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DENVER -- The appointment of the first woman to command the Air Force Academy marks another breach of the "brass ceiling" that keeps women from top assignments in the military, an advocacy group said Monday.
But putting women into top assignments won't by itself address unequal treatment and sexual assault of female military personnel, said Anu Bhagwati, executive director of Service Women's Action Network.
The Defense Department announced Friday that Air Force Maj. Gen Michelle Johnson has been chosen to be the next superintendent of the Air Force Academy outside Colorado Springs, Colo.
Johnson is believed to be the second woman appointed to command a service academy, after Coast Guard Rear Adm. Sandra Stosz became superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., in 2011. Johnson is the first woman to be superintendent at any of the three best-known academies, Army, Navy and Air Force.
"This appointment is significant for many reasons. Very few women have attained the rank of general, let alone two-star general," Bhagwati said.
"There's still a brass ceiling in the military, throughout the military -- particularly in the Army and the Marines, particularly in the Marines," said Bhagwati, a former Marine captain.
Johnson's appointment comes during a time of progress and turmoil for military women. A little more than a month ago, the Defense Department announced it would remove gender restrictions on combat positions, allowing women to take on assignments considered prerequisites for some promotions.
At the same time, the military is struggling to curb mistreatment of women personnel, including sexual assaults.
The Air Force is dealing with a sex scandal at its only basic training site, Joint Base Lackland-San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas. Instructors there sexually harassed, improperly touched or raped dozens of young female recruits and airmen.
In December, the Pentagon reported that sexual assaults at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies jumped by 23 percent last year and that many victims were reluctant to ask for criminal investigations.
"I do hope that Gen. Johnson understands the severity of these issues," Bhagwati said. "Women officers don't necessarily fix the gender problems in a unit. It's really the caliber of the officer."
It's not yet known when Johnson will assume command at the Air Force Academy. Congress must first approve her promotion to a three-star lieutenant general, the rank required for the job.
Johnson is a 1981 graduate of the academy, where she was the first woman to become cadet wing commander.
She would replace Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, the superintendent since June 2009. Gould's plans haven't been announced.


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A Steadfast Spirit in Prayer
- Debbie Przybylski Intercessors Arise
- 2014 5 May
"In warfare and seasons of trouble, there is a quality of suffering and perseverance that actually births in us a greater anointing to work the works of God. God actually trusts us because He trusts what He sees of suffering inside our heart and life. We cannot build anything without suffering... Good leadership knows how to suffer; they know about patience and perseverance to stand their ground."
Dear Intercessors,
God is looking throughout the earth, and He sees those who are steadfast in spirit. Is your spirit steadfast even during times of intense spiritual warfare? Do you know how to stand steady in hard times even when the enemy targets you with lies? Are you standing your ground in your thought life, and are you bringing your thoughts captive to Christ?
It's not easy to navigate through life with all the uncertainties facing us. We go through times of job promotions and losses, prosperity and adversity, love and loneliness. We must learn to be very careful in our walk through life. I remember when I was simply walking with my husband and looking at the beauty of nature when suddenly I stepped on a small round chestnut, lost my balance, and fell on the ground. A little shaken and with a few scrapes and bruises, he helped me up. We carefully continued walking steadfastly forward. Little round chestnuts were all over the road. Almost as if they were dangerous landminds, I gingerly stepped around them as we proceeded on our walk. That day I learned a lesson about walking steadfastly.
How do we navigate through such constant change and intense warfare in our thoughts? How do we navigate around the landmines in life? It seems that our inner resolve must be strong. A fixed heart in prayer positions us, strengthening us from within to receive God's power moment-by-moment and day-by-day. God wants us to stand firm by taking our thoughts captive through prayer. Obviously while walking I wasn't standing firm. And what happened? I fell! But I got up quickly and proceeded on, being much more careful.
Even if we have made a great fall, we can get up and get moving again. But we need to be careful of the landmines. They can be negative thoughts about God, about ourselves, and about others that especially tempt us during a difficult time. Strongholds are powerful. But God will help us to be steady if we resolve to be faithful and steadfast in spirit and in prayer. He will renew a steadfast spirit within us. King David prayed for a steadfast spirit and wrote in Psalm 51:10:
"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
My husband put many new windows in our house. Windows are important. This life is a small window of opportunity to stand fast in prayer, to choose to love God with all our heart, and to believe His truth in the midst of difficult circumstances. God sees whatever suffering each one of us has to go through in this life. Suffering and perseverance is an important part of life. When we face suffering, there is a powerful anointing for fellowship with God. He is inviting us to draw nearer to His heart through it.
One of the books I am presently writing is called The Invitation. God is inviting us into a glorious place of power and relationship, but it's up to us. Will we accept His invitation? Will we be steadfast in seeking Him? Will we cling to His truth and His Word? We all love to be invited to special events by important people. This invitation is the greatest invitation any of us will ever receive in this life.
The challenge for us is to love God and believe Him through everything that comes our way. This is where we will find His strength and grace to carry us through. King David was a man after God's heart who constantly pursued Him. A steadfast heart knows how to take thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. We have a window of opportunity right now to pursue God. David declared in Psalm 108:1, "My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul."
I have noticed in my life that after I have gone through an especially enduring season of warfare, God brings a breakthrough and increases the anointing in my own personal life. I look back and see the grace of God that carried me through. The battle has to do most often with taking thoughts captive in prayer and believing God for breakthrough. Satan does not like prayer. Standing strong in perseverance is a daily task, but God's grace has been sufficient. If you are involved in prayer, I am sure you can identify. Battles make us strong, firm, and steadfast. We read this in 1 Peter 5:10:
"And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast."
The Call for a Steadfast Spirit
"Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!" (Psalm 119:5)
Let's never think that we are the only one going through warfare and needing a breakthrough. All of God's people who have been used by Him have come face-to-face in confrontation and warfare in the area of taking thoughts captive through prayer. Everyone has had to learn to be steadfast. It's inevitable.
The famous revivalist, John Wesley, was steadfast in difficulty. Imagine the thoughts that the enemy must have shot into his mind when he was facing rejection and defeat. You probably never knew this about his life. Look at the breakthrough he experienced when he had a steadfast, persevering spirit and continued to trust God. A page from his diary reads as follows:
• Sunday morning, May 5 - Preached in St. Ann's, was asked not to come back anymore.
• Sunday p.m., May 5 - Preached at St. John's, deacons said, "Get out and stay out."
• Sunday a.m., May 12 - Preached at St. Jude's, can't go back there either.
• Sunday p.m., May 12 - Preached at St. George's, kicked out again.
• Sunday a.m., May 19 - Preached, deacons called special meeting and said I couldn't return.
• Sunday p.m., May 19 - Preached on the street, kicked off the street.
• Sunday a.m., May 26 - Preached in meadow, chased out of meadow as a bull was turned loose during the services.
• Sunday a.m., June 2 - Preached out at the edge of town, kicked off the highway.
• Sunday p.m., June 2 - Afternoon service, preached in a pasture, 10,000 people came to hear me.
Wouldn't you have felt like giving up if you were John Wesley? Look at what God did through His life because he persevered!
