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Out of the Four Corners
A young archaeologist searches for clues to what drove a mass exodus from southwestern Colorado more than 700 years ago
Susan Ryan called in November to tell me that her excavation was going to be buried. The ancient village she had been carefully unearthing would soon disappear under the blade of a tractor, turned back into an unrecognizable hill in the greasewood desert of southwest Colorado.
Ryan wasn't remorseful; this was part of the plan all along. She had been given four years to excavate the site and to map its labyrinth of rooms and ceremonial chambers. Then she had to turn around and bury the whole thing, making it appear as if her crew had never been there. This is simply the business of Southwestern archaeology: Before you leave, you clean up after yourself.
But her time was running short, and when she called, her voice was tinged with urgency. "You need to come see what we've found," Ryan said. "I've got a new map in my head. You need to come before it's buried."
Now in her early 30s, Ryan is one of the last of a dying breed — the true field archaeologists who spend their days digging, while other archaeologists are chained to desks indoors.
She called me because I share her fascination with patterns in the landscape. I have spent much of my life walking countless miles back and forth across the Southwest, studying the way prehistoric settlements are built among the canyons and mesas, scratching notes that eventually weave into books. For me, as for Ryan, everything out here tells a story, says something about how life has been lived in this difficult, beautiful land.
One question has driven our searching: What happened to the Anasazi people who once crowded into the Four Corners region? Back in the early centuries A.D., dryland farmers and nomadic hunters lived in this high-desert region. But 700 years ago, they mysteriously vanished. At least that's how the story is usually told. Their disappearance in the 13th century A.D. has been hailed as one of the great mysteries of archaeology. They left farming implements in the fields, and pottery and furnishings stacked in their rooms, as if they were plucked from the earth by an ill and sudden wind.
But nobody disappears without a trace — at least not in the arid Southwest, where every dropped pot, every campfire scar, remains visible, sometimes for thousands of years. Spend a little time kicking around in Canyon Country and you'll discover that it is impossible to avoid the Anasazis' remains, their cliff dwellings, their broken pottery, their shredded sandals left in caves. With slow, careful scrutiny it is also impossible not to see that those shards of evidence belie the myth of a suddenly vanished civilization.
Susan Ryan understands this. She is part of a leading edge of archaeologists who are looking closely at these remains, formulating a story much more complex and enigmatic than the one we started with.
I met Ryan while I was researching a book, trying to piece together the migrations and minglings of the Anasazi culture — a complex culture, rich with diverse ethnicities and languages. Ryan was digging a site that straddled the time period in which the Anasazi apparently rose and fell, working for the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, a nonprofit research and educational outfit based in Cortez, Colo.
I was struck immediately by the way she moved, how her thin, jeweler's fingers touched each object with unusual care and inquiry. Though she was only in her 20s at the time, she was handpicked to lead this dig. She was a natural at finding barely detectible shoulders of ruined walls buried beneath windblown dust and greasewood. Ryan could map ancient dwellings and structures that are invisible to the rest of us, just by stepping over the ground, arms folded, as if she could see through the earth itself. Her superiors spoke highly of her, said she had the potential to become a great archaeologist.
So when she called to say she had a new map, my interest was piqued. It was an emotional map, she said, woven of the countless strands of data accumulated as she watched the seasons and years tilt across this site.
Ryan said she could see clearly what happened in this place so long ago. But she could never publish or write about this map within the confines of her profession. The knowledge she had gained was too intimate and instinctual. It was as if she thought she could see ghosts — not fitting for a promising scientist.
I left right away to meet her.
Ryan was digging on the Great Sage Plain in southwest Colorado. This area is actually not much of a plain; it is a gentle slope cut apart by numerous canyons that cannot be seen until you walk right to their edges. Above these canyons are hilltops and ridges marked with the high mounds that once were villages and great houses. Ryan and her crew had opened up one of these hills, revealing a village of prehistoric stone houses ringing an elevated center, a sort of abbreviated citadel looking out across a landscape of other small citadels.
When I arrived, an early-season snow was blustering out of the West. Dressed warmly to meet the wind, I stopped near the high peak of the dig site and peered around its seamless horizon. The cape of Sleeping Ute Mountain stood in front of me. Just off my left shoulder, Mesa Verde seemed smug as a cat on a windowsill. To my right and far in the distance stood the reddish, upright slabs of Monument Valley in Arizona, and farther away in Utah were the powder-blue pyramids of the Abajo Mountains. At my back, the San Juan Mountains lifted like crystals of ice. Ryan once told me she knew why people had built in this place: This felt like the center of the world. Of course you would build here.
When tourists visit the monumental cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park, they think they've come to the teeming apex of the Anasazi world. But it turns out that Mesa Verde was a mere cul-de-sac, a relatively small neighborhood compared to the convergence of hamlets and towns that covered the Great Sage Plain below.
Ryan's site was one of many settlements that rose in the boomtown buildup between the mid-11th century and the late 13th century A.D. In a final 20-year frenzy toward the end of the buildup, settlements more than doubled in size, growing to 400, even 700 rooms, some with hundreds of ceremonial kivas ringed with masonry towers.
It must have been an exciting time to live in the Four Corners region. Ancient clans reunited, marking the outsides of their serving bowls with ornate symbols much like coats of arms. These serving bowls are larger than any made before, suggesting a time of feasting, of great gatherings.
I walked along lines of rubble between one dig and the next. Back when these structures were new, they would have rung with the sound of barking dogs and laughter. There would have been a homey array of smells, the stale rooms that belonged to old men, other rooms ripe with the scent of sleeping families. The dulcet perfumes of sage and cooked corn would have mixed with the meat-rot aroma of animal skins stretched and drying.
Ahead of me, a crew was pushing wheelbarrows up a ramp, dumping all the carefully gathered soil back into a block of several rooms, hiding them back inside the earth. I could still see some of the walls exposed from these rooms, fine masonry with horizontal courses banded like brickwork, going under with every heave of a shovel.
I found Ryan moving among the pits. We hugged like bears in our robes of winter clothes, then walked around the site slowly, side by side, as she gestured down into the trenches.
Ryan had been cautious in her four years at this site, preferring to dig only where she thought it necessary. In the last months, however, she had gone deep, straining the backs of her crew. Like an archer drawing her aim to perfection before letting the arrow fly, Ryan waited until she had mapped the place in her head before driving suddenly down to its foundation.
She found treasures down there. Not the kind that glitter on museum shelves, but the small, private remnants of a complex and well-orchestrated society. As we walked, Ryan explained the myriad technical details she had uncovered, the types of pottery or architecture that indicated one prehistoric group or another — all part of the diverse Anasazi culture.
