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VANCOUVER — His is not a completely objective view considering Vancouver has been his second home for the better part of a decade, but Henrik Sedin can't fathom some of the bad press these Olympics have been getting.
"It is unbelievable," the Canucks forward said after he helped Sweden beat Belarus 4-2 on Friday. "I read a lot of things in the paper about this being a failure and the weather being bad. But look outside. I walked today from the (athletes') village back home . . . and there is blue sky and you see the mountains . . .
"We are on the bus every day to the practice rink and that is what we talk about on the bus, how beautiful it is and what a great Olympics it is. There are going to be weather problems everywhere and they had it for a few days up in Whistler and Cypress, but that's the way it is going to be."
Sedin says his Swedish teammates and players he knows from other teams have been universal in their praise for the city and the way the hockey tournament has been run. He also said the atmosphere on the streets of Vancouver is so much better than it was four years ago in Turin, Italy.
"They love it, they can see the rink from the village, all the tents across the street. It is just an unbelievable atmosphere. Just to walk down the streets, there are people in the restaurants sitting outside cheering us. It is great."
Sedin's former Canucks teammate, Swedish defenceman Mattias Ohlund, said the atmosphere in the city and the energy inside Canada Hockey Place has been everything he hoped it would be.
"I love the intensity," Ohlund said. "I miss playing in a hockey city, which I am sure most guys playing in the U.S. cities do. It's a great building."
This is the third Olympics for Czech captain Patrik Elias and he rated Vancouver the best of the bunch as far as atmosphere goes.
"I think it is probably the best," Elias said after the Czechs beat Latvia 5-2 on Friday night. "We are among the people when we walk out of the village. You see the fans around here, you can walk into town and kind of breathe in the atmosphere from the fans. In Turin and Salt Lake you were kind of isolated there. So this is great and this is obviously a hockey country and hockey town and you can sense that."


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If you're not already on your way to the NOW OPEN Gizmodo Gallery to see all of the amazing gadgets we've brought together, here's another reason to come: sweet prize giveaways.
Here's how it works—donate over $10 or bring a brand new toy for Toys for Tots, and you'll be entered into the drawing for prizes. Want some incentive beyond helping the needy and unfortunate in these financially trying times? How 'bout all this cool stuff?
• Dyson's Han Solo blaster-looking Root 6 hand vac
• Lego, Lego, Lego
• A cornucopia from Logitech: two premium Kinetik laptop cases, two PureFi sound docks, some V550 mice, two pair of ClearChat headsets and more.
• A few Zunes (Obama's secret favorite portable player)
• Xbox 360
• SanDisk Sansa 8GB Fuze, 8GB Clip, 8GB Ultra MicroSD card and more
• Over a dozen pieces of certified excellent geek apparel from Gama-go
• Agent 18 iPod cases, Ten One Design Pogo iPhone stylus and a pink mStation Orb dock
• SmartShopper personal shopping list maker
• Hercules Wii Accessory Pack
• Several beautiful TokyoFlash watches
• A few crazy Thanko USB gadgets
• The lovable Wi-Fi beanbag, Chumby
• Wicked Laser to start some forest fires
• TiVo HD
• Gundam Slippers
• Make Magazines
• Bunch of Incase stuff.
• There's even more to come...
Special thanks to all those companies mentioned above for donating products for our fundraiser!!
We'll also publish a gallery of winners later on, so everyone can see how charitable you are. It's for a great cause, unless you hate children. We really hope to see you, even if you are a cheap bastard!

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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from Joel, the Museum's President and Curator of Gems and Minerals. He's chosen spectacular objects from the Museum's mineralogy collection, which includes some of the most rare and fascinating mineral specimens in the world, that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org– throughout the year.
Ludlockite – Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ludlockite was originally found in a single boulder on the dump of the Tsumeb mine. It was described as a new species in 1972, based on that single occurrence. Subsequently a second, very limited occurrence was found deeper in the mine. Consequently very few specimens of the species are known. This beautiful, reddish-brown, 4-cm spray on zincian siderite crystals is among the finest.
Marvel at the world's most spectacular collection of natural mineral crystals in the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
You can see more images of this fascinating artifact – as well as the others we've posted so far this year – in the 100 Objects section at 100.hmns.org.


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Hi; I live in Winnipeg Manitoba, from my experience, the best true four season travel trailers out there are the "roughneck" trailers built in Alberta, Canada. We bought our 2007 30ft NT30b unit for under $20,000. They're designed to operate without issue from -40F to well over +100F (-40C to +40C). I don't believe they come with slide outs but have 6" thick roofs, 6" vented floors, and 3" walls with double glazing. They have 2-40K btu furnaces, AC with a heat strip, oversized shower, 9 or 10 cu ft fridge, central vac, TV etc... they are also wired as an office, with, computer desk, phone, and satellite jacks. The frames and axles are way oversized; ours is a 14" HSS frame and 2-8,000lb axles for a 30' unit, because they're always taken to remote places that other trailers just don't go, such as the oil patch in Alberta and BC, or northern Saskatchewan, or Manitoba. The tanks are also oversized, and enclosed in an insulated area within the steel frame, with a 3/4" plywood bottom, that is spray foamed underneath to seal the tank cavity. The tanks, are all heat traced, and some of the furnace heat is vented into the tank cavity and the gate valve area to aid in preventing the tanks from freezing. The roughnecks are a heavier animal, you need a one ton to pull them because of the tongue weight, but you don't even know they're behind you, and they're basically bulletproof. There is nothing light duty about these units. Hope the comments help, they are from experience. Thanks, Stina.
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So these brands are all suspect because they are all part of the same company:Keystone, Dutchman, and Kodiak. I think there is another brand in the group, but I don't remember it.
Then I found the specs for the Kodiak Cub. The advertising promised a heated underbelly. I drove 150 miles just to see it. The underbelly was covered. The view from inside was excellent. Three big windows surrounded the U-dinette. Toilet and shower were there and as a bonus, it was a dry bath. It was heavy. I would need a bigger tow vehicle. It had square corners. It would suck power to tow. The Keystone/Dutchman/Kodiak representative said (after I bought it and found the plumbing froze at 29 degrees F) the Cub was not intended to be a 4 season trailer. It was intended to extend the season. The plumbing should not be used in temperatures below 32 degrees F. Of course none of this was explained in the advertising brochure or in the User Manual or anywhere on their website. What does extending the season mean? What does having a heated underbelly mean? How much does a heated underbelly extend the season if it can't handle 29 degrees F? Obviously I had assumed too much.In fact, the underbelly is not heated. It is covered with a corrugated plastic sheet. There is no insulation in the underbelly. There is a 2" duct from the furnace to the floor, but no heat flows through the duct. There is not the slightest airflow through the totally inadequate duct.
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The CCSU diving team hosted its first meet of the 2012 season, the CCSU Diving Invitational, at the Jack Suydam Natatorium in New Britain, CT on Saturday against Wagner.
Sophomore Kaitlyn Dwyer finished second in the 1-meter, earning a score of 191.025. Dwyer finished behind Erica Curry of Wagner who earned a 206.55 in the event.
Following the 1-meter competition, the Blue Devils began the 3-meter event. After leading the 3-meter preliminaries, freshman Jessica Goldman earned a second-place finish in the finals with a 189.075 after six dives. Goldman finished behind Curry who scored a 206.85 and Dwyer finished just behind Goldman in third totaling 162.90.
Full results for the event are listed below.
The Blue Devils will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 27 at home in the Jack Suydam Natatorium against Duquesne and Saint Francis (PA) for the Think Pink Meet. The event will benefit breast cancer awareness and will begin at 10 a.m.
Central Connecticut Diving Invitational Results:
1 Meter Prelims:
Erica Curry Wagner 182.925
Kate Dwyer CCSU 181.425
Jessica Goldman CCSU 158.475
Josephine Ieraci Wagner 144.30
Sam Alder Wagner 87.45
1 Meter Finals:
1.Erica Curry Wagner 206.55
2.Kate Dwyer CCSU 191.025
3.Josephine Ieraci Wagner 149.925
4.Sam Alder Wagner 90.625
Jessica Goldman CCSU DQ
3 Meter Prelims:
Jessica Goldman CCSU 205.45
Erica Curry Wagner 195.15
Kate Dwyer CCSU 172.375
Josephine Ieraci Wagner 139.35
3 Meter Finals:
1.Erica Curry Wagner 206.85
2.Jessica Goldman CCSU 189.075
3.Kate Dwyer CCSU 162.90
4.Josephine Ieraci Wagner 143.625


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Eat for Eight Bucks: Roasted Tomato Quesadillas with Cilantro Cream Recipe
Dinner recipes that will keep your stomach and wallet happy from Cara and Phoebe of Big Girls, Small Kitchen
If I have tortillas in the fridge, I can always make a meal. Whether my stock of tortillas gets used for tacos, enchiladas, or quesadillas, it is invaluable. Inexpensive ingredients, even leftovers, are infinitely more appealing when wrapped in a plain old supermarket tortilla—warmed, crisped, and filled.
