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Booking air travel, authoritative auberge anxiety and alignment vacation biking in accepted has afflicted absolutely with the appearance of the internet and abounding humans try to be their own biking agents. While you can align acutely a lot of of your biking yourself, you can't do as able-bodied as your biking abettor in a continued run!
Travel processionals, whether your bounded biking agent, bout abettor or destination specialist still acquire contacts that you as an industry alien do not have. As in amount of added professions, biking agents, whether in a arcade centermost abreast your home or an online agency, wherever they may be located, do apperceive something you do not, acquire way to book and align biking for you in agency bare or alien to you.
Traditionally you could acquaintance a biking abettor and ask for a quote, whether a amount of an air ticket, auberge or a vacation package. For the a lot of allotment biking agents still accommodate that affectionate of information, although there is a absolute how abundant admonition they may acknowledge as not all admonition is readily accessible to them.
First of all, a lot of biking agents absolutely may acquire at their fingertips accepted amount of air ticketing, auberge ante or assertive vacation bales accessible and will be blessed to accommodate the amount admonition to you instantly if asked. But already your biking appeal will allegation to be somewhat customized, whether tailored to your dates of biking or your added biking preferences, to acquisition a accordant acknowledgment will be time consuming. Because of this time aspect involved, do not automatically acquire an bureau is agog to absorb the time to accouter the admonition you seek if there is no allegation you will biking at all.
Look at the situations from the afterward perspective. In the old canicule if you had a botheration with your car, you'd drive it to your adjacency car artisan and asked him to see what was amiss with it. You would bead the car off at the garage, the artisan would acquire a attending and acquaint you what the botheration was. He would aswell accord you an appraisal and it was up to you to adjudge if you capital him to fix it appropriate afresh and there, delay or seek addition assessment and addition quote. His casework amount you nothing.
But not anymore. These days, no garage, no car adjustment artisan is accommodating to absorb time aggravating to acquisition out what's the botheration with your car afterwards charging you at atomic one hour activity upfront. Pay and he will attending and acquaint you. Up to you if you will adjudge to yield your car to addition boutique or acquire him fix it, he has covered his time spent diagnosing what's amiss with your car.
Similarly, abounding biking agencies and able biking planners and bout operators will allegation you an upfront biking planning fee if you are requesting biking align that aboriginal of all are time consuming, or there is no agreement you will book anything. All you are afterwards are about clandestine custom-built biking adjustment s and there are no simple answers or options to accord you, and the alone way to acquisition out will be for the abettor to dig and argue all sorts of altered sources he has at this auctioning and afresh present the biking alternatives to you for you to adjudge upon.
When alive with a biking agent, biking artist or any added biking able such as a abreast destination specialist, accumulate in apperception that a assertive agreement will assure you will get not alone the affectionate of biking align you ambition in accepted but aswell you'll accretion a accurate accomplice that will consistently plan in your best absorption whether you'll biking abroad from home on business or for pleasure.
1. Aboriginal of all, if contacting a biking agent, whether in being or online, don't alternate to accord them your name – don't worry, a lot of agents will not spam you back. Afterwards your name if you're allurement for a admired biking admonition a lot of agents will not yield your appeal too seriously. Call if you ambition but a lot of agents adopt not to yield notes, email is a way to go and for an abettor to attending up a book generally a time agency he has to bung in a name, so ability as able-bodied that name will be your absolute name. If you adjudge not to acquire the booking the catch will expire and no abuse done. If you adjudge afterwards to acquirement the catch the abettor does not acquire to rekey it into the arrangement all over again.
2. If you're aggravating to be you own biking agent, even in part, say you plan to book your own hotels online, acknowledge it to the abettor your are contacting for assistance, he/she may still be absorbed to advice you with the blow of your biking arrangements. Don't adumbrate your intentions from the abettor as agents don't like to be acclimated for admonition acquisition purposes only.
3. If at all possible, consistently acquaintance your biking abettor or destination specialist as anon as you apperceive if and area you ambition to travel, not endure minute afore your advised departure. That is even added important if you're planning a cruise to a bottom frequented destination.
4. Don't book your flights and hotels online and ask a biking abettor to do the rest, namely the difficult parts, such as circuitous busline connections, biking align in limited locations or to book segments that you just feel are not safe for you to book online yourself. Accord your abettor to architecture and book your absolute cruise for you. The affliction you can do is architecture your own vacation package, afresh archetype and email the aforementioned appeal to dozen altered agents to see who may be the everyman bidder. Yes, the internet is absolute for that affectionate of admonition acquisition but attending at this from a angle of a biking agent. If he/she knows you are sending the aforementioned appeal to dozen agents abounding of them will not be too absorbed in ambidextrous with you. Afresh again, cogent them the accuracy they will acknowledge alive what you are accomplishing and access the accomplished affair absolutely abnormally and in the end they just ability action you a deal.
5. If you're afterwards booking shoe-string amount of travel, for archetype adulatory to book the everyman blazon of accommodations, best be your own biking agent. Do apprehend that agents can't book casework that are artlessly too bargain to activate with, not to acknowledgment that that affectionate of suppliers do not pay abettor s any affectionate of commission. The abettor may still advice you but accumulate in apperception he will be accomplishing you a favor and will be alive for you at no charge. If so, acknowledge it, email your acknowledge you.
Do apprehend that to ask an abettor actor questions, get all the answers, including time arresting quotes, alone for you to never epitomize afresh is absolutely abrupt and turns agents off completely. If you are affable and admiring abounding will generally plan afterwards any allegation on your part, accouterment you with admonition you need, alive for free. But because of those that just carry advice out of agents so they could possibly book biking on their own leaves not alone a acerb aftertaste in agent's aperture but absolutely induces the accommodation to allegation au upfront planning fees if a next analysis comes.
6. On addition hand, if it comes to high end apartment accumulate in apperception these hotels commonly action discounts to agents that agents can markup and still action you allowance costs beneath auberge arbor rates. Genuine abettor is not absorbed in affairs you a college end auberge in adjustment to accomplish a college agency but to clothier in a bigger cruise acquaintance for you area he deems it desirable.
7. Accumulate in apperception that there is a aberration amid a biking abettor and a so alleged Destination Specialist. A lot of biking agents use online catch systems to book transportation, auberge and vacation packages. They about book or resell ready-to-sell biking offers from a array of suppliers that do not crave added than bushing in your name and dates of travel. If it comes to you defective customized arrangements, they will allegation to acquaintance bout operators and destination specialists that are either allotment of their bunch or a arrangement they accord to. Depending on the access they acquire they will or will not be able to advice you.
8. Destination Specialists pride themselves in absolutely alive their destinations. Abounding of them acquire absolutely not alone catholic abundantly but apperceive a accurate destination chaotic so they can align biking acumen for you based on knowing, rather than searching it up in a advertisement or some affectionate of abstracts base. Abounding Destination Specialists specialize in difficult, custom advised itineraries and do not advertise biking packages. Generally a time admitting not consistently that affectionate of account reflects college markup.
