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A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire (1996 -) is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began the series in 1991 in response to the limitation of television production and published the first volume, A Game of Thrones, in 1996. Martin gradually extended the originally planned trilogy into four, six and eventually seven volumes.
- A knight who remembered his vows.
- Steely Pate in The Hedge Knight (1998). Describing Duncan the Tall, to explain why the commoners are on his side.
- In the name of the Warrior I charge you to be brave. In the name of the Father I charge you to be just. In the name of the Mother I charge you to defend the young and innocent. In the name of the Maid I charge you to protect all women...
- The Hedge Knight (1998). Start of the knighting ceremony
- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
- Vow of the Night's Watch
- Winter is Coming.
- Words of House Stark
- Fire and Blood
- Words of House Targaryen
- Hear Me Roar
- Words of House Lannister
- Ours is the Fury
- Words of House Baratheon
- Family, Duty, Honor
- Words of House Tully
- We Do Not Sow
- Words of House Greyjoy
- As High As Honor
- Words of House Arryn
- Growing Strong
- Words of House Tyrell
- Unbowed. Unbent. Unbroken.
- Words of House Martell
- Our Blades Are Sharp
- Words of House Bolton
- Valar morghulis.
- "All men must die," A maxim in High Valyrian
- Valar dohaeris.
- "All men must serve," A maxim in High Valyrian.
- The cold winds are rising.
- Common saying
- The night is dark and full of terrors.
- Often said by worshippers of The Lord of Light
- In a coat of gold or a coat of red a lion still has claws. 'And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
- A line in the song "The Rains of Castamere." (A song written about the destruction of House Tarbeck and House Reyne brought about by Lord Tywin Lannister.)
- A Lannister always pays his debts.
- A saying about the Lannisters
- What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.
- Ironborn creed
- And now his watch has ended.
- Epitaph of the Night's Watch
- I am so sorry.
- Said by The Sorrowful Men right before an assassination
- Words are wind.
- Common saying
- May the Father judge him justly.
- Common Epitaph
A Game of Thrones (1996)[edit]
- "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead."
- Prologue (opening words)
- The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
- Bran (I)
- "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"
"That is the only time a man can be brave."
- Bran (I)—Bran & Ned
- If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
- Bran (I)—Lord Eddard Stark
- A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
- Bran (I)—Lord Eddard Stark
- Anger flashed in her brother's lilac eyes. "Do you take me for a fool?"
The magister bowed slightly. "I take you for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men."
- Daenerys (I)—Viserys & Illyrio
- Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
- Jon (I)—Tyrion Lannister
- Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
- Jon (I)—Tyrion Lannister
- Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
- Bran (II)—Jaime Lannister
- I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
- Tyrion (I)—Tyrion Lannister
- I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.
- Eddard (II)—King Robert Baratheon
- My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind...And a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
- Tyrion (II)—Tyrion Lannister
- He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
- Catelyn (IV)—Catelyn Stark
- Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.
- Jon (III)
- Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
- Jon (III)—Tyrion Lannister
- "The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are."
- Daenerys (III)—Ser Jorah Mormont
- I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.
- Eddard (VII)—King Robert Baratheon
- Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.
- Arya (III)—Desmond
- A true man does what he will, not what he must.
- Eddard (XII)—Cersei Lannister
- When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
- Eddard (XII)—Cersei Lannister
- "Ah, but when the queen proclaims one king and the Hand another, whose peace do they protect?" Lord Petyr flicked at the dagger with his finger, setting it spinning in place. When at last it slowed to a stop, the blade pointed at Littlefinger. "Why, there's your answer. They follow the man who pays them."
- Eddard (XIII)-Lord Petyr Baelish, discussing the loyalty of the Gold Cloaks
- You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
- Eddard (XIII)—Lord Petyr Baelish
- Laughter is poison to fear.
- Catelyn (VIII)—Catelyn Stark
- "You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why."
- Eddard (XIV)—Lord Varys
- There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
- Eddard (XIV)—Lord Varys
- In life, the monsters win.
- Sansa (VI)
- A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
- Tyrion (IX)—Ser Kevan Lannister
- It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.
- Catelyn (XI)—Ser Brynden Tully
A Clash of Kings (1999)[edit]
- Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red.
- Prologue
- Prince Tommen was not so obedient. "I'm supposed to ride against the straw man."
"Not today."
"But I want to ride!"
"I don't care what you want."
"Mother said I could ride."
"She said," Princess Myrcella agreed.
"Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish."
"We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish."
The Hound laughed. "She has you there."
- Sansa (I)
- Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
- Tyrion (I)—Tyrion Lannister
- "I'll have the boy." ...
"You'll have no one," Yoren said stubbornly. "There's laws on such things."
The gold cloak drew a shortsword. "Here's your law."
Yoren looked at the blade. "That's no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too."
- Arya (II)
- There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
- Jon (I)
- Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.
- Jon (I)
- "He'll want what kings always want," she said. "Homage."
- Catelyn (I)—Catelyn Stark
- Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.
- Tyrion (II)—Lord Varys
- "Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe . . . an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast . . . would you do it? Without question?"
"Without question? No." The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. "I'd ask how much."
- Tyrion (II)—Tyrion and Bronn
- What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
- Davos (I)—Salladhor Saan
- "I do not know this Lord of Light," Davos admitted, "but I knew the gods we burned this morning. The Smith has kept my ships safe, while the Mother has given me seven strong sons."
"Your wife has given you seven strong sons. Do you pray to her? It was wood we burned this morning."
- Davos (I)—Davos and Stannis
- I stopped believing in gods the day I saw the Windproud break up across the bay. Any gods so monstrous as to drown my mother and father would never have my worship, I vowed. In King's Landing, the High Septon would prattle at me of how all justice and goodness flowed from the Seven, but all I ever saw of either was made by men.
- Davos (I)—King Stannis Baratheon
- Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.
- Theon (I)—Theon Greyjoy
- The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...
- Jon (II)—Dolorous Edd
- When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
- Tyrion (III)—Tyrion
- The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.
- Tyrion (IV)
- Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.
- Sansa (II)—Sandor Clegane
- Pity filled Catelyn's heart. Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman?
- Catelyn (II)
- The middle wall, forty feet high, was grey granite alive with scenes of war: the clash of sword and shield and spear, arrows in flight, heroes at battle and babes being butchered, pyres of the dead. The innermost wall was fifty feet of black marble, with carvings that made Dany blush until she told herself that she was being a fool. She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?
- Daenerys (II)
- "Sleep is good," he said. "And books are better."
- Tyrion (VII)—Tyrion
- "Kings have no friends," Stannis said bluntly, "only subjects and enemies."
- Catelyn (III)
- Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
- Sansa (III)—Tyrion
- "Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear."
"There is," said Jojen.
"The past. The future. The truth."
- Bran (V)
- The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
- Catelyn (V)—Brienne
- He distrusts everyone, she reflected, and perhaps for good reason.
- Daenerys (III)—Daenerys
- The list of the slain was topped by the High Septon, ripped apart as he squealed to his gods for mercy. Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk, Tyrion reflected.
- Tyrion (IX)
- "Loyal sellswords are rare as virgin whores."
- Sansa (IV)—Cersei Lannister
- "You know me for a man of honor—"
"I know you for a man of ambition," Ser Courtnay broke in. "A man who changes kings and gods the way I change my boots."
- Davos (II)—Alester Florent and Courtnay Penrose
- You chatter like magpies, and with less sense.
- Davos (II)—Stannis
- A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
- Davos (II)—Stannis
- "What will you do when he crosses?"
"Fight. Kill. Die, maybe."
"Aren't you afraid? The gods might send you down to some terrible hell for all the evil you've done."
"What evil?" He laughed. "What gods?"
"The gods who made us all."
"All?" he mocked. "Tell me, little bird, what kind of god makes a monster like the Imp, or a halfwit like Lady Tanda's daughter? If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with."
"True knights protect the weak."
He snorted. "There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different."
Sansa backed away from him. "You're awful."
"I'm honest. It's the world that's awful."
- Sansa (IV)—Sansa Stark and Sandor Clegane
- Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
- Sansa (IV)—Cersei Lannister
- "Your sons, they...they're with the gods now."
"Are they?" Catelyn said sharply. "What god would let this happen?"
- Catelyn (VII)—Brienne and Catelyn
- There are no men like me. There's only me.
- Catelyn (VII)—Jaime Lannister
- Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
- Catelyn (VII)—Jaime
- So many vows . . . they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.
- Catelyn (VII)—Jaime
- "Tears," she said scornfully as the woman was led from the hall. "The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?"
- Sansa (VI)—Cersei, to Sansa
- You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want.
- Sansa (VIII)—Cersei, to Sansa
A Storm of Swords (2000)[edit]
- I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
- Sansa (I)—Lady Olenna, the Queen of Thorns
- All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than the ones with crowns.
- Sansa (I)—Lady Olenna, the Queen of Thorns
- One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
- Daenerys (I)
- In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
- Daenerys (I)—Jorah Mormont
- War makes thieves of many honest folk.
- Arya (II)—Tom O'Sevens
- You know nothing, Jon Snow.
- Jon (II)—Ygritte (repeated often in the rest of the book)
- The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
- Tyrion (III)—Tywin Lannister
- Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
- Bran (II)—Bran
- "He likes the stories where the knights fight monsters."
"Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran."
- Bran (II)—Bran Stark and Meera Reed
- Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
- Davos (III)—Alester Florent
- "There will be pain."
"I'll scream."
"A great deal of pain."
"I'll scream very loudly."
- Jaime (IV)—Qyburn and Jaime
- Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure.
- Davos (IV)—Axell Florent
- The sun will not cease to shine if we miss a prayer or two.
- Arya (VII)—Thoros of Myr
- Men can't own the land no more'n they can own the sea or the sky.
- Jon (V)—Ygritte
- All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.
- Jon (V)—Ygritte
- The oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.
- Arya (VIII)—The ghost of High Heart
- "Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"
Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes."
"Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens."
- Jaime (VI)
- The old gods paid no more heed to prayer than the new ones, it would seem. Perhaps he should take comfort in that.
- Tyrion (VI)
- "Joffrey, when your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king at all."
- Tyrion (VI)—Tywin Lannister
- Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
- Tyrion (VI)—Tywin Lannister to Tyrion
- Small men curse what they cannot understand.
- Davos (V)—Melisandre
- "Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game."
"What...what game?"
"The only game. The game of thrones."
- Sansa (V)—Lord Littlefinger and Sansa Stark
- A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
- Sansa (V)—Lord Littlefinger
- Ser Meryn got a stubborn look on his face. "Are you telling us not to obey the king?"
"The king is eight. Our first duty is to protect him, which includes protecting him from himself. Use that ugly thing you keep inside your helm. If Tommen wants you to saddle his horse, obey him. If he tells you to kill his horse, come to me."
- Jaime (VIII)—Meryn Trant and Jaime Lannister
- Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.
- Sansa (VI)—Lord Littlefinger
- Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
- Sansa (VI)—Lord Littlefinger
- It was almost worth dying to know all the trouble he'd made.
- Tyrion (X)
- "You're going to fight that?"
"I'm going to kill that."
- Tyrion (X)—Ellaria Sand and Oberyn Martell
- "Have they told you who I am?"...
"Some dead man."
- Tyrion (X)—Oberyn Martell and Gregor Clegane
- She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
- Daenerys (VI)
- Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
- Jon (X)
- Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.
- Jon (XI)—Stannis Baratheon
- "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'"
Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.
- Tyrion (XI)—Tyrion to Jaime
- "Who better to command the black cloaks than a man who once commanded the gold cloaks, sire?"
"Any of you, I would think. Even the cook."
- Samwell (V)—Bowen Marsh and Stannis Baratheon
A Feast for Crows (2005)[edit]
- "What's the use of a candle that casts no light?"
"It is a lesson," Armen said, the last lesson we must learn before we don our maester's chains. The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serves, and it is sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble. The glass candle reminds us of that as well. Even after he has said his vow and donned his chain and gone forth to serve, a maester will think back on the darkness of his vigil and remember how nothing that he did could make the candle burn...for even with knowledge, some things are not possible."
- Prologue
- Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
- Samwell (I)
- The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.
- Samwell (I)—Jon Snow to Sam
- Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.
- Samwell (I)—Maester Aemon to Jon Snow
- On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
- Jaime (I)
- Almost a prayer...but was it the god he was invoking, the Father Above whose towering gilded likeness glimmered in the candlelight across the sept? Or was he praying to the corpse that lay before him? Does it matter? They never listened, either one.
- Jaime (I)
- Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
- Sansa (I)—Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark
- Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
- The Kraken's Daughter (I)—Lord Rodrik to Asha Greyjoy
- I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
- The Kraken's Daughter (I)—Lord Rodrik to Asha Greyjoy
- Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
- The Iron Captain (I)—Victarion Greyjoy
- Only the sound of the waves pounding remained, a roar no man could still.
- The Drowned Man (I)
- You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.
- Brienne (IV)—Septa Roelle to Brienne
- In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn.
- Alayne (I)—Petyr Baelish
- "The war of the Ninepenny Kings?" asked Hyle Hunt.
"So they called it, though I never saw a king, nor earned a penny. It was a war though. That it was."
- Brienne (V)—Hyle Hunt and Meribald
- He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. "When you raised him up to be the lord commander," the old man answered.
- Samwell (III)
- The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity.
- The Reaver (I)—Aeron Damphair to Victarion Greyjoy
- All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at allt he beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.
- Samwell (IV)—Kojja Mo to Samwell Tarly
- You will return to Lord Gyles and inform him that he does not have my leave to die.
- Cersei (VIII)—Cersei to Maester Pycelle
- On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
- Brienne (VII)
- What little peace and order the five kings left us will not long survive the three queens, I fear.
- Alayne (II)—Lord Littlefinger
- War makes monsters of us all.
- Brienne (VIII)—Thoros of Myr
- Gorghon of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is...and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.
- Samwell (V)—Maester Marwyn
- "You must be blind as well as maimed, Ser. Lift your eyes, and you will see the direwolf still flies above our walls."
- Jaime (VI)—Brynden Tully to Jaime Lannister
A Dance with Dragons (2011)[edit]
- It did not seem fair to drown the cabin boy and the captain and all the rest for something he had done, but when had the gods ever been fair?
- Tyrion (I)
- The world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
- Tyrion (I)—Illyrio
- Burning dead children had ceased to trouble Jon Snow; live ones were another matter.
- Jon (I)
- No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.
- Tyrion (III)—Tywin Lannister to Tyrion
- The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn.
- Davos (I)—Godric Borrell
- Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup?
- Jon (III)—Edd Tollett
- No. Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal.
- Daenerys (I)—Quaithe
- "Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical," he told Haldon, "the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble."
- Tyrion (VI)—Tyrion
- The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.
- Tyrion (VII)—Tyrion
- They chanted in the tongue of Old Volantis, but Tyrion had heard the prayers enough to grasp the essence. Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.
- Tyrion (VIII)
- We live closer to the green in our bogs and crannogs, and we remember Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.
- Bran (III)—Jojen Reed
- "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
- Bran (III)
- A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.
- Bran (III)—Lord Brynden
- The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
- Bran (III)—Lord Brynden
- Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.
- Bran (III)—Lord Brynden
- "Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. You should put guards around the women."
"And who will guard the guards?"
- Jon (VII)—Iron Emmett and Jon Snow
- Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.
- Jon (VII)
- "This is going to end badly."
"You say that of everything."
"Aye, m'lord. Usually I'm right."
- Jon (VIII)—Eddison Tollett and Jon Snow
- "You have to be careful around big people. Be jolly and playful with them, keep them smiling, make them laugh, that's what my father always said. Didn't your father ever tell you how to act with big people?"
"My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man."
- Tyrion (IX)—Penny and Tyrion
- "Prophecy is like a half-trained mule," he complained to Jorah Mormont. "It looks as though it might be useful, but the moment you trust in it, it kicks you in the head."
- Tyrion (IX)—Tyrion
- "Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been."
Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?"
That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter."
- The King's Prize (I)—Chief Hugo Wull and Ser Corliss Penny
- A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy, I've heard it said.
- Jon (XI)—Jon Snow
- Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men—quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failings that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst...
The worst were those who played the game of thrones.
- The Queensguard (I)
- The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
- Tyrion (XI)
- At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of bondage, blood, and pain?
- Tyrion (XI)
- "You are not wrong." Jon said. "I do not know. And if the gods are good, I never will."
"The gods are seldom good, Jon Snow."
- Jon (XII)—Jon Snow and Tormund Giantsbane
- She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.
- The Discarded Knight (I)
- The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.
- The Sacrifice (I)
- The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
- The Ugly Little Girl (I)
- You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
- The Kingbreaker (I)—Ser Barristan Selmy to Skahaz Mo Kandaq
- The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
- The Queen's Hand (I)
- "Men are mad and gods are madder," she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
- Daenerys (X)—Daenerys


