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"So these are the Guardians of Archiva," Peregrin thought as he surveyed the twenty-five people gathered around a huge, stone oval table. He was seated on a low bench against the wall. Beside him were Cornel and Janel, looking rather nervous.
The room itself was square for a change. They had been escorted by the Waterman into the big stone building and had entered the double doors directly opposite the entrance, which led into this immense room. Its walls were paneled with oak. Its high ceiling was paneled as well and ornately carved. The room was much larger than the table with heavy wooden columns, four to a side, about twenty feet from the walls, supporting the ceiling and creating the impression of an inner room. A huge chandelier hung from the center of the ceiling, with a smaller one on either side directly over each end of the table. They were not in use, however, belonging to another age and another power source. Rather, the room was well lit by several oil lamps set on tall stands, which flanked both sides of each column. "No inhabitant of Archiva built this room," Peregrin thought as he looked about, but he had already known this.
He looked at Janel and Cornel. "Are you two afraid of what they might do?"
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"No," answered Cornel in a small voice.
"Yes," answered Janel in a smaller voice.
A bell chimed before he could speak again. The Guardians fell silent. After a moment, Morgan rose.
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"Bliss," he said. "If you would honor us."
Bliss smiled and rose. She was seated nearly halfway down the table from Morgan. "It honors me to do so," she said. "With respect to our guests," she smiled at Peregrin and the children, "this is the song of O'Keefe."
She began to sing. It was more a chant than a melody, but it eased Peregrin's heart to hear her clear, strong voice.
One simple twig may turn the wind.
One simple stone may turn the tide.
One simple deed turns foe to friend.
One simple blessing turns violence aside.
The Guardians then joined in, the voices blending:
One simple twig may turn the wind.
One simple stone may turn the tide.
One simple deed turns foe to friend.
One simple blessing turns violence aside.
Then Bliss sang alone:
O'Keefe lifted up eyes
when tech knowledge ruled the earth.
He saw a world enslaved to greed and lies
with little thought of human worth.
He saw the sickness of our soul,
the pollution of humanity,
the Sheens created and controlled,
the final proud step to insanity.
He knew their birth would bring death.
He spoke in warning, then desperation.
They scoffed at him and turned their heads.
Silence answered his protestations.
His dream was of another life,
a world fashioned from different clay.
Turn aside from violence and strife;
seek the path of peace each day.
'You must not kill,' would be his creed
'nor use a Sheen to kill' again.
Share peace in thought and word and deed.
One dream, one mission, one man.
The Guardians then sang:
Preserve the knowledge,
preserve the people.
Turn from the power which kills,
Archiva's law, Archiva's love.
Seek peace within, share peace without.
Cherish life and live.
Then Bliss took up the song again:
He sought the souls who shared his dream.
He brought them to this secret place.
They pledged to serve each other's needs.
They pledged to serve the human race.
The cities burned, the people died.
Great clouds filled the sky for a year.
Yet hesitant and small, Archiva survived.
We saw the life rays of the sun appear.
We buried our dead and honored their life.
We tilled, we planted, the land gave forth.
We fended off the Terist knife.
We cherished the grace of each new birth.
Pledge, therefore, to live by peace,
Seek the path of the human being.
Let no one kill by word or deed,
Create a new world from O'Keefe's dream.
The Guardians sang again:
One simple twig may turn the wind.
One simple stone may turn the tide.
One simple deed turns foe to friend.
One simple blessing turns violence aside.
The room fell silent. Everyone, Peregrin noticed, had closed his eyes and was breathing deeply, as if savoring the song. Even the children had relaxed. Strangely enough, he realized that he, too, felt at ease and peaceful. He closed his eyes and could almost hear the song echoing in the silence of the room.
Morgan broke the silence. "The council is convened. Our thanks to you, Bliss. Great events have come upon us, requiring that we meet early. Some of these events bear dire import and some" he glanced at Peregrin and smiled, "some may bear great good.
"But first we have a bit of a disciplinary matter on our hands." He beckoned to the children. "Cornel and Janel, come forward." The children rose and walked timidly toward the table, their heads down. "Mikkel," Morgan said, "you may proceed."
Mikkel rose from his seat beside Morgan. "Cornel O'Keefe. Janel O'Keefe," he said. "You are my children. I would give my life for you. But your actions have endangered all of Archiva. Raise your heads and answer me clearly." The children looked up at him. "Did you willingly leave Archiva without your Companions and go to the ruins that are forbidden?"
"Yes," they answered. Peregrin was impressed that, even though they were clearly afraid, they held their heads up and looked at Mikkel as they answered.
Mikkel was silent a moment. "You were attacked by Terists and nearly taken captive. If it were not for the fortunate presence of our guest, Peregrin, you would have been lost to us. Do you understand the anguish you have caused?"
"Yes," they said.
Mikkel's voice softened. "Why did you go?"
"It was my idea," Cornel said. "I thought we could find knowledge and help Archiva. Please don't punish Janel. It was my idea."
"Janel," Mikkel said. "Did Cornel force you to go with him?"
"No," she answered. "I wanted to go. I wanted to find something special, something new and be, well, I wanted to be a hero." Peregrin noticed that many of the Guardians smiled slightly at this.
Mikkel, however, did not smile. "Children," he said, "you must understand how serious this offense is. If you had been captured, the Terists may have forced you to tell all you know of Archiva. You have endangered us all. What is more, knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You have not yet made your passage into the Circle of Belonging. You could have caused great harm to yourselves and others. Your actions were impetuous and irresponsible. Such rashness and disregard for our rules shows great selfishness in you."
He looked about the table. "These are my children. As such, it is my responsibility to guide them to the path of peace. It would appear I have failed in this. I accept the responsibility for their actions."
Bliss spoke softly. "Mikkel, the children are old enough to accept responsibility for their own actions. We are glad to have them safely returned. The fright of their experience is enough."
"I thank you, Bliss," Mikkel said. "But the situation is serious enough to warrant punishment."
Bliss's eyes narrowed. "Then, as Archivist, what punishment would you suggest?"
Mikkel sighed. "Cornel and Janel would have made passage to the Circle of Belonging this summer. I recommend this passage be delayed for a year." Peregrin saw Cornel wince. "I will personally see to their preparation, and the shame of this delay shall be mine, not theirs."
Bliss opened her mouth to reply and then stopped. After a pause, she said, "This is wise. I agree." The other Guardians murmured agreement as well.
"So be it," said Morgan. "Waterman, please escort the children out." The Waterman rose and led the children to the door. He rapped three times and then opened the door to where the children's Companions were waiting. Then he closed the door again and returned to his seat.
"Now then," said Morgan, "we look to our guest. Peregrin, please come join us." He indicated an empty chair at the end of the table opposite him. Peregrin came forward and sat down, unsure whether he should speak.
"Let me begin," Morgan said, "with our gratitude for your part in the children's return. You fought and defeated three Terists to save children unknown to you. It was not your affair, yet you risked yourself for them."
"Well, I don't much like violent people," Peregrin said.
"We are grateful for that as well," Morgan answered. "As you have seen, rejection of violence and pursuit of peace is the center of our life in Archiva. You are the first person to enter this place without being tested and brought by a Seeker. Yet you seem well suited to this way."
The politeness of these people was almost too much for Peregrin. As graciously as he could, he answered, "This place is truly amazing to me, as are its people. I could never have dreamed that such a place existed, whose people actually seek to serve one another and live in peace. If you would allow it, I believe I could call Archiva my home."
He wasn't sure why he said this. The words had just rolled from his mouth. But he knew they were true. He felt more as if he had returned from a long journey, rather than having seen Archiva for the first time. He felt as if he had already made his passage into the Circle of Belonging. And suddenly he wanted nothing more than to live here in peace among these people.
His words seemed to please Morgan, and the Guardians as well. There were smiles and murmurs of assent around the table. Only Mikkel, he noticed, seemed impassive, betraying no emotion behind his piercing gaze.
"Indeed," said Morgan, "the feeling I experience from around this table is that we, too, would be glad to have you dwell with us and share our life. But we must know more of you. And someone must be willing to speak for you as well."
"I will do that," Waterman said loudly. "Peregrin and I spent much of the evening together upon the elbow, though he tricked me into doing all of the talking." He grinned.
"I will speak for him as well," Bliss said. "Though our time together was limited, I believe he is a true human being."
Morgan raised an eyebrow. "Very well. You have two good witnesses, Peregrin. Now speak for yourself. Who are you? Where do you come from? Where are you going?"