All inventors have to be extremely steadfast. Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Did you know that the first electric light was so dim that a candle was needed to see its socket? Wilbur and Orville Wright's first airplane flight lasted only twelve seconds. One of the first steamboats took 32 hours to go from New York to Albany, a distance of 150 miles. The first automobile traveled two to four miles per hour and broke down often. But look at what these inventions can do today. These inventors had to believe in breakthrough in the face of great endurance and difficulty.
Perhaps you are going through a challenging time when the devil is relentlessly attacking your mind. You know that you need to be steadfast and persevering, but it's difficult. The enemy tells you, "You're a failure. You'll never make it. You might as well give up." These are merely lies and the strongholds of the enemy. The warfare seems intense, and you need a breakthrough that only God can give.
Realize that you are not alone. There is a battlefield of the mind. Many of us are facing a battle one way or another. We need a steadfast and persevering spirit in intense warfare. We need to believe God's truth rather than the enemy's lies. What should we do in times of warfare? Here are a few suggestions:
• Put on worship music, sing to the Lord, and praise Him in the midst of difficulty. This will touch your spirit and impact your emotions (Ephesians 5:19-20). Listen to peaceful, quiet worship music. If you are getting fearful over situations in your personal life, the economy, weather conditions, or terrorism, this is an incredible way to stay in God's peace in the midst of battle.
• Speak God's Word over your personal difficulties. Speak God's Word over your life and the lives of those around you. Speak God's Word over your nation. You are aligning your heart with God's heart as you speak it out loud.
You may feel the intensity of spiritual warfare. It may be hard to hold steady in prayer. Landmines are going off all around you. Negative thoughts are trying to invade your mind. God is inviting you into deeper intimacy by teaching you to take your thoughts captive through prayer. He wants to strengthen your arms in war. Don't give up. Persevere in prayer. Your breakthrough may be right around the corner.
Be steadfast in spirit as you face the battlefield of the mind. He will keep you in perfect peace as you take your thoughts captive through prayer. God will help you step around those land mines safely and victoriously when you trust in Him (Isaiah 26:3).
"There is an anointing for fellowship with God in confrontation that births a bestowing of Kingdom in our hearts. Kingdom is given to us in the violence of confrontation. The Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force (see Matthew 11:12). We need a godly violence in our hearts that says, "We are not going to be moved; this is what we believe in. We are going to stand here; we are not moving. We are standing here, and we are believing God."
*This Article First Published 6/14/2013


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NORFOLK, VA (Feb. 5) - Old Dominion's women's swimming and diving team captured its second win in its last three meets with a 128-113 victory over UMBC. The Lady Monarchs improve to 3-10 on the year as they prepare for the upcoming CAA Championships, Feb. 23-26.
UMBC held the early lead after capturing the 400 medley relay, but the Lady Monarchs fought back, winning the next four events to hold a 52-40 advantage entering the first diving break. Freshman diver Ashley Kirchner (Arlington, VA) won the women's three-meter dive with a school-record score of 271.80, also good enough to qualify for the women's NCAA Deep Zones.
Ahead, 70-59, after round one of diving, the Lady Monarchs scored another win as freshman Tori Vanderbilt (Hendersonville, TN) captured the 100 free, her second victory of the day. Later, with the Lady Monarchs up by only seven points (87-80), freshman freestyle specialist Jamie D'Agostino (Ardsley, NY) won the 500 free to move the Lady Monarchs ahead, 101-85, entering round two of diving.
Kirchner recorded a sweep in the diving events as she won the women's one meter with a score of 266.93 to give Old Dominion a 23-point edge heading into the final two events (114-91). UMBC won the 200 breast, but the Lady Monarchs' Kara Fichthorn (Landsdowne, PA) finished a close second to keep the Lady Monarchs up, 122-102.
In the final event of the day (400 free relay), the Lady Monarchs finished second and third, behind UMBC's first-place performance, to win the event, 128-113. Old Dominion returns to action Feb. 23-26 as they participate in the CAA Championships at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
Final Score UMBC 113 Old Dominion 128 Event Winners 400 Medley Relay UMBC-Castro, Donovan, Carvalho, Lochte (4:04.69) 1650 Free ODU-Jamie D'Agostino (17:53.80) 200 Free ODU-Jamie D'Agostino (1:55.20) 50 Free ODU-Tori Vanderbilt (25.5) 200 IM ODU-Sarah Mooney (2:11.22) Three Meter Dive ODU-Ashley Kirchner (271.80-NCAA Deep Zone Qualifier, School Record) 200 Butterfly UMBC-Lisa Carvalho (2:07.86) 100 Free ODU-Tori Vanderbilt (54.7) 200 Back UMBC-Veronica Castro (2:08.49) 500 ODU-Jamie D'Agostino (5:05.10) One Meter Dive ODU-Ashley Kirchner (266.93) 200 Breast UMBC-Meghann Donovan (2:27.00) 400 Free Relay UMBC-Greenhalgh, Schaefer, Lillie, Maskeroni (3:46.22)


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Southern skeletons: Author Thompson intensifies his history
John Milliken Thompson admits with a laugh that he writes "mainly coffee-table books," including several titles for National Geographic. But now the Charlottesville author has just come out with a new novel, a far cry from his America's Historic Trails and Wildlands of the Upper South.
A historical-fiction novel set in post-Civil War Richmond, The Reservoir has already won praise as "solidly entertaining" by Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews calls it "an engaging mystery novel rendered as Southern literature."
What's it all about? "A woman," says Thompson. "And a dead one at that."
Like its 53-year-old author, The Reservoir can't be contained to a specific genre. Thompson describes his debut novel as "a romance wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside a historical crime novel."
Set against the backdrop of war-torn Richmond, The Reservoir is based on the actual murder case of Lillie Cluverius, whose body was found floating in the Old Marshall Reservoir in March of 1885. Initially ruled a suicide, Lillie's death begins to unravel a dark family history, including a tumultuous affair with her cousin Tommie.
"It was completely engrossing," says Thompson. "There were skeletons in the closet and a paper trail gone cold."
Thompson fictionalized the psyches and personalities of his characters, but he worked from real court documents and contemporaneous news account to develop the story's background. He says there was a lot of material to work from, as media in the former Confederate capital covered the case extensively.
"This was theater to them," he explains. "This was drama."
A man of his word, Thompson even acted out various scenes during the writing process to more fully envision certain details. With his wife, Margo playing Lillie— "both living and dead," he chuckles— Thompson tested specifics such as how Lillie may have been strangled, or how one might pull a body out of a reservoir. This meticulousness allows Thompson to write, with authority: "[Mr. Lucas] has to lie on his belly, Mr. Meade holding his legs, and take hold of whatever he can, which happens to be the woman's right arm."
"He possesses the writer's greatest asset, which is perseverance," says neighbor and fellow author Henry Wiencek. "There are long stretches of your writing life when your talents fail and you're tempted to throw the whole thing aside, but he always maintained a strong sense of calm and determination."
After multiple publisher rejections, Thompson immediately began reworking his story with the help of his wife, this time playing the role of editor. The two reworked it for about a year before the Other Press snapped it up.
"It took a certain maturity in my life and my writing," Thompson reflects. "It was the right material at the right time."