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Well that's that for another year. I attended 29 sessions at this year's Film Festival, and I thoroughly enjoyed a significant majority of them. Before I wrap up my festival experience as a whole, allow me to detail the last few films I attended.
On Friday afternoon I took in the highly anticipated French film Holy Motors from avant garde director Leos Carax (The Lovers on the Bridge).
The plot as it were concerns a man played by Denis Levant who is driven around Paris in a stretch limo to various "appointments". Each appointment requires him to dress up (the limo is a moving changing room) and perform a series of increasingly bizarre/mundane tasks.
First up he's a bag lady begging on the streets of Paris; then he's a Gollum-esque motion capture artist acting out a sex scene between two demons; then he's an overgrown leprechaun who eats flowers, bites off a girl's fingers then kidnaps a model played by Eva Mendes. Then it gets really weird. And Kylie Minogue turns up.
Never dull, and filled with many familiar cinematic tropes for the viewer to latch on to, Holy Motors was a nice dose of weirdness that stood in welcome contrast to the other films I took in at the festival. My selections this year were pretty conservative overall, so it felt right to watch something so committed to being confounding.
There are some pretty provocative images in Holy Motors - three or four people walked out of the screening I attended during one particularly full-on scene. Anyone who's seen the film will know which part I'm talking about.
I wouldn't say I felt a deep connection to Holy Motors, but it was a nicely lush evocation of dream logic.
On Saturday evening it was time for the film I was perhaps looking forward to above all others - Sound of My Voice, starring (and co-written by) nascent American indie queen Brit Marling (Another Earth).
She plays Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a small cult based in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Maggie claims to be from the year 2054 and there are strict screening measures taken around anyone who wants to see or talk to her.
Our protagonists are a young pair of do-gooders who infiltrate the cult with the aim of exposing the lies it is founded upon. But wouldn't you know it, the lines start to get blurred when they find themselves falling under Maggie's spell.
I love stories about cults, and I love it when the indie film model is applied to a genre story. Sound Of My Voice is a quiet, gentle film that endeared itself to me with its lack of hyperbole. It's grounded; low-key storytelling, but never appears to cut any budgetary corners.
Presenting a serious film with (potentially) sci-fi elements in this quiet manner helps Sound Of My Voice leapfrog over innumerable bigger-budget offerings in terms of impact and suspension of disbelief.
Marling is simply hypnotic, and her performance really keeps you guessing as to Maggie's true nature. I can't wait to see what she does next.
On Sunday night I attended the event that forms the centrepiece of each year's festival - the screening of a silent film with live accompaniment by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
This year the film was Alfred Hitchcock's landmark 1929 thriller Blackmail, which was made at the tail-end of the silent era and thus exists in both sound and silent versions.
It's a classically Hitchockian tale (from a time before there was such a thing) about a young woman who strays from her policeman boyfriend with a man she is subsequently forced to murder. As her boyfriend tries to cover-up her involvement, they come under pressure from a local reprobate who witnessed her crime.
It's amazing how easily one slips into line with the silent film style of storytelling. I was completely swept up in the tale within minutes and totally forgot about the live orchestra playing below me. I instantly came to appreciate the extreme expressiveness unique to silent films, and how it can evoke emotion just as strongly as a sound film, albeit in a different manner. Plus it's great fun just sitting back and appreciating the faces on display.
Many of Hitchcock's trademark storytelling devices are present in Blackmail, especially in how he uses the environment to cast doubt and guilt upon his characters. Some of the set design elements are dazzling, as seen in this astounding staircase ascension. You just couldn't get that effect in a widescreen film.
The use of shadows in Blackmail is highly effective as well - the composition of what's on screen has a role to play in every scene. It all culminates in a tense action finale at the British museum that's up there with such classic Hitchcock climaxes as those from Vertigo and North by Northwest.
Blackmail was preceded by a 1917 Charlie Chaplin short called Easy Street. It was a bonafide hoot. I can't imagine a better way to utilise the grandeur of The Civic than screening silent films with a live orchestra. It was a thrilling experience, and a perfect capper to the festival.
I was out of the country for the 2011 festival, so I came to this year's event with a little bit more enthusiasm than usual. That didn't stop me from getting movie fatigue (really, it's impossible not to), but I never lost site of the richness of the films I was taking in.
As I mentioned earlier, my choices were relatively conservative this year, with plenty of dramas and comedies, and not a heck of a lot of weird little films from the far corners of the Earth. The pendulum will swing back in the other direction next year.
The single film I was most dazzled by at this year's festival was The Cabin In The Woods. But that felt like a mainstream film wedged sideways into the festival, so it wouldn't feel right to call that my pick of the festival.
The single festival experience that most rocked my world was probably seeing the silent 1926 Norwegian film The Flight of the Airship Norge over the Artic Ocean play out at the SkyCity Cinema with piano accompaniment and spoken translations of the intertitles.
But that hardly qualifies as a contemporary film, so again, it wouldn't feeel right to name it as my favourite. The same applies to Bonjour Tristesse and Blackmail, both of which I adored.
So I think I'm gonna have to cite either Sound of my Voice or Sightseers as my picks of the fest. They both ruled. Although Your Sister's Sister made a real impact on me too. And The Hunt was amazing. This is difficult.
I didn't make it to as many documentaries as I usually like to, but the ones I saw - The Imposter, Room 237, This Is California, Undefeated and West of Memphis - were all excellent. Searching for Sugar Man, which played at the programme launch for the festival, was hugely inspiring also.
The films I most regret missing this this year include digital filmmaking documentary Side By Side (had tickets, fate intervened), gonzo Danish comedy Klown, Werner Herzog's pair of death row docos, Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse, Last Days Here and the Platige Image collection.
It's been a heady 18 days of intense movie-watching and my mind hasn't really allowed anything else to enter - apparently there is some sort of sporting event occurring at the moment? But I wouldn't change a thing about it (except for missing Side By Side, gutted), and I can't wait for next year.
* How was your film festival? Highlights? Lowlights? Comment below!

