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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11153 | Disclaimer: I don't own Leverage, and even if I did, THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!
A/N: I was listening to Nickelback, and got inspiration from "If Today Was Your Last Day" and "Never Gonna Be Alone" for this story. It wouldn't leave me alone, so I just decided to write it down. I know ya'll are gonna hate it, but, sorry, my muses are sadistic.
With the Dawning of the Sun…
Eliot was sitting in Nate's apartment, reading. His glasses sat perched on the bride of his nose as his eyes skimmed over the words of War and Peace when he felt a headache coming on. sighing, he rubbed his temples for a moment before discreetly pulling out a bottle of Tylenol, popping a couple in his mouth and washing them down with a swig of water. The headaches were greater in number and were getting more intense. There must not be much time left then…
"I'm very sorry Mr. Spencer, but there is nothing we can do."
"Do you have any idea how long?"
"There's no way to be sure. It could be days, it could be months. But…to be frank…I am afraid to say I don't think you will see the new year. I'm very sorry Mr. Spencer."
The hitter's eyes flew open and he saw Nate looking down at him. "Yeah?"
"Well, the job's done, how do you feel about going out tonight to celebrate? Sophie is already on her way over." The mastermind was regarding him carefully. He had never found the hitter asleep in his apartment before and it worried him.
"How about I make something for all of us? Then Hardison can go wild and crazy with the movies."
Nate nodded and hollered at Parker, who was at the moment hanging upside down over the railing on Nate's balcony, to call Hardison. As he walked out to make sure the thief didn't get herself killed, Eliot stood and walked over to the kitchen, pulling out some salmon fillets he had stored in the freezer for us such an occasion.
Hardison was there in a couple of minutes and Sophie wasn't that far behind him. After Eliot got the fillets on the grill, he set about making a spice mix for the fish and recruited Sophie and Parker to help him cut up some vegetables to grill. Nate and Hardison sat on the opposite side of the island, debating what movies to watch. They laughed and more than once Eliot saw Parker chuck a piece of carrot or zucchini across at the hacker, eliciting a knowing look between the two.
Many times over the past several months had found Eliot arguing with himself as to whether or not he should tell them he wouldn't be with them much longer. Every time the no side one. If you tell them Nate will take you off of every job. You won't be able to protect them and someone will get hurt, if not worse. Don't tell them.
And he hadn't, but he had made sure to take certain steps so that when he was gone they would understand. There had been close calls, and looking back Eliot knew that if he had told them Parker would be dead, Sophie would be half way around the world thanks to a human trafficking ring and Hardison would have been beaten to a bloody pulp at least six times. They needed Eliot to protect them; that was his job.
Once dinner had been cleaned up they all gathered around the view screen as Hardison put in The Thomas Crowne Affair. Nate was seated in his normal chair while Sophie sat on the edge of the couch closest to him. Parker was in the middle of the couch while Hardison sat on her other side and Eliot occupied the other chair.
Not long in everyone was commenting on how they would pull off the job, except for Hardison who actually tried to pay attention to the movie. After that, it was Night at the Museum, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (who Parker INSISTED was real, she had seen her), and The Relic.
It was well after midnight when the last credits rolled. Nate turned off the TV and then looked around fondly at his team. Sophie's head was resting on her folded arms, smiling softly in her sleep. Parker had curled herself up against Hardison and the hacker's arms were snaked around the thief, holding her tight. And Eliot was looking up at Nate through half lidded eyes. "Are you staying?" the mastermind asked.
"Yeah, might as well," he said, letting his head fall back as he got more comfortable.
Nate walked over to the closet he had downstairs and pulled out two blankets, draping one over his thief and hacker and carefully arranging the other over his half-awake hitter. Returning to Sophie, he gently scooped her up so as not to wake her. The grifter snuggled closer to him, her arms coming up to wrap around his neck as he carried her to the stairs. "Nate?"
The man turned to look at the hitter. "Yeah Eliot?"
"Thanks man."
"For what?"
"For everything."
Nate paused, those two words hitting him oddly, but he nodded. "No problem Eliot. I'll see you in the morning, sleep well."
"You too," Eliot replied, watching as Nate carried Sophie up the stairs and he heard the soft rustle of blankets above as he tucked the woman into bed and got in next to her.
Carefully, Eliot pulled the envelope out of his pocket and held it in his hand. If he woke up in the morning, it would be before the others and he would put it away and make breakfast. If not…
Eliot Spencer was tired, in the physical and mental connotations of the word. He didn't want to leave them behind, but he knew the time was coming. He just didn't know when. That wouldn't matter anyway; he had done what he wanted to do with his last days. He had spent them with his family and used his time to keep them safe. That would be his legacy.
* * * * *
Nate was lying on his side, awake, watching Sophie sleeping next to him, grinning. The small smile from the night before was still pasted on her lips. He was getting ready to go out and get donuts for the team when he heard a mad scrambling downstairs and then Hardison was shouting up the stairwell, "NATE!"
Sophie's eyes flew open and both of them were out of bed in an instant, running down the stairs to find Parker on the floor, her back against the door, knees hugged to her chest, eyes wide and body shaking, and Hardison leaning over Eliot. Sophie ran to Parker's side, pulling the younger woman into her arms while Nate joined Hardison.
Eliot was cold. So cold, and so pale. He looked like a ghost and for a moment, Nate wasn't in his loft, he was in the hospital room with his dead son in his arms again. "No, Eliot!" he whispered, voice choked as his hand flew up and checked for a pulse, but there was nothing. Staggering backwards, Hardison stopped only when the couch was behind him and he was falling into it. Nate turned and saw both Sophie and Parker were crying, but he didn't know what to do to help them.
He looked back down at the hitter and saw an envelope in Eliot's hand. He looked to the man's face, eyes closed forever, before he reached out and took the paper from his hand and opened it up, pulling out a single sheet of paper.
"Guys…guys, you need to listen," Nate rasped as he looked over the words. Licking his lips, Nate took a deep breath before starting.
Hey guys,
Listen, I know this is probably an awkward moment for ya'll, but I don't want it to be. I knew it was coming, and I wanted it to be this way. Goodbyes have never really been my thing, but I'll do this for you.
Nate, don't you dare blame yourself for this. There was a good reason that I didn't tell you I was sick, because I knew what you would have done. Just for your information, there was going to be no way that I was letting you take me off of a job when I was perfectly capable of going out and doing what you needed me to do. There was nothing you could've done, nothing anyone could've done, just leave it be.
Sophie, I know that I haven't exactly been your best mate since the Davids' job, but I'm not mad at you anymore. I haven't been mad in a long time. And I do trust you darlin', just wasn't always very good at showin' it. But I need you to keep an eye on them for me, make sure that Nate doesn't get everyone in too much trouble.
Parker, you are twenty pounds of crazy in a five pound bag, and there is most definitely something wrong with you, but I wouldn't have you any other way. You're like a little sister to me and don't you worry, I'll keep any eye on you from where I am. Just talk to me if you need to, I'll be listenin'.
Hardison, you are such a geek. I swear, Parker, you have permission to punch him if he goes into too many geek spirals on one job, alright? You keep an eye on them, you make sure all of your intell is right and why don't you try going to some conventions and speaking Klingon? Never know what could happen.
I know I'm leaving you guys short, so don't worry, I called Donny. He knows what's going on with me and he knows, that if you call, it's 'cause you need him there. Don't worry about me guys, don't worry that I didn't do what I wanted with my life, because I did exactly what I wanted. I spent the time I had left with ya'll and I wouldn't change it for the world.
I'll be keeping an eye on you guys, and I swear, if you one of you does ANYTHING stupid that would give me cause to roll over in my grave, I'm just going to climb out and beat you over the head with something! I'll see you around. Take care of each other.
Nate looked around at his team, every one of them, even him, in tears. Hardison had gone over to Parker and Nate grabbed the phone before joining Sophie and wrapping his arms around her as he dialed a number. A phone rang on the other end, and then there was an answer.
"Hello? Donny? It's Nate…yeah, he's gone…we need you…"
* * * * *
Eliot was watching them from above and he had to grin. He knew they would be okay, they always were. He made sure of it, that was his job.
A/N: I am expecting several "You die now!"'s in my reviews, so don't feel bad if those are your sentiments. But honestly, I would like to know how you feel, and yes, I did almost cry when I wrote the letter. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11154 | I don't think I have ever agonised over a piece of writing as much as I have this one. Dialogue is hard for me, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
The song is the title song from The Script's new album and everyone should buy a copy and have a listen :)
Set a couple of episodes into the season, with no spoilers.
Thanks so much to the lovely eitoph for sticking with me through half attached word documents and my own insecurities. Your help is valued beyond words :)
Disclaimer: Nowhere near mine, not even close. I just like to play with the characters :)
Science and Faith
You won't find faith or hope down a telescope,
You won't find heart or soul in the stars,
You can break everything down to chemicals,
But you can't explain a love like ours.
-The Script
He can tell as soon as he walks up to the room that she is annoyed. To the untrained eye she may have just been concentrating very hard on her new novel or completing a report for a recent case, but to Booth she is all shades of pissed. He ventures in with a knock, "Hey Bones, we have a case."
She looks up from her computer with a glare that honestly frightens him a little. He's been reading his partner like a book for years and he knows that if it isn't him that she is angry with then he would never have seen that glare. Deciding against saying anything else, he just lets her take her time in picking up her coat and bag and walking out of the office ahead of him.
By the time he reaches the parking lot, she is already belted up in the driver's seat of her car. He knows better than to think it's an invitation for him to take up the passenger's seat, instead he takes the hint and walked the extra 10 metres to his car and gets in. She clearly does not want any part of him today.
He drives, she follows and they both wonder how long this was going to go on for.
When she returns to the Jeffersonian later that afternoon, he continues on to the Hoover, intent on not being in her line of glare for the rest of the day. He and Hannah are supposed to be going out for dinner tonight and he has been looking forward to it all week; seeing her dressed up just for him, him being able to wine and dine with her and her allowing him to pay. Somehow, that image had been tainted by a pair of piercing blue eyes, and he thinks maybe the distance will get his anticipation back in working order.
She works calmly on the new set of remains, accepting help from her team and determining age, sex and cause of death within the hour. She is grateful for her lab, she is grateful for her friends and today she is more than grateful for Booth deciding upon going back to the Hoover building rather than hanging around for answers. She would just get Cam to fax the preliminary reports through to him later.
She works with diligence and patience while those around her wonder where her other half is.
It's dark outside and her stomach is growling at her, but she can't help but think she's over looking something important on these remains, so she stays hunched over with her eyes steadily on this young man's lumbar vertebrae.
"Bones, you got some reports for me or what?" He is running late, he is running so late.
She looks up with that glare in her gaze, but he notices how it softens in a sad way as she looks at him, taking in his dressy clothing. The flash of emotion is gone in an instant and she marches across the platform to thrust the reports at Booth, "Cam was supposed to fax them through."
Booth takes the papers carefully and nods, "She just called, said she had forgotten and asked me to swing by."
Brennan nods once and turns back to the remains lying on the slab, "Well, that was highly unprofessional of Dr Saroyan, but I feel as though she has been under a great deal of stress, so I will let it slide this time."
Booth automatically opens his mouth to correct her use of words, but finds that she has stated that particular phrase perfectly, "Wow Bones, learning your colloquialism's I see."
She barely turns her attention to just say, "Yes Booth," and he can't pinpoint why that annoys him so much.
He doesn't say goodbye as he leaves her for the night, and she can pinpoint exactly why that annoys her so much.
"When is this going to stop?" He walks towards her, pulling his tie off with a frustrated growl, feeling far too confined in his own skin, let alone clothing. He pulls out his pass card and swipes it to gain access to the platform where his partner has turned around with anger eyes.
"Booth, you shouldn't sneak up on people like that."
He matches her gaze, "I didn't sneak. But you haven't answered my question. When is this going to stop?"
"I don't know what you're talking about? It's past midnight and I have reason to believe my blood sugar levels are well below average, my brain, while still highly functioning may not be performing at its usual peak, could you elaborate?"
"You haven't eaten?" He deducts, pulling off his suit jacket and throwing it with his discarded tie, over a chair in the corner of the platform, rolling up his sleeves he continues, "You know what, it doesn't matter. This," he gestures between them, "This is what I'm talking about, this thing between us; this hostility. It needs to stop, how do we stop it?"
"I don't sense hostility."
He actually feels his nostrils flare a little, "Don't play the ignorance card with me, Bones. This has been going on since we came back here. We're barely civil anymore. What happened?"
She opens her mouth, but he cuts her off with one more warning, "Don't lie."
She closes her mouth and something settles within her, she won't play his game, "You know what? You have no right, no right Booth. I don't have to answer to you or anyone else."
She pulls the case file of the remains she was working on down from the slab and carries it past him in a huff, heading towards her office. He follows, jamming his arm in between the door and the frame when she tries to slam it in his face, "What do you want from me, Booth? It's not like you're here for much else than case work these days."
"Is that what this is about? The fact that I don't come here to feed you every night now? The fact that I have someone else to talk to now?"
"Don't be ridiculous," she doesn't look him in the eye, "I'm happy for you and Hannah."
"I'm not being ridiculous; we were fine until Hannah showed up." He feels the frustration in him rising, "I told you I was moving on, Bones. I can't wait for you forever, you have to deal with that."
She whips around to face him, fierce blue eyes staring him down and in that moment he remembers every reason for loving her. Her passion, her fury, her beauty, "I have dealt with that Booth, I have dealt with it every day. I know that I'm not enough for you, I know that I could never love you the way that she does, so I put my own selfish needs aside and let you move on to find that happiness you have always wanted." She takes a step forward, "But you do it so easily, Booth. You come back with her, you move in with her and suddenly we don't speak anymore unless its work related."
He matches her pace and steps towards her also, "So you're mad at me for moving on?"
She thinks hard, but then decides to say it anyway, her voice cuts through the tension with agonizing truth, "I'm mad at you for making me believe in love. You made me love you, Booth, and then you crushed my heart."
He thought the silence between them would cause the adrenalin pumping through his veins to dissipate, but it only served to spur him on, "I didn't do anything that I didn't warn you about! I said I was moving on, Bones."
"Have you?" Her voice was somehow quieter, but still so strong.
And finally, they reach the point they need to, "No. Hannah and I broke up tonight." He pauses and her eyes flick to him, he can see that she feels actual pain for him and that alone makes him love her even more, "She was perfect for me, but she would never be the standard."
The silence is heavier this time, neither knows what to say, and so they just breathe, letting their frustrations ebb away.
"I can break everything down to chemicals, but I can't explain this feeling."
He dips a finger under her chin, lifting her head to meet his gaze, "It's supposed to be unexplainable."
"I don't know if I can love you in thirty or forty or fifty years."
"Can you love me tonight?"
She nods.
"Then we'll take it each day as it comes."
Let me know how you went |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11155 | "Don't leave me!"
"That's kind of hard considering you're latched onto my arm like a leach."
"If I wasn't you would leave me!"
"I am not going to leave you, Soul! Especially when you're like this."
"Mmmm…Like what?"
"If this is your way of getting back at me last month, I've learned my lesson and I'm sorry!"
"Hold me."
"No, get off. It's warm in here."
"God, you're so mean, Maka-chan!"
"And you're intoxicated beyond belief."
"Hehe. You use big words that I can't understand."
"No. 'And.'"
"…..You're a big doofus, you know that?"
"I just wanna hug!"
"And I just want to go home. But you're the one who drove us here and I can't drive a motorcycle. Our house is way too far away to walk."
"Pfft. I can drive! S'long as you promise to hold on tight."
"You can't even understand a three-lettered word. I really doubt that you can operate heavy machinery."
"You just gotta believe!"
"I already called Kid, he's on his way to pick us up. Really, Soul. Can't you just be responsible for once?"
"Mmmmm. You're warm~"
"Actually, I'm sweltering. Get off."
"But then you'll leave me!"
"I already told you: I'm staying here with you. There's nothing to worry about."
"You can't leave me, Maka! If you do I'll have nowhere to go! I'll have to live on the streets."
"You act as if you let go of me I'm going to kick you out of the apartment. I just need some air to breathe! Is that too much to – oh no are you crying?"
"Y-you're kicking me out? What'd I do?"
"I never said that."
"Don't go! Don't leave! Stay with meeee~"
"Soul! Stop acting like my papa! You two are so alike when you're drunk!"
"Maka-chaaan~ You're really hot right now."
"That would be because your practically swallowing me with your body and we're in a room with no air conditioning."
"No, I mean you're smokin' hot."
"Just about."
"Fuckin' sexy, man."
"Soul, let's go out front. Maybe cool air will do you good."
"Don't walk away! No, don't leave! I'm sorry!"
"Just follow me you idiot!"
"Promise me that you'll…."
"….Yes, Soul?"
"Don't leave me."
"You're awfully clingy when you're drunk, too. I'm not leaving you, Soul."
"Good. If you did, I'd be on the streets."
"Well, I don't think that you'd necessarily – "
"And no one would hire me."
"Oh you know that's not true! You're very skilled and talented and I'm sure –"
"And I'd get stuck being a male stripper."
"….Where in the hell did you come up with that conclusion?"
"Do you want me to be a male stripper?"
"Well, I – "
"No, don't answer that. Just hold me."
"Soul, why are you always so difficult?"
"'M not difficult."
"If you say so. Just take a deep breath of cool air and relax until Kid gets here."
"Why? Is he your boyfriend?"
"What? You know that's not true!"
"I don't know if it's false either!"
"That's because you're incapable of proper thinking right now!"
"Stop using big words you freaking bookworm!"
"At least I'm a bookworm and not a drunkard!"
"Hehe. You were last month."
"You said you'd never bring that up again!"
"Did I now?"
"Quite frankly, I don't remember that."
"But you remember last month?"
"Crystal clear."
"Drunken minds work oddly."
"They also like company. C'mere."
"But it's not hot anymore. In fact, it's pretty cold."
"Yeah. And?"
"So come here. Lemme hold you."
"I'd rather you stay away from me."
"Bet you wouldn't say that to Kid."
"Why are we on that topic again?"
"Because you brought it up!"
"Actually, that was you."
"Just now."
"So you'll let me hold you?"
"How did you get to that conclusion from what we were talking about?"
"What were we talking about?"
"….I can't tell if you're playing dumb or if you really forgot."
"Mmmm. You're cold. I'll warm you up."
"Hey! Get off."
"Don't wanna. I'm sleepy."
"Then sleep on concrete!"
"You're much softer."
"I don't care and – wait a minute."
"Hmmm. Maka-chan what are you doing?"
"Your breath…."
"What about it?"
"It doesn't smell like alcohol."
"Soul Eater Evans…."
"Well looky there! It's my bike! Who would've guessed?"
"For someone who's a bookworm, you sure are slow."
Author's Comments:
Awfully short, I know. But I was re-reading the reviews and chapters of "Never Again" and I saw one that said they wanted to see Soul drunk. So I decided to do that, but instead came up with this. This is not intended to be that funny, not have any plot. I just did it out of pure boredom.
Also, I wrote this because of my lack of updating anything because I got stuck on "Grigori's Promise." I have the 6th chapter planned out, just not written, per se. The reason I don't want to continue writing it is because I have yet to plan out the 7th chapter. I know where I'm going, but I'm still figuring out how to get there.
Idk. I'll get there eventually. Next month for sure (even if the 7th chapter is not planned I will update the 6th). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11156 | Man is it nice to finally have something to upload! So this is just a little fluffy thing I wrote as a belated birthday present for my best friend. There will be two more parts to be added hopefully within a week or two.
Happy 16th, Jessie! Here is your h/c Weechester w/ tons of fluffy cuteness as promised!
Beta: no, all mistakes are my own
Barking At The Moon
Part I
Hate was not a strong enough word to describe my animosity towards witches. For starters they never played fair. A witch loved nothing more than to throw a curveball in the midst of a fight and a witch hunt rarely went off without a hitch, usually at the expense of a the hunter. Always be prepared for anything on a witch hunt, Dad had always said.
Having said that, at that moment I was starting to crave some action. Because it was pretty friggin hard to kill a witch if you couldn't find her. And just wandering around was getting real boring real quick.
There had been many strange deaths in the town of Roanoke, Virginia and one Mrs. Abigail Richards was conveniently benefiting from every murder. And sure enough, when Dad, Sam, and I broke in to her house through her back window, they found loads of witchcraft type things scattered around the house. The evidence was certainly there, but the witch herself wasn't.
We had searched the first floor before splitting up, Sam and I to the basement and Dad to the top floor. Although I loved any hunt and the adrenaline rush that came with it, I had to admit it was starting to get to the point where I just wanted to find the bitch and get the hell out of dodge. After all, the longer they were there the more likely something would go wrong. And according to Winchester Law, something had to go wrong.
"Come out, come out where ever you are," I called. Sam shot me a look. After all, giving away our position wouldn't help any. Though it was only a single room and it was small at that. There were boxes lined along the wall but hardly enough for a full grown adult to hide behind. Now that I thought about it, the basement was significantly smaller than the first floor.
Sam stood across the room by a bookshelf. His weapon was still half-heartedly raised but his attention was on the books. He dragged his finger across the dust on their spines, marveling at some of the titles.
"Later, geek-boy," I whispered, suddenly right behind him. Sam jumped and whipped around, gun raised, only to come face to face with his grinning brother.
Sam's bitchy retort was cut off when my phone suddenly vibrated and I pulled it from my pocket.
"Hello?" I said without lowering his weapon. Constant vigilance. Another John Winchester lesson drilled deep in my head.
"Any luck?" Dad's voice said from the other end.
"No, you?"
"Why would I ask if I'd found her?" Dad getting snappy was always a cue that the hunt was taking too long. He may not look it, but Dad possessed almost endless patience when it came to hunting. Patience that somehow always seemed to disappear when dealing with Sam.
"So what? Call it quits and come back tomorrow? Maybe she went out or something?" Dad sighed audibly.
"Just meet me in the living room and we'll figure out what to do."
"Yes, sir," I snapped the phone shut. "Alright, Sammy, Dad says…Sam?" The small room was completely devoid of one fifteen-year old brother. "Sam? Quit fooling, we need to get upstairs." A muffled thump came from the boxes next to the bookcase.
I darted over while shouting his brother's name. I tore the boxes aside to reveal…nothing. Just a wall with wood paneling. There was another thump, this time from the other side of the bookcase. Thinking I'd misplaced it the first time, I went around that side and moved those boxes. It was then, as I stared at the empty space behind the boxes that it occurred to me that the noise was not coming from by the wall, it was coming from behind the wall. There was a room or something back there. That explained the small size…And somehow Sam had gotten back there, but how?
I started furiously pounding along the paneling, trying to get through. Of course there was a secret room – classic witch house – why didn't I think of it before? And now Sammy was probably trapped back there with that monster…I could feel my heart beating faster and his breathing pick up.
Tiny drops of blood began to slide down my fingers as I tried to pull back the paneling, tiny splinters slicing through the skin. "Sammy!" I called, throwing my entire weight against the wood. "Leave him alone, you bitch!"
"Dean?" I froze for a second before realizing it was Dad and it was coming from behind me. "What on earth are you doing?"
"Sam!" As if that explained it. But apparently it did, because after a moment of confusion, Dad's eyes widened and he ran over to my side. "How did Sam get back there?" Dad asked quickly.
There was another thump – like a body being thrown around, I thought with sick apprehension – and an accompanying cry of pain. Blood pumping furiously now, I started banging on the wood with his bloody fists.
"Dean - Dean!" Dad shouted, grabbing hold of my wrists. "Dean, focus. What was Sam doing before?"
"I-I don't know…standing here…" I trailed off as I caught sight of the finger tracks through the dust. There was a red book, average size compared to the rest, on which the tracks stopped. In fact there was a little circle like pressure had been applied, maybe even accidentally.
It was so clichéd I wanted to laugh. Of course the way into the secret room was book on the bookshelf.
With the force of worried adrenaline, I ripped myself from my father's grasp and all but punched the red book through the wall.
A panel on the right slid open and I was through it almost before it was fully open. It was a significantly larger room. The walls had tables and bookshelves lining them and weird symbols were painted across the walls and floor. I recognized about half of them and it suddenly occurred to me just how much could be learned from a witch if they weren't all murdering bastards. But then again, maybe they weren't…after all, hunters only noticed supernatural things when there were enough deaths or disappearances to attract their attention.
Abigail stood in the center of the room, turning to face me when I entered, Dad at my heels. Her green eyes flashed dangerously and her hair started blowing with a mysterious wind. Sam was standing behind her leaning up against the wall he had most likely just crashed into.
She threw her hands out to each side like she was about to take a bow. An inhuman howl escaped from her lips and power seemed to crash off of her in a tidal wave. I was knocked up against the wall behind me and Dad fell half way through the door. Brown hair flew back from Sam's face as he went backwards, his gangly legs tangling up in themselves. The sound of splitting wood filled the room as Sam went through the table behind him. Wood collapsed down on him as well as several glass jars filled with strange colored liquid.
"Sam!" I called. With a simply wave, my feet slid out from under me and I landed painfully on my hip. "Alright you know what, bitch? I've had it up to here. Now you die." I took careful aim in less than a second and had the shot off in another. The consecrated iron ploughed into her heart and she jerked back. The long auburn strands fell limply to her shoulders as the mysterious wind ended and her body collapsed back in a beautiful arc. Her pale hand tumbled off to the side landing next to her and opening to reveal a six-pointed star tattooed on her palm.
"Good riddance." I accompanied the statement with a roll of the eyes. "Sam?" I asked when my little brother was yet to get up. And, come to think of it, Sam seemed to disappear completely. His legs – the only thing I had been able to see of Sam – were no longer visible and there was just no way Sam was small enough to hide under that tiny pile of rubble. The kid was growing like a frikkin' reed for crying out loud!
"Sam?" Dad's authoritative voice came from behind me. There was no movement, which disturbed me more. That was Dad's do-what-I-say-and-do-it-now voice which Sam always responded too, unless of course they were fighting. And the tiny spat they'd had in the car on the way here did not even qualify as a fight – not compared to some of the shit they usually threw at each other.
I dropped to my knees, ignoring the flare of pain at the bone-concrete contact, and began pulling planks of wood away. Bloody fingerprints smeared across them as I tossed them the wood behind me. This wasn't possible…The pile was getting smaller and smaller and still no Sam.
Finally, my fingers brushed something. Something soft…I wracked his brain to remember what jacket Sam had been wearing. Funny how small details slipped away so easily…
But it wasn't Sam, or his jacket for that matter, underneath.
It was fur. More specifically, it was a dog – well a puppy really.
Dog breeds were certainly not my forte (though I didn't doubt that Sam could list off a good twenty even though he had no need for them) but I recognized a border collie when I saw one. My friend from a past school, Jake, had a big black and white border collie, Mack of something like that. And this, this small thing lying before me, was certainly a border collie.
But Sam was not a border collie and I wanted Sam.
"Is-is that a dog?" Dad asked incredulously. A better question, I thought, was how it was a dog.
"Sam?" I asked sounded disbelieving even to my own ears. It couldn't be…that just didn't make sense…but it did. Witch hunts equaled the impossible becoming possible.
"I, you don't think…"
"Who knows. All this crap," I gestured to the spilled potions seeping across the ground, "fell on him, anything could have been in them."
I reached out slowly - and no that was not my hand shaking, it was my mind playing tricks on me – and gently prodded the slowly rising stomach of the puppy.
The eyes slid open and turned to face me and in that one moment, I just knew. It was Sam and somehow Sam had gone from Sam to dog. Because those eyes were most definitely my brother's. And holy crap, if I thought Sam had powerful puppy dog eyes before…well now there was an actual puppy to match.
The puppy – Sam! – was about a foot and a half high with long fur. His hind quarters were black but most of his front was white. His head had two ovals of black each covering one eye and running up along his pointy ears. There was a definite snout complete with a moist black nose and a pink tounge. And the soft eyes that just made you want to melt…
"Sammy?" I asked softly. Sam's dog head tilted to the side just the way Sam did when he didn't understand why I was feeling what I was feeling, which at the moment was concern. The soft front legs moved into an awkward position that I guessed was Sam trying to prop up his elbows, but the dog legs didn't work the same and he was soon on the ground. Little wrinkles appeared on his nose as Sam looked down to figure out why such a simply task had failed and froze. Little dog eyes widened and a small noise, practically a whimper, escaped him. His respiration immediately picked up and limbs began to scramble this way and that.
Dog or not, Sam was still my little brother. And big brothers did not allow little brothers to panic without trying to help. As if acting on their own, my hands shot out and gently wrapped around Sam, holding him still. "Whoa, Sammy, relax." Sorrowful puppy eyes turned to me – holy shit those things had power when turned on 24/7 – and Sam opened his mouth, releasing a half-hearted bark. He looked mildly surprised at himself and I had to stifle laughter.
"Come on, let's get out of here," Dad said while running a hand through his hair.
"But Dad-" my brother is still a dog.
"You bring Sam up to the car, I'll see if I can find something to put some of these potions that spilled on him in. Then we'll head back to the motel, get in contact with some people and try and figure out how to turn him back."
I nodded, happy to have a plan, and scooped my furry brother into his arms. Sam whined lightly and burrowed closer into my leather jacket.
"It's okay, Sammy, we'll figure this out," I said softly, so only his brother could hear. If anything, I felt more protective of Sam now.
Once they were all in the car speeding back to the hotel, I voiced the question that had silently been plaguing us all.
"What if we can't get him back?" Both pairs of eyes drifted down the small puppy curled up in my lap while my fingers softly stroked the furry head.
"We will, Dean, we will."
And of course it was true because we wouldn't stop until we did.
Bobby groaned as he climbed up his front steps while nursing his bruised and achy back. He was getting too old for this crap.
The phone started ringing just as Bobby entered the house, eliciting some dark mutterings from the older hunter.
"What?" he demanded gruffly.
"Bobby, we got a problem." As much as Bobby loved the Winchesters, they certainly could be a pain sometimes. Bobby was one of the few hunters who Dad was still friends with because Dad had pissed off most of the rest.
"Sam's a dog." Of all the things he expected out of John Winchester's mouth, proclaiming his youngest son was a dog was not something he had expected.
"You wanna run that by me again?"
"There was a witch hunt and, long story short, Sam landed in a bunch of potions and came out a dog."
"You know what the potion was?"
"No idea, but I managed to gather some samples of some of the stuff."
"Where are you?"
"Roanoke, Virginia." Thankfully, Bobby was only in West Virginia, having taken a rawhead hunt there.
"I'll see what I can scrounge up tonight then head over tomorrow morning."
"Thanks, Bobby," Dad said sincerely.
"Don't mention it, Johnny-boy." Bobby hung up then collapsed on the couch.
Those Winchesters had worst damn luck. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11157 | Giles, I hate you.
In short, I'm still pissed off over having to visit the 'Twilight' dimension, and my first day here hasn't changed my feelings one little bit. Even before coming to this place, I knew right away this was a big mistake. You should've known it too, when every dog for a couple of miles around started howling at hearing with their aching ears the happy multiple squeals of more than a dozen baby Slayers breaking the ultrasonic barrier when you announced at the Cleveland dinner table just where I was gonna go next week to recruit more people for the New Council.
Okay, I might've gone a little overboard when I jumped right up on the table and yelled at the top of my lungs that I'd rather castrate myself with a rusty set of toenail clippers than do this. It would've actually been a clean pair of trimmers, but I'd have still gone through with the whole snip-snip-snip business, if anyone at the table had even bothered to notice my threats. But no, the girls were all too busy enthusiastically debating at which specific point in the books or movies I should go.
Oh, that's right.
Well, it's now been a few hours since I wrote the above, and no, my temper hasn't improved any, Giles. This might have to do with, say, getting welcomed right at the spot where I appeared in the 'Twilight' dimension by every single member of the Cullen family, who were waiting for me there.
What makes it even worse is that for all the time I've been here, throughout this Alice Cullen has been maintaining on her pretty face a genuinely terrifying expression of stifled amusement every time she looks at me.
Again, later. I've started hiding from Alice, what with that vamp's constant air of gleeful anticipation due to someone's impending doom. Let's talk about some of the other Cullens, instead, please?
Carlisle Cullen, now, I'd take him. No question at all, and don't put that incredulous look on your face, G-man. The guy's just flat-out impressive, and the books and movies don't do him justice. He's what anyone would want as their doctor: wise, compassionate, and even a sense of humor despite having gone through so much bad stuff in his life. That said, the only sticking point is he'd never agree to come with me unless the rest of his family came, too.
Why the hell didn't anyone at home (you too, Giles) even listen when I said it'd be an absolute disaster having me meet Edward Cullen? How would you feel about coming face-to-face with another Ethan Rayne with all his worse traits magnified a dozen times and no past friendship with your former demon-raising buddy?
Yeah, it was that bad, and the chin dimples didn't help at all.
Mr. Personality's got his brooding stalker vibe going on at such a level that he could have given ol' Deadboy a handicap of ten yards and an Acme rocket-propelled sled, and still easily crossed the finish line well in advance of Angel.
Hey, I got to be me. Plus, it quieted down the rest of them after saying I'd rather claw my other eye out than watch yet again with the Cullen family and Bella Swan all the DVDs produced so far of the 'Twilight' series.
Giles, I want to humbly apologize. What I said before about hating you, I didn't mean it. Instead, you're someone I deeply respect, who does his best for us all while running a worldwide organization which protects humanity, and during it all, still manages to pull off wearing tweed with what can only be called an awe-inspiring flair.
Not buying any of this? I guess it might've been a little over the top, but things have really changed. I'm actually glad now that I came here.
See, the part above, in which I tactfully expressed my feelings about the pasty guy whose mind-boggling opening line of "Become a vampire with me and we shall live forever" actually convinced someone, was written while inside their home these glittering bloodsuckers and one human were getting to see what'd happen to them. Me, I was waiting out in the front yard, leaning against a handy tree while taking the chance to bring my report up to date for you.
She was beautiful. More than any girl I'd ever known in my life, and yes, Giles, this includes even my Sunnydale ladies. Kristen Stewart? Not even close.
So, of course, I kissed her.
She kissed me back.
Thank Wils for me for her helpful teleportation spells. A fast use of one of these picked up her dad, who really didn't need all that much encouragement to leave everything behind and come with us. Not just to Las Vegas, where he happily found himself being my best man in one of those quickie wedding chapels where Bella and I tied the knot. Yep, Charlie Swan was just fine with somebody with a pulse marrying his little girl, and also traveling to another dimension. You've got to admit we can always use more people with law enforcement experience and also knowing about what goes bump in the night. Anyone who combines these two should be welcomed with open arms by the New Council.