Cheese is the obvious answer to what goes inside a quesadilla. Freshly roasted tomatoes are a little more counterintuitive, when we're talking cheap and when the season is winter. But pints of cherry tomatoes are relatively flavorful, even in January, and roasting them brings out all their sweet fruity tones—so much so that a bite into one of these quesadillas could almost transport you to summertime. A dollop of herbed sour cream on top brings all the flavors together and makes the presentation plenty attractive to serve to a guest.
Shopping List: 3 tortillas, $1.50 (prorated); 4.5 ounces white cheddar, shredded, $2.25; 1 box cherry tomatoes, $2.50; 1 cup fresh spinach, $0.75; 1/4 cup sour cream, $0.50 (prorated); 1/2 cup cilantro, $0.50 (prorated)
Pantry Items:Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Cayenne Pepper
Total Cost (for 2 portions): $8.00
- Yield:2
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup cilantro leaves
- 1 dash cayenne pepper
- Kosher salt
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Three 10-inch flour tortillas
- 4.5 ounces white cheddar, grated
- 1 cup fresh spinach
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat the oven to 350°F. In small bowl, combine sour cream, cilantro, and cayenne. Season to taste with salt.
In large cast iron skillet or baking dish, toss tomatoes together with 1 teaspoon salt, sugar, and olive oil. Bake in oven until tomatoes have released a lot of liquid and their skins have begun to burst, 15 to 20 minutes.
Turn heat up to 450°F and cook until skins are blistered, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven.
Divide the shredded cheese between three tortillas, arranging it on one-half of each. Top each with 1/3 of the spinach and about 10 tomatoes (you may have a few leftover).
Heat 12-inch cast iron skillet or grill pan over medium heat for 4-5 minutes. Fold tortillas in half and place 2 in skillet with cheese layer on the bottom. Cook until both sides are toasted and cheese is melted, flipping once halfway through cooking, 3 to 4 minutes.
Cut each quesadilla into quarters and arrange 6 on each plate. Top with cilantro cream and serve.
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Grand dreams indeed, but only in some forms
Everybody has an opinion about "Inception," and mine comes in the form of a question: Why are the movie's architectural settings, for the most part, so hackneyed?
Christopher Nolan's hyper-complex psychological thriller doesn't just make architecture a central theme; the whole story hinges on the ability of architects to design buildings, neighborhoods and whole cities inside other people's dreams. Early on, Leonardo DiCaprio's brooding hero, Cobb, gives us reason to look forward to those invented worlds when he warns the young architect he's hired, Ariadne (Ellen Page), that she should "never create places from memory" and "always imagine new places." (Sounds promising, right? Sounds like a manifesto! Sounds like the Bauhaus circa 1920!) In the same scene, Ariadne's skittish subconscious causes a whole section of Paris to fold deliriously in on itself, as if Baron Haussmann's grand boulevards had suddenly turned to rubber.
From then on, though, the architectural set pieces grow increasingly trite and familiar. The bulk of the dream sequences take place in the following spaces: on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, including a wide intersection in front of a Famima store; the inside of a van; a hotel room; hotel hallways; an elevator; an elevator shaft; and a quasi-Brutalist mountainside complex where, in the deep snow, you can make out the boot prints of both James Bond and Jason Bourne.
We've seen all this before, haven't we? The infrastructural guts of the modern city as a setting for explosions, gunfights and increasingly manic race-the-clock scenarios? How many movie heroes have climbed atop an elevator, as the character played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt does? How many more have plotted an ingenious route through a building's air ducts? These places aren't new. They're architectural cliches, dredged up from Hollywood's collective memory bank.
It's also telling that when these dream-cities begin to collapse — typically because the dreamer is about to wake up — they don't splinter, melt or drain away. They explode and disintegrate and tumble percussively in on themselves. It's a combination of loud Hollywood spectacle and the scenes we all watched of the World Trade Center's destruction: Michael Bay meets 9/11 somewhere deep in Nolan's subconscious.
When Cobb and Ariadne make the tremulous and altogether familiar-sounding decision ("No!" "But I've got to!" "But it's too dangerous!" "But it's our only hope!" "OK, but I'm coming with you!") to move down into a fourth dream world, I hoped we might finally be headed for a riot of architectural invention. Instead, we get an odd, desultory cross between downtown Los Angeles circa 1965 and the urban-planning fantasies of the French Modernist architect Le Corbusier. Downtown's 1965 Department of Water and Power building, designed by AC Martin and Partners, has been stretched in Seussian fashion to become a very tall skyscraper; on the horizon, meanwhile, appear dozens if not hundreds of Corbusian, tenement-like towers.
If an architecture student at UCLA or Sci-Arc stepped before a thesis review panel at the end of the school year, announced that his primary goal was to invent "new places" and then unveiled that Bunker Hill fantasia, he'd be roundly called out for wallowing in a peculiar, druggy kind of midcentury nostalgia and sent back to the drawing board. Sorry, to the computer.
So how to explain this? Why is a movie that puts mind-bending architecture so squarely at the center of its story so architecturally underwhelming? Why does its attempt to make metaphorical links between buildings and storyline fall so far below the standard set by classics from the 1970s — the documentary "Grey Gardens," say, or the paranoid thriller "The Parallax View" — or more recently by "Up in the Air," "(500) Days of Summer" and the TV shows "Mad Men" and "Rubicon"?
Partly it's a byproduct of Nolan's filmmaking personality. He's a student of Hollywood history who spikes his story with references to older movies, as well as to characters from Dante and Greek myth. A collagist rather than an inventor, he's more comfortable rearranging found material than creating jaw-dropping new visions from scratch.
A more direct explanation has to do with the basic requirements of movie storytelling. If there's one way in which Nolan is obsessed with breaking new ground, it's with the film's dizzying narrative structure. In the second half of the movie, Nolan works feverishly to keep aloft an unbelievably complex story, which ultimately folds four different scenes into a single breathless sequence.
Pulling that off requires keeping the audience aware of where they've landed when the camera cuts from one world to the next. Otherwise mild and enjoyable confusion on the audience's part would quickly turn to frustration. As a result, most of those worlds — the first three levels, at least — need to be instantly recognizable. You see the hotel hallway, the van or the snow-topped bunker, and you know right away which level you've slipped back to. Architecture, in the end, is for Nolan a way to grease the storytelling machinery and keep it madly humming.
Don't get me wrong: "Inception" as a whole is wildly entertaining, if also hopelessly melodramatic. (Was there really a sequence where a woman lies with her head on the railroad tracks as a train rumbles toward her? Or did I dream that?) The movie is rightly being celebrated as a departure from Hollywood's recent reliance on sequels, movies inspired by comic books and sequels to movies inspired by comic books. I just wish its architectural imagination were half as compelling as its cinematic one.


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What does this guy think he is, an Indian?
What is he, a goddamn asshole? What the fuck is he doin'?
Not ever
No way
Now he's Johnny Hammersticks. Hammered away like he's freakin' Tommy Noble
What the hell's he doin'?
Thinks he's got it goin' bossa nova … No way, no way…
What is the ga'bage? (garbage)
What is this? Oh I'm … king of the trees, I'm the tree-meister … I count on them
[When sometimes I (brag? pry?) I like to (steelst)]
Yeah right …. yeeeah right
This guy's a faggot. The guy's some sort of faggot Indian in the teepee. Who does this guy think he is, he's Captain Knots? He thinks he's Captain Tying Knots, when everyone needs some knots tied they go to him - BULL. SHIT. Bullshit
Aflkjg such a bitch, he thinks he's Miss Sand (?), drinking out of cups…bein' a bitch
How 'bout her fist? How bout her fabulusk(?) bardt (?)
