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Even up here in Wyoming the weather is beginning to warm. Ol' Punxsutawney Phil missed seeing his shadow last week, so we're supposed to get an early spring. And while it hasn't been an excruciating winter here, I am ready to go back outside and get in some shooting.
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It has been 20 years since Boone and I took our last walk together and I laid her to rest under a south-facing oak tree. In many ways it seems like it was just yesterday when I reached down between my feet as I sat in an old lawn chair in the breeder's backyard and picked up a double-fist-sized bundle of orange and white fur that had chosen me to cuddle up to, away from her raucous littermates.
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Dunwich, England, is one of several underwater sites where divers are discovering new information about historic cultures
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Beneath the slate-gray surface of the North Sea, about a half-mile off England's east coast, lies the underwater town of Dunwich. Crabs and lobsters skitter along the streets where some 3,000 people walked during the town's heyday in the Middle Ages. Fish dart through the sea sponge-ridden ruins of its churches, now partially buried in the seabed some 30 feet down.
Erosion—caused by the North Sea's relentless pounding of England's east coast—had all but consumed Dunwich (pronounced DUN-ich) by 1750. And the sea's silty, cold waters made visibility almost nonexistent for the intrepid few who wanted to explore the medieval ruins.
Until now. Thanks to advances in acoustic technology, a group of divers and a geomorphologist are surveying the sunken town this summer using multibeam and sidescan sonars that can detect objects on the seafloor. During a survey last year, the group mapped two churches and found evidence of a third.
"This is absolutely opening the seas up," said David Sear, the Dunwich project's geomorphologist who teaches at the University of Southampton. And, he added, the North Sea has plenty to reveal; in addition to Dunwich, Sear would like to use the undersea technology to explore the submerged towns of Old Kilnsea and Eccles that lie farther north.
The English sunken sites join a list of others that span the globe. According to UNESCO, submerged settlements have been found in Egypt, India, Jamaica, Argentina, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and the Black Sea.
"Under the sea is probably the world's biggest museum," said James P. Delgado, president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology based in Texas. "There's not a lot of work going on in this area right now, however. The issues are time, money, interest, and research. Just to do a single shipwreck can take years.... Underwater archaeology costs 10 times more to dig."
In addition to these issues, Delgado noted a strong push toward conservation pervading the world of nautical archaeology. People aren't jumping into the water unless a site is in danger or stands to advance research.
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In the 1980s a group of us were walking up a path on the coast near the village of Wenhaston in Suffolk. One of our number, a local man, remarked that he hadn't been there for a few years, when a man with a shotgun appeared and ordered us off his land.
Our friend protested that we were on a public footpath.
The man with the gun shouted that that particular path had disappeared into the sea and that we were trespassing!
Posted by Mike on August 16,2010 | 04:14 AM
I find it amusing that people see the loss of cities AS a loss.
Nothing holds humanity back like cities.
All great spiritual and intellectual growth has come from the death of cities and civilizations.
Rome had knowledge, but didn't apply it. It was only after the death of Rome that we could have the Renaissance. Rome had art, but little humanity. Without Rome, you get da Vinci and Michelangelo. As we now know, there were no Dark Ages, only recovery and appreciation of what had existed, but had been ignored. Then came the application of that knowledge, and a far, far better and more civilized world resulted.
So let the cities fall into the ocean. Only a fool would miss them.
Posted by Mike on October 14,2009 | 02:25 PM
What should you do if you think you discovered an ancient city lost at sea?
Posted by Angela Beaudoin on October 9,2009 | 09:54 PM
I wonder if people then were panicking over such unssen things as "global warming". By attributing everything today to global warming, we're no better than our ancestors who attributed everything to "God".
Posted by Charles on September 4,2009 | 09:40 PM
The photograph in the article seems to indicate this was a view from 1750! How is that possible? When was the photo taken?
Posted by Claire on August 31,2009 | 02:28 PM
Article immensely intriguing: our family lost a large home on a peninsula Bayocean northwest Oregon just after "Pearl Harbor". US Army Corps Engineers had built a jetty to divert ocean current from silting navigable Tillamook Bay. Consequently, violent winter current thrust against our peninsula's shoreline, year after year, until we were swept out to sea. My Daddy said we'll probably end up in Japan; but, at least foundation-remains of that precious abode can be found under and some feet out from original peninsula's perimeters.
More importantly, story/history of Phoenician lst explorers international merchants fascinates. They were out there navigating around Africa, 400BC, marketing goods of the Egyptian Pharoah Hanno. There is evidence that they hit the eastern shores of South America (Brazil,) and even of North America - where the winds carried them 2000 YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS !
Because they lost Carthage, their western capitol, they lost to Rome which wrote the history. So, their finesse with first far-flung exploration, the invention of glass, our alphabet(they needed a means to record billings,) and even the Phoenician Hiram was chosen to engineer and build Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
We must rewrite this history by exploring Mediterranean and eastern South American underwater shorelines - with schooners, professional divers (Robert Ballard? who has already found the oldest ship (Phoenician,) naval archeologists, photographers, sailors, volunteers. Fact that Phoenicians are ancestors of Lebanese adds good value to our having American University in Beirut (and Cairo, also Colleges Istanbul, Aleppo). We could do so much to spirit life, intellect abroad - educate here !
Marine Archeology has been keenly featured in your articles and now I just itch to take the subject literally and physically so much deeper and further back into ancient history. Phoenicia is the STARTING POINT !