The Reservoir is available June 21, and Thompson will hold book readings and signings at Over the Bookstore and New Dominion Bookshop on June 29 and 30, respectively.Read more on: John Milliken Thompsonnational geographic


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Building curiosity for 'Dabangg 2' important, says ArbaazDec 5, 2012 IANS
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) The team of "Dabangg 2" will go full throttle for the movie's promotion soon. Producer-director Arbaaz Khan says it was vital to maintain the curiosity for the movie until now.
"Building curiosity for the film was important. This was the need of the film. People are liking the look of the film which is a positive step," Arbaaz said at a press conference here Wednesday.
Arbaaz is making his directorial debut with "Dabangg 2", which is the sequel of 2010 blockbuster "Dabangg".
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"It is a sequel to the film and the story is going ahead. The couple is married now and a scenario of how a married couple can also be romantically inclined to each other is created in the film," said Arbaaz.
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Indestructible Man (1956)
A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. Insert the Frankenstein into the Maltese Falcon, dumb it down a bit, and you have "Indestructible Man".
Keep an eye out for Max Showalter as the Lieutenant on the killer's trail. He would later play MANY bit roles in Dragnet, a show that seems a direct descendant of this one–"normal" LAPD cops trying to deal with dangerous freaks.


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The product of that video shoot late last year that was reported to show a Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano ripping through canyons of the western US has hit the online. Despite (enhanced by?) lovely French narration by Audrey Tautou (in our mind), the video shows heli-shots of a red 599 being flogged on a road near where the someone from the Donner Party inevitably shouted, "We're almost there!" (actually, it was reportedly shot near Vegas). The video shows no sign of the Ferrari
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Meth dealers get nailed
U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon laid down the law on Thursday to 6 of the 20 Augusta and Rockingham County dealers accused of distributing more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine, the Harrisonburg daily paper reports.
All of them pled guilty, except the still-unapprehended leader of the pack, Ismael Alvarado Cervantes. Sentences ranged from 5 years and 10 months in prison to over 16 years, and some of the perps also forfeited thousands of dollars worth of drug-money fueled assets to the government.
Attorney John L. Brownlee seemed particularly disturbed that some of the drugs were sold to high schoolers. The case took off in 2005 when ATF officials responded to the bombing of a car, allegedly belonging to one of the dealers, in Harrisonburg.
"These sentences ensure that a major supply of methamphetamine in Rockingham and Augusta Counties has been stopped," Brownlee said. However, an attorney for one of the convicts blasted the prosecution for so boldly punishing what the attorney portrayed as low-level dealers.


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The movie frenzy of summer sequels continue as 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' hits Malaysian cinemas this weekend. I was skeptical on whether to fork out RM10 bucks on this movie, since the first Fantastic Four film was so lame, watching any movies with Ice Cube into seemed cool. I mean, the first movies was so bad I cannot possibly believe it. The acting was lame, the special effects were cheap and the story was, well, what story? The only good bit was the 'Human Torch', but why do I want to pay good money to watch a good-looking guy having fun? Makes me feel bad… *sob* But anyway, my friends insisted, so what the heck, I joined in…
I went into the 1U cinema without any expectations and left my brain completely at home because in my opinion, to enjoy this movie, that is exactly what is required. I mean, the moment you use any brain cells, it is the time the movie will completely suck. It is that shallow. So, the cinema hall darkened, the pop-corn are a-munchin' and the Fantastic Four burst onto the screen for next 1 hours 20 minutes or so, with me expecting the worst of any superhero lameness possible. But I was pleasantly surprised. I was surprised that this is a 'Fantastic Four' movie, directed by the same director with the same cast of actors, and I was watching a movie so much better from the last one. It was a vast improvement, but to be honest, the first movie was so bad any improvement would have been a great one.
First off, it was a great marketing move to include the Silver Surfer in it, because you are not essentially watching a Fantastic Four movie, you are watching a Silver Surfer movie supported by the Fantastic Four. So the movie makers successfully sidetracked the horrid ill-feelings from the first movie and re-booted the series with the help of the Silver Surfer and a bigger budget (hence the grander and longer fight sequences). And it worked. The director was spot-on with Silver Surfer and nailed him to the wall of coolness. There isn't any molten-silver guy as cool as him since the T-1000 in 'Terminator 2'. Seeing him fight with the Human Torch through skyscrapers and tunnels of New York really brought me back to the days when I was a kid, wide-eyed with wonder on cartoons of Transformers, GI Joe and the Silver Hawks (remember that one?).
Keep in mind that it is not 'Batman Begins' or the 'X-Men' as 'Fantastic Four' is not that serious, not so dark and frankly, not that smart. This series is meant to be fun, light-hearted and clean. Otherwise we wouldn't get the 'Fantastic' in the name of 'Fantastic Four', would we? It would be 'Fearsome Foursome' or 'The Darkness of the Four' or whatever. You see, in essence this series is not meant to be dark and is not grown-up tales with grown-up troubles. Imagine what would 'Pirates of the Caribbean' be if not for the silliness of Captain Jack Sparrow? What puts the 'Fantastic' in 'Fantastic Four' is its honest attempt to capture the childhood essence of fantasy, and it represents everything that is simple and full of imagination encapsulated in a time before adulthood. Just think of the names: Dr. Doom, The Thing, Invisible Woman, you name it, it is from the past of a childhood when Ultraman was enjoyable, Transformers was cool and Godzilla was God. This movie brought those times to my time in 2007.
Even though the story is paper-thin, there are many moments that are refreshing compared to the many other movies out there at the moment. The power-swapping scene is honestly a clever gag, not the mention the full-on London effects scene which was a nice amazement. Their new vehicle has a cool twist to it as it can split into many parts (compared to other vehicles which simply jumps at anything and shoots at everything), and of course the Silver Surfer himself is simply, well, cool.
Well, in the end, was it worth my RM10 bucks? Yes, just enough. Did I like it? Well, just enough. Will I see it again? Probably not. Can't wait for Part 3? Definitely NO. But how about a whole movie just on the Silver Surfer? I'll be waiting in-line at the cinema…
Saturday was a nice surprise with the movie. On this Sunday however, it was not so fantastic. On my way to KL for a karaoke session with some friends at Neway, Times Square, I had a car accident. Yup, lucky me. Although it was not serious, this was supposed to be a fun day with friends screaming my lungs out at the karaoke machine. But it was not to be. The worst part is, the accident happened right outside my house. Yup. You see, while I was getting out of my car to close the house gate, out of nowhere this Indian guy on a motorbike slammed right at my car door. It wasn't a side collision but the bike hit the edge of the door while being open, which luckily means not so much damage, but it caused my door to be out of alignment. Because of that, my door cannot close properly, which in turn, caused my car lock to not secure properly. But the damage still needed me to send it to the mechanic for knocking, which means I'm poorer by roughly a hundred bucks. Thank you Mr. Indian Guy.
