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February 14th, 2010 (6:15 AM).
One day, the Brass Tower burned down.
b e a s t s . l i k e . u s
This was quite a pity for Tabitha Winston, Eusine Barone, and Spike Lobbof. For, though they had escaped the flaming monstrosity with their lives, they were not sure the same could be said for their Pokémon. Indeed, after they had all returned to their homes in various parts of Kanto and Johto, all three children spent days mourning the disappearance of their dearest friends. Tabitha, back in Terracotta Town, would stare longingly at the Pokéball that used to be home to her Flareon every night without fail; Eusine would spill out all of the adventures he and his Vaporeon shared in the streets of Celadon to his grandfather; Spike would spend at least one afternoon in Goldenrod crying on the shoulder of his older brother Sheath, who had loved Jolteon just as much as his twin did. They had all deluded themselves into thinking their dear friends were dead.
The truth of the matter, though, was that the three Pokémon had only been dead for about five minutes.
Suicune was (re)born falling.
He was (re)born falling from what must be a suicidal height, with every second posing another deadly opportunity for the burning Brass Tower to take a punch at his already-singed skin. By the time his body hot the ground – and it was a true miracle his body still existed to hit it – he immediately got up and ignored the pain coursing through him as surely as the blood did. Right after that he began to stagger away at a speed that could hardly be considered running, but was truly all he could muster at the time.
He made the foolish mistake of looking up; when he did, the only thing to reward him for his trouble was the image of a giant winged creature soaring off into the night sky, wailing with the sort of intensity only found in mourning.
And there he heard a voice, spoken softly – like a mother to her child – but understood clear as day.
"I have given you new life, for your old ones ended prematurely! Take this rebirth… and live with it!"
Suicune, who was then not in the body of Suicune at all but of a lowly Vaporeon, opened his mouth to respond to the call, but the smoke soon filled his mouth and it snapped shut again. 'Suicune' returned to ducking his head to try and breathe.
He made the foolish mistake of looking around. Two other Pokémon, one with a spiky silhouette and one with a remarkably fuzzy one, ran to his left and right, both in bad condition – but not as bad as his own. 'Have you no pity?' thought the then-Vaporeon, releasing his attention from getting out of there to channeling some well-deserved anger towards someone else. 'You both seem to be in relatively living condition, and yet you forsake the life of one near death in order to rescue yourselves?'
However, the concept of fire catching at his heels spurred the four-legged Pokémon, with an abundance of fins decorating his head, to ignore his numerous injuries, misfortunes, and disgusting fellow survivors in order to run harder, faster, and farther. This, too, was a foolish mistake.
After long periods of exhausting running in horrible conditions, the muscles of all creatures tend to grow tired; fire does not. It was due to this principle that, somewhere in the forest, the Vaporeon's body gave up on his immense willpower and directed the creature to stumble to the ground on the bank of an enclosed body of water, simply forsaking its captive soul to die from the fire now closing in like a pack of wronged Houndooms.
However, the fire never quite got to its intended target – fire doesn't do too well in those few (but definitely present) instances in which its intended target falls into a lake.
The charred carcass of a Vaporeon fell, as all objects heavier than water do, to the bottom of the lake.
A couple of startled and curious Water Pokémon poked at the Pokémon over the few hours it sat there, wondering how one of their own kind could possibly 'drown' in a body of water… much less drown in a flurry of blood surrounding his carcass like a haze. They soon figured that the Pokémon had fainted – gone into a state of suspended animation, where body functions still ran but there was no input or output from the brain – in a particularly violent manner, and simply swam away, not wanting to be the next victim of whatever horrendously powerful Fire-type had done it to him.
They trusted that he would be alright, that the Soulkeepers would collect his life and keep it safe until something spurred it back into the proper body.
He had not fainted. He was too far gone for that.
Eventually, though, the mysterious Vaporeon at the bottom of the lake caught the notice of a certain oceanic god. Said oceanic god was, fortunately, one of the more benevolent ones – it was one of the sacred Phione clan, the collective spawn of Manaphy.
This Phione had been drifting along in the lake lazily, minding all its own business, when it had run across the unsettling visage of a Vaporeon with his eyes closed and a multitude of burn wounds lying on the seafloor. Immediately giving out a cry of alarm, fearing for his fellow Water-type's wellbeing, the small antennae-clad Pokémon zipped over to him.
After a worried look-over of the Pokémon's current state, the Phione looked around; he was alone.
The small Pokémon craned his neck towards the top of the lake and made a strange cooing noise, stopping only after it had been making noise for a full minute. As the Pokémon remained staring at the same spot of water above him, there echoed a deeper voice that seemed to echo from the very water around him. It spoke in a Pokémian dialect composed mostly of gurgling noises.
Phione gulped. The Phione looked down at his many-finned acquaintance, still lying unconscious and charred.
He paused as, presumably, Kyogre finally realized what Phione was dealing with. There was silence.
<…Oh,> said Kyogre after more hesitation.
begged Phione.
responded the Sea Basin Pokémon,
'Suicune' was quite sure he was dreaming.
Here stood he in his perfectly unharmed Vaporeon body, in a mysterious cave bathed in blue light. Floating in front of him was an immense blue-and-white creature with a network of red lines squirming around its body and fins that looked like they could smash a skyscraper with ease.
said Kyogre blankly.
'Suicune' was too busy bowing his head in respect to reply. That is, he was bowing until Kyogre insisted that he really didn't have to do that right now, because he had been called on request of a friend and had something much more pressing to do right now.
His relatively small counterpart straightened up immediately.
said Kyogre. asked 'Suicune' intelligently.
replied the giant Legendary.
'Suicune' barely stopped himself from bowing again. continued the Legendary,
Everything cut to black.
The first thing Suicune noticed when he opened his eyes was that he was still underwater.
The second thing Suicune noticed when he opened his eyes was that he was no longer in possession of a set of gills.
The Pokémon gave a gasp of air and practically sprang to the surface of the lake, flailing all the while and breaking the surface of the water like an air-breathing Magikarp. When he had finally filled his lungs with a sufficient amount of air, the Pokémon paddled to the edge of the lake and, once his paws touched ground, walked out. It was not an easy ordeal; though his new physical appearance was the same in principle, there were still multiple differences that he would need to get used to.
A little [i]splash[i] signified that he was not alone.
Suicune whipped around (trying not to trip himself in the process) to face a tiny blue head bobbing in the water.
said Phione.
replied Suicune shakily.
said Phione. asked Suicune, taking a few wobbly steps closer. said Phione. The head slipped underwater again.
Suicune jumped in to follow, but found much to his surprise that his paws were sitting upon the softly rippling surface as if it was a solid object. For a second Suicune admired this ability; he then lost his concentration and fall in with an obnoxiously loud splashing noise.
'Well,' noted Suicune thoughtfully, 'that's something, I suppose.' He looked around in pursuit of the mysterious little bobbing head, but found nothing and pushed back up for air. As he did so, though, his face was met with a powerful gust of wind.
Suicune reeled back to duck his head, but as soon as he moved to defend himself the wind died.
Suicune furrowed his eyebrows in concentration and closed his eyes in wait. Indeed, a second later, the same powerful gale met his face again. But this time, instead of hiding his face from the wind, the dog-like Pokémon simply walked forward onto dry land and let the gales dry his fur.
Thus accomplished, a little part at the back of Suicune's mind figured he didn't really need the wind anymore.
The wind died.
Thoughtful and thoroughly interested in this, Suicune turned around to face the lake and get a good look at himself. Well, Lord Kyogre had said that he was going to look a bit different, so had his size just increased or—
'Oh no,' realized Suicune at once upon gazing at his reflection, lit by the rising sun. 'No, nothing like that.'
For one thing, Suicune had gotten bigger. His underbelly had turned white with the rest of the fur – fur? It felt strange to have actual fuzzy fur that didn't simply cling to his body – being light blue. His head-fins had been dropped in favor of a rather strange-looking headpiece set that involved an elaborate crystal-shaped formation sticking up from his forehead, a hole set in the middle so that it looked almost like a loop. From the back of his head waved a long purple mane, and even as he stood there two white ribbons squirmed up and twirled around his forelegs. Suicune realized with a jolt that these must be his tails.
His attention drifted to the scene behind him, of the charred trees from the remains of the fire. It somehow looked less menacing now that a few hours had passed…
figured Suicune out loud.
