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- "Portraits of Terror," September 27, 2010
- "Censorship of Anti-Terrorism Art Exhibit Documented in New FIRE Video," September 27, 2010: A new short film by FIRE documents the experience of Penn State student artist Joshua Stulman, whose "Portraits of Terror" art exhibit was censored by the university because it satirized Islamic terrorism. Stulman is just one of numerous college students and faculty members who have been silenced for discussing or criticizing Islamic extremism.
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- "FIRE's 2010 Video Campaign: Highlighting Censorship of Hot Button Issues, Part 2," by Greg Lukianoff, December 24, 2010
- "'Portraits of Terror' Exceeds 10,000 Views on YouTube," by Joanna Brenner, November 3, 2010
- "New FIRE Video 'Portraits of Terror' Takes on Censorship of Art Examining Palestinian Terrorism," by Greg Lukianoff, September 27, 2010
- "Student Suing Penn State for Art Censorship," by Tara Sweeney, June 21, 2007
- ""That Exhibit Is Going to Go Up"," by Chris Perez, April 26, 2006
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Stopping Sharks by Blasting Their Senses
Chemist and businessman Eric Stroud develops shark repellents to protect sharks from being ensnared in commercial fisheries
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Eric Stroud is in the business of spoiling appetites. His clients include some of the most voracious creatures on the planet—the tiger shark, the reef shark and the southern stingray, to name a few. Stroud, a research chemist who heads the New Jersey-based company SharkDefense, develops chemicals, metals and magnets that drive off sharks. Scientists think these materials work by overloading sharks' senses. The repellents may someday be used to protect us from sharks, but they're better suited to protect sharks from us.
Fishermen from Maine to South Carolina don't intend to catch the spiny dogfish, but the small, bottom-feeding shark frequently gets swept up in trawling nets and caught in fishing lines. "It just wrecks everything," says Glen Libby, president of the Midcoast Fishermen's Cooperative in Maine. "Your fish look like they've been through a food processor," especially after rubbing in the nets against the dogfish's sandpaper-like skin. Dogfish aren't very profitable, either: something about the bladderless shark's strong taste just doesn't appeal to the American palate. There is a small market for those who sell the shark to the British, who use the torso for the fish in fish and chips. But most fishermen are interested in cod and flounder. "I think some sort of repellent would be helpful," Libby says.
Conservationists also want to keep dogfish from being caught. In the Northeast Atlantic, dogfish are critically endangered, meaning that stocks have decreased by at least 95 percent in the past 20 years. The cause of this population decline is unknown, but it's likely a combination of accidental and intentional overfishing. The repellents Stroud is developing could aid dogfish, as well as the approximately 12 million sharks worldwide that are unintentionally caught as bycatch every year. Shark populations don't recover quickly; the animals mature slowly and don't have many offspring.
Researchers have been experimenting with shark repellents since World War II. In the 1940s, the Navy experimented with 38 compounds to create a repellent that smelled like rotten shark, the one scent rumored to deter the predators. Their research yielded "Shark Chaser," a cake-like mixture made of copper acetate that was standard issue in survival vests until the Vietnam War. The vests also included a black dye that could "hide" potential victims from a shark attack. Neither one worked.
Future celebrity chef Julia Child cooked up another World War II-era experiment. The Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of today's Central Intelligence Agency, assigned Child the task of creating a shark repellent that could be used to coat anti-submarine explosives, which the sharks were accidently detonating. This also proved fruitless.
In the mid-1970s, University of Miami's Samuel Gruber and a team of Israeli and Egyptian scientists experimented with a toxic chemical secreted by the Moses sole, a flounder-like fish native to the Red Sea. The toxin was found to quickly kill sharks, but only when injected directly into a shark's mouth. An application for the toxin arose in the 1980s, when sharks were attacking listening devices being towed by Navy submarines to conduct spying missions against the Soviet Union. As soon as the sharks bit, the missions would end. It's what Gruber calls "the million-dollar bite." He spent years on the project but was never able to come up with an effective repellent.