Oh. You've now probably cleaned your glasses for a full five minutes, and then you disbelievingly read the above paragraph a few more times again. In case you think I'm joking, here's the following:
To the most wonderful woman in the world, who's now breathing down my neck in our hotel room bed while reading this, and beginning to lick my ear-
A quick note, G-man, while we're waiting for our portal back home, just to give you a heads-up. Besides me, Bella, and Charlie, there's also coming with us twenty-six members of the Quileute shapeshifting tribe. Not Jacob Black, he wouldn't leave, but a lot of other werewolves there were honestly more than willing to travel with their mates to another dimension where they'll have the opportunity to freely bite off the heads of any vampire they meet. All without those tiresome peace treaties cramping their animal natures.
Look, it was an emergency, and at least I got to use the whole 'One Who Sees' knack again, now that I'm banned for life worldwide at any gambling place back home. Like I intended in the first place to become an unbeatable card shark when I lost my eye!
Anyway, see you and everyone else soon.
Dear Mr. Giles:
I'd like to thank you and the rest of my new husband's friends for putting up with him ever since Sunnydale. As I'm sure you know, he's quite a handful, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm really eager to meet Xander's entire family and hearing all their stories about him, particularly the more embarrassing ones.
Once again, I'm looking forward with great pleasure in getting to know you all!
Sincerely yours,
Bella Harris |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11158 | "From this moment onward, you are no longer Army Rangers. You are no longer infantrymen, grunts, squad leaders, or tech specialists. You are killers. Having survived our extensive training program and behavioral augmentation, you are the best that we can make you.
You are the best young men I have ever trained, but mark my works: You are good at what you have been trained to do, but you will never do anything else ever again."
Chapter 1
Pain. A tight, sharp jolt of pain just below my left shoulder. Whatever it was, the wielder hadn't jabbed hard enough to break my skin, but just so that it hurt enough to wake up. A blade of some sort, sharp and thin. Probably a bayonet or a pike, judging by the momentum behind it.
One of the few things that could have disturbed my slumber.
I heard a man's dull words echo through my ear canal. They sounded distant, almost dreamlike. Definitely a foreign language.
But they were irrevocably harsh and tainted with authority. A military man, or maybe a cop. They know how to talk at somebody real good. Words of warning, maybe? A threat of some sort? If I was trespassing in some way, that was news to me.
I stretched out my arms from under me and rolled over, prepared to get some answers.
The sun blinded me for a brief instant, rays of yellow were a pretty good contrast to the blackness of being facedown in the sand. The sun was directly above me, midday, and was partially covered by light fluffy clouds, which did little to reduce its brightness.
The man above me came into view. At first he looked like a lost trick-or-treater, wearing a flat black mask and some kind of robe that seemed to meld with his creamy trousers. His mask had some kind of design on it, a design that seemed to mimic a human face, only with cat's eyes and no mouth or nose. Sharp, angled frills at the top-most parts finished off the bizarre look The only indication that he was speaking was his head bobbing up and down behind the ridiculous headdress.
I held my hands in front of my face in a defensive position, the glint of a blade flashed in the corner of my right eye.
Sand rained down from in between my fingers, peppering my face with crushed bits of earth. I groaned and tried to sit up, burying my fingers in the sandy ground beside me to get a good grip.
In a moment a long, curved blade was in my face. We both froze, and the blade remained stone-still, less than a centimeter from the tip of my nose.
"Whoa, buddy." I let him see my empty hands, holding them up just above my head. "I don't want any trouble, okay?"
He cocked his head suspiciously, his flat mask hiding his reaction. But that spear stayed right where it was, a quick jab away from ending my life in an instant.
He finally relented, moving the weapon slowly back to his side.
I staggered to my feet, doing an awkward dance to avoid face planting in the dirt in front of him. The muscles in my calves didn't want to cooperate, but I refused to humiliate myself in front of this guy.
My clothes were soggy and cumbersome around my battered body, twice their weight wet. I brushed some of the grains of sand off of my blue dress shirt, which was hardly worthy of such a name now: Unbuttoned and hanging loosely around my shoulders, covered in sand and wrinkled, fabric folding and unnaturally and mimicking the sea that it had just taken a ride through.
My white undershirt hadn't fared much better, but I could live with that.
I looked in the soldier's eyes, or what looked to be eyes on his mask.
He remained in front of me, taking a wide stance with the bladed pike down by his side, hovering just above the sand. He was tense, broad shoulders flexing and firm in that same instant beneath his uniform. He was ready to fight, and that made one of us.
"English? English speak?" I offered. "If you understand me, just nod or something."
He remained unmoving on the beach, waves crashing upon the shore behind him. The cool water lapped at both of our feet, but nothing happened.
I held my hands up, palms out, in front of my face and throat, and began to back away slowly.
"Look, pal," I started.
"I know you can hear me, but since you aren't saying anything and probably can't speak english, I'm just going to walk away."
He said something to me, another harsh, sharp phrase. He spoke so fast I couldn't make out the language, but that might have been the point.
Maybe he wanted to fight.
"Look, I don't understand you. Since you are over there," I pointed over his shoulder at the dense forest behind him. "-And since I'm over here, I'm just going to go that way, and I'll be out of your hair."
There. Now I could leave this enigmatic man and find out where I really was.
I turned and walked the other way, setting a brisk pace for myself in the thick sand.
He yelled something unintelligible behind me, but I kept walking.
The proud and self-centered side of me wanted to turn and fight him, but my logical side kept propelling forward, away from potential conflict. Training I had received was just as prevalent in my mind as my primal instincts most days.
He yelled again, but stood his ground. As long as he was only going to use his words and not that fancy staff, then I had no reason to make any trouble with him. A few insults never killed anybody, but what follows verbal taunting tends to. So I stayed clear and kept going my own way.
Suddenly, I head soft footsteps behind me. A steadily quickening tempo of muffled footfalls. Is this really happening right now?
Getting closer. Almost to a full run.
Aw crap, here we go.
I wheeled around and threw my hands up in front of my face in a defensive position.
The guard quit the subtle tactics as soon as I faced him. He broke into a sprint and held the spear out in front of him, on a collision course with my midsection.
I waited until the gap had almost closed, and then dived left towards the water. I flung my entire body at the sea, tucking and rolling onto my feet as soon as I fell back to earth.
He wasn't phased. He turned left and swung the spear in a wide horizontal arc, barely missing my sternum at the apex of the motion.
I sucked in and stepped backward to avoid the next swish, ankle deep in sea water now. He had the high ground, and was closing the short gap in between us, fast.
Come on pal, take a jab with that pike. I've got your number if you try it.
He hovered at the edge of the water, pausing for an eternity before making his move.
I tried so take a deep breath, steady my breathing, and slow my heart rate down. If I did I would stop shaking and the electricity flowing through me would quit making me shake in front of my opponent.
Sure enough, he adjusted his grip on the weapon, rolled his shoulders, and jabbed straight at my heart.
I quickly sidestepped and closed the distance between us, getting on the 'inside' of his stance.
He reeled and tried to pull back the long weapon, but it was too late. I was thisclose to him, so much so that I could smell the last traces of insets on his jacket from a ritual he must have performed early in the day.
I threw a flat palm into his side, just below his floating rib in the sweet spot where his kidney was sheltered. I felt a soft crunch under my palm as he doubled over in pain. I didn't hesitate, bringing my right elbow up under his jaw, just below his Adam's apple.
He made a wheezing sound before dropping onto his butt in the dirt. He couldn't breath, a sensation I doubt he had felt before. Poor guy, he was probably just doing his job, and he was going to choke on his own windpipe for it.
A hot iron had been dragged across my chest, drawing blood as his pike completed its arc. His mask, blank and expressionless, somehow conveyed a little bit of satisfaction of landing his blow from the ground.
I staggered backward, opening my shirt to look at the cut.
Huh, not too bad. No serious bleeding, but I might need a band aid or two.
I looked back up to see the man back on his feet and coming straight for me. His eyes were wild and primitive, hungry for revenge. My elbow strike must now have been that effective after all.
I ducked under his pike and smashed my palm into his mask. If I had used my fist, I might have broken my knuckles because the darn thing was made of thick, well treated wood fibers.
It had no effect, but the next two shots to his ribs did the trick. He staggered and I grabbed his left hand at the wrist and wrapped my arm around it, jerking hard to the left until it popped.
He finally dropped the pike.
He headbutted me with that reinforced mask and sent me reeling backward. I threw up my hands and beat down his right hook as he quickly advanced.
I nearly took a high kick to the ribs in the next instant. But I caught his foot with both of my hands and simply stepped backward.
He fell awkwardly in the sand, and I followed up with a kick to the side of his face, my foot connecting with his head just behind his mask.
He rolled to the side, drawing a wicked dagger as he swung himself back onto his feet to face me. One smooth motion. He was well trained indeed.
I held my hands up in front of my face and throat in a defensive posture, backing up.
He was in pain, serious pain. And his weakened stance showed it.
I took a deep breath. "Look, man. Just-"
The glint of his blade in the sunlight cut me off. He slashed upward, and I stepped back. He thrusted and I backed up and circled around him, pissing him off even more.
He took another jab with the curved blade, but this time I stepped forward.
He was surprised, but not stunned as I grabbed his knife hand at the small gap where the wrist meets the forearm. I wrapped my other arm around his, pressing the outside of my elbow against the inside of his. The figure our arms formed looked exactly like a four for a brief instant as I locked up his arm in the high noon sun.
Then I pulled him forward and pressed down on the base of his hand, my thumb bending his wrist at the fulcrum behind his thumb at a 90 degree angle.
Then I turned the blade against him and stepped forward for a final time.
The Masked Guard cautiously approached Jade on the elevated platform above the battleground, shaking while he ran. Jade didn't like to be interrupted while having words with Kitana, but this was too important.
Jade turned, her masked face beautiful and intimidating in the same instant. She clutched a short combat staff tightly in her right hand, already upset at something.
He dropped to his knees on the stony ground in front of her. "My lady, there is a matter I must speak to you about."
She sighed. "Proceed. It had better be important."
"Yes," he stammered. "There is… someone else here… on the island."
She put her hands on her hips and sighed. Kitana turned towards them with interest.
"Spit it out, we haven't got all day here."
"Yes, there is a man here on the island. Our men found him on the shore, and he was not one of Shang Tsung's fighters. A guard approached him, but he was overpowered and killed-"
"What?" Kitana demanded, officially joining the conversation. "And why, pray tell, are you not down there now?"
"I am the fastest runner, and there are six men down there. We must hurry. They will kill him if provoked."
Kitana threw up her arms in despair. "Why do we even keep you people around? All you do is stand around watching other people fight, or get killed yourselves when you try to join in."
Jade held up a hand before Kitana could speak. "I'll handle this one, my lady. I'll show him how Edinians handle unwanted guests."
Liu Kang rose from his push up position when he heard footsteps on the layer of stone covering the forest floor.
"Raidan!" he exclaimed before bowing his head to the man with blue eyes in beggar's clothes. "It is good to see you, sir."
"Rise, Liu Kang. I am afraid we do not have the luxury of time today. There is something I must tell you about this tournament."
Liu Kang nodded and rose onto his feet, feeling the familiar strain of the morning PT in his calves and thighs.
Raidan began to walk, and Liu Kang followed obediently.
"Liu Kang, there is something you must know. The coming weeks will be more important to Earthrealm than the past thousand years." He spoke powerfully, with a deep voice. Yet Liu Kang always thought that he was humble. Especially for a god.
"With all due respect, Master Raidan, I know the importance of this tournament."
"Yes, but there is something else you must know. There is an evil loose in this universe. An evil that I do not yet understand."
"Shao Kahn," Liu Kang replied. "It is hard to comprehend one who seeks to possess entire realms, only to turn them into as barren wasteland. You do not have to understand him."
"No," Raidan interrupted. "There is another."
"Who?" Liu Kang asked, stopping and turning towards the thunder god.
"Someone worse. His hate of all things has festered over the ages into something that I cannot comprehend. He has spent years in the depths of hell, planning his rise back to the land of the living. His resentment of the Elder Gods and his fiery ambition are the only things that have kept him alive in the fires of Netherrealm. He resides there, unable to cross over onto our plane."
"Then why is he a problem at all?" Liu Kang demanded. He enjoyed Raidan's company, but the man was way too cryptic sometimes.
"His name is Shinnok, and he will destroy Earthrealm unless we stop him," Raidan said frankly.
"One problem at a time. Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn are dangerous enough as is. Once this tournament is over, if we win, then we can turn our attention to this Shinnok."
Raidan held up a hand and his glowing eyes intensified.
"Liu Kang, I have seen the future, and you will die if we do not change it now. Everyone who dares to take up arms against this evil will be killed, and everything we have fought so hard for will amount to nothing. This has happened once before. I can sense the threads of time wearing thin, like somone from the future is somehow trying to tell me that things should be different... I cannot lose you, Liu Kang. Even now our enemies work against us."
Liu Kang folded his arms across his chest and shook his head impatiently. "You cannot change fate, Raidan. You of all people must know."
Raidan came close to grinning. "I already have. There are new fighters here on the island, several Earthream warriors. A Police officer, a Lin Kuei, a fugitive, and swordsman who will join our cause."
"And what if they die, Raidan? What if they are killed by Shao Kahn's fighters? What will you say then?"
Raidan didn't answer that question. He couldn't.
Finally, he spoke.
"Come, Liu Kang. I sense that one of our guests has already arrived." |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11159 | ~ I started this story on a whim. The stories I tend to write on a whim tend to go good. Here's hoping this story goes good.
~ The story is about Luna. Her father is a werewolf, but her mom is human. I originally was going to have Luna and Klaus have a couple moment in this chapter but... well I'll let you read to find out what I put.
~ This chapter is little parts that lead up to Luna becoming a hybrid. It has moment including her activating the curse, getting turned into a hybrid, and even some problems at the end.
General POV
~ Luna: 5 yrs old~
Luna was looking at her reflection, at a dress that her dad got her. It was a light pink dress. There was dark pink ribbons along the bottom of the dress. It made her eyes light up because her favorite color of the month was pink.
"Luna, time to come down stairs." Her mom yelled from downstairs.
"Okay mommy." She said with a smile. Luna twirled around before making her way downstairs.
When Luna got downstairs she saw her dad going out the house. She became sad. Her dad would leave for two days once a month and she didn't know why. Luna's mom picked her up and held her in her arms.
"Why does daddy always have to leave?" Luna asked her mom.
"He just going camping." Her mom told her. That wasn't a total lie, but that's what Luna's parents agreed to tell her. They weren't going to tell her the truth until she was older, or until the same thing happened to her. They hoped that would never happen, but they didn't know.
"I wish daddy was coming with us." Luna said to her mom.
"I know sweetie." Her mom gave her a kiss the head. "We have to get going." She said before setting Luna down.
"Okay mommy." Luna said with some sadness in her voice.
~Luna: 10 yrs old~
Luna was sitting in her bedroom working on her homework. In two days it would be her 11th birthday. Her mom said if she was a god girl that they would take her to an amusement park and spend the whole day there.
"Why can't you stay for the day?" Luna could hear her mom ask her dad. She tried her best to eavesdrop on the conversation.
"You know why I can't." Her father said to her mom.
"Kyle, it her birthday." Luna's mom said softly to him.
"I know Amber, but I just can't. It would be too dangerous." 'What would be dangerous?' Luna asked to herself.
"Maybe you'd be able to control it." Amber suggested.
"I never could. Why do you think it's called a curse?" Kyle said. "You know how much I want to be there for her birthday, but I can't." He let out a sigh. "You know how much I would love to be here for her."
"I know." Amber softly said to him. "We'll just have to do something tomorrow for her." She looked into his eyes. "The three of us." Kyle gave her a smile before they kissed. They didn't know that Luna could hear the whole thing. She didn't know what they were talking about. 'Is there something wrong with my dad?' She thought before turning her attention back to her homework.
~Luna: 16 yrs old~
It was a stormy night. Luna was driving back from her friend's house. The rain just started to come down harder as she turned the corner. She had no trouble seeing, but the rain and wind was starting to mess with her sight. Once the rain started coming down harder, it never stopped and never got any lighter. It was enough to make driving dangerous. She was doing her best to drive carefully until a drunk person ran in front of her car. It took her by surprise as she quickly tried to swerve out of the way. Luna tried to turn in the opposite direction of the person but the wet street made her car become slightly uncontrollable. Instead of going away from the person her car crashed right into them. It made Luna gasp and made her worried.
Luna immediately parked her car as best she could before she got out. She rushed in the pouring rain to check on who she it. They weren't breathing, which greatly worried Luna. This couldn't happen to her, she couldn't have killed someone. She quickly checked the person's pulse. There wasn't one. Luna started to panic. 'No.' She thought as she ran her hand through her wet hair. 'This can't be happening.' Luna started to pace before her head started pounding. She held her head with her hands as she fell to the ground, holding in the pain. Her eyes were closed but as soon as she opened them, there were a different color. They were no longer brown. Her eyes had changed to a golden color with amber rings around her iris and around the edge of her eyes. She knew what was happening to her. It happened to her father around the time she was born. Now they were both werewolves.
~Luna: 17 yrs old~
Luna had been a werewolf for about a year. Her dad had been helping her through it. He had introduced her to some of his werewolf friends and told Luna about her uncle Ray. Ray was adopted by Luna's grandparents when he was a kid. Coincidentally he was also a werewolf. Everybody was sympathetic with Luna. No one wanted to be a werewolf. To turn on every full moon, to be put through that kind of pain, it was a curse that nobody wanted. Once the curse was activated they had no choice but to live with it.
Even though with the werewolf gene comes aggression and anger, Luna never really had that problem. She avoided those situations the best she could and was involved in as many sports as her parents allowed her to. A couple of times she would have outbursts but nothing that couldn't be fixed afterwards.
Luna's mom wasn't too happy with her daughter being a werewolf. She dealt with her husband being one, but never thought it would happen to Luna. She never thought that her daughter would have broken the curse and even then she didn't believe it. Luna was supposed to grow up like a normal human girl. She wasn't supposed to deal with turning every month on the full moon like her father. Luna's mom was just glad that Luna didn't have to go through this alone.
~Luna: Still 17~
Luna was taking a walk in the woods, near where she was camping. Her mom and dad were at the campsite 'talking'. Luna wanted an excuse to take a walk. She couldn't help but worry about the next full moon. It always bugged her, but she tried not to worry about it too much. Knowing she would have to turn is like knowing you are going to get a bad cold. You don't have a good time when it comes, but you are glad when it's over.
Luna was walking until she heard a noise. Against her better judgement she decided to investigate. She carefully walked towards the noise. There were two people. One had their mouth on the other's neck, like they were kissing it. With her enhanced werewolf senses she could smell something that she wasn't able to smell before. The head lifted from the neck and that's when Luna saw it. Blood.
The body that was bleeding, fell to the ground. Luna's eyes were on it before looking at the other person. They turned around and faced her. It was an older man that had killed the person. He could hear Luna's heartbeat and turned to face her. His eyes met hers. Blood was still around his mouth as he took a step closer to her.
"What do we have here?" He wondered out loud. Luna didn't move. It was her first time in front of a vampire, but she knew she was no match for him. The man walked up next to her and curiously looked at her. He tried compelling her, to forget what he saw, but noticed he couldn't. "What are you?"
"Werewolf." Luna said in almost a whisper. A small smirk appeared on his lips.
"Werewolves are interesting little things." He brought his hand up and brushed a stray hair behind Luna's ear.
"Are you going to kill me or let me go?" She asked with no fear in her voice.
"Werewolves usually try to bite vampires." He said to her. "Why haven't you tried?"
"I'm not that stupid." Luna said to him. He smirked.
"You're a fascinating creature." He looked into her eyes for a moment before biting into his wrist.
"What are you..." She couldn't finish because he pushed his wrist against her mouth. She struggled against him, but it only made him smirk.
"Consider this a test swearhart." His blood was making its way down her throat because she wasn't able to struggle against it anymore. When he knew there was enough of his blood in her system, he pulled away.
"You know it won't work." She said before wiping the blood from her mouth. "I'm just going to die."
"Either way, I really don't care." He said before snapping her neck. Luna fell down to the ground with his blood in his system.
~ Luna: still 17~
She was in her room, trying to sleep. It hasn't been the same for her since she completed her transition. Her parents made her feed from animals because they weren't going to get her blood bags or let her feed from a person. She turned onto her back and sighed, wondering if she would ever be able to sleep.
"Amber, please settle down." Luna's dad said to her mom. She couldn't help but listen in on the conversation, even though she didn't want to.
"I can't." Amber said. "Too many things are going on around me and I don't think I'll be able to handle it."
"So our daughter is a werewolf, you knew that there was a chance when we had her."
"She's half werewolf Kyle." Amber turned to face him. "She's also a bloodsucking vampire."
"She didn't ask for it." He said, trying to reason with her. "We can't do anything about what happened, so we have to live with it."
"You might have to live with it, but that doesn't mean I have to." Amber turned around and walked towards the closet.
"What are you doing?" Kyle asked with shock and panic in his voice.
"Just because you two have to live with this doesn't mean I have to." She pulled out a suitcase and started to put some stuff into it. "I'm leaving."
"You can't." Kyle started to plead with his wife. "Think of Luna." Amber let out a sigh and forced herself to keep moving.
"She's why I'm doing this." She held back her tears. "I don't think I can be around her right now."
"But she's your daughter."
"I know." Amber turned around to face him. "I just need a break from everything supernatural."
Luna decided not to listen in anymore. Tears were flowing out of her eyes. Her mom was leaving her. She turned on her side and faced the wall so no one could see her cry. Without her mom she didn't know what she would do. Her mom was one of the reasons that she completed her transition. Luna wanted to be with her family more than anyone else, but they're breaking apart. It wasn't her fault, but it felt like it was.
Her dad stood by her doorway, looking at her. He didn't know if she listened in or if she was sleeping.
"I heard everything." Luna quietly said after a minute. She couldn't stop the tears from falling from her eyes.
"Your mom," He said with a sigh ", she never really liked the supernatural but she dealt with it for me. I thought because we loved each other as much as we did, that it would never break us apart." He slowly started to walk towards Luna. "She just needs some time." He gently sat on her bed, next to her. She turned to him with tears in her eyes.
"Why does she hate me?" Luna asked, tears still falling from her eyes. Her dad pulled her to his chest and rubbed her head.
"She doesn't hate you Luna." He kissed the top of her head. "She is just in great shock. Nobody wanted this for you."
"Don't leave me." She said to him, her voice filled with sadness. He moved her head so they were looking straight into each other's eyes.
"I will never leave you Luna. You are my daughter." She let a small smile appear, despite her sadness. "Just promise me that you will never turn it off, that you will never forget what it's like to feel."
"I promise dad." She laid her head back on his chest and continued to cry.
Over the next year and a half Luna and her father adjusted to life without her mother. They could do more traveling, but stayed within Tennessee.
Luna never turned at the full moon after she was turned into a hybrid. Her dad always turned on the full moon. No matter how painful it was for him, he never once asked Luna to turn him. He didn't want to be a hybrid. He was just glad that his daughter never had to go through that again.
Luna stuck to the animal diet, not wanting to harm any person. She almost lost control a couple of times, but she kept her cool.
Her father told his werewolf friends what happened to Luna. At first they were in shock and tried to avoid her. After awhile they came to an understanding and started treating her like they did before.
Luna decided to go with her father and meet up with their friends for the next full moon. They were going to the Smoky Mountains.
~ The next chapter is going to be based on the episode 3.02 The Hybrid.
~ I have another story that is going along the season 3 timeline. It's called 'You Can Never Forget'. The next chapter of that is going to be based from 3.03 The End of The Affair. I was thinking that I can try to write this story and that story at the same time to save time.
~ I can promise the next chapter will come before the end of next week. After that this story will be updated at the same time as 'You Can Never Forget'. Possibly more often depending on the number of reviews.
R&R 'till the next update |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11160 | "Kegan, I need- Kegan?"
Angel stared around the empty room.
"Hello?" he asked.
He could hear noises from the next room and made his way over to the door.
Kegan's head appeared from beneath the covers on her bed.
"Ah, Angel, so glad you could walk in. Say hello to Angel boys."
Two male heads poked out and grunted hellos. Angel shuddered slightly and turned around.
"I can come back."
"No, I can multi-task," said Kegan as the other heads disappeared again.
"Look, there are a lot of disturbing things that you do that I can put up with, but I am not talking business with you while you're clearly in the middle of...pleasure."
Kegan smirked.
"Why don't you join us then?" she asked. "Pleasure first, business later."
Angel rolled his eyes and turned around.
"I'll come back."
Kegan clambered out bed and grabbed hold of his arm. Angel closed his eyes tightly to avoid looking at her.
"Open your eyes you fool and get me out of here!" Kegan hissed. "You know that old 'big hands' saying? It's not true."
Angel snorted and averted his eyes away from her naked body.
"Oh for god's sake Angel, it's not as if you haven't seen it before! What's the job?"
Angel looked uncomfortable.
"Um...well...please put some clothes on."
"How much are you gonna pay me?" asked Kegan, smirking.
Angel scowled and Kegan sighed, snatching up a large shirt from the floor and pushing him out of the room.
"They won't even know I'm gone. I'm fairly sure they're gay. So, do tell. What do you need me to do for you this time?"
"You'll like this one," said Angel.
"I doubt that," said Kegan darkly, disappearing into another room and reappearing with a bottle of whiskey. "So what makes you think I'll like this one? If it's anything like any of the others, I won't."
"Oh come on, you liked the Wolfram and Hart one."
"Only because I got to steal more than one thing," said Kegan. "Anyway?"
"I...kind of need you to uh...be a prostitute," said Angel, biting his lip.
Kegan stared at him for a moment, her mouth slightly open in shock, before a grin curled her lips.
"Oh really?" she asked.
Angel shifted uncomfortably.
"So not only do you want me to mix business with pleasure, but you want me to be the whore that you personally condemned?" she asked, ghosting her fingers over his chest. "Don't you think that's going against most of your...morals?"
"I said I'm sorry," said Angel through gritted teeth.
Kegan took a swig from her bottle and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Angel, you haven't even begun to experience sorry," she said dangerously. "But luckily for you, I've had sex recently, or...I've had what the two in there think is sex, so I'm feeling forgiving. Why am I being a whore?"
"So that we can get into a haunted mansion and-"
"No," said Kegan at once. "I'm not doing it."
Angel stared at her.
"Why not?"
"Doesn't matter. I'm not. Goodbye."
Angel grinned.
"You're afraid of ghosts," he said.
"No," said Kegan truthfully. "Ghosts I am not afraid of."
"Then why won't you come to a haunted mansion with me?" asked Angel.
"Wait. So not only did you want me to be whore, but you wanted me to be your whore? Angel, I think you're slipping."
Angel wouldn't meet her eye as she got right up close to him.
"I thought you couldn't do that sort of stuff," she said. "And that even if you could, you wouldn't, because apparently, you have standards that I don't meet. I notice that the last time I met you, your standards were a fair bit lower."
"I was young and stupid."
"You were old and stupid!" Kegan scolded. "Just like you are now. You are passing up an amazing opportunity, and you know it."
"So are you. Why won't you come kill ghosts with us?"
"Because ghosts are a waste of time," Kegan snapped. "Everyone knows that. The moment you kill one, another one will pop up somewhere else because whenever someone dies, they are always either angry, or they have something they really need to do."
Angel eyed her curiously.
"If it's not the ghosts themselves, it's something about getting rid of them. I know you're not opposed to salt or most of the things used in a cleansing ritual, so I'm going with something that repels them."
Kegan scowled at him and took another swig of whiskey before turning away and shifting through glass jars on a shelf, searching for something she could cut.
"Holy water repels anything with a drop of demon blood so it can't really be what you're so scared of. You walk in and out of blessed buildings all the time, so it's not that."
"How can you possibly know which buildings are blessed or not?" asked Kegan. "I mean,I know, because I have The Sight, but how do you know?"
"I can't go in," said Angel. "It's not salt so...iron."
Kegan didn't say anything, just took down one of the jars and opened the lid. Angel nearly choked on the smell inside, and it only got worse when she pulled out the brains of some form of animal.
"Why can't you just be normal?" he groaned.
"Because I live to cause you discomfort," she said, examining the grey matter as she sat down in the large coal pit in the middle of the room. "And because normal is boring and not very brain straining."
"Brain straining? You strain your brain?" asked Angel skeptically.
"If I lost 50 IQ points, I'd still be smarter than most of the people in MENSA," said Kegan matter-of-factly.
"Well...good for you," Angel snapped. "So, how badly does iron affect you?"
"We're not having this conversation," said Kegan firmly.
"No, I think we are," said Angel, smirking and leaning against the wall. "You know, I always thought you were basically immune to everything but a deadly shot. Guess I was wrong about that."
Kegan glared at him.
"Iron doesn't affect me," she said shortly.
Angel shrugged.
"Okay then. So you'll be coming then?"
Kegan paused. Angel could clearly see the 'ah crap' moment she was having, and watched happily as she tried to think of some other excuse as to why she wasn't coming. However, despite her apparently 'higher than any MENSA member' IQ, she didn't get very far.
"Fine," she hissed.
"Good. See you tomorrow."
Kegan picked a burning coal from her fire pit and threw it at him, hard. Angel ducked and moved to the door.
"Have fun with your boys in there."
"YOU'RE A BASTARD!" Kegan yelled through the door.
"Yeah, tell me something I don't know," Angel muttered as he walked away.
Kegan grunted as her back hit the floor and grinned up at the angry, very drunk, man.
"Hey, just because I'm better at poker than you doesn't mean we have to get physical about it," she said. "After all, you'll lose at this too. I'm better at fighting than you."
She rolled out of the way of his fist as he brought it down towards her face. He howled in pain when his knuckles instead slammed into the concrete floor and she rockets upwards, locking her forearms around his neck and driving him backwards.
"Now, are we going to be friendly, or will your friend have to call you an ambulance?" she asked, catching his fist as he tried to swing at her again.
The man spat at her. Kegan blinked, scowling, and wiped off the spittle.
"Ambulance then," she muttered.
She was still holding onto the man's fist and now she squeezed tightly. The man gave a strangled sort of cry as the bones in his hand gave way to Kegan's fingers and he struggled out from under Kegan, scrambling to his feet and snarling in her face like a wounded bear. Kegan smirked and gestured him forward.
"Come on then big guy. Show me what you got."
The man would have, but his friend held him back and dragged him away from Kegan before she could cause any permanent damage. Kegan sighed.
"Too bad," she muttered, snatching up the money she had, well, 'won' probably wasn't the right word to use to describe her downright cheating.
She slipped back onto her bar stool and took up her whiskey again. The person sitting next to her began to clap slowly.
"Well done. If it hadn't been for his friend, I can assume he would be near death, correct?"
Kegan glared at Lindsay.
"What are you doing out here? Alone?" she asked pointedly.
"Oh Kegan, I'm not alone. In fact, now that the other guy and his friend are gone, you're the only person in this bar who doesn't earn a Wolfram and Hart pay cheque."
"And I'm not going to now, so fuck off," Kegan snapped, turning bodily to face in the opposite direction.
Lindasy got to his feet and came around to sit on the other side of her.
"You're not going to get me to go away without a fight," he said.
Kegan sighed.
Her hand lit up as she rested her head in it, watching him expectantly.
"You've got two minutes before that invitation to hit you really, really hard is far too appealing to pass up," she growled.
"What's Angel paying for you for this job?" asked Lindsay.
"I don't know, but it had better be a very pretty penny," Kegan muttered.
"What if I were to double it and you stayed at home?" asked Lindsay. "Or beat up people in a bar instead?"
Kegan eyed him suspiciously.
"Why would you do that?" she asked.
"Well, I figure you don't really want to get anywhere near iron, and I have a few...interests in that particular place."
"How did you even know what we were doing?"
"Oh Kegan, did you really believe that we wouldn't be watching your every move after you stole from us?" asked Lindsay. "You took some valuable items that we kind of wanted back. Unfortunately, you made fairly certain we weren't getting them back any time soon."
"The sword's gone McDoofus. No amount of money is going to get it back."
"I don't want the sword. To tell you the truth, I was glad you got rid of it because it destroyed my colleague's plan, which meant that I got the promotion instead. No, I just want to give you the opportunity to avoid fighting ghosts, because, undoubtedly, there will be iron involved and we both know that the last thing you want to do is go anywhere near the metal. Surely you don't really care what business I have by keeping you away."
"You're absolutely right. I don't care."
Kegan considered him.
"You'll double whatever Fang Face gives me?"
"Absolutely," said Lindsay, offering his hand. "Do we have a deal?"
Kegan smirked and took his hand with her flame free one.
"Kegan, you said you were coming," Angel growled.
"And now I'm not," said Kegan. "So unless you can offer me something that I might actually want on this job, I'm not going."
"Would five thousand change your mind?" asked Angel.
"No. I made that much off poker last night and I didn't risk my life doing it."
"I doubt that."
Kegan scowled at him.
"I'm not coming unless you offer me what I actually want," she said. "You know what my price is, you make your decision."
Angel glared at her.
"You're not coming," he said firmly.
"Well, I wouldn't be quite so sure about that Angel," said Kegan, smirking.
"Speaking of, don't ever let me walk in on you having a three-some again," said Angel.
"Why? Did it not turn you on, the thought of me and those two rut-"
"I don't need a recap!" Angel snapped and Kegan grinned.
"Are you jealous that I'm getting some and you're still stuck in 'I'll lose my soul' denial?" she asked. "Or maybe your jealousy has a little more direction. Maybe you're jealous of the two in my bed last night. After all, you have to remember the times we-"
"I swear to God Kegan, shut up or I'll make you," Angel growled.
"Ooh, now I'm scared," said Kegan sarcastically.
"Well, if you're not going to help, you might as well clear out," Angel growled.
"With pleasure," said Kegan coolly, leaving the office. "Have fun tonight vampire. I will."
"Five thou," said Kegan.
"That's it? You couldn't more out of him? I'm disappointed in you Kegan."
"If I tried, he would have thought I was still coming," Kegan said into the phone. "When'll I get the money?"
"Swing by my office, I'll have it for you."
"No, that's not how this works," said Kegan simply. "I'm doing something for you already, that's why you're paying me. I don't collect my money, you bring it to me."