Peregrin laughed out loud, causing Morgan to start in surprise. "I'm sorry," he said quickly. "But it is strange that you ask those very questions. I am seeking the answers to them myself."
Morgan blinked. "I do not understand."
"Nor do I," Peregrin answered. "All I can say is that I awoke in an underground room. I may have been knocked out while exploring it. I don't know. I have no memory of who I was or where I came from, only that my name is Peregrin. I dug my way out and, true to my name, began to wander. Knowledge comes to me in bits and pieces as I need it, but nothing of my former life. I saw the ruins of cities and towns. I encountered and fought Terists, as you call them. I lived with primitive people in small villages and helped them survive. But always I had the urge to push on, to wander. Until I came over the hills to the river. There I experienced a feeling of familiarity. I also experienced this feeling in the ruins, and again in Archiva. This is all I know. I am a man in search of my past, my future, and even my present."
"Then you are a question mark," said an old woman halfway down the table. Peregrin had not noticed her before. She was small and thin with wispy gray hair pulled up in a bun. Her leathery face bore the creases of many years of sun and hard work. Her hands upon the table were weathered and hard. "You are a riddle, an enigma. You dislike violence, but you fight well. You don't know anything about your past yet you 'know' things at the moment you need to know them. Archiva is new to you, yet you find it familiar. What are we to make of this? Should we not be cautious when there are such unknowns?"
"A fair question, Bernhadette," said Carlin from across the table. "Allow me to answer. I saw this man in the ruins. All four of us who were there felt it was permissible to bring him to Archiva. Who has ever heard of such an instantaneous decision? Perhaps we are meant to help him in his search." He looked at Peregrin. "And perhaps he will help us in ours."
"You are young yet, Carlin," Bernhadette said, "while I am old, having seen more than seventy harvests. The earth has taught me many things as I have tilled and planted. One is patience in all matters. Another is to be wary of question marks."
"If I may," Peregrin said, "I could not agree with you more. Be wary of question marks. Yet Archiva is just as much a question mark to me as I am to it. You, too, abhor violence yet teach your children to fight. You, too, have dim recollection of the past yet possess great knowledge beyond the outside world. Even the building we sit in is a question mark. Who built it? What happened here before Archiva? Perhaps I find Archiva familiar because it is an enigma. And I am a riddle within a riddle."
"Well put," said a large, bearded man near to Peregrin. "Archiva is a riddle that unravels as we live. Do we not say, 'The secrets of Archiva run deep?' But you are a riddle that comes from the outside. Your appearance in the ruins just in time to save the children seems too coincidental. And you have brought us the news of Dextor. What if he has sent you to throw us off balance. How can we trust you?"
"I say it again, Stevan, I trust him," Bliss said. Her voice was slightly raised, and she punctuated each word. "Fellow Guardians, your fears are well placed. This man before us brings more questions than he answers. But I tell you, he was not sent by Dextor or by anyone. Violence is not his way. I believe we can trust him."
"You would stake your Guardianship on it, Bliss?" Stevan asked.
"I would stake my life on it," she answered.
"As would I," said Mikkel. He rose and stood with both hands on the table. "I confess, there is much I fear from the arrival of Peregrin, and there are many questions to be answered. But he seeks peace"-he locked his gaze on Peregrin-"as a true child of O'Keefe would. I believe his presence here, however mysterious, is meant to be. I feel his past and future are tied to our own." He sat back down.
The room became silent. Morgan glanced about and then said, "Let us commune." The Guardians sat up, folded their hands upon the table, and gazed at one another. As Peregrin watched, stern expressions softened, fearful ones calmed, questioning ones relaxed. He suddenly realized that this silence was somehow a form of communication. It was not cognitive, to be sure, but somehow the Guardians were bonding with one another. The silence seemed to thicken the air, as if one could almost touch it.
The Waterman spoke first. "I am for him," he said simply.
"I am for him," said Carlin.
"I am for him," said Bliss.
And so it continued about the table. The Guardians continued to gaze at one another as each cast his vote. Even Bernhadette gave her approval after a long silence. In the end, only Mikkel had not spoken. Slowly, all the Guardians turned their faces toward him.
"I am for him," he said. "So be it." He lowered his head. The Guardians shifted and breathed deeply. Many of them smiled.
"Peregrin," said Morgan, "you are welcome among us as one of us. Archiva is open to you as it would be for anyone entering the Circle of Belonging. We ask that you remain in the company of your Companions, but more so to be instructed by them than to be prohibited from anything. The only place you may not go freely is in this building. Only a Guardian may bring you within these walls. Is this acceptable to you?"
"Perfectly acceptable," Peregrin answered. "Thank you. Shall I leave now?"
"No," Morgan said. "Our next matter, of which you spoke to us earlier, concerns you. Please stay and feel free to add your voice to our deliberations.
"Guardians of Archiva," he continued, "many troubling events have concerned us in these past months. Rangers have found Terists in larger bands and exhibiting greater skills than ever. Some of our Rangers have sent no word at all, giving us cause to fear that evil has befallen them. Most disturbing is the presence of three Terists in the ruins and no word from Rimmon or Gabrielle who patrol them.
"Today, several of us met with Peregrin, who fought these Terists. It is safe to say he astounded us all by speaking the name of 'Dextor,' which he heard from one of the Terists. All of you remember Dextor. He sat at this very table with us. He defended Archiva zealously. Yet, in the end, he turned from the path of peace to which we are dedicated and advocated using force to restore civilization. He was banished from here but promised that he would return. All of these factors combine to lead us to a fearful conclusion. Dextor has indeed returned, leading a sizable band of Terists whom he has trained and formed into the unit he sought to create in Archiva."
Excited murmurings broke out at the table. Morgan motioned for silence. "If this is true, I believe he will attempt to gain control of Archiva. He knows all the routes into the valley; he knows the habits of our Rangers. He knows we will not kill, and we know that he will. What is more, he knows the true wealth of Archiva-the knowledge we have preserved from the world before us."
"Does he have the strength to overrun Archiva?" Stevan asked.
"We do not know. However, he has already effectively reversed the roles in this game. Now it is the Terists who have surprise and secrecy, while Archiva's secrets are open before Dextor. The secrets of Archiva may run deep, but so did Dextor. He knows how we think, how we plan, how we dream. It could well be that he already observes every move we make. Who can say how many Rangers he has," Morgan paused, "incapacitated. We have no way to know how ready he is to attack, or even what his plan of attack will be."
"He is not ready," Peregrin heard himself say. All heads turned his way. He went on, surprised at his own confidence. "Those Terists in the ruins-Crop, Daggert, and the other fellow-they were watching for someone they felt would lead them to something. I heard them talking about it. They just went after the children for a distraction. Dextor wants something before he acts, something from the ruins."
"Something he was waiting for someone from here to lead him to," Bliss said. "But who is he watching for, and what does he seek? Mikkel? What do you know of this?" Mikkel shook his head.
Peregrin kept his eyes focused on Mikkel. "Perhaps it has something to do with the big building, the one that looks like this one."
Mikkel's head jerked up. "Why would you think that?"
Peregrin smiled. "Because someone has been prowling around it. Oh, whoever it was tried to cover his tracks but left evidence behind. I'd say that being invisible in the forest is not his or her top skill."
Mikkel looked at Peregrin through narrowed eyes. "It was me," he said after a long moment. "You are correct, Peregrin. I have been to the ruins, particularly the big building, less than a month ago."
"But why, Mikkel?" Waterman asked. "What is there?"
Mikkel looked about the table. "I cannot say."
"Mikkel," said Carlin. "This is no time to keep secrets. The fate of Archiva is at hand."
"That is exactly why I must keep this secret, Carlin," said Mikkel.
"What do you mean?" Bliss asked.
Mikkel hung his head. After a moment he sighed, raised his head, and spoke: "Guardians, this is difficult for me even to say aloud. I have reason to believe that someone within Archiva may be filtering information to Dextor. Someone, perhaps at this very table, may be in league with him."
The silence hung like an August evening. Then the table erupted. Shouts of "Who?" and "Impossible!" and "You have lost your mind, Mikkel!" rang about the room. More than half of the Guardians had risen to their feet. Mikkel remained seated, gazing at them. Morgan pounded the table and shouted for quiet. Finally, the hubbub subsided and everyone sat down again. But the air seethed.
"Mikkel," Morgan said, "you are the Archivist. All of the secrets and the knowledge of Archiva lie in your hands. What sort of evidence do you have for this claim?"