Eric Stroud revived the search in 2001, when he heard from fishermen that rotting shark keeps live ones away. According to Patrick Rice, dean of marine sciences at Florida Keys Community College, the reason scientists in the 1940s missed finding an effective chemical repellent is they didn't have the right tools for analysis. Stroud and his colleagues have performed thousands of tests on chemicals extracted from dead sharks, finding at least four to be promising repellents. The chemicals, which smell like rotten feet to humans, have a long range and work on most species of sharks. "We'll chum the sharks up, they'll go into a feeding frenzy, we'll deploy our chemical and almost immediately, they will stop eating, even though small chunks of fish are in the water," Rice says. "It's like they were punched in the nose."
Magnets made from iron, boron and neodymium are another promising repellent being developed by SharkDefense. Eric Stroud discovered their repellent potential by accident. According to Stroud, he and colleague Michael Hermann were playing with magnets near a research tank containing lemon and nurse sharks. After spotting a broken pump, Stroud set a magnet down on the tank's side, and the sharks took off. He thinks that the magnets may overload the sharks' Ampullae of Lorenzini. These tiny pits found along a shark's head are used to detect faint electrical signals emitted by prey, in the same way a doctor uses an EKG to detect the electricity generated by your pumping heart. The magnets are unlikely to cause pain, says Richard Brill, a SharkDefense collaborator at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He and others hypothesize that it's equivalent to a bright flash of light. You wince because it's overloading the visual receptors in your eyes. "It's the same idea with the sharks, except it's overloading these electrical receptors, " Brill says. Stroud has been using stationary magnets so far, but he also sees potential in spinning magnets, which generate a greater magnetic field.
Stroud and his team are also working with electropositive metals, which produce a current when placed in seawater and also possibly affect sharks' electromagnetic sense organs. Scientists are testing the metal repellents as a solution for the dogfish bycatch problem. Researchers found that the metals, when attached to fishing lines, reduced shark bycatch by 17 percent in Alaskan fisheries. But when the experiment was repeated in the Gulf of Maine, the results were negligible. "We think the dogfish are just going after two different preys," says Stroud, who is completing a Ph.D. in chemistry at Seton Hall University. Rice speculates that the metals may not affect Northeast dogfish because the sharks are using smell more than their Ampullae of Lorenzini to detect prey. Undaunted, Stroud says, "no shark repellent is 100 percent—the name of our game is reduction." He hopes that his company's repellents can eventually help fishermen cut in half the number of sharks caught as bycatch, which would save more than 1,000 sharks a day.
Even though results from the bycatch field tests aren't overwhelming, Stroud says their tests on sharks in the laboratory and in the field suggest that SharkDefense's strategies can work. This summer, the company began licensing its products through RepelSharks, LLC., which sells aerosol cans with chemical shark repellents as well magnetic anklets for humans. "We are the first to bring these products to the market," Stroud says. "It doesn't make sense to wait." Patrick Rice imagines that the SharkDefense's repellents could work in life vests and boats as well. The other big name in the industry, the Australia-based company SharkShield, sells electronic-wave repellents aimed at protecting people.
There are 50 to 70 reported shark attacks on humans each year, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History. But for Stroud and his colleagues, it's mostly about the sharks. "We want to create sustainable fisheries," he says. "We want to change the way we fish." The first step is finding the repellent that bites.
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hey yall
Posted by all on December 1,2009 | 10:15 AM
Do you think my teacher will take this article for science in the news
Posted by all on September 12,2009 | 04:48 PM
perfect ill do my honors biology homework on this :)
Posted by Ajwed M on September 3,2009 | 09:37 PM
Dog fish sharks are used in a beginning anatomy course, as an example of a vertebrate animal, as are huge domestic cats, as an example of mammals. They are preserved in formalin, and one never forgets the smell of it. Maybe they have found a better preservative by now.
Posted by Sheila on August 15,2009 | 05:41 PM
That's wonderful news for sharks and people...now if we could just find a way to warn and repel the whales from irresponsible fishing countries (Like Japan) that still feel the need to slaughter these beautiful, innocent, and ever decreasing species.
Stop the madness and save our elephants, gorillas and tigers from becoming soup just because people think they will become more virile, or have a piece of ivory to display on their mantle, or a pelt on their wall or their backs.