All that caused a lot of anger inside of me. Why is that Indian motorbike guy suddenly there? I checked my side mirror before I opened by door, no guy there, but why is he THERE??? And worse of all, I got scolded by him and he ran off without paying anything or apologizing. SHIT ON YOU, BIATCH!!!! Why it has to happen to me? Why? And why is it always motorbikes? My last car accident was also a motorbike which slammed at my side and caused my windscreen to break (don't ask me how). And a long time ago, another speeding motorbike cut my right side mirror away, just like that. Why? Is my car so valuable to motorbikes until you have cut a piece of my car away? Or you all just hate me? Is there a conspiracy of motorbikers out there that plans periodic & calculated attacks on my car to hurt me? Who are you people? What did I do to you all….? *SOB*, I'm innocent dammit!!! INNOCENT!!!
For the past few days I was suffering from 'motorbika scaredika' syndrome, a.k.a. scared of motorbikes. If I see a motorbike that is not behaving like a proper motorbike should be, I'll slow down and switch lanes. I'll let the bike have all the road glory to himself. And when I can't switch lane, I'll let rip my car horn like I'm announcing World War 3 is on the way. If I have the money, I'll install 2 big speakers on my car roof to amp the noise too. Or rocket-launchers, whichever is in the market. I heard napalm is coming cheap nowadays….If I have more money, I'll buy a big old 4x4 and squash all those tiny bikeys like disgusting insects, and install big bad punching fists at both sides of my car, and when a bad bikey comes nearby, I'll simply push a button on my steering wheel and BAM!!! They will float like butterflies and good God, it sure will sting like bees. BBwwahAhahAHhahaah!!!
Throughout the karaoke session I was feeling very sad and very bad. So I sang very sad songs like Elvis Presley's 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' (I will be when I got no more money to go out when I fixed the car). I also sang the Beatles' 'Yesterday' (because it was only yesterday that my car is ok, but now….*sigh*). Then there was Tori Amos' 'Silent All These Years'. See, this song is about someone being raped, and at the moment I feel raped by that Indian guy because I got banged, got scolded and he left me for dead. Chilling…Other songs I sang (or screamed) included Celine Dion's '(The Indian Guy Left Me) All By Myself', Michael Learns To Rock's '25 Minutes' (because if only I left my house 25 minutes earlier/later, none of this would have happened) and Crowded House's 'Don't Dream Its Over' (because, let's face it, there will be more accidents in the future as long as you drive a car. So sad!!!! Please God, only super small teeny weeny accidents only God!!! After I sand all the songs already, I went into the toilet and cried (*sob*sob*).
After crying, I thought my problems were over, but it wasn't. During singing, I dropped by handset on the floor and the casing split into two pieces. Sigh. And my new handset is dented a bit, which is so heartbreaking. SIGH….
Left the karaoke place feeling that my bad luck is over, we decided to have dinner in KL, but feeling lazy, went to 'Station Kopitiam' inside of Times Square for convenience sake. I ordered a dinner set, Thai sizzling chicken. Yummy!! But when the dish came, I saw a stinking rubber band in the middle of my rice. YUCKKK!!! My luck became from bad to worse. Luckily my friend saw it, otherwise I'll become Mr. Fantastic and start to wobble all over. The waiter agreed to change the rice, but I have my doubts whether it was really changed or they just took out the rubber band….SIGGHHHHHH…..
I quickly decided to go back home and sleep the bad day away. But before that, I bought a Banofee cake from Starbucks just for my dad, because it was Father's Day. You must be wondering why I'm not having dinner with him, that's because I already spent him dinner. Anyway, Happy Father's Day dad!!!!!


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I've never been so great at intro threads so it will be short and sweet.
I come from a long line of "sensitves" or whatever you want to call us. Its mostly the women of my family and a lot of my generation and younger don't seem to care for it or admit it and try to pretend it doesn't happen. However my Mom and my Aunts and my Grandmother when she was still with us would talk about it.
My Mom and I are close and we sometimes get a kick out being able to see and sense spirits around us. My Mom jokes about the friendly old man who lives in her house who will let you know if he doesn't approve of any changes that are done to the house. The short of the long is this old man built a cute little home for his wife when they retired, he passed away at home from cancer and his wife had to move out as she needs special care. So Mom and her boyfriend bought this cute little home and embrace the old man who still lives there.
Anyway I have never really done any research or reading on it. I don't know much about it other then what I have been able to experience. Which is part of why I am here. I have become very facinated by it lately and scared as I seem to have a very angry man hanging around my house. So I am here to educate myself more on my special "gift" and learn how others embrace theirs and anything else I can learn about it. My favorite thing to do lately is read up on local legends and ghost stories of my province as I live in a very historic part of Canada
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 08:36 PM
Cool, Good Luck With The Investigation
Posted 04 August 2012 - 08:41 PM
Thanks! It has been rather unsettling lol. But at same time its kind of interesting. My fiance keeps asking me if I am going to call the ghost busters <insert eyeroll here> I told him that joke stopped being funny in the early 90's.
Posted 05 August 2012 - 06:26 AM
I love reading about local legends too ^__^
I love reading about local legends too ^__^
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MONTREAL — If you like your maple syrup hot, there's tons of it out there.
The purloined product even traversed a provincial border after sticky-fingered thieves made off with the amber gold over the summer months.
Contents of 16,000 45-gallon barrels, siphoned off and reported stolen from a central distribution centre in August, have been found.
The Sûreté du Québec and the RCMP obtained search warrants last week and raided a facility in New Brunswick.
While Sergeant Daniel Thibodeau of the SQ could do no more than confirm that a search warrant "had been executed," sources told The Gazette that an "important" amount of product was found in a maple syrup processing and exporting facility in Kedgwick, NB.
The barrels in the storage facility in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, which is located 160 kilometres northeast of Montreal, near Victoriaville, were not taken outright but rather drained of their contents. The theft was discovered Aug. 24.
Presumably the contents were then whisked away in some sort of tanker truck.
This theft of sweet sirop is no small deal: the value of the stolen breakfast staple was estimated at more than $20 million. It was insured.
Last week, S.K. Export in Kedgwick was searched and a large quantity of syrup was shipped back to a storage facility in Quebec.
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I READ ONCE THAT YOU NEED TWO THINGS TO BE HAPPY: ANY TWO OF health, money, and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two. I drew comfort from this idea while I was fully bodied, employed, and unloved. It made me feel I wasn't missing much. But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all. I had a girl in a hospital bed who liked me and I didn't know where that might go but I could tell it was more important than low blood pressure. It mattered more than a new car. With Lola in the same building, I walked with a spring in my step. That was true literally. But I mean I was happy, happy on an axis I had previously known about only in theory. I was glad to be alive.
WHEN I REACHED THE GLASS ROOM I NOTICED A LOT OF Z- SPEC WEARING LAB ASSISTANTS. THEY WERE grinning. At first I thought they were pleased to see me but by the time I reached my desk I suspected they were playing some kind of joke. "Hello," I said to one, and she said hello and her lips stretched wider. I settled the Contours and poked on my computer. They hovered, eight or ten of them. When I couldn't stand it, I said, "What?"
"Notice anything different?" I realized this was Jason. I hadn't recognized him at first because the Z- specs occupied half his face. I wasn't used to identifying people by their lips. I looked from one set to another.
"Nothing at all?"
"Would you like us to take off our glasses?"
"Not really."
Someone stifled a giggle. "All right," I said. "Take them off."
