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I am an International School educator based in Singapore. I specialise in teaching Economics, Business and Theory of Knowledge and enjoy teaching the International Baccalaureate curriculum. And I recently gave my first TedX talk on what schools and students can learn from innovative companies.
Previously I have taught in Bahrain, England and Belgium (after practice teaching in Canada and Costa Rica). This exposure to a wide range of curricula, education management approaches and great teachers has taught me a lot. I have been teaching for about 12 years now and I enjoy it more each year. As a parents with two young boys, I'm very motivated to understand child and adolescent development.
- Master of Business Administration (MBA). (Strategy, Technology Management, Innovation and Creative Facilitation) Open University Business School at the Oxford University and the University of London campuses 2004-2007
- Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration Open University Business School, at the Oxford University campus 2004-2006
- Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) (High School Teaching and Educating for Social Justice) – Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 2001-2002
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). (History and Theatre) Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1997-2001
My Teaching Philosophy
In 3 words: experimentation, reflection and feedback. I believe it is important to model the types of behaviours and attitudes that my students will depend on for their own success in the future –traits such as continuous, iterative adaptation, reflection on learning, risk taking and solicitation of feedback. For example, I have periodic student Reflection on Practice sessions 3 or 4 times per year, when all of my students consider their own practice (for example, the results of new study techniques they have experimented with).
And I also ask students to give me feedback on the approaches we've taken as a class –what aspects have helped them more than others. This way the students and I can both modify our habits and techniques, and improve. This has been a secret weapon for me. Students for example have mentioned teaching techniques and games other of their teachers have used and I've been able to adapt those for Business and Economics.
Information Technologies
I use a lot of information technologies to support my teaching. One of my IB Economics resources has been viewed by over 21,000 students, around the world in the past year. In my Masters I researched Integrated Technology Management in education, trying to help schools engage effectively with technologies. I have enjoyed applying the insights of my graduate research to my practice as a teacher and as an Education Technology leader in several schools, including my current school.
I have also had the benefit of having been an active participant in a variety of innovative education technology networks (including Classroom 2.0, the MirandaNet Fellowship, Cognitive Edge, and the International Baccalaureate Web 2.0 in the Classroom OCC group). In the next few years I would like to achieve the Google Certified Teacher (GCT) and Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) programs.
I continued to work toward finding the correct balance for each of my classes and for each student –an ongoing process. I have seen many of my students (and departments) hugely-enriched by a nuanced technology deployment, but it's an ongoing, active process.
Activities and Assessment
I use a variety of classroom activities and a diverse range of assessment approaches, always with the aim of stretching students' understanding. Recently, I've fond the ideas of Dr Ethna Ried and Carol Dweck quite compelling and I have been experimenting with different ways of adjusting my practice to match these and other current research education theories. I have also work to encourage teachers to share their resources online, in my project called TeachShare.
I haven't always been a teacher. While in university I worked in a variety of charity management roles. After I finished my first two degrees I started off working for the government in Canada, doing a project which I am extremely proud of. And I have also completed my MBA. My students benefit considerably from these experiences, as I tell explain how my experiences of managing major projects relate to the theoretical approaches they learn.
Since 2003 I have taught Business and Economics in international schools (in Belgium and Singapore) and national schools (in England and Bahrain). As I was studying to be a teacher (and in my first job after graduation) I was worked in a diverse range of roles, including public policy analysis, charity leadership and business development. I believe my lessons are enriched by my ability to relate real-life examples to the Business and Economics concepts I teach.
Overseas Family School, Singapore (K-12 International School, 3700 students)
Business, Economics and Theory of Knowledge (ToK) teacher (IB, MYP, and IGCSE). Course leader for Higher Level IB Economics and IGCSE Economics. Making a Difference (Leadership) Club leader. United Nations Thailand and Myanmar group supervisor. Teaching and Learning ICT Development team (High School and Middle School). IB Extended Essay Supervisor for Economics and Business. Year 9 and 10 Homebase advisor. CAS Advisor.
International School of Brussels (K-12 International School, 1200 students)
IB Economics (SL and HL) teacher, IB Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS) teacher. Yearbook Coordinator. Health and Athletics team advisor.
Paddington Academy, London (Independent Academy, 1100 students)
Business and Economics Teacher (GCSE, AS) and Head of the Business and Economics Department. Years 10 and 11 Pastoral team. School development for this new school. Chess Club.
Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School, London (Catholic Boys and Girls School, 1400 students)
Teacher and Deputy Head of the Business, Economics and Enterprise Department. Organized a variety of business enterprise school events. Researched and implemented a new approach to enterprise curriculum delivery as part of my MBA research.
Please click here to request a full CV, including my previous teaching experience, my work in the Canadian government and Non-Profit sector work and more:
Professional Development
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accreditation group at OFS. Singapore 2013.
- TedX talk. I discussed what schools can learn from our most innovative companies. Singapore 2013
- Led a team of 4 teachers and 30 students on a week-long Habitat for Humanity build trip. Vietnam 2012.
- IBDP Integrating Theory of Knowledge and Community, Action and Service (22 hours) Hong Kong 2013
- IBDP Economics Category 2 (22 hours) Singapore 2012
- IBDP Theory of Knowledge – Level 2 (22 hours) Shanghai – 2011
- IBDP Theory of Knowledge Teacher Training with Dr Peter Vardy, Vice Principal of Heythrop College, University of London (5 hours) Singapore – 2011
- Middle Years Program Training Program (16 hours) Singapore – 2011
- South Australian Mandatory Reporting (Child Abuse Reporting) (8 hours). Adelaide 2010.
- Red Cross First Aid and Adult and Child CPR Certificates (10 hours). Brussels 2010.
- IBDP Economics (Internal Assessments) (50 hours). Brussels 2010.
- IBDP Economics – Level 1 (22 hours). Berlin 2009.
- Ontario Certified Teacher (Member of the Ontario College of Teachers). Toronto 2009 (onward).
- UK Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). London 2009 (onward).
- Cognitive Edge Qualified Practitioner. London 2006 (onward).
- Was awarded an Eliott Travel Fellowship for my research into Education for Social Justice issues in a Costa Rican school. Canada 2002.
