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Claude Monet's paintings make me feel like I'm at a picnic in a park in Giverny on a beautiful spring day with brie, rosemary bread, pinot noir, and a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Sorry, it is my comfort food— didn't mean to ruin the moment.)
Sounds perfect, doesn't it? I wish I could paint— even if I were painting the dismal future like that artist on the show Heroes.
Anyway, poor Monet. Supposedly he suffered from cataracts, and as his career went forward, his paintings became more fuzzy– like Paris Hilton's vision when she's clubbing. Beethoven lost his hearing as a musical composer; Monet lost most of his vision as a painter. (God forbid I should lose my singing voice as a master of show tunes!) But in both cases, these artists were so great that they were able to produce incredible works despite their disabilities. God gave them lemons, and they made lemon drop martinis. If Monet had clear vision, would I experience something different with his paintings— such as the ants crawling all over my peanut-butter sandwich?
Cataracts affect about 30 million Americans. And as you can see, it can make vision cloudy— unclear like Britney Spears' ex-husband's future. Driving can be very difficult for those who have cataracts. Sometimes when I'm lazy on a frosty cold morning, I don't heat up my windshield. When I turn left onto the first street in my neighborhood and the glaring sun greets me, I feel like Julia Roberts and George Clooney together on the red carpet at the Oscars: blinded by the light!
The word cataracts comes from the Latin word "catarractes" which means waterfall. ("Don't go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to"— go TLC!) The white foam and turbulent water in the waterfall are what the lens of an eye with a cataract looks like. So if you look into someone's pupil and see a white haze, they aren't stoned— it's a cataract.
The lens of the eye refracts light to bring things into focus, just like the lens of a camera. The lens is made of special skin cells, but unlike our skin that exfoliates every day, dead cells of the lens don't slough off. No microderm abrasion, no facials, no loofah. And as people get older, this can mess things up and lead to cataracts.
Night-time driving is the worst because the glare of the oncoming headlights is like the FBI cross-examining a suspect under a bare light bulb. But even the sunlight can be very painful to the eye in some types of cataracts. Reading small print can be hard, and it's really a bad idea to drive if cataracts make road signs hard to read.
Smoking doubles the risk of cataracts. UV-B rays from the sun, diabetes, steroids, lead, and eye trauma can all increase the risk of cataracts. But besides not smoking, there really aren't ways to prevent cataracts. Wearing UV-protection sunglasses and eyeglasses might help, but we don't have proof right now. (But at least you can look like Lindsay Lohan with great sunglasses.)
Ophthalmologists treat cataracts by surgical lens transplants. (Remember ophthalmologist is harder to spell and is the MD. Optometrist is easier to spell and is the OD. Hope that helps you remember how to distinguish them.)
Maybe one day there will be a non-surgical cure for cataracts or a way to prevent them. If the solution to this problem becomes clear to you, you could make a ton of Monet.
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I mean, it's all the same to some
But that cityscape makes me numb
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Still managed to end up thirsty the day the nursery collapsed
In my hand I hold the plumage of a buzzard
Suffered for circlin' nutrition (seems barbaric)
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I was supposed to interview the snow today but of course he flaked
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MOAWP S1/E7: "The Fantastic Fall of the Galactic Empire"
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Imperial Enclave-Gall-4 years after the battle of Yavin IV
A young child carefully enters a darkened room to find a solitary figure slumped over the edge of a bunk bed regarding a unique vibro-axe of gungan design. The older man takes notice of the child.
Dilbun Vont: why aint you sleepin runt.
Cas-Lo Vont: I was going to play with my
Dilbun Vont: wit ur kriffin dollies huh? Shouldnt you be messin wit lil strums yet?
Cas-Lo Vont: father, Im only nine.
Dilbun Vont: (standing up from the bunk with the axe) nuthin but excuses outta you aint dare?
Dilbun abruptly exits the room in a hurry almost knocking his nine year old son to the floor with his motion.
The child regards the back of his father with glassed over eyes. The elder Vont exits the abode without even looking back. The young child settles on a divan and activates the holofeed.
Pundit: in a shocking turn of events there is wide spread revolt on Imperial Center following the morbid events over the Sanctuary moon of Endor. Word has it that Grand Vizor Sate Pestage promises the citizens of the Empire that he will not rest until the Rebel Alliance is utterly crushed for the heinous acts of this past night.
Suddenly the holofeed is interrupted and the entire abode is rattled to its foundation as blasts strike the enclave. Explosions rock the entire country side as blaster fire is rained down from orbit.
The entire enclave is blasted to rubble. Within the Vont Apartment, young Cas-Lo rushes to the aid of his mother. He finds the turncoat padawan Cittro buried under a support beam. Amidst the flaming wreckage young Vont attempts to physically lift the bulk head to no avail.
Cittro: (under rubble) those blasted rebel scum!
Cas-Lo Vont: mother, there was no air raid signal, it cannot be the rebels
Cittro: (under rubble) who told you the procedures? then it could only be wheres your father!
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-orbit of Gall-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The insectoid Gaff storms onto the bridge of the star destroyer to find Commander Vont standing at the main observation area with a smoking blaster in his left hand.
Gaff slows his heightened pace at the sight of the captains dead body at vonts feet.
Gaff: so the captain started the bombardment before they could be evacuated?
Dilbun Vont: naw, you gots it all backwards gaff, that kriff head wasnt gonna start it till all those parasites had gotten aboard the ships. Dont need anymore mouths to feed in this fleet.
Gaff: but shes down there too sos lil cas-lo
Dilbun Vont: with ol augie blasted to stardust I dont need em, either of em. Bein slowin me down far too long already as it is. Get the fleet to hyperspace, the kriffin rebels might be coming this way after they get done moppin up at endor.
Gaff: yes, commander.
The entire Gall defensive fleet of Six Star destroyers blasts into hyperspace.
Dilbun Vont: (narration) oh, so much fur da loving family crap .
Imperial Enclave-Gall-4 years after the battle of Yavin IV
The rubble ridden room begins to cave in on the surviving inhabitants, as the ceiling comes crashing down Cittro grits her teeth and accepts the unpleasant death.
Young Cas-Lo instinctively raises his arms in defiance of the death his father called down upon him. Via the power of the force the wall is not only stopped from crushing the two, it is sent collapsing in the other direction. With sudden glee the child turns round to regard his mother.
Cittro: (coughing blood) who you..think youre saving you little bastage!
Cas-Lo Vont: I used it to save you. What can be so wrong about using it for that?
Cittro: (dying) just tryin to get me to keep playin mother .
The turncoat padawan succumbs to her wounds, leaving the nine year old to fend for himself amidst a bombed out untamed world. The child sets out into the wilderness with only the force as his ally.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-Hyperspace-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Gaff strides into the late captains lounge to find Dilbun studying a holographic star chart amidst a gathering of smashed valuables and broken furniture.
Dilbun Vont: not a kriffin drip of reserve on dis tub.
Gaff: I have some membrosia in my cabin if thatd be of any help?
Dilbun Vont: neva touched the stuff.
Gaff: so what is our heading, mission, scheme?
Dilbun Vont: if ya hadnt noticed there Gaff, Im whut youd call something of a softie when it came to ol augie. He wuz the only person I neva double crossed, truth.
Gaff: but hive mates and hatchlings are of no concern to you?
Dilbun Vont: (slamming vibro-axe on the desk) stay on subject! Although the rebels carried out the deed that done in ol augie I personally hold the bothan spies accountable for his bein dead.
Gaff: Koth Melan was slain by a Barabel hit squad a month ago Dilbun. Who you gonna kill now?
Dilbun Vont: yea, yea. I know dat. He wasnt the only bothan wit hiz fur in that mess. Bein scanning the imperial network, those kriffers neva stopped working the original slice trail where the plans where obtained.
Gaff: I follow so far.
Dilbun Vont: good, the bothan spynet tried to bribe a highly placed imperial officer into placing a slicer droid into the coruscant computer network, dat failed but they obtained the plans anyway.
Gaff: so were going to imperial center?
Dilbun Vont: oh no, we go there this whole fleet gets absconded and redistributed into the war effort. Dis is my kriffin fleet gaff. They aint gittin it back.
Gaff: so were still goin after bothan spies?
Dilbun Vont: you betcher arse we are, gonna toast those furbags myself!
Rooftop-Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
A platoon of imperial storm troopers march down a overly crowded street carrying the solitary banner of the Empire. On the rooftop of a building overlooking the scene a pair of Bothan spies sympathetic to the rebel cause keep a proton canon locked on a central power line right above the intended direction of the imperial demonstration.
Tani Abyla: you sure we should still be carrying out this strike?