9. Last, amuse agenda that abounding destination specialists as able-bodied as biking agents plan 110 or added hours per anniversary because abnormally custom-design biking is absolutely actual time consuming. Being acceptable at biking acumen does yield acquaintance and while with the internet it seems additional attributes to be able to align biking on your own, abounding biking able are absolutely actual acceptable at what they do! They do apperceive added about biking than you, accord them a chance, they can save you not alone money but aswell abounding headaches and aloft all, they can assure not alone that you'll biking worry-free but that you may acquire a cruise of your life! Accumulate in mind, a acceptable abettor is not afterwards affairs you a individual admission or a amalgamation tour, they ambition you to become a echo client, their go-to-travel processional for blow of your life.


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I very much agree with you, Jaga. He's working toward specific deadlines now, at least, but he hasn't wanted to release any of them to the public because he's so bad at meeting them. Releasing a set date would only serve to make people shake their heads and declare he'll miss that one too. I think things are on the right track, though, and I'm trying to help steer him gently where I can, especially where the public is involved. Speaking of which, you make excellent posts, and I really do hope to see more of you in the future. It's always valuable to have people of wisdom around, and you seem quite level-headed, too.Jaga wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:11 pmI guess what I'd like to convey here is more directly for Josh, and comes as a bit of life wisdom (as I'm nearing 50 now and have plenty to give). That would be: for your own good, both personally and professionally, and the success of your career moving forward.. put your foot down with your subconscious and give yourself a deadline. Don't waffle on it, don't marginalize the need for it. Figure out what *absolutely* can't be avoided to finish the game, get people working towards a specific set of goals, and get LT pushed out. You can work on 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, etc after the fact. The more you delay, the more you hurt your baby, and in the long run.. yourself.
The last thing I want to have to do, is add LT to the list of Cube World, Kenshi, and the many others that have faded into memory. Many of us won't be around if it takes another year or three. Help us keep LT off that list.
I don't think LT will turn into Cube World - Josh has far too much passion for it, and I think he understands now that PR is important, and not something he can just set to the side for a couple years while he works on the engine. PR, after all, helps define not only how successful your game is, but how successful you are in the future with future job opportunities. As an example, not many people would hire Wollay for their game, I think, seeing how he did with Cube World. Josh seems to understand that now.
At the moment I'm pushing gently toward an early beta, but we'll see how that goes. There's not currently enough game to qualify as a beta, now that Josh has had to rework the engine to something that would actually run. In the near future, though, it's possible. (but as always, I can't make promises.)


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Following the Board's initial meeting last week, Stanley Diamond summarized the Board's charge as follows: "In addition to planning, the Board must help management make certain that the structure is in place to enable JewishGen to keep pace with ever-changing technology and encourage management to bring other organizations with content under a mutually beneficial umbrella that ultimately best serves all researchers. It is our hope that the Board can also play a role in both raising the profile of JewishGen internationally and identifying potential sources of new data."
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HAVEN Free Clinic is another popular community program. Started in 2005, the student-run clinic offers free primary care services supervised by attending physicians. Organized by students in the health professions, the clinic is run out of the Fair Haven Community Health Center from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
The Committee Overseeing Volunteer Services (COVS)
The Committee Overseeing Volunteer Services (COVS) is the student-run umbrella organization for many volunteer services. Its purpose is to help connect students with programs that will stimulate their interest and make the best use of their time while they are at Yale. Email email@example.com for more information. Another organization that keeps track of volunteer opportunities at Yale is the Office of New Haven and State Affairs, which lists school partnerships and Yale programs for the community on its web site, www.yale.edu/onhsa/.
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- Anatomy Teaching Project/Program – Medical students and faculty teach anatomy at Hill Regional High School to junior and senior high school students. Participants use lab facilities at the medical school twice a month. Lab activities range from observation of dissected cadavers to using the slides and microscopes in the histology laboratories.
- HIV Intervention & Prevention Corps (HIP Corps) is a year-long outreach program intended to reduce the incidence of new HIV infection among youth. Volunteers work with students on issues of HIV education, prevention, empowerment and community development.
- Columbus House provides emergency shelter and transitional living for 101 men and women, including food, shower and laundry facilities.
- The Hunger and Homelessness Auction is a week-long series of events culminating in a live auction. The proceeds of the auction go to local non-profit organizations that work to alleviate hunger and homelessness. The more than $22,000 raised last year benefited Loaves and Fishes, Life Haven, Youth Continuum, New Haven Home Recovery, the Community Health Care Van, St. Thomas More and Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen.
- Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) serves individuals, families and children in the greater New Haven area. It provides hot evening meals and bag lunches and maintains a food pantry that distributes bags of food one day a week and an emergency food for people in crisis. Volunteers prepare, store, stock and serve food as well as help with fundraising, advertising, deliveries and administration.
- Youth Science Enrichment Program (YSEP) introduces fourth- and fifth-grade students to the organ systems of the body through lectures and instruction using anatomical models, medical instruments and Internet resources. The goal is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups pursuing science careers.
- Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) is a nationwide high school science enrichment program aimed at recruiting African American, Native American and Latino high school students into careers in the science and health professions. Each year more than 30 New Haven high school students attend eight Saturday sessions run by Yale minority graduate and professional students. They participate in small group discussions on health topics within medicine and public health.
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A wide variety of window and door components and equipment will be featured next week.
Canadian window and door manufacturers, and at least a few from south of the border, will make their way to Toronto next week for Win-Door North America. The annual trade show sponsored by the Canadian Window & Door Manufacturers Association opens next Tuesday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Last year's event attracted over 3,600 attendees, an increase from 2006. With the relative strength of the Canadian market, at least compared to the U.S., exhibitors are optimistic for next week's show too.
"WTS Paradigm has been doing this show for a number of years, which has been very successful for us," states Nathan Herbst, president of the software supplier. "This year we expect to see both manufacturers and dealers of commercial and residential products visit our booth from the U.S. and Canada. We also have a healthy mix of existing customers and new prospects that we talk to at this show." In addition to our manufacturing systems, WTS plans to showcase enhanced sales functionality in its product line for both dealers and manufacturers.
"The Toronto Win-Door show is always a good show for us," states Volker Lamprecht, president and COO of Urban Machinery. "We expect a good turnout of Canadian window and door fabricators. Normally the show draws a solid US audience," he continues. "However, with the current state of our industry in the US, I do not expect that many US fabricators will be attending." Urban plans to focus on smaller machines at this year's event, showing several saws, a single-head CNC corner cleaner, and a two-point welder. Its Cambridge plant is only an hour away from the show hall, Lamprecht adds, and it will also take some customers to see high-volume machines there.