For more information, please visit my About page, my Portfolio page or Contact me.


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The recent fire that destroyed the Georgia Theatre adds it to the now-long list of landmarks and places Athens has lost over the years, from the old Five Points Barber Shop to Barnett's News Stand, Allen's Hamburgers, Foster's Jewelers, New Way Cleaners and more places than I can name here.
But Athens continues to grow, adding new buildings and people. We still have the arts, great dining and University of Georgia football, just to name a few of the things that make Athens a great place to live and work.
But if we ever lose The Varsity, we might be in trouble.
Terry D. Adams - Colbert
Fanatic dangers
Suicide bombers and other religiously inspired murderers won't stop until they die, or until they change their religion. We shouldn't deny that bad religions are the worst philosophical enemy out there. We shouldn't be afraid to speak up against bad religions just because they are religions. Religious freedom also should mean freedom from religion.
We must not forget that these religious fanatics don't care for life in general - theirs or yours - and that when they die, their aim is to take as many as they can with them.
Jimmy D. Haynie - Gainesville
Broun isn't green
Last week, I read Congressman Paul Broun's critique of the "cap and trade" energy legislation (Column, "Cap-and-trade bill will cripple economy," and I also read a critique of the same bill in a Walton EMC newsletter.
On the same day, I received my summer issue of National Parks magazine, which is about conserving our national parks, and life itself. The magazine refuted both Broun's criticism and Walton EMC's criticism of the bill. The magazine piece did admit the price of energy will temporarily rise under the bill - which passed the House last week - but noted that in the long run, it will be an investment in our health and safety as well in jobs in the clean-energy market.
I've never understood why conservatives haven't come out more strongly "pro-life" when it comes to conservation. I notice that my last college alumni magazine, which is quite conservative, came out in support of a movement called "Care of Creation."
Rev. Roy F. Major - Watkinsville
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Hi guys, what is the panel of the hosting? directadmin or cPanel? thanks for helping and if someone can donate me some Frih$ it will be great And thanks again
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Hi guys, what is the panel of the hosting? directadmin or cPanel? thanks for helping and if someone can donate me some Frih$ it will be great And thanks again
The front page lists DirectAdmin, but I'm not sure if this only applies to certain servers. I have DirectAdmin.
There is both on these Server(s) (two or three - not sure how many we have right now). Server 1 has cPanel (and you can't get any more accounts there) and the rest have Directadmin.
So, basically you have Directadmin for your control panel.
Ok thanks, i have directadmin and it's have strange style couse when i was have another hosting directadmin looks like this: http://blog.sitestash.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/direct-admin.jpg someone know how to change the style? thanks for helping
I don't believe that you can change direct admins style, it is what it is, just take some time to get used top it, and if you want cpanel they are on other servers which are full with accounts sorrry and place your question in the appropiate forum (support) where you can get a more accurate answer...
I have cPanel. I've seen/used both portals before and I think cPanel is better. That is just my personal opinion, though.
I use cPanel. Is there directadmin too??
So, this isn't what you see in your directadmin account?
shkumbin was correct, posting in the proper forum will get you a much faster and accurate response.
-Moved- to the Support forum
As far as I'm aware, you cannot change your DirectAdmin theme. In fact, I wasn't even aware that DA had other themes.
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text: The day in photos, March 19 The top photos from Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara (left) and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx listen during an announcement at the Justice Department on March 19, 2014 in Washington. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark, waits to speak at the Brookings Institution on March 19, 2014 in Washington. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (left) greets STEM Academy of Hollywood principal Paul Hirsch, after a roundtable discussion at the Family Source Center in Los Angeles on March 19, 2014. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) gestures as he discusses legislation he and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) (left) are proposing to study the cost of building a reservoir in the Sites Valley during a news conference near Maxwell, Calif., on March 19, 2014. In this courtroom sketch, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (right) testifies at his trial March 19, 2014, in New York, on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid Al Qaeda as a spokesman for the terrorist group. Listening to testimony are Judge Lewis Kaplan and defense attorney Stanley Cohen (at podium). Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during her first news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington on March 19, 2014. Mayor Vincent Gray (left) embraces former mayor and current D.C. City Council member Marion Barry before a media availability to announce Barry's endorsement of Gray's bid for reelection on March 19, 2014 in Washington. Director Diego Luna and actress Rosario Dawson speak prior to a screening of their film, "Cesar Chavez," at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House on March 19, 2014.


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Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has emerged as one of the leading business and economic issues nowadays. With the escalating pressures from competition and the growing global business opportunities, companies are now seeking ways to increase efficiencies and lower operating expenses.
Deciding to outsource may be an easy solution for most managers and executives, but analyzing the cost and quality implications, finding the right BPO provider and building strong relationships are some of the challenging tasks to consider.
The Asian Institute of Management offers "A 360-Degree View of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Industry" which will be held from May 26 to 28, 2008 at the AIM Campus. The program will discuss Business Process Outsourcing from the perspective of the buyer as well as the vendor.
Managers and executives will gain insights on how to manage change, analyze the outsourcing opportunity, make informed decision on choosing a vendor and execute an outsourcing project. The goal of the program is to allow your organization to focus on its core business areas.
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With the escalating pressures from competition and the growing global business opportunities, companies are now seeking ways to lower operating expenses & increase efficiencies. Now, most of the leading business companies of the world are adopting BPO as a strategic business solution. The program is designed to help managers understand how outsourcing can help their organization focus on more value-added undertakings such as business planning, forecasting & analysis.
§ To create awareness, understanding and appreciation of the opportunities, issues, problems and analytical tools used in setting up and operating BPO.
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§ To be able to identify the potential customers of BPO.
§ To understand how BPO works and how to select BPO provider for your company.
§ To understand large organization's need for outsourcing.
o How to get the right quality for the right price.
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OEM Fuel Pump Module Study
The fuel filters for the JK are in the fuel pump module, and are listed as "not serviced",
which means they can't be changed without replacing the entire fuel pump module.
The same goes for the fuel pump and the pressure regulator.
I have not seen any forum traffic about the filters being the source of problems.
Here are some pictures to show how this is all put together.