"None," answered Mikkel. "Nothing but a hunch. Listen to me. Dextor is gone for nearly eight years. We have changed our habits some since then. The Rangers have developed new routes and new skills that he would not have known about. Yet he comes back with who knows how many Terists in his band, and we receive no word of it? No Ranger spots them coming? In fact, many Rangers are not heard from at all-even in the ruins! How is this possible unless he has inside information? And information about the movements of our Rangers could only be known by a Guardian.
"Furthermore, Dextor is watching for something at the ruins. Watching for what? Watching for me! He knows I go there from time to time. How does he know this? I was not Archivist when he was banished. I never went there alone before then. Yet he knows I go there now. And in all Archiva, only the Guardians know that I go there at all, and they do not know how often."
"So you think one of us is working for Dextor?" Carlin said.
"Yes," Mikkel said quietly. "I have thought about this matter since Peregrin brought word of Dextor's return. I have pondered the presence of Terists in the ruins, the missing Rangers, and now Peregrin's testimony. I can only conclude that Dextor has returned, indeed he has been in the area for a while now, and that someone is helping him."
"Madness," Stevan said. "Madness. Who among us could do such a thing? What of you, Carlin? You were Dextor's best friend."
"And the one who testified against him, causing him to be banished," said Waterman.
"Well, then perhaps it is you, Waterman. You were a Terist, after all. Perhaps you wish to return to your former life. What about any of us? Shall we go around the table and defend ourselves? Does the trust we have in our communion mean nothing? This is madness, I tell you!"
"You speak true, Stevan," said Bliss quietly. "Without a fight Dextor has struck us to the bone. If someone at this table is helping him, then we have already lost. Mikkel, I pray your suspicion is false. Yet even if it is, the seeds of distrust have been planted in the heart of Archiva."
"What then shall we do?" asked Merida.
"Without knowledge, nothing," said Mikkel. "And for the first time, knowledge is what we lack. We must send out our best Rangers, forewarned of the danger, to find out what they can about Dextor's return. Where is he camped? Who is with him? What are his plans?"
"And what if you are correct, Mikkel?" said a small man with thin, graying hair. "What if someone here is in league with Dextor? He will know the Rangers are coming. You will send them to their death."
"Then, Chapman, we will at least know that we have a traitor among us. It is a high price to pay for knowledge, but I can see no other way."
Bliss turned to Peregrin. "You come as a most welcome friend, Peregrin. But is seems that a storm follows in your wake."
Peregrin opened his mouth to answer, but it was Mikkel who spoke first. "You speak true, Bliss, and more than you know."
Peregrin lay awake long into the night. He had been given quarter in a small guest house of sorts, near to the stockrooms on the western side of the valley. Such accommodations, he learned, had been built into the hillsides throughout Archiva as temporary housing for people recruited from the outside world while they prepared to enter the Circle of Belonging. It was a two-room affair-one for social matters or work, and an inside room for sleeping. The bed was a wooden frame overlaid with a series of cloth tubes stuffed with goose feathers and sewn together. It was quite comfortable yet very strange to Peregrin, who had largely slept outdoors on the ground. Despite its comfort, he could not sleep and lay on the mattress, thinking about the day's events.
The debate had gone on for some time, but finally it was decided to pursue Mikkel's suggestion. No one liked the idea that they could be sending their Rangers into a trap, but there was no way around it. They needed to know more about Dextor.
Their anguish at the idea that one of them was working with Dextor was palpable. For more than a century, they had struggled to survive as a community of peace, trust, and nonviolence. Each Circle took one into a deeper commitment and awareness of this path. Yet at the deepest level, they had seen their guiding principles rejected-first by Dextor, and now possibly by another hidden among them. Despite the politeness and brave smiles, the trust in one another they depended upon had been badly shaken, perhaps shattered.
Yet they had welcomed him. After their communion and choice for him, no one even suggested that he might be working with Dextor. Certainly many of them had finely honed empathetic skills, but how could they be so sure? Still, once they had accepted him, they trusted him. He vowed to be worthy of that trust.
This gave him another thought. Dextor may know of Archiva, but he did not know of Peregrin, other than the report of the "Traveler" he hoped Crop and his men had brought. It was likely then that he would want to learn more about this stranger who had appeared. If there was a traitor, then he or she would probably try to find out more about him. Perhaps he could smoke them out this way. He would be alert to prying questions and watchful eyes.
Waterman had already sought him out, seeking information. But he had seemed content to talk instead. No one else had had much of a chance to be around him, other than his Companions. But he could not bring himself to believe Waterman could be the one. His joy was too real. It had to be someone else.
And then there was the problem of Mikkel. He had saved his children in the ruins, but Mikkel had hardly thanked him. Mikkel's attitude toward him had seemed suspicious and guarded. Yet he had also vouched for him to the Guardians, calling him a "true child of O'Keefe." What did he mean by that? Why did Mikkel study him so? The man was a puzzle who was not showing all his pieces. They would have to talk.
What a strange community this was! They were all a bunch of fools, dreaming of a perfect world where people did not hurt one another. Impossible! Peregrin had seen enough of this world to know their dream could never be realized.
But he wished it could be. These people had survived more than one hundred years, and they still held to their dream. Maybe violence was not an inevitable product of humanity. Maybe humans could choose peace if they saw it as a daily, lived commitment that affected all of one's decisions. If they could only remember the destruction that greedy, power-hungry, violent people had brought upon the world. If such a dream were possible, it could only happen one person at a time. There would always be those who chose another way. And they would forever seek to destroy peace, to control the lives of others.
Dextor had chosen that path. Probably he began with Archiva's interest at heart. Maybe he had lain awake just like this and reflected on the improbability that peace would win out in such a savage world. Without realizing it, he had begun to lose faith in O'Keefe's vision and creed. Despair in their way of life had crept slowly into his vision until he believed Archiva could only survive if it used its knowledge for power. Perhaps he thought he was expanding O'Keefe's vision, fulfilling it.
But then to have his ideas rejected by his fellow Guardians. To face their refusal to change as the situation demanded it. And to see his beloved Franceen hacked to death as a result of their refusal. Why, it was the very creed of Archiva that killed her by not allowing another way to deal with Terists. Suddenly Peregrin felt great pity for Dextor. How alone he must have felt! How betrayed by the people he trusted the most!
And then to be banished from this place-his home and his life. To spend years alone in the outside world in all its primitive savagery, knowing what lay here-the great, preserved knowledge of the ages, unused, useless
Peregrin sat bolt upright, slapping a hand to his head. For a moment he had had a mental image of a great circular room and a bookcase spanning from the ground to the high ceiling, full of books, and spiraling away toward some unseen center. Then pain tore through his skull, blurring the image, pushing it somewhere within, hiding it.
He rubbed his forehead with both hands. When the pain subsided, he tried to regain the image and could not. It was as if he had peered through some door only to have it slammed shut.
"Enigma man," he said wryly. "More damn question marks." He smiled and lay down to sleep.


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• Centre Court returns to work tab
• Discreet Marq under consideration for G2 Woodford Reserve Lake Placid
• Turallure working toward G2 Bernard Baruch
Regular exercise rider Pedro Velez was up for the work, the first for Golden Soul since finishing last of seven in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational on July 28 at Monmouth Park. Stewart is targeting the Grade 1, $1 million Travers on August 24 for the Perfect Soul colt's next start.
"He worked great," Stewart said. "Actually, he came out of the Haskell great. I can't explain the bad race. Health-wise, he's fine. We've been galloping him steady, giving him his normal routine and he's handled it fine. He worked great today. He had great energy and came home good, so we're pointing toward the Travers."
Since breaking his maiden December 30 at Fair Grounds, Golden Soul is 0-for-6 this year, running second in the Grade 3 LeComte and following his Derby run, was ninth in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. In the Haskell, he ran last all the way around and wound up beaten 29 ½ lengths.
"The next day, he was sharp, feeling good. I had to walk him with a lip chain for three days," Stewart said. "He was full of energy when he galloped and [showed] everything you like to see coming out of a race. He ran bad; I really don't know why. Maybe he didn't like the racetrack. It was a disappointing race, but he came out of it good. It happens in racing. The Travers, we think he can be competitive."
Stablemate Perfect Title, last seen running seventh of nine in the Grade 2, $600,00 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 27, also had his first work since the race, going five furlongs in 59.39 seconds on the main track.
"We'll think about where we should go with him next," Stewart said. "I don't know about [the Travers] with him yet. We'll have to talk about it."
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Still mystified by Centre Court's last race, trainer George "Rusty" Arnold was feeling much better about his multiple graded-stakes-winning filly on Thursday.
