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Your lucky if you're device gets an official CyanogenMod ROM for itself. The AT&T Galaxy S2 Skyrocket is a well known variant of Samsung Galaxy S2. The CyanogenMod 9 ROM based on Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 is now available for the device and due course of this article we'll be covering up the process for same. CM9 is an well known ROM which is based on Android ICS, comes with lots of stuff and stability. The ROM is launched unofficial port. Special thanks to the developer topprospect from the Cyanogenmod team. The ROM is in early stages so should have a few bugs/issues.
- On boot, you may get a pop-up asking for "SIM network unlock PIN". Just press Cancel.
- "Use only 2G networks" option in Settings does not work
- Changing "Preferred network mode" in Settings may not work
- Sporadic graphics glitches exist (e.g. lock screen, rotation in Messages, when typing in a wi-fi password, etc)
- Touch screen can lock up; ignores touch input but physical and capacitive buttons works; requires reboot
- In-call audio is too soft
- In-call audio may be killed by turning GPS off (unclear exactly what is going on here)
- Camera does not work at all
- USB mounting of SD cards is broken
- Cannot wake from charging while powered off
- Battery stats in Settings do not work
Read on to know how you can install CM9 ROM on your AT&T Skyrocket.
Note: The update has not been released by the company, and has been ported to the device through the recovery mode. Warranty of your mobile phone will be voided upon the flashing of the ROM, but can be retained using the STOCK FIRMWARE.
All the steps mentioned here are not for beginners who don't have information about Custom ROMs, firmwares and Flashing. Don't try any of these things on your device if you don't know about all these things. Trying these things on an wrong manner can brick the device.
- The Steps mentioned here are for the AT&T Skyrocket.
- Backup all of your SMS Messages using SMS Backup application, Sync all the contacts with the Gmail Application, take backup of call logs, Internet APN Settings and all important things that you've installed on your device.
- Copy all the notes manually to somewhere else as they will be deleted upon the flashing of the ROM.
- Battery should be completely charged.
- AT&T Skyrocket Device drivers should be installed on your Computer
Disclaimer (Core Tech SG)
We cannot be held responsible for any damage that is caused to your device by taking wrong step which is an very unlike event if you follow all of our mentioned instructions carefully. Proceed at your own risks.
How To Install CM9 ROM on your AT&T Skyrocket
- You must use the touch enabled CWM recovery to install this ROM on your phone. Use this guide to install touch CWM on your Skyrocket.
- Download the ROM from – HERE.
- Download Google Apps package - GAAPS.
- Transfer the two downloaded .zip file to the SD card.
- Switch off the device and boot it CWM recovery. To do so, Press and Hold Volume UP + Volume Down +Power Button for device to turn on itself.
- Do a Nandroid backup of your existing ROM so you can always restore it from recovery if something gets wrong.
- Perform a wipe on your device. To do that, select "wipe data/factory reset" then select "YES". After that go to "advanced" and select "wipe dalvik cache" and confirm by selecting "YES".
- Now, select "Install zip from sdcard" then "choose zip from sdcard" and find the file that you had transferred to your device in Step 2 and select the same.
- Now, wait for the installation to get completed.
- After the ROM is installed go to the main recovery menu.
- Then repeat step 8 but this time select the Google apps package file gapps-ics-20120317-signed.zip to install the Google apps package.
- After the installation is complete, go back and select "reboot system now".
Congo! You've successfully installed the latest CM9 ROM on your AT&T Skyrocket . If you didn't get luck with this, let us know in the comments so we can turn you lucky. .


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When you are no longer Indigo you are what you always were a mass of conscious energy
When you are no longer Indigo you are what you always were a mass of conscious energy
Your only purpose is to Know
Depends on how many tokens you can collect,
I myself have three indigo tokens, ( special packs of Kellogg's frostys)
I'm looking for my fourth to become indigo master !! Lol
You are what you are,
Hamoth (06-08-2012)
When you're no longer an indigo, you're a platypus.
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
I'll be really honest here. I've been haunting this place checking out what I think of this indigo stuff, and I really am starting to think the whole indigo thing is basically people with the shamanic gift who have lost their ancestral connection to understanding and navigating it. It seems universally ungrounded and ill founded, but so promising at the same time. Maybe I'm just projecting. Either way, I'd not get hung up on labels and I'd look to my roots for answers.
If most of these people become shaman, they would be classified as the new shaman or advance shamanism. Because of these people's extra ordinary gifts, even shaman will not be comparable to many on here, if these people become shaman. Sad, they don't understand how their ability/gift is utilized in the shaman way, not realizing shaman is the tool for their gift to open to the physical side. Shaman is just a tool, it is not a ritual - it is a process. The tool when used correctly, brings your higher self to the physical side giving you the full potential you possibly could get. Without the proper tool, it can't come through long enough to make any real use with it, thus you get this feeling that only last so long, like the higher self surface just long enough for you to feel and know and then it goes back in ward and you try to find it again. Let me know if I'm wrong about this. Thanks.
Hamoth (06-08-2012)
It's one label among many. I don't mean to suggest the path for others. That said, there are records of what the shamanic practitioners in my line once could do. I see nothing new here. They saw frost giants and fire giants, I see 'plaedians' and lyrans. Now to me, they are both. It's all facets of the same things. I remember crashing here after getting shot down by a pulse from a submerged base at the mid-atlantic rift. They remembered the fire and smoke on the mountains, and descent of the tuatha de dannon. All facets to me now.