And then a totally bizarre thought struck him: What of the tower? Was it still standing from the horrendous nightmare that was last night?
Intending to find out, Suicune followed the path of destruction back through the forest – but not before turning around to face the lake again. He took a tentative step onto the water's surface, and then another. Soon he had made his way to the middle of the lake with not so much as a ribbon-tip getting wet. Figuring he could congratulate himself on this feat when he was in solid ground, Suicune craned his head upwards to the sky.
Years passed.
Suicune's age ticked ever higher as time did as it would, but even so the Pokémon soon realized that he seemed to gain no nourishment from food or drinking water, and in the spring of his thirtieth year as the Keeper of the Northern Wind he found out why.
Now, Suicune had never been one for purifying water. It was a handy ability when the only source of water was a rather dirty puddle, yes, but how could clean water help him when he gained none of the nourishment required for life? That in mind, he tended to only purify such bodies of water when they were exceptionally dirty and not too far out of his way.
This spring day, though, Suicune didn't have much choice.
He had been feeling some of the frequent bouts of malnourishment – aches and pains, a dizzy gait, shaking limbs. Indeed, he was far from the majestic creature he was designed to be, but that was hardly on the Pokémon's mind as he staggered closer to the rather unfortunately-polluted lake – the only source of water around.
'If I can't drink it,' thought Suicune as he laid down on his side, 'I may as well let the other Pokémon here reap its benefits.'
Staring into the water, he somehow found a new scent. It certainly smelled like how he imagined the water to smell like – dirty, populated with humans (and smelly ones at that), dust and harsh chemical smells abound – and Suicune almost believed he was smelling the water itself, until he remembered:
Water has no scent.
The Pokémon shuddered. It must have been a hallucination…
He stuck one paw into the water and closed his eyes, focusing all of his energy into that one appendage. Channeled through it, Suicune attempted to release more of his power from his forepaw to the surrounding water, cleaning it of all impurities as he did so. The impurities, though, had to go somewhere – and that somewhere just so happened to be Suicune's body. The Pokémon simply ignored the rancid presence he felt in his body, just as he had ignored it before…
…but wait.
Suicune's eyes shot open.
The fatigue… the dizziness… the aching…
It had all disappeared when the contaminated energy entered his body.
Rather concerned about this, Suicune returned his concentration to the forepaw in the water. In realizing just what dirty water energy did to his body, he had shattered the channel between him and the water, stopping the purification process halfway. As he returned the energy swap to its operational state, Suicune definitely did feel a change in his well-being. All of the things, all of the components and nutrients of a healthy life, that he couldn't find in perfectly clean food and water had all of a sudden been located in the slimy, mucky mess before him.
An hour later, Suicune left that lake feeling immensely pleased with himself.
However, his mood soon darkened again as he heard the angry chattering of what could only be forest-dwelling Pokémon, disrupted from their normal serene lives by some injustice. Suicune crept silently around the forest he had treaded in so many times before, now cautious of whatever monstrous intruder had interrupted the usually-peaceful residents. As he set his paw down on the way up a rocky cliff, though, he found the source of the fury and discovered that he had been dearly mistaken.
Five human beings – one he recognized as a dweller of the Towers' City* clad in blue, and another as a frequent visitor to the Towers' City dressed in purple – were being ganged up upon by a colorful variety of irritated wildlife. Suicune's eyes darted to the left, and he soon saw the reason: three Crystal Bells were propped against a tree, ripped from their posts back atop the Standing Tower**, and the shards of a fourth made it quite evident what happened.
'However…' Suicune crept closer, and urged a small breath of wind to direct their scents in his direction. Just as he had thought – they reeked of the city, not of the tower or the forest. And besides, the two who often visited the Fire Tower** he knew were both not harmful or malicious towards it, and the others… well, they were merely children. He sent another gust of wind in his direction, this time from a slightly different origin point, and picked up yet another scent…
…it was the scent of the Fire Tower. The scent of the Crystal Bells. But who bore that scent?
Suicune took a few steps to the left and saw more people and Pokémon, previously hidden by the trees they were dangling from; two adult humans, a Meowth, and Wobbuffet, all hanging from cocoons of Ariados string. (He did not fully understand them, and wouldn't for some time.)
It became a little bit clearer… had the forest-dwelling Pokémon misunderstood the situation? Were they punishing mere travelers or intervening heroes for the crimes of others, who had been pushed aside and wrapped up like innocent bystanders?
No. This was not going to be tolerated.
he demanded in a much louder tone than was absolutely necessary.
The Tangela now threatening the innocent humans looked around in confusion, as did all the other Pokémon. None of them seemed to have noticed him in their rage… all the better for his desired course of events. Suicune used a Mist attack, willing it out in waves by way of small gusts of wind and ripping apart the multitude of Ariados webs that had collected on the ground, in the trees, and sprawled over the entire city. He would get to the rest later; for now, there was justice to be served.
He watched with amusement as the guilty party toppled to the ground.
Suicune trooped onto the cliff, where he had thought he would have been hidden from the multitude of tree cover. However, judging by the looks of awe the humans were now giving off from staring in his direction, Suicune could only assume that he had been incorrect in his assumption, too.
Suicune called again, not directed towards these particular Pokémon but the others he had noticed trooping around the Towers' City. He prayed his voice would carry that far, so that he wouldn't need to be around such settlements much longer. He had been pursued by a multitude of humans in his life, and he didn't particularly enjoy the experience.
The Pokémon scattered. Suicune heard the irritating sucking noise of a Pokémon container, and the dog-like Pokémon turned its head to find out what had gone down. He soon understood, and he wasn't pleased about it. There was now a giant purple snake with an imposing face on its stomach sitting where empty air had been before, releasing a pint of poisonous venom directly at him.
Suicune simply bounded through the attack and retaliated with an Aurora Beam, hoping the blast of rainbow-colored ice energy would halt the Arbok and do no more. What really happened, though, was that all four guilty creatures screamed in unison and were sent soaring off into the distance, accompanied by a mess of smoke.
'Was there an Electrode somewhere in there?' wondered Suicune confusedly. 'Well, no matter… I should be taking my leave.'
He started walking calmly to the edge of the cliff, peering down into the clearing below and judging a leap, when one of the children came dashing out from the bushes in some ridiculous attempt to talk to him. Suicune looked downwards to face the boy; he wore a black 'shirt' under what Suicune believed was called a 'coat', of the blue variety, and there was a fuzzy yellow Pikachu perched on his shoulder.
"Suicune…" the boy mumbled, in English.
noted the Pikachu in Pokémian (Pichu Dialect).
Suicune did not respond. They were at a standstill until a third member joined the little discussion – the one decked in purple, the foreigner who always visited the Towers' City (and especially the two Towers). Suicune paid no heed to him until he said, in a voice far too imposing for his (admittedly squeaky) speech:
"The time has finally come."
Oh. Now Suicune got it. He turned his head to face the man, with a disapproving frown upon his face. Had he been wrong once again? Had he misjudged the purple-clad human as one of the innocent travelers who so often come near the Towers, when he was truly just another person just trying to capture him with one of those mysterious devices?
'Well,' thought Suicune bitterly, 'that, too, will not be tolerated.'
"The legendary Suicune of the North Wind… at last, you've shown yourself to me! And from now on, you will be mine!" boomed the new arrival.
'Oh, yes,' thought Suicune as he glowered at the man, almost daring him to do something else. He definitely sought to capture him with one of those mysterious devices.
The others from before burst into the clearing and gave a general cacophony of protest, including the Towers' City dweller. Suicune picked up what could probably have been a name in the dweller's protest… was this seeker of the Northern Wind maybe called 'Eusine'?
An Alakazam appeared from another one of Eusine's mysterious devices, which he beckoned out with an overly-dramatic "Alakazam, GO!". He didn't waste any more time, though; Eusine immediately demanded that his tall, tan-armored Pokémon try a Disable attack. A burst of vaguely-glowing red energy emanated from the Psychic-type's mystical eating utensils and directly towards Suicune.
'Oh, no,' thought Suicune with a snarl. 'Not this time, sir.'
And he flicked his head to put up a Protect, negating the attack.
"Didn't work…" muttered Eusine in a recoiled position, which was a sure-fire sign that he intended on finding something that did. And, yes, there were his next words: "Alakazam, use Confusion!" Alakazam's slanted eyes began to glow red in preparation for a severe mental beatdown. Suicune, not about to take any of this, promptly retaliated with a Roar.