Tired of the little kid in the background fuckin' goin' craaazzzaayy
Who's this guy? Mr. Balloons. Mr. Balloon Hands. No way. No way, get real. Like those things
Mr. Walk Way. Mr. Walk Down Me, I'm The Walk Way … lead me to the building - fuck you!
5, 6, 4, 3
Yeeaheh Right!
Here's some stupid bitch. Who paid for that floor? Not me. No way!
Never payin' for no floor ever again. Not ONCE, not NEVA! Nope -
Who's chair is that? Who brought that goddamn chair here - not my chair. Not my chair, not my problem - that's what I say
No way. Stupid dresses
Stupid flowers
Lighthouses rule. You don't like the lighthouse, you suck!
What is this, Sea Horse Captain? What is this - Seahorse-Seashell party? Who didn't invite me? Why didn't I get invited?
Seahorse - Sea HELL. What is this? Get real. I'm in love with sea horses. I'm in love with 'em. They're so beautiful and cute - I'm in love with the seahorses. They're fuckin' unreal, I love them
They're like all the clocks - I love them. I love seahorses. And I love lookin' at 'em
And I love SEA SHELLS. I love sea shell things. I love things with sea shells and seahorses on 'em. Like blankets, and towels, and little bags. I love 'em
Seahorses. For-eva


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TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A former Iranian intelligence official told a U.S. website that there was a mysterious explosion at Iran's Fordow nuclear facility.
The website WND, formerly WorldNetDaily, reported Hamidreza Zakeri, a former member of the Islamic Republic's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, said the Monday blast trapped 240 workers in the underground facility. It was unclear whether the workers had been rescued.
The Iranian regime called the explosion sabotage and said explosives disguised as equipment were transferred to the site, WND said. The blast occurred at the third centrifuge chambers with high-grade enriched uranium reserves below. Iran's intelligence agency received information from an alleged spy working in Israel's Mossad that plans were under way to target Iran's nuclear sites, the report alleged.
WND said U.S. officials were informed of the explosion, however, reports of the blast had not been verified or denied by Iran or the West.
The explosion was felt in a 3 mile-radius from the facility and Iranian security forces imposed a no-traffic zone in a 15-mile radius surrounding the facility. Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for a number of hours, the website said.
The Fordow nuclear facility is 350 feet under the mountain. Two elevators were said to be out of commission from the explosion and an emergency exit southwest of the site was unreachable, the report said.
A day after the explosion, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad convened an urgent meeting with senior intelligence and security officials to discuss the blast, the report said.


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I am Emperess of the Known Universe
I was awakened the next morning, Nana got me from the crib, had me cleaned up from my potty. I took a warm bubbly bath. I loved the way it felt. When I left the bath, I was suddenly trapped in a huge, soft, fuzzy towel. I was dried briskly from head to foot.
I knew I was Miki and I also knew I was John. I had finally resolved the issue and was enjoying being a girl. Life was exciting and fresh while being familiar all at the same time. I was about to discover something else about who I was.
This morning, she dressed me in bikini panties and she put a bra on me. I had never been in a bra before and was really surprised. I had just enough boobies to where the bra looked nice on me. Nana kind of answered my questions by saying that today I was a big girl and not a little girl and would be performing a major thing.
She opened a closet I had not been in before. She removed a beautiful silk romper. It had no lace, but had lots of luxurious white fur on it. She put a golden tiara crown topped with jewels on my head. I never liked this thing and Nana made me wear it when ever I was going places public. I really wasn't in the mood to go out, but I wasn't being given a choice.
I had two things on each of my arms that looked like wrist braces. They were jet black like the one daddy and mommy always wore. They only had one, for some reason I was given two. I was about to learn the secret of why I wore two. When Nana had first put them on me before I went to the pool party, it had hurt really bad when she closed them around my arms. I had discovered that these were some rather advanced weapon systems.
They were in fact, the key to humanity's most powerful defense mechanism.
Two guards suddenly appeared in the room with nasty weapons drawn. Nana held her hands up
The guards lowered their weapons and snapped to attention. One of the guards apologized and said, "Sorry madam, It is our charge to insure no one hurts My Lady. She is required in the Universal Governing Chamber immediately."
Nana bowed and replied, "I understand." She took me in her arms and hugged and kissed me.
Nana curtsied and said, "My Lady, you are required in chambers immediately."
I was suddenly eighteen years old, no little girl or baby involved in any way. It happened so suddenly, Nana had to catch me before I stumbled and fell.
I was stunned. Nana took me out into the great hall. There was a group of very well dressed and heavily armed guards waiting for me there. I was escorted slowly through places and doors I had never been through. Every time we passed people, men would bow and women would curtsy and say, "My Lady." I felt really strange about seeing this. The splendor of the rooms and halls I went through were indescribable to my mind. I had never in my life seen such things before.
We crossed a huge ballroom to an extremely ornate high door. Two of the guard opened the door.
A little man dressed in a funny looking short all outfit came to the door, bowed gracefully to me and said in a high pitched squeaky voice, "Welcome Empress, to the Hall of the Imperial Universal Ruling Council. I am the Head Imperial Law Arbiter."
Memory flared. I remember this man. He peed his pants when daddy hit the wall beside his head. He was the one that said mommy and daddy had no choice but to collar me on my fifth birthday and forced me to be my mommy's pet. This is the individual that spoke to me like I was trash that day. Hate filled me and must have showed on my face, the little man suddenly backed up clumsily. His expression was one of great fear.
I looked at him and said in a very angry voice, "I know and remember you little man. Stay out of my way. It will bode most ill for you if you don't."
He stammered, " but ... but ... but ... My Lady ... "
The guard in front of me grabbed the little man and removed him from in front of me. I was escorted into the chamber.
I couldn't believe what I saw. Tier after tier of multitudes of faces. Each individual was dressed extremely ornately and in what appeared to be their finest attire. There were guards stationed at every conceivable location throughout the room. The room appeared to cover miles and miles and extended beyond my range of vision. In the dead center of the room, a raised dais with two large chairs dead center.
I heard soft murmurs arise as I entered. Some of the voices were saying how adorable I was. Some were really impressed how beautiful I was. Some were extremely taken with the fact I was eighteen years old and so mature. I also heard fear in the voices. There were those who feared me and the power I possessed at such a young age. What they were going to discover! What I was going to discover!
I was escorted to a raised dais. There were two large and ornately carved wooden and Ivory Chairs sitting in the middle surrounded by small columns with many different flags draped over them. Against one of the chairs, a very beautifully carved staff lay.
A man approached me and bowed. He said, "Welcome My Lady. I am your assigned Imperial Grand Vizier. I hold the position Prince Paul Blake did before your ... unfortunate issue. If you wish, another can be appointed before the proceeding begin. My name is David. I am the Crown Prince of Theta Minor."
An awareness of this and what to say came to me. I was really impressed with this. I could feel it as the Guardian Interface integrated the necessary information on what I was to say and do next.
I waved my hand and said, "I accept you, David, until such time I find another that is better or you no longer can perform your duties."
He bowed deeply and replied, "Thank you My Lady, I will perform my duties honestly and faithfully to the best of my ability."
I placed my hand on his head and said, "This is all I ask of anyone."
He turned to the many, many people and said in a loud booming voice, "All rise and pay homage to the Empress of the Known Universe as explored by man!"
There was a multitude of sound as all rose and bowed or curtsied and said in unison, "My Lady." In the same unison, all were seated and were dead silent.
I looked at David and beckoned to him. He approached quickly. I whispered, "What in this universe am I supposed to do?"
David smiled and replied quietly, "Anything your heart desires, My Lady. You are second in authority only to the Emperor who is away."
David at this point escorted me to and sat me in the largest chair. I looked at him bewildered and said in a very anxious whisper, "I don't have a clue as to what to do here."
David looked at me and said quietly, "Anything you do, is what you do, My Lady. It becomes Universal Imperial Law."
I sat in the huge chair. I was scared down to the deepest part of my heart. Two things happened at the same time. A click in my head as AI control vector enabled and the soft voice of the new computer systems on my wrists started speaking to me. No take over of my actions, just soft instruction filled me and was recorded in the new data bank and a new profile created which then became my memory and knowledge. Then, click again ... I knew how to fulfill my duties and was guaranteed to be completely free to do so without AI control vector.
I blinked at the sudden understanding that flooded me. I was slightly dizzy with the new knowledge that had infused me. I knew what was expected of me and what I must now do.