"I'm sorry Kegan, you should have told me that when we made our deal," said Lindsay calmly. "I'm afraid if you want to money today, you're going to have to come and get it because I'm expecting some important calls today and I'll probably be taking an all-nighter. I can't leave this office."
Kegan scowled. She didn't have any desire to set foot in that building again, even if it meant she'd get ten-thousand large for it. What exactly was in this deal for Lindsay anyway? Why didn't he want her there? He was fine with Angel being there. Maybe there was nothing special about the hauntings, at least, nothing special enough for Lindsay. Maybe this was about baiting her. Maybe she was just paranoid and reading into the situation too much.
"I'll see you soon."
"I knew it," Kegan muttered, glaring at Lindsay. "You're a bastard."
"You know, I was almost hoping you were smart enough not to come," said Lindsay. "To any normal person, it would basically scream trap."
Kegan glared at him as the fire demon pushed her roughly into a chair.
"What do you want?"
Lindsay leant casually against his desk, considering her.
"I have a job for you."
"You gonna pay me?"
"Uh, no," said Lindsay, smirking. "You see, you're kind of at my mercy here so I figured, you do this for me, I won't ask my boy here to kill you."
Kegan glanced up at the thuggish fire demon. She could take him, but it would take some serious effort and injury to do so.
"Fair enough," she muttered. "What's the job?"
"It's your lucky day," said Lindsay, smirking. "I have an item I need you to steal."
Kegan raised an eyebrow.
"You can't lawyer it out of someone's hands?"
"No," said Lindsay. "It's a very special item that only people immune to fire can hold. I need you to go in, steal it, and give it to your chaperone for this evening."
He gestured at the demon and Kegan growled her distaste.
"Well, you didn't expect me to just let you go with no one keeping an eye on you, did you?" asked Lindsay. "No. You get this for me, you'll never have to see Crusher again."
"Crusher?" Kegan asked the demon.
"Nickname in the ring," he grunted.
Kegan swallowed. She herself had spent a few fights in demon fighting rings, none of which she had particularly fond memories of. They were always fights to the death, and none of the competitors were wimps. They all held their own very, very well. Fire had been her saviour in those rings, but fire wasn't going to work on this demon any time soon.
"What am I stealing? From where?" she asked.
"A staff dubbed the Staff of Flame. Easy to remember since it's covered in flames," said Lindsay. "And...you're stealing it from the house that Angel is about to rid of ghosts."
Kegan stared at him.
"What?" she snapped.
"You heard," said Lindsay. "Oh, I should mention, there is one teensie, tiny clause to this deal. If Angel finds out you're there, Crusher here is going to have to cut any loose ends immediately."
"I'm guessing I'm a loose end," Kegan muttered.
"Putting that brain to use already. Good job."
Kegan frowned at the lawyer, who flashed his trademark 'trust me' smile at her.
Lawyers. Blech.
"This one job?" asked Kegan.
"Just the one. And you won't even have to come back here to finish it."
"What do you want the staff for?"
"That is none of your concern."
"Is if you're gonna use it against me."
"You're a fire demon, the staff's powers range from little fire to big fire. I think you're safe," said Lindsay coolly.
Kegan sighed and looked back up at Crusher.
"Guess we better get going then big guy."
"Do be swift," said Lindsay. "I don't have all night."
Kegan glared at him again she passed.
"Oh, don't be like that. I do wish we could have been civil about this, but you won't talk to me," said Lindsay, smirking. "Have fun."
The demon took hold of Kegan's arm and steered her out of the room.
Kegan surveyed the house from the back, taking in as much of the detail as possible. She could hear the sounds of people laughing and yelling in the house, and there was a window on the side of the house that was filled with a bright, flickering light, and the shadows cast through the window depicted acts Kegan had trouble believing was even possible for the human body to achieve. She immediately abandoned any hopes she had had for not running into Angel in the house however. It was large, but certainly not large enough that he wouldn't sense her presence.
"You wouldn't happen to have any clue where this staff might be located within the place, would you?" she asked Crusher, who stood statue-like just behind her.
"Inside," he grunted.
Kegan turned to raise an eyebrow at him.
"You're not really a talker are you?" she asked.
Crusher didn't reply, just gestured at the house again.
"Yeah, didn't think so," Kegan muttered. "Well, best get to it then."
She moved up to the fence line and examined the metallic spikes. Wrought iron.
"Alright big guy, let's put your muscles to use. I'm gonna need a boost."
Crusher stepped forward and hooked his sausage-like fingers together. Kegan backed as far away as possible from him without touching the fence before dashing towards him. She leapt into his hands and was sent rocketing upwards and over the fence by the demon, rolling off her momentum as she hit the ground on the other side. She straightened up, smirking.
"Well now, would you look at that. We make such a great team," she told the demon.
"Get the staff," Crusher grunted.
Kegan scowled.
"You just can't enjoy the moment, can you?" she asked, rolling her eyes and turning to the house. "Alright. If I was a staff made of fire, where would I be?"
She grabbed hold a drain pipe and used it to scale the wall and pull herself up to the window in the attic. Putting her fist through the glass panes, she knocked out the rest of the glass and slipped into the darkened room.
Basement. Gotta be in the basement.
Kegan kicked open the door and slid down the ladder, landing on the third floor of the large house and listening. She could hear Angel's voice already. He had to be on this floor, and she listened more closely. He was speaking Latin. He was cleansing the building. Kegan smirked. She doubted that any ghost in this building would put up with that. Angel was about to have his hands very full. She stepped towards the stairs and heard him falter slightly. He knew she was here.
Kegan didn't waste any time. She had no desire to become one of Lindsay's loose ends. She sped down the three flights of stairs to the main hall and stared around. There was no basement access.
"How can a place like this not have a basement?" she muttered.
She flinched as a wind started to kick up in building. Angel's ghosts were aware of what he was doing, and he was going to get flattened. Kegan sighed. She had, in a way, hoped that he wouldn't go ahead with the job when she had pulled out. Ghosts were dangerous, and powerful, and Angel was going to be pulled to pieces.
"Damn it. Alright, I help you, you help me, no one has to know that you know I'm here."
She took to the stairs again, dashing back up towards Angel's voice. In the few seconds it took her to get back up to the third floor, the wind had reached gale level and the lights right through the building had all blown. Kegan could hear yells of shock and fright from the people downstairs, and they sounded light years away.
"ANGEL! I THINK YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE GHOST!" Kegan yelled into the room as she barged in.
"I THINK I GOT THAT PART!" Angel yelled back. "WHY ARE YOU HERE?"
Angel looked at me, confused, but turned back to his exorcism.
Angel shook his head.
Angel scowled and shoved a book into her hands.
Kegan immediately began yelling the Latin phrases above the racket, ducking to avoid dangerous flying objects. She heard Angel swear and looked around just in time to avoid him as he was thrown off his feet by a ghost as it appeared.
"And to think you actually wanted to come and do this yourself," she muttered.
Kegan huffed and continued to chant from the book, but the ghost did not like that idea, neither did his friend, who appeared a moment later.
"Oh good, there are two of you," Kegan winced. "ANGEL! NOW WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD TIME TO START SWINGING SOME IRON!"
On cue, Angel dived back at the ghosts, brandishing a fire poker. The ghosts disappeared before he could reach them however and reappeared on either side of Kegan.
"Uh oh."
Kegan was lifted into the air by invisible forces and sent rocketing into the ceiling. She dropped the book, which whipped out of sight in the wind.
Ow. And damn. Oh wait, what comes up...
She was sent slamming into the floor. The floorboards beneath her gave way and she ended up falling to the floor below. Allowing herself to take a moment to groan and check for broken limbs, she rolled over and stared up through the hole. Angel's circle of exorcising item had been broken, his ritual had been lost in the wind, and he himself couldn't even poke the damn ghosts with a stick. All in all, things were not looking too good.
"Well, in that case, maybe it's time for a different approach," Kegan muttered. "ANGEL GET DOWN HERE!"
"ARE YOU INSANE?" Angel yelled back through the hole, swinging wildly at thin air to prevent the ghosts from getting near enough to him to cause the same sort of damage. "I'M KINDA NEEDED UP HERE!"
Angel dropped down through the hole, landing beside her.
"The ghosts are stuck here, they can't get away from this place, which means that this had to be where they first rose. Ghosts rise over their bodies, and ghosts die when their bodies are set fire. Ergo, I'm setting this place on fire. If you want to play the hero tonight, go get people out before they're covered in flames."
"Got it."
Angel took off and Kegan let herself transform.
"And this is why you don't play with fire," she muttered through the hole. "I'LL SHOW YOU JUST HOW MUCH YOU'VE PISSED ME OFF!"
Fire erupted right over her body, turning her into one huge ball of flame and she raced off through the hallway and into every room, setting anything she could touch alight. In seconds, the whole of the second floor was on fire, and not even the wind, stronger than anything she'd ever felt before, could blow it out. In fact, the ghosts were only speeding on their demise as the gale spread the flames higher and further. She dashed downstairs and saw Angel all but wrestling the last few people out of the house and she immediately set about burning up the first floor as efficiently as the second. One the whole house was alight, she sat down in the middle of the entrance hall and watched happily as her fire made quick work of the house. She knew the moment the bodies of the ghosts had caught alight. The wind died at once, and eerie shrieks could be heard, but there was nothing the ghosts could do other than scream. Satisfied with the outcome of her job, she changed back to normal and slipped out of the house before the whole thing could collapse on her.
"I guess I owe you a thank you, even though you deserted me to begin with," Angel muttered as she stepped over to him.
"You're welcome," said Kegan coolly. "But our work here is not done."
"Oh, so you're not here for me?"
Kegan snorted.
"Don't flatter yourself. I'm here because otherwise I'd be lying dead on Lindsay McDonald's office floor," she said coolly.
"What business does Wolfram and Hart have here?" asked Angel.
"He wants a staff made of flames for some reason," Kegan said. "I didn't ask. I was just told to get it and I wouldn't have to hear from them again."
"You believe that?"
"No, but it's better than dying at the hands of a lawyer from East Texas," Kegan spat.
"You said you had help."
"Oh yeah, fire demon, goes by the name of Crusher. I don't like him, he doesn't like me. He was my chaperone. I need him gone if I want to live and that's where you come in."
"Kegan, I have enough trouble keeping you from setting me on fire. What on earth makes you think that a demon under Wolfram and Hart's employ won't set me alight the moment it sees me?"
"Because he won't be seeing you. I need you to find a bucket or something, fill it in the pond over there, go around the back, and douse him. Then I can kill him."
Angel sighed.
"You better not be pulling my leg."
"Angel, there are a thousand better ways I could pull you leg. I'm one hundred percent serious right now. I need him gone if I want to keep breathing."
"And we all want that," Angel muttered sarcastically, opening the fence and slipping out. "Alright."
Kegan looked back at the burning building. She could come back for the staff later, and she could do the deal with Lindsay on her terms. Right now, Crusher was the main priority. She went around the side of the building and found Crusher waiting, now somehow on the inside of the fence. That was good. Kegan had had a moment of pause as to how she was going to get over the fence to grab hold of the demon, but it appeared that the fire had gotten the demon's attention.
"Where's the staff?" he grunted angrily the moment he saw her.
"Don't worry big guy. I'm just waiting for the flames to die down a little so I can distinguish a flaming staff from a flaming building," Kegan explained. "I had to set the place alight. There were ghosts and they were really pissing me off."
"Did the vampire-?"
"Angel didn't see me, hear me, smell me, or in any other way know I was there. I'm pretty sure he believes it was a couple of the thousand candles in there that started the fire."
The demon frowned but accepted the story.
Oh thank god I'm a good liar.
Kegan saw Angel coming soundlessly up towards the demon from behind and turned to look at the fire again.
"You know, I always love creating something as beautiful as this, but I just don't do it often enough," she remarked. "I think I'm a little rusty. Had a moment there when I realised it might have been better to start at the top than the middle, but there you go. What do you reckon?"
"It's a good job," said the demon. "Better than some of the crappy stuff the other guys at W.H. do."
"Oh yeah? How many of you are there?"
"Enough," said the demon simply.
Angel threw the water he had collected at the demon, who snarled as the liquid cooled his skin and put out the mane of fire he had running down his back. Kegan pounced on him at once, hitting him hard in the face and latching her legs around his neck. The demon, disorientated and weakened, swung wildly at her and she narrowly avoided his fist, causing him to hit himself in the side of the head. She flung herself backwards, legs still firmly locked around Crusher's neck and slammed him hard into the ground. Before he could so much as think about getting back to his feet, she pulled a knife from her belt and ran it home through his chest. The demon spasmed underneath her, then went limp.
"Good job," Angel commented.
"He was big and slow," Kegan muttered. "Doesn't take much to bring down a tank."
She looked back at the house then at Angel again.
"How about I meet you at the bar near your offices in an hour. There's something I want to do first."
Angel nodded slowly, frowning slightly at her.
"I can't stop you from meddling with Wolfram and Hart, and the tell you the truth, I don't really care unless it threatens my team, but you should be careful. They're a lot more powerful than they seem. Lindsay may only look like he just graduated from high school but...he has some very powerful beings behind him. I'd try to steer clear if I were you."
"See you in an hour Angel," said Kegan pointedly.
"I really do owe you a thanks," said Angel. "As much as I hate to admit it, I actually did need you, and it sounds to me like helping me was going to cause you more grief than it was worth."
"It did, I got thrown through a floor," Kegan growled. "But, I managed to get through it without any major injury, from ghosts and demons, so I guess it wasn't as bad as it could have been."
"So, how did Lindsay even get you to his office in the first place?" asked Angel.
"Lies and deceit. Turns out I'm not the only person in LA who uses them," Kegan muttered.
Angel snorted slightly.
"You know what, I think you owe me more than a thanks," said Kegan. "I saved your unlife. The least you could do is-"
"Kegan, Jesus Christ, I'm not sleeping with you!"
Kegan smirked.
"Careful. I don't think you're allowed to use such language as a vampire. And why not? I promise you, the likelihood of you ever achieving true happiness again is next to none. And besides, you could never be truly happy with me and we both know it, no matter what I was doing. You don't trust me enough for that."
"I'm not having sex with you. I've been there, I've done that, and I've since developed standards."
Kegan rolled her eyes.
"Some blonde little bimbo in Sunnydale who had the IQ of a chihuahua and the emotional range to match is not standards."
Angel growled.
"Don't you dare talk about Buffy like that," he snarled. "How do you even know about that?"
"Because Cordelia is an open book if you either offer her a new pair of shoes of threaten to burn off her hair," said Kegan coolly. "And I'll talk about the slut any way I want because that's what she is. Do you have any idea the number of guys she at least tried to hook up with when she wasn't fawning over you?"
Angel looked about ready to kill her but he didn't reply.
"You don't, do you?" asked Kegan, smirking slightly. "Well, I won't go into actually statistics, but there were a fair few. If your standards are nothing more than seventeen-year-old whores, then I should think you'd be perfectly fine with spending a night with me. Okay, so I look nineteen and not seventeen, but you can't have every-"
Angel grabbed her by the throat and rammed her into the wall behind her.
"Shut up," he growled. "You have no right to talk about her, and you certainly have no right to talk about her like that."
Kegan glared at him and he recoiled from her at once as his hand blistered on her skin.
"I'm simply making a point Fang Face. Your standards don't exist, and you're craving that interaction," she hissed at him. "You hide it behind strength and fighting, but you know as well as I do it's all a mask to cover that you need that feeling, that satisfaction. You're a vampire, that's how you're built. Your need the heat of passion, even if it doesn't exist outside the bed. So if you do change your mind about those standards of yours, you give me a call. You're not the only demon here who craves that touch."
Angel stared after her as she left the bar. He didn't know how she knew, but that she did...that truly scared him.
Lindsay did not look at all pleased as Kegan smiled at him.
"I thought it was only fair that you got to visit my office, since I've visited yours," she said sweetly.
Lindsay jerked against the ropes tying him to the chair.
"You little b-"
"Uh uh, no name calling," Kegan said, smirking as she leant against the wall. "Now, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
She picked up the flaming staff and spun it round in her fingers.
"In other words, little fire, or big fire," she said.
Lindsay glared at her.
"All for one little betrayal?" he asked.
Kegan raised an eyebrow at him.
"And that one wouldn't have stemmed into further 'deals'?" she asked. "I don't give second chances McDonald."
"Yes you do."
Kegan's smirk slid off her face.
"What?" she hissed.
"Angel. The biggest second chance you've ever given. The only second chance you've ever given."
Kegan stared at him.
"That's different."
"How?" asked Lindsay.
"He's not a son of a bitch evil lawyer," Kegan growled, slashing at him with the staff.
Lindsay hissed in pain as flame burst across his chest, then died away. Through the burnt gash in his clothing, Kegan saw a very satisfying, ugly looking, burn. He took a minute to compose himself before glaring back up at her.
"You love him."
"I'm. A. Demon. I. Can't. Love!"
With each word, Kegan slashed again, and Lindsay let out shaking cried of pain with every contact.
"You're torturing Lindsay and you didn't invite me?" asked Angel. "I'm insulted."
Kegan turned to grin at him. Angel could see the pure pleasure she was taking from this act in her eyes.
"Angel. Care to join me?"
She tossed the staff to him and Angel yelped and dodged it before he could catch it. Lindsay snickered.
"Shut up!"
Kegan hit him hard in the face with a flaming hand and Lindsay fell very silent in fear of being burnt further.
"Let him go," said Angel. "Or else I'll have to fight you and, well, you don't wanna fight me."
Kegan raised an eyebrow at him.
"Is that a challenge?" she asked.
"No," said Angel. "It's an order and a threat."
Kegan glared at him as she picked up the staff again.
"I don't take orders. Especially not from you," she growled, moving back over to Lindsay and hovering the staff barely an inch away from his crotch. "Now either you can join in or go away."
"Let him go Kegan," Angel growled.
"Yeah, you heard him, let me go," said Lindsay desperately.
Kegan raised an eyebrow at him and dipped the staff slightly. Lindsay flinched but she caught the staff before it could touch him.
"I told you to shut up," she said.
"Shutting up."
"Kegan, I want to take up your offer."
Kegan whipped around to stare at him, an evil grin on her face.
Angel swallowed. Kegan's grin increased.
"You're off the hook," she told Lindsay, taking a knife from a bench nearby and slashing the ropes around his ankles and wrists. "Get outta here before he changes his mind."
When Lindsay didn't move, instead opting to watch the two of them closely, trying to figure out exactly what is was that Kegan had offered, Kegan growled and grabbed him by the back of the collar, all but throwing him through the door and slamming it behind him. She turned back to Angel.
"Blood as well?"
Kegan grinned and took hold of his shirt, walking backwards into her bedroom and pulling Angel with her.
"You'll come to love these nights Angel. Trust me."
Hope you enjoyed this one. Sorry it took so long to post for those of you who might have been waiting. I'll start another one right away. Don't forget to review! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11161 | I don't own any characters expect my own.
I also don't own Bleach.
Real World:
The sun shone brightly down on a little town in Japan.
If it weren't for the fact that 18 year-old American, Polly Dillinger was wondering what was she doing here, then she would've thought it was perfect.
Then a blur rushed by her.
Narrowing her eyes she saw a strong stoic-looking boy, about her age.
He was carrying a bird in cage while running for his life.
He was tan, had curly brown hair, but what stood out to Polly the most was a tattoo on his left shoulder.
It was a winged heart with a snake wrapping itself around the heart.
Their eyes met for a moment.
"Go home." Was all he said to her, before he started to run again.
Just as she was about to run after him, an inhuman roar got her attention.
It came from an inhuman looking creature. It had a skull-like mask over its face.
Its eyes were an eerie yellow; its body was almost like that of a frog.
Polly stood there; stuck by fear, however out of curiosity she pulled out her camera-phone, seemingly out of thin air and took a picture.
At the sound of the click, the monster turned its head to look at her.
It seemed surprised for a moment, and then it seemed to smile evilly at her.
Polly didn't know what this creature was, but she didn't like the way it looked at her.
Without even thinking Polly felt as though her legs grew wings, as she bolted away from the monster.
Then it came closer… and closer… and closer… Then, BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
The sound of the alarm clock awoke Polly as she roused from her bed.
"Wow what a dream I had! It felt like an anime." she said to no one in particular.
Polly at stared at herself in a nearby mirror, before heading downstairs for breakfast.
She had long blonde hair and light –green eyes.
"Morning Polly," Called her mother, over the sounds of pancakes cooking over the stove.
"Morning, Mom." Polly replied as she reached the kitchen.
"Did you have a good sleep?" asked her mother as Polly pulled out two big plates from the cupboard.
"Sort of," Polly replied as she placed the plates on the table.
"Where's Dad?" she asked, quickly changing the subject.
"He had to leave early today, Polly. He has a meeting to attend. He sends his love." Her mother said as she placed the freshly cooked pancakes on their plates.
Polly was no longer listening to anything her mother was saying.
She was drifting in and out of her thoughts on last night's dream.
Polly was never a fan of scary movies, and she never watched a foreign film before in her life and rarely ever watched anime; so why did her dream feel like she was in Japan?
Polly and her mother spent the rest of their breakfast in silence, before Polly went back upstairs to get ready for school.
Polly changed out of her pink pajamas, into a baby pink t-shirt and teal shorts.
Her Blonde hair was stylied up in bun with a long braid and red ribbons tumbling down at the back.
Polly waved goodbye to her mother, as she drove off to school.
Sometime later during lunch, Polly on a whim, pulled out her camera-phone to look over her pictures, but when she saw her latest picture, she screamed so loud that the wholelunch room took notice.
On her camera-phone was the monster from last night's dream! Feeling everyone's eyes on her, Polly dropped her camera-phone and ran towards the bathroom.
Slamming the stall door behind her, Polly curled herself into a ball and rocked back and forth.
"How is that monster on my phone?! This isn't happening! This isn't happening!" She thought desperately. "I'm in the Twilight Zone! I'm in the Twilight Zone! I'm going crazy!"
"Polly, are you okay?" came Marina's voice.
"What's wrong Polly" she asked. "Are you being bullied?" "Are you being blackmailed?"
Opening the door a slight crack, Polly looked into Marina's light brown complexion and teal eyes.
Polly didn't know what to say.
Marina was an unpredictable person; she could be your best friend one minute and your worst enemy the next.
"Look you can't stay in the girl's room all day, you gotta come out sometime." "It there anything you need?" Marina once again asked.
Despite what just happen, Polly couldn't help the small smile that spread across her lips.
"Thanks, Marina, but I'm fine now." Taking a deep breath, she continued "I just saw something that really shook me up. That's all."
As she exited the stall, Marina thrust something into her hand. Marina brushed a stand of her long wavy black hair away from her face as she said "You dropped you cell phone. Bradley picked it up and told me to give to you."
They exchanged a smile before heading off to the last class of the day.
Bleach World:
It was the end of an extraordinary day for Yasutora Sado, better known as Chad to his best friend Ichigo.
Chad had discovered that Rukia, the new transfer student and Ichigo had some involvement in the spirit world.
From what he discovered the two of them helped good spirits move on to the afterlife, while they fought evil spirits who wished harm the living and kind spirits alike.
He was glad that the little boy was now reunited with his mother on the other side, or as Rukia called it the Soul Society.
As Chad reflected on the events of the last few days, he suddenly remembered the female foreigner.
Tourists almost never came to Karakura Town, so who was that girl and what was she doing in Karakura?
Did she came to Japan for a trip and happen to die somewhere near Karakura?
He thought back to what Rukia and Ichigo told him.
Only whole spirits had a broken chain sticking out of their chest; if Chad remembered correctly, there didn't seem to be any sign of a broken chain anywhere on the blonde foreigner.
Was she a Soul reaper as well or was she just an innocent bystander?
IF so, could she see spirits as well?
As he was getting ready for bed, he promised himself that he would mention that strange encounter to Ichigo and Rukia.
What do you think? Do you want to see more Bleach world? Please tell me so in a review. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11162 | "Stiles, Scott, you have to pick up the pace, come on boys." They were lagging behind the group, Scott knew this, but they still had half the track to run, and he didn't think he'd make it. He pushed himself forward a little bit, but stopped, huffing and puffing a little.
"Hey, Scott, don't…don't push it. I'm Mr. Ray will understand. He knows you have asthma, right?" Scott shrugged, Mr. Ray probably did. That's something teachers had to know, right?,
"Boys, hurry up, or I'm telling your teacher to hold you in for recess." Stiles frowned as he jogged at an easy pace next to Scott.
Scott waved him forward. "You…go Stiles. I need to…stop." Stiles nodded slowly. He could tell Scott was reaching his limit, and maybe he could run ahead and tell Mr. Ray that Scott's asthma was getting bad.
Stiles took off, checking back once to see Scott bent over, hands on his knees, catching his breath. Stiles didn't see an inhaler, so that was a good sign, right? It was bad enough yet that Scott needed his medicine.
Scott watched Stiles leave; smiling a bit at how happy his friend seemed to be expending his near-limitless energy. Scott didn't realize how much he had held Stiles back, he shook his head and tried to work on catching his breath.
It didn't seem as bad as usual, he took one or two shaky, but deep breaths, and stood back up. "Good job Scott." He said, aloud, grinning slightly. He continued his slow jog down the track. A
Stiles let out a whoop of joy as he let loose and just ran. He was fast, faster than a lot of his classmates, even though he was far behind, for going at Scott's pace, he quickly caught up.
"Good to see you with us, Stiles. I didn't realize you could run so fast." Mr. Ray put his hand on Stiles' shoulder when they all stopped running. Stiles was out of breath, and grinning, running felt good.
Mr. Ray's follow-up question caught the boy off-guard. "What…what?" Stiles asked, his voice pitched high, even for a six-year-old.
"I said where is Scott, Stiles? You were with him, right?" Stiles nodded, and looked back behind him.
"I…I ran ahead to…" Stiles swallowed hard, and his voice got quiet. "To tell you Scott's asthma was bad."
Mr. Ray took off back down the track, looking back to tell the kids to stay put. Stiles didn't apply here, at least he didn't think so. Scott was his best friend. Best friends were exempt to rules.
Stiles ran after his teacher, his little arms pumping as hard as he could. He had to reach Scott. Had to make sure he was okay.
Scott had been doing good. He was pacing himself, and his lungs were only a little bad. But then he started coughing. And couldn't stop.
He patted his pockets for his inhaler, feeling a full on attack coming, but his pockets were empty. His inhaler wasn't there. Scott wheezed and coughed, trying not to cry. It didn't work. He just hoped Stiles and Mr. Ray found him.
"Scott? Scott can you hear me?" Scott opened his eyes, everything was blurry, he was still wheezing. When his vision cleared in a haze of black spots, he saw Mr. Ray's face. "I've called an ambulance. You're going to be okay Scott. I promise."
Scott nodded, or he thought he did, the black spots returned and swallowed his eyes. He fell asleep.
"I need to see him. Please. He's my best friend!" Stiles tried to push forward towards the ambulance, but an arm held him back.
"Buddy, you need to stay back and let them do their job, okay?"
Stiles started to cry. "He's dead isn't he? He's dead and it's all my fault cause I didn't…Cause I didn't tell Mr. Ray." He started crying harder.
Someone took his hand and led him away. Another person must have called his parents, because he was soon crying in his father's arms.
Scott was in the hospital, his breath too weak for the doctor's liking, so he had a machine doing his breathing for him.
He looked so small in his bed, surrounded by pillows and a tangle of tubes and the cards, flowers and odd assortment of plush animals that had already started rapidly accumulating.
There was no shortage of people in and out of his room, checking this, noting that, stroking his hair and whispering "My Scott…" There was a noticeable absence of Stiles, but Scott didn't notice, he was still asleep.
They told his parents that they found his inhaler a few feet away from where the attack happened, it fell out when his bent over to catch his breath, but they didn't know this, not really. It was all speculation. All they knew is that Scott very well could have died today.
"Hi Mr. McCall…is Scott—"
"No Stiles. Scott is still asleep," the man on the phone sounded exhausted. "He hasn't changed much since the last time you called…fifteen minutes ago."
Stiles opened his mouth to respond, but someone took the phone out of his hand. "Mr. McCall, I'm very sorry my son keeps bothering you. Would you do that? Maybe he'll leave us all alone then. Thank you. Bye." Stiles' dad hung the phone up and got down on Stiles' level.
"Don't bother the McCalls anymore, okay? Scott's dad agreed to call us when Scott wakes up and when it's okay for you to go visit. Do you understand? You just have to be patient. Okay?"
Stiles chewed on his lip, but nodded. Patience was hard for him. "Stiles, why don't you…I don't know, why don't you make him a card?"
Stiles nodded, excited, and grabbed a pile of papers and his makers. He sat down at the table and started coloring.
A few hours later, the phone rang. Stiles jumped up and ran to grab it, but his mother got there first. "Stilinski residence. Oh hello Melissa. How is he?" Stiles' mother nodded, smiling. "That's great to hear. I'll let him know. See you then. Thank you."
Stiles' mom knelt down and put her hand on Stiles' shoulder. "Scott is awake, and okay. They still are having him sleep at the doctor's¸ but tomorrow you can go visit him. Isn't that great honey?"
Stiles nodded ecstatically. "Mommy, can I get Scott a present?" His mother nodded. "I wanted to go get him batman and…well…I had another idea."
He leaned over and whispered in her ear. Her eyes lit up and she pulled him into a hug. "Sweetheart, that is a great idea. I'll talk to his mom, and see if we can do that."
Scott was sitting up in his bed, reading through his stack of cards. He sighed, he was bored. He couldn't leave his bed, and his mom had taken the TV remote, so he didn't rot his brain. Most of all he wanted to see Stiles.
There was a knock on the door. "Scott, there's someone here to visit you." Scott sat up straighter. He could hardly contain his excitement when Stiles walked in.
"Now boys, Scott is still recovering so…keep the craziness to a minimum, okay?" The two nodded.
Stiles walked over to Scott's bed, he was quiet, nervous almost. "Hi Stiles!" Scott exclaimed, with a grin. His voice was still a bit rough, but he was so happy to see his friend.
Stiles nodded a bit. "I have presents for you Scott. But I gotta know…do you hate me?"
Scott frowned. "Why would I hate you? Did you take my comic books while I was gone?"
Stiles smiled. "No. I…I left you behind, and you got hurt." Scott frowned and reached out his hand, Stiles grabbed it.
"It's not your fault, Stiles. I'm okay, see?" He took a deep breath, and only coughed once. "Now…presents?!"
Stiles nodded. "The first one is this…" he handed Scott a comic book-shaped package. Scott ripped it open and let out a whoop of joy.
"Batman! Thank you Stiles! Now what's the other present?" Scott couldn't see how it could get any better.
Stiles took a deep breath and reached into his pocket. "Well…this one you can't really keep…" Scott protested immediately. "Wait, wait. It's still cool!"
Stiles pulled out an inhaler. Scott made a face, "Um, Stiles I already have one of those. I like Batman more…"
Stiles stuck his tongue out. "This isn't for you. It's for me to keep. Just in case you lose yours again. This way you will always be okay. Cause I'll always be there to help you." Stiles put the inhaler back in his pocket.
Scott broke out into a huge grin. "I…You're my best friend, you know that right, Stiles?"
Stiles grinned back. "Yeah. I know. So…let's open up that Batman, I've wanted to read it all day!"
Stiles climbed into the hospital bed next to Scott and grabbed the comic, and began to |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11172 | The Word of Wisdom
The Word of Wisdom, (2007), 2–14
Because our physical condition affects us spiritually, our Heavenly Father gives us commandments designed to improve our physical and spiritual health. As part of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, God revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith how we can care for our bodies so the Spirit of the Lord may be with us. This revelation is known as the Word of Wisdom. Obedience to this commandment is a requirement for baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Great blessings are promised to those who show their faith by obeying this commandment.
What Is the Word of Wisdom?
The Lord revealed the Word of Wisdom to the Prophet Joseph Smith. In this revelation we are warned to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, and hot drinks, meaning coffee and tea. Later prophets have taught that we should not use any substance that contains illegal drugs or harmful and addictive substances. The Word of Wisdom also teaches that we should eat meat sparingly and that we should eat grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Blessings of the Word of Wisdom
Keeping the Word of Wisdom will improve your physical and spiritual well-being. Although you are still subject to normal health challenges, obedience to this commandment will help you have a healthier body and mind.
As you keep the Word of Wisdom, the delicate, sensitive, spiritual part of your nature will be prepared to receive guidance from God. Learn to listen to spiritual promptings and feelings. You will be warned of dangers and will be guided by the Holy Ghost. Your wisdom and knowledge will increase. You will have greater peace of mind, increased self-control, and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
A Word of Wisdom
This revelation, received by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1833, is direction from our Heavenly Father to His children today. Following are excerpts from this revelation, which can be found in the Doctrine and Covenants, section 89:
“A Word of Wisdom, for the benefit of the … church, and also the saints in Zion …
“Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I … forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation—
“And again, hot drinks [tea and coffee] are not for the body or belly.
“… All wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man. …
“And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings … shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;
“And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen” (Doctrine and Covenants 89:1, 3–5, 8–10, 12, 16, 18–21).
Giving Up Harmful Substances
If you use tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, illegal drugs, or other harmful and addictive substances, stop now. You will be blessed with a healthier body and spirit. Some people have developed habits or addictions to substances that make it difficult to stop using them. If you have difficulty giving up these habit-forming substances, ask God in prayer to help you replace harmful thoughts, activities, and temptations with uplifting, wholesome influences. As you fill your life with what is positive and uplifting, there will be less room for what is harmful and negative. The following suggestions will help you:
1. Resolve to quit. Pray and fast with confidence that the Lord will help you overcome your addiction.
2. Study the scriptures. Memorize passages and recite them frequently. They will bring you spiritual power.
3. Ask for a priesthood blessing to help you resist temptation.
4. Dispose of harmful substances, and do not get more.
5. List the times, places, and situations in which you are tempted to violate the Word of Wisdom. Talk to your parents, your spouse, the missionaries, and other trusted friends about how you can avoid the things on your list. For example, find new pastimes or hobbies in which you will not be tempted. Listen to uplifting music, serve others, read wholesome books, or exercise when you are tempted.
6. Participate in Church activities. You will grow closer to the Lord and have increased strength to overcome your desires for harmful substances.