He watched as Alakazam staggered backwards and was forced into his containment device.
"What happened?" exclaimed Eusine, staring at his Alakazam's containment device in honest confusion.
'What a fool,' thought Suicune, who watched in disapproving observation as the others scrambled over to help Eusine find his bearings lost by failing to capture Suicune. 'Though, somehow, his stupidity seems almost comforting…' Suicune reeled his own head back at this thought. 'No. There's no reason for that… ridiculous.'
Suicune walked away without a word.
he said aloud.
As he walked, though, the Pokémon suddenly felt colder, like he was hiding in the shadow of a building, looking in. And though there were none around, the scent of flowers and Vileplumes filled his nostrils.
Suicune, miraculously, did not see Eusine again for a year.
However, the year did pass, and they were apparently destined to cross each other's paths once again. This time, though, it had not been by happenstance or luck as it had been before, but first by intention and second, almost immediately afterward, by necessity.
That morning, Suicune had woken up as he did every morning – sitting in some sort of secluded cave area, surrounded by nothing but darkness and the occasional wandering Pokémon. Today, and for the last few days, the cave he had chosen was a large system of caves which seemed t have branched out into a large human settlement, but deep within harbored the clan of Unown. All of the walls were coated in Unown, posing as mere symbols on the wall. (For this reason, Suicune decided to call it the Cave of Deception.)
For the last few days, he had been making his home near the Cave of Deception; the human settlement was always chugging away with their polluting machines and dumping the waste into a nearby lake, so Suicune found his source of power. (It was also worth it to watch the humans' faces as they came to the lake every day, expecting a dark mess, and finding crystal-clear water instead.) For lately the Northern Wind Pokémon had felt the desire to find a place to dwell, permanently, instead of wandering constantly.
As soon as the humans left, he knew, he too would have to leave. Of course, who knew how long it would take for them to leave?
Despite this, Suicune had found himself rather bored with wandering around inside the Cave of Deception and making small talk with the countless Unown passing through (to where, he never found out). He decided to take more forays out into the open than his usual daily cleansing ritual in the dead of night, and so he slipped out one of the less populated exits and sat himself down on the edge of a patch of wild grass.
He watched the small, green, birdlike Natu flit around in the treetops; he watched the agile and Berry-juice-covered Smeargle have their fun on the cave walls. Suicune smiled – this was pleasurable, to sit down in warm sunlight and watch others mind their own business.
Suicune found a nice, sunny rock that overlooked the festivities and laid himself down to watch. Eventually, the Pokémon's eyes got heavy and he dozed off to sleep.
After what had seemed like just a few minutes, Suicune arose to the sound of footsteps crunching gracelessly on rocky ground and the cacophony of cursing that accompanied it.
The Pokémon looked around bemusedly, figuring one of the researchers had simply lost their bearings and came stumbling into his little part of the universe. Despite himself and his better judgment, Suicune gave a little grin and figured he'd might as well let that sad little researcher find something of interest today. This in mind, Suicune got off his rock and stretched for a few seconds.
His exercises were interrupted by a triumphant and very feminine "Ha!".
Suicune swiveled around to face the direction he had just had his rear to; standing there with his arms crossed and a smug grin on his face was a human dressed in gray and red. His hair was a flyaway mess that Suicune knew the Unown – being Gravity Gods and all – would certainly disapprove of, letting giant locks fly off in all directions. Though his chest was flat, which suggested to Suicune that he was indeed male, the heavy eyelashes, long hair, and feminine voice suggested otherwise.
Suicune dropped into a fighting stance and growled.
"I've found you," said the… thing. "It doesn't matter if your accomplice had run off from our last meeting, but I've finally found you." The human pulled out what looked like a camouflage-patterned bazooka cannon. "And what would happen if your Thunder Wonder found out that its sibling was in danger!" It posed this as an exclamation, not a question. This was extremely unnerving when taken into account that the venom-tongued adversary sounded an awful lot like a teenage girl.
Suicune now had enough evidence to come to a conclusion: this thing didn't need a gender, so long as it and Suicune were very, very far away from each other.
For this reason, Suicune turned and ran.
At the same time, the gray-haired human fired the bazooka, which sent a net hurtling towards him. Suicune took a high leap, letting the interwoven mess of rope simply fly to the ground underneath him and snag a group of rather unfortunate Smeargles. The human cursed again and aimed another shot, before thinking better of it and making the weapon disappear as if it was returning the sword to its sheath, slung across the creature's shoulder.
"Hammerspace," it laughed in its disgustingly effeminate voice, whipping out a much smaller object with an injection needle sticking out menacingly. "How did we Rockets ever live without it?"
The thing followed Suicune into the forest, boots pounding against dirt and cracking everything that got under them – twigs, exoskeletons, or otherwise. "Now listen up!" called the thing (rather stupidly, added Suicune in his mind). "I've got five shots here, mutt, and you'd better get hit with one before I take out the truly painful things!" Yet again, this threat was posed with a deceptively high-pitched and squeaky voice, something Suicune would later recall and smile at goofily.
Right now, however, there was no time for smiling or any other facial action. Suicune was too consumed by the desire to remain free and, ultimately, alive.
All of a sudden, there was a flash and an image in Suicune's eyes. It was of a boy and a four-legged Pokémon, hiding in a crate in some sort of dark place. Suicune held the picture in his eyes until the continued yelling of the weapon-wielder reached him.
"And believe me," continued the thing, "Team Rocket excels spectacularly in truly painful things!"
'Ah,' thought Suicune briefly. 'Team Rocket.' He had dealt with them before… but they had been pathetic humans who actually did some respectable act of villainy but were a few minutes later suspended from a tree. This creature-of-indeterminate-gender seemed like an honest threat.
Honest threats, no matter how confusing they seemed, were often best when served a defeat.
This principle prompted Suicune to skid around on his heels, ignoring the rips and tears that his paws were currently sustaining, and gave a loud, barking Roar. The thing staggered back for a second, but soon regained its composure and was otherwise unfazed. It began running again.
Suicune scowled as he swiveled back around to run once more; he had taken a chance and lost. The only thing to do now was to make up for lost time, and Suicune did just that. For each enormous leap and bound he took, for each immense gale of wind he sent flying back as his pursuer, it didn't stop chasing.
Suicune took another glance back.
The thing was now mounted upon a giant brown bird with feathery spikes sticking up from its head – a Fearow. And it was pointing its tranquilizer gun right at Suicune.
He yelped and ran faster. The swear word that sailed out from behind him suggested that the needle-wielding Rocket had missed. The victory was small, and they both continued to run. Each time Fearow got a lead and swung near Suicune, he tried to put on another burst of speed in order to race ahead.
The Rocket wasted three more darts and lost his mount (who had fainted from exhaustion) within the next thirty minutes. They were both stuck with running again, and panting heavily. Suicune's chaser, who had been riding on a flying Pokémon for a considerable part of their run through the seemingly never-ending forest, was now gaining the upper hand and closing in on Suicune. Indeed, the Northern Wind had used up almost all of its energy and felt like he was about to suffer the same fate as the Fearow… or worse.
"One shot left!" remarked his pursuer in some sort of cross between a yell and a gasp for air. "Do stop now!"
Just as he was letting his body do the moving and letting his brain ponder these recent devopments, there was another yell from somewhere beyond Suicune's line of sight.
"Hello again!" the voice proclaimed in an accent Suicune had perhaps heard spoken in Almia.
Suicune ran right past Eusine, seeing only a flash of purple to suggest he was there at all. There was a gasp of surprise – no, make that two – and the frantic footfalls that had sounded as the gray-haired thing ran suddenly stopped.
Suicune turned around, chest heaving. His eyes were met with his chaser, breathing just as frantically, standing behind an Alakazam. A few feet away from them all stood a man decked in a purple suit, with a short white cape around his shoulders and one flyaway lock of brown hair hovering over his eyes.
"I'm sorry," said Eusine to the panting creature of indeterminate gender, "but I'm going to have to ask you to stop."
"And what authority gives you the ability to do that?" snapped the silvernet(te).
"The authority I have as a researcher of Pokémon and eternal pursuer of… Suicune!" Eusine pointed towards the gasping, crouched-over animal as if to prove a point that knowing what Suicune's name was made him more worthy of catching him.
"Oh yes, very good," said the Rocket member. "You can identify a Suicune. Very good. Now leave; that Pokémon is mine."