Posted by Rita on August 7,2009 | 02:42 AM
I'm glad we're doing something to protect the sharks, I couldn't believe it when I saw that we catch over 1000 sharks a day. I hope this works.
Posted by Beth on August 7,2009 | 12:28 AM
Posted by lori on August 7,2009 | 11:26 PM
cool i love learning about sharks spotting one coming near me no but learning yes i've actually had a shark come up to me a miracle got the shark to suddenly turn and and get back out to see i've been afraid of beaches ever since, well swimming to far out on the beach.
Posted by josef on August 7,2009 | 09:28 PM
i dont think anything like that would make me less afraid to be in the water because of sharks.
Posted by Jasmine on August 7,2009 | 08:00 PM
Life, whether human or animal must be respected.
Posted by Stan on August 7,2009 | 07:56 PM
I think all animals and shark that are highly dangerous to humans should have a bounty on them. If one american gets killed in a foreign country we send 100,000 troops to handle the problem. I don't enjoy killing or seeing an animals killed,but wouldn't it be nice to swim in the ocean without fear.
Posted by Jerry on August 7,2009 | 06:40 PM
Wow a shark repelant now less people will be attacked be sharks that is a miricle now I have no worry to go to the beach with my family and friends!!!!!
Posted by Chloe Shockley on August 7,2009 | 06:26 PM
thats so cool
Posted by dlynne on August 7,2009 | 05:58 PM
Awesome! I always like to hear when non-lethal methods are used to prevent sharks from being hurt or killed, as well as protecting people. As long as there's no permanent damage to the sharks, the magnet idea sounds great!
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The proposal to allow open carry in Oklahoma is unnecessary, redundant, not well thought out, and will lead to dire unintended consequences for Oklahoma citizens and visitors to the state.
Oklahoma already permits concealed carry, with a brief course of instruction. To now allow open carry (one proposal would even allow unlicensed open carry), i.e., to put more guns into the hands of more people, is an invitation to chaos, especially given the disparity in who will be armed and who won't.
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The baseline question is whether those who will be armed will be trustworthy with their advantage over the unarmed. Open carry is unsafe, intimidating, and potentially dangerous, especially given that there are no provisions for proper administration, controls, and protections for the public. Many first-time "toters" will also be untrained in retaining control of their own weapons and may make it possible for others to grab their guns and use them against innocent bystanders. Guns kill the innocent and the guilty equally. When the smoke settles, the dead have no voice.
Open carry predicates a well-balanced and rational society in an era when reality suggests differently. Guns consistently factor into these equations in Oklahoma, where domestic violence is epidemic (we rank third in spousal abuse deaths); where there is a history of racially motivated violent actions against people of color, the most notable of which have taken place in Tulsa, where five African-Americans were shot and three died recently, and thousands were killed or made homeless in the 1921 burning of Greenwood; and where there are significant numbers of unanswered and unresolved questions about African-American shooting deaths at the hands of law enforcement.
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Oklahoma is no longer and should never again become a venue for old-style, wild, wild West activities. We have enough rodeos in which to seek to recapture that era. The Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms being uninfringed evolved early in our country's history over concerns about subjection to rule by another country. The popularity of Second Amendment rights today appears to evolve from activists' concerns about violence and wanting to be able to defend against violence. They cite their Second Amendment rights, but people who choose to live in peace also have the right not to be exposed to weapons and violence. Legislation must balance protection of the rights of all.
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I've been asked recently (I believe as a part of a fishing expedition) why it is that I don't discuss who I am dating/seeing/screwing around with... Actually, I have been asked this directly twice in the last month now that I think of it. After some careful, Chardonnay-fueled, contemplation, I've constructed a list. In no apparent order, here's why I am a fan of keeping my mouth shut and perhaps you should be too:
1. Despite the fact that I live in a city with a population in the millions, this is a small fucking world. If you live in a less-populated area, God have mercy on your soul and your vag. Even when you aren't dating within the "circle" (whether that be friends, friends-of-friends, work, or larger-professional-community) everybody knows everybody to a startling degree. In my (not at all) humble opinion, unless something is really carved in stone, TOO SOON TOO SOON. You're inviting gossip, someone interceding on your behalf, and potentially fucking up your own deal by talking about it. Let it be what it is without outside influences, whether they are well-intentioned or not. Especially if they are not. (We all have that one friend who thinks he/she is "helping," right? Ugh. So not helping.)