Then she said that she could see these people. She had assembled so many observations that the people had come entirely to life for her. It was like a movie playing in her mind.
These were people of ceremony, Ryan felt. Not just mystic, feather-laden ceremonies, but repeated, daily acts, similar to the way we set forks, knives and spoons on the table, and arrange our shoes at the front door. The way people left objects behind, even the way they sorted their trash, carried distinct signatures, she said. And each small trait carried subtle clues of a larger cultural identity.
She had found spirals carved into wall stones right before the stones were covered in plaster to finish off the insides of rooms. There were fingerprints pressed into the mortar and artifacts left in purposeful positions all around. She could see ancient hands, see the people sleeping, see them choosing how to place objects on the floor or the hearths.
I had been working with 50-some archaeologists across the Southwest, some constructing elaborate social dynamics from their desks and others tinkering in the quiet of museum basements, and none had a map as intricate and intimate as Ryan's.
Our understanding of the Anasazi has changed over the years. The notion of an ancient people mysteriously disappearing first took hold in the late 1800s, a romantic idea that drew both tourists and well-funded archaeological expeditions to this dusty, remote quarter of North America.
Those were Indiana Jones days, when archaeologists with hat brims shading their eyes carried shovels into the desert, uprooting whatever burials and ruins they came across. Though researchers from that era strove to understand the prehistory of the Southwest, they were mostly hunting for fine artifacts. Diggers toiled like diamond miners under the sun, filling boxcars with shapely pots, jewelry and skeletons that streamed to the East Coast.
Of the artifacts unearthed by the likes of Richard Wetherill at Mesa Verde and George Pepper at Chaco Canyon, some went to line museum shelves, while the rest vanished into private collections around the world. Earl Morris, a famously inquisitive archaeologist who roamed the Southwest in the early 1900s, amassed one of the more complete assemblages of ancient pottery from this area; much of it is currently stored at the University of Colorado.
As archaeology became more of a science and less of a pothunting free-for-all, researchers began to focus more on who the Anasazi were. They discovered that the people they'd lumped together under the modern rubric of Anasazi were actually made up of diverse ethnicities, speaking many different languages. These people built monumental stone towers and pueblos connected by long, engineered roads, and opened trade routes clear into Central America (HCN, 6/21/04: Following the Ancient Roads).
And the Anasazi hadn't disappeared at all. Studying cultural traits and ethnographic history, scholars came to understand that the Anasazi had simply moved away, and were alive today in the form of the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Tewa, and numerous other tribes in northern New Mexico and Arizona. Many members of these Pueblo tribes see the concepts of "disappearance" and "abandonment" as farcical. Migration is a cornerstone for Pueblo societies, movement ceaseless, and no landscape has ever truly been abandoned. Ever since they left the Four Corners 700 years ago, Pueblo people have been returning to erect shrines upon ancient ruins, keeping their ancestral maps intact.
Reinforcing this, archaeologists also discovered gaps, blank spaces, in the prehistoric record, marking periods when entire settlements were abandoned. These abandonments happened long before the famous 13th century departure, the Anasazis' apparent Houdini act. The Anasazi world, it seems, was one of motion and mixture, of pulses of migrants heading one way and then back again. It was no surprise that they left here in the 13th century. They were always leaving.
Still, a whole civilization had blossomed around the Four Corners, and then suddenly everyone packed up and left. Even though they did not go more than a hundred miles or so, their movement was so thorough and sudden that researchers were still mystified. What could possibly cause a large population of highly organized pueblos to leave a region entirely?
Archaeologists working on one site not far from Susan Ryan's excavation have unearthed fragments of one story. Nearly every trench they dug revealed human skeletons that had been left unburied, skulls smashed, bones broken by blunt trauma.
The list of human remains revealed in the excavation reads like a war crimes indictment: infants, children, adults and elders, all found piled upon each other or scattered across the grounds and in the many rooms, their bones often disarticulated and thrown about. When the end came to this particular pueblo, it was sudden and decisive.
I once went to the head of the canyon that housed this site, walking in the oceanic green of the piñon and juniper, banks of snow gathered in the shade. I looked down into one of the low dishes in the ground that had once been a kiva, aware from excavation reports that a child had been thrown into the fire hearth in the kiva's floor, his left arm and left leg twisted horribly backward, a lethal blow with an ax to the back of the head, and cut marks on the skull indicating scalping. I imagined shadows streaking against the walls buried around me, women with knives fighting back furiously, crying out the names of their children as raiders stormed through the buildings.
This tale of violence has become the new fashion among certain archaeologists. Evidence of prehistoric warfare has moved to the forefront: ancient towers found stashed with infants and children who were burned alive; skeletons discovered dismembered. Some researchers envision vicious thugs from Central America, roving gangs of cannibals overrunning pueblos weak from years of drought. Others imagine death cults and ritualized torture (HCN, 5/24/99: Walking the path between light and dark).
What drove the warfare or infighting? What caused this civilization's collapse into chaos? Drought has become the most popular theory. Over the past decade, dendrochronology researchers at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in Tucson, Ariz., have found irrefutable evidence for a great drought that coincided with the renowned 13th century desertion (HCN, 1/24/05: Written in the Rings). The land dried up, they've surmised, and as it did people either left, or stayed and perished as the remnants of their society caved in.
But a closer examination of this drought has revealed that it may not be the smoking gun we thought it was. Dr. Carla Van West, an archaeologist at Washington State University, took the same tree-ring data and used it to calculate the amount of moisture that existed in a 700-square-mile area of southwest Colorado during those dry years. Even in the depths of the drought, she discovered, there was enough water to allow many people to live comfortably here.
Drought played a role, according to Van West, but in the end it was not the most crucial element. People left, she believes, because of overriding social forces.
What exactly were these forces? The answer is not in the tree rings.
"The reality is that we can gather as much empirical evidence as possible," says Van West, "but we are missing the ideological and cosmological components of who they were and why they left."
Dr. Van West is among a group of intrepid archaeologists who are using every available tool to redefine what happened here 700 years ago. Each archaeologist in this group has a role in clarifying the story, one studying the atomic structure of ceramic clay to determine where pots were being made, another cataloguing the trading of stones for toolmaking.
But no one I've met has come closer to the "ideological and cosmological components" of the Anasazi — closer to the center of this mystery — than Susan Ryan. Ryan is the voice from the field, her eyes having day by day grasped this environment in which the Anasazi lived, her fingers finding their belongings in situ, exactly where they were left.
Her most intriguing discoveries have been on the floors of the Anasazis' ceremonial kivas at her site on the Great Sage Plain. Many of these circular underground chambers were disassembled at some point, their large, wooden ceiling beams pulled out and used for new construction elsewhere. This was not unusual for a place that was inhabited for a couple centuries, but the last kivas to be used were treated differently. Almost all of them were burned, their massive wooden ceilings crashed in.