Utric Sandov: last time I checked, no imps arent throwing down their blasters in the name of peace. This neat little civil war just turned into a sectarian mess tani. Be lucky if the new republic or alliance of free planets or whatever catchy little tagline they settle on; is set up within a thousand years.
Tani Abyla: so were gonna murder that whole street of people down there for a cause that by your account is just hopeless, correct me if Im wrong.
Utric Sandov: we take out that batch of non-humanoid hating imperial zealots and we may not hafta..
Tani Abyla: face it, you cannot condone this. its a act of murder plain and simple! Nor is a cry of arkrai being let out towards all imperials is there?
Utric Sandov: we both know if endor had been a defeat neither of us would be up here with doubts itd be pop goes the imp.
Tani Abyla: see you have doubts too!
Utric Sandov: (disengaging canon) no, you just drive a hard bargain. Im sold. So now where are we letting off this payload? Got any legit, morally acceptable targets for me?
Tani Abyla: (slicing computer socket) ok legit targets; storm trooper barracks, morally acceptable; negative they let families bunk together on this Podunk rock.
Utric Sandov: (compressing rocket launcher) what about that karkin airfield?
Tani Abyla: watch your language! Wed cut off their supplies. But not all the livestock in these waters are inedible to humans. We could also sever their link with the rest of the imperial network.
Utric Sandov: fine, but what are we gonna do about this kriffin..excuse me lovely proton missile of my mine and dont say just fire into the sea.
Tani Abyla: theres a comm-tower in the northern hemisphere, we blow it and they cant build another without supplies they cant call out for since were cutting them off for the duration of hostilities.
Utric Sandov: fine. Troops learn to fish, and rough it out for the next twenty years.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-Hyperspace-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
an insectoid rushes down a corridor to a storm trooper guarded door which hisses open upon his approach, Commander Vont exits the room with a blood-soaked gungan vibro-axe. Gaff follows the commander down the corridor he just came down.
Gaff: what happened to the fleet captains dinner?
Dilbun Vont: lets just say; dare wont be any contention for the title of fleet commander, now will dare?
Gaff: but what of mutiny? The sub-commanders will drop out of light speed and defect from your command.
Dilbun Vont: kriffin fleet is slave rigged to da ravager, so wuts our status what title you want gaff?
Gaff: I work best from the sidelines, commander. Were en route to the Aquilae system, but there appears to be a planet wide infection warning faintly broadcasting.
Dilbun Vont: that sounds like a slicer fur sure. Get some bright guy on a formation or what have yea, and keep our shields up. And keep our tractor beams at the ready. These furbags are bout to bounce.
The two briskly march onto the bridge of the vessel, only to be greeted by a chorus of status updates.
Imperial Technician: before the quarantine went up; warrants and bounty hunter assistance summons where issued for Jaxxon and Amaiza Foxtrain. There was even mention of an unauthorized landing of one YT-2400 and a WUD-500 class vessel in the northern hemisphere.
Dilbun Vont: could be the kriffin outrider, and perhaps even the rabbits foot.
Gaff: I highly doubt your bothan spies could afford transport from the likes of either of those parties.
Dilbun Vont: yea and nobody took solo but nuthin for a kriffin nerf herdin smuggla now did they? Get up a couple wings of ties.
Gaff: perhaps the launch order should be rescinded until we come out of light speed?
Dilbun Vont: (preparing backhand) Im in charge of dis yeah but git your arses ready! All ships git your ties ready to dismount when we reach Aquilae. its a kriffin order!
Vont quickly leaves the bridge in a hurry, Gaff looks back at the commander while retracting his deadly stinger.
Communications Tower-Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
A pair of vessels make their landings atop a large landing pad in the midst of a vast ocean teaming with large predator creatures clashing with one another. The shielded structure Is continually challenged by a group of such titans. The crew of The Outider consisting of bothan spies and their pilot Dash Rendar frantically rush to greet their temporary allies; the crew of Rabbits Foot .
Jaxxon: we should really just scratch dis karkin plan and dust dis soggy hell hole!
Dash Rendar: please tell me you didnt get fingered for anything you shouldnt have been doin on this trip?
Amaiza Foxtrain: I didnt get the death mark on six systems for jaywalking there flyboy.
Tani Abyla: this was an Alliance funded mission outlaw! There was to be no unwarranted theft of property!
Rianna Sarin: unless of course the proceeds where donated to the rebel alliance?
Jaxxon: better check the reception on that lekku there yum yum, aint gonna happen. Our loot will make up for the peanuts you rebels pay to ride the rabbits foot.
Rianna Sarin: and how much does Zeeo get for all the repair work hes bein doin to keep your tub in the sky?
Utric Sandov: ok stow it all! Where you being chased over here or not I smell burnt hull?
Amaiza Foxtrain: knew we couldnt fool a bothan spy, might have been a few ticked off imps gunnin for us down in the south isles.
Jaxxon: oh and that bookie we cleaned out in the eastern block..shoulda bein there it was priceless.
Dash Rendar: Im sure it was, well Im leaving in as long as it takes to get the outrider primed. Anybody goin with her had better be aboard by then.
Tani Abyla: well be there, come on Sarin.
Rianna Sarin: here we go zeeo.
The hovering droid accompanies its master gleefully as Rendar goes back up his ramp.
Utric Sandov: alright you two tossers, fork over the creds.
Amaiza Foxtrain: you think were actually donating our haul!
Jaxxon: you chubba rebels just offed the emperor, what the kriff you need with outlaws plunder anyhow?
Aint it all ticker tape parades for solo and the other guerilla heroes.
Utric Sandov: that holovid of the uprising on imperial center is real heart warming aint it? Sos a kriffin blaster bolt in your gut. The imps aint licked yet, so if you please the alliance would greatly appreciate the funds to make the empire truly; history.
Amaiza Foxtrain: (tossing coins to the ground) whose to say your little alliance can even manage this galaxy? Think its gonna be a lot harder than blastin a bolt through a two meter gap. Huh?
Utric Sandov: (collecting coins) with minds such as these to save, why do we continue?
Amaiza Foxtrain: oh and with such brigands to serve.
Jaxxon: look there sugar; yesterdays freedom fightin Insurgent, tomorrows money grubbin Bureaucrat. Aint it a sight!
The outlaws walk back towards their vessel as the bothan continues to collect their imperial currency from the floor of the platform.
Meanwhile Tani Abyla, Rianna Sarin and Zeeo make their way into the depths of the ocean world via a force field shielded lift with a panoramic via of the life rich sea.
Rianna Sarin: just to think one hiccup in the power relay and we get crushed to death by the depth before the predators can even make a snack outta us.
Z-58-0: in that case why didnt you just send me in your places? I can survive the depths of space.
Tani Abyla: a sentient slicer has something you just cant program. No offense Zeeo.
Rianna Sarin: youd be amazed at the amount he can achieve with that processor.
Z-58-0: whats that supposed to mean?
Tani Abyla: oh its just that arakyd industries isnt known for producing
Rianna Sarin: dont mind the bothan, zeeo. Shell learn.
The lift comes to a stop and opens onto a deserted observation deck, the droid flies to its task as tani and rianna set about their own duties. Topside; Dash Rendar rapidly exits the ramp of his craft.
Dash Rendar: we got six victory II class star destroyers entering orbit!
Utric Sandov: (passing coins) how much for you to delay taking off just a bit longer?
Dash Rendar: (accessing the loot) umm, what domination are they? Thousands huh? a handful for ten more minutes.
Jaxxon: (sticking blaster in sandovs back) Ill have whatever he leaves behind for added fire power, show me six imperial classes and Ill start carbon flushin myself.
Utric Sandov: go ahead ya kriffin varmint. Take it all, only feed a spy net for three weeks in the bush.
Amaiza Foxtrain: (pocketing loot in a boot) not like it takes any skill to stare at a target for that long eh?
Utric Sandov: we let two smugglers into the rebellion and now all the dregs mean to bled our funds.
Jaxxon: cry me a river.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-orbit of Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
From the viewing port of the Ravager, Commander Vont watches an entire bombing run of Tie Fighters speed to the surface of the ocean world.
Gaff: all wings are away, is all as you wish it to be..fleet commander?
Dilbun Vont: betta be.
Suddenly a storm trooper charges toward the viewing station firing at vont; whom effortlessly draws his own blaster pistol and lets off a string of bolts at the ensuing mutineers.
Without hesitation the insectoid Gaff draws his own blaster and enters the fray on vonts behalf. The fire fight is short but not without consequences.
Dilbun Vont: tell me we gots nuff shock collars aboard this tub to rig us a new bridge crew!
