that, doing so. To her left was Lyra, Ditzy Doo, and Carrot Top. To her left, Raindrops and Cheerilee. Beside her.
Beside her.
"The sixth Element is Magic," Trixie reasoned aloud, closing her eyes. To her surprise, it actually worked; that was, she managed to block out her view of the world. Opening her eyes again, she saw that she had, somehow, become visible again. Maybe due to the close proximity of the other Elements. In fact…yes, that was definitely it. That was a clue, she knew.
"The sixth Element is Magic," Trixie repeated. "And…and it's right beside me. You're all right beside me."
"A regular genius, you," Raindrops noted, though she was grinning slightly.
"So, what?" Trixie asked, looking to her left and her right, trying to puzzle things through. She'd lived with Luna for ten years, she should have been better than this at puzzles. "Ponies are magic? Mares are magic? The Elements are magic? What?"
"Friendship is magic?" Cheerilee suggested.
"Stop ignoring me!" Corona shouted. "I am thy Queen! I am the Sun! Give me the respect I am due!"
Trixie ignored her. "You're not my friends," she objected. "You all hate me."
Cheerilee laughed. "Trixie, we don't hate you. So you can be a jerk. So what? So can everypony. But we wouldn't even be here without you."
"You made my muffin smile," Dinky Doo pointed out. "That makes you a friend in my book."
"You also walked through poison joke for me," Lyra pointed out.
"You helped my farm," Carrot Top added.
"And…well, your heart was in the right place with the weather-for-hire team," Raindrops admitted. "So…yeah. Friends?"
"Friends," the other four ponies agreed.
Trixie's eyes were wide. "Friends," she echoed softly.
"Good," Cheerilee said. "Now could you hurry up and figure out how to get the Element of Magic already so that – "
There was a bright, lavender flash from above Trixie, and an orb of that same color appeared in front of her head. Trixie stared into it. Somehow, it stared back. And Trixie got the distinct impression that it liked what it saw.
"Already did," Trixie observed, as the orb and the stones surrounding each other pony flashed and coalesced around them. In the case of the others – of Trixie's friends – they became gilt necklaces, emblazoned with arcane designs and each holding a gem of a different color, that took the shape of their cutie marks. In Trixie's case, the orb of light instead became a tiara that set itself upon her head, glowing with radiant energy.
And Trixie saw…something. Maybe everything. She felt herself, and her friends, being lifted off of the ground by magical force, their bodies glowing painfully bright. Corona backed away at the sight.
"No!" The Tyrant Sun exclaimed. "No! This is impossible! You are mortals! You cannot wield the power of the Elements!"
"Anypony could," Trixie said, as she felt eldritch might gathering around her – but oddly, not within her. In each of her friends, yes…but she, herself, contained nothing. Not yet. That wasn't Magic's role in this. "Anypony could have become the Elements. You're wrong, Corona. Power isn't magic. Friendship is magic."
Corona paused at that. "That," she proclaimed, " is the stupidest, most insipid, worthless dross I have ever heard!"
The eldritch energies that had been gathering in the others now left them, and flowed into Trixie. Now she felt her body brimming with magic. She could never have gathered it on her own, but that was the point. Now that it was gathered, however, she was the one who aimed it. She pointed a hoof at Corona.
The white alicorn stood firm. "Thou shalt not banish me once more to the sun," she proclaimed slyly. "I have sealed away my treacherous sister. With her gone, and I as well, who will move the heavens?"
"We'll think of something."
Corona's eyes widened at that. "No!" she exclaimed, as a rainbow-hued beam shot upwards from the ponies and began arching down towards her. She beat her wings, taking to the air frantically and sailing away, but she couldn't outrun the prismatic force that chased her. It caught up to Corona just as she passed over the tower of the ruined Palace, and she fell down to its roof, the rainbow wrapping around her and assaulting her.
"No!" the Tyrant Sun repeated in defiance as the light grew brighter. "No! I shall not fall to thee! I am Celestia! I am the Sun!"
Trixie wanted to remark on that – to say something witty – but she couldn't, as the last of the power that the Elements had gathered chose that moment to leave her body. She gasped at the sudden vacuum of magic within her as she and her friends were lowered to the ground, their descent mercifully gentle, at least until whatever held them up failed and they all collapsed. Trixie had just enough time to hear Lyra groan "not again," before everything once more plunged into darkness.


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