The 4-year-old daughter of Smart Strike worked five furlongs over the Oklahoma training track turf in 59.78 seconds with exercise rider Simon Harris aboard. Arnold said Centre Court was clocked in :47 3/5 for a half-mile, going the last quarter in :22 3/5 in her first breeze since finishing last as the 6-5 favorite in the Grade 1 Diana at Saratoga on July 27.
"She went the right way," Arnold said. "It's very encouraging, and she's as happy as she can be. I feel better now. She has done nothing but get better since she's been here. I'm not giving her an excuse, but training at home, I just don't think she was herself, but now I do. Since the race, everything's gone good and every day's been better. I'm very happy the way she went today, so we're ready to go."
Arnold plans to bring Centre Court back in the Grade 2, $250,000 Ketel One Ballston Spa, the featured turf stakes on the Travers undercard August 24. Looking to beat the rain that was forecast for Saratoga, Arnold was able to move the work up from Friday.
"I got really worried about rain tonight and I was afraid we'd lose the turf works," he said. "I called [NYRA stakes coordinator] Andrew [Byrnes] and they were kind enough to let her work today. They were more than accommodating. She worked great. If it doesn't rain, that's OK, but I would have felt bad if I blew my work tomorrow. We are headed to the Ballston Spa as long as everything is in good shape."
The Diana was the worst finish for Centre Court since she was fifth in her career debut in July 2011. She had been first or second in 10 straight races since, including her first Grade 1 victory in the Jenny Wiley on April 13, before running fourth in the Grade 1 Longines Just a Game on June 8.
"I wouldn't be running if she wasn't showing me all the right signs, and now she has," the Kentucky-based Arnold said. "I had to train her on the [Polytrack] at home. She likes the Poly, but she doesn't breeze as good on it. I don't know that she didn't need the [Diana] a little bit, but she doesn't need it now."
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Trainer Christophe Clement has Grade 2 Sands Point winner Discreet Marq under consideration for the Grade 2, $200,000 Woodford Reserve Lake Placid on August 18. She fired a bullet five-furlong work in 1:00.20 over the training turf on Wednesday.
"She came back very good from that," Clement said. "She looks well, and I'm very happy with her."
Clement is also targeting the $150,000 West Point presented by Trustco Bank on August 15 for New York-bred Lubash, whose lone win in four 2013 starts came in the Grade 3 Fort Marcy on May 4 at Belmont Park.
"That's the plan at the moment. As long as he trains well, we'll run in the West Point," Clement said. "He's a fun horse to be around."
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Trainer Charles LoPresti, who Thursday morning schooled reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan in the gate in advance of Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap, had high praise for 6-year-old Turallure, who is being pointed toward the Grade 2, $250,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on the turf August 31.
Turallure turned in a sharp breeze over the Oklahoma training track turf Wednesday, covering a half-mile in 47.44 seconds, tied for second-fastestbest of 14 works at the distance.
The son of Wando has not won since the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile in 2011 but showed signs of his old self July 24 when he finished a fast-closing second by a head to Seal Cove in a high-level optional claimer at a mile over the inner turf course.
"He's training as good as Wise Dan or [Grade 1 Whitney runner-up] Successful Dan is," LoPresti said. "I think the Bernard Baruch is a good race for him."
Turallure, who won the 2011 Bernard Baruch, raced three times in 2012, with his best finish being a second by a neck to Data Link in the Grade 1 Maker's 46 Mile Stakes at Keeneland. He then failed to hit the board in his next five starts before coming to life in the tough optional claimer.
"He had a bone bruise, and I think it took him a while to get on track," LoPresti said. "I think getting him up here [helped him]. He got up here and got more competitive. He got a little breeze on the turf course over there [at Oklahoma]. I think it all started coming back to him: 'Hey, this is what I'm here to do.' He [hadn't been doing] anything wrong, but he didn't have that spark. He's showing it now. I think he's going to run big."


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Gemstone lover, teacher, mentor, linguist, musician, opera enthusiast…husband, son, brother, friend. Throughout his life, Jerry Sisk wore many different hats, and he wore each with pride.
Jerry's love for gems dated back to the late 1950's. As a young boy visiting friends in New York, he took a walk along the shoreline and discovered a brightly colored pebble. It was love at first sight. As a teenager, he had the opportunity to work for a jeweler in New Jersey. Once he moved to Knoxville, TN, for college, he worked for a retail store selling exceptionally fine jewelry. Each of these experiences furthered his interest in the world of gemstones.
As more time passed, Jerry became involved in what was, at the time, a new and growing industry television home shopping. In 1993, he co-founded America's Collectibles Network, now Jewelry Television ® with friends Bob Hall and Bill Kouns. As Executive Vice President of JTV, Jerry traveled to over 40 countries worldwide, had a deep appreciation for many cultures and was well versed in challenges of gemstone mining and jewelry manufacturing.
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- • Was a member of the International Colored Gemstone Association
- • Served as a Gemstone Industry and Laboratory Conference committee member
- • Received an international award from the Indian Diamond and Colorstone Association
- • Edited the book, 'Guide to Gems and Jewelry' published in 2011
- • Saw one of his visions fulfilled when his diligent work and gemstone expertise made it possible for Jewelry Television to partner with Gem-A, the world's oldest established provider of gem education located in London, England; certification was established to offer JTV customers the opportunity to explore gemstones in depth and earn a certificate from Gem-A
- • Was recognized by JCK as one of the world's five most influential people in the world of gems
- • Set such a high standard for gemstones sold by Jewelry Television that gemstone vendors worldwide had to offer JTV only the best stones, essentially changing the pricing structure of gemstones globally
In lieu of flowers, donations in Jerry's memory may be made to Beads of Courage.
Articles Written by Jerry:
- • Alloying: Exotic Gold Colors and Gold Purity
- • The Wonders of Gold
- • December Blues
- • Gemstone Beauty: The Science Behind the Sparkle and Shine
- • Gemstone Shape vs. Gemstone Cut
- • Natural or Artificial?
- • Phenomenal Gems
- • Why We See Gemstone Color
- • Amethyst: February's Birthstone
- • Aquamarine: March's Birthstone
- • Citrine: November's Birthstone
- • Diamond, King of Gemstones
- • Emerald: May's Birthstone
- • Garnet Varieties: January's Birthstone
- • Hemimorphite
- • Opal Varieties
- • Pearl, Nature's Living Gemstone
- • Peridot: August's Birthstone
- • Quartz Varieties
- • Ruby: July's Birthstone
- • Sapphire, Gemstone of Many Colors
- • Sphalerite: A Brilliant Treasure
- • Spinel, The Mystery Stone
- • Tanzanite, Pride of Tanzania
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BRITT - The North Union volleyball team opened Class 2A Tournament play with a 25-20, 25-23, 25-23 win over West Hancock on Wednesday.
The Warriors (23-16) take on No. 6 Lake Mills (40-0) at Lake Mills at 7 p.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 23. Look for a recap of Wednesday's match in Friday's Daily News.


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If anyone needs their level played please send me a link like above as a personal message along with your name and I will be glad to play it for you.I'll go on every couple of days to help you as long as I have the game. As well if you need the 4 people 1 pod
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PSN ID: rera121989
Need help with:
1. Get Gathering - Need an online player with 2 controllers to form a playGroup
2. Crowd Pleasure - Need 10 players to complete my level and i would do the same for u
3. Online Champ - Beat an online person 25 times (i need a buddy to do this 50x for both of us)
Please message me if interested
Ill return any other favors i would get asked for
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PSN: SgtRamirez
Play for Play and heart for Heart, please.
I also need Get Gathering. I have another controller.
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PSN: KaspeR69er looking for help with all the online trophies, im able to help others even if ive already got the trophies. Im always up for a race
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No longer need level plays. Thanks to all that helped!
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i'm going to play all your levels in the near future. it'd be great if you could play mine. i'll leave a review on your levels if that helps.
I have a few levels, but for the purposes of the trophy, go for https://karting.lbp.me/v/upt if you could.
If anybody wants help with the other online stuff, my timezone is GMT. feel free to add me on PSN if you like too. same as my username.
11-14-2012 #8
i've written a review for every track i played from this thread, so if you friend me and play one then your active recommendation trophy should pop.
11-18-2012 #9
Hello, id need help for the following:
Crowd Pleaser, a level being played 10 times
Online Champ win 25 differenc races
Get Gathering have 4 people in the pod
My PSN ID is Mosiko6
11-20-2012 #10
Can someone play some of my levels, my user name is Timmylog22
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I just got the game today, so I'll need a hand with pretty much all the online trophies. PSN is SSJ3Broly add away! =)
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I need:
Crowd Pleaser - need 6 more plays
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Get Gathering
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Thanks in advance.