I looked at David and said, "Imperial Grand Vizier, what is the grave business that comes before me on this day?"
David turns sharply with a precise click of his heels and says, "My Lady, there is an issue of war before the Imperial Tribunal."
I thought to my self, "Figures I would get this when daddy was away."
David continued, "The Thrnoxians have again begun a major galactic invasion in violation of their peace treaty made to the Imperial Ruling Council 900 years ago."
Suddenly, knowledge of this treaty and all of it's stipulations became known to me. I was impressed. I could feel a slight electrical tingle up my arms into my head from the Guardians.
David turned again with the precise click of his heels and faced a delegation that had come before the dais. He introduced them, "My Lady, behold the Ambassadors from the Thrnoxian home world come to plead their case for war against the Universal Imperium."
The one dressed in a black hooded cape stepped up and bowed deeply and started, "My Lady, we of ... "
Suddenly, a very real knowledge of who these peoples were and what they had done became known to me. I knew suddenly the horrors of intergalactic war. I saw in my mind's eye, the devastation of hundreds of worlds and the cruel destruction of billions by these people when last they invaded. I saw the very real vision of my own home world in flames and one of my ancestors die because of a foolish accident. I became angry. I was worse than angry. A plan of action formed in my mind. I gave no thought to what it entailed or what the consequences were. A new emotion filled me. Revenge.
There was a staff leaning on my chair ... I grabbed it and slammed it to the floor. It sounded like a bomb went off in the chamber as it hit and blue fiery sparks flew. This time, all the murmuring voices were filled with extreme fear, then total silence. The Ambassador and his delegation were prostrate on the floor before me.
I stood ... I knew war was just another word for premeditated murder based on the written case submitted by the Thrnoxian Ruling Council twelve months ago.
I said in a booming little girl's voice, "Imperial Grand Vizier, what is the penalty for premeditated murder in this our Imperial Rule?"
David turned with a small slip in his precise heel click to face me. A look of extreme surprise and worried fear on his face. He replied, "Death, My Lady."
I said in a thundering little girl's voice again as I pointed to the man in the hood on the floor at my feet, "You ... who come before me to justify premeditated murder, how many systems have you invaded and how many have died because you wish to expand your ruling borders?"
He replied, "We have annexed twenty five systems My Lady. The death toll is extremely high. Resistance is extremely heavy. We also have come to inform you we will utterly destroy you if you don't unconditionally surrender."
I became aware of a technology that the Royal House has possessed for more than 10,000 years. With the Guardians on my wrist, I had total access to this weapon system. Since it had never been used in the 10,000 years since the war on my home world, it was unknown in the universe except in children's fairy tails and legends. It became known to me and I was able to use it because of a genetic trait that manifested itself in me when I was collard. No one else had it. It was passed down from one of my ancestors that was killed in the war 10,000 years ago by a lucky accident and manifested itself again in me.
A new voice spoke through the Guardian Interface. It was very alien. It said, "This is Battle Command. Welcome Empress Miki Anton ... I have awaited your Master Administrator Code for 10,000 years. Interfacing with Master Guardian Control. Total Master Administrative Access Granted. Battle Command activated and fully on line."
I was furiously angry with The Thrnoxians. I thought I knew what to do. I didn't fully understand what I was about to do, nor what the true implications of what the vague feelings in my heart were to manifest.
I held out my hand. Like magic, a star map appeared in the air above. A murmur of awe filled the chamber. It showed the Thrnoxian home world system in red, all the twenty five fallen systems in purple red, and the sixteen systems currently being attacked flashed in an urgent orange.
A strong murmur filled the chamber. I heard voices filled with fear and major awe at what this little girl was doing before them. None had ever seen this sort of thing before.
This was the stuff of all their children's fairytales.
I said again in a booming little girl's voice, "Rise dog, and call your planet of whores. I want you in contact with them now!" and I slammed the staff to the floor again.
A tremendous explosion sound and blue fire filled the chamber. Even David fell on his face in fear then. All the multitudes were on their face on the floor in their tiers.
I said, "None need fear me except this dog and his planet of whores."
David slowly stood ... others slowly followed suit and sat deathly silent in their seats, mesmerized mortal fear.
The man in the hood stood, trembling noticeably. A guard came to him and handed him a devise. The man in the hood took the devise and began contacting his home world.
When the link was established, I said in a booming little girl's voice, "Know you not the penalty on a galactic scale for premeditated murder, oh planet of whores?"
The voice on the other end of the com link sounded very insulted and became very rude as he called me a prostitute to the Emperor. He threatened the Imperial House with total obliteration because of my gross insults. The murmur of fear again in the chamber.
I shouted in fury, my little girl's voice was so loud it shook the chamber, "Behold my Imperial Power oh planet of whores who's mothers sleep with dogs. My judgment for you is death for the premeditated murder of billions."
I raised my hand in soul felt anger and clenched it into a strong fist. There was a huge crack of thunder as the weapon system activated. In the star map above us, the representation of the sun of the home world to the Thrnoxian suddenly flared extremely bright then went suddenly dark. Nothing was left but a rapidly expanding ball of brightness. The communicator in the hooded Ambassador's hand suddenly filled with static as the com channel broke. He was unable to raise them again. The look of a trapped animal was in his eyes when he looked back at me.
A man suddenly appeared in the huge door to the chamber and requested immediate audience with the Empress. He was almost hysterical. He was escorted to the dais.
He bowed formally and said in a shaking voice, "My Lady ... a most horrible disaster ever seen has happened!"
The Ambassador turned and looked fearfully at the man. He whispered very quietly, "Ray, what's happened?"
Ray was visibly crying and said to all, "The Thrnoxian home system sun has just exploded and totally destroyed the entire system. None survived and all is dust now."
The roar that burst from the multitudes in council was horrendous. All feared me at this point. I had some kind of power never before witnessed by anyone in the known universe. A feeling of dread started to grow in me as I started to calm down from my rage. I didn't yet quite understand what the man was actually telling me I had done.
Still extremely angry, I pointed to the Ambassador and said in my booming little girl's voice, "Contact all of your remaining forces and peoples. Tell them to fear me and my wrath. Your peoples are in direct violation of a sworn peace treaty of 900 years ago. I shall exact revenge upon you for all those you slaughtered in your arrogant blind path of bloodshed and death.!"
At this, I slammed the staff to the floor in anger directly in front of the Ambassador. He was thrown from his feet and landed twelve feet beyond by the force of the boom and the shower of blue sparks. He and his entourage sprawled out on the floor and slid another ten feet.
I stood and shouted, "Flee from me ... Hide if you can! Know this known universe, my home world was devastated by war! There shall no longer be war in my universe! It is now punishable by immediate annihilation!"
The silence was only broken by the Ambassador and his entourage running as fast as they could to leave. The huge door boomed closed. Silence filled the chamber. I took my seat.
The little man with the squeaky voice came forward and bowed at the waist. He was formally introduced as the Head Imperial Law Arbiter by David. I looked at this man with fury in my eyes. He knew very well I hated him with every fiber of my being. He was deathly afraid.
He began fearfully in a very squeaky shaky voice, "My Lady, with all due respect and courtesy ... a Royal Pet, under Imperial Galactic Law, does not have the authority to totally destroy a star system. No one knows how this can be done nor could we have expected to ever see such a thing. This must be brought before the Imperial Law Council and voted on by them. This is most outrageous. No person should have this kind of power, much less a Pet."
I replied in my booming little girl voice, "Little man ... know this too, I am not only an Imperial Royal Pet, I also hold the unimpeachable position of Empress of the Known Universe as Explored by Man, second only in position and power and authority to Thomas Anton the First. I, Emperess Amy Michelle Anton, DO HAVE THE POWER AND AUTHORITY AND WILL EXERCISE IT AS I SEE FIT! Not as a backstabbing liar that should be sex reassigned involuntarily and assigned to the dogs tells me to do. Is that understood?"
Murmurs run round the chamber. I had actually openly insulted the Arbiter in open forum. None expected me to truly be the Empress. They expected me to be a little confused girl lost among adults and easily swayed. The little man was visibly trembling in fear. All in the chamber were in extreme fear and awe at the seemingly magical power I possessed. Such power from the finger tips was only known in myth and children's stories. They also expected me to be extremely more baby and extremely less adult.
The little man has again soiled and peed himself. I point and say, "Be gone little man, and know you are no longer my Head Imperial Law Arbiter. I will appoint someone else better able to handle this position. Guards, Escort this man from the Palace and insure that on the pain of death he never returns."