2. I like the intrigue. I blame the fact that I was allowed to watch Days of Our Lives as a child.
3. I'm not a big over-sharer generally and you have to really be pretty close to get that kind of personal information. While I will talk about most anything, it is going to be quite difficult to get personal-level details from me. Despite my "public persona" that is quite out about who I am and what I believe in, I am actually quite private. Some of my closest friends would be shocked to learn of certain MAJOR life events that I do not discuss with almost anyone. Like, they don't even know that those things exist. If you are one of the five people who know about those things, consider yourself really fricking special.
4. "So how is it going with The Boy?" <--Most annoying question ever. Maybe it fizzled. Maybe I got bored. Maybe he pulled a disappearing act. Maybe he is obsessed with World of Warcraft or whatever the video game addiction of the moment is. I don't like having to give updates and details, particularly if something has gone South. It annoys me. If things are going well, that just leads to more stupid questions about taking "next steps." Those questions annoy me too. (Am I super crabby? This list is not turning out the way I thought it would. Interesting...)
5. Once you have had a really effed up, disastrous relationship, people don't trust your judgment. Hell, you don't really trust your own judgment (and sometimes with good cause.) If you have publicly had to deal with the fall-out of some relationship with an asshole from hell, people (mostly who are completely well-intentioned) will be hypercritical of your new choices. Along those same lines, you need some time to form your own assessment of this person without outside influences. You need to get your "gut" back. You need to re-learn how to discern someone's character. You might screw this up. If you do so publicly, you will reinforce this cycle of people being "concerned" about your choices. Keep it to yourself. And figure it out for yourself.
6. Why not keep it quiet? I gather enjoy having something that is kept just for me. Maybe I have Only Child Syndrome.
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Climb Joint Venture for 2 bolts then move up and right following a thin crack that leads to a difficult traverse right to a stem rest in the corner. Move back out left and climb through the roofs via some wild, inobvious moves and finish on the face above.
The route starts on Joint Venture, just left of Jaycene's Dance.
12 bolts to a 2 bolt anchor.
Wait a tick, so the dihedral is "on" for stemming/rest below the roof crux? Has the direct line, minus the stem been done? Seems more direct and harder for sure.
It has been done without using the obvious stem. 12c/d.
Thanks Chris. Good to know...thought I was losing a step. Although, the next move after hugging the block seemed really hard too. You don't continue to stem, right? Great line.
The stemming is over after the traverse right. Once you step back left the business begins, but there are several Rifle-like moves that are less than obvious that make it pretty reasonable. Glad you like the route, Mike.
The crack in the corner, and everything to the right of the corner should be considered off. Anything else disrespects the roof. It's a great roof, albeit squeezed. The first 2 or 3 bolts are the same as Joint Venture. Then moving out right into the big roof, there's some powerful shouldery moves, a long reach or jump to the matchable crimp out left, and some good knee tricknology to surmount the final roof section. I'd like to add another bolt after standing up above the roof instead of climbing the rest of that arete to the upper anchor I'd make an (optional) midway anchor. Felt something like 12+.
Better than it looks, not as contrived as it looks, more independent than it looks...lots of quality movement in a small package; clearly, the corner should not be used...and it's not really that tempting...it's hard enough to get pumped in BoCan as it is. Full Disclosure: Chris is a friend of mine.
I am also glad to find out that without the stemming is 12+. I didn't think the stemming was on to begin with, got on it, figured out my beta, and thought it was most definitely harder than 12b. Really, really fun route. Rifle-like climbing on granite. Found both left and right knee bars, and this time they fit my leg size. I was really excited to find them.
The flake/sidepull feature just before the first roof broke off this morning. The BLOCK hit me in the HEAD, but luckily it left a usable feature when it departed. After regaining my wits, and cleaning up the blood, we checked to see and the route still goes. Maybe it's solid 12c now.


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City Manager Ted Voorhees said he may propose city tax increases next month when he presents "multiple options" for building new parks and enhancing public safety.