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I got them all, thanks.
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My PSN ID is RYUSAKAZAKI30 I need help at this point with Crowd pleaser I set up a stage to get Aerial Grappler Trophy that's what the stage is called I need 6 more ppl to complete. Also I wouldn't mind help with online champ if anyone would be interested.
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My psn is twhit245 and i'm boosting 4 the mp trophies so if you want to boost join me. All you have to do is message me and ill boost with u.
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Crowd Pleaser - Need 10 players to complete my level
I will help all who help me and continue checking to see who needs help over the next couple weeks.
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I need some help with the crow pleaser trophy.
It would help if you play my level its called plz play 4 trophy
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Hello guys! Play my LBP short level : ) https://karting.lbp.me/u/Asul1225/levels#down
And I need someone to boost some online trophies in this game..
Add me and play my level.
Thx and Merry Christmas
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A man and woman from Montreal survived an avalanche while climbing the Trap Dyke on Mount Colden on Feb. 17.
The pair was in the upper portion of the climb when the snow let loose. Neither of them were injured.
A photo of the incident shows Caroline Jette partially buried in snow shortly after the avalanche occurred. She said her boyfriend, Sylvain St-Germain, escaped the path of the sliding snow by moving out of its way. Jette said she was able to dig herself out.
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Montreal resident Caroline Jette is partially buried in an avalanche in the Trap Dyke on Mount Colden on Feb. 17. She escaped without injury.
Photo by Sylvain St-Germain
The Trap Dyke is a crevice in Mount Colden that is popular with rock and ice climbers and can be accessed from Avalanche Lake in the Eastern High Peaks.
Forest ranger Jim Giglinto, who investigated the avalanche, said the slide was about 100 feet long by 30 to 40 feet wide. Jette was carried downhill but landed on her feet. She released a large slab of snow that had been deposited by the wind, Giglinto said.
"They were extremely lucky that it wasn't a bigger avalanche, which would have taken both of them, and potentially slid them over some of the waterfalls and/or taken other people out below them," Giglinto said. "The size was relatively small, but it had the potential for serious injury or death because it is a terrain trap and ... it's a fairly significant burial. She's lucky her head was up and she wasn't the other way around, head down."
The incident was first made public on the Adirondack Backcountry Skiing website, which has a database that allows people to report Adirondack avalanches. Giglinto posted the report on behalf of the two Canadians.
The avalanche is at least the third involving people in the past three years. Two years ago, two backcountry skiers were caught in an avalanche on Angel Slides, located on Wright Peak in the Eastern High Peaks. Last year, two other skiers were in one that took place on the new slide created by Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 next to the Angel Slides. None of the people involved reported any serious injuries.
The Canadian climbers had taken numerous climbing clinics, including one directly related to avalanches, in recent years, Jette said. However, they are relatively new to winter mountaineering, engaging in the activity for about three to four years. Jette said this was their second time in the Trap Dyke.
Jette told the Enterprise in an email that the pair "are cautious and we know the risks."
Before climbing the Trap Dyke, Jette and St-Germain followed the weather all week and consulted Internet forums, although they found little information on current conditions.
When they went on the trip, they did bring avalanche gear - beacons, probes and shovels. They didn't dig a test pit at the bottom, but they did evaluate the situation in the beginning of the trip, taking into account all the information they had gathered, Jette said.
But the mistake they made was letting their guard down once they got past some of the most difficult terrain above the frozen waterfall, Jette said. They dropped their "level of vigilance" because the terrain was easier.
"It's in this part that I did a wrong evaluation," Jette told the Enterprise in an email. "I went directly in the snow deposit area, rather than go to the left. So I made a bad decision at that time, even if I had the knowledge to recognize potential avalanche terrain."
Jette shared her story so that other people would learn from the incident and hopefully avoid getting caught in a similar situation. However, she and her partner didn't initially report the incident to DEC. The pair contacted the Adirondack Mountain Club and Giglinto found out about the avalanche from an employee at the ADK's High Peaks Information Center.
Giglinto then contacted the pair and got the information from the climbers. Giglinto said he encourages people to contact him or the DEC about any future avalanches. He reports them to the National Avalanche Center in Colorado and sees them as a useful tool that other backcountry users can learn from.
"I don't know if people are reluctant to say anything because of embarrassment or they think they are going to get in trouble, which they are not. People here tend to be reluctant to get this information out," Giglinto said.
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Battles between government troops and rebels raged in South Sudan, as the UN said child soldiers had joined the more than month-long conflict with atrocities committed on both sides.
"The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread destruction and looting, and child soldier recruitment," UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic told reporters on Friday as he wrapped up a visit to the country.
He also reported rape, kidnappings, arbitrary detention and widespread destruction and looting.
Simonovic said the unrest, which started on Dec. 15 when South Sudanese President Salva Kiir accused former South Sudanese Deputy President Riek Machar of plotting a coup, can now be qualified as "internal armed conflict."
"In the legal sense it means that besides violations of human rights and potential crimes against humanity, we can also speak about war crimes," he added.
He described seeing bodies that had been bound before being shot on the streets of the northern town of Bentiu, wrested back from rebels last week.
Ceasefire talks are deadlocked amid squabbling between leaders and rebel demands for the release of political prisoners.
Regional nations have already been drawn into the brutal conflict, with Ugandan troops battling alongside the government.
The army said on Friday it had lost contact with forces in the key oil-town of Malakal, which both rebels and the government claim to control.
Up to 10,000 people are believed to have been killed so far in the fighting, pitting forces loyal to Kiir against a loose coalition of army defectors and ethnic militia nominally headed by Machar, a seasoned guerrilla fighter.
A confidential memo from Kenya's ministry of foreign affairs says that Machar has alleged Ugandan fighter jets have tried to bomb his hideout in Jonglei.
Simonovic said there were reports of "quite a number of child soldiers" in a militia force known as the "White Army" that has rampaged across the eastern state of Jonglei, fighting alongside mutinous soldiers loyal to Machar.
However, the government insists it is still hopeful of a deal at talks in neighboring Ethiopia mediated by the East African regional bloc IGAD, even though Uganda is a key member and the rebels have expressed concern about its neutrality.
Machar has been also deeply critical of Sudan's offer of troops to protect the oil fields of its former archfoe South Sudan, noting that Khartoum is also part of IGAD talks.
"We remain confident it will not be very long until a cessation of hostilities agreement is signed," the government said in a statement late on Thursday.
The EU said on Friday it was providing 1.1 million euros (US$1.4 million) to support IGAD talks — taking place in a luxury hotel in Addis Ababa — to stop South Sudan "descending into a civil war."
The situation on the ground appears grim, as civilians flee the latest conflict flashpoint.
"I fled from my home before sunset and spent the night in a forest," a South Sudanese woman said after crossing the border into Sudan, alongside hundreds of crying children and exhausted adults.
According to the UN, about 468,000 civilians have fled their homes as the violence spiraled into ethnic killings between members of Kiir's Dinka people — the country's largest group — and the Nuer community of Machar.
The UN is sheltering about 22,000 civilians in its cramped base, reporting tank battles and heavy street fighting in the hours after the rebels launched their attack.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) Mike Shanahan isn't picky. The Pittsburgh senior wide receiver will settle for a bowl game - any bowl game - if the Panthers can get eligible with a victory on Saturday at South Florida.
Yes, Birmingham included.
The Panthers (5-6, 2-4 Big East) have traveled to Alabama each of the last two Januarys for the BBVA Compass Bowl. There's a shot they could make it three straight if they find a way to beat the reeling Bulls (3-8, 1-5).
As monotonous as it sounds, considering the bumpy path the program has traveled during Shanahan's career, he'll take it.
``Well, it's a blessing to go anywhere, I guess,'' Shanahan said. ``But if we've got to go back there we'll try to win again. So, it'll be all right.''
Playing good football hasn't been an issue for Pitt this season. Playing good football consistently is another matter entirely.
The Panthers' emphatic 27-6 thumping of Rutgers last Saturday was their second win over a ranked team this season and the fourth time they've played a quality opponent tight.
Pitt came closer than anyone else did this season of unseating top-ranked Notre Dame, falling to the Fighting Irish in triple overtime earlier this month. Yet the Panthers have also lost to the likes of Youngstown State and Connecticut while looking uninspired in wins over Buffalo and Gardner-Webb.
``Every game there's a fine line and you have to play good football and do the things that lead to winning games,'' coach Paul Chryst said. ``I think it is a fine line and I've always believed that. I don't know if it's more now, than before.''