"It used to be assumed that fires like these were catastrophic ... the result of warfare or accidents, someone cooking when a spark gets into the ceiling," Ryan told me. "That has been the explanation, at least, because when you look at the floors, you find all these tools and goods left behind under a burned ceiling, as if they had to run to get out."
But it must have taken a lot of work to get ceilings like these to catch fire, and Ryan doubts that it could have been an accident. The next, most obvious conclusion is that the fires were intentionally set by invaders, much like what has been found at the nearby massacre site. The problem is that Ryan has found no evidence for violence at her site, nor at any of the other hilltop sites immediately surrounding her. The end here seems to have been peaceful; the people left in a very orderly and deliberate fashion.
On the floor of one of the kivas, Ryan came upon a large bowl inverted like a helmet, the designs painted around its exterior rim indicative of the later 13th century, the moment just before this site was entirely abandoned. When she lifted this bowl, she found two baskets neatly stacked beneath it. The bottom basket contained a cache of coarsely ground corn. The basket above it held a small pile of corn, ground as finely as pastry flour. This was not corn stored for eating. It looked like an offering, one set there before the ceiling collapsed in a heap of fire and embers. Around it, she found ceramic ladles nested into each other, and other artifacts placed just so. The kiva floor looked like a giant altar.
The fires could have been deliberately set as invaders approached, the way the Russians burned their towns as Napoleon's army drew near, but Ryan sees these acts more as ceremonies of closure, the kind of thing you do before intentionally leaving a place. In cultures around the world, important objects that need to be retired are dealt with in one of three ways: They are buried, put under water, or burned. This is done to take something powerful out of circulation, so it can no longer be used if it falls into the wrong hands.
"I'm a believer in ritual abandonment," Ryan said. "I like to think these structures had a life, that they weren't just stacks of rock. When it was time to leave, you did not just walk away. You treated the place like a person who has died. You paid your respects."
Curiously, the same pattern of what Ryan and other archaeologists call "ceremonial burning" can be seen in structures that were left behind in the 10th century A.D. during a prior abandonment, and at many other sites left behind at different times. The Anasazi left trails of burning buildings almost every time they moved away. It seems to be a sign of impending migration.
The Anasazi have long been thought of as peaceful farmers, half-naked peasants strolling barefoot through utopian museum dioramas, their small brown faces agreeable and intent. Such notions strip them of their authenticity, making them either woefully simplistic or divine in their serenity. In the end, they were human. Their societies were multifaceted, their rituals elaborate, their deaths sometimes horrific and their departures consecrated.
So why did they leave?
Leading archaeologists, including Van West and many others, have assembled an elaborate theory that involves a complex interplay of environment and society. They believe that the Anasazi grew to the teetering heights of their civilization in the 13th century. After a few hundred years of good growing conditions, a drought hit during a very crowded time. People moved to the best-watered places, until too many people were living too close together. Violence erupted, and people consolidated into massive, defensive settlements. Ethnic, religious, or social factions that had coexisted at least somewhat peacefully for centuries were suddenly at odds, living on top of each other. They began moving out, and as soon as that happened, the carefully organized social environment the Anasazi had constructed in the Four Corners began to unravel.
Susan Ryan has her own ideas. "There are all these theories about violence and drought," Ryan once said. "Why couldn't it be as simple as it's time to go? This culture is sedentary and nomadic at the same time. Maybe ecologically it makes sense so you don't overstay your welcome. Sometimes you just up and go."
What impresses Ryan is that toward the end of the occupation here, the population skyrocketed. People were moving in from all around. Ryan thinks they might have been preparing for a mass exodus.
"Are they gathering together so that they can depart as a single, cohesive group and start their own place somewhere else? Is there safety in numbers when you're migrating?" she asked. "Is it easier to start a community down the line? Yeah, I bet it would be. You need large numbers to do the different jobs, to get homes built. Maybe they all know that they are about to migrate and so they come together to organize themselves."
But down in the bowels of this site, Ryan has found hints of another, even more enigmatic story — a story that suggests that we may brush against the Anasazis' reasons for leaving, but never fully grasp them.
"I have to tell you something about snakes," Ryan said, sitting cross-legged at the edge of a trench, looking into the rising wind. "Part of my map, I suppose."
From where she sat, she could see the range of the earth under the oncoming clouds: Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, all visible in a single glance.
"You know we always had gopher snakes here," she said. "I saw some five feet long."
I knew the ones, elegant cream-colored ropes found in the morning under the trailer, or slipping away through the greasewood in the afternoon. Ryan told me that for reasons she did not quite understand, she felt soothed every time she saw these snakes. They were good company, pliant, not poisonous. Sometimes she slipped a hand beneath their cool, pearly bellies.
"At the end of the last season, rattlesnakes started showing up," she said. "We just never saw that many rattlesnakes before, and suddenly I kept finding them."
Ryan said she had the feeling that the rattlesnakes were urging her off the site. It was a forceful sort of farewell. She had mentioned this to a few of her colleagues, but no one took her seriously.
But it was more than superstition. A couple of years back, Ryan was digging out the bottom of another kiva here when she unearthed the 800-year-old skeleton of a snake. It had been stretched out on the kiva floor, and its skull was conspicuously missing. Usually, a dead snake would be found coiled in rocks, its vertebrae scattered like dice, but this one was straight as a ruler, cleanly intact but for its head. Just before the chamber had been intentionally buried in refuse and rubble, before its ceiling beams had been pulled out, a headless snake had been laid across the hardpan floor.
Shortly after finding the snake, Ryan brought a group of American Indians to the site, asking their opinions and making sure they were comfortable with the quality of her work. When she approached this exposed kiva, she mentioned her curious find. One woman from a western pueblo suddenly stiffened. Without explanation, she turned and walked away, keeping her distance from the entire site from then on. Ryan understood that the woman was carrying a private piece of knowledge, something that told her what it meant to find a headless snake on the floor of a kiva. It was a message, a ritual from long ago.
"It'll be good to have this place backfilled," Ryan said, wiping cold crumbs of mud off her jeans. "I've noticed some decay in the walls. We've gotta get things closed up. I think we've done enough here."
Nearby, workers were backfilling a partially excavated kiva. One worker threw in ancient building stones, while another shoveled in dirt. The mix of dirt and stones was measured, so that once the room was filled, the ground above it would not sag. Future visitors would never know anything had happened here.