"What's your name?" demanded Eusine, crossing his arms.
"Hun," said the creature-newly-identified-as-Hun. "Don't try searching it. My real name has been forgotten by even me."
"Oh, well, that's too bad."
"Shut up," snarled Hun, pointing the tranquilizer gun in his direction. "This stuff is lethal."
"Is it really?" asked Eusine, observing the weapon. "So why are you trying to kill my incredible Suicune, then? From the emblem on your chest, don't you want to catch and use him for your own selfish gains?"
Hun faltered.
"You do, don't you?" asked Eusine with more force.
Hun snarled. "It's none of your business what I'm doing!"
"But you are clearly doing something to my dear Suicune!" yelled Eusine. "And I will not allow that to happen!"
"Listen," said Hun. "I'm on a mission here. Now shut your mouth and back away or I'll shoot."
"But if you shoot me," said Eusine, "then can you shoot Suicune?"
"Sure I can," said Hun smugly. "I can get more weapons. I can just reach back into Hammerspace and pull out any little member of my extensive arsenal that I like." To prove his point, Hun reached his arm up and began to curve it behind his back. Eusine wasted no time in taking his own fist and slamming it into Hun's gut.
As the figure doubled over and gasped for air, arm still behind his back, Eusine said, "Disable, Alakazam!" The tall Pokémon obeyed, twirling its metal spoons in a decidedly showy fashion and pointing them at Hun. A red flash of light was aimed towards his shoulder.
Hun brought himself back to a standing position, glaring daggers and laser beams at Eusine all the while. "And what do you think Disable is going to do? All it does is makes a Pokémon unable to do the last attack it…"
"Key word: Pokémon," said Eusine with a sly grin. "What do you think it does on humans?"
Hun's eyes widened. Soon after, the silvernet(te) cursed loudly. "You… you… Argh! My arm… won't… move!"
"You will regain use of your left arm in one to eight hours," said Eusine pleasantly.
"Fine, then," said Hun, snarling. "Okay. I can play it your way. Fine. You can Disable me all you like. It won't stop me from doing this." He held up his right arm (still holding the tranquilizer gun), leaped to the side in order to see Suicune better, and fired.
From there, a lot of things happened in a short period of time: Alakazam, who was too surprised and busy trying to analyze the situation to react, simply turned around to watch the bullet on its way; Hun grinned devilishly; Hun's mouth turned from a devilish grin to a perfect O; Eusine dove for the flying projectile reached out his arms; the tranquilizer dart struck him on his right palm.
Everyone watched in stunned silence as the Trainer staggered and collapsed.
Hun, making spluttering noises, turned tail and ran.
Alakazam and Suicune shared wide-eyed glances.
said Alakazam.
Suicune staggered to his feet from the previous half-sitting, half-standing position and walked over to the crumpled body that was Eusine. He couldn't even breathe.
It had nothing to do with the run.
he finally stuttered.
Alakazam's body disappeared in a flash of light, and Suicune found himself alone. The embodiment of the Northern Wind looked around, feeling a rather strange feeling near his eyes, and sat down over the man's body.
he said. The word 'Eusine' choked in his throat.
The vision, the scents, the 'hallucination'. He remembered now.
The armored Psychic-type Pokémon appeared then, with a small troupe of Officer Jennies behind him. They were looking around, searching for what Alakazam had shown them telepathically – a man lying spread-eagle on the ground with an injection dart through his hand.
What they found was a dog, crying at the foot of its master.
I've always loved the legend and Legendaries of the Brass Tower.
'For Ho-oh the Bells Toll' was one of my favorite episodes ever, due in part to the fact that I watched it on my GBA Video cartridge thingy all the time. I've always wanted to write something concerning that legend at least in part, and this exhaustive one-shot is the result of that wish. I worked on this a lot, and I hope that someone enjoys it.
Happy Valentines', guys.
*Towers' City = Ecruteak City in Suicune lingo.
** Fire Tower = the Brass Tower, the one burned down in a fire and Suicune's (re)birthplace. Standing Tower = the Tin Tower, the one where the Crystal and Metal Bells are hung.
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February 14th, 2010 (10:50 AM).
*DING!* So Legendary Gerbils Beasts == Former Eeveelutions, huh? Pretty nice story to try and add some narrative into this kind of fanon theory. First among its kind I read.
It is filled with little interesting details that make it enjoyable after reading one too many Pokédex entries.
One thing that I liked was how you dealt with the things that were done to the Vaporeon-then-Suicune: whatever sense of urgency was there to revivify the three creatures, was kinda crushed under the heels of a sort of Frankestein-esque will-to-experiment: it wasn't much as "Oh, three dead creatures, I shall use my might to revive them" as it felt more like "Oh wow a creature! let's just revive it!".
Seriously... Don't these Legendaries sorta be careful about using their powers? OK, I can understand that they're Pokémon and they're supossed to be awesome, leap some Australian mountain in one go or race the sun in the longest day, but the narrative made it sound like they were revivied out o a whim or for the fun value. Not that it may have been inexact, as the tone of "Ho-oh" says something about that...
Funny cute, "barra... benefactor". Also, he (Phione) thinks highly of himself which is nice.
I liked the scene where the Vaporeon-now-Suicune acknowledged his reflection and his new shape in the water. I've always had hard time describing Pokémon. That scene, despite implying that for Suicine it must have felt incredibly weird, made it sound so simple that actually if it wasn't part of the implying and the larger scene where he discovers his "gifts", it would have been detrimental to the believability of the scene itself.
Then the story explores on the new Suicune's life deepr and longer, and I'm actually quite amazed when upon mention of the Towers and the cocoons I realize that the story seems to be ocurring in animeverse. Not that there's anything bad with that, but one (or at least me) expects different things from animeverse stories. Like, you know, Team Rocket and implausible feats of human flight...
All there and with the adventures of Suicune and how he met Eusine a couple of times made it an interesting and beautiful story, strangely and platonically adequate for the current holiday. The pursuit was ell-carried with the use of the Fearow and the tranquilizer gun and *DING HAMMERSPACE! -- I chuckled the first time you mentioned it.
The ending felt kind of strange, maybe stuck in between a cliffhanger and a definitive ending with the "dog" crying at the foot of its master.
All in all... Thanks for this story.
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February 14th, 2010 (11:29 AM).
Actually, when you were talking about how the Team Rocket forest scene didn't seem very anime-like until the Rockets blasted off, I was laughing pretty hard - that scene had been taken almost directly from the anime, with just a little Suicune-y bits in between! XD Tabitha was a totally random girl, and in actuality her name was stolen from the Firehead of the same name. Spike and his brother Sheath are canon characters, but I gave them names myself. (They'll likely appear in Delta Species sometime, though...)
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36 comments:
- Christiejolu said...
In a lot of the child psychology classes I am taking we are told to never use don't or no with the kids...Even at the preschool we never use don't or no...We say "That is not OK" and explain why it is not Ok...
- September 15, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- Morgan said...
Amen. Tell me not to do something just makes me want to do it. :)
- September 15, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Caroline said...
I hear you on this... Brilliant!
- September 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Kitty Stampede said...
loved this post. It reminds me of a couple bosses I had but instead of saying "Don't", they put signs up EVERYWHERE. Saying Don't open door etc etc. It drove me batty and made me so bitter. That is why working for yourself would be amazing, not dealing with super anal people that treat their staff like children.
- September 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- Mrsblogalot said...
I'm not a fan of the don'ts either...unless it's don't eat that last cookie...that's mine.
- September 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Lorena said...
HA very smart !
I have to admit I am very controlling and use the word a lot. But I haTE it when it's for me.
- September 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- morgan said...
Don't be using that word with me, missy... hahahahaha!
Don't is akin to someone shushing me. Which makes me want to smack you. So no, you are not alone.
- September 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- bananas. said...
you know what...it's posts like these that make me realize how smart you are.
the word "don't" is a negative so of course i don't like hearing it. however, i will whore that word out like michael lohan whores his daughters.
- September 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Claire Kiefer said...
Oh man, Lindsay looks so terrifying in that last picture. :( It's true that we say "don't" to little ones all the time, and God knows I say it to my students! Like on repeat. Don't be a freakin' pest. Don't lean back in your chair, lest you crack your head open. Don't you dare text in my class! Don't say "your grandma's so ghetto she's got weed in her wig" to the person sitting next to you (I obviously am quoting that verbatim from 5th period last week). Man oh man.