I wasn't able to ground my practice until I knew more about where my abillities came from - what they were for - how they had been used - and was able to harness the vertical energy of ancestry to understand earth connection better. YEt that's just my path. To each their own. I only mean to share my perspective as I grow increasingly assured that I might be more of a disruption here than I intend...
That said, when I took a shamanic class - I did find it rather...old hat. What they put a good deal of difficulty to was what I've always called "thinking" or "imagining". I am not being glib here...When hooked up to machines to monitor brain states in one of my numerous attempts to put a medical label on this thing, I experienced many episodes and was told that I seemed to be in a trance. When asked what I was doing, I said "Just day dreaming." I have, through this excercise confirmed that what most of humanity calls a shamanic journey or a trance state - is basically my idle-speed neurologically, and where I spend about 60% of my 'sleep' time (I actually don't sleep that much from a medical perspective). I'd already known that what I had assumed was sleeping and dreaming were medically distinct from actual sleeping and - meh, it's a long story - let's cut it short and say - I'm with you to a certain extent here. Yeah, some of what others consider a great achievement is nothing to me at all. Much of what they do every day is baffling to me. There is balance in all things, I often hope. Either way - gotta be humble, right?
Still there were things I, in my "advancedness" had never studied properly. Among these is one that I might share...I was taught to experience fully the transitions between realms. In the past I just 'became' where and what I needed to, or was called to, or whatever. In this class I learned the human ways of these things and could better bring my human desires and understandings with me. First orienting the compass points, compressiong longitudinal directions and dimensions into a focus at one's location - never bothered with such things before...Then feeling through time, upper and lower, then the vertical geometry is compressed and the upper and lower fields are properly aligned to one's earth-place. One then creates a special anchor place here on earth and can use this for all kinds of fascinating human-motivated things (like remembering, understanding, retaining - all very this-world priorities for me) This has been very helpful for me in learning how the human bits of me follow along and how to be kinder to them. The result has been a more integrated understanding - in my case. A more human one.
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You are a person, I suppose?
Maybe you're just having one of those days where you're not as into it?
you're still you, just crystal version. it doesn't change who you are really, but it means you've grown spiritually which is the part of the goal for all of us.
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"No work without an aggressive character can become a masterpiece."
When you are no longer an indigo what are you?
Gay and retarded
"No work without an aggressive character can become a masterpiece."
I don't suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it ! Hidden Content
I don't suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it ! Hidden Content
that persons a troll i'm pretty sure. i've seen other posts by them, yet they've been a user for so many years and have a high reputation, must've been hacked.
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Maybe you are are ascending quickly, with a rainbow aura, I would feel you are a Rainbow
What happens over the rainbow stays over the rainbow.
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Anthony Weiner's campaign for mayor plunged deeper into trouble on Thursday, as pressure mounted on him to drop out of the race and his unfavorable ratings reached an all-time high in a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.
Mr. Weiner provided new details of his sexually explicit online behavior, saying he exchanged lewd messages and photos with as many as three women since he resigned from Congress in 2011 for the same behavior. Mr. Weiner, who is married, has said he stopped such behavior in August 2012.
Former congressman Anthony Weiner drops out of the lead in the New YorkCity mayoral race after new sexually charged messages emerged this week, a new poll from The Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist showed. Michael Saul reports.
Mr. Weiner said he wasn't addicted to online sexual exchanges and said he was in therapy.
He vowed to carry on his mayoral bid as it encountered troubling headwinds. A gossip website published what it said were photos of Mr. Weiner's genitals, a woman with whom he had an online relationship denounced him and the poll showed his support slipping.
Speaking at a Brooklyn soup kitchen, Mr. Weiner said the new developments shouldn't change voters' perception of him.
"The facts, to a large degree, have not changed since I've said to you and so many others that the things I did were wrong, they were inappropriate, they were disrespectful to my wife," he said.
The Journal poll, taken on Wednesday, showed that the re-emergence of Mr. Weiner's scandal has again upended the crowded Democratic primary for mayor.
Among registered Democrats, including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, the poll showed 25% support City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and 16% support Mr. Weiner, a 14-percentage-point swing in Ms. Quinn's favor compared with a poll taken in June. The poll put Mr. Weiner in a statistical tie for second place with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who both had 14% support, while Comptroller John Liu was at 7%.
Ms. Quinn, who is trying to become the city's first female and openly gay mayor, has now regained her status as the clear frontrunner in the race.
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For results involving the 551 registered Democrats in the poll, there was a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points, and for the 320 Democrats who said they were likely to vote in the Sept. 10 primary, it was a margin of error of 5.5 percentage points.
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Ms. Quinn supported legislation in 2008 that allowed her, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and all other city politicians to serve a third term in office.
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The unfolding revelations raised questions about how much more of the scandal voters could stand. The gossip site, thedirty.com, published photos that it said were of Mr. Weiner's genitals, and the images quickly went viral on the Internet. Mr. Weiner's campaign wouldn't confirm the pictures were of him.
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Ms. Leathers declined an interview request.
A plurality of New York City Democrats, 47%, said Mr. Weiner should stay in the mayoral race, while 43% said he should drop out, according to the poll. Another 47% of registered Democrats believe Mr. Weiner deserves a second chance, while 45% said he doesn't have the character to be mayor.
The poll suggested that Mr. Weiner's scandal isn't affecting former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's bid for city comptroller. Mr. Spitzer resigned as governor in 2008 after he admitted he patronized a high-price prostitution ring.