1. Here is a view of the fuel pump module.
The top cover is what is clamped to the top of the tank.
The spring holds the fuel reservoir down onto the bottom of the tank.
2. This is a close-up of the fuel lever sensor.
There are two contacts that sweep up and down on the sensor board.
3. Here you can see the discharge filter/pump sitting in the reservoir.
What is visible is actually the discharge filter container.
The pump is in the center of the filter.
Some of the pressurized fuel is tapped off to be shot from a nozzle,
through a flapper type check valve, and into the bottom of the reservoir.
As the fuel is shot in, it brings fuel from the tank into the reservoir with it.
This keeps the reservoir full, ensuring a good supply of fuel for the pump to draw from,
even when the fuel level in the tank is below the top of the reservoir.
The jet of fuel may also create a swirling effect in the bottom of the reservoir which
keeps the surface of inlet filter clean.
It also ensures the pump is constantly bathed in "cool fuel", at least until the very end of the supply.
4. A look at the flapper valve in the bottom of the reservoir.
Fuel can check in, but it can never leave, (except through the pump).
5. Here is the pump/discharge filter housing. You can see the inlet filter at the bottom.
The pressure regulator is to the lower left.
Anything over 58 ±2 psi is dumped through the outlet at the bottom of the regulator, into the reservoir.
The large black line carries fuel out of the tank, and on to the fuel rail on the engine.
The little black line routes some of the pressurized fuel to the jet nozzle,
where it is sprayed into the bottom of the reservoir, bringing fuel from the tank with it.
This keeps the reservoir full.
6. Here is a view of the pump, inlet filter, and discharge port.
7. This is the discharge filter housing, upside down to show where the pump discharge port connects.
As you can see, the pressure regulator housing is molded into the filter housing.
This pump module is very easy to disassemble, change the parts, and reassemble.
As far as I know, there is no parts support. So, if anything needs replacing, the entire module must be changed.
I think an access panel should have been made in the tub floor so the module could be removed without draining and removing the tank.
I have seen that in other vehicles.
Excellent write-up and pics as always.:thumbsup:
Too bad your Jeep is incapacitated at the moment.:laugh:
Another great "Study" added to the F.A.Q. :tea:
Great information! That answered most of my questions about the filter...I also didn't know the fuel pressure regulator is included as well (that's another thing I don't like about it).
Thanks for posting.
Awesome job once again, Ronjenx! Interesting stuff. :)
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H&M Drop Kate Moss After Drug Shame
Swedish fashion chain H&M have dropped disgraced supermodel Kate Moss after a British newspaper published photographs of the beauty allegedly snorting cocaine.
The photos in Thursday's Daily Mirror newspaper appear to show
Moss indulging in the hard drug during a recording session with on/off boyfriend
Pete Doherty and his band Babyshambles in a London studio.
Despite Moss' apologies to H&M and their initial acceptance of her
regrets, the clothing store have now decided to remove Moss from their $1.8 million
advertising campaign.
A statement from the company reads, "H&M is strongly against drugs and for
many years has actively supported the drug preventing organization Mentor
"After having evaluated the situation, H&M has decided that a campaign
with Kate Moss is inconsistent with H&M's clear dissociation of drugs."
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Maria Rodgers O'Rourke, author of Prepare Your Heart for a Great Christmas, will sign copies of her book Sunday, December 14th at Borders, Sunset Hills, from 1-3 p.m. Stop by and say hello and get some shopping done! With reflections that take us into the New Year, the book is a wonderful gift for someone you love or yourself.
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I am on a moderate glycemic diet to control weight gain and I would like to know how many calories are in 30 ml of Lactulose .
Lactulose works really well for me so I need the information to be able to adjust my diet to take it into account
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I am on a moderate glycemic diet to control weight gain and I would like to know how many calories are in 30 ml of Lactulose .
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Lactulose is a synthetic disaccharide in solution form for oral administration. Each 15 mL of Lactulose solution contains 10 g Lactulose (and less than 1.6 g galactose, less than 1.2 g lactose, and 1.2 g or less of other sugars). In addition, each 15 mL contains the following inactive ingredients: FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Yellow No. 6, sodium hydroxide (to adjust pH between 5 and 7) and water.
1 Tablespoon (15ml) contains 15 calories. Therefore 30ml will contain 30 calories.
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OCEANSIDE -- Vista's voting on it, Carlsbad's talking about it and now at least one Oceanside councilman thinks the charter city movement is worth another look.
Councilman Jack Feller, who over the years has opposed the idea of Oceanside's becoming a charter city, said this week that because of growth and the number of projects in the pipeline, the time is right to re-examine the issue.
"We have a lot of major projects ahead of us -- the El Corazon property, the Rancho del Oro interchange, the senior center, ultimately building a public safety center," Feller said. "Maybe there's an opportunity for us to look at some cost savings. Until we investigate it we won't know."
Vista voters will decide the issue for their city Tuesday, and Feller has put discussion of the subject on Wednesday's council agenda. But while Councilman Jerry Kern said he's open to taking a look, it doesn't seem to be getting much traction from other council members or area labor leaders.
Under California law, cities have the option of writing their own charters, which allow them to take certain actions not available to cities that operate under the state's general laws.
Of the 478 cities in California, 109 have their own charters, including San Marcos, Chula Vista and Del Mar. Cities operating without charters, such as Oceanside, are called "general-law" cities.
Charters can allow cities to do such things as grant additional authority to a mayor and give councils more leeway in setting salaries. They can also allow council members to be elected by district and cities to avoid paying prevailing wages on projects that don't involve state or federal funds.
The concept isn't new to Oceanside voters, who have defeated charter proposals three times in the last two decades. In 1996, they rejected by a 59 percent to 41 percent vote a city charter that would have exempted Oceanside from paying prevailing wages on certain public works projects. The city studied the possibility of becoming a charter city again in 2001, but it was never put to a public vote.
Both Mayor Jim Wood and Councilwoman Esther Sanchez expressed surprise Thursday that Feller was asking the council to consider examining charter-city status more closely.
Sanchez said the fact that a charter status allows council members to raise taxes, set their own salaries and decide whether council members would be elected on a by-district basis have been among concerns raised by the public.