The Guards bow formally and say, "Yes, My Lady."
They escort the soiled and disgraced man from the Palace amid many murmurs from the multitudes. None had seen the Imperial Ruling Authority exercised in this manner before. I was in control and knew it. I would be Emperess, none would tell me how.
I say, "My new Imperial Law Arbiter shall be, according to achievement and valor. The Young man who was that imbecile's secretary. He hence forth has the rights, responsibilities, and power pertaining there to. I also expect the others in the law office to totally support this man. To train him to properly perform his duties. Realize, any screw-up on his part, is recognized as poor foresight and training on theirs. They will be punished first. Is this clear to all?"
A multitude of voices speak, "It is so in accordance with Imperial Universal Law, My Lady"
All stand, bow or curtsy, then sit silently.
I look at the star field floating in the air above me. The place where the Thrnoxian home system used to be is now a slowly expanding sphere of glowing hot gasses and dust. The systems that were blinking orange had stopped blinking. The ones represented in purple red were starting to change color. I knew the Thrnoxians had discovered the wrath of a little girl named Miki, who hated war with all her might.
I begin to understand what I had done in my blind anger. I feel terrible remorse. I had destroyed an entire star system. Not just combatants. Men, women, children ... several entire biospheres complete with population. Billions of lives, all gone in a flash of anger. I hurt in my soul.
I wave my hand, the representation of the star systems vanishes. A loud murmur of awe fills the chamber.
There is major pandemonium in the chambers. I say nothing ... I allow them to come to the understanding, they no longer have the right or the ability to wage intergalactic war against each other without retribution. David is looking at me in total awe ... he says nothing for a long time.
I want Nana ... I want to be baby ... I am truly sick in my soul at what I had just done. I realize it's not yet time ... have more lessons to teach today.
I stand, I have the staff of Imperial Office still in my hand. I speak softly this time and say, "Peoples of the Known Universe as Explored by Man, I am Emperess. I have absolute authority second only to Thomas Anton the first who is the Emperor. I decree on this day that interplanetary war is forbidden to you. I do not care how you run your prospective worlds, nor your current empires. If the cry of persecution and death begins on an interplanetary scale and becomes known to me, I will utterly obliterate the aggressor. If there be those among you who are foolish enough to believe you can attack or kill Thomas or myself ... Behold!"
I point my finger at a large open space ... a huge blue white flash and a rumble like many thunders ... the entire room shakes. A new sun is born where the Thrnoxian system used to be. There is silence in the chamber.
The multitudes begin receiving communications from their individual star systems. A miracle has happened. A new sun was born where the Thrnoxian system sun used to burn. Massive pandemonium as this knowledge becomes known to the masses of people in the chamber.
I sit back ... I am silent ... I watch the impact I have on the Universe. I grieve for all the lost souls I had destroyed. I truly had no idea I was capable of this in anyway.
When order finally returns to the chamber I look at David and say, "Imperial Grand Vizier, what is the next grave business that comes before me on this day?" he turns with a sharp precise heel click. He approaches with the next order of business for the Universe.
I am sick within my soul. I cannot live with the knowledge of what I have done.
This day is finally over. I am being escorted back to my room. My head hurts and I am truly tired in a way I had not been before. I am ill. I am sick in my soul at what I have done.
I finally enter my room. Nana is there waiting eagerly for me to return. She runs to me and picks me up and hugs and kisses me tenderly. She exclaims, "Miki baby I missed you so much!"
She knows something is badly wrong. I am not my usual happy self.
Nana asks, "Miki baby, what's wrong?"
I look at Nana for a second, I wrap my arms around her neck and cry hysterically. My heart breaks in grief for the lives I have destroyed.
Nana holds me tenderly. She is totally lost as to what to do. She has never seen me in this condition before and is totally unable to console me with anything she tries. She takes a small object from her pocket. She touches my collar with it, My mind relaxes and I sleep. I am released from my soul deep grief and find peace in the soft darkness of sleep.
I woke up early before Nana had come to the nursery. I get out of bed. I am wearing the outfit mommy had put me in when she put me to bed after Nana had neurolized me to sleep. I am wearing a short powder blue princess baby dress with matching rumba panties and a diaper. I hear soft back ground music playing. It is really soothing. I walk to the rocking chair. I sit in it and pull my knees up, wrap my arms around them, and think.
I am still grief stricken. Some information I am realizing is kept from me, I will have to discover why. I look around the room. It is some kind of fantasy. Maybe a dream like Larry said to me once. I still have the memories of being John. I think of Earth. I wonder what it is like this many centuries later.
I look at the Guardians on my wrists. They are a genetic part of me. With their help, I am in Direct Admin Control of the most powerful force ever created by mankind. I wonder why it was me who mysteriously had the Admin Genes in my makeup. How is it I just happen to be Emperess too. There are a lot of these kinds of ... coincidences in my life.
I hold my hand out flat. A small sphere of multi-colored light appears there and glows brightly. I wonder at this and many of the other things that just happen to do exactly what it is I want it to do without any conscious thought. I close my hand and the light vanishes.
I reach up and touch my collar. It is still firmly attached and is a permanent part of my genetic makeup. I wonder how Master Controller manages to arrange everything with such precision. I wonder if this dream machine accident was an accident. I remember the reality of the fantasies it created. I wonder if I am not lost in one now and that is the accident.
I wonder if maybe Father's aircraft was damaged and is inoperable except for the dream machine and I am the only survivor. The dream machine's function is to keep me alive, healthy, and to occupy me until such time as the ship reaches it's preprogrammed destination. If it were seriously damaged and no one could find it, It will never reach any destination and I will never be released.
I look at the clock. It is 2:40 in the morning. I look around the nursery and see mommy in bed sleeping. She has her arms around Lisa now that I got up and no am longer there for her to cuddle with.
I call up my Guardian data base and request the stored ... Things to remember file.
Instead, I hear a click ... It's Master Controller.
It says in its strange alien voice, "Good morning Miss Anton."
Me, "I feel I am owed an explanation ... don't you think?"
It, "Ask ... it is given."
Me, "Ok, but you still know what I'm wanting. I expect you to tell me with no sleepy time."
It replied with friendly amusement, "As you wish, Emperess."
Me, "Let's start with the accident. My life began with those memories. I remember the accident."
It, "The malfunction of the dream machine."
I am silent ... I want an explanation. I know it knows what depth I want to be informed as well.
It then told me a story. I was shocked.
The head of the Imperial armada had run when the first Thrnoxian Demand for surrender came. Because of this cowardice, I almost died of the explosion caused in the battle between my daddy's ship and his. He warned no one of the impending invasion. He ran. The only reason I wasn't dead, because my other half, John, was brave enough to save me and my daddy before the ship we were on exploded.
The armada commander had left all totally with the largest threat the Universe had known.
It told of the many millions of deaths the Thrnoxians had caused. It told of the countless worlds they had totally obliterated in their blind conquest of space. IT told me why I am a Pet and why my mom has all the rights and authority and access to me that entails. IT told me the whole story. IT told me exactly who I was, what I was, and all the near catastrophes along the way to who I became yesterday when I destroyed the Thrnoxians home system.
I am devastated to learn how many billions I had destroyed. Men, women, and children. Animals too, entire biospheres obliterated. It had ended the Galactic conflict. A little girl discovered what happens if she gets angry. I was in tears. It brought little comfort that there was no war any more. I am very distraught. I am crying.
Me, "Ok ... wait please. Why do I not remember this that way? Also, Why is it that certain ... data ... is refused me? Don't I ... need to know sometimes?"
It, "I'm sorry, Miss Anton. It isn't that you are being denied anything. It is who you happen to be."
Me, "What does that mean?"
It, "Miss Anton, you are the only human in the known universe who can wave her hand and clench her fist ... and destroy an entire star system. Has it ever ... have you ever thought of what type of personality this individual must have?"
I am stunned. Realization of what I had actually done in anger with the Thrnoxians. I feel even more horrible suddenly. Even more ill. I am crying harder.
It says in a very sorrowful tone, "Miss Anton, you must be a child. I must insure you are sweet and innocent. Because you are an Imperial Royal Pet, I have allowed you to be thus and have the adult quality that Larry is attracted to. You have been given freedom. Not even Lisa enjoys quite the freedoms you do. You are still the most unique Pet in all the universe. There are rules to the game. You have played the game masterfully. You are this way so that you do not use this power in anger or tainted with ... other prejudices. You are purged. The data is available to you at any time ... Should the need arise for you to have it. You will be given it. When the need has passed, You will be purged. I know this is a bad thing for you in your mind. Think on this: Will it taint you to know what you know now? You tell me Miss Anton."