It's one the Panthers need to be on the winning side of one more time to assure themselves of a fifth straight bowl berth.
The extra month of practice a bowl game would provide could do wonders for the underclassmen who will lead the charge next fall when Pitt moves from the Big East to the ACC.
It would also provide a nice send-off to a senior class that saw the program go through four different head coaches - six if you count interims - and a conference move that precipitated a realignment craze that is changing the face of college athletics.
``I think it would be good to know that we could overcome anything and still get to another bowl game,'' Shanahan said. ``I've gone to a bowl game every year since I've been here, so I want to keep that streak going this season.''
Even if it means knowing just how close an OK season could have turned into a special one. The losses to Youngstown State, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville were all winnable games, ones the Panthers couldn't quite close on.
It's something Shanahan said the players try not to let get to their heads.
``I guess, when you look back a little this season there are a few games that could have gone either way,'' Shanahan said. ``There were some that we thought we should have won, but I don't know why we didn't win them. Maybe we just weren't ready to win those games.''
If the Panthers aren't ready to win on Saturday it will lead to a longer-than-expected offseason, though Chryst is optimistic his team is finally starting to get what it means to play consistently no matter the level of the opponent.
A .500 season and a lower-level bowl isn't quite the special season the Panthers envisioned in August. Then again, for Chryst and a program that's been in perpetual transition for two years, it's a start.
``Coach Chryst already told us that he'd take care of us seniors if we make it,'' Shanahan said. ``I don't know what that would entail, but I'm looking forward to it. So, we just need to go out with a win this week and see what happens with a bowl game.''
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I'm putting together a little talk for our UPS on the importance of paying special attention to the battery cap o-ring when preparing for a dive. I was wondering if anyone has an image or 2 of what happens when the o-ring fails that they would allow me to use for emphasis? I think a shot of the brown soup and/or corroded mess would really drive home the point. Unfortunately, it's not an image I want to create, using one of my strobes, just for the talk.
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From a recently published book on Kpop titled K-pop: Mesmerizing the World (People Who Make K-pop) written by Boda webzine editor Kim Hak Seon:
"K-pop and Idol" (opening chapter)The ten best "idol" albums selected, among them Solar:
- Taeyang Solar (2010)
Solar is the first full-length album by Taeyang, who had, two years earlier, done something rare for an idol group member. With his Hot EP, he had broken through and caught not only the attention of fans, but the attention of critics as well. This full-length album thoroughly satisfied those expectations. In addition to getting the usual support from YG family members like Teddy and Kush, Taeyang expanded his breadth of expression by collaborating with musicians like Jeon Gun and Swings, who are mostly active in the underground scene. And by personally composing a great song like Take It Slow, Taeyang took another step closer to his dream.
Note: The other nine were albums by Seo Taiji & Boys, S.E.S., Untitle, D-Bass, BoA, Brown Eyed Girls, 2NE1, Shinee and Infinite.
The book then takes a look at each decade from 1970 onwards, introducing the most relevant songs and then presenting a selection of the 20 top albums from each decade.
2000-201014 songs were introduced from 2000-2010, one of them being BIGBANG's "Lies."
- BIGBANG Lies (2007) (Taeyang excerpt only for now. We will update with the full text about BIGBANG once available):
Taeyang was the first [member] to make a name for himself as a solo artist. He established his own musical world with RnB music at its core, the music he had studied and practiced for so long. The two albums he released were well received by not only the BIGBANG fandom, but also by critics. He has positioned himself as not just a member of BIGBANG, but as a commanding presence [literally, axis] in the Korean RnB scene.
Note: The majority of the songs introduced in this chapter are mainstream (major label) songs that helped spread K-pop internationally – Tell Me, Hug, Gee, Number 1, 10 Minute, How to Avoid the Sun, etc.. The exceptions were from Garion, Huckleberry Finn and Jang Gi Ha.
Note: Comparatively, the 20 albums selected are mostly from "minor" [label] musicians, exceptions being DJ DOC, Brown Eyes, Lee SoRa and Taeyang.
Taeyang, Hot (2008)
Taeyang is an unusual idol singer who has long known what he wants to do and what he can do best and has never stopped working [toward that vision]. As a result, Hot is a "prepared" album. And Taeyang had superb assistance behind him. YG Entertainment, Teddy included, understood and produced precisely the kind of music Taeyang wanted, and Taeyang dressed that music with his unique voice. The expectations that began with Hot changed to conviction with the full-length album Solar.
The 20 albums selected, chronologically:
DJ DOC The Life
No Brain The Song of Youthful Rioter
DJ Soulscape 180gm Beat
Julia Hart Light Breathing
Lucid Fall Lucid Fall
Brown Eyes Vol. 1
Yeon Young-Suk Factory
Verbal Jint Modern Rhymes
Sinawi Vol. 8
Vaseline (2002)
Jang Pil-Soon Vol. 6
Cocoa(?) Superstar
Kim Doo-Soo Free Spirit
Garion Garion
Huckleberry Finn Vol. 3
Lee So-Ra Eyelash Moon
Taeyang Hot
My Sister's Barbershop The Most Ordinary Existence
Seoul Electric Band Life Is Strange
2NE1 Mini, Vol. 1
Sources: YBmania.com: 1, 2, 3 & bluemaid @ alwaystaeyang
Translation by Silly at alwaystaeyang.wordpress.com
About the book:
What a timely subject. With the ongoing popularity of K-pop music, fans or even just non-fans might have wondered once where the roots of it all came from.
The author, who has covered popular Korean music for various media outlets, sees the foundation from 1970s Korean music. There were such unexpected gifted musicians as Han Dae-soo, a singer-songwriter who introduced folk music to the public, Shin Joong-hyun, also a singer-song writer and a rock guitarist and Sanwoolim, a trio of brothers who popularized their version of rock music.
The music and the work these musicians produced gave way to slew of popular singers in 1980s including legendary Cho Yong-pil, and Korea's Madonna Kim Wan-seon. The '80s musicians pass the baton onto Shin Seung-hoon and Seo Taiji and the Boys in the 1990s and BoA and TVXQ in the 2000s.
The writer notes how fan culture first sprouted with the 1970s musicians, that Kim Wan-seon was one of the first "idol" stars who spent many years preparing before her debut, a career path taken by so many of present stars including BoA and TVQ.
Source: Koreatimes


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When the once and future mayor of Freeport looks around the city he'll soon be in charge of again, he concludes that he's got a lot of work to do.
When the once and future mayor of Freeport looks around the city he'll soon be in charge of again, he concludes that he's got a lot of work to do.
"We have fewer jobs, we have lost tax base, our neighborhoods are in worse trouble, and we have outstanding issues like what to do with the Rawleigh Building, and what do with the deficit," said Jim Gitz, who defeated Mayor George Gaulrapp in the Feb. 26 primary election and beat Jon Staben and Kathy Knodle in the April 9 vote.
Gitz will be sworn in May 20 to the job he had from 1997 to 2005.
"Things are harder and we have less to work with. I had not known about the deficit," which is projected to be $570,000. "It was announced after the primary. It doesn't surprise me, we've always had tight budgets, but it poses challenges for how to take an already lean budget, prioritize growth and preserve vital services without raising taxes," he said in an interview.
"My transition team will work on budgeting and finance." He may have to make "selective cuts" but hopes to avoid "great injury."
I asked Gitz, whom I've known since his days as a state senator from 1979 to 1983, his top three priorities. He preferred to answer with three "high" priorities:
"The economy, public safety and neighborhoods. Everything else hangs off the tree from those three branches."
Bringing back jobs will take diligent efforts from many people in a city known for making things (I still have my Structo toy truck) and providing services like insurance.
"Not only did we have big manufacturers, we were headquarters to Newell, we had Economy Insurance, we had a lot of companies headquartered here that were dedicated to the community. Newell moved to Atlanta, Honeywell moved jobs to Mexico. Freeport suffered from globalization."
Not that Freeport is alone. Chicago, Rockford, the Quad Cities and Peoria have been hurt by the same trend. But how do you tackle it? That question keeps mayors up at night.
"We have to save our citizens' jobs, improve the quality of life and educate our kids," and encourage locally based manufacturers to produce in-demand goods and services.. "Some of those companies already exist.
"We also have some options to grow in the agriculture sector. We have to sharpen our saw and get to work."
Gitz is a believer in regional marketing to increase the possibility of companies coming to northern Illinois — and to Freeport in particular.
"If Freeport is smart and works with other communities while looking at opportunities of our own, we'll all benefit," he said.