- September 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- Char said...
one of my major weaknesses - you can ask me something and i will give you the shirt off my back, but tell me...and it raises my hackels.
- September 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Moonlight Serenade said...
haha that Lindsay Lohan one is frightening. Convinced me!
- September 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Isabel said...
great post :)
- September 15, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Ren- Lady Of The Arts said...
Great post- I say don't ALL the time but I am trying to make men outta monkeys so give me a break- okay.
I'll agree with I DON"T KNOW JACK and I'll add a shit.
Clair cracked me up with:
Don't say "your grandma's so ghetto she's got weed in her wig"
- September 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM
- sssdawna said...
my first word was "NO!" lol i never thought about how often i hear/say the word 'don't'...
- September 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- Dancing Branflake said...
This is so me! Anytime someone says don't then I just do it anyway. That's what I was known for in my college dance company. They said don't cut my hair do I did it anyway. But, really, please don't shoot the puppy.
- September 15, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- diane said...
I know what you mean, although I like the "Don't even reply" & "don't cry".
What I really can't stand is being told to "calm down". That just makes me want to pop.
- September 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- ...love Maegan said...
lol I love this. Pep once got a fortune cookie {fortune} that said DON'T PANIC ...THAT'S IT!!! ...and of course, we panicked. lol
- September 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- Brandi said...
Normally I hate the word don't, unless it is one of my bosses saying "don't worry about taking care of...I'll do myself". I actually have a bigger issue w/ DO. As an executive assistant to 4 guys all day long I hear Brandi DO this, Brandi DO that....drives me nuts.
- September 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Susan Erickson said...
it's a nasty word...if somebody yells it, it really pisses me off. Why don't people say, do, do......
- September 15, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Candice said...
- September 15, 2010 at 5:24 PM
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- September 15, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Dez said...
Very true :)
- September 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM
- WendyB said...
My two-year-old nephew is in the "NOOOOOOO!" phase, especially when he hears a "don't."
- September 15, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Farah said...
very true..
- September 16, 2010 at 2:21 AM
- Chic 'n Cheap Living said...
Agreed, don't tell me what not to do!
- September 16, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- SabinePsynopsis said...
Maybe it's just being born in the late 60s spirit, but DON'T still brings out immediate defiancy in me. But perhaps I'm still stuck at the mental age of 2...
Also if we are told 'don't...' we immediately focus on the act we shouldn't do - Like 'don't think of the big white elephant' Bang! There it is in your brain.
- September 16, 2010 at 2:52 AM
- Toothfairy said...
love this.... hahaha... and hey, that header is awesome!!!!!!!!!!
- September 16, 2010 at 4:56 AM
- Adiya said...
Do you notice that once someone tells you 'don't' you always want to 'do'? You're like 'whatever, what's the worst that can happen? Pleeese'
- September 16, 2010 at 5:22 AM
- 十十f十 said...
i was telling my colleague and sil the first word children really learnt is 'no'. i always think it's an asian thing. so much negativism. killjoy. and mothers learnt this from mothers. many times me and my sil had to tell my ma not to say certain words to the baby. i really think that she understands every single word like an adult does. words have power indeed.
- September 16, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Heff said...
Gonna flip things around, here.
"Don't stop believin'
Hold on to that feelin' "
- Steve Perry.
- September 16, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Rachael said...
Following on from the posts about children, definitely we avoid 'don't'. It's much better to tell them what the CAN do rather than what they can't. Those are positive statements. Instead of 'don't run' you would say 'please walk'. Makes a heck of a difference, as someone mentioned if you say 'don't' they barely here the don't, and instead just hear the word after it, especially when they are just learning language.
- September 16, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Georgina Dollface said...
I hadn't thought about it but you are absolutely right. This word is used everywhere and we don't even notice it. See, there it is again! - G
- September 17, 2010 at 6:22 AM
- frenchie said...
don't even let me get started...
- September 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- JenRem said...
I really dislike seeing the word 'don't'
Just reading it makes me want to do everything! :)
- September 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM
- Diana said...
No, it's true! Everything you wrote, it does like a bossy word.
The last one is horrific.
- September 22, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- thesydneygirl said...
i know exactly what you're saying! human nature just doesn't allow us to like hearing 'don't'!!!
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If you haven't been following Romi then you've been missing out. Romi blogs on the Research Access site and does a series of webcasts that are truly first rate. His restless mind tackles all types of topics and he is always provocative, funny, and thoughtful.
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A broken collarbone sustained on his British Grand Prix debut is threatening Chris Burns' chances of resurrecting his season in the British Superbike championship.
The 23-year-old made his first Grand Prix appearance of the MotoGP series at Donington Park yesterday after his WCM team overcame specification difficulties which had rendered their Yamaha machine ineligible for the opening seven rounds of the series.
But after having completed just two laps at the 2.5-mile Leicestershire circuit, a power surge saw Burns bucked off the 10-year-old bike with the rider later diagnosed as having suffered a broken collarbone in the spectacular spill.
Now the Tynesider is concerned the injury could scupper his chances of joining the Virgin Yamaha British Superbike team who had agreed he could finish the domestic season as replacement for the sacked Steve Hislop.
The 23-year-old Burns said: "I'm just sick, absolutely gutted, because I was due to have my first test at Donington today.
"Niall Mackenzie's having a track day and we were going to have a lunchtime session on the Yamaha but it looks like that's off now.
"I can only say that I've broken my collarbone four times before and this is by no means the worst it's been, the bone's not badly separated and I do still have movement there.
"I went to see the race doctor after the crash happened but to be honest he didn't seem that interested in pinning it for me, he seemed more interested in getting his flight home.
"I'm sure if my name was Valentino Rossi he might have found some more time.
"If it was up to me I'd get on the bike now, no problems. I'm 100 per cent ready to go but whether that means Virgin Yamaha will want to continue having had any test time or not I don't know yet.
"We'll just have to wait and see but it's not looking good. I've no idea what I've done to deserve this sort of unbelievable luck, but I'm absolutely devastated, it's so depressing.
"With the bike I'd be riding in the British Superbikes I had a good chance of getting some good results and now this happens."
Whether or not Burns proves able to fulfil his new-found domestic commitments, he intends to race again in WCM colours at the German Grand Prix in a fortnight. He said: "WCM have been pretty good really because with the start to the season we'd had, they said they would understand if I went to another team.
"But there's no way I could get another ride in the MotoGP paddock at this stage. My contract technically prevents me from riding in BSB but because none of the dates clash and because of the problems we've had early season, they've given me the okay.
"Hopefully, I can do a little bit better than in my home GP because I had three crashes over the weekend at Donington and that's not like me at all."
Meanwhile, World champion Rossi's lead at the top of the MotoGP standings was dramatically cut down when he was stripped of victory at Donington.
The Italian was handed a 10-second penalty for overtaking under a yellow flag during yesterday's race and Repsol Honda ace Rossi was demoted to third.
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Exploring Probability Through Yahtzee Extensions. Chris Bolognese Upper Arlington High School [email protected] Goals of the Talk. Motivation with Supportive Research Data Collection & Analysis via Nspires Java Simulation Showcase Sample Student Work Reflection. Motivation.
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Goal was to create cognitively-demanding tasks related to probability and statistics.
Roll five dice to get different combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn, reserving dice as needed. The goal is to make one of thirteen different combinations (such as three-of-a-kind, or a large straight). The roll worth the most points is a Yahtzee (all five dice have the same value).
on the very first roll?
There are 65 possible rolls, with only 6 outcomes as Yahtzees, one for each of the six face values. Thus, the probability of a Yahtzee is 6/65 ≈ 0.077%
This is much harder as it requires a transition matrix. One can show that the probability is roughly 4.6029%.
In Yahtzee, we have to stop rolling after at
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What if we are determined to get a Yahtzee
and continue to roll. What is the expected
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With a partner, experimentally determine the
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While we could continually roll to collect
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How does this simulation compare to our
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This graph (DataGenetics, 2012) shows the
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Anwar Ibrahim will sue Anifah Aman if he does not apologize and withdraw his claim that Anwar offered Anifah a very high position, namely the post of Deputy Prime Minister if he cross over to Pakatan Rakyat from Barisan. This should be the way. Will Najib Abdul Razak dare to sue those who made allegations that Najib has connections to the Altantuya Shariibuu murder and improprieties in the purchase of the submarines?