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Posted by elisabeth coats sherif on August 14,2009 | 01:35 AM
I understand the fascination with cities like Dunwich because I am very intrigued by this subject. At the same time, I do not believe archeologists and oceanographers go far enough in their research on such sites as Dunwich. Why not take a look at the possibilities of cities existing along ancient coast lines PRIOR to the thawing of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age? By most accounts, ocean levels were anywhere from 400 to 500 feet lower than they are today. This means if a city existed along the coastline of that time period, it would now be 400 to 500 feet under water and almost impossible to excavate. Could this explain the lingering myth of Atlantis? Given the rate at which the thaw took place, water would have inundated any human settlement of that time period in very short order. It may have taken a few years for the cities to be swamped, but the rise in sea level would have been unstoppable and the submergence of the cities inevitable. Not enough attention is being paid to this very important and very un-researched subject, which has the potential of changing our most fundamental views of ancient history.
Posted by Martin on August 10,2009 | 01:57 PM
The Domesday Book of 1086 describes it as possessing three churches. The historian and diver Stuart Bacon, who has made several visits to the seabed in a bid to find the remains of the old town, has found evidence that it may have possessed up to 18 churches and chapels at the height of its fortune during the 12th and 13th centuries.
In 1286 a large storm swept much of the town into the sea and the River Dunwich was partly silted up. Residents fought to save the harbour but this too was destroyed by an equally fierce storm in 1328, which also swept away the entire village of Newton, a few miles up the coast. Another large storm in 1347 swept some 400 houses into the sea. A quarter of the city had been lost and the remainder of Dunwich was lost to the sea over a period of two to three hundred years through a form of coastal erosion known as long-shore drift. Buildings that sit on the present day cliffs were once a MILE INLAND.
That should answer the why-didn't-they-move-it question.
Posted by mm on August 9,2009 | 01:16 PM
It wasn't that hard to find the answers. The loss of this town happened over a period of a few hundred years in incremental stages. And in the Middle Ages, I would think that they had enough on their plates just getting through day to day life without contemplating moving the buildings inland. Note this segment from the wikipedia entry which says that the clifftop ruins that are still visible in the present day were once a MILE inland. That's rather a LOT of coastal movement.
In 1286 a large storm swept much of the town into the sea and the River Dunwich was partly silted up. Residents fought to save the harbour but this too was destroyed by an equally fierce storm in 1328, which also swept away the entire village of Newton, a few miles up the coast. Another large storm in 1347 swept some 400 houses into the sea. A quarter of the city had been lost and the remainder of Dunwich was lost to the sea over a period of two to three hundred years through a form of coastal erosion known as long-shore drift. Buildings that sit on the present day cliffs were once a mile inland.
Posted by mm on August 9,2009 | 01:10 PM
The coastline was eroded. The stone buildings wouldn't have washed away; they're too heavy. As the sand and dirt washed away, the buildings sank slowly under the water. This happened centuries ago, so the people probably just moved inland and finally just moved far enough away to start a new city -- or just become part of another community.
It's different now. Think of Venice. Now there are all kinds of efforts to preserve it. If it had sunk as much as it has a thousand years ago, it would have been abandoned, decay would have taken over, and now it would just be a curiosity.
Posted by David DelGreco on August 8,2009 | 12:40 PM
To answer your question Jim, They may not have had the right technology, or money to move an entire town for the sake of some museum artifacts. Besides, we're learning, just as much about it now as we would if they tried to move it.
Posted by Jacob on August 7,2009 | 08:24 PM
I agree - this was a tantalizing article. As I read the article I was having a hard time featuring how this could have happened. Even the photo gave no clues. I would be interested to learn more about this - and the other cities.
Posted by Brenda on August 7,2009 | 09:01 AM
You might want to consider Dwarka to be added to this list. Here's a link from the Archaeological Survey of India with some details of the explorations done:
Posted by atul on August 6,2009 | 11:48 PM
I am another inquiring mind that wants to know also. It would be good to know really what happened there and how to prevent it from occurring again.
Posted by Sharon Henson on August 6,2009 | 06:30 PM


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Joe and his family do the best for their customers,the food,service,is always the best!
Went here for the first time this past Saturday for my birthday with my fiance. I had been trying to book a reservation for about three weeks and was always too last-minute to get a table on a Saturday. I was super excited to try this place once I got the reservation (after reading reviews on Yelp). The Pinot Noir (I assume it's their House Pinot Noir since I didn't specify which kind) was outstanding. I drink a lot of good (higher-end) Pinot Noir and this one was just as good. Even my fiance who usually doesn't care for Pinot Noir liked it. We ordered appetizers first. Long Hots and Seafood Salad both great. I ordered EGGPLANT ROLLENTINI as an entree (found under apps) and it was just DELICIOUS. Running out of room..JUST GO HERE!
again,2825 delivered an outstanding dining experience.........from the tableside Caesar salad to the tableside mozzarella......to the pounded veal chop, te pounded pork chop, the lobster franchese , the food was exquisite. The service at 2825 is always outstanding. Dining at 2825 is like dining at someone's home.....a welcoming experience at every level.
We are repeat customers who enjoy a delicious Italian meal. They have the best calamari in south jersey and their entrees are always amazing.
The headline says it all. You've never had stuffed veal so good. Not a bar scene (too small). Staff it attentive and pleasant.
Café 2825 is as good as it gets in AC. The food and service never disappoints. Take some time to get out of the casinos and try Café 2825 for authentic Italian fine dining. You will be glad you did
The food was very good. The portion sizes met our expectations based upon the price (more than enough food!). There is no need to worry about the mention of everything being "ala-carte". We will plan on going back.