Have people always left this way? I wondered. Ryan is not the first person to close this village. She is merely the next in line, a woman mindful of small acts, making sure that the rooms are properly buried so that her presence, too, will fade with time. Four years of Ryan's imagination will be neatly buried in a matrix of heavy rocks and ochre-brown dirt. This is the new ritual of departure, a 21st century abandonment.
Ryan looked thoughtful. Winter was coming, and her work here was almost complete. She would need to set her emotional map aside and begin to write an official, scientific report on what she found here.
She tightened her collar to keep the snow out, and she walked away.
Craig Childs is the author of 11 books about nature and the Southwest, including The Secret Knowledge of Water and Soul of Nowhere. His next book, on which this story is based, is due out next summer from Little, Brown. Its working title: House of Rain. Craig lives in Crawford, Colorado, with his wife, Regan Choi, and their son, Jasper.
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Well, I couldn't find a manga thread for this excellent, excellent series, so I went ahead and created one.
Anyway, the latest episode dropped us quite the bomb. It'd appear the Feather's real identity is
Spoiler for chapter 200:
Of course the episode didn't spell it out for us, but that'd be the most rational conclusion.
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I never thought that Feather will be someone from the future before reading you guys post. I just think that she might be Carrie because she said she loved Minamoto
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if time travel is possible im thinking that it's the other option because it would make sense, also the hair seems to be a giveaway. Personally i hope feather isn't from the future but with little to no real information other than she loves minamoto and that she wants to change the future, we really have very little to go with.
the one really cheesy sci fi plot that really stuck out to me was the heavy future and light future... that was a funny bit of double backing, eventhough all the predictions so far have come true. Although I still don't know how Minamoto got there in time to take a bullet for Igou.
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I strongly believe that Feather is Carrie.
Carrie was created by an experiment; so it is possible that Black Phantom might have taken that research and created Mirage/Phantom. Although it is hard to say, because of the lack of info regarding the experiment and what they did in there.
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But, when Carrie was born, she had a mind of a baby, and already had a high level of ESP.
So, if the experiments had been more then just successful, Carrie may be even stronger.
I'm guessing that the experiments involved the Rare Metal Earrings that Mirage/Phantom had.
The anime made Barret, Kaoru and Hyoubu's fight pretty nicely
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From the way feather is acting, I have a hard time believing it is kaoru... maybe this is a reincarnation things, since the stones posses the psychic imprint of those strong people, maybe in the past there was also a matsumoto that loved a psychic, because to me I think Carrie would never do anything to betray matsumoto.
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what exactly this means....i mean to say if we declare a function as static what are the spl properties that are aquired by the funcion....
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A function marked as "static" is not available to the linker when linking a program with more than one module. This is useful because:
1. A static function can be declared as static in more than one module, and do different things without causing a clash
2. A static function declared in a library is not exported to the program using it, so it won't clash with another function of the same name, and the program cannot call it (unless they know the address which is highly unlikely)
3. Your program may build slightly faster and / or smaller because the compiler will decide how to optimise it at compile time rather than leaving it for the linker
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If you had a function wobble() declared in main.c and util.c, the linker would give an error. If you declared them both static, it would be fine.
It is good practice to declare *everything* static unless you're using it in another module of your multi-module program.
That way, if there are other developers working on some other code, you're less likelly to have name clashes.
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You must not declare any functions which are going to be called by name from outside your program (notably main(), WinMain() and similar) as static, or the program won't link
Static takes many meanings in C and even more in C++...
Specifically, in C, declaring a *global* vraiable or a function as static means that it exists only in that module. In other words, that variable/function, declared in mod1.c (for example), cannot be accessed/called from mod2.c. It will also not conflict with vraiables/functions of the same name declared in other modules.
In the case of a local variable, it means that the variable is "persistent" throughout all calls made to the function in which it is declared (typical example would be to count the number of calls made to that function...)
In C++ and other OO languages, class variables and methodes declared as static means that they can be accessed without having to instanciate an instance of that class; you can call/access them by ClassName.var or ClassName.methode()...
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Former GMH nurse fights ovarian cancer by hitting it head on
Cindy Fisher recently breezed through the doors of Gothenburg Memorial Hospital wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt.
The day before, the former nurse at GMH had traveled to Litchfield for a volleyball game and drove on to Broken Bow to have supper with a sister.It was late so the Moorefield resident spent the night and drove to the hospital for an interview the next day.
And for a shot to promote the production of white blood cells to boost her immune system.
Fisher is battling ovarian cancer, which seems surprising given her energy level this day.
In April of 2009, the 56-year-old was working nights at GMH.
After her shift one day, Fisher had a routine pap smear.
During the examination, the physician's assistant felt a mass in her abdomen and sent her to the hospital for a CT scan.
"I knew I was in trouble when I saw her eyes," Fisher said.
By the time Fisher received the results by phone at home, she learned not only was it ovarian cancer but there were questionable spots on her liver and fluid in her abdomen.
She called her husband, Bob, who worked at Tenneco in Cozad, to tell him.
Then Fisher cried.
The next morning, she and Bob were on their way to see a surgeon in Omaha.
Two days later, a tumor was removed, a biopsy taken and exploratory surgery done.
A lymph node showed signs of disease but the cancer had not metastasized, or spread, to other organs.
Fisher underwent eight treatments of chemotherapy for six months but in April 2011 blood work showed the cancer had returned.
Six more treatments followed into the fall and more were scheduled the following March.
On Oct. 15, she finished her last treatment of another round of chemotherapy.
"I was told I would never be cured of ovarian cancer but as long as my body was strong enough to handle the chemotherapy, I'd be okay," Fisher said.
Fisher also knows that most women with ovarian cancer, who have a lymph node affected, live five to seven years after the first diagnosis.
But Fisher has fought from the beginning.
"I knew when I found out I had cancer that the only way to deal with it was to hit it head on," she said. "I knew my attitude would be important."
And exercise, according to her surgeon.
Swimming at the indoor pool in Eustis helped with aches and pains and in building stamina, she said.
An emotional challenge is learning to take care of herself.
She noted that she's had to give up a large share of her care giving role as a nurse and to the Fisher's adult son, Michael, who suffered a rare stroke at age 10 and still suffers seizures
"Caregivers often forget to take care of themselves," she said.
Fisher admitted that she also struggles with depression and takes medication to help manage the symptoms.
Dealing with cancer has shown Fisher how to appreciate each day.
"The sunsets, the leaves now are gorgeous and laughter," she said. "I've learned to laugh more."
The Fishers have also taken the advice of Cindy's oncologist who encouraged them to travel if that's what they wanted to do the next couple of years.
Bob is now self employed so the couple bought a camper last spring and has traveled to Branson, MO, and to Washington and Oregon.