"Truth Hardware is excited about the opportunity to showcase our products to the Canadian market," says the company's Matt Kottke. "With the housing industry in Canada not having experienced as much of the same economic woes as those in the states, our customers have had a good year." His company is showing a variety of new products, including TwinLatch tilt latches, the Nexus Mortise Locks for patio doors, and a wide arrange of new handle/cover styles for casement and awning operators. "We're hoping that Win-Door will follow a similar path with strong attendance from the manufacturers in the window and door market wanting to come and see the new products we have to offer that will help them continue seeing positive results in 2009."
Although Win-Door generally draws numerous exhibitors from the U.S. and beyond, it traditionally serves as a showcase for Canadian suppliers, who take some of the largest spaces. The show also draws a broad mix of window and door product and component suppliers, ranging from vinyl extruders to door slab suppliers. An up-to-date list of exhibitors can be found on the Win-Door Web site.
For 2008, the CWDMA education committee and the Win-Door Show committee have been working hard to bring new ideas to the event. A new "Education Pavilion" is being created on the show floor this year, with seminars to be held throughout the day during show hours. Seminars include the following:
- The Energy Star Program—An update on the ratings program, information on compliance and benefits to participating manufacturers will be addressed by a group of speakers including Jeff Baker, CWDMA technical consultant; Steve Hopwood of Canada's Office of Energy Efficiency and Phil Lewin of Vinyl Window Designs.
- R&D Efforts—Lynda Sturgeoff, the research and technology manager for the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, and her colleagues Richard Lee and Gary Grieco will offer a one-hour seminar designed to de-mystify the grants available for research and assist interested parties on how to apply and what is covered by the grants
- Self Management—Bob McHardy of SelfManagement Group will explore key competencies of successful people, including elements of performance; coaching vs. coaxing; accountability and responsibility and how to coach for both; how to coach for self commitment and how to get people to do what you are paying them to do.
Also in the Education Pavillion, on Wednesday, November 12th at 9 a.m. will be the CWDMA 2008 Fall Meeting. That event will feature reports from the organization's active committees. On Thursday, November 13 at 9 a.m., Win-Door will feature John Johnson, chief economist for the Royal Bank of Canada, who will offer his overview on the economic climate and a look at the coming year.
Also on the Win-Door floor will be Presentation Theatre, an area designed for exhibitors to demonstrate products and services for show attendees. Finally, CWDMA also plans to continue its efforts to support window and balcony safety at Win-Door. Emergency management service crews will again be on hand for the show's popular putting contest. Such fundraising efforts have helped CWDMA develop window and balcony safety educational booths now in use in 12 regions of Canada.
Show hours this year run from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 11; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, November 12 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. More information on the event is available at www.windoorshow.com.


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COVE CITY � Buddy Blevis, 5, was standing in front of his family�s truck Sunday afternoon waiting with excitement as sirens came toward him on Old U.S. 70.
COVE CITY � Buddy Blevis, 5, was standing in front of his family�s truck Sunday afternoon waiting with excitement as sirens came toward him on Old U.S. 70.
�The cars are coming,� he said �I�ve already seen two monster trucks.�
Buddy and his family were some of the few hundred people who lined Old U.S. 70 watching the annual Christmas parade that nearly doubled the town�s population of 432.
�I like Santa because he brings presents to kids who are good,� Buddy added.
His mother, Becky said they came from Trenton to watch the parade.
�My mother just got out of the hospital and we wanted to cheer her up,� she said.
Not far away, Dianne McIver of Kinston was sitting in a lounge chair holding her two poodles, Luck and Becky, on her lap.
�They are fine until the fire engines come by,� McIver said.
And there were plenty of fire engines.
Amanda Boyde, Cove City utilities director and parade coordinator, said all of the volunteer fire departments in Craven and Jones counties and Wise Fork were invited. About 90 organizations were invited to be in the parade.
Boyde stood across Old U.S. 70 near the staging area directing people who were lining up to be in the parade. She helped find a place for a man who drove up in a Master Brand Cabinets truck that had a goat in the back. Later the goat would be wearing sunglasses and a hat.
�You�re in Cove City,� Boyde said as the truck with the goat turned around and drove by. �Anything goes. I�m sure people will like looking at him. One year we had a pot-belly pig and long ago the mayor swears he saw Elvis; not the real one, an impersonator.�
But everyone seems to enjoy the variety, she said.
�My favorite thing is meeting the people and seeing what they are bringing to the parade,� Boyde said. �We tell them to bring everything you�ve got.�
At one point, two men stopped their car and jumped out as the Blues Brothers. The crowd loved it and started dancing with them.
Sydney Allinen of Cove City said she goes to the Christmas parade every year. When her children were little they were in it, she said.
�I like the bands,� Allinen said as she sat on the tailgate of a truck in front of the Cove City Community Mart. �I love Christmas music and hearing the bands. It adds to the spirit of Christmas.�
Cove City Mayor Dred Mitchell, who tossed candy from his friend�s 1956 Ford Fairlane, said people really looked forward to the Christmas parade and the large crowds help out the Cove City Public Library open house.
But this year the parade route was changed for safety reasons, Mitchell said.
For 30 years the annual Christmas parade crossed the railroad tracks and people who lined Old U.S. 70 would also cross the tracks to follow the parade, Mitchell said.
�We decided to change it because of the tragedy down in Midland, Texas, on Veterans� Day,� he said, referring to a float that was carrying veterans when it was struck by a train. �When that tragedy happened down there in Texas, we decided we better not take any more chances.�
Parade goers didn�t seem to mind the change. They sat in their cars and trucks or on lounge chairs beside Old U.S. 70 and on either side of Sunset Boulevard clapping as the Sudan miniature trucks and marching bands went by or put their hands over their ears to block out the sirens of the fire trucks, rescues squad and Emergency Medical Service vehicles.
KrisTina Blevins, 16, said this was her first Cove City Christmas parade and she was enjoying seeing it with her family.
�It�s a lot of fun,� she said. �I really like the decorations.�
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Location: Between SR 520 and Bear Creek Parkway, East of the Sammamish River and North of the current Bear Creek Channel in Redmond.
Project Phase: Construction Complete
Contact: Mike Haley, PE, Project Manager, 425-556-2723
The Bear Creek Rehabilitation project is located between SR 520 and Bear Creek Parkway, East of the Sammamish River and North of the current Bear Creek Channel in Redmond.
The second phase of the Bear Creek Rehabilitation project was completed in early summer of 2015. This work consisted of final grading of the new stream channel, shifting of the main channel flow into the new channel and completion of the native plantings for the new stream buffer. In July 2014, the main channel flow was transferred to the new channel and the existing channel was backfilled to prevent flow from returning to the abandoned channel. The remaining work completed the native plantings for the stream buffer. Additionally, the City of Redmond will complete the archaeological testing and reporting in 2015.