They pulled off the specs. Underneath, they had no pupils. That's how it looked. "We can't," said Jason. There was laughter. "We're still wearing them."
I rose in the Contours. Closer up, I could see flat silver circles swimming in his pupils. Tiny silver floating suns.
"We miniaturized. Now they're lenses."
" Z- lenses," corrected a girl.
"Silicon and gel on flexible polycarbonate wafers," said Jason. "You don't use your eyebrows to control the zoom. You blink." His eyelids fluttered. His silver pupils swirled like mist.
"I see," I said.
"No, you don't." More laughs. "Not without Z- lenses. Not really."
I looked at their proud, smiling, pupilless faces. I was being less enthusiastic than they wanted. But it was weird.
"Okay," I said. "Good work."
I WORKED ON PARTS DURING THE DAY AND VISITED LOLA EVERY EVENING. SOMETIMES SHE SLEPT. MORE and more she was awake. She lay with hair exploding across her pillow and put her hand on my arm as we talked. She could laugh and tell stories but she tired quickly and it was always over too soon.
"I've never liked my ears," she said. "Look. They're way too high."
"Too high for what?"
"For . . ." She smiled, let go of her hair, and slapped my arm. In the setting sun, she looked very warm. "For looks."
"They look great." I touched her ear. I couldn't quite believe I was allowed to do this, but I was. I was. "Your helixes follow the golden ratio."
"That's good?"
"I can prove it mathematically."
"I wish you'd gone to my high school."
"Your ears are excellent," I said. "For biology."
"Ah." She nestled a little lower in the pillow, which meant it was almost time to go. "I suppose you could do better."
"Well . . ."
"Tell me."
"I don't know. No. I couldn't."
"You could, though."
"I like your biology," I said. "You have great biology."
"But . . ."
"Well, functionally . . ."
"There are areas for improvement."
"Tell me some."
"Well . . ." I glanced at the mirror. It was hard to know how private we were.
"If you had to change something."
I hesitated. I touched her shoulder. "The clavicle. I guess that's obvious. It's not very strong. That goes for bones in general, relative to modern metals. We know how to do lightweight and strong a lot better than bones."
"I don't want to break." She probed her clavicle around my fingers. In the sunlight, her hand glowed red.
"I like that you see past bodies," Lola said dreamily. "To . . . something else." She closed her eyes. I stayed awhile, her hand on mine, watching her breathe.
I MADE LAB 3 MY OWN SPACE, FORBIDDEN TO LAB ASSISTANTS. I COULDN'T CONCENTRATE WITH THEM around. They had always been loud and energetic, laughing at nothing, exclaiming over trivia like they were the first people in the world to synthesize a mated compound, but I had found this more tolerable before they had silver eyes. I began to dread walking into rooms, because of how they would look at me.
They offered to make me a pair of Z- lenses. I said I was busy. The truth was I didn't like Z- lenses. I should have. They were marvels. I might have built these. But I hadn't and that bothered me. I guess that sounds selfish. But I did not like technology I couldn't modify. I was not a user.
In Lab 3 I tinkered with the Contours, sifting through software, tightening code. For fun I drafted some arms. I was just playing around. I didn't plan on replacing my biological arms. Not right away. But the fact was I had artificial fingers and there was a limit to what you could do with those while they were attached to a biological arm. It was
the bottleneck problem again. So I dabbled. It was the best way to work: with no articular goal in mind. It allowed me to explore the most intriguing ideas, not the ones most likely to meet spec.
One of those kinds of ideas came to me in the elevator after leaving Lola. I rode down to Lab 3 and locked myself inside. I took out my ideas notepad and began to doodle. It was just a thought. I didn't know much about this area. I didn't know what was possible. But still, I liked it. The idea was to make Lola a heart.
LOLA MOVED TO A LIVE- IN SUITE IN THE UPPER SECTION OF BUILDING C. IT MEANT THAT TO REACH HER I had to leave one elevator and circumnavigate the atrium, passing by the lobby. As I clomped along, Contours pistoning, hooves clump- clumping on the carpet, heads turned. Mouths dropped. People in suits backed out of my way and people in white coats edged closer. They wanted to ask questions and tell me about related projects and ask if I would pose with them for photos. I didn't mind the attention but I was eager to see Lola and it slowed me down. So I found a back way, avoiding the high-traffic areas. Some of it was tiled and on my first step it splintered into a web of cracks. I hesitated. Then I continued.
"You should do a presentation," said Cassandra Cautery, leaning against the wall outside Lola's suite. She had been waiting for me. "Everyone's asking about you."
"I'll hold you to that." She laughed a little. I felt annoyed, because I didn't want to do a presentation. "How is everything? Are you happy?"
"I've seen a report on these, ah, these glasses."
" Z- lenses."
"They sound wonderful." She smiled. "I've never needed glasses myself. I've always had twenty/twenty vision. Just lucky."
" Z- lenses are better than twenty/twenty. They're about twenty/two." Cassandra Cautery looked confused. "Twenty/ twenty vision doesn't mean you have perfect eyesight. It's not twenty out of twenty. That's a misconception. It means you can see as well over twenty feet as an average human."
"I did not know that."
"If you have good eyesight, you might be twenty/eighteen. That is, you can see from twenty feet away what the average human can see from eighteen. Very good eyesight for a human is twenty/fifteen. Maybe twenty/twelve. But you'd need to be descended from a nomadic tribe." I eyed her blond hair. "I don't think you'd be twenty/twelve."
"Twenty/two is about the same as a hawk."
"Oh," she said. "Well."
"I'd like to see Lola," I said. "If that's okay."
Cassandra Cautery nodded. She seemed preoccupied. I left her in the corridor and went inside.
LOLA'S SUITE HAD A LITTLE TABLE. AT NIGHTS A NURSE WHEELED IN A TROLLEY AND UNCOVERED PASTA or slices of unidentifiable meat. It was not particularly good food but it was the best part of my day. I cut things with a blade installed in my machine fingers and Lola watched me do it. One night I reached for the salt but Lola had already moved it to her side of the table. I looked at her. She was drinking from her glass of water. "Salt," I said, but she just nodded and kept drinking. She drained half the glass. When she set it down, she picked up a napkin and dabbed her lips. She tapped salt into her soup and handed it to me. I stared. "What?" she said.
"Nothing. It's just . . . nothing."
I put down the salt. "You locked the salt while performing an unrelated task."
She blinked. "You mean drinking?"
"You can't wait five seconds for salt?"
"I can. But salt is a shared resource. If you're going to lock it, you should use it as quickly as possible, then release it. You can't leave it locked while accepting an interrupt."
"I got thirsty."
"Then first return the salt to general availability."
"Just in case you happen to want salt in that five seconds?"
She stared at me. "Really?"
"Otherwise you compromise the system."
"What system?"
"The . . ." I waved my hands. "The system."
"There isn't any system."
"Everything is a system. Look." I leaned forward. "What if I had your water and I suddenly decided I wanted the salt? And instead of giving you back the water I just sat here waiting for you to release the salt, which you didn't because you were waiting for the water? It's a deadlock, that's what. It's catastrophic system failure. And you're probably thinking, 'Well, I could just ask Charlie to give me the water in exchange for the salt.' But that requires you to understand my resource needs, and violate process encapsulation. It's a swamp. I'm not saying it's a big deal. I'm just pointing out that locking the salt like that is incredibly inefficient and systemically dangerous."