Gaff: I always travel with at least a platoons worth in my shuttle.
Dilbun Vont: have em brought up with another crew and a case of detonite. Dis happens again heads are poppin.
Gaff: agreed.
Communications Tower-Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The floating platform is attacked from above by a swarm of tie fighters, the vicious sea life plucks unlucky pilots from the skies at random as blaster fire reigns down.
Dash Rendar: (hiding under vessel) aint getting paid enough for this!
Utric Sandov: (firing blasters) cant hit a target rendar?
Jaxxon: (firing blasters) cmon killing imps is fun!
Utric Sandov: (firing blasters) just gotta hit that cockpit and
A well aimed shot ends in a fighter careening out of control and crashing into the platform nearly sinking it. As within the returning lift, vibrations from above are felt. The view is that of complete and total havoc in the sea.
Tani Abyla: cant be good.
Rianna Sarin: heres hoping the power holds.
Z-58-0: we are well above the decompression limit of sentient beings.
Tani Abyla: yeah well not above the food chain wire brain.
Without warning the entire lift looses power and is flooded by the oceans around it, rianna latches onto zeeo and motions for Tani to do the same.
Upon making her connection the droid races to the surface and avoids the jaws of every predator on the way.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-orbit of Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
A platoon of stormtroopers attach detonite rigged shock collars around the necks of all the replacement bridge technicians.
Dilbun Vont: aight kriff heads, anybody try and pull another mutiny on me is gonna end up a job for the cleanin droids get it?
The entire technician staff agrees in unison.
Dilbun Vont: guud, now it would appear our tie wing is provin a bit useless down there wouldnt you say gaff?
Gaff: probably too much biscuit baron.
Dilbun Vont: agreed, tractor beam control! I want that entire comm-station brought up into our docking bay!
Imperial Technician: but sir, we cannot divert that much power to..
The technicians head is exploded by a trigger in vonts hand.
Dilbun Vont: another opinion, can id be done!
The remaining technician staff agrees in unison.
Communications Tower-Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The tie fighter swarm begins to loose numerical superiority and give way to the raging sea monstrosities as the energy field protecting the landing pad shimmers out of existence. Causing the lesser sea monsters to slither on deck towards the outnumbered band of freedom fighters.
Jaxxon: (firing blasters) outta power packs!
Dash Rendar: (pulling blaster) good thing I didnt waste mine.
With one shot the smuggler braggart fells an advancing sea beast as it falls dead Zeeo emerges from the depths with Rianna and Tani still attached.
The droid settles near the two vessels and deposits the sentient beings on the deck.
Before the gathered party can check the status of their comrades a great silhouette is cast upon the platform, both Rianna and Tani regain normal breathing habits at the sight of a Victory II Class Star Destroyer descending upon the ocean planet belly first.
Two mixed parties of three members each split up and run up the ships ramps. As the vessels begin to fire their repulsor engines, the entire comm-tower is caught in the pull of a tractor beam; immediately the bulky station is brought into the skies shedding mammoth predators as it makes its ascent.
The beam also catches a mighty submerged beast of the abyss.
Cockpit-Outrider-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Tani Abyla: whats the problem get us outta here!
Dash Rendar: let me know when I start givin you tips on how to slice. Jaxx ol buddy you ready when I am?
Rianna Sarin: get this bucket moving flyboy.
Cockpit-Rabbits Foot-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Amaiza Foxtrain: everythings almost primed!
Jaxxon: (punching accelerator) dont listen to the broad, follow me!
Both vessels blast off of the platform and fire their canons at the underside of the star destroyer as it continues diverting all of its power to the tractor beam. Massive explosions rock the destroyer as it pulls an entire comm-tower into itself; the tower explodes upon impact.
Both vessels escape into the upper atmosphere as the tractor beam pulls a mighty sea beast onto its hull, all flaming portions of the vessel are extinguished by the accompanying wave of fluids. The mighty beast wraps its many tentacles around the entire hull of the star destroyer as it lifts into the air. The remainder of the tie fighter swarm comes to the mother ships defense, but is of no use.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The bridge of the Ravager is in complete panic as the mighty sea creature attempts to grapple its foe to shreds, technicians are burnt by exploding consoles and overloaded circuitry smokes.
Dilbun Vont: kill the kriffin tractor beam! Git us back into orbit! Goto hyper speed if we got it
Gaff: no itll survive the jump, we need to burn it off with the atmosphere!
Imperial Technician: we have a plethora of hull breaches, we run the risk of burning up and total decompression even if we reach space!
Dilbun Vont: (holding remote) power rerouted? Punch it!
The star destroyer rockets towards space at full repulsor speed as the beast continues to cling tightly to the hull. Klaxons scream themselves out of function as the vessel reaches space with a mighty flaming carcass still attached to the hull.
The fire dies as the vessel leaves the upper atmosphere of Aquilae, and the mammoth carcass crystallizes.
Dilbun Vont: somebody tell me one of the five otha ships in this kriffin fleet got those two!
Imperial communications officer: sir, it would appear the other portions of our fleet where all attempting to flee the system. But ran into the fact of there being slave rigged to our command console.
Gaff: we might need a whole silo of shock collars.
Dilbun Vont: we got any kriffin trackin sigs on the ships where after?
Imperial Technician: half of the ship is without power, venting oxygen or aflame! We where lucky to make it up the gravity well in one piece let alon
Vont shots the tech in the face with his blaster.
Dilbun Vont: keep in mind, shock collars just became a commodity aboard this fleet and Im not at risk of running outta spare bolts. Now track the kriffin ships!
Cockpit-Rabbits Foot-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Utric Sandov: why arent we in hyperspace!
Amaiza Foxtrain: because the professors managed to fry both of their hyper drives by gunnin it outta that tractor beam on full repulsors.
Jaxxon: hey atleast we arent down on that sponge of a planet no more.
Utric Sandov: if only we had atleast one slicer with us.
Jaxxon: you missin your slicer for five minutes and you wanna cry?
Amazia Foxtrain: one of em, could hook us up on a secure channel to da other ship. Heck even listen in on the imp
The console of the rabbits foot flares to life with the voice of Dash Rendar.
Amaiza Foxtrain: like that.
Dash Rendar: (via comlink) this is rendar on a secure channel, come in rabbits foot.
Jaxxon: burned out hyper drive too?
Dash Rendar: (via comlink) you bet.
Jaxxon: great, you stowed on one of the destroyers also?
Cockpit-Outrider-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Dash Rendar: ya the one on the left. Comm-chatter suggests all six are slaved to the one that tried to capture the whole ocean floor down there.
Jaxxon: (via comlink) so thats how we got in unnoticed.
Tani Abyla: a little holovid scrubbing and theyll never know that we where here.
Utric Sandov: (via comlink) great work tani, how bout the imperial network any mentions of..
Dash Rendar: oh yeah they got our ships tagged, and are specifically after you bothans.
Jaxxon: (via comlink) ok. get the kriff outta my ship!
Rianna Sarin: the dear old commander has us all lumped together after that little exercise in what not to do with a tractor beam.
Amaiza Foxtrain: (via comlink) whole kriffin galaxies against us.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-orbit of Aquilae-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Within the late captains lounge, Commander Vont throws a veritable tantrum and smashes a chair against the desk. The insectoid Gaff stands at attention awaiting an end to the chaos. Suddenly a hologram flares to life within the lounge. Vont is caught off guard and fires off a round at it.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) of course the absence of a fleet guarding what was once the gall conclave is your fault vont.
Dilbun Vont: dats commander vont yea seat warmer.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) nevertheless, if you intend to keep that fleet youve absconded from more capable hands then I believe you are more than fit to carry out a task for the empire. Are you not?
Dilbun Vont: Im listenin.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) as the former commander of the garrison on Gall; all material passed through said port was under your express jurisdiction? Yes.
Dilbun Vont: (smashing rubble) reading manifests can git real dull.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) then you are well aware that the computer core of the recently demolished death star battle station went through gall a little over three standard rotations ago. During said layover a certain droid downloaded itself into the computer core. Before the rebels managed to ignite the stations main reactor, this droid consciousness was on the brink of seizing complete control of the death star.
Gaff: very elaborate grand vizor, smacks of Isards intervention in the wording. Maybe even the set up.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) I can assure you that a droid called IG-88A managed to carry out this act and is currently reaching consciousness once more within a similar computer core.
Dilbun Vont: another death star? What a two fur the price ovv one deal?
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) in a matter of speaking yes. Now the empire needs you to make contact with a past relation of yours in what will hopefully be the successful destruction of said battle station.