7. Attend an appropriate support group or obtain professional help.
8. Never forget that the Lord will help you as you rely on Him. Giving up these substances can be very difficult, and some people may relapse into old habits more than once before they quit entirely. Keep trying, and never lose hope.
As you live the Word of Wisdom, the blessings promised by the Lord will be yours. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11179 | Who doesn’t want to go to space?
That’s what Metro US is banking on – space’s universal appeal.
The newspaper company is sending one of its readers to the final frontier. Race to Space is a competition that begins today and through a collaboration with SXC – Space Expedition Curacao, the organization that will make the voyage possible.
To enter, readers have to submit an inspiring reason on why they deserve to go to space as well as take a quiz to test their knowledge of outer space. Each Metro country will select one local nominee based on the number of Facebook “likes” and the quality of the submission and send their nominees to the global jury – comprised of members of both SXC and Metro International. In-depth interviews will be conducted before selecting the astronaut-to-be.
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Hallo Mr. van der Stock,
I've read about the spring of code 2007 in this email. Are there already any informations available?
I'd like to apply for the PHP application eGroupWare and a project to rewrite the application from scratch on base of the eZ Components from eZ Systems. |
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• proper n. A query language designed to query collections of XML data
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• SQL, PQF, and XQuery;or simple and intuitive languages not powerful enough to express complex concepts e.g.
Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU)
Archive 2003-05-11
• Even better, an XQuery-based search engine could give you a Google engine that returned relevant entries from a site, instead of an entire page, therefore rewarding people who go through the effort by making them participants in a new, better targeted web that's fully backwards compatible.
syndication formats? - Anil Dash
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my girlfriend is currently using an iPhone 3G (iOS version 3.1.3 - 7E18) and I've noticed it can be very sluggish. She doesn't use it for much more than the usual messaging/safari/mail. Compared to my 3GS it is pretty terrible.
I used to have a 3G (still do in fact, and it runs much smoother/faster).
So my question is, what is the best version of iOS to run on an iPhone 3G?
I'm going to downgrade (if necessary, which I think might require jailbreak which I'm not thrilled about) or try a restore and see if that fixes it, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to restore her phone but keep it running 3.1.3.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Let's see if I get this right. You're talking about 2 iPhones 3G and 1 3GS, right? And you only said the iOS installed in one of them, and that's the 3.1.3 running slow. So you're thinking in downgrading it to below 3.1.3? If so, why not making it the same iOS it's running good at the 2nd 3G? – Cawas Apr 6 '11 at 5:28
I guess I'm really asking why the phone would become so sluggish. I am currently using a 3GS, I used to have a 3G and it was never as bad as my girlfriend's 3G. I'm looking to resolve why the phone is so sluggish but also which iOS version has the best performance on a 3G. Installing iOS 4 only gives (that my girlfriend would notice) the folders feature, which isn't worth the performance hit IMO. I'm going to restore her phone and keep it running 3.1.3 and see how that goes. – xceed Apr 6 '11 at 12:14
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From my experience, 3.1.3 is indeed the best version for iPhone 3G, if you don't want any new or updated app. I've installed 4.2 on an iPhone 3G and it does become slower, though not so bad. If you put side to side a 3G with iOS 3 and one with any version of iOS 4, you'll see the 3 outperforming the 4 for most tasks (other than some native multi-tasking maybe). Other than the slightly faster performance, the best iOS for any iDevice is the latest one, like wjlafrance said.
Unless it is jailbroken, I can't tell what could possibly make iOS 3 slow. On iOS 4 it is only multitasking that can harm the performance AFAIK. Same issue with jailbreaking - gets slow if you install too much stuff running on the background. And an old device will suffer aging impact only on the battery. Hopefully a fresh restore would solve the "sluggish" but I'm afraid it might not.
Anyway you can easily* downgrade without jailbreaking. On 3G, you just* need the right file, enter DFU mode and option+click on Restore from iTunes.
* It is that simple, but there is more to it and it can become complicated. If you need more details, try this guide on lifehacker or this another even more detailed one on redmondpie.
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Good to know I can downgrade without jailbreaking. Thanks – xceed Apr 6 '11 at 12:15
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iOS is always being optimized, and Apple's OS's are known for running faster than previous versions, even on older hardware. iOS 4.0 was bad on the 3G, but 4.1 is much better.
As a rule of thumb, you're always best running the latest version of iOS, unless you're a jailbreaker and/or unlocker, in which case you should run the latest exploitable version of iOS and the baseband.
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+1, but not always true. Sometimes Apple screws up a release (like 4.0 on 3G). I usually wait a couple of weeks before updating to make sure there aren't any major bugs. – ughoavgfhw Apr 6 '11 at 3:16
Agreed. Rules of thumb are made to be broken. :) – wjl Apr 6 '11 at 4:03
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If you get an error message when trying to downgrade to iPhone OS 3.x from iOS 4.x, you can still download an application called RecBoot 1.0.2, and launch the RecBoot Exit Only application to get your device out of recovery mode as the restore most likely actually worked. iTunes is finicky about downgrading.
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Where can I find intelligent writing or discussion about movies and t.v. shows?
When I'm done with a movie or show I enjoy, I want to read smart people writing about it. I'll often go home from the theater and read 3 or 4 reviews of the movie I just saw, but that doesn't quite hit the spot. I want analysis, I want tangents, I want recommendations for new material. Basically, I want MovieFilter.com and TVFilter.com, although personal blogs/sites are welcome too.
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Television Without Pity is a great site, with intelligent analysis about TV shows. It can sometimes be a bit snarky, but generally, I've found the recappers to be on target and insightful.
posted by cider at 6:38 AM on October 29, 2011 [7 favorites]
Alan Sepinwall's What's Alan Watching column is my hands-down favourite source of writing about television—his episode analyses of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire, BSG, Game of Thrones etc are the most satisfying I've found (I discovered him viaMeFi.)
The AV Club's TV reviews are also usually of a high standard.
posted by hot soup girl at 6:56 AM on October 29, 2011 [13 favorites]
The AV Club
posted by msbubbaclees at 6:56 AM on October 29, 2011 [2 favorites]
For an insider's look, I really enjoy Ken Levine's blog. The comments are often just as smart and insightful as the blog content itself. This post, for instance, goes into a major deconstruction of a physical comedy scene out of Frasier.
posted by litnerd at 7:08 AM on October 29, 2011 [2 favorites]
I think The AV Club is kind of hit-or-miss based on which writer does the articles. For instance, the Breaking Bad analysis is really solid; the ones for Community sometimes sound like a guy writing his first paper for his first film analysis class in college. Their reality show reviews tend to be pretty decent, if you're into that, and sometimes hilarious. (If you watched Project Runway, you'll enjoy this one. I laughed the whole way through it. The poor owl!)
posted by phunniemee at 7:22 AM on October 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
I sometimes like Tim Goodman's The Bastard Machine column. I also sometimes like Grantland's pop-culture writing better than their sportswriting.
And there's the MetaCooler.
posted by box at 7:27 AM on October 29, 2011
I like the Filmspotting podcasts
posted by Right On Red at 7:31 AM on October 29, 2011 [2 favorites]
Look up a specific episode on Wikipedia. (You can do this either by Googling the title of the episode, or by going to the Wikipedia page for a whole season and following the links.) Wikipedia will describe the reviews and link to them.
posted by John Cohen at 8:04 AM on October 29, 2011
Jonathan Rosenbaum is extraordinary knowledgeable and his smarts about film art reach the level of wisdom sometimes.
Bright Lights Film Journal does what it says on the tin (i.e. erudite academic style journal on all matters filmic).
Sight and Sound is your typical "film magazine", in that they tend to cover stuff that rarely makes it out of the festival circuit, but they do it exceptionally well.
Slant are a pretty smart bunch of critics, and they like to watch everything under the sun too.
posted by Iosephus at 9:43 AM on October 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
Seconding Television Without Pity. They've got good forums, too. They moderate them pretty strictly to keep discussions on topic and to stop people from bickering, and they frown upon poor typing styles and people posting stuff like "That was great LOL" without adding anything of substance to a thread. I like it.
posted by wondermouse at 9:49 AM on October 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
Have you looked at the flagship wittertainment of Kermode and Mayo ?
Also have a look through You Tube for some previous Kermode reviews.
posted by Webbster at 10:06 AM on October 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
Seconding Ken Levine and Alan Sepinwall.
Also: John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey. He's the show runner for Leverage, so there's abundant previews and production details about that show, but he has a vast archive on other topics as well. Plus, he's got a great blogroll. Plus plus, he gave us the Crazification Factor.
For a British perspective, there's the lovely Charlie Brooker. His current Guardian column is on a variety of topics, but they've kept his old Screen Burn archives available here.
posted by maudlin at 10:32 AM on October 29, 2011
In addition, Blogcritics.
posted by yclipse at 1:12 PM on October 29, 2011
Four of my favorite blogs (movies mostly, occasionally TV, great thoughts on other topics too): When Mad Men is running, Wall Street Journal has a blogger who comments in depth the day after the newest episode. Worth a look.
posted by Currer Belfry at 1:57 PM on October 29, 2011 [2 favorites]
Entertainment Weekly is quite good.
posted by spbmp at 7:53 PM on October 29, 2011
I really like Pajiba.
posted by Ziggy500 at 8:50 AM on October 30, 2011
Todd Alcott isn't updating that much anymore ( he's making his own movie) but a trip through his archives is a very detailed and structured analysis of movie and tv scripts.
posted by The Whelk at 9:36 AM on October 30, 2011
I've been listening to Filmspotting recently, and have really been enjoying it.
posted by jpdoane at 1:47 PM on October 30, 2011
Cultural Learnings. From the about page:
Cultural Learnings, started in January 2007 by Myles McNutt, is a television blog with a focus on critical reviews and analysis of a wide range of television series. The goal is not to recap the events of the latest episode, but rather to place it within the context of the series, the season, its genre, and on occasion broad literary and cultural philosophies. While a fairly academic and analytical approach is generally employed, the subjects themselves are extremely diverse: from network to cable, Glee to Mad Men, science fiction to comedy, everything is both subject to criticism and, more importantly, open to interpretation.
posted by perpetual lurker at 2:28 PM on October 30, 2011
Seconding Slant, especially The House Next Door. If you really really want to dive deep, take a look at their Conversations series, e.g. the recent one on Barry Lyndon. Breathtaking.
Matt Zoller Seitz is the force behind the aforementioned THND, but nowawdays he's Salon's TV critic. Unmissable.
Jim Emerson's Scanners is great.
The Mubi Notebook has a good, wide-ranging selection of both subjects and writers.
Kim Morgan's Sunset Gun is superb if your interests overlap with hers.
If you're watching movies from the Criterion Collection, do try The Criterion Contraception.
And last but not least you simply must read Observations on Film Art. It is hands down the best single online film publication. Erudite, understandable, filled with explanatory screenshots.
posted by dst at 4:09 PM on October 30, 2011
Alan Sepinwall and A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago.
posted by kostia at 1:52 PM on October 31, 2011
I also love TWoP and post quite a bit. The Mad Men discussions are fabulous.
posted by jgirl at 6:40 PM on October 31, 2011
I'm really enjoying Splitsider, which is a sister site to The Awl, The Hairpin, and now The Wirecutter. Splitsider is really good at ridiculously comprehensive digs through the archives, like this.
posted by Sfving at 2:51 PM on November 2, 2011
Tom and Lorenzo is primarily a fashion blog, but they do some cool recaps and analyses of a bunch of tv shows as well. (Look under the "Reality TV" and "Television" tabs).
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A lot of the games I like to play don't run too well on my Xubuntu laptop, so I decided that I was going to play Icewind Dale. I installed it, but when I go to play, 2/3 of the graphics is off the top of the screen. Apparently, Icewind Dale has a windowed mode, but I don't know how to enable it out of the screen, so now I'm just kind of stuck. I'm running Wine 1.5.5. Anyone know of any solutions?
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There are definitely some things that might be helpful for you regarding Icewind Dale in wine:
1) If the windowed mode in your game is not available in the options, you can run wine in windowed mode via the 'virtual desktop' setting (see further below). However, before you alter the wine setting, you must also enable windowed mode by running the Icewind Dale config tool in the Icewind Dale game folder in your .wine prefix.
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Now, go to Wine configuration in the Xubuntu Wine menu, go to Applications and select your Icewind Dale executable and create a profile for it; in that application profile you can have custom settings for audio, graphics,etc (i.e. all the settings tabs that are available). In the graphics section you can set a 'windowed' mode via the 'virtual desktop' setting; just set the resolution, as the screenshot below shows, and save your settings.
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2) Another possibility is that you could run Icewind Dale in GemRB, which is a native SDL port of the Infinity Engine, which Icewind Dale uses. You could use your existing game files, and install further infinity engine games with wine, and then point gemrb to the files, as noted here. There is also a gemrb launcher that may be useful. It is possible to successfully play through Icewind Dale 1, but not the expansions. This is definitely a possibility for you and any fans of the Infinity Engine games. Further details on how well the games are supported is noted here, and the Baldur's Gate series run particularly well in gemRB.
Icewind Dale running in windowed mode with wine.
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As the title says: using ubuntu 12.04LTS, how can i enable adobe flash player to use local cache?
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You can edit Flash settings here.
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I installed Ubuntu alongside OSX on my Mac, and everything seemed to work fine at first. After 4 or 5 boots, I started experiencing some weird graphics discoloration issues making Ubuntu nearly unusable.
I managed to perform some updates, including an NVidia update, after which now the screen shuts off during an attempted boot and just hangs.
I have rEFIt installed, and I am able to boot into OSX from rEFIt just fine, however Ubuntu will no longer boot.
MacBook 7,1 June 2010
Let me know if I forgot any other info, thank you.
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I recently installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.04, installing it over Windows 8. However, I then later reinstalled Windows 8, and now Ubuntu doesn't recognize any USB devices.
Why doesn't Ubuntu recognize any USB devices anymore?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11258 | Horoscope for Sept. 27
2013-09-27T00:00:00Z Horoscope for Sept. 27Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate Arizona Daily Star
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Pressure builds to a level that might be difficult to accept, and you could become reactive. Avoid a power play.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Listen to news with a more upbeat attitude. Someone might be holding back some important information.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might be put off by someone’s controlling ways. If you are uncomfortable with this behavior, you need to speak up.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH You are upbeat right now, so be careful that you don’t collide with someone who is controlling. Bypass this experience with a smile.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You have good intentions. Be clear with a child or love interest about your limits. Establishing boundaries will benefit any relationship.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You might need to take a stand. You have the ability to turn a situation around. The problem might be dealing with demanding people.
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I have shifter with damaged housing. It shifts well, but I guess if housing is not repaied, rain and elements will quickly put an end to it. Which material would be suitable to fix this hole? Epoxy glues? Maybe ones with metal filler? Are there some sensitive parts in the damaged area that I should be carefull not to glue?
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As others have mentioned, glue would run the risk of damaging the internal parts of the shifter. They're small and delicate and a little bit of glue could really mess them up. However, I've ridden on shifters broken similarly to yours for years with no problems. I actually bought new ones and never got around to putting them on because the broken ones never actually broke or even showed signs of less than optimal shifting. – jimirings Apr 17 '13 at 18:58
Such shifters shouldn't be more than 10-20 EUR used. Not sure if it is worth fixing them at all. I would ride with them as is, and when they show any sign of malfunction (and even if they fail completely, which is not likely, it couldn't make you fall), I'd replace them with similar used ones. – Mladen Jablanović Apr 19 '13 at 15:46
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Seems like you have two options. I'm not sure this is your exact model but the broken piece should just unscrew.
1. Unscrew what's left and epoxy it together apart from the internal workings.
2. Buy a replacement cover. I couldn't find any online shops selling replacement covers, but a call to Shimano* will probably net you the exact piece you need. You'll need to know the model number which should be displayed somewhere and look like SL-xxxx. I can't imagine a new one will be more than $20.
*Shimano American Corp. (949) 951-5003
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yes this is the model, and the diagram you have provided will help me. I think I will unscrew it as you advised, and use epoxy putty like this (bison.net/en/products/648-epoxy-repair/product/…). – Davorin Ruševljan Apr 18 '13 at 6:59
Be careful. You probably don't want to use a putty. It will be "glopy" and bulky and won't hold very well. You have two options that will make a cleaner bond. 1. try some acrylic joiner. you put the pieces back together and then "drip" the acrylic joiner around the crack and it wicks into place. This might not work (depending on the type of plastic of the cover.) However, if it doesn't work you can just wipe it away and move on to #2. – tir38 Apr 22 '13 at 16:28
#2: two part epoxy GLUE. Works similar to your putty,but it's liquid and will fill in the crack better w/out a big mess. My fav is bit.ly/15BMkQg Any time you use glue RTFM cause you only get one shot – tir38 Apr 22 '13 at 16:39
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Unless you're seriously skilled with epoxy, I'd say there's a risk of glueing some of the moving parts together.
Instead I'd suggest gaffer tape, also known as duct tape or duck tape. It has threads running through it for strength and is pretty weatherproof. If you get it in the wrong place or it wears out it's cheap to try again. The tricky bit will be covering the hole properly. I suggest cutting it to size with scissors as it will end up neater.
Also, I wouldn't worry too much about a small amount of water getting in. I doubt they're completely waterproof anyway. If you can keep any mud/grit out that should be enough.
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Try some sugru, a moldable rubber like putty, it should provide a seal against water and cover the opening. It's great for repairs, and you can get it in small packs. You can find more info at http://sugru.com/
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11316 | Good Shepherd
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The Good Shepherd, c. 300, at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Vatican
The surrounding context of the allegorical story of the Good Shepherd (John 9:35-41 and John 10:22-30) shows that the people around Jesus realized that he was asserting that he was God. Biblical scholar Donald Guthrie maintains that the reaction of the Jews (picking up stones to stone him) shows that they understood that Jesus was asserting his own divinity. (Cf. Lev. 24:16)
Early Christian art
The image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of the symbolic representations of Christ found in Early Christian art in the Catacombs of Rome, before Christian imagery could be made explicit. The form of the image showing a young man carrying a lamb round his neck was directly borrowed from the much older pagan kriophoros (see below) and in the case of portable statuettes like the most famous one now in the Pio Cristiano Museum, Vatican City (right), it is impossible to say whether the image was originally created with the intention of having a Christian significance. The image continued to be used in the centuries after Christianity was legalized in 313. Initially it was probably not understood as a portrait of Jesus, but a symbol like others used in Early Christian art,[1] and in some cases may also have represented the Shepherd of Hermas, a popular Christian literary work of the 2nd century.[2][3] However by about the 5th century the figure more often took on the appearance of the conventional depiction of Christ, as it had developed by this time, and was given a halo and rich robes,[4] as on the apse mosaic in the church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome, or at Ravenna (right). Images of the Good Shepherd often include a sheep on his shoulders, as in the Lukan version of the Parable of the Lost Sheep.[5]
Biblical reference
Allegory of Christ[6] as the Good Shepherd, 3rd century.
From John 10:11-18 (WEB):
Parable or metaphor?
Pagan symbolism
Late Roman marble copy of the Kriophoros of Kalamis (Museo Barracco, Rome)
In ancient Greek cult, kriophoros or criophorus (Κριοφόρος), the "ram-bearer" is a figure that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram. It becomes an epithet of Hermes: Hermes Kriophoros.
In two-dimensional art, Hermes Kriophoros transformed into the Christ carrying a lamb and walking among his sheep: "Thus we find philosophers holding scrolls or a Hermes Kriophoros which can be turned into Christ giving the Law (Traditio Legis) and the Good Shepherd respectively".[10] The Good Shepherd is a common motif from the Catacombs of Rome (Gardner, 10, fig 54) and in sarcophagus reliefs, where Christian and pagan symbolism are often combined, making secure identifications difficult.
See also
1. ^ Eduard Syndicus; Early Christian Art; pp. 21-3, Burns & Oates, London, 1962
3. ^ Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen, Routledge, 2000
4. ^ Syndicus, 130-131
5. ^ Walter Lowrie, Art in the Early Church, Pantheon Books, 1947, ISBN 1-4067-5291-6, p. 69.
10. ^ Peter and Linda Murray, The Oxford Companion to Classical Art and architecture, p. 475.
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Sculpture of Hanuman in terracotta
Terracotta designs outside the Kantajew Temple, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
Glazed building decoration at the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.
Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth",[1] from the Latin terra cotta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic,[2] where the fired body is porous.[3][4][5][6] Its uses include vessels (notably flower pots), water and waste water pipes, bricks, and surface embellishment in building construction, along with sculpture such as the Terracotta Army and Greek terracotta figurines. The term is also used to refer to items made out of this material and to its natural, brownish orange color, which varies considerably. In archaeology and art history, "terracotta" is often used of objects not made on a potter's wheel, such as figurines, where objects made on the wheel from the same material, possibly even by the same person, are called pottery; the choice of term depending on the type of object rather than the material[citation needed].
Production and properties[edit]
An appropriate refined clay is formed to the desired shape. After drying it is placed in a kiln, or atop combustible material in a pit, and then fired. The typical firing temperature is around 1000°C. The iron content gives the fired body a yellow, orange, red, "terracotta", pink, grey or brown color. Fired terracotta is not watertight, but surface-burnishing the body before firing can decrease its porousness and a layer of glaze can make it watertight. It is suitable for in-ground use to carry pressurized water (an archaic use), for garden ware or building decoration in tropical environments, and for oil containers, oil lamps, or ovens. Most other uses such as for tableware, sanitary piping, or building decoration in freezing environments require that the material be glazed. Terracotta, if uncracked, will ring if lightly struck. Some types of terracotta are created from body that includes recycled terracotta ("grog").
Terracotta was the only ceramic produced by Western and pre-Columbian people until the 14th century, when European higher fired stoneware began production. Terracotta has been used throughout history for sculpture and pottery, as well as bricks and roof shingles. In ancient times, the first clay sculptures were dried (baked) in the sun after being formed. Later, they were placed in the ashes of open hearths to harden, and finally kilns were used, similar to those used for pottery today. However only after firing to high temperature would it be classed as a ceramic material.
In art history[edit]
Terracotta female figurines were uncovered by archaeologists in excavations of Mohenjo-daro (3000-1500 BC). Along with phallus-shaped stones, these suggest some sort of fertility cult and a belief in a mother goddess.[7] The Burney Relief is an outstanding terracotta plaque from Ancient Mesopotamia of about 1950 BC.
The ancient Greeks' Tanagra figurines are mass-produced mold-cast and fired terracotta figurines. Significant uses of terracotta have included Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army of China, built in 209–210 BC.
Precolonial West African sculpture also made extensive use of terracotta.[8] The regions most recognized for producing terracotta art in this part of the world include the Nok culture of central and north-central Nigeria, the Ife/Benin cultural axis in western and southern Nigeria (also noted for its exceptionally naturalistic sculpture), and the Igbo culture area of eastern Nigeria, which excelled in terracotta pottery. These related, but separate, traditions also gave birth to elaborate schools of bronze and brass sculpture in the area.
In chemistry[edit]
In chemistry, pieces of terracotta are used as a heterogeneous catalyst to "crack" long-chain alkanes. This process is useful for obtaining more useful products, such as gasoline or petrol, from less useful ones, such as highly viscous long chain alkanes.
Advantages in sculpture[edit]
As compared to bronze sculpture, terracotta uses a far simpler process for creating the finished work with much lower material costs. Reusable mold-making techniques may be used for series production. Compared to marble sculpture and other stonework the finished product is far lighter and may be further glazed to produce objects with color or durable simulations of metal patina. Robust durable works for outdoor use require greater thickness and so will be heavier, with more care needed in the drying of the unfinished piece to prevent cracking as the material shrinks. Structural considerations are similar to those required for stone sculpture.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Merriam-Webster.com
2. ^ OED, "Terracotta"
3. ^ ‘Diagnosis Of Terra-Cotta Glaze Spalling.’ S.E. Thomasen, C.L. Searls. Masonry: Materials, Design, Construction and Maintenance. ASTM STP 992 Philadelphia, USA, 1988. American Society for Testing & Materials.
4. ^ ‘Colour Degradation In A Terra Cotta Glaze’ H.J. Lee, W.M. Carty, J.Gill. Ceram.Eng.Sci.Proc. 21, No.2, 2000, p.45-58.
5. ^ ‘High-lead glaze compositions and alterations: example of byzantine tiles.’ A. Bouquillon. C. Pouthas. Euro Ceramics V. Pt.2. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland,1997, p.1487-1490 Quote: “A collection of architectural Byzantine tiles in glazed terra cotta is stored and exhibited in the Art Object department of the Louvre Museum as well as in the Musee de la Ceramique de Sevres.”
7. ^ Jacob Neusner, ed. World Religions in America. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11358 | Richard Fichera of Forrester Research had recently written up and posted his initial impressions of Windows Server 2012, and his related recommendations.
Here’s my super-ultra-brief summary:
1. Here’s why Windows Server 2012 is really great, and
2. You should start considering it NOW, even if you’re also still just rolling out Windows Server 2008.
In all seriousness.. read his article: Microsoft Announces Windows Server 2012 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11359 | Last week we published a blog post about a CVE-2013-5330 exploit. We’ve also recently seen a new, similar attack targeting a patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2014-0497).
The vulnerability related to this malware was addressed with a patch released by Adobe on February 4, 2014. Flash Player versions and earlier are vulnerable. We analyzed how these attacks work and found the following details.
• The vulnerability trigger
• Shellcode
• A PE file (encrypted)
The .swf successfully bypasses the validation of memory range and is able to access an arbitrary location. It overwrites a pointer in a VTABLE to successfully pass control to a controlled location (Note that the exploit does not rely on heap spray – see figure 1). The controlled location starts with stack pivot ROP gadgets built from a Flash Player DLL. The ROP gadgets call VirtualProtect() to make the shellcode memory region executable. Finally, the control is passed to the shellcode via a jmp esp instruction (as shown in figure 3).
Control transfer
Figure 1: Control transfer via an overwritten pointer in VTABLE
ROP gadgets
Figure 2: Stack pivot ROP gadgets
Control is passed to shellcode
Figure 3: Control is passed to shellcode via “jmp esp”
The shellcode simply drops a PE File (already decrypted by .swf) as %temp%\a.exe and executes it. The dropped PE file (Sha1: 265fdeb993a09d2350daa130de4ce5b662bed628) is detected as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Siromost.A.
The telemetry of this exploit is shown in figure 4.
Daily reports for CVE-2014-0497
Figure 4: Daily reports for CVE-2014-0497
We have confirmed this exploit works across multiple Flash Player versions. In our lab testing, we are able to reproduce the attack on the following Adobe Flash Player versions:
• 11.6.602.171
• 11.6.602.180
• 11.7.700.169
• 11.7.700.202
• 11.7.700.224
• 11.8.800.94
• 11.8.800.168
• 11.8.800.175
• 11.9.900.117
• 11.9.900.152
• 11.9.900.170
Version 12.x ( and earlier) is known to contain the vulnerability used by the attack, but it also carries a mitigation that prevents building the ROP gadget from the Flash Player DLL. The sample we analyzed does not support version 12.x for this reason.
If you're using Flash Player version or earlier, you need to update your Flash Player now to be protected against these attacks.
You can also find more information about this vulnerability, including workarounds, in Microsoft Security Advisory (2755801).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11372 | A Ghost House Pictures Update: Dead, Progressing, Coming Soon!
Bloody Disgusting caught up with long time Ghost House Pictures producer J.R. Young who updated us on a few forthcoming horror flicks from Sam Raimi’s production company. First and most disappointing is the news that Monkey’s Paw is official DEAD. It told of an artifact rumored to make any wish come true, but misfortune begins to befall the family with every desire granted. On the opposite spectrum, Dibbuk Box is progressing as Juliet Snowden & Stiles White (Poltergeist, Knowing, Boogeyman) work on an adaptation of the true story that is based on a haunted box purchased on Ebay that brings bad fortune to its possessors. Lastly, it looks as if their remake of The Substitute will be the next to go. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) is still attached to direct the project that revolves around a terrified sixth-grade class where the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being.
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Subject: Re: Pension Payment From a Bought Out Co. Date: 7/28/2001 6:55 PM
Author: phooley Number: 31048 of 74536
My mother-in-law recently received a letter from her former employer stating that she would receive a lump sum payment of $x from this employer's pension. The x is not something you can retire on. In fact she's stated that she really can't retire...she plans on working as long as she can. Technically, she'll retire in 5 years.
I just starting looking into this for her. From what I've read so far, the idea of moving this lump sum to an IRA sounds like the best option. I was wondering what I advise other Fools might have. Any thoughts?
Based on the information you have given, I don't think there is much question: deposting the check in an IRA would be the thing to do. I assume the former employers' pension plan would be classified as a "qualified retirement plan."
Quoting from IRS Publication 575 (Rollovers, at <>):
If you withdraw cash or other assets from a qualified retirement plan in an eligible rollover distribution, you can defer tax on the distribution by rolling it over to another qualified retirement plan or a traditional IRA. You do not include the amount rolled over in your income until you receive it in a distribution from the recipient plan or IRA without rolling over that distribution.
We don't know if there is any plan other than an IRA into which your mother-in-law would be eligible to rollover the proceeds of this former employer's pension plan.
If someone wants to suggest some sort of annuity, they should be along shortly. (Someone may even offer to take you, and/or several other people, out to dinner to discuss the idea!)
Good luck with your planning,
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Subject: Re: Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp 7.4% Due Date: 4/13/2009 2:32 PM
Author: Ellisee Number: 26933 of 35227
I knew it was illiquid....
The dividend is paid on thursday, perhaps that has something to do with it.
It seems like the common has been doing a bit of a short squeeze for the last few weeks with low volume, no news, price increases.
I wonder how the cds swapped out debt fits into the short squeeze scenario.
Hoping (perhaps in vain) for another volkswagen here myself. |
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Subject: Some good news Date: 9/29/2012 3:11 PM
Author: chkNYC Number: 190862 of 192822
My MN (who is 45) got engaged a few weeks ago to his girlfriend of the last few years.
Apparently, they are planning a late Summer 2013 wedding (in Chicago, of course).
I'm happy for both of them and I know that MN needs someone special in his life.
(Of course, my sister was complaining about the fact that once again she will have no involvement in the wedding plans. Hey, it's not my fault that you had three sons and no daughters!! At least she likes this woman - at least for now.)
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Poet Laura Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley, California. She is the author of rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press, 2008) and swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004), and her work has appeared in various journals, including 26, Five Fingers ReviewXantippe, and Bird Dog. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley Extension, and University of San Francisco. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2002.
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I am looking to get rid of the Teflon rice cooker I have (it is getting a lot of scratches and well that Teflon has to be going somewhere!). What is a good rice cooker to go with that is non-stick enough for jasmine rice?
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I quickly checked the models that Cook's Illustrated recommended, and all of them either say they're Teflon (aka PTFE) or are a non-specified non-stick (which probably means PTFE).
Also, PTFE isn't toxic, at least not until heated in excess of 200°C (details at Wikipedia).
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Good points. I guess my real issue is with cheap teflon that flakes away too quickly. – Zombies Jun 30 '11 at 17:50
@Zombies: It could also be that you're damaging the Teflon somehow; are you using metal utensils on it, for example? – derobert Jul 1 '11 at 5:24
Nope! It is just really cheap the whole rice cooker was like $15 at target. – Zombies Jul 1 '11 at 15:29
@Zombies: Ok, I've had to cheap bread pans like that (well, they were much cheaper than $15, and Walmart not Target), where the non-stick just wasn't bound to the metal properly. Slightly less cheap ones didn't have the issue. Unfortunately, it looks like good rice cookers are more than slightly less cheap :-( You could always use a small sauce pot… – derobert Jul 1 '11 at 18:22
Don't buy very cheap kitchen ware. I paid more than $100 for my rice cooker. The teflon is good as new after more than 5 years. – Tony_Henrich Feb 11 '13 at 6:20
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With their 3 backs in McCoy, brown and lewis, they're set to become a ground team.
Macklin and Jackson are similar to the receivers in Washington.
Also it would weaken the Skins since Kyle knows their whole playbook.
2. BAZ
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Its a nice story, but I think they would go for someone with a little more experience.
3. koolaid
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doubt he would compete against his dad
4. CowboyChris
CowboyChris Benched
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totally agree
5. Stryker44
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They could easily go from worst to first if he brought his schemes there. Several people picked them to win the East in preseason. The question would be how good of a head coach he can be when some of the players are older than him.
6. Hoov
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i thought he might be the guy they look at based on Luries press conference.
7. Stryker44
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I really hope not. Then again, they'd also need to bring in a good defensive coordinator as well to maximize the talent they have.
8. Hailmary
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I was actually hoping Jerry would consider him when he was still with Houston. He was way too young for anyone to seriously consider him as an option back then, though.
At 33, he's still very young and may benefit working under pops for another season or two. That or maybe taking on a HC position at the collegiate level for a couple of seasons...
I think he'll be good though.
9. CitySlicker202
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If all goes well, Mike S. will finish out his 5 year contract and set up the franchise for Kyle. Redskins fans like that idea so far.
10. Stryker44
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Yep, though there was talk of extending Mike before the Seattle game. That may be put on hold then given what happened with RGIII.
He also hasn't seemed averse to letting Kyle interview for HC jobs.
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My Ring of Honor Video download...
Discussion in 'Artwork Zone' started by calico, Jul 22, 2005.
1. calico
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...is up.
Now, before you download it, I want you all to know that once I started the video, I realized that I could not complete what I have planned until after the actual induction.
What I am posting now is a small, 1st cut of some highlights and history for you.
Nothing is final. The music. The highlights. None of it.
I don't have all the footage I need to finish this right now and I will start my search so in a few months I can complete the 10 + min video I have planned. I will show 30 secs at least of each ROH member and then a few mins of the Triplets each.
I featured more Emmitt Smith highlights in this video because I short changed him in the other videos I made.
On a side note, the History of Domination video is down right now to make room for this. Also, I need some recommendations of some good '70s Rock songs for use in my Doomsday video that I will have up by Sunday night.
Ring Of Honor 1st Cut
DIVX encoded, about 50mbs.
2. CowboyFFL7
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the 1st song is freakin awesome
the 2nd song when it starts showing Aikman handing off to Smith in the Super Bowl, in my opinion, should be changed. It's too happy sounding... just not too fitting for a football video laced with the greatest players ever... it should be powerful and stuff.. you know? =p
good work though, man, can't wait for the rest!