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|2006-07-17, 08:35
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Ops, sorry to find my post here... sorry for the trouble...
Yea, I'm speculating the end of filler, since it's going to be the end of season 8... No harm assuming the end of filler now though... Cause the movie 3 might be a factor to play in ending the filler...
|2006-07-17, 18:34
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Perhaps all 11 of them will do something together, so it would be a nice episode to see..... If Naruto is able to go through an entire episode without being dumb. lol
|2006-07-18, 12:48
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Ok..i got some questions which will sound very strange:
[3rd Hokage]
The 3rd Hokage loved the village, he cared for everyone...so how come he let's his companions die?
1#[In the Past his body guards {ANBU} were killed by Orochimaru, Enma was attacked and he did nothing to prevent it or stopped him]
2#[During the attack one Jounin bodyguard was attack by some kunai's he merely looked at him while he was dieing...he was asking the Hokage to run with his final words]
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Hyuuga Hiashi (head) & Hyuuga Hizashi (branch) were brothers supposedly they cared alot about eachother since his brother from the branch wanted to die for him...and even punched him cuz he didnt want to.
However...some time before that he called his brother something like Trash because he suddenly or supposedly got an killing intent when he saw Hinata training with her father.
Neji was there with his father and saw how he got attack through his cursed seal....
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Jiraiya is known for gathering Information and Spying. Did he he already knew what was going to happen and stayed in Konoha to protect it? Coincidence?
Was meeting Naruto coincidence? Who happend to be soo similair to the 4th who was his student..
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Orochimaru is known as a jutsu freak...and he knows alot of jutsu's (knowlegde) how come he never mastered Rasengan?
During his fight he was suprised alot of times fighting the 3rd Hokage...was that fake?
Talking about that fight....his soul was freaking cut by his arms...how come his soul is restored in a newer body? The 3rd's soul including those of the 1st and 2nd are now lost and eaten for nothing!?!
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She has been absent for years when she was in Konoha...i am guessing atleast 10 years or up to 20 years...
She is together with Shizune who is in her 20s...how could she be a jounin while being away from Konoha soo long? Was she a jounin when she was younger then 10 yrs or 15 yrs?
Tsunade had alot of debt to pay back...somehow she was able to pay her debt back (filler or not?) How could she pay her debts back?
Even if it was a filler she is now know as the Hokage...shouldnt she now deal with other gamblers or gamble even now? And bringing the funds of Konoha in danger??
|2006-07-18, 13:31
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Location: Doesn't look like Kansas
We don't even know if the 2 Anbu are dead. But still, carring doesn't mean you can save everyone.
Your second example is an anime filler event about a character who survived the assault anyway.
Deep down Hiashi may have cared about his brother but the Rules and Customs of the clan are more important than feelings. Hiashi was the head of the clan. His brother was to be a devoted slave.
Hizashi had no love for the Main family, that's not the reason he chose to sacrifice his life. But doing so was the very first personal choice Hizashi ever had. It was the proof he wasn't just a slave.
It doesn't seem Jiraiya knew abnout the invasion so probably coincidence.
For Naruto it's a little bit more tricky, we know from Kakashi's flashback that Jiraiya told him he would take Naruto as an apprentice during the training month of the Chuunin exam. But did this happen after the first meeting between Naruto and Jiraiya or right after?
I tend to think right after, so coincidence as well.
It's not like we got to know that he particulary tried and still failed. But being a jutsu freak doesn't mean he has the correct chakra control abilities. Another simple explanation would be that when Yondaime was around Orochimaru was rather busy developping his immortality no jutsu.
During his fight against Sarutobi Orto got surprised by the Shiki Fujjin. That's pretty much it.
The anime remade the whole fight, they added a few "surprise" events.
The way his immortality jutsu works is yet to be known but there are several possibilities like Oro using the soul of his host for example.
Tsunade got her phobia when Dan died which means during the 2nd Ninja War which means rather 20~25 years away from battle but we don't know exactly when she left Konoha.
Shizune is 28 years old we don't know when she joined Tsunade nor when she left Konoha either.
I kind of remember the anime made Tsunade paying her debt (by some unknown magic way) in the manga she didn't.
Tsunade lived the way she did because she had lost sight of her nindo. Now she got the infamous will of fire back and she only bets her life for the sake of Konoha yada yada yada.
Well to a certain point. I bet she's using whatever money Konoha's paying her for the job for gambling.
|2006-07-22, 11:04
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Naruto Transforms?
I have watched about 85 Episodes of Naruto and I was just wonder if Naruto ever changes to the forum with red eyes and Fangs (The one in theBroken Seal Ep.) again? He only changed to that forum twice and those were the early episodes.
|2006-07-22, 12:31
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Millennium Development campaign kicks off in SomaliaSep 17, 2009
On 12 August, a jubilant mood took over the Somali towns of Garowe and Hargeisa as groups of young people marched along the streets in celebration of International Youth Day. They held aloft banners bearing messages from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as loudspeakers everywhere excitedly announced community football matches later in the day. The events, organized by UNDP along with the UN Population Fund, mark the beginning of a sustained advocacy campaign promoting the MDGs and poverty reduction in Somalia.
The day and its mood came as a rare glimmer of hope and renewal in a time of great conflict in Somalia. Fighting between government forces and militants led the President to declare a state of emergency in June and the country is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in almost two decades. Such persistent insecurity, coupled with natural disasters like floods and droughts, have contributed to the country's stunted development and economic growth. As a result, Somalia faces significant challenges to achieving any or all of the MDGs. One in five children is acutely malnourished, and a rising tide of refugees is pushing already vulnerable populations over the brink.
"Somalia is a strife-torn country, with extremely low literacy rates, and minimal awareness of the MDGs at all levels," said Sriram Pande, a UNDP Senior Economist and Head of the Human Development and Economics Programmme in Somalia. As a result, "the MDGs assume an even greater significance to the vast majority of poor and marginalized Somalis."
By 9 a.m. that day, groups of young people had started heading down the dusty roads for the local stadium that would host the campaign's first football match. Banners, t-shirts and baseball caps sprinkled throughout the stadium and its audience of all ages displayed MDG goals and messages like "Act Now" and "Kick poverty and hunger out of Somalia."
The advocacy campaign is making a concerted effort to reach Somalis – especially young people, who make up a significant part of the population – through relevant means of communication, including radio programmes, comic strips for the young and illiterate, billboards and a series of newspaper articles. The goal is to not only educate Somalis about what the MDGs are, but also how they are relevant to the average citizen and ways to attain them.
If Somalia is to turn a corner, it is crucial that its citizens "understand what their fundamental human rights are, and to hold state and development partners accountable in protecting those rights," Pande added.