Dilbun Vont: droid revolution might be just what ol kligson always wanted Sate, might be best to just send your kriffin fleet after dis ding.
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) the station is located on the outskirts of the Annaj system in the Moddell sector. We believe the imperial network is greatly compromised at this time vont, a redeployment of that size could alert the rebels; Destroy the station and perhaps your rag tag fleet will be of no concern to the war effort. Do we have an accord?
Dilbun Vont: sure, just no more favors afta dis otay?
Sate Pestage: (via hologram) good luck.
The already temperamental commander blasts the holoreceiving pad on the late captains desk to pieces. And begins a brisk jaunt from the lounge.
Gaff: (rushing to keep up) may I assume you wish all holo-receivers aboard the fleet dismantled and locked down?
Dilbun Vont: you bet, we dont need anybody leakin our location. We gotsa to get a lead on the current location of kligsons moon or karkin droid world whateva hes callin his rusted out platform deeze daze.
Gaff: what about your bothan spies, are we to just give up on them?
Dilbun Vont: once we gots that kriffin station, Im gonna toast the whole fur bag system. Not concerned bout those two anymore.
Gaff: you believe Kligson can rid the station of the Igs prescience?
Dilbun Vont: hes the maestro of slicing computers there gaff, were bout to be become galactic warlords. You feel it.
Gaff: I have a bad feeling bout this.
Cockpit-Outrider-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Tani Abyla: everybody on the foot copy that?
Jaxxon: (via comlink) yea, thinking this should cost the alliance a pretty penny if we can limp our way to them in time to use it.
Dash Rendar: we aint sellin this out there lepi! We six have gotta deal with this one. skywalker would expect that or his kriffin force would make him think that.
Amaiza Foxtrain: (via comlink) this isnt our fight rendar, neither is it yours. Were already being under paid for the poodoo weve bein through as it is.
Rianna Saren: you think a nutcase like vont should have his hands on a death star battle station! This ones for the good of all living beings you fluzie. No price tag on that.
Cockpit-Rabbits Foot-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Amaiza Foxtrain: hope you enjoy what time you have left saren.
Utric Sandov: enough bickering, Im the closest thing to a senior officer we got here, and Im committing this entire six man..person unit to whatever subterfuge that leads to the destruction of that station. Now radio silence, while we affect repairs to these vessels. Slicers keep your ears stuck to the comm-stations. We need to know everything.
Jaxxon: better be a karkin planet in it for us after this sandov.
Rianna Saren: (via comlink) sure thing Sandov. I got zeeo on it.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-orbit of Droid World-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Six victory II class star destroyers encircle the mammoth station. All six are caught in droid worlds tractor beams. Aboard the Ravager XIII; Commander Vont stands with Gaff awaiting an answer to his request to interact with Kligson.
Dilbun Vont: cmon yea kriffin tin lovin bastage, just answer your summons.
Gaff: perhaps he despises being called upon when only needed to perform a task.
Dilbun Vont: jus the nature of things there gaff.
Without warning a holographic representation of a fully cybernetic Kligson appears on the bridge of the Ravager XIII.
Kligson: (via hologram) turn back, intruder, or Ill blast you out of space! This is kligson. And I dont want any dealings with you human life forms. Im a cyborg-half machine, half man. I surround myself with nothing but robots.
Gaff: (turning to vont) Im insulted.
Dilbun Vont: calm down, pretty sure even ur stinger couldnt penetrate that chrome dome. Its vont, never hit coco town did we? After that whole mt. tantiss affair eh? Accept this file transfer and speak of only actions, git me?
Kligson: (via hologram) what is it you ask of me, old friend.
Dilbun Vont: thee elimination of said parasitic.. programming. Can id be done?
Kligson: (via hologram) you are very well aware of how morally disgusting I find your request. But you assume my human half might see that concisenesss future actions as a hindrance to my own endeavors.
Dilbun Vont: such purty words, so will you snuff him out fuur your old buddy or not?
Kligson: (via hologram) what you ask is purely a moral quandary; do I destroy an artificial maniac only for a biological one to seize power in its place. Do you see my problem.
Dilbun Vont: dis maniac wont make ur kriffin droids into his grunts, plus last time I checked you dont care bout us biologicals. So what I do with said prize is meaningless to you eh?
Kligson: (via hologram) I cannot journey from the confines of droid world and I will not permit biological beings aboard. Therefore my holographic form will accompany you as my proxy.
Dilbun Vont: I cant afford to have your hologram being traced, dare no way you can haul this tub wit us?
Kligson: (via hologram) I assure you, this isnt a hologram along the lines of your limited technology, its a pure electronic entity sprung from my own being imbued with all my expertise in slicing. You may now depart my space.
Dilbun Vont: well nice to have you wit me, in whateva form.
The electronic entity marches down the bridge with Gaff and Commander Vont as the six destroyers blast into hyperspace.
Cockpit-Rabbits Foot-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Utric Sandov: (speaking into comlink) alright, tani all clear on deck?
Tani Abyla: (via comlink) Rodger.
Utric Sandov: dont go turning into a clanker on me, have you made contact with red squadron?
Tani Abyla: (via comlink) there standing by and detached from command structure as per your orders.
Utric Sandov: (speaking into comlink) great; credit the outlaws accounts before Rianna sets them about their next task.
Star Speeder 3000-Endor Express-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
RX-24: Welcome aboard! This is Captain Rex from the cockpit. I know this is probably your first flight, and it's...mine, too. (chuckles) Well, it looks like we're going to have a smooth flight to the Moddell Sector, so I'll go ahead and open the cockpit shield.
As the droid turns round it finds a total of four blaster pistols pointed at it and an empty cabin.
Jaxxon: (pointing blasters) theres to be a change in our flight path here today.
RX-24: what happened to the passengers, you filthy rebels didnt shoot them out the air lock did you!
Dash Rendar: too bad those kriffin bothans where so morally against involving the innocent passengers in this suicide run.
RX-24: do whatever you rapscallions want to the ship, but leave me out of it.
Amaiza Foxtrain: (pointing blaster) sorry, need you to confuse a fellow droid for awhile, Saren get your droid over here.
Rianna Saren: zeeo, enlighten your comrade as to the plain.
Z-58-0: (extending slicer tool into Rexs mainframe) this is so wrong.
Dash Rendar: what hijacking a common vacation linear or programming a fellow droid for this kinda mission.
Z-58-0: (extending slicer tool into Rexs mainframe) all of the above.
Rianna Saren: guess its back to the fringes for you three then?
Amaiza Foxtrain: (lowering blaster) there, easiest credits ever earned in the employ of the Rebel Alliance.
Jaxxon: (lowering blasters) you said it, love to say its been a good time workin with the lot of you. But I aint no kriffin phony.
Dash Rendar: my favorite part has to be them holding our ships as chattel while we carry off this part of the plan. Take it easy.
The three leave the reprogrammed star liner pilot and exit the craft via the airlock as the bothan spies enter.
Rianna Saren: here we go again, zeeo.
Death Star III-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The star speeder 3000 reverts from hyperspace and finds a clash of imperial forces above the battle station, right on cue the fighters of red squadron also revert from the infinite tunnel of hyperspace.
Yap-En Soear: this is red leader, whats with this? Comm chatters is static and my instruments are abuzz? Care to confirm any new intel bothans.
Star Speeder 3000-Endor Express-Death Star III-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Utric Sandov: Im sorry your eminence, but this is all new to us as well. But I believe we can use this to our advantage, Ive plotted a hyper jump around this little imperial slap fight.
Yap-En Soear: (via comlink) too bad this is all confidential, would love to see the look on those rogues faces when we tell them we hyper jumped into a death star trench.
Rianna Saren: gonna be alotta scared people if we do that captain. But I feel yea on that front.
Tani Abaya: alright course locked, here we go.
The entire fighter wing as led by the vacation linear blasts into a short hyper jump and reverts from hyperspace within the trench along the surface of the enormous battle station. The small force speeds towards the oddly placed exhaust port.
Yap-En Soear: (via comlink) alright keep us blank on that sensor screen or this whole parties kriffed.
Tani Abaya: were three slicers strong over here, your eminence. This things never gonna know what hit it.
Yap-En Soear: (via comlink) gonna be easier than skinning Ibma Cratis on Lorrbeqi.
The small armada rockets past non-responsive turbo laser turrets on their unchallenged run towards the unprotected exhaust port.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-Death Star III-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
The Gall fleet takes heavy firepower and looses entire tie fighter wings in the blink of an eye. Commander Vont stands alongside the insectoid Gaff and the electronic representation of the cyborg Kligson.
Gaff: we cannot survive this battle, one imperial class star destroyer is more than a match for this fleet.