Voorhees, who started last summer, told the Fayetteville City Council over dinner Monday night that he would include about three options for parks and recreation construction programs when he recommends the upcoming city budget May 13.
The scenarios, he said, will include projected capital costs and "associated funding options using new revenues," such as proposed property tax increases.
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The council voted 10-0 Monday night to approve a set of budgeting guidelines that ask Voorhees to recommend park construction programs and public safety improvements.
The council members are scheduled to hold their first budget meeting Wednesday, and are set to hold three more in May when they'll debate Voorhees' proposed budget and any tax increases.
Fiscal 2014 starts July 1.
In November, the council was deadlocked by a 5-5 vote on whether to put a $45 million bond issue before voters in February.
Bond proponents, such as Mayor Tony Chavonne, said the growing city needs new parks and recreation amenities.
The city operates only one pool, and the city-commissioned survey earlier this year found that 47 percent of residents were "dissatisfied" with the lack of public pools.
"The council has always broadly supported improvements to our parks system," Chavonne said. "We heard some of it from the citizen survey and also our strategic plan. It has just been a case of getting the right combination of facilities and finding the money."
The proposed parks referendum, if passed by voters, would have required a city tax increase and higher operating costs, which some council members opposed.
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Councilman Keith Bates said the council should avoid any proposals to raise taxes in an uncertain economy and a Republican-led legislature that may impose new financial constraints on municipalities this year.
Councilwoman Val Applewhite said she was interested in what Voorhees will propose for parks, but her priority is public safety.
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Two downtown property owners, John Malzone and Bruce Arnold, told the council they support the district but question how some of the proceeds from the extra tax are spent, such as on parking enforcement.
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In response to an inquiry last week by Applewhite, City Attorney Karen McDonald informed the council by email following Monday's meeting that Frayda Bluestein, a professor of public law and government at the School of Government in Chapel Hill, said council members may have erred when they voted anonymously at last week's work session on various policy agenda initiatives.
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Board chair Nancy Olewiler defends the concept of paying to put art in parts of the transit system, but says the policy for selecting works and the amounts to be spent is being reconsidered.
TransLink has so far approved spending $615,000 for three public art installations at Metrotown, Commercial-Broadway and Main Street-Science World as part of Expo Line SkyTrain station upgrades.
The transportation authority is also expected to consider art installations for Surrey Central and Joyce-Collingwood stations.
"We're very mindful of the need to pinch every penny," Olewiler said, adding it's too soon yet to say if the art pieces already commissioned are too costly or not.
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Olewiler noted municipalities pay for public art all the time.
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"Get back here, Rat!"
"The police again?" I said to myself, "They'd really hate for me to finish my meal in peace, wouldn't they?" I had been sitting against a wall in what us from the Tunnels call Dinner Alley. It's where we generally don't get caught so we can eat, but today it didn't work so well. They'd found me…again. Maybe one day they'll actually catch me. Won't that be exciting?
I got up from the ground, still holding my dinner, which was of course some stolen bread. It's not like I could pay for anything. I was pretty sure that was what they were after me for, but maybe it was something else. In any case, I took off running, because I've got a brain. Granted, sometimes it doesn't work that great, but hey, it's better than nothing.
"Stop!" they yelled after me. Sometimes I wondered if they really expected that to work. You'd think they could come up with something better than that.
"No thanks," I called back to them. It sounded like two officers today, both slow. 'What an easy escape,' I thought, but then just as I was about to lift the grate and slip underground, an all too familiar face appeared under it.
"What do you think you're doing here, Rat?" he said.
"I think I'm going to rip open this grate if you don't let me in right now, Green," I told him.
"Cops on your tail, eh Rat?" he asked, giggling at his own joke.
"You really love to waste time, don't you? Let me in," I demanded.
"Yeah, no," he said, "You ain't wanted down here."
"And you are?" I replied, lifting an eyebrow.
"If I could fit my hand through this grate, I'd punch you," he growled.
"Yes, I know, but you're much too fat for that, aren't you?" I said, "Now let me in."
He spat at me and said, "No can do, Rat."
"I see, you've got orders not to. I suppose it was Grand?"
"There he is" an officer shouted behind me. I looked back at them to determine how much time I had to play mind games with Green.