The food was excellent. To start I had an appetizer - meatball salad which took me back to my childhood. We always had our meatballs with our salad. The meatball was excellent as well as the salad. I also had the Chilean sea bass for my main course which was cooked just right and full of flavor. My husband had the asparagus appetizer which was delicious as well as the veal rolitini. If the Sunday gravy dinner entree is anything like the gravy that was on the meatball appetizer, it would be well worth having that my next visit. Needless to say we will be back. YUM!!!
My wife and I eat out often in the Atlantic City area. Cafe 2825 is the only restaurant that the next day I am still savoring the meal. I eat there as often as I can and we are always very pleased. The BEST restaurant in Atlantic City!
Delicious food and amazing service. The owner made it very personable.
We go to many a restaurant similar. I give this one a B+... Il Mulino and Chef Vola's are better A/C choices but Cafe 2825 was also very good and better than Carmines and similar. Good food - nice menu - simple bar / wine selections. I had veal parm, the special - and it was terrific. The stuffed artichoke leaves were good but the stuffing was a little bland. But the food overall was very sophisticated. We were served some nice bread but without oil/butter and noticed that the table next to us was served some oil/butter and no bread - we both laughed and asked for the opposite - which the restaurant had to us in moments. The owner's rep / owner / mater dee was a little awkward - but I think we weren't used to his style.
My husband and I have eaten at Cafe 2825 several times now. We drive from the Philadelphia area just to enjoy the delicious food, wonderful service and the friendly hospitality of the owners and their family members who work in the restaurant. Try the veal chops, the fish or the pasta. All home made. It doesn't get much better than Cafe 2825!
Food very good. Service very good. A little noisey.
Very enjoyable for our party of 4. Nice change from the noisy, overcrowded casino type restaurants. Varied menu with an Italian flair. Had moist and delicious bronzino boned at the table, filet mignons were a good size and cooked to order.
We have been coming to Cafe 2825 for years - and it continues to be the best choice in Atlantic City. The food is consistently outstanding - in fact, the best italian food we ever had. The bread is the perfect balance of crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. For apps, we always recommend the eggplant rolotini - so good! And for entrees, you can never go wrong with the Sunday Gravy - or the homemade manicotti. This dish is like pillows from heaven! By far, the best manicotti you will ever have. And for dessert - no matter how full you are - or your diet :) - you should order the Italian Cheesecake. Could be the best dessert we've ever had. Cafe 2825 just nails it - every time.
café 2825 is,by far, the best restaurant in the Atlantic City area. The tableside Caesar salad is absolutely the best!!!! The pounded veal chop is without match. The service is warm and attentive without being obtrusive....and Joe, the owner, and his lovely wife Ginny, make you feel as if you are a welcomed guest in their home!!!!!!
We go here every year when we're attending a convention in Atlantic City. It gets us away from the casino atmosphere and the Itlalian food is well worth the short cab ride.
If you are heading to AC for dinner and a little gambling, Cafe 2825 is the place to eat! Simple to get reservations (just call in advance... you won't be interrogated like another popular spot) and convenient to the Casinos! Food was excellent and service great! We loved the atmosphere.
Fabulous food, great atmosphere, very nice service. Parking horrible.
The food here was great and so was the service. The place is small, so make a reservation. We had calamari, which was delicious. I had a veal dish which was also very good. My husband had the Sunday Gravy, which he enjoyed. We also had dessert that was very tasty. We will be back.
The food was absolutely delicious. I chose the chilean sea bass and my husband had chicken rollatini, and both meals exceeded our expectations. We enjoyed friendly and helpful conversation with the owner, Joe, while the staff attended to us at a comfortable pace.
Second time to Cafe 2825 and it did not disappoint. From the bread to the Cannoli, the food was fantastic, I had the Veal rollatini and my wife had the Salmon. The fried calamari was also delicious. The owner spends his time going around and talking to the patrons. Will definitely return again the next time we are in AC
Phenomenal food at this authentic Italian cafe. Table side Caesar Salad was freshest I've ever had, and the table side display of freshly made mozzarella balls was unbelievable. The slices of fresh mozz were melting in our mouths. Nice wine list that complements all of the courses. Owners were very accommodating and made our dining experience was awesome. Owners take serious pride in making their customers feel welcomed & we will be going back for next round very soon. Cafe 2825 rivaled any Italian Eatery I've been to in Philadelphia & NYC, went in with high expectations as it came highly recommended by friends, and we were my disappointed.
We love this little gem of a restaurant. The food is always great and consistent. The workers are friendly and service is outstanding.
Stuffed veal chop- over the top. Pastas as good as I've ever had, including in Italy. Thanks for the lesson in making your chicken stock !
We are never disappointed when we book here!! This restaurant is our favorite gem and love the stuffed veal chop.
I could not say enough of how tremendous this restaurant was, the owners knew my fiancé and that was a plus to the tremendous service and food were given. I would return in a heartbeat. One of the best Italian places in Atlantic City.
No joke, this is fantastic restaurant! The whole artichoke and meatball salad appetizers are to die for. This is a small, family run restaurant outside of the hustle and bustle of the casinos that is worth leaving them for. Never a bad meal and the owners are always walking around to greet you. An absolute must do!
4 for Dinner....everyone enjoyed their meals...all different....The Halibut was fantastic....everything was so fresh....Service was great....try the Meatball Salad., great combination...We.will be BACK!!!!
