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Now that the road has been cleared for goal-line technology in soccer, MLS is already planning for its potential introduction in league play for the 2013 season.
Soccer's International Football Association Board (IFAB), which manages the laws of the game, unanimously approved the use of goal-line technology in a special meeting held at FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, on Thursday.
Two companies — GoalRef and Hawk-Eye — participated in the experiments and have been cleared to develop the technology for use in stadiums. FIFA has plans to employ the goal-line systems at the FIFA Club World Cup, the Confederations Cup and the World Cup.
"Major League Soccer is pleased by the International FA Board's decision to approve two types of goal-line technology for use in FIFA competitions and professional leagues," MLS executive vice president of competition and game operations Nelson Rodriguez said in a league statement.
Back in April, Commissioner Don Garber told a gathering of reporters that he "would be open to whatever it is that could be done to ensure that we have goal-line technology."
According to the league's statement on Thursday, that day could come as early as 2013.
"MLS is eager to begin the process toward implementing one of these advancements, but we first need to research the installation, testing, staffing and training required," Rodriguez added in the statement. "It is unlikely that either system could be in place for our games in 2012, but we will examine the feasibility of doing so by the start of our 18th season in 2013."


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Sunday, 14 September 2008
ODI Series Part 2 - The Agent
An agent is a java service that acts a listener on a designated tcp/ip port, the agent allows execution of sessions such as model reverses, packages, scenarios and interfaces, you will learn about more of these later.
You can set an agent up to run as a windows services or from a batch script, I am going to show both methods.
First of all you need to locate and edit the file odiparams.bat that resides in the ODI bin directory.
The section you need to update is after
rem Repository Connection Information
Update the Driver and URL to match your ODI repository you should be used to doing this now.
The username and password are account details for the Master repository, you notice you have to enter an encoded password, and there is a batch utility in the bin directory that will encode passwords for you.
Update the ODI_SECU_WORK_REP to match the name of your work repository that you set up in the topology manager.
You can leave the ODI_USER and pass alone if you have not changed the security for ODI.
To start the agent you will just need to create a simple batch script.
The port can be set to anything you like as long as you know it won't conflict with anything else. Next add another script to stop the agent
Before you can start the agent a few more additional configurations are required in the topology manager.
First you will need to insert an agent and give it a name, enter the host and the port you defined in the batch script.
You can't actually test yet as the agent is not running.
Next I am going to create a context, a context is basically a way of grouping different components together, so you can have say a development context which will bring together certain technologies, databases, applications and agents.
There is already a global context available but I like to always set extra ones up for flexibility, the context section can be accessed from the second tab
Finally a logical agent needs to be created which defines the link between the agent and the context.
Once this is completed you should be able to start up the agent.
Just to be sure the agent is actually working you can go back and test it from the topology manager.
Well that's all well and fine but some people like to have everything running as a windows service, as long as you have updated the odiparams.bat then it is simple.
Just make sure you create the service with the same physical agent name and the same port as you set up in the topology manager.
You can check the service is running by opening the agentservice.log in the bin directory.
One thing to watch out for is that if you ODI_JAVA_HOME is set to a directory with spaces, if you are just using the default install then you will be fine otherwise you will need to add quotes to the java config in the odiparams.bat file.
set ODI_JAVA_EXE=%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe
set ODI_JAVAW_EXE=%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw.exe
set ODI_JAVAC_EXE=%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\javac.exe
set ODI_JAVA_EXE="%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe"
set ODI_JAVAW_EXE="%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw.exe"
set ODI_JAVAC_EXE="%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\javac.exe"
Once the service has been installed remove the quotes
Well that completes another session, next time I will looking at configuring the topology manager to point to a planning application, essbase database, file directory and sql database tables before we move on to the designer.
18 comments:
- Virat Kohli said...
Good Work John....
This is my luck to see great blog.
You Are Doing Damn GooD.
- 16 October 2008 at 00:41
Hi John,
Thank you for making help understand the process of integrating Essbase, planning with ODI. When I try to setup physical agent using a bat file getting the below error. I have updated the odiparams file with the required details and created physical agent with 1900 port number in Topology Manager.