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By ANDREW W. LEHREN and CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: July 2, 2009
On Aug. 26, 2006, something unusual happened in New York City.
It was a Saturday in the heart of summer, the kind of day that averages more than two homicides. Yet the police reported no killings.
One other thing happened that day: It rained.
In fact, an analysis by The New York Times of rainfall and homicides for the last six years shows that when it rains substantially in the summertime, there are fewer homicides.
When there was no precipitation, there was an average of 17 homicides every 10 days. But when there was an inch or more of rain, the average dropped to 14.
That does not surprise Vernon J. Geberth, a former Bronx homicide squad commanding officer. He said that when there was a downpour, the police would sometimes joke, "The best cop in the world is on duty tonight."
The gap is even wider when looking just at Saturdays in the summer. Those are the days that typically post the highest number of homicides in a year. When there was no rain, the average number of homicides for every 10 Saturdays in summer jumped to 24. For every 10 Saturdays doused with at least an inch of rain, the average number was 18.
These numbers may add up to something of a bright spot for a city that officially entered summer with the second wettest June on record, according to meteorologists at Pennsylvania State University. With a few more than 200 homicides so far this year, the city is on pace for a low not seen since the early 1960s. The first few days of July promise more of the same damp weather, with a chance of rain every day.
The difference in homicides on rainy days is more pronounced in the summer than in other seasons. And when there was less rain, there were more killings. For instance, when the threshold is lowered to half an inch of rain or more, the average number of homicides every 10 days climbs to 15. And when there was less than half an inch of rain, the rate was the same as when there was no rain.
The Times's analysis is based on comparing the city's daily rainfall with homicide data obtained from the New York Police Department, covering 2003 to 2008. (A searchable database of homicides in the city is available at nytimes.com/nyregion.)
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Akasha visited
Dodgeball visited Akasha.
MOMA exhibit, waste not. This Chinese artist who lived through the cultural revolution in China did a panoramic installation that contained every piece of reused household item, life product ever. It was like some insane landfill that had been reorganized. Strangley but not so strangley it reminded me of my grandmother's house. Shit's no joke though, people who are poor and are afraid of being even poorer will save everything "just incase". There were times when being a packrat wasn't such an impractical paranoia. And there are still harsh times like that for people. It's just pretty crazy to see everything individually set out for viewing. the artist even included the former frame of his home to the exhibit.
This photo of plastic bowls and buckets with the hard ass bed with every box of asian pills ever definitely reminds me of some shit. I wonder when people view this kind of shit if they're bothered even disgusted by it or if they relate to it. All i know is that i don't feel so bad for having as much shit as I do in my own room. It'd be pretty cool to lay out everything I own just to see. None of it would be practical.
pretty fucking cool
David Hockey set costume illustrations. I swear that looks like Kurt Russell
Fucking Cool. I would definitely go see this play starring Kurt Russell as the mayor of Victorian Hemephrodite Town circa Alice in Wonderland.
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Tooth, soon to be 21. Babyface with a serious Man mane
Damian and "Dude" on phone who apparently just came back from an akward bachelor party where the strippers were abusing the guests and fucking each other with double ended dildos. Sounds about as cool a real life Requiem for a dream ( not cool ) What are you waiting to wake up with no arms too? Fuck that
Liz's birthday. Canadians rule at growing long blonde hair and claiming bands like "the band" as their own
I would never be able to carry that many records. I barely own that many. Good for you Ryan!
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Tata Consultancy Services, Agile CoachMay 2013 - Present, Edison, New Jersey, United StatesAgile Coach Sep 2015 - Present
Tata Consultancy Services North America
Client: AXA Insurance, Jersey City, NJ
• Agile Coach assisting agile adoption among multiple AXA teams with resources located in Jersey City, Syracuse, Charlotte and multiple locations in India.
• Directly reporting to COO on the Agile Process Transformation initiative
• Leading the initiative to restructure organization and other Enterprise wide changes to implement Agile methodologies
• Day to day activities include Coaching and hands-on training on the best practices of Role and responsibilities, Ceremonies, Artefacts
AXA Equitable Employee Benefits Program
Consulted and transformed the 7 team Employee Benefit program to successfully adopt Agile using Scrum methodology in a systematic manner seamlessly transforming the teams from waterfall to Agile using Scrum
• Planned and executed the end-end transformation
• Consulted on team composition, schedule and artefact management
• Conducted 2-day Workshop to Leadership, Business and IT teams
• Provided Hands-On training for 3 Sprints to the teams – served as an integral part
• Helped with the implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools. Worked with the teams to help them deliver incrementally and iteratively
• Successfully brought about radical change in mindset among team members to be Agile.
AXA Salesforce Scrum and Kanban Teams
Consulted and transformed the 3 team Salesforce Program to successfully adopt Agile using Scrum and Kanban methodology.
• Analyzed and planned based on the nature of work done by the teams
• Work included small production support like items, enhancements to existing applications, and new Application development
• Formed teams accordingly and executed the end-end transformation
• Conducted a series of Coaching sessions to Leadership, Business and IT teams
• Provided Hands-On training on Tools and best practices
• Helped teams deliver incrementally and iteratively meeting the SLAs
• Successfully brought about a mindset transformation among team members to be agile.
Agile Coach Feb 2015 – Aug 2015
Tata Consultancy Services North America
Client: American International Group (AIG), Berkeley Heights, NJ
• Program Manager for the delivery and support for Third Party Administrator Information Repository (TPAIR) for US, Canada and UK, and a few deprecation projects
• Functioned as a Process Improvement specialist, effectively roll out of the Best Practices of Waterfall SDLC in a phased manner
• Delivered Quality Solutions and functionality on time within budget and improved the Program Management landscape
TPAIR US and TPAIR-Canada Projects - Support/Enhancement
• Functioned as the Process and Program lead for the 12 member team that was to support and enhance the TPAIR for US and Canada that was developed and implemented earlier
• Managed the end to end process starting from identifying the functional and performance enhancements, through prioritization, budgeting, and implementation rollout
• Collaborated with multiple Stakeholders from Upstream and Downstream systems to identify dependencies and to negotiate appropriate changes in each module
Process for the Delivery
• Worked with multiple stakeholders of the GELS (Global Evaluation of Loss Sensitivity) to implement the Best Practices of SDLC from concept to delivery of projects
• Proposed, rolled out, reviewed and customized a Standard Process that was uniform across the teams based on ITIL standards
• Served as the Program Manager to help manage the delivery of the projects under an overlapping and aggressive schedule.
Agile Coach Sept 2014- Feb 2015 Tata Consultancy Services North America
Client: Prudential Group Insurance, Roseland, NJ
• Project Manager and Process Lead for delivering the Service Account Assessment project to meet SOX Compliance standards
• Pioneered the efforts to create a Service Account Inventory for all the GI owned applications
• Designed a Governance Process for the Service Account Management
Service Account Inventory
• Functioned as the Process/Technical Lead for a 2 member team to deliver from scratch the Service Account Inventory under an aggressive schedule to meet the Audit deadline.
• Worked with Business Information Security Officer (BISO), internal and external Auditors to define and ensure that the scope of the project met the Business, Regulatory and Compliance objectives
• Coordinated with multiple teams within and outside of GI to run reports to identify the Service Accounts distributed across UNIX Windows and Database servers and applications
• Worked with 60 Application teams and finalize the list of Service Accounts associated with each Application
• Gathered all the mandated details of each Service Account and completed the Inventory
The Inventory had a final count of 1250 Service Accounts that were active and owned by GI.
• In the process, added new Service Accounts, removed duplicate accounts, filled out the missing details and updated the incorrect/outdated details for each Service Account.
Service Account Management Governance Process
• There was no Governance Process in place. Worked with multiple stakeholders to design the process from concept to delivery.
• Interviewed the BISO, Auditors and Application Owners to gather their suggestions
• Proposed a customized Governance Process based on ITIL framework and SOX Compliance standards that was operational
• Reviewed, revised and finalized the Service Account Governance Process that was in line with ITIL Framework, met SOX Compliance standards and stakeholder needs
• Managed the project singlehandedly, from concept to delivery under an aggressive schedule.