Said Wood: "I think the citizens seem to know the facts, and they don't seem to want to have the council having the authority to tax them.
"For council members it's good," he said. "You just have to campaign in your area, and you can get a lifetime job and lifetime paycheck."
Interim City Manager Peter Weiss said the concept demands some research.
Being a charter city gives council members "some ability to look at their capital projects as they relate to prevailing wages. Is there some benefit to that? I guess that depends. If you have huge multimillion-dollar projects there, maybe."
But charters can be tailored to a city's needs.
For example, San Marcos' charter, which was enacted in 1994, was written to meet the economic needs of the time.
"The best charters are ones that are drafted to address specific issues," said San Marcos City Manager Paul Malone. "The provisions run the gamut, depending on what you determine your needs to be."
Malone said San Marcos' charter is fairly narrow. "The environment at the time was recession, the state budget was going upside down. Cities were feeling pretty impotent at the time and we have some aggressive provisions in our charter to keep the state from doing that."
Malone said that labor savings in San Marcos since 1994 runs into "several million dollars."
However, Lorena Gonzalez of the San Diego Imperial Counties Labor Council, questioned whether charters really save money.
She said there are few municipal projects that do not use some state or federal money, and that ultimately it costs more to run a charter city than it does a general law city.
"There's a whole new level of bureaucracy," Gonzalez said.
She said that people who view the issue as a union issue are wrong.
"This has nothing to do with the unions. Union members will still make the same wages. We're trying to protect the nonunionized workers and the taxpayers from the burden of low-paid underinsured workers in their cities. It's a worker issue and a taxpayer issue," she said.
Ultimately, paying less than the prevailing wage hurts the economy, said Mike Magallanes of the Southwestern Regional Council of Carpenters.
"It lowers the standards because you're eliminating the contractors that are actually paying a living wage plus benefits," said Magallanes. "If you're not making enough to afford health care, the taxpayers are going to pay for it when you go to the hospital."
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Arias Attorneys Seek To Vacate Death Eligibility
Defense attorneys argue in their motion that the definition of "especially cruel" is too vague for jurors with no legal experience to determine what makes one killing more cruel or heinous than another.
The filing also appears to challenge a landmark 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found a defendant has the right to have a jury, rather than a judge, decide on the existence of an aggravating factor that makes the defendant eligible for capital punishment.
The high court determined that allowing judges to make such findings violated a defendant's constitutional right to a trial by jury.
"Given the apparent difficulties that judges faced (prior to the ruling) in applying the statute in a uniform, consistent manner, juries are understandably even less equipped to do so," defense attorney Kirk Nurmi wrote in the motion filed late last week.
Arias was convicted of first-degree murder May 8 in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. About two weeks later, the same jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether to sentence Arias to life in prison or death.
Nurmi argues the term "especially" when coupled with cruel, heinous or depraved in a murder case, was first used when judges had the authority to determine factors that could make a defendant eligible for the death penalty, before the 2002 Supreme Court ruling.
"By including the word 'especially', the statute was designed to be employed by a judge, one presumed to have the depth and breadth of experience to identify those first degree murders 'above the norm,'" he wrote.
Nurmi added that under current law, "layperson jurors" are left to "muddle through" the definition, with a defendant's life in the balance.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery called the motion a standard procedural move.
"Those are defense attorneys doing their job advocating for their client," Montgomery said Wednesday. "Obviously, we disagree."
Arias' attorneys have not returned repeated calls from The Associated Press.
The defense motion was filed as prosecutors are preparing to pursue the ultimate punishment again in a second penalty phase with a new jury. Arias' murder conviction will stand. Prosecutors also have the option of taking the death penalty off the table and avoiding another trial, meaning Arias would be sentenced to life in prison.
Taxpayers footed the bill for Arias' court-appointed attorneys throughout her nearly five-month trial at a cost so far of nearly $1.7 million, a price tag that will only balloon if the case moves forward.
Montgomery has declined to publicly release the cost his office incurred prosecuting the case, citing a court order that seals some, but not all, materials involved in the trial. The county, meanwhile, has provided regular updates on Arias' defense costs.
Regardless, Montgomery said the cost to taxpayers will play no role in whether prosecutors decide to resolve the case without another trial, or move forward with seating a new jury in an effort to secure a death sentence. That lengthy process would involve retreading testimony and evidence to bring the fresh panel up to speed.
The next hearing in the case is set for July 18.
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Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University (第二军医大学学报) 2010/30:3 PP.313-316
Disseminated malignancy is the main cause of cancer-related death. The spontaneous circulation of tumor cells is responsible for distant metastasis; therefore it is of potential importance to specifically and sensitively detect the circulating tumor cells, which not only allows for more accurate prediction of cancer prognosis, but also helps to tailor individualized anticancer treatment. This paper reviews the enrichment, detection and analyzing methods of circulating tumor cells.
ReleaseDate:2014-07-21 15:15:31
Funds:Supported by National High-tech R&D Program ("863"Program, 2007AA02Z461), National Science & Technology Major Projects (2008ZX10002-021), and National Natural Science Foundation of China(30672002,30772513).
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Some Volkswagen strategists see battery-electric, diesel cost lines crossing by 2023-2025; TRANSFORM 2025+
22 November 2016
The increasing stringency of global emissions standards, both current and projected, is driving up the cost for internal combustion engines to meet those standards, although numerous technology pathways exist. (Earlier post.)
In a conversation with Green Car Congress at AutoMobility LA last week, Dr. Matthias Erb, Executive Vice President of the NA Engineering and Planning Center, Volkswagen Group of America, said that, as a result of those pressures, some strategists in the Volkswagen Group project that the cost lines between battery-electric vehicles and diesel will cross within the coming decade.
What we see in terms of emissions standards is that they are getting tougher and tougher, and it is getting more and more expensive to meet those standards. As a result, we see a cost line crossing between battery-electric vehicles and diesels. Some of the strategists in our company see that by 2023, 2025, due to the emissions standards for diesel, [diesels] are going to become really expensive. We expect that when those two lines cross, this will be the time when huge pressure comes on diesel.—Dr. Matthias Erb
Reflecting that awareness, the executive management of the Volkswagen brand has just rolled out its TRANSFORM 2025+ strategic program which will set the course for the brand over the next decade and beyond.