According to the poll, 49% of registered Democrats said they support Mr. Spitzer and 32% said they are backing his opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. A poll from Quinnipiac University, which was released yesterday but was taken prior to the Journal-NBC-Marist survey, showed Mr. Spitzer leading Mr. Stringer 49% to 45% among likely primary voters.
"These are two campaigns that are really headed in very different directions," said Mr. Miringoff, speaking of Mr. Weiner and Mr. Spitzer.
Mike Morey, a spokesman for Ms. Quinn, said Ms. Quinn "is the only candidate in the race that offers serious leadership that can actually deliver for middle-class New Yorkers."
For Mr. Weiner to remain viable, Mr. Miringoff said, he will have to use the coming weeks to regain voter confidence. Mr. Weiner is now further back, in terms of his negative ratings, compared with when he announced his candidacy in May. Mr. Weiner "needs to get voters to give him a third chance," Mr. Miringoff said.
This poll marked the biggest gain for Mr. de Blasio. Among likely Democratic voters, 17% said they support him, just above Mr. Weiner at 16%. The poll showed younger voters are more likely to be supportive of Mr. Weiner than older voters. Black and Latino voters were also more likely to give Mr. Weiner the benefit of the doubt. Overall, four in 10 Democrats said Mr. Weiner would perform well as mayor, while more than a quarter predicted he would perform poorly at City Hall.
Dan Levitan, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, said, "It's a wide-open race, and as the only progressive candidate fighting to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for universal Pre-K and taking on inequality and racial profiling, Bill de Blasio is better positioned than ever to make the run off."
—John Surico contributed to this article.
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After 10 minutes of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average (down 79.57 to 10,204.89, Charts), the Standard & Poor's 500 (up 1.50 to 1,123.70, Charts) index and the Nasdaq composite (up 5.58 to 1,913.65, Charts) all added a few points.
Goldman Sachs (GS: unchanged at $91.68, Research, Estimates) and Lehman Brothers (LEH: unchanged at $76.02, Research, Estimates) both posted third-quarter earnings that were higher than expected. Goldman's earnings grew from a year earlier, while Lehman's fell. Stocks of both companies rose in early trading.
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Last night I had some dream that I was taking the CA bar exam, and that I had to answer some question having to do with third party beneficiaries. The bar exam was two weeks ago, there were no essay questions having anything to do with TPBs, and I'd really like my brain back now.A fellow blogger...
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While Moose certainly has a significant startup and memory cost, it should have little to no impact on normal runtime operations. For WWW::Curl::Simple from the HTTP benchmarks, the slowness is not inherent to Moose itself but in how it is...
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there are still parts of it to me that I can't seem to grok or get comfortable with As projects get larger and more stable, it becomes less important for one person to have a full understanding of all parts...
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educated_foo commented on
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I agree, to some extent, that "the slowness is not inherent to Moose itself but in how it is being used." But Moose seems to encourage that kind of use. By itself, it adds 10-20 dependencies to whatever you're doing, which may be worth it to you. Depending on what benchmarks you choose, it may or may not by itself slow things down much.
Somehow, though, Markdent ends up with more like *300* dependencies and an enormous runtime penalty. Looking into it briefly, it looks like DROLSKY -- a core Moose contributor -- wanted to write himself a wiki, and ended up with "an event-based Ma…
Neil Bowers commented on
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I've just pushed an updated version of the review, which now has a See Also section at the end, listing other markdown-related modules. Thanks to @ether and Ron Savage for the nudge.
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> It seems like Moose encourages this kind of architectural astronautics, which often leads to slower programs.
This is total FUD.
Moose uses modules that have clear abstractions and do one specific thing very well. Since it does a number of things under the hood, this is where the dependencies come from. But trying to conflate this with runtime slowdown is ridiculous.
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> This is total FUD.
It does not sound like FUD to me. It's true about each and every technology I saw in my life.More abstraction, more universal code - more overhead here and there and less flexibility.
> Moose uses modules that have clear abstractions and do one specific thing very well. Since it does a number of things under the hood
it sounds more like marketing material.
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My name is Talia, and I find that when I introduce my self people who don't reconize my name usually repeat it as Natalia. Talia is a hebrew name, and can be shortened to Tali.
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I am a Talia, born in Australia in 1984. People often mishear my name as Carly or Sally on the phone. It is often spelt Tahlia by people when they have only heard it. Neither of these things bother me because I am used to it.
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Hebrew, feminine form of Tal, meaning "dew from Heaven." It can also be a nickname for Natalya.
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A series of vignettes depicting events from around the Emerald Empire.
Scenes from the Empire
By Rusty Priske, Brian Yoon, & Shawn Carman
Edited by Fred Wan
Isawa Takashi leaned against the wall, casually spinning a small piece of string around his finger – first one way, than another. He created different criss-cross patterns around his knuckle, equally as likely to be a study in the lattice-effect of spiralling energy as the lacings on katana hilt or the tying pattern on a dress kimono.
He watched the other two who also waited. They were both young. One bore the raiment of a Lion, the other seemed likely to be ronin. No one spoke, awaiting the source of their mysterious summons.
Soshi Yoshihara walked into the chamber. She affected a sort of glide that many female Scorpion courtiers accomplished, but she was not quite as efficient at it. She did not have the air of sensuality that normally accompanies the movements. She would never admit that her inability to master the technique bothered her. She was a priestess of the kami, after all. She had more important things to worry about.
"You were summoned as well?" Takashi asked, continuing to twirl his string.
"I was the one who summoned you here. My name is Soshi Yoshihara, for those who do not know."