"We always wanted to retire and travel with a camper, we're just doing it early," she said.
Another blessing is Fisher's growing dependence on God.
"I've grown closer to the Lord and to my family," she said. about Bob, Michael of Omaha and daughter, Sara, who lives in Texas.
The support of her family, friends, church and coworkers at GMH has been tremendous, she said.
On Sept. 8, GMH coworkers participated in a walk in Omaha to bring about awareness of ovarian cancer and to raise money for research.
Registered nurse Deb Dike, said Fisher gave strength to others at GMH even before she was diagnosed with cancer.
"She's been through so much already," Dike said. "When I went through bad times, she always knew when to give me a word of encouragement."
Although Fisher had to quit work as a nurse at GMH last March, she still teaches cardiopulmonary resuscitation classes when needed.
A key verse for Fisher now and when she was first diagnosed is Psalms 46:10:
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Mothers Everywhere to Remove "My Child Is an Honor Student" Bumper Sticker After Release of Final Grades
After a majority of colleges have let out for the summer, mothers across the country are now passive aggressively scraping their "My Child is an Honor Student" bumper stickers from their minivans.
"I went outside to see what my mom was doing, and all I saw was holding a bottle of Goo Gone and a putty knife, muttering 'how the fuck am I supposed to get into a decent nursing home now?,'" said sophomore Andrew Johnson, wiping sticker residue off of his forehead.
Moms from Iowa to Oregon who are "patiently waiting for their kids to become successful lawyers" are removing their bumper stickers that they've proudly displayed since their children were in middle school.
"I thought the sticker would be a cute idea," said KU mom Alexandra Lawrence. "I just wanted to be able to find my minivan easier in the Costco parking lot while showing off the pride I had in my kid and making other parents jealous. Now all I have to show off is a circular glue stamp that won't come off."
Local landfills supposedly can't handle the amount of bumper stickers being thrown away– a number that's reported to be in the tens of thousands.
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In just the first two months of 2015, we have been horrified, though not surprised, to learn of the continued repression by SOA/WHINSEC graduates against their own people. As the US continues to secure economic and political interests by utilizing military solutions to social and political problems, SOA/WHINSEC graduates continue to make headlines in countries like Honduras, Guatemala, Peru and Chile, underscoring the importance of continuing the struggle to close the SOA/WHINSEC. While some graduates have yet to be held accountable due to the high levels of impunity in their country or in the US, they are all directly responsible for committing grave human rights violations, which include murder, torture and genocide.
General José Efraín Ríos Montt - Guatemala
On January 5, the retrial against SOA grad and former dictator General José Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez was set to resume following the annulment of the historic May 10, 2013 sentence condemning Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for crimes against humanity and genocide against 1,771 Ixil Mayans. He is the first former head of state to be put on trial for genocide. On the morning of the retrial, the defense motioned for a postponement of the trial, using Ríos Montt's deteriorating health an excuse for not being able to present himself to the courtroom. Through stalling tactics by his defense, including attempts to seek amnesty, the retrial has been postponed once again despite international criticism. Ríos Montt came to power after a coup on March 23, 1982 and remained in power until August 1983. He is 88 years old.
On January 15, 2015, police unleashed tear gas and detained protesters, and violence was reported between infiltrators and police. Soon after, on January 26, Urresti publicly boasted to the media that the young people would not be able to reach Congress and sent ten thousand police to block them. Nevertheless, the Peruvian youth and social movements prevailed and Congress was forced to repeal the law. Just last week, Urresti apologized for the February 11, 2015 death of 25-year-old Ever Pérez Huaman during protests against a petroleum company in Pichanaki, Peru. Amidst mounting criticism, Urresti admitted political responsibility for the use of firearms by police during the protest, and stepped down as Minister of the Interior.
Great Article Details the Deportation and Other Judicial Proceedings Against Salvadoran SOA Grads
Two Salvadoran ex-generals and School of the Americas graduates, José Guillermo García Merino and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, have been ordered deported by Immigration Judges in the last year. This excellent article from Trevor Bach in the Miami New Times details the history of the different types of judicial proceedings instituted against them in the U.S. and elsewhere, the crimes they have been found responsible for, their continued lack of remorse, and the unwavering fight for justice by the Salvadoran people and international allies. The ex-Defense Minister and ex-Director of the National Guard continue to evade responsibility for their heinous crimes and are appealing their deportation orders.
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MAY 2014Damning Report Links U.S. Military Training, including SOA/WHINSEC Training, to Extrajudicial Assassinations in Colombia
The Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Colombia‐Europe‐U.S. Human Rights Observatory published a detailed, data-rich report focusing on the over 6000 extrajudicial murders committed by Colombia's military between 2000-2010, the first ten years of U.S.-funded Plan Colombia. The impunity for the "false positives" goes all the way to the top, as SOA-grad and current Army commander General Jaime Lasprilla oversaw at least 75 killings of civilians when he led a brigade in southern Huila Department in 2006–2007.
Utilizing available data and reports, author John Lindsay-Poland shows that a worrisome correlation exists between U.S. military training and human rights abuses. Colombia has for years been the number one client of the SOA/WHINSEC and is now multiplying that model by training thousands of soldiers from around the world. The importance of this report becomes even more important as policy-makers from both parties tout Plan Colombia as a "success" and model to impose on other Latin American countries, and the SOA/WHINSEC as a "reformed" institution while ignoring the facts on the ground.
EXCERPT: "Of the 25 Colombian WHINSEC instructors and graduates of the Command and General Staff course from 2001 to 2003 for which any subsequent information was available, 12 of them — 48% — had either been charged with a serious crime or commanded units whose members had reportedly committed multiple extrajudicial killings. A random sample of 25 Colombian officers from approximately the same period showed a better human rights record than the WHINSEC cohort: we identified four (16%) who subsequently led units with multiple extrajudicial executions under their command."
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Salvadoran General/SOA Graduate Ordered Deported from U.S. for Role in 1980s Human Rights Violations; Promises to Appeal Decision
Salvadorans continue to feel the pain inflicted upon them by the brutal U.S. trained and funded military and death squads during the 1980s. One sign of justice is the recent Deportation Order issued against Gen. José Guillermo García, who was the Defense Minister during some of the worst atrocities committed in El Salvador, all of which are linked to Garcia and multiple other SOA grads in planning, execution, and cover-up.
From NYT: "Judge Horn found "clear and convincing evidence" that General García "assisted or otherwise participated" in 11 violent episodes that scarred the Central American country, including the 1980 murder of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero as he was saying Mass in the capital, San Salvador. The judge also found that General García helped conceal the involvement of soldiers who killed four American churchwomen later that year. He "knew or should have known" that army troops had slaughtered the villagers, including women and children, in the hamlet of El Mozote in December 1981."