In addition to focusing on clearer brand positioning across the various regions and segments, the strategy calls for the brand to make massive investments in e-mobility and connectivity.
The Chairman of the Volkswagen brand Board of Management, Dr. Herbert Diess, laid out a three-phase re-orientation for the brand.
In phase 1, up to 2020, the brand will be entirely restructuring its core business and completing a transformation along the entire value stream. At the same time, the company will develop new competences.
In Phase 2, up to 2025, Volkswagen intends to take the lead in e-mobility on the basis of its regained strength as a leading, profitable volume manufacturer. The strategy in this phase aims to create a broader earnings base, for example through new mobility services.
Volkswagen also intends to play a key role in shaping the major transformation in the industry expected after 2025. The objective is to achieve a leading role in the new world of mobility by 2030.
A key element of the new strategy is positioning at the top end of the volume segment, near to the premium competitors. To date, Volkswagen has only achieved its objective of becoming "top of volume" in China and Europe. In the future, Volkswagen aims to achieve this position throughout the world through a realignment of product strategy, beginning with an SUV offensive in the first stage (e.g., the new Atlas earlier post) and the electrification wave in the second stage (e.g., the new MEB-based vehicles such as the ID, earlier post).
E-mobility offensive. Volkswagen's e-mobility offensive—which is to result in selling one million electric cars per year by 2025—is to be financed by a number of measures including the discontinuation of certain low-volume, low-earnings conventional models and model variants. This will release funds in excess of €2.5 billion (US$2.65 billion) for e-mobility.
From 2020, we will be launching our major e-mobility offensive. As a volume manufacturer, we intend to play a key role in the breakthrough of the electric car. We are not aiming for niche products but for the heart of the automobile market.—Dr. Herbert Diess
For the North American region, this means that local production of MEB vehicles will begin in 2021. In North America, Volkswagen intends to evolve from a niche supplier into a relevant and profitable volume producer.
In China, Volkswagen intends to strengthen the "top of volume" position it has already reached. This will be achieved by an SUV offensive and by rapidly launching electric vehicles. In China, Volkswagen also aims to benefit from the potential in the strongly growing economy segment. Work has already started on the development of appropriate models. In other major markets such as India, South America and Russia, Volkswagen also intends to develop the economy segment.
Connectivity. The Volkswagen brand will develop its own digital platform. By adopting this approach, Volkswagen will be moving closer to its customers on the one hand and developing new earnings potential with a comprehensive range of services on the other hand. By 2025, Volkswagen expects to have about 80 million active users throughout the world. This would mean that the brand would have the leading digital ecosystem in the entire automotive industry. Volkswagen estimates that its sales revenue from services related to networked vehicles will reach about €1 billion per year by 2025 and expects a significant contribution to earnings from this business area.
48V and other technologies. As is the case for every high volume manufacturer, even meeting the aggressive electric vehicle sales targets of 1 million units per year by 2025 still leaves Volkswagen another 9 million or so non-electric vehicles that will need to be more efficient, but also cost effective.
Technologies such as the new Millerized engine in the updated Volkswagen Golf (earlier post) will certainly play a key role, Dr. Erb said. Another favorable option is the emergence of the 48V mild hybrid systems.
The 48V system is a valuable alternative especially for cars where it doesn't make sense to invest a lot of money into hybridization. The 48V discussion is always interesting. You are adding costs, but you are also adding driving performance.—Dr. Matthias Erb
(In a 2015 report on the prospects for 48V automotive systems, consultancy Frost & Sullivan forecast that the Volkswagen Group will lead in this area primarily because of Audi's 48V offering. The consultancy projects that by 2025, Volkswagen Group will have 48V volumes in excess of 1 million systems in North America and Europe combined, far exceeding its competition. Earlier post.)
November 22, 2016 in 48V, Batteries, Diesel, Electric (Battery), Vehicle Manufacturers | Permalink | Comments (23)
More public/investor gibberish from VW. VW bond ratings are already hurting. Can't let that capital dry up. By 2025, the truth about the cleanliness of various forms of stored energy (electrons, chemical, etc.) will no longer be "Obscured" and shall be readily available to the Commoner forth right. Current modern diesel emissions are as clean if not cleaner than current gassers. It will only get better.
In the future, we will Price energy based on its overall cleanliness. As such, the Commoner will use his dumb logic to choose the vehicular platform that best suits his Cost/Benefit needs. HEV will be the predominant platform (with onboard gas/diesel, NG, hydrogen, whatever). Half the HEVs will have plugin capabilities (most of the time the Commoner doesn't need it, just like their 20" rims). BEVs will have 20% of the market by 2040.
You did read that the executive of Planning Center said "some strategies cross over to BEV preference". So, it's just one of many possible strategies as the diesel emissions and stringent regulations may cross paths. This is just pie in the sky possibilities.
The rationale per regulations is the BEV operates pollution free. We know it doesn't. It's analogous to a extended grid power, be it a clothes dryer or auto. Sure, if the gird was pollution free and affordable a good deal even if horrible through put of energy to end user. However, rating an electric motorefficiency and comparing that to ICE is a false dichotomy. Even comparing the efficiency of power plant to the engine efficiency is false. It has to be well to wheels. The cost of distribution, investment, inconvenience, cost of infrastructure change, disposal costs, and the entire pollution stream. This all tabulated for the miles per gallon. Not some theoretical MPG based upon electric motor efficiency for pollution. The EPA has a very poor benchmark to measure their legal directive.
Considering the extremely low cost infrastructure change required for ethanol. The effortless transition and convenience with a very short distribution supply chain shouldn't that scenario prove to be a fierce competitor? You know if given a realistic objective regulation environment. This fuel alone has the flight path to become carbon negative. So, how could the grid compete even in its most optimistic configuration? Diesel? We should be optimizing high blend ethanol engines and the production process and sell that technology to the world.
The cost of driving one mile in a BEV depends on how much you drive it during its operating life. If you only drive it 150.000 miles it will be more expensive than a similar gasser/diesel. However, if you drive the BEV over 500.000 miles something that is easy for a self driving taxi BEV then BEVs are already less costly to drive per mile than gassers/diesels.