The Cafe can be very crowded (and tough to get into) during the summer so now is the time to go. Very accommodating staff, wonderful food (perfectly cooked steaks, fish and my buccatini was excellent). Full bar and well rounded wine list. Enjoy
Food was delicious and it came out hot and cooked to perfection. House wine was a good choice by management. The atmosphere was very cozy with a waiter staff that was very accomdating. Prices were a littley high but i feel this is something I have come to expect when dinning down the shore. Overall very good and would recommed to all my friends
ALWAYS a great meal....one of the "gems" in Atlantic City area.....Joey (the owner) knows what comes out of HIS kitchen has to pass HIS test...always constantly good food...great place to go with friends OR just with your favorite person....what is better than a GREAT meatball and your Mom's Sunday "gravy"????? Nothing - so Cafe 2825 does it for U.....enjoy.....
as usual, the tableside Caesar salad,prepared by Julio, was absolutely perfect!!!!!!! The pounded veal chops, the salmon, and the filet were all exceptional. The owners, Joe and Ginny were as welcoming and gracious as ever, and the service was excellent. Our only disappointment was not beinf able to share with our friends (to whom we bragged incessantly) the experience of tableside cheese preparation. We will, however, willingly and longingly return as soon as we can arrange a convenient reservation.
My husband and I had dinner with friends on a Tuesday evening. There was no special occasion to celebrate other than friends catching up...but the food, service and ambiance made it feel like a celebration! The risotto was amazing, stuffed artichoke was a pleasant surprise and the stuffed shrimp was beyond delicious! We topped off our evening with the cannoli and pistachio cheesecake. I will definitely be back, I highly recommend Cafe 2825
Exceptional restaurant. I've always heard great reviews for Cafe 2825. The food surpassed any Atlantic city casino restaurant. Ordered the chicken pasta special . The sauce is homemade fresh, flavorful with fresh olives , pasta cooked to perfectly, chicken plump and moist. The broccoli rabe cooked to perfection. The restaurant is clean and comfortable with friendly staff . We appreciated the owner and waitstaff availability but they also gave privacy. Food was served hot & quickly, with all our special requests honored. I am rarely impressed & this place tops my list. It's been in town over 15 years that I know of. Don't be like me & miss out on any more years of eating the best of the best ! Looking forward to eating here again. 5 stars!
Cafe 2825 is the restaurant for Atlantic City regulars who no that the casino is not the place to eat. Small, friendly and the best food in the area....If you don't feel like you are having dinner at your local place, then you just don't get it.
Cafe 2825 is the best Italian Restaurant in Atlantic City. You must try their Sunday Gravy! It is superb! Plus, it is not in a casino which makes it very easy getting to and from the restaurant. Enjoy!
Our party of 6 enjoyed everything about this restaurant. I especially liked our small round table that made dining and conversing a pleasure. Service and food were outstanding. Add it to the many great restaurant experiences we've had in AC.
Family owned, great atmosphere, small but elegant and the food is excellent. make a reservation and your set.
This place was amazing. I was recommended it by a friend and it did not disappoint. The stuffed veal chop was the talk of my friends who went with us for days. Amazing meal, great service and a great scene. Will 100% be coming back.
It's been years since I had dined here and I certainly wasn't disappointed. Everything was excellent, from service to atmosphere and definitely the food! Servers were very helpful and made dishes to our desires. I can't rave enough. I'll be back for sure!
My husband and I love coming to this restaurant! We are treated like family. We love the ambiance the service is top notch and the food is so consistent. We cannot say enough good things about this restaurant. Intimate restaurant for date nights, special occasions, and overall homey feeling best describes this restaurant. I think the only suggestion I would make would be the charge for the martinis are a bit steep for the size that is served. Otherwise, don't miss out on a great experience/consistency. It has to be one of our favorite restaurants in Atlantic City!! Enjoy!


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Lollibakes: Gourmet Cupcake Pops
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It was only a matter of time, really, before somebody took cupcakes to the next level. The perfect marriage of cake and lollipop, Lollibakes are the delicious creation of pastry chef Diana Sproveri. Each beautiful little specimen is comprised of four bites of dense cake that's dipped in chocolate before being sprinkled with 'flair.' Sproveri says "They're like creating little works of art. I have so much fun coming up with new flavors and being creative." Originally only available in larger batches, Lollibakes are now sold in groups as small as 4 or 6, or you can order by the dozen, and get gift wrapping if you want. Prices vary, as do available flavors every week, but you can order online at lollibakes.com or stop in on location at Kake by Diana Sproveri in Culver City, CA.
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So, right off the start I am going to say this was my very first attempt at fan fiction. Dont hate.
Tarazed, 3059
Smoke Jaguar occupation zone
First wave of Operation Bulldog
"Almost time" I thought to myself as I checked the cronometer again. I breathed in a slow steady breath as I tried to calm myself and relax in the dim confines of my mech's cockpit. I was tense, no doubt about it. It had been a long wait as we of the 3rd company, 3rd battalion of the 2nd Genyosha otherwise known as the Naginata's had waited to close the jaws of our trap on the Smoke Jaguar's who were being hearded tword our possition. My eyes were constantly moving over my screens as I checked and double checked my readouts. All systems read good, as If I did not know they would already. I was in stand-by mode waiting for the order to power up and attack, and the waiting was starting to get to me. Patince had never been my strong suit, all my instructors, and my mother and father had told me so. Too much of the Irish my father had said. I had been touched by flame and fury my mother had said.
Both my Mother and Father had been Samurai of the Draconis Combine My father falling in battle back in '39 during the last war with the Davions. My mother took up his sword, and fell against Clans when they invaded back in '50. Everything had changed with their coming. The Clans had devoured much of the Draconis Combine and the Lyran half of the Federated Commonwealth in their push to conquer Terra. I had finally gotten my long awaited transfer into the 2nd Genyosha just before the battle of Luithen and was one of the few of the Genyosha who survived it. The Dragon had managed to claim victory, but it came at a high cost, only a battalion managed to make it through the battle.