In 2013, the City of Redmond completed the first phase of the Bear Creek Rehabilitation project. This phase included:
The Bear Creek Rehabilitation project rehabilitated the lower, channelized part of Bear Creek starting at the Sammamish River and going upstream on Bear Creek to the Bear Creek enhancement work previously completed. About 3,000 feet of Bear Creek was completely relocated from the mostly straight, channelized "stream" to a meandering, reshaped and re-planted channel in the existing adjacent open space.
The project established stream buffers consistent with the City's Critical Areas Ordinance with allowance for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) "Stage 3" widening of the SR520 freeway adjacent to Bear Creek. The existing asphalt path has been relocated as part of the first phase of the project and has been augmented with a soft-surface parallel path and "side-routes" that will allow people to walk over to the stream and to view and interact with (a much improved) Bear Creek.
The rehabilitated overbank areas will address flood conveyance issues and will provide other habitat improvements.
Rehabilitation of lower Bear Creek was identified in the Bear Creek Basin Plan, jointly completed by the City and King County in 1990. Funding was not available at that time and this work has been pursued as funding opportunities occurred.
Approximately 1996 through 1999, the City worked together with WSDOT when that agency agreed to provide funding to enhance part of Bear Creek in the vicinity of Larry's Market. This previous project has been successfully completed and is to be a model in many ways for the remaining work to be addressed by the final two phase of the Bear Creek Rehabilitation project.
Around 1996, the City began to work with the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to undertake rehabilitation of the remaining lower Bear Creek. Unfortunately, the Corps' rehabilitation program (designated 1135) stresses minimum stream improvements, requires an agency agreement which presented legal issues, and presented very strict and difficult real property issues. While the Corps would provide 75 percent of the funding for eligible costs, the overall quality of the Corps design and accompanying legal and property issues led to mutual agreement to terminate this joint project effort.
September 2008, the City of Redmond and WSDOT entered into an agreement to fully fund the design and construction of Bear Creek Rehabilitation in coordination with the "Stage 3" widening of the SR520 freeway adjacent to the creek.
In early summer 2015, the City of Redmond completed the Bear Creek Rehabilitation project.
View interpretive graphics of the history of Bear Creek for a brief historical overview of the area: Bear Creek Interpretive Graphics
Archaeology for the Curious
On May 18th, 2013, experts from the Washington State Department of Transportation, Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie and Stillaguamish Tribes, and SWCA Environmental Consultants presented a special workshop titled Archaeology for the Curious about archaeology basics and what Redmond was like 10,000 years ago and the local history of the Bear Creek site.
The following links will direct you to videos of that presentation:
Archaeology For The Curious - Stories of traditional life & resources (Warren King George, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe)
Archaeology For The Curious - Paleoindian period in Redmond & Western Washington 10,000 years ago (Ken Ames, Professor Emeritus Portland State University)
Archaeology For The Curious - Citizen Involvement in Cultural Resources & Historic Preservation (Matthew Sterner, WA Dept. of Archaeology & Historical Preservation)
Archaeology For The Curious -Archaeology of the Bear Creek Site (Bob Kopperl with NWAA/SWCA)
Archaeology For The Curious -Roundtable discussion with Agency Tribal & Consultant Cultural Resources Staff
Archaeology For The Curious -Archaeology 101 in 45 minutes or less (Steve Archer & Scott Williams with WSDOT)
Redmond During the Ice Age: Bear Creek Excavation Seminar (Bob Kopperl with SWCA/Willamette CRA)


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Free python IDE for Windows,Mac & Linux with UML,PyChecker,Debugger,GUI design,Blender & more
Monday, October 22, 2007
SPE 0.8.4.b works fine in Ubuntu Gutsy
"Ubuntu gets this package from Debian and it appears that it's been orphaned in Debian.
(...) it'd be hugely helpful if someone concerned about spe would adopt it in Debian. There is a Debian Python Applications Team with active DD support, so you need not be a DD to do this."
If you are not a packager it would be nice if you leave your comment on the launchpad bug.
So this gets more attention and will be fixed sooner as there is more demand. If someone steps up to package this for debian, I will release a new version of SPE.
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- AnonymousOctober 22, 2007 6:52 PM
1. Could you link to the place where you'd like us to leave a comment?ReplyDelete
2. I just installed the svn version on my Ubuntu 7.10. It seems to run okay, but it seg faults when it quits.
Would someone mind making .deb binary even if there's no plan to get it into the main Ubuntu repository?ReplyDelete
Hi there, I watch the incorrect behaviour, but haven't read the entry about the subject (go directly to get the command to get SPE from SVN), but I post my findings hereReplyDelete
Also I have a question, there is a IRC channel that we can join??
@daniel: Then the question should be, how to make a deb package? (I guess is possible the automatization, but there is also other packagers like autopackage, thought dont know if is really "auto" lol).
@daniel+anonymous: To quote Skott: "it'd be hugely helpful if someone concerned about spe would adopt it in Debian" Apparently nobody is concerned. Further questions should be asked on the launchpad bug:ReplyDelete
@david: You can ask your question here. If it is private, you can contact me by email.
I ended up putting the _spe folder from the subversion repository into my python2.5/site-packages directory. That works fine.
Only other modification I needed was to create /usr/bin/spe again since I had removed the previous spe installation using synaptic.
I wouldn't say I don't care. It's just that it's not simple and it's beyond my knowledge/skill set to setup a debian package. I like SPE and it's worth it for me to set it up for myself (I did after all); but the .deb is beyond me a little bit.
There is no need to place it in site-packages. You can also just place the _spe folder somewhere in your home as you don't need root access there, which is better for updates.
Don't worry I was not targetting you. I just wanted to say if nobody packages, there is no package.
Then you'd have to add your home directory to either the system path or the python path?
And then add some kind of executable to the user path also (instead of being in /usr/bin)?
Sorry, I'm a bit new to Linux in general.
That sounds like an interesting plan.
I am interested in other users being able to use SPE too though.
@daniel: Haha, no you even know too much about linux already. SPE is a program, not a library so it is designed also to work outside site-packages.ReplyDelete
I give more details. Let say you put '_spe' in your home folder (= '~/_spe' or in my case /home/stani/_spe). You can then create an application launcher on your desktop/panel/menu... with the command line:
python /home/stani/_spe/SPE.py
So no need to fiddle with pythonpath or /usr/bin.
I have created a .deb package from the latest SVN snapshot. It installs and runs OK on my PC, although I had to make a few minor corrections as there were some indentation errors in one of the source files. Stani, please email me for further information - I would be very happy for my installer to be distributed.ReplyDelete
Hi Chris,ReplyDelete
That is good news! I am preparing the new release of SPE. Please contact me by email.