Read more here.Full Decision of Immigration Judge against García here.
National Defense University (NDU) Professor and SOA Grad Detained in Chile for Role in Multiple Murders after 1973 Coup
On January 30, well-known military and defense journalist Thomas E. Ricks reported on his Foreign Policy blog that the NDU (based in Washington, DC) had been employing an SOA graduate, Jaime García Covarrubias, whom was detained in Chile for his role in the summary executions of seven political prisoners in Temuco after the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat. 14 other ex-Chilean military men were also charged in connection with the massacre, 7 of whom are SOA grads, including Raimundo García Covarrubias, brother of Jaime. 6 of them attended the same course, Combat Arms Orientation 0-37, which was only taught to Chilean students from 1970-1973, the four years prior to the coup. 6 of the 9 that were charged with being "authors" of the homicides are SOA grads. One of them, Carlos Oviedo Arriagada, came back to SOA/WHINSEC in 2001 for Cadet Troop Leader Training.Jaime García Covarrubias, would go on to become the head of Counter-Intelligence for Chile's infamous DINA agency, which oversaw torture and disappearances throughout the country. Disturbingly, the NDU continued to employ García Covarrubias four years after 2010 public investigations in Chile revealed the accusations against him, which included promoting sexual torture along with homicide.
Read more here.
Uruguayan SOA Graduate Arrested for Participation in Operation Condor
On August 14, Prensa Latina reported that Uruguayan Army Major Antraning Ohannessian, a 1969 graduate of the School of the Americas, was arrested for the forced disappearance of four people in 1976, as part of his role in "Operation Condor". Operation Condor, a coordinated plan of state repression against left-wing activists in the Southern Cone of South America, was largely led by SOA graduates.
Read more here.
Colombian Armed Forces Promotes SOA Graduates
On December 5, 2012, after a secret Senatorial plenary, 33 members of the Colombian Armed Forces were promoted to upper-echelon ranks. Of the twenty Army Generals promotes, all of them were graduates of the US Army's School of the Americas; some were instructors.
The list of SOA Generals in the Army is as follows:
SOA-trained Graduate Leads Attack on Honduran Farmer Movement
The commander of the Honduran Army's Xatruch III Operation, Colonel Germán Alfaro Escalante, has led a propaganda campaign against farmers in Honduras' Aguan Valley, according to human rights monitoring organizations. Alfaro Escalante, a graduate of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, has led military operations in the Aguan, where over 90 campesino activists have been murdered since the 2009 SOA graduate-led coup. Activists claim that Alfaro Escalante's claims that campesinos are being trained in Nicaragua in armed insurgency makes them targets of continued death squad and military/police activity.
Read more here.
Massachusetts Tribunal Cites SOA Graduate for 65 Executions and More Than 500 Cases of Torture
In the ongoing hearing of Salvadoran Col. Orlando Inocente Montano for immigration fraud, federal Judge Douglas Woodlock admitted expert testimony that incriminates the former Salvadoran Vice Minister of Public Security in the ordering of massacres, disappearances and torture. If sentenced to prison, Montano could face deportation to El Salvador or to Spain, the latter which has requested him and 19 others for their role in the 1989 UCA massacre. In August 2011, when Montano's other 19 colleagues were requested in extradition to Spain, they were given refuge by the Salvadoran army in a military base to avoid extradition. Montano graduated from the SOA in 1970.
Read a report in Spanish here.
US Cautioned Mexican President Against Choosing SOA Grad as Defense Minister Citing Narco Links, Corruption
The New York Times reported on February 4th that US officials cautioned Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto against choosing General Augusto Moises García Ochoa as the new Defense Minister, citing DEA concerns of the General's links to narcotrafficking, as well as allegations of graft. García Ochoa took a Jungle Operation course in 1977. A biography of García Ochoa on the blog Estado Mayor reports that he was also an instructor at the school in 1983, though he does not appear as such in the SOA Watch Database. In 1997, Mexico's Proceso magazine reported that he was among 32 officers under investigation for drug trafficking.
Former Guatemalan Dictator and SOA Graduate Efraín Ríos Montt to Face Trial for Genocide
On Monday, January 28, Guatemalan Judge Miguel Angel Gálvez announced that former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt must stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Montt took courses at the School of the Americas (SOA) three decades before coming to power in 1982. During his 14 months in office, "an estimated 70,000 unarmed civilians were killed or disappeared; hundreds of thousands were internally displaced," Amnesty International reports. SOA graduates formed the backbone of the presidential cabinets under the dictatorships of both Montt and his predecessor, Romeo Lucas García. They were also deeply involved in the Guatemalan Intelligence Agency (D-2), in the formation of the notorious civil defense patrols, and in planning and executing "Operation Sofia," which wiped out some 600 Mayan villages, part of a broader campaign "of genocide against groups of Mayan people," the 1999 UN-backed truth commission concluded. Montt is the first ex-president to be charged with genocide by a Latin American court—an indication, perhaps, that the tide is turning against impunity in the region.
Learn more about SOA graduates in Guatemala here.
And read more about U.S. support for Guatemalan dictators here.
Five SOA Graduates Affiliated with the Honduran Army's 15th Battalion Linked to Various Murders and Abuses
Based on findings from a recent report from Rights Action, five high-ranking soldiers in Honduras who are linked with the 15th Infantry Battalion have been found in our SOA Graduates Database:
Raynel Funes Ponce
For more information on the specific abuses and the details of their training, click here.
You can read the Rights Action executive summary and full report about the 15th Batallion here
Four Chilean SOA Graduates Charged with the 1973 Murder of Folk Singer Victor Jara
On Friday, December 27, Chilean Judge Miguel Vásquez charged two Chilean officials, Pedro Barrientos and Hugo Sanchez, in the 1973 murder of Chilean Folk singer Victor Jara; six others were charged as accomplices. Four of the eight took courses at the School of the Americas. Pedro Barrientos, the second-in-command of the National Stadium which was turned into a open-air prison following the September 11th US-sponsored coup, and Raúl Jofré took the same Officers' Orientation course in 1968; Edwin Dimter Bianchi took a Combat Arms Orientation course in 1970; and Jorge Smith Gumucio took a Combat Arms Orientation course in 1972. Pedro Barrientos resides in Daytona Beach, FL.
Victor Jara was one of the Pinochet regime's first victims.
Read more here.