Agile Coach May 2013- Aug 2014
Tata Consultancy Services North America
Client: CIGNA, Bloomfield, CT
• Helped transform the existing 'team level Agile practices' to Enterprise level Portfolio/Program Management based on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Coached Agile teams, mentoring Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Analysts, Developers and Testers, to adopt the Best Practices of Agile in an Onsite-Offshore setting
• Conducted User Story workshops, Techniques and Tips sessions for the teams, constantly guiding them based on their unique team needs.
• Designed, developed, refined and rolled out a Kanban process for Test Data Management team – the first of its kind in Cigna.
Scaled Agile Framework Transformation
• Actively contribute to transform 2 Cigna business units to scale Agile to the Enterprise level based on SAFe implementing complete Portfolio, Program and Project Management
• Helped create Agile Release Trains (ART) to synchronize team backlogs and manage dependencies
• Monitored the progress and changes to the ART and mitigated risks and resolved issues
• Introduced Agile-Lean best practices across the enterprise smoothly and seamlessly
• Coordinated with Clients and partners to build cross functional teams; moved resources around to mitigate risks and issues arising out of globally distributed teams from multiple competing vendors, outsourced partners and third party system vendors working in an onsite-offshore model
• Coached teams to deliver consistently at a sustained pace and setting Quality standards
• Facilitated the Biweekly Scrum of Scrums and Weekly Scrum Master Roundtable meetings to get feedback and suggest improvements to enhance performance
• Help Scrum Masters facilitate Sprint Review and Retrospective meeting and to follow up on the action items identified.
Financial Integration
• Functioned as the Scrum Master for the Financial Integration team whose main deliverable was to build Integration Layers that would enable seamless financial data flow from the disparate Third Party systems and the Internal processing, customer support, data warehouse and metrics systems for Individual and Family plans
• Coached and mentored a 10 member team with members distributed across the US and India, on an onsite-Offshore model from 2 competing vendors.
• Introduced effective incremental and iterative development, automated testing and deployment.
• Coordinated with the vendor managers, partner companies and client managers to effectively plan and deliver the committed to functionalities encouraging change in the functionality throughout the release cycle
Next Gen Desktop Gadgets
• Scrum master for the High tech team that set out to build reusable components for the NEXTGEN Desktop; prime features included infinite scrolling, customizable dashboards, customizable page navigation and an evolving set of customizable gadgets for Cigna Business users
• Challenge was around the changing requirements and the backlog included considerable amount of Spike stories
• Direction changed with each Sprint forcing the team to function with copybook style agility stretching the agile-lean principles to its limits
• Delivered the Desktop with customizable gadgets in the specified time with a lot more functionality and technology that were by no means envisioned at the beginning of the project
Kanban Process for Test Data Management
• Mapped the existing process for Test Data Management
• Coached and mentored the team on Kanban principles and its suitability to the existing Test Data Management process
• Conceived and iteratively designed Kanban queues to help visualize flow
• Implemented Kanban in Jira customizing it to better reflect reality
• Coached team on roles, responsibilities and artefacts of Kanban framework
• Served as the Agile Expert, prepared and presented Kanban to Agile Consistency Program team of Cigna and gained approval to implement the process
• Rolled out the Kanban process and systematically refined it.
• The Kanban process was designed, developed, refined and delivered for effective implementation in an Onsite-Offshore model which has proved to be very successful creating a win-win situation for CIGNA and TCS
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, Senior Project Manager / Scrum MasterMay 2011 - August 2012, New York, New York, United StatesAgile Project Manager/Scrum Master May 2011- Dec 2012
Kaplan Inc., New York, NY
•Part of the Agile Centre of Excellence team to migrate the IT and Kaplan Business teams to adopt Agile best practices.
•Scrum Master for the Business Intelligence (Data Warehouse & Reporting) and Core Web Services teams, delivering projects to enterprise wide IT/Business teams.
Agile COE
•Performed Agile Management / Leadership activities high-profile individuals and teams to embrace Agile seamlessly.
•Provided expert guidance to form cross-functional teams of diverse skillsets and functions to self-organize effectively.
•Helped Business Product owners to create and manage roadmaps, release and sprint backlogs; constantly and consistently convincing them of the Agile values of increment and iterative delivery.
•Coordinated with Business teams and organized, scheduled and facilitated User Story Workshops to create stories with varied level of details for Roadmaps, Release Backlog and Sprint Backlogs.
•Helped Product Owners with the prioritization and maintenance of Backlogs in time for the Sprint Planning meeting
•Coached teams with Story estimation techniques and embrace them without apprehension whatsoever.
•Introduced and implemented Information Radiators like Sprint Scrum Board, Release and Sprint Burn-down charts, Velocity, for all the teams.
•Help Scrum Masters facilitate Sprint Review and Retrospective meeting and to follow up on the action items identified.
Scrum Master for Data Warehouse and Web Services teams
•Functioned as the Scrum Master for the Pilot teams in implementing Agile Practices.
•Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings
•Facilitated Backlog Grooming Meetings with Product Owners and selected team members to update and prepare the Sprint Backlog for iteration planning.
•Organized and lead the Sprint planning meetings; encouraged discussions among team members so that stories were clearly understood and scoped, estimated stories using story points with sizing them whenever necessary, tasked them out, and ensured overall transparency, accuracy and consistency in maintained.
•Estimated stories using Story Points and helped teams with the estimation using Planning Poker.
•Facilitated the Daily Standup Meeting and used it effectively to help protect the team from distractions and interruptions, to remove roadblocks/impediments and to impact empowerment and productivity.
•Created and maintained the Scrum Board as an information radiator to track progress of the sprint.
•Lead the Sprint Review /Demo Meeting; Presented Sprint Metrics and Release trends that included Velocity, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Burn-down charts, to encourage teams maintain a sustainable pace.
•Sent out individual invitations to Business teams' representatives in addition to the general agenda to ensure proper attendance for completed story review and signoff.
•Maintained the teams' Wiki pages; Folders for each Sprint containing Sprint Metrics, Story details, Review presentation and charts – for cross team visibility and collaboration and to manage inter-team dependencies.
•Ensured team follows meticulously all workflow steps like Architecture approval, code review, test case automation and documentation completed for every story.
•Updated the Enterprise level Wiki; Changes to architecture design and database tables, addition to the Test Case and Web Services Repository.
Hewlett Packard at State New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission, , Lead Business Analyst - Forms, Reports, Correspondence, DocumentsJune 2009 - April 2011, Trenton, NJ, United StatesLead for the development of Web Forms, Reports, Paper and email correspondence, Documents and Contracts across all Motor Vehicles Commission Business modules.
Re-engineered the existing legacy processes and systems to the latest web based techology.
Reports: Reengineered over 1500 reports, 200 Forms, 45 Douments/Contracts/Agreements, and 75 correspondences. Delivered 200 Reports, 100 forms, 50 contracts and 64 emails that could be accessed/delivered/downloaded online.
Delta Dental of Virginia, Senior Business Systems Analyst / Project Manager / Scrum MasterMay 2008 - April 2009, Roanoke, Virgina, United States•Performed the functions of a Business Analyst in a fully functional Agile-Scrum SDLC, to redesign, enhance and customize DCS2000 – in-house dental insurance administration software for Delta Dental of Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas.
•Later functioned as Scrum Master for bringing aboard a new client – Delta Dental of Colorado, that involved a complete release spanning 12 scrum iterations.
Electronic Data Interchange
•The project was to integrate DCS2000 with Mercury Data Exchange, a clearinghouse; the tasks were the migration to 4010A1 norms, secure data transfer functionality for eligibility enquiry and response, predetermination, claims submission and remittance processing.
Electronic Funds Transfer
•The project was to automate the process of generating invoices and collecting premiums from Risk Groups and admin fees from Administrative Services Groups. Payments were drafted through ACH.
•This project saved nearly 1000 man-hours of back office work /month.
•Created an estimated $200,000/year in saving by automating the process of payment to providers through ACH.
•Realized an 85% reduction in time taken to pay providers after the receipt of claims.
Provider Notification of Overpayment and Recovery
•The task was to automate the process of notifying Providers of overpayment and recovery.
Client Knowledge Reporting
•A reporting web application was developed in ASP.net and SQL backend which included 27 reports.
•Analyzed data sets from multiple data sources (SQL Server 2005, and Oracle 9i and 10g), defined unique related datasets for advanced reporting. Used LDAP to manage the provision of access to the report, among Group Administrators, Brokers, Subscribers, Providers and Internal Users.