Initially, ODI_JAVA_HOME was pointed to jre, later I changed it to pointing to JDK location (E:\ora_home1\jdk1.5.0). Please do let me know if I need to make any changes before start the agent process.
Oracle DI : Starting Schedular Agent....
java.lang.IndexOutofBoundsException:toIndex = 33683
at java.util.SubList.< init>< UnknownSource>
at java.util.RandomAccessSubList..< init>< UnknownSource>
Please help
- 16 October 2008 at 23:45
- Satya said...
HI John..
I am Getting An Error:
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Agent is not declared in Topology Manager
... 5 more
Caused by:
java.lang.Exception: Agent is not declared in Topology Manager
Please John Help Me Out.... Thank You.
- 13 November 2008 at 21:29
satya, just add "-NAME" parameter to your .bat file. It should look like:
agentscheduler.bat "-port=20300" "-NAME=odi_demo_agent"
- 17 November 2008 at 00:20
The below statement is not working for Oracle. Can you please update what we should use for Oracle
set ODI_SECU_URL=jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.96.18.28:1521:hrep;selectMethod=cursor;databaseName=ODIMASTER;integratedSecurity=false
- 2 December 2008 at 18:15
Fantastic information... and once you get through everything it works like a charm. You probably just saved me days of troubleshooting.
- 17 March 2009 at 15:44
Hello Jhon!
I really appreciate the work you have done in this blog, It's great.
I'm posting to ask your help in a problem i'm facing at the agent configuration:
I have already followed the steps. However, when i try to start the agent, the follow message is shown:
C:\OraHome_1\oracledi\bin>agentscheduler "-port=20300" "-NAME=AGENTE"
OracleDI: Starting Scheduler Agent ...
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: toIndex = 1898067444
at java.util.SubList.init(AbstractList.java:704)
at java.util.RandomAccessSubList.init(AbstractList.java:860)
at java.util.AbstractList.subList(AbstractList.java:569)
at com.sunopsis.d.a.a.a.b.b(b.java)
at com.sunopsis.d.a.c.a(c.java)
at com.sunopsis.d.a.f.b(f.java)
at com.sunopsis.tools.core.SnpsStringTools.b(SnpsStringTools.java)
at com.sunopsis.dwg.DwgObject.snpsDecypher(DwgObject.java)
at com.sunopsis.dwg.DwgJv.treatCmd(DwgJv.java)
at com.sunopsis.dwg.DwgJv.main(DwgJv.java)
at oracle.odi.Agent.main(Agent.java)
Wish you could help me, and I thank you in anticipation.
From México
- 22 April 2009 at 14:09
- jd said...
Is it possible to install agent as standalone component without instaling complete ODI ?
Thanks in advance.
- 11 May 2009 at 00:45
- Uli said...
Great ODI series.
Instead of putting quotes around "%ODI_JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe" for a space in your path to java you could edit the agentservice.bat and put quotes around wrapper.java.command="%ODI_JAVA_EXE%".
This saves you from adding/removing them whenever you reinstall the agent service.
- 15 July 2009 at 07:41
- satya said...
I want to create a scenario. I have created interfaces. So i am confused after that. Do i need to create a package first or a scenario. please let me know. Also please let me know how to run interfaces parallely step by step if possible.
Thanks and would appreciate you reply.
- 30 July 2009 at 21:10
Good job man , tkx you very much
- 23 September 2009 at 08:22
- Suresh said...
You did amazing work John
- 22 March 2010 at 07:40
My agent test is successful but the agent says A JDK is required to execute Web Services with OracleDI. You are currently using a JRE. Does this matter and how do I change it? We just have it running locally for now.
- 20 May 2010 at 08:41
- John Goodwin said...
Don't worry about the warning message it is only important if you are using web services.
- 21 May 2010 at 05:27
- Michael R. said...
Hi John,
I was following your directions but found that the agentservice.bat doesn't seem to exist in ODI 11g. Can you please explain how to set the agent to run as a Windows service in ODI 11g?