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Gov. Pat Quinn is urging Illinois residents to support military veterans this Christmas by donating their unused frequent flier miles to Operation Hero Miles.
The program aims to make sure service members are able to travel to visit their families while on leave.
Quinn will discuss the program during a visit Sunday to Fisher House at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans' Affairs Hospital in Chicago's western suburbs.
Fisher House provides temporary living accommodations for families of veterans who are receiving medical care at the VA hospital.
The governor just returned from his annual trip to Germany to deliver holiday cards to U.S. service members at the Landstuhl (LAHND'-shtool) Regional Medical Center.


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|Black-Eyed Peas & Chinese Greens
January, 2000
Bok choy and black-eyed peas pair up in this Szechwan-style sauté created by Walter Bronowitz, a culinary instructor at Edmonds Community College in Edmonds, Wash. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes
1 tablespoon "bird" chili, minced
1-1/2 tablespoons minced gingerroot
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons peanut oil
2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons black bean paste
2 pounds bok choy, sliced
3 15-ounce cans black-eyed peas
2-3 tablespoons tamari or soy sauce
Black pepper to taste
4 cups cooked rice
1-1/2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds (optional)
6 green onions, chopped
6 strips orange zest (peel)
1. In a large skillet, sauté peppers, ginger root and garlic in peanut
and sesame oil until peppers are tender, about 5 minutes.
2. Stir in black beans and bok choy and cook, covered, over medium heat until
bok choy wilts, 3 to 5 minutes.
3. Drain black-eyed peas and add to skillet with tamari. Cook until heated
through, about 5 minutes. Season to taste with black pepper. Serve over rice.
Garnish with sesame seeds, green onions and orange zest, if desired.
Reprinted with permission from The Bean Education & Awareness Network (BEAN).
Calories N/A,Fat N/A,Perfat N/A,Cholesterol N/A,Carbo N/A,Protein N/A,Fiber N/A,Sodium N/A