Sent an email to your yahoo address - hope it works..ReplyDelete
Ahh I see. I was thinking that it made sense or *should* have SPE available from just typing "spe" into the command line. But your description makes a lot of sense.
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2007 9:37 PM
I'm annoyed that the Debian maintainer didn't get the right version.ReplyDelete
What do you mean?ReplyDelete
I woul like to try the subversion version. I get a connection refused with trying svn://, and a PROPFIND 405 Method not allowed for http:// or https:// access. I'm coming from a US ATT DSL line. Thoughts?ReplyDelete
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I'm using spe version 0.8.4.b and I really like it. But I have a question. Is it possible to set autocomplete for pygtk widgets? For example if I do self.button = self.wTree.get_widget('button')
self.button.g then it gives me all the possibilities or isn't this possible with the scintella editor?
Due to the conflict with wx, SPE can't provide autocompletion for gtk.
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2007 11:22 AM
Try importing the module you're developing and you can use autocomplete on the shell. Still being faster than looking into the PyGTK docs ;)
I think it's because with "get_button" you can get any GTK widget, so the object's type is assigned in execution time and there's no way to know it otherwise than executing that line.
PS: Sorry for my English
I would like to make a package (PKGBUILD) for ArchLinux too. I have tried with 0.8.3.c version but it does not work because of wxpython version. It's working fine from subversion checkout, but I think it'll be interesting to make some stable releases (just of tar.gz file) on scheduled (or not scheduled) dates. Do you plan to release a stable tar.gz file even if there's no a .deb package?ReplyDelete
I've just installed the latest SPE on my PPC G4 PowerBook running Leopard.ReplyDelete
There are some issues. ;-)
Where do I go to file bugs for that platform?
Hi Stani,ReplyDelete
great work, thx a lot!
I'm out of money, but I hope, my 5 € will be seen as a sign of good will...
Thanks a lot for this grear Editor!
Good night
I'm a linux user behind firewall. That caused me can't download by svn. Could you provide http access tgz file?ReplyDelete
I don't use Ubuntu, I use archlinux. So I can't got the spe. :(
- mtnpaulJanuary 31, 2008 4:45 AM
I ranReplyDelete
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/python/spe/trunk/_spe
and got version v0.8.2a
where is vesion 0.8.4.b?
mtnpaul: Make sure you removed the previously installed spe first. I had the same problem as you until I did.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 14, 2008 8:49 PM
i downloaded spe using adept yesterday on kubuntu gutsy 64bit. i started spe by typing spe in the run dialog box. however it fails to start. the taskbar button shows for the window...the spinning hourglass comes for some time and then some small size window frame flashes too quickly and it closes. i supposed downloading via apt/adept would take care of dependencies also.ReplyDelete
also i found that a lot of the packages i installed via adept did not create entries in the k menu. there is no easy way to check out all the new programs installed unless i remember their names.
please help.
p.s for the time being, i did get eric and boa-constructor to install and work properly...just wanted to test em n keep one.


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Air lubricators have been an important part of pneumatic systems for decades. Lubrication helps reduce friction between sliding surfaces to not only improve efficiency and increase cycling speed of a component, but reduces wear, which ultimately means longer component life and less maintenance. Moreover, in a pneumatic system, lubrication can reduce both internal and external leakage around valve spools, cylinder rods and pistons, and air motor and rotary actuator vanes, rotors, and housings, as well as other components. This goes for conventional pneumatic components as well as those that can operate with non-lubricated air. Ultimately, the total savings from using lubricated air can exceed the cost of installing and maintaining the lubricators.
A small amount of oil in compressed air works with elastomeric seals to form a tighter seal than if no lubricant were available. This is because there is some roughness even on polished surfaces; manufacturing processes do not produce a perfectly smooth surface. Peaks and valleys appear on any surface if viewed at high enough magnification. A typical pneumatic cylinder wall, for example, is finished to 20 µin. RMS. Fundamentally, this means that the average distance between peaks and valleys of the surface is 20 µin.
One reason for the popularity of the 20-µin. finish is that it provides a good compromise of properties. For cylinders, 20 µin. is smooth enough to prevent excessive wear of piston rings, seals, O-rings, etc. It is also rough enough to allow oil to collect in the microscopic valleys of the surface and provide lubrication between sliding components.
Lubricated air systems
The advent of pneumatic components that could operate with non-lubricated air started long before the rumblings of legislation for nearly oil-free exhaust air began. One reason for their development was because lubricators were viewed by designers and operators as temperamental components that put out too much or not enough oil or required regular maintenance.
Manufacturers point out, however, that these problems are not inherent to lubricators, but are evidence that application and operation of lubricators are misunderstood. This misunderstanding is a double-edged sword: not only must the designer specify the right type of lubricator for the application, but the operator must set the lubricator to dispense the right amount of lubricant.
Air flow has a big influence on the type of lubricator that should be specified. For example, regardless of size, some types of lubricators may not be able to dispense enough lubricant for a given air flow, while others may always dispense too much.
Dispensing too much lubricant can create a mess and is wasteful. On the other hand, if a pneumatic system is allowed to run dry for an extended period after receiving too much lubricant, residual oil may form a baked-on varnish on internal surfaces, hindering proper operation, performance, and service life.
Oil-removal mufflers
Exhaust mufflers have taken on greater importance with the enactment of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Standard 1910.1000. In part, the standard mandates that compressed air exhaust may not exceed 4.32 ppm of oil mist contamination in any 8-hr work shift of a 40-hr work week. In addition, noise may not exceed 90 dBA during an 8-hr day of a 40-hr week.
For decades, air exhaust mufflers have been used to reduce noise and emissions of compressed air exhausts. Now, however, specific guidelines exist. Internal geometry to reduce air velocity and baffles for audio damping take care of noise; filtration takes care of the oil. But not just any filter-muffler will do.
A standard filter-muffler has a porous element to trap any solids that may have been entrained in the compressed air stream. Porous elements, however, cannot trap vapors or liquids, such as oil. So unless the pneumatic system uses an oil-free air compressor and no lubricators, exhaust air should be routed through a coalescing muffler. A coalescing muffler operates on the same principles as a coalescing filter. As air flows through the coalescing element, oil particles are captured by three different mechanisms: direct interception, inertial impaction, and diffusion. In direct interception, oil particles simply collide with and are trapped by filter fibers. With inertial impaction, the element's turbulent air stream throws oil particles against fibers, which trap the oil. Diffusion causes the smallest particles to vibrate and collide with each other and eventually the element's fibers, which trap the oil.
Most coalescing mufflers have a port for draining collected oil from the element. Most also have replaceable elements that can be changed without having to replace the entire muffler.