With a fully self-driving Model 3 you can drive it for as little as 20 cents per mile if you drive it 100,000 miles per year for 10 years. You can get below 35 cents per mile all costs included with a diesel or gasser.
The other thing that will make BEVs cheaper to drive per mile is the decrease in battery costs. However, this cost will take time to matter because batteries only improve their energy density by about 5% per year. In high volume production battery costs drop by the rate of improvement in energy density because high wh/kg batteries require less raw materials for their manufacturing and raw materials is like 70% of all cost when making batteries in high volume.
The BEV cost advantage will start when Tesla turns its Tesla Network online sometime in 2018 and offer taxi services to everybody at a much better price than human operated taxi services. And Tesla can keep lowering their prices all the way down to 20 cents per mile and still make money.
For VW to compete with Tesla they need to launch a VW Network with fully autonomous BEVs. They may be able to do that by 2020 if they really work hard on it. However I am pessimistic and think the old automakers may need until after 2022 before they are able to launch a Tesla Network competitor.
I used to think the BEV held the autonomous car market, but now more skeptical. The refueling cost advantage for BEV will evaporate as cost of power is projected to increase per road tax load, green power needed investment cost, required infrastructure and regulations compliance cost. The energy efficiency of the BEV is not that impressive when stacking up the well to wheels losses. Refueling time would advantage the liquid fuel and gas vehicles.
Solar is not projected to accomplish much and wind requires a heavy investment with a boat load of expensive infrastructure and higher polluting back up generation. Meanwhile biomass has been estimated to be more than enough to meet entire energy needs of planet going forward to 2050. So, my thinking is their is no silver bullet solution. It's wise to optimize or exploit the strengths of each energy source. Meaning not to over sell solar and wind as the end all meets all of humanity. At best it will be an ever increasing small percentage.
Biomass has the advantage to be moved from a GHG pollutant. Meaning nature's decomposition of biomass will pollute more than man's careful deconstruction of the fuel to gain power. Adding this advantage to increasing the percentage of wind, solar, and biomass renewable energy/power within the farming and processing of ethanol and given the huge improvements of efficiency gain possible within the processing of ethanol itself, well, the fuel should gain to the rating of carbon negative. This will happen at the same time the ICE/hybrid technology will maximize the fuels use. Same for gassified biomass power plant efficiency gains.
People falsely think that wind or solar is pollution free. It is not and the fuel is not free. First the cost of infrastructure is huge to make it possible. Manufacturing emissions are high. There is a replacement cost as well. Backup power often suffers high emissions. Also, emissions are not all bad. Meaning nature is the biggest emitter of emission upon earth. Nature is the behemoth and were a tiny mouse. We should think in terms of benign emissions or earth friendly. Man's influence upon nature can be positive. A force of good. We watch and read to many negative stories.
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I can't quite follow your philosophy of reasoning. Accepted, that we cannot prevent earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes, comets, meteors and asteroids with the subsequent devastation and pollution caused by such occurrences. But that by no means implies that we should take all possible measures to equal those natural events because they are by no means even close to the results of those natural catastrophes. No, it should be our utmost effort to avoid anything to add to those natural events that cannot be avoided. It is no consolation whatsoever to think that the black pest during medieval times, caused by carelessness and negligence of hygienic measures, was by no means as severe and fatal as the asteroid that wiped out 98% of all forms of life 65 million years ago.
I think your philosophy is first do no more harm as we can't control earth's natural science? Well, good enough, but we have a lot of tools to utilize and we need to maximize or exploit the lowest cost best value. It will take much engineering to wring out the most adapt energy application. It is such a large task to push forward with the best mix of technology. Auto technology is a study on this and very interesting to see how they progress. We are sold on a continuous diet of Green Energy virtues, but this is very shallow analysis that has yet to be proven within usefulness, nor proven it's environmental value. No one thinks the technology can go it alone and if attempting such a feat will have bad consequences. Mostly economic.
It is good to support new and promising technology, but let us not throw the baby out with the bath water. Like I said we have many tools available. Think of the next technological breakthrough. This will move the target and we may be rated foolish attempting to put all eggs in the wind or solar basket with outdated equipment? The Energy Department serves are needs well. They push the technology for every tool be it nuclear, wave, solar, biofuel, ICE, battery, turbine, coal and do so upon minimizing pollution. Think in those terms.
Trees. I like your reasoning. People forget too that Copper isn't cheap. The ingredients that go into high powered magnets and electronics isn't cheap. We cannot expect to cover the earth with Solar collectors and Wind turbines -- we should do as much as we can here though. I am optimistic about the Solar/Wind power future. I also think Nuclear has a Big future.
Frankly, we all need to drive less. We need to Mandate improvements in the common household Dryer. It is outdated Electric Resistive technology. We need 7+ Cubic Ft. HeatPump Dryers that are cost effective and really work. A lot of these engineers at the Auto Companies building useless Apps should be called into service to fix the Household dryer dilemma.
Utter nonsense. The cost lines have already crossed. EV drive trains are fully price competitive with diesel and gasoline drive trains at the high end of the light vehicle market. Continually falling battery prices both increase the addressable EV market while also increasing EV margins at the high end. ICE drive trains will increasingly be unable to compete in the high margin premium segments and will increasingly only be used in lower margin applications. Trucks and SUVs are not immune to this ongoing effect.
Copper is not the only conductor. And, it is plenty cheap enough and available in large enough quantities for massive electrification of the transportation system. Alternative like doped graphene seem likely displace copper as a conductor long before resource limits pose issues anyhow.
On the flip side, resource limits are extremely likely to keep petroleum prices well above electricity prices for transportation. The only reason resource limits would not cause that pricing effect is if BEVs rapidly displace petroleum from the transportation fuels market.
Political actors can only delay the ongoing move away from fossil fuels. Any country where fossil fuel interests are able to delay the switch will suffer permanent ongoing losses into the future from their lower economic participation in the displacing technologies. Propping up fossil fuels is economic treason.