Thank you for your help.
- 16 August 2010 at 17:41
- John Goodwin said...
In 11G the wrapper has been removed to create a agent windows service. I have not yet had a look into whether it still can be done.
- 19 August 2010 at 10:51
Your Blog's are very helpful John.
- 10 May 2011 at 22:53
- Ankur Jain said...
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- A device, the Hitachi Business Microscope, is designed to track workers in the workplace
- Bob Greene: This technology allows corporations to become their own, private NSAs
- He says while maker of device says this can help increase productivity, what about morale?
- Greene: Workers are likely to be resentful about being kept on an electronic leash
If you're a person who hates it when your supervisor looks over your shoulder at work, you may want to stop reading this column right now.
Because what follows is only going to depress you.
Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business Microscope.
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Here's how it works:
The device looks like an employee ID badge that most companies issue. Workers are instructed to wear it in the office.
Embedded inside each badge, according to Hitachi, are "infrared sensors, an accelerometer, a microphone sensor and a wireless communication device."
Hitachi says that the badges record and transmit to management "who talks to whom, how often, where and how energetically."
It tracks everything.
If you get up to walk around the office a lot, the badge sends information to management about how often you do it, and where you go.
If you stop to talk with people throughout the day, the badge transmits who you're talking to (by reading your co-workers' badges), and for how long.
Do you contribute at meetings, or just sit there? Either way, the badge tells your bosses.
The stated intention of this is to increase productivity and get the most out of employees.
But a case can be made that, however much we worry that the National Security Agency may be peeking into our lives, we should be just as concerned -- or more -- about the potential for corporations to become their own, private NSAs.
And there's not much, in the future, that employees will be able to do about it. With government surveillance, the public can complain that the state has no right to be scrutinizing the lives of its citizens so intrusively. But corporations can make the argument that supervisors have always been encouraged to keep an eye on how workers are spending their time when they're on the clock -- and that electronic tools such as the Business Microscope are simply a 21st-century way to do that.
The employers are paying for their workers' time, the argument will go -- and if the employees don't like being accountable for how they spend that time, they can always choose to work elsewhere.
Hitachi says that by analyzing the "enormous amount of data collected with the Business Microscope, it will be possible to propose methods to improve organizational communication and quantitatively evaluate efficacy." Among the activities the badges record and transmit, according to Hitachi, are "the distance between people talking face-to face" and "an individual's activity level (active or nonactive), which is determined on the basis of subtle movements detected (such as talking, nodding and silence)."
And the sensor badges never sleep. They never take breaks. They don't go to lunch. As H. James Wilson, a senior researcher at Babson Executive Education, wrote in the Wall Street Journal, the badges not only transmit who employees are talking to and how long the conversations go on, but can "also measure how well they're talking to them." If you're in a conference room with colleagues and they are animated participants in a discussion about, say, sales strategy, while you just remain quiet in your seat, the badge knows it.
Businesses have long dreamed of maximum efficiency, and Hitachi says that, since the Business Microscope was first developed in its labs in 2007, "over one million days of human behavior and big data" have been collected.
(You can imagine the surveillance experts at NSA, and at spy agencies for governments around the world, hearing about what Hitachi has come up with, shaking their heads in admiration, and saying: "Boy, those guys are good!")
The long-term question will be whether companies, in the name of workplace output, will want to risk the morale problems that will inevitably arise among employees who are instructed to wear such devices, manufactured either by Hitachi or by other firms that will engineer their own digital tracking machinery. Technology always wins, but victory can come with a price.
And if employees bristle and become resentful about being kept on such a short electronic leash, that could bring about productivity problems of a different sort. Unhappy workers are not motivated to put in extra effort.
Of course, the employees could get up from their desks, congregate in an out-of-the-way corner of the office, and bitterly complain about it all.