Non-lubricated systems
Most of today's pneumatic systems are lubricated. Non-lubricated systems demand more careful selection of components, consistently dry air, and fine filtration. The big advantage of a non-lubricated pneumatic system, of course, is not having to maintain lubricators or keep them supplied with oil. Although lubricated air may boost performance and life of components, it does have drawbacks. First, having to monitor lubrication rates and replenish oil supplies keeps operators from spending time on more productive endeavors. Second, because oil-removal mufflers create a pressure drop, compressors may have to generate slightly higher pressure to compensate for the drop. (This may not be a factor, though, if lubrication increases efficiency of components enough to offset the pressure drop.) Third, the cost of oil used by a lubricated system must be factored into the operating cost. This cost may be offset, though, by longer service life attributed to the lubrication.
Two types of non-lubricated components exist: those that can use non-lubricated air and those that must use it. These components are self-lubricated rather than nonlubricated. The component has a built-in lubrication system that relies on long-lasting solid lubricants — such as PTFE — or has an internal supply of oil or grease that resists being washed away by the compressed air, or a combination of these two methods.
As stated above, components that can use non-lubricated air often will work better and longer if lubrication is provided. On the other hand, lubricated air can have a detrimental effect on components designed to operate only with non-lubricated air.
Cylinders, for example, may have a plastic or composite cylinder barrel with a super-smooth inner wall. With non-lubricated air, there is no reason, theoretically, to maintain a surface finish rough enough to retain oil. Therefore, cylinder walls may be finished to 10 µ in. RMS or better. The ultra-smooth surface minimizes wear of elastomers and low-friction materials sliding across it.
To remain effective, though, these surfaces must maintain their mirror-like smoothness. Contamination can damage the smooth surface, so non-lubricated pneumatic systems demand reliable filtration. For example, residual compressor oil entrained in the compressed air could form a varnish-like coating on the smooth cylinder wall. Being rougher than the original surface, this coating could cause excessive heat buildup and seal wear — ultimately shortening the cylinder's service life.
Another reason why components may require non-lubricated air is compatibility. These components may use special elastomers or lowfriction materials incompatible with certain oils or have coatings that would be dissolved and washed away by oil.
Components that can operate on non-lubricated air often are referred to as "lubricated for life." Lubricated for life generally means that the component is expected to perform to specifications for at least a certain number of cycles or accumulated travel. Providing lubrication, however, may allow the component to far exceed this projected life by reducing wear of sliding components.
Cost, of course, also enters the picture. Components requiring smoother surface finishes and exotic materials to allow long-life operation only with non-lubricated air usually cost more than conventional components. Whether they can or must operate from non-lubricated air, these components eliminate the cost, maintenance, and attention of lubricators. However, pneumatic systems using lubricated air can be more economical when considering total system cost. If components using lubricated air cost less, and if they achieve longer service life, then from a system standpoint they can be more economical by reducing machine downtime because they need not be replaced as often. Their replacement cost could also be lower.
Summarizing requirements
From a performance perspective, the designer must decide whether it is easier and more economical to provide consistently fine filtration to components in a non-lubricated system or to provide lubricated air. This can be a complicated evaluation that takes into account maintenance, downtime, and component costs.
Whatever the choice, mufflers that remove oil from the exhaust air should be considered — especially if air exhausts near workers. It is not uncommon for coalescing mufflers to remove 99.97% of the entrained oil. Even if oil-free compressors are used, exhaust mufflers can reduce noise to OSHA-acceptable levels and ensure that exhausted air is not only nearly oil-free, but clean.
Matching performance to regulations
The same holds true for emissions. A compressed air muffler may reduce oil emissions from a pneumatic system to an acceptable OSHA level, but that level may be unacceptable if workers will be near the exhaust for more than a small fraction of an 8-hr shift. OSHA allows up to 4.32 ppm of oil aerosol in a plant's atmosphere if workers will be near the exhaust for a full shift. Manufacturers state that this level can be achieved easily with a coalescing muffler, which reduces emissions to 0.015 ppm. Without coalescing mufflers, contamination as high as 50 ppm or more may exist in a plant that is tightly closed for operation in cold weather.
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Being the son of an obsessive filmmaker means your life already has a destiny, whether intended or not. That was certainly the case for Jonás Cuarón, the eldest son of Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón.
Young Jonás spent weeks on his father's first feature, 1991's "Love in the Time of Hysteria." He had a small role in his father's second film, 1995's "A Little Princess," and attended school on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. "He was so happy," remembered Alfonso. "He was the only boy surrounded by 20 girls."
Jonás remembers his father regaling him constantly with stories of the films he wanted to make. "He was probably practicing his pitches on me," Jonás recalls now with a laugh.
It was a childhood rich in the intricacies of moviemaking. Yet Alfonso was surprised when Jonás turned his senior thesis from Vassar College into a feature film made entirely of still photographs and said he wanted to be a filmmaker.
Said Alfonso, "When he showed me it, I said, 'I didn't know you wanted to do that,' and he said, 'I grew up going to movie sets. You take me to the movies all the damn time, talking about movies and telling me the stories you want to do. All of your friends are directors and they are always around talking about movies. What did you expect?'"
Still, neither could have expected that this would lead eventually to a vital and unusual collaboration. Jonás is the 30-year-old co-writer of "Gravity," which he penned in concert with his 51-year-old father, the filmmaker with a rich career on such disparate movies as "Y Tu Mamá También," "Children of Men" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." "Gravity," which opens Oct. 4, marks the second pairing for the two but the first to be produced.
After years of painstaking work, Alfonso and Jonás have come together at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood to talk about their collaboration on one of the season's most anticipated films.
The fruit of their labor is a film that is at once action-packed and meditative, tracking the journey of two wayward astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) set adrift in space. Warner Bros.' "Gravity" combines Alfonso's grand, creative visuals with Jonás' minimalist screenwriting style that prefers to ground emotion in action rather than dialogue.
The film evolved from some of the duo's favorite movies: Steven Spielberg's 1971 television movie "Duel," 1985's "Runaway Train" starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts, and Robert Bresson's 1956 film "A Man Escaped" — movies the two discussed during Jonás' formative years.
"We wanted to do something where you are in a constant ride, but it's a ride that's emotional — with adrenaline on one hand but on the other a simple narrative where we can still juggle thematics without stopping to develop them," said Jonás, who resembles his father physically but is more reserved in his demeanor.
Those simple principles could have produced a simple, straightforward project, yet it was a long and winding route before "Gravity" finally took off.
Try, try again
Both Cuaróns were in London in 2009 prepping for their initial collaboration, a small indie European road trip movie called "A Boy and His Shoe" that Alfonso was to direct with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Daniel Auteuil starring. But in a matter of days the financing fell apart and the duo realized that unless they dramatically changed the entire conceit of the film, it was time to move on.
"It became clear that at that point in the marketplace, to put together a small movie was very difficult," said Alfonso. "So we thought, 'OK, let's change the canvas.'"