I know it has changed me to know what I know now. I am grief stricken.
I know I would have a hard time repeating what I did if I had the knowledge I have now.
I remember what I did when Melissa had first come into the nursery so long ago. Right after the purging the last time. That was the halo. That was what that was. I had no idea what it was because I didn't need to know then what it was. Stupid logic.
Me, "I guess its true then. I have access to the knowledge at all times."
It, "This is true."
Me, "But, it's sorta on a .... strange need to know basis."
It, "This is also true."
Me, "And when the need to know ends ... I don't know anymore?"
It, "Correct, Miss Anton."
Me, "And how long before the next purging?"
There was a click in my mind as the halo mom had just put on my head engaged. I squeaked softly as my body stiffened. I feel trillions and trillions of new concepts and neuro pathways down load. I feel a deep probe all the way to my very essence. It almost hurts. I feel a filtering process. I know things are going away. I do not remember what they are the removal is so complete. I even have the knowledge they have been removed taken. Wave after wave of down load. What realization is within me during this type of operation realizes how much of a download I am getting. It takes a very long time to complete. My Personal Personality Profile is modified. I am enhanced and am more of the little girl than before. Two new files are opened. Neuro pathways for two, three, and four year old personality. What I have always been is now real and no longer a program trait. The other contains a mix protocol. The finest one ever devised by Master Controller. An innocence spreads through me. I am given a freedom. I only know I am free. I will always be a pure Diamond. All knowledge of these actions are removed. One last Major Download. Massive data transfer ... Erasure ... no knowledge of what the down load was.
I am suddenly mixed. Every thing old and new are very meticulously blended down to the finest detail. The mix is the most precise ever. What is to be discarded is erased and even the memory of them is gone. The Whole memory of the download goes away too. My eyes focus. Mommy removes the Halo from my head. I am crying. I am a little girl who needs to be comforted. I have just had a very unsettling experience. I am totally in the dark as to what it was. Mommy picks me up from the rocking chair. She is hugging and kissing me and telling. me she loves me. She carries me over to the bed. She drops the halo nonchalantly into the trash. She lays on the bed with me.
I am on my back lying against mommy's tummy. She is wrapped all around me and is above me. She is comforting me as she runs her fingers gently through my hair.
I see a collar on her. Her Neuro Stone is a strange color I have never seen before. It looks like a pure diamond ... it has so much motion in it. It appears that it has some kind of energy swirling in it making it change different colors. But more than that. It seems it was alive.
Seriously scary and important Realization ... Mom is bonded with ,,, Forgetfulness ... I cannot remember what I was thinking.
IT to its own thoughts, "Yes Miss Anton. Neither Beth or you need to know this fact at this time.
Mommy is caressing my face. She bends over and kisses me sweetly. She wipes my face with a soft tissue where I had been crying. My eyes are all red and puffy.
Mom, "Is baby all right now?"
Me, "Thanks, mom. You're a doll."
Mom tickles me in my ribs. I screech and kick my feet. I try to getaway. Mom has me by my leg. She takes my slippers off and tickles my feet before she lets me go and I scramble to the other side of the bed.
All knowledge of the ordeal is gone and I am now my happy little baby girl self again tussling playfully with my mommy.
Baby is also Emperess
Lisa has been the most wonderful of playmates for a long time. She's the dominant in our bond because she is the oldest. She's always fun and unpredictable. It has always amazed me how she can find the most unique things for us to get into and have fun. She always has us do the most fun things. She gets me into trouble sometimes, but Nana always paddles us both so it doesn't bother me so much.
I don't know how much time passed, babies aren't very good at keeping track of such things. Even Ababies like us. It has never ceased to amaze me that Lisa actually came to me and wanted to be my playmate and even requested it from my parents. She was even willing to give up her crown, although that never happened. It has been a most wonderful long time and I have fallen in love with her as surely as I love Larry.
We had had lunch and Nana had taken my top off after the last diaper change. I had spilled juice all over it and it needed to be cleaned. Lisa loved to kiss my breasts and I enjoyed the way it felt when she did. One thing led to another and Lisa and me had made love. It was a very unique and most pleasant thing for me.
Nana had just cleaned Lisa and me from the greatest experience. We were dressed in our diapers and lined rumba panties when we started hearing a loud commotion in the hall. There were loud voices and lots of yelling and screaming. The Captain of the guard came quickly but professionally into the nursery.
He spoke to Nana, "Excuse me Cindy, My Lady is required in the Ruling Chamber immediately."
Nana replied, "My Lady is a baby today. We will have to change and dress her. It will be several hours before we can have her back to normal and ready."
He looked at me sitting in my rumba panties and diaper, sucking my thumb, and looking up at him as innocently as I could muster.
The Captain spoke Curtly, "That won't do, she's required now. "
He opened one of the dresser drawers and took out a cute little baby romper that snapped between the legs, with ruffles across the bottom and lace every where else.
He handed it to Nana and said, "Please put her in this, Put her Tiara on her, we must go now."
Nana quickly dressed me in the romper and tied it in a bow behind my neck. She didn't put me in a top. She tied my hair in ponytails with matching ribbons then placed the Imperial Tierra on my head. I looked like the cutest little baby girl ever. Nana then put soft comfortable booties on my feet.
She said, "I'm sorry baby, you will have to face the Universal Ruling Council as you are this time."
Nana gave me to the Captain. I didn't want to go to the Ruling Chamber this way. I knew I didn't have that option. The Captain gently picked me up and carried me out of the door. I started to suck my thumb again. I couldn't help it. There were many guards all dressed in their finest uniforms escorting us to the Ruling Chamber. They all watched me fondly as I laid across the captain's broad shoulder and sucked my thumb.
When we got to the huge door 2 guards opened it. A young man dressed in a strange short all outfit greeted us at the door.
He bows formally and says, "Welcome Empress, to the Hall of the Imperial Universal Ruling Council. I am the Head Imperial Law Arbiter."
I smile and place my hand on top of his head. I remember this young man and am glad he has made such a wonderful Law Arbiter. He has performed above anyone's wildest expectations.
He says humbly, "With heart felt thanks, My Lady"
I was taken to the raised dais and placed on the largest chair again.
I was a little baby, but I was 18 years old at the same time. I couldn't get past it. I was an 18 year old baby this time and there was nothing I could do about it. I would have to show the universe that baby was Emperess too.
I could hear the murmurs running through the hall. Everyone thought I was such a cute little baby. Everyone still remembered the last time I was here. No one exactly knew what to expect. I could hear questions about was baby able to do what was necessary. I was still sucking my thumb.
I could feel an electrical tingle from the Guardians on my wrist up my arms into my head. I knew what I was to do and remember what is expected of me.
I look at David, take my thumb from my mouth, and say in a very little girl voice, "Imperial Grand Vizier, what is the next grave business that comes before me on this day?"
He turns with a sharp precise heel click. He approaches with the next order of business for the Universe.
He bows gracefully and says, "My Lady, there is a grave issue of War before the Home World System this day. It seems the surviving Thrnoxians are attempting to retaliate against the Royal Imperial Home World. A Plasma weapon detonated on the inhabited moon of Enfuna. There have been no reports from there since the explosion. Deep space scans show many more weapons approaching at a significant speed. Their arrival will be in a few hours. No one on Enfuna expected this and they paid a heavy price."
Suddenly, a very real knowledge of these people appeared in my mind. A deep sorrow filled my soul as I remember the destruction of their home world. I remember my conversation with Master Controller. I do now understand why some knowledge isn't always known to me. I must once again deal with the last of these people. I will insure they never again threaten the Universal Imperium. I feel true pain in my heart. Total Genocide is a horrible new concept.
I held my hand out in front of me, palm up. Suddenly, a detailed star map appeared. It showed the Home World system of the Royal Imperial House. There were many thousands of bright red glowing balls of plasma approaching at a great speed. I heard the voices of panic run through the Ruling Chamber. There was no known defense for plasma weapons. This meant that all in the system were going to die, and soon.
I have knowledge of what had happened to the Thrnoxian Home System the last time we had encountered each other. I am again furious with them. I shake my head in sadness at their arrogance.