SOA Grad Ordered Cover-Up in Honduran Youth's Killing
In Honduras, 15 year-old Ebed Yanes was shot in the back of the head by US-vetted Honduran Army soldiers pertaining to Honduras' 1st Battalion. Soldiers were instructed not to talk about the case. The first to fire at Ebed was squad leader Josue Sierra, who took a Cadet Arms orientation at SOA/WHINSEC in 2011. Lieutenant Colonel Reynel Funes, who ordered the cover-up was vetted and trained by the US at the School of the Americas. Also, Lt. Colonel Jeremias Arevalo Molina, the Honduran Army spokeman who claimed the cover-up never happened, was trained at the SOA.
Read Alberto Arce's AP article published here in the Huffington Post, as well as here.
Former Head of Paraguayan Armed Forces and SOA Instructor Defends "Express Coup" Against Lugo
Paraguayan General Bernardino Soto Estigarribia, instructor at the SOA from 1986-1989, was interviewed by journalist Johannes Wilm, saying that the constitutional coup that removed President Fernando Lugo in June 2012 was necessary to stop "19th century communism".
View the interview in Spanish here
Death Squads, Then and Now
"Washington found an ally in General Álvarez Martinez, an SOA graduate who, while head of the national police in 1981, informed CIA Director William J. Casey that Honduras would gladly serve as a training ground for anti-Sandinista forces. Martinez was chief of the armed forces from 1982 to 1984, and founded the Battalion 3-16 death squad, which was later implicated in the disappearances of dozens of Hondurans, according to a 1993 report by the National Commission on Human Rights in Honduras."
Read Liz Scherffius' article here.
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text: OK. Enough about me and the Squires bulletin board--for now. It must be the season, because there's another David & Goliath story going in the fair land of golden bubbles. Over a year ago, biodynamic wine leader, Nicolas Joly, told me that a Champagne producer we both knew had seen the Big Boys of Champagne putting the screws on small producers--threatening to withdraw their grape growing contracts from them if they don't stop production. I had visions of cars on fire and broken knee caps. I snooped around as best I could from my perch, which wasn't really good enough. I asked this particular grower's importer what he knew. He kindly inquired on my behalf and in turn told me that the grower refused to talk, yet added, "He's hearing from his buddies that negociants are telling them that if they want to keep their (grape growing) contracts that they need to not let the world know that they are making their own (terroir-based) wines. " The nice grape grower and champers producer was scared. Out of the blue I got an email from the syndicate --who I had not contacted--laughing off my hunt for truth. Then I got an email from the Washington-based Champagne board, telling me that there was no fire under that smoke. Now, 1.5 years later, August 2nd, on the Decanter site I see that was truth to the mess. Jane Anson reported: "Moet et Chandon is facing serious supply issues, the director of the Champagne house has revealed." She relates that Frdric Cumenal, President of Moet & Chandon, who started out marketing for Procter & Gamble, said that a part of the problem is; "Small growers storing up to 100m bottles of Champagne in their cellars to limit tax bills and provide a source of income for their retirement." And so…."a new rule has been introduced in the region for the 2007 harvest. Growers must save any excess grapes in years of good supply to put onto the open market in years of limited supply, which should help ease problems." A few years ago I wrote a story on mono-cru and focused on David (grower champagne) and Goliath (symbolized by LVMH who owns Moet, Krug, Ruinart, Clicquot and Mercier) story. I wrote that it would not be long before the big houses ran scared. They were losing prestige (as geeks praised the small houses and turned up their noses, even at Krug as plonk) and at some point they were going to be hit in the pocket book because 1) they'd lose market share. 2) they wouldn't be able to have supply as more growers made sold their one instead of handing over their babies (grapes) up for adoption. I'm not sure how this will play out. How can they be forced to put their 'excess' into the market instead of in their own bottles? But they are the all powerful LVMH--as a friend of mine who used to work in fashion said, "They are in business of the allusion of luxury." Anything can happen. Like, the growers take their chances and say, fine, get your grapes elsewhere. Then they would have to take the risk on bottling all of their grapes. Of course that's a whopping risk. Champagne takes a while to cook. How will they make money while the bottles are marinating? With grapes they take in a certain amount of cash flow, up front, in the bank allowing them to produce their bottles, often far superior to the mass stuff. If they had to survive on their own champagne there would be a long time before they could float themselves to solvency. This is a seriously sour pickle. Champagne had always been based in a symbiotic relationship. Big Boy needs the Little Guy and Little Guy need Big Boy. LVMH should not be so smug about winning their battle. They just might lose this one because there may be a way out for the grower. Even though they represent a little over 2% of the entire production, they have more muscle than you'd think, and organized properly, the group might be able to sling the winning stone.


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I imagine that students new to Classical Latin (such as myself) begin to appreciate the subtleness of how cases combine within a sentence. An example, and please confirm:
Dea Minerva formam feminae simulat et in terra ambulat.
In this sentence, "formam feminae" seems to mean "form (or shape) of a woman" hence, it being in the genitive case led by an accusative singular.
Question: Are there other cases in the singular and plural that precede the genitive singular and plural? For I would think, it is just nominatives that lead into the genitives.[/face]


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|TAAL VOLCANO BULLETIN, 26 August 2011, 8:00 A.M.
|Friday, 26 August 2011 07:34
Taal Volcano's (14.0000°N, 120.9833°E) seismic network did not detect any volcanic earthquake during the past 24 hours. Field measurements on 23 August 2011 at the eastern sector of the Main Crater Lake yielded slightly increased water temperature of 33.4°C from 33.2°C and water level increase of 1.65 meters from 1.63 meters as compared to previous readings. Ground deformation survey (precise leveling) on the Volcano Island last 21 - 28 July 2011 indicated that the volcano edifice is slightly deflated compared with 01-10 June 2011. However, baselines calculated from continuous GPS (Global Positioning System) data for the period February to July 2011 reveal a very slight but steady inflation of the northeast flank of the Volcano Island. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission recorded on 27 June 2011 at the Main Crater Lake was 1,821 tonnes/day, which is above background levels.
Alert Level 1 remains in effect over Taal Volcano. This means that hazardous eruption is not imminent. The public, however, is reminded that the Main Crater should be strictly off-limits because sudden steam explosions may occur and high concentrations of toxic gases may accumulate. The northern portion of the Main Crater rim, in the vicinity of Daang Kastila Trail, may also become hazardous when steam emission along existing fissures suddenly increases. Furthermore, the public is also reminded that the entire Volcano Island is a Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ), and permanent settlement in the island is strongly not recommended.


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I purchased 2 programs on the net.They are exe files.
When I open them I cannot use the menu bar.
A password box pops up but I do not have the password.
I e-mailed and asked for the password but he wants more money
Is there a program I can use to find the password.
I do not want to pay this guy no more.


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So, I have been at this for a little over a month now, and I have
92 people -between email alerts and facebook- following my blog. This is amazing! Thank you for following me!