3. cowboy4322
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Now that I read your post, I feel stupid for trying to be funny in my PM. I didn't realize that you were going to include footage from the ceremony. My apologies.
4. cowboy4322
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For a first cut, this is great. I cannot wait for the finished product. I just hope the song I sent you makes the cut. :D
5. 31smackdown
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Calico, I think you did a great job on this.. thanks a lot. The music is very similar to the type of music that NFL Films uses and works well for historic peices. I'm sure it will only get better for the Final Cut
6. dargonking999
dargonking999 DKRandom
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man calico great work, i cant wait to see that finshed piece, and boy does that movie bring back memories, great work man
7. Hoods
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I second the request to change that real happy second song.
8. AmericasTeam81
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Everytime i click on a Calico video it never works for me, i have divx. Cam anyboyd help me???
9. calico
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The songs were just fillers...but thanks for the feedback. You guys never cease to amaze me. I thought it would be the opposite so far on the music choices. I thought you would hate the first and like the 2nd, haha.
Just so you know, I know the Emmitt smith retirement speech segment is much too long...
10. calico
calico Active Member
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Do you mean click on my link or from the downloaded file from your desktop??
If it is one of my links, try right clicking and saving as to download the file. I don't think they will play by just clicking on them.
11. calico
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just wanted to add that I have never seen anyone lay out Walter Payton like Harris did in that clip...damn.
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calico, great work as usual. I can't wait to see the finished product.
I just ordered my tickets to the game and can't wait to show this video to my son and nephew. It will be their first trips to Texas Stadium and should be one heck of a show. I'm pumped for the game and the ceremony.
13. jamez25
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tha video was allsome !!!
14. calico
calico Active Member
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thanks. I will be at the game also if my tix don't through.
15. Dayton Cowboy
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That was just beautiful.. Great work as always Calico
16. k19
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Thanks Cal, looks GREAT so far
17. DLK150
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Great job, but that's usually the case with your work.
As far as 70's songs, here are a few but there are only a couple that are instrumentals. Some of them sort of fit, some of them don't but would be decent without lyrics. Hey, I'm lucky I can half work a camcorder sometimes, let alone set music to video.:eek::
Go Your Own Way-Fleetwood Mac
Bang A Gong-T Rex
Takin' Care of Business-Bachman Turner Overdrive
All Right Now-Free
Reeling In the Years-Steely Dan
Surrender-Cheap Trick
Frankenstein-Edgar Winters Group
Beck's Bolero-Jeff Beck
Go All the Way-The Raspberries
We Are the Champions-Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
Walk This Way-Aerosmith
More Than A Feeling-Boston
American Woman-The Guess Who
Running On Empty-Jackson Browne
Carry On Wayward Son-Kansas
And of course....
The Boys Are Back In Town-Thin Lizzy ;)
18. StevenOtero
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Use videolan. It plays anything... go to www.fileforum.com and search videolan.... or VLC media player same thing. Its not eye-candy but it works.
19. rojan
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AMAZING!!!!!Thanks alot Calico....I cant wait till its finished
20. JDSmith
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Love the introduction showing all the existing members. I just don't know how you're going to fit our triplets into 10 minutes, they deserve their own mini series. Great first peak, can't wait to see the final edition.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11443 | Cycling, Swimming And Running, Oh My!
You know, it's hard enough to finish a triathlon. We think we could handle the biking, and as long as we were allowed to occasionally walk, or even stop and lie down for a while, we could handle the running. We'd almost certainly drown, however. Anyway, imagine going through all the trouble of being in a triathlon, all the physical and mental exhaustion it inspires, and right in the middle of it ... you run into a damned bear.
Sabrina B. Oei received a bad case of road rash, but wasn't seriously injured and was able to complete the triathalon. The bear also survived the crash and scampered back into the woods. Oei was racing downhill at nearly 40 miles per hour when the collision occurred.
We kind of think there isn't a sporting event that couldn't be made more fun to watch by random throwing in the obstacle of a bear. We think it could do wonders for the World Series of Darts.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11445 | The Missouri women's volleyball team's official "Spirit Group," VolleyZou, found an enterprising group of young men with Missouri apparel, a gold cart, a video camera, and lots of gumption and commissioned them to make this, whatever this is.
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O.E. borgian "to lend, be surety for," from P.Gmc. *borg "pledge," from PIE *bhergh- "to hide, protect" (see bury). Sense shifted in O.E. to "borrow," apparently on the notion of collateral deposited as security for something borrowed. Cf. O.E. borg "pledge, security, bail,
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11485 | Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Developer's Guide for C Clients
A handle that specifies the properties that determine the behavior of this connection. You must create this handle using the MQCreateProperties function before you try to create a connection. This handle will be invalid after the function returns.
See Table 4–2 for information about connection properties.
An MQString specifying the user name to use when connecting to the broker.
The library makes a copy of the username string.
An MQString specifying the password to use when connecting to the broker.
The library makes a copy of the password string.
An MQString used to identify the connection. If you use the connection for a durable consumer, you must specify a non-NULL client identifier.
The library makes a copy of the clientID string.
A connection-exception callback function used to notify the user that a connection exception has occurred.
A data pointer that can be passed to the connection exceptionListener callback function whenever it is called. The user can set this pointer to any data that may be useful to pass along to the connection exception listener for this connection. Set this to NULL if you do not need to pass data back to the connection exception listener.
Output parameter for the handle to the connection that is created by this function.
The MQCreateConnection function creates a connection to the broker. The behavior of the connection is specified by key values defined in the properties referenced by the propertiesHandle parameter. You must use the MQCreateProperties function to define these properties.
You cannot change the properties of a connection you have already created. If you need different connection properties, you must close and free the old connection and then create a new connection with the desired properties.
Setting a Client Identifier
The messaging service uses a client identifier in combination with a durable subscription name to uniquely identify each durable subscription. If a durable subscriber is inactive at the time that messages are delivered to a topic destination, the broker retains messages for that subscriber and delivers them when the subscriber once again becomes active.
Handling Connection Exceptions
Use the exceptionListener parameter to pass the name of a user-defined callback function that can be called synchronously when a connection exception occurs for this connection. Use the exceptionCallBackData parameter to specify any user data that you want to pass to the callback function. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11486 | Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS
Clearing the STOP_FAILED Error Flag on Resources
When the Failover_mode resource property is set to NONE or SOFT and the STOP of a resource fails, the individual resource goes into the STOP_FAILED state, and the resource group goes into the ERROR_STOP_FAILED state. You cannot bring a resource group in this state on any node online, nor can you edit the resource group (create or delete resources, or change resource group or resource properties).
How to Clear the STOP_FAILED Error Flag on Resources
To complete this procedure, you must supply the following information.
See the scswitch(1M) man page for additional information.
Note –
Perform this procedure from any cluster node.
1. Become superuser on a cluster member.
# scstat -g
4. Manually set the state of these resources to OFFLINE on all of the nodes on which you manually stopped the resources.
# scswitch -c -h nodelist -j resource -f STOP_FAILED
Clears the flag.
-h nodelist
-j resource
Specifies the name of the resource to switch offline.
Specifies the flag name.
The resource group state should now be OFFLINE or ONLINE.
# scstat -g
The command scstat -g indicates whether the resource group remains in the ERROR_STOP_FAILED state. If the resource group is still in the ERROR_STOP_FAILED state, then run the following scswitch command to switch the resource group offline on the appropriate nodes.
# scswitch -F -g resource-group
Switches the resource group offline on all of the nodes that can master the group.
-g resource-group
Specifies the name of the resource group to switch offline.
This situation can occur if the resource group was being switched offline when the STOP method failure occurred and the resource that failed to stop had a dependency on other resources in the resource group. Otherwise, the resource group reverts to the ONLINE or OFFLINE state automatically after you have run the command in Step 4 on all of the STOP_FAILED resources.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11487 | What's New in the Solaris 9 9/04 Operating Environment
Solaris 9 Language Support
The Solaris 9 operating environment now includes support for 162 locale environments that cover 39 languages. These environments are provided on the Solaris 9 DVD, the Solaris 9 Software CDs, and the Solaris 9 Languages CD. The following section provides information on language support features.
For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.
Improved Data Interoperability
Data interoperability with non-Solaris environments has been improved in the Solaris 9 release. Additions include new iconv utilities for data conversion between UTF-8 and the following native encodings: HKSCS, GB18030, ISO 8859-11, and Hindi. Additionally, Japanese language support has been expanded through iconv modules. These modules convert between Solaris Japanese locale codesets and Japanese mainframe codesets from Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC.
For further information on language support in the Solaris 9 release, see the International Language Environments Guide.
New TrueType Fonts
The new TrueType fonts provide a common appearance between the codesets and offer support for the same typefaces across the codesets. The TrueType fonts are common to all European locales. Each Asian locale has its own TrueType fonts file.
For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.
Expanded Unicode Support
The Solaris 9 release offers broader support for Unicode. Additions include new Unicode (UTF-8) locales for Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon.
For further information about Unicode support in the Solaris 9 release, see the International Language Environments Guide.
Print Filter Enhancement—the mp Program
The mp program accepts international text files from various Solaris locales. The program produces output for the specified locale. Because the complex text layout (CTL) is supported in the mp program, the output contains proper text layout, such as bidirectional text rendering and shaping. Depending on the mp system font configuration for each locale, the PostScript output file can contain glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts.
For more information, see “Print Filter Enhancement With mp” in the International Language Environments Guide.
New iconv Modules
iconv modules enable conversion between native encoded data and Unicode. The following new iconv modules have been added to support new character sets:
Enhanced Conversion of Dtpad File Open/Save Codeset
Enhancements include the addition of an “encoding” option to the File Open/Save dialog box. This option supports file encoding changes with the iconv utility. This option enables users to open or save files in various encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16.
See the iconv(3C) man page.
Support for the New Chinese GB18030-2000 Character Set
The Solaris platform enables input, display, and print for the entire GB18030-2000 character set, including nearly 30,000 characters. Any application that runs on the Solaris platform can thus benefit from a wider set of Chinese characters. These glyphs are primarily Han characters, but the encoding also includes glyphs for minority languages such as Tibetan, Wei, Yi, and Mongolian.
GB18030-2000 support in the Solaris 9 release also includes backward compatibility to previous Chinese codesets, GBK, and GB2312. Conversion to other codesets such as Unicode is also included. Solaris developers do not need to change their procedures to access this new encoding support. Standard toolkits can use the new support.
For Java applications that need GB18030-2000 support, review J2SE at the following Web site:
New zh_CN.GB18030 Locale Enhanced From zh_CN.GBK
This new zh_CN.GB18030 locale is provided to support the new GB18030 standard encoding. This encoding is required by a law that the Chinese government has enacted.
New Chinese and Korean Collation Locales
Collation locales provide different collation options to users, such as stroke count and radical, phonetic, and dictionary options.
Wordbreaker Modules for Thai
The wordbreaker module is used to correctly break the Thai text into proper paragraphs, sentences, and words within Motif.
New Asian UTF-8 (Unicode) Locales
The File System Safe Universal Transformation Format, or UTF-8, is an encoding that is defined by X/Open® as a multibyte representation of Unicode. UTF-8 encompasses almost all of the characters for traditional single-byte and multibyte locales for European and Asian languages for Solaris locales.
New Thai Input Method
The new Thai input method supports the Thai input sequence checking, as defined in TIS 1566-2541 “Thai input/output methods for computer” standard (or “WTT”) by the Thai Industrial Standards Institute. The input sequence checking has 3 levels: level 0 (passthrough), level 1 (basic check), and level 2 (strict).
New Chinese Input Methods
More popular, powerful input methods (IM) in the Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese locales have been added for new character sets and new locales:
New Auxiliary Window for Chinese Input Methods
The Auxiliary window provides a user interface (UI) for input methods. The UI is “friendly” and extensible for all Chinese locales. New functions that are supported by the auxiliary window are as follows:
New zh_HK.BIG5HK Locale to Support HKSCS for Hong Kong, China
The new zh_HK.BIG5HK locale is provided to support the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS). The HKSCS is a supplementary character set of the Big-5 and ISO 10646 coding schemes. HKSCS contains Chinese characters that are needed in Chinese computing in Hong Kong. However, these characters are not contained in either the Big-5 or ISO 10646 standard character sets.
Additional Japanese iconv Modules
Additional Japanese language support includes iconv code conversions between Solaris Japanese locale codesets and Japanese mainframe codesets. Japanese locale codesets include eucJP, PCK, and UTF-8. Japanese mainframe codesets include Fujitsu JEF, Hitachi KEIS, and NEC JIPS.
New European and Middle Eastern Keyboard Support
The Solaris 9 release has added Sun I/O keyboard support for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, and Arabic. Also, support is added for the Sun Ray USB keyboard for TurkeyQ, TurkeyF, Belgian, and Arabic.
For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.
New Unicode (UTF-8) Locales for Europe and the Middle East
For the Solaris 8 10/00 release, Russian, Polish, and two new locales for Catalan were added to the European and Middle Eastern locales. For the Solaris 8 4/01 release, two additional languages, Turkish UTF-8 Codeset and Russian UTF-8 Codeset, were added.
In the Solaris 9 release, European and Middle Eastern language support also includes the addition of UTF-8 locales for Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Finland, and Belgium-Walloon.
The locale names are as follows:
Euro Default Currency Support
The following locales have changed from their national currency unit (NCU) to the euro currency glyph: |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11488 | Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Developer's Guide
AMX MBeans
All AMX MBeans are represented as interfaces in a subpackage of com.sun.appserv.management and are implemented by dynamic proxies on the client-side. While you can access AMX MBeans directly through standard JMX APIs, most users find the use of AMX interface (proxy) classes to be most convenient.
An AMX MBean belongs to an application server domain. There is exactly one domain per DAS. Thus all MBeans accessible through the DAS belong to a single Application Server administrative domain. All MBeans in an Application Server administrative domain, and hence within the DAS, belong to the JMX domain amx. Any MBeans that do not have the JMX domain amx are not part of AMX, and are neither documented nor supported for use by clients. All AMX MBeans can be reached navigationally through the DomainRoot.
AMX defines different types of MBean, namely, configuration MBeans, monitoring MBeans, utility MBeans and J2EE management (JSR 77) MBeans. These MBeans are logically related in the following ways:
Configuration MBeans
Configuration information for a given Application Server domain is stored in a central repository that is shared by all instances in that domain. The central repository can only be written to by the DAS. However, configuration information in the central repository is made available to administration clients via AMX MBeans.
Monitoring MBeans
Utility MBeans
Utility MBeans provide commonly used services to the Application Server.
J2EE Management MBeans
Other MBeans
MBean Notifications
Access to MBean Attributes
An AMX MBean Attribute is accessible in three ways:
All dotted names that are accessible via the command line interface are available as Attributes within a single MBean. This includes properties, which are Attributes beginning with the prefix property., for example, server.property.myproperty.
Note –
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Update Manager Command Line Options
Table 2-2 Update Manager Command Options
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11500 | Adelaide Town Hall
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Adelaide Town Hall was designed by Edmund Wright and Edward Woods, with construction commencing in 1863 and completed in 1866.[1][2] The tower is named after Prince Albert and the clock was installed in 1935.[2]
The hall is famous for an appearance by The Beatles on the balcony in 1964, which attracted an estimated 300,000 fans, their biggest crowd.[2] It serves as the seat of the Adelaide City Council, concerts with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and has function centre facilities available for hire.[4] It is one of the world's five greatest acoustic venues for symphonic concerts.
Adelaide Town Hall is listed on the Register of the National Estate.[5]
2. ^ a b c Ficher, P. and Seamark, K. H. (2005). Vintage Adelaide. East Street Publications. pp. 70–71. ISBN 1-921037-06-7.
3. ^ Australian Heritage Places Invantory,
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11501 | Anna Loginova
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Anna Loginova
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Born (1978-09-03)September 3, 1978
Vladimir, Russia
Died January 27, 2008(2008-01-27) (aged 29)
Moscow, Russia
Cause of death
Head injuries sustained from carjacking
Occupation Fashion model, bodyguard
Anna Loginova (Russian: Анна Логинова, 3 September 1978 – 27 January 2008) was a Russian fashion model and later a trained bodyguard. She ran an agency, staffed with female bodyguards, some trained by the ex-KGB, to give discreet protection to Moscow's billionaires and their wives and mistresses. She was killed in a carjacking incident in Moscow. Loginova was described as Russia's most famous female bodyguard.[1]
Modeling and business career[edit]
Loginova was previously a model, working in advertising campaigns for Chanel and BMW.[2] She also appeared almost naked[3] in the December issue of the Russian version of Maxim.[4]
She learned martial arts techniques and started a security firm, Stilet[5] (literally dagger), specializing in female bodyguards in 2005. The use of female bodyguards includes escorting the protected person to a restaurant where male bodyguards would be more noticeable and are generally required to wait outside.[6][7]
According to the Daily Mail and other sources, she died from head injuries sustained while clinging to the door handle of her Porsche Cayenne while being dragged along the street at high speed as a carjacker drove the car away. She reportedly was pushed out of the vehicle and, for a moment, held on to the door handle before receiving her fatal head injuries.[8] Police reported she died at the scene. She was 29 years old.[9] The stolen vehicle was later abandoned in southwest Moscow. The carjacker has not been found.[10] She left one child behind.[11] Loginova had previously been successful in thwarting attempts to steal her car by using martial arts against a car thief.[9] She was buried in the Ulybyshevo cemetery in Vladimir.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11503 | Cinema of Mongolia
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Cinema of Mongolia
Number of screens 24 (2011)[1]
Main distributors Tengis cinema
Urguu cinema
Soyombo cinema[2]
Produced feature films (2011)[3]
Fictional 1 (7.7%)
Animated -
Documentary 12 (92.3%)
Number of admissions (2011)[4]
Total 1,916,700
Gross Box Office[4]
Total MNT 5.11 billion
It is assumed that the first cinematographic performances in Mongolia happened between 1903 and 1913, as private events for the prince Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren and the Jebtsundamba in the capital Urga.
After the socialist revolution, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party decided in its fifth congress of 1925 to use movies as an instrument of mass education. From 1926 on, mobile projection facilities would regularly show Soviet films to the Mongolian people. The first permanent cinema "Ard" (ард, people) opened in the capital (now named Ulaanbaatar) in 1934. Eventually, every aimag center would have fixed cinemas, and every sums of Mongolia or negdel would have a mobile cinema. In the 1990s, many cinemas, fixed and mobile alike, closed down or reduced activities.
Mongol Kino[edit]
The national film studios, Mongol Kino, were founded in 1935, with Soviet technical assistance. Their first productions were a documentary on the "47th anniversary of the 1st May" and a fictional story named A Mongol son (Mongol Khüü) directed by the Russian Ilya Trauberg and Mongolian Demberel Baldan. The first Mongolian-directed movie was the black-and-white short feature Norjmaa's Destiny (Norjmaagiin Zam) by Demberel Baldan in 1938.
From then on, the Mongolian movie production focused around heroic revolutionary propaganda and ancient popular legends, still often under Russian direction. This program was very successful with movies like Sükhbaatar (1942) and Tsogt Taij (1945). The studios of Mongol Kino also produced documentaries and current news reports.
1950s and 1960s[edit]
After WWII, the party moved the focus on working class heroes, reflected in movies like New Year (Shine Jil, 1954) by Tseveeny Zandraa. Examples of this genre are Awakening (Serelt, 1957) by S. Genden and The Rejected Girl (Gologdson khüükhen) by Dendevyn Chimid-Osor. In 1955, the first musical comedy appeared, which started a trend that continued into the 1960s. The first colour movie was The Golden Yurt (Altan Örgöö, 1961), based on a folk tale. It was produced in cooperation with the East German DEFA studios. The music of the film, written by L. Mördorj, was played and recorded by the GDR Radio orchestra and became a classic of the Mongolian symphony. As a fairy tale film, it is rich with match moving and other special effects of cinematography.
1970s and 1980s[edit]
While the production of documentaries increased, the fictional stories turned to everyday life in the 1970s. One of the most famous movies of that time, The Clear Tamir (Tungalag Tamir, 1970) by Ravjagiin Dorjpalam, based on the novel by Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba, is however set during Mongolia's 1921 revolution. Other well-known productions were "The Legend of the Mother Oasis" ("Ehe Bürdiin domog"), made in 1976 by Gombojav Jigjidsuren (Гомбожавын Жигжидсүрэн) and Jamyangiin Buntar (Жамъяангийн Бунтар), and The Five Colors of the Rainbow (Solongiin tavan öngö) in 1979. The Leading Wrestler Garuda (Garid Magnai, 1983) by Jamyangiin Buntar marks a turning point, where the authors liberate themselves from the existing power structures.
1990s and 2000s[edit]
After the introduction of market economy, most mobile and permanent cinemas closed down. Mongolian productions had to seek partners outside of the former COMECON. However, some young filmmakers of the transformation period, such as N. Gankhuyag, B. Uranchimeg, J. Binder, made domestic success films.
The movie "Genghis Khan, Under Power of the Eternal Sky", starring Enkhtaivan Agvaantseren was the first Mongolian-Japanese co-production. State of Dogs (Nokhoin Oron, 1998) was written and directed collaboratively by the Belgian Peter Brosens and the Mongolian Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh.
The director Byambasuren Davaa has had international success with the German-Mongolian co-productions The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003, nominated for an Academy Award as foreign documentary in 2005) and The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005).
Elsnii Nuudel (Mongolian: Элсний нүүдэл, movement of sand), was a successful movie produced for the domestic market in 2007. Later known films are Iim negen durlal, Goyoliin Daashinz etc.
The 2008 historical film A Pearl in the Forest (Mongolian: Мойлхон) by director Enkhtaivan Agvaantseren is one of the first films to openly talk about events of the 1930s and the impact of the rise of Soviet communism on Mongolia. It is also one of the first films intended to present the history of the Buryats, one of the ethnic groups present in Mongolia.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11504 | Fischer–Tropsch process
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Reaction mechanism[edit]
The Fischer–Tropsch process involves a series of chemical reactions that produce a variety of hydrocarbons, ideally with to the formula (CnH(2n+2)). The more useful reactions produce alkanes as follows:
Fischer Tropsch intermediates and elemental reactions
Converting a mixture of H2 and CO into aliphatic products obviously should be a multi-step reaction with several sorts of intermediates. The growth of the hydrocarbon chain may be visualized as involving a repeated sequence in which hydrogen atoms are added to carbon and oxygen, the C/O-bond is split and a new C/C-bond is formed. For one CH2-group produced CO + 2H2 → (CH2) + H2O, several reactions are necessary • Associative adsorption of CO • Splitting of the C/O-bond • Dissociative adsorption of 2H2 • Transfer of 2H to the oxygen to yield H2O • Desorption of H2O • Transfer of 2H to the carbon to yield CH2
Addition of isotopically labelled alcohol to the feed stream results in incorporation of alcohols into product. This observation establishes the facility of C-O bond scission. Using 14C-labelled ethyene and propene over cobalt catalysts results in incorporation of these olefins into the growing chain. Chain growth reaction thus appears to involve both ‘olefin insertion’ as well as ‘CO-insertion’.[4]
Feedstocks: gasification[edit]
Feedstocks: GTL[edit]
Carbon monoxide for FT catalysis is derived from hydrocarbons. In gas to liquids (GTL) technology, the hydrocarbons are low molecular weight materials that often would be discarded or flared. GTL is economically viable when the gas price is relatively cheap on an energy equivalency basis to oil. Stranded gas provides relatively cheap gas. GTL is viable provided gas remains relatively cheaper than oil.
H2O + CO → H2 + CO2
H2O + CH4 → CO + 3 H2
Process conditions[edit]
Design of the Fischer-Tropsch process reactor[edit]
Efficient removal of heat from the reactor is basic need of the Fischer-Tropsch reactors since these reactions are characterized by high exothermicity. Four types of reactors are discussed:
Entrained flow reactor: Important requirement of the reactor for Fischer Tropsch process is to remove the heat of the reaction. This type of reactor contains two banks of heat exchangers which removes heat, remaining is removed by products and recycle of the system.The formation of heavy waxes should be avoided since this condenses on the catalyst and forms agglomeration.This leads to fluidization.Hence risers are operated over 570 K.
Slurry Reactors: Heat removal is done by internal cooling coils. Synthesis gas is bubbled through the waxy products and finely divided catalyst which is suspended in the liquid medium.This also provides agitation of the contents of the reactor. Catalyst particle size reduces diffusional heat and mass transfer limitations.Lower temperature in reactor leads to more viscous product and higher (> 570 K) gives undesirable products spectrum. However separation of the product from catalyst is a problem.
Fluid-bed- and circulating catalyst(riser) reactors: These are used for high temperature Fischer Tropsch synthesis (nearly 340oC) to produce low molecular weight olefinic hydrocarbons on alkalised fused iron catalysts. The fluid bed technology (as adapted from catalytic cracking of heavy petroleum distillates)was introduced by Hydrocarbon Research in the years 1946–1950 and named ‘Hydrocol’ process. A large scale Fischer Tropsch Hydrocol plant (3,50,000 tons per annum) operated during the years 1951–1957 in Brownsville, Texas. Due to technical problems and lacking economy at increasing petroleum availability this development was discontinued. Fluid bed Fischer Tropsch synthesis has recently been very successfully reinvestigated by Sasol. One reactor with a capacity of 5,00,000 tons per annum is now in operation and even larger ones are being built (nearly 8,50,000 tons per annum). The process is now used for mainly olefins C2, C7 production. This new development can be regarded as an important progress in Fischer Tropsch technology. A high temperature process with a circulating iron catalyst (‘Circulating fluid bed’, ‘riser reactor’, ‘entrained catalyst process’) was introduced by the Kellogg Company and a respective plant built at Sasol in 1956. It was improved by Sasol for successful operation. At Secunda, South Africa, Sasol has operated 16 advanced reactors of this type with a capacity of Approx. 3,30,000 tons per annum each. Now the circulating catalyst process is being replaced by the superior Sasol advanced fluid bed technology. Early experiments with cobalt-catalyst particles suspended in oil have been performed by Fischer. The bubble column reactor with a powdered iron slurry catalyst and a CO-rich syngas was particularly developed to pilot plant scale by Kölbel at the Rheinpreuben Company in 1953. Recently (since 1990) low temperature Fischer Tropsch slurry processes are under investigation for the use of iron and cobalt catalysts, particularly for the production of a hydrocarbon wax, to be used as such, or to be hydrocracked and isomerised to mainly Diesel fuel by Exxon and Sasol. Today slurry phase (bubble column) low temperature Fischer Tropsch synthesis is regarded by many authors as the most efficient process for Fischer Tropsch clean Diesel production. This Fischer Tropsch technology is also under development by the Statoil Company (Norway) for use on a vessel to convert associated gas at offshore oil fields into a hydrocarbon liquid. [5]
Product distribution[edit]
In general the product distribution of hydrocarbons formed during the Fischer–Tropsch process follows an Anderson–Schulz–Flory distribution,[6] which can be expressed as:
Wn/n = (1 − α)2αn−1
Cobalt-based catalysts are highly active, although iron may be more suitable for certain applications. Cobalt catalysts are more active for Fischer–Tropsch synthesis when the feedstock is natural gas. Natural gas has a high hydrogen to carbon ratio, so the water-gas-shift is not needed for cobalt catalysts. Iron catalysts are preferred for lower quality feedstocks such as coal or biomass. Synthesis gases derived from these hydrogen-poor feedstockes has a low-hydrogen-content and require the water-gas-shift reaction. Unlike the other metals used for this process (Co, Ni, Ru), which remain in the metallic state during synthesis, iron catalysts tend to form a number of phases, including various oxides and carbides during the reaction. Control of these phase transformations can be important in maintaining catalytic activity and preventing breakdown of the catalyst particles.
In addition to the active metal the catalysts typically contain a number of "promoters," including potassium and copper. Group 1 alkali metals, including potassium, are a poison for cobalt catalysts but are promoters for iron catalysts. Catalysts are supported on high-surface-area binders/supports such as silica, alumina, or zeolites.[7] Promotors also have an important influence on activity. Alkali metal oxides and copper are common promotors, but the formulation depends on the primary metal, iron vs cobalt.[8] Alkali oxides on cobalt catalysts generally cause activity to drop severely even with very low alkali loadings. C5+ and CO2 selectivity increase while methane and C2-C4 selectivity decrease. In addition, the olefin to parafin ratio increases.
Fischer–Tropsch catalysts are sensitive to poisoning by sulfur-containing compounds. Cobalt-based catalysts are more sensitive than for their iron counterparts. Iron as catalyst:Fischer Tropsch iron catalysts need alkali promotion to attain high activity and stability (e.g. 0.5 wt.% K2O).Addition of Cu for reduction promotion, addition of SiO2, Al2O3 for structural promotion and maybe some manganese can be applied for selectivity control (e.g. high olefinicity). The working catalyst is only obtained when – after reduction with hydrogen– in the initial period of synthesis several iron carbide phases and elemental carbon are formed whereas iron oxides are still present in addition to some metallic iron.With iron catalysts two directions of selectivity have been pursued. One direction has aimed at a low molecular weight olefinic hydrocarbon mixture to be produced in an entrained phase or fluid bed process (Sasol Synthol process).Due to the relatively high reaction temperature (approx. 340oC), the average molecular weight of the product is so low that no liquid product phase occurs under reaction conditions. The catalyst particles moving around in the reactor are small (particle diameter 100 mm) and carbon deposition on the catalyst does not disturb reactor operation. Thus a low catalyst porosity with small pore diameters as obtained from fused magnetite (plus promotors) after reduction with hydrogen is appropriate. For maximising the overall gasoline yield the olefins C3, C4 have been oligomerised at Sasol. However, recovering the olefins for use as chemicals in e.g. polymerization processes is advantageous today.The second direction of iron catalyst development has aimed at highest catalyst activity to be used at low reaction temperature where most of the hydrocarbon product is in the liquid phase under reaction conditions. Typically, such catalysts are obtained through precipitation from nitrate solutions. A high content of a carrier provides mechanical strength and wide pores for easy mass transfer of the reactants in the liquid product filling the pores. The main product fraction then is a paraffin wax, which is refined to marketable wax materials at Sasol, however, also can be very selectively hydrocracked to a high quality Diesel fuel.Thus iron catalysts are very flexible.
Ruthenium as a Fischer Tropsch catalyst:It is most active working at the lowest reaction temperature. It produces the highest molecular weight hydrocarbons (‘polymethylene synthesis’ Pichler and Buffleb performing thus the chain growth reaction in the cleanest mode; it acts as a Fischer Tropsch catalyst as the pure metal, without any promotors, thus providing the simplest catalytic system of Fischer Tropsch synthesis, where mechanistic conclusions should be the easiest – much easier than e.g. with iron as the catalyst.Like with nickel, the selectivity changes to mainly methane at elevated temperature. Its high price and limited world resources exclude industrial application. Systematic Fischer Tropsch studies with ruthenium catalysts should contribute substantially to the further exploration of the fundamentals of Fischer Tropsch synthesis.There is an interesting question to consider: what features have the metals nickel, iron, cobalt and ruthenium in common to let them be – and only them – Fischer Tropsch catalysts, converting the CO/H2 mixture to aliphatic (long chain) hydrocarbons in a ‘one step reaction’. The term ‘one step reaction’ means that reaction intermediates are not desorbed from the catalyst surface. In particular, it is amazing that the much carbided alkalized iron catalyst gives this reaction similarly as the just metallic ruthenium catalyst. It will be seen in the next section that the kinetic principle of ‘selective inhibition’ might be the common feature which applies,in spite of differences in catalyst composition, reaction intermediates, steps of reaction and corresponding kinetic schemes. [9]
LTFT and HTFT[edit]
High-temperature Fischer–Tropsch (or HTFT) is operated at temperatures of 330°C–350°C and uses an iron-based catalyst. This process was used extensively by Sasol in their coal-to-liquid plants (CTL). Low-Temperature Fischer–Tropsch (LTFT) is operated at lower temperatures and uses a cobalt based catalyst. This process is best known for being used in the first integrated Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) plant operated and built by Shell in Bintulu, Malaysia.[10]
In Britain, Alfred August Aicher obtained several patents for improvements to the process in the 1930s and 1940s.[14] Aicher's company was named Synthetic Oils Ltd. (Not related to a company of the same name in Canada)[15]
In Australia, Linc Energy commenced construction in 1999 of the world's first gas–liquid plant operating on synthesis gas produced by underground coal gasification.[19] The GTL plant uses the F-T process, and produced liquids in 2008.[20]
The largest scale implementation of Fischer–Tropsch technology are in a series of plants operated by Sasol in South Africa, a country with large coal reserves, but little oil. The first commercial plant opening in 1952, 40 miles south of Johannesburg.[21] Sasol uses coal and now natural gas as feedstocks and produces a variety of synthetic petroleum products, including most of the country's diesel fuel.[22]
PetroSA, a South African company which, in a joint venture, won project innovation of the year award at the Petroleum Economist Awards in 2008,[24] has the world's largest Gas to Liquids complexes at Mossel Bay in South Africa.[25] The refinery is a 36,000 barrels a day plant that completed semi-commercial demonstration in 2011, paving the way to begin commercial preparation. The technology can be used to convert natural gas, biomass or coal into synthetic fuels.[26]
Shell middle distillate synthesis[edit]
Ras Laffan, Qatar[edit]
UPM (Finland)[edit]
A demonstration-scale Fischer–Tropsch plant is owned and operated by Rentech, Inc., in partnership with ClearFuels, a company specializing in biomass gasification. Located in Commerce City, Colorado, the facility produces about 10 barrels per day (1.6 m3/d) of fuels from natural gas. Commercial-scale facilities are planned for Rialto, California; Natchez, Mississippi; Port St. Joe, Florida; and White River, Ontario.[28] Rentech closed down their pilot plant in 2013, and does not appear to be continuing work on their FT process and the proposed commercial facilities.
Research developments[edit]
U.S. Air Force certification[edit]
Carbon dioxide reuse[edit]
Carbon dioxide is not a typical feedstock for F-T catalysis. Hydrogen and carbon dioxide react over a cobalt-based catalyst, producing methane. With iron-based catalysts short-chain, unsaturated hydrocarbons are also produced.[36] Upon introduction to the catalyst's support, ceria functions as a reverse water gas shift catalyst, further increasing the yield of the reaction.[37] The short chain hydrocarbons were upgraded to liquid fuels over solid acid catalysts, such as zeolites.