That would be nice if so. I read no credible analysis that confirms what you speak of. You know the people with money on the line. Analysis have the BEV sales minuscule for the foreseeable future. Hybrids enjoy more popularity. Plugins very low sales volumes. Mild hybrid have tremendous sales growth, but even at that only something like 30% of the market. The plain ICE vehicle maintains status quo as far as to be determined.
You do realize the battery car must suffer small car status to be efficient. That in itself minimizes the market share. The best bet is if cities regulate the vehicle to popularity. I don't think that will happen as the conventional car has exceptional low emissions. So, not a big benefit to regulate and anger the voting public.
Also, battery technology will make marginal improvements, not the magical 2x or 10x improvement in cost, weight reduction, and power density required. I do like electric drives, but the best bet to power them would be fuel cell or small ICE power plants.
Stan. The lines have crossed only for miniscule segments of the population. It is not practical to the Commoner.
I side with Trees as I believe that the HEV in it's various configurations is the Future. Extended battery-only capabilities is a nice feature, but you will see over time that the efficiency gains of the generic HEV with onboard ICE technology will be so effective that the extra components required for the PHEV will not be necessary from a cost/benefit POV to the Commoner.
"You know the people with money on the line. Analysis have the BEV sales minuscule for the foreseeable future."
Yeah, there is plenty of FUD being spread. Lot's of money for BS analysis and other types of misinformation. All success achieved at slowing the transition only does so at the expense of future profits in the winning technologies. Economic treason.
"The lines have crossed only for miniscule segments of the population. It is not practical to the Commoner."
Nearing 50 percent of the total market and the cost declines enabling it just make the margins fatter and fatter on that "minuscule" premium portion with most of the industry's profits. It is a done deal:
Funny how they tried to dismiss it just a few years ago:
Some are referring to hard market analysis data and others to editorials, internal promotions, or future projections. The former is hard data that companies spend money on production models the latter is market speculation that, of course, is serious stuff, but like the prototype model may not make it to production. It's a moving target. We are on a slippery slope of change that could go many ways or slow down to basic bread and butter products. For example the classic Uber app really takes most of the AV benefit away. Purchase price may reign most important factor or maybe safety? Pollution concerns should dwindle as technology is handling that well at all fronts. We may see the car market become more or less a staple. Meaning no distinction and only a service. Competition would then race to lowest cost service. This would reinvent manufacturing to the few lowest cost producers in the world. The service winner would depend on availability, cost, cleanliness, and utility worthiness of vehicle. People would care less if it's powered by battery, ICE, fuel cell, or any combination. They prefer it to be quiet and environmentally temperature controlled and filtered air. Maybe a water tap and waste dispenser. WiFi enabled with work desk or entertainment system.
An internal combustion engine is a simple device to transfer internal energy U of the gases contained inside the cylinder to the piston. However, not all the work so transferred is available at the drive shaft for actual use. For achieving clean burn fuel efficient internal combustion engine, a new operating cycle is created as shown in Figure 1 below plotted in a U-V diagram instead of a p-V diagram. With the U-V diagram as a road map, the goal of clean burn fuel efficient internal combustion engine can be easily achieved. A state is denoted by two state variables U and V instead of by a constant. At state (U1, V1), the beginning of an adiabatic compression stroke, V1 = 15.6 ft3, T1 = 311o K (assumed for this discussion). The internal energy U1 at state (U1, V1) is equal to cvT1 = 95.73 Btu. The new engine operating cycle transforms fuel chemical energy Q into mechanical work done W first by a piston-cylinder assembly to transform heat addition Q into indicated mechanical energy of the reciprocating piston. The expansion stroke of the new engine cycle begins from state (U3, V3) and ends at state (U4, V4) transforming (U3 – U4) into equal amount of indicated power output. Based on internal energy balance, the indicated power output is equal to (U3 – U4)/U3 or (T3 -T4)/T3.
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The Difference Between U-V Diagram of Figure 1 And the p-V Diagram
The U-V diagram is an accurate model of a reciprocating internal combustion engine cycle. It shows how the work done W and heat addition Q change the internal energy of the working fluid. The compression process from state (U1, V1) to state (U2, V2), increases U1 to U2 with U2 = U1(V1/V2)k-1. With the air as working fluid, k is equal to 1.4. A combustion process from state (U2, V2) to state (U3, V3) increases U2 to U3 with U3 = U2 + (W + Q) where W and Q are compression work done and heat addition taken place simultaneously before the moving piston reached the end of compression stroke such that all products of combustion are compressed into V3 before the expansion stroke begins. The combustion process converts the hydrocarbons into HO2 and CO2 quickly at the speed of molecules. An adiabatic expansion stroke from state (U3, V3) to state (U4, V4) reduce U3 to U4 with (U3 – U4) transformed to an equal amount of mechanical work engine output.
In Figure 1, V2 and V3 are equal to V1/16 and V1/18 respectively for this discussion. At state (U2, V2), U2 = U1(V1/V2)0.4 = 290.2 Btu. The upper limit of U3 Is 650.0 Btu such that the combustion temperature 2112o K (650/0.3078) is below the critical temperature of NOx formation. The Q addition is equal to 359.8 (650-290.2) Btu. For all internal combustion engines, the brake power conversion efficiency is equal to the indicated power efficiency minus the friction loss of the cylinder-crankshaft assembly. The indicated power efficiency is equal to 68.5. The friction loss of the cylinder-crankshaft assembly is about 20 percent of indicated power to have a net brake power efficiency of 61.7 percent. A small internal energy is transformed into compression work to compress the products of combustion into V3. In the case of gasoline and diesel cycles, combustion process take place at the beginning of expansion stroke where W and Q have different signs and the fuel has no time to burn completely and there are unburned hydrocarbons in the working fluid within the cylinder. There is no technology available to eliminate such efficient internal combustion engine, these unburned hydrocarbons are prevented to form by having a combustion process taken place before the moving piston reaching the end of compression stroke. For automotive application, the rotating shaft of the new engine is connected to a drive shaft of the vehicle to provide whatever brake power to operate the vehicle. An electricity generator can be connected to the engine shaft to provide electricity to every household, or every community at unbelievably low price.