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Most major college football conferences will anoint their champions this weekend, and Major League Soccer will award the 2012 MLS Cup. Here's what to watch this weekend:
Friday, November 30
Pac-12 Championship Game: (17) UCLA at (8) Stanford
Stanford Stadium, Stanford, Calif; 8 p.m. (ET) on Fox
After routing UCLA, 35-17, on the road last week, Stanford (10-2 overall, 8-1 Pac-12) hosts the Bruins (9-3, 6-3) in the Pac-12 championship game. UCLA must stop Cardinal running back Stepfan Taylor, who rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns against them last week. The Bruins must protect quarterback Bret Hundley, who was sacked seven times.
Denver Nuggets at Los Angeles Lakers
Staples Center, Los Angeles; 10:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
After a sluggish start, the Los Angeles Lakers (7-8) have begun to gel. New coach Mike D'Antoni sends Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard and his deep bench against Denver (8-7). Ty Lawson, Andre Iguodala and Kenneth Faried lead the Nuggets' attack.
Saturday, December 1
Baylor at (8) Kentucky
Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky.; 12:30 p.m. (ET) on CBS
Defending NCAA champ Kentucky (4-1) hosts Baylor (4-2) in a meaningful, non-conference college basketball game. Kentucky guard Ryan Harrow could return after missing two games to tend to a personal matter. Pierre Jackson leads the Baylor attack. The Bears were ranked until the College of Charleston beat them 63-59 last Saturday night.
SEC Championship Game: (2) Alabama vs. (3) Georgia
Georgia Dome, Atlanta; 4 p.m. (ET) on CBS
A spot opposite top-ranked Notre Dame in the BCS national title game is at stake when Alabama (11-1 overall, 7-1 SEC) faces (11-1, 7-1) in the Southeastern Conference title game. The Crimson Tide leads the nation in scoring average behind quarterback A.J. McCarron. Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Murray will look to challenge the top-ranked Alabama defense.
MLS Cup: Houston Dynamo at Los Angeles Galaxy
The Home Depot Center, Carson, Calif.; 4:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
The 2012 MLS Cup is a rematch of franchises that played in the 2011 edition, won by Los Angeles. The Houston Dynamo (14-9-11) seek their third cup, while the Galaxy (16-12-6) are in pursuit of their fourth. It will be the last game in a Galaxy uniform for David Beckham, who has helped build the fan base of the entire MLS, not just Los Angeles. Brad Davis will lead Houston.
Big 10 Championship Game: (14) Nebraska vs. Wisconsin
Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis; 8 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Nebraska (10-2 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) faces Wisconsin (7-5, 4-4) for the Big Ten title and a berth in the Rose Bowl. While the Cornhuskers have won six straight games, the Badgers find themselves in the conference title game because of NCAA sanctions against Ohio State and Penn State. Quarterback Taylor Martinez led Nebraska to a 30-27 win over Wisconsin in September. Running back Monte Ball, the NCAA's career touchdown leader, spearheads the Badgers offense.
ACC Championship Game: (10) Florida St. vs. Georgia Tech
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte; 8 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
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Sunday, December 2
Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens
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Doughnuts with Cranberry-Orange Glaze
A sweet cranberry-orange glaze is the perfect topping for these fluffy doughnuts. Friends and family request a batch of these treats of a birthday present! —Shirley Johnson, Warrens, Wisconsin
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + rising Cook: 30 min.
Makes3 dozen
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1-1/2 cups warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 6 to 6-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 cup cranberry juice
- 1 tablespoon orange extract
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, butter, sugar, eggs, salt and 2 cups flour; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a floured surface; roll out to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. doughnut cutter. Place on greased baking sheets. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375°. Fry doughnuts, a few at a time, for 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
- In a shallow bowl, combine glaze ingredients until smooth; dip warm doughnuts. Cool on wire racks.
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With a photography degree from The Arts University College at Bournemouth as well as a postgraduate diploma in business and french, Tamar worked in London for a few years before spending one year volunteering in Armenia. It is there that she ran the country's first English speaking radio show which, once in Vancouver, led to her contributions to Outfront on CBC Radio as well as a couple of articles for The Tyee. In the photography field, Tamar's client list include Line21, UBC Department of Family Practice, Mary Jo Fetterly, and Lift Studios. Tamar's work has also been featured on Shutter Sisters and Mortal Muses.