Dilbun Vont: didnt come dis far to get blasted outta the kriffin stars, why the kriff aint you telling the infected computer cores over dare to destroy those other ships!
Kligson: processing. Connection trace unsuccessful; the intruder is no longer separate from the core. They are one and the intruder lacks the programming to operate said hardware.
Dilbun Vont: break id down to basic for us aight!
Kligson: the station is without an operational system for its main functions. Without said programming its a useless lump of hardware. This ig-88a conciseness requires a great deal of time to adjust to the tasks of functioning within these confines. Put simply an assassin droids programming cannot stand up to the riggers of operating an entire battle station.
Dilbun Vont: so why the kriff dont you override that things control and implant urself! You could run that thing.
Kligson: I will make an attempt. There appears to be a crude array of sliced protocols in place, I will suspend them.
Death Star III-Trench-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Without warning the turbo laser cannons open fire on the advancing armada, several X-wing fighters erupt into massive fire balls. The rear wing breaks off and attacks the turbo laser cannons while the front wing continues down the trench following the now battered star linear.
Yap-En Soear: all wings break off and regroup for another jump at the port. Spies get your zero gee gear on and prepare to eject, my boys will get you.
Star Speeder 3000-Endor Express-Death Star III-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
RX-24: Im sorry to inform you; that due to our excellent flight record. We only carry one zero-gee suit aboard. Standard procedure.
Rianna Saren: great we gonna draw circuits?
Utric Sandov: no the suit is yours, you and Zeeo can skim the surface and get out of the line of fire faster than any of us could in an escape pod.
RX-24: Star Speeder 3000s do not contain escape pods either. Standard procedure.
Utric Sandov: be sure to inform the outlaws of how badly their assitance was needed.
Rianna Saren: (attaching breath mask) Ill give them an apprioate response, good luck.
The Twilek and the droid launch out of an emergency hatch and veer off into space. The two are picked up by an observant X-wing. The fighter flees the scene once the two are aboard.
Yap-En Soear: (via comlink) Ill guide you in as best I can, perhaps, I can still fire off a shot at the port and deny you two martydom.
Utric Sandov: thanks for the thought, but youre shields arent gonna make it three more klicks. Might as well save your power sir.
Tani Abyla: keep your silence in our memory, your emience.
Yap-En Soear: (via comlink) very well.
The Lorrbeqian king veers off and blasts into light speed as the star linear continues its suicide run towards the exhaust port while getting battered by turbo laser fire.
Utric Sandov: so is this the morally acceptable solution tani?
Tani Abyla: whats two more bothan spies beneath the foundations of galactic peace.
RX-24: thank you for flying star tours.
The star speeder 3000 smashes into the exhaust port at full speed igniting the pipeline to the main reactor, the ensuing chain reaction complety destroys the galactic albatross.
Victory II class Star Destroyer-Ravager XIII-Moddell sector-4 years after the Battle of Yavin IV
Kligson: (transmission blurring) a pair of bothan slicers piloted a star linear into the exhaust port, the ig had its turrets attempting to destroy it. Unsuccessfully Id might add.
Gaff: you dont think it was
Dilbun Vont: oh yea it wuz them, Im as good as off da hook with them vapped.
Gaff: youre the one they bribed!
Dilbun Vont: not my fault they aactually got the actual plans from that attempt! Ol augied neva shoulda been on that kriffin thing anyways! Not my fault.
Gaff: (releasing stinger) you pathetic excuse for a being!
Kligson: (transmission bluring) the death star plans where actually absconded by rebels aboard a fertlizer freighter. Whose location was personally leaked by the emperor himself via his then proxy the late head of Black Sun; Prince Xizor. Your vendetta against the bothan spies and your self hatrid over the emperors death are both unfounded vont.
Dilbun Vont: thanks, think you could slice us outta this battle?
The electronic entity dissipates. The insectoid marches from the tactical salon in a hurried pace, vont turns his attention to the advancing Imperial Class Star Destroyer.
Dilbun Vont: all craft of dis fleet, were chargin that destroyer! Fire the main thrusters and stand by for light speed!
The six Victory II class Star Destroyers ram there way free of the lone surviving warlords also battered Destroyer; taking heavy damage in the process Vonts lead destroyer manages to obliterate the opposing warlords vessel and clears a way for his remaining fleet detachment to escape into lightspeed.
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I have a circuit in which a 14 V battery is connected to a 15 ohm and a 25 ohm resistor in series. What's the current through and the voltage across each resistor?
In my honors-level classes, I teach a mathematical solution using the VIR chart. They calculate the equivalent resistance of 40 ohms; use ohm's law on the total circuit to get a current of 0.35 A; recognize that series resistors each take that same 0.35 A current; then multiply across the rows of the chart with ohm's law to get 5.3 V and 8.7 V across the resistors.
In conceptual, though, we don't use a calculator, and I want to minimize (not eliminate) calculation, anyway. So we approach this problem slightly differently.
Take a look at the worksheet we've used in laboratory to learn how to deal with series resistors. Students must justify their answers to each question thoroughly.
1. Which resistor carries a larger current through it?
We start with a not-so-subtle reminder of the rule that each resistor carries the same current.
2. Which resistor takes a larger voltage across it?
Now, I insist on an equation justification with ohm's law. V = IR; I is the same for each because series resistors carry the same current. By the equation, then, the larger 25 ohm resistor takes the larger voltage.
3. What is the equivalent resistance of the circuit?
Fact: the equivalent resistance of series resistors is the sum of the individual resistances. Just add 'em up to get 40 ohms.
4. Calculate the current through the circuit.
Only now do we do a calculation. We've learned that ohm's law applies for the total voltage and resistance in a circuit. So, we simply say that I = V/R, with V = 14 V and R = 40 ohms. This makes the current 14/40 amps. Yes, I allow that as the answer -- we aren't using calculators, and I don't want to mess with issues of significant figures and decimals. Look, go ahead and haul me before the Klingon Death Tribunal for my sins. I'm looking forward several years. When they see circuits in a senior honors class, they'll be able to call this 400 milliamps. For now, I'm happy that they know which values to plug in to ohm's law.
5. Estimate the voltage across and current through each resistor in the chart below. You may use fractions for current, but not for voltage. Answers without units earn no credit.
Here's the Zen. Not calculating current through each resistor -- that's the same 14/40 amps through each. The Zen is the estimate of voltage. I'm NOT teaching them to multiply the resistance of each resistor by the current. Nor am I teaching them to proportionalize the voltage according to the resistance. Nope. I'm just saying "estimate."
All I am looking for is an answer that fits the facts they've already stated: the voltage across each must add to 14 V, and the 25 ohm resistor must take greater voltage. Some students will guess 2 V and 12 V; some will guess 6 V and 8 V. I don't care.
And now the Zen must be reconciled with reality. They make the voltage measurements, and see how the voltage is distributed: in this case, about 5 V and 9 V. Some students got the estimate right -- they get candy. I praise everyone else for a "good guess;" we look to see whether their guess was high or low for the 25 ohm resistor.
I don't teach anything, still; instead, I hand out a new sheet, with different resistors. They fill it in again, all the way from the beginning, steps 1-6.
As you may or may not suspect, by the second or third time most students are getting pretty dang close to the right voltages. Some folks discover the proportionality rule for themselves. Others just recognize that "close" resistors demand "close" voltages, and "far apart" resistors demand disparate voltages.
To me, this process is teaching good physics. I've taught the calculations for series resistors for ages, and I've been repeatedly frustrated by students who can make calculations well but can't answer simple conceptual questions like "which takes the bigger voltage." And as well by students who frustrate themselves because they predicted 8.25 V but only measured 8.22 V.
By the second day of filling out these sheets and measuring voltages, these freshmen are getting almost bored with the process. That's the sign I'm looking for. When I start to see faces saying "Gawd, not again with the voltage question..." that's when I know it's time to move on. I give the faster guys a sheet with three, not two, resistors; then, after a multiple choice quiz, we move on to resistors in parallel.
I'll teach parallel resistors the exact same way.


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In one case it was not possible to prove who was responsible, but "in the second case there is no doubt that it was the regime and its accomplices, because we are aware of the entire chain from when the attack took place, to when the people were killed and when the samples were taken," he said.
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A French diplomatic source said samples included blood and urine from victims, taken after a government helicopter bombed Saraqib near the northern city of Idlib on April 29.
The mounting evidence of the use of poison gas poses a dilemma for Western countries including the United States, which have promised to act if such weapons are used but have no obvious path for a military intervention.