"Yup, he really hates your guts," he said back.
"Yeah, since I didn't already know that. Thanks for nothing, Green," I said as I took off running again.
'Now where to?' I thought as I sped down the street. A few women screamed as I shot past them and a couple men tried to stop me, but I dodged their grasp with ease. I ran into a dark alley and did my best to blend in with the shadows, hoping they wouldn't see me. The two officers walked up and down the alley a few times, before one of them said, "Gone again." Then they exited the alley, taking one last look to be sure they had not missed me, which of course, they had.
I stayed there for a couple of minutes to give them more than enough time to be on their way before I left my hiding spot and sat in a little, lighted spot that must have been part of a yard. I sat by a garbage can and continued eating, figuring that I was actually with my own kind now.
I look up at the sky while chewing some of the bread. Still that nasty grey color and still clouded with smog and pollution. "Lots of airships out today," I said, my mouth half full, "Wonder what's up." One of the airships let out an awful ringing noise that seemed to echo in my mind even after it stopped. "Those ships sure make attractive noises." I took another bite of bread but stopped when I heard a rattling within the garbage can next to me. The can fell over, the lid came off, and a little boy came out. He was wearing rags and was basically just skin. I'm not even sure if bones were in there. He froze abruptly when he saw me, clearly fearing I'd hurt him.
"It's alright," I said, "I won't hurt you."
He relaxed a little bit and began looking through the alley. Occasionally he'd stop and pick something up, putting it in his mouth without even knowing what it was. Watching him made me feel awful, so I sighed and said, "Here."
He looked at me real strange like I was speaking another language, but then he smiled and rushed toward me, eagerly taking the bread and biting into it. I decided to sit there with him until he was done eating.
"When was the last time you had bread, kid?" I asked him.
"I don't know," he said between mouthfuls, "Been a while."
"You should be careful, if you eat quickly, you'll gain more carbs," then I looked at him, "On second thought, eat faster."
He nodded and did so. Soon the bread was gone and he said, "Thanks a lot, mister."
"Don't worry about. Looks like you've got enough to worry about as is," I replied, "Got a home?"
"Nope. Got a name though," he said.
"Oh yeah, what's that?" I asked.
"A name? It's what people call you, I guess," he replied.
"Not what I meant, kid. I meant what is your name?" I said.
"It's Wick," he answered, "Or at least that's what they call me in the Tunnels."
"What's a kid your age doing in the Tunnels?" I asked, quite surprised.
"Tunnels are all I've got," he answered, hanging his head.
"I see," I murmured.
"Where do you live, uh-" Wick began.
"Name's Rat. I live in the Tunnels too," I finished.
"Who's gang do you belong to?" he asked me.
"No one's. You?" I said.
"You don't belong to a gang? How come?" he asked me.
"Don't want to."
"Oh, okay. Well, I'm part of Hearth's gang," he said.
"Hearth, eh?" I said, "Not bad. One of the better one's I'd say."
"Yeah," he said, "She took me in when I was dying and gave me food. So I'm very thankful for her and I'll do anything for the gang."
"That's good, just don't get yourself hurt, okay?" I told him.
"I hope I do get hurt. Hearth told me that if I get hurt, it makes me stronger," he responded.
"Well, I'd say you're plenty strong already. Maybe not physically, but that's not what matters to me," I said.
"I don't get it," he said, looking at me vacantly.
"Yeah, I'm not sure I do either," I laughed, "Well, Wick, I probably ought to go. Take care of yourself."
"You too Rat," he replied.
At that, I got up and walked off to find something to occupy my time. 'What a kid,' I thought, 'At least he's in good hands. Hearth is a good leader.'
After a while, I came across another grate. This time, a younger face appeared. I looked down at a teenage boy and asked, "Now just how many kids are they letting into the Tunnels?"
"As many that need a home, Rat," he said.
"You know my name?" I asked, questioningly.
"Yes, and I know that you are a thief and that you refuse to join any gangs, but you still live in the Tunnels," he said.
"Who are you?" I asked, feeling slightly bothered by this kid.
"They call me Ary. Short for Dictionary," he said.
"Fitting," I said, "Now, are you authorized to let me in?"