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News and Features
Corrections to the Perinatal Guidelines
On January 22, 2013, changes were made to the Perinatal Guidelines to clarify the infant nevirapine (NVP) dosing recommendations.
In the Postpartum Care—Infant Antiretroviral Prophylaxis section, Table 9. Recommended Neonatal Dosing for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV was updated to indicate that the NVP prophylaxis doses are presented as the total dose (not mg/kg).
FDA Updates Lopinavir/Ritonavir (Kaletra) Labeling to Include New Drug Interaction Information
"On January 17, 2013, FDA approved revisions to the Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir) labels to include new drug interaction information. The following updates were included.
"Anticoagulants: Rivaroxaban. Avoid concomitant use of rivaroxaban and Kaletra. Coadministration of Kaletra and rivaroxaban is expected to result in increased exposure of rivaroxaban which may led to risk of increased bleeding
"Anticonvulsants: Lamotrigine and valproate. Coadministration of Kaletra and lamotrigine or valproate may decrease the exposure of lamotrigine or valproate. A dose increase of the lamotrigine or valproate may be needed when coadministered with Kaletra and therapeutic concentration monitoring for lamotrigine may be indicated; particularly during dosage adjustments.
"Corticosteroids (systemic); Budesonide and prednisone. Concomitant use may result in increased steroid concentrations and reduced serum cortisol concentrations. Concomitant use of glucocorticoids that are metabolized by CYP3A, particularly for long-term use, should consider the potential benefit of treatment versus the risk of systemic corticosteroid effects. Concomitant use may increase the risk for development of systemic corticosteroid effects including Cushing's syndrome and adrenal suppression.
"HCV-Protease Inhibitor: Boceprevir. It is not recommended to coadminister Kaletra and boceprevir. Concomitant administration of Kaletra and boceprevir reduced boceprevir, lopinavir and ritonavir steady-state exposures
"HCV-Protease Inhibitor: Telaprevir. It is not recommended to coadminister Kaletra and telaprevir. Concomitant administration of Kaletra and telaprevir reduced steady-state telaprevir exposure, while the steady-state lopinavir exposure was not affected.
"Inhalded or Intransal Steroids: e.g. Budesonide: Concomitant use of Kaletra and fluticasone or other glucocorticoids that are metabolized by CYP3A is not recommended unless the potential benefit of treatment outweighs the risk of systemic corticosteroid effects. Concomitant use may result in increased steroid concentrations and reduce serum cortisol concentrations. Systemic corticosteroid effects including Cushing's syndrome and adrenal suppression have been reported during postmarketing use in patients when certain ritonavir-containing products have been coadministered with fluticasone propionate or budesonide.
"PDE5 Inhibitors: Avanafil. Do not use Kaletra with avanafil because a safe and effective avanafil dosage regimen has not been established.
"Drug interaction or clinical studies reveal no clinically significant interaction between Kaletra and raltegravir."
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Elizabeth (Betty) Frances Mosher
Mosher–– Elizabeth (Betty) Frances, 93, of Newport, VT, passed away July 27, 2012 in Newport, VT. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Newport, VT, with the Rev. Tim Wilcox officiating. Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to: Children's Literacy Foundation at clifonline.org. On-line condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch.com.
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Pig out on potatoes this barbecue season - they could help offset some health problems associated with that charred steak, research suggests.
The potato's reputation as a high carb, high GI food has seen it shunned by diet-conscious consumers, especially since the Atkins diet claimed it was okay to enjoy high-protein, high fat foods as long as you laid off carbohydrates.
But research by Plant and Food scientists has vindicated the humble spud as a good source of fibre and resistant starch - compounds which can help to combat the harmful effects of red meat in the large intestine.
New Zealand's high bowel cancer rates are blamed in part on our high red meat diet, linked to the toxic compounds produced when undigested protein is fermented in the colon. A study in which rats were fed a mince and potato-based diet found the fermentable fibre and resistant starch in potato stimulated beneficial bacteria.
"It comes back to the old meat-and-three-vege diet that we were brought up on," says Dr Chrissie Butts of Plant and Food's food evaluation unit. "Our research showed that by delivering dietary constituents that supported beneficial bacteria, restricting the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the large bowel, we were able to have a positive effect on health."
Fibre from fruit and vegetables is known to have beneficial effects on digestion and resistant starch acts in a similar way. But few studies had looked at the combined effects of eating cooked meat with fermentable carbohydrates, says the study published in the Journal of Food Science.
Rats fed a potato fibre diet had lower levels of undesirable bacteria, including bacteroids associated with an increased risk of colon cancer. Potato-resistant starch increased bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, considered to improve gut health.
The rats also had higher concentrations of a group of short chain fatty acids thought to have anti-carcinogenic properties and improve the colon's "barrier" towards pathogens and decrease toxins.
Plant and Food says the research may offer hope to those who love barbecued steak but worry about the effect on their health. It sees potential for processed meats such as sausages to include fermentable dietary fibre.
But the findings should be taken with a grain of salt, says Professor Murray Skeaff of Otago University's human nutrition department.
The findings are consistent with evidence that dietary fibre reduces the risk of colorectal cancers, Skeaff says, but people would need to eat huge amounts of potato to gain the kind of benefits the rats did, he says.
"If you extrapolate the amount of fibre the rats were given to humans, you would need to eat three or four hundred grams of fibre a day - a level no human would ever get to. The recommendation is that we consume 25g of dietary fibre a day and to get there on potatoes alone you'd need to be eating 2kg of potatoes."
Another rider is the way we cook potatoes. Peeling them removes much of the dietary fibre, but cooling cooked potatoes in the fridge increases the amount of resistant starch, making potato salad a potentially healthy accompaniment to barbecued food.


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Bozeman Now Offers Floating the River In-Town!
This soon to be internet celebrity was creative during the storm on Saturday June 29th, 2013 and floated down a good chunk of 11th street by Bozeman High School. Kari Andersen caught the floater on tape and uploaded it to YouTube. Thanks Kari! Is this guy crazy or genius?
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A new cookie should be created for every visit but the cookie should store information about the last 20 visits.
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Democrats retained their overwhelming majority in the Massachusetts state Senate, leading in most contested races including the hard-fought battle for the seat held by Senate President Therese Murray, who fended off a challenge brought by the Republican who nearly beat her two years ago.
"This is a big red district and I'm the only Democrat ever elected here," said Murray, who defeated her opponent, Thomas F. Keyes, by a wide margin. Two years ago, Keyes won nearly half of the vote. "Republicans and unenrolleds came out and voted for me. It makes me feel that people appreciate the job I'm doing and I appreciate their vote."
Democrats also won the races to succeed three Democratic senators who decided not to seek reelection: Steven Baddour of Methuen; Frederick E. Berry of Peabody and Susan Fargo of Lincoln.
The only Republican senator to face an opponent was well ahead in early returns — Robert Hedlund of Weymouth.
In Fargo's former district, former Democratic state senator Michael J. Barrett of Lexington, made a political comeback, claiming victory before 9 p.m. According to his campaign, he beat Chelmsford Republican Sandi Martinez by a wide margin.
"I feel the work ethic kicking in. It's not elation, it's kind of a sober sense of responsibility," he said. "I've got to deliver, the state has to deliver — the problems seem huge, some of the environmental issues, some of the job creation challenges seem enormous. I'm not going to be celebrating, I'm going to be thinking."
Barrett said the experience he brought from having already served in the Senate was a factor with voters. And he said social issues also played a role, citing his support for abortion rights and Martinez's opposition to them.
Barrett, then of Cambridge, served four terms in the Senate before leaving in 1995 following an unsuccessful bid for governor. He beat four other candidates in the Democratic primary, including Concord resident Joe Kearns Goodwin, the son of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and presidential adviser Richard Goodwin.
Martinez did not concede, saying the only results she had seen were three precincts in Chelmsford. "I have not seen the results of any other towns."
Democrat Joan B. Lovely of Salem declared victory a little after 9 p.m. based on results that showed her beating Richard A. Jolitz, a Republican from Beverly, by a wide margin in the race for the seat held by Berry, the Senate majority leader, for 30 years.
It was the first open seat in decades in the district made up of Beverly, Danvers, Peabody, Salem, and Topsfield. Lovely was viewed as the favorite after winning a four-way Democratic primary .
"I feel elated. I'm absolutely so grateful for all the support," she said. "We started this campaign back in January. We started knocking on doors in March and we put in the work. It was a real grass-roots effort. I'm just so grateful to the voters for seeing how hard I worked and how I am going to work when I get into office."
The most heavily contested Senate race was in the Merrimack Valley, where Kathleen O'Connor Ives, a Democratic Newburyport city councilor, defeated three candidates to succeed Baddour, who resigned in April to become a partner of a private law firm.
Ives beat Shaun A. Toohey, a Republican Haverhill School Committee member, and unenrolled candidates James Kelcourse is an Amesbury city councilor, and Paul A. Magliocchetti,
Of 200 legislative seats, 75 were being contested. Twelve seats were vacant — the officeholders either left, ran for another office or withdrew. One new district was created in last year's redistricting for residents of Lawrence and Andover.
Several races were rematches between bitter rivals including two races in the House, where incumbents were facing challenges from the candidates they defeated two years ago.
Democrats, who had hoped that high turnout would translate into victory in the legislative seats, targeted several Republicans, who had won seats in 2010 in a wave of voter dissatisfaction.
In Marlborough, former state representative Danielle W. Gregoire beat freshman Republican representative Steven L. Levy, who defeated her two years ago.
"It feels awesome. I couldn't have done it without all the help I got," said Gregoire. "It hasn't sunk in yet. It's amazing."
Levy thanked his supporters and said he would take some time to decide what to do next.
"It was a hard fought race on both sides, and the voters have spoken," he said. " It's always tough for a Republican to win in a presidential election year."
He said he has called and congratulated Gregoire.
In Andover, Republican Representative James Lyons fought back a challenge from Barbara L'Italien, the woman he unseated in 2010. L'Italien, a Democrat, served in the House for eight years before her defeat in 2010 . After losing, she worked briefly for State Treasurer Steven Grossman. Lyons was the sole legislator to vote against the budget in 2011.


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An anonymous reader writes: A new research paper (PDF) outlines security software that scans and scrapes web sites (past and present) to identify patterms leading up to a security breach. It then accurately predicts what websites will be hacked in the future. The tool has an accuracy of up to 66%. Quoting: "The algorithm is designed to automatically detect whether a Web server is likely to become malicious in the future by analyzing a wide array of the site's characteristics: For example, what software does the server run? What keywords are present? How are the Web pages structured? If your website has a whole lot in common with another website that ended up hacked, the classifier will predict a gloomy future. The classifier itself always updates and evolves, the researchers wrote. It can 'quickly adapt to emerging threats.'"