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If left in Jordan, Patriot missiles could be used to protect the country – a Sunni Muslim U.S. ally – against any possible missile attack as the Syrian war threatens to widen into a more regional, sectarian conflict.
Moscow sees the surface-to-air missiles as particularly contentious, enabling the United States and its allies to impose a no-fly zone and potentially heralding the first Western military action of the war.
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Washington and Moscow have called a peace conference for this month, the first time in a year the superpowers supporting opposite sides in the civil war have tried to find a diplomatic solution to end it.
A war that Western countries had hoped would quickly lead to Assad's defeat now offers no end in sight. Rebels seized swathes of the country during the second half of last year, but in recent weeks Assad has launched a major counter-offensive and brought in seasoned fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, shifting the momentum and showing he will not be soon defeated.
Both sides have been accused of ever more horrific atrocities. Millions of people have been driven from their homes, sectarian bloodshed has spread to Lebanon and Iraq, Israel has bombed Damascus and civil unrest has swept Turkey.
Assad, an adherent of the Alawite minority offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, is supported by Russia and regional Shi'ite power Iran. His enemies are supported by the West, Turkey and Sunni-ruled Arab states, especially wealthy Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Syria has not signed up to an international treaty banning the use of chemical weapons but has said it would never use them in an internal conflict.
Both the Syrian government and the rebels accuse each other of using chemical weapons, although Washington and other Western countries say they doubt the rebels have done so.
Asked whether a "red line" had been crossed, Fabius said "undoubtedly". Paris was discussing with allies how to react.
"All options are on the table," he said. "That means either we decide not to react or we decide to react including by armed actions targeting the place where the gas is stored."
He said the military option was not at the top of the list for now as it was still vital to ensure that efforts to reach a peaceful solution were not hindered.
The French diplomatic source said Paris hoped the results of its chemical tests would help U.N. investigators push their case to enter Syria. When inspectors report, France will push for action at the U.N. Security Council, where three resolutions against Assad have so far been vetoed by Russia and China.
"This is a way of adding pressure on Syria and those who support it," the source said. "I can't see how Russia could defend the use of chemical weapons."
In Syria, the besieged city of Qusair came under renewed missile and air attack as fighting there dragged into a third week, prompting calls for humanitarian access to offer some relief to the thousands trapped by government forces.
Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah guerrillas have besieged the rebel-held town which controls vital supply routes from Lebanon and access between Damascus and the coastal heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect.
As Syrian government forces try to grind down the rebels in Qusair, trapped civilians have had to choose between sheltering from the bombs or risking a 100 km (60 mile) journey to safety.
"Qusair itself is described as a ghost town, heavily damaged and filled with the sound of bombs. People are hiding in bunkers or, even worse, in holes that they've dug," U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a briefing in Geneva.
"One woman told us that she spent, with her children, one week inside a hole that was dug into the ground."
Opposition leaders called for the creation of a humanitarian corridor to allow people from Qusair to flee to Lebanon.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the Syrian government had said it was willing to grant the agency access to Qusair once military operations there were ended. DM
Photo: Members of the Free Syrian Army talk as they sit with their weapons in a damaged street in Aleppo's Karm al-Jabal district, June 3, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman
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Were going to get the pitching. -Bob Castellini
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What are REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)?
If you pride yourself on being an up and coming investor, you should make sure you know all of the investing options that are available to you.
While most people know of trading things like stocks and bonds, they may not know of the deeper levels of those things, such as REITs. REITs are Real Estate Investment Trusts. Essentially this is a company that purchases properties and then becomes a real estate management firm.
How you get involved in these investments is by giving them the funds to make those purchases and run them. Essentially, they will allow a certain number of investors to be a part of the trust (it is usually a limited number for each trust).
So where did REITs come from? Well the REIT was born in 1960 by congress. Before this time only those with major money were able to get into real estate investing. Everyone else had to play the regular stock market. So, they wanted to give smaller investors the chance to get in on the profit making market of real estate. With REITs instead of having to have the money to be able to purchase a whole property at once, an investor can get in to the market with just a percentage of the money buy buying one or more shares.
When choosing a REIT, it is important to realize that there are a variety of REIT styles. Usually a REIT sticks with one type of property. For example, there are commercial REITs that only deal with commercial real estate and ventures. They may purchase office space and rent it out to businesses. Another way to go is industrial, purchasing and maintaining industrial parks. There are also residential buildings that vary from apartment buildings to condominiums and even complete housing neighborhoods that are owned and operated by the REIT. If you know more about one kind of real estate than another, you may prefer to fund this style of REIT where you can invest in something you know about.
Understanding how REIT investments work is vital if you are considering going into this type of investment market. Here are some of the basics.
First, if a REIT makes money, its investors are going to make money. The way a REIT works is that as it makes taxable income, at least 90 percent of that must be paid directly to it's investors. That means as a shareholder, if the REIT is making any money, so are you!
When it comes to shareholders REITs run the gamut from small to massive, but even the small ones are not so small that they can't have any buying power. A REIT must have at least 100 shareholders.
When it comes to operations, REITs have a few major rules to follow. First, they are required to invest 75% or more of the money put into the trust in real estate ventures. Additionally, they have to be getting at least 75% of their income from monies made from the properties they own (i.e. through mortgage interest or rent)
If you are considering investing in REITs it is important to note that they are also a little different in tax structure. Since so much of the profit from a REIT is going to the shareholders, they are able to deduct that money from their taxable income. However, when you as in investor get your dividends you will be responsible for paying the capital gains taxes.
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Four-time San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl champion, Jesse Sapolu, will be signing copies of his new book, "I Gave My Heart to San Francisco" at Cronies Bar & Grill in Hilo on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, from 4:30-7:00pm.
In his recently released book, the former Farrington High School and University of Hawaii-Manoa football standout who spent his entire 15 year NFL career in a San Francisco 49ers uniform, details the highlights and hardships of his remarkable playing career.
Sapolu triumphed on the field despite having a dangerous heart condition, a torn aortic heart valve, that stayed with him during his 15-year career which included nine appearances in the NFC title game, four Super Bowl rings, two Pro Bowl appearances and two All-Pro selections.
Emcee for the evening will be B-97 Radio Morning Personality, Darrin "DC" Carlson. At around 6:30pm, Jesse and DC will auction off San Francisco 49ers merchandise with proceeds going to the Hawaii Island United Way. Items to be auctioned off include a grand prize package including tickets for two to a 49ers football game, pre-game field passes and tailgate party with Jesse!
Other activities during the book-signing include a silent auction and door prizes. The first 50 attendees will receive an autographed photo of Jesse. Proceeds from the auctions will benefit the Hawaii Island United Way. The NFL is a strong supporting partner of the United Way movement across the United States.
Football fans of all ages are invited to come and meet and talk story with Jesse. Sapolu's youngest son, Roman, is a sophomore center at Oregon State University. For information, go to www.hiuw.org.
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1) CODE TITLE: Lightbox 2.04a - First Light Link Edition for Dynamic Drive
2) AUTHOR NAME/NOTES: Lokesh Dhakar - modifications for Dynamic Drive by jscheuer1
3) DESCRIPTION: This is the latest version of Lokesh Dhakar's Lightbox script with modifications to allow for linked captions and a 'first light' feature. The caption link may be targeted and the first light allows for an optional choice of image link to load into the lightbox on page load (once per session or always). Optional Lightbox start and end callback functions that can be configured globally in the script, or per page (on each page) using the script. The modified code also takes care of two bugs in Lokesh Dhakar's version:
- Missing captions would be filled in with the most recently used caption.
- The Array.prototype.uniq used for removing duplicate images did not work with Lightbox's multidimensional arrays.
Only the demo page and lightbox.js script have been changed from the official v2.04 release on Lokesh Dhakar's website, which already has several improvements over v2.03/v203a.
4) URL TO CODE: http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/lightbox2.04a/
Note: At this writing, the rest of the Lightbox v2.04 release files can be gotten here:
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PALERMO, Sicily —
Roberta Vinci will face Petra Kvitova on the opening day of the Fed Cup semifinals between Italy and the two-time defending champion Czech Republic.
Vinci beat former Wimbledon champion Kvitova in straight sets in Poland last weekend to move up to a career-high ranking of No. 12.
The semifinal opens Saturday with seventh-ranked Sara Errani facing the 25th-ranked Lucie Safarova.
After reverse singles on Sunday on the red clay at the Palermo Tennis Club, Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone are scheduled to face Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in doubles.
However, if it goes down to the doubles, Italy captain Corrado Barazzutti also has the option of playing Errani and Vinci, the top-ranked pairing on the WTA Tour.