Lola snickered. "You're insane."
"I'm not insane. It's a fundamental principle. You're insane."
"Regular people don't bring fundamental principles to the dinner table."
"Well," I said.
We ate. "Explain that again," said Lola. "That stuff about locks."
LOLA BECAME WELL ENOUGH TO WALK AROUND. SHE HELD MY ARM AND SHUFFLED ALONG CORRIDORS IN her little cotton gown. We graduated from short strolls to circuits. The floor was almost empty but for plants in large gray pots. There was an area near the elevators where one wall was all glass and we gazed out across the Better Future lawn and watched the sun set. It occurred to me that I had never seen anyone visit. I asked if there was someone I should call. She rested her head against the side of my arm and said nothing for a while and then, "No."
THE NIGHT PAINS WORSENED. I COULDN'T SHAKE THEM. I WOKE TO BLINDING CRAMPS IN NONEXISTENT feet, the sensation of my legs curling back on themselves. I was still treating it by strapping on my old- model legs but it was no longer enough. I began to attach them before going to sleep. It was awkward and uncomfortable but better than fumbling with
straps in the dark while my amputated muscles screamed.
I decided to leave the Contours on for a night and see what happened. It was a good idea because I didn't like taking them off anyway. It was like becoming a cripple again, every night. I wasn't sure how I could lie down but I was forgetting that compared with them, my weight was practically zero. All I needed to do was hold on while they bent in two places and rotated the bucket seat. I couldn't roll over. That was awkward. But discomfort was not pain so it was a big improvement. Pretty soon I couldn't imagine ever taking off my legs again.
I ARRIVED IN THE LABS ONE MORNING AND THERE WAS A GIRL IN A WHITE COAT WITH EYES AS BLUE AS A Bunsen burner flame. I didn't put it together until I passed another girl with violet eyes and then a guy with emeralds. By the time I reached the Glass Room I was prepared. Sure enough, Jason's eyes glowed mahogany. "You colored the Z- lenses."
"It's only cosmetic." Jason wheeled his office chair closer. "But people like it. What do you think?"
"Does it interfere with function?"
He shook his head. "You just set the chip to filter a particular frequency."
"That sounds like extra complexity. Another potential point of failure."
"It's working pretty well."
"Never sacrifice function for appearance," I said. "It's poor engineering." But they did look nice.
I SET ALPHA TO WORK ON HORMONE REGULATION. BETA ON SENSORY ENHANCEMENT. GAMMA ON A bunch of things around arms. My ulterior motive was to deprive them of free time, to slow the progress of Z- lenses. It seemed to work. Then I got interested in them myself and realized I could make them shift into the nonvisible spectrum, so I could see infrared or ultraviolet. I didn't know how exactly this would be useful but I could see it could be done. I spent a few days hacking out a prototype, in glasses rather than lenses because the technology was the same but without the delays of miniaturization, and put them on. In infrared, the world flared red and purple and people looked like glowing brains and hearts. My Contours had three hot spots around the battery and hooves, but were otherwise frozen black. In ultraviolet not much was different except lab coats and some lights and surfaces, which shone. That was a little disappointing. But I felt better about Z- lenses, and stopped trying to delay them.
I CAME OUT OF LAB 3 AND THEY WERE WAITING FOR ME. MIRKA, WHO USED TO INFILTRATE ME WITH needles, stood awkwardly at the front. She looked different. I mean, besides the fluorescent green eyes. Jason nudged her, but she didn't speak. "We did it," he said.
"Did what?"
"Found a way to regulate the spleen." He reached for Mirka, then hesitated. "Show him."
Mirka lifted her shirt. She had a very toned stomach. I noticed this first. Then the metal patch.
"Basic electrical stimulation," said Jason. "The tricky part is hitting the right nerves. But of course we could leverage a lot of our earlier leg work."
"Leg work," sniggered somebody.
"Notice Mirka's skin. We're flooding her with estrogen and thylacine. Can you see the difference?"
I looked her over. She didn't smile. But she looked good. The difference I had noticed was health. She was a more attractive version of herself.
"Her hair is thickening, too."
"You went to human testing without asking me?"
"Um," said Jason. "Yes. Sorry. We were going to ask. But you said not to disturb you."
"You could have waited."
"We could have. Yeah. Sorry."
I stared at Mirka.
"Did we do wrong? Because we just wanted to be like you. Be our own guinea pigs."
Mirka said, "I am happy to do it." Against her flawless skin, her eyes shone like a cat's.
"It's just a harmless way to test our organ- management techs," said Jason. "Just proof of concept. That's okay, isn't it?"
I couldn't think of a way to say no. "Yes."
Jason looked relieved. There was some laughter. "I thought it would be." Somebody elbowed him. "We're so excited about where this is going." I nodded, still distracted by Mirka. "It's all happening," said Jason.
SO OF COURSE BY THE END OF THE WEEK HALF MY LAB ASSISTANTS HAD BEAUTIFUL SKIN AND GLOWING hair. I kind of saw this coming but still it was a surprise. In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup suggested misguided priorities. Like you thought how things looked mattered, instead of how they worked. We liked to look at attractive people. We expected it of our movie stars and TV characters. But we did not respect it. We knew physical attractiveness was inversely correlated with intelligence, because look at us.
I was used to gazing around a lab and seeing acne and dark- ringed eyes and skin the color of a corpse dragged from a lake. Hair all over the place, or strangled in ponytails. These were signs of a good lab. Now it was like a laboratory in a TV commercial for skin- care products. Not quite. They were still awkward and poorly dressed and overweight or deathly thin. But still. It didn't look right.
CASSANDRA CAUTERY LEFT A MESSAGE. WHEN I DIDN'T RESPOND SHE LEFT THREE MORE AND EVENTUALLY A young guy in a neat suit with thin glasses came into the Glass Room and knocked. Everyone looked at him because nobody knocked in the Glass Room. You came in, did what you had to, and left. He looked from one assistant to the next and finally his eyes landed on me. "Dr. Neumann?" I stared at him, because come on, I had titanium legs. The suits were like that, at pains to not notice me below the waist. It made me yearn for engineers, who stared and pointed and stopped me for questions. Although then that made me miss the suits. "Cassandra Cautery is wondering if you have a moment." I looked through the green glass at my assistants running through remote- control tests on a pair of robot arms. The second I left, they would start dueling with them, I knew. "If not, I'm happy to wait." He looked around for a chair.
When we reached Cassandra Cautery's office, he knocked, smiled once, and walked away. "Enter," said Cassandra Cautery. I opened the door and thunk- thunked inside. Her desk was piled high with sky- blue folders. "Charlie." She came around her desk and peered into my eyes. "Are you good?"
She closed the door. When I turned around, she was staring at my hooves. I had torn up some carpet.
"You're just walking around in those now?"
"We should discuss that. I'm not sure it's a good idea to take them outside the labs. From a product- testing point of view."
"I need to spend time in them to refine the nerve interface." This was kind of true.