Takashi's eyebrow raised. "You summoned us?"
"I did. I know you were expecting a ranking official from the Hidden Guard, but you will see that I did not deceive you as to the nature of the summons."
Takashi glanced around. "I think before you continue, we should all know who each of us is. If we are to speak frankly, we need to know who each ear belongs to."
Yoshihara nodded. "You are concerned about speaking of the Sanctified Ones. Your reticence is deserved, but I can assure you that it is unnecessary. These are two newly inducted members of our group. This is Kitsu Katsuki." The Lion bowed. "And this is M'rika." The final member, almost certainly a ronin, bowed very deeply.
Takashi nodded, though he looked warily at M'rika. "I am Isawa Takashi. So this is the business of the Sanctified Ones? That only makes the lack of the Hidden Guard more puzzling, not less."
"It is not exactly this," Yoshihara said. "This is a very important mission that only the Sanctified Ones can perform, yet it is not, strictly speaking, Sanctified duties that we will be performing."
Katsuki finally spoke. "My apologies Yoshihara-san, as I am knew to this post, but this does not make sense to me. Our duty is to ensure that the lands where the Empress is travelling are properly purified and worthy of the divine one's presence. Our duties seem very clear."
Yoshihara nodded. "You are correct. The Empire, however, is at war. The Empress is not travelling for leisure. There are enemies who walk within our borders. There are those who know that the Empress would not travel without the likes of us moving there first."
Takashi frowned. "That is why our positions are secret. Otherwise our mere passage would indicate the Empress' itinerary."
"Our positions were kept secret, yes. But there has been a leak and it has been made known who four members of the Sanctified Ones are."
They looked at each other. Katsuki said what each was thinking. "The four of us."
Yoshihara responded by saying nothing and then Takashi sighed. "How could our names be leaked? I had never even heard of these two." He then turned and bowed slightly to the Lion. "No offense."
"None taken."
Yoshihara waited a moment and then said, "Our names were leaked because I leaked them, under the instructions of the Emerald Champion."
There was a moment of silence before Takashi said, "What?"
"I approached Jimen-sama with a plan to try and flush threats to the Divine One that could be hidden with the Empire. To my honor, he acknowledged the value of the plan and instructed me to proceed. As the plan would only succeed if the identities of the Sanctified Ones involved were known, I leaked our names."
Takashi frowned. "So you unilaterally decided to involve us in this plan?"
Yoshihara shook her head. "Not unilaterally. I believe I said that the Emerald Champion approved of this plan."
Katsuki glanced at Takashi and then said, "So what of it? What is this plan?"
The Scorpion smiled and then said, "It is simple, really, which is the strength of it. Each of us will go about our duties, as normal. We will act as if we have been given instructions about the Empress' travel plans and we will move ahead and perform our duties. Each of us will go to a different part of the Empire and perform our duties. Then identical retinues will leave the capital and travel to the areas we have prepared."
Katsuki nodded. "You are repeating the gambit that was successful during the War of Dark Fire."
Yoshihara nodded.
"I assume none of us will know which retinue will actually include the Empress," Takashi queried, "Or will any of them?"
"The Empress will be travelling. I know which path she will be taking and to show the importance of each of us in this, I will share that information, though it is not to leave this room." Takashi looked like he wanted to interrupt but the Scorpion did not pause. "M'rika will be responsible for the Empress' actual well being."
The other three all showed varying levels of surprise, none more so than M'rika herself. "Me? I am honored, certainly."
Yoshihara stopped any further discussions by saying, "This may seem surprising to all of you, but I have been given every assurance of M'rika's competency. In addition, the surprise displayed here will be shared elsewhere making it more unlikely that anyone would guess that is the Empress' true destination."
As Kitsu Katsuki and M'rika departed, Isawa Takashi gestured for Sohi Yoshihara to tarry. He did so subtly, to not make it obvious to the others. When they were safely alone Yoshihara said, "Yes? You wished to speak further?"
Takashi frowned and said, "You are leaving the safety of the Empress in the hands of a ronin. I am requesting that you switch our assignments. Give this ronin one of the false leads and I will protect the Empress."
"You question M'rika's appointment to the Sanctified Ones? Do you believe she would have received that position without his abilities being proven?"
"I do not care. The Empress's safety is more important than such assurances."
Yoshihara nodded. "I agree. This is why the Empress will not be travelling at that time."
Takashi's eyebrow shot up. "What?"
"It has come to the attention of that Emerald Champion that M'rika does not see herself as a ronin at all. She has sworn herself to this so-called Spider clan."
"What? She must be dealt with!"
"Yes, but for two things. One, the stance of the Empress towards the Spider has softened of late. Second, so far it is just supposition. When I learned that Jimen-sama was going to order an investigation I proposed this plan instead. Our names were not leaked as I said. No one knows about this plan but the four of us and the Emerald Champion. If there is an assault on what M'rika believes to be the Empress, we will be able to expose both her and the Spider Clan as threats to the Empress."
Takashi smiled grimly. "I see. Might I ask why you are willing to tell me this?"
"I was hoping that you were interested in a small trip."
"A trip?"
"Whoever rides in that palanquin must be able to defend herself. Would you care to be my escort?"
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Brothers in Arms
The winter chill yet lingered in the streets of the Imperial City, driven across the western plains by the wind of the Unicorn provinces. Tsuruchi Sanjo had never come to terms with the discomfort of it, having been accustomed since birth to the warm climate of the Islands of Silk & Spice. Still, he favored loosing fitting garments that gave him freedom of movement, and he refused to squander his stipend on new clothing that better suited the weather. How could one spend month on clothing when there were so many interesting weapons, so much sake, and so many intriguing geisha that required his company? It was folly.