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Cranberry-Pumpkin Bread Pudding Recipe
For fans of pumpkin and bread pudding, this sensible recipe is a marriage made in Heaven. It's perfect for breakfast, brunch or dessert with a dollop of yogurt—autumn comfort food at its best! —Lisa Varner, Charleston, South Carolina
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- 3 eggs
- 1-1/2 cups 2% milk
- 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin, divided
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 5 cups cubed day-old bread
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup fat-free caramel ice cream topping
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, milk, 1 cup pumpkin, brown sugar, vanilla and pie spice. Stir in bread cubes and cranberries.
- Transfer to an 8-in. square baking dish coated with cooking spray. Cover and bake at 350° for 25 minutes. Uncover and bake 10-15 minutes longer or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine ice cream topping and remaining pumpkin. Cook and stir over medium heat until heated through. Stir in walnuts. Serve with pudding. Yield: 9 servings (1-1/3 cups sauce).
Originally published as Cranberry-Pumpkin Bread Pudding in Country Woman October/November 2011, p44
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Spoiler Alert! DAYS OF OUR LIVES couple Will and Sonny will finally make love on the November 14 episode. TV Guide Magazine posted a video preview today of the scene. Watch it below:
"The Will and Sonny fans have waited a long time for this but the delay has been a good thing," Freddie Smith said. "It's allowed the audience to get to know our characters and to get to a place where they are really rooting for them to get together. I don't expect anyone will think the sex scene is controversial. Hopefully, we're past that. This isn't a story about two gay guys. It's about two human beings who truly love each other."


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LEXINGTON, Va. – The No. 11 Washington and Lee women's lacrosse team scored 14 first half goals and never looked back as it ran away with a 21-0 win over Hollins University on Tuesday afternoon at Watt Field.
Eight different Generals' players found the net in the opening 30 minutes, including multiple-goal performances by first-year Meredith Lavin (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), sophomore midfielder Ashley Barnes (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's), senior attacker Wilton Megargel (Charlottesville, Va./St. Anne's-Belfield) and first-year attacker Katie Hagen (West Chester, Pa./Notre Dame). Lavin registered three goals in the opening half, while Barnes, Megargel and Hagen added two goals apiece as the Generals opened a 14-0 lead at the break and cruised to the 21-0 win to improve to 4-1 overall and 1-0 in ODAC competition.
In the contest, the Generals were led by Hagen who finished with four goals. First-year attacker Kerstin Hjelm (Devon, Pa./Conestoga) added three goals and an assist, while Barnes finished with three goals, Megargel with two goals and an assist and first-year midfielder Kelsey Cotter (Roanoke, Va./Salem) chipped in a goal and two assists.
W&L keepers sophomore Alex Hamill (Darien, Conn./Darien) and first-year Katie Bennett (Basking Ridge, N.J./The Pingry School) split time in net, with Hamill earning the win. Hollins (1-2, 0-2) keepers sophomore Kelly Sheehan (Haymarket, Va./Stonewall Jackson) and junior Jacqui Sommerman (Dallas, Texas/Highland Park) also shared time in net, with Sheehan taking the loss in 46:57 of action while registering 10 saves.
W&L returns to action on Friday as it hosts No. 1 Salisbury at 1:00 pm.
W&L goals: Katie Hagen 4; Kerstin Hjelm 3; Ashley Barnes 3; Meredith Lavin 3; Wilton Megargel 2; Margaret Klein 2; Kelsey Cotter 1; Alex Van Horn 1; Greta Witter 1; Meade Brewster 1.
W&L assists: Kelsey Cotter 2; Kate Donnelly 1; Kerstin Hjelm 1; Alex Van Horn 1;Wilton Megargel 1.


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The Last Rocket Review
Nostalgia runs deep with gamers– just look at the recent spate of retro-style titles on the App Store, like Mos Speedrun and League of Evil. The latest game of this type is The Last Rocket, an action puzzler that stars a surprisingly adorable pixelated rocket you must help escape from a spaceship that's plummeting into a sun.
The game contains 64 puzzles in which you have to make your way from point A to point B without impaling yourself on spikes, burning up in a jet of fire, or being blown to bits by an explosive balloon. It's kind of like an 8-bit To-Fu: The Trials of Chi, but with a metallic rocket instead of a gummy hunk of soy. New gameplay elements are added as you progress– fans, breakable walls, lasers– so the experience never feels repetitive or dull. And if you beat the game and want to try nabbing the seemingly impossible achievements, there's plenty of replay value here.
In general, the controls are very good. You tap to launch your rocket and to make it reverse course in midair; when it's landed, you can swipe to make it step left or right, and press and hold to make it duck. (Yes, in this game your rocket can duck.) Your movement is very limited, but figuring out how to maneuver your rocket through the level is what the game's about.
The loneliest rocket.
But it's no cakewalk. Things get tough, and it's not always due to the cleverness of the puzzles. Some levels require you to 'juggle' the rocket in the air, meaning that you have to keep reversing directions between two killer obstacles. Doing this– or, to be more precise, failing to do this– caused us to rage-quit more than once. The tap controls for reversing your direction in midair aren't as precise as they need to be, which resulted in hundreds of cheap-feeling deaths.
For some gamers, however, the occasional psychotically challenging level is all part of the retro appeal. The game also eschews modern conveniences like the ability to skip levels or to replay earlier levels out of sequence after you've beaten them. The levels go in order from first to last, and if you miss a memory gear you wanted to collect, you have to replay the whole game from the beginning. Probably the most modern thing about the game is that you get unlimited lives.
On the whole, any issues we have with the game are overshadowed by its smart level design, mostly solid gameplay mechanics, and pixel-perfect retro presentation (which includes a delightful chiptune soundtrack). It might not break any new ground for puzzle games, but The Last Rocket has style to spare. If you dig old-school gaming and are up to the challenge, this game will keep you busy for a long time to come.


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Trishntek wrote:Plus, there is always someone monitoring the play spaces for possible infringements of boundaries.....Wankers ARE NOT TOLERATED!
So, which is it? From now on I'm gonna call it "monitoring" also.
"Hey, Lonesome, where you going with that Playboy?"
"Ahhhh.....just have to do alittle monitoring of the play space. Be back in 5."


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McAfee Labs Threats Report: March 2016
In the McAfee Labs Threats Report: March 2016 we discuss two key topics:
- We interviewed nearly 500 security professionals to understand their views and expectations about the sharing of cyberthreat intelligence. We learned that awareness is very high and that 97% of those who share cyberthreat intelligence see value in it.
- We explore how the Adwind Java-based backdoor Trojan attacks systems through increasingly clever spam campaigns, leading to a rapid increase in the number of Adwind .jar file submissions to McAfee Labs.


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If you've been through a foreclosure, you may wonder if there is hope for you to become a homeowner again."It doesn't mean you'll never be a homeowner again," said Linda Davis-Demas, director of housing at Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Dallas.
But you'll need to examine what caused you to fall behind on your mortgage and take steps to fix the problem.
"You have to look at what were the reasons you didn't make the payment," said Davis-Demas. "Was it budgeting? You can modify that type of behavior."
A foreclosure is a major hit to your credit history and stays on your credit report for seven years.
"Foreclosure is one of the FICO seven deadlies," said credit expert John Ulzheimer, referring to the dominant FICO credit score. "It's considered a major derogatory item, regardless of the back story"—whether it's a job loss, rate reset, underemployment or other reasons.
Your credit score will also suffer "the minute the foreclosure process begins," said Ulzheimer, founder of 2StepCredit.com, a credit education website.
"It doesn't have to be completed for it to be very damaging," he said. "The damage will vary based on your scores, but it can damage the score as much as 200 points, especially if your scores are very strong to begin with."
So, after a foreclosure, your priority has to be rebuilding your credit. You'll have some time to do so, because mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac impose strict rules on how long it will take before you're eligible for another mortgage.
For example, borrowers with a prior foreclosure and extenuating circumstances—such as a job loss, divorce or medical issues—must wait three years before they can qualify for a Fannie Mae-backed loan, said spokeswoman Amy Bonitatibus. For all other borrowers the waiting period is seven years.
At Freddie Mac, those who can prove extenuating circumstances must wait three years before applying for a new mortgage; everyone else must wait five years. But that will change in February, when the waiting period for those whose foreclosure was caused by their own financial mismanagement will increase to seven years.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also have strict rules on the credit score and the size of the down payment required of borrowers with a prior foreclosure.
Here's what you need to do to rebuild your credit to qualify again for a mortgage:
PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME: The FICO score, the dominant credit score used by lenders, gives the greatest weight to payment history, so make sure you consistently pay your bills on time.
"Stability is the key," said Craig Jarrell, president of the Dallas region of IberiaBank Mortgage Co. "Have you demonstrated that you are now capable of owning a home and paying the bills, and have recovered from whatever circumstance caused the original foreclosure?"
REVIEW CREDIT REPORT: You're entitled to a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three national credit bureaus—Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. You should get a copy and check it for any inaccuracies.
To get your free credit report, go to http://www.annualcreditreport.com. Go to only this website, not ones with similar-sounding names.
"Make sure it is about you and only you," said Gail Cunningham, spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. "If you find errors, dispute them. If you discover old debts, it will weigh in your favor to satisfy them. Paid late looks better than not paid at all. Make sure that debts older than seven years have rotated off your report, as these could be dragging your score down unnecessarily."
CHECK YOUR MORTGAGE: You want to be sure that you don't still owe anything on your old mortgage. Sometimes proceeds from a foreclosure sale aren't enough to cover what's owed on the mortgage, which would leave you owing the difference.
"Make sure there is a zero balance reflected, and if you are responsible for a shortfall, make arrangements to repay the remaining balance," Cunningham said.
Many lenders are willing to settle that "deficiency judgment" for less than what's owed because "it's better than getting no money at all," Jarrell said.
APPLY FOR CREDIT: In particular, apply for different varieties of credit.
"Credit scoring models value having different types of credit," Cunningham said. "Having some revolving accounts, typically credit cards, and some installment fixed-payment loans, such as a car payment, can improve your score."
But don't apply for too much credit at once.
"This can appear as though you're desperate for credit and perhaps make lenders less inclined to extend credit to you," Cunningham said. "Further, too many credit inquiries can have a negative impact on your credit score."
DON'T FALL PREY: Watch out for credit repair companies that promise to clean up your credit report so you can get a car loan, a home mortgage, insurance, or even a job—after paying a fee for the service.
"The truth is, that no one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report," according to the Federal Trade Commission. "It's illegal."
Only the passage of time can assure that negative, but accurate, information on your credit report will be removed.
When it comes to repairing your credit, there are no quick fixes, the experts say. What lenders want to see is responsible financial behavior over time.
"Know that time is your friend, as the further you move away from the financial distress, the less negative impact it has," Cunningham said. "Follow with responsible behavior with your new credit, and you'll soon have a solid credit file."
If you've been through a foreclosure, there's still hope for you to become a homeowner again. Here are tips to make lenders want to take a chance on you:
—Save for a down payment.
—Clean up your credit. Pay off or pay down your debts and establish a record of consistent on-time bill payments.
—Get your credit score as high as possible.
—Show stability in your job.
—Monitor your credit report to ensure that your old loan shows up as closed and that you still don't owe anything else on it.
Source: Dallas Morning News research