"I'm encouraged that manufacturing jobs are coming back to America," a trend called reshoring, in which US firms are bringing work back from Asia because wages and transportation costs there are rising.
As Gitz goes around Freeport, what's he hearing from soon-to-be constituents?
"They welcome the change, they hope things will be different and better. My hope is that we can deliver."
One immediate problem facing the new mayor will be where to put City Hall. He has suggested an 11-step process to decide what the city needs before deciding where it needs to do it.
"What's the actual cost of true alternatives? If you're going to move to Carnegie library, what do you do with the old City Hall? If you're going to demolish it, your cost goes up $500,000.
"Let's go about this systematically, pay attention to the real cost and make a decision based on all factors. I think we'll find that the real cost of renovating old City Hall is much lower than the $4 million they're throwing around. If the old building is safe, with no problems, we should be careful of not losing the building.
"I'm not in favor of spending $4 million to $6 million to build a new one. I'm not in favor of renting. The county and city are renting private space while we have unused public buildings. Those are the kinds of decisions that got us in to trouble."
Gitz wants city government to be customer-focused, which he says isn't always the case.
"Not all people in City Hall are goldbrickers, but some don't send the right tone for being transparent and customer-friendly. We must make the extra effort to be polite to people, fix their problem, treat them respectfully, effectively and cheerfully."
Gitz also wants to change another thing: City Hall's hours.
"The hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with an hour off for lunch. Now I'm not a whizbang, but that's seven hours, while the pay is for eight hours."
Gitz wants City Hall employees to work eight hours. "It should be fair for all people who work for the city. The mayor's office will be open for eight hours, regardless."
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Borderlands 2 has been out for quite a while, but who says it's too late to fire up a Web series? Not Gearbox, apparently, which launched season two of its Claptrap shorts. The irascible robot takes a comical look behind the scenes of the game, and uses blunt-force trauma as a teaching tool.
In case that's not enough to tempt you to watch, Gearbox has stashed Shift Codes at the end of the video. These grant you Golden Keys for use in Sanctuary's Golden Chest, which randomizes better-quality loot than you tend to find elsewhere in the game.


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Advocates File Net Neutrality Complaint Over AT&T's FaceTime Policy
Last month, AT&T confirmed that iPhone customers who want to use the iPhone's FaceTime video chat app over a cellular connection would need to belong to one of the company's new shared data plans. At the time, several advocates raised concerns about whether or not this requirement violated the FCC's Open Internet rules, and now these same groups have moved to file an actual complaint with regulators.
In a letter, written by reps for Public Knowledge, Free Press, and the Open Technology Institute, to AT&T's general counsel, the advocates claim that AT&T's requirement is in violation of FCC rules that make it illegal for a provider to block apps that compete with that provider's voice or video telephony services.
From the letter:
We respectfully request that AT&T reconsider its behavior and the impact that blocking FaceTime will have on its customers, particularly the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as all who use this application to communicate with family and friends over the Internet. Making mobile use of the application available only to those customers who pay for unlimited voice and text messages harms individuals and innovation alike. We ask instead that AT&T make this core feature of the popular iPhone and iPad devices available to all of its customers, in compliance with the Open Internet rules that "preserve the Internet as an open platform enabling consumer choice, freedom of expression, end-user control, competition, and the freedom to innovate without permission."
We've asked AT&T for an updated statement, and will add it here if they respond.
But when these objections were first raised, AT&T claimed it was not blocking the app because all customers are allowed to download it. The Death Star also defended the action by saying, "We are broadening our customers' ability to use the preloaded version of FaceTime but limiting it in this manner to our newly developed AT&T Mobile Share data plans out of an overriding concern for the impact this expansion may have on our network and the overall customer experience."
If it gets to the point where AT&T needs to defend itself against these allegations, we expect they will also claim that the FaceTime app does not directly compete with its voice service, as it only works with certain devices. Also, AT&T will likely say that since it does not place any of its video telephony services on iPhones, there is no competition concern there either.
However, as I pointed out at the time — allowing AT&T to decide that only certain tiers of customers could have unfettered access to some apps may not be in violation of the Open Internet rules, but it most certainly will be the thin edge of the wedge that leads to a wireless industry where access to apps depends on your data plan.
Just because something might follow the letter of the law doesn't mean it isn't bad for consumers.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNCG junior right-handed pitcher Max Povse (Cary, N.C./Green Hope) has been named the preseason Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year according to an announcement this week by the publication Perfect Game.
Povse made a team-best 14 appearances (all starts) on the bump as UNCG's Friday starter during the 2013 season. He compiled a 4-4 record and 4.75 earned run average over 77.2 innings while fanning a squad-best 81 batters. Opponents hit just .248 against him and he tallied at least three strikeouts in every game he pitched Povse tossed the first complete-game shutout of his career at College of Charleston (April 5), allowing just five hits and striking out seven in a 12-0 Spartan victory. He averaged at least five innings pitched in all of his starts and held opposing batters to a .185 average with runners on base
In picking up his first win of the campaign against Marist (March 9), Povse gave up just one earned run on three hits in 5.1 innings while adding six strikeouts. He produced a quality start at Furman and was credited with the win after hurling six innings and allowing just three earned runs with five strikeouts
Povse threw at least 100 pitches in nine of his appearances and fanned a career-high nine against No. 22 Georgia Southern (March 28) at the UNCG Baseball Stadium.
Over the summer, Povse pitched for the Staunton Braves of the Valley League and helped the team qualify for the league playoffs. He threw 54 innings, striking out 60 batters over 54 innings while compiling a 3.33 earned run average. Povse was also selected to the South Division All-Star Team and threw an inning against the North Division All-Stars, earning the save and striking out two as the South Division won 5-1.
His most impressive performance of the summer occurred June 8 when he hurled eight innings of shutout baseball, limiting the Covington Lumberjacks to just two hits while striking out 10 in a 9-1 victory.
Povse was named the top professional prospect in the Valley League by both Baseball America and Perfect Game.
The Spartans open the 2014 campaign Friday, Feb. 14 when they host Atlantic 10 outfit George Washington in the first game of a three-contest set at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. First pitch for the season opener is slated for 4 p.m.
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On Jan. 31, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein gave his State of the County Address. Hein made it obvious that he intends to shut down Catskill Mountain Railroad Co.'s Kingston operations to create a hiking trail to the Ashokan Reservoir.
On Jan. 31, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein gave his State of the County Address. Hein made it obvious that he intends to shut down Catskill Mountain Railroad Co.'s Kingston operations to create a hiking trail to the Ashokan Reservoir.
The assumption he is making is that rail and trail are incompatible. The Catskill Mountain Railroad disagrees and will soon be publishing a study of the corridor that will clearly show that rail and trail can share the right of way.
As we have said multiple times, the Catskill Mountain Railroad supports building a trail along the railroad tracks. By eliminating railroad access to the reservoir, Ulster County will never be able to realize the full positive economic impact Catskill Mountain's tourist trains are capable of providing.
Hein stated "tens of millions of dollars are needed to build out and operate a fully functional railroad system." Here we must set the record straight. Now that FEMA funds have been awarded to Ulster County to rebuild the railroad damage from Hurricane Irene, including the Boiceville trestle, and the Catskill Mountain Railroad itself has repaired Bridge C9 near Kingston, the hardest part is behind us.
The bulk of the work that remains is replacing ties on the 16 miles of track between the bridges. The Adirondack Scenic recently repaired six miles of similar track for $250,000 per mile. At that rate, the cost to fully repair the railroad from Kingston to Phoenicia is $4 million.
We feel compelled to remind Hein that the O&W trail from Washington Avenue to Hurley is 1.78 miles long and budgeted for $1.235 million in the 2013-18 Executive Capital Improvement Program, a cost of nearly $700,000 per mile. This indicates that it is building the trail, not restoration of the railroad, that will cost the "tens of millions of dollars."
Clearly, Hein has heard about the benefits of trails, and how they allow spontaneous use of the corridor and make people healthy. But what about the handicapped, the senior citizens, and young children? Or what happens when it rains or snows?
The train will allow all-weather, handicapped and age-friendly access at all times. In other words, keeping the railroad allows for everyone to enjoy the benefit of the corridor, not just the young and healthy.
The Catskill Mountain Railroad looks forward to working with Hein and the Ulster County Trail Advisory Committee to create a world-class Rail-With-Trail from Kingston to the Ashokan Reservoir for the benefit of everyone.
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The Pulitzer Prize winner is best known for sharing intimate chapters of her personal life, while shedding light on the black experience in America. She's the first African-American to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate. She speaks with host Michel Martin about her latest work and life, and offers wisdom to young poets.