You can also find Tamar on Twitter, Flickr and 'honing her creative and aesthetic sensibilities' on Pinterest (or at least that what she calls it).
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If you see me out in the next few weeks, you may be wonder, "What is that on Jesse's face? It appears he hasn't washed it."
I assure you, my face is clean. What you see is my feeble attempt at growing facial hair.
You may also be wondering, "Jesse, if you aren't that great at growing facial hair, why are you subjecting yourself to this?"
Good question.
While I don't like walking around looking like a moron with no self-awareness, I am doing this for a quasi-good cause.
My friend, one of my best friends since childhood, actually, is getting married in June. He's having a mustache-themed bachelor party.
I'm not sure how or why the mustache theme emerged, but as a good groomsman and friend, I have no choice but to oblige. Hence the growing of the facial hair.
I've opted for growing a goatee in lieu of a mustache, at least until I leave for the bachelor party. While my goatee looks silly, an attempt at a mustache would be borderline creepy. Nothing wrong with a good mustache, but a bad one can definitely veer into a territory best occupied by villains in movies.
So, if you see me out and wonder, "Oh my, what is that on your face," well, now you know. And, as we all learned from G.I. Joe, knowing is half the battle.
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the idea behind this is to try to make somebody else see the kind of Arturia I imagined some while ago.
I will try to explain everything in a way that allows whoever might be interessted in this to create his own story rather than coping mine since it would be more or less like making somebody else do my work.
See this three videos please:
And try to imagine Saber.
Don't concentrate on the images but on the music.
On the kind of feeling they give to you and how that feeling might be used in a story with Saber as the protagonist.
Try to imagine her as good as you can, ok?
(dark saber I mean...or well... usual saber might be good too but....they are the same person so I think there is no differece.)
Ok.THANKS TO ABSCESS AND ZERO43 FOR POSTING THESE VIDEOS.
I had never heard of these groups before.
Sooo...did you get any ideas?
If you are just wondering what the hell I was trying to do with all this suff you can keep reading. If don't I recommend you to stop here and go work on your new fic.
are you gone already?
soo you want to keep reading?
If you paidd attention to the three songs and imagined saber while hearing it, I am pretty sure you have already have this kind of impression.
First song: Represents the past saber, a young girl with the heart of a lion and eyes full of fire, ready to sacrifice everything in order to make her people happy.
second song: An already crowned Arturia... Trapped in her castle's walls and her shiny armor. The years haven't come in vain and her heart has become weary while her eyes don't shine as they once did. The loss of dear people and the traition of people she loved lets her fall deeper in the abyss...
(the people who can actually understand german might have thought of something else since the text of the song talks about something totaly different. )
third song:Dark Saber.
The epicness that this song remind us of is different than the one the first song do.
This one has a heavier feeling to it.
Experience gained in battles nobody would have ever dreamt of.
The feeling of a sword than seems to rip violently rather than cut cleanly.
and a little bit of Something some people might refer to as "freedom", but what in reality couldn't be something more different than that.
I ask of you again.
Do you have know some kind of idea?
Yes/ no
if you don't, keep reading.
if you do...well go away.
Did they leave already?
ok the ones who stayed seem to want to hear the rest of the story.
Putting aside the epicness of the third song, I am sure you guys thought of something else while hearing it.
after this word, I am sure words like: Violence, beer, dirt, fur, snow, etc, came to your mind.
and that is the main theme of this story:
Saber's world.
The age she lived in.
slave market *, very unhealthy conditions, saxon invaders, starvation, the church, etc etc
The idea behind all this was a fic about Dark saber living in such a world.
That is why I thought of rating it +18.
Here is what I thought could happen in such a story, and why it would happen:
" After giving birth to Avenger, Sakura became an almighty being even more powerfull than the planet's will.
Thinking her task is now accomplished D. Saber asks D. Sakura to grant her wish, this being to be able to go and find her own happiness.