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Jennifer Livingston
Jennifer is proud to say she is the newsroom veteran at WKBT. She grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and fell in love with journalism after a high school job shadow at a local TV station.
She graduated from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa in 1997 and started at News 8 shortly after that as a general assignment reporter. Jennifer is on her 11th year anchoring News 8 this morning. She's also the reporter behind our Emmy award winning 'In Search Of…' series.
In October, 2012, Jennifer made international news when she addressed a viewer e-mail on air that called her a bad role model because of her weight. Her editorial went viral and has motivated students and adults to stand up to bullies and be kinder to one another.
Favorite song?
The newsroom teases me that I like anything a tween or teenager loves. (Those Jonas brothers are amazing!) However, my favorite type of music is…showtunes baby!
Favorite book?
The Twilight Series. Seriously. Stop laughing.
My best day at News 8 was?
The day I went to cover a story and met a new reporter from the competing station who later became my husband.
Favorite way to spend a day off?
Sleeping in!
What sports team are you a big fan of?
The Chicago White Sox. I grew up watching them with my dad and was able to attend games 1 and 2 of the 2005 World Series when they brought home the championship.
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Greetings all, it's been long since I posted here but I need to do this one. What happens when another band uses the music from a Jamiroquai song for their own song, I assume they would have had to ask permission from the bands company or the band itself?
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Police: Man beaten with sock filled with beer cans, rocks
By Benjamin Paulin, The Enterprise
A Bridgewater man was beaten with a sock filled with beer cans and rocks during a robbery on Main Street, police said.
The 21-year-old victim received a call from a female friend Saturday night around 7 p.m. who asked him for a ride home, the Enterprise reported.
When the victim went to pick up his friend at the corner of South Street and Cottage Street, she was with two men whom the victim did not know. The two men also asked for a ride.
The victim drove the two men to 180 Main Street where he was then jumped and hit in the back of the head with the sock, Bridgewater Police Lt. Thomas Schlatz said. Inside the sock were full beer cans and rocks, police said.
The two men stole a knife out of the victim's car and caused a two to three inch cut on the top of the victim's head, Schlatz said.
Sean Hayes, 20, of 20 Marjan Drive, East Bridgewater and Jordan Smith, 20, of 17 Herford Lane, East Bridgewater were arrested and charged with armed robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery.
Hayes and Smith were found by police a short time after the robbery at the Cumberland Farms at 33 Main Street and arrested, Schlatz said.


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Tonight's Lineup
Rollins, ss; Utley, 2b; Burrell, lf; Howard, 1b; Victorino, cf; Werth, rf; Feliz, 3b; Ruiz, c; Moyer, p.
For four games in LA, the Dodgers could do no wrong. It was the opposite for us.
Eight days after that 4-game LA sweep, the same clubs met for four in Philly.
Revenge danced in Phillies fans' heads. The pendulum swung the Phillies way and LA left town winless in four games.
Brett continued his outstanding pitching and combined with two relievers, the Dodgers were blanked last night despite getting 13 hits. LA finished the series with 13 consecutive scoreless innings and runners on base in every inning. Shades of our August woes.
J-Roll snapped out of it. Shane continued his hustling play and Werth's speed and all-out hustle was something when he scored from second on an infield out.
Now, the attention turns toward a two-game set with the Mets. The fans' electricity at Citizens Bank Park will be turned up a notch these next two days.
Record Shutout
According to the Phillies record book, the most hits we allowed in a shutout by one pitcher was 12 (nothing listed for a combined shutou). George "Columbia George" Smith, a right-hander, blanked the Braves on 12 hits in the second game of an August 12, 1921, twinbill in Boston. The complete game score was 4-0. Time of game, you won't believe this, was 1 hour, 32 minutes. The first game that day was a marathon, 1:54.
Smith walked one and struck out two in allowing 10 singles and two doubles. Unfortunately, that shutout was the highlight of his worst big league season of eight, 4 wins, 20 losses. He gave up 303 hits in 221 innings, walked 52 and struck out 45.
The major league record for most hits allowed by a pitcher in a shutout is 14, shared by Larry Cheney, Cubs, in 1913 and Milt Gaston, Senators, in 1928. Again, that's for one pitcher, not a combined effort.
Alumni Reunion
With Larry Bowa, Mariano Duncan and Ken Howell on the Dodgers coaching staff, it was a mini-Phillies Alumni reunion this weekend. Even though they are wearing Dodger blue, they have a soft spot in their hearts for Phillies red. Bowa continues to live here in the off-season.
Each believes the Phillies should win the NL East.
Players of Week
RHP Andrew Carpenter and C Travis D'Arnaud are the pitcher and player of the week, respectively, in the Phillies minor league season:


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Let $C$ be the set of all vectors of dimension $n$ such that each of its entries are one of $-1$, $0$ and $1$ and also that the every $v \in C$ has at least $\frac{n}{100}$ $1$'s and at least $\frac{n}{100}$ $-1$'s. For a matrix $A$ (its dimensions are $\Lambda n \times n$ for some sufficiently large constant $\Lambda$), define $||A||_{C,\infty}$ to be
$||A||_{C,\infty} = min _{x \in C} \ \ \ ||A x|| _{\infty}$
Is it possible to construct an $A$ such that all its entries come from the interval $[-1,1]$ and $||A||_{C,\infty} = n^{1/2 + \epsilon}$ for some $\epsilon>0$. Constructing the matrix $A$ randomly by choosing each of its entries to be independent and uniformly random elements in $[-1,1]$ gets $||A|| _{C,\infty} =n^{1/2}$. The construction does not need to be explicit.


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I'm seeing a lot of traffic about a story in the Boston Globe and taken up elsewhere suggesting that changing passwords is "a waste of time". Well, actually, the study by Cormac Herley doesn't exactly say that, and I suggest that you read the actual study to see what it does say. It's actually well worth reading and makes some excellent points, though it's not a particularly new paper, and some of the points it makes are much older.
Should you stop changing passwords? Well, you probably don't have much choice, in general. You should certainly use strong passwords, where possible (some systems actively work against you in that respect, by only accepting limited password options). Randy Abrams and I wrote a paper for ESET last year that discussed some password strategies, and one of the points made there was:
"It's sometimes useful to consider whether frequent changes are really necessary or desirable. After all, if you're encouraging the use of good password selection and resistance to social engineering attacks, and making it difficult for an attacker to use unlimited login attempts, a good password should remain a safe password for quite a while."
I don't think that the "change passwords every thirty days" mantra has been as universally enthused over by security specialists as the Globe suggests. System administrators (not always the same thing as security specialists) do often enforce such measures, of course. But while I was working on some notes for a journalist today on social engineering, I came across this quote in a paper I presented at EICAR in 1998. (I'll have to put that paper up somewhere: it's actually not bad, and not particularly outdated.)
"Documented research into social engineering hasn't kept pace with dialogue between practitioners, let alone with real-world threats. Of course password stealing is important, but it's [also] important not to think of social engineering as being concerned exclusively with ways of saying "Open, sesame….."
Even within this very limited area, there is scope for mistrusting received wisdom. No-one doubts the importance of secure passwords in most computing environments, though the efficacy of passwording as a long-term solution to user authentication could be the basis of a lively discussion. Still, that's what most systems rely on. It's accepted that frequent password changes make it harder for an intruder to guess a given user's password. However, they also make it harder for the user to remember his/her password. He/she is thus encouraged to attempt subversive strategies such as:
- changing a password by some easily guessed technique such as adding 1, 2, 3 etc. to the password they had before the latest enforced change.
- changing a password several times in succession so that the password history expires, allowing them to revert to a previously held password.
- using the same password on several systems and changing them all at the same time so as to cut down on the number of passwords they need to remember.
- aides-memoire such as PostIts, notes in the purse, wallet or personal organizer, biro on the back of the wrist…..
How much data is there which 'validates' 'known truths' like "frequent password changes make it harder for an intruder to guess a given user's password"? Do we need to examine such 'received wisdom more closely?"
Nor do I claim that those thoughts were particularly original: luminaries like Gene Spafford and Bruce Schneier have made similar observations. That doesn't mean you should accept uncritically what they, or I, say. But it's always worth wondering if received wisdom is really wise.
And as Neil Rubenking points out, an attacker isn't going to waste time on trying to crack your password with brute force if he can trick you into telling it to him, or into running a keylogger. Which takes me right back to that social engineering paper… [Update: now available at http://smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/re-floating-the-titanic-social-engineering-paper/]
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The Sweetwater Union High School District has hired the former vice chancellor of the Yuba Community College District in Northern California as its chief financial officer, a choice drawing criticism from some in the community.