The equation of state U2/U1 = (V1,V2)k-1 has been derived from the law of conservation of energy. This equation of state is then used to compute the change of U due to change of V and vice versa. For achieving high fuel efficiency without engine out emissions, a combustion process begins at state (U2, V2) and ends at state (U3, V3). This clean burn fuel efficient internal combustion engine can be used to drive an electricity generator. Furthermore, this new engine can greatly reduce construction and operation costs. It can also generate electricity locally to avoid power loss though electrical grid. Existing reciprocating engines can be retrofitted to operate as the clean burn fuel efficient internal combustion engine. The urgent problem of air pollution and fuel shortage can be solved within a short time.
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Trees> You do realize the battery car must suffer small car status to be efficient.
This is not only false, it is nonsense, as is your assertion that nature is the largest emitter.
With the exception of unusual events like major volcanic eruptions, CO2 levels have been relatively stable for millennia. Until the industrial revolution and burning of coal and other fossil fuels began to tip the balance.
Electricity generation, fossil fuel transportation and livestock are disturbing the equilibrium.
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Robert McDonnell made history this past week - but not the good kind - when he became the first Virginia governor to be convicted of a crime.
And not just one crime. A federal jury found McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of public corruption related to his relationship with a businessman named Jonnie Williams. Williams lavished the governor and his family with almost $180,000 in gifts, from watches to shopping sprees to straight cash.
The five-week trial that preceded McDonnell's conviction - his wife, Maureen, was convicted on eight corruption counts - depicted a personal and professional life that had spiraled badly out of control.
The McDonnell marriage was supposedly in bad shape. Maureen McDonnell, according to her own lawyers, had a "crush" on Williams. Awkward. Bob McDonnell, during his time on the stand, cast his wife as insufficiently supportive of his political career and riddled with insecurities.
If their marriage wasn't over before the trial, it sure as heck is now. A parade of witnesses said the McDonnells were willfully unaware of the trouble they were getting themselves into.
What was even more stunning was the fact that McDonnell could have avoided humiliation, not to mention the near-certain prison time he and his wife now face. He was offered, and he rejected, a plea deal proposed by federal prosecutors that would have had him plead guilty to a single count and allowed his wife to escape any charges. So McDonnell proved he wasn't just corrupt but also inept.
Bob McDonnell, for thinking that you could talk your way out of an ethical cul-de-sac, you had the worst week in Washington. Congrats, or something.
Cillizza covers the White House for The Washington Post and writes The Fix, its politics blog.


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|Reviews for The Masquerade
| SakuraMoon1989 chapter 15 . 5/6/2008
hey, what happened here? why did you stop the story. it's really good. i'm dying to know what happens next...*tears* pwease...i ain't to proud to beg! lol, sorry, i guess i get a little too emotional...
| Spazztasticle chapter 15 . 1/10/2008
:o so kikyo is working for she whore and sesshoumaru at the same time xX
| Dragon Dagger chapter 15 . 5/28/2007
ROFLMAO! About damned time someone got one over on Sesshoumaru. And wow does that demon have a set of lungs! *snickers*
In any rate. I like the intrigue you have set up. And dangers on both sides of the well make for even more interesting adventures. Hopefully ones that Sesshoumaru, and the Inutachi can protect her from on both sides of the well.
Grammar and english form is good, the transitions between scenes and characters could be a little smoother, but that will come with time and practice.
All in all, a very good fic. Keep writing on it!
| sessluver chapter 3 . 11/22/2005
it's very nice although a little confusing
| Hime-Kagome Higurashi chapter 15 . 11/20/2005
This story is starting to get update soon._
| otfreakingp chapter 15 . 10/20/2005
Uh oh! Sesshomaru sounds ma-ad! :) Hehe, I can't wait to see what happens! :) Naraku is the one who possessed Shihara isn't it? Seeing as how she/he is the one who "owns" Kagura. :)
I'm REALLY sorry about your father, I don't know what I'd do if I lost mine! :( I am glad your muse has come back though, I wouldn't have been able to update at all if something that tragic had happened to me! What a trooper! :) GO YOU!
Can't. Wait. Until. Next. Chapter. Must. Read. More. *Stares blankly at screne until Lady Sethia updates*
C Ya l8ter!
| otfreakingp chapter 5 . 10/19/2005
Yes, you can put lemons on this site, I have found quite a few lemons that get VERY descriptive in different scenes (Especially ones that take place in the bed *Hint hint* ) :) lol.
So, if you could, do poast the lemon chapter on this site too. Thanx! (Oh, btw, if the lemon is something like a sex scene it has to be rated M which this story is, so you can put a lemon here! :) )
| Flame Ivy Moon chapter 15 . 8/19/2005
I love it please up date asap!
| Lady Akina chapter 15 . 8/14/2005
Uh oh. I guess he found out. When is Kagome going to find out that its Sesshomaru and Shippo. I say kill her cat. Its been possessed! Please UPDATE!
-Baby K
| makai16 chapter 15 . 7/26/2005
omg its been 2 years yes YEARS since u updated! PLEASE I BEG OF YOU I LOVE THIS STORY! update soon
| bluewolf16 chapter 15 . 7/4/2005
I read your story and was desperatly engrossed in it.I would reall liks to know if you were going to continue writting would be great if you did.
| Kai19 chapter 15 . 7/1/2005
Hi there! This is a story I've returned to after about a year or so. I still love this story, hence the reason why i remembered it after so long. I honestly hope you update again soon, though I'm learning a lot of people are getting tired of writing fanfics now a days. Honestly, I've got 2 i have to finish, and i'm seriously not looking forward to it. I just can't get interested anymore. Oh well. I hope you write more soon, though I'll understand if you don't. Bye for now!
| onebadarrowshootingirl chapter 1 . 6/12/2005
I love your story.
| Blue Diamond chapter 15 . 6/7/2005
1. updates help
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get my point?
also I'm going to be adding a story soon and when it does come up, I would like you to review it please and thank you
P.S. sorry for being rude
P.S.S. loved The Masquerade
| Fallen Tears chapter 3 . 5/29/2005
my god i love that song(i'm w/ you). i memerised it. really. i looked up the lyics and printed them out and memerised them!
Are you going to use "The Reason"? that's a good song to!


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