Cuarón's longtime cinematographer and friend Emmanuel Lubezki ("The Tree of Life," "Children of Men") remembers how frustrated everyone was at the time. "We were really upset that a tiny movie had fallen apart especially after we had done 'Harry Potter,'" he said. "Alfonso had a little bit of power at that time to put it together. He had a great cast, and he was really upset. That's when he said, '[I'm finished with] indie movies; I'm going to make a big studio movie.'"
You can't find a bigger canvas than space.
That afternoon Jonás and Alfonso say they came up with the concept for "Gravity" — a story centered primarily on one character's adversities (Bullock), which reflected her current professional strife. Within a couple of days the duo had mapped out the story line.
Over the next month, via long all-night sessions over Skype, the father and son banged out a screenplay, often on different sides of the globe. "It was horrible," said Jonás, who was in Madrid renting a home from a friend while his father was in Mexico. "I would do all these all-nighters and from darkness my windows would turn bright. It would be the opposite on his side. From light, it would go dark."
The duo's objective was to take what could be pure escapist fare and enhance it with themes of survival and finding meaning after loss. "That primal fear — of floating into the void — that's something that's a primal fear in daily life, the fear of losing ground," Alfonso said.
For Alfonso, who is now a grandfather thanks to Jonás' two young children, the process was another opportunity to see his grown son, who resides primarily in Mexico City. (The director has two younger children, ages 10 and 8, who live in Europe with their mother, actress Annalisa Bugliani. Jonás' mother is actress Mariana Elizondo.)
"For me, it's perfect," he said. "He's grown up. He has his own life. He doesn't care about Dad. He never calls."
"But then we are writing, and I have to call every day. I have to spend hours on Skype with him," lamented Jonás, who would do most of the typing during their all-night sessions before turning it over to his father when the sun came up. (Alfonso previously collaborated with his brother Carlos, who co-wrote "Y Tu Mamá" and wrote and directed "Rudo y Cursi," which Alfonso produced.)
The hope was to get filming in the next three months — the project, though larger than their road trip collaboration, was still imagined at the time as a "small space movie."
"Alfonso said it's going to be simple," Lubezki recalls, "we have only one actor. We build the rocket and then with three guys we can shoot the movie. But that is Alfonso. And of course, $80 million later, five years later and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people working on it, we have this movie."
Months turned into years because the technology had to catch up with Alfonso's vision. Not content to work with wires and other tricks that have been used in the past to re-create space, Alfonso and company spent four years developing proprietary technology to mimic weightlessness — a process that Warner Bros. supported, investing in the development of the technology and staying committed to Cuarón's vision, even though it wasn't shown a frame of the film until six months after the director finished shooting.
Thus the film was created through heavy use of computer graphics. The production worked with visual effects company Framestore on a soundstage outside of London. Special built contraptions allowed the actors to be moved around just enough to simulate zero gravity while the lights and cameras did most of the heavy lifting.
An additional challenge came with Alfonso's desire to draw out his shots. Close to 60% of the film is made of just 12 long, seamless takes.
The result is a film that early reviews have lauded for both its visual achievement and its gripping storytelling. Entertainment Weekly is astonished by the film's "hypnotic seamlessness." The Village Voice calls it "remarkable because it's both a spectacle and a platform for the performers."
A learning experience
What has surprised the father-and-son duo is how the experience has changed their personal relationship.
"I've learned a lot of things from him," Jonás said, "but one is that when you sit down to plan a movie, you sit down to plan a movie you would like to see."
Jonás, according to his father, was easily bored and kept pushing his dad to move the action forward faster and let the audience connect to the characters through the action.
"I would try to intellectualize the whole thing," Alfonso said, "and he would say, 'Well, whatever, that's boring.' And that was frustrating at points, but it forced us to shape it another way. I had to entertain my son."
"It was a true collaboration where Jonás was truly Alfonso's equal," said the film's producer, David Heyman, who previously worked on "Harry Potter" and counts the director as godfather to one of his children. "He likes to say he was just another writer, but being Alfonso's son there was that ability to bring a directness and an honesty to their communication that enhanced Alfonso's work."
Blake Edwards co-wrote two of the 1980s "Pink Panther" movies with his son Geoffrey, and Irish director Jim Sheridan collaborated with daughters Naomi and Kirsten on the 2002 Oscar-nominated script "In America." But there are few parent-child writing collaborations in Hollywood today.
Alfonso says that Jonás helped rejuvenate his passion for pure cinema. The director, known for his painterly visual mastery — his single-shot action sequence in "Children of Men" has been particularly lauded — admits that he had been muddled in midcareer.
"He helped me refine it," Alfonso said. "I always had it, but then you start making your films and shaping your career, there is a point where the stuff you learn and the baggage you've accumulated weighs you down. It's good to strip all that away."
Jonás, whom Heyman describes as having a "quiet confidence," is pushing his stripped-down narrative approach forward on his own now, directing the indie feature "Desierto," based on a script he wrote. Set to begin filming in Baja in January, the thriller set on the Mexican border will star Alfonso's star from "Y Tu Mamá También," Gael García Bernal.
Now it's Alfonso who will wait for Jonás to finish before the duo can collaborate again on a project they are in the beginning stages of writing together.
"If Mr. Important Man gets some time," Cuarón senior said with a laugh, "we can work."


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Prince Harry.Give him a break.He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him, even to enjoy Las Vegas.— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) August 26, 2012
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- "Then you think the Anakin Solo is going to survive this?"
"It's too early to know for certain—but I'll share a secret with you. It really doesn't matter. We've already won."
"That's good to hear, my lord."
"It's unwise to doubt me, Sergeant. We have won. I've seen it."
- ―GAG Sergeant and Darth Caedus
The Battle of Uroro Station was the final battle in the Second Galactic Civil War. During the battle, Jaina Solo dueled and killed her brother, Darth Caedus, and Luke Skywalker convinced the Imperial Remnant to join the Jedi Coalition under the leadership of Jagged Fel. The Confederation was forced to surrender, and the war was ended.
After seeing the blood trail Darth Caedus left on Jaina during the Second Battle of Roche, Luke Skywalker lead the remaining Jedi back to their secret base on Shedu Maad to prepare for Caedus's invasion. Meanwhile, Ben Skywalker escaped from Galactic Alliance Guard custody and arrived with Tenel Ka and the Hapan Home Fleet to protect the Jedi stronghold.[1]
Skywalker planned to use the blood trail to set a trap for Caedus. Caedus's fleets would follow Jaina through a narrow channel in the Transitory Mists called the Throat. The Jedi would then launch an attack on the Anakin Solo and retrieve the captured Isolder and the Home Fleet would ambush the Galactic Alliance forces. While all of this happened Jaina would hunt down and confront her brother a second time. Skywalker and the other Jedi Masters waited on Uroro Station with the Coalition force preparing for Caedus's arrival.[1]
The battleEdit
- "My sister has boarded the Anakin Solo. I need you to organize a search."