"Is that Rat you're talking to, Ary?" came a voice from a little ways away under the grate.
"Yes, ma'am," he said, quickly and almost nervously.
"Well, let him in," she said.
"Yes, ma'am," he said, pushing up the grate. I slipped inside and looked to where the voice came from. It was Hearth.
"Hello, Rat," she said, "Get any dinner today?"
"Actually, I didn't. I ended up handing my bread over to one of your men, er, boys, I suppose. His name was Wick," I told her.
"Well, that was awful kind of you," she replied.
"Don't you think that you should feed him? The boy is starved. Said he didn't remember the last time he ate bread. If that isn't malnutrition, I don't know what is," I said.
"Wick needs to fend for himself until he is strong enough to steal," Hearth replied, "Besides, he's doing better than the men of other gangs."
"Have you seen him lately? He's skin and bones, if that! He needs some food," I told her.
"If you think he needs food so badly, why don't you get it for him, or better yet, teach him to steal?" she asked, sounding slightly annoyed now.
"He's not part of my gang. Not my responsibility," I answered.
"See, Rat, you always tell people what needs to be done, but are never willing to do it yourself. No wonder everybody down here hates you," she said.
I simply turned to leave at that point. I had no interest in getting into an argument with Hearth over something she'll probably take care of anyway. She didn't stop me, so I walked to my private part of the Tunnel. Nobody besides me knew where it was, so I got to be completely alone there, which was both good and bad. Sometimes I loved to be alone, but other times, I really desired some sort of companion. I felt like, at one point, I had somebody that was always with me, but I can't remember. 'I'm probably just making things up,' I thought to myself, before I arrived at my room as I called it. It wasn't anything special; just a circular cavern I'd dug out and hid. I kept everything I'd stolen here, often wondering what the heck these things were used for, such as the collection of lots of papers with random symbols on them. I had no idea what they meant and I figured I'd never find out. I also had a little blue box that could flip open and the inside would light up with a picture of two dogs. Every once in a while, the blue box would vibrate and light up and those random symbols appeared instead of the dogs. I liked the dogs a lot better. Then my favorite thing was actually a gift from some crazy old lady. I wore it around my neck on a string. It was a golden key. I didn't know what it went to, but the old lady said that I was the one the hold the key, so I took it and now I always have it. It's kind of odd, though, it gives me abilities that nobody else has. 'The rat holds the key,' I thought.
Then I thought back to when I got my name. It was a rainy day and I had taken a sandwich from this lady who was sitting outside. I didn't know that I wasn't supposed to take it, so I didn't understand when a man in a black uniform ran after me, shouting, "Rat!" over and over again. After a while, I got away from him and sat down in a dry alley. Another man walked into the alley too and he sat down across from me.
"Howdy, stranger," he said, "Where'd you get that sandwich?"
"A lady," I told him while I ate.
"So you stole it?" he asked.
"I guess," I said, "This mean man chased me, but I lost him."
"I see. So what's your name, buddy?" he asked, "I'm Tooth." He smiled and I saw why. One of his front teeth was absolutely enormous.
"What's a name?" I asked.
"Well, it's what people call you. Don't you have one?" he said.
"What people call me?" I repeated, "Then I guess, my name is Rat."
"Nice to meet you Rat."
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Apr. 24 at 1:56 pm:
This is a really good book. It's plot is fairly solid, and it has enough foreshadowing for you to get a fairly good guess of what's going to happen next, but it still has a strange way of making it seem like you could be wrong, that the story line will change at the drop of a pin.
Apr. 24 at 7:27 pm :
Thanks, I appreciate it! That was the goal:) Did you find anything wrong with it?
Apr. 25 at 9:27 am :
Umm.... The only problems that I really saw was the fact that the story changed from scene to scene almost instantly, and the scenes did not seem to last very long. The last problem is the fact that it's not finished.
Apr. 25 at 7:24 pm :
Alright, thanks!!
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Apr. 9 at 1:49 am:
Overall, this is a pretty good book. I like the idea of the plot. I do not like the dialogue, though. It is rather choppy and unrealistic in some places. However, you have a well developed world and characters. I like that you can immediately imagine what Rat is like. I do not think that the way you deliver his thoughts are very good. I don't mean to be negative, but you said to rip it up, so I'm trying J Otherwise, this is a pretty good book. I hope you finish it!