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UVM Donates 311 Pounds of Food to Emergency Food Shelf
- 02-01-2012
- By University Communications
As part of a week-long celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., members of the UVM community donated 311 pounds of food to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. The food drive, an annual service tradition organized by Human Resource Services, gathered enough food to feed six families for one month.
The contribution comes at a critical time for the Food Shelf, which commonly experiences a drop in donations after the holidays. The MLK food drive follows another successful campus effort in December, when the UVM community donated nearly 3,000 pounds of food to the Vermont Foodbank as part of the "Fill the Bus" campaign.
The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf serves more that 12,000 people each year. Learn more about the organization and how to donate on their website, feedingchittenden.org.


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aww shucks, doesnt he know i have feelings?
^ That's exactly why I don't worry about the Raiders. They are dogs constantly chasing their tail. They have no direction whatsoever. But the fans blame the lack of discipline and self control on the referees using the 'Raider Rule' or whatever.
Not trying to side with faider fans here though this is more of a league wide thing really but the refs are horrible
Compared to the NBA, the refs in the NFL are saints imo.
Everybody bump old threads...clap..clap..clap..clap..clap..clap. Lol. always interesting to see what we said in the past
plz give me some crow to eat haha
I was right about nips talking out his *** and disappearing from the forums again.
i also should have added the option (no other team in the afc west has a chance). looking back, they really didnt.


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Are you a recipe filer, tearing them out with every intention of trying them soon? I came across a doozy today by Patricia Wells in the New York Times Magazine...
from 1986. Ironic thing is the topic was three-star restaurants in France being handed down to the new generation eager to put their stamp on the signature dishes responsible for putting the places on the map in the first place. Very much a mid-'80s moment. So here goes, for my first time, PW's just-off-the-press updated classic, a mere quarter century later. Not to worry, the French prove yet again that quality endures.
"Hostellerie du Cerf's Salmon with Lentils, Bacon and Horseradish Cream" was squirreled away because adding bacon and creme fraiche to salmon seemed too good to pass up. l took a few liberties: bringing red peppers into the picture, lemon juice and vinegar to add some zing to the lentils (in place of the indicated Riesling) and beet horseradish gives a bit of sweetness and a nice shot of color. Since I couldn't get my hands on chervil, I topped it with a sprinkling of sage. The acid and herb balance the richness of the other ingredients, even making it seem almost virtuous.
Though generally I gravitate towards the opulence of big platter presentations, composing individual plates here is much more dramatic.
Hostellerie du Cerf with Patrcia Wells
1 c. dried green lentils
2 T. butter
1/2 red bell pepper cut into small dice
1 carrot cut into small dice
1 small onion finely minced
1 celery stalk cut into small dice
1 leak, cleaned well, sliced in small thin strips
1 bay leaf
1/4 t. dried thyme
a few springs of parsley
3 c. chicken stock
1/2 t. salt
grind of black pepper
1 T. red wine vinegar
juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 cup creme fraiche
3 T. pink horseradish
4 oz. pancetta, diced
4 thick cut samon fillets
finely chopped fresh sage for garnish
Prepare the lentils. Melt the butter and saute the red pepper, carrot, onion, celery, and leak on low until soft, about four minutes. Add lentils, s&p, thyme, bay leaf, parsley and stock, bring to a low boil. Cover and simmer until tender but not mushy, about 40 minutes. Pick out the parsley and bay leaf, stir in the lemon juice and vinegar, taste and add more s&p if needed. Keep warm.
Saute the diced pancetta into crisp lardons, drain on paper towels.
Prepare the horseradish cream. Blend the creme fraiche with the horseradish and over medium heat bring to a low simmer. Turn down the heat, keep the sauce warm.
Broil the salmon fillets til just done, still pink in the center.
To assemble: bring the lentils and pink cream sauce back up to a nice hot serving temperature. Make a small mound of lentils in the center of each plate, the broiled salmon across. Spoon the cream sauce around the lentil pile. Shower with the lardons and sprinkle with chopped sage.
Not too long ago the New York Times said offering "bon appetit" is considered gauche in the highest circles of French society. Really though, does this mean we should call out out "dig in!"? I think we all know the correct answer.


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Loved ones of a man killed in a hit-and-run accident are asking for information and for help.
A vigil was held in remembrance of Nigel Smith. The 23-year-old was killed near Hancock Expressway and Astrozon Boulevard early Sunday morning.
Smith's friends and family described him as a people-person who was also the "go-to guy for advice."
Smith's aunt says he loved to smile and make other people smile. He was trying to better himself. He was planning on moving to Colorado Springs from Chicago and join the Navy.
His aunt, uncle, and cousins here in the Springs are struggling with the tragic loss.
"Anger, unsatisfied cause we don't have any answers, and scared," said aunt Cassandra Brown.
Smith was visiting his aunt and uncle from Chicago. He was staying with them for a few months until he planned his move here.
Brown said her nephew was coming home from a Halloween party early Sunday morning. He was lost, and was walking on Hancock towards the Astrozon intersection. He spoke with his aunt just moments before his death, trying to find his way home.
Police say he was struck by a car and killed. The car took off after the collision. Right now police have not found the driver.
Family and friends of Smith are begging for justice and for information.
"For the person who did this to come forward; if you know anything about it come forward so our family can have closure," said Brown.
"If you left because you felt bad, you were drunk, please just come speak to somebody...call, give us information on why he just left," said friend Angela Marks.
The family is also asking the community for help. Smith did not have insurance, and they need help raising funds to send his body home to his mother in Chicago.
If you would like to help the family out, you can do so at Ent Federal Credit Union. Just look for the memorial fund under his name: Nigel Zamir Smith.
If you have any information about this incident, call police right away. You can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 634-STOP (7867).


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Japan's Ministry of Defense have developed a spherical flying robot.
With three gyroscopes inside for stability, the orb can land and roll, as well as bump into objects and stay in flight.
The flying orb is uncannily similar to that used to train Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, though I'm assuming the Department of Defense hasn't installed lasers... yet.
via smh.com.au


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Producer-composer-musician Tom Rothrock has sold his Hollywood Hills home to DJ-actor-producer Steve Angello for $3.9 million, public records show.
Rothrock and his wife, Monique, spent years working on the house, integrating its 1940s classicism with contemporary interiors and an open floor plan. The 6,150-square-foot home features walls of glass, a wrap-around deck, six fireplaces, four bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms.
The third-of-an-acre site, which includes a guesthouse and a swimming pool, takes advantage of city, canyon and mountain views.
Rothrock released his instrumental album "Resonator" in 2007 through his Bong Load record label. As a producer, he...