Albert Alt will be paid $179,189 salary in his new post, up from his 2011 pay in Yuba of $155,493, according to the State Controller's Office public pay database.
In that job, he was criticized for collecting additional pay for a doctoral degree from an unaccredited institution — criticism many in the administration took as union-driven because Alt was a management labor negotiator.
Also, Alt advised board members on an expensive capital-appreciation bond that will cost $12 in payback for every dollar borrowed.
The college district eliminated his position, vice chancellor of administrative services, in June. He had been there nearly a decade.
Sweetwater officials said Alt was chosen after a four-month process that included a pre-screening by an executive search firm, and at least two rounds of interviews with a community-based committee and a technical committee comprised of district administrators and faculty.
The district paid $25,000 to Sacramento-based School Services of California, Inc. to prescreen applicants and generate a list of potential candidates, who were then further vetted by the district.
"We believe that we had a very thorough process before arriving at Mr. Alt for the position of CFO," Sweetwater spokesman Manuel Rubio said.
In 2008, Yuba faculty members gave Alt — then the college's human resources director — a vote of "no confidence" after an investigation revealed, among other things, that he had received a doctoral degree from an unaccredited school that has been described as a diploma mill. Mississippi-based Madison University closed in 2006, five years after it opened.
As human resources director, part of Alt's job was to verify employees' education credentials.
"It was the worst kind of irony that he couldn't tell a diploma mill from his own degree," Yuba English professor Greg Kemble said this week.
Alt for a time received a $3,000 yearly stipend for his doctorate, but stopped taking it once he learned the school was unaccredited. Yuba officials did not return messages asking whether Alt repaid the stipend he received before learning of the school's status.
U-T Watchdog requested a phone interview with Alt, but it has not yet been granted. A phone number recently associated with Alt was disconnected.
Many in the Yuba administration and board felt that allegations levied by faculty members were an attempt to smear Alt, who was leading the district's contentious contract negotiations.
"I always thought it was not really what it was made out to be," said former Yuba Community College District board member James Buchan. He added that after the controversy with Alt's degree, he ultimately did obtain a legitimate degree from Drexel University.
"I thought he did a fine job as our vice chancellor, and I am glad that he has landed somewhere," Buchan said.
In Alt's financial role with the Yuba district, he advised the district's trustees on issuance of a $4.6 million capital-appreciation bond that will cost taxpayers $54 million in interest.
Current Yuba board members were reportedly shocked in September to learn of the interest payments, and said they had trusted Alt and the district's former chancellor with providing them with sound advice before approving the bond measure.
Xavier Tafoya, a 12-year member of the board, said board members relied on Alt's expertise, which up until that time had not failed them.
"When he started doing finances, we were very impressed with him because he had all the answers and was very succinct," Tafoya said. "I don't think he deserves all of the blame. We're all big boys, and we should have asked more questions of him and the administration."
In the South Bay community, Alt's hire has been met with opposition from critics who believe the district can ill afford controversy, as four board members are targeted in a public corruption probe by the District Attorney's Office. Two have pleaded not guilty, and two have yet to enter pleas.
"In my opinion, Sweetwater has to be like Caesar's wife: pure as driven snow," said Kevin O'Neill, a member of the district's bond oversight committee who said he hopes the hire works out. "If we accept that Mr. Alt is an honorable man, there is still the perception problem that either the district has a tin ear or did a really poor job in the vetting process."
Sweetwater Education Association President Alex Anguiano echoed O'Neill's sentiments.
"It appears that the human resources department didn't do its homework," Anguiano said.
School district officials would not say whether they were aware of the previous issues, but stood by the process. Representatives with School Services of California did not return calls for comment.


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Human factors are cited as a major cause in over 700f accidents, and it is widely agreed that a better understanding of human capabilities and limitations - both physical and psychological - would help reduce human error and improve flight safety.Many private and commercial pilot licence examinations worldwide now include the subject of human performance and limitations. This book, written by two pilots, one of whom is also an aviation medical practitioner, provides a readable introduction to the basic concepts of human factors in aviation. It features an important section on basic aviation psychology, as well as topics on physiology and high altitude environment and health maintenance.The Third Edition has now been expanded to include more detail on the physiology of hypoxia, as well as deeper coverage of principles of aviation psychology.Campbell, R. D. is the author of 'Human Performance and Limitations in Aviation', published 2002 under ISBN 9780632059652 and ISBN 0632059656.[read more]
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The fall season has arrived! The dropping temperatures and shorter days are undeniable signs the holiday season is right around the corner. Halloween marks the starting point of this annual season of sweets.
The next few months will likely include an increase in the consumption of sweets and other treats, and therefore, more dental cavities. However, Halloween should not be a time of worry for parents.
Use Halloween as an opportunity to teach kids good dental health habits, including consumption of sweets in moderation. Here are some reminders and helpful hints to ensure you and your kids have a healthy and fun Halloween:
n Give out healthier treats. Avoid giving trick-or-treaters candies that are sour (high in acidity, which erodes tooth enamel), sticky or chewy (leaves sugars directly on the teeth for prolonged periods) or hard (choking hazard for young kids and can cause tooth damage). There are many options for healthy snacks including things like cereal bars, pretzels or granola bars. Even a plain chocolate bar is a better option than sour, sticky or hard candies.
n Perform the "safety check." Take a look when your child returns from trick-or-treating to ensure there are no dangerous items in their collection. Include your child in this process to explain the decisions you make and allow them to learn good habits.
n Sort it out. Encourage your child to eat the healthier treats and avoid hard, sour or chewy candies like jawbreakers or caramels. These candies have high acidity and/or stick to the teeth longer, which can cause more damage.
n Limit availability. Candy should be enjoyed, but moderation is important. Have your child choose 15 or so of their favorites and remove the rest.
n Donate or store away extra candy. Consider donating candy or keep it stored away.
n Brush-up after consuming. Set a specific time of day for candy consumption and then have your child follow-up by brushing his or her teeth. This is much healthier than allowing your child's teeth to be continuously exposed to sugary or acidic treats throughout the day.
Though this Halloween is a great opportunity to start employing these practices, don't stop there! Continue to follow these recommendations throughout the year so your children can develop good dental hygiene habits while still enjoying their treats in moderation.
With all that in mind, don't forget to brush, floss and routinely visit your dentist for checkups. Remember, good oral health is a major contributor to overall health, so developing good dental hygiene habits will help ensure a long and healthy life for both you and your children.
Drs. T. Gordon Greenlee and Richard R. Deppe are general dentists practicing at Midwest Dental in Rockford, Ill. The office is located at 6066 Strathmoor Dr. in Rockford and the phone number is 815-226-0400. Call or visit online at midwest-dental.com/rockford to learn more or schedule an appointment.


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This is a great read. It's not about tools, or the technical aspect of debugging. It's about how you should think about debugging; the process you should use. It's applicable to all kinds of programming, though it's written from an embedded-programming perspective.
Give it a read, it's worth it.
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text: Aaron Jasinski, lord of internet mashups, has delivered yet another brilliant masterpiece. Feast your eyes on the Throne of Games! Get it? Because it's supposed to be Game of Thrones, and the throne is made up of video consoles and the like? You get it. Created for the Gallery 1988 show, you can see more of work over at Jasinski's Deviant Art. [Via Neatorama]


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Communism vs. Fascism vs. Socialism
Extreme right-wingers seem to be bandying about these terms interchangeably these days. I really don't get it. Why does the media focus on the idiots at the fringe? Why do they get so much airtime? They annoy me just as much as the extreme left-wingers who claim that 9/11 was the work of the Bush government. Then there's the comparison with Hitler (for both presidents). But that's another matter. Seriously. Why don't we hear more about people like this guy?
Anyway, so I keep hearing about how the Obama government is turning America into a Socialist nation… or maybe it's a Communist nation… no wait… it's Fascist. Either way it's apparently undermining the foundations of our republic and turning us into Russia… or maybe it's China… no wait… maybe it's Nazi Germany. Oh yes, before I get accused of being a crazy liberal let me say (as a disclaimer) that yes, I do lean a little bit left-of-center, but I don't agree with everything the left says. I'm also not a fan of big government. That being said, let's analyze three different political ideologies and see what they actually mean.
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text: Tilt-shift photography, often made with a specialized lens, lets you put an area in focus while blurring other areas and distorting the photo's perspective. One awesome side effect is at play in the above photos — toy-sized basketball players gathering on a court; mini-people enjoying a sunny stretch of beach. We're used to seeing such a short depth of field in the photographing of tiny things. So when this effect is applied to subjects that are actually far away, they appear strangely miniaturized. Ta da!