Process efficiency[edit]
Using conventional FT technology the process ranges in carbon efficiency from 25 to 50 percent[38] and a thermal efficiency of about 50%[39] for CTL facilities idealised at 60%[40] with GTL facilities at about 60%[39] efficiency idealised to 80%[40] efficiency.
See also[edit]
1. ^ US Fuel Supply Statistics Chart
5. ^ Chemical Process Technology by Moulijn pg No 193-200
10. ^ pages 33–41
11. ^
13. ^ German Synthetic Fuels Scientist
16. ^ Smedley, Mark. "Small GTL's Market Reach as Great as Opec's, UK Firm Says". World Gas Intelligence. Retrieved 19 Dec 2012.
17. ^ Jamieson, Andrew. "Keeping the Options Open". Petroleum Economist. Retrieved LNG 2012.
18. ^ Lane, Jim (Nov 20, 2012). "Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?". BiofuelsDigest. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
19. ^ Linc gears up for Chinchilla GTL.
20. ^ First production of liquids
22. ^ "technologies & processes" Sasol
28. ^ (official site)
31. ^ Choren official web site
35. ^ "C-17 flight uses synthetic fuel blend". 2007-10-25. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
36. ^ Dorner, Robert; Dennis R. Hardy, Frederick W. Williams and Heather D. Willauer (2010). "Heterogeneous catalytic CO2 conversion to value-added hydrocarbons". Energy Environ. Sci. 3: 884–890. doi:10.1039/C001514H.
39. ^ a b Fischer-Tropsch Refining by Arno de Klerk
40. ^ a b
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11505 | Geoff Willis
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Geoffrey "Geoff" Willis (born 23 December 1959) is the Technology Director of the Mercedes Formula One team. He was also the Technical Director of Red Bull Racing team from 2007 to 2009 and Technical Director of Hispania Racing from 2010 to 2011.
In 1987 after a degree at Cambridge University in engineering, he was approached to join the design team of the Peter de Savary's British America's Cup challenge and he spent the next three years designing and developing hull and keel designs for the team in preparation for the competition in San Diego. Prior to working for Honda, Willis was employed as chief aerodynamicist by the Williams Formula One team and also worked as a consultant at the Leyton House team in the early 1990s. While at Leyton House, Willis met Adrian Newey and it was through this association that he joined Williams, after Newey was recruited by the British team. When Newey moved to rival McLaren in 1997, Willis was promoted, alongside Gavin Fisher, to take his role.
Willis joined the British American Racing outfit in 2001, which was later bought by Honda in 2005. His status within the team became unclear as of 22 June 2006, following the appointment of Shuhei Nakamoto as Senior Technical Director. Willis had been told to stop going to races in order to focus on aerodynamics, which appeared to conflict with the appointment of Mariano Alperin-Bruvera to head the aerodynamics group using Honda's new full-size wind tunnel. Willis eventually left the team later in the year. On 17 July 2007, Willis was hired by Red Bull Racing as the team's Technical Director, once again under Newey.[1] He left Red Bull in July 2009 for unknown reasons.[2]
Willis joined the new Hispania Racing F1 Team in March 2010.[3] In September 2011 he left HRT, reportedly because the team hadn't assured him of necessary financial backing for designing the car for 2012 Formula One season[4] and joined Mercedes as Technology director on 17 October 2011.
1. ^ "Geoff Willis joins Red Bull Technology". 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
2. ^ "Willis parts company with Red Bull". 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
3. ^ Freeman, Glenn (ed.) (2010-03-11). "Pit & Paddock: HRT: The Great Unknown". Autosport 199 (10): pp. 14–15.
4. ^ "Tech chief Willis leaves HRT" 18 October 2010, |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11506 | Hatfield–McCoy feud
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Hatfield-McCoy feud
Date 1863 – 1891
Location Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, West VirginiaKentucky
Causes American Civil War, land disputes, revenge killings
Parties to the civil conflict
Hatfield family
Logan Wildcats
McCoy family
Lead figures
4 Hatfields killed
1 sheriff's deputy killed
7 McCoys killed
The Hatfield–McCoy feud (1863–1891) involved two families of the West VirginiaKentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield while the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy. Those involved in the feud were descended from Ephraim Hatfield (born c. 1765) and William McCoy (born c. 1750). The feud has entered the American folklore lexicon as a metonym for any bitterly feuding rival parties. More than 100 years later, the story of the feud has become a modern symbol of the perils of family honor, justice, and vengeance.
William McCoy, the patriarch of the McCoys, was born in Ulster[citation needed] in the north of Ireland (Ulster-Scottish) around 1750. The family, led by grandson Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy, lived mostly on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork (a tributary of the Big Sandy River). Of English origin,[1] the Hatfields, led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, son of Ephraim and Nancy (Vance) Hatfield, lived mostly on the West Virginia side. The majority of the Hatfields living in Mingo County (then part of Logan County), West Virginia fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War; most McCoys, living in Pike County, Kentucky, also fought for the Confederacy; with the exception of Asa Harmon McCoy, who fought for the Union. The first real violence in the feud was the death of returning Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, murdered by a group of ex-Confederate Homeguards called the "Logan Wildcats." Devil Anse Hatfield was a suspect at first, but was later confirmed to have been sick at home at the time of the murder. It was widely believed that his uncle, Jim Vance, a member of the Wildcats, committed the murder.[2]
The Hatfield clan in 1897.
The Hatfields were more affluent than the McCoys and were well-connected politically. Devil Anse Hatfield's timbering operation was a source of wealth for his family, but he employed many non-Hatfields, and even hired McCoy family members Albert McCoy, Lorenzo Dow McCoy, and Selkirk McCoy.
Asa Harmon McCoy, who was despised by Jim Vance (uncle of Devil Anse Hatfield) for joining the Union Army during the Civil War, was discharged from the army early because of a broken leg. He returned home to a warning from Vance that Harmon could expect a visit from the County Wildcats, a local militia group with members from the Hatfield family including Devil Anse. Frightened by gunshots as he drew water from his well, Harmon hid in a nearby cave, supplied with food and necessities each day by his slave, Pete, but the Wildcats followed Pete's tracks in the snow, discovered Harmon, and fatally shot him on January 7, 1865.[3]
At first, Devil Anse was suspected, but later, after he was confirmed to have been confined to his bed, suspicion of guilt focused squarely on Vance. However, in an era when Harmon's military service was widely considered by many of the region's inhabitants to be in and of itself an act of disloyalty, even Harmon's own family believed that he had brought his murder upon himself.[citation needed] Eventually, the case withered, and no suspect was brought to trial. Historians now believe that this did not set off the feud but is an act segregated from it.[3][better source needed]
The second recorded instance of violence in the feud occurred 13 years later, in 1878, after a dispute about the ownership of a hog: Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of Devil Anse's, had the hog, but Randolph McCoy claimed it was his,[4] saying that the "notches" (markings) on the pig's ears were McCoy, not Hatfield, marks. The matter was taken to the local Justice of the Peace, Anderson "Preacher Anse" Hatfield,[5] who ruled for the Hatfields by the testimony of Bill Staton, a relative of both families. In June 1880, Staton was killed by two McCoy brothers, Sam and Paris, later acquitted on the grounds of self-defense.
A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield–McCoy feud.
The feud escalated after Roseanna McCoy entered a relationship (courtship) with Devil Anse Hatfield's son Johnson, known as "Johnse" (spelled "Jonce" in some sources), leaving her family to live with the Hatfields in West Virginia. Roseanna eventually returned to the McCoys, but when the couple tried to resume their relationship, Johnse Hatfield was arrested by the McCoys on outstanding Kentucky bootlegging warrants. He was freed from McCoy custody only when Roseanna made a desperate midnight ride to alert Devil Anse, who organized a rescue party. The Hatfield party surrounded the McCoys and took Johnse back to West Virginia before he could be transported to the Pikeville, Kentucky county seat for justice the next day.
Despite what was seen as a betrayal of her family on his behalf, Johnse Hatfield thereafter abandoned the pregnant Roseanna for her cousin, Nancy McCoy, marrying her in 1881.
The escalation continued in 1882 when Ellison Hatfield, brother of Devil Anse, was killed by three of Roseanna McCoy's young brothers: Tolbert, Pharmer, and Bud. The three McCoy brothers soon ended up in a violent brawl with a drunk Ellison and his other brother where Ellison was stabbed 26 times and finished off with a shot during an election day fight that took place in Kentucky. The McCoy brothers were initially arrested by Hatfield constables and were taken to Pikeville for trial. Secretly, Devil Anse Hatfield organized a large group of followers and intercepted the constables and their McCoy prisoners before they reached Pikeville. The brothers were taken by force to West Virginia to await the fate of mortally wounded Ellison Hatfield, and when Ellison finally died from his injuries, the McCoy brothers were killed by the Hatfields' vigilante justice in turn. They were tied to pawpaw bushes, where each was shot numerous times with a total of 5 shots fired. Their bodies were described as "bullet-riddled".[6]
Even though the Hatfields, and most inhabitants of the area, believed their revenge was warranted, up to about twenty men, including Devil Anse, were indicted. All of the Hatfields eluded arrest; this angered the McCoy family, who took their cause up with Perry Cline. Cline was married to Martha McCoy. Historians believe that Cline used his political connections to reinstate the charges and announced rewards for the Hatfields' arrest as an act of revenge. A few years prior, Cline lost a lawsuit against Devil Anse over the deed to thousands of acres of land. This just increased the hatred between the two families.
The feud reached its peak during the 1888 New Year's Night Massacre. Several members of the Hatfield clan surrounded the McCoy cabin and opened fire on the sleeping family. The cabin was set on fire in an effort to drive Randolph McCoy into the open. He escaped by making a break for it, but two of his children were shot, and his wife was beaten and left for dead. The remaining McCoys moved to Pikeville to escape the West Virginia raiding parties.
Between 1880 and 1891, the feud claimed more than a dozen members of the two families. On one occasion, the Governor of West Virginia even threatened to have his militia invade Kentucky. In response, Kentucky Governor S. B. Buckner sent his Adjutant General Sam Hill[7] to Pike County to investigate the situation. Nearly a dozen died, and at least 10 people were wounded.[8]
In 1888, Wall Hatfield and eight others were arrested by a posse led by Frank Phillips and brought to Kentucky to stand trial for the murder of Alifair McCoy, killed during the New Year's Massacre.[9] She had been shot after exiting the burning house. Because of issues of due process and illegal extradition, the United States Supreme Court became involved (Mahon v. Justice, 127 U.S. 700 (1888)).[10] The Supreme Court ruled 7–2 in favor of Kentucky, holding that, even if a fugitive is returned from the asylum state illegally instead of through lawful extradition procedure, no federal law prevents him from being tried. Eventually, the men were indeed tried in Kentucky, and all were found guilty. Seven received life imprisonment, while the eighth, Ellison "Cottontop" Mounts, was executed by hanging.[11] Thousands attended the hanging in Pikeville.
• Valentine "Uncle Wall" Hatfield, elder brother of Devil Anse, was overshadowed by Devil Anse's ambitions but was one of the eight convicted, dying in prison of unknown causes. He petitioned his brothers to assist in his emancipation from jail, but none came for fear of being captured and brought to trial. He was buried in the prison cemetery, which has since been paved over.
• William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, the younger and more militant brother of Valentine Hatfield, led the clan in most of their combative endeavors.
• Pliant Mahon, son-in-law of Valentine and brother of Doc,[clarification needed] served 14 years in prison before returning home to rejoin his ex-wife, who had remarried but left her second husband to live with Pliant again.
Fighting between the families eased following the hanging of Mounts. Trials continued for years until the 1901 trial of Johnse Hatfield, the last of the feud trials.
• January 7, 1865 (1865-01-07) – Former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, probably by the "Logan Wildcats" led by Jim Vance.[12] *1
• 1878 (1878) – Bill Staton (nephew of Randolph McCoy), as revenge for testifying on behalf of Floyd Hatfield in his trial for stealing a McCoy hog.[13] Shot by Sam McCoy, nephew of Randolph McCoy Sr.[14] *2
• August 9, 1882 (1882-08-09) – Ellison Hatfield, injured in a fight with Tolbert, Pharmer, and Randolph McCoy, Jr. on August 7, dying two days later.[15] *3
• August 9, 1882 (1882-08-09) – Tolbert McCoy, tied to pawpaw trees and killed as revenge for Ellison Hatfield's shooting/stabbing, on the day Ellison died. *4
• August 9, 1882 (1882-08-09) – Pharmer McCoy, tied to pawpaw trees and killed as revenge for Ellison Hatfield's shooting/stabbing. *4
• August 9, 1882 (1882-08-09) – Randolph McCoy Jr., tied to pawpaw trees and killed as revenge for Ellison Hatfield's shooting/stabbing.[16] *4
• 1886 (1886) – Jefferson "Jeff" McCoy, following his murder of mail carrier Fred Wolford[17] shot by "Cap" Hatfield[14] *5
• January 1, 1888 (1888-01-01) – Calvin McCoy, at Randolph's house by nine attackers led by Jim Vance. The attackers failed in their attempt to eliminate witnesses against them.[18] *6
• January 1, 1888 (1888-01-01) – Alifair McCoy, at Randolph's house by Ellison Mounts.
• January 7, 1888 (1888-01-07) – Jim Vance, killed by Frank Phillips.[14]
• January 18, 1888 (1888-01-18) – Deputy Bill Dempsey, wounded by Jim McCoy and killed by Frank Phillips in Battle of Grapevine Creek[19]
• February 18, 1890 (1890-02-18) – Ellison Mounts, hanged[20] for Alifair's murder.[11]
Numbers after asterisks (*) are cross references to names on the family trees below.
Hatfields and McCoys in the modern era[edit]
Tourists travel to parts of West Virginia and Kentucky each year to see the areas and historic relics which remain from the days of the feud. In 1999, a large project known as the "Hatfield and McCoy Historic Site Restoration" was completed, funded by a federal grant from the Small Business Administration. Many improvements to various feud sites were completed. A committee of local historians spent months researching reams of information to find out about the factual history of the events surrounding the feud. This research was compiled in an audio compact disc, the Hatfield–McCoy Feud Driving Tour. The CD is a self-guided driving tour of the restored feud sites and includes maps and pictures as well as the audio CD (see external link below).
Great-great-great grandsons of feud patriarch Randolph McCoy, Bo McCoy of Waycross, Georgia, and his cousin, Ron McCoy of Durham, North Carolina, organized a historic joint family reunion of the Hatfield and McCoy families in 2000. More than 5,000 people attended the reunion, which attained national attention.[23]
In 2002, Bo and Ron McCoy brought a lawsuit to acquire access to the McCoy Cemetery which holds the graves of six family members, including five slain during the feud. The McCoys took on a private property owner, John Vance, who had restricted access to the cemetery.[24] While the McCoys claimed victory in the suit, as of 2003 the cemetery was still not open to the general public.[citation needed]
The Hatfield-McCoy feud is featured in a musical comedy dinner show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Hatfield-McCoy production (July 2012)
In 2011, the Hatfields and McCoys Dinner Show, a musical comedy production, opened in the resort community of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The dinner show is held at 8 p.m. daily. During peak tourist seasons there is also a 2 p.m. lunch program.
The Hatfield and McCoy Reunion Festival and Marathon are held annually in June on a three-day weekend. The events take place in Pikeville, KY., Matewan, WV., and Williamson, WV. The festival commemorates the famed feud and includes a marathon and half-marathon (the motto is “no feudin’, just runnin’”), in addition to an ATV ride in all three towns. There is also a tug-of-war across the Tug Fork tributary near which the feuding families lived, a live re-enactment of scenes from their most famous fight, a motorcycle ride, live entertainment, Hatfield-McCoy landmark tours, a cornbread contest, pancake breakfast, arts, crafts, and dancing. Launched in 2000, the festival typically attracts thousands with more than 300 runners taking part in the races.[26]
The 1946 Disney cartoon short, The Martins and the Coys in Make Mine Music animated feature was another very thinly disguised caricature of the Hatfield–McCoy feud.[28]
In 1949, the Samuel Goldwyn feature film Roseanna McCoy told the story of the romance between the title character, played by Joan Evans, and Johnse Hatfield, played by Farley Granger.[29]
In 1950, Warner Bros. released a Merrie Melodies spoof of the Hatfield–McCoy feud titled "Hillbilly Hare", featuring Bugs Bunny interacting with members of the "Martin family" who had been feuding with the "Coy family". When Bugs Bunny is asked, "Be y'all a Martin or be y'all a Coy rabbit?", Bugs answers, "Well, my friends say I'm very coy!" and laughs. The Martin brothers chase Bugs for the rest of the short and are outwitted by him at every turn.[31]
The 1951 Abbott and Costello feature Coming Round the Mountain features a feud between the Winfields and McCoys.[32]
The two feuding Virginia families in the 2007 made-for-TV film Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud are called Hatfield and McCoy.[34]
Ann Rinaldi authored an historical novel titled The Coffin Quilt, based on a fictionalized account of the feud.[36]
There is a similar feud in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel, Huck finds himself in the middle of a feud between the Shepherdson and Grangerford families.[37]
The Hatfield–McCoy feud is said to be the inspiration for a long-running game show, Family Feud, and the Hatfields and McCoys actually appeared on the show in 1979.[41]
From May 28–30, 2012, U.S. television network History aired a three-part miniseries titled Hatfields & McCoys,[42] starring Kevin Costner as William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and co-starring Bill Paxton as Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy, Tom Berenger as Jim Vance, and Powers Boothe as Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield.[43][44] The miniseries set the record as the most-watched entertainment telecast in the history of advertising-supported basic cable.[45]
In 2013, NBC commissioned a pilot for a television show updating the feud to present-day Pittsburgh with Rebecca De Mornay, Virginia Madsen, Sophia Bush, and James Remar[46] but it was not picked up.[47]
On August 1, 2013, the reality television series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning premiered on the History. The series begins with an investor offering to set up the feuding families into business making moonshine, and follows the families' attempt to run the business together.[48]
In 1999, the interactive play "Rodeo and Julie-Ed" was first staged. The play was a barn-dance version of Shakespeare's classic with the Hatfields and McCoys as the feuding families.[49]
The Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee features a musical show loosely based on the events of the feud. Dinner patrons are seated at tables in either a Hatfield or McCoy section.[50]
Theatre West Virginia's second drama, Hatfields and McCoys first opened in 1970 to immediate critical acclaim for its musical score and its portrayal of mountain history.[51] This outdoor drama continues to be presented each summer at the Cliffside Amphitheater located near Beckley, West Virginia.[52]
iPhone Tour App[edit]
In 2013, the first Hatfield & McCoy Feud iPhone app was launched entitled "Hatfield & McCoy Feud Tour App." It was created by direct descendants of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The tour program includes feud site locations in Kentucky & West Virginia, background information about each site and historical photographs. It features a GPS map to assist in locating the feud sites in areas where GPS signal is available. The program is available in Apple's App Store and iTunes.
Hatfield genealogy[edit]
Devil Anse Hatfield family tree[edit]
To view, click on the righthand side of the bar below.
Names in red indicate those who were killed as a direct result of the feud.[53]
Names in orange highlight intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.
Numbers in green square brackets [ ] are cross references to the timeline in the "Deaths" section above
McCoy genealogy[edit]
Randolph McCoy family tree[edit]
Names in orange highlight intermarriages between Hatfield and McCoy.
Numbers in green square brackets [ ] are cross-references to the timeline in the "Deaths" section above.[53][54]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "From Roots to Nuts: HATFIELD Thomas, I". Genfan.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
2. ^ Pearce p. 59–60.
3. ^ a b History.com. "The Hatfield and McCoy Feud". Retrieved 24 October 2013.
4. ^ "Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Beckley Post-Herald August 7, 1957". Wvculture.org. 1957-08-07. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
5. ^ "Anderson "Preacher Anse" Hatfield". Ghat.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
6. ^ Rice, p. 26.
7. ^ Hill, Samuel E., Adjutant General of Kentucky: 1887 – 1891. "What in Sam Hill ... started the Hatfield and McCoy Feud? Report from the Adjutant General of Kentucky, 1888". National Guard History eMuseum. Kentucky.gov. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
8. ^ Current Opinion.p.417 list of killed/wounded. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
9. ^ Rice p. 70.
10. ^ "''Mahon v. Justice'', 127 U.S. 700 (1888)". Caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
11. ^ a b Rice p. 111.
12. ^ Rice p. 13.
13. ^ Rice p. 17.
14. ^ a b c Munsey Magazine.p.508. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
15. ^ Rice pp. 24, 27.
16. ^ Rice p. 28.
17. ^ Rice pp. 33–35.
18. ^ Rice pp. 62–63.
19. ^ Munsey Magazine.p.508-509. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
20. ^ "''The Evening Bulletin'', Maysville Ky, February 19, 1890. p.4". Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
21. ^ Game Show Network airs milestone episodes, including Hatfield-McCoy battle.[1]
22. ^ Family Feud episode clip on YouTube
23. ^ The Hatfield–McCoy reunion at About.com: Genealogy
24. ^ Hatfields' Family Feud Cemetery, Chicago Tribune, January 29, 2003.
25. ^ Hatfield–McCoy Regional Recreation Area at AmericanTrails.org
26. ^ "Hatfield and McCoy Reunion Festival and Marathon." Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary. Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc., 2010. Credo Reference. Web. 17 September 2012.
27. ^ Our Hospitality at the Internet Movie Database
28. ^ The Martins and the Coys at the Internet Movie Database
29. ^ Roseanna McCoy at the Internet Movie Database
30. ^ Comin' Round the Mountain at the Internet Movie Database
31. ^ "Hillbilly Hare" at the Internet Movie Database
32. ^ Comin' Round the Mountain at the Internet Movie Database
33. ^ The Hatfields and the McCoys at the Internet Movie Database
34. ^ Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud at the Internet Movie Database
35. ^ Hatfields & McCoys: Bad Blood at the Internet Movie Database
36. ^ The Coffin Quilt on Amazon.com
37. ^ Patrick Salkeld, "The Bitter Feud Between the Hatfields and McCoys of West Virginia", Yahoo! Voices, 14 Sep 2010.
38. ^ "The Flintstone Hillbillies" at the Internet Movie Database
39. ^ "A Feud Is A Feud" at the Internet Movie Database
40. ^ "Feud with a Dude" at the Internet Movie Database
41. ^ Maranzani, Barbara (2012-05-29). "7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Hatfields and McCoys". History.com. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
42. ^ Imbrogno, Douglas (2012-04-14). "Hatfield & McCoy feud fuels star treatment". Gazette-Mail. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
43. ^ "Hatfields & McCoys". History.com. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
44. ^ "Hatfields & McCoys (2012)". IMDb. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
45. ^ "Hatfields & McCoys' is a ratings record-setter", Associated Press, June 1, 2012, archived from the original on 2012-06-05
46. ^ Hatfields & McCoys at Internet Movie Database
47. ^ "''Chicago Tribune'' article "NBC passes on 'Hatfields,' six other pilots, cancels 'Deception'"". Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
48. ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (1 August 2013). "What's On Thursday". New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
49. ^ Skagen, Peter. "Rodeo and Julie-Ed (1999)". Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
50. ^ "HatfieldMcCoyDinnerFeud.com". HatfieldMcCoyDinnerFeud.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
51. ^ "History". Theatre West Virginia. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
52. ^ "Hatfields and McCoys". Theatre West Virginia. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
53. ^ a b Rice (inside rear cover).
54. ^ "Family Group Record – Randolph 'Ranel' MCCOY (AFN:1RJ9-QNF)". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
Further reading[edit]
• Dotson, Tom (2013). The Hatfield & McCoy Feud after Kevin Costner: Rescuing History. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 354. ISBN 978-1484177853.
• Alther, Lisa (2012). Blood Feud: The Hatfields & the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance. Lyons Press. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-7627-7918-5.
• Rice, Otis K (1982). The Hatfields and McCoys. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1459-4.
• Pearce, John Ed (1994). Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1874-3.
• U.S. Supreme Court Mahon v. Justice, 127 U.S. 700 (1888)
• Jones, Virgil Carrington. The Hatfields and the McCoys. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948.
• Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8078-4216-8.
• Hardy, Phillip (2011). Kingdom of the Hollow: The Story of the Hatfields and McCoys. Lulu Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4583-6994-9.
• King, Dean (2013). The Feud: the Hatfields & McCoys, the true story. New York: Little, Brown and Company. p. 430. ISBN 978-0-316-16706-2.
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The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Clavicula Salomonis Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) focused on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-seventeenth century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older.[1][2] It is divided into five books, the Ars Goetia, the Ars Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almandel, and the Ars Notoria.[1][3]
Ars Goetia[edit]
The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a mistake that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not have been compiled before 1570. Indeed, it appears that the Ars Goetia is more dependent upon Scot's translation of Weyer than Weyer's work in itself. Additionally, some material was used from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and the Heptameron by pseudo-Pietro d'Abano[note 2][1][5] and from the Magical Calender.[6]
Weyer's Officium Spirituum, which may be related to a 1583 manuscript titled "The Office of Spirits",[7] appears to have ultimately be an elaboration on a fifteenth century manuscript titled Le Livre des Esperitz (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the Ars Goetia).[2][5]
In a slightly later copy made by Dr. Thomas Rudd, this portion was labelled "Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia," and the seals and demons were paired with those of the seventy-two angels of the Shemhamphorasch,[3] who were intended to protect the conjurer and control the demons he summoned.[8] The angelic names and seals were derived from a manuscript by Blaise de Vigenère, whose papers were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.[5] Rudd may have derived his copy of Liber Malorum Spirituum from now a lost work by Johannes Trithemius,[5] who taught Agrippa, who in turn taught Weyer.
This portion of the work was later translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and published by Aleister Crowley under the title The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King." Crowley added some additional invocations previously unrelated to the original work, as well as essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration instead of demon summoning.[9]
The Seventy-Two Demons[edit]
1. King Bael
2. Duke Agares
3. Prince Vassago
4. Marquis Samigina
5. President Marbas
6. Duke Valefor
7. Marquis Amon
8. Duke Barbatos
9. King Paimon
10. President Buer
11. Duke Gusion
12. Prince Sitri
13. King Beleth
14. Marquis Leraje
15. Duke Eligos
16. Duke Zepar
17. Count/President Botis
18. Duke Bathin
19. Duke Sallos
20. King Purson
21. Count/President Marax
22. Count/Prince Ipos
23. Duke Aim
24. Marquis Naberius
25. Count/President Glasya-Labolas
26. Duke Buné
27. Marquis/Count Ronové
28. Duke Berith
29. Duke Astaroth
30. Marquis Forneus
31. President Foras
32. King Asmoday
33. Prince/President Gäap
34. Count Furfur
35. Marquis Marchosias
36. Prince Stolas
37. Marquis Phenex
38. Count Halphas
39. President Malphas
40. Count Räum
41. Duke Focalor
42. Duke Vepar
43. Marquis Sabnock
44. Marquis Shax
45. King/Count Viné
46. Count Bifrons
47. Duke Vual
48. President Haagenti
49. Duke Crocell
50. Knight Furcas
51. King Balam
52. Duke Alloces
53. President Caim
54. Duke/Count Murmur
55. Prince Orobas
56. Duke Gremory
57. President Ose
58. President Amy
59. Marquis Orias
60. Duke Vapula
61. King/President Zagan
62. President Valac
63. Marquis Andras
64. Duke Haures
65. Marquis Andrealphus
66. Marquis Cimeies
67. Duke Amdusias
68. King Belial
69. Marquis Decarabia
70. Prince Seere
71. Duke Dantalion
72. Count Andromalius
Ars Theurgia Goetia[edit]
The Ars Theurgia Goetia mostly derives from Trithemius's Steganographia, though the seals and order for the spirits are different due to corrupted transmission via manuscript.[10][5] Rituals not found in Steganographia were added, in some ways conflicting with similar rituals found in the Ars Goetia and Ars Paulina. Most of the spirits summoned are tied to points on a compass, four Emperors tied to the cardinal points, sixteen Dukes tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, additional directions between those. There are an additional eleven Wandering Princes, totaling thirty one spirit leaders who each rule several to a few dozen spirits.[11]
Ars Paulina[edit]
Derived from book two of Trithemius's Steganographia and from portions of the Heptameron, but purportedly delivered by Paul the Apostle instead of (as claimed by Trithemius) Raziel. Elements from The Magical Calendar, astrological seals by Robert Turner's 1656 translation of Paracelsus's Archidoxes of Magic, and repeated mentions of guns and the year 1641 indicate that this portion was written in the later half of the seventeenth century.[12][13] Traditions of Paul communicating with heavenly powers are almost as old as Christianity itself, as seen in some interpretations of 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. The Ars Paulina is in turn divided into two books of its own, the first detailing twenty four angels aligned with the twenty four hours of the day, the second (derived more from the Heptameron) detailing the three hundred sixty spirits of the degrees of the zodiac.[14]
Ars Almandel[edit]
Mentioned by Trithemius and Weyer, the latter of whom claimed an Arabic origin for the work. A fifteenth century copy is attested to by Robert Turner, and Hebrew copies were discovered in the twentieth century. The Ars Almandel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying.[15][16]
Ars Notoria[edit]
Editions and Translations[edit]
• Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, (1898). Later republished as "The Secret Tradition in Goetia," includes large portions of the Lemegeton, particularly the Goetia.[9]
• Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic, (1970). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Ars Goetia, missing large portions of the the rituals involved.[9]
• Peterson, Joseph H. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (2001), ISBN 978-1-57863-220-6. Considered "the definitive version"[21] and "the standard edition."[22]
4. ^ a b The Book of Ceremonial Magic, part I, chapter III, section 2: "The Lesser Key of Solomon"; Arthur Edward Waite; London, 1913; available online at The Internet Sacred Text Archive, (direct link to section).
5. ^ a b c d e Rudd, Ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.31-43
10. ^ Peterson, p.xv.
11. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.53-57
12. ^ Peterson, p. xv-xvi
13. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.57-59
14. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.57-59
15. ^ Peterson, p. xvi
16. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.59-60
17. ^ Peterson, p. xvii
18. ^ Rudd, ed. Skinner & Rankine; p.60-63.
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Tolkien's legendarium character
Aliases Balar, Gaerys, Yssion
Race Ainur
Book(s) The Silmarillion (1977)
Ossë ([ˈosse]; from the Valarin Ošošai, Oššai) is a fictional character in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. He is introduced in The Silmarillion as an angelic being known as a Maia, associated with Ulmo, one of the Valar (analogous to archangels).
A spirit of the sea in the service of Ulmo, Ossë guarded the waters around Middle-earth. He was married to Uinen, and he was a friend of Círdan the Shipwright. During the Years of the Trees, he briefly entered into the service of Melkor and began causing wanton storms which made traveling by sea particularly unsafe. He was persuaded to stop by Uinen, but his taste for storms did not quite disappear.
Ossë was a friend of the Sindar, and was valued as high as the Valar by them. This relationship started before the coming of the Sindar to Valinor, while they dwelled on shores of Middle-earth, waiting for their leader. It was against Ossë's will that they ever go to Valinor.
In older versions of The Silmarillion, Ossë is a Vala in his own right, and often opposed a Maia of Ulmo. |
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Amarnath Temple, attraction to pilgrimages as early as 300 BCE.
Hindu temples[edit]
Akshardham Temple, a Hindu temple in New Delhi, India.
These may also be called by other names, including mandir or mandira, ambalam, kavu, koil or kovil, déul, raul, devasthana and devalaya, depending on the region in the Indian subcontinent and its local language.
Yamunotri temple, a shrine dedicated to the goddess, Yamunotri is one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism, and part of the Chota Char Dham Yatra circuit, dates around 11,000 BCE.[2]
Buddhist temples[edit]
Wat Phra Kaew, Buddhist temple
Jain temples[edit]
Mesopotamian temples[edit]
Egyptian temples[edit]
Ancient Egyptian temples were meant as places for the gods to reside on earth. Indeed, the term the Egyptians most commonly used to describe the temple building, ḥwt-nṯr, means "mansion (or enclosure) of a god".[5] A god's presence in the temple linked the human and divine realms and allowed humans to interact with the god through ritual. These rituals, it was believed, sustained the god and allowed it to continue to play its proper role in nature. They were therefore a key part of the maintenance of maat, the ideal order of nature and of human society in Egyptian belief.[6] Maintaining maat was the entire purpose of Egyptian religion,[7] and thus it was the purpose of a temple as well.[8] Ancient Egyptian temples were also of economic significance to Egyptian society. The temples stored and redistributed grain and came to own large portions of the nation's arable land (some estimate as much as 33% by the New Kingdom period).[9]
Greco-Roman temples[edit]
Pagan temples[edit]
Zoroastrian temples[edit]
The Yazd Atash Behram
Sikh temples[edit]
A Sikh temple is called a Gurdwara, literally the doorway to the Guru. Its most essential element is the presence of the Guru, Guru Granth Sahib. The Gurdwara has an entrance from all sides, signifying that they are open to all without any distinction whatsoever. The Gurdwara has a Darbar Sahib where the Guru Granth Sahib is seen and a Langar where people can eat free food.[10] A Gurdwara may also have a library, nursery, and classroom.[11] A Gurdwara can be identified from a distance by tall flagpoles bearing the Nishan Sahib, the Sikh flag.
Jewish synagogues and temples[edit]
Christian temples[edit]
Iglesia ni Cristo temples[edit]
Iglesia ni Cristo church buildings serve as places of worship and other religious functions, are "vehicles for glorifying God." These are described by Culture and customs of the Philippines, a book published by Greenwood Publishing Group, as structures "which employ exterior neo-Gothic vertical support columns with tall narrow windows between, interlocking trapezoids, and rosette motifs, as well as tower and spires." There are multiple entrances leading to the main sanctuary, where males and females sit on either side of the aisle facing a dais where sermons are made. The choir loft is located behind the dais, and in larger churches, baptistry pools for immersion baptism are located at the back of the church.[12] Meanwhile, Fernando Nakpil-Zialcita, an anthropologist from Ateneo de Manila University.[13] The distinctive spires represent "the reaching out of the faithful to God." Churches were started to be built in this style during the late 1940s and early 1950s with the first concrete chapel built in Sampaloc, Manila in 1948.