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If you have any sort of Codemasters account, you might want to start changing your passwords. The developer and publisher has announced that its website was hacked last week, and user data compromised.
On Friday, June 3, a mystery hacker got into the Codemasters.com website, gaining access to the Codemasters EStore, Codemasters CodeM database, and other sites. Codies says that "As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any further intrusion." Over the next days, it launched "a thorough investigation in order to ascertain the extent and scope of the breach," and the news isn't good.
The mystery hacker would have gained access to names and addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted passwords, order histories, screen names, dates of birth, biographies, IP address, Xbox Live Gamertags and more. Codies says while it cannot confirm this data was stolen, it has to assume it was.
E-mails are going out to those who might have been affected, and Codies offers this advice:
For your security, in the first instance we advise you to change any passwords you have associated with other Codemasters accounts. If you use the same login information for other sites, you should change that information too. Furthermore, be extra cautious of potential scams, via email, phone, or post that ask you for personal or sensitive information. Please note that Codemasters will never ask you for any payment data such as credit card numbers or bank account details, nor will Codemasters ask you for passwords or other personal identifying data. Be aware too of fraudulent emails that may outwardly appear to be from Codemasters with links inviting you to visit websites. The safest way to visit your favourite websites is always by typing in the address manually into the address bar of your browser.
The Codemasters website will be down until a new one launches "later this year," instead redirecting to the company's Facebook page. For now, this doesn't have helpful information for those who might be concerned about the hack, mostly listing press coverage of its games.
This comes shortly after Sony finally got back on its feet following the PlayStation Network hack, which also saw user data stolen. As part of making amends, Sony offered $1 million in idendity theft protection. Hopefully Codies will also make gestures beyond mere apologies for those affected by its hack. The Internet's a scary place, kids.


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STOCKTON - A crowd of 1,926 at Stockton Ballpark was the first to see the Ports field a roster without California League All-Star Max Muncy this season, and it wasn't pretty.
STOCKTON - A crowd of 1,926 at Stockton Ballpark was the first to see the Ports field a roster without California League All-Star Max Muncy this season, and it wasn't pretty.
The Ports had four hits and struck out 10 times in a 8-2 loss to the High Desert Mavericks on Sunday. The teams end their three-game series at 7:05 p.m. today as Stockton, winners of seven of its past 10 games, hope to claim a fourth consecutive series victory.
Muncy was promoted to Double-A Midland (Texas) early Sunday after leading the league in home runs (21), RBI (76) and walks (74). His triple in the 13th inning Saturday led to the winning run in Stockton's 2-1 victory. Little did fans know that could be the last time they see Muncy as a Port.
"(Muncy) was an extra-power bat in our lineup, but we have other power throughout the lineup," said Tony Thompson, who supplied the offense for Stockton (12-13 second half, 50-45 overall) with a two-run home run. "We need to step up and make up for (Muncy being gone). If our pitchers keep us in the game, we have the chance to change a ball game with one pitch."
The Mavericks (12-12, 46-48) punished the Ports' Josh Bowman in the second inning with five runs (four earned) on five hits for a 5-0 lead.
During the rally, Bowman was struck hard on a line drive back to the mound on a hit by Jabari Blash. After a few minutes on the ground, he gathered himself and continued pitching into the sixth inning before he was pulled with one out. He finished with 10 hits, no walks, four strikeouts and seven earned runs, raising his ERA to 6.70.
Thompson's home run came on a 1-0 pitch, sailing over the center field fence at the 385-foot mark to also score Josh Whitaker. Whitaker's single to right field broke up Bobby Shore's no-hitter in the fourth inning.


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Budget, superintendent search on BSISD agenda
A new budget and a new superintendent will be the main topics of conversation when Big Spring Independent School District trustees hold their monthly meeting at 5:15 p.m. Thursday in the high school board room.BSISD has been in the market for a new superintendent ever since Steven Saldivar announced earlier this month he had accepted a similar position with Anthony ISD on the New Mexico border west of El Paso. Saldivar's hiring is expected to become official Tuesday.The district's first step toward finding a replacement will be hiring an interim superintendent, action that could come as early as Thursday's meeting.As for finding a new superintendent, trustees will discuss the framework of the search process during Thursday's meeting. If the board follows the same formula as it did in 2008 (when Saldivar was hired), that process will entail hiring a search firm to seek applicants for the position.Regardless of how trustees proceed, it is likely to be several months before a new superintendent is hired, officials said.On the budget front, the board will hold a public hearing about the proposed fiscal package for the 2013-2014 fiscal year.Because of reduced property valuations in the district, Chief Financial Officer Debbie Green said BSISD will have to run a deficit of about $500,000 in its next budget, which will be formally adopted later this month.The proposed tax rate of $1.449 per $100 property valuation is the maximum the district can levy, Green said. Slightly more than $1.19 of that new rate will be devoted to maintenance and operation expenses, while 33 cents will be dedicated to debt service.Expenditures are expected to top $37.9 million this fiscal year, up almost $1 million from the previous budget. Most of that increase comes in the form of a planned 3 percent from midpoint pay raise for all employees (except for those in the maintenance and custodial departments, who received a raise earlier this summer).


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The FA is investigating allegations of racist singing by England fans
The FA says it has not found any evidence of England fans chanting an allegedly racist song in San Marino.
Last Updated: 29/03/13 6:20pm
But the FA insists it is taking the matter seriously and will take action if evidence of racist chanting is uncovered.
Rio Ferdinand was targeted for abuse by England supporters after he controversially pulled out of the squad for the World Cup qualifiers so he could stick to a pre-planned training schedule.
And, according to reports, one group of fans joined in with a song that suggested Ferdinand and his brother Anton, also a professional footballer, should be burned on a bonfire.
Anti-racism group FARE has made a complaint to FIFA over the song, which it claims could be perceived as having racial connotations.
The FA's Club England managing director Adrian Bevington said: "We have no reason to dispute the media reports, which are without doubt made for the right reasons of fighting racism.
"But, at this time, we have not found any recorded evidence of the specific discriminatory chanting referring to Rio and Anton Ferdinand and the vile 'bonfire' song.
"We will of course continue to review all of our recorded footage.
Incident taken seriously
"The FA takes all incidents and allegations of racism extremely seriously. In San Marino, we had FA security officers monitoring the English supporters in the stadium. This includes recorded video footage.
"We recognise the importance of FARE's responsibility to report any incidents to FIFA. We will liaise with FIFA and work with them to assist any investigation.
"Should evidence of any racial chanting be found, we would expect action to be taken against any individuals. We would expect banning orders to be issued by the courts as a minimum penalty.
"We do not want supporters who chant vile or racist abuse following the England team and we fully recognise that we must continue to address any issues that arise involving our own supporters in the same manner we expect other nations to do so.
"We will not accept any racist chanting and we also call on those attending England matches at home and abroad to stop the 'No Surrender' chanting during the singing of the national anthem, both before and during games.
"We have made significant progress following the hooliganism that blighted the national team in 1998 and 2000. We must continue to maintain this hard work."


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Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington was sentenced to a year of probation Wednesday after previously pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated assault.
The charge stemmed from an altercation Washington had with the mother of his daughter last May. According to police reports, the four-year veteran grabbed the woman by her throat and shoved her to ground, causing her to fracture her collarbone.
Washington had entered a guilty plea back in March.
The 27-year-old could still face discipline from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell if found to be in violation of the league's personal conduct policy. Washington was suspended for the first four games of last season for a substance abuse infraction.
One of the Cardinals' top defensive players, Washington was named to the Pro Bowl in 2012 after amassing 134 tackles and a career-best nine sacks. The 2010 second-round pick recorded 75 tackles, three sacks, two interceptions and 11 passes defensed in just 12 games this past season.


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DAVENPORT (AP) — Engine failure forced a plane to make an emergency landing during an air show at the Davenport Municipal Airport.
The accident occurred Sunday shortly after the takeoff by John Klatt of Precision Power Aerobatics.
Quad-City Air Show President Ken Hopper says Klatt's engine blew. It splattered so much oil on the front of the canopy that Klatt had to pop it off so he could see. Klatt received some minor burns and other injuries and was treated after he quickly landed his plane.
The incident stopped the show for about 10 minutes.


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