She waved this away. "That's not why I brought you here." I waited for her to say why she had brought me here. She walked to her desk, shuffled some papers, turned back,
rested her butt against the desk, and folded her arms. It was a very comfortable pose. Like from a catalog. "There's a lot of excitement about the products coming out of your
"In particular, the Better Eyes and Better Skin."
"You mean the, uh, Z- lenses and the hormoneregulating-"
"I'm using their marketing names. It's what . . ." She fluttered her hands. "This is all coming down from on high."
" Okay."
"I didn't actually expect you to go cosmetic, Charlie. I thought this was going to be more, you know, hard- core medical." The skin between her eyes sharpened. "Are you
wearing Better Eyes?"
"I haven't tried them." She shrugged lightly. Her eyes were a light blue. Attractive. But not neon. "A few of the senior managers have. They were a big hit. These are the colored ones I'm talking about. No one was really in love with them before that. We thought they were a strictly scientific product. Because, obviously, you wouldn't want to walk around with white eyes. Now they're functional and cosmetic. It's . . . well, it's a dream." Silence. "I went down to your lab yesterday. You were locked away. But I saw your assistants. Using the, uh, the Eyes and the Skin. It's . . . well, it's amazing. They look great. I couldn't believe it. I literally could not believe they were the same people. Because I've been down many times, Charlie, and it used to be, no offense, but they were not an attractive bunch. Which is fine. That's how we expect our scientific people to be. I
don't mean expect. I mean that's how it usually is. The people with technical smarts go into the labs and those of us with, you know, social skills, if you like, we go into management. I'm not saying we're better looking. I'm just saying, there's usually that division. If all of a sudden someone like me suddenly, I don't know, put a metal patch on my head that made me supergood with computers, you lab people would freak right out. Wouldn't you? You'd think, 'Wait, who's this chick with the cheekbones taking over?'
You'd think, 'Hold on, I spent my whole life figuring out how to be good with computers. I work out every day on computers. Now somebody can have that from a patch? That's not fair.' " She nodded. "It's like worlds colliding. It's a little like that. And I'm not saying stop. Absolutely not. This is what they hoped you'd do, times a thousand. It's a success, but so much of a success it almost becomes something else entirely. Do you see what I mean?" She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. As her hand came down, it stroked her jawline. "Do you know how often I go to the gym, Charlie? Every single day." She laughed. "I don't know why I told you that. That has nothing to do with anything. So where do you think you'll go next?" She placed her palms on the edge of the desk. "Tell me."
"Um . . . well . . . arms."
Her eyes flicked to my metal fingers. "I'm up to speed on the arms. They like where you're going there. How about teeth?"
"I'm just throwing ideas out there. Spitballing. Are you thinking of doing anything with teeth?"
She stared at me.
"If you're talking about . . . some kind of solution to your . . ." I gestured toward my jaw.
"No. Of course not."
"Because if a dentist said your teeth were too close to nerves to move, that's probably right."
"I don't care about the diastema, Charlie. Okay? Let's be clear. This is not about me. This is about you wanting to chop off your goddamn arms." I blinked. "And let me tell you right now we are going to have a serious conversation about that, because I'm still pissed about the fingers. You didn't go through proper channels. You took it upon yourself to crush your hand and I didn't know until afterward. I took care of it. I did what had to be done. But I did not appreciate being cut out of the loop. You want to do destructive testing, you come to me first. Is that clear? I can be reasonable." She spread her arms. "I'm here to help. But keep me in the loop, Charlie. Keep me in the loop."
I coughed. "Okay."
"Here's the thing. Imagine we're building a body." I opened my mouth to say I was building a body, but she held up a finger. "And it's a wonderful body, one everyone is very interested in getting right. The ideas for how to build this body, they mostly come from one particular brain. That brain is important, wouldn't you say? Crucial. While we're building this body, the one thing we must do, the absolute top priority, is to keep the brain safe. Well, to me, Charlie, the body isn't those Better Legs you're wearing. It's not the parts. The prostheses. It's the capacity to produce them. The body I'm supposed to be building, Charlie, is a department with the ability to create bio- enhancement products. Do you see?" She nodded. "I think you do. And you're the brain. You're the one part I must keep safe." Her brow furrowed. "What are you doing?"
I looked down. I was rubbing the heel of one hand against my titanium thigh. I guess I had been trying to knead it, to restore blood flow to a part that ached.
"Don't say 'nothing.' "
"It's phantom pain. Nothing serious."
"Phantom . . . ?"
"It's common. It's nothing. A glitch. A technical hiccup." Her jaw set. "This is precisely what I'm talking about. When I hear things like this, do you know how I feel? These . . ." She gestured at my legs. "These technical phantoms? They make me feel like plucking the brain right out of the body and putting it in a jar. That's what I want to do. Put the brain somewhere safe, so no matter what happens to the body, what mistakes may be made, it will be okay. Do you understand? The need to separate the brain from
the body?" "But I'm the body. I'm the brain and the body. They can't be separated."
"Imagine they could," she said. Silence. "I'm interested in making parts for me," I said.
"Not just other people." She stared. Then she smiled. "Well, I think we understand each other. Tell you what. You keep doing what you're doing, I'll see what I can do from this end. To mesh your reality with that of the company's."
"What about a tooth with a phone in it?" she said. "I think I saw that on TV one time."
"That would be functional. That would be very functional. Not that you should cancel the cosmetic stuff. Everyone loves the cosmetics. But if you felt the urge to, I don't know, put phones in teeth, I think that would be your call. Because you're the scientist. You're the ideas man. You know?" She laughed.
"Yes," I said, although I didn't think I did.
"I'm glad we had this chat. I really am. Thanks for making time, Charlie."
"Okay," I said.
"And keep me in the loop."
"Okay." When I reached the door, I looked back. Her cheek was bulging, her tongue in there, exploring.
LOLA'S SUITE HAD A BALCONY. THE SEASON WAS TURNING BUT IF SHE WRAPPED UP IN A BLANKET WE could still sit and watch the flitting of car headlights and streetlamps. She leaned over the railing and shivered. "If you close one eye, the cars look like toys," she said. "Like you could flick them with your finger."
I put my arm around her waist. Or where her waist must be. It was a thick blanket. She looked up. Her lips parted. Then we both turned to look inside, at the nurse moving
around Lola's bed, collecting crumpled tissues from Lola's bedside table and dropping them into the trash. "She always turns up right before you," said Lola.
"When you're not here, I hardly ever see her."
The nurse caught my eye and smiled through the glass.
"I would like to leave." Lola put her arms around me and squeezed. "I would like to go somewhere nobody is watching."
It was a good idea. I hesitated.
"When you've finished your work, I mean."
"I don't mean you should stop your work."
"There could be a recuperative stage coming," I said. "To do with the arms."
"Really," Lola said. She touched my sleeve. Every one of my hairs stood up. There was nothing like biology for sensory feedback. I hadn't been able to get close to it. "I like your arms." Her hand kept moving. It reached my metal fingers. "But I like these, too." She rested her head against me. "The ones you made yourself."
HEADING BACK TO MY BUNK, I DECIDED TO SWIPE A POTTED PLANT. LOLA'S FLOOR HAD DOZENS, AND those cheerful splashes of green really made a difference. I wished I could put some in the labs, but couldn't, because of contamination. I could brighten up my room, though. I carried the plant and set it in the corner.