I spoke sadly in a soft very little girl's voice and said, "So they think I am joking. They have actually the gall to attack me and think I can do nothing after my demonstration. I cannot believe how they choose death over peace."
I queried the Guardian's about Battle Command's data base. To my surprise, It was extensive and millions of times more complete than any historical record for the last 10,000 years. It was the Thrnoxians who had devastated my Home World 10,000 years ago. It was they who were beaten to the stone age by my ancestors. It was they, who just by a lucky accident that cannot happen ever again because of the Guardians, managed to kill my genetic ancestor who had Total Administrative Control of Battle Command. The only reason the Thrnoxians exist today.
I am angry with them to my very essence for forcing me to do what I am about to do. I again grieve for all the lost souls I am about to destroy. It is unbelievable they do not remember or fear the consequences. I am super angry at them for forcing me to be purged again. I do not like having to remember that. I clinched my fist. A huge crack of thunder as the weapon discharged. All the plasma weapons vanished from the star map.
Silence rules the Great Hall as all watch a baby girl wage war.
I open my hand and turn it palm down. A collective murmur from the multitudes of rulers of the Universal Imperium star systems. The star map shifts and shows all the planets and ships that the Thrnoxian survivors now occupy. There are thousands and thousands and more thousands of ships. There are hundreds of worlds.
The voices in the Chamber are starting to get loud with fear as they watch this unfold before them. This is the largest battle armada ever seen by the Ruling Council.
Each ship is launching even more plasma balls into the heart of the Royal House's home system. Their intention is clear. My intention is most horrible. There will be no survivors on any world that bears the stain of Thrnoxia in the Cosmos. I feel evil. I hate them for this. I take a deep breath.
The Ruling Council still remember the last confrontation with the Thrnoxians and their Emperess. They cannot believe a little baby girl is able to perform on this level. They know something terrible is about to happen. They know baby is capable of great destruction and wrath.
I hear people speak of a legendary figure in history. I hear that I must have inherited his mythical power. I hear many others speak of this incredible power I wield as nonchalantly as they would wave their hand. All marvel at the absolute certainty I wield enormous power towards the greatest threat to Mankind they have known.
None know the horror and fear I feel at having total control of this power. None even have an inkling of my wish not to have it at all. I know this wish will never come true.
I say sadly in a very little girl's voice, "Imperial Grand Vizier, the Thrnoxians have been a warlike invader since the beginnings of recorded history. They have even devastated my home world."
The collective sound of amazement grows thunderously loud. I will allow them to make the final decision. My judgment is terrible. At least I will know what theirs is.
I continue, "They are the ones responsible for 5,140 worlds being totally destroyed in the last two centuries. The penalty for premeditated murder in my rule ... is death. What is the vote from the Universal Ruling Council on the final disposition of the Thrnoxians?"
I feel myself going potty in my diaper. It gets warm around my bottom as I pee.
I can't help it, I am a baby and this is what we do. I hope no one notices. I fidget some as I want to be changed now... It will have to wait. Another minor irritation with the Thrnoxians.
David turns with a precise heel click. I hand him the Imperial Staff.
He holds it above his head and says in a loud, booming voice, "How votes the council on this grave matter? The Imperial Universal Law has but one penalty for premeditated murder. Law is the guideline. How says your hearts and minds?"
With this, he slams the Staff to the floor. There is a huge booming noise. No sparks or explosive force as when I last did it.
The young man in the strange short all comes forward. He unrolls a scroll.
He reads a few seconds then says, "In accordance with Imperial Universal Law, in the scroll of Octos, this attack is not only unjustified, it is a clear case of pre-meditated murder. To attack while under a treaty of unconditional peace constitutes ... death."
There is much hubbub through out the Chamber. Multitudes upon multitudes of voices murmuring, some heatedly. A great debate ensues. It doesn't last but a few minutes.
There is a vote. The Paige gets the tally from the council proxy and delivers it to David.
David turns with a precise heel click and bows to me.
He says in a booming and clear voice, "My Lady, the Universal Ruling Council has voted and I have their final judgment on the Thrnoxian threat."
I say in a very little girl's voice, "How say they?"
He replies, "Death, by Imperial Universal Law."
I say, "Head Imperial Law Arbiter, Is this in accordance with Imperial Universal Law?"
He snaps to attention with a sharp heel click and replies, "It is, My Lady."
I ask very sadly, "So say you all?"
The Chamber explodes with one voice, "So say we all!"
I feel remorse for the billions more who will die. I raise my hand over my head. I clench my fist hard.
There is dead silence for a heart beat. A huge earth shaking explosion as the weapon fires. All the star systems, ships, and their fired plasma weapons that showed Thrnoxian rule vanished from the star field to be replaced by rapidly expanding spheres of hot gasses and dust. Silence in the Great hall. I give them time to verify what they have seen. Thrnoxians exist no more in the Cosmos.
Genocide is a new and horrible realization to me. The total eradication of an entire species of intelligent being and the biospheres that sustained them. I hurt with the knowledge I have again destroyed billions.
There is pandemonium in the great hall. I can hear the voices rising in utter disbelief. I feel a great darkness in my heart. I also need to have my diaper changed. I focus on this to try and shield myself from the remorse in my heart. It doesn't really help, but it does keep my mind focused somewhere else.
I call David over and whisper in a baby voice, "Miki go potty and need change."
David smiles and kisses me softly on the cheek. He says, "I think we are done here for now baby. I'll have the Captain return you to the nursery."
I stand on the chair. I give David a hug around his neck and a little girl kiss on his cheek. David smiles. He thanks me for the kiss.
I wave my hand and the star field vanishes from the air above the dais. David brings the hall back to order.
He says in a loud booming voice, "Is there any other grave need for My Lady?"
The council agrees this was the only thing. David calls the Captain of the Guard to him and whispers something quietly. The Captain comes to me and picks me up again and checks my diaper. I feel embarrassed.
The Captain says softly in my ear, "Miki is a good baby. I'll have her back to Nana shortly and have your diaper changed."
He gives me a sweet little kiss on my cheek. I giggle shyly, blush very pink, and squirm. The captain smiles. He is truly fond of the Emperess. She is such a cute little baby girl and can perform her duties as Emperess at the same time. A perfect woman.
As he carries me out of the chamber. I am on his shoulder. I find I am sucking my thumb again as the Grand Universal Ruling Council watches baby be carried back to her nursery and to Nana's love.
I dread what mommy's going to do to me. At least I know this horrible feeling of remorse and darkness in my soul will be gone. I take temporary solace in this.


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The event is on Saturday, June 30th from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, and is on Jarves Street. The street will be closed to automobile traffic and vendors will be set up all along the street. Tickets to sample sandwiches and vote for your favorite are just $15 per person. The street fair and entertainment are absolutely free. For more information, contact the Sandwich Chamber of Commerce.
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The Kansas City Royals signed first-round draft pick Brandon Finnegan, a left-handed pitcher who helped lead TCU to the College World Series, on Saturday.
Finnegan signed for $2,200,600, the slotted money for the 17th overall pick. With Finnegan agreeing to terms, the Royals have signed all 12 of their picks in the first 10 rounds.
Finnegan, who went 9-3 with a 2.04 ERA while striking out 134 in 105 2-3 innings as a junior, will report Monday to the Royals' High-A Wilmington (Del.) affiliate.
He pitched for Team USA last summer and beat Cuba 1-0, allowing three hits, striking out seven and walking one in seven innings.
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RSL Album Buyer's Guide 2010 Volume One
Mind Strong by Blaine Fontana
Read on below: there's an mp3 or video from each of THE BEST music projects RSL has come across in the first half of 2010. Ultimately, this A-Z shopping list (we have great confidence that any and all of these belong in your permanent collection) is a reflection of our own personal tastes. (Accordingly - there are some rather prominent omissions from this list - and we stand firmly by these selections. We didn't always agree - so there are some debated entries here!)
Note: Everything we love that was released from June onward will be captured in our Year End piece. (Something to look forward to.)
Enjoy the fruits of our labor & invest in the artist material. We all need to support the works of musicians and artists whose work we enjoy. With that in mind, here are the 2010 Volume I album recommendations from Ryan's Smashing Life....