•Helped produce and provide estimates, schedules and status reports during two releases – Orange 08, Maroon 09.
•Conducted interviews with business users/stakeholders from Colorado, Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas, to gather requirements for customization and enhancement.
•Analyzed all the clients' requirements, compiled them, determined deltas with the existing functionality and developed generic customized enhancement requirements to meet the needs of all of them.
•Created work flow diagrams, process diagrams and design documents using UML notation in MS Visio.
•Conducted Joint Application Design sessions with developers to define project scope and functionality.
•Created and managed BRD, FDD and User stories;
•Worked with Benefit Services Department and analyzed the number of calls registered on each product. Helped reduce the number of calls by 35% (Improvement realized over a 6 months period).
Government College of Technology, Project Manager - Doctoral Research Program August 2001 - April 2007, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India• Established a research facility to gain approval to conduct research program for PhD degree.
• Independently managed and reported the progress of the first two batches of research students from enrollment to award of degree per University norms.
•Created a detailed project proposal, complete with initial and ongoing resource requirements
•Gathered and implemented all requirements during the entire life cycle of accreditation process meticulously adhering to Government procedures and University norms.
•Worked with multiple disciplines, customized projects modules, and multiple teams in a Government environment.
•Defined complete scope of the individual project modules through interactions with research supervisors, scholars and Government officials.
•Resolved conflicts arising from the diversity of disciplines and through detailed scheduling in phases of individual projects based on supervisor, student and institution overall interest.
•Effectively proposed for distribution of funds allotted in a phased manner for the subscription of journals, participation in conferences, organizing guest lectures/workshops.
•Developed and maintained precise documentation of lessons learned for future preventive and corrective actions.
•Helped establish a fully functional research coordination cell, new research centers in individual engineering and science departments and developed a software application for enrollment/approval of research supervisors, admission/enrollment of research scholars, with ability to tracking their progress.
Mettur Thermal Power Plant, Project Manager / Research AnalystOctober 2002 - August 2004, Mettur, Tamil Nadu, India•Created mathematical and analytical models for real time power generation process
•Designed artificial intelligence based PID controllers for the process
Superheated Steam Temperature control Process
•This project involved creation of mathematical and analytical models for the 210MW turbine's Superheated Steam temperature control process from real time data collected.
•Created ARX, Artificial Neural Networks, and ANFIS models using Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing, Symbolic Computation and Artificial intelligence concepts.
•Managed a team of 12 for approximately 1 year; researched and analyzed the existing real time processes, information systems, and their future direction.
•Provided recommendations for enhanced system modeling to facilitate better understanding of the processes.
•Identified time and costs pertaining to the recommended modeling solution.
•Prepared reports and graphs related to operational costs, utilization trends and forecasting using corporate database.
•Managed a high profile dynamic team of Masters and research scholars effectively utilizing their diverse skills.
•Facilitated the training through carefully designed courses to enable the scholars to gain expertise required to apply the latest trends.
•Performed various analyses and constantly rescheduled activities to meet the demands of the team and the business.
Government College of Engineering, Project Manager/Infrastructure Establishment August 1997 - August 2001, Bargur, Tamil Nadu, India•Established AC and DC Electrical Machinery, Power Electronics, Microprocessor and Computer Laboratories for the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department
Electrical Engineering Department: Infrastructure Establishment Manager
The requirement was to establish new Engineering Laboratories at the new Campus at Bargur. Tasks included planning, procurement, installation and commissioning of all the machinery / equipment, hardware and software, in compliance with Government norms.
•Studied and assessed the Government systems and business processes
•Performed requirement analysis, and meticulously designed various procurement documents for vendor management.
•Participated in project planning and implementation scheduling meetings with Public Works Department officials and College authorities throughout the project life cycle.
•Worked in accordance with project plans and scope effectively adapting to changes.
•Functioned as the primary liaison between the Government funding authorities, vendors, and over-sight team throughout the project cycle.
•Helped Project Manager in the procurement, installation, commissioning and handing over of all machinery and equipment
•Actively involved in the planning and utilization of huge government funds effectively, using all cost refundable, time and materials and fixed price contracts.
•The completion of the project on schedule facilitated the shifting of the college to the new campus on time.
The Product Owner Role
Organizations adopting Scrum have business analysts, business systems analysts, systems analysts, and architects, among many other titles. Who among these is best suited for a delivery team's product owner role?
Contracts Based on Story Points
Contracts have deep consequences for every enterprise's budget. When writing a contract, what units can we use that easily extrapolate to ROI?


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Mixed Magic is a creative group based in Los Angeles, aiming at releasing harmonious pop music as well as creating interactive content, such as 360º videos & explorable virtual worlds.
…then what is Mixed Magic really?
Kind-of-a-record lable, somewhat-of-a-creative firm, but mostly a group of friends that really love that lush magical music that expands all of the senses, and possibly unifies them.


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Where would you take someone for a first date or romantic foodie trip in Maine? How about Union, Maine? The food is mouthwatering.
For some odd reason, the cooks in Union, Maine still don't get the credit they deserve. The doubters would be proven wrong if they just gave this town a chance.
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Millions of people practice meditation. The techniques of meditating may vary but the purpose remains same- peace, love, joy, healing, tranquillity, spiritual growth. Because of its popularity a lot of research is being conducted to study the impact of meditation on our bodies, specifically our brain. Sara Lazar is a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She researched how meditation impacts our brain. The results of her study surprised her along with other researchers.
They did a comparative study on long term meditators and people who don't meditate and compared their brains scans.
First thing noticeable was that the grey matter in the insula, sensory regions and frontal cortex was higher in meditators which means their senses were very sharp, memory and decision making skills better compared to non-meditators.in fact the size of cortex and its grey matter in 50 year old meditators was equivalent to as much as a 25 year old would have whereas we all know that our cortex shrinks and grey matter reduces with age as well. Overall the research identified significant brain regions to be more active, less stressed, calm, better memory and executive functions and aging to be slower. It also showed dense grey matter in regions of hippocampus, an area of brain associated with learning and memory, as well as in other areas associated with self-awareness, compassion, and reflection.
There are many other researches being conducted on the impact of
meditation on physical body.
We can safely say that meditation helps in reduced stress levels, better work- life balance, improved emotions, and better quality of life. Improved connection with self and others, deeper understanding of life. Meditation is a safe remedy for stressed based issues according tocardiologist Herbert Benson, MD, founder of the Mind/Body Institute at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Meditation brings about a state of relaxation which in turn helps decrease metabolism, lowers blood pressure, and improves heart rate, breathing, and brain waves. Other researches shows that meditation produces long-lasting changes in the brain activity in areas involved in attention, working memory, learning, and conscious perception. There are many types of meditation practices available but the foundation of each one stays the same- focussing on breath, calming the mind and body and going into a deep sense of relaxation. Through entering this state of relaxation we can achieve many beautiful things inside and outside us. Let's all venture into this beautiful area of meditation and find outwhich type of meditation suits us.
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Not a scam, per se, but not really a valuable offer either. Basically, in order to get the gift card (and my offer was only $500), you have to sign up for a bunch of other programs, the majority of which have upfront payments or monthly fees associated with them. You also need to refer other people to join, which is really how they get -- most users usually can't meet the referral requirements. So offers like this are generally a waste of time.
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New 'Django Unchained' Posters are Like Trading Cards — POSTERS
In the quest to remind people that there are a lot of really, really, really good actors in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming bloody western, Django Unchained, a slew of new posters have come out featuring just that. It's like movie star playing cards!
Are you a fan of the mean-mugging Calvin Candle (Leonardo DiCaprio)? Or perhaps you're more of a vigilante justice type, like Django (Jamie Foxx) or Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz)? Maybe you're more of an equally-badass Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) type, or ancestor of Shaft—yes, that Shaft; shut your mouth!—Ms. Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington)? Then step right up and look no further: these portrait-style posters released by The Weinstein Company today give you a great sense at the gravity of each character's role within the film. Collect 'em all!
Django Unchained hits theaters December 25, 2012.
[Photo Credit: The Weinstein Company]
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text: Since there's a lot of people that are still confused about the $10 add on and other features of the Evo. I tried to grill a customer chat support and see if they know the product well enough to inform people about the product. I was giggling knowing that I already know the answers to my questions and just want to know if they did. I really felt bad for doing this to someone who is there just to help, but I feel that they need to know the product or they will cause even more confusion. It was fun too... LOL