- ―Darth Caedus to a GAG sergeant
Caedus's combined fleet of Galactic Alliance and Imperial Remnant ships entered the system about twelve hours later. Jaina tried to lure the fleet toward the Hapans, but they were fired on by the Megador's long-range turbolasers. Skywalker then gave the command for all Jedi forces to launch. Caedus's fleet still didn't enter the Throat, instead slowly approaching as they launched their starfighters to engage the blastboats and Owools. Uroro Station was evacuated as fleet came within firing range. The Megador later began attacking the Station and the rest of the fleet fired heavily down the Throat, taking out many fighters. As the Alliance fleet stayed back, the Imperials went down the channel and the Hapans sprang their ambush. The Jedi in StealthXs then initiated a massive shadow bomb strike that nearly destroyed the Anakin Solo´s bridge. The raid failed to kill Caedus, and Luke Skywalker's wing of StealthXs had to abort their mission to save Isolder after taking too many casualties. It was now up to Jaina to kill Caedus and retrieve the Prince. After taking heavy damage Jaina ejected from her StealthX and boarded the Anakin Solo in the hole her fighter had made.[1]
Unrest on the Anakin SoloEdit
- "There will be no nanoattack against the Dragon Queen or any other vessel. Is that clear?"
- ―Darth Caedus to the Moff Council
Although his flagship had just been badly damaged, Caedus was extremely confident of victory. He even ignored the alarms blaring on the bridge, staring at a vision of his daughter Allana as a grown woman at a party in front of his throne. He was shaken out of his vision as his Sith apprentice Tahiri Veila lead him to a meeting with the Moff Council. During the meeting, Moff Lecersen suggested making a nanovirus to cripple the command structure aboard the Dragon Queen. He would have agreed, but in his battle meditation he sensed Allana on that ship as well. He demanded that no such nanokiller be made, and left so that he could deal with Isolder and sent Tahiri to follow the transports that left Uroro Station to the Jedi base. Caedus confronted Isolder and tried to convince him to leave so the Moffs could not create a nanovirus from his blood. However, Isolder refused to trust Caedus and Caedus, knowing he couldn't convince him otherwise, snapped his neck. Meanwhile, Jaina evaded the security forces searching for her and managed to find Mirta Gev in the infirmary. After a few words, Jaina gave her a blaster before she left and found her brother in the bio-disposal pit trying to incinerate Prince Isolder's body. Caedus noticed from the marks on Isolder's arm that the Moffs had betrayed him and developed the nanokiller for Tenel Ka. He then commed Orlopp and learned that Imperials were already on their way to deliver it to the Dragon Queen. As he was about to leave and stop them, Jaina stabbed him under the ribs with her lightsaber.[1]
Caedus immediately force pushed Jaina into a nearby wall and attacked her even with a hole in his chest. Caedus continued to fight due to his extreme resistance to pain. As the fight continued, Caedus deactivated his lightsaber and clipped it to his belt. He told Jaina he had to leave to save his lover and child, but she ignored it and lunged after him before he could reignite his blade. Caedus didn't try to block her attack and simply threw her toward the incinerator, but Jaina managed to pull herself away from the flames. As Caedus tried to leave, Jaina shut the door on him and attacked. The fight continued until both made their final strikes. Caedus slashed through Jaina's ribs and stomach while she sliced his Achilles tendon. Jaina used the last of her strength to kill Caedus as he used his last moments to Force scream to Tenel Ka to take Allana away from the danger coming her way. He couldn't finish his message as Jaina's blade reached his heart. Jaina then sat on the floor, holding her brother's head in her lap.[1]
Attack on the Jedi baseEdit
- "We've had reports of a female Jedi penetrating our perimeter with a squad of Elite Guard Stormtroopers."
- ―General Livette to Ben Skywalker
As Ben Skywalker prepared to hold out with the Hapans on Shedu Maad's surface, word reached of a nanoattack aboard the Dragon Queen. Ben, and Taryn left the command center with a dozen Hapan commandos to engage Caedus's Sith apprentice Tahiri, who intended to destroy the Jedi base with a baradium warhead. The commandos and Taryn charged the Imperials as Ben distracted Tahiri. After seeing the attack had complicated her plans, Tahiri launched herself into a shaft pulling the warhead down with her. Ben quickly jumped in after her and they dueled as they fell down the sinkhole. Tahiri had the chance to kill him but seemed slow and hesitant. Ben noticed that she executed foolish attacks that left her vulnerable as if she didn't want to survive. When they landed, Ben fell hard into the water as Tahiri landed and started to activate the warhead. Ben then convinced her she wasn't a true Sith and to turn herself in to the Jedi Order while Hapans secured the area.[1]
Storming the Anakin SoloEdit
The ground assault had failed, and even though the Megador had trapped the Hapans earlier, the Home fleet managed to break free. The battle had clearly turned in favor of the Jedi Coalition. Luke Skywalker then led another StealthX raid on the Anakin Solo, this time storming the main hangar. The StealthX wing entered the hangar followed by the Millennium Falcon and destroyed the heavy weapon defenses. The StealthXs landed and 12 Jedi Masters followed by 50 Jedi Knights neutralized most of the GAG troopers on board before they finally surrendered. Jag found Jaina and her parents took her to a Battle Dragon to heal with Cilghal. Now that the battle was almost won and the ship was secured, the Jedi went to talk to the Moffs.[1]
- "As I'm sure you've heard by now, Darth Caedus is dead."
- ―Luke Skywalker to the Moff Council
After an encounter with the last Elite Guards protecting the Moffs, Luke informed them that Caedus was dead. He then offered them the choice of becoming Hapan prisoners of war or joining the Jedi Coalition under the leadership of Jagged Fel. The combined strength of the Galactic Alliance, Jedi, and Imperials would force the Confederation to surrender. The Moffs were glad to have that alternative, and Jagged Fel accepted knowing that taking Pellaeon's place would end the war. Han Solo was not as happy about the outcome, but he and Tenel Ka convinced Fel to start an Imperial Mission. This was in honor of Tenel Ka's dead daughter Allana, who was truly alive and given a new identity so she could live safely and without fear of Nobles hunting her.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
The Battle of Shedu Maad is the climax of the novel Legacy of the Force: Invincible by Troy Denning. The effect the battle had on the rest of the galaxy was shown in the Fate of the Jedi novel Fate of the Jedi: Outcast.[2]
- Legacy of the Force: Invincible (First appearance)
- Millennium Falcon (Mentioned only)
- Fate of the Jedi: Omen (Mentioned only)
- Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (Mentioned only) (First identified as Battle of Uroro Station)
- Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse (Indirect mention only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 1.66 1.67 1.68 1.69 1.70 1.71 1.72 1.73 1.74 1.75 1.76 1.77 1.78 Legacy of the Force: Invincible
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