Latter Day Saint movement[edit]
LDS Church[edit]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a prolific builder of "Latter-day Saint" or "Mormon" temples. There are 142 operating temples (which includes 1 previously dedicated, but closed for renovation), 14 under construction, and 14 announced (not yet under construction).[16] Latter-day Saint temples are reserved for performing and undertaking only the most holy and sacred of covenants and special of ordinances. They are distinct from meeting houses and chapels where weekly worship services are held. The temples are built and kept under strict sacredness and are not to be defiled. Thus, strict rules apply for entrance, including church membership and regular attendance. During the open-house period after its construction and before the temple is dedicated, the temple is open to the public for tours.[17]
Other Latter Day Saint denominations[edit]
Various other sects of the church founded by Joseph Smith, Jr., initially known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also have temples.[18]
Masonic temples[edit]
A Typical Masonic Lodge
Temple in Islam[edit]
Example of a mosque : the Mosque of Uqba (Great Mosque of Kairouan) is one of the most important mosques in the Muslim West, Tunisia.
An Islamic temple is called a "mosque" or "masjid" in Arabic, which means "the place for kneeling (to God)."
Göbekli Tepe, located in southern Turkey, was built in 8th millennium BCE - 10th millennium BCE.
Convention allows the use of temple in the following cases:
See also[edit]
2. ^ "In Search Of The First Civilizations" By Michael Wood, p. 62
3. ^ "New York Buddhist Temple for World Peace". Kadampanewyork.org. 1997-08-01. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
6. ^ Dunand and Zivie-Coche 2005, pp. 89–91
7. ^ Assmann 2001, p. 4
9. ^ André Dollinger. The Ancient Egyptian Economy. pp. 5 [1] Retrieved June 19 2012
10. ^ "The Gurdwara". http://www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
11. ^ "Gurdwara Requirements". http://www.worldgurudwaras.com. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
12. ^ Paul A. Rodell (2002). Culture and customs of the Philippines. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 86. ISBN 0-313-30415-7. ISSN 1097-0738. LCCN 2001023338. LCC DS664 .R63 2001. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
13. ^ "Fernando Zialcita, Ph.D.". Ateneo de Manila University School of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
16. ^ "List of Temples".
17. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions".
19. ^ "FLDS temple nearly complete". Provo Daily Herald (AP). 31 January 2006.
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The 1990s is often considered the end of Modernity and the dawn of the Postmodern age, even though the first traces of postmodernity takes place as far back as the 1940s,[1] however, some contemporary theory has proposed that the 1990's actually marked the end of this era, having peaked during the 1980's. The economies and living standards of some countries such as South Korea and Ireland improved to such an extent that they were considered First World nations by the decade's end.
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RPM Package Manager (RPM)
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Original author(s) Red Hat
Developer(s) Community & Red Hat[1][2]
Stable release 4.11.2 / 13 February 2014; 28 days ago (2014-02-13)
Written in C, Perl[3]
Operating system Linux, Unix-like
Type Package management system
License GPL
Website www.rpm.org
Red Hat Package Manager or RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a package management system.[4] The name RPM variously refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions; the file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.
Whereas an RPM typically contains the compiled version of the software, an SRPM contains either the source code corresponding to that RPM or the scripts of a non-compiled software package.
Originally standing for Red Hat Package Manager, RPM now stands for "RPM Package Manager", a recursive acronym.
RPM was originally written in 1997 by Erik Troan and Marc Ewing,[5] based on pms, rpp, and pm experiences.
pm was written by Rik Faith and Doug Hoffman in May 1995 for Red Hat Software. The design and implementation of pm was influenced greatly by previous experience with pms(1), a Package Management System designed and implemented by Rik Faith and Kevin Martin in the fall of 1993 for the Bogus Linux Distribution. pm preserves the key features and paradigms of pms, while eliminating arbitrary limitations present in the implementation. pm provides greatly enhanced database support for tracking and verifying installed packages[6][7][8]
For a system administrator performing software installation and maintenance, the use of package management rather than manual building has advantages such as simplicity, consistency and the ability for these processes to be automated and non-interactive.
Features of RPM include:
• RPM packages can be cryptographically verified with GPG and MD5
• Original source archive(s) (e.g. .tar.gz, .tar.bz2) are included in SRPMs, making verification easier
• PatchRPMs and DeltaRPMs, the RPM equivalent of a patch file, can incrementally update RPM-installed software
• Automatic build-time dependency evaluation.
Local operations[edit]
Packages may come from within a particular distribution (for example Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or be built for it by other parties (for example RPM Fusion for Fedora).[9] Circular dependencies among mutually dependent RPMs (so-called "dependency hell") can be problematic;[10] in such cases a single installation command needs to specify all the relevant packages.
RPMs are often collected centrally in one or more repositories on the internet. A local site often has its own local RPM repositories which may either act as local mirrors of such internet repositories or be locally maintained collections of useful RPMs.
Front ends[edit]
Several front-ends to RPM ease the process of obtaining and installing RPMs from repositories and help in resolving their dependencies. These include:
Local RPM installation database[edit]
Whilst the RPM format is the same across different Linux distributions, the detailed conventions and guidelines may vary across them.
Package filename and label[edit]
An RPM is delivered in a single file, normally in the format:
such as:
where <name> is libgnomeuimm-2.0.
Source code may also be distributed in RPM packages; the <architecture> part is specified as src:
RPMs with the noarch.rpm extension refer to packages which do not depend on a certain computer's architecture. These include graphics and text for another program to use, and programs written in interpreted programming languages such as Python programs and shell scripts.
The RPM contents also include a package label, which contains the following pieces of information:
• software name
• software version (the version taken from original upstream source of the software)
• package release (the number of times the package has been rebuilt using the same version of the software). This field is also often used for indicating the specific distribution the package is intended for by appending strings like "mdv" (formerly, "mdk") (Mandriva Linux), "mga" (Mageia), "fc4" (Fedora Core 4), "rhl9" (Red Hat Linux 9), "suse100" (SUSE Linux 10.0) etc.
• architecture for which the package was built (i386, i686, x86_64, ppc, etc.)
The package label fields do not need to match the filename.
Library packaging[edit]
Libraries are distributed in two separate packages for each version. One contains the precompiled code for use at run-time, while the second one contains the related development files such as headers, etc. Those packages have "-devel" appended to their name field. The system administrator should ensure that the versions of the binary and development packages match.
The format is binary and consists of four sections:[4]
• The lead, which identifies the file as an RPM file and contains some obsolete headers.
• The signature, which can be used to ensure integrity and/or authenticity.
• The header, which contains metadata including package name, version, architecture, file list, etc.
• A file archive (the payload), which usually is in cpio format, compressed with gzip. The rpm2cpio tool enables retrieval of the cpio file without needing to install the RPM package.[14]
• More recent versions of RPM can also use bzip2, lzip,[15] lzma, or xz compression.
• RPM 5.0 format supports using xar for archiving.
SPEC file[edit]
The "Recipe" for creating an RPM package is a spec file. Spec files end in the ".spec" suffix and contain the package name, version, RPM revision number, steps to build, install, and clean a package, and a changelog. Multiple packages can be built from a single RPM spec file, if desired. RPM packages are created from RPM spec files using the rpmbuild tool.
Spec files are usually distributed within SRPM files, which contain the spec file packaged along with the source code.
A typical RPM is pre-compiled software ready for direct installation. The corresponding source code can also be distributed. This is done in an SRPM, which also includes the "SPEC" file describing the software and how it is built. The SRPM also allows the user to compile, and perhaps modify, the code itself.
A software package may contain only scripts that are architecture-independent. In such a case only an SRPM may be available; this is still an installable RPM.
As of June 2010, there are two versions of RPM in development: one led by the Fedora Project and Red Hat, and the other by a separate group led by a previous maintainer of RPM, a former employee of Red Hat.
The rpm.org community's first major code revision was in July 2007; version 4.8 was released in January 2010, version 4.9 in March 2011 and 4.10 in May 2012.
This version is used by distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE's openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Mageia,[16] and formerly Mandriva (only for 2009.0–2010.2).
RPM v5[edit]
The RPM maintainer since 1999, Jeff Johnson, continued development efforts together with participants from several other distributions. RPM version 5 was released in May 2007.
This version is used by distributions such as Unity Linux, Wind River Linux, and cAos Linux, and also by the OpenPKG project which provides packages for other common UNIX-platforms. Mandriva has currently switched to it for their development branch, with 2011.0 becoming its first release using it.[17]
See also[edit]
• Autopackage — a "complementary" package management system
• Delta ISO — an ISO image which contains RPM Package Manager files
• dpkg — package management system used by Debian and its derivatives
• List of Linux distributions
• Portage — package management system used by Gentoo
• Ports and Packages — FreeBSD's package management system
• Ports and Packages — OpenBSD and NetBSD package management system
• pkg-config — queries libraries to compile software from its source code
• pkgsrc — package management system focusing on NetBSD, but available for Solaris, Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, BSD/OS, AIX, Interix (Microsoft Windows Services for Unix), DragonFlyBSD, OSF/1, HP-UX, QNX, and Haiku
1. ^ "RPM -- plans, goals, etc.". Max Spevack <mspevack redhat com>. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
2. ^ "RPM.org FAQ". Retrieved 2013-08-25.
3. ^ Bailey, Edward C (2000). "Chapter 1: An Introduction to Package Management". Maximum RPM: Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit. Red Hat, Inc. pp. 22–25. ISBN 978-1888172782. Retrieved 2013-08-13.
4. ^ a b Bailey, Edward C (2000). "Appendix A: Format of the RPM File". Maximum RPM: Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit. Red Hat, Inc. pp. 325–336. ISBN 978-1888172782. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
5. ^ "RPM Project Roadmap". rpm5.org. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
6. ^ RPM Guide-RPM - Design Goals
7. ^ BOGUS Announce
8. ^ Maximum RPM:Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit - Ancestors of RPM
9. ^ "RPM Fusion". rpmfusion.org. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
10. ^ "An Analysis of RPM Validation Drift". USENIX Association. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
11. ^ "Zypper - MeeGo wiki".
12. ^ "FAQs: About the Projects". Ark Linux Official Site.
13. ^ "Repair an RPM database safely". Retrieved 2011-11-11.
14. ^ "Supplemental Packaging Software". Fedora Project. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
15. ^ "Add lzip support". Retrieved 2013-10-24.
16. ^ Mageia 3 Release Notes: Package management, mageia.org, 2013-05-19
17. ^ Bodnar, Ladislav & Smith, Jesse (2010-11-22), DistroWatch Weekly, DistroWatch, retrieved 2010-11-22
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Games List[edit]
It pretty much seems few people care about the SG-1000 :( which is sad, it gave birth to Wonder Boy for a start! Anyway I've added a games list fo the Mark I/Mark II, I figured adding it to the page would be more sensible than making a seperate one (like the Mega Drive or Saturn has) because there's so few. I'm pretty sure that the list is complete. I used a Emulation site as reference but obviously for thier sake I cannot post as a source, though if you check various emulation sites, you should be able to find the total amount of games mixed in with the Master System titles. Hope this is alright - Dwitefry, 18:24 6 July 2008
Taiwanese name[edit]
I'd like to see a translation of the Taiwanese name "阿羅士" for the console added... A quick altavista translation gives "Arab League Gentleman", which I'm guessing is not the correct term :P -- 22:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Games list[edit]
The paragraphs after a few of the sections on the list of SG-1000/SC-3000 series games need revision. Could anyone with knowledge of the SG-1000 help to clarify these?--Classicrockfan42 (talk) 06:12, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Sega SG-1000 in France[edit]
"and in other countries, such as France": do you have a source and more information about the release in France? I can't find any on Internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk) 12:14, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Only SC-3000 was released in Australia and Europe (including France). The original SG-1000 was only released in Japan and New Zealand, whilst the SG-1000 II was only released in Japan and Taiwan. (talk) 08:09, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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This review is transcluded from Talk:SG-1000/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Taylor Trescott (talk · contribs) 14:10, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I will be reviewing this article. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 14:10, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm looking forward to it whenever you're ready. I tend to think it's pretty interesting and it was a tough one to find information for. Red Phoenix let's talk... 13:22, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
@Taylor Trescott: Hey, not to get antsy here, but it has been two weeks. Are we going to start soon? Red Phoenix let's talk... 04:12, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Whoops. Sorry, you were right to be antsy. Sometimes I get forgetful.
• Infobox: Why is "Cassette tape" capitalized?
• "and other countries" How many other countries? If it's just like 2 then I don't think it would be overkill to include them.
• Unfortunately, the sources aren't really clear on how many other countries the system actually arrived in. It is known it didn't make it to North America or the United Kingdom, but it did to Japan, Australia, and a couple of countries in Europe. Red Phoenix let's talk... 21:55, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
• Gulf & Western redirects to Gulf and Western, so this article should use "and"
• "as the SC-3000,[5][6] also known as the Sega Computer 3000,[7] as well as the upgraded SC-3000H." How come "SC-3000" is not bold?
• It is bold in the lead already. My understanding is that you bold when that term redirects to the article. Actually, SC-3000H may not need bolding, so I'll remove it. Red Phoenix let's talk... 21:55, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
• "Following the buyout in 1984" Since you have previously given the year of the buyout, it seems repetitive to state it again.
• "defines the SG-1000 as an 'abject failure', but calls the SG-1000 and the SG-1000 Mark II" Seems like a repetitive usage of "SG-1000"
I will put it on hold. Well done. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 21:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
@Taylor Trescott: That should be it. Red Phoenix let's talk... 21:57, 4 March 2014 (UTC) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11517 | Technological fix
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A technological fix or technical fix refers to the attempt of using engineering or technology to solve a problem,[1][2][3][4][5] whether it be an important one affecting many people or a minor inconvenience. Designing automobiles and highways to protect fallible drivers provides one example of such a solution to the former type of problem.
While today's technologically complex world often requires problem solving based on reductionistic analysis, engineering design principles, and computer-aided modeling, the quest for technology-based solutions dates from the earliest primitive attempts to increase human comfort and gain some control over the natural world. The term technological fix is most appropriately applied when considering certain types of problems—ones involving both technology and a human societal dimension. It can then be used to distinguish this family of solutions from a distinctly different family of solutions: those involving an attitudinal fix.[citation needed]
For example, consider the problem of childhood tooth decay. Those seeking a simple technological fix would advocate treating the community water supply with a low level of sodium fluoride; those pursuing a purely attitudinal fix would mount an educational campaign promoting good nutrition and encouraging parents to teach children to take better care of their teeth. An intermediate approach would be built around urging everyone to brush regularly with a fluoride based toothpaste.[citation needed]
Two groups can be considered out at the extremes in their approaches to solving such problems. Those possessing a technological fix mentality believe that technology is the key to solving most problems, conflicts, or unpleasant situations. Luddites, in contrast, with their distaste of technology, might tirelessly work to change attitudes and associated behaviors in their quest to solve societal problems—even when simple technological fixes to them are available. More typically, many problems are solved by intermediate approaches, employing both technological and attitudinal fixes.[citation needed]
Occasionally technological fixes involve impractical and/or humorous proposals such as the Internet Protocol Evil bit or the "suitable application of high explosives" to interpersonal problems.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
1. ^ Cook
2. ^ Huesemann and Huesemann
3. ^ Mack
4. ^ Volti
5. ^ Teich
1. Cook, Stephen P. The Worldview Literacy Book Parthenon Books 2009 excerpt at <<>
3. Mack, E. Pamela. The Technological Fix. 2005. 9 September 2005 <>
4. Volti, Rudi Society and Technological Change. 2006.
5. Teich, Albert H. Technology and The Future. 10th Edition. 2006 (Note: A collection of Essays) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11529 | Reviews For Tarot
Reviewer: ToBeOrNotToBeAGryffindor
Date: 10/11/09 8:10
Chapter: (XII) - 'The Hanged Man'
Well, after mainlining seven chapters, I have come to the conclusion that this fic is absolutely genius in the making! Ever since the introduction of the Felix Felicis in the Potterverse, I've known that something with such incredible benefits was sure to come with equally powerful downfalls, and weaving a story around that is excellent.
Your syntax and vocabulary selection are well played and easy to follow, which lends this fic to addictive reading, such as staying up until six in the morning, reading like there's nothing you'd rather me, lol.
Awesome story, looking forward to the next installment!
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review. I enjoyed thinking up a backstory for Felix Felicis for this story, because I like to imagine that, if technology is like magic, then in some way magic must also be like technology - spells and potions have to be developed and tested and evolved over time. To wit, the magic in the Potterverse doesn't just work like magic, and that's one of the things I find so interesting about it. I read in the early days in the fandom a couple of stories that dealt with magic in a more technical way, like it was more a set of tools rather than any kind of mystical dogma, and ever since then I try to include that kind of mindset into my stories.
But as for the rest of the story... the seventh chapter is the end. If there's anything more to be said about this view of the universe, it's not for me to say. Sorry about that. But, you know, I have a couple of other stories uploaded here...
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• Package python tools that have traditionally been installed using easy_install Packages submitted for review
• Package the ROS build underlay for ROS Fuerte
• Versions listed here
• Sources available on github
• Package auxiliary packages if time permits
• Focus on upgrade to Groovy for f19 after the November release
• Pending fuerte review tickets
Some extra packaging work is
• Ensure all appropriate Fedora packages appear in their relevant rosdep manifests
• Package Gazebo (Review Request)
• Fedora's PCL package lacks the ros messages and catkin setup information needed for perception_pcl.
ROS Core
These packages come from the "ros-underlay" source distribution, and all share the same SRPM. (ros-fuerte-1.8.7). The ros-fuerte rpm is based on a snapshot of the ros-underlay, taken on 2012-05-17. The source can be obtained by using the command:
rosinstall --catkin ~/fuerte-ros-base
A "rosinstall" SRPM is available in the ROS Utilities section. More detailed instructions for how to obtain the ros-underlay and rosinstall through easy_install are available in the official ROS Fedora installation instructions.
Component Name RPM Name Version Location
actionlib ros-fuerte-actionlib 1.8.6 git
catkin catkin 0.4.4 git
common_msgs ros-fuerte-common-msgs 1.8.5 git
gencpp ros-fuerte-gencpp 0.3.4 git
genlisp ros-fuerte-genlisp 0.3.3 git
genmsg ros-fuerte-genmsg 0.3.10 git
genpy ros-fuerte-genpy 0.3.7 git
ros ros-fuerte-ros 1.8.9 git
ros_comm ros-fuerte-ros-comm 1.8.12 git
roscpp_core ros-fuerte-ros-cpp 0.2.5 git
rospack ros-fuerte-rospack 2.0.13 git
std_msgs ros-fuerte-std-msgs 0.4.8 git
ROS Utilities
These packages are usually installed with easy_install or pip. They come from various Willow Garage repositories on github and wg-kforge. These packages contain some python utilities and libraries that aren't included in the ROS core source (the "ros-underlay.")
Component Name RPM Name Version Location
rosdep python-rosdep 0.9.7 Review Request
rosinstall python-rosinstall 0.6.19 Review Request
rospkg python-rospkg 1.0.6 pkgdb
vcstools python-vcstools 0.1.17 pkgdb
These are individual stacks that rely on each other and on the ROS Core. They all get installed to /usr/share/ros-stacks/stackname
Stacks can be downloaded as tarballs from the ROS Release archive. Each stack's directory contains a plain tarball, debian package source, and a yaml file. We can use the plain tarball for packaging, and the .yaml files generally have brief and full descriptions of the stack, inter-stack dependencies, and package dependencies that we can use to help write the .spec files.
Stack RPM Name Version Location
bond_core ros-fuerte-bond-core 1.6.3 SRPM
bullet ros-fuerte-bullet 2.79 SRPM
diagnostics ros-fuerte-diagnostics 1.6.4 SRPM
driver_common ros-fuerte-driver-common 1.4.0 SRPM
dynamic_reconfigure ros-fuerte-dynamic-reconfigure 1.4.0 SRPM
filters ros-fuerte-filters 1.6.0 SRPM
geometry ros-fuerte-geometry 1.8.0 SRPM
image_common ros-fuerte-image-common 1.8.0 SRPM
nodelet_core ros-fuerte-nodelet-core 1.6.5 SRPM
orocos_kinematics_dynamics ros-fuerte-orocos-kinematics-dynamics 0.2.3 SRPM
pluginlib ros-fuerte-pluginlib 1.8.0 SRPM
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I'm going to play devils advocate for both sides. It's true, you alone can never carry a team to victory. Your team mates will have to make some proper decisions. If you don't believe me, then please, smurf level 1 and win every single game till level 20. I mean, if 1 person can carry the entire team no matter what the team is doing. So to carry every single game from level 1-20 should be within reason of doing.
And on the other hand, why are these people QQing about being in a low elo? Solo queue does not reflect your personal skill level. You're being graded on everything you and your team did within those games. You're being graded on the luck of the draw and team composition. The only ranked level that matters is team ranked. And that doesn't reflect your personal skill. It reflects your team skill. If you have a problem with your team mates, find people of equal skill as yourself and queue with them. Build your own god damn team, it's not hard. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11561 | Cho'Gath Feast vs Certain Heroes
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There seems to be a number of heroes that Cho cannot feast - the list I have so far:
Blitz when mana shield is active (regardless of how much HP + Mana Blitz has left)
Jax (can't completely confirm this one)
There may be others (I would be interested in which ones)
The issue seems to be with the way that feast works - can anyone confirm this is intended or a bug?
Let's assume my feast does 550 (level 2 of feast). Let's then use Blitz as an example. Let's assume blitz is desperately low on health (say, 100 hp) and he has 200 mana (giving him effectively 300hp). My feast should have on problem eating through his 200 mana and 100 hp. Unfortunately, it looks like feast does exactly his health in damage (100) which then goes towards the mana shield leaivng him with 100health and 100mana.
For poppy, it is similarly true; if poppy has 100 health left and my feast does 550, Since 550 is > 10% of her current health, the feast should only do half damage. .5*550 = 225 which is still greater than her current health and should kill her. Unfortunately, it only does damage based on the remaining health (100) which then gets the 50% applied doing 50 damage and not eating her.
I can't figure out why i can't always feast jax, but I'm almost certain it is the case.
My questions are:
Is this intended?
Are there other heroes that aren't (easily) able to be feasted?
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That is because feast only deals damage when it can't auto kill them. Say, if they have 800 health, the first rank of feast will only deal roughly 300 damage. If they are under 300 health, it just kills them (not exactly sure how the damage works, but I can explain to a point).
So, when used on Poppy while she is at 100 health, the ability only deals 100 damage (as far as I understand), therefore when her passive comes into play, it stops you from killing her. You should still get the feast stack, but not the kill. The same thing applies to Blitz's ult. Since his shield is up, the damage is mitigated.
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im trying to write a google maps application. and i wanted to only highlight one city in the world ( im using the masking method explained: https://github.com/vasile/geomask) but now im bugged with the question of how to only show the boundaries of the city as displayed in google maps. can any one suggest how to extract the boundaries of the city from google maps in KML file so that i can use the same. in my project.
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You cannot extract data from Google Maps.
What you could do, is to get the data from other sources. Depending on your Area of interest, the boundary might be available from your local government agency, or even OpenStreetmap.
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And even if you could, you don't have a licence to use it. – alexgleith Mar 11 at 3:28
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11575 | Zero Electricity Fridge Freezes With FireS
A research team at Stanford has developed a thermos-sized refrigeration device that uses no electricity. Instead, it contains some sort of coolant that becomes cold when exposed to heat.
Details on the project are scarce, but we do know that these units would be relatively cheap to produce at around $50. That makes it ideal for delivering medicines and cold water to developing countries—not to mention a useful tool on a camping trip. [Esquire via CrunchGear] |
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Basic cartesian geometry operations on 2D points.
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A list of all points on a straight vertical or straight horizontal line between two points. Fails if no such line exists.
sortPointXY :: (PointXY, PointXY) -> (PointXY, PointXY)Source
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According to Wikipedia Q source is sometimes called the Q Gospel. My understanding of Q though is that it is proposed mostly as a collection of sayings. Is it proper to call it a "Gospel"? Why or why not?
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References to Q should be limited to more abstract terms like "theory" or "potential source(s)" or just simply as "Q." We could also say the same as Proto-Luke and Proto-Matthew and Proto-Mark. Attempting to tie these "documents" to any current document is fun and an excellent brain challenge, but isn't really worth debating how it should be categorize. – swasheck Apr 4 '13 at 18:41
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The Gospel of Thomas consists mostly of sayings, and it explicitly claims to be a Gospel in its first sentence. So that's pretty good evidence that something like Q would have been thought of as a gospel around the time when Thomas was written (which is sometime between the mid 1st and mid 2nd century, we don't know).
On the other hand, we don't know when "gospel" was first used as a name of a genre or writing. One theory is that it was first used to refer to a genre of writing in Mark 1:1. So it might be anachronistic to refer to Q as a gospel, since the genre may not have yet existed.
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The Bible doesn't really deal in hard and fast genres. There is too much overlap (historical narrative written as poetry etc.) so that is largely an imposed idea. The four gospels correspond to the four faces of the cherubim, which in turn correspond to the four points of the compass in the tabernacle furnitures (Lion - Ark, Ox - Altar, Man - Table, Eagle - Lampstand), which give us priest, king, prophet and mediator. Four eye-witness testimonies is thus sacred architecture. Any speculation concerning an imposed genre and whether it might apply to other texts misses the point entirely. – Mike Bull Mar 10 '13 at 23:35
"Gospel" is really only a genre within the Christian realm. Otherwise it's more of a "history" or "biography." – swasheck Apr 4 '13 at 19:03
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To me, in order for any book to be considered a Gospel the first thing it would have to have is the teaching of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ since that's what the word means in the underlying NT Greek in the canonical Gospels. That is the good news after all; that Christ died, was buried, and rose again!
εὐαγγέλιον (euaggelion)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) a reward for good tidings
2) good tidings
b) the glad tidings of salvation through Christ
c) the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ
d) the gospel
Note: Emphasis is mine.
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It is interesting and have seen several people point this out on the main board but how Doan has been recruited by Toews with open comments about having him come join the Hawks actually technically violates the tampering rules.
Maybe helps explain how Howard seemed at first to be in the train of thought that, well if Suter or Parise want to talk he would gladly give them his number, to a non commitment on it. Really all they are supposed to discuss is the city and things of this nature. We all know this kind of stuff goes deeper in most cases but it would seem Toews has crossed a line that Bettman has gone out of his way to establish and is in the current CBA.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11608 | Rachel Lippmann http://hppr.org en Runner Has Eyes On Two Prizes: Olympics, Ph.D. http://hppr.org/post/runner-has-eyes-two-prizes-olympics-phd Among the dozens of athletes hoping to leap, throw or run their way to London as part of the U.S. track and field team is 24-year-old runner Shannon Leinert.<p>Leinert, who will compete in the 800-meter dash, has dreamed of the Olympics since she was 10 and winning races in St. Louis, her hometown. If that weren't enough, she's also working on a doctoral degree in special education.<p>Leinert now trains at the University of Missouri-Columbia track that revived her college career and allowed her to think seriously about the Olympics. Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:08:00 +0000 Rachel Lippmann 2446 at http://hppr.org Runner Has Eyes On Two Prizes: Olympics, Ph.D. |
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How to Configure Citrix NetScaler for Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010?
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 is one of these products that being used in almost every organization. It seems that getting familiarize with it is the best thing a system engineer could do right now. Most big organizations will want to have redundant servers running the Exchange. For that, there is a need to use Load Balancers.
In this series, i would explain and show how to configure Citrix NetScaler for hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010. It breaks into four parts as following:
1. Part 1: The basics of load balancing.
2. Part 2: Features required for NetScaler and Certificate import.
3. Part 3: Load Balancing CAS
4. Part 4: Load Balancing HUB
This series do cover all the basic knowledge to load balance. It has a detailed configuration with full screenshots on how to do the full implementation. It could not get more comprehensive.
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One of the more interesting plugins to emerge over the last few months is the Build Pipeline plugin, written by the folks at Centrum Systems. The Build Pipelines plugin takes the idea of build promotion further, and helps you design and monitor deployment pipelines. A deployment pipeline is a way of orchestrating your build through a series of quality gates, with automated or manual approval processes at each stage, culminating with deployment into production.
The Build Pipeline plugin provides an alternative way to define downstream build jobs. A build pipeline, unlike conventional downstream dependencies, is considered to be a linear process, a series of build jobs executed in sequence.
To use this plugin, start by configuring the downstream build jobs for each build job in the pipeline, using the 'Build other projects' field just as you would normally do. The Build Pipelines plugin uses the standard upstream and downstream build configurations, and for automatic steps this is all you need to do. However the Build Pipeline plugin also supports manual build steps, where a user has to manually approve the next step. For manual steps, you also need to configure In the Post-build Actions of your upstream build job: just tick the 'Build Pipeline Plugin -> Specify Downstream Project', select the next step in your project, and tick the 'Require manual build executor' option, as shown here.
Configuring a manual step in the build pipeline
>Once you have set up your build process to your satisfaction, you can configure the build pipeline view. You can create this view just like any other view.
Creating a Build Pipeline view
There is a trick when it comes to configuring the view, however. At the time of writing, there is no menu option or button that lets you configure the view directly. In fact, you need to enter the URL manually. Fortunately, this is not difficult: just add "/configure" to the end of the URL shown when you are displaying this view. For example, if you have named your view "phoenix-build-pipeline", as shown here, the URL to configure this view would be "http://my_hudson_server/view/phoenix-build-pipeline".
Configuring a Build Pipeline view
The most important thing to configure in this screen is the initial job. This marks the starting point of your build pipeline. You can define multiple build pipeline views, each with a different starting job. You can also configure the maximum number of build sequences to appear on the screen at once.
Once you have configured the starting point, you can return to the view to see the current state of your build pipeline. Jenkins displays the successive related build jobs horizontally, using a color to indicate the outcome of each build. There is a column for each build job in the pipeline. Whenever the initial build job kicks off, a new row appears on this page. As the build progresses through the successive build jobs in the pipeline, Jenkins will add a colored box in the successive columns, indicating the outcome of each stage. You can click on the box to drill down into a particular build result for more details. Finally, if a manual execution is required, a button will be displayed where the user can trigger the job.
Configuring a Build Pipeline view
This plugin is still relatively new, and does not integrate with all of the other plugins we have seen here. In particular, it is really designed for a linear build pipeline, and does not cope well with branches or parallel build jobs. Nevertheless, it does give an excellent global vision of a build pipeline.
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I’m continuing the migration of all my projects to run on Github. Eventually all public areas of my site will run as static, published Github pages and supporting back-end repositories. Last night I migrated API aggregationBackend as a ServiceReciprocity and Real-Time providers using a version of my Hacker Storytelling format.
While will still remain the master doorway to all my work, each project will live under its own subdomain and Github repository. As I make this switch I’m having to adjust my Google Analytics strategy as well as potentially my Google Feedburner strategy. In the shadow of the Google Reader deprecation I’m reconsidering not just how I consume RSS, but my analytics as well.
I can keep using Google Analytics for pages, and Google Feedburner for RSS. But I’d also like data on how JSON files are consumed as well, which neither platform provide me. Using the Github API I can track on the activity around a repository like commits, follows, downloads and forks, but I don’t get actually page view activity on pages or individual files.
Really my only hope for getting the data I need is from Github. Some sort of raw web logs for our domain, would be sweeeet!! Then I could see how many times a JSON file is accessed, and build custom reporting tools for Github page views, Jekyll blog views, etc and migrate away from Google Analytics.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11679 | Khatik, Hindu in Bangladesh
Largest Religion
Main Language
Profile Source: Virender Buswala / Keith Carey
Introduction / History
Khatik word is derived from the Sanskrit language word Khat. In English Khatik means "butcher". In ancient times the main profession of Khatik Caste was to slaughter and prepare sheep and goats. Later there occupation was tanning the skin and selling the hairs of sheep in the market and export the same to western countries for using the same as wig. And also to sell the meat of goat as a butcher. Nowadays people of Khatik Caste are selling vegetables and do the bussiness as scrap dealers. Most of the people are street vendor collecting waste paper, scrap and plastic on the bicycle. There are some doctors, engineers,teachers and advocate, management and administrative staff.
Where are they Located?
In India, there are located mainly in Village - Dujana District-Jhajjar (Haryana State) near Capital of India-New Delhi. In New Delhi, Haryana (Rohtak, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Karnal, Ambala) Chandigarh, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.
What are Their Lives Like?
Found throughout India, the Khatik community began as hunters and butchers, though some claim warrior caste origin. Because they once handled carcasses, they are among the lowest in the Hindu social system. Some castes will not eat or drink with them. Today, most are in animal husbandry, agriculture, service industries, and government agencies. Clan leaders and law vary, but are always controlling factors in maintaining social cohesion and discipline. Their marriages are endogamous. Most speak Hindi, but many speak regional languages, often with Hindi as a second language. Because they value education, about 50 percent of their populace is literate. Literacy rates are higher among men than among women.
They lives in small houses, usually on the outskirts of the villages or towns. Early Khatiks were hard working and honest people.
What are Their Beliefs?
They are supersitious, devotee of Goddess Durga, Parvati, Ganesh, Hanuman, Shiv Shankar, Sai, Kabir.
Their cultural and religious history suggests they are open to change. Professional ties can cross religious, clan, and caste barriers. Although the majority are Hindus, some are Sikhs or Muslims. Some converted away from Hinduism to avoid caste discrimination. Whether Hindus, Sikhs or Muslims, their practices are often tinged with Animism. Those who decide to follow Christ can be disciplined, ostracized or excommunicated. Few are Christian of any form. For most there are no evangelistic media available.
What are Their Needs?
Their needs are land, houses, education, and daily food.
Prayer Points
* Pray for ministries that meet felt needs, for increased literacy, especially for women.
* Pray for Bible distribution and showing the Jesus Film in their communities.
* Pray for churches to adopt the Khatiks.
* Pray for a caste-wide breakthrough for the Gospel.
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Continent Asia
Region South Asia
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People Name General Khatik, Hindu
People Name in Country Khatik, Hindu
ROP3 Code 112679
Joshua Project People ID 17301
Indigenous Yes
Population in Bangladesh 330
Least-Reached Yes
Alternate Names for People Group Aray, Are Marati, Chikvi, Chikwa, Kasab, Kasai, Kasar, Katagaru, Katik, Katike, Katuga, Katuka, Khatika, Kulal, Kunjara,
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People Name General Khatik, Hindu
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11689 | Btooom! is an Explosion-Filled Cross Between Hunger Games and The Last Star FighterS
Good — Realistic Use of Game Skills in the Real World
Ryota sakamoto, the main character, is an unemployed, college-aged slacker who lives with his parents and does nothing but play games all day in his room. His game of choice is "Btooom!" and he is one of the top players in the world. So, of course, when he is suddenly kidnapped and stranded on an island and forced to play Btooom! for real, this turns out to be an amazing advantage—but only in the mental sense.