Sakura accepts unwillingly and congratulates saber for her chage of heart. She had choosen her own happiness over the one of the others. That made her a little bit cleverer than a certain sempai of hers.
Sakura then kills dark saber by eating her and send dark saber's memories to saber's past self.
Little by little the young saber begins to be tormented by the memories of her future self becoming steadly more and more like her.
She becomes King again and everything happens how it should until the day when she finds out that Lancelot and Guinivere had betrayed her. Thinking all those dreams she had were actually a premonition Saber flees three days after Guinivere and Lancelot escaped taking both swords (Caliburn and Excalibur) with herself to return them to their corresponding place. Excalibur to the lake and Caliburn to the stone she pulled it out from.
By returning the Caliburn she meets Merlin again who tells her she has changed a lot and that next time they meet he will kill her.
Because of that, by returning Excalibur Saber keeps the sheat of the sword and heads north.
In her travel she meets many barbarians who after seeing how strong she was decided to follow her rather than fighting against her.
NOTE: the barbarian think she is a guy. A beautiful guy, but a guy in any case.
Saber never considerates herself the leader of the barbarians but she doesn't care about what they do unless they get in her way.
They then come to one village, where a young lad (10 - 13 years old) called " ??? insert name here" lives.
??? has a normal life until saber arrives to the village.
Saber asks ???'s family to let spend with them the night.
They accept because they are afraid of saber attacking the village.
??? then discovers that Saber is actually a girl but says that she is very different from the other girls he knows. She actually frightens him. The following day the men attack the village ??? asks saber to stop them but she refuses saying she isn't their leader.
???' father is going to be killed but ???'s mother gets in the way. She asks for mercy and then Saber tells her that if she kills her husband with her own hands and swears to be hers she will forgive her life and save the village.
????'s mother accepts but can only do half of what she has been asked. She kills her husband but gets crazy after doing so and kills herself.
NOTE: when ???'s mother dies she meets Sakura who asks her wheter she regrets what she did. ???'s mother says that she does.
"Even if Saber saves your kid?"
"yeah...I still regret it"
At some point this was supposed to be a manga I worked on. That is why it has such scenes.
After seeing his parents die before his eyes ??? doesn't know what he should do and just follows saber silently, since he realized that the bandits would never do something to her.
that night he goes fishing and in the river is attacked by one of the barbarians (a gay one) who is jealous of him for being the only one who can be near to saber.
??? tries to escape but get caught a short while after that.
Then they both hear something.
On the river side they see a saber whose lower body is painted red. (blood...lower part of the body....woman... = menstruation)
the gay bandit feeling betrayed wants to kill Saber but gets his head cut off what causes saber a lot of pain due to her menstrual cramps.
Seeing Saber in pain rejoices the kid. And he decides to help her in order to take revenge later, since he is the only one who really knows how weak saber (some times) can be.
that hate becomes later a kind of hate-love (one-sided. Saber doesn't give a damn)
the army of barbarians gets killed at some point in the story
some months later they (??? & saber) meet lancelot and guinivere, who had been living in the forest.
Saber is suffering under nightmares and allucinations of her past- self.
So she gets sick (psycological illness).
Lancelot brings her to them house and helps saber get better.
There saber tries to win Guinivere's heart back but she, Guinivere, tells her that she actually never loved her.
NOTE: in this fic I wanted Saber to be in love with Guinivere.
Saber then is tempted to kill guinivere but is stopped by lancelot.
Saber leaves together with ???.
NOTE: Lancelot and Guinivere die after that because of a poisoned bread ??? had gaven to them. Lancelot then thinks (in front of Dark Sakura) that ??? is actually Saber's biggest enemy.
??? is now a 16 years old and is now used by saber as her...ehh...sex toy (I am so jealous of that bastard!!)
Saber is now heading south west but on her way she hears about a Mordred who had become Camelot's king.
Saber then heads west but ??? recommends her to go south. He heard once that in south there was a king whose kingdom was supposed to be the happiest on earth.