Sanjo stopped outside a small temple that was near the barracks assigned to him as part of his duties among the Empress' Guard. He twirled the tonfa he had just purchased by its handle, marveling at its balance and the smooth quality of the wood. The carpenter who fancied himself a weaponsmith was skilled indeed! Sanjo looked at the temple. It was not much to the eye, but then many of the monks who were stationed within the inner city were of a conservative nature, so such a thing was not uncommon. This temple, however, held a new shrine, one recently constructed, and something within Sanjo told him that he must pay homage. He was weary, and if the truth was to be told he had consumed too much sake even considering that he was free of duties for the evening and subsequent morning. Ultimately, he decided that there was no time to be wasted and entered the shrine, intent on offering his prayers and retiring for the evening.
Sanjo moved silently through the temple's courtyard, eager to avoid conversation with the monks. The shrine within the courtyard was yet small and modest, something that some took issue with but with which Sanjo believed the man interred within would have been pleased. He stepped within to pay his respects, and was surprised to discover that even at such hour of the night, it was occupied.
Two men knelt at the shrine, paying their respects. Sanjo realized after a moment that he knew them both. "My apologies, brothers," he said quietly. "I did not mean to interrupt your reverence."
"No apology required," the hoarse whisper that was Bayushi Hirose's voice replied. "My daily prayers are complete."
"Daily?" Sanjo asked. "You offer prayers here daily?"
"I do," Hirose replied. "Bayushi Norachai was a great man. He was a tremendous honor to my family and my clan. I honor his memory as all loyal Scorpion should."
Sanjo nodded. "And what of you, Naomasa? What brings you to the shrine of a Scorpion lord?"
Matsu Naomasa stood from where he had knelt beside Hirose. "My father was a Deathseeker. He regained his honor, and that of my family, at the cost of his own life. In his last moments, Norachai-sama did the same, and for that I honor him." He gestured to a smaller urn within the shrine. "Upon his deathbed, when informed of the shrine that would be his, Norachai requested that those guards who fell beside him be interred alongside him. Akodo Kurogane was my friend, and I honor him as well."
"I see," Sanjo said quietly.
"Your presence here confounds," Hirose admitted. "The Mantis have no love for the Scorpion, even if some are able to put aside their disdain for a greater purpose, such as we have."
"In truth," Sanjo said, "I do not know. I felt… led. To pay my respects."
"Destiny moves us in manners we cannot comprehend," Hirose said. "I offer you my thanks for your reverence for Norachai-sama. It is an honor for all Scorpion. And I take my leave of you, to offer your prayers as you see fit."
"Forget not my kinsmen in your prayers," Naomasa reminded him. "Or our fallen comrade Tobikuma. His wounds are grievous, and his return to our side is yet uncertain."
"Of course," Sanjo said, nodding as the two men left. In their absence, the shrine was utterly silent. And in that silence, Sanjo stood, uncertain what to say.
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Effective Measures
The distant inhuman screech had become familiar over the previous months, but it continued to put Hida Demopen in a state of unease. By the sound, he guessed it originated nearly a mile away from his current location. It was not an immediate threat, but he knew their brief respite had come to an end.
He began lacing his arm guards and looked up at his companion in the tent. The Scorpion stared off into the distance in the direction of the noise, his expression unreadable under his mask.
"As you can hear, Kosaku-san, my time is short. You must get to the heart of the matter," Demopen said. His voice was customarily curt, but not with any malice.
Bayushi Kosaku nodded. They had become familiar with each other's styles and rarely took umbrage. "I understand. Thankfully, my duties here are brief. I requested and received orders that would give you direct command over several Scorpion military assets stationed along this part of the border. If you would accept it, Demopen-san, a legion of the Scorpion's bravest warriors will follow your order as if they were given by the highest authority."
Demopen's fingers stopped mid gesture. He barely stopped himself from uttering a curse. "What do you mean?"
Kosaku shrugged. "I mean exactly that. It sounds grander than it is, Demopen-san. You will be able to give orders to fifty samurai and five hundred ashigaru warriors. You know these men; they are the ones who have been fighting by your side all these months. I assume you can forge a bond of experience and camaraderie with them?"
"That is not the problem, Kosaku-san," Demopen protested. "I have told you many times that your men have proven their worth. I will fight with them at any time."
"Then what is?" Kosaku asked.
The Crab sputtered. "What is wrong with the current method? I am happy to work with you as a partner and share my thoughts with another commander."
"That will not change, Demopen," Kosaku answered. "I am still stationed here and I will continue to advise you on any tactical measure you wish. I have a different view on warfare and defense and I will help you utilize that to our greatest potential. However, there are two great problems with the current chain of command. The first is that I am not a soldier. I am a warrior, of course, but I have not been fully trained as a commander. It is only necessity that places me in my position now."
"You have adapted well," Demopen stated. His hands began to lace the piece of his armor once more.
Kosaku's lips curled into a slight smile. "Thank you. You, on the other hand, have been fighting in the Crab armies ever since your gempukku."
"It was also necessity that placed me in that position," Demopen said. "The years have not been kind on us."
"You are willing to incorporate our style of battle with your own. Our tactics have managed to hold these beasts at bay, even take back some of our territory. Success must be rewarded, and I trust that you will know how to best utilize my men," Kosaku continued.