While he is a master of Btooom! in game, on the island he is limited by his physical skills. His aim is not as perfect nor is he as strong as his in-game avatar. His advantage is his knowledge of the tactics of the game—as well as his knowledge of the types of bombs and their strengths and weaknesses. Of course, his greatest weakness is that bombs are far from the only way to kill another person on the island.
Good — A Deeper Look and the Dark Side of Being Human
One of the key points of Btooom! is why these people are on the island in the first place. Players of the game are chosen by someone—usually a close friend or family member—writing the player's name on a form that promises to make the chosen person "disappear." This in turn means that everyone on the island has a dark secret that has sent them to the death game—and
they may not even be aware of what it is. This not only makes for interesting characters and great drama but also causes one to ask, "Have I ever done something that would make someone hate me enough to want to send me to my almost certain death?"
Of course, this is not the only dark question the anime explores. It also looks at the themes of murder and betrayal—and asks, "How long could you stick to your normal morals and values in a situation like the death game?"
Mixed — Has Been Done Before
Of course, as pointed out in the headline, Btooom! is far from the most original of stories. "Boy becomes hero due to game skills" and "kids enter a death game" are far from novel ideas in this day and age. And in a year where Hunger Games swept the world, it seems even less so in comparison.
But while the setting and most basic narrative have been done before (and better), the way Btooom! uses these well-known framing devices to explore our darker emotions is really where the show succeeds—well, for the most part anyway.
Bad — Man's First Instinct is to Rape
Rape is a constant theme in Btooom!—to an insulting degree. The other main character, Himiko, seems unable to escape it. Nearly every single man she encounters on the island tries to rape her at some point (or at least implies that such a rape is coming). Even Ryota is no exception.
After their first (explosion-filled) encounter leaves her unconscious, he actually has to stop and convince himself not to rape her right then and there. I found the implication that "all men want to rape women/will rape women if given the chance" to be insulting, to say the least. It takes an otherwise complex cast of characters, and makes the entire male gender completely one dimensional when it comes to their interactions with the opposite sex.
Final Thoughts
Btooom! is an odd anime. On one level it can just be looked at as a derivative knock off of other works of "death game" fiction. On the other, it does an adequate job of exploring how the darker side in all of us can come to the forefront in crisis situations. This means that in a lot of ways Btooom! is not really an "enjoyable" anime to watch—because after all, how easy is it to enjoy something that constantly bludgeons you with the dark side of human nature—but it is, nonetheless, an interesting one. So in the end, if you are interested in the themes it explores, or are just a fan of "death game" stories in general, this one is certainly worth a watch.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11697 | The business and culture of our digital lives,
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The making of NASA's super hi-res blue marble Earth image
A new image of the Earth has been popping up all over the Internet, dazzling us with its high-def imagery of land masses, oceans and rippled clouds.
Some media outlets have reported that the image is the largest image ever made of our planet, but Norman Kuring, the NASA oceanographer who actually made the image, told The Times that simply is not true.
"I'm surprised that it's gone viral," he said. "I think what's happening in the general public is seeing a larger image than they are used to seeing, but there have been higher sensing instruments around for a number of years."
Kuring explained that this particular image was made using data collected by the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite, which is on a satellite flying 512 miles above the Earth. VIIRS is not really a camera -- rather it has a scanning telescope that measures the difference between the amount of light coming down to the surface of Earth from the sun as compared to the amount of light that is reflected back to the telescope. Kuring made the image above by running code that translates that data into an image.
The satellite it rides on -- Suomi NPP, which was launched in October -- has been placed in a sun-synchronous orbit so that the satellite is over the equator at the same local ground time in each orbit. This is relevant because it explains why each slice of image is lit the same way even though the entire image of the Earth was taken over a period of several hours.
The data that VIIRS collects is still in the process of being calibrated, but eventually scientists will be able to use it to measure ocean temperatures, tell us the location of fires, and track cloud formations.
As for the above image, Kuringer said he made it as a favor to a NASA scientist who wanted a visual to use in a talk to the American Meteorological Society earlier this week. Kuringer settled on an image taken on Jan. 4 because it was a fairly sunny day, and he decided to focus on North America because the society is based in America.
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IPad down to 58% of tablet sales as Android catches up
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Image: A 'blue marble' image of Earth taken with the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's satellite Suomi NPP. Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11699 | Let's Make Robots!
My selfbuild CNC-Mill
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CNC Stuff....hopefully...
For now its almost done! My selfbulid CNC-Mill is ready to use.
It all started during my x-mas holidays when I found Tinheads Valkyrie here on LMR. I had the idea of bilding a CNC-Mill before, but the whole thing seemed to be to complicated. But then, inspired by Tinhead I started reading DIY CNC-pages for hours and hours and after a few days I started building it. My first machine had a lot of mistakes (you can see the history here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/16392), but i learned a lot by doing so.
So here are some facts about the final version:
Working Area: 310x310x10mm
Working speed X&Y up to 5000mm/min, Z up to 500 mm/min
The movement of the axis is controlled by stepper-motors with 200steps and 4A phasecurrent.
The PCB for the stepperdriver is bought here: www.mechapro.de (3D-Step)
The whole system is running under ubuntu-linux und EMC2 (linuxcnc.org) on an old PC (Athlon XP 1,6GHz - 512 MB Ram - 8GB CF-Card as harddisk)
What did it all cost:
1. woodparts: 0€ (every woodpart is "recycled")
2. aluminium: about 70€
3. linearrails: 100€ (ebay)
4. the whole Y-axis: 35€ on ebay (this was really really cheap!!!!)
5. linearscrew 16x4 for the x-axis: 25€ (ebay - 1 I had already before)
6. Stepper-motors: 16€ (ebay)
7. ballbearings: about 15€
8. Stepperdriver-PCB: 20€
9. Stepperdriver-parts: about 30€
10. Stepperdriver enclosure: 0€ (it's an about 20 years old dual 5-1/4" floppy-drive enclosure)
11. Spindle (Kress FME 800): 120€
12. 24V Power-Supply: 8€ (ebay)
13. 5V Logic-Supply: 0€ (old small ATX supply)
14. PC: 0€ (put together the best old parts i had flying around)
15. misc. electronic parts (relais, darlington, cable, etc.): about 20€
all together (including things i have forgotten) about 500€
If someone has a question - feel free to post here, I will answer as fast as possible!
a few more pics:
Things to get changed someone in the (deep) future:
- Working-tabe made of 20mm Aluminium (80€) an a T-Nuten table (don't know the english word)
- a frame made of steel or aluminium (no more wood)
- better mount for the spindel
- depth-regulation for better engraving/pcb cutting
- 4A/phase update for the stepperdriver
- better interface for manual control (broke already a few bits through pressing the wrong key.....)
- better vacuum system for dust removal....
Update 1.10.2010:
New Video: Now its possible to play music on my cnc ;-)
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what Ubuntu are you running the EMC2 under?
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it's 8.04 (The one that came with the EMC LiveCD)
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Respect man you really did it :)
Two questions:
What kind of bit/end mill are you using in the movie ?
What is the material and thickness?
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The Material is 1mm GFK (G10) and the bit is a 2,4mm and 1mm one specially for GFK/CFK. (can't tell you more details about this bits because i got them at ebay for 1€ each ;-) ) I think i could let this run a lot faster, but i have only one 1mm bit... so when this is broken i have a problem.....
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... I'm not familiar with this name, it looks like fiberglass to me.
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didn't remember the correct english word
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Nice build though, I built a CNC too but much bigger:)
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I have seen your build! Its nice work too. I'm thinking of expanding my X-axis to about 600mm so that i can directly mount the CFK-Material (it comes 250x500mm) without cutting it before. But not that soon ;-)
Looks very good. I would love to build one of these myself but still seem a bit high for me right now :(.
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It's not that complicated. If your not equiped with two left hands there should be no problem doing this. There are a lot of pages on the net (and also here on LMR) where you can get a lot of hints! But always keep in mind, you can only cut things with your mill that are softer than the material your mill is made off!
For this version of my mill i drawed a lot sketches in CAD to see where I could get problems before i start bulding/converting it. |
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SSN-XG Meeting Reminder 9-June-2009
From: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:55:40 +1000
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Hi all,
Your time:
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I will not be attending the meeting; Kerry Taylor will be chairing the meeting.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11704 |
RE: xml literal and xslt (resend)
From: Jeremy Carroll <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:28:28 -0000
To: "Dave Beckett" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The other extreme that I see in the possibility space is a proposal like:
Propose that:
- the exact form of the string value corresponding to any given XML Literal
within RDF/XML is implementation dependent.
- the string value is well-balanced XML that can be inserted as the elment
content between two tags:
to form an XML document, satisfying both XML and XML Namespaces.
- taking the exclusive canonicalization of both the original XML Literal in
its containing document, and the string value within the dummy "<foo></foo>"
document produce the same character string. Equality between xml literals is
defined on this basis, but only for the purpose of exercising the test
- that the canonicalization above is without comments
- we create some test cases (e.g. with qnames in attribute values) for which
interoperability difficulties may be observed
What this means is that implementations
- preserve all visibly used namespaces
- not leave dangling qnames in element tags or attribute names
- not leave dangling entity references
- preserve whitespace (except in tags)
- preserve processing instructions
are free to:
- ignore or keep comments
- use any form of the XML that is Infoset equivalent
- include any namespaces (whatsoever) that are not visibly used, e.g. to
treat a declaration as a visible use.
- be written in XSLT, and/or have XSLT preprocessors (not compatible with
treating declarations as visible use)
- not implement C14N
This does not suffer from namespace pollution.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11708 |
Re: proposal for restricting a service to a single interface
From: Amelia A. Lewis <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:43 -0400
To: "Arthur Ryman" <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Dear Arthur,
Thanks for your response. I'm sorry to continue debating this, but the
problem is that, from my perspective, the proposal to require all ports
within a service to be bindings of the same portType/interface has zero
value. That is, it adds nothing, in a location where there is a
potential to provide useful information.
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:09:32 -0400
"Arthur Ryman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. In WSDL 1.1, there is virtually no semantics associated with
> putting several <port>s in a <service>. See
I agree with most of these points, except that you may overstate the
case slightly (rather than "do not communicate" I would say "are not
required to").
> The only claim is that IF two or more ports implement the same
> portType, then they are semantically equivalent and are alternate ways
> to access the service.
An important point! Can we make a distinction here? Is a service
a) a collection of semantically-equivalent instances?
b) a single instance?
In the foregoing (mostly snipped) and the following, there is no
clarity, that I can see, in specifying how many instances may be
contained in a single service element.
It seems to me that this is a potentially very important piece of
information for choreography, for instance.
> 2. In WSDL 1.2, I believe there is a desire to put more
> semantics into <service>. So we have two directions to go in. We can
> either strengthen the above statement so that ALL <port>s must
> implement the same portType and represent alternative ways to access
> the service, or we can add ways to state more semantics, e.g. that a
> set of the<port>s share state. IHMO either direction is preferrable to
> the status
My contention is that it the requirement that all ports must implement
the same portType/interface does *not* represent alternative ways to
access "the service". That is, there is no requirement that this be a
single service, a single state machine. There may be seventeen
different vendors represented in one service entry, none of them sharing
state. Performing the "initialization" operation on one vendor's port,
followed by the "updateInformation" operation on another vendor's port,
does not have the same semantic as performing both operations in the
same sequence but using only one vendor.
In short, I think it far better to require that a service represent an
instance. There is almost no way of verifying whether this is true, in
operation, but that in itself makes the requirement that the service
represent that bit of information all the more useful.
To return to a previous example, my previous illustration used a service
with an administration port and a notification port. The requirement
that a service expose a single state machine would make the relationship
between these ports clear. A requirement that all of a service's ports
be bindings of the same portType doesn't help here at all, and requires
resolution in a different fashion (such as the rather complex
interface-retrieval alternative that you had offered earlier). In
contrast, I could create an aggregate WSDL that combined all seventeen
of my (identically-portTyped) vendors into a single service, which does
not tell me why I should choose one over another, or whether two or more
of these ports might or might not share state, or in fact anything that
I couldn't find out by following the path from port to portType.
> quo. The reason is that <service> is a modularization construct, and
> good modules should have cohesion, i.e. there should be a good reason
> for putting things in the same module. At present, the only reason is
> that somehow, the <port>s are "related". We should be able to be
> cleared than that.
Agreed. I just disagree that the approach of requiring a single
portType/interface adds any information.
> 3. You raise the example of a service that has no
> request-response operations, which presents a problem for operations
> like getNotificationService. You probably will not like this
> suggestion, but why not define a parent request-response service that
> has getXXXService operations for all of its component services? You
> can have<service> elements for the parent service and each of the
> component services.
*shrug* I can pull all sorts of ugly workarounds if a silly requirement
is set into place. I'd just rather not have a silly requirement, when
it is possible to express something useful in the same place. I think
it is deeply silly to require that sort of supermetaservice, and smacks
of the complexity that ended up killing CORBA. I don't much like the
idea of passing "interfaces" around because it seems to me to lead
directly into the problem of passing alleged "pointers" over the
network, which I believe to have caused the failure of several
networking paradigms.
I agree that WSDL ought to say something *useful* about the service
element, defining it more stringently than WSDL 1.1. I would prefer to
see it say that a service element *must* represent a single instance (a
single state machine). I would infinitely prefer that to the proposal
that it represents a collection of semantically-equivalent instances,
because I don't believe that that statement adds any information that
cannot already be determined by following the port -> binding ->
portType resolution path.
A richer form of this would be to allow ports to specify their
relationship to other ports explicitly, but that may well be out of
Amelia A. Lewis
Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11735 | Subject: Re: EGCS enabled on mips
To: Warner Losh <>
From: Jonathan Stone <[email protected]>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1998 12:38:42
warner losh writes:
>I've seen on other lists that haifa on mips helps a little bit too
>much and generates code that violates the MIPS ABI. However, this is
>considered to be a bug in the ABI which binutils can easily work
>around. I don't recall the specifics, but it was in the Linux/MIPS
>mailing list. Might be something to look out for when you use th
>haifa enabled compile. Specifically, it would generate multiple %hi
>references w/o a corresponding %lo and binutils didn't quite know how
>to deal with that.
you mean HI16 and LO16 relocs, right, not the mulhi and mullo
>I'd be very interested to see what you come up with in this area.
Thanks for the info (and the confidence).
My informed opinion is that backing out the -mdebuga, and using 'la'
templats to load 32-bit constants in one swell foop, would almost
certainly avoid this. (poorer code, but since its done by the
assembler its invisible to haifa, and so it'll work with the tools we
have). If I run into the problem, I'll try it and let you know.
I'm mildly suprised nobody reported trying it, in fact.
Do you know if binutils dies, or silently messses up the code? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11736 | Subject: Re: parallel port ECP
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <>
From: Brian Gregor <>
List: current-users
Date: 08/30/2000 17:59:15
> The problem almost certainly has nothing to do with which parallel port
> mode is in use. The parallel port interupts are very lightweight and can
> be turned around insanely fast by almost any modern (or even not-very-modern)
> x86 hardware, so plain-old-parallel-port basically *will* exceed the ability
> of your printer to render pages.
Well, even for smaller documents the mouse in X windows gets very
jerky and the system seems to bog down a little while printing. This
is a K6-2/500 with 256 meg RAM, IDE disk. So, I figured the parallel
port mode may have something to do with this behavior... I'm running
-current 1.4Y, a little old these days but it's quite stable and I
need it to run 24/7. I'm considering one of those USB-parallel port
adapters to see if this helps the situation at all.
> What usually speeds things up immensely is to add a bunch of memory to the
> printer. Then the printer can buffer incoming data in RAM while it images
> pages it's already got. Most HP printers will happily take the spare RAM
> you've got lying around from old 486 or Pentium machines (that is, 72-pin
> FPM or possibly even EDO SIMMS) -- try it.
This new HP takes EDO DIMMs, but I'm not spending my own money so I'll
buy some more to increase it from 8 meg to see if this helps. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11737 | Subject: Re: Why not track our xsrc with X11R6.6 from
From: Andrew van der Stock <>
List: current-users
Date: 07/19/2001 08:36:43
The only bit of code that is relatively awful as it relates to IBM's
original decisions in 1980 or thereabouts is the bit that takes a card from
being mapped as a "VGA" card via I/O ports to being accessible via full
linear memory mapping. To get it from one to the other is the work of about
10-50 lines of code depending on the card and the system (for example, on
ppc it is already pretty much ready). This code is executed once. And after
that, it's all good. If you use option "noaccel", those 10-25 lines of code
do their work, and there's a linear framebuffer for the (mostly)
software routines to use. That's not pc-centric design, it's how device
drivers work. And the entire architecture outside of that init section
(which btw, your Sun fb also executes) cannot be accused of being
PC-centric. It's the proper evolution of the old server architecture,
to be more streamlined, more modular, and faster.
The mud-slinging fest can be said for the i386 bootstrap code in the loader
that takes us from 16-bit real mode to 32 bit protected mode when NetBSD
boots. Same sort of length. Same execution profile. Is NetBSD PC-centric? Of
course it is! Get real.
In general, the XFree86 server does not know that much about your system.
Everything about your cards is contained in one or more scrninfo structures,
and there's no place in it for anything like a CPU id, or anything like
that. Please take the time to look at the source code, and see for yourself.
The reason we aim for good benchmarks is pretty much every increase above
"noaccel" increases the amount of parallelism in the system. Your ye olde
Sun fb is dumber than my brother's dog (and Chloe is not a smart animal).
Anything post-1990 in the consumer video card arena can do Bresenham lines
(or a good enough faked version), rectangular fills and memory-to-screen and
screen-to-screen blits with various masks. These are the most common video
operations. If by setting up the equivalent of five "pokes" using about
30-40 cycles of CPU time and going away to do something else saves some
million or so cycles on the host CPU, I'm all for it. In the meantime, it's
possible to let the CPU do actual work for you, rather than munge through
the laborious process of doing everything by hand.
The reason that most of the people operating old SparcStation 5s never used
the graphical console is that you could easily DoS the system by getting it
to scroll text without X11 present. If the Sun fb could do a simple scr-scr
memcpy (one of the most basic GOPs), that wouldn't be true. Parallelism is
good. Ask anyone who uses FDDI or SCSI or the nicer NICs.
XFree86's design is elegant, clean, very nearly optimal and documented.
Please go in there, have a look, compare it to the pre-ANSI C rubbish that
exists in the mainline servers. They are pre-historic, single
threaded, nasty pieces of work. Quite possibly the pure embodiment of your
epithet "PC-centric".
Saying a piece of code "PC-centric" as a method of slagging it off doesn't
wash. There's nothing wrong with PC-centric. I'm hereby declaring PC-centric
to mean "correct, stable, efficient code in a clean, generic modular
kill thread
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <>
To: "NetBSD-current Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: Why not track our xsrc with X11R6.6 from
> ever want the Xserver to have to know anything about the wiring of my
> system, or if possible even the type of the CPU(s)!
> There's absolutely no way I'm willing to give
> it either direct or indirect control over anything but the graphics
> PCs, but because of the legacy of bad design IBM-PC descendants have to
> live with). We've already seen dozens of examples of how the lines
> between the kernel and userland can be drawn much "better" without too
> much impedement to getting the job done "right".
> OK, so those are some very fast numbers. What do they mean to human
> visual perception? I suspect they're all stupidly over-kill for the |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11742 | Subject: Re: newfs trashes MBR/disklabel?
To: Dieter <>
From: Frank van der Linden <>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/28/2005 21:38:52
Dieter wrote:
>One more partition question. Why does port-amd64 need to waste a partition
>for "netbsd" (partition c)? Port-alpha only wastes one partition (for "whole
>disk", partition c on Alpha, partition d on amd64) so it would appear that
>NetBSD doesn't need it for anything. Would anything bad happen if I used
>partition c for a filesystem?
That's because the NetBSD disklabel is a partition table inside a
partition table.. the MBR defines the portion NetBSD lives in, which is
'c'. To go outside that, and truly access the whole disk, you need 'd'.
- Frank |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11746 | tech-kern archive
Re: [PAE support] Types + cosmetic fixes
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> Are you talking about ABI of kernel modules?
That's actually the problem. We have a kernel driver API, but we do not
have a kernel driver ABI. Things like bus_space and bus_dma are
progamming interfaces but the specific implementation of the interfaces is
left to the reader. Most of the time they are implemented as a set of
macros that operate on data structures hiddend by other macros, due to
performance claims. Until each platform defines an interface in terms of
specific entry points and parameters explitly laid out in registers or
memory, you don't really have an ABI.
Has anybody actually gone through the kernel code and defined a specific
(Adding some sort of versioning to the interfaces would also be good, that
way a kernel could refuse to load an old, incompatible module, or better
yet, redirect the module interfaces through compatibility glue.)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11749 | tech-userlevel archive
Re: Adding openresolv to base
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:09:34PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > While I've also been bitten by this, I personally think creating
> > another active resolv.conf would create confusion instead of solving
> > very much pain.
> >
> > /var/run/resolv.conf.$DATE as an auto-magic backup of /etc/resolv.conf
> > whenever resolv.conf was changed would be more useful, in my opnion.
Look in /var/backups/etc.
> > Even an /etc/resolv.local would be less confusing than
> > /etc/resolv.conf + /var/run/resolv.conf (+
> > /usr/pkg/var/run/resolv.conf? + ... ?)
I don't see that there's any confusion, since the master file would be
pointing to the automatically maintained subsidiary one.
> resolvconf keeps a copy of each resolv.conf given to it in
> place at a later date.
I don't recall noticing any obvious problems with it.
at once.
David A. Holland
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11754 | Robotic Bear Paws You When You Snore [VIDEO]
This bear may be soft and pillow-shaped, but you might want to think twice before curling up for a nap on Jukusui-kun. If you snore, it will stroke your face with its furry paw. It's not hitting on you. Rather, it is helping your partner or roommate sleep by urging you to move on to your side, a position in which you are less likely to snore. Japan Trends discovered the robot, created by Wasaeda Univeristy, at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo last week. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11755 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a variable A = g / (1 + g R) Actually, if the quantity (g R) >> 1 it is possible to write A as A ≈ 1/R. How can I do this in Mathematica? I tried with Assumptions, Refine, Simplify, but i can get the simplified form.
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Have a look at Series. – b.gatessucks Jan 21 at 16:42
Or a Limit. You have to prepare your expression so that the thing you want to make go to infinity/zero/whatever is a variable. – Rojo Jan 21 at 17:12
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If you rearrange the equation a bit, it is straightforward. Define a new variable x = g R. Then g = x/R and A = g/(1+g R) = (x/R)/(1+x). What you wish to calculate is the limit (as suggested by Rojo)
Limit[(x/R)/(1 + x), x -> Infinity]
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As b.gatessucks suggested in his comment above, this is a good spot for Series. You can get the Taylor series expansion of your expression about infinity as
Series[g/(1 + g R), {R, Infinity, 2}]
which yields the result
1/R-1/(g R^2)+O[1/R]^3
Now you only need adjust the number of terms in the series expansion to suit your purposes...
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Thanks you very much – luigi Jan 22 at 19:05
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11757 | Good Afternoon,
I am working with Matlab and have been for the last 5 weeks or so. I have been using the command importdata('filename.txt') for the same sets of data during this time. To my surprise today with a new set of data the importdata command is now calling my 2 column matrix a 1 column matrix. Thus I am not able to graph one column vs the other. Does anybody have any idea what is going on here? The files have the same exact format with a space delimeter before the first column and in between the two columns. There are two heading lines with the same space delimeter at in column 1.
Thanks for your help in advance, I hope somebody is smarter than me on this one. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11760 | MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEXMaha Bodhi Templeone of the four holy sites related to Lord Buddha; situated in Bodhgaya (originally part of erstwhile Uruvella villageholiest sites of Buddhism, marking the spot of the Buddha’s enlightenment (bodhi). It is located in Bodh Gaya (in central Bihar state, northeastern India) on the banks of Niranjana river, Bihar; marks the spot of the enlightenment of Lord Buddha; also called Bodh treethe Niranjana River.
One of the oldest brick temples in India, the Mahabodhi Temple is an example of architectural genius. Built by emperor Ashoka 250 years after the Buddha’s enlightenment, it houses notable relics of Buddhist history. The temple today covers an area of 4.8 hectares and measures 55 metres Maha Bodhi Temple was built by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka (died c. 238 bce), one of Buddhism’s most important proselytes, to commemorate the Buddha’s enlightenment. The temple structure is 55 metres (180 feet) in height. Its pyramidal shikhara (tower) comprises several layers of niches, arch motifs, and fine engravings. Four towers, each identical to its central counterpart , but smaller in size and topped with an umbrella-like dome, adorn the corners of the two-storeyed story structure. Each of these towers is topped with an umbrella-like dome - a recurrent theme in Buddhist architecture. A shrine inside the temple has holds a yellow sandstone statue of the Buddha sitting in meditation and encased in glass.
The Bodh Bo tree, standing under which the Buddha is said to have sat until he attained enlightenment, stands adjacent to the temple is considered a symbolic representation of the Buddha. The stone slab built in the third century BC by Ashoka is believed to be . Ashoka’s stone slab purporting to mark the exact position where the Buddha attained enlightenment. It sat is traditionally called the Buddha’s vajrasana (literally diamond throne or thunder seat“diamond throne” or “thunder seat”). Stone railings surround the temple as well as the Bodh Bo tree. The famous Ashoka pillar stands on One of the most famous of Ashoka’s many pillars (on which he had engraved his edicts and his understanding of religious doctrine) stands at the southeast corner of the temple.
Shrines commemorating significant events during Buddha’s meditation at Bodhgaya can be seen even today, along with several modern constructions The 4.8-hectare (11.9-acre) complex also includes ancient shrines and modern structures built by Buddhist devotees. Notable among these are a giant Buddha with a serpent in the centre of Muchalinda Lake and an 80-foot Buddha statue.A Mecca of Buddhism, the Mahabodhi Temple was conferred the prestigious It was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage status site in 2002. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11764 | Possible Duplicate:
Indicate How Trustworthy the UpVotes Are
What if, instead of having a hard-coded value of how much rep a person gets per upvote, if the amount an upvote is worth is scaled by the rep of the person doing the upvoting?
Example scale of rep to upvote weight:
• 1-49: 1
• 50-199: 2
• 200-249: 3
• 250-499: 4
• 500-999: 5
• 1000-1499: 6
• 1500-1999: 7
• 2000-2499: 8
• 2500-2999: 9
• 3000-4999: 10
• 5000-9999: 11
• 10000-14999: 12
• 15000-19999: 13
• 20000+: 15
Please, this is just a thought and meant for discussion and not a request (unless someone high up really likes the idea).
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Since random didn't give a dupe #, I'll just add meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13237/… – jcolebrand Sep 10 '11 at 0:07
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I think this is a bad idea.
Imagine that I have a decent amount of reputation gained in a particular area, lets say T-SQL.
Why should my reputation gained as a T-SQL "expert" carry any more weight when voting on C++ questions than the person who has half my overall reputation but yet has forgot more about C++ than I ever will know or want to know?
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true, but it's also proven that you are good at providing acceptable questions, answers, and comments on the site. – DForck42 Sep 9 '11 at 21:50
Yes but in a different area. The fact that someone is an expert in one area doesn't mean they're able to offer a useful opinion in another area, and therefore, the idea that their opinions should carry more weight than someone else's in that area is flawed. – RobM Sep 9 '11 at 21:56
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This would imply reputation is a measure of knowledge and/or skill, when that's not actually how reputation works:
Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you
And finally, this makes the system too complicated. For starters, if you receive an upvote from someone who has 1 rep now, should that change when him or her gets more rep?
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I've been thinking about that too, but I like it better the way it is - a constant.
I believe this "weight" system might make people more reluctant to vote as they gain more rep, knowing that their vote carries more weight. While the more reputation a person has earned, the more likely that person will be to distribute his/her votes in a way that is beneficial to SO.
It would, however, make it more difficult to gain rep by setting up fake accounts to update one's own questions, or asking non-programmer friends to make accounts to upvote one's postings. It is my impression that these things don't happen very often, so this "defense" is not needed.
Therefore, I think we should not do this.
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There is a system in place to handle your second scenario. – NullUserException อ_อ Sep 9 '11 at 21:56
Not surprised... but still glad to hear it. – S.L. Barth Sep 9 '11 at 22:00
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11765 | For as long as I can remember, the new user restrictions have been 10 rep. However, as of March of 2010, the rep earned by a question upvote is only 5 points. This means that 2 people need to vote on a question to remove the restrictions, which can take a while on lower-traffic sites where there aren't as many philanthropic users. This leads to problems like the one evidenced here, and chat posts like this one.
The new user restrictions, in my understanding, are not a rep granted privilege, they're a basic spam prevention mechanisms. I'd like to think that our users can differentiate honest attempts to ask real questions that were hampered by the new user restrictions from spam, and grant that initial vote (or flag as spam) without too much trouble. The first hit is always free, etc.
How about dropping this requirement to 6 rep?
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Before this question goes to -6 and disappears from the front page, would someone kindly explain to me why this is such a terrible idea? – Kevin Vermeer Jan 6 '12 at 1:41
I can't speak for the downvotes but the argument against that came to my mind was: "sure the rep for vote dropped, but the site population and view rate has exploded". – dmckee Jan 6 '12 at 2:05
Two question upvotes... but a single answer upvote. That's way too fine a line, I'd rather the requirement go up. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jan 6 '12 at 3:17
In that specific case, you did recommend to the user that he/she could post it on an image hosting site. It could have been edited it in if the OP was willing... I know that's not always the case, but it seems as if users find a way to post their images externally. I think your intentions are good, I'm just not sure what would change as a result. – jonsca Jan 6 '12 at 4:37
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up vote 7 down vote accepted
I'll tell you why you're being downvoted. Compare these two
Your presentation of the problem & solution:
Upvotes used to be +10, but now they're +5. So two users are needed to push them over as opposed to one earlier (or for answers). To solve this, let's lower the threshold for new users. Yay?
Our interpretation of your question:
Users on are not voting enough. Dude's asking to lower threshold and make it easier to spam rather than deal with problems in his site. Not cool.
True, on a lot of the sites, you can ask anything and get 10 upvotes before the mod-hammer is brought out and on some of the more serious sites, upvotes are hard to come by. However, I must agree that it is your community that has a problem here, and the solution is not to fix the engine.
The problems I see here are two fold.
1. People aren't editing enough
If a new user cannot include a link or post an image (note that they can't display the images, but they can definitely upload the image and leave up to two image links in their post), then it's up to the community to swing by and edit the links to display the image. The user can always add additional links in the comments, if necessary.
2. People aren't voting enough
The underlying problem here is that people aren't voting enough. Here's an analogy:
If only 30% of the electorate in a country turn up for the polls, do you think the correct solution is a change in attitude of the society or a lowering of the voting age by an amendment to the laws?
I think that a change in voting behaviour is what's required here. Voter apathy is more harmful in the long run (see, and can eventually lead to users getting frustrated at their contributions not being recognized. You should probably raise this issue on your meta site (if possible, with statistics). Link to this blog post if necessary.
Here is a similar post of mine on, where I got the data using the API and shared the stats with the community. Voting certainly increased after that (it also happened to coincide with fall season in the northern hemisphere). Although a few users still account for a large number of the votes given out, I do see a lot of new users voting regularly. Here is the voting stats for a three month period since I wrote that post (16 Aug), and you can clearly see the increase*.
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TLDR: Mods shouldn't be trying to canvas upvotes for a user regardless of the quality of the post, just so they can add a few links. You should share this voting apathy prevalent in EE with your community, instead of trying to workaround with fixes to the engine.
*For those wondering why the dip in late Sept – early Oct and then a second, smaller peak: the dip is most likely due to people winding up their gardening as the frost sets in the northern hemisphere and the second peak is due to it being spring time in the southern hemisphere.
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Thanks for the answer. The voter turnout analogy was especially illuminating. We definitely do have a problem with getting sufficient upvotes; I'll bring this up on Meta. – Kevin Vermeer Jan 6 '12 at 4:43
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I'm voting no. Maybe not on your site, but on some, people will upvote anything. Lowering it to one upvote would essentially get rid of it altogether IMHO.
I agree it's not ideal, but it cases where the user needs it, I think it's perfectly fine to post in chat as you have done.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/11766 | On Gaming, we just had a strange situation where a question belonging on the meta was asked on the main site, so we closed it and migrated it to the meta. Then the OP deleted his question on the meta, so as per this change, the question was unlocked on the main site and had to be re-migrated.
Since different questions belong on a main site vs. on a meta, and since migrations like this are within a single community, it's more likely that a question migrated in this fashion would be closed for some valid reason but still belong more on the target site than on the original site. Therefore it doesn't really make sense to have migration rejection in this case.
The posts in question are http://gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/69573/revisions and http://meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/4720/revisions.
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If you close/delete on the target the source question should be automatically reclosed as OT. – ChrisF May 24 '12 at 15:55
You can see this as "Migration Rejected". A moderator reopened and remigrated the question. – ChrisF May 24 '12 at 15:57
That's what I said at the end of my first paragraph. I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to tell me – murgatroid99 May 24 '12 at 15:58
What I'm saying is that the history looks perfectly OK to me. The migration was rejected by the deletion so it's reclosed as OT. The mod comes along reopens and remigrates. I read the question as you saying that the question was left open by the rejected migration. – ChrisF May 24 '12 at 16:06
Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that migration rejection didn't work properly but that it shouldn't occur at all in the case of migrations between a site and its meta because it doesn't really fit with the initial reason for creating the migration reversal system – murgatroid99 May 24 '12 at 16:10
Ah. I see. Why shouldn't it occur? A question can be wrongly migrated to meta in the same way it could be wrongly migrated to another site. – ChrisF May 24 '12 at 16:14
@ChrisF I edited to try to explain my reasoning – murgatroid99 May 24 '12 at 16:25
I think if the user deletes their question on the target site, it should also delete the question on the original site as a part of the migration rejection. – animuson May 24 '12 at 18:25
@animuson I'm afraid not enough people will see that genius idea if you hide it in a comment. – Cody Gray May 25 '12 at 3:18
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