While I was one those who made it through the battleI lost the family mech that had passed from parent to eldest child over the last 200 years. The old Thug served well in its final battle. Taking down three Jaguars and two Nova Cats during the course of the battle. It finally fell during the Nova Cats push through the the Kado-guchi Valley. I was forced to eject after my downing a Nova Cat Nabori-nin when my ammunition bins blew from its final salvo and tore the old mech apart. It was a shame that had hung on my sholders for the past seven years.
After eight years rebuilding and suffering from the wounds the Jaguars had inflicted it was time for the Dragon to roar its fury and hit back. I had waited a long time for this moment, and the thought of what was to come made me smile. I had been given high honors for my service to the Dragon. First was the gift of the one of the new Akuma battlemechs given to me by Tai-sa Nelson herself, for in her words " To restore honor that had been lost, and to avenge those who had fallen." Smiling again I closed my eyes and remembered the other honor given to me on the night before we made planetfall. I lay in the arms of my love, Tai-i Kachiko Kusanagi a heavly frowned apon affair in the military of course, but one we had kept well hidden thus far. "Sebastion, as you know 3rd battalion has been tasked with closing off the Jaguars escape route. Chu-sa Myer has selected 3rd company to be the anvil apon which the hammer of the 1st and 2nd will smash the Jaguars against. You'll be the point of our sword. When the time is right you will advance from cover and offer the Jaguars single combat." I turned to look at her blinking in shock at what she was telling me. " While it's belived," she continued " that they will accept based on their granting us safecon, command estimates there's a high probablity they won't. Should they not, the rest of the company will engage and attempt to hold until the rest of the battalion arrives. I was ordered to select one member of the 3rd for this...honor. " I arched my eyebrow at her and ran my fingers down her arm, her skin was so soft I thought. Like silk almost. " You say that as if it wasn't an honor at all" Kachiko jerked her arm away and scowled at me " It's likely that I'm sending you to your death." she sighed and ran her fingers through my hair " You know this right?" I smiled up at her and nodded " I do, but we are Samurai, and it's our duty. Why me?" " Because you stand the best chance of surviving, and it's my duty to select the best. Even if it's you. I have never loathed my duty until now." Kachiko lay back as sat up on my arms to look at her before kissing her gently " Then why don't we forget about duty for the next hour and be free of it's weight for that long?" words that would have me transfered out of the Genyosha should they have been heard by any other ears. I couldn't help but laugh to myself and shake my head, what a fool love makes of even the greatest of samurai. Laughing she pulled me down into her arms and for the next hour we forgot our duty.
Blinking my eyes I shook my head to clear it. Focus, no time for love now. Only duty. I checked my radar screen and listened to the com chatter from the battle. It seemed that a trinary had broken away from the main force and was heading our way, right into our trap. They were moving fast though...likely a striker trinary, fast mediums and heavies with alot of firepower. They would reach the killzone well before 1st and 3rd companies would be in position. In danger of being out-gunned and out manuvered he realised his role was the only hope of holding them long enough to ensure that his own company was ready to stand against them.
The com cracked to life for a moment..." All Naginata units this is Naginata Actual, change of plans, it looks like we are in for a one on one with an approching trinary, prepare to engage on my orders, radio silence until then. Acknowlage." "Naginata Five, cofirmed." Naginata Nine, Acknowlaged." Running one more check of my systems I glanced of the picture of my Mother and Father and I together. They standing side by side in their dress uniforms, and me holding my fathers katana in my arms with a stupid grin on my face in front of them. I took the braid of Kachiko's hair she had given me for luck and breathed in the scent of her for what could be the last time. Apples and honey. I took a deep breath and relaxed, focusing on the task at hand. " Enemy mechs detected" came the warning from my Akuma's computer. " About time" I said aloud and glanced at my radar. It was I good day to die.
Taking hold of my contols I keyed my mike and made the request so many others had before me had. " With the Tai-i's permission?" " You honor the Genyosha, Sho-ko. Show them no mercy." came Kachiko's reply. "Hai" I flipped the switches and brought my Akuma to full power and throttled the 90 ton mech forward to do battle. No doubt the Jaguars had detected me, and I grinned with anticipation as I burst through to cover of the forest we had been waiting in. Scanning the terrian in front of me I couldn't help but think that command had picked a beautiful place for me to die. Down the hill in the valley before me was lush and green the river that the Jaguar mechs were just now emerging from added to its serenity.
Again keying my mike, this time on an open channel, I raised my Akuma's arms and shouted my challenge both over the radio, and my mechs speakers. " I am Sho-ko Sebastion Augustus Toombs, son of Sheamus and Machiko Toombs. I trace my lineage back to a time before man first traveled among the stars. On Luithen I personally defeated three Smoke Jaguar and two Nova Cats in combat. I would challange any before me who have the courage and stomach to fight a Samurai of the Draconis Combine, to face me in single combat." I lowered my mechs arms and waited for the reply I prayed would come. I didn't have to wait long as the approching Trinary slowed and then halted all but a single omni-mech, a Cauldron-Born, which continued to come on. Not good I thought to myself.