Saber just keeps walking and tells him that she is sure that there isn't happiness in those lands at all.
they then keep heading west and on their way they get involved in a fight between mordred's and men and other people.
in battle ??? is kidnapped and saber losts excalibur's sheat, the two of them are brought to Mordred (Excalibur's sheat & ???)
??? meets mordred and tries to find out why he despises saber so much.
At some point mordred discovers that ??? was Saber's aquitance and orders to torture him until he says where his father (saber) is.
??? is tortured in horrible ways but since he doesn't know where saber might by he can't answer.
One day saber returns to camelot (in search of the sword's sheat).
She goes straight to the castle and orders Mordred to return it.
Mordred asks what she really wants: the sheat or her friend and lets ??? be brought to the room.
Saber answers almost immeditely: "the sheat"
Mordred says that Saber is boring and tells his soldiers to kill saber.
Saber then kills them all and asks Mordred why did he become King of camelot.
Mordred said he wanted to see her dream crumble.
but saber tells him that she doesn't care anymore and that he, like herself, is cursed and doesn't have a dream of his own.
She cuts off his hands and goes. Mordred doesn't want to live anymore but since he doesn't have hands he can't do much.
??? lies then on the floor covered in wounds, unable to move or speak.
Merlin arrives, kills mordred out of mercy and heals ????.
??? then hears what kind of relationship Saber and Merlin had.
Merlin tells him he plans to kill Saber.
??? then goes west in order to find saber.
When ??? finds saber she is already fighting against merlin.
she would have been already dead if she wouldn't have had the sheat.
Saber stabs merlin and merlin uses petrification to kill saber.
Saber begins to turn then into stone.
??? pushes her to the floor and tries to stab her with her own sword but it breaks.
He then begins to hit her but since his hands are hitting stone so he pretty much only hurts himself.
He cries a lot and curses a lot and says she is going to a place where he can't follow her anymore.
Saber then looks him in the eyes and puts her hands around his neck.
When she turns completely to stone she chokes him.
NOTE: after that Saber and ??? enter Sakura's domain (like all others before them) and sakura asks if she enjoyed her wish.
Saber then says " yes, but it could have had a better ending.""
OK!!! that is all this was about.
See you later!!


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I thought I'd get away from anime for a minute, and play some songs by a lady named Nina Hagen.
First, here's a song called Hold Me, with a music video at Jim Morrison's grave. The line that sticks out in my mind is "I can't sing a gospel, I'm a white chick…".
You may think she is somewhat strange after watching that video. And you'd be wrong. She isn't just somewhat strange, she's probably the queen of strange. Here is Nina singing Naturträne live at Rockpalast in her native German.
Don't expect me to explain the pacifiers hanging from her ears, the verging on inhuman shapes her mouth seems to distort into occasionally, or the fact that she's clucking like a chicken by the end of the song.
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Anthropology News is seeking Op-Ed Columnists and Contributing Editors for its online edition, beginning September 2011. These volunteers will commit to a one-year term and will be an integral part of shaping AN's online content and conversation on its new website.
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Fortunately she rediscovered her love of "red buttons and massive switches," and told us that when starting a new project she begins with a case and then imagines what would be "amazing" inside including: "circuit bent toys, feedback loops, amps, effects, oscillators and the occasional self developed circuit primarily based on the ever reliable 555."
Enthusing about the aesthetics of obsolete technology and the "faced optimism they represent," Atosha has a love of anything that she can "coax a noise out of." One of the projects that you can see at the Faire will be Atosha's homage to the instruments of the Radiophonic Workshop, a keyboard made out of 12 individual oscillators "just like the one that was used in the workshop and used on the Dr Who theme". Dooo wheee-oooo!


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After her Executive MBA in 1999 she founded her own consulting business in Vienna where she helped Austrian companies in their international expansion projects.
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But many secondary networks (Cozi, H&I, CW, ATV, etc.) run old shows and movies, for which some services just provide only the title and/or the same generic information for every episode (e.g. "Gunsmoke. Long running Western that made {actors} famous set in a Kansas cattle town..."). Deep information would include the like of guest stars for an individual episode, plot summaries and/or brief reviews for movies, ...