Demopen gestured to the tent opening, and the pair began to walk toward the forces gathering to repel the next advance. "I see your point. The next one?"
"My final point is simple. We had a tragedy last month that could have been easily avoided if my men had been in place."
He remained silent. The Destroyers attacked at dawn with a swiftness they had never displayed before. Demopen had roused immediately and began shouting orders to mount a defense. Kosaku had not become ready so quickly and the Scorpion forces lay in disarray for much of the fight.
"Can I still rely on you, Kosaku-san?" Demopen asked as they drew closer to the men.
"Of course," Kosaku responded immediately. "Few things will change. I have only asked for and received official word for emergency situations."
Demopen wondered how much that official word had cost Kosaku. It could not have been helpful toward his career, but he also knew that the Scorpion had taken last month's error deeply to heart.
When the two commanders were in speaking distance, the two leaders of the deadliest force in the army stood up. Few things could withstand an assault from the unbridled fury of a Crab berserker or the reckless abandon of a Bitter Lies swordsman. Fewer still could handle a unit of both fighting together. The amalgam had severe casualties but had turned the tides of more than one battle.
"Are you ready, Ikarukani?" Demopen asked, peering into the man's face.
The berserker clasped his hands in front of him and showed his teeth. Demopen couldn't tell if it was a smile or grimace, but it was close enough to an agreement.
"Forgive his eagerness, Demopen-sama," Bayushi Shigehiro called out. "My friend has been itching to throw himself against the Destroyers again. You asked us to recuperate during the last battle and he does not like to let his talents waste away."
Ikarukani nodded.
Demopen chuckled. "You needed the rest, even if you will not admit it. We'll destroy their commander during this battle."
"'We?'" Ikarukani echoed.
"I'm joining you this time, men," Demopen said. "You can show me first hand you deserve all the praise I heap on your shoulders."
A round of chuckles rumbled through the unit.
"Demopen-san!" Kosaku called out. He turned.
"Loyalty is the greatest tenet of the Scorpion Clan, my friend," Kosaku said quietly. "You have earned mine. I know you will live up to it."
Hida Demopen stood speechless for a brief moment. He smiled and bowed deeply at the waist.
Then he spun on his heel and slung his tetsubo against his shoulder. "All right, lads!" he shouted. "Let's show these Destroyers the combined might of the two deadliest Clans of the Empire!"
His soldiers roared back. The cheer rang in the air, overcoming the sound of the approaching demon army.
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Black Widows
Names were such curious things.
The woman called Fatina walked across the small chamber that served as her quarters within the Spider stronghold called the Fingers of Bone. Fatina had not always been her name, but her previous names no longer mattered. To call the rooms her chambers was a trickery of names, for they were little more than a large cell. And the Fingers of Bone was an ominous, sinister name given to a simple feat of nature, one that had left numerous tall rock spires concealed within a canyon, virtually impossible to find unless one knew what one was looking for, and exactly where to look for it. Curious indeed.
There was the whispering sound of the door opening behind her, just as it had done at this exact time the day before, the day before that, the day before that, and a dozen more times in perfect ritual succession. "I hope the sun finds you well this day, lord Mishime-sama," Fatina said, struggling to keep the fatigue and annoyance from her voice. "Unfortunately, I have little new information to offer you, since as you know I have not left these rooms in many weeks."
"Mishime is such a tiresome wretch, is he not?" a woman's voice asked.
Fatina turned quickly at the voice, then felt the color bleed from her face ever so slightly. "Lady Shahai," she said quietly. "I apologize. I was not expecting you."
"Clearly." The Lady of Blood walked in a slow circle around the perimeter of the main chamber, examining everything without touching any of it. "I have not been in your quarters before, I do not think," she said. "How very pedestrian. Would you not prefer something more comfortable?"
"My preferences are not a concern," Fatina answered carefully. "And regardless, this chamber is more than adequate for my needs, particularly when I consider some of the places I have dwelled back in Medinaat-al-Salaam."
"The Jewel of the Desert," Shahai said. "I have often considered what marvels must be found there. My ancestors visited there centuries past, you know."
"I did not," Fatina admitted.
"Few do," Shahai said. "My lineage is not something most concern themselves with. Why do you suppose that is?"
Fatina licked her lips. "I suspect, my lady, that most are too afraid of who you are to worry about who your people are, so to speak."
Shahai smiled slightly. "Perhaps so. Quite insightful. You know, I have wanted to come and speak with you for some time."
"I see." The chamber suddenly felt very cold. "Why have you not done so, my lady?"
"A number of reasons, really." Shahai trailed one finger across a small piece of sculpture from the Sands, one of the few keepsakes Fatina kept of her homeland. "You might be surprised how difficult it is to find someone to watch a precocious little thing like may Kanpeki. His ogre yojimbo is very dutiful but somewhat ill-suited to correction, if you take my meaning. And of course my husband would have discouraged my visit." She paused for a moment. "He is away, seeing to the concerns of our clan at the moment."
"I see," Fatina repeated. "You feel he would have prohibited you."
"My devoted, beloved husband feels I have some latent issues with controlling my baser impulses," Shahai admitted. "I must confess it is not something I have gone out of my way to dispel." She fixed Fatina with a stare. "The truth is sometimes difficult, don't you agree?"
"I do," Fatina agreed.
"Where is Master Saleh?"
Fatina sighed and cast her eyes downward. "My lady, if I knew the answer to that question, I assure you that I would have answered on the first of the more than one dozen times Mishime has asked me." She looked up and met Shahai's gaze. "I do not know where he has gone, nor do I know what he plans. I know only that he is a fool."