" I am Star Captain Peter, your challange is clumsy and your trashborn bloodlines mean nothing to a trueborn warrior. I am your death freebirth surat." with no other words the clansman opened fire at the extreme range of his ER large lasers. I should't have charged, the Cauldron-Born an A variant and carried a blistering array of medium lasers and a massive auto-cannon that would turn my mechs armor to scrap metal in mere seconds. But if I stayed at range he would pick me appart. So I screamed in fury and slammed my mechs throttle to full speed and charged as the samurai of old did. I had an extra 25 tons and stronger armor against his range, mobility and firepower, it should have been a one sided match with him the victor. Yeah, right. Clanners you see, are brilliant mechwarriors, but far to overconfidant in my opinion and always underestimating us.
I had had some quick modifications made to my Akuma enroute to the planet and I hoped they were about to pay off. I had downgraded my medium pulse laser to a standrd version and installed a c3 slave to better coordinate with my lance. I had also ditched the smaller of my SRM racks and my Auto-cannon in favor of a harder hitting long range Gauss rifle. It was the one weapon we had that was the equal of anything the Clans had, and I wanted one.
Charging into range I unleashed a few random shots from my ER PPC and gauss rifle, more to keep the clanner off balance then to cause damage. Return fire from the Cauldron-Born's lasers melted armor off my arm and leg, leaving glowing molten scars in their path. I snapped off another blast from my PPC ment to go wide and be showy, and I grinned when it had the desired effect. The clanner sqaured up waiting for me to get into range of his auto-cannon and planted in place to line up what I am sure he thought was going to be the perfect shot and cut me down. I fired my gauss rifle and PPC again this time accually aiming and grinned as the hypersonic ferrous nickel-iron slug slammed into one of the Cauldron-Born's back canted legs shattering armor lodging in the knee joint. A lucky shot for sure, but then I had the Irish in me and my father always said we were a lucky people. But then again, I had won the third qaurter Kensi Kami back in '48 as well.
I could tell the shot had caused problems as I shifted my angle of attack an the clanner had trouble tracking me. Stupid he may have been but lacking in skill he was not. At 1500 meters the trio of ER medium lasers in his torso joined with large ones in turning nearly two tons of my armor into molten scrap as they carved into it across my chest and hip. Keeping my mech steady amid the damage I grinned with feral delight and showed the clanner how badly he had underestimated me. Firing my MRM at maximum range along with my gauss rifle and PPC and hit the nearly stationary Cauldron-Born with everything showing off my above average gunnery skills. Missles peppered the torso and hip in a chain of blossoming explosions while the lighting like blast of my PPC slammed into the already damaged leg followed by another slug from my gauss rifle snapping the worn leg off and sending the Cauldron-Born crashing to the ground in a graceless spin.
I closed the distance as quick as my Akuma could manuvering out of the line of fire if the massive auto-cannon and firing repeatedly on the downed mech adding my own medium lasers and SRM's to the mix punishing the wounded machine. The heat in my cockpit turned swealtering as I did so, sweat pouring down my neck. I would have to be more carful with firing my weapons lest I find myself humilatingly shut down from overheating. The Cauldron-Born was struggling to rise but I did not give it the chance moving into point blank range I placed my PPC against the mechs cockpit canopy and triggered the comms. " You are beaten Star Captain, Stay down and submit to becoming my prisoner."" Never! Never, Freebirth surat!" came the enraged reply. " Then die with honor" I said and fired both my PPC and medium laser into the cockpit instantly killing the clanner.
Turning to the waiting Trinary of Jaguars I raised my arms once more " Who is next to fall?" I asked and waited. I did not have to wait long as the heaviest omni-mech in the group came charging out at me, a Man O' War. I couldn't help but laugh. Though the mech was fast, it was woefully undergunned for an 80 ton mech as far I as I was concerned. The clanner never said a word just came charging strait at me his light auto-cannons chatting away shaking my in my seat as the constant stream of shells exploded against my armor. I stopped laughing and scowled, ok..undergunned up damn annoying I thought. Showing off a little I took my time in lining up my shot and waited for it. Firing a single shot from my gauss rifle I smiled as it streaked through the space between us and smashed strait into the clanners cockpit taking out the Man O' War in one shot the giant maching pitching over backward and falling like a puppet cut free of its strings.
Checking my damage display I frowned not realizing how much damage the two quick engagements had done. Yellow across the board, with my right arm and leg in orange. The damned Man O' War had peppered my armor everywhere but my Akuma's head. Well...nothing to be done for it but to pray to the gods that it would hold out for at least one more duel. Checking my position and the rest of the company's I saw that they were nearly in done moving into position under the cover of ECM. One more should do it...then we would have these Jaguars in our jaws.
I brought my mech into position ready to face another challange knowing that one would come once the clanners were done bidding among themselves for the honor of facing me. I knew my next opponent would not underestimate me like the previous two had, and likely be one of the best in the whole trinary. Smart enough to let others weaken me, and see what I was capable of. To gauge if I were a truely worthy opponent. I didn't have to wait long as soon enough another mech throttled forward out of the pack. A Ryoken from the looks of it, checking my screens I saw my computer had tagged it as a B variant. Oh hells...I was in big trouble and I knew it. I had 35 tons on it, but that wouldn't matter. My Akuma was wounded and patheticly slow compared to how fast the Ryoken could move. It could out manuver me, and carried devistating mid to short range fire power.
I raised my arm in salute and recognition of the challange, and was surprised to see it returned in kind. No sense wasting time on pleasntries I thought and opened fired immediatly with my PPC and gauss rifle at extreme range and begain backing up the hill twords the cover of the tree line attempting to keep the range between us as far apart as long as possible. It isn't often that one can enjoy a range advantage over the clans and I was going to try and milk it for all it was worth. The Ryoken shifted and darted to and fro coming at me in an angled zig zaging pattern, it was hard to keep him tracked and I failed to land a single shot from either of my long range weapons. What came next was a shock.