Can I obtain aggregate information for more than my "local area"?
A couple of OTA stations I watch are 35 miles away, and considered generally considered "out of my area". Thus I'd like feeds for my zip code, and a couple of zip codes in non adjacent counties.
I understand that things don't come together all the time, and are subject to change, and can depend on individual station reporting.
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Who likes pretty pictures? I know me too... So I made one. And it is of the character Coraline. Anyone who has read the book and ovbs, seen the movie knows who she is.
My sister loves Coraline, and I secretly do too. So, I got on my Paint.Net and draweded one. Yaaaay!
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I was trying to make her different looking, but she ended up looking ALLOT like the real Character, only of course mine is far awesomer.
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Senior guard Brian Fisk has been named Defensive Player of the Year by the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Fisk and junior forward Eddie Ard were also named to the All-Atlantic Sun Second Team. Conference coaches vote on the postseason awards.
From Mercer's James Florence to Belmont's Justin Hare, Fisk gets the assignment to guard the toughest offensive player in each game.
"I think Brian is very deserving of this award," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said. "I think he earned it. I have said all along that he is one of the best defenders in our league, especially as an on-ball defender.
"We ask so much of him. We ask him to guard the best player on each team and we also ask him to score for us. He is a very well-rounded player."
Fisk possesses all of the skills necessary to be a top-notch defender. Sanderson admits that some of those skills cannot be taught.
"Brian has strength and he has an understanding of the game," Sanderson said. "He knows how to guard people. He knows the tendencies of the players he guards. He is a great position defender. He knows where to be doing things like coming off of a screen.
"He has toughness and you can't teach that. He is a tough, big-time competition. He doesn't like to lose. He has a will to win and a will to stop people. And it's not just in games, it is in practice too."
Fisk has been a member of the All-Atlantic Sun team every season at Lipscomb. In 2003-2004 he was a member of the All-Freshman Team. In 2004-2005 he was an All-A-Sun Second Team selection. Last season he was a First Team All-A-Sun pick.
"Brian probably hasn't had the whole body of work that he has had in the past," Sanderson said. "But in the last five or six games he has been consistent and has played like he is capable of playing."
Over the past five regular season games Fisk has averaged 16.8 points and 5.6 rebounds. Fisk is second on the team in scoring with 13.1 points per game. Fisk scored a season-high 30 points at Stetson. And tied his career high for rebounds in a game with eight against Jacksonville.
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"It is more of what they haven't done," Sanderson said when explaining why both players were second team picks this season. "They haven't had the same types of games they had last year. They both know that.
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Author and broadcaster Gervaise Phinn and the co-founder of a national charity aimed at improving patient care are among a selection of guest speakers booked to entertain and enlighten family, friends and residents of Fernhill House over the coming months.
The free talks are open to the wider public and drinks and nibbles are offered for added appeal! As well as helping set up Kissing it Better, which harnesses the specialist skills of local community groups to make a difference to patients, nurse Jill Fraser has written a comic novel about life in "muddle England."
She will be revealing the inspiration behind More tea less vicar at the talk which runs from 6pm until 8pm on Thursday July 13th. Jill trained at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas' Hospital in London, was awarded a scholarship by The Kings Fund to work in America and for the last 20 years she has presented health features for many TV and radio programmes including Woman's Hour, Newsround and BBC Breakfast Time.
Novelist and writer Prof Phinn, who is most well known for his autobiographical memoirs set in the Yorkshire Dales, will be recounting humorous tales of his life working in education when he visits on Thursday July 27th between 6 and 8pm. Other speakers poised to grace the rather splendid interior of Fernhill House in Fernhill Heath over the coming months include Wimbledon reporter Garry Richardson, Rob Smith who twice overcame cancer and skied to both the North and South Poles, and former footballer and stadium design expert Paul Fletcher.
To book any of these free events and find out about future talks, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 01905 679300.
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