I was thinking, maybe since the monumentus one hundredth follower is imminent, I should offer some sort of a drawing when that time rolls around! When I started this blog I thought I would be offering you equal parts food and photography adventures, and while there have been some of both, I have been using it far more for a place to showcase my photography.
That being said, I now want to hear from you. If you were to win, which would you rather receive as a prize; a set of 5 note cards with my photos on them, or a dozen homemade whole wheat bagels?
Today Isaac and I took Ashley and Stan up to the Smith Tower! It's a great view of the city, that offers a different perspective to the Space Needle.
*edit* I just added this photo to the Photo Friday challenge, found here! Check it out, add your own! :)


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In case you didn't know, Microsoft is set to unveil the successor to the Xbox 360 on May 21st, 2013. The entire gaming world knows Microsoft is planning to release a new console, but gamers are still in the dark on what the next Xbox can really do. Rumors have been circulating for what feels like years, but with conflicting rumors, gamers really have no clue what Microsoft has going on in their super secret labs.
So until that fateful day where the Xbox 720 ( is anyone else sick of calling it that?) is revealed, we at For the Love of Gaming have been talking about what games we would love to see launch with the console. Here are the top games the crew wants to see.
Project Gotham Racing 5
Killer Instinct 3
Call of Duty Ghost
Dance Central 4
Grand Theft Auto 5
Perfect Dark 2
New Microsoft Ip
Next Gen Sonic game
Random EA sports games
Project Gotham Racing 5
Forza Motorsport 5
Call of Duty: Ghosts
New IP
Fable IV
Respawn Entertainment new FPS
Epic Games new IP (Unreal Engine 4)
I would like to see another Forza:Horizon-esque release and, being my personal favorite of theirs for this generation, another Alan Wake.
That said, I would like to see the next Alan Wake, much like the original, make it over to the PC. Especially if the port is as well done.


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Read the bigger version on flickr, sorry only available in Chinese version.
Not so new's news. I was interviewed by Shin Min Daily News (新民日报) last month and the article was published on Friday, 28 November 2008. I only received a copy of the newspaper today, by snail mail. T was more excited than me when I showed him the article, he read as if he could read Chinese!
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Started Learning Cooking Since Age of 12
Created 400 Recipes
Sharing on Her Blog
This lady is passionate in cooking. She is 33 y/o, a full-time mom and spending her free time experimenting new recipes. Her blog was created in year 2005, recording recipes created by herself, adapted from magazine and books, together with photographs taken by herself.
There are many categories of food on her blog, such as western, nyonya, Japanese, bread, cake, dessert and so forth. All recipes on her blog come with clear instruction.
Judging from photographs, dishes are carefully presented with tempting colour and they have professional quality. She has created more than 400 recipes, some of her favourite recipes are pumpkin rice, savory yam cake, chocolate cake pop and earl grey chiffon cake.
She said "I use my tongue and memory of taste and smell, and the concept of one dish to create another dish." "Some dishes succeed on the first attempt but other had tried umpteen times yet to achieve the taste I want."
According to her, she is not cooking for the purpose of blogging but spent times for preparing meals for family to experiment new dishes. Family members will provide feedback and she will adjust the recipe accordingly.


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Spoilers ahead! I'm not recapping these chapters in Bloodlines and The Golden Lily, but I do refer to some things that happen in them. These posts are to give some commentary and behind-the-scenes info for people who want to read along (or re-read) with me or walk down memory lane. If you haven't read the books, you might have some surprises ruined. So maybe go grab a copy and read along as we count down to The Indigo Spell! :)
THESE POSTS ARE NOT ABOUT THE INDIGO SPELL! You're safe if you've read the first two books in the series.
The Golden Lily, Chapter 21 & 22
Are you not entertained?
Admit it. You never would've guessed the uptight, paper-pushing Sydney we met in Russia during Blood Promise would be facing down a bunch of renegade vampire hunters in a makeshift arena in southern California. I'm not even sure the Sydney we met at the beginning of Bloodlines could've done that, and yet, here she is, standing up to a scary-ass mob and making a very good case for Sonya--which is totally lost on these guys, unfortunately.
And look who's here to save the day! Our favorite dhampirs show up in the nick of time. I always go on and on about how exciting it is when quiet, serious Eddie and Dimitri flip into battle mode. But you know what? I like it almost as much when Angeline does. She's been such a goofball in this book (and it doesn't stop in the next one...or the next one...), but when it counts, we have to remember that she too is a very skilled fighter. Even if she hasn't had as much formal training as the other guys, she can still kick ass when she's called upon.
But let's not fool ourselves. It's Adrian coming to the rescue here that really melts our hearts, largely because he is not a warrior, yet he still steps up and breaks the rules to get Sydney himself. I like how even in their daring escape, there's still a little of the banter we love, like this line from Sydney: "Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a prodigy in PE. The question is, can you, Mr. Smoker?" There are few situations in these books where I can't find room for a funny line. The ones that don't have those jokes are usually the spots that make you cry and throw the book across the room. So, if you don't see any jokes, be prepared.
I had to go research (i.e. ten minutes on the Internet) Sydney's method of testing the electric fence. I thought I'd seen people throw a stick against them in movies (didn't they do that in Jurassic Park?), but everything I read said that wouldn't actually work. Ah, the things I have to do to keep Sydney on her game.
Our action wraps up with a successful escape, though not without Sydney finding out that Stanton essentially used her as bait with the tracking device--and that everyone else knew. I certainly don't like to see Adrian receiving the brunt of Sydney's wrath here, but as she even notes to herself here, it's interesting that what hurts her the most is that he didn't tell her what was going on. Don't worry--she forgives him quickly, but we've now pretty much reached the ultimate level of trust between these two. They both take it as a given now that they'll always get the truth from each other. That's not exactly hawt, sexy stuff, but it's a requisite piece of love.
Tomorrow...the big ending!


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So what is new in Rise of Kunark?
*Level cap increase to 80 for tradeskills and adventuring *Total of 140 Achievement points *Zone Blending *New starting City and Race – The Sarnaks *The return of Epics *New Rhino Mount – 70% speed
We will briefly go over some of these things along . . . → Read More: EQ2 Rise of Kunark Review


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|Arlie (DeMornay) is an ex-con on her way home to Georgia after an eight year prison stint and what she hopes will be a reunion with the son she bore in jail. She thinks he's in a foster home but instead her mother (Burstyn) had the child adopted and if she interferes, Arlie's parole will be revoked. Arlie's trying desperately to rehabilitate herself but the system and old contacts are close to dragging her back down. TV movie adapted from Marsha Norman's 1977 play.
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