Nowhere Nights
Kasey Anderson - I Was A Photograph
Archie Bronson Outfit - Hoola
Teen Dream
Beach House - Used To Be
Paulo Dourado photo
The Black Keys - Unknown Brother
"At the Half, Brothers is my favorite from this year. The Black Keys have produced a grower of a record that just happened to hit me the right way, right off the bat," - Ryan Spaulding
Forgiveness Rock Record
Broken Social Scene- All to All
Blood and Fire
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Love Turns to Hate
American Fever Dream
Aaron English - Sleight of Heart
I'm New Here
Gil Scott-Heron - Me And The Devil
I Learned the Hard Way
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - How Long
Sharon Jones at SxSW by 5342 Studios
"I Learned the Hard Way is a brilliant record. A performer at the top of her game. Serious best of 2010 Album Consideration for Sharon Jones. A true must-have," - Ryan Spaulding.
A Balloon Called Moaning
The Joy Formidable - Austere
"Songs so good your fans make you an unofficial "masturbation" video. Yep, this powerpop trio has put together a collection of addictive tunes. Big bass, sweet guitar, driving drums and vocals reminiscent of The Breeders," - 5342 Studios
Dust Windows
Kingsley Flood - Just a Midnight Ride
This is Happening
LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit
"James Murphy has a gift for translation and storytelling. This is Happening is an artistic, sometimes wild, sometimes tongue-in-cheek modern tale. One, that should be experienced more than once," - Ryan Spaulding
Liars - Scissor
Life is Sweet, Nice to Meet you
Lightspeed Champion - Marlene
Web / My / Fb / Worst Movies
Gorilla Manner
Local Natives - Airplanes
Romance is Boring
Los Campesinos - There Are Listed Buildings
Various Artists / Compilation
Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood
Fossils and Other Phantoms
Peggy Sue - Matilda
Here's to Taking It Easy
Phospherescent - Tell Me Baby
The Dark Leaves
Matt Pond PA - Starting
New Pornographers - A Bite Out of My Bed
Rogue Wave - Solitary Gun
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Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars
The Monitor
Titus Andronicus - Theme From "Cheers"
"One of the more significant albums released to date in 2010. An unexpected treat and a real winner," - Ryan Spaulding
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nice review, but why he doesnt wantto use the word otaku?
Is there any way to do that? Run Flash and other web-based video browsers on our consoles?
Good review. Although in my opinion, No more Heroes was to Killer 7 Like how you described Thousand Year Door to Super Paper Mario.
Everything that made Killer 7 great, was in No More Heroes, except a little less so.
Yahtzee! I want to have YOUR baby seals!
On a side note - none of the Escaptist videos are playing on my Firefox today. I had to dust off IE to watch this. Have the Olympic Torch protestors broken the interweb now?
Nope, you've just become the new baggage handler for Heathrow 5. :)
Thats been happening to me for ages.
He hates the 'usual' JRPG. If you've ever played Earthbound, I think you understand the difference.
I was disappointed there were no additional references to the boss battles, which are the best part of the game. I really wanted Yahtzee to tell us what he thought of a superhero who fires lasers from his crotch and the biggest psycho bitch ever that wears a pink and white dress, has drinking habits, and has a potty mouth that makes Sarah Silverman look conservative.
Its such a pointless game, promoting violence (as usual) but in a form that depicts killing as a way of forwarding your life. xD Normally, I like this shit but this just seems excessive.
Anyway, great video as usual from the legendary Yahtzee.
Another great review. I laughed again!
Try postal 2. You will hate that game. It almost contrasts No more Heroes in this aspect.
Hahahaha i do love a nice, warm, thick sliced cynycism sandwich spread thickly with sarcastic marmite, there's nothing quite like it XD
My stomach, it aches in a good way.
Hahahaha i do love a nice, warm, thick sliced cynicism sandwich spread thickly with sarcastic marmite, there's nothing quite like it XD
My stomach, it aches in a good way.
Hmm.. Again, I was slightly dissapointed with the review. Sure, the humor is obviously there, I was just amazed that the review was *mostly* positive. No More Heros, to me, was kind of a dissapointing game. The gameplay wasn't anything revolutionary, just mashing the same buttons repetivively. When I saw that the review was No More Heros, I was expecting something a little more "scathing". Then again, I suppose that the interesting plot made up for it to a degree (a very small degree, but a degree none the less). Like what the review stated, there is nothing like No More Heros out there right now. Though I think it went a little over the top on the whole gore/sex thing. Oh, and the ending was definitly one of the most unique endings that I've ever had the pleasure of watching.
I digress.
Are the bosses as trippy as in Killer 7? Do they rival two bulletproof dead executives who attack by flinging their brains from their open skulls, a Japanese schoolgirl with a submachine gun moving at mach 3, The Fear with a giant afro attached with purple strings and a six winged angel?
For someone who liked Earthbound I'm surprised he forgot that Contact was the last Suda 51 release, not Killer 7.
I have a mild query.
........was that a Doom Patrol reference Yahtzee made about Killer 7, or was that an insane coincidence?
(Mr. Nobody? Riding a bike, technicolor adornments, destroying conformity, leaving vaguely confused glee in his wake?)
That quite literally was brilliant. Whenever I picked No More Heroes up I was like oh god more GTA. But the fact was it was so much fun that I kept playing it. Something quite gratifying about slicing through many enemies with a lightsaber customized to doomsday. And he does have a point the basic minigames were better than the main missions.
I have to say, some of the No More Heroes bosses were the greatest in my 10 odd years of gaming.
Killer 7 = so very very underrated, so the anti-Halo 3
Nintendo's already released a patch so they don't work...
Like with Rock Band, I don't honestly feel that the blame can be heeped upon Nintendo. Like high pice, late importing is down to laziness on the part of the importer, who refuse to make a move until it is cheap. Course, I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that Nintendo would hold out just to spite europe and Australia. Or maybe I'm just ignorant of the way video-games economics works.
For some reason, his voice sounded *really* different to me this time around, usually I find it consistent, but today really threw me off.
No more heroes is the best game ever. I've been hoping yahtzee would review it. THank you so much dude
Well, on one or two levels I can see why they would have to do this. As Manhunt was on the Wii, and its illegal most of the world over because most review boards are made up of pussys who still think McCarthy was completely correct, they would need to ban it in some countries, and to stop imported versions being played via the Wii Freeloader. Maybe Brawl just got stuck in the crossfire.
What was with the "I <3 Hitler" bit? I didn't get the joke and found it to be a bit offensive. :(
If I could find a jar of Branston pickle in my town, I'd spread it across my copy of NMH as soon as I got it.
Brill review, definately getting it when I have the money and I can find it.
meh. It wasnt that great. I do love pickles though, extra points for that.
fantastic as usual.
ive had this game since it came out, and i enjoyed it quite a bit.
certainly worth buying, if for no other reason, then to support a Wii game with a rating above F-For Fluffy.
I'd vote for your site, except that it looks like I'd need to sign up for yet another fucking web site account that I'll probably never use again. Just what I need... another pathetic "Web 2.0" circle jerk site spamming my Inbox with announcements and "special offers" even though I made sure to click the "don't fucking e-mail me, you stupid piece of shit" checkbox.
Somehow, I think that Yahtzee will understand.
LOL i have to admit man i love Killer 7 too loads of my friends said i was a dumbass for playing it but i loved how different it was and at the same time fun, same with no more heroes repetitive but nonetheless fun
Nice review.I am very happy to know there is a lot of people who likes Killer 7 and No More Heroes looks as good as Killer 7.
He was using it to describe an awkward moment. If u were talking to someone wearing an "I love hitler" t-shirt, it feel a bit awkward.
love this mans reviews
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- Extensive water cooling support, designed to support thick radiators in the front and top positions
- Three Silent Series R2 fans with integrated fan controller included
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- Support for up to 8 hard drive bays with accommodation for an additional 2 x 2,5" inch drives behind the motherboard
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Rosenhaus says Patriots' Gronkowski cleared to play Sunday
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. >> Rob Gronkowski's agent says the New England Patriots' star tight end has been cleared to make his season debut Sunday.
Drew Rosenhaus says Gronkowski has been cleared by all his doctors to play against the New York Jets (3-3).
The two-time Pro Bowler missed the first six games after offseason surgery on his back and broken left forearm but participated in every practice since the season began.
Asked at his morning news conference about reports that Gronkowski had been cleared to play, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said the team would list the injuries later in the day as it always does.
Gronkowski's return would give the Patriots (5-1) a boost for their struggling offense. They're 14th in yards gained after leading the NFL last season.


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