"I am Star Commander Theresa Showers. To where do you run Sebastion Toombs? You will only prolong the inevitable." came the mocking challange from the Ryoken's pilot. " You have fought with honor, and with skill I have seen only once in a warrior of the Inner Sphere." Lasers stabbed out from the Ryoken's arm with the precision of a surgeons scaple cutting slabs from my armor one even carving a deep trench across my Akuma's head and set off danger warnings in my cockpit. Shifting my mech and trying to throw off her aim I returned fire with my MRM's the unguided rockets leaping from my sholder to where the Ryoken had been a moment earlier causing the earth to fountain in the wake of the multipule explosions. "You fight as she fought" she taunted as she came charging out of the smoke and haze strait at me her massive auto-cannon beltching flame as it fired a long string of high explosive rounds. The impacts rocked me in my seat my whole mech shuddered from them. I knew I was taking a pounding, the shells leaving my armor cratered from sholder to hip " But her skill was not enough to save her, and it will not be enough to save you"
My armor was being torn to shreds and she had manuvered to cut me off from cover, as I expected she would firing her mechs lasers in a one to quick sequince that would keep her running cool, and throwing in blasts from her auto-cannon for good measure. I was doing what I could to minimize the incoming damage, but the Akuma is far from a graceful mech. "Perhaps you knew her, Sebastion Toombs, her name was Machiko Toombs. Was she perhaps a realitve?" the clanner laughed and taunted as she took me appart peice by peice. I snapped screaming with inarticulate fury I changed course throttling up to full speed and charged forward in a last bid to make the cover of the treeline.
Theresa was expecting it and zipped to cut me off just as I hoped she would. It brought her too close to me and I shouted furiously unloading everything I had on her having kept my mech cool through the one sided duel. As I charged head on at her caught between me and the treeline she had cut off her own escape route and I had her right where I wanted her. But she had me as well. Her auto-cannon smashed the armor and left impact hole from my leg to my hip, her lasers nearly punching through my paper thin right side, and exposing myomer on my right arm. My MRM's and SRM's streaked out to explode against her mechs chest and torso one or two even hitting the cockpit canopy and rattling her in her seat stunning her. My Guass slug slamed into her leg as my PPC and lasers cut through her damaged left torso hitting an ammuntion bin and cooking off what was left in a huge explosion that sent her mech spinning as I hammered the full weight of my 90 ton Akuma into her much smaller Ryoken and drove it into the ground.
Warning lights lit up my boards and a critical damage message was sounding over my internal speakers as I worked my battered mech back onto its feet. " Ha...it worked. Thank the gods..." I laughed to myself and wiped blood out of my eyes. When the hell had I gotten cut? Never mind not important. Time finish her off. Again firing my missles and gauss rifle into the Ryoken I marched over and smashed my foot down on her mech's remaining arm pinning it to the earth. " Do you know what the weakness of your kind is Theresa Showers? Over-confidance. And it's gotten you killed." " I am not dead yet freebirth" she replied and attempted to rise. It wasn't going to happen with my standing on her arm but she tried anyway screaming in fury when her mech did little more then kick its leg. " You are now you tank bred *****. Machiko Toombs was my mother." I said raised my Akuma's fist " For Machiko, and for the Dragon." and then pistoned my mech's fist repeatedly into the Theresa Shower's cockpit.
Vengance and honor satisfied, and my fury spent I wearly brought my battered mech back around to face the remaining Jaguars. I had next to no armor, and my mech looked like it had fought to claw itself free from hell itself grinning like the demon it had been named for. My com crackled to life as Kachiko broke radio silence" All Naginata units this is Naginata Actual, we have them where we want them, for the Dragon...CHARGE!" Kachiko and the rest of the company came bursting free from cover on three sides of the surprised Jaguars camed flooding down the hills like the dark ocean the Genyosha took its name from weapons blazing.
The heavy and assault mechs of the Naginata company tore into them with a fury and felled three of the Jaguars in the first volley with their combined fire. Even caught flat footed and surprised the clanners did not go down easy. They fought with the ferocity of their namesake and left five of my fellows down or dead in the valley and inflicted serious damage on the rest as they fought to the last man. Dispite that, it was a surprisingly short fight with the last Jaguar mech, a Timber Wolf, brought down by Kachiko's own Naginata on the river bank.
Some how I had made it through the charge and ensuing free for all. I assisted with downing two more mechs though it left my Akuma limping and minus a right arm. It also had a hole clear through the right torso so big you could nearly drive a small hover car through it. Even though the techs techs later repaired all the damage to armor I was able to convince them to leave the laser scar across my Akuma's face. I liked to look of it and decided it made the already demonic looking mech look more fierce.
Feeling quite pleased with myself and more then happy to still be alive to serve the Dragon I asked Kachiko for orders. "Naginata company sound off and prepare to fall back. We have been ordered to rearm and repair. There is much to be done yet." she replyed over the company channel. As the rest of the company replied their assent I got a hail over a private com channel. " Well done Sho-ko."" Domo arigato, Tai-i "" I expect you to report to me for immediate debriefing once we return to base. The saki will be on me." I couldn't help but smile and laugh "Hai Tai-i, as you command." as I limped my Akuma back to base I couldnt help but hum an old Irish drinking song my father had loved.
Three duels and Saki.
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Police had been waiting on DNA confirmation in order to charge Dontrell's parents, Britney Sierra, 21, and Calvin Melvin, 27, with his death. Both have been in jail, facing lesser charges.