"In the latter, I do not doubt your word in the least," Shahai said with a smile. "In the former, I am less certain. Have you been made aware of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance?"
Fatina cleared her throat slightly. "I am given to understand that he disappeared during the war with the Destroyers last summer, and that at least a small number of the ironclad monstrosities the goddess fields disappeared with him."
"Close enough," Shahai said. "Were your kinsman yet loyal to us, to those who took him in, gave him shelter, and protected him from his ill-defined fears, he would surely have resurfaced by now. He can but be loyal to the Destroyer, or perhaps to himself alone."
"The latter is more likely, my lady," Shahai said. "Saleh was terrified of the Destroyer. It was the reason he fled here to your land, for fear that the arrival of her hordes in the Jewel of the Desert was imminent."
"I see," Shahai said. "I can perhaps understand his desire to gain dominion over that which he feared, but his foolishness is without bounds, it seems." She paused for a moment, then regarded Fatina curiously. "Why did you come? If Saleh came out of fear, what was the purpose of your flight? Do you fear the Destroyer as well?"
"I do," Fatina confirmed, "but that was not the reason for my flight. I fled here because, while I fear the Destroyer, I fear your husband more."
Shahai seemed genuinely surprised, and perhaps even somewhat pleased. "Why ever do you say that, dear?"
"As I told Saleh, this is a land of god-killers," she explained. "And none among them are as bold, as powerful, and as ruthless as your husband. If the Destroyer can be stopped, it will be he that accomplishes such a task. And he is not a god, but a man, and can therefore be reasoned with. He can be convinced, for instance, of the value of service by one such as myself. That is why I came to your lands."
"I see," Shahai said. She continued her circuit around the room, moving wordlessly until she returned too the door through which she entered. She gave the room one final survey, then smiled thinly at Fatina. "I think you require something a bit more robust in terms of your chambers," she said. "I will make arrangements."
Fatina bowed. "Thank you, my lady."
"Do not make me regret my indulgence," Shahai said in a warning tone, and then she was gone.
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James Schrecongost, Mark Pascarella, Mike Spears and Mike Adams scored 124 to win the two best balls of four net Men's event Oct. 15 on King's Dunes.
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David Rayner serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Rayner has a long history with EchoStar, dating back to 2004 when EchoStar and DISH Network Corp. (DISH) were part of the same company. At DISH, he served first as Chief Financial Officer and later as Executive Vice President of installation and service networks. After the spin-off of EchoStar in 2008, Mr. Rayner served first as EchoStar's Chief Administrative Officer and later as Chief Financial Officer of EchoStar until 2011. Prior to his tenure at EchoStar, Mr. Rayner served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Telecom in Denver.
Ken Carroll serves as Executive Vice President, Corporate and Business Development. Mr. Carroll is a 20-year veteran of the satellite TV and satellite broadband industry and has held several positions with EchoStar, including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer of EchoStar Satellite Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Executive Vice President, Business Development and International. Prior to joining the Company, from 2003 to 2010, Mr. Carroll served as President and Chief Operating Officer of WildBlue Communications, Inc., a nationwide satellite broadband company. In addition, Mr. Carroll previously served as Chief Financial Officer for Liberty Satellite & Technology and direct-to-home satellite TV provider PrimeStar.
Anders Johnson serves as President of EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C. Mr. Johnson was previously at SES where he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Satellite Development. Mr. Johnson joined SES GLOBAL after the combination of GE AMERICOM and SES in 2001. Prior to SES, he worked at GE from 1985 in a variety of executive level roles including Satellite Services, Aviation Services and Transportation & Industrial Financing. Mr. Johnson holds a BS Degree from the New York Institute of Technology.
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Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :]
] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long,] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000] base pairs. ] ] Each side of these base pairs can either be an] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine,] and so forth. ] ] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells,] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me. ] ] Putting these together, the average amount of information] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s.] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th] of that. ] ] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out ] much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes ] the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s = ] 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s. ] Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem, ] but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.
Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems
] Apple has indirectly confirmed it is developing a version] of its iTunes music jukebox software for Windows. ]] ] According to the Mac maker's employment opportunities] site, the company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer.] His or her key responsibility: "Design and build Apple's] newest Consumer Application, iTunes for Windows."
Mac Coder Wanted - Must Perform Miracle Before End of 2003
] The US spends almost $50 billion each year on education,] so why aren't kids learning? Forty percent of students] lack basic reading skills, and their academic performance] is dismal compared with that of their foreign] counterparts. In response to this crisis, schools are] skilling-and-drilling their way "back to basics," moving] toward mechanical instruction methods that rely on] line-by-line scripting for teachers and endless] multiple-choice testing. Consequently, kids aren't] learning how to think anymore - they're learning how to] memorize. This might be an ideal recipe for the future] Babbitts of the world, but it won't produce the kind of] agile, analytical minds that will lead the high tech] global age. Fortunately, we've got Grand Theft Auto: Vice] City and Deus X for that.] ] After school, kids are devouring new information,] concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not,] they're doing it controller in hand, plastered to the TV.] The fact is, when kids play videogames they can] experience a much more powerful form of learning than] when they're in the classroom. Learning isn't about] memorizing isolated facts. It's about connecting and] manipulating them. Doubt it? Just ask anyone who's beaten] Legend of Zelda or solved Morrowind.