Apr. 9 at 9:27 pm :
Thanks! I appreciate it
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Apr. 5 at 7:08 pm:
I didn't get a chance to finish reading the second chapter (I'm about halfway through) but I'll try to make time to read it later. (: I really, really enjoyed this! THe plot is really unique, and the characters are developed very well. I loved your word choice, too. The only thing I would say is that when he is thinking, make it clearer. I noticed that you use these ' ' for thought, but it was confusing when he thought after speaking because I wasn't sure if he was still ... (
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Apr. 7 at 10:54 pm :
Thanks for the critique! I'll get to your story as soon as possible:)
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Apr. 2 at 9:10 pm:
That was good and interesting! I like how a reader can definitely describe Rat's character- tough, sarcastic, but caring underneath. Lots of the time main characters tend to be wishy-washy with their traits. I really enjoyed this- I'd appreciate it if you checked out the first chapter of my story, Metalligirl- you seem to know what you're doing when it comes to writing and all of these positive comments proves it! :)
Apr. 2 at 9:11 pm :
Oh, and if you were to leave a comment on my work along with checking it out, that would be great- feedback's always good!
Apr. 2 at 9:19 pm :
Thank you very much! I'll try to get to your story sometime this week
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Apr. 1 at 7:44 pm:
I only read the first two chapters, I'll finish the rest later. It is a great story, twisty. and interesting. I love it. Most of it just needs practice, and therefore cannot be criticised. The only major thing that needs fixing is the tenses, past, and present. Sometimes you us past-tense, example: I said, I looked. And other times you use present, example: I say, I look. Other than that, you only need more description, which has already been sai... (
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Apr. 1 at 9:31 pm :
Thank you!! I know the tenses are screwed up...I started it originally in past tense but then switched to present and I never got the present tense versions on here...
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Aug. 30, 2012 at 6:55 pm:
Well,what can I say that hasnt been said already? Great charachterizatiom, Suspense, Good dialouge, good descriptions. Summarization: A compeling read that keeps it fun and upbeat all the way through :)!
Aug. 31, 2012 at 8:58 pm :
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
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Feb. 12, 2012 at 9:57 am:
This is really great! What a unique plot liine with such an interesting main character! Props to you. My only suggestion is to cut a lot of the dialogue and add in more detail! Great job overall!
Feb. 12, 2012 at 11:30 am :
Thank you so much. I appreciate it
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Jan. 30, 2012 at 7:36 pm:
You did such a good job with this! The plot is unique, interesting, and fast-paced...AWESOME JOB WITH THAT! :) One thing I would watch out for is that fact that you have a lot of dialouge, whcih you really don't need all the time, and some more description will thicken your story up. Also, say what the characters say out loud, does it sound like something you would here in everyday converstation or is it just awkward? Overal, great work!
Jan. 30, 2012 at 8:06 pm :
Thanks so much! I'm working on being more descriptive and using less dialogue. I know that the balance is pretty out of wack
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Jan. 18, 2012 at 4:57 pm:
I'm totally digging the character names! You could definitely flesh out the story with more narrative to break up all of the dialogue, it will really add more meat to the story. When will you post more?
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How to convert ArrayList to Set in Java with Example
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Size of HashSet after Converstion should be 4 if i am not mistaken.please correct me if i am wrong.
thanks - February 10, 2012 at 5:52 AM
- Javin @ hashtable example java said...
@Anonymous you are absolutely correct, Size must be four its a bug if you see carefully I am still printing size of list instead of size of hashset in Java.
companies.size() //size of list.
will correct it. thanks for pointing it out. - February 11, 2012 at 2:49 AM
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ArrayList to HashSet conversion is my most preferred method to remove duplicates from collection if Insertion order is not concern, as insertion order gets lost when you copy elements form ArrayList to HashSet. if you still wants to use HashSet to remove duplicates and want to keep the insertion order of List than consider using LinkedHashSet.
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It's 4 if he printing companySet.size(). However, I think there is a typo still printing companies.size() which is 5
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