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After their arrests in January, Melvin and Sierra blamed each other for the boy's disappearance.
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But Melvin told detectives that if anything had happened to Dontrell, it was Sierra who had harmed him. He then drew a map of the backyard of the home they had been renting at the time the boy was last seen, and marked where Sierra would have buried the child.
"Sierra is always home with the kids and always by the backyard," he told detectives, urging them to look under the ground behind the house at 106 NW First Ave.
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Dontrell Melvin was last seen in July 2011, when he was 5 months old. He wasn't reported missing for 18 months, when a Florida Department of Children & Families caseworker went to the home Sierra shared with her mother, half-siblings and sons.
Dozens of complaints had come into the child welfare hotline about Sierra and her mother. The latest: Sierra was smoking marijuana mixed with another drug in front of her children, and verbally using them.
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Calvin Melvin then told police that Sierra gave the baby to one of her family members, who was visiting from New Jersey.
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Calvin told police he had a bad feeling.
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Unlike the other cases I will discuss in my paper, MGM v. Grokster actually appears to contradict my thesis. Grokster distributed free software products that allowed computer users to share electronic files through peer-to-peer networks. MGM sued Grokster for their users' copyright infringements. They claimed that Grokster knowingly and intentionally distributed their software to enable their users to reproduce and distribute their copyrighted works. The Supreme Court decided in favor of MGM, which would seem to be bad for Google.
While both and Grokster and Google seem similar, in fact, their differences, in the eyes of the Court are actually very important. Both involve a type of peer-to-peer file sharing which may or may not involve items that are copyrighted. MGM showed that Grokster's services contained more than 90% copyrighted material. In fact, this information did not surface until the case was brought to the Supreme Court. Without this information, the Appellate Court decided in favor of Grokster with the main reason being that they distributed non-copyrighted material. While I have no proof that most of Google's images are in fact not copyrighted, it is Perfect 10's job to bring that information forward. Since they have not, one can only assume that Google's image search contains mostly Fair Use images.
Another reason why Google differs greatly from Grokster is the purpose behind their service. Grokster, following the Napster case, had an advertising campaign targeting the users who were looking for an alternative to Napster. This means that they were targeting people who had been illegally downloading on Napster. Hence, their main source of revenue is from the file sharing of copyrighted works. Google, on the other hand, has shown no evidence of focusing on copyrighted works. Their technology is set up like Grokster in that they do not always know what links are being shared, but their main focus is greatly different. It is the difference in philosophies and the users' use of the services that shows that Grokster is not a good comparison with Google.
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The Hotaling v. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints case is important because it helps distinguish Google's use of thumbnails with cases that are actually not Fair Use. In this case, Hotaling, a group of researchers, compiled and copyrighted a number of genealogical research materials. At some point, the Church of Latter-Day Saints received one legitimate copy of the microfiche and added it to its main library's collection in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later, they made microfiche copies of the works without the Hotalings' permission and sent the copies to several of its branch libraries. There were many extenuating circumstances, but even with them the appellate court decided that this was copyright infringement.
This is especially relevant because Perfect 10 attempted to cite this case as part of their argument. "Perfect 10 incorrectly relies on Hotaling v. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Napster for the proposition that merely making images "available" violates the copyright owner's distribution right."(Perfect 10 v. Google) The Hotaling case differs significantly from the Google case. Hotaling made exact copies and distributed them to places that would otherwise have had to buy the copies. The infringement in this case was much more direct and obvious than what Perfect 10 accuses Google of doing with their thumbnails.
Regardless, this case demonstrates an important difference between Google and the average Fair Use case. Google is not distributing copies; they are creating thumbnails from other sites. Google is not creating these images entirely, nor are they distributing the images. Since merely making images "available" has been shown to not be enough for copyright infringement in the Hotaling case, we can carry that over to the Google case. This completely nullifies one of Perfect 10's arguments, even according to the Court, than this case is very essential to supporting my thesis. It both supports my thesis by both contrasting Google with the Hotaling case and establishing a precedent which takes away one of the opposing viewpoint's arguments.
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This is the case and decision handed down by the United States District Court that is amending the decision of the Central District Court of California. My paper will focus on this decision and the reasoning behind its decision. First, it summarizes the case, which is that Perfect 10, Inc. sued Google, Inc. for infringing their copyrighted photographs of nude models among other claims. The district court originally prohibited Google from creating and publicly displaying thumbnail versions of Perfect 10's images. They did, however, allow Google to link to third party websites that display infringing full-size versions of Perfect 10's images. Both Perfect 10 and Google appealed the decision.
The decision also discusses the background of the situation including the use of the internet, HTMLs, search engines, and specifically how "Google Image Search" works. Generally, Google uses HTML instructions to access other websites and, through a third-party website, shrink their pictures or graphics down into thumbnails. These thumbnails are displayed in "Google Image Search" and linked to image where it is stored on the website publisher's computer. It also discusses the background information of the previous interaction between Perfect 10 and Google. This included notifications sent from Perfect 10 and Google, and the time of the filing of the suit.
This case also discusses the "Standard of Review" involved in the decision. This includes the aspects of Copyright law that are involved and how they apply to this situation. It also discusses how Perfect 10 accuses Google of Direct Infringement, its specific requirements, Perfect 10's argument for it, and Google's defense (Fair Use). It discusses how Google is not secondarily liable for copyright infringement as well as Amazon.com's involvement and their innocence according to the same reasoning. Finally, they conclude that since Perfect 10 is unlikely to overcome Google's Fair Use defense, the district court's decision is reversed and Google is innocent for both the direct and secondary infringement charges.
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