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] We are a group of Tennesseans who are dedicated to] preserving your online freedoms. We are specifically] trying to counteract the new "Super-DMCA" legislation] proposed by the MPAA. In TN, this legislation has] been proposed through two bills, namely SB213, and HB457.]] Our organization has taken shape very (very) quickly,] and there is still a lot to be done. We need your help] if we are going to be able to fight this successfully!
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] Private investors, who have chipped in $40 million to] develop the process, aren't the only ones who are] impressed. The federal government has granted more than] $12 million to push the work along. "We will be able to] make oil for $8 to $12 a barrel," says Paul Baskis, the] inventor of the process. "We are going to be able to] switch to a carbohydrate economy."
Interesting! If this pans out, it really could change everything . . .
Anything into Oil
[The Justice Department won't say what Hawash is a witness to or how long they intend to keep him.]
These aren't the only things the Bush administration won't say. It won't say why it's holding individual detainees at Guantánamo Bay; it won't disclose the factual basis for its prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui; and it won't say how many immigrants it has detained or deported in INS proceedings. It won't say how many of us are having our telephones tapped, our e-mail messages monitored or our library checkout records examined by federal agents. The administration's defenders say such secrecy is an unavoidable cost of the war on terror, but it's an orientation that predated Sept. 11 and that extends beyond the terror threat. The White House won't reveal who Vice President Dick Cheney consulted in concocting the administration's energy policy; it won't disclose what Miguel Estrada wrote while working for the solicitor general; it won't even release documents related to the pardons that former President Bill Clinton granted during his last days in office.
Steven Aftergood, a researcher who monitors government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls Hatch's proposal a "direct assault" on Congress' ability to monitor the Justice Department. "If it goes through, we might as well go home," he told Salon. "The administration will have whatever authority it wants, and there won't be any separation of powers at all."
With the Domestic Security Act of 2003 -- the draft legislation dubbed "PATRIOT Act II" -- the administration is apparently contemplating other ways in which it might avoid the inconvenience of operating in the public eye or answering to the federal courts.
The draft legislation, prepared by the Justice Department but not yet proposed to Congress, includes provisions that would allow federal agents to keep secret the names of individuals arrested in investigations related to "international terrorism"; expand the circumstances under which agents could conduct searches and wiretaps without warrants; and allow the attorney general to deport resident aliens in certain circumstances without any possibility of judicial review.
Another good update on the scary legislation that is both in effect and being proposed in the future. Keep getting the information out there so that more people will raise their voice - while they still can.
The secret society
Last Thursday, the House and Senate almost unanimously passed the National AMBER Alert Network Act of 2003, a popular bill that will soon create a nationwide kidnapping alert system. Coming in the wake of a year of high-profile child abductions -- from Elizabeth Smart (whose parents supported the bill) to Samantha Runnion -- the bill was a no-brainer, destined to pass quickly and smoothly through Congress.
Surely Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) knew this, which explains why he cannily sneaked his own, completely unrelated legislation into the AMBER Act just two days before the vote. Piggybacked onto the act was the Anti-Drug Proliferation Act, a thinly veiled rewrite of legislation that had proved so controversial in 2002 that it failed to pass a single congressional committee. Now, club owners and partyers alike are being subjected to a loosely worded and heavy-handed law that authorities will be able to indiscriminately use to shut down music events at any time they please, assuming they find evidence of drug use. Thanks to Biden's surreptitious efforts, a few glow sticks and a customer or two on Ecstasy could be all it takes to throw a party promoter in jail for 20 years.
In English, this meant that anyone who intentionally let people do drugs at their events could be held liable. It also expanded the crack-house statute in two significant ways: Now the law could be applied to one-night events -- concerts, raves, parties, festivals -- as well as permanent locales like nightclubs, and it added civil penalties for violations, lowering the burden of proof from "beyond reasonable doubt" to a "preponderance of evidence."
And the trampling of Civil Liberties just goes on and on! What would constitute knowledge that people are going to do drugs at your party or festival? The article lists the presence of overpriced bottles of water, glow sticks and pacifiers. Imagine this being applied broadly to shut down hacker conventions because there might be underage drinking or other illegal drug use. Time to cancel the masquerade party where someone would undoubtedly show up as a baby? Then apply it further and you could end up with college fraternities being shut down for throwing a costume party. This law could bring back the days of River City, IA, in The Music Man.
Your glow stick could land you in jail
Instead of the scheduled discussion, several hundred conference attendees were read the cease-and-desist letter, said Scott Milliken, an attendee. Attendees said they saw the case as a clear infringement on the First Amendment rights of the two students, and they contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor who specializes in copyright issues, seeking advice on what to do next.
Hey, that's me!
Decius added: "We live in a society in which we are increasingly dependent on this high-tech infrastructure which our lives are arranged around, and if we can't take these things apart and understand how they work, then I think we have a very serious threat to our freedom."
Hey, I know that guy, too!
The copyright cops strike again
] This site is a coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and] ineffectual doves united in admiration for Mohammed Saeed] al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on] administrative leave).
Wasn't sure whether to put this in the humor or current events topic ;)
We Love the Iraqi (Mis)Information Minister
In this activity youll be asked a series of 17 questions about God and religion. In each case, apart from Question 1, you need to answer True or False. The aim of the activity is not to judge whether these answers are correct or not. Our battleground is that of rational consistency. This means to get across without taking any hits, youll need to answer in a way which is rationally consistent. What this means is you need to avoid choosing answers which contradict each other. If you answer in a way which is rationally consistent but which has strange or unpalatable implications, youll be forced to bite a bullet.
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