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Jhoulys Chacin sharp before leaving Rockies' win with injury
DENVER -- Jhoulys Chacin's strong start ended painfully.
Chacin pitched effectively into the seventh inning and became the first Rockies starter to throw 100 pitches in a game since last June before leaving with an injury as Colorado beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 Friday night.
"I'm a little bit worried because I don't want to miss a start," Chacin said while wearing a wrap around his lower back. "I want to keep pitching, especially with how we're playing now. Everything is going well and I just want to keep helping my team."
Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer and Chacin helped himself by driving in a run with a sacrifice fly as the Rockies won their seventh in row and remained unbeaten in seven home games this season.
Chacin (3-0) grabbed his lower left back after throwing his fourth pitch to Arizona's Cody Ross with one out in the seventh inning. He was taken out of the game after a brief conference near the mound with manager Walt Weiss and team trainers and replaced by reliever Wilton Lopez.
"We hope it's nothing serious," said the Rockies' Chris Nelson, who scored on Chacin's sacrifice fly after tripling to lead off the fifth. "But when you see your pitcher walk off the mound like that, it's a rough one for the whole team."
The team said Chacin, who allowed three hits in 6 1/3 innings and struck out five, exited the game with left oblique stiffness and would be re-evaluated Saturday.
Chacin was pitching a gem before the injury.
"I was throwing my fastball and my sinker down in the zone, attacking the hitter," he said. "I threw a lot of first pitch strikes and that really helped me."
But he felt a twinge on his 99th pitch and and a painful pull on his 100th.
"I don't know how bad it is," he said. "They'll see tomorrow how it is. I feel better now, but it was really painful when I threw the ball."
The last time a Colorado starter reached the century mark in pitches was last June 12, a stretch of 117 games. It was the longest string in the majors since records started being kept by STATS in 1988. Before the Rockies' streak, the longest string of starters not throwing 100 pitches in a game was held by Washington, which went 33 games from Aug. 31, 2011, to April 10, 2012.
"He threw all of his pitches over for strikes," Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. "We never really got ahead of him. He got the slider over alot early in the count and we laid off of that. He had good depth to it. That's probably the best I've seen him throw."
Chacin faced the minimum through four innings, inducing Paul Goldschmidt to ground into an inning ending double play after allowing his first hit, a single by Gerardo Parra, to start the fourth.
In the fifth, Chacin worked out of a two-out, bases-loaded jam by fanning his Arizona counterpart, Ian Kennedy. The Diamondbacks got an unearned run on third baseman Nelson's throwing error in the ninth before Rafael Betancourt closed the game out for his sixth save in six chances.
Kennedy (1-2), who allowed three runs on three hits in six innings, was overpowering early. He retired the first 10 batters he faced, half of them on strikeouts. With one out in the fourth, Josh Rutledge became the first Rockies batter to reach when he drew a walk.
After Carlos Gonzalez struck out, Tulowitzki got hold of Kennedy's first offering and drove it over the left field wall for his fifth home run of the season. He had come into the at-bat hitting .166 in 18 plate appearances against Kennedy, though it was his second homer off the Diamondbacks' starter.
"I had to be pretty much perfect because Chacin threw a pretty good game," Kennedy said. "He kept us off balance. Tough to win that one with someone throwing like that."
Game notes
Diamondbacks batting coach Don Baylor, who was the Rockies' inaugural manager and led them to their first postseason berth in 1995, was inducted Thursday into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. ... Nine of Tulowitzki's 15 RBIs this season have given the Rockies a lead. He hit a homer in consecutive games for the second time this season. ... Kennedy has lost consecutive starts against the Rockies after being 3-0 in four previous matchups.
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A's host Mariners in battle of injury-ravaged clubs
Two teams suddenly engulfed in injuries will put short-handed lineups on the field once again Wednesday night when the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics continue their three-game series.
D-backs, Goldschmidt try to snap funk versus Brewers
For the second time this month, the Arizona Diamondbacks have lost six consecutive games.
Rockies aim for another road win in rubber game vs. Dodgers
The Colorado Rockies will bid farewell to the road Wednesday and don't be surprised if some tears are shed.
Zunino, Heredia lead Mariners to 3-2 win over A's in 10
Mike Zunino hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning and Guillermo Heredia doubled home the go-ahead run in the 10th as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Oakland Athletics 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Nationals seek series sweep of Padres
After winning in a rout and then a walk-off, the Washington Nationals will go for the series sweep when they host the San Diego Padres Wednesday afternoon.
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|Tuesday, 26 December 2000
Any movie with special effects that still look smart and exciting twelve years after its initial release deserves some respect right off the bat. Such is the case with 'Predator,' which is otherwise a slightly silly, but absolutely diverting Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.
Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, a soldier-for-hire who finds himself and his men duped into doing CIA dirty work in the wilds of Central America. They turn out to have a bigger problem than the local rebels--an extraterrestrial who hunts armed humans for sport.
Under John McTiernan's gleeful direction, 'Predator' exaggerates everything to comic book proportions, from the first hyper-muscular handshake between Schwarzenegger's Dutch and Carl Weathers' tough government op Dillon through the grueling climactic battle. The script by Jim Thomas and John Thomas has implausibilities and inconsistencies but the action is plentiful, energetic and often imaginative, playful even in many of the bloodier moments. The first of these comes just about 16 minutes in during Chapter 4, with a red against green shock that sets the gore bar fairly high.
Chapter 5 introduces a cool p.o.v. style for the alien, with pulsating neon colors indicating up front that it is guided by heat. Chapter 8 makes the best use of the widescreen format, with the alien's written language scrolling along the far left rim of the image. However, it's in Chapter 9 that the distinctive visuals fully come into their own. The special effects firm R/Greenberg creates a striking optical ripple that distorts the image where the alien is standing but keeping it totally translucent. When we see the alien itself out of its camouflage armor, the creature (designed by Stan Winston) is also satisfyingly dangerous and weird-looking, though the intermediate stage (the armored creature made visible) looks a bit like something with a duck bill and dreadlocks.
There are fine sound effects throughout, but perhaps the highlight comes in Chapter 12, with Alan Silvestri's score (reminiscent of Jerry Goldsmith's work for 'Planet of the Apes') and a pitched firefight fade away first to the whine of a spent machine gun, then to the near-silence of the surrounding jungle. It's one intelligent grace note among many in a popcorn movie made by folks who know how to keep us wondering what will see next as our adrenaline continues to pump.


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Elias Harris scored a game-high 24 points to go along with 10 rebounds, as No. 17 Gonzaga downed Davidson, 81-67, in the championship game of the 2012 Old Spice Classic.
Kevin Pangos added 23 points while connecting on 5-of-9 three-point attempts for the Bulldogs (6-0), who also captured the title of this event in 2008.
Kelly Olynyk contributed 14 points in the victory.
"That's just an unbelievably skilled team that is tough as nails and fights you on every possession," Gonzaga coach Mark few said about Davidson. "We had to respond several different times to get it going in our direction."
Nik Cochran paced Davidson (3-3) with 17 points, while Jake Cohen netted 13 and De'Mon Brooks poured in 12 as the Wildcats had their two-game win streak snapped.
"They've got some terrific offensive firepower," Davidson coach Bob McKillop said of Gonzaga. "They beat you at every spot. I thought they defend very well, too."
Davidson opened the game with a 13-4 run to take the early advantage, but the Bulldogs responded with an 11-2 spurt to knot the game at 15-15 near the midpoint of the first half.
After Cochran connected on a 3-pointer to halt the run and put the Wildcats back on top, Gonzaga outscored Davidson by a mark of 18-6 for the remainder of the half to carry a 33-24 lead into the break.
The Bulldogs connected on 42.3 percent of their shots over the first 20 minutes while holding Davidson to just 30 percent from the field, including a 2-for-11 mark from beyond the arc.
The Wildcats again raced out of the gate in the second half, opening the frame with a 9-2 push to close their gap to 35-33.
Davidson was held at arm's length from there until a quick, 7-2 spurt tied the game at 51-51 with a little over nine minutes left in the contest.
But then Pangos caught fire from long distance, connecting on four straight 3- pointers as part of a 23-12 run to put Gonzaga on top by double digits, 74-63, with less than three minutes to play.
The Wildcats never got closer than nine points from there as the Bulldogs cruised to the victory.
Game Notes
Gonzaga now leads the all-time series between the teams, 2-1 ... The Bulldogs shot 55.1 percent from the floor in the game ... Davidson finished shooting 36.2 percent ... Gonzaga held a 36-29 advantage on the glass.