The next day I got serious about feedback. The surprising thing was how little research there was. Papers were speculative, describing experiments that might be useful if other people filled in other great gaping voids. They opened with statements like: To date there has been little interest in the problem of replacing sensory function lost in amputation.
It irritated me. You could walk into an electronics store and for three hundred dollars take home a game console with a gyroscope- equipped dual- feedback resistance controller that shook and pushed to emulate in eighteen different ways the sensation of driving a tank across a battlefield. But restoring touch to someone who'd lost an arm, that wasn't of interest. Those people got a claw from the 1970s. That was problem solved. We had the technology but in the wrong places. It wasn't the morality that bothered me so much as the inefficiency. It was a misallocation of resources. And I knew that logically companies should spend a hundred million dollars on a game controller rather than a prosthesis that let a man feel again. But every time I read that, lack of interest, I wanted to kick someone.
I pulled the entire team onto it. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Omega: about a hundred people. By the end of the day they had self- organized into hierarchical structures for task delegation and reporting. I didn't care about this. I just told them what I wanted done and let them figure it out. In this sense they were like a subroutine. Like the path- finding tech in my legs. I could see the sense of Cassandra Cautery's body analogy. On the third day, Omega hooked a girl into a nerve grid and made her taste colors. Alpha built a skinlike alloy that seemed promising until it put three thousand volts through one of them and they had to deal with Human Resources. But despite setbacks, we made progress. By the end of the week the nerve interface was two- way, capable of transmitting gross sensation. It was indistinct, every touch wrapped in cotton wool, but I could close my eyes and know when an assistant poked a mesh array. Everyone was very proud. But this wasn't because of our brilliance. It was because nobody else had tried.
I went back to the arms. They were titanium and servomagnetic and could rotate 360 degrees on three independent axes. One night I sat there staring at them and realized there was nothing else to do. They were the smartest things I had ever built. And, not wanting to boast, I had built some smart things. Once I created a microbe that ate garbage. You could open your trash can, throw in your scraps, and an hour later they would be gone. The microbe ate them. It didn't get through QA because if the microbe got out, it would eat everything. There were concerns about a trashcan- eats- man scenario. Which was not the fault of the microbe, in my opinion. My feeling was that someone should come up with a safe receptacle. But anyway. There were no such problems with the arms, because the only person whose opinion mattered was me.
I retired to my bunk and retracted the Contours. The plant I'd stolen the week before was slumped over, brown and shriveled. I hadn't watered it. The lack of natural light may have been a problem, too. I felt annoyed. There was something pathetic about an organism that couldn't even live if you left it alone. This was maybe a little hard on the plant, which had been removed to a hostile environment, but still, it reminded me why I was doing this.


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WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 17, 2014 -- Plop living, swimming bacteria into a novel water-based, nontoxic liquid crystal and a new physics takes over. The dynamic interaction of the bacteria with the liquid crystal creates a novel form of soft matter: living liquid crystal.
The new type of active material, which holds promise for improving the early detection of diseases, was developed by a research collaboration based at Ohio's Kent State University and Illinois' Argonne National Laboratory. The team will present their work at the 58th annual Biophysical Society Meeting, held in San Francisco, Feb.15-19.
As a biomechanical hybrid, living liquid crystal moves and reshapes itself in response to external stimuli. It also stores energy just as living organisms do to drive its internal motion. And it possesses highly desirable optical properties. In a living liquid crystal system, with the aid of a simple polarizing microscope, you can see with unusual clarity the wake-like trail stimulated by the rotation of bacterial flagella just 24-nanometers thick, about 1/4000th the thickness of an average human hair.
You can also control and guide active movements of the bacteria by manipulating variables such as oxygen availability, temperature or surface alignment, thus introducing a new design concept for creating microfluidic biological sensors. Living liquid crystal provides a medium to amplify tiny reactions that occur at the micro- and nano-scales - where molecules and viruses interact - and to also easily optically detect and analyze these reactions. That suits living liquid crystal to making sensing devices that monitor biological processes such as cancer growth, or infection. Such microfluidic technology is of increasing importance to biomedical sensing as a means of detecting disease in its earliest stages when it is most treatable, and most cost-effectively managed.
"As far as we know, these things have never been done systematically as we did before in experimental physics," explained Shuang Zhou, a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio's Kent State University. He collaborated on the project with Oleg Lavrentovich of Kent State, Andrey Sokolov of Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, and Igor Aranson of Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.
"There are many potential applications for this kind of new material, but some of the more immediate are new approaches to biomedical sensing design," Zhou said. He likens the current investigation to the "first handful of gold scooped out of a just-opened treasure chest. There are many more things to be done."
The presentation "Living Liquid Crystals" by Shuang Zhou, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D. Lavrentovich and Igor S. Aranson will be at 1:45 p.m. on Monday, February 17, 2014 in Hall D in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.
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Search on in Cleveland after three plastic-wrapped bodies found
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Police in East Cleveland, Ohio, were leading volunteers in a search on Sunday for more possible victims of a suspected killer who left three women's bodies, wrapped in plastic, around a run-down neighborhood.
East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said that Michael Madison, 35 has been arrested as a suspect after authorities in the past two days found the bodies near the apartment building where the suspect lived. Neighbors' complaints of a "pungent" smell triggered the search.
The bodies, two of which were found by trained cadaver-smelling dogs, were located in a garage, the basement of a building and in a weeded lot around the building where Madison lived.
Madison is a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to attempted rape in 2002 according to Cuyahoga County court records. He was arrested after a stand-off at his mother's home not far from the crime scene Saturday. He is now in an East Cleveland jail.
The bodies were "in states of advanced decomposition," the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement, adding, "Because of this, identification and final cause of death may take several days."
The discoveries were reminiscent of a 2009 incident, when 11 bodies were found around the home of Cleveland's Anthony Sowell, who was convicted of murder two years later.
Volunteers turned out the area on Sunday at police request to search empty lots and vacant buildings in the area.
Clifford Burns, a pastor from Anointed Gates Church in the east side of Cleveland, one of the organizers, said he expected hundreds of volunteers to help search the many deserted properties.
"It was a request by the mayor and the police last evening," Burns said. "They requested on a volunteer basis that people meet at noon and join in a search party. We have a lot of concerns in the neighborhood."
Velvet Farmer, 21, said she has a cousin who lives on the street and had spoken to Madison, who told her his name was "Ivan," a few times and he seemed normal.
She said she was shocked to learn he is a suspect adding, "I'm glad to be alive."
Burns said neighbors complained of the stench and eventually the fire department came to investigate. "The smell was pungent," Burns, a former member of the military who says he is familiar with the smell of decay, told Reuters.
"It was bad and he (Madison) didn't have a sausage shop to blame for it," Burns added, referring to the Ray's Sausage shop the business next door to Sowell's house that was often blamed for a foul odor in the area.


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Those elements means a greater risk of fires.
A high of 88 degrees is expected today, along with winds from 10 to 20 mph, with gusts up to 35 mph.
Winds will decrease as the day goes on, but the low humidity and high temperatures will continue.


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